[Comprehensive] Manna's Summer

43# out of reach

"Hello, hello, this is the Black Lagoon Chamber of Commerce, and I'm Locke. Are you...?"

Hearing the voice on the other end of the phone, Hei Zizhe also glanced at Mori Kogoro, and responded to the other end with a nod.

"Hi, I'm... Kuroko Mana's younger brother."

"Kurokomana? I'm sorry, no one here knows this person. May I ask if you made a mistake?" The other end of the phone asked politely.

Hei Zizhe raised his head suspiciously, but saw Edogawa Conan holding up a blank piece of paper with a sentence written on it.

"Ask him if he knows mana"

"So... what about mana?"

The male voice on the other end of the phone suddenly rose.

"Oh! You are Miss Mana's younger brother, right?"

It was a clear and young male voice, sounding like a young man in his 20s.When I heard mana, my whole voice relaxed, and I took it up like a greeting.

"I remember...Miss Mana is 16 years old, right? How is she doing? How is she?"

Hei Zizhe also felt that something was choking his throat.After a while, he gave a calm to numb answer.

"Sister, she... died a year ago."

"……………………"

"I saw your business card in her diary when I was checking her belongings recently, so I want to call and ask if you have any clues."

"...sorry, I didn't expect... please forgive me." The male voice on the other end of the phone lowered his voice and said dryly, "I don't have any clues here yet, but I will help investigate. Well, I will now I happen to be in Tokyo, if I find any clues, I will find you. What is your name?"

"Heizi Tetsuya." Heizi quietly stared out of the window, "I'm sorry. If you have any clues, just go to Seirin High School and find me."

"it is good."

Heizi paused.Or ask that question before the other party hangs up.

"...Excuse me, how did you and my sister meet?"

There was a long silence on the other end of the phone.

half an hour.

The young man's voice slowly answered.

"For Christmas presents."

Then, he hung up the phone.

***

After Kuroko Tetsuya put down the phone, Edogawa Conan hesitated for a moment, and opened his mouth pretending to be innocent.

"Big brother mentioned that it was your classmate who found out that sister was hit by a car, and he sent her to the hospital, right?" His eyes were extraordinarily calm and cautious behind the lens, "That brother, what's his name?"

"Kise Ryota." Hei Zizhe also turned his gaze over, "Why do you ask this?"

"That brother may have a clue." Edogawa Conan wrote down Kise Ryota's name, "Well... let's ask him, big brother."

that's it.

——The four of them came to Haichang High School.

After Heizi sent a text message to Kise, the four of them waited for Kise Ryota to come out in the coffee shop in front of Kaicho High School.Not long after, a tall boy with blond hair walked in, and waved at Heizi excitedly while still at the door.

"Little Heizi! Long time no see!"

Hei Zizhe also calmly poured cold water on Huang Lai's head: "We only met last week."

"Woooooo, little Heizi is too cold!"

"We don't know each other that well, Kise-san."

"..."

After a joke, Kise smiled and pulled out the chair and sat down.

"What do you want me to do today, little Heizi?"

Hei Zizhe was also silent for a moment, and then asked the question softly.

"When my sister passed away, only Kise-san was there."

Kise Ryota's pupils suddenly tightened.

Heizi tried his best to keep asking calmly.

"At that time, what happened?"

Kise unconsciously clenched his fists.His eyes stayed outside the window, and it took him a long time to move back.

"Why did you suddenly think of asking these things?" He smiled dryly, "Has Xiao Heizi encountered anything recently...?"

"Student Ziyuan said that he saw his sister." Heizi looked at Kise quietly, "So I wonder if my sister can't rest in peace."

"..."

Kise's face turned ugly, he pursed his lips, and looked away from Heizi Tetsuya's face.

"is it?"

"At that time, Kise-san was there. Did my sister say anything to you, did you see anything?"

Kise Ryota clenched his fists tightly, his knuckles turned slightly white.He stared fixedly at a certain point in the void for a long time before slowly opening his mouth.

"At that time..." His voice was stagnant, "I only saw Mana lying in a pool of blood. And she was unconscious at that time, so she didn't say anything. I called an ambulance, but it was too late ...There's nothing I can do to help you, I'm sorry."

While saying these words, his fingers twitched unconsciously, but Hei Zizhe didn't notice it either.

Edogawa Conan examined every expression of Kise Ryota from behind the lens, and secretly made a judgment in his heart.

--no.

——This person named Kise is definitely hiding something.

***

Kise Ryota was walking on the street alone.Pedestrians on both sides brushed against him, but he didn't notice it.He just walked blankly until he walked into a deserted alley.It was noon, and from the sky between the two rows of tall buildings, the sun poured down without any scruples.

The few words he said to Heizi Tetsuya just now still echoed in his mind.

【I only saw Mana lying in a pool of blood. 】

[She has lost consciousness. 】

[Nothing was said. 】

Huang Lai's footsteps gradually sluggish, and finally stopped. The sun was so bright, so dazzling that it made people panic. He raised his head and closed his eyes facing the radiant sun. A wry smile gradually appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"...Will you be happy when I say that, Mana-chan?"

His voice was light and erratic, as if he was afraid of waking up the sleeping undead.

"Although I didn't save you, at least I kept the second promise."

He slowly opened his eyes, facing the sunlight that made people unable to open his eyes, he showed a smile as if he was stung by the light.

"In that case, please forgive me a little bit, Mana-chan."

In nothingness, naturally there is no response.

Kise's smile became more bitter, and he took another step forward.

however--

In this instant.

The air, changed.

An inexplicable chill climbed up Kise Ryota's back, cold sweat slid down his back, the muscles all over his body were tense, blood was rushing through the blood vessels, a feeling as if he was being targeted by a poisonous snake and beast The original instinct of defense was fully aroused, and every nerve was conveying the signal of "run away!".He could even hear his heart beating more and more violently in his chest.

Boom, boom, boom—

The heavy and stagnant malice distorted the space slightly. In Kise Ryota's vision, the shadow of the alley seemed to be mixed with ink, turning into a thick and sticky darkness like black mud. It was obviously noon, and this The air in this alley is extremely cold, and you can see fine white mist when you breathe, but it is different from the general coldness. If you must find an adjective for this chill, it is - "heterogeneous".

The air is deteriorating.

This alley has become a "heterogeneous" world.

- Boom!

The sound that made the heart beat violently.

I don't know where it came from, it seems to be close at hand, and it seems to be out of reach.However, the sound was so creepy that Kise Ryota's feet unconsciously took a step back, and the muscles in his legs were tense as if they were about to break, ready to run away at any time.

However, an inexplicable oppression held Kise Ryota in place.

— as if being watched by a beast.

Damp, cold breaths lingered behind his back.Almost touched his ear.

Kise Ryota trembled all over, but didn't dare to look back.

——If he turned his head at this moment, he would see a "creature" like a melted wax figure standing behind him.

Then, the monster was about the head, and slowly opened its black mouth to Kise Ryota, and the white wax dripped down like melted cheese, dripping on Kise's hair, sticky And slid down wetly—

"<My pain, burn the world——!!!>"