Chapter 224 Winter is Coming

Yu Gu Miao suddenly closed his eyes tightly, and even missed his breathing for a few seconds.

When he opened his eyes again, his vision was a little fuzzy, as if he was in a dark tunnel under the dim light, and as if he was in some other place.

"Have you ever thought about it? You used human lives... so many lives to exchange for this eternally youthful face from your master. It will also bring disaster to your loved ones!" Kawashima Akiyoshi shouted, his eyes were red, and the action of holding the gun tightly with all his strength made his arms tremble, as if he was ready to pull the trigger at any time.

Conan Edogawa became nervous when the other party pulled out a gun. He almost immediately wanted to move in front of Tsukiyama Asari, but as soon as he moved his feet, the man with the gun yelled "Don't move". The boy could only stop immediately and signal to the other party that he was not a threat.

"I never thought that you would have a family..." The man's voice was almost choked. He gritted his teeth and swept his hateful eyes over Tsukiyama Asari's eyebrows and eyes, which were almost exactly the same as Jundu's. "You also have a family... Since you also have a family...! You also know that no matter what kind of crime you commit, you should not implicate others, and you should not implicate your family."

"But why didn't you hesitate at all when you killed them?!"

Kawashima Akiyoshi suddenly turned his gaze to the few people standing there with grim faces, and asked, "Are you the police... the public security or something else? No, none of this matters... Have you cooperated with him?"

Amuro Toru hesitated and nodded slightly.

"What will happen to him in the future?" Kawashima Akiyoshi said with a sly look on his face, smiling, "Become a tainted witness, or one of you, escape the judgment of the law, as if nothing had happened, and let him live a normal life again..."

He gritted his teeth, looked at Amuro Toru's gray-purple eyes filled with surprise, and said in a low voice, "Based on what...?"

"Based on what?!" The originally low voice became sharp again, and he shook the handle in his hand randomly. gun, "Such a person should not be forgiven? Do you know how much blood is on his hands?!"

Kawashima Akiyoshi's knife-like gaze fell back on Yu Gu Miao, "I ask you...how much blood is on your hands, the elderly, children, innocent people, people who deserve the punishment, how many people have you killed?! Why would you be forgiven...would you..."

"No."

Yu Gu Miao suddenly spoke. He looked at the other's eyes filled with tears, hatred and other emotions. His cold gray pupils sank and the words he uttered were light, but they sounded like a declaration, a vow that could not be broken, "I will never be forgiven."

"At least I." He closed his eyes, and all the blood-stained faces suddenly flashed in his mind, dragging him down. The man looked up at the bright hole, but never thought about going out, "...I will not forgive myself."

The expression on Kawashima Akiyoshi's face froze. For a few seconds, his brain, which was originally filled with all kinds of intense emotions, fell into a blank.

"Never."

Yu Gu Miao opened his eyes, and something flashed in his cold gray eyes. He did not follow the man's order and remained motionless. Instead, he pulled out the dagger that was not coated with poison and put it back on the straps on his sleeves.

"You don't need to kill me." He adjusted his cuffs, and his eyes never left the other's eyes. "When everything is over, I will do it myself."

The pupils of the people around him almost shrank immediately. Yueshan Chaoli, who was blocked behind, seemed to be unable to help but pull the hem of his clothes hard, but Yu Gu Miao just lowered his eyes and did not look back.

Kawashima Akiyoshi stared at him blankly. He looked into the other person's eyes, and the calm emotions in them made him suddenly confused. The hatred that lasted for more than ten years was all gone. In front of him was the person he had hated for so many years. In fact, he also hated himself with blood on his hands. His heart suddenly felt empty, and all his emotions sank. He was confused like a child.

Who should he blame or hate... Should he hate himself for compromising because of being threatened but wanting to escape, or Jundu who came to execute orders under the control of the organization, or something else...

More than ten years of faith suddenly collapsed. He put down the detonator and the gun, squatted down as if he couldn't stand steadily, and suddenly covered his face and cried.

Toru Amuro, who was originally prepared to wait for Akiyoshi Kawashima to put down the detonator and then immediately step forward to twist his hands, remained silent for a long time, but stepped forward in time to take away the gun and detonator, and then removed the wires behind the detonator, making it completely a useless empty shell.

