"Yeah. I mean, she lived her life thinkin' that her fiance was this amazing guy. And I guess he was, in a way. He did run in there to save her, while his friend didn't even try. And he was burned pretty badly because of it -- had to keep his face bandaged all the time and hardly ever went out. But still, he hid it from her for all those years. She said she hated him and loved him, but now that she was gone, she ain't have any reason to live."

"But you know what Kudou said? He said: 'A detective who corners a culprit with his logic and drives him to suicide is no better than a murderer himself.'" Heiji laughed a little, though more out of a sense of not being able to argue with the statement than out of any real humor.

"Sounds like somethin' out of a novel, don't it?"