After returning to her residence in Fudomoyama, Ai was forced to confess everything under the coercion of Yoruichi Toyama, who had just become her brother-in-law.
Just as Yoruichi Toyama had predicted, after Akechi, Officer Furuya also brought Ai to the rented house to see what was going on.
It wasn't that she only bullied children. Yoruichi Toyama originally wanted to settle scores with those two bad friends, but they started arguing first, shouting that they would race to decide the winner, and then drove off in a flash.
They even heartlessly abandoned Ai there, truly sacrificing their own friend for their own.
Yoruichi Toyama could only vent her anger on the professor's sister-in-law. When she got home, she pressed her in front of the dressing mirror and combed her hair into a bun like Sailor Moon's.
Ai Haibara looked utterly dejected.
He even began to hate the game they played together on the Famicom when Furuya Rei found the rental house where he was being held captive.
"You also play games?" Yoruichi couldn't help but ask.
Ai rolled her eyes at her reflection in the mirror.
"There's nothing else to do."
"Oh." Yoruichi Toyama suddenly chuckled. "So, when Inspector Furuya arrived, 'my mom' must have just left not long ago, right?"
"No, if we're even bolder, he might not have left yet..."
Ai's expression immediately turned as if she had seen a ghost.
She was about to turn her head when Yoruichi Toyama stopped her by grabbing the half-finished little bun on one side of her head.
"Don't move! A bun is already hard to comb."
Then just stop combing my hair!
Feeling a little guilty, Ai could only complain in her mind at that moment.
"So, how did you guess..." She only got halfway through her question when she met Toyama Yoru's smiling gaze in the mirror, and puffed out her cheeks in annoyance. "Anyway, I don't know where he went, and even if I did..."
"They won't tell me either," Yoruichi Toyama added.
"Fine, I'll let your puppeteer off the hook this time."
It should be said that Gao Yuan knew all along that this plan would fail.
However, he only went to chat with Ai, who had been mistakenly kidnapped, and had no intention of getting rid of her murderous puppet.
Perhaps he also felt some sympathy for the young couple, Shinpachi Nagakura and Kanna Yuzuki.
As for meeting Ai, Yoruichi Toyama always felt that it was probably like someone who found a stray cat, raised it well and found it an adoptive family, but couldn't help but want to visit it again.
It can be considered a lingering affection that the puppeteer from hell still retains for normal human warmth.
In any case, the fact that Nagakura Shinpachi didn't kill anyone and even decided to confess and turn himself in is already a relatively ideal outcome in this incident.
Let that puppeteer enjoy his freedom for a few more days.
“A female PhD student like you,” Yoruichi Toyama said with a smile, looking at Ai in the mirror, “wouldn’t you immediately turn off your games and pretend to be doing nothing if you heard someone coming in?”
"You don't want people to see this childish side of you."
"Unless, at the time you wanted to attract the attention of a highly perceptive agent so that Mr. Puppet Master could slip away quietly."
"So you even invited a certain spy to play a game with you..."
Ai, whose prediction had been completely accurate, could only chuckle twice.
However, this plan against Yoruichi Toyama also began with that game on the NES.
"When exactly did I offend you?" Toyama Yoruichi was both amused and exasperated.
Is it really worth it for you guys to discuss selling me out just because we're playing a game?
Ai rolled her eyes again.
"Now you're willing to admit it, you like my sister, right?"
Yoruichi Toyama's hand holding the comb froze for a moment, and both she and Akemi, who was sitting on the sofa next to her drinking red tea and watching her younger sister turn into Sailor Moon, blushed.
“But let me tell you,” Ai said seriously, “you are far from passing my test.”
...
Unlike her older sister, who lives a relatively normal life, Shiho Miyano has been under strict control by the brewery since childhood, and even her interpersonal relationships are scrutinized. Her social circle is quite narrow and obsessive.
For this reason, she was a staunch social Darwinist.
She not only couldn't understand Yoruichi Toyama's attitude of doing everything she could to save anyone, but she also scoffed at it.
"Saints do not exist in this dog-eat-dog world."
“But I’m not a saint,” Yoruichi Toyama retorted. “I just can’t stand seeing people hurt others.”
"But harm is unavoidable. Given limited resources, the law of the jungle is the only law."
Ai, sporting a bun hairstyle, said coldly.
"Like this time, if Gin really threatened you with my sister's life, would you use me to exchange for her?"
Good grief, what a killer question!
That's even harsher than "I and your mother fell into the water at the same time".
Yoruichi Toyama sighed helplessly.
"I think I've already answered that question."
"I definitely won't."
“But back then, my sister wasn’t your girlfriend yet.” Ai finally turned her head and glanced at Yoruichi Toyama out of the corner of her eye.
"You say you like her, yet you're unwilling to go to any lengths to save her..."
“But the price shouldn’t be something that doesn’t belong to me,” Yoruichi replied, “like your life.”
"Even if it wasn't you, I couldn't bring myself to trade one person's life for another."
"This is not a matter of weighing something on a scale."
"So, don't test me." He said, poking Ai's bun on her head and smiling slightly.
"What I can promise you is that I will do everything in my power to protect Mingmei. If there is any danger, I will definitely stand in front of her."
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