CRESCENT MOON

Disclaimer: Detective Conan is not mine. Harry Potter is also not mine.

Warning: Female Shin'ichi. Kaishin eventual romantic relationship. Very slow-developing plot and romance. Magical Universe. Victorian era hierarchy. Perhaps a very OOC Shin'ichi and Sonoko, please be the judge. Ran-Shin'ichi-Sonoko siblings relationship. Agasa actually has blood-relation with Shin'ichi. Typos and grammar errors everywhere, please be the judge. Vague story format. Kaito is not here yet.

Note: I've made some changes and edits to the prologue. It's not crucial, but you might want to know; like I've made Shin'ichi stayed in an orphanage before and the fact that Gin destroyed the recorded evidence that Shin'ichi took.

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"The culprit is you!" the so called detective Mouri Kogoro falsely accuses with such bravado that it's embarrassing.

The woman accused just gapes openly with disbelief and confused expression, "What? What makes you reach that conclusion?"

"You must have poisoned the coffee as you made it. As the waitress of this coffee shop, you're the only one who can do it. You put the cyanide when the victim asked for another order. After poisoning the coffee, you replaced them with Jessica's and dumped the cyanide coffee in the staff toilet. That's why the murder weapon is not found! As a waitress, you are the only one with perfect opportunity to do it." It's true that his reasoning is correct, but there are a few holes in his theory.

"You're an idiot," the falsely accused woman puts her hands on her hips. "I don't even know the girl—I just met her today. I don't have any motive to murder her." Strike one. "Besides, I'm just a waitress—where do you suppose I get cyanide around here? That thing is not so easy to acquire for normal people." Strike two. "Not to mention there were only two chances for me to put poison to her cup, and in front of the victim herself no less. Don't you think the rest of them would've noticed?" Strike three—and he's out.

"Well, that's…" Apparently the old man hasn't thought about that before randomly accusing people. Conan sighs in exasperation as she feels that can't keep watching anymore and casts a simple sleeping spell secretly.

Kogoro makes a strange sound between moaning and groaning as he slowly slumps on to a chair Conan had prepared before. She immediately sticks a speaker under his tie and hides under the table. "Oh, he's into it again—the sleeping Kogoro." Takagi exclaims.

Inspector Megure just eyes him in a very bored and exasperated manner. Conan, who hides under the table use her magic to turn her voice to Kogoro's and speaks through a microphone that connects to the speaker on Kogoro's tie. "Yes, I apologize for the false accuse. I did it on purpose to make sure the real culprit knows where she went wrong on her tricks."

The three culprits; a man named Kenji—the victim's fiancée, the waitress called Asami who handled their coffees, and the victim's best friend, Jessica; are all sweating as she dramatically prepares to announce on who the culprit is.

Conan, together with Ran, was tagging along with Kogoro for a snack after a successful solving of a case and the client paid tremendously for it. Kogoro wanted to waste their reward money a bit (under Ran's supervision, off course) and let Ran and Conan ordered whatever they want. Not wanting to waste this rare opportunity, Ran and Conan decided to binge eating for this once. When they were on their second serving of shrimp pasta with lemon pie and lava cake for dessert, suddenly a person collapsed near their table. Conan immediately rose from her seat and felt the victim's neck for a pulse, but finding none. Kogoro immediately told Ran to call for the police.

The case was rather simple. Three people, Kenji, Jessica, and the victim, Mina, are reunited in this coffee shop to celebrate Mina's wedding to Kenji. It was Mina's idea and they promised to meet here. Jessica came first after shopping. She had just got back from another kingdom and immediately brought things for Mina's presents. She used her bags to mark the chairs that they were used before going to order the coffees. The coffees were off course requested by both Mina and Kenji via cellphone. When the waitress, Asami, delivered the coffee, that's when Kenji came. Kenji sat on one of the chairs Jessica had marked for him and waited for Mina. Mina herself came approximately 15 minutes after both had a taste of their own coffees. Mina took a sip of her own coffee first, but nothing happened even after half of it was gone. Fifteen minutes later, Mina called Asami back to order a side dish. When Asami bent down to took Kenji's empty cup to refill it with new coffee as per his request, that's when Mina coughed blood, collapsed, and instantly died. From the scent of almond from her lips, it was clear that she was poisoned with cyanide.

