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## Chapter 1060: Unseen Forces
"Anyone could do that, right?" Akachi Eri asked back, unwilling to give up. "Mr. Mouri said I'm the murderer, so where's the evidence?"
"Miss Akachi, why didn't you go to the Japanese-style living room last night, but instead had everyone go together to the social hall?" Mouri Kogoro looked at Akachi Eri's slippers. "Because when you murdered Miss Anzai in the shrine, you suffered a foot injury, right? Going to the Japanese-style living room requires taking off your slippers, and kneeling would also easily expose your still bleeding foot. But if you went to the social hall with sofas, you wouldn't have to worry about the injury on your foot."
Akachi Eri looked back at her heel. "I must have accidentally stepped on something..."
"Is that so?" Mouri Kogoro said seriously. "Miss Anzai Ema's corpse only had one earring, the other earring was missing. It was a spiked ball earring. When you were committing the crime, one of Miss Anzai's earrings fell to the ground. You accidentally stepped on it and injured your foot. That should be it, right?"
"You don't need to rush to deny it," Mouri Kogoro said, reaching out his right hand, which had been kept in his suit pants pocket. What was held between his fingers was surprisingly a spiked ball earring. "The earring you discarded, we have already found it!"
Akachi Eri seemed to be drained of all strength, her shoulders slumped instantly. She lowered her head and sighed. "Unexpectedly, you even found that earring..."
"Actually, I was lying to you," Mouri Kogoro loosened the fingers below, pinching the accessory only with his index finger and thumb, letting the long chain on the accessory hang down. He smiled sheepishly. "This is a necklace borrowed from Miss Harumi. She just happened to have a necklace of the same style as Miss Anzai's earrings. As for the earring you discarded, we haven't found it yet."
Akachi Eri was speechless, looking at Mouri Kogoro. "..."
Lied to her? She had already admitted it, and it was actually...
"However, Miss Akachi," Mouri Kogoro stopped smiling and gazed seriously at Akachi Eri. "With such heavy snow outside, even if you wanted to throw the earring, you didn't have time to throw it far. It's just a matter of time for the police to find that earring. You're good at writing romance novels, but mystery novels aren't suitable for you at all, especially mystery novels where you yourself are the murderer."
Chi Feichei looked at Akachi Eri staring blankly at Mouri Kogoro's appearance. Although he knew Mouri Kogoro was gazing so seriously because 'Eri' and 'Eri' have the same Japanese pronunciation, he still had a suspicion... his teacher was flirting.
"Teacher Akachi..." Honda Raiko hesitated to speak.
"You are right," Akachi Eri lowered her gaze and smiled bitterly. "I'm not suitable for writing mystery novels. Otherwise, as the murderer, I should have known not to show off in front of a famous detective. But there was nothing else I could do. I was really unwilling to give up, because Suzuka Sakurako, who was framed by those two and finally committed suicide by jumping from a building, is my younger sister..."
Fukatsu Harumi exclaimed in surprise, "Senior Sakurako?"
"That's right. After our parents died in the fire, we were each adopted by different families," Akachi Eri lowered her gaze at the rock by the hot spring pool and said softly, "She was adopted by the Suzuka couple, and I went to the Ming family. Actually, my name is 'Akachi Eri', not 'Akachi Eri'. I misled and let everyone call me wrong, just because I didn't want them to discover my identity."
"When my younger sister committed suicide five years ago, I was studying novels in Boston. Until a year later, I realized she had committed suicide. My weak younger sister was actually framed for selling banned drugs and finally took the path of suicide..."
"At that time, I was both sad and sorrowful. Why did she never tell me? I am her older sister, moreover, I am her only family in this world! I couldn't forget this matter. Those two were simply too deceitful..."
Akachi Eri said with a trembling voice, then looked back at Honda Raiko, and her tone calmed down. "Later, I got this job opportunity. So I pretended as if nothing had happened, intentionally asked my university classmate Raiko to help find those two, and used the legend of the Kimono Sleeve Hannya to carry out retaliation against them."
"If Sakurako knew you did this, would she really be happy?" Mouri Kogoro asked in a deep voice. Seeing Akachi Eri astonished and looking up at him, he sighed. "Among the three people interviewed this time, if it weren't for Miss Harumi, Sakurako's most trusted good friend during her lifetime, also participating, I wouldn't have known about your younger sister's suicide at all, nor would I have suspected you."
