Chapter 963 Yuanzi, rest in peace

And Conan recalled the scene just now at Charlie Cross Station.

When "Professor Moriarty" appeared next to Suzuki Sonoko, his clothes were neat and there was no dust on his face. You can simply imagine him leaving the theater leisurely along the safe passage set aside while the players were chasing "Jack the Ripper" through the streets.

 Conan: "..." This shows that the relationship between "Professor Moriarty" and "Jack the Ripper" is not at all "out of control" as Moriarty himself said.

On the contrary, "Jack the Ripper" knew the location of Moriarty's box and deliberately avoided it when planting the bomb.

When Professor Moriarty left the theater, he also knew the best way to go in the theater that was blown into a mess... These two people must still be in contact, they are basically the same team!

In other words, if Moriarty really wanted to help them catch Jack the Ripper, there would be no need to create this scene.

Conan's heart sank - thinking about the worst, "Professor Moriarty" might not like them, the "Baker Street Guerrillas" under Holmes, so he deliberately designed today's drama to make the Ripper Jack kills these people.

Even if you think about it in a better direction, Professor Moriarty doesn't want "Jack the Ripper" to get out of control, so he plans to use the players to kill both parties.

 In short, the player must die.

 Conan: “…” In this case, Sonoko Suzuki fell into the hands of Moriarty…

 He sighed inwardly and silently classified Suzuki-san into the "rest in peace for now, we will definitely clear the game!"

 …

 The only three players, or two players, and one "Hideki Morohoshi" entered the carriage and walked along the corridor of the box, secretly looking for "Jack the Ripper" who had blended into the crowd.

Walking along, I didn’t see anyone suspicious, but I met the train conductor.

 Mao Lilan stepped forward to talk and tried to get help from the NPC:

"'Jack the Ripper' just attacked the theater. We chased him all the way and found him getting on this train. Have you seen him? His attire is easy to identify - all in black, with a black robe, also wearing a hat and half-face mask of the same color.”

“Jack the Ripper got on our train?! When?” The train conductor suddenly panicked when he heard this. He paced back and forth anxiously, then suddenly turned to ask the player, "What should we do?"

Hearing this question for help after a long time, Conan suddenly became energetic and commanded skillfully:

"Jack the Ripper's costume is very recognizable. But we didn't see anyone similar to him in the car all the way here. Since you haven't seen it either, he probably disguised himself and blended in with the other passengers. —Please gather all the passengers in one carriage and we will be responsible for finding him!"

 The train conductor nodded heavily and became one of the few obedient NPCs in this dungeon.

He called to the conductor, and everyone ran out of the door together.

 …

Soon, the passengers who were scattered all over the place gathered in the same carriage - "Jack the Ripper" has a great reputation in this world. As soon as the passengers heard that this murderer had sneaked into the train, they immediately became extremely cooperative, hoping to catch him as soon as possible to avoid inexplicably becoming a dead soul before arriving at the next station.

The conductor stood at the end of the carriage, looking at the passengers sitting on the seats on both sides. Next to them were three real and fake players.

He remembered the method Conan had just provided and said to the passengers: "Please spread your hands like me and raise them in front of your face - we need to make sure that everyone is not carrying a murder weapon."

 “Jack the Ripper” Matsuda Jinpei, now mixed in with the crowd, had completed his disguise.

Hearing these words, he lowered his head and glanced at his hands, suddenly thought of something and understood.

—After getting on the train, Noah forcibly changed his clothes. His current appearance is very different from before. The only thing that hasn't changed is that there is one finger that is slightly thinner than the other fingers, which is very obvious.

Matsuda Jinpei thought to himself: It seems that this copy is almost over.

He felt a little joy of "finally getting off work" in his heart, and like other passengers, he spread his hands and raised them in front of his face as the conductor said.

 …

Conan looked around the car, scanning all the passengers. On the way, he paused briefly on Matsuda Jinpei's finger, and his glasses flickered with a reflection.

 He winked secretly at Mao Lilan.

Then he looked at the other passengers: "According to the investigation information left by Mr. Holmes, one of the victims of 'Jack the Ripper' - Honey Charlest, was a woman from the small town of Windsor. She was born, grew up, and Married, but didn’t want to stay in that little place. So ten years ago, she left her son and dying husband behind and came to London.”

 Speaking of this, Conan thought of something and his voice suddenly stopped.

　　　…"In this way, "Jack the Ripper" was abandoned by his family ten years ago. That should be about the time when Moriarty picked up this "genius criminal".

but…

Conan was silent for a moment: "Professor Moriarty", if you push it forward ten years, can he be ten years old?

Conan: “…” Is it possible that when my dad designed this character, he was using “immortality” or “rejuvenation” as a metaphor for Kudo Shinichi who ate APTX4869?

Then you didn’t want to attract the attention of the black organization, so you deliberately blurred your appearance?

 …No, I always feel that something is not quite right. I'm not that kind of character.

 There is no one with a similar personality around. Could it be one of dad's classmates?

 …

 “Conan?”

Beside him, Mao Lilan's voice suddenly sounded.

 She looked at Conan who suddenly got stuck mid-sentence, and wondered, "What's wrong?"

"Huh? It's nothing, I'm straightening out my thoughts." Conan came back to his senses and decided to deal with the crisis in front of him first, and wait until he gets out to talk about other things.

He took out a photo from his pocket, which he had taken from Sherlock Holmes's data book. At first, Conan was a little embarrassed, but then he found out that "Holmes" was actually his father's cameo. When he started searching again, he became much more agile. .

 Conan raised the photo and faced the passengers.

 In the photo, there is a pair of plain silver rings. One big and one small.

“Honey Charlest was murdered near Whitechapel. On the day of her murder, the church was holding a ‘Parent-Child Charity Fair.’ A pair of relics like this were left at the scene of Honey’s murder.”

Conan glanced at the photo in his hand:

"The larger one is Honey Charlest's ring. The other one was once belonging to 'Jack the Ripper' - this pair of rings was not 'accidentally' left at the scene. It was a token of their parent-child relationship that Jack the Ripper deliberately left there."

 (End of this chapter)