"The one who poisoned Miss Mina is," Conan uses levitating spell to lift Kogoro's hand to point at a woman, "Miss Jessica, you're the only one who can." The woman's face seems to pale a bit, but she keeps a calm façade and not saying anything.

Kenji, Mina's fiancé, stares at her in disbelief, before defending her, "That can't be! Jessica was right in front of us all the time! She won't have time to do it!"

"Yes, she can, if she disguises the cyanide as sugar, she'll have plenty of time to do it." Kogoro argues.

Kenji pales, "What do you mean?"

"Remember, what Jessica had come here with? Shopping bags. She used a psychology trick to secretly arrange where the two of you would sit, even if it doesn't seem so. By saying that the shopping bag to her left contented Mina's presents, you would subconsciously sat in front of her, right where she wanted you to. And then Mina would have no choice but to sit to her left, just like Jessica wanted."

"But Mina was okay when she drank that coffee the first time!" Kenji still argues.

"That's right—because at that time, the poison wasn't there yet." Kogoro answers.

This time it was Megure who asks, "What do you mean by that, Mouri?"

"Mina simply wasn't poisoned at that time. She was poisoned when Asami came and wrote her orders." He says. "Simply, the chronology was like this: after setting the chairs, Mina sat by Jessica's side and drunk her un-poisoned coffee. During the lapse of fifteen minutes time, Jessica possibly added sugar to her coffee, which had been mixed with cyanide before probably saying that she's hungry. According to your description of Mina, she's a kind and sweet girl. She would volunteer to order a side dish by calling Asami. When everyone's attention was focused on Asami and the menu, Jessica swapped her own poisoned cup with Mina's."

Kenji tries to defend her again, "But Asami also said it, right? No normal people could acquire cyanide easily."

"Where does Jessica live now, Kenji-san?" Kogoro merely asks.

"In—in Caelis Kingdom, but what does that have to do with it?"

"And what is she doing there?" Kogoro asks again.

"Well, she said she's studying medical—" He answers before something visibly clicked in his mind.

"That's right. Jessica studies medical. She must have a lot of acquaintances whose job is a doctor in Caelis. It's easy for her to acquire cyanide if she told them that she would use it for some sort of research, especially if she's still studying."

Kenji shakes his head so hard that Conan believes his head is going to fall off, "Don't just ramble! Where's the proof?! There's no proof that Jessica did it!"

"The proof was off course on the cup and the sugar container." Kogoro says. Inspector Megure and Takagi went to the murder scene and checking all the cups. "If it wasn't cleaned before, there should be some of Jessica's fingerprints on both the cups. It's impossible to clean all of the fingerprints on such a short time. The sugar container would also contain cyanide if the forensic team would examine them."

At that, Megure barks an order to the forensic team, "Hey, examine these."

The chief of forensic team moves forward before reading off his notes, "We have, sir. And it's like Sir Kogoro had said. We found cyanide in the sugar container. Also, on the poisoned cup, we found traces of Jessica's fingerprints."

Megure nods before turning to said woman, "That should be enough to apprehend you as the culprit, Jessica-san."

Kenji now has gone so pale, his face nearly as white as paper. Then he turns to Jessica, "hey, Jessica. Say something! It's not you who did it, right? You can't be killing your own childhood friend, can you?" He's becoming more frantic by the second.

Jessica only averts her eyes from him as she answers, "If I say that, I would be lying, Kenji."

At that answer, Kenji goes paler if possible. He trembles and goes on hysteria, "Wh—what are you saying? Why? Why are you doing this?"

"The motive is probably you, Kenji-san." Kogoro starts.

Kenji turns to him, "what?"

"Perhaps she feels jealous of Mina, for marrying you, as Jessica has been in love with you for years. But you never seem to notice and instead fell in love with Mina." Kogoro explains.

Kenji turns to Jessica, "Is—is that true?"

