The Split-Actress in Conan's World

Chapter 147 Father and Son

In the back, Judy took advantage of the dim light and used her special agent qualities to follow the pattern of light. She used the lipstick to smear four reversed letters on the ski bag on the ground, then knocked on Conan's seat and whispered to him, "Cool kid, can you do me a small favor?"

The moment Conan saw the four letters she wrote, he understood what she meant, and the corners of his lips curled up slightly.

Yes, he couldn't be too conspicuous, but they took the initiative to ask him for help, so you can't blame him for being mature, right?

Judy also knew that Vermouth was not someone who was good at fighting, so she couldn't take care of three people instantly, but if she was given the opportunity, it wouldn't be a difficult task.

She didn't recognize Shuichi Akai either. If she had recognized this ace agent, she wouldn't have needed to cooperate with Vermouth. She could have just shouted "Great Sage" and let Shuichi Akai take action.

She stared closely at the pattern of the lights coming in from outside the car, calculating silently in her mind, and finally, at the perfect moment, she suddenly shouted, "Mr. Driver, look over here!"

Conan followed suit, and the two of them lifted up the ski bag on the ground, on which were four reversed letters written in lipstick.

This shout naturally attracted the attention of the criminals, so they looked over fiercely, wanting to see what this woman was doing. However, when they saw the four ghost drawings, they were stunned and could not understand.

But unlike them, Shuichi Akai and Vermouth were both smart people. They turned it over in their minds at the first moment, understood the word, and were prepared.

Glenfiddich looked back through the rearview mirror and saw the English word STOP turn back to normal after turning over again.

He chuckled, quickly shifted gears and stepped on the brake, still turning the steering wheel with his hands. Instead of ordinary emergency braking, he chose a more effective way, which was drifting.

The huge bus changed lanes flexibly and drifted near the end of the tunnel, and finally stopped sideways on the roadside, while the robbers who had no seats on the bus were thrown to the ground. Akai Shuichi and Aride Tomoaki, who were wearing ski suits, were well prepared and grabbed the railings on the side and stood steadily. As soon as the bus stopped, they moved at the same time and subdued the robbers.

Seeing the robbers being suppressed, everyone in the car couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

However, when the driver with "excellent" driving skills stood up, there was silence again.

For people who don't know Glenfiddich, his all-black terrorist outfit is very oppressive, but for people who know him, the man himself is much more terrifying than his outfit.

Judy's pupils shrank as she saw Gryffindy pick up the pistol that the robber had dropped after being pinned down, and she swallowed.

"Tokarev, the biggest feature of this model of pistol is that the safety is difficult to open, but very easy to close. Sometimes the safety will automatically lock due to recoil after firing, so it is not suitable for use in important operations."

Grenfiddich casually threw the pistol into the tall robber's face and smiled grimly: "Obviously, when that foreign female teacher took advantage of you to trip and turn off the safety, you didn't notice it."

The silence was broken by the scream of the woman chewing gum.

“Ah, ah…Run away quickly, get away from here!!”

Aida Tomoaki, who was on top of her, was stunned for a moment, and then he heard her struggling in panic: "When we were drifting just now, the detonator of the bomb was bumped and it has been activated!!"

"It's less than a minute until the explosion!!!"

"What?!!"

Everyone was horrified and scrambled to stand up from their seats and run out of the car. However, the door opening button was on the driver's seat behind Glenfiddich. They looked at Glenfiddich and swallowed lightly, feeling a little fearful and hesitant.

Glenfiddich had no intention of keeping these mediocre people here to enjoy the drama. Rather, he had long wanted to drive them away. He hated being surrounded by these ordinary people who were stupid, arrogant and boring.

He casually pressed the door-opening button: "Go ahead."

People ran out quickly.

Shuichi Akai knew that now was not a good time to confront Grenfidi, especially since the bomb had already been activated. He immediately got up from the robber, jumped out of the car from the front door in three or two steps, and ran away.

After all, if he is taken away by the police to record his statement, it will be very troublesome for him as an FBI agent.

