Date of Tropical Land Beheading and Poisoning
Time - Slightly before Shinichi Kudo was poisoned
Conan Edogawa's PoV
"Huh. Looks like it actually worked this time. Wait… IT WORKED! Oh god, uhm… it's only one way, better activate self-destruct and push it into the water." Conan Edogawa, once Shinichi Kudo, said to himself, then thought, "I can save Ran and Haibara from the Black Organization now! They won't die!"
"Crap, I only have thirty minutes to save myself… err… my past-self… err… I mean present-self from them." Conan muttered, confused by how he should address the self from the current time period. It seemed even anti-paradoxical time travel did have some negative effects.
After sprinting to Tropical Land Conan gasped to see Gin and Vodka, two high ranking members of the Black Organization, already leaving the scene. After hiding behind a tree for half-a-minute, he ran to the collapsing Shinichi Kudo.
"Oi, wake up you half-ass-detective, do your job and capture the two who did this to you." The future-Shinichi aka Conan muttered, he had insulted himself for his mistake so many times it didn't even bother him anymore.
"Huh?" The present-Shinichi moaned, half-asleep, "Who're you?"
Hesitating a moment, Conan said, "An ally, anyway, I think we should get out of here, in your current situation I doubt you'd want police seeing you, none the less questioning you."
"What d'you mean?" The supposed teenager in both body and mind asked.
"Well, just look down, at your hands, your feet, your body, your lack of fitting into your clothing, it all points to anyone sane to want to hide somewhere for a little while so they can think up a plan." The pseudo-child answered, pointing at him.
"Huh?" The teenager squeaked, then looking at himself almost screamed, then asked, "What happened to me?"
"You were poisoned by APTX 4869, a nearly always fatal poison that occasionally has a side effect of shrinking people. Though I suppose it would be more accurate to say APTX 4869's main effect is supposed to be to turn adults to children, but it rarely succeeds and usually just kills the person, showing no evidence in their bloodstream. Thankfully, for both of us, it doesn't affect the brain." Conan explained.
Near panicking, the until-recently teenager asked, "Wait, you're a victim too?"
Hesitantly, Conan answered, "Yeah, but they don't know I was poisoned by it, don't ask. You can call be Conan Edogawa, it isn't my real name but I've been going by it for so long that it feels that way."
"Okay Edogawa-san." Shinichi grunted, "What do we do now?"
Noticing a light coming from behind the shed, he whispered, "Run!"
Putting his solar-powered, currently battery-operated, super skateboard on the ground, he grabbed his companion and turned it on.
"W-what's happening?" Shinichi stuttered.
"Ahh, just an old friend's gadget he made me." Conan said truthfully.
"So, do you have any hiding place we can go?" Shinichi asked nervously, not knowing whether or not this invention was safe.
"No, all my friends and family were either murdered, died a natural death, or disappeared, that is, besides my inventor friend. Though, I haven't seen him since the invention of… nevermind. Anyways, I was relying on you to prevent me from living as a hobo." Conan said, nervously skipping some parts of the explanation.
Although curious about the kid who had found him, seeing as though the current situation was dire, Shinichi said, "Yeah, Agasa-Hakase's place. If I explain the situation to him he should be able to do something for us. Do you know where he lives?"
"Yeah, I did some research on you and found there was an eccentric inventor living in the house next to you." Conan lied, he know where Hakase's house was because he had lived next to him for most of his life.
"Creepy." Shinichi stated.
"I knew that it was only a matter of time before you ran into them, being the best detective worldwide, it is only natural for me to investigate you." Conan half-lied.
"Okay, I guess. Oh, we're here. I'll go explain the situation. You stay here." Shinichi said.
"Yeah." Conan sighed, leaning on a nearby wall.
After a bit of laughing, yelling, and explaining, Agasa-Hakase finally believed that the young boy was actually Shinichi.
"Ahh! There are two of you now!" Agasa-Hakase screamed.
"Huh, what are you talking about?" Shinichi asked.
"He's probably talking about how we look near-identical besides the glasses." Conan sighed.
"So… wait… huh?"
"I'm not Shinichi," Conan lied, "I'm just another victim who happened to suspect that Kudo here would eventually become another victim of the Black Organization, sadly I didn't find him in time and he was already shrinking when I got there. My name is Conan Edogawa, although it is only a fake one. Speaking of fake names, we need new identities, neither of us exist so we need them. Hakase, could you create us files, my name will stay the one I told you, and because Kudo and I look so much alike he might as well be my younger brother."
