[Conan Doujin] The Mystery of Theseus

Puzzle8@@ seems to know it all.

Can't hide it?

Can't make it up anymore?

If the fact is that the other party knew everything from the beginning, then who is the one who was deceived?

The untouchable but ubiquitous net called lies, with intertwined threads, has already engulfed people who should and shouldn't be involved.

And when the net is tightened, no one can escape.

When standing in the center of the stage, even ordinary people with no performance experience will involuntarily assume roles driven by the environment and scenery.

Even if he doesn't do this, everything around him will force him to give the most appropriate reaction - the audience's laughter will tell him "you made a mistake", and the disappointed eyes of the fellow actors will make him bow his head.

This is a massive collective hypnosis, and there is only one hypnotized object.An innocent passer-by who knew nothing about everything was hastily pushed onto the stage, his eyes dodged, and he was at a loss.Am I the one standing here right now?Is it me that the light is shining right now?

What they're looking at right now...is me?

They're watching, they can't run off the stage - that's embarrassing.

They're watching, and they can't go against their expectations -- silent disappointment is more suffocating than a wave of boos.

Now that you're on the stage, there's no need for a synopsis.If you want to watch the show, then I will respond to your expectations.

Is it the much-anticipated international thief, or the gorgeous and elegant gentleman under the moon?Come on, let me show you all.

Today, Kuroba Kaito is very used to the daily inconvenience caused by having two identities at the same time.When Kaito Kidd's female fans grew exponentially, he was nothing more than a pervert who peeked at the color of underwear among the girls in his class.When the stage test was approaching with lightning speed, the newspaper also just published new information on gemstones.

But... It is the protagonist's task to deal with the contradiction between them.If you can't even handle the phase test where the level of the boss in the district is not considered, then you are not the protagonist.

But reality soon made Heiyu realize that there is more than one protagonist in this world.

Their worlds were not supposed to meet.

"What are your plans for this weekend?"

"Well, nothing special..."

"Exactly, those brats are going to--"

"Yeah, I don't seem to be free again. I have a stage test next week, so busy, so busy—"

If it weren't for knowing each other, the city they live in, though not the largest in the world, is big enough that they haven't seen each other in the past 17 years.But when acquaintance becomes the premise, it seems quite normal to ask each other about weekend plans.

Black Feather secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, weekends are completely empty.The notice has been issued, and Police Officer Nakamori is also quite passionate about making a comeback.For some reason, however, he didn't want to mention anything about the weekend's operation in front of the little detective.It's not that he's worried about being exposed, it's just that the feeling of forcibly trying to cover up something makes him very uncomfortable.

If you feel uncomfortable, just walk around.

As usual, Edogawa didn't respond to his inexplicable behavior.

"That's it," he shrugged, "Because Uncle received a troublesome commission, and originally wanted you to accompany those brats."

"Ah, it's those troublesome little ghosts again—" Hei Yu scratched his hair with some headaches, "I've agreed in advance, if I want to accompany them to the amusement park or zoo again, I will be very grateful."

"It seems that you don't have time now, so there is no need to say more." Edogawa spread his hands, "I don't have that much time to manage a group of kids who don't know anything..."

So much for the topic of weekend plans.Kuroba went home to continue preparing for his "stage test", and Edogawa followed his childhood friend's father, a detective who had been thriving in his career recently, to participate in new incidents.

But all new events will inevitably be premeditated.

Yes, this weekend, the group of children in the detective team will just stay at home peacefully, or read comics for a day, or visit museums or art exhibitions with their parents, and no one will participate in collective arrangements middle.

Since the topic was cleverly bypassed, forget it.

after all……

Edogawa looked at the flimsy piece of paper printed with typeface in his hand, and smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth.

There are still puzzles to be solved.

Kuroba Kaito didn't understand why the Kaitou had to send a notice letter.