Jessica seems conflicted before she suddenly snaps. "Yes! Yes, that's right! I'm the one who killed Mina because I've been in love with you since our school years!" Kenji gasps at the violent confession. "It's true that Mina is my childhood friend, and I love her like a sister. You must have known her like the angel she was—but that's all a lie! She was nothing like an angel—if nothing else, she is a succubus! Do you know how many my ex-boyfriends have been snatched by that snake?!" Jessica finally snaps. "She has always been eyeing the boys I fancy with and dated them before I could. The same happened with you! I fell in love with you and got close with you for a while, without telling her, because I know she would seduce you out from me. But I barely finished my college and you married her! That little devil knew I was in love with you! And even now she was inviting me to reunion to celebrate her marriage to you, to purposely rub salt into my wound! She wanted to mock me! To tell me that I cannot marry anyone without her ruining my life!

"That's why I killed her. I have enough of that vixen in my life. Acting all innocent and angelic when behind me she snatched all the boys I've loved." Jessica is now looks nothing like an innocent woman she was. Her eyes are fiery angry and she looks every bit of a murderer she is. She turns to Kenji. "I was thinking of killing you first, Kenji. After all, you're the one who was seduced by her cunning mind and even agreed to marry her when you promised me that we can try dating. I hated you, you know. All these plans were supposed to get to you. But I realized that killing you won't solve my problem if the vixen was still alive. So I changed my target. I remembered how much I've loved you when you started defending me, even if I'm the one who do it. I kind of regret for thinking about killing you. But I don't regret killing Mina, if that's what you're thinking. I don't care if I have to spend the rest of my life in prison—I am free of that bitch!"

She cackles in glee even after she is handcuffed and escorted to the police car.

The sleeping spell loses its effect as the sleeping Kogoro slowly gains back his consciousness. "That's an amazing analysis show like always, Mouri-kun!" Inspector Megure materializes suddenly out of nowhere behind the sleeping detective and pats Kogoro so hard on the back that the detective doesn't have any choice but to forcefully back to the world of the living.

Kogoro, being a self-centred person he is, just laughs nervously while agreeing proudly to what the inspector had said, even though he doesn't remember any of what he's done before going to sleep. "Off course, Inspector. I am the infamous Sleeping Kogoro, after all." He cackles loudly and proudly even though he doesn't know anything. Meanwhile, Conan, who just comes out from under the table, wipes the sweat off her forehead tiredly.

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They are able to go home after the sun already sets. Conan sits on the back of the rented car, like usual, while Ran sat on the passenger seat with her father driving.

"I can't believe that woman is crazy enough to really kill her friend." Ran mutters, rather sadly. She still thinks that their problems could be solved if only they would talk.

Kogoro scoffs hearing the innocent comment of his daughter, "Don't be too naïve, Ran. You can't judge people from their front. Even your missing detective friend must have secrets she doesn't want to tell you, and that's why she went missing." Kogoro starts. Ran glares at him but he continues, "I bet she ran away because she terribly misses her family and want to meet them sooner."

"Dad!" Ran angrily snaps, "It's true that I don't know what she was thinking or why she was missing or where she is now, but I won't let you talk trash about my friend!" Ran threatens her dad, and Kogoro obediently shuts his mouth, muttering things about scary daughters or along that lines. Ran sighs and leans back to her seat, "All I know was that she was on an apparently very big and dangerous case that requires her to hide her identity for a while, and that's why she cannot be seen with me or even talking to me at all. But she promised that she would be back—and she's fine, dad! She's not dead! Don't ever imply that she is or I will never forgive you." Ran threatens her dad again, and this time Kogoro has the tendency to look guilty.

Ran takes deep breaths to calm herself. "Well, at least we're not full and we don't have to pay for dinner, right?" She glances to the rear-view mirror to the reflection of the little girl she is taking care of. "Don't you think so, Conan-chan?"

The little pig-tailed girl grins widely and innocently at her through the rear-view mirror, "Yeah! I'm really full! The lemon pie was really delicious!"

Ran laughs along with her, "Don't you think so? I think the chocolate lava cake was excellent." She says as she muses to herself; her charge, little Conan is really cute. Being with her really calms her down and keeps her happy and busy enough to ignore the fact Shin'ichi is missing and is implied dead by the media. Ran keeps talking about how delicious their dinner was until their rented car reaches their apartment blocks.

