[Conan Doujin] The Mystery of Theseus

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"Sorry, you admit your mistake..."

Subconsciously opened his mouth, Kuroba glanced at the girl who was still standing aside, and swallowed back the denials and explanations that were almost blurted out.

"Actually, I'm Kudo Shinichi's twin brother, I'm sorry to have lied to you—" No one would believe me if I told it.

After quickly analyzing the situation, he looked at the passerby who struck up a conversation again.Light-colored hair, pupils of a foreigner, he has never seen the person in front of him, at least in his impression it is a strange face.However, Kudo Shinichi's admirer is also present at the moment, so he can't deny it in front of his fans, and destroy the innocent girl's heart.

So he swallowed his saliva bravely, nodded reluctantly to the other party, and then laughed and was dragged into the shadow across the road by the arm of the foreigner who looked like he was asking for directions.

The dumbfounded Kudo fan witnessed the whole process, and took out her mobile phone after finally reacting.

"Crack-"

With a slight movement of the fingertip, the video evidence is saved in the photo album.

Sorry, detective.Kuroba apologized with tears in his heart.There may be another addition to your history of romantic encounters made out of nothing.

"It's unbelievable!"

When he got the call from Judy, Edogawa felt like a parent who had been called in for a three-way interview because his child was doing poorly in school.

He could probably guess what happened, but he didn't expect that he would be scolded along with it.

"You actually allowed him to blatantly declare that he is Kudo Shinichi with this face?" Judy, who had just recovered from the shock, held his forehead with one hand, "How can you be so stupid? "

"But so far there haven't been any problems..."

"Are you still speaking for him?!"

The sudden raised voice silenced Edogawa for an instant.Being yelled at by an OL woman wearing thin-rimmed glasses like this is not a cover for the lethality.

Ah, this scene is so familiar... Rolling his eyes in his heart, Edogawa was a little surprised at how quickly he adapted to the current situation.He glanced at Kuroba who was sitting next to him.

"So, according to what Teacher Judy said," he felt that he also needed to ask the matter clearly, "are you still claiming to be me in front of other people without having to disguise your identity?"

"You can't disappoint those girls who admire you, can you?" Hei Yu nodded self-consciously, "A girl's disappointed expression is the trigger to destroy the world—"

"Those?" Edogawa frowned, "Does that mean it's not just this time?"

Hei Yu didn't answer immediately, as if he was calculating in his heart.

"Well, let me think about it, I did it twice in the shopping street, and once in Akihabara," he opened his fingers, "The time I bought the maid outfit seems to be—"

"...Maid outfit?!"

"Okay, okay," seeing the two people going back and forth like a farce, Judy raised her hand helplessly to interrupt their conversation, "Although it seems that nothing happened now, let him use this kind of If your appearance is wandering around outside, there will definitely be problems sooner or later." She looked up and down the boy who was mistaken for Kudo Shinichi.After careful identification, you can indeed find the difference in temperament, but the possibility of making most people mistaken at first sight is quite high. "...something has to be done."

For the past 17 years, he has been living a seemingly stable life as "Kuroba Kaito". Although the situation of being mistaken sometimes happens, Kuroba never thinks that he should be blamed for this face that is too similar to others. And change the past life.

"Measures?" he asked.He has to defend himself day-to-day as Kaito Kuroba. "I don't want to change anything just to hide my identity."

Judy sighed, as if confronting a troublesome naughty student. "I don't know where your self-confidence that you are not afraid of anything comes from." When she said this, her pupils turned towards Edogawa, "You have been involved, so you know now 'Edogawa', that's enough for us to keep an eye on you." Judy paused, "If you need protection..."

Just a little bit of imagination, the one-way mirror of the interrogation room and the frightening metal railings were reflected in front of Kuroba's eyes.Regarding this group of "companions" from the FBI, he had heard Edogawa mention some of them before.If he just accepted the protection from the FBI, he might really be "protected" in the true sense.

