What am I going to say is...ermmm... This is the chapter 9... Yeah it is...
Just kidding!
To be honest, I'm losing motivation on writing this story(which I think is the crappiest story I ever write, I'm positive.) But don't worry that I won't finished this, because the next chapter is also the last one and the last time I will be using this lame writing style...
So, enjoy!
Chapter 9 - Misunderstanding
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"Ran!"
"Ran!"
Shinichi's voice resounds inside her consciousness, waking her up…
"Shinichi..?" Ran grumbles, slowly opens her eyes.
She gasps alarmingly when she found herself in a room which looks like to be a storage room, and then she remembers what has happened to her.
She walks to the door and turn the door knob, but found it locked. "Help me! Somebody help me!" She tried to break the door, but it was too thick and strong. So she cries out, calling for help…
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"It was in her message clearly, with her crimson red blood…" He began.
"That's right! The blood indicated only to one person, and that is…."
"Kaaka Omotani-san, it was you." Sleeping Kogoro declared. Everyone look at her in shock and astonishment.
"No way…you didn't do it, right?" Narumi asks Kaaka, while another hasn't said anything, standing in silence.
"Blood is red, and red is 'aka' which is in your name, no?"
"If I'm the murderer, then what did I used to kill Reiko-san?" Kaaka retorted. "You police has frisked me for 3 times already, but couldn't find any weapon, are you?"
"That because they never thought or aware that it could be used as a weapon."
"What was it, that weapon?" Yamamura asked.
"It was what she always holds all the time, and no one would think it can cut human's throat…" He paused, everyone waiting expectantly "…Kaaka-san. The murder weapon…it was your bead necklace, wasn't it?"
Kaaka gasps in surprise, unconsciously puts her hand to her necklace which still hanging around her neck.
"How was that possible!? How just a necklace could cut someone's throat?" Eri is the one who asked this time.
"What if it isn't an ordinary necklace? But a nylon rope which is thick and strong?"
"Can I see you necklace, please?" Yamamura asked for her necklace and she reluctantly gives it to him.
"Mouri-san, it's indeed the nylon rope." He confirmed after he finished checking it.
"You just have to stretch the rope tightly and then gradually slit it around the neck repeatedly, and if you put a little more pressure you can easily cut it." Kogoro started again.
"And you probably used the time when you excused yourself to go to restroom in the party's open remark speech and killed Reiko-san, who you already put to sleep. Wasn't she gone to toilet for a long time back then?" He finished.
Kaaka stands in silence.
"Kaaka, you didn't do it, right? Right?" Narumi asked desperately, hoping that her colleague wouldn't do such a thing so cruelly while she's shaking Kaaka's shoulders. "Tell him you didn't do it!" She almost screams. Tears are now on the edge of her eyes, trying to escape from the fragile jail of her eyes and fall down.
"If we found luminol's reaction on this necklace, it will be incriminating evidence for your crimes." Yamamura said in the-matter-of-fact tone.
"Yes, I'm the one who killed them." Kaaka finally admitted.
"Kaaka…"
"How did you know I'm the culprit?" Kaaka asked.
"It was because of your strange behavior at that one time…" Kogoro began. "When we were going to the mansion together, I noticed you touched the necklace and immediately pulled back. That was when I guessed you didn't want to bring much attention to it, because you were going to use it as the murder weapon to kill Reiko-san, am I right?"
"As expected from you, Meitantei Mouri Kogoro-san" Kaaka said dryly.
"Why, Kaaka, why…" Narumi now is crying uncontrollable, feeling betrayed. "W-Why did you have to do all that? I'm your friend s-since we were still in University. I n-never thought you w-would do something like t-this…" She managed to say in between sobs.
"Please don't cry, Narumi"
"Your motive is perhaps something about an accident which happened 13 years ago, isn't that right? Kaaka Dogushi-san?" The sleeping detective said.
"How did you know my real name?!" Kaaka said in surprise.
"One of the victims on that accident, there's someone who many people had grieved of his death. He was an editor at 'The way' magazine and your brother, Yuji Dogushi." He started explain again.
Kaaka looks down, tears in her eyes.
"The police didn't tell this to the media, but there's 14 years old girl name Kaaka Dogushi who had wept in sorrow on his burial day." Kogoro finished.
"Niisan was my only family left when both our parents died since I was eight…" Kaaka starts to cry as well like Narumi. "He comforted me when I was bullied, congratulated along with me when I got high score on my exams. He was everything in my life! No one could replace him, never."
"So then why?" Eri asked.
"It was because of those people!" She pointed at Ryoji. "They sank the ship because they want insurance money! They left him to die so pathetically in that sea!" She screamed. Her eyes filled with tears, wrath, and hatred. "I tried to investigate about this for years! I tricked them to talk so many times, but no one told me a thing!"
