Yasuko, who learned the truth, couldn't help but cry again.

She thought that Shi Shen was going to apologize for their mother and daughter, but she didn't expect that the other party actually committed another murder in order to protect her.

He did not hesitate to ruin his life to protect a plain, ordinary, and even somewhat dirty and selfish woman like her.

She didn't know anything about it.

Who would have thought that behind the expressionless face of the stone god, there was a love that was incomprehensible to ordinary people.

So Yasuko fell into a deep self-blame.

Open the drawer on the side and take out the box stuffed in the innermost part, there is an envelope in the box, nothing is written on the envelope, but there is a piece of paper inside, which is crawling with dense handwriting, which is given to him by Ishigami, what kind of words to use to respond to the instructions of the police.

After the instructions, there is this paragraph.

[Mr. Kuniaki Kudo is an honest and reliable person, marry him, you and Misato have a higher chance of happiness, forget me completely, don't have any guilt, if you are not happy, everything I have done is in vain. 】

The Kudo mentioned in it is a man who has been in constant contact with Yasuko after Fujian's death, has a solid family background, and has a good impression of Yasuko.

Ishigami wants Yasuko to marry Kudo and be happy.

This is no longer love, but a very indescribable feeling of "as long as the person you longed for in your heart is happy, you will be satisfied".

In Leng Feng's opinion, it was even a little humble.

Ishigami wants to protect Yasuko's life at the cost of ruining his own life, and this emotion makes him sigh as a reader.

Give everything you have for this kind of thing.

Is it really worth it for Ishigami to do it?

Flip through the thrilling final chapter and move on.

It turns out that there is another reason for this.

A year ago, Ishigami lost the meaning of his life, and at that time he felt that if he was only good at mathematics, he could not develop in this field, and he would have no value in existence.

After that, he had the idea of suicide, and every day, there was only one dead word in his mind.

Finally, one day, he took a rope and tied it to a strong nail in a circle, intending to end his life.

Just as he was standing on the stage, about to put his neck in the rope, the doorbell rang.

Outside the door are the mother and daughter who have just moved in, Yasuko and Misato.

It's just that when he saw the two of them, Ishigami's body seemed to be pierced by something.

[How can there be such a beautiful mother and daughter? Until then, Ishigami had never been attracted or moved by the beauty of anything, nor did he understand the meaning of art. However, at this moment, he understood it all, and he realized that this and the beauty of solving mathematics were essentially the same way. 】

That's right, after that, the mother and daughter became the same existence as mathematics in Ishigami's heart, making him abandon the idea of suicide and feel like a new life.

But this kind of pursuit is not to associate with Yasuko and satisfy desires.

It is a kind of similar to flower viewing, moon viewing, etc., as long as you look at it from a distance, you will be happy, just imagine the happy life of the mother and daughter, you will be happy.

It's humble, but it's also unpretentious.

For something sublime, being able to touch the edge is already happiness.

Helping the mother and daughter is a matter of course for Ishigami.

Without them, he wouldn't be where he is now.

Therefore, what he is doing now is not to take the blame.

It's about repaying the favor.

Sometimes, it is enough for a person to save someone as long as they are alive and well.

……

Slowly light a cigarette again.

Leng Feng couldn't remember how many cigarettes he had lit in just over an hour.

The meaning of the word devotion is finally truly clarified.

His heart began to have mixed feelings, both the shock and accident when the mystery was solved, and the regret of feeling embarrassed for what the stone god had done.

But that's not the end of the story.

At the end of the book, the author made up for the final cut to Ishigami.

Law and emotion are opposites.

There is no distinction between good and evil.

The machine of the law will not spare any murderer, which is probably the fate that all murderers cannot escape in reasoning.

In the end, Ishigami's devotion did not bring salvation to Yasuko, but caused her to fall into deep self-remorse.

Yukawa sighed for Ishigami, whose brilliant mind had been used to kill people, leaving him forever without a unique genius friend.

Out of selfishness for his emotions, Yukawa just told Yasuko the truth, and didn't want to report it to the police station, and he didn't want to arrest Yasuko as well.

At least, he wanted Ishigami's dedication to be worth it.

But.

Yasuko turned herself in.

After her daughter Misato learned that Ishigami had surrendered, she couldn't accept the fact that her benefactor was guilty, and attempted suicide by cutting her wrists at school and was admitted to the hospital directly.

And this also made Yasuko collapse the last line of defense in her heart, overwhelmed, and took the initiative to turn herself in, explaining to the team leader the whole process of Yukawa's reasoning for him, and took out various notes given to him by Ishigami as evidence, which is ironclad.

Igigami, who learned the news, completely collapsed.

Yasuko turned himself in, which means that everything he has done has been in vain.

It's like a weapon that someone else has worked hard to brush for a year, but it was dismantled by the other party's backhand.

That inner breakdown is indescribable.

At this moment, Ishigami finally lost his temper.

After doing all this and abandoning everything, he couldn't get the ending he wanted, which was the most painful thing for him.

【"Why...... In a place like this......" he sighed.

Yasuko's frozen face almost collapsed in the blink of an eye, and tears flowed from her eyes. She walked up to the stone god and suddenly fell to her knees.

"I'm sorry, I'm really sorry. Let you ...... for us For a woman like me......" Her back shook violently.

"What nonsense are you talking about! What are you talking about...... Stupidity...... You're talking nonsense......" Ishigami murmured dreamily.

"We can't be the only ones who are happy...... No! I deserve to atone for my sins! I'm going to be punished! I'm going to be punished with Mr. Ishigami. That's all I can do...... I'm sorry, I'm sorry! ”】

Ishigami became an accomplice for love.

But this kind of affection, Yasuko can't afford it at all.

Leng Feng looked at the ending over and over again, and there was nothing more than an empty sigh in his heart.

The bamboo basket fetches water, and in the end, it is empty.

What is the meaning of everything that the stone god has done?

[He turns around abruptly, holding his head in his hands.]

"Ahh The roar was filled with emotion to the listeners.

The police came running to stop him.

"Don't touch him!"

Yukawa stood in front of them.

"At least, let him cry enough ......"

Ishigami continued to roar, as if to vomit out his soul. 】

The picture ends with the gaffe of the stone god roaring loudly.

"The Devotion of Suspect X" is complete.

The last description is really shocking.

The heart-rending sadness makes the reader can't help but be moved.

At the same time, there is also loss and sympathy for such an ending.

Throughout the book, the detective is not exactly the embodiment of justice, and the prisoner is not necessarily the representative of crime.

Jingzi's mother and daughter faced Fu Jian, who was obviously a vulnerable group, but they could not be protected by the law, because Fu Jian had no substantive criminal actions.

And in Ishigami's position, in order to protect the mother and daughter of the disadvantaged, he killed another innocent homeless man, this poor homeless man, is also a vulnerable group in society.

The homeless man is always an innocent scapegoat, an outright victim, however, what is even more tragic is that his death, in the book, no one even seeks justice for him.

The constant discrepancy between legal justice and emotional justice is also the deepest theme of this book.

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