Conan's other self

The little girl also accidentally picked up a card with a code written on it.

However, she came here not out of pure curiosity, but because she felt that the code might be related to herself.

She had been unable to contact her sister all day. Although she had been in a similar situation before and she was able to take care of herself well, the man said something ambiguous...

Moreover, the corresponding codes are all in English, even though this is Japan. And her mother is British and she also speaks English.

——She felt that this was the code given to her by that person.

"Yes," the little girl showed the card in her hand to the other party, "and I also found the next card with a code written on it..."

As she said that, she turned her head and glanced at the tree she was observing before, "Right next to that tree. Together?"

"Okay." Kudo Shinichi readily agreed.

The little girl in front of me was not only miraculously cute, but also obviously very smart, and she had probably seen Sherlock Holmes.

This made him find her very pleasing to the eye.

In addition, he also thought her voice sounded familiar. Although he couldn't match it, it didn't stop him from liking hearing it.

The code on the second card is still the dancing figure.

The code on the card is divided into three parts.

The first part is only one word, the second part is longer and has two paragraphs, separated by commas, and the first paragraph is also only one word.

The bottom paragraph is a coherent sentence.

It is worth mentioning that the first part of the word is separated from the other parts of the code by a thin dotted line.

They unraveled the word above in the same manner as before.

The first part is still in English.

The secret code means "start over".

This word made Kudo Shinichi feel uncomfortable.

Sure enough, they soon discovered that it would not work to continue to use the same method to decipher the next two parts of the code. The person who came up with the secret code changed the table of correspondence between the little people and the letters.

They sat on a bench in a nearby park and tried together for a while, but they couldn't figure out the correspondence between the little people and the letters. After all, there is not enough information for them to respond.

Kudo Shinichi was not in a hurry.

He didn't even know what the code pointed to, and thought it might just be a game thought up by a Sherlock Holmes fan.

This is just a reasoning game.

but…

"Are you anxious?" He noticed that the little girl seemed concerned.

The little girl shook her head slightly, then nodded again.

"I don't know." She hesitated, "But I vaguely feel that this code may have something to do with me..."

"Then..." Glancing at the sky, Kudo Shinichi jumped off the bench in the park, "Let's go find some help."

"help?"

"Yeah, you'll find out later."

There was a phone booth near the park, and he walked straight over.

He opened the door and walked in, picked up the phone, and then he noticed that the little girl had also squeezed in.

The little girl closed the door and leaned against the glass on the other side to look at him.

The phone booth is not big, but the two of them are just very small children, so they don't feel crowded when they squeeze together.

"Do you mind?" the little girl asked softly.

Kudo Shinichi shook his head slightly, and then dialed his home phone number. The person who answered the phone was his mother, Yukiko Kudo.

"Hello? This is..."

"Mother."

"Xiaoxin!" Kudo Yukiko on the other side of the phone said in a brisk tone. But then she pretended to be a little angry and said, "You still know how to call back! It's already this time..."

"There are still some things..."

"What can happen to you..." Kudo Yukiko said dissatisfied.

Xiaoxinyi has always been very sensible and likes to pretend to be mature. He should not cause trouble in kindergarten or other places...

"I picked up a piece of paper with a strange code written on it, but I can't figure it out no matter how hard I try. Can mom help me figure it out?"

Kudo Shinichi actually wanted to ask for help from his father, Kudo Yusaku, a mystery novelist, but he still said so.

Because he knew very well that his mother would soon go to his father for help.

In this era, it was not convenient to send pictures, so he simply explained the basic situation, numbered the dancing figures one by one, and then told the phone to listen.

Then there was a brief silence.

Kudo Yukiko took the notebook and walked away temporarily. During this waiting period, Kudo Shinichi neither spoke nor listened to the phone very seriously, which made the little girl realize the current situation.

So she tentatively broke the silence.

"Is this okay? Ask someone for help?" she asked softly, "You like secret codes, don't you?"

If you didn't really like secret codes, you wouldn't have gone into the woods. Moreover, he is only this age.

"It's normal. And don't you care about this code very much?"

"…Thanks."

Kudo Shinichi was a little embarrassed. He had never been good at handling other people's thanks, especially this kind of thank you in person.

Besides, he didn't feel like he had done anything worthy of gratitude.

"By the way, what's your name?" he then asked.

The little girl was silent for a moment, then shook her head slightly.