As he moved, he felt a figure suddenly and slowly walking by his side.

Akiyoshi Kawashima cried hoarsely, gritting his teeth, as if he wanted to express all the pain that had been in his body for more than a decade. He didn't look up until the already dim light in front of him was blocked.

Pain instantly came from the side of his face, and the man turned his head away because of the force of the blow on his side. When he turned around, he met a pair of eyes with slightly red eye sockets.

Tsukiyama Asari punched him, as if he was angry because of the words he had just shouted at his brother and relatives that could kill that person, so he threw this punch.

After this punch, his eyes flickered, and he did not take the next step. His originally wrinkled eyebrows slowly loosened, and he leaned down slightly, and stretched out his hand to Kawashima Akiyoshi who had just been punched by him.

Looking up again, the man who had not yet recovered from his senses soon met a pair of gentle peach blossom eyes.

Tsukiyama Asari stood in front of him and stretched out his hand to him, just like when he reached out and helped someone up in the secret passage not long ago.

Those were a pair of overly gentle eyes, like the waves gently lapping against the white sandstone coast. Looking at these eyes, he could understand the other person's meaning without any words.

Kawashima Akiyoshi put his hand on it and stood up a little bit. The black-haired man who pulled him up looked at him quietly and asked an irrelevant question, "How did you recognize me?"

"The mask, your mask has been changed." This question made the man's expression a little calmer, and there was a slight tremor in his voice, "So I think you should have hidden your face, and the news about Cointreau's previous name..."

These combined together, he quickly guessed the truth.

"That's amazing." Tsukiyama Asari looked at him and said in a calm tone, "You know a lot of information, witnesses..."

"I will report all this information truthfully in the future." Kawashima Akiyoshi quickly understood the other party's good intentions. He shook his head and smiled, "But I won't be a tainted witness... During the more than ten years of looking for Cointreau, I and the organization did a lot of wrong things... These are the prices I should pay, and I won't shirk them."

This time it was the black-haired man's turn to be stunned. He pursed his lips and just nodded, then squatted down and picked up the dagger belonging to his brother at the feet of Kawashima Akiyoshi.

He walked back to Yu Gu Mia's side. There was no conversation between the two, but it seemed that no one else could join in. Yueshan Chaoli quietly picked up the dagger on the ground, and then helped Yu Gu Mia slowly tie it around his wrist. He lowered his eyes and looked at the strap on his hand seriously, but he stared at his eyebrows and eyes that were very similar to his own for a long time.

He seemed to have not heard the words that Jundu said just now, which meant self-understanding. He did not stop or ask, but just stood quietly beside him, as if he wanted to give him the last company.

Yutani Miu came over and quietly touched his forehead with that of his blood relative. He seemed to be saying something with this action, but no sound was heard.

Amuro Toru looked at Tsukiyama Asari and suddenly realized something.

Perhaps the future scenes he and Morobushi Kagemitsu had enjoyed were selfish. For Yutani Miu, who had killed his parents with his own hands and was well aware of social laws and morals, the spiritual struggle would only continue to torment him until the moment of death.

Just like Vermouth said, he didn't dare to see the only relative he had left, and he probably didn't want to... live in the world with the sin that he could never wash away in his lifetime.

If he returns to normal life, or becomes a tainted witness, and sees the faces of the people he has killed every moment, then is living a redemption or a punishment for him?

... Tsukiyama Asari seems to understand more than any of them think. Many times, he seems to have magic, and can sense the emotions of the people around him, and then quietly support them to make the choice they want most, even if for him, this choice means loss and pain.

He closed his eyes, feeling a little dizzy, and only felt that fate was like a shadow cast by the light above his head.

No matter what, let's get out of here first...

Suddenly there was some noise outside, and the dead silence in the dark passage was suddenly broken. The heavy sound was like artillery fire from afar, and the silent Rum suddenly grinned.

"What a tear-jerking show." His cold eyes like snakes swept over everyone, "But... I hope you guys can still walk out of this place alive."

"I hope you guys can still walk out of this place alive."