Kogoro stops the car in front their front door to let his passengers down. "You two don't have to wait for me. I'll be taking this car back. Please prepare hot water for me to bathe." He asks Ran before he stares at the smaller girl by Ran's side, the little girl they've been taking care of for the past weeks. "And you, brat, behave!"

"Yeeeees," The little girl sings without any care to the world. Kogoro deems that good enough before he speeds off, leaving them at the front door of their apartment.

Ran sighs exasperatedly at the car that slowly speeds away from their view before she takes Conan's hand and leads her inside. "Let's get you prepared for the night, and then I'll tuck you in. Okay, Conan-chan?" She coos to the little girl.

Conan whines childishly and pouts cutely, "I don't need to be tucked in, Ran nee-chan. I am a big girl now!"

Ran giggles amusedly and agrees while as she helps Conan change into her pyjamas. "Yes, yes, off course, Conan-chan. You're a big and smart girl." It's true, though. Even though she is only physically five years old, Conan is in the first-grade elementary school of MTA now. And as far as the teachers told her, Conan's score percentage in practical magic skill and other theoretical subjects has never been lower than 90%—almost perfect. The teachers even told her that her magical skills and mental IQ is could be in par with high school students. Off course, Ran is delighted when she was told that her little charge is a genius.

Conan came here the night before Shin'ichi went missing. When Ran searched for Shin'ichi in professor Agasa's house, she instead found this little girl, her black hair still wet from the rain, her head wounded and covered with bandages, her cheeks still red from the cold, and wearing clothes that were too big on her. Ran thought she looked familiar, but she couldn't be too sure. When she took one look at the big, innocent, blue eyes wrapped with a frame of glasses that's also too big for her face, Ran instantly felt the motherly instinct to protect her from the evil around the world. Professor Agasa said that Shin'ichi was fine and just still wrapping up the case and that Ran should take the little girl home, because Agasa would be busy and has to travel around kingdoms for a while to present his inventions to the investors, whom he got his salary from.

Her father initially doesn't approve for the addition—claiming that she would become a burden to the household expense. Ran had threatened her father with a punch to the nearest wall and that's the end of the debate. It was supposed to be just a month until Agasa was back to town. But it appears that the investors had agreed with his presentation and had funded him with enough money to make more products. So as the result, professor Agasa couldn't go back home yet. He offered to take Conan back with him to live in Caelis, where he would be staying for a while. But Ran refused—she had become attached to the little girl and has consider her as her own sister, or maybe a replacement for Shin'ichi—and volunteered to take care of her until Professor Agasa's contract with the investors has expired. It has been almost a year since then. Ever since Conan lives there, Ran noticed that her father's business has become better and they have better income now. Ran believed that Conan is a fortunate sign from heaven and is quite content taking care of Conan like she would her own child.

She then ushers the small girl to the bathroom to clean herself up before bed. After that, Ran tucks the little girl in to her own room before doing some of her chores, because living without her mother is hard enough, and now she has a little girl she has to take care of—not because she feels obligated but because she has consider the child as her little sister. Conan has made her feel like she is now a mother (the huge age gap between her and Conan and also her father's unruly behaviour doesn't help) and to be honest, that feeling is not too bad once she got used to it. She prepares her father's hot water, cleans the kitchen and the office downstairs, locks the office door, and turning off all the lights. She makes sure Conan is asleep before going to her own room to sleep.

Ran doesn't know that when she's asleep, a pair of smaller feet pads over to her room. Conan, the little girl who has been freeloading on Mouri household for the past six months, tiptoes to Ran's room to peek and make sure if the other girl is asleep; because she knows better than anyone that Ran sleeps like the dead. She peeks into the room and hears the soft snoring that Ran only makes when asleep. Assures that she's asleep, Conan tiptoes back out without sounds.

The little girl then silently makes her way back to her own room, that Ran had insisted her father to prepare it. It is just a small 3×3 room, used to be a store-room to keep case journals that ended up collecting dust because the incompetent detective had never bothered to open it before Ran insisted he cleaned those up and redecorated it into Conan's room. She closes the door, unties her ribbon choker from her neck and opens the curtain. Instantly the moon light pours from the sky through the glass window and into the room, right on to her small form.

