Chapter 210: That's All (Two Chapters in One)

As early as when Masumi Sera realized that the person who saved him was Akikawa Kyousuke,

he had already realized that Akikawa Kyousuke possessed an extraordinary mind and observation ability.

However, she believes that Akikawa Kyousuke can gain an advantage in the confrontation with Chianti and Vermouth.

Or it was because Akikawa Kyousuke learned through some special channels that Vermouth and others were coming to Kosenan to conduct a transaction.

She hopes to gain Akikawa Kyousuke's trust while also finding out the channels through which Akikawa Kyousuke obtains internal information of the organization.

And use this to gain an advantage in their future confrontation with the organization.

However, she finally understood after hearing Akikawa Kyousuke's explanation.

The information Akikawa Kyousuke possessed was not much less than that of himself and others.

He was able to determine the identity of the murderer

and make preparations in advance for the transaction in the early morning of that day,

all thanks to his extremely keen observation skills and terrifying intelligence analysis ability.

That means.

My beautiful idea of wanting to obtain information from Akikawa Kyousuke was nothing but wishful thinking.

However, Sera Masumi did not feel disappointed at all.

It is better to say.

After she discovered that Akikawa Kyousuke's personal abilities were actually much better than she had expected,

Instead, what emerged in my heart was a feeling of surprise and joy, as if I had won the lottery.

"I thought I had expected Akikawa to be high enough, but I didn't expect that I still underestimated his ability."

"Akikawa is willing to tell these things without reservation. Does this mean that I have gained his trust?"

Sera Masumi tried hard to suppress the excitement in her chest, and then she heard Akikawa Kyousuke say:

"How much do you know about the woman who can change her appearance?"

Upon hearing this, Sera Masumi shared her personal experience of fighting Vermouth.

And he told Akikawa Kyousuke the information he learned about Vermouth from Conan.

Originally, this information should not be disclosed to outsiders casually.

But Akikawa Kyousuke's mother was also killed by the organization.

And it is obvious that Akikawa Kyousuke has no good feelings towards the people in the organization.

Therefore, Masumi Sera also trusts Akikawa Kyousuke very much.

"Can you tell me about that organization?"

Akikawa Kyousuke continued to ask.

"I don't know much about this."

Masumi Sera considered his words in his mind, and then told Akikawa Sousuke the information that did not involve the privacy of himself, Conan and others.

Of course, after removing these contents, there is not much information left about the organization that Sera Masumi knows.

"That's all I know and can reveal to Mr. Akikawa.

"Excuse me, Mr. Akikawa, do you have anything else to ask?"

Masumi Sera looked at Akikawa Kyousuke with a smile and asked softly.

She was trying her best to show her sincerity to Akikawa Kyousuke.

"No, thank you."

"There's nothing to thank me for. Mr. Akikawa helped me a lot this time, and this is the gift I should give in return."

Sera Masumi said with a smile, then slowly put away his smile and asked inconspicuously:

"Mr. Akikawa, will you continue to fight with the organization next?"

"Perhaps."

Akikawa Kyousuke looked down at the coffee cup in his hand and responded softly.

After hearing Akikawa Kyousuke's answer, Sera Masumi couldn't help but get excited again.

"It seems that my judgment is correct. The fact that Akikawa and his mother have been hunted by the organization for so long shows that his mother's identity must be extraordinary."

"Perhaps Akikawa's mother is a defector from the organization."

"Based on Chianti's level, she is at most a killer who was ordered to kill Akikawa Ryoko."

"Just because we have dealt with Chianti doesn't mean that Akikawa's actions will stop here."

"Since Akikawa still wants to continue fighting against the organization"

Masumi Sera realized that Akikawa Kyousuke might still have the idea of continuing to fight against the organization.

She felt that the time had come.

"Mr. Akikawa, are you willing to cooperate with 'us'?"

"We also have important people who have been harmed by the organization, and in order to prevent the organization from continuing to harm others, we will continue to fight against the organization in the future."

"I believe that with your help, Mr. Akikawa, our efficiency in fighting the organization will be greatly improved."

Masumi Sera made an invitation to Akikawa with a sincere face.

She believed that Akikawa Kyousuke would not refuse her proposal.

