Becoming Professor Moriarty's Probability

Chapter 48: Gia Lestrade (2)

"Why all of a sudden...?"

"... Have you gone insane, Lestrade?"

Isaac Adler and Charlotte Holmes simultaneously asked Gia Lestrade, astonishment clearly evident in their voice.

"I am sane and well."

Saying so in a chilly tone, she expressionlessly lifted the coffee cup in front of her.

"If you're sane, then why..."

– Chomp...

While Adler looked at Lestrade with a puzzled expression, Charlotte Holmes, who had been quietly biting her nails, soon spoke up.

"... This man is trash, Lestrade."

"Miss Holmes?"

"Many women have been ruined because of this man. You probably will be too."

"It doesn't matter."

Even after that, Lestrade responded while gazing at Isaac Adler with an expressionless gaze.

"From today onwards, I will be dating Isaac Adler."

Charlotte's eyes began to darken at those words.

"This is the most logical solution I've come to after careful deliberation."

Thanks to that, the atmosphere turned slightly chilly and Lestrade began speaking as she took a sip of her coffee.

"Mr. Isaac Adler."

"... Yes."

"As Miss Holmes said, you are utter trash."

Hearing her cold and unfeeling voice, Adler, donning a blank gaze, flinched ever so slightly.

"Many women cried, suffered, and ultimately were tragically devastated because of you."

"That's..."

"Yet, there's no way I can legally punish you for it."

"........."

"Instead, the women whose lives were ruined by you ended up in prison for trying to harm you"

Lestrade's gaze was as cold as chilling frost when she looked at Adler.

"I've been trailing you for the past month, hoping to catch even a hint of your illegal actions, but it was fruitless."

"... That is, of course, an obvious outcome."

"Therefore, I've come to one conclusion."

Ignoring Adler's muttering, she put her coffee cup on the desk and spoke.

"I will like you."

And then, a chilling silence began to spread between them.

"And I will date you."

""..........""

"So, don't touch other women from now on."

Lestrade's voice echoed quietly in that chilling silence.

"I will be your only lover, so I ask you to be satisfied with only me"

"Uh, um..."

"No matter how much you think about it, this is the only way to break the constant vicious cycle you create with your inhumane actions."

Adler, who was blinking with a lost expression on his face, suddenly caught the expression of Charlotte sitting across from him in the corner of his eyes.

"Miss Lestrade, I understand what you're saying. What can I say? It's a decision that is very like you, I suppose...?"

Upon hearing her statements, Charlotte, already guessing what she really meant by those words, hastily opened her mouth,