(Hug)
Only after the fact did Mrs. Sakihara realize that she seemed to have boarded a pirate ship. And an extraordinarily mysterious, bizarre vessel that she could not see through at all.
"I thought what happened today would become a turning point in my life, opening up a brand-new life completely different from before..." Mrs. Sakihara looked blank. "But now that I think about it, it did open something up—but isn't this new life a little too new?"
Even though there was no evidence yet, the strange events that had just occurred gave this sharp law student a vague understanding of her future.
Mrs. Sakihara sank into a fresh wave of distress.
Beside her, Conan quietly frowned as he studied her.
Conan: "..." As a detective who had encountered countless criminals and exposed countless schemes, he was very familiar with this sort of reaction from someone whose psychological defenses had crumbled. Yet for some reason, as he watched Mrs. Sakihara now, he kept feeling that something was off.
"Rather than being shocked that someone exposed her, she seems more surprised by Mouri Uncle himself, the person making these deductions?" Conan carefully observed the woman before him, muttering inwardly. "And she's actually started spacing out, as if Mouri Uncle's words made her uncontrollably think of something deeply shocking..." The more he looked at that reaction, the stranger it seemed. What exactly was going on?
"Megumi." In the strange, indescribable atmosphere, Mouri Kogoro finally finished his deductions. Looking at his former student, he said sorrowfully, "Turn yourself in. I bear responsibility for this too—before teaching you knowledge, I should have taught you to respect life."
These words were completely different from what the Men in Black had said earlier.
It was as though two overlapping, distorted stretches of time had silently been