[Zhongyingmei] The clown is actually me

The next day, London, Whitechapel.

Conan stood in front of the Whitechapel again, facing the palm-sized dark wooden sign.

"It's a parent-child bazaar again?" Zhu Xingxiu looked at the words on the wooden sign and was worried. That day, the Ripper behaved like a mad dog who sucked LSD, and Mr. Jacob, who was like a god with a gun, failed to give him cause some damages.He lowered his voice and approached Conan quietly: "What should we do? He is an adult, Mr. Jacob is also missing, and we only have two children."

Conan frowned: "We have to wait."

"Wait for what?"

"Wait for Mr. Jacob to come over."

"Are you crazy? Mr. Jacob has already exited, and he will definitely not come back to help us, our own pass the game. You said to wait for him?"

"Mr. Jacob likes to play with words, but he never lies. So he will definitely come, and he promised to protect Miss Xiaolan." Conan said.

——"That's right, if there are suspicious guys who dare to approach our two beautiful ladies, then I will definitely shoot."

That's right, at that time, when Jack said he would protect "two beautiful ladies", he was playing word games and making a promise.When he made the promise, there were three women present: Haibara Ai, Mao Lilan and Irene Andora.He could have chosen to sit on the wall and watch and jump repeatedly, but as Hui Yuan Ai was hit by a statue while escaping, and regretfully exited, one of his choices disappeared, so this promise became "protect Ai." Lynn Andora and Maurilan".

Conan slowly let out the breath that was trapped in his throat, and pushed open the back door of the Whitechapel.The gentlemen and ladies in the church turned their heads and saw that it was a furry boy who interrupted the bazaar, and they all showed surprised expressions.Conan glanced away, and he saw sunlight penetrating through the huge stained glass window, leaving chopped and colorful shadows on the ground.A classicist portrait hangs in the center of the church, with an obvious Renaissance style. On the canvas, the Virgin Mary is embracing the newborn Christ, her eyebrows are lowered, her expression is serene, soft and merciful, and the sky of heaven is reflected behind her. holy light.

This painting is hung high on the top of the church, and the loving eyes of the Virgin Mary are faintly visible. Everyone who looks up at it will have the illusion that Mary's eyes are falling on her. The person in the painting, the girlish, beautiful face, shows an amazing motherhood, and everyone who looks at the painting will feel that they have seen their mother.

What is he thinking?

Conan imagines the Ripper, a lonely child waiting at the church door with a dagger in his hand, waiting for his mother to abandon him.When Honey Charles Sturt came out of the church, he threw himself on her, a boy longing for his mother's embrace, a youth only murderous.Life is long, love and hate are real and passionate.The dagger in his hand pierced the woman's body, and blood gushed out, falling to the ground together with the Ripper's tears.

When Hani's body was getting cold, what was going on in the mind of the boy who lost his mother when he was young and lost his mother again when he grew up?

"Hello, I am from Mr. Holmes. I have brought his message: The Ripper is here, among you." Conan cleared his throat.

These people who participated in the bazaar included men and women, old and young, and almost all of them were disciples of nobles or wealthy families, wearing clean and tidy suits and dresses.Normally, they would never listen to a child's words, but the name of Holmes overwhelmed them.Knowing that the murderer Jack the Ripper was among them, many people showed panicked expressions. Conan led Zhuhoshi Hideki across the bench, stood on the stage, and said to all the passengers present: "Okay, Ladies here, please, take off your shawls or scarves and expose your necks."

Everyone looked at each other, and although they didn't understand why Holmes asked a child to direct them, they did so.

"Then, let me explain. According to the information collected by Mr. Holmes, Jack the Ripper found two rings of different sizes at the scene of the second victim. Years ago, Honey had abandoned her husband Go to London alone." Conan faced the people in the church and held up Holmes' investigation report, "So, Mr. Holmes reasoned in this way. The two rings left at the scene when she was killed, one belonged to Honey, and the other A ring that does not match any of Honey's fingers is a symbol of the parent-child relationship between the victim Honey Charles Sturt and Jack the Ripper. After Honey gave her son a ring of the same shape, she ran away from home."

"Hey, you mean, this little ring belonged to the Ripper? And the Ripper killed his mother himself?" Zhu Xingxiushu was surprised.

"Well, that's right. According to Mr. Holmes' report, Honey Charles Sturt was killed on September 9. On that day, the church in the Whitechapel area held a parent-child charity bazaar. Once a month, the auction was co-produced by parents and children. The Ripper probably knew about it too."

"So, the Ripper... wanted to go to the bazaar with his mother so much, so he left the ring on the spot, right?" Hideki Morohoshi said, "He resented his mother for abandoning him, so Only then will he start to kill."

"The first woman he killed was just to obscure the police's pursuit of vision, and the third and fourth victims were Professor Moriarty who twisted him. Even though he had already killed his mother, Again and again, they attack women who are similar to their mothers." Conan looked at the pews in the last row of the church, where a slender female guest was sitting, she had long hair that was almost transparent like golden sand, and Hani in the photo has almost exactly the same long hair "and he himself is a man who has been dressed as a woman all the year round."

"How do you tell?"

"At that time, there were a lot of people at the entrance of the opera house. As soon as the Ripper rushed out, he locked on Irene Andora. This proves that he was also in the opera house when Irene was performing and had seen Irene's clothes. And the Ripper He must be wearing an inconspicuous outfit, and if he wants to kill someone, he'll change into a Ripper costume. But the man with the stack of clothes is also conspicuous, so there's a solution: hide the clothes Under the pannier." Conan still didn't say a word, and the Ripper mistook Mao Lilan for Irene, which proved that the Ripper had indeed watched Irene's performance at the time, but he should be sitting in the very back row, and he only saw I noticed Irene's dress, but I didn't see Irene's face in detail.He specifically asked the staff of the Triumph Opera House and determined that the Ripper should be in the box of the Opera House, which is far from the stage and is specially used to accommodate ladies.

