I'm just going to go ahead and say that I'm sorry that in the scope of one chapter -with multiple endings- I not only killed Conan and 'Shinichi' (though his soul is still in Conan, but his body died) I also turned both Shinichi and Ran into murderers... from a Meitantei Conan fan's viewpoint I must seem like a horrible person to have been planning those endings since chapter two. There were happier endings I could have used but they would have just felt fake or cliqued so I went with the depressing ones...
Anyway this is the epilogue... after this there will be no more for this story, sorry that they're both short. I'll probably wind up writing another Meitantei Conan story sometime soon, I already have a few ideas that I could use ... but I guarantee nothing.
Ah! THANK YOU EVERYBODY! If I say it in all caps does that make up for not addressing you individually? I would have specified if I could have but I don't know who most of you are so I kinda can't. But I'd like to thank everyone who has read this far, especially those who reviewed!
With that said, I hope you've enjoyed reading up until now as much as I've enjoyed writing this story, and I hope you enjoy this epilogue as well. If it's not too much to ask please review.
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(α Alpha)
Ran believed what Shinichi said, and let him get away without being blamed for murdering Conan. When the police arrived she told them that it was related to the case that Shinichi was working on, but she didn't say any more than that.
Shinichi continued to fight against the black organization -now from the inside- as 'Shiharoku Moonshine', and eventually he was able to defeat them -or at least on the surface, there were remaining members that had managed to get away. He continued to work on cases relating to them for the rest of his life.
Eventually, Haibara was able to develop a permanent antidote for Apotoxin 4869 using data from experiments the black organization had done involving it after she had left. Shinichi took it and returned to his original life with Ran, but Haibara (or rather Shiho Miyano) blamed herself for Conan's death and stayed a child as a twisted form of retribution continuing to live with the professor as Haibara Ai.
At some point Ran and Shinichi were finally able to be honest about their feelings for each other, they dated for a while but got married shortly afterward.
And after a few years the lovey-dovey couple of karate champion girl and detective boy had a cute son, named Conan after his father's dead younger brother. He loved going along with his dad on cases and eventually became a well known detective himself.
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(β Beta)
Conan and Shinichi continued to share a body for quite a while without telling Ran.
Haibara gave up on creating an antidote, or at least a medicine that would make Conan's body accelerate by ten years, even if in appearances it would bring Shinichi back it would also mean shortening Conan's lifespan -probably. At some point she and Conan wound up getting together, much to Mitsuhiko's disappointment/surprise.
Shinichi still called Ran -via the voice changing bow tie- from time to time, but as years passed he stopped calling, he no longer knew how 'Shinichi Kudo's' voice would have sounded, but he continued to text her. Even though he'd lost all hope of ever returning, he knew that she wouldn't be able to cope with it if 'he' told her to forget about him.
Eventually Ran moved on after having not seen Shinichi or heard his voice in so long. Shortly afterward Shinichi disappeared for good and was never heard from again.
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THE END