Okiya Subaru's eyes flashed coldly, and his whole body tensed up. The man immediately reacted to something, took a few steps, and saw a very inconspicuous small button in the innermost corner of the brick that was originally opened.

Whether it was the detonator or the handle. The gun, it turned out to be just a tool he used to confuse people!

In fact, the news that he had been captured and killed had already spread to all directions through this small button. Even outside the island, Gin, who was performing other tasks, would be taken directly to this island by helicopter.

Regardless of whether the members of the organization in the villa or Gin and Rum had any conflicts, they were now grasshoppers on the same line. As long as the police took Rum away, their own lives would be in danger, so stopping them was to save their own lives.

In order to survive, many people can do things that are a hundred times more cruel than before.

The atmosphere in the darkroom suddenly became tense. Yutani frowned and asked, "How long will it take you to evacuate?"

"The highest estimate is 1:20." Amuro Toru immediately gave the answer, and then he frowned and added, "... without taking other interference into account."

"Gin will definitely be there within two and a half hours." Thinking of the guy with terrifying execution ability and the armed helicopter that could completely stop the ship, the black-haired man narrowed his eyes, "Can the time be compressed into one hour?"

"Yes." Subaru Okiya quickly gave an affirmative answer. He had obviously thought of this situation. "If we don't evacuate before the armed helicopter arrives one hour, the whereabouts of the ship will most likely be discovered by them, and the police helicopter will not be able to arrive in time. The situation will be very unfavorable to us." "We

can compress it into one hour."

Amuro Toru pursed his lips and frowned. "But this is based on the premise of eliminating interference. When they attack..."

Hearing this, Jinpei Matsuda also frowned, thinking of how many members there are inside the manor. "If we still want to intercept and get rid of them, I'm afraid we won't have enough time."

"It's still in time."

Yutani Miu's voice came from the side at this time. He did not look at the people who were discussing, but turned his head and wiped off the bloodstains on Tsukiyama Chaori's cheek with his bare hands.

The black-haired man seemed to know what his brother meant before anyone else. His pupils shrank, but he did not speak, but just reached out to hold the other's hand on his cheek.

The fleeting touch seemed to be as long as a lifetime.

The two people's lives, which were almost completely staggered and had no intersection, collided at this moment like their line of sight.

Can eyes also be used to hug?

Amuro Toru watched, and suddenly lost his mind for a few seconds in this situation, and thought.

If eyes can be used as a hug, then this is almost a long hug. After a few seconds as long as a lifetime passed by, Yugu Miu put down the hand that was stroking Yueshan Chaoli's face, and with the fingertips stained with the blood of his loved one again, he took out something from his pocket and put it into his hand.

It was a key to the safe.

Before the few people who reacted to the meaning wanted to speak, Rum spoke in disbelief, "You want...? You don't want to..."

Ignoring the old man's shouting, he set his eyes on the others and said, "Do what you want to do."

"I will eliminate all interference."

This is the node where all the secret passages are connected. If the people in the manor want to come down, they must pass through this corridor.

Having said that, without waiting for other people's reaction, Yu Gu Miao turned around and walked to the end of the corridor, the way he came. Until this moment, Tsukiyama Asari, who had quietly understood all of the other party's thoughts and silently supported everything, seemed to suddenly smell the signal of separation. He stretched out his hand to stop him, but only pulled the brooch flashing on the other party's chest.

The unreliable brooch slid down while being pulled, and was tightly held in Tsukiyama Asari's hand. At the same time, Rum's shout rang again.

"You..." The idea that he would definitely be rescued collapsed again, and he shouted with a fierce face, "Cointreau - you stop!"

"Is it worth it?! I ask you, is it worth it?" The old man's hoarse roar was pulled by the narrow tunnel and became even more piercing. "For a group that will never accept you, to save those guys in the venue who treat you as a golden bird and want to eat your flesh and blood, is it worth it to sacrifice yourself?!"

Yu Gu Miao did not stop even once because of this sentence.

The sound of leather shoes stepping on the ground intertwined with the roar, wailing in the narrow corridor.

