I’m the Pay Thief at the Winery

It was unusually quiet on the roof of the hospital. Only the sound of the wind blowing can be heard on the open platform.

"You want me to give up on you?"

"Yes." Nan Ling said clearly and calmly, "I will not tell you that I was forced before, nor will I promise that I will never break the law again—it's just that you can't catch me, that's all Simple."

Kudo Shinichi couldn't bear it anymore, he grabbed Nan Ling's shoulder and forced him to look at himself, the two pairs of cold eyes were the reflection of each other, but one was like a boiling lake, the other was like a sky hanging in the sky Icy moonlight.

"I want to help you! Nan Ling, you are not as bad as you imagined! You have saved people, right? You have also solved cases with me and searched for the truth, right? When you did these things—you When you saw the people who were saved, when you saw the murderer was exposed—not a little—even a little!" Kudo Shinichi took a breath, "—Is it joy from the heart?"

Nan Ling let him grab his shoulders, his expression unmoved, and he didn't answer 'yes' or 'no'. There was no expectation or fear on that face, only an abyss-like calm remained.

A person with ill-fated fate, but like a god, he has no joy or sorrow.

"You want to save me."

Shinichi Kudo took a deep breath, "Saving or something...it's too heavy. I just want to help you."

He let go of his hand, turned around and rubbed the space between his brows.

"Give up." Nan Ling said abruptly, "Although I think I am living a good life, from your point of view, I am probably hopeless. I am a devil sealed in a bottle by King Solomon. The difference is that I don't want to kill you, I just want to stay in the bottle."

Of course Kudo Shinichi has heard this story from "One Thousand and One Nights".

Once upon a time, there was a fisherman who went fishing by the sea and accidentally caught a bottle sealed by King Solomon, and there was a devil in the bottle. For the first hundred years, no one came to save him. In the second hundred years, the devil said that if anyone saved him, he would reward him with wealth and honor for life. In the third hundred years, the devil said that if anyone saved him, he would offer all his treasures. In the fourth hundred years, the devil said that if anyone saves him, he will grant his three wishes.

However, four hundred years have passed, and no one came to save him.

He was very angry, so he said that if anyone came to rescue him, he would kill the person who rescued him.

Kudo Shinichi was a little lost, "Is it too late...?"

"It's too late." Nan Ling said lightly, "The devil has been with the bottle for too long, and has grown together with the bottle. If you want to pull the devil out of the bottle, it is tantamount to denying a part of him. Human beings are made of Shaped by past experiences, and you deny my experiences, you deny me."

He turned around and walked towards the entrance of the rooftop.

"Leave me alone, detective." Nan Ling waved his back to him, and his voice faded away, "Just let me stay in the bottle."

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Kuroba Kaito leaned in the shadow of the stairwell, and was not surprised when he saw Nan Ling push the door and walk in.

"Are we finished?"

"It's over."

"Do you think he'll give up?"

Nan Ling smiled, "If he can learn to give up, he won't be Kudo Shinichi."

"Then you still chatted with him so much." Kaito Kuroba said, "—Sorry, I didn't eavesdrop. But you really chatted for a long time, so I found it."

"Actually, it doesn't matter if you hear it." Nan Ling didn't care about it. He didn't like to bring up his past, and he didn't intend to gain sympathy by doing so—no one likes to repeatedly uncover their scars—but he wasn't too vulnerable to face it, either. What's more, it has long since healed.

"As for why I have been chatting with him for so long..." Nan Ling sighed, "It's because I found that he not only wanted to arrest me. He also wanted to 'save me'—maybe these detectives who claim to be righteous are somewhat An inexplicable desire to save."

Well, even though he said that, he didn't mean to mock Kudo Shinichi. real.

Kuroba Kaito was a little puzzled. He walked down the stairs with Nan Ling and asked, "Help you?"

"Spiritually-teach me to be kind or something. I suspect that Asai Chengshi left him with too much psychological shadow. From then on, whenever he faces criminals with a bit of difficulty, he will appear...well, 'maternity' Overwhelming'." Nan Ling lightly sarcastically sarcastized Kudo Shinichi, this exaggerated statement is obviously not true, "This is not a good sign, I know who I am. Since he can't change me, it's best to get rid of him as soon as possible hope."

The sound of their footsteps echoed in the empty stairwell, as regular as a never-ending clock. tick. tick. Time moves forward forever, and fate never waits.

"It sounds like you're thinking about him." Kaito Kuroba complained. He didn't ask who Asai Chengshi was, but just continued Nan Ling's words, "He's obviously still being chased by him."

"First of all, I was not chased by him." Nan Ling said seriously, "Secondly, this is just Dad's concern for his son. Don't get me wrong."

"Is there anyone who gives you the status of an elder without authorization..." Kaito Kuroba did not forget that Nan Ling once said that Shinichi Kudo was his little uncle's business, "What are you going to do next?"

"There's nothing to do." Nan Ling said naturally, "I have no legal status in this world at all—I'm a non-existent person. He can't catch me."

The world is so big, where can't we go?

"...Then you really don't plan to see him anymore?" Kaito Kuroba stopped in his tracks and looked at him with a complicated expression, "The famous detective regards you as a friend."

"I also consider him a friend." Nan Ling simply leaned on the railing, "However, there are always a few friends in this world who can see each other from time to time. There are more people...well, just like us. Who knows this Is this our last side?"

"It's really pessimistic."

"I prefer to call this reality." Nan Ling said, "You have to know that he and I can become friends in a very special and unrepeatable environment. Our friendship—for now Let's put it this way - built on a lie. It's a miracle that it exists. You just take it as a dream and wake up now - dreams always wake up."

For a few seconds, Kuroba Kaito didn't speak.

"...If you knew it would end up like this," he asked in a low voice with a struggling expression, "wouldn't it be better if you didn't know each other from the beginning?"

Nan Ling probably knew what he was thinking.

Kuroba Kaito was always worried that Aoko Nakamori would know about him. This question was not only for him, but also for Kuroba Kaito himself.

He didn't regret meeting Aoko Nakamori. He wanted to know whether it was right or wrong for him to be Phantom Thief Kidd - that's what he really wanted to ask.

"I can't answer you." Nanling said casually, "I admit, when I first met the little detective, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com didn't think about today at all. I used to think that I was just an unimportant passerby, I can, um... 'quietly I leave, just as quietly I came; I wave my sleeves, and I won't take a single cloud'."

He laughed at himself when he said this, paused before continuing, "But things always change, and life always surprises you. I don't know if it's good or bad now, but I don't regret it Getting to know him—I never regret it."

There is no point in regretting. As he and Shinichi Kudo say, past experiences have shaped him. Regret is denial, a betrayal of one's own experience and a betrayal of one's own existence, and denying the past is denying one's own existence.

He never regrets it.

"O ill-fated man, but like a god, he has neither joy nor sorrow." From Rousseau's "Reveries of a Solitary Walker", with changes.

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The two of them are finished chatting... These chapters are written very abstractly by me, if there is something I didn't understand, please leave a comment

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