He took her hand gripping onto as he pulled her along forcing her to go along with him as she had no other choice because she was stuck with him or she would die a horrible and she knew he make sure others would go down with her.
They were all wearing black, including herself as she was forced to wear a black dress and a hat hiding her face so that the world could not see who she was. But she was no longer herself and she did not really know who she was all she knew that she was stuck again in the body of a child. The body of a child that was attending her own funeral for the real her the grown up for and she might as well be dead because she could not see a way out of this any time soon. She was trapped and a lab rat to the people that 'owned' her and she had nothing to live for other than hope and bringing her diminished that with every second.
He pulled her along as he smiled and into the graveyard making her pretend that they were father and son.
"Come on now it is time to say your Goodbyes to your former life and it is your last chance to see everyone that you knew" said Rum.
He was so excited that he was pulling her forward that she was almost off her feet.
"This is not a trip to Disney Land" said Shinichi muttering.
"I agree because it is so much more fun to watch other so miserable and pathetic as I got to see the same thing at my own funeral. I thought that it would only be best that you got to share the same experience and now you get to share it with someone that went through the same experience" said Rum.
"...?" said Shinichi.
She was gobsmacked and could not believe what she was hearing.
"I see that I have managed to surprise the almost unsurprisable if I do say so this has been the best surprise of the week" said Rum.
She now watched the coffin go into the ground, and she started to cry along with everyone else as she could see that her life as Kudo Shinichi was out of her grasps and possibly gone forever.
"Brat! Is that you?" said a female voice.
She whipped around to see Sonoko there standing behind her dressed in black staring at her as if she was seeing a ghost. And in a way she kind of was because she was dead and not dead at the same time and now thinking of this made her blood rush as she realized that Sonoko was now in danger of being killed.
"I would appreciate it if you do not call my daughter names, especially in a place like this and especially on a day like this" said Rum.
And now he was her father, he was pretending to be her father and she did not like the thought of this because that meant that she was his daughter and that was something that she could never be, ever not in this life time or the next.
And looking at Sonoko she was now pale and grey looking in the face as she was now being lectured and made to feel guilty about the name she had just been called. And it was as if she was getting a lecture from a teacher and an authority figure at the same time, making Sonoko unusually very nervous. But she did not appreciate this one bit of his twisted way of trying to show that he was on her side by sticking up for her as she could see that it was all an act and that was all it was. Nothing more it was just an act like everything that he had done because it was obvious that he did not care about her or anyone or anything. All he was a psychopath who wanted to watch the world burn by his own hand and watch while everyone died in pain by his own trick of the hand. It was obvious that faking his own death was supposed to be the world's best trick and was to him because he could not help but gloat and live on it for the rest of his life.
"Sorry!" said guilty Sonoko.
But by her facial expression Shinichi could see that she just thought of this man of rude and that he should not be talking to her like that and giving her into trouble that had nothing to do with him. And that she would spend the rest of the day in a mood as if she had a dark cloud over her head, like she always did when someone gave her into trouble.
"Now I would appreciate it if you just leave immediately because I have half a mind to speak to your parents about the things that you say to my daughter" said Rum.
And then he started to pull her long and at the same time almost lifting her off the ground and in the air like he would just pull her long as she was not even a person but something he had to carry a bag. And for just a second he did lift her off her feet as he pulled her along by force.
"Come on we need to go now" said Rum in a warning way.
"Bye Christie" said a confused Sonoko.
She waved goodbye as she was being pulled along.
"You better hope that your friend does not say a word about this little meeting or she will be having a meeting with another 'special friend ' that she will not like meeting and she will surely be disappointed in the results" said Rum.
She gritted her teeth angrily and nervously as she was now being shoved in the front seat of a car stolen car that was taken so that they could drive there.
"Now since we are here, I would gladly take you to another pace that you have not been in a while. We are off to a trip down memory lane we are off to Tropical Island where your story began and where you will tell me more of what that night you turned into this little child I see before my own eyes" said Rum.
She just crossed her arms angrily and refused to give him any eye contact or even give him a glancing looking because she did not want him to see that she had been crying.
"Let me get that belt for you " said Rum.
