#yuukoku no moriarty
(The end of the arc! And the beginning of a new development…;;)
Whiteley was naturally very angry at Sturridge, and asks him why the latter is even confessing to him. To ask for forgiveness? Why kill his brother, when he’s crippled and can’t even run away?
Sturridge explains that he had to kill Whiteley’s family in exchange for his own family’s lives who have been taken by unknown kidnappers. He knows that what he did was unforgivable, so he offers the knife to Whiteley and asks to do whatever Whiteley wants with him.
Whiteley is very conflicted. He very much wants to kill Sturridge for revenge, but doing that would be irreversible and not what his brother would’ve wanted him to do. However, without his brother, Whiteley doesn’t have a reason to live anymore…
He almost stabs Sturridge, but then shifts the direction of the knife to the floor at the last second because he doesn’t actually have the guts to do it.
…Or so he thought until he remembers his brother again and goes blind with rage, swiftly stabbing Sturridge in the neck.
And now that he did something he can’t undo, he believes everything is over for him now.
At the Moriarty residence, Fred approaches Albert with an envelope. The delivery man said the sender didn’t show his face and just paid him £1 to deliver the envelope to the head of this House. In the envelope is a handkerchief with the letter “W” embroidered on it and a note asking to meetup at a graveyard in Chiswisk.
Everyone at the Moriarty residence then heads over to the meeting place. Whiteley is there, telling Albert that he only wanted to meet up to give back the evidence. When asked for the reason, he explains what happened earlier. Whiteley knew that if he was arrested, then it would become impossible for equality to ever be realized.
He can’t just turn himself in, and he can’t live on pretending nothing happened either. So he plans to compensate for his crime with his life.
Upon hearing this, William says that if Whiteley is really set on doing so, then the latter should give his life to William instead, much to Whiteley’s shock.
The next day, people were camped outside the Houses of Parliament, waiting for Whiteley to arrive. They have heard that everyone in the Whiteley residence had been killed, even the guards from Scotland Yard. Moreover, the killer was still at large.
When Whiteley arrives, reports swarm over and ask him to comment over what happened. He proclaims that he will keep fighting to promote equality for this country even if his opponents have killed his family andguards. The masses are very empowered by this, and start calling Whiteley the “White Knight” of the country.
As Whiteley was waving at them, a man clothed in black suddenly swoops in, stabs Whiteley in the chest, and then flies up the building with the help of a wire.
It was William. He announces that he is the one who killed Whiteley’s family and guards, and introduces himself as the Lord of Crime. Then he dares everyone to catch him if they can.
The scene then flashes back to last night. William tells Whiteley that he wants the latter to be known as a white knight even in his death, because the country needs hope that equality can still be achieved.
If Whiteley tells them the truth, all the commoners hoping for the abolishment of the class system will fall into despair and the path to equality will be closed up.
To prevent that, the Moriartys will take credit over what happened instead, and let Whiteley die as a white knight of the country. William asks him to do this as his final atonement for what he’s done.
Whiteley of course protests and asks him why they would put themselves in the wrong like that, and William replies that it is because they are the Lord of Crime.
Back to the present, William flees and the police attempts to capture him.
Slowly dying on the ground, Whiteley thinks about how the Moriartys themselves chose to become the necessary evil for the country, and how he wishes that he could’ve seen for himself the world created by the Moriartys.
Whiteley gladly gives his life for the sake of the country’s future and believes that the Moriartys can change this country for the better. The chapter ends with Whiteley mentally telling the Moriartys that he’s leaving the country in their hands.
Whiteley contemplates what he’s going to do with the evidence to make negotiations go smoothly. While he was having a meal at his residence, Patterson comes to report about an policeman named Bart Fowler who was found dead a few hours ago.
Bart was the one who killed the hitman that attempted to murder Whiteley. Bart’s mother was suffering from a serious illness and he needed a large amount of money to pay for her medical fees. Just recently, he paid the hospital £500 in full.
Whiteley concludes that someone must have paid Bart to kill the bomber to prevent the latter from saying anything, but then Bart himself was killed for the same reason.
Due to this development, Patterson proposes to increase the guards patrolling Whiteley’s residence, but Whiteley rejects it. He explains that there will just be higher risks as these new guards might be bribed the same way as Bart was. He prefers to just keep the 2 policemen he picked before.