Aside, Fukatsu Harumi lowered her head and began to sob softly.
Mouri Ran quickly reached out to support Fukatsu Harumi, to show her intention of comfort.
Conan looked at Akachi Eri and said softly, "Miss Sakurako seemingly wanted to advise you not to make mistakes through unseen forces, intentionally arranging for you to meet Miss Harumi..."
Haibara Ai noticed that Chi Feichei turned around and went to the entrance. She followed with some doubt. "Brother Chi Feichei, what's wrong?"
"It's nothing," Chi Feichei turned his head to look at the snow mountain.
Don't say so lightly that Suzuka Sakurako committed suicide because she was fragile. Only the person themselves knows clearly what she really experienced.
As for Akachi Eri, her own younger sister suffered unknown amounts of grievance and pain and committed suicide. The other party was a councilor's daughter and a daughter of a global manufacturing company president. The matters of that year were all covered up. If she really wanted justice, where could she seek justice?
He is not Akachi Eri. Probably in this life, he can't feel what kind of mood Akachi Eri was in when she chose murder. So he won't point fingers, won't say it was wrong, nor can he say it was right.
But when his teacher and Conan said 'Suzuka Sakurako was stopping Akachi Eri through unseen forces', that was nonsense.
If there really were 'unseen forces', Suzuka Sakurako would let her older sister meet her good friend and let the two heal each other, that would be enough. Why would she also arrange for the famous detective to come over?
If there really were 'unseen forces', then it should be Heaven arranging everything for the famous detective to solve the case.
So, this fellow Conan, avoid him if you can, especially when committing a crime...
And because of this, he got distracted again. And wanted to corner Conan and shoot him to death gunshot by gunshot, wanting to see if Conan really couldn't die through unseen forces.
As soon as the thought arose, that expectation became stronger and stronger. He didn't dare to stay there anymore, lest he look at Conan again and his malice continued to overflow.
Haibara Ai looked up at Chi Feichei, speculating whether Chi Feichei was feeling melancholy because of this case, and silently kept company aside.
Feichi nested under Chi Feichei's clothes, noticing that during thermal eye detection, his own master's body temperature began to change constantly.
Sometimes it was like his stance was skewed, his heart and head temperature rose. Other times it was like usual, his overall temperature was balanced and not high... Then the problem arises, what kind of situation is its master in now?
...
That day, after Mouri Kogoro finished giving his statement at the Yamagata Prefectural Police Station, he took a large group of people back to Tokyo.
Odagiri Toshiya held a press conference, announcing the acquisition and merger of Okino Yoko's talent agency. And the popularity of Chizuru's video was still rising.
After Chi Feichei returned to Tokyo, he sent an email to Gin to check in, paid a bit of attention to the THK Company's matters, did his daily routine of washing clothes and cleaning, and decisively went to bed at ten o'clock.
At night, the same dream appeared again.
A gray, boundless space. This time there was another white box, inside was Feimo.
The difference from the last time was that in the box where Feichi stayed, besides Feichi and the semi-transparent sphere, there was also a pile of white and gray snakes.
Feichi himself shrank quite a bit and played chase with the other snakes. When tired of playing, they twisted together densely and tied knots.
As for Feimo's side, there was also a semi-transparent white sphere in the box, crowded with a pile of miniature crows, just as noisy.
Chi Feichei was restless in the dream, trying to create obstacles in the box, trying to move the box, trying to overlap or merge the two boxes...
The box could be moved to any location he wanted, except they couldn't overlap or merge. Even floating in the air was no problem.
Creating obstacles in the box was also very easy. As long as he could split his attention, he could even create obstacles in both boxes at the same time.
Repeatedly trying, currently, he only found these two types of 'gameplay'. He also tried to speak out and call Feichi and Feimo, but looking at the reaction of the snake and the crow, they evidently couldn't hear his voice.
The next day, July 17th, summer, Friday.
Chi Feichei woke up early, took out his mobile phone and looked at the date, took out the winter clothes from the dryer and put them into the wardrobe, reached out and took the summer clothes placed on the other side to change into.
So skilled it made him feel sorry for himself.
Feichi groggily crawled out of the bedding. "Master?"
"You rest," Chi Feichei lifted Feichi into the glass tank that was packed up yesterday. "I'm going out for morning exercise."
"Oh..." Feichi rolled around in the box. "Master, I dreamed of you again last night."
