151 – Stand still (2)
“Sherlock.”
A slightly colder voice than usual was heard, but there was no reply. But the voice kept calling the same name over and over again, as if urging me to answer.
But as expected, silence returned again and again, as if a match was being fought.
“Sherlock. “Shirley!”
“Don’t call me that stupid name, Mycroft.”
Mycroft Holmes couldn’t help but sigh deeply at his younger brother’s hostile reaction.
It was clearly his immature younger brother who had made a mistake, but for some reason, it felt like he was being questioned in reverse, as if it were Mycroft himself who had done something wrong.
His younger brother, who was sitting in front of him as if he was sulking like a child, was sitting quietly in his chair and ignoring his older brother’s gaze.
Is that all it is?
He showed with his whole body that he was upset, put both feet up on the chair as if in protest, and sat with his arms wrapped around him as if crouching. It seemed as if it had taken the shape of a child sleeping in its mother’s womb.
Of course, my younger brother was staring at the floor with his chin resting on his knees.
But even Holmes could not help but notice that Mycroft was unusually angry.
Normally, she wouldn’t have called her by the stupid nickname ‘Shirley’, which she knew she didn’t like, but with Mycroft’s rare careful wording, she was revealing that she was really angry.
As an aside, her stupid nickname, Shirley, was once a nickname used by her maternal grandmother in the Holmes family, and no one except her maternal grandmother would dare call the Holmes family’s only daughter by that nickname.
But Mycroft couldn’t help but be angry.
He has always been a weak older brother to his younger brother, going along with his childish pranks, but this time he clearly crossed that line.
No, the expression that the line was crossed was merely a polite expression.
If you look at it calmly, what my younger brother did was a crime for which he could be held accountable. The fact that he imitated his own signature and handwriting without his knowledge and had the police officers dispatched was clearly something that could not be laughed off.
If My Croft himself had been even the slightest bit normal, he might have stabbed his younger brother.
Surprised, Mycroft couldn’t turn his younger brother into an ex-convict, so he blamed everything on himself, and naturally, he couldn’t help but be criticized by his superiors.
Mycroft’s own abilities could not be replaced by anyone, and if it were not for the trust and friendship with high-ranking people, including the noblest widow in England, he might have even been able to be ‘dismissed.’
Even in the face of this accident, his younger brother Sherlock Holmes shamelessly did not feel any sense of crisis.
In fact, it was an adventure that she took based on her extremely rational and cool-headed judgment. She thought that even though her brother might have orchestrated the arrest of a nobleman in a rather forceful manner, he had the ability to solve it with just a little movement of his heavy hips.
Of course, that was the case in reality. Lord Dorian Gray informally expressed considerable dissatisfaction with the sudden arrest and attempted to mobilize his connections, but Mycroft easily covered this up.
It was true that evidence of minor crimes, including somewhat illegal drugs, was discovered in Lord Dorian Gray’s mansion, and through this, it was possible to silence him appropriately.
Mycroft could only sigh, knowing that he had done this because he had no doubts about his brother’s abilities.
Of course, this was the result of him being lazy by nature and being particularly weak towards his sister. Or maybe he’s a nerd with a personality just as eccentric as his younger brother.
Even though Sherlock felt the same boredom in life, while Sherlock was the type of person who went out to change something, Mycroft was the type of person who responded appropriately and locked himself in his own world.
So, even though he was rationally angry, Mycroft opened his mouth again in a calm, soothing tone.
“This incident clearly crossed the line. As you know.”
“… Still, it was worth a try, definitely. “As a result, I received very little income.”
Mycroft twitched his eyebrows at his younger brother’s still immature remarks, but maintained his composure.
But even as Sherlock, I couldn’t help but sulk in my own way.
I felt like a child who was grumpy because he didn’t get what he wanted. It was true from Mycroft’s perspective.
There is something about Lord Dorian Gray. At least there is evidence that can reach Mr. Moriarty.
