Chapter 43: Light and Shadow

"Do you admit that you killed someone?" Conan asked.

"of course."

Su Beixun looked at the recorder he was holding and admitted calmly: "Even if you call the police now, I will say the same thing into the phone."

"……Yeah?"

After a moment of silence, Conan jumped off the chair and said, "Then you can look forward to your future life in prison...if you are not sentenced to death."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah."

Su Beixun leaned his upper body on the table, turned his head to look at Conan who was blocked by the table, and said playfully: "You are really heartless. According to your personality, shouldn't you tell me to reform myself and start a new life?"

Conan snorted, stared at him, and said word by word: "You are hopeless!"

"Really? Then according to the procedure, do I have to escape now?"

Su Beixun stretched his back, stood up, walked back to the bedroom, took out a dark coat from the closet and put it on, shook the wrinkled corners of the coat, and chuckled, "You better be quick, otherwise, you won't be able to find me."

"Don't worry!"

Conan took out an ear-drop phone from his ear: "Just now when I jumped off the table, I used the blind spot to call the police."

"It's too late to escape now... Of course, if you want to turn yourself in, that's another matter."

Conan's glasses flashed a white light. He lowered his head slightly, put his hands in his trouser pockets, and said with a hint of sarcasm: "Or do you want to kill me now to vent your anger, and then continue to escape into the dark underground like a rat."

The familiar loud voice of Inspector Megure rang out from the other end of the line: "Hello! Is this Conan and Subei? Although I don't quite understand what happened, you must stay calm! The police will be here soon."

Su Beixun didn't take it seriously and chuckled, "Rat? This sentence is very similar to another person's catchphrase."

He smiled and walked over to take the phone from Conan's hand. After hanging up, he grabbed Conan's hair and walked around him to the door: "But don't be nervous. I told you, you are special."

His back looks so thin under the light, like the phantom of time: "In this world, light and shadow always go hand in hand. Crime and detective are like the two poles that make up the world."

"Compared to the strength of one side, people are more willing to praise the success after a difficult confrontation. If I can't use the defeated detective as the background, then my script of becoming the top legend will seem a bit disappointing!"

He chuckled, "Get it, Kudo? You're my chosen detective!"

After all, as the protagonist of the world, Conan's cognition has the greatest feedback on the [World Goal]. Continuously deepening the degree of one's guilt in his heart is definitely a shortcut to increase the goal progress!
Su Beixun raised the corner of his mouth, turned his back to Conan and walked towards the door. It was hard to tell whether his expression was confident or arrogant: "So, come and hunt me! You will be the light that chases me and illuminates my path to becoming king."

"Ah!"

Conan sneered and said mercilessly: "Have you not grown up yet? King, devil, legend and so on, from just now on, the middle school feeling of talking to yourself seems to be overflowing!"

Su Beixun smiled nonchalantly: "What's wrong with this? Only paranoid people who are immersed in their own world can accomplish things that are shocking to ordinary people! Just like you, the Sherlock Holmes of the Heisei era, aren't you also complacent about this?"

Conan snorted, and the anesthetic needle he had been aiming at for a long time shot out: "Then I'll arrest you here, and everything will be over!"

However, the anesthetic needle aimed at his neck missed!

Su Beixun tilted his neck and turned around.

Conan found out in disbelief that the other person had turned into another face!

"...Disguise..."

He uttered three words bitterly.

Conan is no stranger to this, of course, as his mother is a master of disguise. This ability is quite practical, but when it comes to opponents, it is extremely tricky!

No wonder he was confident he could escape the police!
Conan's premonition became worse and worse!
He rushed back to the dining table, picked up the drink on it, and kicked Su Beixun in the face.

The beverage bottle was like a cannonball, with a whistling wind and amazing force. But Su Beixun just turned sideways and passed by it.

"Goodbye, great detective... I hope you can still recognize me when we meet next time."

The black figure disappeared outside the door. "Damn it!!"

Conan yelled and rushed out as well.

He couldn't let the other party escape so easily!

After rushing out of the room, he stopped suddenly and broke his ankle due to the sudden braking.

For some unknown reason, Su Beixun stayed in the courtyard and did not leave.

"Hey, Conan? Why are you also at classmate Su Bei's house?"

Hearing the sound of him opening the door, Xiaolan poked her head out from the side - she was completely blocked by Su Beixun and completely invisible from Conan's perspective.

"Xiao... Xiaolan... Sister?"

Conan was stunned: "You...why are you here?"

Xiaolan raised the lunch box in her hand and said with a smile, "I wanted to bring some food to classmate Su Bei, but when I got to the hospital I found that he had already passed away, so I came to his house to check on him."

Then she said in a distressed tone, "But this gentleman just said that classmate Su Bei is not at home... Really, he is obviously injured, but he is still running around like this?"

Conan came to his senses and yelled, "Sister Xiaolan, stop him! He is Su Beixun!"

"Eh?"

Xiaolan subconsciously looked at the man who was about to pass her, and the other man turned his head and looked at her calmly.

Looking at his completely unfamiliar face, Xiaolan laughed twice, put her hands on her hips and said to Conan: "What are you talking about, kid?"

Conan wanted to step forward, but the pain in his ankle forced him to stay where he was: "I didn't lie to you, Sister Xiaolan! Catch him quickly, he's a murderer!"

Xiaolan turned her head again and met the other person's clear and helpless eyes again.

"I don't know what's wrong with this kid." He spread his hands innocently: "I'm Su Beixun's friend. Before he wanted to leave, this kid suddenly rushed out and said that I killed someone or something."

Of course, between adults and children, the words of the former are more convincing. Mao Lilan hesitated for a moment but still believed it. She bowed slightly and apologized: "I'm so sorry, my father is a detective, and this child must be imitating him in solving cases. I'm sorry to trouble you."

Su Beixun waved his hand to indicate that it was okay.

He avoided Xiaolan's sight, gave Conan a nasty and provocative look, and walked leisurely towards the entrance of the yard.

"Damn it! Don't even think about escaping!"

Conan wanted to chase, but the pain in his ankle made him fall to the ground involuntarily, and his glasses flew off his face.

Damn it, it has to be this time!
Can the police catch a man who is proficient in disguise after he escapes?

Conan has no confidence in this!

He pounded the ground unwillingly, staring at Su Beixun's disappearing back.

Su Beixun listened to the noise behind him and couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. [Disaster] only made him sprain his ankle? It seems that Conan is really lucky!
That’s right, otherwise, based on his skateboarding stunts, he would have died countless times.

"Conan, how are you? Are you hurt anywhere?"

Seeing him fall to the ground, Mao Lilan hurried forward and helped him up.

Oh, and there’s Xiaolan!
Conan eagerly grabbed Mao Lilan's hand!

With Xiaolan's karate, she will definitely be able to stop Su Beixun!
but……

How can he make Xiaolan believe what he said...

(End of this chapter)