No matter how Deya interrogated, the burly man could not tell where Professor Moriarty was hiding, or rather, he simply didn't know.
The burly man is Colonel Moran's confidant. If even he doesn't know...
Sakaki Makoto frowned. Professor Moriarty was hiding too deeply, like a lantern fish lurking in the abyss. He would only show his fangs when the prey came to him.
"Gentlemen, we had better go to Sherlock Holmes first."
Watson is more concerned about Holmes' safety than Professor Moriarty's whereabouts:
"With the wisdom of Sherlock Holmes, it shouldn't be difficult to find Professor Moriarty."
Everyone agreed with this suggestion. The weather was cold and everyone's clothes were wet. They had to find a warm place to change as soon as possible, otherwise they would easily catch a cold and get sick.
Of course, Sakaki doesn't know if you can get sick in the game, but if you do...
What if the game is directly judged as a failure?
Quick victory.
Thinking of this, Sakaki Makoto no longer hesitated. He asked everyone to leave the stone house first, leaving Deya Moran alone.
"Boss, things have come to this point..."
Deya grabbed the knife on the table for cutting bread, walked behind the burly man, and said softly:
“There’s no going back for me.”
"Please tell me, do I...really have a chance to replace Professor Moriarty?"
"Nothing is impossible in this world. Professor Moriarty was not born to rule the underworld. He has come to where he is today by relying on his abilities and some luck. Both are indispensable."
Sakaki Makoto took a puff of his cigar and narrowed his eyes:
"And what I can offer you is the latter."
luck...
Deya slowly tightened his grip on the hilt of the knife and understood.
To accomplish something, you need luck, but at the same time, you also need to have the ability to withstand luck.
It’s like buying a lottery ticket. The most important thing is not whether you can win, but whether you buy a lottery ticket.
If you don't buy lottery tickets at all, even if the goddess of luck comes, you won't win the prize. This is an inevitable order of precedence.
If you stand on the cusp of the wind, even a pig can fly, but the prerequisite is that you have to be the "pig" who assesses the situation and stands on the cusp of the wind.
What Sakaki Makoto said is very easy to understand. Deya knows that he is not as capable as Professor Moriarty, but...
He wanted to give it a try.
Sakaki Makoto walked out of the stone house and heard the screams of a burly man behind him.
After a while...
Deya wiped the blood from between his fingers with a handkerchief and silently stepped out of the wooden door. From that moment on, Sakaki Makoto saw the ambition and desperate madness in his eyes.
"Boss, Colonel Moran and his men are scattered. The gathering place is here. I overheard it yesterday."
Deya handed over a palm-sized piece of paper with a drawing of the swamp terrain and a few dots deliberately marked with a red pen.
Sakaki Makoto took a quick look, put the map in his arms, and without saying anything, walked towards the flickering kerosene lamp in front of him.
This map, which Deya had not shown before, even at gunpoint, still hides secrets, because...
This is his last hope for a comeback.
According to Deya's estimation, Sakaki Makoto might not be able to kill the 30 people brought by Colonel Moran, after all, the other party had already arranged everything.
Once Sakaki Makoto died at the hands of Colonel Moran, he could take out this map and tell them that he was pretending to surrender, and maybe he could get a chance to live.
But....
Assuming that the map fell into Sakaki Makoto's hands, with the strength he showed, it doesn't seem difficult to kill Colonel Moran and others.
Deya is a man who is very afraid of death, but along the way, his mentality slowly changes. After the fear of death disappears, his ambition begins to grow like weeds and cannot be curbed.
Especially when he saw the burly man who used to be Colonel Moran's confidant, showing off all day and not taking him seriously, now facing the wall and thinking about his mistakes...
The anger that he had been suppressing suddenly erupted, and a crazy idea was born in his mind.
Hearing the grunting and rapid breathing behind him, Sakaki Makoto laughed.
Squeak...squeak...
Kidd, who was walking at the back and pushing the cart with both hands, was puzzled when he saw Makoto Sakaki smiling for no reason:
"Is there anything to be happy about?"
"Of course, the rebellion plan finally succeeded, I am definitely happy."
"incite defection?"
Kidd looked back at Deya who was following not far behind, confused:
"Hasn't the rebellion been successful long ago?"
"That was all fake, including him accepting Miss Maori as his godmother. It was all an act for us."
"ah?!"
"Don't be so surprised. I thought you had figured it out a long time ago."
"No, he..."
Thinking back to Deya's extremely attentive look, Kidd didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"His acting is so realistic, he looks like a frightened traitor..."
"Yes, Deya is afraid of death, and everyone can see it."
Sakaki Makoto nodded:
"But do you still remember that when we were on the train, he took out a valuable pocket watch and said he wanted to give it to Miss Maori as a gift, but he suddenly changed his mind in the end?"
"Remember."
"This shows that he is not only afraid of death, but also values money more than his life."
Without pausing, Sakaki continued:
"When I took him to Lord Baskerville's estate to look for Sherlock Holmes, he handed me a cigar from this year. Do you know what it means?"
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