I thought so. That’s why I was in a hurry. He had no choice but to be impatient.
Haven’t you already experienced it several times? The opponent is a person who uses all kinds of dirty tricks. Dorian Gray was the type of person who shook his bait in front of him, but was able to eliminate his bait entirely.
It was unreliable, but we had to at least lend a helping hand from Scotland Yard. Above all, there was no great feeling of guilt. No, rather, in Sherlock’s opinion, Dorian Gray was in a position to be grateful if that man knew the truth.
Because he moved to protect him anyway. If you were James Moriarty, Sherlock, he was the kind of man who would eliminate the ageless nobleman right before your eyes as if he were picking on you.
I didn’t like him as a human being, but there were a lot of people with excellent skills, like that furball who was guarding the teacher’s side as if it were his own place.
Honestly, after playing a little prank on Dorian Gray, I expected him to react in confusion.
But I couldn’t help but get excited when he headed somewhere, to a mysterious bar.
It was clear that that place was related to M. This time I was finally caught off guard!
Above all, the manager of the place and the wizard captured by Scotland Yard led by Inspector Lestrade who came in was a man named Fred Forlock, who clearly deduced that Holmes was a close associate of Moriarty.
But in the end, it was a futile effort. As if to mock Holmes himself, Fred Forlock was released with the help of suspicious lawyers acting as charity lawyers, and no evidence was found in the investigation related to the bar.
Is he taking the wrong approach? Now I had no choice but to look back.
But dealing with Mycroft took priority.
“I… You were hasty, Brother Mycroft. “I’m sorry, I apologize.”
“… That… that… they say.”
As his brother obediently handed him the apple, Mycroft could not help but feel a rare embarrassment. Even he didn’t expect his younger brother to apologize like that.
Could it be that he pushed his younger brother who was too kind?
At that moment, without realizing it, he felt guilty about his younger brother. However, his younger brother’s subsequent ‘request’ put him at ease.
“Your brother too… You know. The torso incident is causing a stir in London these days. “I really wanted to solve that.”
‘Is this another hypothesis related to Professor Moriarty?’
Microft thought.
Although his younger brother rarely mentioned that hypothesis directly to him recently, he couldn’t have been unaware of it.
But even though Mycroft wanted to believe his brother, he still couldn’t rationally. Regardless of his brother’s suspicions, he acknowledged that James Moriarty was not a mathematician or sophisticated researcher purely focused on research, considering the suspicion of tax evasion.
However, it was insufficient in many ways to correspond to my brother’s grand hypothesis.
Nevertheless, the reason Mycroft still listens to his younger brother and sometimes helps him is because he has been keeping an eye on at least some of his younger brother’s hypotheses lately.
Like the younger brother’s premise, the existence of a huge organization that unified criminals from London, or rather, the UK and various European countries, could not yet be acknowledged, but there were criminals who gave various suspicious advice and the president of the Suicide Club who had not yet been caught. Because it proved how rotten British criminals have become.
“You… I know that you work hard because you are a really good boy, Sherlock. “But this is a grown-up’s job.”
“I’m an adult too.”
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“As far as I’m concerned, he’s still an apprentice. I can help you appropriately for your future, but this time I went too far. The torso incident is, in fact, just a topic of loud discussion and that’s all. “You too, let go now.”
“…… Autopsy. Just let me do the autopsy. “Then I really will quit.”
Even in this situation, the younger brother still tries to negotiate. No, it’s not a negotiation. Mycroft knew it well too.
It was a firm request.
And coincidentally, he was still weak to his younger brother. He hesitated because he was his beloved younger brother, and even though he was still somewhat immature, he understood with his head that his younger brother was actually more useful than the stupid Scotland Yard inspectors.
“Two days later. Unofficially, just for a little while, just for an hour. “It really can’t go any further than that.”
“I’ll take Watson too.”
Her younger brother smiled brightly as he stood up, as if this was his purpose in the first place. Mycroft sighed deeply again as she watched her sister leave the room.