Perhaps Akikawa Kyousuke has good brain power, but his power is ultimately limited.

In addition, Akikawa Kyousuke is too thin and frail, so his actual combat power should not be strong.

Therefore, if Akikawa Kyousuke wants to continue fighting against the organization and avenge her mother, she will definitely need teammates.

Today, Akikawa Kyousuke and I exchanged information with each other, and a bridge of trust should have been established between the two of us.

Therefore, Sera Masumi's heart was full of confidence.

However, the opposite happened.

"That won't be necessary."

Masumi Sera heard that Akikawa Kyousuke rejected his proposal without any hesitation.

"Huh?"

Her expectations were dashed, and Sera Masumi was stunned for a moment.

She never expected that Akikawa Kyousuke would reject her so decisively.

"Why?"

"Aren't you also fighting against the organization, Mr. Akikawa? If so, we should have the same goal."

However, before Sera Masumi could finish her words, she was interrupted by Akikawa Kyousuke.

"Mr. Sera, you seem to have misunderstood something."

"Just because I am an enemy of that organization doesn't mean I am in the same group with you."

"Whether you want to fight against the organization or not, what does it have to do with me?"

"I don't have the same high moral standards as you detectives. I still want to help others when the power of both sides is extremely unequal."

Masumi Sera never expected that she would get such a reply.

Moreover, Akikawa Kyousuke's last sentence was clearly a satire on himself and Conan and others' attempt to interfere with the software transaction.

She looked at Akikawa Kyousuke's attitude which seemed to have never changed from the beginning to the end, and suddenly felt

that the so-called bridge of trust established between herself and Akikawa Kyousuke was nothing but her own wishful thinking.

She thought about it carefully, whether it was the Nishihara Koichi frame-up case that happened at the Imperial Theater,

The case of Takao Ohga being injected with drugs happened at the film festival.

And then there was the case of Kyouji Toda.

Although Akikawa Kyousuke fights back as a victim most of the time.

But what he did could definitely not be called "self-defense."

Instead, it seems more like "revenge".

Even from a legal perspective, Akikawa Kyousuke's actions in those three cases were completely illegal.

This style of behavior is indeed very different from himself, Conan and others.

"Mr. Akikawa, you have limited power on your own."

"Also, your style of doing things may be a little too extreme sometimes."

"Whether it's the treatment of Chianti or the treatment of Koichi Nishihara and Takao Ohga before."

Masumi Sera remembered the deep indentation on Chianti's carotid artery.

And the truth behind several cases that Kyouji Toda had revealed to him before he was arrested.

Although Masumi Sera's elder brother and mother were also persecuted by the organization, her experience was different from that of Akikawa Kyousuke after all.

Therefore, Masumi Sera also believes that he is not qualified to stand on the moral high ground to criticize Akikawa Kyousuke's behavior.

But she still found it difficult to accept Akikawa Kyousuke's previous behavior.

If Akikawa Kyousuke continues to maintain his own style of doing things, it is hard to say that there will be no risk of being exposed in the future.

After all, he is not the only one in Japan who possesses the ability to reason.

At least it would be difficult for Conan to accept Akikawa Kyousuke's behavior.

Besides, using illegal means is wrong in itself.

Therefore, Sera Masumi also gave a subtle reminder.

"I'm sure you are already very clear about the circumstances of the previous cases, Mr. Sera, so I don't want to elaborate on them."

"I will show no mercy to anyone who harbors ill will towards me."

When Masumi Sera heard Akikawa Kyousuke say this, he also saw the artist opposite him curling his lips slightly:

"Also, what is the relationship between Koichi Nishihara, Takao Ohga and me?"

"Mr. Sera, you said that my behavior in these cases was a bit extreme. Do you have any evidence?"

Sera Masumi: "!!!"

Masumi Sera stared in amazement at Akikawa Kyousuke, who smiled for the first time during their conversation today.

It seemed as if he couldn't believe that such a criminal's words would come from the mouth of Akikawa Kyousuke.

You know.

Anyone who has said this to me before was sent to the police station by me without exception!

However.

Even though Akikawa Kyousuke words and actions basically amounted to tacit approval of his previous behavior.

