Becoming Professor Moriarty's Probability

Chapter 89: Realization

"Mr. Adler, why aren't you responding?"

"........"

"It seems your professor's words no longer sound like words to you, huh?"

At that moment, Adler wondered if he should spring up from the bed and get a bottle of vodka. Anything to get out of this situation.

"Do you want to keep repeating the grade, your points deducted for unknown and unjustified reasons, thus staying in the academy until you are past your twenties?"

"Well, that's..."

He stuttered, feeling a shiver down his spine from the Professor's following whisper.

"Actually, that sounds rather nice."

".......?"

"Because it means I will get to spend my youth with you, Professor."

As he responded with an innocent smile on his face, the Professor gazed down at him, keeping her silence for a moment.

"Mr. Adler."

"Yes, Professor."

"I want to hear an answer that deserves a perfect score, not from the perspective of a lover but the right-hand man that serves the ruler of the back alleys."

A short while later, she climbed onto Adler's bed with a frigid smile and whispered.

"Maybe it would have worked any other time, but not today, I'm afraid."

"... When has it ever worked, anyway?"

"It always did. To be honest, it's been quite amusing to watch my cute assistant wrack his brain and scurry about here and there."

Her eyes shone darkly as she spoke.

"Ever since observing an ant that had strayed from its colony when I was young, I haven't had such a delightful experience."

"... You had a cute side even when you were young, I see."

"At that time, I quickly grew bored and crushed the creature with my finger, but that's beside the point."

The professor remarked, quietly mounting atop Adler's abdomen soon after.

"That was my first kill, I suppose."

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

"It was such an intense experience, one that I still remember to this day."

Then, gently grasping Adler's neck, she whispered to him in a soft voice.

"Although you're not an ant, I think I can give you a similar experience."

"........."

"It won't involve taking your life, of course. But you'll become the victim of a crime that will be the first and last of its kind, that I shall enact in this life of mine."

"I would have enjoyed it under normal circumstances, but right now, I'm not quite in the mood, you see."

Adler looked up at her silently as his eyes turned into a shade of bloody red.

"I won't just sit idly by, Professor."

"That's a very good attitude, Mr. Adler."

However, hearing his defiant reply, the Professor's expression brightened instead.

"If you resist like this, what I am about to do to you in five minutes will definitely be regarded as a heinous crime."

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