"Who said I'm younger?" Shinichi near-yelled.
"I'm nearly eighteen, I've been in this body for nearly a year, you on the other haven't, you're seventeen and have only been in that body for a couple hours." The older-child explained.
"Fine." The detective with the higher ego sighed.
"Anyways, we need to get my 'younger brother' some clothing, possibly also something to hide the fact that he looks identical to a younger Shinichi. Maybe glasses, I have an extra pair of them, though then we'd have the problem of whoever we live with not being able to tell us apart."
"You seem awfully experienced at this." Shinichi commented.
Conan just smiled at him, confusing his now-younger brother.
After going into the Kudo mansion and having the younger of the two now-brothers change into child clothing, a teenage, brown-haired girl walked in, yelling, "Shinichi?"
"Ran!" The pseudo-child Shinichi whispered.
"Ahh! Ran-kun! What are you doing here!" Agasa answered.
"I'm looking for Shinichi? Do you know where he is?" Ran asked, unphased by the fact that Agasa was here.
"No. I'm sure he just had a case though." Agasa lied to Ran, though it really wasn't, as Shinichi now had the biggest case in his life.
Boink!
"Huh, what was that?" Ran asked, now turning to the two children behind Shinichi's father's desk, she then exclaimed, "Oh, you're the cutest children ever! What are your names?"
The younger child stuttered nervously for a second, but the older one exclaimed childishly, "I'm Conan Edogawa, and this is my younger brother Arthur! We're distant relatives of Agasa-Hakase and we're staying here while our parents are abroad." Then, changing his tone to that of a sad child, "They got injured in a car crash and are now in comas, and since our other relatives were all busy we had to move in with Hakase."
(Just to be clear, Shinichi/Arthur does not wear glasses.)
"Oh! That's so sad." Ran said sympathetically, "I know! How about you stay with my father and I! I'm sure living in Hakase's house would be dangerous, seeing as his house blows up on a regular basis."
"Oh! What a great idea!" Agasa-Hakase exclaimed, thanking the young girl, and showing his large grin to 'Arthur'.
But Arthur wasn't paying attention to that, his mind was focused on Conan, "How did he lie that easily? Matter of fact, how did he think up that lie so quickly? Who is this guy?"
Suddenly his thoughts were wrenched and asked, "Huh, what's going on?"
"Huh? You weren't listening? We're moving in with Ran-neechan." Conan stated simply.
"Wait… what!" Arthur yelled, catching Ran's attention.
"Is something wrong Arthur-kun?" She asked, concerned.
"No! Nothing at all!" Arthur assured his best-friend, now caretaker.
Now whispering to his 'brother', Arthur asked, "Who are you?"
After thinking for a moment, Conan answered, "An ally from beyond this domain." then chuckling, he said, "I thought that up from a riddle a friend made…" Then sighing melancholically, "Before her death…"
Deciding to leave his 'brother' alone, he started to converse with Ran. He managed to get a confession of love for Shinichi out of her, though now his brother's face was bright red. Conan chuckled, whispering to his companion, "Ahh, young love, how it blossoms even under the shackles of age." Though, after this he got all pensive again.
"What is up with this kid. He keeps teasing me then getting pensive!" Arthur screamed silently.
"Hmm… these kids are strange. One of them gets embarrassed very easily, the other seems to have mood swings, chuckling one moment, pensive the next. What did I get myself into?" Ran thought to herself.
When they got to the house Ran went up the stairs to explain everything to her father, Arthur was about to go up too, but Conan grabbed his arm and warned, "No. Don't- She's in so much danger as it is, don't put her in more."
Arthur stared into the eyes of his companion and saw unrivaled mourning in his eyes. After Conan relaxed his grip, Arthur just sat down, looking pensive, when Ran came down with her father, she thought to herself, "Wow, now both of the children look pensive." but when the pair noticed the teenage-girl and middle-aged man, their faces lit up.
"I'm not adopting a pair of brats! Now scram, I have a case!" Mouri said, now heading into the car. The pair of children followed, then the teenage girl followed them.
"Ugh! Why'd you three have to come along!" Mouri muttered.
When there, the kidnapping case was explained to them, Arthur was about to interrogate the person who hired the mediocre detective, but was stopped by Conan who then led the incompetent detective to believe he was the one who thought up the idea.
"How'd you do that?" Arthur asked, gawking at his companion.
