234 – Final Event (2)
“Death… What do you mean? What do you mean, Holmes? West… no way…… You! What… Professor Moriarty…… “Were you planning on killing me?”
Jane Watson screamed without realizing it at Holmes’s remarks. Her voice contained urgency, surprise at some emotion that she couldn’t control at the moment, betrayal or anger toward Holmes, and belated regret.
But Jane Watson could not speak again. Because she felt ashamed for a moment. In the serious mood she was in, she unconsciously became a little angry, but immediately afterward she couldn’t help but feel ashamed at Holmes’s gaze on her.
Holmes often looked at his friend as if he was somehow lacking when he made ordinary remarks. This moment was similar. No, it was worse.
No matter how much she was Jane Watson, she couldn’t help but feel ashamed as she stood before the gaze of the woman who seemed to doubt whether she could treat herself as a life form on Earth with a brain. She wasn’t wrong. For a moment, Holmes had no choice but to treat Watson as something worse than the simplest creature in Earth’s history, something that could not even become life.
However, Watson’s ‘stupid’ remark had the unexpected effect of lightening the now heavy atmosphere.
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In fact, she sighed without realizing it, causing Holmes to laugh out loud, and Watson realized that she had just blurted out nonsense in response to her friend’s reaction, and they laughed awkwardly together.
Shaking her head at Watson’s foolishness, Holmes spoke again. Fortunately for her, unlike just before when she literally felt like she was going to die, her voice was somewhat back to normal.
“Watson, Watson. Think with common sense. I am…… Not a murderer. I just want to prove that the teacher is a villain……. But other people will be different.”
“…… Yeah, I guess so…….”
Watson, who belatedly understood the meaning of Holmes’ words, had no choice but to become discouraged again.
Watson still could not realize the scale of James Moriarty and the criminal empire he had created. He could not experience its size directly, and like Holmes, he lacked the ability to grasp the reality through simple reasoning and reason.
But I knew one thing. I was able to find out right away in the process of solving this ‘Red Head Club’.
Probably starting tomorrow, or within this week at the latest, newspapers will begin reporting this unpleasant incident in as small a scale as possible.
However, there were many people involved in it, and no matter how much Holmes secured the funds, he could not prevent it from spreading into a huge scandal.
However, this was only the tip of the iceberg. Watson knew that Holmes had inflicted a effective blow on Professor James Moriarty, but he knew from Holmes’s explanation that he had not yet reached the fatal wound.
What if the professor and his criminal organization are arrested on a large scale? An explosion bigger than someone planting a bomb in the Royal Palace or Westminster would occur all over Britain, and perhaps even Europe. Of course, it will be a flameless and invisible explosion, but it will certainly cause chaos that cannot be compared to an actual explosion.
“Of course, there will be no stupid politicians who want to put the teacher to death right away. Oh, it includes not only politicians but also judges and lawyers. Rather… “Really, these lousy people would rather have you remain silent, or even disappear forever.”
“Then…” “What if we arrest all of those people?”
“Watson, I don’t trust your brain, but I don’t think you’re a naive idiot who sees the world as a bright place. You know? “Why did Mycroft go through so much trouble, and why should we trust those less fortunate like Lestrade?”
Watson had nothing to say to Holmes’ cynicism. In fact, Watson, if she knew it, there would be almost no ‘high-ranking person’ in England who was not directly or indirectly related to Professor James Moriarty.
Of course, if Holmes does his best to reveal that the professor is a villain, they will not be able to completely cover up the fact itself. But as Holmes fears, James Moriarty will be the lone victim.
In fact, it was a fitting end for a villain. Although it was a contradictory and duplicitous attitude, Holmes would not have been concerned that other villains were waiting for such an end. I knew it well myself.
And Watson also knew this well.
“In the meantime… I tried my best to ignore it, Watson. First of all, I thought that catching the teacher was the first priority, and that was actually the case. But we… “I don’t want to say this, but it seems like the Lord has really helped me. I’m facing an opportunity I can’t miss.”
