The Case of the Plateau Auberge Serial Murders Pt. 7

**The Case of the Plateau Auberge Serial Murders Pt. 7** is the 44th chapter of the *Ron Kamonohashi: Deranged Detective* manga.

## Summary

Ron asks Toto what is he talking about. Toto loudly says doesn't he think it's weird? The M family eliminates anyone who fails them, right? In the case with Winter, he eliminated the ones who fell for his scam. But for the Dr. Gore case 17 years ago, the murder went off without a hitch, the plan already succeeded! Ron agrees that it's true. Tiger meanwhile says he sees nothing gets past him. But from their perspective, the Dr. Gore case 17 years ago was a failure. The M family wanted to kidnap Dr. Gore, not murder him.

Ron does not understand, did his father give out the wrong instructions? Tiger says Eliot made a preposterous error. Dr. Gore was the world's leading pathogen researcher. If they had been able to capture him alive, it would've led to incredible wealth for them. Toto considers it. Since Ron's father messed up, did the M family purge him, too? Ron is shocked by question. Tiger says of course they did. Then, as he takes out a shotgun, he says just remembered another job to do: the other guests are going to die too. Both Mia and Lily scream as a water goblet falls from the round table.

Ron suddenly remembers when he was six years old. He was peering out from inside probably a closet, as two men in suits entered their front door, and as a whiskey glass fell to the floor, shattering to pieces, he watched as his father was shot repeatedly. He watched as his father dropped dead to the floor.

Ron is left trembling and gasping, saying he had completely forgotten. He was so sad, it was the saddest thing that ever happened to him. But, he does not know why he is this sad, his father was a hateful criminal, and with the M family of all people.

But it is also when he remembers what his father told him. Patting his head, Eliot told him he is born from the Moriarty crime family, and their archenemies, the Holmes detective family. He is a forbidden child. Ron in the present holds his head as more of Eliot talking to his three-year-old self surfaces.

Eliot tells him he was born into the Moriarty family, which was worked in crime for generations. So he grew up believing that that was the only way he could live. It pained him to see people suffering, and he always wondered if this was really okay. But he thought he could not change his fate, so he didn't doubt it. But he changed when he met Ron's mother. His mom is the one who made him like this. He tells little Ron: Don't be bound by Holmeses or the Moriarties. Follow the path you want to walk. But it takes strength to live the way he wants. And that is why Eliot will teach him everything he has learned.

Ron stays silent for a moment, and closes his eyes. Toto looks at him, but Ron says he is fine now. He addresses Tiger Dan again. Why is it that the ones connected to the job 17 years ago weren't killed back then and are being targeted now? Is it not because his father outwitted them, and the M family didn't know about their involvement until just recently? Maybe the reason he is so worked up about purging those who were involved, is because they recently learned that Dr. Gore is still alive.

Tiger asks if he knew that. Ron says of course not. But there was something odd about the operation his father directed 17 years ago. Why did he have the professor taken to the hospital on the way to the warehouse? It was so he could swap the professor with a dummy corpse in the back garden. Tiger is impressed that he deduced it from just that. Ron says no. His father is the one who proved it. Knowing his father, Eliot would try to arrange things so nobody else involved got hurt. Knowing it would be used for evil, he would never hand over a pathogen expert to the M family, let alone kill him. Tiger grins, saying so this is Eliot's son. He confirms that Eliot tossed a corpse from the morgue into the river and let the professor escape. Recently they finally learned that Dr. Gore had been living in Switzerland under a false name, and they figured out everything from the past.

Ron grins, then chuckles, then laughs heartily, as everyone is left wondering. Ron says to Tiger that thanks to him giving Ron such a shock, it got him to remember all his sealed memories. Ron declares, his actions had the opposite effect! He will continue to use his pesky intellect, to stand against the M family! Toto brightens up.

Of course, Ron continues, he is unable to officially do detective work thanks to the M family, and Blue considers him responsible for a mass murder. For him, detective work is a forbidden activity. But even so, like his father told him, he will walk the path he has chosen himself and defeat all of them. But, Tiger says, Ron said himself that it's forbidden. Doesn't he get it? He's already cornered. Ron smiles, saying is he blind? Of course he can't do it himself. That is why when push comes to shov, he has a pesky partner who will chew him out when he needs it. Toto takes it from there. Even if Ron can't do it, he will be the one to arrest him, telling Tiger to drop the gun.

Tiger keeps the shotgun raised, saying if he shoots, it's the end for all of them. Ron says that at least now he shouldn't feel like killing him anymore. Tiger says that if it got out that he got him to disclose information about his father, then *he* would have a good laugh as him.

Ron asks who is "he", as the teddy bear's maw opens with a clack, reavealing fangs and blood, and the bear begins to talk.

The bear says it has been quite an amusing show, as he greets Ron and Mia takes her hands off the bear. He is an extremely busy man, the voice says, so he really does not have time for this sort of thing. The bear voice introduces himself as the Moriarty family's eldest son Mylo Moriarty.

## Characters in Order of Appearance

* Totomaru Isshiki
* Tiger Dan
* Ron Kamonohashi
* Karen Lily
* Mia Costa
* Eliot Moriarty (flashback only)
* Mylo Moriarty

## Trivia

Pathogen research can be incredibly lucrative in the sense that findings can be used to either make bioweapons, make exclusive-patent medicines, or make exclusive-patent vaccines. The patents can then be owned by certain powerful companies.