Chapter 503: Unchangeable Fate

Granting both sides a chance to choose again... the choice of human nature... this person's perspective is truly high enough.

Edogawa Conan could hear Ren Amamiya's indifferent attitude; on this point alone, he felt Ren Amamiya was putting on an act, even standing too high.

This point indeed had a bit of a charlatan's flavor. The way of speaking was also very much like a fortune-teller, saying half and hiding half.

On this point, Edogawa Conan did not feel anything was wrong; after all, those who play at fortune-telling should all be like this.

But what made him feel uncomfortable was that this person had already identified who the murderer and the victim were, yet was still here acting as a riddler that no one could understand.

However, Edogawa Conan temporarily set aside this uncomfortable feeling, after all, everything Ren Amamiya said was based on fortune-telling he could not believe.

He could not be too emotional because of words spoken by the other party based on fortune-telling; after all, the operation of predicting the victim and the murderer in advance was also a bit bizarre.

Moreover, from Ren Amamiya speaking such words so publicly, his thoughts were easy to guess: it was to change the fate of the victim and the murderer.

It was just that Ren Amamiya brought up the topic to let the victim and the murderer change on their own, rather than directly revealing the other party's names.

Perhaps this was also to give the victim and the murderer a reason to choose.

Edogawa Conan could roughly understand Ren Amamiya's methods, yet he felt such methods might cause established facts that would not change.

"Not speaking the names... is it also to give them room for redemption?"

Kogoro Mouri's rapidly working brain soon understood the reason why this boy in front of him had not stated it plainly.

Ren Amamiya made no rebuttal to this; this was the chance for choice he had given, and he simply began to gather the tarot cards on the table.

"Mr. Mouri can take my words as a joke, or take my words as a revelation. However, I think forcibly changing other people's choices is meaningless; only a thorough change within oneself can possibly change established fate."

"It is just a pity that Mr. Mouri should have lost the chance to seek answers through questioning. When I spoke the fortune-telling content, the victim and the killer should have already made decisions in their hearts, absolutely not revealing their own situation."

"If you want to change the fate of these two, Mr. Mouri also needs to spend some effort. Perhaps you can talk to your old classmates, but I think you need to have enough understanding to judge whether someone is deliberately concealing something."

"Ah, by the way, there is also a hint for Mr. Mouri. Do not think of using a detective's way to find clues; sometimes the clues obtained may be fatal. The only way to change other people's fate is to find the corresponding person and speak the topic clearly."

While speaking, Ren Amamiya had already gathered all the tarot cards on the table, and they had all disappeared from his hands, just like a magical trick.

After finishing these words of reminder, Ren Amamiya stood up from his seat and nodded slightly to Atsushi Omura, who had just made way for him.

"Thank you."

"You're welcome."

Atsushi Omura finally came to his senses and instinctively returned the greeting.

"Let's go back, Ran."

"Mm. Dad, I'll come back later."

As Ren Amamiya's words fell, Mao Li Lan, who had just pressed her own father into his seat, immediately followed.

The two quickly walked out of the hot spring inn; only after completely walking out of the visual range near the hot spring inn did Mao Li Lan speak.

"Ren Ren, the victim is Aunt Yumi, right?"

"Mm. The heartbeat?"

"And the breathing sound; Aunt Yumi's pupils constricted, and her lips tightened when she heard those words. Although the change was not great, it could be observed."

Given that heartbeat speed was too fast, Mao Li Lan confirmed the victim's identity almost instantly.

Compared to the victim's identity, she was more surprised by the killer's identity.

"The killer is Uncle Nakamichi?"

Ren Amamiya nodded slightly.

"Then did Uncle Nakamichi and Aunt Yumi have been in love for the past 18 years?"

Mao Li Lan uttered a sound of shock in disbelief, yet more in her voice was incomprehension.

"Then did Uncle Nakamichi know about Aunt Yumi's mental problems?"

Ren Amamiya shook his head slightly.

"He did not know."

"Did not know? For 18 years they were dating and he still did not know about Aunt Yumi's mental illness?"

Mao Li Lan simply could not believe her ears.

Ren Amamiya smiled and shook his head, taking Xiao Lan's hand.

"Xiao Lan, if you were almost raped in the past, would you tell me such a thing?"

"I certainly... would not... ah!"

Almost instantly, Mao Li Lan wanted to hide her past dark history, and her instinctive answer made her realize it.

"So, Aunt Yumi has always been concealing her past from Uncle Nakamichi?"

"For any woman, that is the greatest stain; even if the final result was successfully resisting the rape, how can such a thing be spoken? That is a scar; even after it heals, it leaves a trace."

Ren Amamiya knew this point too well.

Any woman, after facing such a thing, would be unable to speak of it without burden afterwards.

Mao Li Lan could not help but speak:

"Then does that mean if you help speak out, the result between Aunt Yumi and Uncle Nakamichi will change?"

But this expectation was shattered coldly by Ren Amamiya 700.

"Impossible to change. The result is already destined; when that Mr. decided to settle it once and for all, they were destined to have no hope anymore. Moreover, that lady's every hope was completely shattered just now; she is already unable to continue facing that Mr."

Mao Li Lan was also struck by the cruel, real words. But she also understood very clearly that the words Ren Ren spoke had already destined the two to never return.

After waiting for Xiao Lan's emotions to improve a bit, Ren Amamiya continued the topic from before:

"However devoted that Mr. was for the previous 18 years, the resentment that Mr. feels now will be that strong. Eighteen years of feelings received no response at all; the disappointed him chose to give up, yet the result became that the fiancée he had just engaged with for half a month was threatened by a letter."

"Unwilling to accept the proposal, and after actively giving up, it led to the fiancée now being threatened. Regardless of whether that lady has a mental illness, that Mr. has already endured to the limit."

"This is not the fault of either party; it is just that fate's meeting created a situation now that cannot be retrieved."

From the perspective of an onlooker, that Mr. and that lady actually each had no fault, yet the things that happened to them created the situation now.

"The fate of separation cannot be changed. But the fate of one death and one imprisonment may perhaps be changed."

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