So...he is related to Haibara Ai's death.

Akai Shuichi frowned. Why would he attack Haibara Ai?

...More importantly, he had no such impression at all, and Haibara Ai was living well here.

Shuichi Akai thought that all this could only prove one extremely absurd reason.

——The boy is not from this world, he may be from another parallel world.

It was not accidental that he had this idea, but he had had this bizarre guess ever since he met him as a teenager and spent some time with him.

But at that time he did not take this conjecture seriously - he preferred to believe that the boy was a product of a laboratory.

But after the birthday party, the sense of disharmony grew stronger.

After hearing the boy's narration today, he finally found the last piece of the puzzle to complete his conjecture.

The parallel world theory cannot come out of nothing, and is generally groundless. This world is full of fantasy things, and some of them may be malicious, but some of them are true.

As an FBI agent, Shuichi Akai shouldn't believe such nonsense, but the current situation leaves him no choice but to believe it.

What's more, he is not the old-fashioned person who completely refuses to accept any new things. At least for now, he accepts the theory of parallel worlds relatively well.

But even if it is a parallel world, it seems that it cannot explain why he killed Haibara Ai.

After all...she is Mingmei's sister.

Perhaps because Akai Shuichi remained silent for too long, the black-haired boy also noticed something was wrong.

"You... don't look much like Lei." The boy saw him say this and looked him up and down again.

"You're done undercover." It was clearly a question, but the boy said it firmly.

Akai Shuichi's heart skipped a beat, but his good character calmed him down. He curved his lips into a smile and said, "What are you talking about, Hajime?"

The boy looked at him quietly and said, "You...got into the organization through Sister Mingmei."

"You are currently in a disguised state... Did you escape from the organization?" The young man looked at him, frowned, and continued slowly, "You... indirectly caused the death of Scotland?"

Akai Shuichi:?!

Shuichi Akai, who had never been in contact with a real script team, slowly put out a question mark.

Is this ability too buggy? If it weren't for the fact that the boy was under their control almost every day since he came to this world, Shuichi Akai would have almost suspected that this guy had some informants outside.

"It turns out that no matter where you are, you are not a good person." The young man looked at him, and there seemed to be a storm in his sea-blue eyes. He quickly came to a conclusion about him.

Akai Shuichi: ...

Walking slowly and talking.

"In your country, Scotland is not dead?"

Scotland was exposed as an undercover and committed suicide.

That golden-haired policeman over there insisted on blaming him for this matter. Of course, Akai Shuichi was not someone who could be easily controlled, so he wouldn't just let him target him.

So the relationship is definitely not good.

Do you still expect him to live in peace with someone who speaks ill of him every day?

"Of course he's not dead." The black-haired boy looked at him and said as a matter of course.

He could probably guess why Scotland died in this world - because of that crisis.

It was really dangerous at that time. The organization's undercover was hiding in the upper floors of the Metropolitan Police Department. As undercover agents, Scotland and Bourbon would be exposed if they were not careful.

Then Kudo designed a plan to kill the undercover agent, and then took away all the information about the undercover agents of various organizations around the world - he would just send them back once Scotland and Bourbon were completely safe.

Although the organization was very dissatisfied with him afterwards, since he came from a laboratory, no one doubted his loyalty.

As for why he saved Scotland and Bourbon...

The boy's eyelashes trembled slightly.

Maybe it was because... he was the first person to ask about his health and take care of him.

People who have stayed in the dark for too long will always be overjoyed by the tiny flame and become attracted to it like moths to a flame.

Bourbon was the first person to care about him after Scotland. Like Scotland, he was still young and immature.

Being undercover in such a dark organization, surrounded by cunning and experienced people who have been influenced by the society for a long time, the young police academy students are forced to grow up quickly.

But they also need a process. Bourbon grows very fast and is also cautious enough.

But Scotland is different. He is much more meticulous than Bourbon and thinks about many more things.

——His personality is actually not suitable for being an undercover agent.

He is too gentle and kind-hearted.

In this cannibalistic organization, these things are fatal flaws.

That near-exposure as an undercover agent might not be his only test.

Fortunately, after that experience, Scotland has grown a lot. Gentleness remains unchanged, but everything else has changed a lot - he works harder.

Kudo actually admires such people who stick to their original intentions in the darkness and guard the last piece of pure land in their hearts.

——Because this is something he couldn't do.

He has gone with the flow.

Because of his own hopes, he was always willing to give them the greatest help.

"I hope you can carry on with what I failed to do."

It's probably such a naive idea.

——

Although Shuichi Akai usually behaves like a scumbag, I have to say that he did a pretty good job this time.

At least after talking to him, Kudo recovered a lot, and more importantly, his mood also stabilized.

