In the office of the Armed Detective Agency, a huge bookcase enough to reach the ceiling cast a huge shadow in front of the man who was meditating alone.

Kunikida clasped his hands in front of his nose, and his back was straight. This is a posture that silently gives support and strength to the whole body.

He has a serious expression, facing the computer screen in front of him, and the signal sign showing connection is flickering anxiously on the page.Kunikida held his breath for another seven or eight seconds before the screen on the opposite side of the computer was connected to his computer.

When the shaking camera finally calmed down, and Kunikida finally saw the opposite scene clearly, the man was visibly relieved.

The side of the camera is pale as a whole. This is the color of the hospital that symbolizes the disappearance of life, and it is also one of the colors that Kunikida hates the most as a member of the Armed Detective Agency.When he first saw a dead person in cooperation with the police, this aversion to paleness had already been deeply buried in his brain.

The face of the young man on the opposite side of the video call showed a pale face that had just recovered from a serious illness, and an expression of impatience hung on his bloodless face. On his knees, he was covered with the exclusive quilt of this hospital, with a full pillow on his back, and half leaned against the bed in the inpatient department of the hospital. On his head, he still holds a half-eaten apple in his hand.

Since the detective agency is in a special period, leaving the headquarters may allow hostile organizations to take advantage of it, because Kunikida can only entrust the police to help him contact Liuzang.The police officer who helped Kunikida handed Rokuzo's computer back to its comatose owner and then retired, leaving time for the two of them.

Kunikida coughed lightly, and he spoke calmly, his voice was still as serious as before, no one could see the worry and awkwardness hidden under his words.

"Illegal hackers who are not good at learning skills can be reversed to find the exact location of their home. It's really eye-opening... How do you feel now?" Kunikida folded his arms.

Liuzang was speechless. After waking up, he had roughly figured out the ins and outs of time: "Whose blessings are all these, Four Eyes."

Kunikida was silent for a few seconds, and then he said hesitantly, "Hey, you should be feeling better."

"It couldn't be better." Liuzang on the opposite side raised his eyebrows and replied with a bit of a bad attitude.

Kunikida felt a little better after being stunned like this. He took a deep breath and asked in a businesslike manner, "That's good. Did you have any special sensations in your body when you were unconscious? Are you conscious?"

At the beginning of the incident, the diagnosis given by the professionals was that these people fell into a coma after being attacked by an unknown ability, but the fatal injuries suffered by the body during the process quickly improved during the coma process, except that they could not wake up. In addition, there is almost no difference from normal people, a state similar to a dream where the soul is out of the body or the consciousness is restrained and cannot wake up.

Liu Zang had a strange expression when he heard that, Kunikida noticed that the person facing him frowned as if he was trying to remember, and finally his face became a little unpredictable. "A special feeling? Ha... It seemed like a very long dream. I can remember some of the content of this dream. This strange dream is probably a side effect of that supernatural weapon."

The usual sarcasm in the boy's tone slowly disappeared, as if the surface of a lake that had been knocked out of waves by countless stones gradually returned to calm.

He recalled the content of the dream, which was related to the "Blue Banner Terrorist Incident" in which his father died in an accident a few years ago, and of course it was also related to the man named Kunikida on the opposite side of the video.He could vaguely remember what happened in the dream, it was a contest between life and death, even after waking up, he could still feel the coming of the nightmare and make his soul tremble.

He knew that Four Eyes had always felt guilty towards him, and he thought in his heart that he had selfish resentment and dissatisfaction with the detective agency that led the police to break through the hiding place of the King of Cang, which led to the self-explosion and ultimately indirectly led to the death of his father. Discipline him like an old lady and compensate him.This dream is like a ruthless executioner, cutting off his disguised appearance neatly, uprooting the rotten roots buried in the deepest part from the stinking mud, making him look directly at the reality that he does not want to face .

When he was in the dream, he even had a vague feeling that if he couldn't make a decision there, he might face the dilemma of losing himself forever, and his soul could no longer return.

However, when he finally made the choice to open his eyes and see the white ceiling of the hospital, he realized how much this dream had affected him.It was like a deafening alarm ringing in his mind, reminding him not to continue to indulge in the pain of the past, but to cherish the people around him who truly love and care about him.

At both ends of the video, the two were silent for a long time.

Only then did Liu Zang speak suddenly, and said abruptly to the speechless man opposite, "Speaking of which, I dreamed—Siyan, you're going to die soon."

Hearing the nonchalant words on the other side, Kunikida's pupils trembled for a while, his heart seemed to be cut by a hot blunt knife, and his lungs were like being thrown stones that blocked the airway, making him feel the brain Some hypoxia.The violent guilt, remorse, and self-blame that slowly sank into the calm and clear riverbed a few years ago were swept to the surface again by the wind and waves, making his mood turbid again.

Kunikida lowered his head in some embarrassment, his eyes dimmed, he pressed one hand on his forehead, trying to hide his somewhat lost expression, his fists with bulging veins touched the fabric on his thighs, the texture of his hands was suit trousers .

... Sure enough, it’s still not good——his ideal.