Conan closes her eyes as she feels a calming warmth envelopes her entire being; as if being embraced by her mother and father. When she opens her eyes, she has grown into 165 centimetres high and 11 years older; along with the face she used to see in the mirror all the time before the entire incident with the men in black.

That's right; Conan is actually the missing detective Kudo Shin'ichi who has been appearing on all media. Conan is only a pseudonym she used in a hurry because she hadn't been able to think of any other names and she is stuck with such ridiculous boy name until the curse could be lifted.

This is all uncle's fault, she muses with a pout as she flexes her long fingers to get used to the feeling. She sighs as she sits on the floor just like that, under the moon. How long am I going to get stuck being a five year old? She wonders as she looks up to the moon through the window.

Shin'ichi was lucky. After she was supposedly killed by the killing curse casted by the men in black, she woke up as a five year old instead. She had mourned for the loss of her phone for a while and was relieved when she found her SD-card still alive amongst the rubbles of shattered glass and titanium. She might lose the evidence against the men in black, but the SD-card contains the pictures of her family—it was precious to her.

She was found by the local security guards already small and with a wound on her head. The security guard sent her to the nearest police station. At this point, she learnt that telling a story of an adult Kudo Shin'ichi turning into five years old by a killing curse that was casted by a criminal syndicate wouldn't convince anyone. She also knew the fate of a five year old without parents who was wandering alone in the night—they would be sent to the nearest orphanage. Shin'ichi has had tastes of that place before and she has no intention to tasting it again. So she ran away at the first chance she got even though she got chased by police dogs. She has always hated dogs.

The dogs stopped chasing her when the rain poured down and washed all other scent but the rain itself. Little Shin'ichi used this opportunity to ride a train back to Professor Agasa's house. Off course, it took a little effort to convince professor Agasa that she is Shin'ichi, but he believed her in the end (Shin'ichi had to show off her deducing skills to convince him but the reaction she got was priceless). He ushered her in, take her into a warm bath, and gave her the clothes she used to wear when she was a child. Shin'ichi was rather surprised on how much she had shrunk when the clothes felt a bit too loose on her.

As the professor bandaged the wound on her head, she recounted the whole story about the case in amusement park, the encounter with the men in black, her witnessing the illegal transaction of magical artefacts, got busted and almost got killed with a killing curse, but got shrunken instead. She told him her deduction that they were a criminal syndicate and professor panicked. He told her hide her identities because they believed they had killed Kudo Shin'ichi. If the words got out that Shin'ichi was still alive, they would hunt her down and the people around her—they would kill the people around her in order to get to her before killing her down. Hearing that, Shin'ichi paled with a feeling that was similar to an ice block down her stomach. Urgently, professor casted a cloaking spell on a red silk ribbon and told small Shin'ichi to wear it as a choker or something. He said it would cloak and disguise her manna from leaking and being recognized by people close to her.

Their discussion got heated when Ran suddenly came without invitation. She had been looking for Shin'ichi, worried that something might happen to her because she'd been having a bad feeling for a while. She had been calling Shin'ichi's phone but it didn't connect, that was why she came there. Professor lied to her, saying that Shin'ichi is still out in police station, giving out statements and wrapping up the cases. Ran accepted that lie and gave her attention to Shin'ichi who was now in a little girl form. Ran got excited and hugged her, calling her cute and asked Agasa who she was. He lied that the little girl was his nephew, a daughter of his distant cousin. Ran, not knowing the history of Agasa or Shin'ichi's family tree, accepted the lie easily and asked for her name. Shin'ichi, now in panic for not thinking of a pseudonym beforehand, frantically looked around for sudden inspiration and she caught her eyes on her mystery books, written by Arthur Conan Doyle and Edgar Allan Poe. She just blurted out what she had in mind, which is Edogawa Conan, which is not cute and not suited her cute appearance at all. Even now, she is still a bit miffed for not saying Agatha Christie's name, or Irene Adler. At least those are girl's names. Thankfully, because Conan is a foreign name to Ran's ears and tongue, she accepted the lie.

