Chapter 31: Murderer? Relief? Human Curse Experiment

"Ahem, I don't understand what you are saying."

The woman who was half sitting on the bed leaned out of the bed, leaned over and coughed shrilly, almost coughing out her entire lungs.

"What's true and what's false? My son's suicide note could be forged!"

The light in her eyes flickered, and she didn't dare to look at Liangnai's figure.

"I need to rest, please get out immediately."

The cough just now made her already pale face even paler, like wallpaper that would break at the slightest disturbance.

She patted her chest to calm down, closed her heavy eyelids and began to rest.

Liang Na didn't care about the look of refusing to leave the guest. She had discovered some incredible things in a cave not far behind the villa.

Like a secret room?

For example, human bones—

She had only explored superficially at the time and had not gone deep. As expected, the secret room eventually led to this villa.

"You guys have close ties with the world of spells, right?"

Ryouna stood in the backlight, with a shadow falling on her face. The moonlight peeked in from the window behind her. Her orange-red hair looked like it was dyed red with blood under the moonlight.

The metal corners of the notebook reflected the cold moonlight, piercing Mrs. Ito's eyes directly.

In her eyes, Ryona at this moment was like a judge from hell sentencing crimes.

Her eyeballs bulged violently, and the air in her chest seemed to be suddenly running out. She grabbed her collar and gasped for breath. Her lower lip was bitten bloody by her front teeth, and she stared at Liangnai in disbelief.

To be precise, he was staring at the notebook in her hand.

"January 1st, the weather is clear and the sun is shining brightly outside, but the attic is so cold and gloomy. I seem to have forgotten what it feels like to be in the sun. Does it burn me? Why did Mom and Dad lock me up in here?"

"March 23rd, Mom and Dad, I'm not a liar, I'm not a monster, please don't lock me up."

According to the information sent by Atobe, Ito Feng, as the only son, has never been loved by the Ito couple since childhood, and his biological mother, Mrs. Ito, avoids him even more.

Maybe that's the reason.

After reading this, Liangnai paused for two seconds involuntarily, and then she turned the page.

"On April 12th, an important person came to our house. Dad said that the adult wanted to see him and that we had to be obedient. Xiao Feng will be obedient."

"On April 14th, Dad let me out of the attic and arranged a new room for me, but I made Mom angry again. Should I not have come out?"

"He should have been kept in hiding for the rest of his life! He made me a laughing stock! He should have died in the attic!"

Mrs. Ito suddenly went crazy, pounding the bed with both hands. Her hair was messy and her behavior was completely inconsistent with her usual elegance.

Ignoring Mrs. Ito, Ryona continued to read.

"On May 11th, my father took me to a cave. There was an 'invisible door' in the cave. Inside the door were many monsters and children like me."

"Dad said that he and Mom were wrong before and they wrongly blamed Xiaofeng. Now he has found a lot of children like me to play with Xiaofeng."

The truth has been revealed. Liangnai slowly closed the notebook, her throat tightened, and she couldn't say a word for a long time.

'Liar', 'monster'... Ryona rubbed these two familiar words with her hands. Once upon a time, she was also labeled like this.

"Because of Ito Feng's talent as a sorcerer, he has been able to see cursed spirits since he was a child. You foolish and ignorant people think that Ito Feng has embarrassed you, so you have always locked him up in the attic."

"A certain big shot in the world of curse arts showed up and made Ito Kenro see Ito Kaede's value. The laboratory hidden in the cave is the main purpose of this transaction. Am I right?"

In just a few words, Ryona revealed the truth of the past twelve years.

"Stupid? Ignorant? We don't have eyes that can see monsters. Is this our fault?!"

She didn't want this to happen, it was all that monster's fault!

"Yes." Liang Na looked at her calmly, "Isn't that what you think?"

The monster she gave birth to was a disgrace to the Ito family, and so was she who gave birth to the monster.

The notebook was opened again, and the inside story that Mrs. Ito was unwilling to face was forced to appear, thrown away bloody and still in front of her.

"...It hurts so much. Another piece of flesh is missing from my arm. Xiaofeng, you have to be strong. Daddy said that this is something that kids like me who can see monsters must go through. I need to be cured."

"...The little friend from yesterday is missing. His father said he's recovered and gone home. When will I be cured?"

The paper was crumpled, anger, endless rage burned in Liangnai, using children as food for cursed spirits for human experiments, what a cruel beast!

"Stop reading! Stop reading!" The woman on the bed grabbed the pillow and threw it hard.

"I told you to stop reading!"

Ryona stopped obediently and shouted loudly.

"Leave professional matters to professionals. Those professional crime solvers outside, why don't you come in?"

In addition to Xiaolan and Maori Kogoro, there are two detectives and two policemen, and also a tied-up Kenro Ito.

Matsuda Jinpei threw it away in disgust, and Ito Kenro's skinny penis hit the floor with a crisp clicking sound.

