The Case of the Plateau Auberge Serial Murders Pt. 8

**The Case of the Plateau Auberge Serial Murders Pt. 8** is the 45th chapter of the *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga.

## Summary

The bear raises a clawed paw in greeting, as the voice says the bear is of course a mechanical toy, and Mylo himself is somewhere far away from Ron. The bear somersaults away from Mia's lap and onto the table. Mylo then says he had planned to just observe in silence if Tiger's plan had gone well, but after this bungled job he just couldn't hold his tongue. Tiger tells him to cut him some slack.

Ron meanwhile tells Mia, Lily, and Sakai that none of them can listen to the conversation. If they don't want to be killed, then they should cover their ears. They obey, but Mylo laughs. After all that, are they just going to pretend they didn't hear anything? Ron loudly says they have nothing to do with this. They will never speak of the M family again, so just let them go, he knows Mylo has that authority. The bear raises its arms, as Mylo says to Ron he is very good in deducing his position in an instant. But eliminating them is something like their etiquette.

Toto also tells him to stop, there is no need for him to go that far. Mia is still a child, and Sakai had nothing to do with that old case. But he is planning to involve more innocent people? Do not underestimate the Japanese police!

Mylo says he had overheard it before, but Officer Isshiki is marvelously annoying, he just like Sherlock Holmes' trusty companion. He gives Toto a warning. Since he is helping Ron, even though he has rendered him defective, the only reason he draws breath is because he has allowed him to.

Ron is gasping and sweating, as he says that Mylo is just running his mouth. He just acknowledged that the reason he made his body like this was so he could just keep him alive and toy with him. Mylo through the bear sarcastically asks what is wrong with him, that he doesn't look well. It almost looks like a side effect from a medication to suppress a certain impulse? Ron drops to the floor, trembling, gasping, and sweating profusely. But he says Mylo is totally transparent. He knows that he is the one who performed the medical treatment after the Bloody Field Trip, and made him so he can't be a detective. Both Mylo and the bear grin. Mylo says it appears that the medication takes the murderous intent Ron feels toward culprits and redirects it to his own innards. Ron will rot away with each dose, until he finally dies.

Toto is highly concerned. Ron says it doesn't matter. Mylo could have killed him easily, but he kept him alive because Mylo would be in trouble if Ron died, right? Ron swears he won't stop solving cases even if it kills him. And if he doesn't want him to die, then hurry up and cure him! Or is he really that scared of him coming after him with Ron's detective skills?

Mylo calmly says it seems Ron thinks he can negotiate with him, but he is working from a false premise. On windy days, he closes the windows. But that's not because he's scared of the wind, it's because he wants to focus on his work. Mylo left him alone the past five years for the same reason. He did not want to be bothered by him. Ron grits his teeth. Mylo continues that even he likes to feel the breeze on his skin sometimes, perhaps this is one of those times. To review what happened here, he says through the bear, Ron was unable to prevent three murders from happening. In other words, it was a major victory for the M family, calling Ron a third-rate detective. Both Toto and Ron cringe at this. As for trying to convert him, Mylo continues, Tiger made a foolish mistake.

Therefore, he will reward him for his meager resistance. The one who modified Ron's body to keep him from doing detective work was, of course, a member of the Moriarty family. Perhaps, Mylo says, when Ron encounters the staff of Blue detective academy in the near future, that person will be among them. Ron is left in shock. Toto recalls that the principal did say there could be a traitor in the school.

Tiger asks Mylo that he let that slip. Mylo says that he knows principal Emielle has already caught on to their spy. Finally, as the bear bows its head, Mylo tells Ron his biggest misunderstanding. He doesn't think Ron's dying would trouble him one bit. The bear crosses his arms together as it whirrs, then opens himself up as he says "Oh, DIE!!"

The auberge suddenly explodes in many places. Tiger complains to Mylo that he did not hear about this. Mylo calmly says that it is time for the main dish, three types of roast game, featuring the exquisite combination of a wooden auberge and an incendiary bomb. Lily and Sakai start running, but Tiger shoots at a leg each, and they fall to the floor. Tiger asks Mylo through the bear if that's what he wanted. The bear says yes, and asks to be picked up. Tiger then says just go ahead and die, and says that it is hot, as he escapes with the bear.

The flames engulf the building quickly. Lily and Sakai are left unable to walk. Toto orders Mia to get out through a hole made by the explosion. Toto then carries Lily then Sakai out of the building one by one. Then he runs back into the building to get Ron, instructing Mia to get Sakai and Lily farther away from the building. Lily says he is too late.

Toto runs around, having difficulty finding Ron in the burning building. He finds Ron slumped on the floor surrounded by flames, as Toto tells him to pull himself together. Ron wearily says that he came back. Toto says of course he did! Ron says he is really an idiot, he could've gotten out alive if he had left him. Toto just tells him to shut up and come on. But more burning wood falls and entraps them in the building.

Ron chuckles that it seems like this really will be his last deduction, as he gasps weakly. Toto smiles at him, saying at least the others are safe. Ron tells Toto to put him down, he does not want anyone to misunderstand. Toto is confused. Ron says that if they are found with their arms around each other's corpses, they will think they are some kind of a detective married couple. Toto repeats: a married couple? Then he chuckles, then laughs, what the heck, he doesn't want that either! Ron joins along in laughing, before they both smile softly at each other.

It is then that the top of the building is broken up and Spitz appears overhead, being brought down by a helicopter. Ron wonders if it is a dream.

Toto narrates later that it wasn't a dream. According to Spitz, someone anonymously sent a set of coordinates to Blue. Spitz happened to be the closest one to the location, and when he arrives, he saw the auberge on fire. Toto muses who was the anonymous tipster.

After that, Mia and the others went into top secret protection so they would not be harmed by the M family. Blue has connections to an organization that specializes in that sort of thing. Of course, all three of them were told not to speak of the M family to anyone. Toto thus says that is the epilogue of the case.

As for Ron, Toto finds Ron grumbling about such an awful father, that he really left him a lousy parting gift, that it is so infuriating he had to be born as his son. Toto says that is all he talks about lately. Ron keeps grumbling, a bunch of people died because of his father, and Mia and the others lost their freedom. Taking down the M family is becoming more and more urgent! It's only natural that such a worthless father got killed. Toto with a frown wonders about what Ron is saying, however. While Ron seems to mean what he says, is that really all there is to it? Because on a different day Toto finds Ron laying on the futons, staring lovingly at the picture of his father. When Toto sees Ron's expression while he's gazing at that photo and lost in thought, it makes him wonder.

## Characters in Order of Appearance

* Ron Kamonohashi
* Mylo Moriarty
* Mia Costa
* Tiger Dan
* Karen Lily
* Shusuke Sakai
* Totomaru Isshiki
* Spitz Feier

## Trivia

* The word translated as "detective couple" by MangaPlus is 夫婦 (*meoto*) which has the connotation of a married couple. The kanji was emphasized in furigana when Ron used the word, then repeated in hiragana by Toto in the following panel.