"Practice. You're going to learn how to do it eventually… unless you want me to end up doing all the work." Conan sighed, kicking a ball to Arthur, who then started dribbling it masterfully.
While Arthur was distracted by the ball, Conan walked up into the guard dog's reach, then after being attacked he quickly calmed it down.
"Conan-kun! Are you okay?" Ran asked.
"Yeah, but surely this dog isn't this way to every stranger, right?" He inquired innocently.
"Sure it is! You were lucky, normally he would attack any stranger without hesitation!" The father of the kidnapping victim said.
"Wait! But surely then the dog would have attacked the kidnapper… unless it was someone in this house! That means it can only be you, Mr. Butler!" The incompetent Mouri Kogoro accused correctly.
While that was happening, Conan already was getting out a map, and signaled Arthur to come closer.
"Case closed, neh?" Arthur asked.
"Not quite. This is a double kidnapping. The girl was kidnapped from the kidnapper. See? The second kidnapper is calling… now he is letting the client hear his daughter's voice, now she is giving a hint, and now the culprit is yelling at her." Conan then circled a number of possible locations, then said, "These are the places that would obviously fit the description, but in fact…" Then circling another location, "This is the true location, from this angle it seems to fit the description, even if it actually doesn't."
"A-amazing. If I didn't know better I'd say you already solved a case identical to this one!" Arthur exclaimed.
"I've had a similar case…" Conan muttered, though truly thinking, "I have solved this case before." Then said, "Hop onto the dog, I'll ride us over to the kidnapper so we can save her."
"Hey! What are you two doing!" Ran yelled.
"We've narrowed the location of the new kidnapping location to a few possible places! They can't be too far because of the last time the original kidnapping took place." Conan yelled.
"Follow that dog!" Mouri Kogoro yelled.
When the two children and the dog reached the location, Conan directed the dog to go get help.
Conan then yelled, "Oi! Kidnapper! We're here to take back the girl!"
"What are you doing! Why are you alerting him of our location!" Arthur whispered loudly while Conan turned a knob on his shoes.
"Brats! How stupid are you to come here! I'll just kill you two along with the girl!" The kidnapper yelled.
"Oh really? I don't think so." Conan chuckled as he kicked a rock at supersonic speeds towards the kidnapper, pushing him into the wall.
The now-unconscious kidnapper was now lying near the corner, moaning, while Conan was running towards the little girl who was tied up in the corner, "Oi, could you help me untie the girl?"
"Uh, sure. But what the hell was that?" Arthur asked, still gawking.
"A little gadget my friend made. I'll have Agasa-Hakase reverse-engineer some for you." Conan offered.
"Sure…" Arthur agreed, now helping Conan untie the girl.
"Conan-kun! Arthur-kun! Are you okay?" Ran yelled, entering the room only to see an unconscious kidnapper and the two boys untying the girl, "What the h- uhm… I mean, what happened here?"
"Oh, the guys was clumsy, he tripped and fell on his head and went unconscious." The two boys lied, giggling nervously.
"Well, you shouldn't do something that dangerous again! I was seriously worried for you!" Ran scolded the pair.
"Yes Ran-neechan." Arthur despondently added, though Conan seemed fine getting scolded, even happy.
"Ahh, something familiar yet unheard in such a long time. Just like old times." Conan thought to himself.
"What the hell is up with this guy?" Arthur asked himself.
"Why is Conan-kun happy to get scolded? Probably just my imagination." Ran thought to herself.
When the four, Mouri Kogoro, Mouri Ran, the two Kudo Shinichi's, now known as Edogawa Conan and Edogawa Arthur, got back to the Mouri household, Ran asked her father, "So, can the two of them stay with us Otosan?"
"Yeah! They come and first thing I get is a well paying job!" Kogoro laughed egotistically.
"Ugh, he is even more of an imbecile than I remember…" Conan thought.
"He's even more of an imbecile than I thought!" Arthur realized.
"So, can you please show us our room? It's getting late and I'd love some sleep." Conan yawned.
"Sure. Today you'll sleep in my room, though tomorrow I'll clear out the attic and you can sleep there." Mouri sighed, he really didn't want to clear out the attic, but it was better than letting two little kids sleep with him nightly.
"Thanks Ojisan!" Conan smiled sweetly.
"This guy is really good at acting like a little kid." Arthur thought.
