The identity of the spirit is discovered in this chapter. It might not be who you expect it to be...


The spirit was bugging him again, not by controlling his body, but by feeding him almost useless information. However, Shinichi did gain something from this stupid spirit...its name! It had introduced itself as Tsukiko Kuroba before it sporadically told him tidbits of information.

The name Kuroba was awfully familiar...

Just then, Kaito and Aoko happened to be passing by on one of Aoko's shopping trips. Shinichi ran over to him, trying to remember the spiky-haired teen's name. He recalled Kaito's name at the last second and yelled it out. The thief was startled to find his tantei-kun behind him.

"Could I speak to you for a second?" tantei-kun hissed at his lookalike.

Nodding, Kaito got pulled away while Aoko looked on, perplexed.

After the teen detective's huge explanation, Kaito realised who Tsukiko was. She was his long-dead twin sister! Whispering this news to tantei-kun, he began to form a plan to reconnect with her...


~A Ghost of a Sibling~

A few days later, Kaito asked his mother for the address of the Mouri Detective Agency and then set off.

Conan isn't being controlled by Tsukiko any more, that's for certain, the spiky haired boy concluded as the bespectacled boy greeted him at the door. Conan pulled his phantom thief into his bedroom, and then Tsukiko took over. She was speaking with Conan's voice and using Conan's body, yet it was distinctly her. Conan wouldn't have a slightly whiny voice, would he?

"Kaito! I haven't seen you since…" she began. She, as Conan, hung her head sadly, uncharacteristic tears welling up in Conan's eyes as this happened. Kaito couldn't help snickering at his taken-over tantei-kun.

"This is serious, nii-chan!" Tsukiko yelled in that whingey voice Conan would never use. "Nonetheless, I can tell we've been watching each other for ages. I, of course, have had to use your friend to do so." Kaito wordlessly agreed.

"The reason I'm still here is because I never really got a final resting place. Could you and this tantei-kun of yours," she finger quoted the word 'tantei-kun', "help me with that?"

Shaking his head, Conan finally became normal. "What did she say?" he asked.

Relaying what Tsukiko said, Kaito realised this was going to be practically impossible. If Tsukiko couldn't get out of tantei-kun's body, then how were they going to bury her? Conan and he had come to the same conclusion - that was evident because of the expression currently on his face.

It said, "To do the almost impossible, what do we do?"


You wouldn't know this, but Tsukiko is my third protagonist from the unfinished fic Ultimate Power. In that fic, she was just an acquaintance of Conan and Kaito.

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