Chapter 1: Fate of Tide Turning

Reincarnation.

A religious belief that when one die, their soul or 'spirit' according to the religion, will start a new life in a new body as a new home for our soul to inhabitate. The new vessel could be your typical body of higher mammal being like human, or, if your luck is bottom of the barrel, a body of an animal.

It's all depend on your so called 'karma'.

Ever wonder why there is a quote "Karma is a b*tch"? There's your answer.

The body and the world where our soul end up could also be determined through our desire.

Yes you heard that right, wonder why sometimes a person before death wished for either for unfulfilled dream or a fantasy adventure, next come the 'divine intervention' and boom, he's reborn in new world and become a protagonist! Voila! A recipe for your generic genre known as 'Isekai'

For uncultured people out there who don't know what Isekai is, it's basically genre based on that Reincarnation stuff from religion with the added bonus the protagonist is suddenly transported in a new world, typically one with magic, sword.

In layman's term, to other world, become the protagonist, pick up girl, beat big bad guy, worshipped as a world savior.

In short, reincarnation is like tossing coins, and it's seem like I got the short end of the stick.

Okay enough of my rambling monologue, you must be wondering why would I spent such time complaint about the whole ordeal of reborn? Simple just like the statement above, I got reincarnated, but for the 'short end of the stick' part, it took me four years after born to realized.

The name's Hendricks Friederich, yes Europe name, I remembered my past life as an insignifcant normal individual, got my parents alive and well, finished college with a Computer Science Banchelor Degree, got a stable job with good income, didn't make a family though, because I'm an avid otaku and you can't convince me otherwise! All in all, a boring life, nothing actually special enough happened in my previous life.

Did I feel discontent? Eh no. Not entirely, I sure content with how it goes but not satisfied enough, then again I'm not the kind person give me an inch and I'll take a mile.

So by that nature I didn't have to desire for a reborn into next life right? Yeah fate decided to be your local annoying neighborhood by doing what exactly opposite of what I wanted. Reincarnated, by giving me a horrible death by truck-kun when I was on my way home from learning martial art.

'Where am I?'

Black, there's no other way to described, all I see is complete blackness, no sound, no sign end of this void. Hell, I can't even moved my hands nor my legs.

"Come… on… Suzura, almost there."

"Miss Akihiko,… hang on… one final push."

'Who's Akihiko?' My first thought when lights appeared for the first time after stuck in that void for so long. I tried to inhaled and the smell already made me rather uncomfortable

'Blood and… Disinfectant?'

"Congrantulation Mr Akihiko and Miss Akihiko, it's a healthy boy!"

A young blonde woman with blood shot eyes and blonde hair scooped me into her arm while crying the tears of happiness, I turned my head to see other person to be a man with black hair hugged me together with the woman.

'Woah! Why are they so… giant.'

And something clicked my mind, something really terrifying, I moved my hand in front of my face, and it's appeared to be a hand of a baby 'Those guys in surgeon uniforms, the disinfectant smell alongside with blood the these two people who looked like giant, y-you can't be serious…'.

The revelation came so abruptly that my stopped working.

"Our first child Suzura, look at him, so precious."

"Yes, look Hisashi, he got your black hair and my red eyes!"

"He'll grow up into a fine gentleman, our precious treasure Airu Akihiko."

At that time, I cried, a loud cry. No not me but rather this body cry because it can't express other emotion. If you asked me how am I feeling right now, it would be… Terrifying

'FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUCCCC…..'


And that's how story of Airu Akihiko come into the life of this new world, apparently I was born Osaka Central Hospital. I'm still unsure whether this is truly me or not, I mean I got reincarnated for god's sake, and as a cherry on top I got all of knowledge from previous life, aka I'm in someone's isekai story! Also those two years of living as a baby was hell on earth! I have to drink milk from from my mother breast!

Right now, I'm four year old, living with my parents in a cozy cottage near the central of Osaka. My father name is Hisashi Akihiko, he's a caring father and good husband to my mother, occupation unknown, for some reason he's usually left house abruptly for 'urgent' matter.

