After the Black side's victory, Kudo Shinichi has no choice but to fight alone.
"Hey, Akai. You know, there's a nonvenomous snake in South America. It's huge, almost like a python, but it has a very special kind of scale. You probably know that most snakes have overlapping scales, a layer of hardened skin. But this snake's scales are closer to bone. Hard and sharp, like knives... When they're young, they don't have scales. As they grow, before reaching adulthood, these bony tissues break through the skin and become spines, gradually covering their scarred bodies."
An open encyclopedia lay in front of the boy. He spoke calmly, eyes lowered, but Shuichi Akai could sense his nervousness. Unusually, Akai smiled reassuringly at him.
"Indigenous people in South America used to hunt these snakes in large numbers and shave off their scales to make knives. Now there are hardly any left, and their scales often fetch astronomical prices at auction." As he spoke, Kudo Shinichi took off the necklace around his neck.
The necklace was made with an ordinary thin black cord, threaded through a silver ring about the size of a little finger. A leaf-shaped black scale hung beneath the ring. Its color was neither quite black nor anything else, like flowing oil, and it glimmered with an ominous light.
Black Bourbon x a not-quite-black undercover Shinichi
Theme: Uphold your moral principles under any circumstances
Finished reading it in one sitting! The teacher wrote so good [Orange Candy] that I got it