After Patterson leaves, Whiteley states that offense is the best defense, and goes out alone with the evidence in hand to negotiate with the House of Lords.
When he arrived at the meeting place, it was not a member of the House of Lords that were there to greet him but Milverton, who introduces himself as an agent of the House of Lords. Whiteley then presents the evidence he has of the House of Lord’s wrongdoings and says that if they ever lay a finger on his family and friends, or reject his election amendments bill, he will reveal to the public all the wrongdoings of the House of Lords.
He will not expose them as long as they agree to those two demands. He also informs him that the documents in his hands are just one of the many copies he has of the evidence.
Upon hearing all that Whiteley has to say, Milverton tells him that he will relay it all to his client.
Once Whiteley has left, Milverton laughs in amusement because he didn’t expect that someone would try and intimidate him, the King of Intimidation. Unfortunately, he says threats don’t work on him and Whiteley won’t be able to expose the House of Lord’s wrongdoings because he plans on stealing the evidence Whiteley has.
How? By turning Whiteley into a murderer. No one would believe anything a murderer says, after all. It would make the evidence he possesses useless.
At the Whiteley residence, Sam finds their maid dead and panics. Sturridge, one of the policemen Whiteley selected, then turns up holding a knife dripping with blood behind his back. He continuously apologizes to Sam as he kills him, telling him that he too has a family he has to consider.
Meanwhile, back in the Milverton residence, Harry and Gosling, the two people who were responsible for the policeman Bart’s death, inform Milverton that they have finished all the preparations. Harry then goes on to comment that Milverton sure does like to use underhanded means to take care of things. When asked whether he is condemning Milverton for that, Harry denies it because they too are having fun doing it.
Milverton then asks Harry if he has ever read the Bible, and continues to talk about the Devil that appears in it. He explains that the reason the Devil tempts people into doing evil is simple. Making people do evil things gives them the greatest pleasure.
Since the beginning of time, doing evil have always been enticing for humans. The bible depicts it as the forbidden pleasure. Pursuing that forbidden pleasure is the real evil.
He then goes on to say that evil goes far beyond humans’ set rules and ethics. The Lord of Crime is just evil based on the social norms set by human society.
Then, Milverton claims the he is evil itself. Corrupting people into doing evil gives him no greater pleasure.
When Whiteley gets home, he finds his secretary, maid and younger brother all dead. Sturridge then turns up with the knife laid on his hands. He remorsefully confesses that he is the one who killed all of them, which causes Whiteley to yell at him with wild eyes.
And with that, Milverton claims that he has created a new villain. He believes that Whiteley should now have fallen to the dark side. It gives Milverton no greater pleasure than to drag a politician loved by the masses into becoming evil.
Sidenote: The original Charles Augustus Milverton in the Conan Doyle novels was known as the “King of Blackmailers” (恐喝王) where as YnM’s version calls him the “King of Intimidation” (脅迫王). There are probably better ways to translate the latter… Should I have gone with ‘threat’ instead? I don’t read the English scans so Idk what English fandom has gone with, and Wikipedia’s entry for 脅迫 is linked to the Intimidaton (and Threat) wiki in English. ;;;
恐喝 means using another person’s weakness or secrets for extortion.
脅迫 means threatening another person and filling them with fear to make them do what you want. In criminal law, it means threatening someone harm through words and/or action.
The meanings are similar and can both be translated as blackmail, with slightly different nuances…
William tells Albert that he has finished making the preparations to test Whiteley’s character. They plan to give Whiteley enough evidence to put the House of Lords into a tight spot and see if he will use this as a way to climb up the ladder, or if he will only use it to get his bill passed. Is he really someone who can be entrusted this information with?
Meanwhile at the Whiteley residence, Whiteley is eating breakfast with everyone, even inviting the two policemen he handpicked last time to eat with him. He then asks their maid Maggie for that day’s newspaper, but she makes an excuse about the paper not being delivered that day. Whiteley sees right through her and reassures her that he didn’t mind reading bad press about himself.
His younger brother Sam then comes into the room in a wheelchair. Whiteley has been receiving numerous threatening letters and his brother is very worried that he and Whiteley’s lives are in danger.
However, Whiteley refuses to yield to these people who use cowardly means to take him down. He wants to show Sam that he can make the world into a place where Sam can live without struggle using his bill.
Whiteley then heads to the opening ceremony of the newly-constructed park he worked so hard on. William and Albert also attend the ceremony.