"I won't tell you."

"..."

"What about you? What's your name?" the little girl asked.

Kudo Shinichi was a little depressed.

This guy obviously didn't want to tell me her name, but he asked for his name again...

"Sora, my name is Sora."

Since we are playing a detective game, let's use this name.

There happened to be movement on the other side of the phone.

The little girl returned to silence.

"Ahem," Kudo Yukiko cleared her throat, "Your mother took one look at it and untied it, but before I tell you, your father... let me first ask where you found this card?"

"On the edge of the woods near Didan Elementary School, near a tree, but there is nothing strange around..."

"The first one was found near the kindergarten, right?"

"Yeah." Kudo Shinichi responded, he had just said this.

"Then this code should be for very smart children! Your father said-"

Once again, she accidentally let something slip. Kudo Yukiko, who was a little annoyed, simply stopped pretending and continued speaking directly.

"——Your father asked me to tell you that if he came up with the password, he might congratulate you at the beginning of the second password..."

Congratulate me?

Kudo Shinichi raised the code paper and looked at it, trying to translate the similar words into English and corresponding.

——First of all, congratulations on unlocking the last code.

"However, this English may still be too difficult for you, Xiaoxin..."

"It's okay, I happen to have a partner who is very good at English..."

"Partner?" Before she had time to feel disappointed that she could not show off in front of Xiao Shinichi, Kudo Yukiko immediately became wary, "How old are you? Male or female?"

"A girl about the same age as me..."

Kudo Yukiko felt relieved now.

The call was quickly hung up.

Kudo Yusaku did not directly tell the content of the code, but only gave a hint. But even so, there are already many little people corresponding to the letters.

After getting the prompt, Kudo Shinichi realized that Kudo Yusaku should have thought of that sentence through that separate word.

The rest is up to them.

After a few more attempts, they successfully unlocked the back part.

The other party seemed to be considerate and used as few other letters as possible.

The final location was a nearby warehouse.

"I know it's there, it's around here..."

"You'd better not go?" The little girl looked up at the late sky and hesitated, "I can go alone..."

"Eh?"

"It might be dangerous..."

"...Do you know something?"

The little girl shook her head slightly, "It's just intuition."

It’s just a gut feeling really.

"Then I can't let you go alone." Kudo Shinichi said, "And it's okay. The warehouse is not abandoned. There are several shops nearby. They should still be open now - I will protect you."

"Maybe it will be life-threatening?" The little girl turned her head and looked into his eyes seriously. She was really just trying to scare him away.

But her instinct told her that she really didn't want him to follow her.

"I told you, I will protect you."

Although he didn't know what she was worried about, Kudo Shinichi still insisted on his opinion, "Even if my life is in danger, at least I have not let down the people I want to protect in my life..."

These words were very inappropriate for his age and sounded very average, so he quickly changed his words in the next moment.

"Anyway, let's not go in when we get there. We'll take a look around the area before talking! If we think there's any danger, we'll call the police directly!"

The little girl was silent for a moment and didn't insist anymore. After all, she didn't know whether the code had anything to do with her, nor did she know that her potential radar-like talent was already working.

The two came to the warehouse together.

Kudo Shinichi was a little surprised that the lights outside the warehouse had been turned off, but he remembered that when he came here later, those lights were still on.

This is not normal.

So he decided to trust the little girl's intuition.

It would be terrible if it was a human trafficker or something...

"...We'd better go call the police."

"For what reason?" the little girl asked curiously.

"Whatever, we are just kids anyway." Kudo Shinichi said shamelessly, "Safety is more important."

At most, he would just be criticized by Officer Megure.

Thinking this, Kudo Shinichi immediately turned around and walked towards a nearby store, intending to borrow the phone there.

The little girl raised her feet to follow, then paused on the spot.

As soon as Kudo Shinichi walked around the corner, he heard the little girl behind him shout "No". However, before he could react, he felt something like a swinging stick hit his head.

He fell to the ground.

It's a sneak attack.

If only my senses were more sensitive...

His consciousness was vague, and he was vaguely aware that there were actually two people appearing. The little girl seemed to run towards him, but was stopped.

"Don't worry, he will be fine." The first person to speak was a young woman, "It's you who really surprised me. You actually found this place even though you missed the reminder I left for you..."

"Tch..." This is the voice of an adult male.

"Anyway, you passed the test..."

