The case was successfully resolved, and Kaedehara and Graybara, who had little interest in tennis matches, left Wimbledon and headed for Baker Street.

So they didn't notice Minerva Glass's abnormal performance, they didn't see the eye-catching performance of a certain Sherlock Holmes disciple, and they didn't hear the words of the referee at the end of the game-

"The Winner Is"

None of that matters, though.

The important thing is that they toured Baker Street, two people together.

They didn't go directly to the Sherlock Holmes Museum, but first went to the subway entrance on Baker Street, where a statue of Sherlock Holmes sits.

For a fictional character who cannot appear in reality, the statue entrusts the enthusiasm and yearning of countless fans for him.

But...

"He looked lonely."

"Huh?" Gray Yuan was slightly stunned for a moment, and looked at Feng Yuan with some puzzlement.

She didn't notice the statue's lonely expression at all.

"I think," Kaedehara looked into the statue's eyes, "he must have wished he had a statue of Watson next to him..."

“… What about the evidence? Gray Yuan glanced at Kaedehara with empty eyes, "You are the great detective who just solved the case, and you have to talk about evidence." ”

"That's what I think about the evidence," Kaedehara said solemnly, "Although the sense of accomplishment of cracking the criminal's plan and uncovering the truth of the incident will be unstoppable as long as you experience it once..."

After a pause, he continued, "But if no one can understand this feeling, they will only feel lonely..."

"That's why Mr. Detective thoughtfully explained his plan to the guy named Hades?"

"It's not..."

Kaedehara tried to argue, but then chose to give up, "Well, looking at his expression at that time, there was indeed a little bit of satisfaction... But it's just a little bit..."

"No matter how much you suppress it with reason, your desire to perform inherited from your mother is still deeply rooted in your bones...", said Gray Yuan, "but Holmes also said that emotions and calm thinking are contradictory..."

"The original words are about love, as an emotional thing, and he thinks that the most important thing is to think calmly..."

"But this sentence can also be understood to mean that all emotions are contradictory to calm thinking, isn't it?"

"It's not cool to think that you can put all your emotions aside..."

Gray Yuan Wai turned his head to look at Kaedehara, with an inexplicable smile in the corner of his eyes, "Aren't you a fan of Sherlock Holmes?" ”

"Of course I'm a fan of Sherlock Holmes."

Kaedehara said, "But if you want to treat the other party as a perfect person... It's a deadly factor – and then again, it's said in tennis. ”

"What?"

“Love is 0。”

Gray Yuan Ai only thought about it for a moment and understood the meaning of Kaede's words, "That's because the pronunciation of 0 in French is similar to love in English, and it has nothing to do with Sherlock Holmes... This should be you're aware, though... And then what? ”

"And then... On the other hand, 0 is the beginning of everything, and if you don't start from 0, nothing will happen... So 0 is start..."

"And then?" After waiting for a while, he didn't hear Kaedehara continue, so Gray Hara continued to ask.

“… No then. ”

Gray Yuan looked at Kaedehara for half a month, "I said, you shouldn't have learned badly from the doctor and come up with a joke-style puzzle, right?" ”

"Guess what?"

"What about the options?"

"There are no options." Kaedehara quickly returned.

"The Doctor always gives you a few options..."

"I'm not a doctor, I'm just a schoolboy."

Glancing at Kaedehara in annoyance, Gray Yuan thought about it with his right index finger against his chin, but this puzzle was obviously not something that could be figured out at once like the doctor's joke.

After a while, Gray Yuan came back to his senses, "Don't think about it yet... I've got to go to the Sherlock Holmes Museum..."

They plan to get back to Japan before the Doctor and Conan, and the tickets have already been booked, so there's not much time left.

The two headed towards the Sherlock Holmes Museum at 221B Baker Street.

Although it is a museum, it is actually constructed in imitation of the scene in it, and it looks, even down to the details, almost exactly the same as the last time they experienced it in the cocoon.

