199 – Valley of Fear (2)
Sherlock Holmes was clearly a victim of tragedy, objectively or personally, and although he would not admit it, he was a deeply wounded girl. In a sense, she stopped growing up immediately after breaking up with a man more than 10 years ago.
However, people often think only of their own pain and mistakenly think that they are the only ones suffering in this world, but pain was originally an equal law.
In that sense, although he does not show it, Mycroft Holmes was clearly a man with personal wounds just as much as his beloved younger brother Sherlock.
Mycroft Holmes was also a young boy when the Holmes couple died in a tragic accident. Of course, he was clearly a different person from his younger brother. He would be lying if he said he didn’t have any scars, but for him now, those scars were more like scars from the past.
Above all, he was close to an observer who was one step away from the tragedy involving a man and a woman, and this was possible because his own nature was inherently indifferent to others.
Mycroft Holmes did not avoid the gaze of his younger brother, who was ‘glaring’ at him with an expressionless expression, as if he had been hit on the spot by his question. That sharp gaze was definitely not the kind that would be directed at a family member.
However, he knew very well that his younger brother was a hurt person, and so he was able to understand his younger brother’s reaction even if he could not feel the exact same way.
Carefully, like a doctor dealing with a patient who refuses to admit that he is sick, Mycroft Holmes opened his mouth. He had to act calm and sound no different from his usual tone.
It was a difficult task, but it was an easy one for Mycroft Holmes. In the first place, he was a man with a brain recognized by his younger brother, and just like his younger brother, he was a human being who created a new, previously unprecedented profession and was recognized for it.
“For the record, I still cannot support your hypothesis, Sherlock. You probably know this very well. Assuming your hypothesis is correct, we must move carefully. Of course, it may not matter because you are not very interested in social matters, but as a representative of the government, I have to coordinate the interests of various people.”
“… I know very well that bringing it to court is actually difficult, Brother Mycroft. Certainly, when I reveal the whole truth, there will be a scandal unprecedented in British, or perhaps even European, history. “To be honest, even I have a hard time imagining how many politicians, corrupt capitalists, criminals, and countries are intertwined.”
“To be honest, it might be better to pretend it never happened. “This is most likely not my will, but the will of many people.”
Hearing Mycroft’s words, Holmes’ gaze flashed as if to get to the point. It was an introduction that didn’t need to be said for the two of them in the first place.
Holmes couldn’t help but be a little puzzled by the fact that his younger brother Mycroft was unusually nervous. I could tell that he was trying to touch something sensitive about me.
“But privately… Now I have no choice but to accept that your hypothesis is most likely true. So… That’s what I’m asking, Sherlock. Are you specifically… “What do you want and what are you thinking?”
A moment of cold silence.
However, Holmes made an effort to open his mouth as if nothing had happened. Of course, Mycroft could feel the feeling of confusion there.
“Strange… Question, Mycroft. It’s so obvious… The very fact that my brother asked such a stupid question makes me suspicious. What’s particularly different about it? I am a detective, investigative advisor. Catching criminals is my job. “What happens after that may change depending on the situation, but all I can do is find out that the teacher is a criminal and bring justice to him.”
It was an exemplary answer. However, Mycroft Holmes glared at his younger brother for a moment without opening his mouth, as if penetrating his inner self. Of course, his younger brother also glared at him as if he was trying to prevent his older brother from discovering his true intentions.
Microft Holmes could not open his mouth.
If you overthrow Professor James Moriarty and lose your purpose in life, would you put a bullet in your own head?
That question came up to my throat, but I couldn’t let it out because I was his brother and we were family. Checking the facts was scary.
Unfortunately, Mycroft Holmes had a brain that could deduce facts, and at this moment, it was a tragedy.
In fact, even if there was no such thing as James Moriarty, his younger brother would probably be doing something similar to what he is doing now. Therefore, his brother’s answer was an exemplary answer for other criminals except Moriarty, and Mycroft could also agree.
However, although he had vaguely sensed it since childhood, his younger brother Sherlock was obsessed with the confrontation with James Moriarty, or rather, with James Moriarty himself, as if that was the only purpose of his existence.
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That’s why, as his older brother, I was afraid.
What drove this child so hard?
What should I do with the conflicting, contradictory feelings this child has toward that man? Mycroft Holmes had to admit that he had encountered a riddle he could never solve.
What broke that child like that?
It was clear that both Holmes and Mycroft were intentionally avoiding the answer to this question.
In the case of Sherlock Holmes, of course, he felt guilty. Clearly, that day, James Moriarty ruined his girl forever by turning his protégé into his partner.
In the case of Mycroft Holmes, it was probably due to his affection for his younger brother. In fact, now that he was taking his brother’s childish hypothesis seriously, he couldn’t help but guess that maybe something had happened between his parents’ deaths, his brother, and the man.
But even though Mycroft Holmes knew the answer, he unconsciously avoided it. He knew his brother was hiding it from the beginning, and he felt like his brother would be absolutely shattered if the family, either him or Sherringford, found out.
The difficult problem of Moriarty was also in a similar vein. Ironically, that existence seemed to be supporting his current younger brother. Mycroft Holmes was held back by the anxiety that when that entity disappeared, his younger brother might disappear along with it.
“… “Okay, well, solving your goal should come first.”
“It sounds obvious. “If you have nothing more to say, I’ll go, Mycroft.”
“Okay, take care back home, Sherlock.”
The siblings ended up breaking up, avoiding giving an answer to a question that was probably impossible to come up with that would satisfy anyone, or rather, could only come up with an answer that would not satisfy everyone.
It was a scene that had become a part of daily life for a long time.
But this sensitive topic did not disappear from Holmes’ mind like a tangle of hair for several days.
She always thought of herself as a cool-headed and rational person, and a part of her actually was that kind of person, but at the same time, she was also a person with a rich emotional side that she denied to herself.
Holmes, who was more sensitive than usual, had no choice but to sharply question Watson’s ‘foolish idea’ a few days later.
“Did you put a bullet in my head without my knowledge, Watson?”
“Ah… No, I… I was only half joking-“
“You’re only half-truthing, stupid Watson. I finally came to my senses. No, I doubt you even had a crazy head in the first place.”
Watson could not help but hesitate at the reaction of Holmes, who glared at her as if she were looking at an idiot who was truly disgusted by the words she had uttered.
The cause was simple.
Inspector Macdonald, who had been influenced by Professor Moriarty after visiting him, had just visited Mr. Holmes and started talking about the teacher’s unusual mistakes.
Of course, Holmes had already guessed this to some extent, so he sighed and gave Inspector Macdonald some advice to help him change his mind again.
There was information about the auction prices of the various paintings hanging in Professor Moriarty’s drawing room, which Inspector McDonald had seen at a glance, and information about Professor Moriarty’s official annual salary as a professor.
Of course, Inspector Macdonald, who has thin ears, was once again astonished and began to suspect Professor Moriarty again, just as Holmes had intended.
As if to drive a wedge in there, Holmes also added that Professor James Moriarty had twenty accounts at various banks.
Of course, this was something I found out with the help of Mycroft, and since he was known to the public as a successful investor, except for a few suspicious accounts, there were officially no problems.
However, it was easy to convince stupid Inspector McDonald with that alone.
But Watson was included.
“That… Then later we will take the money in that account… “Couldn’t you use a little, Holmes?”
“What?”
“Ah… No, uh… Anyway, if it’s blind money earned through crime… My… I’m not saying I’m going to take it completely… If you borrow it for a moment and win a few times by horse racing… “Why not?”
