[Conan Doujin] The Mystery of Theseus

The Puzzle2 mutation needs to be resolved by □□.

The concept of "companion" is often divided into many different levels according to the difference between the subject of consciousness and the object of communication.

You can see each other from time to time, and those who have the same or similar interests can be regarded as the most basic layer, but this kind of relationship requires continuous and frequent contact to maintain a sense of familiarity, and it is easy to be worn out by time.The number of such "companions" is extremely large, and their content will continue to be updated over time.

Companions on the move—or so they might be called.

The other kind of companions are more like a fixed existence in time. When they can’t meet each other normally, they live peacefully in their own world like strangers. Occasionally, when they meet again, they can look at each other and smile. , as if that time of separation never existed.

It may be an exaggeration to say this, but most of the time this is also the relationship that most people expect - companions who are not disturbed in each other's lives but can be trusted at any time are better than those who can see each other but may not be able to give each other. "Friends" who help in time are much rarer.

Well, if we must distinguish, it is probably the difference between R and UR.

Because they are studying in different schools, Kudo and Kuroba haven't met several times since they got acquainted.Probably some kind of meaningless and childish competitive psychology. Just seeing that face that is too similar to myself, I want to use actions to prove "I am the unique one" for no reason.

Others naturally couldn't understand their way of getting along without knowing the basics and starting to compete for superiority.

“Boys are like that,” said Mo Lilan, who was behind the meeting of the two high school students who could be called “Internet celebrities” tentatively. "

"That's right, that's right," Aoko Nakamori, who is also behind the scenes to some extent, agreed with a short video to make the existence of Kaito Kuroba active in people's sight, "so boys will never grow up Well."

Having said that, when the two girls complained about the behavior of even competing for the winning rate of the boxing game since they met, they never forgot to marvel at "It turns out that it is really so easy to see people like you in this world." similar-looking people".

"That's because you are the woman next to the protagonist," Kudo bravely proposed the unreasonable and unscientific "Halo Theory" as an explanation for this, "As I said, you are just an unknown person who can be seen everywhere in the crowd. They look exactly the same, and they may not be able to meet each other for the rest of their lives." Complimentally posing a bird's-eye view, Kudo made a classic gesture of "there is only one truth", "It's thanks to me that you can meet each other, hurry up as a Kudo Shinichi of the World Center, I am grateful to Dade—"

Was beaten very badly.

Having the self-awareness of the protagonist is already terrifying enough to change the cognitive level of the world.However, Kudo himself may never have thought about why he had never met Kuroba before.

This is an era in which every corner can be caught by wind and shadows, and I am afraid that no one can hide in peace.

Even if the report of solving the case at a young age does not make the headlines of the newspaper, as the outstanding offspring of the popular actress and employee Tou Yukiko and the famous novelist Kudo Yusaku, the existence of Kudo Shinichi is absolutely impossible not to be known to the public.

And before everything started to turn, Kaito Kuroba was not a "nobody" who had no sense of existence.

So, when did the story start, when did time flow, and when did the world exist where we can see it?

……

This involves some high-dimensional problems that are extremely scary to think about carefully, so let's skip it here.

A story that is dubbed "everyday" may actually be full of high energy.A serious story may often start with the daily life, and when the story officially begins, it means that the "mutation" is on the way.

We don't know when the foreshadowing of this mutation was planted, but what is certain is that the protagonist's future actions will quickly unfold around it, new characters will appear on the stage, and companions and enemies will gradually appear.

Shinichi Kudo always felt that before he noticed it, before he politely said hello and gave a notice, the story had already unfolded on his own.

Although he still doesn't know exactly where the so-called abnormality and abnormality originated, his sensitive nerves like event detectors tightened up and told him that the over-brewed conspiracy has already overflowed and spread to the point where people are at a loss for what to do—— But that's just his personal feeling.

Delusions, delusions, you name it.

Until one day, when Kuroba and Kuroba were looking for the missing single volume of a manga that "can't find the seventh volume anyway" in a manga coffee shop, Kuroba flipped through the manga in his hand and came up with such a sentence inexplicably.

"Can anyone be a detective?"

Disapprovingly, Kudo put the comic in his hand back on the bookshelf, and moved his eyes to the adjacent bookshelf to search, "Which world is that the setting of the detective?" Suspicious comics, and flipped.

The name is to find the "lost volume [-]", but it has completely changed to "find interesting comics" in the middle of the mission.

Kuroba shrugged and said nothing.Closing the manga in his hand, which was obviously the protagonist of the detective manga but with the strange title of "Majin", he directly started another seemingly unrelated topic.

"Speaking of which," he looked at the contrasting hair color of the protagonist on the cover, "Recently, a mysterious transfer student appeared in our class."

"So?" Kudo turned his head, "Are you planning to win over that mysterious transfer student to revive the detective agency?"

A while ago, I seemed to have heard that Aoko Nakamori, the daughter of the police officer of the second search section, was worried about the school's faltering detective agency that might be disbanded at any time.

"That's not true," Heiyu raised the manga in his hand, and Heiyu's tone was indifferent, "But detectives, they really suck, hahaha——"

A suspected twin who randomly popped up was a high school detective, an inexplicably mysterious transfer student was also a high school detective, and the main character of a manga was also a demon creature wearing a detective's skin...

It’s just like the rotten street where there will be elements of phantom thieves in detective comics, hahahahaha.

While secretly laughing, Kuroba secretly sighed.

"You put it lightly, not someone with a good mind can become a detective... Wait a minute," Kudo leaned forward to carefully read the cover of the so-called detective manga, and Kudo was inexplicably interested. "This author really likes all kinds of weirdos."

"Would you like to make a bet?" Kuroba handed the detective manga to Kudo, "The protagonist of the author's next novel must also be a mutant creature."

"Why do you know that?" Kudo casually flipped through a few pages, "As a cartoonist, you should avoid similar themes you have created..."

"The subject matter can be different." He closed his eyes and shook his fingers, Kuroba's tone sounded like an experienced veteran editor, "many cartoonists have a special liking for the characters they have created before."

They didn't find the lost seventh volume that day, but simply read detective comics for an afternoon.When walking back with tired eyes and dry eyes, Kudo suddenly had the illusion that "there is not only one world".

Something has happened.

But not only did he not catch up, but he just stayed in his peaceful daily life, as if everything had nothing to do with him.