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

Chapter 15

This drawing was done when I was writing the 1st few chapters... As she was originally supposed to witness Hiro's death, there's blood on Miika's clothes and face. It's now untrue, but I'm too lazy to fix it lol 😂

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I just heard footsteps lower in the staircase. I turn around to join Scotch but suddenly hear a gunshot.

No...

Without thinking, I run to where I left Scotch and Akai. Once at the door, I freeze at the view. Scotch is on the floor. A blood stain and a bullet are embedded in the wall he is against. Akai takes the smoking pistol in his bloodstained hands.

- Hiro... nii-chan...

I walk over toward his corpse, blood slowly flowing from his wound. Akai turns to me.

- "Nii-chan"?

Once near them, I squat beside Scotch.

- Sorry. The noise from the stairs made me drop the gun. By the time I realized it, he had already shot himself.

Akai takes the gun and brings his free hand to Scotch's chest. He takes a bullet-pierced cell phone from his shirt pocket.

- I see... He took my gun to destroy it... There must be information about his family and relatives on this phone...

Then he turns to me.

- ... But you don't care, do you?

The footsteps approaching faster and faster, I dry my tears and try to keep calm. Akai gets up slowly and starts talking as soon as the person arrives.

- Traitors must be punished, right?

Bourbon runs towards us and kneels in front of Scotch. He takes him by the shoulders, looking panicked.

- Oï, Scotch! Hold on !

He takes the corpse's pulse and brings his ear to its chest.

- Shit.

Akai takes a step back and wipes the blood off his cheek.

- It's useless. He's already dead.

These words strike me as a stab in the heart. I get up and join him. Bourbon turns to us, his face twisted with hatred.

- Rye, Cider, you bastards...

- Haven't you heard? He was a traitor serving the Japanese secret service ... The pity is that by killing him I destroyed the phone that was in his pocket. Now it is impossible to know who he was...

Akai turns and heads for the exit.

- I feel like having killed a ghost, that's creepy...

I turn to Bourbon before getting up and following the raven haired. If one look could kill, Akai and I would be dead.

Scotch was surely more than a colleague to him ...