Ch.189Chapter 189 – The Detective’s Devil

Just as I was about to receive a suspicious message full of typos that Professor Moriarty and Inspector Lestrade had written in such a hurry.

– Squeeze…

“What are you doing?”

Sharlotte, sitting on top of Issac Adler’s stomach, was holding his hand and asking with a dark smile.

“Ah, that… well. You see…”

“……..”

“My, my hand was itchy so I was scratching it…”

Adler nervously glanced at her before muttering in a low voice.

“…Really?”

“Ugh.”

“Look me in the eyes and say that again.”

But when Sharlotte leaned down and whispered in a cold voice, Adler’s eyes, which had been trying to maintain composure, began to waver.

“You’re lying again?”

“No, it’s just…”

“Adler. Do you dislike me?”

Seeing his reaction, Sharlotte asked in an even darker voice, dropping formalities.

“Enough to call that old man who’s lived at least several centuries longer than you, who feels no emotion of love and just rapes you day after day out of possessiveness and desire to dominate…?”

“That’s not it…”

“Then why were you secretly hiding your hand behind your back and sending a message…?”

Adler, who had been trying to twist his body slightly to escape the situation, closed his eyes in resignation when he realized Sharlotte was using mana to pin him down.

“…How, how is this any different from what you and the professor do?”

“….?”

“For-forcing yourself on me is the same thing…”

His voice finally emerged, trembling and small.

“Adler, what are you saying?”

Sharlotte, who had been blinking as she listened to his final resistance, tilted her head and questioned him.

“Are you really asking because you don’t know the difference?”

At those words, Adler quietly watched her reaction before shaking his head.

“Haah…”

Sharlotte sighed quietly, then began to whisper explanations into his ear.

“First of all, the professor doesn’t love you, right? Yet he forces himself on you every time to prove that you’re his possession.”

“That’s, actually a bit different…”

“Second, you like me, don’t you…?”

Her voice was surprisingly calm, but the look in her eyes, deeply stained with the abyss, was not.

“Our relationship is different from the deformed relationship you have with that monster lizard. I love you, and you love me.”

“……..”

“Isn’t that right?”

As she continued her explanation in that state, when there was little reaction from Adler, Sharlotte opened her eyes wide and demanded an answer.

“Y-yes, that’s right.”

“………”

“…I love you.”

After staring with frightened eyes for a while, Adler muttered those words and turned his head to the side with a slight blush, causing her eyes to slowly begin to spin.

– Haap…

“…Ugh!?”

Eventually, she bit his neck in that position.

– Munch, munch…

“W-wait…”

– Slurp…

After burying her face in his neckline and nibbling on his skin for a while, Sharlotte slowly raised her head and wiped her mouth with her sleeve.

“…Third.”

And then, with a much calmer gaze, she began to continue her story.

“You seduced me first.”

Hearing those words, Adler quietly closed his mouth, seemingly at a loss for words.

“You were the one who approached me first while I was investigating the case, and you were the one who had been secretly in love with me even before that.”

“……..”

“You were the one who confessed your love to me before anyone else, you were the one who dyed my pupils with your light, and you were the one whose eyes were dyed with my color, right?”

Sharlotte’s voice gradually began to rise.

“…And you were also the one who kept doing lewd things at every opportunity, pouncing on me, sucking my blood, or biting the back of my neck while wagging your tail. And then you’d smile with your eyes and run away whenever I started to treat you sincerely.”

“Um, I never did any lewd things…”

“Shut up. And then, as soon as I finally started to like you, you, Adler, were the one who mysteriously began paying more attention to other women…”

When her eyes flashed, Adler, who had been about to make excuses, quietly closed his mouth.

“But… now that I’ve found a way to bind you, you’re asking how I’m any different from that lizard monster?”

“………”

“…Isn’t that a bit too shameless?”

From that moment, Sharlotte’s black aura began to surge even more intensely.

“O-okay, how about we have some tea and talk like civilized people?”

“……..”

“I-I think this kind of beastly conversation is still a bit premature for Miss Holmes.”

As he felt that aura increasingly penetrating his body, Adler, sweating nervously, began his final plea in desperation.

“I, I just enrolled at Auguste Academy this year. That means I’m legally an adult.”

“Hmm…”

“But Miss Holmes is younger than me. Although I don’t know your exact age… so… um, well…..”

But as if suddenly realizing the flaw in his argument, he hesitated briefly before finally squeezing his eyes shut and blurting out:

“…This is a crime.”

“Is the crime consultant using ‘criminal acts shouldn’t be committed’ as his reason?”

Immediately, Sharlotte’s cold voice pierced Adler’s ears.

