Chapter 156 The Seven-Day Appointment—Death without Fault!

How should people feel at this moment?
Sadness for the loss of life?
Anger incited by demons?
Or are you confused about the future and where it is going?
However, in such a big world, all we can hear is the cheers of the people!

As Seyousha died, a dark red number slowly appeared at the bottom of the TV screen - that was the first number to terminate the nuclear bomb explosion.

Just like the first straw in the hand of a drowning person, out of fear of death, they just want to hold on to more and more things!
So, pairs of complex pupils looked at the second figure next to the lady on the rooftop.

"My name is Cao Yishang."

As if she had sensed that ridiculous expectation, the girl wrapped in a white kimono spoke softly. She had fair skin and a stunning figure, but she was also fragile and looked like she had been drained of all her energy at only a dozen years old.

"sorry."

She asked first to apologize.

"I know my actions will definitely lead to very bad consequences, but... it doesn't matter! Whether it's the world or individuals, what happens in the future has nothing to do with me."

She gave a wan smile.

"I am filing a complaint under my real name! My high school teacher, Xiaolin Xiang, abused and violated me many times over the course of a year."

"And when I asked the police for help, the school prevaricated and obstructed me, deliberately deleting all the surveillance videos in order to protect Xiaolin Xiang!"

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The senior police officer in the police station understood her wish after hearing this. He waved his hand to the police officer next to him and said bitterly again: "...Go find Xiaolin Xiang and bring him over."

To be honest, he had no good feelings towards this kind of scum. If it were another time, he would even be willing to kill him with his own hands!
But rather...

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But unexpected!

Standing on the rooftop, Cao Yitong shook his head slightly at the camera.

"I don't have any demands."

what? !

Everyone in the world looked at her in surprise.

The girl in the white kimono just reached out to tidy up the hair by her ears: "I hate Xiaolin Xiang, but I don't have any obsession with whether he is dead or alive... If he is dead, of course it would be the best, but if he is alive, it doesn't matter."

She looked up at the sunlight in the sky, her eyes were empty and without any meaning: "This world has been dark for a long time."

She took a small step forward, with half of her foot hanging in the air.

"Wait a moment!"

The door to the rooftop was pushed open again!
While Hattori and Xiaolan were struggling with the guards, Conan, who had sneaked here with his childish figure, panted: "Miss Kusai, don't do anything stupid!"

He ignored the sweat dripping from his forehead and advised earnestly: "There are nights in this world, but there must also be days! In addition to those unhappy memories, you must have experienced happiness worth remembering!"

"Think about your family, your relatives, your friends..."

——Yes, Conan doesn’t want her to die!
Although these people must die in order to stop the nuclear bomb, in his eyes, life can never be measured by numbers! 12 to 1.2 million, this huge gap would make even the country and the government compromise, but Conan stubbornly wants to save everyone.

It was stupid, and no one among those 1.2 million people would admire him. But it was impossible to deny that he had a soul shining with golden light!
The girl was very calm and showed no emotion.

"I don't know what happiness is. Growing up, my family only cared about my younger brother who was born a year later than me. And my so-called friends would only call me a bitch who seduced the teacher behind my back."

She slowly raised her hands and untied the middle belt of her kimono. In the warm light, every inch of her skin seemed to be glowing.

"I should have died a long time ago. I have lived until now only to leave some traces to prove that I have been here."

Conan's expression changed slightly, and he stretched out his hand and shouted, "No!"

But Cao Yitong had already exerted force with his feet, causing his entire body to fall off the edge.

The wind licked the girl's cheeks, gently blowing away the tear that slipped from the corner of her eyes. She was naked, taking off all the dirt in the world, like an angel with broken wings, flying to the paradise that belonged to her.

"This world... doesn't like me at all."

……

Conan rushed to the edge and looked down. The young girl had already mixed with the mud on the ground, splashing radially in all directions.

Mud, flesh, bones... the cruel mixture of colors made Conan look away reluctantly, but the remaining ten people still prayed silently at the mess on the ground.

What they saw was not death, but the hope of fulfilling their long-cherished wish!

Conan slammed his fist on the concrete slab. He turned his head to look at the remaining ten people and wanted to say something, but his words were blocked by their expressions.

"It's so dangerous, kid." Su Beixun smiled and lifted his collar: "Or do you have any wishes that you want me to help you realize?"

"Don't touch me!" Conan pushed his hand away, but he staggered two steps when he landed from mid-air and almost fell off the roof.

