[Conan Doujin] The Mystery of Theseus

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How do people define "really alive" when someone they don't know or rarely see?

Maybe it is learned from other people's casual chats, maybe it's the fragmented news refreshed on the mobile phone screen, or maybe it's just subjective assumptions-even if this is a wonderful world where you don't know what miracles or accidents will happen in the next second, it's always true. How many hopeful people talk about others on the premise that they are "alive".

What's more, compared with the certainty of "death", "missing" is more ambiguous, while "alive" is more like a state of existence where nothing happens.

Since he is still alive, it means that everything has not been derailed from the daily life, so what does that insignificant guy have to do with me.It's just that the information displayed on the screen with tens of millions of pixels on and off will one day be bundled into burnable garbage and printed on newspapers.Whether you know it or not, the world will not be destroyed because of it.

Since it is information and news that I need to spend my time burning my life to understand, it should be more, more-more interesting.

Therefore, the report of "Famous High School Detective Missing" has more impact than the headline "High School Detective Active!"And when news of the public figure's disappearance became the norm, occasional sightings of him on the streets were all the more compelling.But if this so-called high school detective himself declares that he is "alive"...

The decline in its activity is not worth mentioning.

The public will always quickly find fresh topics to satisfy their curiosity that has nowhere to rest.The headlines on the front page of newspapers are not serial dramas. They may be embellished or exaggerated to reflect the hot spots that people are most interested in at the moment. Today it is "High School Student Detective Solves Unsolved Cases Again", and tomorrow it will be "Phantom Thief Kidd's Challenge! The International Thief Reappears Rivers and lakes!", and it is not surprising that reports titled "Late activity! Sleeping Kogoro event book!" will occasionally appear.

The focus changes with each passing day.The changes between these seem to be jumps, and there may not be no connection afterwards.

"You've been really active recently, that Kagemura's Phantom Thief-san." Haibara, who nominally accepted the identity of an elementary school student but never showed the appearance of a child in life, swiped his fingertips to skip the hot topics on the phone screen.Her eyes paused briefly on the following text, and she read out the subtitle, which was obviously smaller in font size, "Kidd's nemesis has made meritorious service again..." She raised her eyes amusedly and looked at Jiang who was not far away. Togawa, "It seems that even if the body of a certain person becomes a child, his activity level will not decrease."

"It's beyond my control." In the noisy primary school classroom between classes, Edogawa helplessly spread his hands, expressing that his ability is there, and it's hard not to be the first bird. "I said, you'd better not use your mobile phone at this time, if Mr. Xiaolin finds out, you will be—"

"Ah, you're acting like a good boy now?" Although he wasn't afraid of this in his heart, Huiyuan still put away his phone. "I thought you'd be dissatisfied with returning your childhood."

"So what if you're dissatisfied?" Edogawa swayed his legs boredly on the seat, "The 'childhood' ten years ago is incomparable to what it is now." He tapped the textbook on the table, "I don't even know about it just from the textbook. It has been changed a few times, and the teaching method is not the same as before, not to mention..." At this time, several other genuine primary school students from the Boy Detective Team were clamoring for something to enter the classroom, Edogawa looked up at them, And said hello after meeting their eyes.Looking back, he continued the topic he was talking about just now.

"... In this era, many things are no longer restricted by age."

The excuse of "I'm a child, so I won't be questioned" has long been unreasonable, and more and more young masters are appearing in many fields.Even elementary school kids can save the world, if they can.

"I can't see that elementary school life can bring you so many emotions," Huiyuan raised his eyebrows teasingly, "Is there a lot of emotion?"

"Don't you feel this way?" Edogawa held his chin in one hand and turned his eyes back angrily. "To be honest, I think that even if you walk into a GUCCI store in the appearance of 7 years old and specify that you want to order a velvet limited edition of a certain bag, they will not be surprised to help you immediately."

Haibara didn't respond to this metaphor that was obviously out of context.

"So," as the noise in the classroom subsided slightly, she also lowered her voice, "Is this why 'Edogawa Conan' can be so active?"

