"Xiao Qing, you know that she wants to commit suicide, right?"
In the living room, just when Karasuma was about to leave, Hatoyama Keiko spoke again.
In the room at this time, Hatoyama Keiko and the boy were sitting side by side on the same sofa. Hatoyama Keiko turned her head and looked at the boy with a calm expression.
Karasumaru was standing near the door. After hearing Keiko Hatoyama's words, she instinctively stopped and looked back at the two of them.
At this moment, the uneasiness that had just dissipated in her heart surged again.
"Um."
The boy didn't hide anything, nodded, and then added:
“There were some powdery particles on the edge of her tea cup, but where she poured the tea, I didn’t see any condiments that matched those powders.
We can only speculate that when she knew that I was coming to ask her about the case again, she had already anticipated this result, so she prepared poison on her body, and when she got up to pour tea, she poisoned herself. in the tea cup. "
Hearing this, Keiko Hatoyama slowly looked away. She lowered her head again and looked at her toes wearing split socks.
"Now that you know it, why don't you stop her?"
Kuboi Riko didn't just pour the tea and drink it in one gulp. After she brought the tea over, until she actually picked up the teacup and drank the cup of poisoned tea, she had already noticed that the boy was abnormal many times. There was an opportunity to stop her, but he didn't do it. Instead, he just watched Luzi Kuboi drink this cup of poisonous tea.
Hatoyama Keiko considers herself not a womanly person, but she still does not approve of the boy's behavior.
Indeed, Kuboi Riko killed several people in a row and was guilty of serious crimes. In the end, she poisoned herself. To the ordinary people, she would only say that she deserved it.
However, the police are different.
As a police officer, no matter how vicious the criminal is, he cannot instigate or promote the criminal's self-destruction based on his inner preferences and preferences.
This kind of mentality is a taboo for the police.
Because people's hearts are numb, especially for boys who often deal with various serious criminal cases and deal with all kinds of vicious criminals.
Today you can stop treating the criminal's life as a human life, tell yourself that she deserves it, and feel at ease with it.
Tomorrow, maybe you will not regard the lives of other hostages as human lives in some extreme situations, and gradually become a cold-blooded machine that only acts to achieve its own mission targets.
Human life cannot be weighed by quantity or value, because once you make this kind of weighing in your mind and form it into a habit, your humanity will change.
This kind of psychological numbness, this kind of inner gap, will be gradually amplified as people break through their own bottom line again and again, and become numb again and again.
This is something Keiko Hatoyama absolutely does not want to see.
"Because she wanted to commit suicide. I noticed it. This was a strong desire in her heart. Therefore, I didn't want to stop her anymore." The boy replied truthfully.
He gave Hatoyama Keiko the answer she expected, but it was the answer she didn't want to hear.
Ever since Aunt Shirakawa was killed a few years ago, Hatoyama Keiko has been vaguely aware of the negative changes in the boy.
And today, when she witnessed the boy sitting and watching Kuboi Miko commit suicide, Hatoyama Keiko's inner worry reached an extreme.
A change that even the boy himself was not aware of was quietly taking place in his body.
It is true that boys do care about the people around them and will be anxious for them, worried and worried about them.
But beyond that?
The boy showed "equal" indifference to everyone except those around him, and he had no regard for their lives.
The boy sitting back and watching Kuboi's suicide today is the most obvious manifestation of this situation.
Because she has such a strong desire, I won't stop her.
Yes, this seems to be the boy's respect for Kuboi Riko's choice, but in essence, it is the boy's disregard for the lives of people like Kuboi Riko who have nothing to do with him.
If today's Kuboi Road was replaced by Hatoyama Keiko or Kokarasuma, would the boy still "respect" their choices so calmly?
Absolutely not.
Not only that, the boy will try his best to stop it.
Keiko Hatoyama is extremely convinced of this.
However, the boy was unaware of this, and he didn't even realize what the problem with his behavior was.
He only felt that he respected Luzi Kuboi's choice and allowed her to have the ending she expected.
The landmine that was planted a few years ago finally showed its power for the first time today.
More than four years ago, after Aunt Baihe was killed, the boy recovered from his grief at an extremely fast speed and seemed to have completely cheered up.
But only Keiko Hatoyama, who knew the boy's character well, knew that all this had not happened at all. The boy had just buried this landmine deeply, and it was brewing quietly in a place where outsiders could not see.
Therefore, since then, Hatoyama Keiko and the boy have been almost inseparable.
Regardless of her declining physical condition, she went to various crime scenes with him to investigate, and went to college with him to attend classes.
After Karasuma returned to Japan, she even deliberately guided this optimistic, innocent and energetic girl to build a good friendship between her and the boy.
As time goes by, Hatoyama Keiko gradually realizes that her physical condition is no longer enough to support her to stay with the boy all the time, so she needs to find an equally suitable person to continue her work for her when she is unable to do anything. It affects the boy, and for a long enough time, it subtly eliminates the landmine buried deep in the boy's heart.
Keiko Hatoyama believes that this is the most appropriate approach, but it just takes time.
Of course, she might also be able to use another faster and more direct method.
She could use herself as a "shackle" to forcefully change... and restrain the boy.
Hatoyama Keiko naturally knew what a special place she had in the boy's heart.
She also knew that as long as she opened her mouth, as long as she said it——
"Xiao Qing, I hope you can become a good and upright policeman.
I hope you care about everyone's life, no matter what the relationship between that person and you, no matter that person's identity is a criminal, a hostage or an innocent citizen, I hope you can treat them equally in the future. "
As long as she says these words, the boy will never do anything like what happened to Kuboi Road today.
But in this case, is the landmine hidden in the boy's heart really gone?
Using "shackles" to restrain a boy or using yourself as a "shackle" is both cunning and despicable.
Keiko Hatoyama would rather take longer to slowly eliminate the negative feelings in the boy's heart.
She still has enough time.
She would never do such a despicable act...
Absolutely not.
(˙ー˙) Yesterday’s second chapter was blocked, but it has been modified and unblocked. Some sensitive words were simply deleted, and then the details of the title were modified. But combined with the previous chapter, reading should not be a problem... Tsk, I had expected it.
(End of chapter)