Liangnai squatted down and took out her high school diploma.

"Now you don't need the button to confirm, right?" The smiling eyes were like ice, which made Kenro Ito's body stiffen.

"Well, it seems you are really afraid of a 'monster' like me?"

She tilted her head and smiled innocently, then raised her hand and patted Kenro Ito's face as if to humiliate him.

Kenji Hagiwara pulled Ryouna over and grabbed the corner of his own child Junran's clothes.

"Little Liangnai is not a monster. You are so dirty. Hurry up and wipe it with the corner of your brother Zhenping's clothes."

Matsuda Jinpei: "Hey!"

Although he was reluctant, his body acquiesced to the proposal.

What is a cursed spirit? What is a sorcerer? Conan was confused by these unfamiliar words.

Hattori Heiji was not too surprised. Because his father was a superintendent, he knew more or less about the cooperation between the police and the curse world, but this was the first time he encountered a case related to cursed spirits.

The sorcerer is not as scary as they say.

"...The suicide note that was first discovered was a fake, and it was you, Mrs. Ito, who forged it."

Conan explained the truth slowly and calmly.

"And the murderer who killed Ito Feng is you."

No, that's not right, Conan shook his head to deny his own statement.

“It’s liberation.”

Hattori Heiji added on the side.

"You took advantage of Ito Kaede's feelings for you and persuaded him to commit suicide."

"It's better to die as a human being than to become a monster that is neither human nor ghost."

"Mrs. Ito, don't you think so?"

Hagiwara Kenji changed his casual attitude, frowned, and spoke in a serious and angry voice.

"Then, Ito Kenro discovered that Ito Kaede was dead. Knowing his son well, he would never commit suicide, as he longed for his father's love."

"That's why he refused to accept the suicide note and was confident that ordinary police officers couldn't access the world of curses. That's why he used his privilege so recklessly."

The child who should have been running freely in the sunshine was used by his biological father as an experimental subject to curry favor with the powerful.

Even more children like Ito Feng died in this inhumane experiment.

Mrs. Ito looked dazed and collapsed in an instant. In her blurred consciousness, she remembered the scene of hiding at the corner of the stairs.

"...These are today's flowers. I hope Mom will be happy when she sees them. Maid sister, please don't tell Mom that I picked them."

Because he has not received good care for many years, Ito Feng is shorter than his peers.

When was the last time she saw Ito Feng? She felt as if it had been a lifetime.

Her feelings towards Ito Kaede are undoubtedly complicated.

How could she not love the child she had gone through ten months of hardship and difficulty in carrying and going through the gates of hell before giving birth to?

This love was destroyed when Ito Feng was six years old. Her child became an alien and a monster.

She became the mother of a monster and was nailed to the pillar of shame along with her child.

She began to ignore Ito Feng, and sometimes even insulted and beat him, wanting to vent all the grievances she had suffered on this child.

Every time in the middle of the night, she would be awakened by the aggrieved crying of Ito Feng in her dream.

She realized her abnormality and chose to lock him up in the attic.

Just when she thought Ito Feng would stay in the attic forever, the big shot came.

......

After that day, the tiny Ito Feng was covered in wounds and his skin was uneven. Mrs. Ito felt like she was going crazy.

As a vassal, she had no way to resist Kenro Ito.

Then let Ito Feng die, she thought.

As long as you die, you will not suffer.

"So, after you persuaded Ito Feng to commit suicide, you began to prepare to use slow-acting poison to poison Ito Kenro, and then commit suicide yourself."

Jinpei Matsuda revealed Mrs. Ito's subsequent plans.

"Isn't this a failure?" The truth was completely revealed, and Mrs. Ito no longer had to pretend to be crazy.

"Who told you you failed?"

Ryona opened the cloth, and the sharp and slender sword appeared in front of everyone.

He raised his hand and swung the knife. His movements were clean and neat, so fast that the blood had no time to leave any marks on the blade.

"ah--!!!"

Screams echoed throughout the space.

Blood gushed out, and the white carpet became the judge's execution ground.

"Hey! What are you doing?!"

Hattori Heiji and Conan, who were educated in traditional justice procedures, cannot understand or support this behavior.

"Excuse me, in our world of spells, death is a very common thing."

"So is killing people."

Ryouna bared her teeth, her white teeth gleaming coldly, and she casually wiped away the two drops of blood that splashed on her face.

She handed the knife to the dazed woman on the bed.

"Would you like to try it?"

Try it and feel the pleasure of killing your enemy with your own hands.

The woman stood up weakly and held the sword tremblingly. The weight of the sword made her a little unsteady.

Is it really possible? She wondered confusedly.

"You dead woman, you idiot, you're as useless as your son!"

"If you dare to take a step forward, you won't have an easy life after I'm rescued by that master!"

Noisy, very noisy.

The woman raised her katana expressionlessly.

——Then just shut up.