'Sure as hell skeptical to me…'

Outside of that he usually played with me like making silly face or dancing to a silly song for a child. 'I don't know should I be creeped out or not, I'm 23 year old here old man!' Then again can't say that to him or everyone will be weird out by my antic.

Mother's name is Suzura Akihiko, beautiful blonde hair with 2 twirled strands on both side of her faces. Occupation? Unknown either, hell I think both of them do the same job since I caught them going outside at the same time during midnight. In addition, there was one time she caught me red-handed trying to learn how to walk when everyone was asleep, it was akward really.

Thanks to the soul of a 23 years old person inside a body of toddler, I never really cried unless it's either change of diaper, it was horrible experience by the way, and hungry. I learned language quite fast, even acquire knowledge of how to play chess, thanks to one time father caught sign of me setting chess piece, from there he also taught chess to me, and remarked to my mother how I intelligent I am for a child.

My previous life felt insulted by that compliment by the way.

My parents, after the whole chess thing, decided to push my academy early by home tutored only to be surprised that how easy it is for me to learn even up to grade 4. Why grade 4? I decided not to show too much as it seem my father and mother even suspicious of my intellect.

Up till now, it was all well and good, I thought I would have another peaceful life like my previous one, until fate decided to be that one troublesome cousin who shows up out nowhere by throwing another revelation at my face.

It was a beautiful afternoon when I was reading chess tactics for expert and above in the guestroom. Father was preparing for another job while mother was preparing dinner in the kitchen.

Father came down stair only to see me engrossed in the book, he signed with a wistful smile before ruffling my hair.

"Son, I know you're desperated to beat me in chess but you didn't need to spend such time to even read book for professional chess player."

He glanced at the book, of course a book like that should be for seasonal player, the scene of a soon to be four year old toddle reading it would make everyone gobsmacked.

"Eh don't worry father, I'm just skimming through it for some basic information." Can't tell him the truth now, can I?

He laughed a bit before going out the front door. I picked up the glass of water on the table to drink after a long session of book reading, but it never really got there as what happened next changed my view of this entire world. Right as I'm about to drink, father turned his head to kitchen before shouting.

"Suzura, I got a job to meet my handler at Beika, expect me to return by eight."

"Okay hon−".

The relevation hit me so hard that it rendered my entire body to a complete halt. "Beika…" My hand gave in as the glass of water fell down the floor hard, breaking it in the process. Even I can't fully register the sound of glass breaking nor sudden rush of my father and mother's calling to ask for me.

"Beika, my god…"

"A-chan! What's wrong?!" Mother kept attempting to shake me out of my shock but I was too flabbergasted to fully take in.

About 20 seconds later, I bolted right up the stair, disregarding the shout from both of my parents. I frantically searched for the computer, once I found it, I immediately put in the information I just received from father.

I'm not an expert in Geography but I'm sure as hell that in my old world, Japan doesn't have any city named Beika.

'Dammit! I was too naïve to think this whole thing was a smooth sail.'

Yep, Beika is real, the whole Beika city's real to my horror, it's a city at the eastern part of Greater Tokyo, even the Beika ward which roughly located on the upper western part of Tokyo Bay and contains at least two districts being he homonymous Beika and Haido. The whole thing turned my body cold, refused to believe in it, I input one last information to search, if this is real then…

"Kudo Yusaku."

The cogs in my brain stopped working for straight 10 seconds, as if my entire body just turned into rock, I can't even hear the banging sound of parents at the locked door.

'He's real, the world famous novelist of mysterious genre as well as a great detective, the author of Night Baron series…'

Oh god, of all world I reincarnated into, it has to be this, 'F*ck you fate!',

The very same world of that shrunken corpse magnet and shady black fetish criminal organization!


Detective Conan.

A series of manga depict a great high school detective name Kudo Shinichi solving brainstorming murder cases, he got a childhood friend name Ran Mouri he had crushed on but too addicted to Holmes and chasing cases so much that he forgot about his crush, probably also because he's rather arrogant at the early of the story though.

