[HIATUS] The Scarlet Memories [Detective Conan OC] (English)

Chapter 13

- I lost the prey, but it cannot have gotten anywhere but the rooftop. It has no more escape.

- Very well, Cider. Report it the moment you get rid of this rat.

-  Yes, Gin-sama.

Huh ?

I hang up the phone and walk up the metallic stairs before me. I seem to be in the fire escape of a building.

Where am I ?

After having put the phone back in my pocket, I take with both hands a gun I was carrying as I get closer to the rooftop. I want to stop but by body moves, as if I was in someone else's.

The phone voice talked about a "rat"... What is it ?

Once I arrive upstairs, I lean on the wall just next to the entrance of the rooftop, enabling me not to be seen from the other side, although I made noise with my shoes on the stairs. I then hear a voice.

- Whoever you are, stay there and don't even try to come near !

...I know that voice...

I stand still a moment, and quickly step before the entrance, pointing my gun on the only person ahead.

S-Scotch ?!

He frowns at my sight, before smiling.

- Gin chose to send his dog instead of coming himself, huh ?

I put the safety of my gun off.

- Watch what you say.

His smile vanishes and he step back with his hands risen as I slowly approach. Not before long, he has his back touch the wall. Once I am close, something seems to catch his eyes and he steps toward me. I immediately raise my gun to aim at his head.

- Do not move.

- M...Miika ? Is it you ?

I freeze at his words and loosen my hold on the gun.

- How... How do you know this name...?

He makes a step closer.

- Miika, it's me, don't you recognize me ?

- ...Who are you ?

He takes the pistol from my hands. I immediately step back and raise my hands.

- I don't know where you got that name from, but good job... Nevertheless, I am not going to pray for my lif-

Before I finish my sentence, he drops the arm. Surprised, I don't react when Scotch approched quickly. I feel his arms embracing me.

- Thank God, you're alive. I've been searching for you for almost 20 years.

I freeze once again.

- Hiro...nii-chan ?