Given that schoolboy-age perpetrators are possible, it's no surprise that schoolboy detectives make headlines.

"It's not as exaggerated as you said, it's active or something," Edogawa maintained a posture of resting his chin, "I was thinking, if the one who can be seen is 'Edogawa Conan', people will be more interested in 'Kudo Xinyi's attention will be weakened..."

Self-preservation in name, albeit in an unassuming form.

"Is 'Edogawa Conan' the one that can be seen..." The noise between classes has been completely silent, and this short, childish conversation had to stop abruptly.Putting his textbooks on the table, Haibara said a few more sentences before the topic was completely over through the slight commotion before class.

"But what if 'Kudo Shinichi' can still be seen by the public while 'Edogawa Conan' is active?"

"Huh?" Surprised, Edogawa put away his hand resting on his chin, and Edogawa vaguely felt that it was absolutely impossible for him to calmly cooperate with the teacher and pretend to be stupid in the next class.

"Has anyone assured you that thieves will never lie?"

The teacher demonstrated the simplest arithmetic on the blackboard, and the answer was very clear the moment the question was written.And Edogawa subconsciously copied those unquestionable calculation formulas like truth in the notes at hand, and his thinking still stayed on the topics during the break.

There is nothing wrong with Haibara's questioning, after all, for her who has just left that hell, there are too few people she can fully trust.But she did point out some problems, some small contradictions that have been ignored until now.

A thief would never tell a lie... Whether it was Hei Yu himself or anyone else, no one had ever personally guaranteed it.

On the podium, the teacher is explaining that the two ends of the equal sign in the equation should be exactly equal, and the deliberately slowed down speech speed allows children to understand immediately.

It's not so much a lie as saying nothing.

The nib of the copying formula stopped, and the unfinished equation ended with an equal sign that was a little crooked due to the writer's distraction.

Speaking of which, from the very beginning, I have determined that that guy is a person who can be completely trusted, and will let the other party know as soon as possible if there is any information.It doesn't matter if Hattori discovered his identity, or Haibara escaped.But he knew nothing about the world Hei Yu lived in.

Tapping the pen a little restlessly on the paper, Edogawa completed the unfinished equation.

Speaking of which, I don't even know if Hei Yu has any other friends.Although it seems that Kuroba and Hattori have a good relationship now, and occasionally have a few technical quarrels with Haibara-but these are just the interpersonal relationships brought to him by Edogawa Conan.The only ones I am relatively familiar with are the childhood sweetheart who looks very similar to Lan, and the other's father who works in the Metropolitan Police Department.

But even the Aoko Nakamori who was very close to Ran, who was still Kudo at the time, didn't speak to her a few times.Because of the scope of jurisdiction, he did not have much intersection with Police Officer Nakamori when handling the case.In the communication, Kuroba also mentioned an assistant called "Grandpa Terai" more or less, but the specific details about this "Grandpa Terai" were all given by him with the sentence "The mystery of magic cannot be exposed actively." "Prevarication passed.

In this world where there is a possibility of interaction with people in every move, are there only a handful of people that a person can be in contact with?

Classmates who smile at each other, friends who will go shopping together after class, reliable companions who will help others when necessary... No matter how old-fashioned the story is, there will always be a few such characters.Even a NEET who doesn't go out at all, will have a few more frequent contacts on the Internet.

Why have you never been in touch?

This world seems unable to accommodate the existence of multiple protagonists.Because once everyone becomes the center of the event, the story itself becomes a group drama with no center of gravity, making everything crowded together in a noisy and noisy manner.

Do the world lines really intersect?

Do the settings and events mentioned in the other world really exist equally in the present reality?

When referring to the rumors, the words "this is another story" always appear in the narration, but Edogawa originally thought that what they experienced was the same story.

Companions, crises, enemies... everything happens at the same time, all crises can be dealt with together, the same story.

He thought they were playing the same game of chess.

But in a fair chess game, one should be able to see all the pieces in the opponent's hands.