Step Six: Breaking the Greatest Detective

Shinichi shows up in the warehouse as he finally figure out the location where Ran is held hostage. I hide in the shadows as this step is about to begin. I decided to observe the conversation between them.

"Ran-neechan!" he cried. "Don't worry, I'll get you out of there!"

As he attempts to undo the chains, he noticed her having tears on her eyes.

"What's wrong, Ran-neechan?"

"What's wrong? I'll tell you what's wrong. You're Shinichi, aren't you?" she asked.

He happens to look shock when she said that. Then again, he doesn't want her to know his true identity.

"What are you talking about? I'm just a kid."

"Would you stop lying, Shinichi?!" she suddenly snapped at the boy. Ooh, nice one. It looks like she took my every word. "I know! The way you act, you think, lack musical knowledge! It all makes sense!"

"I'm not Jimmy! Use your eyes! I'm just a little kid!" he tries to get those suspicious off her. Well, it's not gonna work anymore.

"I said, stop lying!" Ran cried as she calmed down. "It all makes sense to me. The times I got my suspicious off, it's Dr. Agasa, your mother, and even Ai-chan doing all this."

Then I stepped out of the shadows.

"I'm afraid it's true, Shinichi. She now knows the truth and there's nothing you can do to get her to forget all that."

"Yuki. Just as thought. You faked your own death yesterday just to get me off your back, huh?" Shinichi calmly said this statement. "All for this moment to happen."

"That's right," I replied calmly also.

"You bastard!" he angrily runs to me just so he could punch me. However, I took out a pistol and shot him in the side. That really hurts him.

"Shinichi! You heartless monster!" Ran is horrified of what I just did to her boyfriend.

"You know, Shinichi is also heartless just as you think of him. He never cries on his entire life, not even solving cases. Speaking of that..." I take the focus on him. "Cry, Shinichi, I dare you."

"Never!" so that boy dares to defy me. Well, I can make him cry. Just as he jumps and try to make a punch, I block it and I punch him in the stomach. It throws him to a wall. I hit him in the head with my knee. Next, I use my gun to shoot his hands so that he will be weakened from. I toss him to the ground. It looks like he is really injured; I'd say physically with those wounds. I'm also going to crush his spirit so I grab him by his throat and pin him to the wall.

"Face it, Shinichi. Ran now knows your secret, and you know something?" I said as I whisper to his ears. "You will never make her forget it ever again."

I throw him to where Ran is tied up. He really looks injured, yet he's still determined as he tries to get up. Breaking him takes a lot of hard work.

"It's true. Yuki kidnap me so he can tell me all about it. He's right. You can't make me forget about all this. He has all the evidence, and the people who know your secret hostage," she said, agreeing in with my terms.

"That's right," I open the big TV in this room so I can show them I mean business. Shinichi is shocked at the people I kidnapped.

"I don't believe you," he said to me, almost starting to cry. It looks like I'm about to succeed in breaking him. "Liar! You're trying to trick me!"

"I think you're the one who's lying. Not to Ran, but to yourself," I said a speech with a smile on my face in a way of breaking him. "You're the one who refuses to let her accept the truth. Deep down, you knew that if she founds out who you truly are, your life will have to go back to the way it was before. Your days of protecting her secretly are at an end, Shinichi, so as your attempts to hide. All your dreams have been shattered, haven't they? Life is like that, detective. Sooner or later, the people who are close to you have the right to find out this secret of yours. Whenever you tried to make someone forget about it, it's gonna smack you down. On the bright side, at least you and I won't have to see each other ever again."

As Shinichi started to take those words, he started to have tears coming out of his eyes. It looks like I succeeded in breaking him. I press the button from the remote control to release Ran's chains. Not only hers, but also the others. They're so gonna see this moment as Shiho, Dr. Agasa, Mr. and Mrs. Kudo, and Hattori are all seeing this moment.

"I'm sorry, Ran! I'm sorry for getting you into this mess!" he cried as he hugs her.

"I'm sorry, too, Shinichi," she returned the hug. "I should have discovered it early on and kept it to myself because you wouldn't tell me about it. I just can't be mad at you for lying to me all this time so I forgive you. And I still love you. I don't care if you're a kid or not, you're still Shinichi, and that's all matters to me."

"Oh Ran," Shinichi sighed.

This is one moment we'll never forget of.

"You know, Shinichi. There are times the good guys win, but there are also times where the bad guys win. In this case, I win. The bad guy has won this round."

"Yeah, you win, Yuki, and I lose," he groaned.

"Well, I gotta get going. One more thing, as for your mother taking your custody, Ran, fix that on your own," I said, about to leave the warehouse. I looked at my watch to check out the time. It's 6:30 pm. I was about to reach for the door.

"Yuki, before you go, I want you to do me a favor," she said. I was curious about the favor so I stop walking away. "I want to take the apotoxin."

As I look calm in this, everyone, including Shinichi and Shiho, is surprise in this statement.

"Ran, you can't do this. You'll only waste your life," I should have known that boy detective would try to protest.

"No, Shinichi, I saved my life. There's no other boy I could love, but you. You should have realized that. Besides, I can lighten your pain by sharing it with you," she explained.

"But, a life where you cannot reach up so high, a life without being able to grow up," Shinichi argued.

"I'll manage," Ran reassured him.

"Well, if that's the case, here," I toss the pill to her as she catches it. "This is your way to becoming a kid like him and Shiho. By the way, as for your parents, you can tell them if that's what you decided. Now I got to go. At least all of you won't see me ever again."

I left the warehouse afterwards. If they want to go home, they would have to find their own way back. The scoring summary, Michio: 1, Shinichi: 0. My ultimate plan has succeeded. After all, bad guys sometime wins the round.