"Did you see Feimo?" Chi Feichei took out his mobile phone, sent an email to Feimo, asking Feimo whether he dreamed of him last night.
"No, but I dreamed of Dabai and the others," Feichi continued to roll around. "I told them I was shedding my skin. Dabai said their home has two children who just shed their skin and grew up a lot."
"Uh-huh."
After Chi Feichei finished sending the email, he put away his mobile phone and went out, ran to the rooftop, jumped down from the terrace upstairs, a leap of faith, starting today's morning exercise.
Looking at it this way, in that dreamscape, creatures in different boxes cannot see each other, cannot communicate across boxes, and cannot communicate or contact him outside the box, but creatures in the same box can communicate.
Waiting for Chi Feichei to come back after morning exercise and buying food ingredients, Feimo had already come over, chatting by typing on the computer with Feichi. Only after Chi Feichei put the food ingredients away in the room did he speak with a caw.
"Master, I dreamed of my lovely subordinates last night. They also dreamed of me the same way, moreover, we can still remember what we said in the dream. Originally I wanted to discuss with you a bit about what this was about, but now there's no need, it should be because of you. Just there's one problem, next time you pull us into the dream, can you not pull in all the key members of the Feimo Army?" Feimo said worriedly. "Although there are other crows on patrol, but without management watching, it's very easy for problems to occur."
"Only key members entered the dream last night?" Chi Feichei asked.
"That's right," Feimo said with certainty. "I counted, not one more, not one less, they are all key members who have been with me for a long time. Even Meisuo, Yamei, and Lijia couldn't enter the dream."
Chi Feichei: "..."
Meisuo... Yamei... Lijia?
Feimo didn't wait for Chi Feichei to ask, and took the initiative to explain. "They are the golden eagle siblings. I named them Meisuo, Yamei, and Lijia. The big golden eagle is called Meisuo, the second one is called Yamei, and the third younger sister is called Lijia. They agreed."
Chi Feichei: "..."
The one called 'Yamei' actually didn't object. Even calling it 'Yasuo' would be more manly than that.
"Moreover, I played human pronunciation audio for them. Next time you call them, they will also know," Feimo said, looking at Chi Feichei eagerly. "Then about the dream problem..."
"I can't control it," Chi Feichei said. "But it should not continue forever."
End of Chapter
"Anyone could do that, right?" Akachi Eri asked back, unwilling to give up. "Mr. Mouri said I'm the murderer, so where's the evidence?"
"Miss Akachi, why didn't you go to the Japanese-style living room last night, but instead had everyone go together to the social hall?" Mouri Kogoro looked at Akachi Eri's slippers. "Because when you murdered Miss Anzai in the shrine, you suffered a foot injury, right? Going to the Japanese-style living room requires taking off your slippers, and kneeling would also easily expose your still bleeding foot. But if you went to the social hall with sofas, you wouldn't have to worry about the injury on your foot."
Akachi Eri looked back at her heel. "I must have accidentally stepped on something..."
"Is that so?" Mouri Kogoro said seriously. "Miss Anzai Ema's corpse only had one earring, the other earring was missing. It was a spiked ball earring. When you were committing the crime, one of Miss Anzai's earrings fell to the ground. You accidentally stepped on it and injured your foot. That should be it, right?"
"You don't need to rush to deny it," Mouri Kogoro said, reaching out his right hand, which had been kept in his suit pants pocket. What was held between his fingers was surprisingly a spiked ball earring. "The earring you discarded, we have already found it!"
Akachi Eri seemed to be drained of all strength, her shoulders slumped instantly. She lowered her head and sighed. "Unexpectedly, you even found that earring..."
"Actually, I was lying to you," Mouri Kogoro loosened the fingers below, pinching the accessory only with his index finger and thumb, letting the long chain on the accessory hang down. He smiled sheepishly. "This is a necklace borrowed from Miss Harumi. She just happened to have a necklace of the same style as Miss Anzai's earrings. As for the earring you discarded, we haven't found it yet."
Akachi Eri was speechless, looking at Mouri Kogoro. "..."
Lied to her? She had already admitted it, and it was actually...
"However, Miss Akachi," Mouri Kogoro stopped smiling and gazed seriously at Akachi Eri. "With such heavy snow outside, even if you wanted to throw the earring, you didn't have time to throw it far. It's just a matter of time for the police to find that earring. You're good at writing romance novels, but mystery novels aren't suitable for you at all, especially mystery novels where you yourself are the murderer."