"A childish test," the man said impatiently, "You like this girl very much? You don't follow the rules and you deliberately designed such a gentle test..."

At this time, she should have killed someone with her own hands. The little boy lying on the ground next to her was a good candidate.

"She will be a scientific researcher in the future. There is no need to follow your rules." The female voice was a little cold.

"It's up to you, you have the final say here. In short..." The man turned to look at the little girl who had been silent, "Congratulations on proving that your brain is pretty good and you got the opportunity to work for that gentleman..."

Kudo Shinichi's consciousness fell into darkness.

…

"Do you really remember everything?"

Among the red leaves flying in the sky, Haiyuan Ai stood in front of Fengyuan and looked into his eyes.

"...If you put it that way," Feng Yuan couldn't help blinking, "I'm not sure if it's all."

This vague and fragmented memory from time traveling to the age of four was "inherited" by Kudo Shinichi named Conan after that stick swing, and this memory was taken away by him after another stick swing. return.

However, the subject of this memory was also Kudo Shinichi, and it was mixed with the memories of the following thirteen years. He always thought that it was not a memory he had experienced himself, and he never recalled it.

And because some of the parts he couldn't remember because of his head injury, Fengyuan wasn't sure whether he remembered them all.

But in any case, the split setting he made up seems to be true, although there are some discrepancies in the details...

"I thought you wouldn't remember it." Haiyuan Ai's voice interrupted Fengyuan's thoughts.

"You've known for a long time, right?" Thinking of this, Fengyuan felt a little depressed, "That's why you said last time that I watched my own expression consciously fall in love with Xiaolan but was indifferent..."

But he was not conscious at that time, and it was as if he had skipped the thirteen years in an instant, until the opportunity came when he took the medicine she developed and reunited with her.

"Yeah, I'm not like a certain great detective who claims that his memory is very clear, but even he has forgotten me..."

"Then...mom, she also knows?"

"Of course Aunt Yukiko knew it too. She told me that she knew it as soon as she saw you, and she was very happy at the time..."

Feng Yuan's mood was complicated.

So when he saw Kudo Yukiko at that time, a strong feeling of admiration welled up in the depths of his memory. It turned out that this emotion actually originated from his own memory.

It was also because of this that he only had feelings for Kudo Yusaku and Kudo Yukiko, and did not have feelings for Kudo Shin to Xiaoran or anyone else in the following thirteen years.

"It's really too much. You guys have been hiding it from me for so long..."

"Because I'm worried that if I tell you directly, it will have a negative impact on you. What happened to you is too special," Haihara Ai explained, "And it doesn't matter even if you never remember it..."

She paused and looked directly into Fengyuan's eyes, "We won't change our attitude towards you because of this..."

She had already told him similar words when they were in Higashi Okusu Village. Of course, it was obviously impossible for Maplehara at that time to understand the true meaning of that sentence.

"But..." Fengyuan hesitated slightly.

Haiyuan Ai's eyes flickered slightly, she touched the tip of his nose lightly with the tip of her nose, and then moved some distance away.

Then she put on a suspicious look, "I said, you shouldn't have fallen in love with me at that time, right?"

"..."

"Really?" Hui Yuan Ai asked with interest.

"How, how could it be possible!" Fengyuan defended, "I'm not that precocious. I was only four years old at that time..."

"That's true," Hui Yuan Ai nodded in agreement, with a narrow smile in his eyes, "I don't care about the four-year-old Guitou's liking."

But you look quite happy...

Feng Yuan decided not to defend himself.

Anyway, although the cross-dimensional love and the real love now cannot be generalized, he did like Haibara Ai a long time ago.

The breeze blows.

Feng Yuan looked at Hui Yuan Ai in front of him quietly, and Hui Yuan Ai also looked at him quietly. At this moment, the tourists around them seemed to be far away from them, and they were the only two people left in the world.

The heartbeat starts to speed up.

Although he had kissed the girl in front of him many times, Fengyuan could not help but feel nervous.

He moved closer.

Hui Yuan Ai did not give in, nor did she close her eyes. She was still looking directly into his eyes, wanting to see him kiss her.

But the next moment, he suddenly remembered something. Just when Feng Yuan came over, Hai Yuan Ai turned his head in a panic, and put his hand on his chest to stop him.

"No!" Hui Yuan Ai refused.

Worried that Feng Yuan had misunderstood, she quickly turned her head to look at him and explained: "In the story you told yesterday, the lovers separated forever after kissing on the stage of Kiyomizu Temple..."

