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"Thinking about it carefully, I still feel a little regretful..."
The next second, a trace of blood suddenly flowed out from the corner of Kuwai Michiko's mouth.
"Hey?! What's wrong with you?" Seeing this, Xiao Wuwan stood up subconsciously.
As the blood gushed out, Kuwai Michiko could no longer maintain her upright sitting posture. She fell forward weakly on the coffee table, knocking over the teacup in front of her, with a look of extreme pain.
[Teacup? Could it be?!]
Looking at the teacup rolling on the floor, Xiao Wuwan suddenly opened his eyes wide.
Is there poison in that cup of tea?!
Did Michiko Kuwai just poison herself? !
It was not until this moment that Kougamaru finally realized what the boy meant when he said to Kuwai Michiko, "You don't have much time left."
No wonder the two of them were so anxious just now, one kept asking questions, the other kept answering, without any pause... Could it be that this wooden man had just realized that Kuwai Michiko wanted to commit suicide? !
But...why didn't he stop it?
Obviously there was this opportunity... Even if he was a heinous criminal, the boy who was destined to become a policeman shouldn't just let him...
Subconsciously, Xiao Wuhuan turned to look at the boy next to him, but found that the boy's face was still calm, and he was not moved at all by the scene in front of him. Sister Keiko, who was sitting on the other side, lowered her head silently, and no one knew what she was thinking about.
"But, when I wanted to regret it... it was already... too late..."
Blood continued to flow out of his mouth, and under the boy's gaze, Kuwai Michiko slowly lost all his strength and slid to the floor.
"I actually... really want to say sorry to them... I want to go back to the time before I did it..."
After saying these last words, Kuwai Michiko fell to the ground, completely dead.
Perhaps it was because the original aconite powder had been used up by Ryuhei Aizawa, the poison she used to poison herself was not aconite, and therefore her death was completely different from the previous three people.
As for her last words, the boy found it difficult to tell whether they were true or false.
However, in the final investigation conducted by the police, the boy learned that when Sanae Miyamoto first died of poisoning, Michiko Kuwai rushed forward and cried for a long time beside the body of her good friend.
In the living room, from the time the poison started to take effect on Michiko Kuwai until her death, the boy didn't say another word. He just sat there, watching the scene with a calm look without saying a word.
Keiko Hatoyama, who usually dominates the atmosphere, kept her head down and remained silent, wondering what she was thinking.
For a moment, the living room fell into an extremely strange silence.
This silence made Karasuma, who stood up in shock because of Kuwai Michiko's suicide, feel suffocated. She was not used to it, or rather... she was very uneasy.
An urgent voice deep in her heart was repeatedly telling her that she must break this silence, otherwise, otherwise... maybe something bad would happen.
It was driven by this voice in his heart that Xiao Wuhuan couldn't help but speak.
"Well, Sister Keiko, should we notify the detectives outside? Or, or try to call an ambulance? Maybe Kuwai-san is still..."
"That's right, Karasuma-chan, go and notify the detectives outside and let them in."
Finally, Keiko Hatoyama spoke.
She looked at Xiao Wuhuan who was standing aside and seemed a little at a loss, and said with a smile.
"it is good!"
Since Sister Keiko had spoken, Xiao Wuhuan felt relieved. He nodded immediately and turned around and walked quickly towards the door.
The weird atmosphere in the room just now really scared her to death. Fortunately, judging from Sister Huizi's expression, she must have been overthinking...
Thinking this in his mind, Xiao Wuhuan had just taken two steps when he suddenly stopped.
Because Keiko Hatoyama spoke again, but this time she was talking to the boy.
"Xiaoqing, you know she wants to commit suicide, right?"
Chapter 665 She Still Has Enough Time
"Xiaoqing, you know she wants to commit suicide, right?"
In the living room, just as Kogumaru was about to leave, Hatoyama Keiko spoke again.
At this moment in the room, Keiko Hatoyama and the boy were sitting side by side on the same sofa. Keiko Hatoyama turned her head and looked at the boy with a calm expression.
Kougamaru was standing near the door. After hearing what Hatoyama Keiko said, she instinctively stopped and looked back at the two of them.
At this moment, the uneasiness in her heart that had just dissipated surged again.
"Ah."
The boy nodded without hiding anything, and then added:
"There were some powdery particles on the rim of her teacup, but I didn't see any condiments to match the powder where she poured the tea.
I can only guess that when she knew I was coming to ask her about the case, she had anticipated this outcome, so she prepared poison on her body, and when she stood up to pour tea, she put the poison in her teacup."
Upon hearing this, Keiko Hatoyama slowly shifted her gaze away. She lowered her head again and looked at her toes wearing split-toe socks.
"Since you already know this, why don't you stop her?"
Kuwai Michiko did not drink the tea directly after pouring it. After she brought the tea to her, until she actually picked up the cup and drank the tea mixed with poison, the boy who had already noticed something was wrong had many opportunities to stop her, but he did not do so. Instead, he just watched Kuwai Michiko drink the poisoned tea.