When Whiteley and his secretary Marcus arrive at the venue, Marcus is surprised to see more sponsors up on stage than was previously planned. What’s more, they are the parliament members who are against Whiteley’s bill.
Just as Marcus feared, the parliament members uses this ceremony to horribly misrepresent Whiteley in front of the masses. They claim that Whiteley was the biggest obstacle in construction of this park, and that negotiations to make amendments for citizen’s right to vote were already being handled by the House of Lords and the House of Commons behind the scenes. However, due to Whiteley presenting his bill out of nowhere without consulting any of the other members of the House of Commons, those negotiations are now at a standstill.
The citizens then start doubting Whiteley but decide to wait until Whiteley speaks before making a decision.
When it was Whiteley’s turn to give a speech, he did not defend himself at all and instead said that everything they said was true. The citizens gets mad at this, and feel disillusioned.
After the ceremony, Marcus asks Whiteley why he did not defend himself. He was very frustrated that Whiteley’s honor was dragged through the mud.
However, Whiteley doesn’t care about his honor. It is during this time that kids in wheelchairs come into the scene. The ground of this park is smooth and does not have any bumps at all, making it accessible for those who use wheelchairs. Seeing them enjoying themselves, Whiteley then says that he has achieved his goal. Whiteley only wishes for these children’s happiness. His own honor does not matter.
Albert then approaches him and asks for a private audience. Once they move to a more secluded area, Albert explains that his own standing in the House of Lords has not been great ever since he accidentallyuncovered the opium cartel owned by one of the higher ranked members while rescuing his brother from kidnappers.
So he asks Whiteley for a favor, handing over the envelope that contains evidence of the House of Lord’s illegal acts. Albert tells Whiteley that it is up to the latter to decide how to use it.
After Whiteley leaves, William approaches his brother. Albert informs him that they were able to figure out the type of person Whiteley was thanks to the stage William had set.
Meanwhile, at London Underground’s construction site, the police officer who killed the hitman that tried to assassinate Whiteley was murdered under Milverton’s instructions.
And the murderers’ next target is Whiteley’s younger brother Sam.
(LOL RIP, LH only had the latter half of chapter 35. Unfortunately I couldn’t find raws of the first half, but no worries, I found a detailed JP summary of the whole chapter and used the CN scans as reference…)
While he was out to shop, Watson overhears that the children in town like to pretend to be the Lord of Crime as a game lately. However, the townspeople disapprove of this, saying that those children should use the recently much talked about young Member of Parliament (MP) as a role model instead of mimicking the Lord of Crime.
At the British Empire’s Houses of Parliament, the House of Commons is currently holding a session. Adam Whiteley, the much talked about young MP, proposes a bill that will give all citizens the right to vote instead of just several of the wealthy people.
After exiting the Houses of Parliament and answering the media’s questions, Whiteley is about to board his carriage when notices a strange smell coming from it. He finds a bomb underneath and quickly warns everyone around to evacuate at once. His carriage explodes in the next instant.
Whiteley looks around and captures a man he finds suspicious. He then claims that he can tell just by looking at a person’s face what they’re thinking as they are looking at him. And true to his words, the police found a fuse and a pistol from the captured man’s bag.
Whiteley’s life appears to be targeted by people who would be inconvenienced by the amendments he is trying to pass for the upcoming election. Not to be put down by this, he instead uses this opportunity to exclaim that his dream is to bring equality into reality, which garnered him even more support from the commoners. The commoners then start yelling that people should cease relying on the Lord of Crime, and instead support Whiteley, the true representative of the people.
At the company Heim (sp? ハイム Haimu), a journalist attempts to write a newspaper article on Whiteley’s case, presenting him in a good light. Unfortunately, the editor-in-chief says that Milverton, their president, would not approve of the way the article was framed and asks the journalist to rewrite it. Their newspaper is considered Quality Press (which according to Wiki is a “category of British newspapers in national circulation distinguished by their seriousness”), and is not aimed towards the common people.
At the Milverton residence, Milverton is looking the published newspaper which has an article speculating that Whiteley might have staged the assassination attempt himself.
No matter how good a person Whiteley truly is, no one but the people who were actually there with him could attest to that. The truth that everyone will believe is whatever is published in the newspapers. Milverton claims that this is his power.