Professor suddenly got creative and he thrust the now Conan into Ran's arms, asking her if she didn't mind taking care of Conan for him, because he had to go to Caelis kingdom to present his inventions to the investors. Ran, not knowing about the lies, easily agreed. Conan first didn't understand what he had in mind, but then Agasa explained to him that Ran's father is a detective, and she could use him to get information about the men in black. Conan initially complained because Kogoro is an incompetent buffoon. But then Agasa encouraged her to take him to fame, to solve the cases for him, so that cases came to him along with the information on the men in black. Hearing that, Conan brightened up and she immediately went to Ran's side and easily accepted as an addition to Mouri family, despite Kogoro's initial disagreement.

She was then enrolled to the local elementary school MTA in Beika by Agasa, because it would be suspicious if a five year old doesn't go to school. Because of her young age and ridiculous name, she was first bullied by the younger children. But then, she gained three troublesome friends; Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, and Genta. She befriended them when Ayumi invited her to go ghost hunting together with Genta, the boy who fancies her. Then Mitsuhiko, the smartest and most logical boy of the group, denied the existence of ghosts and Genta threatened him to go with them to prove if ghosts really don't exist. Conan, who can't refuse Ayumi's pitiful and teary face, begrudgingly humoured them.

In the end, there were no ghosts, and Conan only found traces of a cold case from six years ago. With her analysis, she was successful in protecting her friends and convinced the suspects to surrender themselves to the police. Off course, they were scolded like crazy in the morning by their respective guardians. But in the end, Ayumi, Genta, and Mitsuhiko ended up stuck by Conan's side like a limpet. Even though Conan was annoyed, she couldn't bring herself to push them away. She worried if they would get themselves in tricky situations again. The children were too curious for their own good.

After a while, Conan then realized that Agasa's lies would not be able to hold for long. After a month, Ran contacted Agasa again, asking if he was back in town yet. Her uncle decided to be creative again and came up with a believable lie. He said that the presentation was over, but he couldn't come back yet, because he had formed a contract with the investors to work for them. He had to stay in Caelis for a few more months as per the contract. To make it more believable, he even offered to Ran if she minded taking care of Conan and if he needed to take her back to live with him in Caelis. Fortunately, Ran refused, stating that she had grown attached to the little girl and she wanted to make amends to herself for not doing anything when Shin'ichi broke down in front of her parent's coffin. At that point, Conan had stopped listening out of guilt.

After few trial and errors, professor Agasa finally supplied Conan with useful gadgets in order to help her solve cases in Kogoro's place. The first and foremost is the ribbon charm, casted with cloaking spell to disguise her manna and keep them from leaking out too much and prevent people from recognizing her manna.

Most people could sense manna nowadays, and it wouldn't do if someone close to her (i.e. Ran and Sonoko) recognizes Shin'ichi's manna while she was still in her child form. Manna is like fingerprints; they are unique and vary amongst individuals. Every individual possess their own feel, power, and intensity to their manna, making them difficult to disguise. But manna could be cloaked by a cloaking spell. This spell cannot make manna disappear completely, but it can cloak and limit its presence, so that the manna would feel duller than usual. That is enough for the manna to feel different that it could be mistaken as someone else's. Off course, the cloaking spell would not last forever. It needs to be regenerated at least once a month for the charm to keep working. If not, the charm could stop working and it would need a while to re-cast the spell all over again.

The second and the third are a small speaker shaped like a sticker that can be stuck anywhere and a microphone connected to said speaker that shaped like a pair of red earring. These are what she mainly used for analysis show. As a child, no one would listen or believe her when she makes observations, so she needs someone to act for her. Kogoro or Sonoko were the ones she usually uses when she began her analysis show. She can adjust her voice to be like someone else's with a simple voice-changing spell, and put people to sleep with a simple sleeping spell that usually only last an hour.

After a fatal face off with a kidnapper, Professor decided to arm Conan with a pair of power-enhancing shoes. These shoes use electricity and magnetic fields to allow Conan to kick objects with tremendous power and enable her to defend herself. Other than for kicking stuff, Conan can do mild combat and acrobatic moves that involves her feet with these shoes. So if she kicked somebody's crotch while the power is on medium, that person would need ambulance immediately.

