Hurray! We've now managed to solve most of Kaito's problems but that doesn't mean this story is over! There's another person that's deeply involved in all of this, and he has some abnormalities in his circumstance to take care of as well~!

This chapter feels kinda short because doesn't have much dialouge... but I didn't want to move on to the next scene yet so this is all you get for now, sorry~ I'll try to make the next chapter a bit longer.

As usual I thank everyone for reading, and ask that you'd please review.

Conan refused to accept that Kuroba Kaito/Toichi could be his father, he had no recollection of ever being 'Kuroba Kaito' the opposite actually, he had memories of growing up as Kudo Shinichi. He hated to admit that there was any possibility that his memories could be fake, it was entirely possible but it didn't seem likely at all.

However he couldn't ignore that Kid really had nothing to gain from pretending to be his real father anyway, . By that reasoning the thief was more likely than not telling the truth if only because it'd just be a pointless lie otherwise.

Ultimately the realization that his entire life up to this point had just been a huge lie -a conspiracy even- made no real difference at all. It didn't matter if he was really Kudo Shinichi or Kuroba Kaito it wouldn't change the fact that in his current situation he was Edogawa Conan, even so he had every intention to return to the life he had been living as Shinichi as soon as possible. He didn't care that he may or may not have attained immortality in being poisoned, he wasn't going to keep Ran waiting for him any longer than he had to even if 'Shinichi' didn't really exist.

He wondered for a moment if he should tell her that he'd found out that 'Kudo Shinichi' was a fake person, he could call her and say that he'd figured it out while he was working on an important case... the pint sized detective shook his head, he couldn't tell her -not when he was so unsure of it himself.

He couldn't be sure unless he obtained the memories that he was apparently missing... but how would he do that. It wasn't like detective work, he couldn't just go around looking for clues and reasoning to piece his memory together, it just didn't work that way. To recover lost memories typically a person would have to overcome whatever it was that caused the memory loss or there would be some kind of stimulus that could recover the displaced memory.

He had no idea where to start as far as regaining his memories was concerned so he decided it may be better to take a different approach; he would simply try to see if there was anything that could prove that Kudo Shinichi had existed before eight years ago, if he could do that then it would at least prove that Kudo Shinichi wasn't a fake person and that Kid may have been playing an extremely odd and pointless prank

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth..." he quoted, he'd already muttered it to himself at least five times but it made no difference, even quoting the great Sherlock Holmes himself he was bringing himself no closer to discovering the truth of the matter.

He had memories, it's possible they're fake. He'd gone to Teitan elementary, he even still had his old uniform...no, he hated to admit it but it would be too easy for his parents to fake records and acquire a uniform. There was always Ran, she was his childhood friend... they'd known each other forever, could she be the proof that he'd existed? No, assuming his memory loss hadn't been caused by some sort of traumatic event like Kid's had then it's possible that whoever had tampered with his memories could have easily tampered with hers as well... though why they would do that he wasn't entirely sure.

"Eliminate the impossible... eliminate the impossible... eliminate the impossible..." he continued to mutter as if it would somehow help him concentrate, "Elimina- wait... Hakase. He's lived next to my parents for years, surely he would notice if there was suddenly a child in their house when they hadn't had one before. Even if it's still possible for his memories to have been manipulated (which would make this a much larger conspiracy than I'd ever imagined) it's still worth asking."

He told Ran that he was going to Agasa-hakase's house to play a new game and was out the door in a flash, within minutes he'd arrived.

The small detective explained to Haibara and Hakase that Kaitou Kid had insisted that he was his real father and that Kudo Shinichi was a person that had apparently been made up in order to keep it a secret that Kuroba Toichi was still alive, he made sure to let them know that he had no proof that any of it was true so he didn't really believe it... but their reactions surprised him.

"That would explain it," Haibara had said, sounding rather unimpressed, "Back when it was unconfirmed whether or not Kudo Shinichi had died because of Apotoxin4869 I'd taken a look at your records some of the earliest ones seemed too normal, things like your height and weight were filled out in exact accordance with the average but then there was more deviation from eight years ago on... If Kudo Shinichi hadn't existed until that point then it makes perfect sense."

He wasn't entirely sure what to say about that... if she'd had evidence that his records were faked then why didn't she tell him a long time ago? Sure she probably had no reason to believe that Kudo Shinichi wasn't a real person besides that, she probably just didn't think about it all that much.

But even so it was Hakase's reaction that had surprised him the most, "You don't remember?"

Conan's eyes widened, "Don't remember what... exactly?"

Hakase then explained that it had been around eight years ago when a woman had come to the Kudo house with a child in tow, he recognized the woman as she'd occasionally visited the Kudo house before with her husband but he didn't know either of them himself, he did however know the child who had occasionally visited and played with Ran Mouri whenever he did. The woman had apparently asked Shinichi's parents -no, Yusaku and Yukiko Kudo- if they would take care of him as if he were their own child. The Kudo couple had been thinking about having their own child for a while and it was quite clear that whatever was happening was very important so they accepted, and since then 'Kudo Shinichi' had been the son of Yusaku and Yukiko Kudo.

In the face of this odd but undeniable proof that 'Kudo Shinichi' was completely fabricated Conan sighed. After all he'd half been expecting to hear something like this, it was the reason why he'd come over in the first place. It was true, he was Kuroba Kaito. His memories still differed with the truth on this point, which worried him a bit, but he didn't really miss the memories he couldn't remember, sure he was a bit curious but it's not like he was going to go back to being Kuroba Kaito if he was able to regain those memories that would be just as difficult as returning to being Shinichi Kudo would be as the moment.

At least he knew who he really was now. He now knew for a fact that he had spent more than half his life unwittingly pretending to be someone that he wasn't. The people he thought were his parents had in fact adopted him. The person he'd thought he was hadn't actually existed before eight years ago. His real father was an internationally wanted thief and a magician, and his real mother had also been an internationally wanted thief in the past. His father was now a teenager while he himself was left as a child. It was a bit strange just how little of this actually bothered him.

"Still... I'm not really sure why you can't remember all of this," Agasa-hakase commented.

Conan shrugged, seeming unconcerned even though it was his own memory, " I guess I'll find out eventually."

With that Conan had left, it was about time for him to get back home anyway, Ran would be worried if he were late for dinner.