Conan felt conflicted. As a Sherlock Holmes fan himself, he found it hard to believe that Tojū Kenjin had developed the urge to kill because of Sherlock Holmes.
He had read Kanatani Hiroyuki's book. Although he felt that Kanatani Hiroyuki's interpretation of Sherlock Holmes did not align with his own views, Conan had merely regarded it as a difference of opinion. If he did not like the book, he simply did not have to read it. At most, he had complained about it to Jiang Hang a few times.
He had never expected Tojū Kenjin to want to kill Kanatani Hiroyuki over something like this.
Just as Jiang Hang had said, Sherlock Holmes was a detective, not some murderer.
Sherlock Holmes would feel compassion for pitiful criminals. In an era when laws and regulations were still far from complete, he might even have let go of criminals he believed did not deserve death.
But someone like Tojū Kenjin would never earn Sherlock Holmes's compassion.
What he was doing could not be called the behavior of a Sherlock Holmes fan at all. He was nothing more than a pathetic man with a sick obsession with Sherlock Holmes.
As for Heiji Hattori, while he too felt conflicted over Tojū Kenjin's motive for murder, he was even more shocked by Jiang Hang's terrifying powers of observation.
He had genuinely thought Jiang Hang wanted to play a "case analysis game" with him, so he had seriously spent a long time analyzing the murder motive and location. Yet throughout the entire process, he had rationally believed it was nothing more than a game. He had never truly considered that a murder might occur in this inn.
But when he saw Tojū Kenjin actually pull out a knife and try to kill Kanatani Hiroyuki, Heiji Hattori