The next day…
"Ran-neechan! We're going to school! See yah later!" Conan yelled childishly, but after getting out of view his face turned mature and melancholy, then laying his skateboard on the ground, he said, "Get on, if we have to go to primary school we might as well have some fun getting there."
"Uh, sure." Arthur agreed, a bit perturbed by how he was just doing whatever his companion said was best.
"Would you prefer to steer? I can tell that you aren't happy about following my every instruction and suggestion." Conan asked.
"No, it's fine. I just feel unneeded, something I'm not used to feeling." Arthur replied.
"That's good. Feeling unneeded is good for humbling. Detectives are also human, not God who knows everything." Conan mumbled sadly, a tear nearly coming from his left eye.
"You seem to be awfully humble for one who could beat 'the best detective worldwide.'" Arthur quoted in a mumble.
Conan heard that, hesitated, then decided not to respond.
School...
After stashing the skateboard near the school, the two children walked to their new class, class 1-B. When they got there their teacher introduced them, "Hello class! We have two new students today, with the most magnificent names, one is Arthur Edogawa, the other is Conan Edogawa. Please treat them nicely."
"Yes Kobayashi-sensei!" The children answered.
"Hi, I'm Arthur Edogawa, this is my brother Conan Edogawa, it is nice to meet you!" Arthur said in his best imitation of Conan's child tone, although a little off, it was more than passible.
"Older brother." Conan added, smirking at his younger-self.
"Shut it." Arthur growled quietly.
After school ended…
"Hey! Conan-kun! Arthur-kun! You two must be lonely! Would you like us to walk you home?" A reddish brown haired girl with a headband and navy-inspired clothing who Conan knew to be Ayumi asked.
"Ahh, no thanks, we're busy! We have this thing…" Arthur lied.
"Oh, new kid thinks he's too good for us! Better get out the snob pounder!" An obese child with a weird hairdo and a green shirt who Conan knew to be Genta threatened.
"Oh yeah, they'll really like us then!" A lean, tall, nerdy child with a bluish shirt who Conan knew to be Mitsuhiko commented sarcastically.
"Do I need to get out the geek pounder too?" Genta threatened.
Arthur noticed a pained expression on Conan's face yet again, and said, "Oi, Nisan? Are you alright?"
"Huh? Oh, sorry, I'm fine. Just… nothing." Conan muttered quietly.
"Sorry guys, I need to get Conan home, see you some other time maybe." Arthur told the children.
When the pair got to the skateboard that was stashed nearby, Arthur asked, "What was wrong?"
"Oh, the three of them reminded me of some friends I got when I first turned into a child." Conan answered, sighing.
Arthur stared at his companion, noting the strangeness of yet another similarity between Conan's old home and his new home, then shrugging it off, he said, "C'mon, let's go. Hakase probably finished reverse-engineering some of your gadgets."
"Yeah. I guess." Conan agreed.
When the pair got back to Hakase's, Conan sat down on the couch by the television, and turned it on, while Arthur went to Hakase to check on the progress.
"Ahh, Shinichi m'boy, I was only able to fix up a copy of the voice-modulator and strength enhancing shoes today, but by tomorrow the wristwatch and suspenders should be finished. I've already made blueprints of each of them so Conan-kun can keep his originals. The inventions are magnificent though, and so similar to my own style, I would very much wish to meet the creator!" Hakase exclaimed ecstatically.
"I checked last night, he's dead." Conan lied, keeping his voice serious, mature, and faking a little anger and bitterness-.
"Oh. I'm so sorry Conan-kun." Hakase said.
"Don't be. It isn't your fault. It's the enemy's. I will destroy them. I will put them all in dingy cells for the rest of their long worthless lives. All those who willingly joined the Black Organization will go to the hell of ADX (The highest security prison on Earth, located in America)." Conan clenched his fist, barely keeping control.
"Just make sure not to kill them." Arthur commented, uncertain of his companion's sanity.
"I know that. A person I knew, and loved, more than any other once said, 'There are things one cannot do no matter the circumstances,' though even before that I believed that murder was an unforgivable crime, one that must never be committed, no matter the reason, no matter the cost." Conan said, eyes starting to tear up.
"This guy cries so much. Guess I can't blame him, if Ran was murdered I'd feel the same way, no, even worse! And this guy lost his love, friends, family, and has similar morals. He is truly strong… especially in a place where everything seems to remind him of his old life…" Arthur thought to himself.
"You should call your girlfriend, she'll get really angry at you if you wait. I'll show you how to use your voice-modulating bow-tie." Conan suggested.