Judy and Tomoaki Aida looked at his back, both stunned for a moment, and at the same time felt that the running figure looked somewhat familiar, but then they made the same choice as that figure.

But the difference is that in order to preserve their characters, they have to each carry a few children and run away together, with Dr. Agasa following closely behind.

When the robbers saw that no one was paying attention to them, they quickly got up and ran out of the car.

In a blink of an eye, Glenfiddich and the three fake children were the only ones left in the car.

As the three men ran away, Haibara Ai seemed to be better and the shaking was not as severe, but when she looked up and saw Grunfiddi, she froze there for a moment.

Conan looked at the most arrogant member of the organization he had ever seen, standing there with a lollipop in his mouth and a hint of smile between his brows.

"Let's go..." Haibara Ai's voice was a little hoarse. Conan took a while to realize that she was talking to him and Chiyo.

But he still wanted to have a chat with Glenfiddich.

"Go!!" Seeing that Conan and Chiyoko did not move, Haibara Ai became a little anxious. Although she did not know Conan's little thoughts, she knew that Granfiddich did not want to see Kudo Shinichi here to get in the way. She could only shout again hurriedly, and the end of the sound even sounded a little weak.

Chiyoko held back Conan who was about to say something, turned back and looked seriously into Huihara Ai's eyes, and said to her: "If you haven't come down when the countdown reaches ten seconds, I will come back to find you and rescue you within ten seconds. After I go back, you will never see anything related to coffee again."

After saying that, he pulled the very reluctant Conan out of the car.

"Now the irrelevant people have left. It's been a long time... Little White Rabbit."

Glenfiddich smiled and peeled a blueberry-flavored lollipop and handed it to Haibara Ai's mouth. Haibara Ai did not move, but just stared into his eyes, with a hint of inquiry in her eyes.

"Are you bored?"

Hearing the somewhat cold words of the brown-haired girl, Grunfiddie was slightly startled. Then he put on an exaggerated sad expression, leaned against the car window, and looked at the police cars rushing in the distance, their roofs emitting anxious lights.

"It's so sad. You know, I received a call from Shirley in the middle of the night not long ago. I answered the call with so much longing and expectation, but now you call me boring."

"I'm asking you, are you bored after I'm gone?"

Grunfiddie was completely stunned. He pondered over it for a while before realizing that the tone was not cold, but serious, just like the bright light in Haibara Ai's eyes now. She was looking at him closely and asking him seriously.

Haibara Ai was also a little conflicted. She actually had a better way of wording. She wanted to ask Grunfiddi if he felt lonely.

Yes, she was suspecting that a genius criminal who was obsessed with bombs and looked down upon human society developed an incredible emotion that she could not believe after she left - loneliness.

Is Glenfiddich lonely? No one knows.

But it is undeniable that Gin always feels different from when he was in New York. He has become more impatient and aggressive after coming to Tokyo. Even with Gin's generous temperament, it is difficult for him to tolerate this enhanced aggression. And Vermouth feels it more deeply. She obviously finds that compared with Glenfiddich's casual and undisciplined appearance in New York, Glenfiddich in Tokyo is a little restless and always has to find something to do.

If they knew Professor Lecter and Professor Lecter was willing to analyze this, he would definitely describe this symptom as "retirement syndrome." To put it bluntly, when he is busy, he hopes to have more free time, but when he is really free, he can't help but feel anxious and want to do something.

Although it’s called “retirement syndrome,” this symptom actually appears more in another area—being a parent.

When children are still young and under the parents' care, parents will always dislike them and think that they should be more sensible and not cause so much trouble to themselves. But when they really grow up and start to leave the wings of their parents and fly to the farther sky, parents will start to get anxious, thinking that their children will cause trouble again, mess up their lives, and fail to take care of themselves. If they are not watching them at all times, their children will ruin their whole lives.

Even if the children are doing well and can prove it, it is of no use because this is not a rational thinking but an instinct, the instinct of being a parent.

Their love that had lasted for more than ten years, or even dozens of years, suddenly had nowhere to go and seemed redundant. They suddenly realized that they were at a loss as to what to do.

