I'm going to kill everyone who calls me Hill.

Xi'er clearly saw a hint of surprise on his face, and then relief. Then, when everyone was shocked by his male identity, he took advantage of the chaos to leave the scene.

Seeing that Ma Cheng had left, Xier also quietly left as she still had some preparations to make.

After everyone discovered that Masanobu Michi had escaped, they hurriedly ran towards the community center.

However, when everyone arrived at the community center, they found that it was already on fire. No one noticed a small figure holding a pile of music scores and rushed into the fire.

"and many more!"

Just as Cheng Shi was quietly lying on the piano that his father had donated to the community center, waiting for death, Conan's voice suddenly came from the door. Conan, who was covered in black smoke from the flames, staggered to him and persuaded him not to commit suicide. However, how could Cheng Shi, who was determined to die, be persuaded by him...

Chengshi picked up Conan with both hands and threw him towards the only window with all his strength, which was the only escape route at the moment.

The moment Conan landed, the burned wood blocked the last passage. The piano sound coming from the flames silenced Conan who still wanted to save Cheng Shi...

This was a regret that changed Conan's life. It was also the only time he "killed someone". From then on, Conan would be careful every time he deduced and would not let such a thing happen again...

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One day, Conan passed by a clinic on his way home from school.

"Here, this is your medicine, remember to take it on time."

"Okay, doctor!"

"This voice!"

Suddenly, Conan remembered the incident on Tsukikage Island and the scene when he first met Asai Makoto.

(How is that possible... He has already disappeared into the flames...)

Conan shook his head and stopped thinking about it. Xiaolan was still waiting for him to come back home for dinner.

Chapter 44: Similar Gems

The day after the community center fire, in Keiji Aso's abandoned mansion.

"Hello, old man?"

Xier pushed open the shabby door again (although she could still come in without pushing it) and walked into the mansion. It was still the same as before, with shabby decorations, a shabby house, and leaky walls. Xier looked around, looking for Keiji Aso.

"I'm here……"

Suddenly, a cold breath appeared behind Xier, which scared her. She quickly rolled forward and then aimed at her previous position.

I saw Keiji Aso standing there quietly, as if he had been there for a long time.

"What?...why don't you just appear in front of me..."

Xier finally breathed a sigh of relief. Why was the old man so startled?

"That wouldn't be fun...haha..."

Keiji Aso laughed heartily, and his beard began to tremble with laughter.

"Grandpa, I have done the job you asked me to do." Xier looked at the smiling Aso Keiji and said with his arms crossed: "I really saved your son, Aso Shishi. Um... maybe..."

"What's wrong? Is there something wrong with Chengshi?" Aso Keiji asked hurriedly.

"Not really... He's a nice guy..." Xier fiddled with the ends of her hair with her fingers, and said hesitantly, "That's right... There are a few small problems..."

Xier made a small gap with her hand and said, "Um... do you mind raising a daughter?"

"what?"

Aso Keiji was stunned. What does this mean? He had been dead for more than ten years and couldn't keep up with the pace of writing. For a moment, he didn't understand what Xier meant.

"oops……"

Seeing that Keiji Aso simply couldn't understand her hint, Xier made up her mind and said it directly.

"Your son, Asanari Minoru, has become a girl!"

Xier shouted to Keiji Aso.

"Ah this..."

The huge amount of information directly overwhelmed Keiji Aso, causing his brain to short-circuit for a moment, and he was shocked to the point of standing still.

After a long time, he finally recovered. He looked at Xi'er with dull eyes and said, "Chengshi...she turned into a girl?"

"Yes."

Xi'er said: "After I rescued him from the fire yesterday, he wanted to commit suicide again. After all, he was a little depressed after losing his target of revenge."

"Chengshi..." Aso Keiji listened to Xier's words quietly, his heart was filled with self-blame and sadness. Such a good child had to go down this path because of him...

"However, fortunately, Xi'er is eloquent and convinced him with reason, which helped him cheer up again."

Xier puffed out her chest proudly, and then said, "But what he meant was that since Masashi has died in the sea of ​​fire, let Masashi become a thing of the past completely..."

Aso Keiji was silent for a long time and then he sighed and said, "Well... that's fine... after all, this identity made him lose a lot and give up a lot."

"But I, who have great powers, gave him two ways out."

Xier held up two fingers and said, "First, I will help him change his identity and let him live abroad. This will effectively prevent him from contacting people he knew before. After more than ten years, if he wants to come back, he can still come back. After all, his identity is different now."

Then Xier bent a finger and said, "The second method is to change his physical features and make him look like another person. Although this saves the trouble of going abroad, it may have some side effects, such as long-term pain. After all, a person's appearance cannot be easily changed."

"So Chengshi chose the second path?"

"Yes, he chose this because he wanted to witness something. He wanted to see with his own eyes who the little detective was."

Xier took her hand back and said, "But what I didn't expect was that after hearing that I could change his body, he actually asked if I could turn him into a girl?"

"He said that since he had lived on this island as a woman for such a long time, and his male identity had disappeared in the sea of ​​fire, he asked me to help him become a woman."

Xier spread her hands helplessly and said: "Although it was a bit difficult, I still helped him realize his wish. From then on, Masashi disappeared, leaving only Honesty..."

"Yeah……"

After hearing Xier's words, Aso Keiji was silent for a long time again.

After about three minutes of silence, Aso Keiji said, "Come with me."

"Ok?"

Xier was stunned for a moment. What were they going to do?

"Don't you want that gem?"

Aso Keiji said in a deep voice: "No need to hide it, I know you want it."

Seeing that Keiji Aso knew her intention, Xier no longer hid it. She originally wanted to mention it tactfully, but she didn't expect Keiji Aso to directly state her intention.