For that reason also, Professor gave her an elastic suspender that could be used to lift heavy things that children don't have strength to do. By pressing a button on the suspenders, Conan can use them to lift heavy objects via a pulley type system. It also could be used to tie up a criminal within short time.

Conan disguised herself with a pair of glasses that's too big to her face. Ran is her childhood friend. She worries that if she continued to expose her naked face to her, Ran would realise that she is Shin'ichi. So wore her father's glasses. It's surprising of how much difference could be made to a person's face just by adding a pair of glasses around their eyes. She remembered how much she whined to her mother when she was little that she would never use glasses like her father. It's rather ironic of how much she doesn't want to be separated with those glasses now. Ran had asked her innocently why she didn't let go of her glasses when she's sleeping and Conan had stuttered a lame answer that her eyes are minus terribly low.

Professor then made some adjustment to her father's glasses and turned it into tracking glasses that could track people like radar, as long as they have the transmitter, within 20 km radius. The transmitter is in the shape of a round sticker that could be stuck everywhere.

Within these cool things, her favourite is the Turbo-engine skateboard. Out front, it looked like a normal skateboard, but with a press of a button, the engine will activate and the speed could reach 267 km per hour, enough to outrun a train. Professor Agasa created it for her to chase and catch criminals. The turbo is powered by solar power so it's environmentally friendly, but that also means it cannot be used at night-time. Shin'ichi had asked Agasa to upgrade them to batteries so she can use them at night, but Agasa said that batteries would not be able to provide the energy it needs because to activate the turbo engine needs a lot of energy. So she's stuck with solar powered turbo engine. Not that she minds.

With the help of these gadgets, she is able to secretly assist Kogoro in solving cases. As the result, Kogoro's name become famous, and he's known as Sleeping Kogoro—because he somehow looks cooler when asleep than when awake. He always makes strange moaning sleepy sounds and he would sway back and forward like dancing before suddenly dropped asleep when she casts her sleeping spell on him. That's why he is known around the kingdom as Sleeping Kogoro.

But even so, with Kogoro's fame and reputation sky-rocketing, there's still not information about the men in black. It's been over nine months since she has become Conan. Maybe it's still too early to wish for it? Shin'ichi sighs as she leans her now adult body to the wall. At that moment, the moonbeam fades. Shin'ichi looks up to see the clouds covering the moon. She winces as she felt the coldness that's familiar as she shrinks back into five years old. Shin'ichi, or Conan now, stares at her now small hands, fingers, and chubby feet. She frowns and huffs, so annoying.

One more thing; Conan found out that she can turn into her normal age again, became Shin'ichi again, when she is exposed to the moonbeam. Which means, she can only be herself at night, when the moon is out. Other than that, she won't be able to turn back.

Conan sighs and mutters to herself, "Being able to turn back only at night. Sounds a lot like that ballet story, Swan Lake." She huffs and frowns in annoyance, "So cliché it should be a crime."

Suddenly there was a ring of a cell phone. Conan plucks up both her phones. Yes, she has two cell phones now; one is cell phone with Shin'ichi's number and the other is Conan's. Why does she have to have two cell phones? To prevent the people who have Shin'ichi's number calling Conan's phone. Wouldn't it be suspicious if Ran called Shin'ichi and the one that rang was Conan's phone?

Conan realise that the one's ringing is Shin'ichi's number, and the monitor displayed a familiar name. Shin'ichi sighs in exasperation before tapping the answer button. "What is it, Hattori?"

"Kudo! We have another case!"

Conan sighs, "I hope it's not as ridiculous as the last time with the Holmes' convention."

"No, no, I promise! It's about a thief." Hattori answers.

Conan rolls her eyes even though she knew Hattori couldn't see it. "I have no interest in thieves," she states.

"Trust me, Kudo. This thief is different than others." Hattori adds. "I'll send to you the note he sent. It's like a code. I want to know your opinion before I give statements to the police." Without waiting for Conan's answer, he hangs up. Conan stares at her cell phone before clicking her tongue in irritation.

