CHAPTER 8 : Dialogues
Conan's POV
A shoe stopped the door. I turned around. Kogoro removed the needle in his neck, while looking at me silently.
"Thank you."
Silence.
"Thank you to what you've done to me. To made me what I am now."
Conan neither moved, still at the entrance of the door. It was his biggest mistake till now. Kogoro and Ran should be, and should stay in the ignorance of the sword of Damocles upon the heads of everyone.
"I understood everything till a certain time now. My gratitude after your arrival, my persona of Sleeping Kogoro, the strange manners you have…all these things managed to make me understand. You're not Conan Edogawa. You do not exist. I checked it a the Major building, no act of being born named at yours."
"Why didn't you tell me about this?"
"Because defiance, then the fact of letting you ignoring that I knew the truth offered me more opportunities about you."
"Do you know who I am?"
"I'm a horrible detective, but there's one major thing which bothers me more than everything else: family."
Kogoro was speaking to him for the first time, true voice to true voice, without hiding themselves behind the face of a moron.
Their calm voice shown the control they tried to impose to themselves during this fateful instant.
"Follow me."
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*Clic* The light turned on, in the agency.
Kogoro put out a lot of keys. They checked for several of them, before finding the good one.
While going behind their desk, they opened a drawer and pulled out an orange file, closed by black restrains. SHINICHI KUDO was written on it, at the middle of the object. Conan couldn't believe what he was currently seeing.
"I thought you were hating me!"
"Let's say you were stealing all my jobs. I was mad at you, you were making a very good detective."
"I'm not dead yet. Until now."
"You're rambling with my daughter till… Both of you were three? At the school, both of you were always together, and she was always speaking of you first when she returned home. This was getting on my nerves till a point…you can not imagine it!"
"Sure, sure...I have a little idea..."
Kogoro glared at him.
"Whatever. With all of this, you easily think that I was thinking for myself in some future. Even if I didn't know your situation with Ran, it wasn't hard to find that one day you'd be the father of my little children..."
There was a blank.
"What did you think?" Kogoro went on. "That I'll lead this agency till my death? No, of course no! I would have give it to you, so that Ran and you would continue my work. But in all a sudden day, nothing. And when I saw how was Ran, I decided to make this file. I knew that him and you were linked, but I would never have guessed that both of you made only one...so, now, you've got some explanations to tell me."
Conan, who couldn't make it about Kogoro's revelations, grabbed the page of a newspaper relating about Tropical Land, inside the file to show it to his 'uncle'.
"Before this, promise me you won't reveal anything."
"I shall not!"
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She hissed and placed her memory inside the wallet, then placed the object inside the pocket.
"Do you know how many does door cost?"
Ran had just enter the room.
"You're not Jodie-sensei, you're this woman who take the appearance of Azusa the last day. This same person who called me 'Angel'. Ai could have died, all because of you! Remove the mask off your face so that I"ll see the monster that you truly are!"
"No! You're my only treasure, and I can't do it."
"I must have explanations, then!"
"I'm protecting both you and your cool guy. As long as you're staying with me, you'll be safe."
"To protect me from what?"
"I can't tell it to you. You shall not enter my world. I already told you that. It's up to someone else to explain this to you. So, I beg you, stop asking questions and return back to sleep."
"No way! I won't budge till I'll have explanations. I have the feeling that you know where Shinichi's hidding. So I won't give up.
A smile appeared on Vermouth's face.
"You're always the same girl."
"..."
"I knew you since you were three…and I made the promise to a close friend of mine that I would always be here for the safety of both of you."
"Who's else?"
"Silver Bullet."
"Who are them?"
"No matters who they are."
"It's Shinichi, isn't it?"
"..."
"Answer me!"
"You already know too much. Now, listen to me if you want to stay alive enough to see him once more."
"WHERE IS HE?"
"Hidden everywhere and nowhere at the same time. At this current moment, I'm not able to tell you where he is. Furthermore, he's the only one who has to tell you the truth. But if you discover it by yourself. I won't say anything else..."
"Huh, I don't think so."
"..."
"Tell me!"
"..."
Vermouth went near a drawer, pulled it and took an old phone.
She pointed the object to Ran. The last concern – thinking that the woman wanted to help her – grabbed the phone. She hand didn't release the phone, but a finger pushed a touch.
A sleeping gas came out of the antena.
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FLASH BACK
SEVERAL MONTHS AGO.
C3H6O + ( NaClO + NaCl ) + NaOH
Another way to say
propan-2-one + Hypochlorite de sodium + Hydroxyde de sodium
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A mask on their face. They made the products to react in a huge beaker, in a bowl of salad very cold, as the reaction had to be exothermic. They moved it, before placing the content in a huge metallic capsule, that they closed after with a stopper and a valve.
They hated to make physics, but not the reasons one would think of.
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"She's handcuffed into the gas room, waiting for her execution."
"Well done. Here's the capsule of acidic hydro cyanic."
"Thank you, Gin-sama. We'll place it now."
"Too bad I can't see her death."
"Oh, trust me, being killed by anoxia isn't something pretty nice to see..."
"Humpf!" added Gin with a small smile.
"Okay, it's placed. We can open the valves!"
"Go on! I can't wait!"
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The doors opened.
The handcuffs layed against the pipe.
Everyone's panicking.
But one.
Gin, laying himself against the door, replaced his hat to hide the thin smile he couldn't restrain, then went out.
Hey There ! I'm back from a very long journey overseas, and the new chapter comes with me ! Sorry for the late, but now it's there ! The very slow rate of publication is made on purpose : It's a very long work, it takes a lot of time and it's better to have a few chapters ready to be publish to be able to manage conveniently the amount of free time. I have 2 chapters available left so don't panic for the next. By the way, all this amazing work of translation is provided by Dr Mad and Co ! Thx !
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