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for CoAi / ShinShi week day 3 – Black Organisation, alternative first meeting.
(AO3) (FFN)
“I’ve heard that voice before,” said Holmes, staring down the dimly lit street. “Now, I wonder who the deuce that could have been.”
And it had been such a great day right until then, too, Shinichi couldn’t help but think as he knelt to examine the body where the Mystery Coaster staff had laid it out on the floor.
He could feel a faint tremor running through Ran’s usually steady hands where she held onto him, her breath hitching once on a sob. Not crying, then, but still horrified, though he thought there was a good chance that the tears would catch up later.
An understandable reaction, Shinichi supposed, though not one he’d ever shared. (Which probably said something about him, but that was beside the point.)
It had to be said, though – even with all the variously mangled bodies that he’d seen, this particular manner of death probably ranked among the more gruesome ones, if for nothing else but the sheer shock value of actually witnessing firsthand the burst of arterial spray from what had otherwise been a very clean decapitation.
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