106 – Corpse Thief (5)
Pets and McFarlane, who were guarding the morgue, remained silent for a long time immediately after Watson left. Originally, the deeper the industry practices, the more likely people were to believe in suspicious superstitions. It was the same way sailors make a fuss over trivial things, calling them omens of bad luck, and the two men who had worked as assistants for a long time had no choice but to remain silent in the face of ominous omens.
However, soon there was nothing else to do in the eerie morgue, so the two quietly opened their mouths again and began chatting.
Of course, I only sipped water occasionally. As I’ve been handling corpses for a long time, my courtesy towards the dead has gradually diminished, but that doesn’t mean I’m so squeamish that I just sit next to the corpses and eat something calmly like some immature witch.
Watson was strange to begin with.
Of course, in order to survive in the difficult daily life, everyone could eat without worrying about the body or anything else, but they only ate simple foods as snacks and did not eat a large meal like eating at a restaurant.
At first, literally meaningless chatter began to be exchanged again.
If someone had heard it, like Watson’s predecessors, they might have laughed and sighed, saying it was just goldfish chatting among themselves.
However, when the conversation between the two assistants turned to the topic of the body of the young woman who had just arrived, a meaningful conversation began.
“Anyway, Professor Knox, aren’t you crazy? “They say they accept corpses no matter what, but the young woman crossed the line.”
“If you were the kind of person who cared about such things in the first place, wouldn’t you have done something like this?”
“Well, that’s true too.”
MacFarlane glanced at the cart behind Fetz, where the body of the young woman lay, and opened her mouth.
To relieve my boredom, I told an eerie story as a senior.
“Now that I think about it, before you came in, there was a guy named Charlie above me.”
“What kind of bullsh*t are you trying to bring up again?”
“You never mentioned Charlie. Do you know why I didn’t do it, Petz? That human…… “One day she suddenly disappeared.”
“Did you run away? Well, Nox, that bastard must have been taking advantage of the people below him.”
“Everyone used to think that way, but I think a little differently. You see, we… You know a little bit, don’t you? Nox, how long will he use us as his assistant?”
“… Don’t be unlucky. If you think about it that way, it would be difficult if both we and Nox broke everything we know.”
“Charlie probably thought so too. But Nox, there is a high possibility that that person is connected to some serious criminals.”
Even though he knew that she was making fun of him, Fetz had no choice but to keep her mouth shut for a moment. Some people at the university were hissing, and those working as assistants under Professor Knox were even more directly aware that something was wrong with Professor Knox’s skills.
And everyone was silent because of their own circumstances.
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Even though I knew it was bullsh*t, when I heard something like that, I couldn’t help but feel a little suspicious. But Fetz shook her head and tapped MacFarlane on the shoulder.
“Don’t be a jerk. “I’m going to open a business next year.”
“Even Charlie, who disappeared, said that.”
“The corpse bastard.”
McFarlane opened her mouth to speak again at Petz’s amusing reaction. But at that moment, the candle that had been lighting up the dark morgue suddenly went out.
At that moment, a startled Petz briefly screamed in the darkness, and McFarlane laughed at his successor’s amusing reaction.
“You kid, you’re so scared. But opening a business? “You’re saying this because you know how many people are dying in hospitals and how many of them are walking around as ghosts, right?”
“Stop talking bullsh*t and quickly light a candle, McFarlane! And Sipal, ghost, where is the ghost?”
McFarlane, who was laughing and laughing at Petz, calmly took out a match and started lighting the candles again.
Fortunately, the dark inside of the morgue soon became bright again, and Petz started complaining again to McFarlane, who was sorting out the remaining burned matches.
“Damn, why did the light suddenly go out? Wasn’t there a window open somewhere?”
“Couldn’t the wind blow because the body moved?”
“Don’t talk nonsense – huh?”
“Why? “Have you seen a ghost, Petz?”
When Petz suddenly stopped talking, McFarlane, who was organizing the conversation, once again made fun of his successor. However, this time, instead of swearing, a trembling voice was heard, so McFarlane had no choice but to raise his head and look at Petz.
“Every… McFarlane, Bar… The female body that Watson brought in just now……. I… “Wasn’t it there?”
“Uh, over there… …. What? “Why isn’t it there?”
Working as Professor Knox’s assistant, he personally took charge of cleaning corpses for dissection to save money on hiring cleaners the day before the dissection. Listed his name as a participant in Professor Knox’s thesis and took on most of the work. Anonymous. As a participant in a medical experiment, he was forced to undergo multiple biological experiments, waited all night to buy tickets to a famous play in a London theater that Professor Knox’s wife wanted, and took on all the errands for Professor Knox’s children. Even two people who had lived their lives couldn’t help but be embarrassed by the sight of a corpse disappearing in an instant.