Keiko Hatoyama considers herself not a soft-hearted person, but she still does not approve of the boy's behavior.
Indeed, Kuwai Michiko killed several people and her crimes were serious. In the end, she poisoned herself. To ordinary people, they would just say that she deserved it.
But the police are different.
As a police officer, even when facing the most vicious criminals, you cannot use your personal likes and preferences to instigate or push the criminals to self-destruct.
This kind of mentality is a big taboo for the police.
Because people's hearts are numb, especially for boys who often deal with all kinds of serious cases and deal with all kinds of vicious criminals.
Today you can stop treating the criminal's life as a human life, tell yourself that she deserved it, and feel at ease with it.
Tomorrow, perhaps in some extreme circumstances, you may no longer regard the lives of other hostages as human lives, and gradually turn into a cold-blooded machine that acts only to achieve your own mission objectives.
Human life cannot be measured by quantity or value, because once you make this kind of assessment in your mind and make it a habit, your human nature will change.
This kind of psychological numbness, this kind of inner gap, will gradually be magnified as people break their bottom line again and again and become numb again and again.
This is something Keiko Hatoyama absolutely does not want to see.
"Because she wanted to commit suicide. I noticed it and it was a strong desire in her heart. Therefore, I didn't want to stop her anymore." The boy replied truthfully.
He gave the answer that Keiko Hatoyama expected, but she didn't want to hear.
Ever since Aunt Shirakawa was murdered a few years ago, Keiko Hatoyama had already vaguely noticed the negative changes in the boy.
And today, when she witnessed the boy watching Kuwai Michiko commit suicide, Keiko Hatoyama's inner worries reached a peak.
A change was quietly happening to the boy, which even he himself was not aware of.
It is true that boys do care about the people around them, and they will be anxious for them and feel worried and anxious about them.
But beyond that?
The boy showed indifference to everyone except those around him, and he didn't care about their lives at all.
The boy's act of watching Michiko Kuwai commit suicide today is the most obvious manifestation of this situation.
Because she had this strong desire herself, I didn't try to stop her.
Yes, it seems that the boy is respecting Kuwai Michiko's choice, but in essence, the boy is indifferent to the lives of people like Kuwai Michiko who have nothing to do with him.
If today's Kuwai Michiko was replaced by Hatoyama Keiko, or Kokarasuma, would the boys still be able to "respect" their choices so calmly?
Absolutely not.
Not only that, the boy will try his best to stop it.
Keiko Hatoyama is absolutely sure of this.
However, the boy was unaware of this, and he didn't even realize what the problem was with his behavior.
He just felt that he respected Kuwai Michiko's choice and allowed her to have the ending she hoped for.
The landmine that was buried a few years ago finally showed its power for the first time today.
More than four years ago, after Aunt Baihe was murdered, the boy recovered from his grief at an extremely fast speed, as if he had completely recovered.
But only Keiko Hatoyama, who knew the boy's character well, knew that all this had never passed. The boy simply buried the landmine deep inside, and it was quietly brewing in a place that outsiders could not see.
Therefore, since then, Keiko Hatoyama and the boy have been almost inseparable.
Regardless of her declining physical condition, she went to various crime scenes with him to investigate, and went to college with him to attend classes.
After Kokarasuma returned to Japan, she even deliberately guided this optimistic, simple and energetic girl to build a good friendship between her and the boy.
As time went by, Keiko Hatoyama gradually realized that her physical condition was no longer sufficient to support her to stay with the boy all the time, so she needed to find an equally suitable person to continue to influence the boy for her when she was powerless, and over a long enough period of time, subtly remove the landmine buried deep in the boy's heart.
Keiko Hatoyama believes this is the most appropriate approach, it just takes time.
Of course, she might also be able to use another faster and more direct method.
She could use herself as a "shackle" to forcibly change... and restrain the boy.
Keiko Hatoyama naturally knew how special she was in the boy's heart.
She also knew that as long as she opened her mouth, as long as she said it herself -
"Xiaoqing, I hope you can become a good and honest policeman.
I hope you can care about everyone's life, no matter how that person is related to you, no matter whether that person is a criminal, a hostage or an innocent person, I hope you can treat them equally in the future."
As long as she said this, the boy would never do something like what happened to Kuwai Michiko today again.
But in this way, will the landmine hidden in the boy's heart really disappear?
Using "shackles" to restrain boys, or using oneself as "shackles", this behavior is both cunning and despicable.
Keiko Hatoyama would rather take longer to slowly eliminate the negative feelings in the boy's heart.
She has enough time.
She would never do such a despicable thing...
Absolutely not.
The second chapter was blocked yesterday, but it has been modified and unblocked. Some sensitive words were simply deleted, and the details of the address were modified. But combined with the previous chapter, reading it should not be a problem... Tsk, I expected it.