The two fell into this strange silence again.

Kunikida went through this cramped time with a lot of thoughts, and then he couldn't hide his exhausted sigh. He didn't reply bluntly like before, which made Liuzang stunned and annoyed for a while, "Okay, first Don't bother me anymore. Take a good rest and recover soon." After speaking, he hung up the video call directly.

Before he could close the computer, close his eyes, and meditate, the screen turned on again, and the video communication was forced to connect again, which was obviously not a problem for hackers at all.

Kunikida took a sharp breath before raising his head, frowning impatiently.

But Rokuzo, who used hacking methods to hack into Kunikida's computer, did not look at the position of the camera, but looked out of the window. "That... thank you for everything you have done for me and my father for so many years."

Kunikida could only see the side face of the boy with slightly rebellious lines, his lips opened and closed, and his expression seemed a little uncomfortable.

"In the end, I never blamed you..."

"I didn't blame the detective agency either."

"Your ideals are beyond reproach, and you are the most just person I have ever met. Please don't doubt yourself, and please continue to act according to your pocket book."

After saying this, the screen suddenly went black, as if the other side had cut off the communication.

Kunikida put his hands on his eyes, not wanting others to see his red eye sockets and the corners of his mouth tightly closed. If he opened his mouth to speak at this moment, his voice would definitely be filled with a choked sob that was almost out of control.

The emotions accumulated in the past few days were actually crushed by this simple sentence of thanks and affirmation, like a mountain torrent destroying a house, tears bursting out in an instant.

With a bang, a round dark water stain spilled on his baby's notebook. At this time, he didn't care to clean up these things, but wiped away his tears almost roughly under the cover of the other hand.

Originally thought that the process of chasing his ideals was painful and arduous, no one understood and was full of harsh criticism, but he never thought that just a trivial thank you could make him crumble and burst into tears.

It turns out that in the hustle and bustle of this city, there will also be a voice of understanding.

……

Kunikida Doppo's eyes lit up with an unprecedented dazzling light, and only a strong fighting spirit and firm belief remained in his heart. This time he will not waver again, because he already has a pillar on his back that cannot be destroyed.He put down the palm that was covering his face, and the cloud that had haunted his brows for several days finally dissipated. If it weren't for the strange corners of his eyes, no one would have noticed that he had just experienced a forbearable emotional catharsis.

The detective agency connected the phone call with the doctor who took care of the patients in the hospital again, and the person on the other side happily told him that the patients sent in these days were getting better and better—the innocent people involved in the Yokohama disappearance case have all woken up one by one, including The lady named Sasaki was sober, and her mood seemed to have improved.

"But..." the doctor sighed worriedly.

"But?" Kunikida frowned.

"However, that Ms. Sasaki seems to have lost all her memory." The doctor quickly added, his eyes glanced at the gentle woman sitting on the hospital bed, "but this state should be the most stable for her , before it was delivered, we detected suicide drugs in her body, I am afraid that this young lady already has the will to die. This can be regarded as a gift from the gods to her, to be able to forget all the troubles of the past."

"Is that so?" Kunikida pondered.

He made several other phone calls, and the police officer in charge of monitoring told him that the organ dealers and kidnappers who were detained in the special ward had also recovered, but they were very confused about the fatal injuries that had been cured by the supernatural weapons.It is also worth mentioning that many of those people also lost their memory, and completely returned to the state of being born as a baby, with no memory of the sins they had committed.

"This kind of large-scale amnesia seems to only happen to some vicious criminals. Those ordinary people affected by supernatural powers seem to be unaffected, and even their hidden diseases have been cured. Some of us I can’t understand what the person who designed the supernatural weapon is thinking.” The police officer on the opposite side seemed a little bit difficult to deal with, “The doctor said that this kind of amnesia is not a short-term amnesia, but a complete erasure of traces. In this state, they There seems to be no point in going to prison because they don't remember the wrong things they did, and they don't even have the power to protect themselves."

"This criminal has no memory at all?"

"The only thing they remember is that they seem to have had a dream, but the content of the dream has been blurred. We suspect that it is very likely that the leader of the abyss seller has tampered with every weapon, as long as it is affected by these weapons People who are seriously injured by external forces will experience a test inside the consciousness space. The two results after the test are loss of memory and regaining new life."

The police officer complained because his superior had complained to him just now, "These people who think they are doing justice have never thought about the trouble they will cause us."

Hearing what the other party said, Kunikida, who was still in deep thought, was a little dissatisfied, and he said uncharacteristically, "Isn't it because of the incompetence of those who do things that such people appear?"

The policeman on the opposite side was stunned, and only listened to Kunikida's continuation, "The purpose of punishment is to have three points, one is to punish the criminal consciousness, the other is to appease the victim's family, and the third is to make an example to other criminals. Over the years, in the chaotic Yokohama The strength of the military and police is restrained in many ways. The criminals in custody are only tortured, but their criminal consciousness cannot be punished. Some things are engraved in the memory and consciousness influenced by acquired education and social environment, which are outrageous things. It will not affect the logic in their hearts. They don't feel that they are wrong. After they come out of prison, they still have no repentance. Instead, they hate the society and the world even more. You can't be alerted at all, you can't even scratch an itch, and killing chickens to scare monkeys is completely nonsense."