Haibara Ai instinctively chose to ask more directly, but she didn't. There was a special force that prevented her from pointing out the fragility of a man who had just become a father for the first time. The strange thing was that this force came from herself.

She didn't want to see Glenfiddich embarrassed and at a loss because of this problem.

She knew he would if she asked.

He would become less like Glenfiddich.

Because every father and son in the world is like this, they come together as strangers to each other, and then torture each other all their lives in an attempt to smooth out the sharp sides of their personalities, and finally look at each other peacefully. Not only does every parent give their children a new life, but every child also plays the role of a tough stone in their parents' lives, causing them to lose sleep one day or for several days at night.

What remains in the end is only a completely different self from the original one, this goes for children and parents alike.

Parents naturally have the sharpest knife for their children. They use this knife to cut bones and flesh, making themselves look bloody like a butcher. They also use this knife to remove illness and restore health and peace.

This knife is called love.

All fathers and sons in the world are the same. Love brings natural hurt, and the hurt sets off their great love. Parents and children suffer because of torturing each other, and torture each other because of pain, and eventually the parts that hurt each other are worn away, leaving only exhaustion and the most suitable selves for each other.

It was at this time that Haibara Ai finally understood what had been causing her pain.

is love.

She couldn't believe it. Glenfiddich loved her like an ordinary father loves his child. But she also wanted to laugh because she was not surprised by the answer.

Love is hidden in every aspect and corner, but it is rarely expressed out loud and clearly displayed between each other. It is not that there is no love, but love has become an instinct, so it is not said and therefore not believed.

Haibara Ai probably understood why Grunfiddie was in pain, because she knew that this man was a fool. He was not as smart as her and could not figure out the reason for all this. He was just deeply tortured by this contradiction and suffered from it. The way he vented this pain was to provoke her frequently.

Just like every father has done, maybe one day you are lying on the sofa watching TV, and he walks by and stops for a moment, looks at you with dissatisfaction, then looks at the TV, then looks at you again, and finally snorts coldly and walks away silently.

It's not because he is a psychopath... maybe he is, but he is simply not smart enough and cannot understand the source of his pain, so he is at a loss and instinctively scratches the itchy wound like an ordinary patient.

Anyone with medical knowledge knows that this will not help the wound, but will only make it worse, but he didn't understand. He just did it because it made him feel better.

It was also at this time that the children obtained the knife that they could use to rebel against their parents.

It is also called love.

Unlike the knife that parents are born with, this knife is not born when the child is born, because every parent does not think that the child loves them when they first welcome their child.

How can children love their parents?

Parents' love for their children is innate. Because they love them, they welcome your arrival so awkwardly, with joy, worry, and inferiority.

But they know that children cannot choose whether to come into this world. They have already brought you into this world so arrogantly and rudely, so they dare not expect their children to love them.

So parents don't need to express their love for their children, because they themselves don't think it's great, but once they find out that you love him...

The children then have knives that they can use to hurt their parents.

Glenfiddich was like every father who receives a gift from his child for the first time: a moment of surprise, a moment of sadness, and a moment of unconcealable anger.

"It seems like you are determined to irritate me, but it doesn't matter, I'm very generous, let's play a game."

"The game is simple. You just need to make a simple choice: whether to get off the bus or not."

"But the difference is, if you choose to get off the bus, then I won't get off. That means you survive, but I will die."

"On the other hand, if you stay, I will leave and survive. But you also heard your new companions say that if you don't get off the car, they will come up to rescue you. Do you have confidence that they can rescue you within ten seconds and escape safely?"

After saying that, Grunfiddie laughed maliciously, and seemed to be very satisfied with the new game he had thought of. Either Haibara Ai chose him and dragged her companions into danger, breaking her principle of not wanting to involve others, or she chose her new friend and indirectly killed Grunfiddie, who raised her and killed her sister.

But as he laughed, his body froze.

He saw that Huiyuan Ai was sitting very calmly in her seat and said to him seriously -

"You go."

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