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Shiro generously declared that he was laying all his cards on the table. He was no longer pretending. Was there anything wrong with wanting those things?
"Why do I feel like you now look like a great villain?"
Alice looked at Shiro in front of her, just like those great villains from TV series. No, he even had more charisma than an ordinary villain; he looked more like a true final boss!
"I never said I was a good person."
"It's not like you don't know what kind of person I am? I'm not associated with words like 'good person,' okay?"
That little white-haired girl, Alice, actually nodded after hearing that. She realized that his actions truly didn't match the words "good person" very much.
"Don't even think about it. How could Grandpa possibly agree to something like that?"
Alice didn't even think about it and raised two fingers in front of herself in the shape of a cross.
Shiro smiled when he heard that.
"Is that so?"
"You should know something. If this thing can't permanently remove the curse, those two won't live much longer. Erina is a little better because she's younger, but her mother, in my opinion, can endure for at most ten years. After all, her body is already in that kind of condition. Right now she's still somehow okay, it can barely be said that at thirty years old she still has vitality, but as she gets older, her body's functions won't be able to keep up and she won't be able to endure it."
After hearing that, half of Alice's face clearly read "disbelief."
"How is that possible?"
"For years she hasn't been able to eat normally, and even when she tried to eat, she had to vomit, and vomiting severely damages the body. On top of that, her body continues being treated like this as she ages, which will only further increase the damage."
"So I can say with certainty that she absolutely won't survive more than ten years."
At that moment, seriousness shone in Shiro's eyes; he truly wasn't wrong. In the anime, it had been somewhat absurd how such a ruined body could survive for so long, even be capable of normally walking and moving around, and even eating things only to immediately vomit them back up. How resilient did that body have to be?
Alice didn't know what to say about that.
"Alright, don't think too much about it. All you need to do is patiently wait for me to kidnap you."
"Pff pff pff, I didn't agree to that."
Alice immediately felt something was wrong when she heard that and instantly turned tsundere. But Shiro merely shrugged, showing that this was already a decided matter and that she had no right to object.
And then the banquet finally began. Shiro personally waited to watch how the drama would unfold.
"Shoko, what do you think, who has the highest probability of being the target?"
"I'm not sure, because everyone present could be a target. Among the people here, there isn't anyone who doesn't have several enemies, or who wouldn't be targeted because of their family's influence. So it's hard to say."
At that moment, all the people he knew gathered around Shiro. Those who didn't understand were somewhat confused after hearing that, like a certain white-haired girl.
"Shiro, what do you mean by that?"
"Just watch. You'll find out soon enough."
As time passed, when the event was almost over, they brought out the cake.
After all, occasions like this always have a certain procedure. However, when the lights went out and everything ended, someone screamed when the lights came back on.
"Ah, someone's dead."
The moment those words were spoken, the Fujiwara Family, as the hosts, and the surrounding guests were all stunned, then quickly reacted.
They immediately organized people to seal off the scene so the culprit couldn't escape. Then, when they looked at the dead person, the expressions of many people turned dark. After all, the victim's identity was, in a way, the person the Fujiwara Family's political enemies had sent last time to make a scene. And now that person had died here, the situation was difficult to resolve. Those who didn't know better might think their family had intentionally committed murder.
Erina and Alice, who were unprepared, immediately covered their mouths when they saw the scene. After all, the person looked like a guy with closed eyes, blood coming out of his mouth, and no signs of life.
It wasn't too bloody, so those girls barely managed to endure it without further reactions.
"Is that what you meant?"
Alice stretched out her hand and spoke in a trembling voice.
"You already knew earlier that there would be trouble?"
Erina also spoke at that moment, and there was a trace of fear in her voice, because who isn't afraid of death?
"Do you see that guy? Kudo Shinichi got drugged and turned into this small form. And some bad things are wrapped around him. To put it directly, wherever he goes, someone dies. Here's some advice for your family: forbid all affiliated companies from accepting that guy."
Those two cousins were somewhat confused when they heard that. After someone briefly explained it to them, the two of them understood and couldn't help wondering: "Do such strange things really exist?"
"Don't talk nonsense. That drug currently has only two successful examples: one where it shrank a person, and another where it froze time at a certain age. Everyone else died, and in some cases even the cause of death couldn't be detected. Do you know how many white mice other people use in one day or one month? Or how much of the drug was used to kill people after those experiments?"
The two of them immediately started shaking their heads like rattles after hearing that, showing that they would never touch that thing even if it killed them. Maybe they wouldn't be the lucky ones.
"Then you're also targeting that place?"
Having successful examples meant the possibility of immortality, so it was normal for Shiro to target it.
Shiro shook his head when he heard that.
"You're overthinking things. You might think I'm bragging, but I'm telling you honestly: living for hundreds of billions of years isn't a problem for me."
"As time passes, I become stronger and live longer. Although this kind of drug can shrink the body, the soul and spirit cannot be changed."
"After at most two or three doses, the soul will collapse due to its low level and the person will become a vegetable. So where is the immortality in that? If you want eternal life, either rely on yourself or latch onto a powerful being."
Only those who were familiar with Shiro heard those words. Those who didn't know him thought he was bragging, especially Sanzennin Nagi, who firmly believed that Shiro was talking nonsense.
Haruno, as Yukino's older sister, knew very well that Shiro wasn't bragging; that person truly was almost immortal and indestructible.
Kirishima Shoko, of course, understood Shiro's situation the best.
"Shiro, when you brag, at least make it sound convincing. If you said you'd live to a hundred years old, maybe I'd believe you."
Alice immediately complained, and that other blonde brat also nodded in agreement.
Shiro merely shrugged and said nothing, letting them believe whatever they wanted.
Honestly, Shiro was already starting to get a headache from this large group of gold-devouring beasts. It was so difficult to find something that would give them long lives and unconditionally raise their level of existence. He had to find a solution.
While Shiro was thinking, he suddenly wondered whether there was a way within the Chat Group to help these people walk the path of a certain devouring system, because that system granted an extremely, extremely long lifespan.
And how should it be said? The combat power of that system also wasn't weak!
The main thing was that Shiro didn't want those people to be tied to a certain world. That was the most important thing, because he knew very well that many powerful people were powerful because of the blessings of their worlds, and because of that they themselves were bound to their worlds. So he didn't want these people to become like that. He had to admit that this topic made him deeply think about how to accomplish it. His previous ideas definitely weren't possible; they were too unrealistic, and maybe he wouldn't even have time to accomplish them, so he had to change his approach.
As time passed, the police arrived and began the investigation, confirming that the victim had been poisoned.
Kaguya Shinomiya had already at that moment told Chika to check the surveillance camera footage.
While a certain Conan was frantically deducing things, he locked onto the culprit through the surveillance footage.
Basically, he constantly checked what that person had eaten and drunk in the footage and where those things had come from.
The investigation lasted quite a long time, so he directly came to the scene.
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