Following in Keiji Aso's footsteps, Seele walked through most of the rooms in the mansion and came to the entrance of a basement.

"This is?"

Xier looked at the passage in front of her curiously. She didn't expect there was such a thing here.

"This was built by those bastards. They were originally holding some kind of ceremony here, but after I died, I don't know why, they abandoned this place."

Aso Keiji said this, he passed through the wall and entered the basement.

Seeing this, Xier followed suit. She held the basement door with one hand and gently pulled it. However, what she didn't expect was that with such a gentle movement, she directly pulled the door down.

"Ah this..."

Xier looked at the door in her hand and then at the already open basement, shrugged helplessly, left the door aside and walked into the basement. After passing through a dark passage, Xier walked to the only room with light.

"This is?"

As soon as she entered the room, Xier saw the gem placed in the middle...

I saw that the gem was flashing a dark red light, and it looked very dazzling.

Xier stared at the gem blankly, but she was not attracted by it.

"Why do I feel this thing is so familiar?"

Xier stroked her chin and looked at the gem carefully. She had definitely seen it somewhere.

"Wait! If this thing is combined with a metal disc..."

Seele suddenly thought of something and quickly combined the gem with a crescent-shaped brooch in her mind, and the resulting image was exactly what Seele had seen before - Bayonetta's Left Eye of Darkness.

"Shit! Isn't this thing in Bayonetta's hands?!"

This amazing discovery made Seele exclaim in surprise. She didn't understand why the gem belonging to Bayonetta was here. The Left Eye of Darkness was a unique gem in the world, and no one could imitate a second one.

"You seem to know it?"

Aso Keiji said quietly: "This thing has been here for more than ten years. I didn't expect you to know it..."

"Wait! More than ten years!"

Xi'er was quick to notice something was wrong. This thing had been here for more than ten years, and more than ten years ago was when Bayonetta woke up... So what was Bayonetta carrying? If this was real, then why didn't Bayonetta, who was wearing the Dark Left Eye, know about it? If it was fake, then what kind of crowdfunding group 456127940 people forged this gem?

Xier just felt a little confused...she couldn't figure out the reason.

However, at this moment, the gem suddenly emitted a soft glow. Xier looked at the glow and unconsciously picked up the gem...

"Why...why do I feel a sense of familiarity from this gem?"

"As if it belonged to me..."

Echo No. 45

Xier pinched Anzhi's left eye with one hand and looked at it carefully.

She didn't understand why this Left Eye of Darkness gave her such a familiar feeling, as if... as if she had created this gem with her own hands and injected her own power into it.

This strange feeling was just the beginning. When Xier held the gem in her hand and was about to put it back into her imaginary space, an imperceptible glimmer flashed on the gem again. Perhaps due to the dim light in the basement, Xier did not notice this.

'Are you sure you want to do this? ...'

Suddenly Xier heard a dull sound ringing in her ears.

"who!"

Xier immediately assumed a fighting stance, but when she looked around, she found that there was no one there.

'The consequences of doing this are unexpected...'

Another sound was heard, but Xier heard it clearly this time. This sound was not made by anyone, but was more like an echo.

Xier had learned relevant courses in the Imperial Academy. This was a kind of time and space echo, a special environmental phenomenon in which the things or sounds that happened at the time were preserved on the spot under the influence of powerful energy.

This phenomenon usually lasts for hundreds of years and is played at irregular times. The entire process may be played or just one sentence may be played. It all depends on the amount of energy that affects this space and how long it is retained. It is like a tape that keeps disappearing and will gradually dissipate during continuous playback. Judging from the length of the interval between these messages, this echo has obviously been around for more than ten years.

It might be that when Xier opened the imaginary space just now, the energy leaked from the imaginary space stimulated the space-time echoes remaining here, which led to the scene just now.

Xier didn't care. After all, this kind of thing was difficult to read completely, and the Empire relied on special instruments to collect complete information. Even if Xier knew that there was such a thing here, there was nothing she could do.

So Seele prepared to leave here directly. After all, she still had to go back to see what was going on with Bayonetta.

'Good luck, Xi'er...'

The echo rang out again, and Xier's legs, which had just taken two steps, suddenly stopped. She stood there in shock, recalling the sound she had just heard.

What did she hear just now? Xi'er? Isn't that her name?

Seele doesn't think this is a duplicate name. Although her name is Seele Vollerei, it is spelled as seele vollerei.

This name is not something that most people would use, and this is something Xier is quite proud of. As soon as she heard this name, she knew it was hers. But now Xier suddenly wondered if she had heard it wrongly, and had mistaken some other name for her own.

However, Xier's doubts soon disappeared. After waiting for a while, the echo came again, and this time the sound was completely different from the previous one.

"It doesn't matter. I've already thought about it. Go ahead, Rodin."

Hearing this, Xier's heart was suddenly filled with huge waves. She recognized this voice, and it was even very familiar to her, because it was her own voice.

This echo seems to be connected to the previous one. From the words, it can be seen that there are at least two people in this conversation, one is Xier and the other is Luo Dan.

But no matter how hard Xier tried to recall, she couldn't remember having met the man named Rodin, and she had never been to Moon Shadow Island before this, so how could she have left an echo of time and space here?

A huge mystery along with the gem pounced on Xier, confusing Xier's thoughts.

"No...how could that be...but..."

Xier paced back and forth in the small basement with a frown on her face. Her thoughts kept turning over and over, filtering through all the possibilities over and over again, trying to connect all the clues together. But the clues here were not enough.

Suddenly Xier remembered the cause of Aso Keiji's death. He was killed by the three people who joined the Luminous Sage Organization. The reason for his death was that he refused to help the three people abduct a little girl, and the gem was on that little girl...