Listening to this tragic, beautiful story, the two high school girls seemed to see the lovely girl who had suffered such a brutal attack twenty years ago. Their eyes welled with tears. "How could this happen...?"
Mouri Kogoro sighed emotionally as well. "So Inspector Megure didn't like showing that scar because..."
Superintendent Matsumoto nodded. "Just as you said, scars are the medals of criminal police officers, so nobody would normally avoid talking about them—whenever someone saw the scar on Megure's head, they couldn't help asking how he got it.
"Every time he was asked that question, Megure had to bring up what happened twenty years ago. So later, he began wearing a hat year-round, sealing that scar away."
Holding their bouquets, Suzuki Sonoko and Mouri Ran spoke in trembling voices. "No wonder... No wonder Inspector Megure was so against the plan to lure out the enemy, and even scolded Officer Sato. So he went through something like that... He must not have wanted the tragedy to happen again. He didn't want anyone else to die like that high school girl twenty years ago, so..."
"Hm? Die?" Superintendent Matsumoto turned around and looked blankly at the two girls, who were crying their eyes out. "What are you talking about? That high school girl's head and body were indeed seriously injured in the collision, but she didn't die."
Mouri Ran and Suzuki Sonoko: "..."
The two high school girls stared in shock. "Huh???"
Superintendent Matsumoto pointed at the ward ahead. "And because of that incident, that high school girl became close to Megure, and later became Megure's..."
"Superintendent Matsumoto?"
A woman happened to emerge from the ward. Holding a vase, she smiled at the group in the corridor. "Are you here to visit someone? Takagi and Shiratori just came by, actually. They