Gray Yuan couldn't help but snort bitterly.

"Gray Plains, what's wrong with you?" Ayumi was a little worried, and in her sight, Gray Hara was holding her forehead, her breathing was a little heavy, and her face was a little ugly.

"It's okay..."The sudden stinging came and went quickly, and Gray Yuan Wai quickly recovered, "It's okay..."

Conan and the Twilight Police Department on the other side continue to discuss the case.

"What do you mean by that?" The Twilight Police Department bent down a little with great difficulty, and looked at the words in the deceased's hand, "I don't understand..."

"It's the German word for 'I love you,' which, combined with what I just said, may have something to do with the lover she wants to meet."

"However, if you want to leave a message of death, you should try to leave the name of the murderer..."Conan continued, "Now it makes it feel like a confession of his life..."

"That's—"

"I think," Conan interrupted the Twilight Police Department, "maybe this is a message from the murderer..."

"But that's weirder, isn't it?" "The police already think that these are suicides, so wouldn't it be redundant to do so?" ”

"That's right," the Twilight Police Department said, "and if you look at it that way, it's more likely to be a suicide..."

"A man who is married and has multiple lovers will not only commit suicide but also go to such great lengths to express his love in German?" Conan vetoed, "What's more, judging by her dress, she is a very particular person." ”

In addition, there were mud marks on her right heel and calf, but not on her left. And judging by the mud marks, she should be pulling a box with wheels in her right hand..."

"Where's the box?" The Twilight Police Department turned to look at Takagi and Sato.

"Huh?" Takagi was stunned for a moment, "No..."

"We didn't see the box when we arrived." Sato said.

"That means there's another person on the scene, and he's taken the box, which could be a crimson box... This means that this is a serial murder incident..."

Gray Yuan mourned and didn't listen.

The vague sense of déjà vu made her feel a little strange more and more, and everything she had experienced after waking up made her feel very wrong.

She rubbed her temples, trying to clear herself. In fact, she wants to talk to someone now...

But Kudo still crouched by the corpse to check for clues...

Stupid reasoning maniac, live with your reasoning for the rest of your life.

Gray Yuan mourned in his heart, and his mood became more and more depressed.

The investigation at the scene soon came to an end. They haven't made any progress other than confirming that the cases are serial murders — at least that's what the police and Ayumi and others think.

On the way back, to the surprise of Gray Hara, Edogawa also became extremely silent like Kudo, and even Ayumi, who took a ride back with him, did not respond to him.

The group went straight back to the club classroom of the detective group.

Here, Gray Plains has fixed seats. But she felt that there was no place for her here—Kudo still hadn't spoken a word to her.

There was silence in the classroom for a moment.

Conan sat in his seat, his face a little dark, and after a while, he spoke abruptly: "I already have some ideas. ”

"Huh?"

"Really? Conan? ”

Ayumi, Motota, and Mitsuhiko looked over in surprise, and Conan nodded with a serious face.

Gray Yuan hung his head and didn't look over, but he was listening.

"I think that's the thing," Conan reasoned, "the murderer actually had a gun and forced the deceased to take the poison." ”

"That's right!" Mitsuhiko suddenly realized.

"So from the traces at the scene, it seems that the deceased all took the poison themselves. The case on the side of the road was also deliberately designed, and the murderer deliberately let the deceased take poison in a place where the camera could only shoot the back of the deceased, creating the illusion that the deceased committed suicide.

In addition, the deceased all died of poison, but no trace of poison was found in the body. ”

"I have an impression of this drug," Conan was slightly silent, "APTX4869." ”

…？

Gray Plains was stunned for a moment, and looked at Conan in disbelief.

Although ten years have passed, the organization has not been smashed, and this kind of thing should not be told to Ayumi and others who have nothing to do with the organization.

But Edogawa said it directly here without any scruples...

Ash Yuan Ai subconsciously looked at Kaedehara, and then at Ayumi and the others, and to her surprise, none of them seemed to have any special reaction to Conan's mention of the name of the drug.

"It's perfectly consistent with the properties of APTX4869," Conan said, "and this drug was developed a decade ago and has been used for murder many times." Aside from the group of black-clad tissues, only Gray Yuan could make this drug. ”

Hearing this, Gray Yuan Wai couldn't help frowning, as if he had done it...

"That's right. The murderer of this serial murder," Conan paused, "it's you, Gray Plains." ”

“… Huh? ”

"What are you talking about, Conan!"

"How is that possible!" Mitsuhiko shouted loudly, "Conan, don't make such jokes-"

"Listen to me!" Conan roared suddenly. Some anxious Ayumi and the others were stunned all of a sudden.

He continued to speak in the somewhat confused eyes of everyone, and his voice trembled slightly:

"No one will take a deadly poison even if they are pointed at gunpoint. But if you take poison, the probability of death is only half of the time.

I think you are holding the anesthetic needle gun made by the Doctor, pretending to be a real gun, forcing the deceased to go to a place where there is no one, and then taking out two APTX4869, telling the other party that only one of them is poisonous, and you and the other party will each eat one pill.

Just tell the other party to pick the other party, between the shot and half the probability of survival, the deceased will choose to take the poison...

But this is actually a trick to deceive. Since you have been trying drugs all these years, APTX4869 have no effect on you for a long time, and you will be fine if you take it, so in fact, both pills are lethal to the deceased.

The only ones who can do this trick are you and me. ”

Only... Me and Edogawa?

Conan, on the other side, continued:

"These days, the time when the case happened, Gray Plains, you have been using the excuse of developing an antidote, and it happens that you are not there... But since five years ago, we have not been able to go back, and there is no need to continue to develop an antidote...