It turns out that feudalism suddenly became superstitious...

"This is not the stage of Kiyomizu Temple," Maplehara replied, "and in my script, they lived happily together after kissing..."

"You're not a screenwriter."

"This is our story, and I am the screenwriter," Maplehara said seriously, and then added, "One."

Haiyuan looked at Fengyuan blankly for a while, but then she turned her head away again and looked away.

"No matter how nice you say it, it won't work. If it doesn't work, it just won't work."

She didn't want to kiss the person she wanted to spend the rest of her life with in such an unlucky place.

Moreover, many people have already looked over...

"Okay..." Fengyuan felt a little regretful.

Haiyuan Ai glanced at Fengyuan quietly, then crossed her arms and said softly in a very low voice: "We'll talk about it when we get back."

That was a sound that only Kudo could hear, and Kudo could definitely hear and understand the meaning.

Hui Yuan Ai's cheeks started to feel hot and she didn't dare to look at him.

Feng Yuan's eyes lit up immediately.

"Well, it's getting late, shall we go back now?"

This is too straightforward...

Hui Yuan Ai turned to look at Feng Yuan in a funny way, knowing full well what he had in mind. However, she did not intend to expose him, but asked seriously: "Aren't you going to continue the tour? We have just come in."

"I will have the opportunity to come again in the future..."

"Eh?"

"Did you know? Kiyomizu-dera Temple is named after its clear water. Going down the stone steps of Okuin is Otowa Waterfall. The clear spring is divided into three parts, which represent longevity, health and wisdom respectively..."

"Then what?" Haiyuan Ai interrupted Fengyuan's science popularization, a little puzzled. What does this have to do with why you will come again in the future?

"There is also Zian Pagoda next to Otowa Waterfall..."

Hui Yuan Ai's face suddenly turned red.

She immediately realized what Fengyuan wanted to say, but before she could stop her, she heard him continue: "There are many people there praying for a smooth delivery..."

"Who, who wants to be with you..."

The temperature on my cheeks is almost reaching its upper limit. Although she didn't look in the mirror now, Haihara Ai felt that her face must be red now.

However, she did not continue speaking.

Even though they were just bickering, there were some things she didn't want to say.

This way she got stuck. Then she stared at Fengyuan and spoke clearly, word by word: "Pervert!"

"Hmph~"

"I asked, why do you look so happy when someone calls you a pervert?"

Hui Yuan Ai was a little depressed.

This is her most commonly used attack method.

"No way. I'm reflecting on it..."

"fraud."

"No..."

"big liar!"

"……"So cute…

"Then..." Haiyuan Ai's voice suddenly became darker, "What if we can't change back..."

"Then we will grow up together..." Fengyuan has of course thought about this problem, "then we can actually go on a school trip together..."

"That means we have to wait ten years?"

"That's right," Fengyuan said as if he was holding his chin in thought, "That would be troublesome..."

Haiyuan Ai narrowed his eyes slightly, obviously not satisfied with this answer.

"In that case," Feng Yuan continued, "I would have to think about it for ten more years..."

"What are you thinking about?"

"Find a way to make my Haiyuan like me all the time."

"...Glib tongue." Hui Yuan Ai's eyes were a little wandering, "Then... what if we don't grow up?"

She believed that Fengyuan must have noticed that their height had not increased at all in nearly a year, which was impossible for children of this age.

And although she is also developing an antidote that will allow them to grow normally like ordinary children, she is not sure whether it can be successfully developed in the end and whether it will have any effect on them...

"That's okay."

"Eh?"

"As long as you're here."

Feng Yuan's tone was very serious.

Hui Yuarai bit her lower lip lightly and did not reply.

She just held Feng Yuan's hand and hurried away.

The road is the way back to the hotel.

The afterglow of the setting sun shone on the two of them, and there were fiery red leaves under their feet, making Fengyuan feel like they were burning.

This flame is like a fire that burns forever. Even if the night is coming, it can burn out the night and shine its light into the distance.

His favorite lines came to mind, and Feng Yuan walked on the road to tomorrow, with the girl beside him wrapped in the corner of his eye.

They would always experience darkness, but he was fearless.

After all, sherry is Spanish sunshine in a bottle.

You are the beauty in this world, always shine.

There is one more chapter, and then there will be a random extra chapter.