Before the Final Trial
On the day of the final trial the Professor and I entered Dirac's Well.
So this is Dirac's Well. The atmosphere is more pleasant than I expected.
It's the perfect place to raise a toast to the case's conclusion and the end of our Journey.
I'm glad they caught the culprit so quickly.
Was it thanks to your deductions?
Fufu. Who can say?
The culprit did seem to believe that passing judgment on villains had saved many lives.
Interestingly, the person they arrested seemed somewhat inept...
It doesn't quite fit the image of someone who committed four flawless crimes.
You mean...
There might have been an accomplice, or a mastermind behind them?
That's for the Town Guard and Public Security to uncover now.
My work is finished... All that remains is to focus on what's before me.
You intend to do the same, don't you, Captain?
This is the end, after all.
For once, the Professor's words didn't strike me as strange, nor did I feel the need to argue.
It left a bad taste in my mouth, but it was time to focus on the Journey.
How curious.
At first, I wondered how we'd spend an entire year, yet it passed so quickly.
Would it be best to call this feeling... regret that it's ending?
You've worked hard this past year.
Let's give it our best until it's over.
Fufu. Of course.
My goal may have changed somewhat, but my determination to complete the Journey hasn't.
If H is still alive...
Will you go see her?
...I believe so.
I doubt even someone of her caliber could have survived that...
But she may still be alive somewhere. I can never underestimate that person, after all.
Her remark about doubting someone's survival carried a strangely different tone.
Yet somehow, I felt I shouldn't ask what she'd meant.
...Are you ready, Captain?
Is it time?
Yes. The Star Savior Succession Trial, the [Journey].
Its final trial will now begin.
Your opponent will be the [Executor of Aldebaran, Gille].
[Dirac's Well] has begun projection.