Becoming Professor Moriarty’s Probability - Chapter 262
Chapter 250 – Reunion in an Empty House (3)
“…You guys, take it easy.”
The relentless questioning that had been going on for a while began to show signs of ending as Charlotte, who had been clinging to Adler’s side, opened her mouth with a fearsome expression.
“But…”
“This much verification is necessary…”
“Take it easy!!!!”
Watson and the officer, who had been muttering while watching Charlotte’s expression, quietly shut their mouths when she let out a bloodcurdling scream.
“Last time too… I lost him last time too!!! Because we were fighting among ourselves!!”
“”………””
“I just found him, I can’t lose him again!!! Never!!!!!”
The two women, unable to refute her words, eventually bowed their heads deeply.
“…I’m not an object.”
Only Adler muttered sullenly, with a gloomy expression.
“Oh, uh… I’m sorry… I’m really sorry.”
“…….?”
“Oh, I’ll think carefully before I speak in the future.”
However, Charlotte, who would normally have ignored his muttering lightly, flinched on her own and hurriedly grabbed Adler’s arm, apologizing.
“Haah…”
“W, well, if you’re still upset… you can hit me…”
“…No.”
Adler, his eyes filled with pity, sighed and refused Charlotte’s offer, who was looking at him with an anxious expression again.
– Swoosh…
“Ah.”
At that, Watson and the inspector suddenly looked up at his face.
“It doesn’t look like a disguise…”
“If it were, Holmes would have noticed it already.”
“…Then, could it be real?”
“I don’t know. He didn’t answer our questions…”
The two women muttered, examining his face carefully.
“…He looks exactly the same.”
“Hmm… It’s ambiguous.”
“U, are there no other questions?”
They began to think for a moment at Adler’s earnest expression.
“W, well… How about this?”
Suddenly, Inspector Lestrade opened his mouth, blushing.
“Well, um, that’s… uh…”
“…….?”
“You and me, you know, s-s-s… first…”
Adler, who had been looking at the officer, who had suddenly started stammering with a shy expression, dumbfoundedly lost his words at the answer that popped out.
“…First experience, u-u-u, where did you have it.”
And the silence began.
“Well……….”
Adler froze stiffly as a cold chill spread from the front, side, and his confidants behind him.
“London… near London…..”
And after a long pause, Adler finally whispered into the officer’s ear, his eyes tightly shut and his voice as small as possible.
“….Back alley.”
However, his voice echoed clearly in the room where a cold silence flowed, despite his lowered voice.
“…..Me?”
Adler, who had been sweating profusely, suddenly became speechless when Watson asked him a creepy question from the side.
“W, well… Miss Watson… uh, what?”
This time, it was he who had really forgotten.
“Bag… inside?”
“……….”
“Oh, no. The professor’s house? Or was it an opium den…?”
Thus, the atmosphere of the reunion, which had taken place after two years, began to sink even further.
“…Could it be before I entered?”
“I feel like killing Adler.”
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About 30 minutes later. On the streets of Rhode Island, where the morning sun was shining.
“What is that?”
“…What’s going on?”
The eyes of the pedestrians passing by early in the morning were soon drawn to one side.
“Excuse me, everyone…..”
“””…………”””
“I made a mistake, so… can’t you just go a little more normally.”
That was because a blond pretty boy, who had been tied up with ropes all over his body even in broad daylight, was being dragged around like a criminal, surrounded by women.
“My body is getting numb…”
“…What should we do now? Do you think we should go back to London?”
“No, that’s dangerous… I don’t know when the Professor will notice…”
“But we can’t keep running away forever.”
“I’m fine with being with Master, no matter where we go.”
“…W-well, me too.”
In such a funny but not funny situation, Adler asked a question while looking around, but the women who were surrounding him had already stopped paying attention to him.
“I-I’ll loosen the rope.”
“…Can’t you just untie it?”
“A-ahh, I got it. I’ll untie it! I’ll untie it…!”
Only Charlotte, who had been holding onto Adler’s arm until then, listened to his request.
“…Don’t run away? Okay?”
“I’ll never run away.”
“If you run away, I’ll go somewhere quiet and kill myself.”
“…I promise I won’t run away, ever?”
He was startled by her dark whisper as she untied the rope so arbitrarily, and he replied.
“Really?”
“I swear on heaven.”
“Hehe… Adler…”
Then, Charlotte began to rub her cheek on his shoulder with an exhausted smile on her face.
“I love you…!”
“………”
“I like you. I like you, I like you, I like you…”
He quietly stroked Charlotte’s hair with a look of compassion as she whispered sincerely while kissing his neck.
‘To think that the cynical boy would become like this…’
If Charlotte from three years ago, before she had met him, saw this sight now, what would she think?
Adler continued to stroke Charlotte’s hair, who had become a retriever that wagged its tail only when it saw its owner, while having such pointless thoughts.