Milverton believes that the person who hired the hitman for Whiteley is from the House of Lords. He decides to finish off the captured hitman and use it as leverage for negotiations with the House of Lords.
The next morning, the hitman was found dead in his cell from an injury to his neck caused by a pen. Patterson then informs Whiteley about the matter.
Whiteley thinks that if the hitman was only in it for the money, then it was unlikely that the latter would commit suicide. However, if the hitman was murdered, then that means there is a traitor within Scotland Yard.
And so Whiteley asks Patterson if he could choose the people who will be in charge of the investigation himself. He glances at everyone in the room and picks two investigators– Sturridge and Robinson.
If the investigation goes well and they can prove that there was connection between the hitman and the House of Lords, Whiteley thinks that he can use this information as a bargaining chip to get his bill passed.
Patterson sees right through Whiteley. However, he worries that Whiteley would decide to announce the evidence publicly instead of negotiating for his bill behind the scenes. This matter could turn out very messy. After all, there’s a possibility that it would make the commoners go off the rails and start a revolution, which would then ruin William’s plans to unite the nobles and the commoners.
Patterson then goes to the Moriarty’s and informs them of the situation. William and the others decide to wait and see what Whiteley will do first. The Moriartys might not even have to push through with their plan at all depending on whether or not Whiteley can succeed in bringing equality to the British Empire.
Meanwhile, Milverton returns from his meeting with the House of Lords. The House of Lords asked Milverton to get rid of Whiteley. To do this, Milverton decides to paint Whiteley as the villain, and oust him from his hero status.
Hello YnM fandom! I’m slowly catching up to the manga right now, and figured I might as well make an English summary as I do it. Since 33 seems to be the last scanlated chapter, here is Chapter 34.
William knows that Baxter has no intention of paying back the money, so he planned on using the trial to punish the latter. He claims to have a plan that will allow him to cut a pound of Baxter’s flesh.
On the day of the trial, Baxter starts brazenly apologizing to William until chastised by the judge. The judge asks William if he really doesn’t want a lawyer, and William confirms it.
Through the trial, William demands Baxter a reimbursement of £600, but Baxter’s lawyer states that Baxter has zero assets so it is not possible for him to do so.
William then inquires about the house Baxter is currently residing in, which is worth at least £5,000. Baxter could sell it to get the money. However, Baxter claims that he’s only borrowing that house from a friend, so he cannot sell it.
Next, William asks why Baxter will not sell the trading company he is operating to get the money. Baxter answers that the company is bankrupt and basically just a shell corporation now.
Upon finding out that Baxter has no way of reimbursing him, William says Baxter doesn’t need to pay back the £600 anymore. Instead, he demands a pound of flesh be cut from Baxter as agreed in the contract. Baxter acquiesces.
Baxter’s lawyer then intervenes. He agrees that William is allowed to cut a pound of Baxter’s flesh, but no drop of blood is allowed to be shed as William does it, as it wasn’t in the contract. Inwardly, Baxter thinks he has won, since you can’t cut someone without also shedding blood, and William has already said Baxter doesn’t have to pay him back anymore.
In response, William calls up a witness to the stands. It is a waiter named Bremner at a steakhouse Baxter frequents.
William asks Bremner if Baxter usually requests not to count the weight of the meat’s blood for his order of half a pound of steak. Bremner replies that he’s never had a customer say such a thing in his 20 years in the business.
From this, William explains that while it does indeed only state only a pound of flesh in the contract, Baxter himself must be aware that blood is also included in that pound of flesh. Baxter interjects, claiming it is a far-fetched argument, but the judge deems it reasonable.
And so William puts the knife close to Baxter. Backed into a corner, Baxter weakly admits that his whole testimony was a lie and he does own a house and a company. If William is willing to forgive him, he is willing to give William half of his fortune.
William demands all Baxter’s fortune be given to him, and Baxter has no choice but to agree. William then informs the judge that they have reached a compromise, so he will now be withdrawing his charges.
Back in the present time, William and the others discuss how even if Milverton finds out about the orphanage from the judicial records, they have already taken measures to conceal where the Sister is now.
As it is evident that Milverton is targeting himself, William declares Milverton as an enemy that needs to be eliminated.
Meanwhile, Milverton is convinced that the young plaintiff in the judicial records has replaced the real William. From this, he surmises that the Moriarty bothers are rumored Lord of Crime, and sees them as his enemies.
Sleeping William
That’s it. That’s the post.