Chi Feichei looked at Akachi Eri staring blankly at Mouri Kogoro's appearance. Although he knew Mouri Kogoro was gazing so seriously because 'Eri' and 'Eri' have the same Japanese pronunciation, he still had a suspicion... his teacher was flirting.
"Teacher Akachi..." Honda Raiko hesitated to speak.
"You are right," Akachi Eri lowered her gaze and smiled bitterly. "I'm not suitable for writing mystery novels. Otherwise, as the murderer, I should have known not to show off in front of a famous detective. But there was nothing else I could do. I was really unwilling to give up, because Suzuka Sakurako, who was framed by those two and finally committed suicide by jumping from a building, is my younger sister..."
Fukatsu Harumi exclaimed in surprise, "Senior Sakurako?"
"That's right. After our parents died in the fire, we were each adopted by different families," Akachi Eri lowered her gaze at the rock by the hot spring pool and said softly, "She was adopted by the Suzuka couple, and I went to the Ming family. Actually, my name is 'Akachi Eri', not 'Akachi Eri'. I misled and let everyone call me wrong, just because I didn't want them to discover my identity."
"When my younger sister committed suicide five years ago, I was studying novels in Boston. Until a year later, I realized she had committed suicide. My weak younger sister was actually framed for selling banned drugs and finally took the path of suicide..."
"At that time, I was both sad and sorrowful. Why did she never tell me? I am her older sister, moreover, I am her only family in this world! I couldn't forget this matter. Those two were simply too deceitful..."
Akachi Eri said with a trembling voice, then looked back at Honda Raiko, and her tone calmed down. "Later, I got this job opportunity. So I pretended as if nothing had happened, intentionally asked my university classmate Raiko to help find those two, and used the legend of the Kimono Sleeve Hannya to carry out retaliation against them."
"If Sakurako knew you did this, would she really be happy?" Mouri Kogoro asked in a deep voice. Seeing Akachi Eri astonished and looking up at him, he sighed. "Among the three people interviewed this time, if it weren't for Miss Harumi, Sakurako's most trusted good friend during her lifetime, also participating, I wouldn't have known about your younger sister's suicide at all, nor would I have suspected you."
Aside, Fukatsu Harumi lowered her head and began to sob softly.
Mouri Ran quickly reached out to support Fukatsu Harumi, to show her intention of comfort.
Conan looked at Akachi Eri and said softly, "Miss Sakurako seemingly wanted to advise you not to make mistakes through unseen forces, intentionally arranging for you to meet Miss Harumi..."
Haibara Ai noticed that Chi Feichei turned around and went to the entrance. She followed with some doubt. "Brother Chi Feichei, what's wrong?"
"It's nothing," Chi Feichei turned his head to look at the snow mountain.
Don't say so lightly that Suzuka Sakurako committed suicide because she was fragile. Only the person themselves knows clearly what she really experienced.
As for Akachi Eri, her own younger sister suffered unknown amounts of grievance and pain and committed suicide. The other party was a councilor's daughter and a daughter of a global manufacturing company president. The matters of that year were all covered up. If she really wanted justice, where could she seek justice?
He is not Akachi Eri. Probably in this life, he can't feel what kind of mood Akachi Eri was in when she chose murder. So he won't point fingers, won't say it was wrong, nor can he say it was right.
But when his teacher and Conan said 'Suzuka Sakurako was stopping Akachi Eri through unseen forces', that was nonsense.
If there really were 'unseen forces', Suzuka Sakurako would let her older sister meet her good friend and let the two heal each other, that would be enough. Why would she also arrange for the famous detective to come over?
If there really were 'unseen forces', then it should be Heaven arranging everything for the famous detective to solve the case.
So, this fellow Conan, avoid him if you can, especially when committing a crime...
And because of this, he got distracted again. And wanted to corner Conan and shoot him to death gunshot by gunshot, wanting to see if Conan really couldn't die through unseen forces.
As soon as the thought arose, that expectation became stronger and stronger. He didn't dare to stay there anymore, lest he look at Conan again and his malice continued to overflow.
Haibara Ai looked up at Chi Feichei, speculating whether Chi Feichei was feeling melancholy because of this case, and silently kept company aside.
Feichi nested under Chi Feichei's clothes, noticing that during thermal eye detection, his own master's body temperature began to change constantly.
Sometimes it was like his stance was skewed, his heart and head temperature rose. Other times it was like usual, his overall temperature was balanced and not high... Then the problem arises, what kind of situation is its master in now?
