conan but winery

Chapter 782 Mr. Baihe, let us leave everything to fate

"Shirakawa-kun?"

Behind him, Elena Miyano's voice suddenly sounded.

As if he suddenly came back to his senses at this moment, Shirakawa Kiyoshi was stunned and suddenly turned back to look at Elena Miyano who was still leaning on the seat behind him.

"What's wrong with you? I kept calling you and you didn't respond to me just now..."

Meeting his eyes, Elena Miyano asked doubtfully.

Since just now, Bai Heqing has been standing in front of the sink, looking at herself in the mirror in a daze. She shouted several times before finally getting a response.

"Feel sorry……"

Gradually regaining a calm mind and forcing herself not to think about Keiko's words, Shirakawa Kiyoshi and Miyano Elena reluctantly showed a smile.

"Maybe I've been a little too tired these past few days and just got distracted..."

"That's it..."

Elena Miyano naturally wouldn't believe his nonsense, but if she had to ask, she would definitely not be able to find out anything, so she said:

"Then what did you think about what I just asked Mr. Shirakawa about you?"

"what?"

"I know you didn't listen carefully... I'm asking in the future, if our research can be completed successfully, Shirakawa-kun, what do you want to do in the future?" Elena Miyano repeated it helplessly.

"After the research is completed..."

Bai Heqing frowned slightly when he heard this and was unable to answer immediately.

He really hadn't thought about this issue seriously before...

After all, even assisting Karasuma Renye in completing research was originally Sharon's suggestion, and he just followed Sharon's words...

In his mind, Keiko's lonely figure flashed again.

Bai Heqing shook his head quickly, restraining his subconscious thoughts.

Thinking about it carefully, it seems that he has never seriously thought about what he should do in the past ten years...

Whether it was when he was still in the Metropolitan Police or now, he was always acting on the advice of others. It was just Mr. Hatoyama before and now Sharon and Renya Karasuma...

Does this mean... that he has never had any expectations for his future?

He suddenly thought of this.

"Sure enough, Mr. Baihe has never thought about this kind of problem..."

Seeing Bai Heqing's hesitant look, Miyano Elena said in a tone that was true.

"Why are you asking these all of a sudden?"

Looking up at her, Bai Heqing asked this question again, but Elena Miyano still didn't answer him. Instead, she straightened up on her seat, looked straight at Bai Heqing, and mentioned another seemingly Issues that have nothing to do with the current situation.

"Shirakawa-kun, do you know where our research has reached now?"

"Immediately, it could be as short as a few months or as long as half a year, and it will be ready for human experimentation."

Before Bai Heqing could speak, Elena Miyano answered on her own.

"And now, it's time to find suitable volunteers to participate in the next phase of the experiment..."

Bai Heqing just looked at her and did not interrupt. He seemed to have guessed what Elena Miyano really wanted to say.

"Shirakawa-kun, I remember you once told me that you did this because of a friend. In that case..."

Sure enough, the next moment, Elena Miyano smiled and extended an invitation to him.

She slid the seat underneath her until she was in front of Bai Heqing. Her bloated-looking body leaned forward slightly, so that their faces were only a few centimeters apart. At this distance where you can even clearly feel each other's breathing, neither party can hide any secrets in their eyes.

Looking into each other's eyes, Elena Miyano's voice sounded like the bewitchment from a devil.

"Do you want to see with your own eyes... what 'eternal life' really looks like?"

Under the bewitchment of the demon named Angel, a certain string in his mind seemed to be completely broken. The memory that Bai Heqing had forcibly suppressed several times before completely rushed out at this moment.

[It turns out that I am also afraid of death...]

"Go and personally fulfill your friend's wish, Mr. Baihe."

[It’s really pitiful. I actually really want to take a look...]

There was a roar in his mind, and the surrounding scenery quickly faded and changed. After many years, he seemed to be back in that familiar ward again.

He seemed to really see Keiko sitting on the hospital bed, turning her head to look at him, and saying these words to him.

[Shirakawa, tell me...what does eternal life look like? 】

The surroundings were bottomless, and the boundless darkness surged in from all sides, seeming to swallow up this small ward completely. Only Keiko's eyes were still bright, looking at him unblinkingly.

eternal life……

This was Keiko's last wish before she died, and it was a selfish desire that she had always restrained during her lifetime.

Perhaps, it was also an obsession that she couldn't let go of...

"As expected..."

The cold touch on his face once again brought back Bai Heqing's consciousness.

Those were Elena Miyano's hands.

His eyes refocused, and Elena Miyano was right in front of her. Her hands, which seemed cold from typing on the keyboard for a long time, were holding Shirakawa Qing's cheeks.

This action was somewhat ambiguous, but neither of them had such an atmosphere at the moment.

What Elena Miyano saw in her eyes was a lifeless Shirakawa Kiyo who was stuck in the past.

In Bai Heqing's eyes, she saw herself.

"Shirakawa-kun, are you really..."

She just looked at Bai Heqing in front of her and told the truth that had been lingering in his mind since Keiko's death but had never been spoken out by him.

"I really want to die."

Maybe it's like this. The man in front of him has been like this since Keiko's death. It's just because he still remembers the words Keiko said to him in the snow that day. It's just because there is Sharon, so he keeps hiding it deeply. I never thought about this idea.

"Mr. Baihe, you can't let go of the past, and you can't throw away the present. You just drift with the tide between these two dilemmas. Huihui has been living in despair for more than ten years. It's really pitiful and painful.

In that case, why not let me make another decision for you..."

Elena Miyano's voice bewitched him like a demon.

"Become a volunteer for human experiments and participate in my future experiments."

"The experiment is very dangerous, but if it succeeds, you will use the most direct way to personally stand for the friend you can't let go of, experience the moment of eternal life being born, and fulfill her wish."

"If you fail, Mr. Baihe, you will most likely die on the spot, but even so, you will die on the road of pursuing eternal life, right?

You did not commit cowardly suicide, nor did you violate your friend's original words to you. You died on the way to fulfill her wish... By dying like this, Shirakawa-kun will not feel sorry for anyone. This is also a relief, isn't it? ? "

"Shirakawa-kun, let us make peace with our past. Whether it is life or death, let us... leave everything to fate."

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