After asking the staff for permission, Kaedehara sat on the couch in front of the fireplace for a while. In the last game, he slept here for a night, and Gray Yuan slept on the sofa next to him...

Happy time always flies quickly, and Kaedehara looks at his watch and realizes that his time seems to have been stolen.

"It's almost time, shall we go back?"

"Won't you stay a little longer?" Gray Yuan Wai asked curiously, "Haven't you wanted to come here for a long time?" ”

"I'm a Sherlock Holmes fan, not a Sherlock Holmes museum fan..."

If Holmes himself had been here, it would have been perfectly fine to stay for a few more days, but it didn't. Gray Yuan Wai was not as interested in this place as Feng Yuan, so he didn't insist and came out with him.

Next door to the museum is a place to sell related gifts.

"Ah, by the way," Kaedehara said, walking towards the store, "Wait a minute..."

Instead of following up, Gray Yuan Wai looked up at the sky in the distance. In reality, of course, there is no chimney that breathes magic fog like in the game...

After a while, she saw Kaedehara walk out.

"So fast?" Gray Yuan Wai was curious, "Shouldn't you tell the clerk to bring a copy of everything and send it to your home?" ”

"How can it be, it's so exaggerated..."

Kaedehara said, reaching out and taking off the hat on Gray Yuan's head, and then in her stunned state, she took out the hat she had just bought that was hidden behind her back and replaced it for her.

It's a deer-hunting hat.

"Yours." Kaedehara said.

Gray Yuan Wai reached out and touched the new hat on his head, then pulled it downwards and looked up.

"Sherlock Holmes's hat? Isn't there Watson's? ”

"Why do you always want to be Watson, no one doesn't want to be Sherlock Holmes..."

"Not including Watson himself," Gray Yuan retorted, "Watson must not want to be Sherlock Holmes, only want to be Watson..."

"What about the evidence?"

"The proof is that I think so."

Pushed back by what he said not long ago, Kaedehara was a little difficult to refute, "But it's not bad to play a detective once in a while, isn't it?" Let's go, Miss Holmes..."

Gray Yuan straightened the hat on his head, "I feel like you're a little weird today... It can't be something very excessive, right? ”

"Why! I've been by your side..."

"Really?" Gray Plains glanced at Kaedehara suspiciously, "Then why are you like the Riddler today..."

……

Vauxhall Bridge.

The older and beautiful woman that Kaedehara and Gray Hara met yesterday, still wearing a gray coat and a gray hat, was lying on the railing, quietly looking at the river under the bridge.

It was afternoon, and the water was sparkling, and the flowing river seemed to have a great attraction to draw her consciousness, and it took her a while to come to her senses.

Marie Akai took a sip of the glass of water in her hand.

She's been waiting here for a long time.

Just as she was about to take her last sip of water, out of the corner of her eye, she noticed a middle-aged man in a gray hat, who looked a little haggard, walking towards her.

That's the person she's wanted to see for a long time.

"Huh... You're late, Wuwu..."

"I'm sorry, Mary." The man known as Wu Wu stopped two steps away, "I haven't seen you for too long, I can't even remember where the old place we made an appointment was." ”

As he spoke, the man looked up at a building not far away, "Right in front of the SIS headquarters, Vauxhall Bridge, I've completely forgotten that it's the railing of the bridge." ”

"And then?" Mary Akai asked, "Do you know who was the murderer of Koji Haneda?" ”

"No, I just know it's a very large organization. As a result, they targeted him, and he could only flee desperately. ”

"Then why haven't you contacted me for more than ten years?"

"Didn't I tell you that we happened to meet on the street before? When he escaped from those guys, he was seriously wounded in the head, lost his memory for a long time, and wandered the streets..."

The man showed a nostalgic expression, "Thanks to meeting you, I finally remembered everything and returned to MI6 after a year. By the way, did the sons come to London too? ”

"No, I'm here with my daughter."

"Daughter?" The man was stunned for a moment.

"Oh, have you forgotten the daughter you held yourself?"

"Ah, that kid... Grown up, right? ”

“……”

The atmosphere on the field changed all at once.

