"Your precious person—is me!?"
Fujimaru Ritsuka could only find it absurd.
Yes, because Good Moriarty had no memories and his heart leaned toward the light, he truly was desperately trying to protect Fujimaru Ritsuka.
Even Anno and Artoria could see that.
So.
Wasn't the person he risked his life to protect the person who mattered most to him?!
"So, so that's why the magic bullet is heading for Gunshaft Tower—because the person Moriarty cherishes is here. That person is Ritsuka!"
The logic checked out.
Lawrence looked at Moriarty as though he were insane.
"That also means you really do regard Ritsuka as someone important! So now that you've finally gained someone important, you're going to kill that very person!"
"That's too much! Mash was right—you're absolutely awful!"
Lawrence's tone trembled.
Why was there someone like this?
He gained someone important just so he could kill them?
"So even bringing the Master here was part of your calculations!"
Fear showed in Artoria's eyes as well.
Someone who created something precious for the purpose of destroying it actually existed in this world.
"Ritsuka, I'm sorry."
For once, Moriarty pursed his lips as he looked at the person important to him.
"Spending time with you has absolutely been a wonderful experience for me. The humanity you have shown me thus far is such a beautiful thing—a wonderful heart so fragile that it cannot be assigned any value."
"This is true goodness."
"But perhaps it is precisely because of that that you are stronger than evil, yet weaker than goodness."
"Just as one fights poison with poison, to eliminate evil, one must turn oneself into evil. And the reverse is true as well."
Moriarty toyed with the thought.
"One fights medicine with medicine. To crush goodness, one must become goodness."
"That is nothing but