And that attitude leads him one time together his childhood slash crush ran at the tropical land, after solving a murder case, he spotted the two shady guys, Gin and Vodka doing shady stuff at the back of alley kind of thing. The guy stick his nose into other's business, got ambushed by Gin and almost got killed only to be drug by that strange pill that, according to what I remembered, could kill the victim without a single trace of poison. But the drug malfunctioned and turned him into a child of 6 year old. Remember, don't do drug kid.

'If I'm not wrong it's name is APTX-4869 developed by her'

The Kudo Shinichi disguised as the new child name Edogawa Conan, he then started living at Mouri detective agency under his new alias while trying to dig up the information pertain to Gin and Vodka. On his journey, he made plenty of allies, even the FBI and PSB got involved in it, though one individual stood out from the rest though.

Shiho Miyano, the creator of the drug that shrunk Shinichi, she betrayed the Organization after no news about the sudden death of her sister. She later took the drug with the intention of ending her life, only to be shrunken like Shinichi.

'Damn, it's like the world deem their life wasn't f*cked up enough so it gives them another giant middle finger to them, then again it did screw up my reincarnation.'

She later adopted the name Ai Haibara and lived at same house of their professor Hiroshi Agasa, next to Kudo Shinichi mansion. The duo Ai and Conan seem to be hostile to each other at first, something something about Shiho's sister something something about APTX-4869. But after some soap opera, yes I know, they decided to put away their difference to work together to bring down the Organization.

The manga isn't ended yet, courtesy to our Gosho Aoyama, so in an sense I have no complete grasp over the plot line. Hell even there're a lot of hole in my memory about the series, this could potentially lethal in the long run for me.

'I can't rely on Kudo Shinichi alone to handle the Black Organization, too much unknown variable, right now the question is what is my role in this universe.'

Last time, I checked there's no major character in series with surname Akihiko, so the biggest conundrum right now is what my true purpose here.

I sighed, at least I have somewhat rough estimation of which time I'm at right now. When I searched for Yusaku, I noticed he's rather young compare to the timeline so I can predict I'm in the early part of it, I'll also searched the name 'Kudo Shinichi' but it gave no information so that settled it.

Also, can I question how the bloody hell the police force in this universe so… pardon my word… incompetence. I mean, they literally let a 15 year old solve a murder case, what the hell! Also how can Shinichi somehow managed to get away with that excuse I'm on a hard case with his crush Ran everytime, I mean why didn't she suspicious of his constant absence and the arrival of so called embodiment of obliviousness Conan. I know plot convenience but come on!

I sighed again, sitting outside at the park playground wasn't thrilling at all. Sure for a normal year old, it's an one the rare occasion they can start making friends but for me? Yeahhhhh no.

As I'm trying question my existence crisis like any cynical nihilist being, the two figures in front of me didn't make it any better other than reminding me of this accursed world.

Who am I talking about you may ask?

I'm gonna to give you three guesses and the first two don't count, Alright? The hint? Osaka.

Done? Yeah if you guess a certain hot-headed Great detective of West then congratulation, you're right.

Heiji Hattori.

Of all the people that I expected to meet early in the story, it has to be this guy, if this is Heiji then the shaken girl hiding behind would be none other than Kazuha Toyama, Heiji's childhood friend and his soon to be girlfriend.

Now what would the tritagonist of the series want to do with me? Frankly speaking, I don't know. Let's see what he has in store for me then.

"Hey you!"

"W-Wait Heiji, It's rude to point at someone."

"Don't you see Kazuha! He looked shady with those eyes, he has been observing us for like t-two… no three days! He's also wearing gloves too mean he doesn't want to leave behind finger pattern behind after his crime, and-and he used skateboard! For only four years old that's impossible!..."

