"Then I'll leave first."
When returning to the ward, Hatoyama Keiko woke up and put her back on the bed. Xiao Qing said this.
"Um……"
She didn't say anything, she just responded softly and looked at him deeply, as if she wanted to imprint him completely in her mind.
"Get some rest. I'll be back soon."
After saying that, he was about to turn around and leave.
"Xiaoqing!"
But just when he was about to go out, Hatoyama Keiko's voice suddenly sounded behind him. Xiaoqing turned around and looked at her doubtfully.
"I have never regretted meeting you..." Keiko Hatoyama said these words.
"Keiko."
Xiao Qing looked at her with doubts in his eyes.
"Are you crying?"
She was stunned for a moment, then raised her hand to wipe her eyes, shook her head slowly, and gave him a smile.
"Be careful on the road, and be nice in the future...understood?"
At this moment, Xiao Qing suddenly felt uneasy in his heart.
However, he didn't ask in the end, he just nodded and smiled.
"Okay...I'll be back as soon as possible."
After adding these words, he left the ward.
Until the last moment when the door closed, Hatoyama Keiko's eyes never left him.
Although Bai Heqing felt uneasy, he never asked.
This was the decision he regretted most in his life.
At the same time, it was also the last time he saw Keiko Hatoyama alive.
"..."
Keiko Hatoyama left.
But what makes people feel extremely dramatic is that she did not leave quietly late at night or early in the morning one day in the not-too-distant future, as everyone had expected.
She did not wait until her real end was approaching, but was killed for more than a day after Bai Heqing left, in the early morning of that day, under the eyes of the criminal police in charge of guarding.
There were no signs of struggle at the scene, nor any cries for help. She seemed to have been killed quietly.
It was not until the next morning when the nurse responsible for taking care of her came in to check that she realized that she had been killed.
"Shirakawa! Wait! Inside now..."
"Get away!"
In the hospital, the usually deserted corridors with no one in sight were now crowded with countless people, most of whom were criminal policemen in police uniforms and medical staff in white coats.
"Wait! Baihe, you first..."
Bai Heqing, who hurried back from other counties, slapped the criminal police officer who was trying to block him at the door and broke into the ward directly.
Unlike the "liveliness" in the corridor, this ward is still deserted.
Apart from the two medical staff and a criminal police officer, the only ones left were Xiao Karasuma, who also rushed over after receiving the news, and an old man who was sitting by the bed, not angry or intimidating.
The detective was kneeling on the ground, crying with tears on his face. He looked extremely remorseful and remorseful, especially after seeing Bai Heqing come in.
On the bed, Hatoyama Keiko was lying there as usual, with a calm expression, as if she had fallen asleep.
But for some reason, her face was paler than ever before, without any blood... For some reason, the other side of her bed was stained red with blood. The blood fell along the edge of the bed to the floor and condensed. It turned into a dark red blood clot that was half dry and half wet.
His mind went blank and his pace suddenly slowed down.
Bai Heqing's pupils dilated. He walked forward blankly, his body swaying a little. He grabbed Hatoyama Keiko's already cold hand, bent over, tilted his head, and looked at the deep stripe on her wrist in disbelief. A deep wound, as if he was looking at something incredible.
He opened his mouth tremblingly, his throat moved several times, and finally he just asked in a hoarse voice.
"……Why?"
Seeing this scene, Xiao Karasuma looked away with moist eyes, and the old man sitting by the bed raised his hand and gently stroked the back of Bai Heqing's head like a loving elder.
"I'm sorry! Mr. Hatoyama! Officer Shirakawa! I'm sorry!"
At this suffocating moment, the detective who had been kneeling on the ground suddenly knocked his head to the ground and shouted loudly.
"It's all my fault! It was me who let the doctor in last night! I didn't expect that he would dare to attack Miss Hatoyama! It was me who only took a look at the door and didn't open the door and go in! It's my fault! It's all mine. Wrong! Sorry! Sorry!"
His shouts seemed to finally call Bai Heqing out of his daze. He slowly turned around and looked at the detective behind him.
"That doctor you mentioned...where is he?"
"He's gone! We went looking for him this morning! But he seemed...cough!"
Before he could finish speaking, Bai Heqing kicked him to the ground. He suddenly pulled out the pistol from his waist, instantly opened the safety, and aimed at the detective.
"Wood!" Xiao Karasuma quickly shouted to stop him.
His eyes were ferocious, filled with murderous intent that was so thick that it almost overflowed.
Killing intent... This was the first time that Karasumaru saw such a thing from Shirakawa Kiyoshi's eyes.
"Officer Shirakawa?!"
"Shirakawa! Put down the gun first!"
The detectives standing outside the door finally reacted and shouted, but no one dared to directly stop him.
As for the detective who was kicked to the ground by him, although he was shaking all over, he didn't hide or dodge, he just closed his eyes tightly.
Bai Heqing didn't seem to hear their voices. He still stared at the detective in front of him, with murderous intent and hatred in his eyes at the same time.
This was not a disguise. Anyone at the scene could feel that he really had a strong desire to kill the detective in front of him.
"presumptuous!"
It was at this moment that the old man, who had been silent since just now, suddenly burst out with a powerful shout.
"Who gave you the authority to point the gun at your colleagues?! Put the gun down!"
Bai Heqing's hand holding the gun trembled violently due to excessive force, but the index finger on the trigger was never able to pull it down.
"Mumu, listen to me, he is not the murderer. Let's put down the guns first, and then we go together to catch the bad guy who killed Keiko's sister. He won't be able to run far, and we will definitely be able to catch him... okay?"
As Kokarasuma said this, he slowly walked forward and gently reached out to take the pistol in Shirakawa Kiyoshi's hand.
However, before she could take down the pistol, Bai Heqing put down his hand.
At this moment, he seemed to have lost all his life, and his arms hung down weakly.
"sorry……"
With a smile that was uglier than crying, Bai Heqing looked at the detective on the ground and said with a smile:
"I'm sorry...it's my fault...I'm sorry..."
His bright and beautiful purple eyes gradually dimmed. He lowered his head and said meaninglessly. He didn't know who he was repeating this sentence to.
"Sorry...I'm sorry..."
Just like that, everything in the ward came to an end.
Hatoyama Keiko's death was quiet, but it was beyond everyone's expectations, especially for Sharon and Shirakawa Kiyo.
Their sun sets.
And what accompanied the departure of Hatoyama Keiko was a heavier and more rugged road to self-salvation for the two of them.
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(End of chapter)
