"do you remember?"
Looking at the "new Tomoaki" in front of her, a hint of hatred flashed in Judy's eyes.
But her tone remained calm.
She said:
"These are the last words you left me."
"To remember this phrase forever, I keep saying it all the time."
"You're the one who killed my father, aren't you?"
"Chris Vineyard..."
As if remembering something, Judy changed her mind and said:
"Or should I call you..."
With things having come to this point, "Shin-ichi Akira" will no longer continue acting.
She didn't wait for Judy to call out the name before tearing off the "mask" from her face.
Her true appearance was revealed.
At this moment, Judy also addressed the person in front of her:
"Vermouth".
Perhaps they were worried that Vermouth wouldn't remember what happened back then.
After calling out her name, Judy recounted the events of the case from twenty years ago.
She also told Vermouth why she had survived.
Ironically, little Judy didn't know Vermouth was a bad guy at the time.
She was unaware that her father had been murdered.
She discovered that her father's usual orange juice was all gone.
My mother was also feeling unwell and was resting in bed.
Wanting to help out in any way she could, little Judy went out to buy juice for her father.
But when she returned, she was not greeted by her parents' smiles or praise for her being sensible.
Instead, it was a fire that consumed her parents and her entire family.
Vermouth was indeed somewhat surprised by Judy's identity.
However, this only applies to some unexpected situations.
She looked at Judy and said in a tone as if she were meeting an old acquaintance:
"So you were that little girl."
"I've been looking for you for a long time."
"Because we only found the remains of your parents in that ruin."
After saying that, she chuckled a few times.
Despite Vermouth's words, Judy remained calm.
She said:
"I was protected thanks to my father's friend."
“With the help of my father’s friend, I joined the witness protection program.”
Upon hearing this, Vermouth chuckled dismissively:
"You're talking about that stupid plan to protect witnesses whose lives are in danger by making them change their names and become someone else."
She calmly pressed the button hidden in her clothes.
She was visibly losing weight.
It's not some kind of weight-loss magic technology; Vermouth simply expels air from the clothes.
Only then did Vermouth truly return to her original form.
She continued speaking to Judy:
"You must find it very bitter, right?"
"After leaving their hometown, they even have to change their names and surnames."
"It must have been so tough."
"Hehehe..."
"So you bravely carried on your father's legacy and continued to investigate me."
"Right?"
"FBI investigator Jodie Starling."
...
As the two revealed their identities to each other, Kōyū was observing them from a high vantage point using binoculars.
He didn't install any listening devices, even though they were some distance apart.
So all he could see were the two people's mouths moving.
Fortunately, it's alright.
He unlocked the "lip reading" skill tree.
Because of the distance, he couldn't observe their lip movements carefully.
But he could still read the general content.
He couldn't help but complain:
"Neither of them is in a hurry at all."
They all seemed to have everything under control.
As he observed the two, he asked the person beside him:
"Numabuchi, you should be all ready, right?"
He had asked this question to Kiichiro Numabuchi before.
However, the mindset beforehand and during the action are completely different.
They were bold beforehand, but became cowardly as mice when they actually did it.
Guangyou had encountered something like this before.
If Numabuchi Kiichiro is not prepared, he can still find a way to deal with it.
He wouldn't blame Numabuchi Kiichiro for anything.
After all, he wasn't the one who was trained as an assassin in the organization.
He didn't know what Numabuchi Kiichiro had gone through in those years.
If it's because of his experiences over the years that Numabuchi Kiichiro fears the organization and is therefore afraid to face it...
Then Mitsuyu has no right to comment on Numabuchi Kiichiro's attempt to evade the organization.
Fear is a natural human reaction.
Even he couldn't avoid feeling fear.
However, what he feared was not facing the organization.
It was someone he cared about who had an accident.
With this in mind, Kwang-yu's thoughts began to wander:
"I wonder if that girl opened the door to her room."
"Did you see the pistol I hid?"
"Also, did she eat the food I cooked?"
I've been with Ai Haibara for so long.
He was naturally well aware of Ai's personality.
Stop her?
never mind.
If she wants to come, she will find a way to do so.
Even if she has to ram the door, she will find a way to break it open.
Ai is usually very easy to talk to.
But she also has her own principles.
Simply blocking it may not be very effective.
It would be better to take concrete actions and let Ai Haibara make her own choice.
He would devise two or three measures to express the idea that "I don't want you to go."
But if Ai's mind doesn't change, then he won't stop her anymore.
Pulling his thoughts back from the night sky, Kōyū put down his binoculars and turned to look at Numabuchi Kiichirō.
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