“……?”
He stopped stroking Charlotte and stopped walking because of a sudden bad feeling.
“””……….”””
“Ah.”
That was because all the women who had been surrounding him were staring at him blankly.
“Adler, I like you.”
“…Me too.”
“…Me too.”
And a moment later, confessions began to echo in the street.
“Haha… ha…..”
Adler, who had a slightly pale expression thanks to that, began to stroke each of their heads with trembling hands, and the passersby who were passing by gave him a look of compassion.
“I like you, Master. I like you. I like you.”
“…I like you too.”
“Now… stop…”
How much time passed like that?
“Can you do it in moderation?”
In the end, Charlotte came out for Adler again, this time with a cold expression.
“…Adler is having a hard time. Can’t you see?”
“””……….””””
“…Ha, what are you going to do if you glare at me?”
The women shut their mouths all at once, with expressions full of dissatisfaction as she exuded an aura that had grown several times greater in the past two years.
“I-I’m sorry… Adler. Are you okay? Are you not stressed?”
“…No, I’m not. And you can speak informally to me.”
“Oh, o-okay! I’ll speak informally from now on! Yeah.”
Only then did she turn her gaze to Adler, and she began to wag her tail again.
“So where should we go now?”
“…Huh?”
“Yeah, we should go wherever you want to go. If we force you again… y-you don’t like it, right? Right?”
Adler’s expression became blank for a moment as she asked carefully.
“Come to think of it…”
That was because the existence of the ‘person who shouldn’t be there’ that he had seen earlier suddenly came to his mind.
“W-we don’t have time for this.”
“Huh?”
“Qu, quickly… We have to return to London as quickly as possible!”
The women, who had been tilting their heads quietly, began to do so more emphatically as Adler’s face turned pale and his voice rose.
“Why?”
“Because, the professor is in danger right now…..!”
Charlotte asked the question on their behalf, and Adler was about to answer with an urgent expression, but…
“…Ah.”
He quickly shut his mouth with an expression of regret.
“””……….”””
However, they had already heard the word ‘professor’ and were staring at Adler with hardened expressions.
“…Adler.”
“Uh, um…”
“Keep talking.”
Charlotte was the only one who spoke to Adler with an indifferent expression in that situation.
“What about the professor?”
However, she couldn’t hide the abyss that was reflected in her eyes.
“Professor… Professor…”
“…Yes.”
“So… um… danger… is…”
Adler began to slur his words as his body instinctively trembled.
“The professor is in danger. Yes, I understand that.”
“…….”
“But, what about it?”
He finished speaking, emboldened by Charlotte’s strangely calm voice.
“I, I want to go… save him…”
“Oh, I see.”
Charlotte opened her mouth with a quiet chuckle.
“Then let’s go save him.”
“…Huh?”
“If that’s what Adler wants, I can do anything. I can even lick the professor’s feet if you say the word, so don’t worry.”
Adler was surprised by her reaction and asked her a question, watching her expression.
“Th… if it’s something you’re being forced to do, then I can go by myself…”
“I’ll kill myself?”
“Ah, ah, I understand. I understand…”
However, as soon as Charlotte threatened him with a creepy expression, Adler tried to dissuade her, sweating profusely.
“…But, you know, Adler.”
“Yes.”
“You can speak informally to me. I do.”
“…Yes.”
He nodded hurriedly at Charlotte’s words, who was still smiling, and listened attentively.
“By any chance, will you abandon me if you meet the professor?”
“No, why would I…”
“No matter what the professor says to you, what he has, or what he asks you to do… you won’t abandon me?”
Charlotte asked him in a slightly trembling voice.
“…Well, it’s your choice. I can’t force you.”
“Hey…”
“But, if something like that happens… I’ll just kill myself!”
“……..”
Adler closed his mouth, speechless, as she tried to smile at him with a face distorted by anxiety and panic.
“You don’t have to feel pressured! Choose freely!”
“……….”
“Ahahaha… haha… ha…”
Eventually, Adler decided that he would have to pet Charlotte a little more than the others when they returned to London, and quietly took her into his arms.
“I won’t abandon you, no matter what happens.”
“Ha, ha… haaa… ah…”
“I swear, okay?”
He didn’t notice the bitter smile on Charlotte’s lips as she buried her head in his chest, still in his arms.
“…Heh heh.”
Apparently, he didn’t know how scary the word ‘oath’ was in a world with magic.
“But Charlotte, why are you suddenly touching my lower abdomen?”
“It’s nothing…”
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Meanwhile, at that moment. The sea near the North Atlantic.
“…This is truly Deeply emotional stomach.”
The giant gray dragon flying through the air with its wings spread wide open muttered in a sarcastic voice as it looked at the distant landscape of England.
“I wonder how long it’s been since I’ve seen this view.”
The former master of London has returned.