However, after Nishihara Koichi and Ohga Takao were subdued by Toda Kyouji for assaulting a police officer,

In addition, Takuto Nakajima was thrown into jail for forging evidence, and Kyouji Toda was already dead.

There are no longer any clues or evidence to prove what Akikawa Kyousuke had done before.

Criminal genius.

——Toda Kyouji's evaluation of Akikawa Kyousuke suddenly popped up in Sera Masumi's mind.

In an instant, Akikawa Kyousuke's image became much worse in Sera Masumi's mind.

"Mr. Akikawa."

"Which side are you on?"

Sera Masumi's voice was no longer kind, but he asked seriously.

"I'm neither."

"I should have died on August 23 last year from taking sleeping pills so that my mother could get compensation from my insurance."

"But that Chianti ruined my three-year plan, so she had to die."

"Kyouji Toda and Takuto Nakajima tried to make me a criminal through illegal means, so they are also an eyesore to me."

"I don't like anyone to have bad intentions towards me, and I need to take precautions when necessary."

"That's all."

Akikawa Kyousuke replied as he gently stirred the half-full coffee in the cup with a straw.

Although Akikawa Kyousuke said this, Sera Masumi could not see the emotions in Akikawa Kyousuke's heart.

But she still felt Akikawa Kyousuke's deep hatred for the organization through his words.

at the same time.

She also completely understood Akikawa Kyousuke's code of conduct.

——As long as others don't provoke Akikawa Kyousuke, Akikawa will not take action.

As long as he notices the slightest clue, he will attack the other party without any hesitation.

The people in the organization killed Akikawa Kyousuke's mother, so Akikawa Kyousuke will not hesitate to take revenge on them in the future.

Crime has never been Akikawa Kyousuke's purpose, it is just a means for Akikawa Kyousuke to achieve his goal.

It is precisely because Akikawa Kyousuke is absolutely confident that what he has done is perfect that

he will tell the truth in front of him without hesitation.

Akikawa Kyousuke obviously didn't think he could find evidence against him.

'That's too conceited.'

Masumi Sera even felt that his identity as a detective was challenged.

She suppressed the emotions rising in her chest and continued to persuade:

"No, Mr. Akikawa, I think what you are doing is wrong."

"I will no longer force you to help others."

"But at least, please don't continue your current behavior. After all, many of your actions are already suspected of..."

Sera Masumi was halfway through her words when she was interrupted again by Akikawa Kyousuke.

"If I were really like what you said, then Mr. Sera would have died long ago."

Akikawa Sousuke's words immediately made Sera Masumi shut up.

If it weren't for Akikawa Kyousuke creating hydrogen sulfide to attack Chianti and Vermouth, he would have died long ago.

"Also, Mr. Sera, you should not stay out of this. If you had been serious enough in the car accident last year, how could Nakajima Takuto and Toda Kyouji have ended up like this?"

Akikawa Kyousuke's words immediately made Sera Masumi feel extremely absurd.

The fate of Nakajima Takuto and Toda Kyouji could be said to be entirely their own fault, but how come Akikawa Kyousuke said that it was also related to him? Just

as Sera Masumi was puzzled and was about to continue arguing with Akikawa Kyousuke,

he saw Akikawa Kyousuke had stood up, walked in front of him and leaned over.

The whisper that followed in Sera Masumi's ears was like a bolt of lightning to her:

"I'll tell you another secret. I took the sleeping pills long before the car accident that day, not after the accident."

After Akikawa Kyousuke finished speaking, he gently patted Sera Masumi's shoulder and walked out of the coffee shop.

Only Masumi Sera was left, petrified in his seat.

"Akikawa took the sleeping pills before the car accident?!"

'And it was long before the accident?!'

'How is this possible?!'

"If that's the case, then Akikawa wouldn't have been able to attack Akikawa Ryoko from the beginning!"

The detectives and the criminal police suspected that Akikawa Kyousuke killed his mother and then committed suicide in the car accident case,

and Nakajima Takuto induced and forced Akikawa Kyousuke to confess.

Even later, Toda Kyouji targeted Akikawa Kyousuke.

All of this is based on the premise that Akikawa Kyousuke took sleeping pills after the car accident.