In today's case, you also happened to be absent because of a cold. However, it is in today's case that you have exposed a lot of suspicions.

The deceased is dressed in your favorite crimson color, and I guess that's why you chose her as your target... And the line left by the deceased..."

"That's German, what, it has to do with me?"

Gray Yuan said coldly, a little irritable in his heart. A strong sense of incongruity hung over her, making her feel more and more that everything that was happening was very strange.

And then, things got even weirder.

"That's the German word for 'I love you'. The deceased was a native person, so why did she use German?

If you left it on purpose, it makes sense.

Ashbara, Albert Einstein is your idol, right? I remember when I was a kid we went to see Kamen Superman movies, and you always wanted to see "Einstein's Days of Glory and Trouble". And it just so happens that Einstein was German-American..."

"You call this reasoning?" Gray Yuan Wai interrupted in a cold tone.

“… I have proof. ”

After a pause, Conan opened the hand he had held tightly before and showed the thing in his hand to everyone, "There is a hair falling from the clothes of the deceased, Ash Yuan. A slightly reddish brown hair. ”

"And you haven't been there since we got there." Conan fell silent.

"That's it?"

"This kind of hair color doesn't have to be the only one in Gray Plains!"

"Yes, Conan, you can dye your hair too! And maybe someone else planted it..."

"But the only people who can reach Gray Plains and get her hair are us and the doctor, aren't we?"

"Hey! Either way, there's no way she's going to—"

"Enough!"

Gray Yuan said suddenly, and the messy room instantly fell silent. She was silent for a moment, then looked at Kaede Yuan, who had been silent on the side, "Gong... Kaedehara, you've been watching like this? Don't you have anything to say? ”

There was no reaction from the person in front of him.

For a moment, it seemed that even the sound of breathing could not be heard.

A strong sense of foreboding suddenly appeared in Gray Yuan's heart.

“… Kaedehara? Who's that? ”

The brain went blank for a moment. Gray Yuan looked blankly at Ayumi who had just spoken, and then looked back at the place where Kaedehara had just stood...

But there was not a single one there.

How could it be, it was still there just now...

“… You've got hysteria again, Gray Plains. ”

Conan broke the silence again, "It was like this ten years ago, it was when we met Gin's car by chance, and we went to the Cup House to catch Pisco... That's the first time you've mentioned the name of this person who doesn't exist at all...

I think you deliberately left the German word for 'I love you' on the scene also because of this... You fantasize about a person who doesn't exist at all, and you fall in love with him.

But as time goes on, the more you feel that something is wrong... That's why this serial murder case came about..."

"Go and turn yourself in, Grayplain." After another pause, Conan continued to persuade.

People who don't exist at all...?

Gray Plains looked around the classroom blankly, but there was no place to hide people. Ayumi, Motota, and Mitsuhiko were looking at her with three points of sadness and seven points of worry.

No wonder there are no traces of his life in the doctor's house...

No wonder he didn't react at all to himself calling at him ...

No wonder I followed him into the activity room, but the door was closed tightly...

No wonder he didn't interact with anyone else in the activity room, at the scene of the crime...

"What are you kidding..."

She turned and walked out of the classroom, and no one stopped her. Then she walked out of the school gate and into the street.

Thunder pierced the sky.

The sky changed when it was said, and in the blink of an eye, thunder broke out, and it looked like it was about to rain. Pedestrians on the side of the road quickened their pace to avoid the rain, and Gray Yuan was at a loss, walking aimlessly.

It's like the day she went to see Shinichi Kudo... It's just that she still had a little hope that day...

Her nose was a little sour, and tears rolled in her eyes, but she held back. She didn't know how long she had been walking, and she didn't even feel like she was getting wet in the rain... When she looked up, she noticed that she had come to a familiar place.

An observation restaurant in the central building of Rice Flower City.

Compared to 10 years ago, the décor of the lookout restaurant has become a little more luxurious, but the seats don't seem to have changed. The spot in her impression was still vacant, and she walked over to herself without paying attention to the waiter at the entrance.

She didn't make an appointment, and the waiter seemed to try to persuade her to leave, but Gray Yuan ignored her, pulled out a chair and sat down.

The girl who looked like a high school student in front of her was surprisingly silent, and her delicate face was faintly despairing, making the waiter swallow the words that wanted to persuade her to leave.

After a moment's hesitation, she walked away and discussed with the manager, hoping to let the girl sit here for a while.

Ash Yuan sat quietly without any interruption, and couldn't help but recall the events of ten years ago.

At that time, Kudo sat across from her, looking at himself with soft eyes, telling himself about his father's proposal to his mother...

In the end, as if he had changed the tone of storytelling, he paused deliberately and said that sentence to himself...

That sentence...

As that sentence came to his mind, Gray Yuan felt his memory churn. Since I woke up, strange places have flashed through my mind one by one...

The words engraved by the deceased also seem to be a reminder to her...

Gray Yuan's heart seemed to beat again, and it gradually accelerated.

As if she had received some kind of revelation, she closed her eyes tightly and whispered:

“Ich liebe dich。”

In fairy tales, as long as you recite the corresponding spell, your wish will come true.

She repeated it over and over again, then opened her eyes expectantly and nervously. Then, the tears that had been rolling in his eyes could no longer be suppressed and fell.

In front of her, exactly as ten years ago, the familiar Kudo sat across from her, looking at her softly.

This look was exactly the same as the way Kudo looked at her that day when she was drunk on the sofa, and he was completely different from the Kudo he saw when he woke up today.

"Kudo...," Ash Hara shouted quietly, so low that only she could hear it.

"I'm here."

The world suddenly shattered like a mirror.

(End of chapter)