usatvline Chapter 540: Letter (Part 5)
Chapter 540: Letter (Part 5)
Chapter 5: Do Your Best: If you do your best but fail to achieve your goal, you will have no regrets.
We strive for our goals and ideals, but why are the results not as we wish?
"Perhaps most people in the world are like them. If you want to succeed, hard work alone is not enough. Your status and social relationships will affect your way forward." Miyano Shiho sighed. She lived in an environment like the Black Organization and knew these things very well.
Kuroba Kaito also understood this. If his opponent wasn't too strong, his father wouldn't have to fake his death to protect his family.
[Prisoner——Luca Balsa/Lucas Balsac]
What I seek is an absurd ideal.
Lucas's father, Hermann, was a passionate pursuer of perpetual motion machines. He spent all his family's wealth and eventually died in an experimental accident. Hoping to surpass his father, Lucas stepped into the same river as him, with the same tragic consequences.
In that experiment, his teacher Alva died unexpectedly, which landed him in jail. He also lost part of his memory due to the electric shock during the experiment. From then on, the genius inventor Lucas became the prisoner Luca.
In the tenth experiment, Group A, the prisoners killed the pilot, meteorologist, and mechanic one after another due to disagreements.
Everyone was shocked, puzzled, and silent. If a mercenary had a record of killing others, they would think it was normal, but how could the prisoner, a weak academic, actually achieve the feat of killing three people at once?
Kudo Shinichi was completely stunned. He hadn't expected this seemingly peaceful yet somewhat paranoid inventor to be so powerful in his experiments. Hattori Heiji was even more incredulous: "This group is all researchers. I thought the most exaggerated thing was just some empty talk, but this..."
"Oh, although this gentleman survived in Group A, I'm afraid he won't have a good result in the next Group B." Miss Nightingale sighed.
"Who are the people in Group B?"
"You will know later."
Composer: Frederick Kreiberg
【The innate argument is a false proposition.】
[Having a beautiful face and great ideals, and despite showing remarkable talent in his childhood, Frederick is now in a dilemma of lack of inspiration and talent.
Cooperating with that lady wasn't a good option, after all, that devilish woman had just left the burning opera house. Now he could only seek new allies, such as someone who invited him to participate in the manor experiment.
But after obtaining Mary's relics, Frederick realized that something was wrong and immediately left the manor and hid in the dark, because he knew he was no match for those lunatics.
"Is this cutting your losses in time?" Kuroba Kaito's eyes widened. "Or is this a noble's premonition?"
"So, right after Mr. Kreberg left, a big incident broke out in the manor..." Shuichi Akai analyzed, and he noticed that a "devilish woman" was mentioned in this story.
【Mechanic——Tracy Reznik】
【What I thought about collapsed in the fire.】
[Tracy, who lost her mother at a young age, has an extraordinary talent for mechanics. From a very young age, she began to help her father run the watch shop and even developed a new type of mechanical watch movement.
However, the pressure from her peers brought this happy family to an end. What greeted these greedy watchmakers was not the wealth she had imagined, but Tracy's revenge. As incidents of electric shock from alternating current became more frequent, Tracy found that her research funding was running out. For money and inspiration, she went to the manor.
In the tenth Group A experiment, the mechanic was killed because he did not call the prisoners when dismantling Bang Bang. He was considered a traitor.
"Okay, now we know why Mr. Luca killed the remaining three people. Either not cooperating with his actions was considered betrayal, or not speaking was considered concealing the truth. Mr. Luca seemed a little neurotic, probably a sequelae of prison life." Toru Amuro has already made the analysis.
Xiaolan pinched the hem of her skirt: "But such a reason for killing..."
She has experienced many events with Kogoro Mouri, and such a reason for murder is still too rare.
【Professor——Lucchino DiLuci】
【If you have regrets, you can have no regrets. 】
As a biology professor, accustomed to relying on his own efforts to achieve research results, Lucchino was extremely jealous of Thompson, a man who loved to play tricks. For the sake of his own research, Lucchino accepted the strange snake that Darren and Walker found while cleaning the lab.
The miracle of evolution unfolded before Lucino's eyes. The snake actually grew limbs and began to crawl. However, applying this to humans would obviously require extensive experimentation, so he injected the extract into himself.
Despite having touched upon a glimpse of divine power, Lucchino remained a staunch materialist, a stark contrast to the members of Groups 6 and A. As the sole scholar and the only normal person, after witnessing numerous miraculous sights, he could only attribute them to higher-dimensional "science," ultimately embracing what he believed to be "evolution."
"I think this guy is quite crazy. He knows that it is not a good thing, but he still insists on trying it." Kogoro Mouri complained with his arms crossed over his chest.
Hattori Heiji immediately retorted, "But uncle, wasn't it thanks to scientists like this who dared to challenge taboos that the earliest science developed step by step to where it is today?"
[Recorder——Kegan Nicholas Keogh]
【My wish is gradually fading away. 】
"Only I can eliminate all injustice!"
Cogan's words were unwavering, and to that end, she even poisoned her corrupt brother, the Supreme Court Justice. She enforced the law impartially, calmly documenting everything around her, until a criminal who deserved immediate execution was spared by the officer's "procedural justice." Because of that momentary compromise, her "consequential justice" never had a chance to be enforced. Her murderer was none other than Jack.
Now seeing the recorder's results, Kudo Shinichi still sighs. He believes that "procedural justice" is higher than "result justice", but he doesn't know whether such insistence will lead to a tragedy like Ms. Kogan.
"I'm sure many people have told you this, Mr. Kudo." Miss Nightingale suddenly turned to look at Kudo Shinichi. "Many people in the manor are dissatisfied with your actions. After all, according to your rules, more than half of the people in the manor will go to jail, even if they were once victims."
"You're such a strange detective. You don't pursue justice when you're alive, but after you die, you become obsessed with the truth and atonement. When you loudly accuse those murderers, do you ever care about how they've been treated? All you say is, 'Then you can't kill people.' Unfortunately, this is the last resort they can come up with."
"I..." Kudo Shinichi blushed, confused by what Miss Nightingale said. "I'm a detective, and a detective's job is to find out the truth."
"Yes, so the truth is your justice. Don't worry about anything else. Be clear about your own identity and status. You're still young and have a lot to learn." Miss Nightingale raised her head slightly. "After all, the motivation behind solving a case is simple, but the underlying interests are something even Sherlock Holmes wouldn't want to get involved in."
Kudo Shinichi wanted to say something, but Vermouth came over and held his shoulders. She had been in society for so long, so of course she knew this. Her cool boy could solve cases with his passion now, but later on, he would have to learn to be tactful.