books44 Chapter 241 London Shadow: The Fire That Devoured Everything
Chapter 241 London Shadow: The Fire That Devoured Everything
Chapter 241 London Shadow: The All-Eating Fire
Watching Miwa Kuromon follow him to the restroom, Conan and his father exchanged a smile, their eyes reflecting the same certainty.
"Dad, Ms. Adler, who do you think that person is?"
"I have some suspicions, but to confirm it, I still need to test him. However, that young lady will probably be heartbroken."
In the bewildered gaze of Ayumi, a figure flashed through Conan's mind: Atsushi Miyano!
As the story progresses, Conan has gradually discovered a pattern: the NPCs whose appearances have been replaced with familiar faces all play an important role in advancing the plot.
With Moriarty, who looks like Kuromon's father, Mycroft, who is disguised as Ai Haibara's mother, and Akemi, who seems to have met Jack the Ripper... given these premises, he naturally paid some attention to Atsushi Miyano.
What convinced him even more was Professor Moriarty's actions—the timing and the use of a false identity to infiltrate were both too strange.
They had only recently found and spoken with Miss Mingmei, and it hadn't taken much effort. But just as they caught up, before they even had a chance to exchange a few words, the professor was able to precisely arrive at the staff room and cut off their questioning.
Even knowing that they might be coming to the opera house to investigate, the speed was too fast.
Mr. Mycroft brought them in through private channels, and they didn't encounter any unrelated people during the process. However, when their father took them downstairs, they happened to run into Mr. Miyano.
He was probably one of Professor Moriarty's men planted at the opera house.
What's even stranger is that the professor, who is used to hiding his whereabouts in the original work, actually went so far as to expose himself and appear in person... This means that there must be something special that requires the professor to personally contact Ms. Akemi.
He looked up and met Yusaku Kudo's serious, narrowed eyes. His heart skipped a beat: "What happened?"
"Huh? Why do you say that?"
"Your expression wouldn't be this serious even if you were commissioned to write for seven different publishers at the same time."
"Ah, you mean this?" Yusaku Kudo pinched the bridge of his nose with a pained expression and winked. "Didn't you notice? Glasses, glasses."
Glasses?
Conan blinked, his eyes narrowed as he stared at the glasses on his nose. But in the game, the tracking function that the professor had modified with his glasses frames didn't work either...
"Sigh, whatever." Kudo Yusaku sighed sourly, "I don't expect a brat like you who doesn't wear glasses to empathize with the feelings of people who are nearsighted."
Shortsighted...
"Ah! That's why you were standing so close to Mr. Mycroft just now!"
He thought his dad was also trying to fit the character's persona, just like Xiaolan!
"Huh?" Thinking of Ran Mouri, Conan belatedly glanced at the crowd and his friends around him. "That's strange, why haven't Ran and Sonoko caught up yet? Could they have gotten lost?"
At that moment, two people with similar appearances came out of the bathroom one after the other. Conan glanced at Miyano Akemi, who was being tightly hugged by Haibara, and a thought struck him: Perhaps Haibara could try to extract some information from her.
"Um, Dr. Molly, could you please not follow me?"
Noah's Ark cautiously dodged Kuromon Miwa's outstretched fingers, retreating sharply in repulsion. How did Kuromon Haruka design her NPC programs?! Each one is stranger than the last!
The more he resisted, the more interested Kuromon Miwa became in teasing him, looking for opportunities to touch his face: "As a gentleman, don't be so shy~ Don't you think we look like a married couple?"
Conan's lips twitched immediately: How did they design the NPC program for Noah's Ark?! Can't they have some ethics?!
Conan, his face dark, quickly stepped between the two men in the awkward atmosphere to help Kuromon out of the predicament: "Hey, Professor, didn't you come here to help? At least tell us why Jack lost control, otherwise how are we going to persuade him to turn himself in!"
"Persuade? Surrender?" Kuromon Miwa looked at him strangely, as if she had heard something utterly ridiculous. "Fine, as long as you can get rid of this trouble for me, the process doesn't matter."
"Because I told Jack the truth: it wasn't his mother who abandoned him, but his father who, in order to better control the child, personally took the mother away and kept the child. Then this poor little guy broke down because he couldn't accept the truth and started hunting women who resembled his mother."
Kuromon Miwa, her face grim, crossed her arms: "I've always considered him the best weapon I've nurtured, and he's already gone out of control and betrayed me~ How boring~"
As she spoke, she took advantage of the moment when the conversation was drawing everyone's attention to deliberately and affectionately rubbed Noah's Ark's cheek, causing the latter to look pale.
......
Drip, drip. The sound of water flowing gently.
A cold droplet splashed on the back of Ran Mouri's neck, making her shiver. Through her hazy eyes, she could vaguely see the flickering firelight.
...Huh? Where am I? Why am I here?
I vaguely remember Sonoko and I following behind Conan and the others when Akemi suddenly ran off for some reason... Just as I was about to catch up, I suddenly saw Mr. Mycroft. To avoid being eliminated, Sonoko and I went up to chat with him... and then suddenly everything went black!
She gritted her teeth and propped up her aching, weak arms, rubbed her eyes, and reached out to touch the unconscious Sonoko Suzuki: "Sonoko! Sonoko, wake up!"
"Don't worry, she's just temporarily unconscious from inhaling anesthetic gas."
A deep, magnetic voice came from behind her, and Ran Mouri looked back.
The sewer smelled unpleasant; the strong odor masked many other smells, so much so that she didn't immediately notice the intense stench of blood in the air.
In the dim firelight, Mr. Mycroft, who was usually impeccably dressed and composed, looked utterly disheveled. His long hair was soaked, his clothes were mostly torn, and he was pale as he clutched his bleeding abdomen, which was barely bandaged with ripped pieces of clothing.
"Mr. Mycroft, you're injured!" Ran Mouri, disregarding her appearance, immediately tore off a piece of her skirt to use as a makeshift bandage. "What happened? What on earth happened?"
"hiss..."
Kuromon Haruya winced as he took the bandage, bandaging himself as he sneered, "It's Jack the Ripper! He wasn't out of control at all! We've all been fooled by Moriarty!"
"What!" Ran Mouri exclaimed.
"Because of your calls, I happened to turn around and saw Jack trying to ambush me from behind, barely dodging the ether tranquilizer. But unfortunately, I haven't exercised in a long time, and I still accidentally got stabbed by him... cough cough cough! I can only barely lead you two ladies into the hole leading to the sewer pipe, sorry."
"Please don't say that! I'll carry you out to see a doctor right now!"
Just as Ran was about to shake Sonoko awake to take action, Yoruichi Kuromon stopped her: "No! I'm not seriously injured. There's an even more urgent crisis now!"
"Perhaps thinking he could easily kill me, Jack told me Moriarty's plan at the last minute."
He planned to secretly apply a slow-acting poison to everyone, then burn the entire audience alive in a sea of flames when the show began that night. Afterwards, he would escape to Europe on the train from Charles Cross Station to build an even larger criminal empire!