Was it the phantom thief character in literary works who created this precedent, or has the morality of thieves been like this since ancient times?Write down the time, place, and items of the theft on the hard paper and send them to the relevant people to attract their attention and unnecessary vigilance. Apart from making the operation more difficult, Kuroba doesn't see any benefit to the thief himself. .

Um, build momentum before the action begins?Or raise awareness in this way?But what is the cleverness of the notice clearly stating the time and place? Is it interesting to play those policemen as idiots...

Although it is indeed very interesting... When drafting the notice letter, Kuroba really hurt his brain cells.To be honest, it's not very clever to tease the stupid police officer in such a cheap way.

He doesn't mind playing with some more subtle tricks.

When the notice with the obvious patchwork color signal was delivered, Kuroba almost laughed secretly to the point of internal injury.Hey, everyone in the Metropolitan Police Department, if you can't solve the puzzle before the notice time, you will lose too badly.

On the premise of solving the puzzle, the threshold for being able to participate in the arrest of the phantom thief has been raised.In this way, the notice letter with the code became a kind of screening - simple-minded guys are not qualified to compete on the same stage.This screening method may be too arrogant, but some missionary organizations are indeed looking for comrades by releasing games that are extremely difficult.

Forcibly increasing the difficulty of the action... To some extent, the result is still the same.

Kaito Kuroba was even vaguely looking forward to the preview of what kind of guy he would meet that day.Although it meant that he pushed himself to the edge of the cliff, the thrill of running on the edge of the cliff can be described as incomparable.

Being so close to danger and getting out of it can become an addiction.

Edogawa Conan really wanted to enjoy the process of solving puzzles at the beginning.But a kind of unwillingness to admit defeat in his heart told him that he couldn't let that arrogant guy succeed.But gradually, he also became interested in who was able to write such a sour code at first glance, but it was indeed somewhat difficult.

To approach you, to see you, to expose you, and then to pay all the respect a warrior deserves to the spirit of his sword.

So he called the doctor and asked him to help investigate the information about the strange thief, and based on the hints he got from solving the puzzle and the information collected later, he hurried to the location where the strange thief might appear.

No, not "maybe", but "must".

It's just that I got there early.

When the white monster descended on the top floor of the Cupido Hotel, which was hardly decorated with lights, but was not stingy with the moonlight, Edogawa was discussing information about "Kidd" with the doctor on the phone.

At that moment he knew who he was seeing.

Before everything started, when "Edogawa Conan" was still "Kudo Shinichi", he once heard Kuroba talk about his father in a chat.

Hei Yu just briefly mentioned the events of that year in a very vague way, and then turned to talk about how keen his mother was on telling her love stories, but the event that was engulfed by the fire was not without trace.Realizing that the other party didn't intend to provide more details, Kudo didn't ask more at that time.

After a simple investigation found that a lot of information had been artificially blocked or tampered with, Kudo gave up the idea of ​​continuing to explore.This little investigation started out of curiosity has just come to nothing.

But the information provided by the doctor connected everything.

First appeared... 18 years ago.

Hiding time is...

Everyone said he might be dead, but... reappeared...

Edogawa Conan is very confident in the answer he got from his reasoning.Although he still doesn't know which link the "love story" of Kuroba's mother belongs to in this series of events, the answer to the name of the gentleman under the original white suit is already eight or nine. Not far from ten.

When he saw that familiar guy jumping down from the place where he fell, he even thought about how to greet him, and how to ask "why didn't you say it?"

But the other party approached without any unnecessary movements, like an actor in the center of the stage walking towards the spotlight.When the distance was so close that they could hear each other clearly when speaking normally, he leaned his upper body slightly.

"Yo, brat," said the tone with a hint of cynicism.

"what are you doing here?"

The author has something to say:

Gong Jun has something to say:

Because of the butterfly effect theorem... the plot here will deviate slightly from the original.

The deviation will become bigger and bigger in the future...so this is not a reprint of the original plot (emphasis added