“E-even criminals have their own philosophy. I don’t touch children…”

“…Yet you’re raising Celestia Moran just fine.”

“……?”

After hearing that and muttering sarcastically in a small voice, Sharlotte saw Adler’s confused expression and sighed before muttering.

“Or is it the other way around, being raised by her…”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about, but now you understand, right? The reason why this can’t happen…”

But as Adler’s voice held a thread of hope, she smiled slightly and began searching through her clothes.

– Rustle…

“What is that?”

When she finally pulled out something that looked like a card from her clothes and waved it, Adler tilted his head in confusion and asked.

“Student ID.”

“What?”

“I finally completed the enrollment procedures at Auguste Academy a few days ago.”

Adler froze at Sharlotte’s voice, which had returned to her usual tone with a hint of laughter.

“Someone’s professor must have interfered, because I almost couldn’t receive it this year.”

“Uh…”

“I even had two recommendation letters from the Queen… or is one of them an Emperor now?”

“Wait a minute. Are you saying…”

As he looked up at Sharlotte with disbelief, she whispered into Adler’s ear in a soft voice.

“…Since I’ve enrolled at Auguste Academy, I’m an adult now too.”

“That’s such a forced…”

“That’s the law, Mr. Adler.”

“I-I’m going to file an objection. You did something to the paperwork, right? The officials must not have checked properly…”

“I didn’t want to say this, but…”

As Adler persistently argued, Sharlotte lowered her eyes and whispered with a chilling smile.

“I didn’t know you were such a fan of the law, so let me tell you an interesting fact.”

The next words she spoke made Adler’s mind go blank.

“…You’re not even human according to the British Empire’s constitution, are you?”

“………”

“Even if we do anything now… human laws don’t apply to you…”

He couldn’t think of any more excuses.

“So, do you still have anything to say?”

“Sa-sa…”

“…Save me?”

Therefore, as Adler looked at Sharlotte, who had begun to caress his cheek, with terrified eyes, the only sentence he could utter was:

“Please be gentle…”

That was all.

“What should I do…”

Meanwhile, Sharlotte blinked momentarily upon hearing that pitiful statement.

“…I can’t guarantee that request.”

Just as she began to unbutton her coat with a gloomy smile.

“W-wait!!!”

“……!?”

As if hitting a game-winning home run in the bottom of the ninth, Adler, with shining eyes, stretched out his hand and urgently raised his voice.

“I-I forgot about that…!”

“What’s wrong? Do you still have another reason?”

Sharlotte, who had been looking at him with a puzzled expression, soon had her face quietly distort.

“I-I’m terminally ill, you know? And I’ll die in just 6 months…”

“……”

“If we do this now, I won’t be able to take responsibility for you.”

And then silence began to fill the room.

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“…Did I not explain the fourth reason yet?”

In that silence, Sharlotte, who had been quietly staring at Adler for a while, quietly opened her mouth.

“Unlike that lizard monster of a different species who can barely get you pregnant, I can get pregnant with your child right now.”

“D-didn’t you hear me? I’ll die in 6 months…”

“That’s why I’m doing this.”

Her voice was quite calm, but.

“At first, I thought about committing suicide to save you.”

“T-that’s…!”

“But then I thought you would live in eternal unhappiness.”

Her expression was not.

“So, I’ll embrace you.”

Wrapped in darkness blacker than ever before, but with a brighter smile than ever, Sharlotte continued.

“I’ll embrace your genes, combine them with mine… and give birth to a child who resembles you.”

“Um…”

“And I’ll raise that child with all my heart for the rest of my life, remembering you.”

“………”

“…That’s the ending I’ve chosen for us.”

A brief silence followed the end of her words.

“Sh-shall we move somewhere else…?”

“Let’s do that. I was thinking of creating confusion about our location to avoid pursuit anyway.”

In that silence, Adler, who had realized everything was wrong, made a suggestion to buy time, which Sharlotte readily accepted.

“And we can date for a day or so, and slowly once again…”

“Haah…”

But at his blatant statement, Sharlotte sighed quietly and spoke again.

“Choose one of two options.”

“W-what?”

“…Do you want to be taken like a dog right here? Or do you want to make love in a hotel bed, hand in hand, stomach to stomach?”

Those words were enough to completely freeze Adler’s brain as he tried desperately to think.

“I’ll say it again, please be gentle…”

Nevertheless, Adler muttered this, hoping that some variable would occur while they were moving locations.

“As I said before, I can’t guarantee that request.”

But quite unfortunately, they say that until Adler and Sharlotte arrived at a nearby love hotel and checked into a room, unlike usual, no variables occurred at all.