"S-s-she's not my girlfriend!" Arthur stuttered.
"Oh? So you wouldn't mind if I take her after we get our bodies back?" Conan asked nonchalantly.
"Of course I would! I mean…" Arthur was now at a loss of words.
"Oh, so you do like her?" Conan chuckled.
"N-no! Of course I don't!" Arthur assured his 'older brother'.
"So you're just being greedy, planning to hog all the girls for yourself? What a womanizer." Conan fake-scolded his 'younger brother'.
Blushing, Arthur retorted, "Why you!" and tackled his older brother.
"We need to get home, now." Conan suddenly said, dragging Arthur behind him.
"What? Why?" Arthur asked.
"Just a feeling." Conan said.
"Hmm?"
When the pair got back, they heard Mouri sucking up to Yoko Okino. The pair of 'children' then muttered, "Idiot."
"We're home." The pair yawned together.
"We're going to Okino Yoko's house, come on." Ran told the children.
"Yes Ran-neechan." The pair said in unison. Then glaring at each other.
"Kawaii!" Yoko Okino and Mouri Ran squealed in unison.
The pair of children then put on identical unenthusiastic, 'Why me?' faces.
When the 6 got to Yoko's house, they found a corpse. Conan immediately pointed out the earing under the couch, and Arthur the dent in the floor and the fact that the manager was hiding a hair. After getting Yoko Okino's rival over they found that she was lying about not coming to Yoko Okino's house.
Conan then put Mouri to sleep and whispered to his companion, "I'm counting on you to do his speech."
Arthur then did so, starting the long lasting Sleeping Kogoro. It ended up being ruled a suicide. Yoko's manager was brought in for questioning on other matters.
The next day Conan and Arthur were forced to go to the museum with the three children, Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, and Genta, though Conan was enthusiastic in going.
"Seriously, why are you so enthusiastic to go play with kids?" Arthur asked.
"Imagine this, everyone you cared about is dead, if not killed. Now imagine that you were able to go far away, to a place where everyone around you is similar but about 9 months earlier. This is how I feel. It's like I went back in time 9 months and everyone is still alive, I have a chance to save them." Conan explained.
"I suppose… but it wouldn't be the same. They weren't the same people. They wouldn't share the same memories." Arthur answered.
"If Ran-san got amnesia, would you still love her? If she got plastic surgery, would you still love her?" Conan inquired.
"Y- I mean, who said I loved that stupid woman." Arthur blushed.
"Hey, Conan-kun, Arthur-kun, what are you two talking about?" Ayumi asked.
"Ahh, nothing." Conan murmured.
"Hey! A treasure map!" Genta yelled.
Conan and Arthur then proceeded to lead the three real children to the gold's hiding spot. After getting there a gang proceeded to attack them, but Conan and Arthur proceeded to beat them up with their gadgets.
"Wow! That was awesome! I didn't know children our age could be that strong!" The three children gawked.
"Ahh, we're not all that impressive." The pair laughed nervously.
After calling the police they found the criminals knocked out with concussions, the inspector, Megure-Keibu asked, "What did you do to them? Nevermind, I don't think I want to know."
Once a month present case
"Ani (Brother), you check the files, I'll check the games, who knows, there may be evidence in them." Conan told his younger brother, smiling as he knew what would come next.
Noticing the fact that Conan called him Ani rather than Kudo or Shinichi, he felt something was wrong, but quickly shrugged it off. While Conan looked through the games, and he looked through the files, Ran snuck up behind him, and said, "Did you notice anything?"
"Ahh! J-just that there are only 8 people who have anything to do with February 19th, for those that had a successful operation it would mean they were grateful, but there is something wrong, the flowers were grown in a greenhouse… and that letter…" Arthur explained, growing progressively less child-like the farther into the explanation he got.
"But if you can deduce it that far, then that's very good, that's clever. That's clever, Shinichi!"
"Yeah, well, it's nothing! …" Arthur's face suddenly showed panic.
Ran glared for a moment, and said, "So you are really- you are really Shinichi?"
"W-what are you saying Ran-neechan! I'm Arthur, Arthur! What are you saying?" Arthur stuttered nervously, then turned to his 'brother' and yelled excitedly, "Woah! What a cool game! It's my favorite!"