"I rescued you from the sea of ​​fire, and now... now you are actually trying to stop the organization that gave you so much wealth and status for the sake of your relatives you have never met, for those ridiculous rules and laws in your heart, and for some kind of justice... Are you willing to become an unforgivable murderer in the eyes of the police?!!"

"You... you will regret it--!"

"Cointreau--! Cointreau!" Rum panted and yelled, "You will definitely regret it!"

Yu Gu Miao's movements finally stopped. He turned his head, and his cold, cold gray eyes flashed a glimmer of light in the dark corridor, and met Rum's eyes that were twisted by fear.

"The only thing I regret is that I didn't die in that fire that year."

Rum looked at him blankly, and all other roars were blocked in his throat.

He knew that with the other party's ability, he would definitely be taken away by the police. The pain of everything collapsing made the old man unable to stand steadily. He looked at the other party's back and knelt on the ground in a daze.

"Wait..." Okiya Subaru finally came back to his senses from the shock. He saw the voice of another man with dark red eyes from the other party. The FBI agent couldn't help but speak out to stop him, but he knew that this was the only way now.

It was the only way to succeed.

Yu Gu Miu took off the copper bell from a wall lamp, he took his tie, and behind the door at the end of the secret passage, he pulled up a long rope tied with a bell from his thigh.

"Watch out for the bell." He said, and his fingertips slightly twitched the long rope. The bell swayed with his movement, making a sound much smaller than before, "...but I won't let it ring."

Edogawa Conan opened his mouth. He wanted to say something else, but the man's next words blocked his throat.

"As for now, you should get out of the passage."

Otherwise it will be too late.

Yu Gu Miao walked to the entrance of the secret door, and a low voice came from where he was. He didn't turn around when he spoke. The light slanted in from the exit outside the secret door, and was cut into pieces by the messy mechanism above, scattered on his black hair, and some light scattered from his ears and neck, and sprinkled on the knife in his hand that was shining with cold light.

It was sparkling, like his soul that had finally lit up after getting rid of all the mud.

Conan Edogawa suddenly felt a sharp sourness on the tip of his nose. Every person he met seemed to be flashing with bright or dim flames, and finally formed a sea of ​​fire that could devour the huge organization.

A sound came from outside the secret passage, coming closer and closer. There were crowded footsteps, the sound of weapons hitting the wall or other places. No one knew how many people had received the message from Rum and came to save this big man whose fate was connected to the organization and their own. Or, in other words, all the members of the organization in the manor rushed to this narrow passage, but no one knew how many people came.

A few hundred people? Or even more.

But none of this mattered, and there was no need to waste time calculating.

The heavy footsteps had reached the passage above his head, like artillery fire from a battlefield about to fall. Yu Gu Miao moved his legs slightly, and the heels of his boots landed on the ground, making a not-so-loud sound.

This was the real funeral bell.

"Let's go."

Yu Gu Miao said. His voice was not loud, but it revealed a toughness that no one could refute or stop. He stood at the entrance of the secret passage without any obstructions, and used his flesh and blood to create a door that could not be opened.

Perhaps before he killed his parents, there was light in his eyes, but now, the light that had been buried for a long time finally shone in his eyes again, making him feel like he was alive again.

No one knew what he was thinking when he walked towards the overturned vehicle on the side of the road. When he used his fingers... his fingers not covered by gloves to tuck the messy black hair of the woman in the passenger seat to her ears, and only after his fingertips were wetted by the blood of his loved ones did he see the face that he would never forget.

No one knew how he reacted at that time, just like now...

when Amuro Toru and others were rushing to where they should go, they saw him standing in front of the door without looking back, and no one knew what he was thinking when he left so decisively at the request of his loved ones.

No one knew how he stopped so many people.

Countless desperadoes rushed to the door with guns or long knives. After Rum was captured, under the heavy pressure of the future that could be guessed without thinking carefully, they dared to show their sharp knife tips to Cointreau for the first time.

Yu Gu Miao just looked at them with his calm cold grey eyes, or maybe he looked at nothing, just staring ahead, and then swung his knife.

Painful roars, shouts and screams came from the entrance of the narrow dark passage, the only thing missing was the ringing of bells. The long line across the door was not touched by anyone.

No one passed through the door.

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