dmims Chapter 189: The Detective's Devil
Chapter 189: The Detective's Devil
Around the time when Jane Moriarty and Gia Lestrade received the error-filled suspicious message, hastily composed by Adler,
- Squeeze...
“What are you doing?”
As Charlotte sat atop Adler’s stomach, flashing him a dark smile, she abruptly gripped his hand before questioning,
“Oh, that... Well...”
“My, my hand was itchy, so I was scratching it...”
Under her watchful gaze, Adler looked at her with an anxious gaze before murmuring in a low voice. Unease oozed out of his every action.
“... Really?”
“Mm.”
“Look me in the eye and tell that to me again.”
However, as Charlotte leaned forward, her voice chilly and her gaze looking down at him, Adler’s attempt at composure crumbled and his eyes rolled in a dizzying fit of nervousness.
“Are you lying again?”
“No, it’s just...”
“Adler. Do you hate me?”
Observing his flustered response, Charlotte’s voice grew even darker as she posed the question, her words heavy with implication.
“Is your hatred for me so strong that you would call out to an old hag, who has lived for a few centuries more than you, who doesn’t feel the slightest bit of love for you, who rapes you daily out of possessiveness and a desire to control and dominate you...”
“That
“Then why were you secretly sending messages with your hands hidden behind your back...?”
Adler, attempting to extricate himself from the situation by twisting and turning his body, realised that Charlotte was using her mana to pin his body down and there was nothing he could do to get out. Frustrated, he closed his eyes and sighed in resignation.
“... Let’s be real here. What even is the difference between you and the professor?”
“.....?”
“It’s the same forced situation...”
Adler’s voice trailed off weakly.
“Adler, what are you talking about?”
Charlotte, blinking rapidly as she listened to his last desperate attempt, tilted her head curiously while gazing down at him.
“Do you really not understand the difference?”
At her statement, Adler, quietly observing her reaction, shook his head from side to side.
“Haa...”
Charlotte, exhaling softly, whispered the explanation directly in his ear.
“To start, the Professor doesn’t love you now, does she? Yet she forces herself upon you to prove you are her possession.”
“That’s, actually a bit different...”
“Furthermore, you do love me, don’t you?”
Charlotte’s voice was eerily calm, but the look in her eyes, dark and abyssal, suggested a different emotion.
“Our relationship is different from the twisted bond you share with that monstrous lizard. I love you, and you love me too.”
“...”
“Isn’t that right?”
Charlotte continued explaining her side, however, when she received no response from Adler, her eyes narrowed and he gazed ominously at him, demanding a response.
“Y-Y-Yes.”
“...”
“... I love you.”
With a terrified look in his eyes, Adler muttered those words and then slightly blushed, turning his head to the side. Seeing that, her eyes finally regained their light.
- Haaah...
“... Huh!?”
Eventually, in that state, she bit Adler’s neck.
- Nibble, nibble...
“Wait a minute...”
- Slurp...
After burying her head in his neck and nibbling on Adler’s skin for a while, Charlotte slowly raised her head and wiped her mouth with her sleeve.
“... Moreover.”
Then, with a more tranquil gaze, she added to her explanation.
“You were the one who seduced me first.”
Hearing that, Adler had nothing to say anymore, so he shut his mouth.
“You were the one who approached me first when I was investigating a case. Not to mention, you were secretly in love with me even before our first encounter.”
That was all Adler could muster while he stared at Charlotte, who began stroking his cheek in the meantime, with clear terror in his eyes.
“Please be gentle...”
And then he uttered his last words.
“What to do...”
Meanwhile, Charlotte who blinked for a moment after hearing his pitiful request,
“... I’m not sure I can pay heed to that request.”
The moment she began unbuttoning her coat with a sinister smile,
“Just a minute!!!”
As if he had hit a home run in the bottom of the ninth innings, Adler, with eyes wide, stretched out his hands and urgently raised his voice,
“I, I had forgotten about something...!”
“Why? Do you still have a reason?”
Charlotte, looking at him with a puzzled expression, soon twisted her expression quietly.
“I, I have a terminal illness? I’m dying in just six months...”
“If you do this now, I won’t be able to take responsibility now, will I?”
And with that silence drenched the room.
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“... Have I not yet explained the final reason?”
In the silence, Charlotte finally opened her mouth after staring at Adler for a while.
“Unlike that lizard, who can hardly get pregnant as she’s a different species altogether, I can become pregnant with your child right away.”
“Did you, did you not hear anything I said? In six months I...”
“That’s why I’m doing this.”
Her voice was eerily calm.
“At first, I thought about killing myself to save you.”
“That, that’s...!”
“But then, I thought you would live in misery forever if I were to do that.”
Her expression did not mirror the calmness in her voice, however.
“So, I will embrace you.”
Engulfed in a darkness blacker than ever before, but with a smile brighter than he had ever seen her make, Charlotte continued,
“I’ll carry your genes, combine them with mine... and give birth to a child who resembles you.”
“Um...”
“And I will raise the child wholeheartedly all my life, remembering you.”
“That’s the ending I’ve chosen for us.”
With that, her speech ended and a brief silence descended between the duo.
“Shall we move somewhere else then...?”
“Let’s do that. I was planning to confuse our location to evade detection anyway.”
Realising that he had gotten it all wrong amid the silence, Adler, trying to buy some time, threw out his suggestion which Charlotte gladly accepted.
“And maybe we could go on a date for a day, and take it slow...”
“Haaah...”
However, his overtly frank remark led Charlotte to sigh quietly and speak again.
“Choose one of the two.”
“What, what do you mean?”
“... Do you want me to fuck you like a dog right here and now? Or shall we go to a love hotel and make love as we lovingly embrace each other?”
That statement was enough to completely freeze Adler’s thinking process.
“Please, be gentle...”
Nevertheless, hoping for some unexpected turn of events while moving, Adler finally muttered.
“But as I said before, I can’t guarantee that request.”
Regrettably, contrary to usual circumstances, no variables occurred along the way as Adler and Charlotte checked into a room in a nearby love hotel.