Ryoji didn't say anything.
"T-Then I finally know the t-truth by myself i-in the end…" She finished with stutter. Her whole body is trembling with the crying and the sorrows within her.
"Kaaka-san, actually, they didn't do it." Conan spoke in his voice changer while he looks down with sad expression appeared on his face.
"Huh?"
"The truth is, the person who sank the ship weren't any of them at all, but was Yuji-san, your brother, who did it" He said in quiet, sad tone.
When Kaaka heard what he said, eyes widens in shock and disbelief.
"The police had already informed you about this fact. Perhaps you were still lament of his death and too shock, so you didn't hear any of it…" He continued. "You're brother had owed a lot amount of debts, so he'd escaped by taken his own life..."
"That's not true! Niisan wouldn't..." She stopped mid sentence. She isn't sure of that statement much, though she lets him continues.
"The cause for him to had the debts probably because of those who you killed. Kaaka-san, everything I said is true, I'm very certain of that." The detective added.
"It's not true...no.. No!" The tears which were supposed to dry already begins to pours down again. "No way, noooooo!" Kaaka let out a painful scream, her knees gave out on her so she falls down to the ground and she keeps cries and cries. Sadness and guilt, she cannot hold them to herself anymore. She let out all of her emotions inside her, mixed in with tears that she cannot stops from falling down...
That clamorous painful ear-piercing cry echoes inside everyone's minds. It even made someone to cry along with her, whose name is Yamamura who is now wiping away tears from his eyes.
Conan keeps looking down on the floor. The scream also made him forgot something very absolutely important...
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Ran slides down to the floor beside the door in exhaustion from pounding the door and calling for a rescue for how many times she can't remember anymore.
"Shinichi…" She muttered desperately.
Where is he when she needs him most?
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Before the police could arrest Kaaka, Conan asked her though Kogoro's voice. "Kaaka-san, what does the message in the threatening letter you sent to Hirata-san mean to?"
"Huh? What letter? I don't know any letter being sent here." She answered before she walks away with the police to the police car.
'Wait. If Kaaka-san wasn't the one who sent the letter, then who?' The shrunken detective wondered. 'What does it mean by 'blow to bits'?'
At the moment, Kogoro wakes up with a yawn. "What's happened? You already caught the culprit?" He asked, dumfounded.
"You're like this all the time, Anata." Eri sighed.
"Ne, Obaa-san…Where is Ran-neechan?" Conan asked her. He just notices he hasn't seen Ran anywhere since the start of Kogoro's—well, his deduction show.
"Oh right. She told me she is going to go find you, so where is she now…?" The female lawyer wondered out loud.
After hearing that, Conan suddenly runs out to the living room.
"Eh? Ran isn't with you?" The old man detective asked.
"Why asked? Don't you see we're all in here?" Eri said in a bit annoying tone.
"Say, Mouri-san. What is the letter you talking about?" Yamamura asked.
"What letter?" Kogoro asked back, confused on what's going on.
"The threatening letter you said was sent to Chief Hirata-san, I mean." The inspector expanded.
"Oh yes, someone sent it to Hirata-san." Kogoro explained "It says 'If you don't cancel this party, I will blow this place to bits'"
"A bomb?" They wondered.
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"Ran-neechan!" Conan finally reaches the living room and searching for Ran. "Not here"
He then goes to searches the kitchen. "Not here either…"
Then there is a sound…
*Boom*
It was a sound of a bomb exploded…reverberated through all every parts of the mansion.
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"What happened!?" Everyone exclaimed in panic.
"Keibu, there's a bomb explosion in the party room!" The officer comes to informed Yamamura.
"Whaaat?"
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"Bomb?!" Conan exclaimed when he heard the sound. He instantly runs out of the kitchen.
*Boom*
*Boom*
Two more exploded…
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"Keibu! More bombs the culprit planted have explored!" Another officer shouted from the front of the door.
"Keibu-san! There's a fire in the living room and others room! And it keeps spreading to everywhere!" The third officer also comes. "If this continues, the mansion going to collapses!" He informed them hurriedly.
"Everyone, we will evacuate! Now!" Yamamura yelled. Everyone else hurry out of the room, out of the burning mansion…
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The loud sound of 3 times explosion makes Ran jumped in fright.
"What is happening!? There're bombs here?!" She exclaimed. Then she scanning the room she is currently in to find an exit. She glances around and sees something covered in white cloth; she walks to takes it off.
But she has to gasps in shock when she saw what's under the white sheet.
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Red numbers are flashing, counting down slowly…to the destruction…
"No way…" She exclaimed in terror.
See you in the next chap which I'm not sure when it will comes... XD