It was common sense for a graduate student and assistant to obey the professor’s orders and do all sorts of things, but it was against common sense for a body that had just been dead to disappear.
However, neither MacFarlane nor Petz’s embarrassment did not last long.
At that moment, something hit their head quickly and they fell down.
Sherlock Holmes grimaced as if he had touched a goldfish, shook his hands, dragged the two assistants who had fainted on the floor to a corner, tightly covered their mouths, and did not forget to tie them up, then quietly went out like a thief and saw Watson. I walked to Professor Knox’s lab, where I was waiting.
The infiltration was successful.
Since there was a very high possibility that Mr. Moriarty was involved, she should not have shown that she was moving.
It was most important to surprise the enemy before giving them time to prepare.
Of course, like Watson’s small question, it may have been an overly cumbersome make-up, but Holmes was personally satisfied with this work and slowly relaxed.
Professor Knox, who attacked with Watson, who eventually joined, was quite satisfied with his performance in the lab.
“Eup! “Eup!”
“Be quiet!”
Professor Knox was already tied up with rope and his mouth was stuffed with a gag, but as if he felt unfair, he wanted to make endless noise like all criminals, so Watson hit the other person on the head.
If it had been a blow from an ordinary woman, it might have ended in a bit of pain, but Watson was a witch and not an ordinary human, so with just one scary blow, Professor Knox rolled his eyes and fainted with a loud clicking sound.
It was a blow that made one’s head appear to have been completely shattered, and Holmes could see that his emotions were somewhat mixed.
“Watson, no matter how deep the grudge, it is not good to kill.”
That’s why Holmes opened his mouth while organizing the documents that provided evidence that Professor Knox was doing something illegal.
Only then did she realize what she had done. Watson was embarrassed and made an excuse, thinking she had missed it.
“Ah… No, that… It’s just that I’m too loud…… ! I… “I never held a grudge against Professor Knox because he always tried to make me his assistant!”
“It looks like the students were overworked quite a bit. Well, all villains are like that. What.”
However, because he was such a villain, he could not trust others, so he hid all relevant evidence in the safe in his office, and Holmes evaluated that it was useful.
However, it was not perfect.
It was clear that Professor Knox had forged his documents to prove that he had received the bodies legally. However, the identity of the supplier was important.
“First of all, there is a high possibility that this man, Anthony Tidkin, is the Resurrection Man, but it would be difficult to provide conclusive evidence based on this alone. He has a hard time getting involved directly even when his name is mentioned. Should he also storm Tidkin’s mansion himself?”
“What? That… “That’s a crime, Holmes!”
“Watson, don’t forget that what we are doing right now is actually somewhat illegal.”
“What… what? Was it illegal?”
Holmes couldn’t help but admire Watson’s stupidity, which he showed in different ways every time. Above all, Watson soon opened his mouth shamelessly, or rather, as if he was being cautious.
“That… Shouldn’t I keep quiet then? If you want to get rid of Professor Knox, now is the time—”
“Watson, private sanctions based solely on personal grudges are illegal. “Stop being stupid.”
“Ah! Ah…… “What am I saying?”
Holmes, who was no longer bothered to open his mouth to the embarrassed Watson, put all the documents that would serve as evidence into a briefcase and went out first.
After sneakily hitting Professor Knox again on the head, who naturally fainted, Watson followed suit.
When I quietly and secretly left the university, it was still early morning and there were few people on the streets.
It was difficult to catch a carriage, so the two ladies walked and talked again to get to the main road.
“So what are you going to do?”
“Wondering what to do with Anthony Tidkin―”
But strangely enough, is everything going well?
At that time, several thugs appeared in the alley as if they had been waiting for them. They may have thought that this was something that people of bad quality would do, snatching up women on the street.
I stretched out my arm through the alley and firmly grabbed Watson’s arm, trying to drag him out to a quiet place.
“aaah! What… what! This… “Let go of this!”
“Let’s come in and talk for a moment, lady. “You’d better be quiet.”
“This…” This… “Let go!”
– Puck!
However, the bullies soon realized that they had been complacent.
Watson swung her free left arm, and with unusual force, the bully who had grabbed her arm let go of her arm and ducked her body to avoid it.
Watson’s fist collided with the old brick wall, but of course her fist was intact.
Instead, a hole appeared in her brick wall, in the shape of her fist.
There was an awkward silence for a moment.
“I don’t know whose orders it was, but I guess they didn’t know that Watson was a witch. Don’t worry, I won’t kill her. I’ll just break some of her bones.”
And what broke the silence was Holmes’s sarcastic remark. At the same time Holmes freed himself and rushed at his enemies.
