Xu Yue stepping in directly to prevent a murder was still a first!
He also wanted to see whether doing so would yield more or fewer rewards. There had been no need to use the previous cases as tests, but this case had already been altered by his butterfly effect, so going with the flow did not matter.
"Sayuri..."
Takasugi Toshihiko looked at his fiancée, an extremely complicated expression appearing on his face.
"What? Poison?!"
Only then did Ran and Sonoko belatedly realize that something was wrong.
Conan, on the other hand, was not too surprised. Sato would not do something like this for no reason. So something really had happened?
Still, even Conan had not expected it to be poisoning—and for the groom who was about to get married to poison the bride!
But no matter what, the groom's expression made it clear that Sato had not wronged him.
After noticing that Ran, Sonoko, and Conan's gazes had gradually changed, Takasugi Toshihiko gave a bitter laugh.
"Hehe, that's right. I poisoned her! I wanted revenge on Matsumoto Kiyonaga. I wanted him to taste the agony of losing someone dear to him! Back then, while he was pursuing a criminal, the criminal got into a car accident and hit my mother. Yet after getting out of the car, he only cared about chasing the criminal, leaving my injured mother lying on the ground! If he had taken her to the hospital back then, she never would have died!"
As Takasugi Toshihiko spoke, the expressions of the others gradually changed as well.
"What happened to you truly is deserving of sympathy. But that does not give you a reason to harm others, especially not the person you love."
Xu Yue spoke calmly.
"Love? No! I was only using her. Everything I