But he didn't care about that. He gritted his teeth and stared at the smiling face, the anger in his heart rising: "I won't let you go! I swear... one day I will..."

"I know, I know."

Su Beixun patted his head, interrupted the harsh words he blurted out, squatted down to keep the same height as him: "You always like to say this from the beginning, but... what's the use?"

"This cruel world never shows sympathy to the wishes of every downtrodden person."

The way he tilted his head was really hateful, Conan couldn't help but punched him hard! The strong feeling of the collision of flesh and skin came from the impact surface, and Conan was stunned.

"You..." He didn't expect that his attack, which seemed to be a vent of anger, would actually hit the target completely.

Su Beixun wiped the corners of his mouth with the back of his hand and smiled nonchalantly: "I just think that if you can't hurt me once in your life, it would be too cowardly."

"…Just think of it as me pitying you." He stood up, and his backlit position made Conan see a high wall.

The contemptuous tone instantly made him furious: "Since you have been working so hard to serve me, I will let you vent your anger with this punch."

lifetime? !
"You mean I'll never catch you?!" Conan was unwilling to accept it, but thinking about the current situation, he didn't have the courage to refute loudly.

Su Beixun looked at him meaningfully, without explaining, and just took a few steps back: "Come here, we are not the protagonists today."

Conan suddenly came back to his senses, he turned his head and was about to persuade the middle-aged man standing next to him, but the man spoke softly the moment the camera turned.

"My name is Chisato Ogawa, and I'm a useless drug developer."

There was self-mockery in his hoarse voice. He was wearing a white coat with his hands in his pockets, looking decadent and sloppy.

"Three years ago, I led my team to complete the analysis and drug development of a certain fatal tumor. But just when the data was complete and before we could put it into experiments, we were suppressed by a very famous consortium in the medical field, and they forcibly acquired our research data."

He smiled wryly and shook his head.

"To be honest, although I am angry about this, I don't have any other thoughts. After all, there are too many such cases, and the conditions offered by the other party are also generous, enough to support us to start the next research."

"Besides, the other party is a big company, and the progress of drug promotion is much faster than ours. Therefore, even if our team's name was not mentioned at all after the drug was launched, I didn't take it too seriously."

He paused, and a hint of pain suddenly appeared in his pupils.

"But I didn't expect that... a drug that costs no more than 500 yuan to produce would be sold at a price of 3 yuan per pill."

"I can accept price increases to spread the R&D costs, but I cannot accept pricing that is clearly only for profit."

Chisato Ogawa's smile was very bitter. He looked up at the bright and brilliant sky.

"Hope is really the cruelest thing..."

"Patients who would have only lamented the injustice of fate after getting sick are now willing to spend all their money for this glimmer of hope."

"Wearing the cheapest clothes, living in the most humble houses, eating the cheapest food...trying my best, just hoping to squeeze out a few more life-saving pills."

"Sometimes when they accidentally fall to the ground and can never be found again...the addictive hopes and gnawing regrets can even torture them to an even more painful death."

He suddenly collapsed and held his head.

"…This is completely contrary to my original intention of developing drugs! I didn't bring them any relief at all!"

White tears slid down her cheeks drop by drop, hitting the concrete slab, splashing out so much sadness.

"Maybe I'm just being sentimental..."

Chisato Ogawa fell forward.

"I know that the police may not mean much to those big corporations... so I won't make any requests that would embarrass you." "I never intended to hurt anyone... I just want to put these things on the table, hoping to attract everyone's attention."

"Perhaps, it will still be useless in the end. But this is the best way I can think of!"

The white figure fell straight down from the sky, and the noble soul broke free from the body that had turned into pulp, and flew towards his ideal future on the wind.

Conan felt very depressed. The two opposite emotions kept pulling at each other, making him feel more and more uncomfortable.

On the one hand, he understood very well how serious the consequences of the actions of these twelve people would be. But on the other hand, he could not blame them for making the wrong choice.

Being condemned because the victim spoke up for himself...there is no such thing in the world!
Officer Sato's eyes were also much emptier as she sat on the plane. She was no longer in pain like before when she was forced to make a decision against her will. Instead, she became confused and at a loss because of her own hesitation.

As a police officer, is she really on the side of justice at this moment?

She couldn't make such a conclusion.

Sato buried her face between her arms and knees, thinking that this was really terrible! She actually began to agree with their actions from the bottom of her heart and began to question her own position sincerely.

It is conceivable-

If even the police themselves cannot remain firm, how much trust will the people watching TV across Japan have in the government?

"Dad..." She covered her chest with the police manual and said, "What should I do..."