Mary Akai was silent and did not respond, and tears flowed directly and uncontrollably from the corners of her glasses eyes.

"What's wrong, Mary... Why are you crying? ”

The man asked her, puzzled.

As soon as his words fell, Mary Akai suddenly took out a pistol and pointed it at his head, "When I was separated from Wuwu, my daughter was still in my belly!" Who are you? ”

Then, in the next instant, two men dressed in black from top to bottom pointed their guns at her behind her.

"That's right..."

The "man" slowly pulled off the disguise, revealing Belmore's face, and she was still holding a red and white capsule in her hand, "I'm not Akai Muto, I'm the woman who took this pill to poison you." ”

The situation was reversed in an instant, and Marie Akai let the man behind her take away her pistol and make a gesture of surrender.

"MI6 informant, I've finally caught you." Belmore showed off the mask he had just torn off, "I've been hanging down this street regularly since a long time ago, with your husband's face on top. ”

"I see. You sent me a message to let my colleagues see you, luring me to this country to confirm whether it was me. In order not to let me find out that this is a trap, it took you three years until the day you pretended to meet me by chance. ”

"Yes, we want to bring the dead Akai back to MI6, but his suddenly missing wife has become an obstacle to making this happen."

"Indeed, if it were me, as it was today, I could tell if it was my husband, and if it was the disguise of the Witch with a Thousand Faces..."

Akai Marie paused, "But, it's a pity, I've already told MI6 that if I don't go back when the time comes, Akai Wuwu is fake, and I also told my daughter to let her leave London." ”

"So how about pretending to be you and going to see your daughter?"

"Hmph, it's like you know where my daughter is. You don't even know about my daughter's existence, how can you know about it? ”

"Oh yes," Belmode put the capsule in her mouth, "Looks like we'll have to wait until next time to sneak into MI6." ”

Belmore pinched Mary Akai's chin.

"So, let's achieve another goal first..."

As she spoke, she suddenly kissed Mary Akai.

The capsule that was originally in her mouth was sent into Marie Akai's mouth like this, and Marie Akai, who couldn't come back to her senses for a while, subconsciously swallowed the capsule.

Mary Akai clutched her throat, but it was too late.

"Erase the existence of Mary Akai ... As long as you're alive, we're going to find it inconvenient. Belmore looked at Mary Akai with a smile and a slightly curious expression, "How is it?" The feeling of being killed by the poison made by your own sister..."

Belmore's words fell, and Mary Akai in front of her felt her heart beat violently suddenly, and then it was as if she was being clenched tightly.

She felt as if she was about to melt all over her body, and she couldn't help but cry out, and the pain made her no longer able to support her body, and she fell headlong into the river.

……

At the same time, in the hotel suite.

The trip to London is coming to an end, and Kaedehara knows exactly that.

He and Gray Yuan's luggage was simple and didn't have much to pack, but before they left for the airport, they needed to take the antidote again and turn back into the form of high school students, and then go through the disguises.

Kaedehara finally checked that nothing was missing, and Ash Hara took out the small box containing the antidote from his arms, took out two blue and white capsules, and pulled the suitcase with his other hand, "Your antidote-"

"Gray Plains," Kaedehara was slightly stunned, "You're going to change back into the bathroom... And then go straight to cross-dressing? ”

"Yes, there's a mirror there," Gray Yuan replied casually, and then looked at Kaede Yuan suspiciously, "What, do you want to come along?" ”

Although I really want to, but after suffering the loss last time, Kaedehara still honestly confessed: "No... But..."

"Pervert." Gray Yuan guarded his chest, looking vigilant.

“……”

Although he still couldn't avoid it, Gray Yuan's appearance was too cute, so Kaede Yuan didn't feel depressed.

It's just that...

If Ashbara cross-dresses directly in the bathroom, it means that when she comes out, she will look like Yukiko Kudo again...

In this case, he still can't see Miyano Shiho's appearance.

"But what?"

Ash Yuan Wai put down his suitcase and leaned closer, seemingly very interested.