He leaned over as she was struggling to put the seat belt on and he just pulled it over and buckled it in as he clicked it in giving her a nodding as he did it.
But as he pulled away and she started to lean back she did not expect that he would grab onto her chin and force her to look at him.
"You will look at me when I speak to you and do as I say that is not a request but an order or your friend there will meet with an unfortunate end because I do have a reason to kill her. But you also have payment that I require that could put a pin that assignment that I still have to write up. Do I make myself clear?" said Rum.
She was now looking him in the eye by his force, and she could see that he had met every single word that he had said.
"Fine then I will tell you what happened that night" said Shinichi.
His mood immediately changed from sheer anger to as if he was a happy child off to Disney land and he had a twisted giant smile on his face that felt unnerving at this moment and he started to drive away at that moment.
"Did you enjoy the funeral because I most certainly did" said Rum.
It was a rhetorical question and she was not going to answer it because she was not going to fall into that kind of trap that was just begging for an answer that would be thrown back in your face no matter what you said.
"Now it was the mystery ride that you first met Gin and Vodka on?" said Rum.
She just nodded and looked down to the ground only focusing on her feet and the movement of the car trying to focus on nothing else as if the world did not exist and she was not part of it.
The car suddenly came to a sudden holt.
"Drink this" he said handing her over a plastic bottle of something that looked sickly green and like sludge.
She just looked at the bottle inspecting it.
"It is the cure to that little death trap that you were injecting with, so no more worries once you drink this. I cannot risk you taking a heart attack on a ride of course because that would just be ridiculous way of dying and rather an ironic way of you dying as well but rather is tempting. But we cannot have that, well not just yet because I have yet to decide what to do with you once you are no longer needed" said Rum.
"...?" said Shinichi.
His mind was clearly scattered, and he could not think straight to save his life and he would never he was clearly insane and there was no word for what was wrong with him. What the hell happened to him to make him like this she had no idea and she had the feeling that she did not want to know.
And he was talking and talking and she was not paying attention what he was saying. She had a feeling and if she was thinking correctly about this, about his eye and that glowing red eye of his.
Maybe his eye, maybe it just might be Pandora.
What if when he was Kuroba Toichi/Kaitou Kid he had actually found Pandora and had it in his grasps but something had happened. Something went wrong and somehow it ended up in his eye and made him like this made him demented and insane kind of person that was right before her very own eyes.
What if he was Pandora or rather part of it and he was infected with it and this would explain pretty much everything that had went on or rather a large amount of it.
But she was not sure and she did not know if she was right or wrong, but if she was correct then she would have to believe in the possibility of magic and that was something that she was just not ready to believe in.
But as Sherlock Holmes said or rather Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, you have to give the man credit for it and for all of it.
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth"
She had to find out the truth because just maybe she could help him and put an end to it with his help the real him and this could all finally be over and she could be free and free of them.
But for all this to happen, it would take time, and she needed the time to work everything out and come up with a plan.
And for that to happen she would have to give up her distractions and that would mean her life the two of them.
And she would have to let him go and let him be free.
She was going to have to let him think that she was dead even though she had no way of letting him know but she was going to have to accept that she had lost him and that he had lost her. She knew that there was more than enough chance that she was not going to make it out alive if she was going to do what she needed from the inside but she just had to do it, she just had to.
She was a Detective and she would never give up until the case that she was working was solved and complete.
She was going to have to let Kaito go and for good, she had to give him up.
Even if she made it out alive and saves, and everything went smoothly she was not the same person that she was before and she suspected that he was not either. No one would after what had happened and the fact that his father was now holding her hostage and treating her like a pet/child. This would forever change things between them and how they would feel about each other forever and just everything would change between them.
She was going to let Kuroba Kaito go because it was for the best.
And truthfully she could never look at him the same again because all she could think of was his father when she thought of him and she was creeped out by this that it was she did not blame him for this because it was her problem and not his, it was her issue to deal with and not his.
As she watched a Dove pass by the sunset she was imagining it was Kaito and she was letting him go, she was setting him free to be free from her from everything bad in her. He was free, and she was going to let him be that way forever he was free and she was going to let him be that way.
It was for the best, and that was what she kept telling herself and that was what she was going to continue to tell herself.