~Nostalgia~

Sometime during the events of The Mysterious School:

"Dis sucks!"

Heiji was trying to create psychic orbs. Since his past self was a psychic type, he should have been able to handle it.

But yet he couldn't handle it – all he could create were fire orbs.

"What's with me? I can't even do da basics!" Exhausted from using his mind too much, he deposited himself on his bed.

As he fell asleep, those comments lingered, echoing in his thoughts…

/

"-ttori. Hattori!"

"Kudo! What the-?!" Hattori spluttered.

True to what Heiji had thought, the person calling his name was Shinichi. However, Shinichi was in a midnight blue outfit with a cape and he had a matching helmet under his arm. For some reason, the two were on a rooftop.

"Stop falling asleep while you're on a heist!" Shinichi chastised him, snapping him out of his observations.

Heiji raised an eyebrow at this, and then spotted his sleeve. His eyes wandered across the fabric…"Wait a sec'nd. Why am I wearin' a detective suit?"

"You don't remember that you chose the name Nazoka {Mystery Fire} because you wanted an excuse to wear a detective suit?" Shinichi reminded him while sliding his helmet back on.

This must be a memory of the past, before he was even reincarnated – the present Heiji would have never used such a lame excuse!

Heiji focussed his energy at his hands. Sure enough, an orb of pink magic appeared.

/

Now that Heiji was in the past, he had no choice but to go along with the original Sparkling Baron as he darted across the rooftops.

"Hey, Kudo!"

"Stop calling me 'Kudo' while I'm in costume. It's 'the Sparkling Baron'," Shinichi corrected Heiji.

"Then, Baron-han," the Osakan emphasised the name, "where are we going?"

"To our stronghold." The Baron leapt off the roof while he said this and Heiji followed in silence. As he freefell, he noticed a flash of white and a flash of blue – their Magic League companions, his memory informed him. Kaito Kid and the Ice Maiden.

"Good ta see ya!" Kid mimicked the Osakan detective's voice as he did a salute. Heiji shot him a telekinetic attack to keep him out of the way.

/

The pounding in his head was only noticeable when he found out the stronghold was, in fact, the Kudo mansion.

"Well, Kudo. I've never seen your house before." The pounding quickened and intensified.

As the Baron produced a key from the folds of his cape, there was an eerie voice in Heiji's head. "Meitantei {great detective}, it's Gloria. Come back."

"Wha-?!" he shook his head, trying to clear it of the headache.

"Did you say something?" the Maiden asked.

He wanted to reply, but got cut off by Gloria's voice. "You're much deeper in your mind than I thought…Just get yourself out of there, alright? Use the book." He gave an affirmative response, and then did a retake. What was he meant to do with the book?

/

After coming across the library by accident, Heiji finally got to find out what she meant – there was a portal in a book on the table. He touched it…and got sucked right in.

/

The sun was just rising when a sleepless Gloria heard Heiji stir in the other room.

"You were stuck in a memory," she told him, rubbing her eyes as she walked into the room. "I can feel that it has unlocked some kind of potential."

/

Heiji tried the psychic orb again…and succeeded.

"Why was it that I couldn't do it beforehand?" he asked himself.

Gloria, who overheard this, explained, "You needed to understand more about your past. That way you could let go of that lingering doubt and could finally use those psychic powers with confidence."


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