The fact is that the perpetrators have no effect of re-education after serving their sentences, and the evil factors in their bodies will not change no matter how many years they are imprisoned. Not even the military can guarantee a pristine white inside.

A look of pain flashed across Kunikida's eyes, and he quickly recalled the son of the official who escaped punishment who hurt Liuzang.

The policeman on the opposite side was obviously intimidated by the stern lecture, he was a little annoyed, "Mr. Kunikida..."

"On the contrary, after losing the memory, the individual consciousness of committing all kinds of crimes as the object of punishment is eliminated. This is the real sense of washing away the sins, and using everything before the next life to return to a blank sheet of paper to atone for the sins. It is also a choice."

"Those criminals used to lose their memory to escape the crime, and once they walked away, how will the victim's family members explain?"

"Have you guys dealt with the fact that so many families of the victims are left alone in this world with no help at all? The personality of the perpetrator has completely disappeared from the world, which is not the harshest punishment?"

"This..." The person opposite was speechless and unable to refute.

It was only after Kunikida finished speaking that he deeply felt his gaffe. If it weren't for the things he experienced before, he would never have said these thoughts, "I'm sorry, Officer Ito, please don't pay attention to what I just said, Thank you for the information."

After hanging up the phone, Kunikida looked up and saw Edogawa leaning on the table and chair next to him thoughtfully.

"So that's it, that's what it is." Luanbu smiled while pushing the glasses on his face.

Kunikida got up quickly, and said seriously, "Is the president awake? Mr. Ranpo." Kunikida suddenly noticed the black-rimmed glasses on Ranpo's face, which symbolized the opening of super reasoning ability.Ever since the president fell into a coma, Ranpo has lost his former escape.Now that pair of calm and sharp eyes are out of the usual childishness, staring at him thoughtfully behind the lens, I don't know when it came.

"The president hasn't woken up yet." Ranbu briefly described the situation of the president.

"As for the conversation you had with those guys just now, I heard it all. The so-called supernatural weapon was not developed as a 'weapon' like the name everyone gave it, but a tool to save mankind. Things. In the name of weapons, save lives."

"Mr. Ranpo, can you deduce what standard this ability uses to judge whether it is necessary to save? After all, among this group of people, there are also criminals who woke up without losing their memory."

"Probably love." Luanbu said indifferently, "Those who cut off humanity and have no heart of gratitude have never been the ones chosen by the world."

Kunikida's mind flashed the thank you from Liuzang in the video communication, and according to his impression of Liuzang, it was absolutely impossible to say this sentence.

Was it also because of Yu's influence?

"Does he treat all people equally, good and evil? With this kind of thinking, how arrogant is that kid to create such a weapon, just like a fairy standing on the cloud and looking down on the world." Kida smiled wryly.

Kunikida recalled that he once regarded Yu as a child who had no bottom line to show off his strength, and was deeply dissatisfied with his betrayal of weapons. In the end, he saved everyone, including himself who was lost on the road to find his ideal , It's still that guy.

It was like an absurd and unimaginable farce.

Fortunately, after this catastrophe has passed, it is still not too late to apologize.

On the other side, Osamu Dazai, who had just left the detective agency and hadn't walked 50 meters away, was humming and walking in the dark alley outside the intersection of the three streets. He suddenly stopped and stood quietly on the spot.

Dazai blinked his eyes before smiling at the empty front.

"Isn't it coming out yet? I invented the monitoring technique of the port mafia. This level of tracking is too naive."

As soon as his words fell, a row of men in black with weapons appeared in the alley and alley behind him, like ghosts in the dark night, blocking all his exits and retreats.

"Ah, ah." Osamu Dazai seemed to feel honored and laughed.

Without him, standing ten meters in front of him is the shadow of Yokohama, a vicious dog from the port mafia.Dazai Osamu pretended to be surprised, "Isn't this my former subordinate Akutagawa-kun?"

Akutagawa Ryunosuke said with a sullen face, "Mr. Dazai, I will not show mercy this time. Arming the head of the president of the detective agency is our ultimate goal. Otherwise, the members of the detective agency who are under the protection of Mr. Dazai will be killed." Met the messenger of hell."

Osamu Dazai shook his head regretfully, "Akutagawa-kun, have you forgotten that I entrusted you with everything you have. Do you think you can catch me?"

"Please wait and see, Mr. Dazai. I will prove all my growth to you. Of course, I will use your failure as proof."

The troops behind Akutagawa Ryunosuke raised their guns at the same time, and at the same time, Akutagawa's coat quickly turned into a black steel needle and pierced into the ground fiercely. In the blink of an eye, terrifying thorns sprang out of the ground a few meters away. The two black beasts bit fiercely at Osamu Dazai who seemed to have no power to defend himself.

At the very moment, the two bullets accurately repelled the black beast emerging from the ground from an unimaginably precise angle, as if such an attack had been expected.

Osamu Dazai didn't look up, but his pupils shrank violently.

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