Hattori always does whatever he wants, whenever he wants; a common trait for the heir of Royal House. (She should know; she's been friends with Sonoko for years) Hattori is a high school detective too, like her. He was born into the Royal House of Phoenix and he has bucketful of manna. That was how he was able to discern that Conan and Shin'ichi is the same person. Well, that, and her own clumsiness.

Hattori is a competitive person. He always comes uninvited to Kogoro's office to declare analysis duel with Shin'ichi. Until now, she doesn't know how he got information that Shin'ichi is living in Kogoro's office. In their first analysis duel, Shin'ichi was able to win it when she accidentally stepped under the full moon. She won Hattori's respect and also his curiosity when Shin'ichi suddenly disappeared and Conan appeared on her stead. Their second duel was when Hattori invited Kogoro and his family to a Holmes Convention. The case got out of hand and Conan has no choice but to cast the sleeping spell unto Hattori and used him for analysis show. Unfortunately, even though the culprit was caught, Hattori's tremendous manna enabled him to wake up prematurely from the simple spell and he was able to witness the moment where Conan uses her capabilities to apprehend the culprit; effectively solving the mystery of Conan and Shin'ichi.

Since then, Conan has no choice but to trust Hattori. The latter has self-declared that he is Shin'ichi's best friend and demands that she told him the truth of everything from then on. So, yes, indeed; doing whatever they want whenever they want is a common trait for every heir of Royal Houses.

When her phone rings again, it's Conan's phone receiving email.

Sender: Hattori Heiji

Subject: Heist Note

April fool,

When the moon splits in half, I will come to visit the origin of the name of the jet black star at the calling of the waves.

Kaitou Kid.

Shin'ichi's eyebrows furrow at the intriguing note before smiling in glee. Finally, something to stimulate her brain after endless, boring, elementary school stuff! Her Shin'ichi phone rings. She answers it absentmindedly without looking away from the display of her Conan phone, still staring at the note on her phone that Hattori sent her.

Hattori's voice floats through the receiver and into her ear, "What do you think? Interested?" Even from here, Shin'ichi could hear the smirk in his voice, but she doesn't really care.

Shin'ichi's smile widens. "Count me in!"

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To be continued.

Author's Note:

I hope this format works for you guys. I don't know, they might be a bit tiring to be read. But if you made it here without skipping anything, congratulations. Have a virtual cookie.

As you can see, I've made some changes. I feel like Shin'ichi's humble demeanor and somberness in previous chapter need to be explained, so I made her stay at an orphanage for two days. Not too long, but it could be traumatizing for a young child who is used to be coddled. And also, I almost forgot about the her phone. Shin'ichi's cell phone wallpaper is of her parents, so it's very dear to her. She was relieved because the SD card that contained her family's pictures survived. I also made her don't like dogs. Should I have done that, or shouldn't I? Please tell me.

She doesn't need a lot of gadgets like in the canonical story, because most of it she can make do with magic. Remember, this is a magical world. The reference of modern magical world I got from Final Fantasy XV. Those are some cool stuff, right there! The case from the beginning is inspired from the real murder that took place in my capital city; a cyanide-filled coffee to kill their own friend out of jealousy. I have them edited off course.

For Guest: Thank you for reviewing. I was smiling when I see yours. The story has been updated. I hope you are satisfied with this long-ass story and not just "TL-DR".

Ah, yes. I've wanting to ask you, readers. Do you have some sort of headcanon on how female Shin'ichi and female Conan would look like? Please answer in the review box. Describe her appearance or you can give me the url if you have your own fanart or someone else's that matched yours.

My female Shin'ichi headcanon would look a lot like Yukiko, except rounder face, long black hair, and wavy instead of spiral hair. Off course, she would have the signature cowlick above her head. She would be a lot more tomboyish than Ran (wearing clothes like Sera). My female Conan would be exactly like canonical one, except with more feminine clothes and a pair of pigtails on her head. Maybe I should have described this in the story, but this chapter had reached 12 word pages, and I feel I should stop writing before I have to divide them into two parts.

Thank you, readers, for reading my story so far. I will have some days off this week, so I will probably update next month or so after my schedule is fixed. So please be patient and thank you for understanding. Leave a review, or click the favorite or follow button, I will deeply appreciate it. I'll see you guys in the next chapter. Bye bye for now :D