At least in the face of so much goodwill, he no longer ran away.

Conan felt relieved as he looked at the boy who smiled at him.

That's great.

Akai Shuichi, holding Okiya Subaru's shell, sat on the sofa with his eyes lowered, thinking.

There was nothing special about his conversation with Kudo, except that he suddenly heard the boy mumbling to himself.

The boy with black hair as delicate as a puppet stood in front of the window. The passing wind lifted his hair and the beautiful cherry blossoms danced with it.

"What's the meaning of living..." At first it sounded like he was mumbling to himself, but soon the young man raised his head and looked at him.

There was complete confusion in his expression, as if he simply didn't know, "Why are you still alive?"

Akai Shuichi: ...

Honestly speaking, if he hadn't seen any murderous intent or malice in the boy's expression, he would have suspected that this guy disliked him and wanted to kill him to silence him.

The boy continued to lower his head, his expression unable to hide his sadness, "There are too many misfortunes in this world, isn't there?"

"So much evil, so much sin...man is born sinful, why...should we still live?"

"Why should a sinner like me live in this world?"

"People always expect those who do evil to die, but why... I can't die? I have committed such a heinous crime, what's the point of living? As an executioner who robs others of their lives, living in this world will only bring more disasters."

"Why... did you save me?" The boy finally raised his head and looked directly at Akai Shuichi, his beautiful sea-blue eyes unable to hide the emptiness and confusion.

"Obviously... my death is the best ending."

Akai Shuichi was silent.

Wait a minute, he felt he needed to think about it.

But the boy didn't give him a chance to think. He just looked at him and continued, "There are many reasons to die, right? Why... are you still alive?"

Shuichi Akai was now able to accept his questions without any expression on his face, because he understood that the boy's questions were probably not directed at him, but were simply out of doubt.

It's just that he happened to exist in front of me, so I treated him as a carrier.

"...completely...incomprehensible." The boy finally came to this conclusion without any expression. Combined with his half-dead face, there was a strange sense of truth to it.

Or rather... this is real.

"Well... although there are many reasons to die, only one reason to live is enough." Akai Shuichi looked at him and smiled.

Kudo looked at him, and a thought came to his mind in a somewhat chaotic manner.

No... there is no reason to live anymore.

After coming out, Shuichi Akai told others about this matter.

After all, he didn't have the confidence that he could treat Kudo by himself.

"Anyway, this is what happened." Akai Shuichi said as he looked at the group of people gathered together again.

Of course, I found out about this yesterday, but I told them on the first day.

Kudo Yusaku looked at him with a serious expression, but soon he sighed, "This kid..."

"We just happen to have some news that we haven't told you yet." Kudo Yu closed his eyes for a moment, and when he opened them again, his blue eyes were calm again, "That is... Shinichi is missing."

There was an uproar at the scene, and Shuichi Akai was also a little confused and couldn't quite understand the current situation.

Wait, he just finished chatting with that person yesterday, and that person disappeared today?

He turned around and saw that, as expected, a golden retriever was staring at him fiercely.

The next second, Toru Amuro spoke up, "This guy just finished talking to Hajime yesterday, and he disappeared today - maybe he was the one who did it."

Akai Shuichi smiled politely in response, "I'm sorry, but I don't think I have any reason to take Hajime away."

"Oh, that's not necessarily true. After all... they are a group of guys with evil intentions." Amuro Toru said the word "FBI" vaguely.

"After all, you have a strong prejudice against..."

"I'm not in the mood to argue with you. It's more important to find Hajime right now." Toru Amuro was in no mood to say anything more to him, so he turned around and started talking to Yusaku Kudo.

"Is it a kidnapping?"

Kudo Yusaku was not so sure, "Shinichi hasn't offended anyone since he came here, and he rarely appears in front of outsiders. Who would kidnap him?"

Toru Amuro had no idea about this either, he frowned and thought.

Conan asked, "Could he have been kidnapped because of me?"

After all, he was a detective before, and he must have offended quite a few people...

"It's possible, but the kidnappers haven't given us any information, so we can only wait."

Conan frowned. Although what he said was true, he was unwilling to just sit there and wait for death.

What's more, it is very likely that the guy was kidnapped because of him!

The little detective who was involved in other people's affairs was a little anxious.

Just when the group of people were getting restless, someone came and knocked on the door.

"Who is it...at this time?" Conan muttered as he opened the door.

Standing outside the door was a young man of no more than seventeen or eighteen years old, with silver hair and green eyes. He carried a knife and wore a kimono that was not cheap at all.

The young boy saw the door open, lowered his eyes and looked at the young detective who opened the door, his gray-green eyes were cold.