……

A white cloud just covered the sun, making the dull atmosphere much cooler.

The fourth person to speak was the youngest of the twelve. He was only about 12 years old, wearing a blue and white striped hospital gown, and his exposed ankles and wrists were abnormally thin.

"My name is Miyazaki Qian'an."

The boy's voice was so weak that one had to tighten the receiver to hear it fully.

As he spoke, he took off his shirt, revealing a thin body with protruding ribs... and a huge scar on the left side of his waist.

"Two years ago, when I went to the hospital for a physical examination, the director found through the report that I was a very high match for his son who needed a kidney transplant."

“After my parents rejected his door-to-door sales, he kidnapped me and removed my left kidney in the hospital.”

"Before my parents called the police, he contacted members of the local underworld and killed them all. He also used his influence to suppress the heat of the whole incident."

He flashed a big smile to the camera.

"I am not like the previous two uncles and sisters. I am a kind and tolerant person. I just want... the dean and his son to die before me!"

He smiled brightly, but anyone could see the anger beneath his smile.

"Miyazaki……"

Conan spoke up despite himself. He knew his actions must be very annoying, but there were some things he just couldn't sit back and watch happen.

After a pause, seeing the child turning his head to look at him, Conan asked in a deep voice: "Please believe me! The police will definitely give you justice! So... don't jump, okay?"

“That’s fair…”

Miyazaki Qian'an looked at his skinny body tiredly.

"But even if I don't jump today, I don't have much time left."

"Do you know how much pain I have endured to make it to this day? I had to have my blood drawn, had to undergo surgery repeatedly, and was always fixed on that small bed."

"Police justice? Are you trying to tell me that I have to use my life and a lifetime of pain to exchange for that bastard's fate of spending ten years in jail?!"

Miyazaki Qian'an looked at him expressionlessly: "Why?"

…because of the law.

Conan really wanted to say that, but when he looked at the child's ravaged body, he couldn't open his mouth.

after an hour.

A fat father and son were pushed onto the rooftop by the silent police. They knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly, making all kinds of promises.

But Miyazaki Qian'an just shook his head.

He took a small step back, letting his heels dangle in the air.

"Dean... a child's desire for revenge is very serious!"

Amid two muffled gunshots, Miyazaki Qian'an smiled and fell face down from the rooftop.

On the TV screen, four simple numbers...seemed like blood!

……

The fifth person to speak was a white-haired old man, dressed simply, standing shakily on the edge with a cane.

"My name is Inoue Xiu. I came here today to seek justice for my son, Inoue Rui."

He spoke calmly, but his eyes revealed regret.

"Seven years ago, my son, who was out exercising, witnessed a robbery deep in the alley."

"Because I am a teacher, I taught him to be righteous since he was young. So, when he saw this kind of thing, he rushed out without hesitation."

"The robber stabbed the woman in a panic, and then my son scared her away. But she was sent to the doctor in time and she survived."

"My son paid all her medical expenses out of guilt."

"But when the police questioned her afterwards, she might have been angry because my son rushed over and injured her, or she might have been afraid of the robber's revenge..."

"That woman insisted in front of the police that it was my son who kidnapped and hurt her!"

"……Then……"

"My son committed suicide in prison!"

The old man tightened his grip on his cane.

Conan pursed his lips: "So... you want that woman to pay for your son's life"

"No." The old man shook his head slowly.

"I have been a teacher all my life and never thought of doing something like taking someone's life."

"Besides..."

"In the suicide note my son wrote to me, he said that the woman had every right to hate him and that he didn't blame her because he was the one who hurt her... That child, until his death, only regretted tarnishing my lifelong reputation!"

Tears kept flowing down his old face, and the old man choked up: "That kind of thing...is nothing compared to my child's life!"

The whimpering sound mixed with the wind flew far away.

He wiped his eyes with the back of his hand: "My request is simple... I just want to hear the police apologize to my son for this incident!"

This simple request was like a mountain that crushed Conan's spine.

"sorry!!!"

High in the sky, Officer Sato in the helicopter cried out with emotion, "I'm so sorry... All of this is the fault of our police force!!"

The old man was stunned for a moment, then a relieved smile appeared on his face: "That's enough."

He closed his eyes and fell forward.

The air whizzed past my ears.

But suddenly!
But one hand grabbed the crutch he was holding!
"What are you doing?!"

Xiaolan, who had rushed onto the rooftop at some point, stretched her hand downwards desperately: "Hurry up... grab my hand!!"

(End of this chapter)