Also, when the Metropolitan Police Department initially searched Akikawa Kyousuke's home, they did not find the three insurance contracts in which Akikawa Kyousuke himself was the insured.

Therefore, no one ever considered that Akikawa Kyousuke was not the murderer.

If this is true, then Akikawa Kyousuke was targeted by Nakajima Takuto and Toda Kyouji, and he is indeed responsible on his side.

'Where? What went wrong?!'

"We determined that Akikawa took sleeping pills after the car accident, mainly based on the diagnosis report given by the hospital doctor at the time."

"The doctor tested the concentration of triazolam in Akikawa's body and determined that Akikawa had taken sleeping pills after the car accident."

Sera Masumi fell into deep thought.

'As long as you are an ordinary person, the rate at which you metabolize triazolam is basically the same.'

"So the doctor's estimate of the time when Akikawa took triazolam based on the concentration of triazolam detected in Akikawa's body should not be too far off from the actual situation."

Triazolam is primarily metabolized in the human liver.

In addition, triazolam has a short half-life, so as long as the concentration of triazolam in the human body is tested, it is possible to clearly know the time when the patient took triazolam.

Sera Masumi was thinking.

Suddenly I heard the voice of a customer behind me ordering food:

"One piece of cheesecake, please."

And from the voice of the customer behind him, Sera Masumi suddenly recalled that Akikawa Kyousuke refused to drop the cake when ordering food.

Her wide-open eyes began to tremble at this moment.

"Yes, Akikawa is not an ordinary person!"

"He has been suffering from liver failure, and the symptoms are so severe that he cannot eat without taking medication."

'If the patient suffers from liver dysfunction, the metabolism rate of triazolam in his body will be slowed down, resulting in a longer half-life.'

'So we can't calculate the time it took Akikawa to take triazolam based on the rate at which normal people metabolize triazolam!'

'We all overlooked this!'

"Regardless of the motive, Akikawa had no possibility of committing the crime from the beginning?!"

Realizing this, Masumi Sera suddenly stood up amid the surprised gazes of the guests and waiters.

'Akikawa Kyousuke, who clearly possesses abilities far beyond those of ordinary people, is willing to give up his young life full of a bright future in order to allow his mother to obtain insurance compensation.'

'He swallowed the sleeping pills but survived, only to find that his mother was dead and all his three years of preparation had gone to waste.'

'That's why he used that silly artist image to protect himself, becoming like a hedgehog. He looks harmless on weekdays, but once someone tries to touch him, they will be stabbed and bleed.'

'But even so, after using hydrogen sulfide in Kosenan, he took the initiative to expel the hydrogen sulfide in the room.'

'Not only did he save me, he also saved the guys who might come later, the police, and everyone in the lobby on the first floor.'

"How can a person like Akikawa be a bad person?"

'He just behaved a little bit extreme, but he never hurt innocent people.'

'It is precisely because he has long lost the will to live that he does not care about the means to achieve his goals.'

"If Akikawa achieves his goal, he might choose to commit suicide again!"

"If I can change Akikawa's mind, I might be able to avoid this outcome."

'At the same time, we also need to prevent him from being caught by the kid or someone else and being sent to the police in the future.'

Masumi Sera thought to himself, then after slapping a few bills on the counter, he chased after him.

"Mr. Akikawa, wait a minute!"

Masumi Sera called out to Akikawa who was walking forward, and then ran over under the other's slightly surprised gaze.

"Mr. Akikawa, if you need anything in the future or if anything happens, please feel free to come to me."

"I will definitely come to help you."

Masumi Sera placed his right hand on his chest and spoke to Akikawa Kyousuke.

"Akikawa, you saved me, so I want to save you too."

"I don't want you to continue going in the wrong direction after losing your mother."

Akikawa Kyousuke looked at the "handsome" detective in front of him with surprise, who suddenly ran up to him and said he wanted to help him, and a faint curve appeared at the corner of his mouth again.

"good."

　I'm very sorry for the late update. This chapter has 3000 words, which is equivalent to 2.5 chapters in one.

　　The volume description has been updated:

　　[Volume 5 Savior]

"Akikawa, you saved me, so I want to save you too." - Masumi Sera

(End of this chapter)