“What…” “Is that a sound?”
“The teacher collapsed, Watson. I know, relax your face. I’m suffering too. Even in moments like this, even when the teacher might have died, I was calmly calculating how to take advantage of the situation. I don’t know when the teacher will wake up. But you can take advantage of that gap. Until now, the wizard cooperating with me was conscious of the teacher and was unable to provide important information. But things have changed.”
“Then what is the end? The problem we are afraid of has not been solved. “What happens after we arrest the professor?”
The two women looked at each other in silence for a moment. Maybe they could tell each other’s feelings just by looking at their eyes.
Watson felt truly strange. No matter how hard I tried, I failed at the observation and reasoning that Holmes usually emphasized, but now I was able to understand his thoughts. Perhaps it was because he realized that he had similar thoughts or desires.
“I…” ….”
Holmes slowly opened his mouth again, as if he was in pain.
“I don’t want the teacher to die. You have to admit it, Watson. I am… You’re crazy, you might be trash. But… ….”
“Holmes, of course you… …. “No, no.”
Watson could not bear to put the ‘fact’ into his mouth. If you look at it calmly, it was a truly terrible and hard to believe fact.
I already knew what happened between Holmes and Professor Moriarty. That’s why I couldn’t say it. However, Holmes smiled wryly as if he understood.
“Yes, to use such a noble expression…” … I may not be qualified, Watson. I am a teacher… “Because he was the first accomplice.”
“Holmes… ….”
“So… Let’s call it a base desire. It’s the base desire of a broken human being. You have to admit what you have to admit. An important thing is… “How do we solve the problems we face?”
Holmes sighed again. No matter how much she thought, she couldn’t come up with a clear answer.
What if I just kill the teacher like this and die myself? She thought that too. She became a murderer after her parents died in the first place, and she had no purpose in life. She was only a teacher. She fell into the depths of hell with her teacher, and that was the only life she still had alive.
But now I had no choice but to hesitate. In the past, if I had been alone, there would have been no hesitation.
But Holmes looked at her own dear friend, who was now one of her dearest things, along with her teacher, struggling together before her secret eyes.
But Watson was so worried that she did not notice that gaze. As if she was possessed, she only mumbled something as an answer, and Holmes was so surprised by that statement that he had no choice but to ask back like Watson.
“I’d rather…” “What if we lock them up?”
“… What?”
“Ah… no….”
Watson, who was surprised herself, waved her hand in confusion, but Holmes looked at her as if telling her to continue. Then Watson continued her words cautiously.
“It is right to leave Professor Moriarty like this… No. And since he’s a villain… We need to be punished, and we also need to be protected……. Then just… All we have to do is secretly lock him up… Is not it?”
Watson calmly expressed his thoughts. It was a usual Watson-like thought. Therefore, if she were the usual Holmes, she should have laughed at it and said it was nonsense.
But Holmes did not do that. Watson had no choice but to cautiously open his mouth as he saw his friend seeming to be thinking seriously, unlike usual.
“Uh…. “Holmes?”
“… Uncharacteristically Watson, that’s a good idea. No, rather, it is a plan that Watson can come up with, but I cannot come up with.”
“Ji… really?”
“Yes.”
At the same time, the pupils, burning red as usual, stared at Watson. He looked no different from usual, but when Watson faced those ominous eyes, he couldn’t help but flinch.
But regardless, Holmes opened his mouth softly in a voice filled with sticky desire.
“Watson.”
“Ugh… huh… ….”
“Are you going to help me? No… …. Are you going to be together?”
“…… Eww… Yes.”
Holmes smiled as if he was satisfied with Watson’s answer.
Perhaps that’s what the scary fairies looked like in the old days, who inspired people and received everything in return?
What is certain is that neither Watson nor Holmes knows it right now, but what is certain is that the time of harvest is near.