"CAN YOU TWO SHUT UP! I CAN'T SEE IF THE NAME OF THE PREVIOUS OWNER IS IN THE HIGH SCORE LIST IF I CAN'T BEAT THE FIRST LEVEL, AND I CAN'T BEAT THE FIRST LEVEL IF I CAN'T FOCUS!" Conan screamed, losing his cool for the first time since he moved in with the Mouri's and 'Arthur.'
Both were shocked by his attitude, and were even more surprised when his face lit up with panic, he yelled, "Get Ojisan! The client's son is in danger!"
When they got there Ran noted how either Conan or Arthur managed to make a large mark in a tree with a soccer ball when disarming the to-be culprit.
After the four were outside the agency, Ran gave her father some money and asked him to do something while the other three went inside.
"So, Ran-neechan, what were you and Arthur arguing about earlier?" Conan yawned calmly.
"I think one of you, probably Arthur, is Shinichi!" Ran accused.
"Okay, so, let's assume that one of us was Shinichi, how and where would we have come across an identical twin of our supposed age? Seriously, getting turned into a kid then meeting an identical twin, that is even more preposterous than age reversion itself!" Conan asked.
"Ehh… What if both of you are Shinichi! If Shinichi shrunk there would be fat and muscle leftover to make both of you." Ran hypothesized.
"One, we have slightly different personalities. Secondly, brain matter. Human brains are 95% of their maximum size by the time people turn 6. There wouldn't be enough brain to split between us, even if there were, one of us wouldn't have any memories, possibly even the capacity to have a working brain at all." Conan explained.
"How would a kid know that?" Ran asked smugly.
"Internet." Conan stated simply.
"And why would a kid look that up?" Ran asked.
"I wanted to be a neurologist for about a week, I later decided I didn't want to anymore." Conan yawned.
"And why would a kid know what a neurologist was?" Ran asked.
"Arthur and I's neighbor was the son of a neurologist." Conan sighed, "Before he died."
"Oh." Ran said, couldn't help noticing that Conan seemed to be even smarter than Shinichi, or at least a better actor.
"Besides, there is an obvious difference in intelligence between my brother and I, so we can't both be the same person, unless you're suggesting time travel is possible without creating paradoxes and I'm the Shinichi of about a year from now." Conan pretended to laugh.
"N-no. I'm not." Ran answered, embarrassed.
"So, do you still think that either of us is Shinichi?" Conan asked.
"Yeah, Arthur is, if you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth!" Ran quoted.
"Yeah, it's definitely not impossible to turn a 17 year old teenager back into a 7 year old child." Conan said sarcastically.
"Maybe highly improbable, but not quite impossible. People may have been trying for centuries to gain the ability of rejuvenation, it isn't that farfetched that they've finally found it." Ran said.
"If that were the case the maker would either be selling it for a billion yen a usage, or trying to kill us so we don't leak the location of the owner." Conan answered.
"No one could answer these questions so quickly without having thought about them first! Now why would you have thought about them beforehand!" Ran accused.
"Okay, then give me proof that one of us or both of us are actually Shinichi-niichan!" Conan answered.
"P-proof? Uhm… Arthur answered when I said 'you're so clever, Shinichi' or something like that." Ran answered.
"That isn't proof. You were in the middle of a conversation with him, he would automatically assume that anything you said was directed at him."
"But, he seemed so scared when I called him that!" Ran said.
"Maybe because he was frightened by the prospect that you may have been going insane, or that possibly you were going to beat him up after assuming he was Shinichi-niichan." Conan yawned, yet again.
"Then… then how are you so intelligent?" Ran asked.
"Which of us?" The two children inquired simultaneously, causing each to glare at the other.
"Both!"
"Oh, ehrm…" Arthur thought for a moment, looking pleadingly into Conan's eyes.
Rolling his eyes, Conan answered, "Shinichi-niichan taught us. We're distant relatives on his father's side."
"Then how come he hasn't told me about you two?" Ran asked.
"How should we know. Now could we please go to bed and get some sleep?" Conan yawned for the seven-billionth time.
"I… I suppose." Ran said, giving up, "Conan-kun? Are you going to be a lawyer when you grow up?"
"Nope, a detective. If I was a lawyer I might have to defend someone who was guilty, I couldn't do that, because criminals are the scum of society, I despise them. There is no justification for some of the things they do." Conan's eyes then glazed over as he turned and went to his room, Arthur soon followed.
"What a strange child, I'm not sure whether or not he is Shinichi, but I am certain he holds some secret." Ran thought to herself.
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