But he did not explain that the girl kidnapped by the Ripper was not Irene, and that Mao Lilan was able to live until now because the title of "the only woman the professor's old enemy loved" has weight. The Ripper valued Professor Moriarty, so it would not be the case kill her easily.

"He's Honey's son, and while he's masquerading as a woman, he's still a biological man. He has an Adam's apple and has to wear a turtleneck, or cover it up with a scarf, shawl, or something like that, which is why the Ripper only shows up in the fall." Moreover, the ring found at the scene has signs of wear and tear, which proves that this ring has been worn on people's hands all year round. If a ring of the same size has been worn since childhood, that finger must have changed. In his Among my ten fingers, there must be one, which is very thin."

Facing Conan's gaze, the beautiful lady slowly raised her hand with a sneer.The ring finger of her right hand is really very thin, almost two-thirds the size of the other fingers.

"Female...woman?" Zhuxing Xiushu was shocked.

The Ripper who had been seen through stood up and tore off the long skirt on his body. Under the soft silk dress, it was not the girl's graceful and soft body, but the soft iron armor. The legs are slender, and judging from the skeleton, they are definitely male.But the upper and lower parts of his neck were split too severely. The Ripper had a small face as transparent as ice and snow, but a man's body was spliced ​​under the neck.This strange sense of horror made the gentlemen and ladies finally react, screaming and fleeing in all directions.

"Where is Miss Xiaolan?!" Conan shouted against the flow of people.

The Ripper shouted almost simultaneously: "Where's Professor Moriarty?!"

Conan stared at him closely: "Give me Miss Xiaolan back, and I'll tell you where Professor Moriarty is!"

The Ripper sneered, and kicked open the long storage box at the end of the church. Sawdust flew everywhere, and the semi-conscious Mao Lilan was tied up, his legs curled up, his mouth gagged, and he was stuffed into the storage box.She was obviously drugged, her whole body was weak, her muscles were flaccid, even if she was conscious, she couldn't move, but when she saw Conan's face, she suddenly woke up and struggled. It can make a distorted whining sound, and its mouth shape vaguely says "Conan, run away".

"Where's Professor Moriarty?!"

Conan comforted Mao Lilan with his eyes, and shouted: "He won't come."

"Irene Andora is here, the only woman his old enemy loves, why doesn't he come?" The Ripper still didn't know that what he captured was not the real Irene Andora, but someone pretending to be Irene. Mao Lilan.

"Why can't you see through? Professor Moriarty has abandoned you, do you think he would care about Irene Andora? Even if he came, he sent a killer to clean you up with Irene Andora Lose!"

But the Ripper didn't want to listen to him talking anymore, he arched his body like a cannonball and rushed over, directly pressing Conan and others to the ground.The girlish face was full of killing intent.

The child's strength was completely unable to resist the adult, and Conan was riding on him, holding his throat, and the pair of men's hands pressed his throat tightly, almost deforming a few pieces of laryngeal cartilage, causing severe pain in Conan's chest, He could hardly breathe, his mouth was full of bloody breath.But he looked at Mao Lilan who was tightly tied up, and his eyes showed the tenderness that belonged to Kudo Shinichi.

He endured the pain and said, "What do you want, Ripper? You killed your own mother, and you have repaid your long-standing resentment. What else do you want now?!"

"Shut up! I never hated him!" As soon as he said this, the Ripper himself was stunned, as if he just figured it out now.

"Is he or she?" Like a metaphor that echoes back and forth, Conan also used Jack's "no or not yet" sentence pattern to question the Ripper: I asked your mother's her, but you answered my father's him.

"Shut up, kid, how do you understand, I want freedom, I want absolute freedom! No longer someone's son, no longer controlled by anyone!" The Ripper's voice matched the evening wind, "I I came here just to ask Professor Moriarty to give me a new identity. As long as he let me go, I will return Irene to him. Then I can fly away and let the blood of the devil in my body pass down from generation to generation !"

"Don't lie to yourself, you didn't come here for a new identity! You were able to leave when you killed your mother, not today! You have been free since the beginning, Professor Moriarty when you lost control and killed After a few people, I started to deal with you. During this period of time, you can go away at any time!" Conan panted, "You are willing to be controlled by Professor Moriarty! Because he raised you You, because you still regard him as your father!"

That's right.Professor Moriarty, that man—the Ripper was a child raised by him. Professor Moriarty gave him a preference that no one else has ever enjoyed, so even if the Ripper knew he was out of control, he didn't take the lead in the first place. Time left London and went far away, because there was still an illusion in his heart, he still regarded Professor Moriarty as his father, and was driven by him willingly and by chance, until the Ripper saw the black hole in front of the Opera House Only then did he realize that his former father had made up his mind to clean him up.

Why are you here?

In the name of exchanging Irene for a new identity, who do you want to meet?

Conan looked at him with a little pity, as if looking at a dog: "You still love him, you came here just to see him."

The Ripper was furious: "Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Stop here, I will kill you, right here!"

Zhu Xingxiushu wanted to come up to help, but was kicked away by him.The power of a child to go all out is not worth mentioning in front of a grown man.Zhu Xingxiu was kicked far away by him.Mao Lilan screamed, and saw him pull out a sharp short knife from his waist. Under the light of dusk, the light of the blade sharply illuminated Mao Lilan's eyes, and she saw herself in the reflection.

Shinichi, what should I do...

Just as the Ripper was about to strike, he suddenly heard a man's voice from behind. The voice was cold and soft, with a sharp smile: "Sicker."