Conan: The Mechanic

"Teacher," the apprentice, who was originally innocent, suddenly changed into a calm expression and said indifferently. "As the son of Sohei Dejima, I ask you to answer a question - the truth about the fraud you slandered my father twenty years ago."

"Souhei Dejima?" Both Nagano Hiroshi and Mrs. Nagano's faces could not hide their astonishment, and Nagano Hiroshi's face even showed a look of shame afterwards.

"Aren't you going to tell me?" the apprentice—or Dejima is more appropriate—said again. "Do you have the courage to do it, but not the courage to say it?"

"Tell me," Gregory said, looking at the hesitant Nagano Hiroji. "Otherwise I can't guarantee that your condition will not recur - don't look at me like that, your condition is inherently unstable, and I don't need to do anything to make you sadly die. Besides, even if you do something , the time limit for the crime of reputation damage has already passed, and no one can sue you. (The 2013 Criminal Code states that the crime of reputation damage can be up to 3 years + 500,000 yen, and this crime has a maximum sentence of no more than 5 years. Before 2004, the statute of limitations for prosecution was 3 years, so the false accusation and fraud 20 years ago has now passed the time limit for prosecution and cannot be prosecuted.) So, instead of dying in a unclear manner, it is better to tell a story and open our eyes to it. how?"

"..." Nagano Hiroji sighed. "Forget it, anyway, this is the end of the matter, I will tell you about it."

——————The dividing line of memories

Twenty years ago.

[My friend Houji seems to be doing an experiment, so he took back the house he rented to me for free, so I can only rent a house in another place. Under his introduction, I met one of his friends, Sohei Dejima. 】

[That guy has two adjoining houses in a nice neighborhood, so he rented one to me and waived my rent for a year. 】

[My family background was not very good at that time, and because I was working on a project at the time, although the prospects of this project were very promising, the start-up capital required was also very large, so I was very short of money at that time - not only lack of progress Funding for this project, I don't even have the ability to pay rent after a year. 】

[The enthusiasm for this project overwhelmed my conscience, so I started planning how to take this house as my own. 】

[I fiddled with the rental contract, but instead of adding a clause that was beneficial to me, I added a few lines to the standard contract he gave me, which were very beneficial to him. terms. 】

[So, after a year has passed, I used the public media to ferment this unequal overlord clause against me, and successfully pushed Sohei Dejima to the opposite side of public opinion. I even used the power of public opinion to drive the judicial power to force the court to make a first-instance judgment that the contract was invalid. Of course, it wouldn't do me much good to just convict Sohei Dejima for fraud, so I finally settled out of court with Sohei Dejima before Sohei Dejima appealed and the second-instance judgment was made. In exchange for maintaining his reputation, I got freehold ownership of the house - I caught the time right, he was competing for a very important prize, so he valued his own reputation so much that he could only be forced to agree with him. I settled out of court. 】

[Then it was a crazy story - I mortgaged about 15 million yen on that house, and then put it all into the project I was researching. If my research project doesn't come to fruition, or the results don't translate into practical use, I'm done. 】

Speaking of this, Hiroji Nagano showed a proud smile.

[That was a crazy day, day and night experimenting with various materials that I had bought before, testing whether this material could meet the requirements. The hard work paid off, and I finally found a product that could keep it all going—a finished product that was cheap enough to be fully commercialized and not particularly difficult to produce. 】

[I once thought about compensating for the loss I caused to Sohei Dejima, but every time I tried to apologize at the door, the door was closed, and I couldn't beg his forgiveness in the end...]

"That's because my father was gone at that time!" Dejima rudely interrupted Nagano's memories, and his expression showed that his emotions were out of control.

"My father originally had a heart attack, but shortly after I settled with you out of court, my father's condition suddenly deteriorated, and he eventually passed away."

"I'm really sorry..." Nagano Hiroshi lowered his head.

"You don't need to be sorry," Dejima's mouth showed a sneer. "After my father died, I vowed to avenge my father. I was in junior high school, and my grades were very bad. But because you are a professor of chemistry at Dongdu University, if I want to get close to you, I can only be A chemistry student at Dongdu University, and then you can approach you with good enough grades."

"That's why I studied hard, tried my best to strengthen myself, and finally I succeeded in becoming a chemistry student at Toto University, and became your student, Mr. Nagano. After five years of hard work, I was able to watch from my seat. You were on the podium teaching the course, and after another ten years of hard work, I became one of your assistants. After another four years, I finally have a high enough status in your eyes~www.readwn. com~ Became the third disciple who can come to your house. I waited another year to get a certain qualification, so that the police wouldn't do anything bad to me after the crime happened because you died as soon as I arrived at your house first impression."

"For this revenge, I have been preparing for twenty years," Dejima looked at Hiroji Nagano with a morbid expression. "Can you understand how much I hate you?"

Dejima's hand in his trouser pocket suddenly left his trouser pocket, and with a metallic rubbing sound, the blade symbolizing death protruded from his fist-like hand.

"Die!" After a loud shout, Dejima, who had a mad face, took a step forward and stabbed the blade at Nagano Hiroshi fiercely.

"!!!" Although he was standing behind Dejima, so he couldn't be the target of his assassination, Chiba was still taken aback. After being stimulated back to a calm state by the auxiliary unit, he immediately looked at Haibara Ai who was standing with Yuantai and the others two or three meters away.

He saw that Haibara Ai's expression was quite complicated, no matter how he looked at it, it seemed that he suddenly shifted from contemplation to shock.

At this moment, a crisp sound came from the side of Dejima.

"I'm sorry," Gregor said, pressing Dejima's hand with his cane, looking at the dagger that was thrown on the mattress and grabbed by Hoshino Kaede who quickly reacted. "This is a hospital, not an execution ground."

Gregory obviously guessed what he wanted to do based on the change in Dejima's tone. Immediately after Dejima started, he turned his cane and smashed Dejima's hand directly on the mattress, and the dagger in Dejima's hand also Got knocked off by this one.

"It doesn't have to be this way to implement justice," Gregory slowly retracted his cane. "Vengeance with violence like you can really only be said to be the least intelligent way."