...
That day, after Mouri Kogoro finished giving his statement at the Yamagata Prefectural Police Station, he took a large group of people back to Tokyo.
Odagiri Toshiya held a press conference, announcing the acquisition and merger of Okino Yoko's talent agency. And the popularity of Chizuru's video was still rising.
After Chi Feichei returned to Tokyo, he sent an email to Gin to check in, paid a bit of attention to the THK Company's matters, did his daily routine of washing clothes and cleaning, and decisively went to bed at ten o'clock.
At night, the same dream appeared again.
A gray, boundless space. This time there was another white box, inside was Feimo.
The difference from the last time was that in the box where Feichi stayed, besides Feichi and the semi-transparent sphere, there was also a pile of white and gray snakes.
Feichi himself shrank quite a bit and played chase with the other snakes. When tired of playing, they twisted together densely and tied knots.
As for Feimo's side, there was also a semi-transparent white sphere in the box, crowded with a pile of miniature crows, just as noisy.
Chi Feichei was restless in the dream, trying to create obstacles in the box, trying to move the box, trying to overlap or merge the two boxes...
The box could be moved to any location he wanted, except they couldn't overlap or merge. Even floating in the air was no problem.
Creating obstacles in the box was also very easy. As long as he could split his attention, he could even create obstacles in both boxes at the same time.
Repeatedly trying, currently, he only found these two types of 'gameplay'. He also tried to speak out and call Feichi and Feimo, but looking at the reaction of the snake and the crow, they evidently couldn't hear his voice.
The next day, July 17th, summer, Friday.
Chi Feichei woke up early, took out his mobile phone and looked at the date, took out the winter clothes from the dryer and put them into the wardrobe, reached out and took the summer clothes placed on the other side to change into.
So skilled it made him feel sorry for himself.
Feichi groggily crawled out of the bedding. "Master?"
"You rest," Chi Feichei lifted Feichi into the glass tank that was packed up yesterday. "I'm going out for morning exercise."
"Oh..." Feichi rolled around in the box. "Master, I dreamed of you again last night."
"Did you see Feimo?" Chi Feichei took out his mobile phone, sent an email to Feimo, asking Feimo whether he dreamed of him last night.
"No, but I dreamed of Dabai and the others," Feichi continued to roll around. "I told them I was shedding my skin. Dabai said their home has two children who just shed their skin and grew up a lot."
"Uh-huh."
After Chi Feichei finished sending the email, he put away his mobile phone and went out, ran to the rooftop, jumped down from the terrace upstairs, a leap of faith, starting today's morning exercise.
Looking at it this way, in that dreamscape, creatures in different boxes cannot see each other, cannot communicate across boxes, and cannot communicate or contact him outside the box, but creatures in the same box can communicate.
Waiting for Chi Feichei to come back after morning exercise and buying food ingredients, Feimo had already come over, chatting by typing on the computer with Feichi. Only after Chi Feichei put the food ingredients away in the room did he speak with a caw.
"Master, I dreamed of my lovely subordinates last night. They also dreamed of me the same way, moreover, we can still remember what we said in the dream. Originally I wanted to discuss with you a bit about what this was about, but now there's no need, it should be because of you. Just there's one problem, next time you pull us into the dream, can you not pull in all the key members of the Feimo Army?" Feimo said worriedly. "Although there are other crows on patrol, but without management watching, it's very easy for problems to occur."
"Only key members entered the dream last night?" Chi Feichei asked.
"That's right," Feimo said with certainty. "I counted, not one more, not one less, they are all key members who have been with me for a long time. Even Meisuo, Yamei, and Lijia couldn't enter the dream."
Chi Feichei: "..."
Meisuo... Yamei... Lijia?
Feimo didn't wait for Chi Feichei to ask, and took the initiative to explain. "They are the golden eagle siblings. I named them Meisuo, Yamei, and Lijia. The big golden eagle is called Meisuo, the second one is called Yamei, and the third younger sister is called Lijia. They agreed."
Chi Feichei: "..."
The one called 'Yamei' actually didn't object. Even calling it 'Yasuo' would be more manly than that.
"Moreover, I played human pronunciation audio for them. Next time you call them, they will also know," Feimo said, looking at Chi Feichei eagerly. "Then about the dream problem..."
"I can't control it," Chi Feichei said. "But it should not continue forever."
End of Chapter