Kaede Yuan hesitated for a moment, feeling that he couldn't miss this rare opportunity because he was embarrassed, so he opened his mouth after quickly doing a quick psychological construction for himself: "I want to see you as you are." ”

"Oh."

"Hey, you promised..."

"Ah," Gray Plains said with a hint of slyness, "Mr. Detective just wants to see me as I am?" ”

Kaedehara felt his heart begin to beat faster.

He really wanted to see her very much, wanted to see her in its entirety - from Ash Hara to Miyano Shiho.

"Yes, very much." Kaedehara admits calmly. But he felt that his voice was a little different from his own, and it became erratic.

Originally, he just wanted to get a chance to see Shiho Miyano, but as he asked questions, Ash Yuan Ai gradually got closer, and he felt that things were a little out of control.

"That's... Why? ”

Gray Yuan lamented in front of Kaedehara, and the tips of their noses were about to touch.

She looked at his eyes earnestly and thought it was very interesting. She could read the hint of panic... It was the first time she had seen him look like this...

Kaede Yuan looked at the ice-blue eyes and was slightly distracted.

Why do you want to see what Shiho Miyano looks like...

He knew it very well.

"I-"

Kaedehara spoke, then swallowed the words back.

He had some difficulty controlling himself.

He once thought that in order to be able to look at her unscrupulously again, he would do a lot of things that he knew he shouldn't do...

Like now...

He had never been so desperate to speak his mind, and the snort of Gray Plain's mourning seemed to blow directly on his heart, making it difficult for him to maintain that delicate balance.

The string broke.

It's really broken.

In Kaedehara's view, all events have three elements, namely people, time, and place.

It's an uneventful afternoon... The location is also just in the hotel room... Neither Tsutsumi nor the Doctor's doorstep ...

It's not monumental at all.

However, as long as you are with the right people, the time and place will always be right.

Kaedehara tried to speak again.

A hint of panic flashed in Gray Plains' ice-blue eyes.

She just wanted to tease him, just like before, when his casual expression made it clear to her that he wasn't very good at hiding his mind...

As it was now, he had never understood so well.

Just as Kamen Superman has long known that the female spy has fallen in love with him, the female spy has long known that Kamen Superman is in love with herself.

However, she apparently underestimated his desire to see what he really was...

She played away.

Gray Yuan couldn't help but clench his hands slightly, remembering that he still had two blue and white capsules in his hands.

To whom are you going to say it?

Is it Gray Plains Mourning? Or Shiho Miyano?

Gray Yuan Wai bit his lip lightly and lowered his eyes.

"Because I like—"

Kaedehara's words came to an abrupt end.

The touch on his lips made his brain go blank for a moment.

It's not what you imagined...

It's not cold to the touch, it's unusually hot...

This is of course, because at this time, Gray Yuan's body is exuding hot gas, and the whole person is like a furnace.

He could clearly see the cunning, nervousness, and pain in her eyes...

And yourself.

It's as if time has stopped flowing.

If he hadn't subconsciously swallowed the thing that had been put into his mouth.

The heart, which had forgotten to beat, trembled violently, as if it was being clenched tightly. His whole body seemed to be steaming, and there was a sharp pain in the depths of every bone...

Gray Plains hung his head, his head resting on Kaedehara's chin under his soft brown hair. Her body trembled from the sharp pain that was about to turn back, and her hands clutched Kaedehara's clothes tightly.

Now it's okay...

Although the time and place are not very good, even if he lives a few lifetimes, he probably won't forget today...

An inexplicable thought came to mind, and Kaedehara, whose brain was a mess, couldn't even confirm that he was Sora Kaedehara or Shinichi Kudo, and whether the girl in front of him was Ai Shibara or Shiho Miyano, so he opened his mouth again.

Or...

He is both Sora Kaedehara and Shinichi Kudo.

She is both Gray Yuan Mourning and Miyano Shiho.

So—

"I love you, Grayplain."

"I love you, Shiho."

(End of chapter)