"At that time, I wasn't telling the truth."

The American Emperor, after leaving the bunker of Karasuma Renya, Shirakawa Kiyoshi did not immediately set off for the Crow Research Institute, but took Miyano Shiho and came to a single-family villa first.

The key was used to open the gate, with Kiyoshi Shirakawa in front and Shiho Miyano behind.

"What I said at the time wasn't entirely true."

The smell of dust accumulated from the long-term closure came to his face, and Bai Heqing walked into the house and said slowly.

"Everyone has something important in their hearts that cannot be replaced, and for the vast majority of people, it is their own life.

But there are also a few people who will see something else as more important than their own life, whether it is something that actually exists in reality, or it may be some kind of indestructible faith, or it may be an important person......"

This is the small villa where Kiyoshi Shirakawa and Shiho Miyano have lived for the past ten years.

The villa has only three floors, with a utility room and a small balcony on the third floor, while Kiyoshi Shirakawa and Shiho Miyano have bedrooms on the second floor.

There's nothing special about it, but it's important to Shiho Miyano because she's lived here for almost a decade.

From the age of seven to seventeen, she lived here with the most important people in her life.

Even if many people regard him as a heinous boss, for Miyano Shiho, this is still the happiest period of her life.

So, she was desperate to hope that Shirakawa Kiyoshi would bring her back here one more time before the final scene was staged.

"But Shiho, different people actually have different ways of dealing with the most important things in their hearts."

Walking up the wooden staircase to the second floor, Shirakawa Kiyoshi continued:

Indeed, there are those who regard the important things of their hearts as the supreme pearl, and those who hold it up to the highest place in their hearts, will never compare and measure it with anything else, as if to do so they would tarnish it.

However, this does not speak for everyone.

In addition, there are other people who, in their lives, compare the important things in their hearts to other things over and over again.

Of course, this does not mean that they see it as unimportant, on the contrary, they also regard it as very important and irreplaceable.

The proof is that although this kind of person will use it to compare and measure repeatedly, but in each comparison, it will always win, and it will experience a comparison that must win again and again.

These two types of people are essentially the same, and the only difference between them is that the former can get satisfaction just by holding it, while the latter needs to be obtained from this repeated comparison.

And Keiko she ...... In fact, it belongs to the latter.

Keiko is very different from ordinary people, she is tough but insecure, she seems rational but full of emotion.

Especially at the last moment of her life, in the face of herself being deprived of her dignity as a human being little by little by her illness, her inner anxiety has already accumulated to a critical point.

All of this prompts her to need "comparison", and she needs to obtain emotional satisfaction through this repeated "comparison" to support her will that is already on the verge of limit.

I knew that, I understood it when I saw her.

Keiko is already on the verge of collapse, she is trying to completely tear apart her reason and sensibility, trying to maintain her sanity in this mechanical way, if she doesn't stop her from doing this, she will definitely go to self-destruction in advance.

That's why I said that on purpose......

I told her, don't force yourself to make a choice, just follow your idea.

Leave everything to me for the future, no matter what happens, no matter what the consequences will be, I can settle it for you......"

The two walked to a bedroom on the second floor.

This is the bedroom where Shiho Miyano used to live.

A small bed against the wall, with awards plastered all over the wall, certificates stuffed with drawers, and next to the bed is a small desk, and next to the desk is a not-so-large bookshelf.

In addition to some books related to chemistry and medicine, there are also many children's books of fairy tales and fables.

When Shiho Miyano was a child, she would ask Shirakawa Kiyoshi to pull out a book from it every night before going to bed, sit on a chair in front of her desk and tell her the story above.

"She's so smart, didn't she notice what you were thinking?"

Shiho Miyano walked into the room, raised his hand and touched the small desk that had already accumulated some dust, turned his back to Bai Heqing, who was standing at the door, and asked.

"If it was Keiko in normal times, I would definitely not be able to fool her."

Leaning against the door frame, Bai Heqing lowered his head and smiled.

But at that time, Keiko's condition was already very bad, and due to the impact of her illness, her thinking skills had greatly deteriorated, and her sensitivity to these lies had also decreased a lot.

She often falls asleep unconsciously, and at that time, she has almost lost the ability to think deeply, and a little more complex thinking will make her fragile brain feel tired.

Rather, it was a surprise to me that she was able to plan an assassination attempt against Karasuma Renya under such circumstances, and even almost succeeded......"

"Bai He, at that time, did you know that she would do those things later?"

Shiho Miyano still had her back to Shirakawa Kiyoshi as she opened the drawer of her small desk, which contained some books, notes, and stationery neatly as she had left more than a year ago.

No, not exactly the same......

Because she's not a very well-behaved girl, she's never going to clean up these things properly.

Someone who carefully sorted them out for her after she left......

His eyes were suddenly a little moist, and Shiho Miyano raised his hand to wipe his eyes, and took out a notebook in the drawer.

"To be honest, I don't know."

Bai Heqing thought carefully for a moment, shook his head and replied.

"I expected Keiko to be trying to get me to deal with Karasuma Renya, but I don't know what method she would use, and if I had known her intentions at the time, I wouldn't have said that to her......"

"Do you regret it?"

"Well, I regret it."

Bai Heqing's tone was calm, and the communication between the two was as if it was something that had happened to someone else.

"I don't want to be like you......"

With this in her mouth, Shiho Miyano finally turned around, and she walked past Shirakawa Kiyoshi who was standing at the door and walked outside.

"It's better not to be like me."

Bai Heqing also said the same, and asked at the same time:

"What's wrong? Did you ask me to bring you back without another look? ”

"There's no need, when you're dead, I'll have time to come back and take a slow look."

Shiho Miyano walked briskly down the stairs.

"That's ...... too"

Shirakawa Kiyoshi smiled helplessly, and he finally looked back at Miyano Shiho's bedroom, only to find that the notebook that Miyano Shiho had just taken out was still on the desk, and she hadn't put it back in the drawer.

[This kid still doesn't like to pick up ......]

Bai Heqing sighed softly, he was just about to go in to help Miyano Shiho put it back, and Miyano Shiho's shout came from the hall on the first floor downstairs.

"Hurry up! Someone who is in a hurry to die, what are you waiting for up there? ”

"Okay, here."

At Miyano's urging, Shirakawa Kiyoshi finally didn't touch the notebook, he let it sit on the small desk, turned around and walked downstairs.

"It's really ......"

In this way, the two left the villa together, and before getting into the car, Shiho Miyano suddenly looked back again.

The direction was the location of the bedroom, and there were countless supplications in her eyes.

[God, I beg you, I am willing to pay any price, only this once, please help me and answer my prayers......]

"What's wrong?"

When she opened the car door, Bai Heqing looked at her and asked with a smile.

"Nothing ......"

Deliberately made that cold attitude again, and Shiho Miyano got into the car.

"Baihe, what happened after that? Go ahead. ”

"After that, it's not a good story......" Sitting in the driver's seat, Bai Heqing replied softly.

"You say, I want to hear it."

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(End of chapter)