"Well, don't be so troublesome, this guy's escaping skill is first-rate." Unusually, Edogawa also vetoed the plan as if he had changed his position—even though what he said next made Kuroba jump up. . "After all, Kuroba is—"

etc!A voice that was barely a voice came out of his throat, and Kuroba didn't know if he should stop him from continuing.

It seems difficult to find a suitable entry point to explain why the self, who is the main body, still acquiesces to Kuroba's actions as Kudo even though he knows it.Edogawa glanced at Kuroba's expression, and understood the nervous and urging expression as affirmation, so he stopped hesitating and sorted out their previous acquaintance process from the beginning in chronological order.

After listening to his narration, Judy didn't show too much surprise when she knew that this boy who looked like Kudo was not just an "ordinary high school student".

"That Phantom Thief boy...ah," said someone with a bit of knowledge, Judy took off her glasses and wiped them, and after putting them back on, she examined Kuroba again from head to toe, "In I seem to have seen your case record in our place. Wait a minute, no...Are you still in high school?" Pause, "The age is not right..."

At this point, the right to speak was handed over to Hei Yu.At first he intended to conceal the cause of the age difference, but this seemed to make the contradiction unexplainable from the beginning.In the end, he had to tell the whole story of the few things he had investigated, and at the same time inevitably talked about the reason for his actions as a phantom thief.

"That is to say, you have known each other before Kuroba became a phantom thief." Nodding, Judy's gaze stayed between the two of them, "This is quite surprising to me... Would you mind changing the place?" speak?"

"Another place?" Edogawa and Kuroba exchanged glances.

"Now that we have reached this point, it is impossible to say to you 'don't care, we can pretend that we didn't see it'. The strange thief boy can find the information he wants from us, and we may also need his help .Before that," with a wink and a mischievous smile, Judy led them to her car, "there are some people you need to meet."

Edogawa had roughly guessed what was going to happen next, and Kuroba felt that he had reached the edge of the cliff on the single-plank bridge, and the bridge had already broken behind him.

He can choose to open the hang glider on the way of falling, but currently he is not in a state where he can easily escape.

Their destination was a place like a temporary office. Judy walked in front and opened the door, and the two followed behind her.After a brief introduction of the situation, Kuroba greeted several investigators who stayed behind temporarily.Edogawa watched all this, the procedure was so smooth that he felt that he was witnessing a bad introduction.

Until they left, neither of them had the real feeling that "all this really happened".Edogawa walked ahead in silence, and Kuroba looked back at the building they had just visited with his hands behind his back.There was a tinnitus-like vibration in my head, and the eardrum roared as if it had received a strange but familiar frequency.

"I didn't like it that much," he said honestly, though the excuses he used were unconvincing. "I thought the FBI would search only for pretty big sisters."

Why are they all scary-looking uncles, especially that person... I attributed the uncomfortable feeling to the inexplicable sense of oppression, and Kuroba secretly prayed that he would not have to deal with them again Opportunity.Yes, stop dealing.If you open your mouth to speak, you will feel that your heart is invisible.

That voice frightened him.

"I..." With a light cough to break the silence, Edogawa stopped in front of him, "I won't say 'Welcome to join' to you."

He turned around and saw the same uncertainty in Kuroba's eyes.

Their paths shouldn't have overlapped.But the waves called reality quickly swept away the sand on the beach, leaving fine pebbles somewhere on the shore.These stones originally belonged to a larger whole, but now they are lying on the beach, exposed to the sun, soaked in sea water, polished into a completely different shape from the original, and may be carried to another coast by waves one day in the future.

"But now," Edogawa sighed.

He felt that he should laugh at this moment.At least for now, he needs to pull out a smile to balance the sinking air.

"We are companions in the same boat."

Given the situation they are in and the future they need to face, it seems inappropriate to say it with a smile.Edogawa didn't know whether he would regret saying this at some point in the future.

Companion should be a reassuring word.

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I know this update interval is a bit excessive (Dogeza

The plot related to the main line is probably one of the parts that I am least willing to write, because the appearance of the main line often means the end (and in order to make the statement need to add a private setting

Of course, I may have to wait a while before this story is over... (Busy, really busy