[Conan Doujin] The Mystery of Theseus

Puzzle12 stays in the green hills and is not afraid of it.

"Haihara-san... isn't it?" Kuroba nodded, and self-servingly added the title, "Judging from the name alone, it feels like we are destined for each other."

Approximation and similarity in some aspects can often quickly shorten the psychological distance.However, of course, the theory of uncanny valley is also applicable here. When the proportion of this similarity is high to a certain level, the sense of identity of seeing each other late will soon degenerate into disgust.

"It's obviously not his real name." In contrast, Edogawa, whose first name and surname obviously belong to different cultural systems, felt excluded.

"Yeah, there is a destiny." Huiyuan didn't have any special opinion on this statement, "Although it is true that there are three of us sitting here, it's a pity that none of the three of us are real deities."

"It's not... the deity?" Hei Yu turned his head as if he didn't understand, although the pure eyes seemed to be playing stupid.

"Before 'I' came here, the girl 'Huihara Ai' naturally didn't exist." He straightened the short hair hanging on the side of his face, and Huiyuan seemed to be quite used to the name, "Regardless of Jiang No matter how much Togawa pretends to be a child, he can't bear to live his whole life with this body."

"That's right... that's right, but!" Kuroba pointed to himself, "I'm a normal person? I didn't take the wrong medicine to make me smaller?" Putting his mouth on the corner of his mouth, he patted his chest triumphantly, "Sit down The one here is Kuroba Kaito himself, right?"

Facial muscles moved subtly, and Huiyuan's trembling lower eyelids seemed to be holding back something, as if he heard the biggest joke of this century just a second ago.

"Ah?" She shifted her eyes to Edogawa playfully, "I thought you would join forces with him because he is the all-powerful monster?"

"Uh, not exactly," because their encounter can be regarded as the intersection of two world lines to some extent, and in fact, even the two protagonists don't know the exact location of this intersection in time.Every time he talked about "joining forces" and "cooperating", Edogawa was somewhat hesitant. "Actually, before that..."

"Before that?" This time, Haibara didn't hold back, but laughed unceremoniously.

"That is to say...hahaha...you don't even know when he became a phantom thief?" She wiped away the tears of laughter with her fingers, "Didn't he tell you?"

"..."

The lenses of Edogawa's glasses flickered, but he didn't speak.A brief silence settled in the air, and the almost vacuum-like silence made one unable to help but gasp, to be sure that the air really existed.

...No such dismantling Hey!He vaguely felt that if the conversation continued like this, he would inevitably be greeted with a football by the dark-faced little detective, and Kuroba frantically searched for topics that could be used to adjust the atmosphere in his heart.

"Well, all in all," he snapped his hands high to announce the end of the topic, "It will be very troublesome for you to move with your current body, but now with Haibara-san joining...wait a minute," Ben was random He suddenly saw a glimmer of light that split in the chaos, "If Haibara-san is the developer of the drug... wouldn't it be easy to make the corresponding antidote?"

The key is locked in a combination box, and the four-digit combination to the final ending will not be 8010.On the memo fragments that hinted at solving the puzzle, there was a vague Hint written on it, and the guy who seemed to be a teammate kept silent about everything he knew.However, whenever there is a stalemate, the prisoner in the secret room will always forget and try to push the door open.

What if the door is not locked?

"Do you think we won't notice this possibility?" As the most reliable one among the three, Huiyuan was obviously dissatisfied with his suspicion of being underestimated, "Of course we have considered this plan and tried But, it's a pity," she said in an understatement, as if she could dilute the helpless and rather harsh fact. "The source file of the drug formula has been destroyed due to a virus."

Oh, and that door was indeed locked.

Heiyu's expression at this moment was like that of a desperate prisoner who had escaped from the cage after nine deaths, but met the prison guard in a very friendly manner at the last moment of touching freedom.

Gray sighed slightly. "Don't put on that regretful expression." She rubbed the center of her brows, "I was careless at the time, and I apologize."

This sudden frankness made Edogawa involuntarily take half a step back.If it was raining red in the sky at this time, he might have a similar reaction.

"Hey, you..."

"No, no, no, I just want to ask." Hei Yu, who hadn't been with Huibara for too long before, didn't notice anything wrong, so he continued to ask, "Since you are the developer himself, Do you not remember the development process?"

"First of all, I want to correct one thing," the blue eyes turned serious, "making the antidote is not as simple as re-engraving the key, just make each gap on the metal plate correspond to the lock cylinder. In addition, I am not a god." "She looked at Heiyu, with a little teasing in her eyes, "If it were you, would you be able to write down all the information you have come into contact with without taking notes?"

"If necessary," Kuroba nodded logically, "Of course I can."

Startled by this unexpected answer that didn't seem like a joke, Haibara was stunned for a moment. "Forget it," she held her forehead with some headaches, "...pretend I didn't ask."

The historic meeting that day ended when the doctor pushed the door open.As if seeing a life-saving straw, Kuroba immediately rushed forward full of gratitude, pointed at the OK stretch on his face and cried to the doctor how unreliable the injection device modified by him was.Edogawa complained on the side, saying, "If you want to make flying props, he can't even save his own life, so don't count on him", and successfully hit this hard-working man hard with this sentence. Inventor's confidence.

And Kuroba smiled and said that maybe there is a problem with the way he uses it. Maybe the correct way to use this jet device is not to fly vertically but to fly horizontally.These words undoubtedly brought a lot of comfort to the doctor, but Edogawa did not give up the opportunity to make up the knife.

"You still want to try to fly horizontally?" Noticing the jet device that Kuroba leaned against the door after entering, Edogawa kicked it with his toes, "You still want to fly horizontally with this weight... how many lives do you have?"

What followed was another battle of physical calculations and verbal skills.

Haibara looked at the commotion with folded arms.

There are all kinds of monsters around you, Edogawa.

She closed her eyes, and her shoulders sank slightly, as if she was under an invisible weight.

It's a pity that this little protagonist doesn't have that self-consciousness.

That day, when Kuroba was about to leave with the "repaired" injection device, and stood at the door and assured the doctor that he would "use props scientifically", Haibara also came to the entrance.

"I would like to advise you, young Phantom Thief Lord," she said with an attitude like an elder, "During your future 'operations', it's better not to borrow Kudou's identity."

"Hey?" Not to mention actions, even in daily life, Kuroba couldn't remember how many times he greeted detective fans as "Kudo Shinichi", "...why?"

"Because the survival of Kudo Shinichi is related to my safety—the experimental data is there." He vaguely sensed something wrong from Kuroba's reaction, and Haibara's voice remained calm, "If Kudo Shinichi's state is 'Death', they don't have time to wonder where I am. But if he's alive...you know what I mean?"

If the safety of drug developers themselves is threatened, there is no need to worry about the development of antidote.

Kuroba didn't speak for a few seconds.

"I understand." Although his tone sank, his expression was still relaxed, "But even if this is the case, you don't have to worry too much."

He pursed his lips.

"After all, even if they really wanted to find the living 'Kudo Shinichi', they would see me first, wouldn't they?"

When the optical effect visually eliminates the existence of the body, the shadow will still be there.