Ah a wild young detective has appeared but goddamm, this guy's practically Kudo Shinichi 2.0, minus the Holmes addiction of course. Also developing obseravation kill like that at early ages is quite impressive for me. But nothing is flawless, his deduction still has many problem with it.

"Kuku, you're sharp Heiji Hattori, I'll give you that."

"How did you know my name!"

"Oh sorry, then I must've confused you with someone who's son of Heizo Hattori, the youngest person to achieved the highest ranking officer at the Osaka Prefectural Police Headquarters." My grin grew wider, this guy lack information about me but still decided to charge in blindy.

"You're sharp, but your precision still lacking. You presumed just because I 'observed' both of you, you think I'll do any shady thing but in reality, I'm just contemplating about… existence crisis."

"Existence… crisis…?" Kazuha tilted her head cutely at the word, goddamm are all child version of this world bishounen supposed to be overload with cuteness like that?

"Eh you will understand it once you grow older, now strike two is wearing glove, true wearing glove criminal helps them conceal their fingerprint after a crime scene, but just because of that won't enough to accuse someone wearing finger like this…" I take out my gloves to show a bandaged hand, earlier I helped mother prepared dinner but accidentally cut myself.

"Finally, the skateboard, there's this thing called child prodigy you know? Mozart learnt to play song at four year old and composed song at five year old, so what's the problem with a child at four year old like me using a skateboard? You understand now? Tantei-kun?" My mouth turned into a full wide smile when I caught sign of Heiji stunned at my counter deduction, while Kazuha was at awe.

"Kuku, you're too young to play the detective game with me tantei-kun, I'll show you what a true detective looked like…"

Just as I said the word, I immediately circled around the duo like a bleeding deer cornered by a leopard. Heiji seem to be very on guard about it as his next action he got into the stance preparing to fight me while Kazuha

"Let's see, you're practitioner of kendo, novice I presumed." Heiji gritted his teeth, it's seem like I hit the nail on the head then, well the show must go on.

"Your stance, the bruises as well as the mark on your wrist, it's obvious you're a training in kendo but not long enough to called a master, that stance is giveaway, chūdan, one of the five stances of kendo, the most basic stance which balance attack and defense, A beginner learns this stance first in order to learn the correct striking distance, issoku-itto-no-maai. Those bruises must be from the sparring match with your peers−"

"Hold on! How can you be so sure the bruises came from kendo sparring, what if because I'm getting into the fight!" Heiji balked, this guy seem adamant in proving me wrong huh, remind the first time he appeared in the story solving the case that almost got the wrong person, 'Which chapter was it again?'

"The injured marks…"

"The mark injured mark?" Heiji in confusion, damn I already spoon-fed you the clue, use that damn detective head of your, aren't you suppose to be the Great detective of West? Where's your detective instinct? Ain't it supposed to be tingling right now?

I decided to point out the oh-so-obvious clue that's on his forearm.

"Kendo, for new beginners, should only received blow to the forearm section, not the hand nor the wrist, and certain not the head, if you said that you got into the fight outside of kendo, then there must be bruises outside of the area I had mentioned, but you don't have. As for the mark on your wrist, it's because you used the shinai right?" Once again it's seem like I spot on with my deduction as Heiji seem to faltered further while somehow Kazuha listened to me attentively.

"Shinai and Bokken, both can be used for new member but it's recommended Bokken for easier use before changing into Shinai, but clearly ya got your ahead of yourself and decided to use Shinai, using a forgein weapon without proper tutelage is ill-advisable ya know?"

"W-Who are you?!" I don't know about you but I'm seriously got the sudden urge to say "You either very brave or very stupid". He still want to play brave hero till the end huh, I'll drink to that!

I stretched out my hand, the malice smile of a predator changed to an elegant gentleman mode, just like how James Moriarty said "Every fairytale needs a good old fashioned villain" and in this case, professional have standards.

"The name's Airu Akihiko, nice to meet you, Heiji Hattori." The shit eating grin on my face definitely didn't make those two any better. Heiji reluctantly shook while still trying to assert dominance.

"My name is Heiji Hattori but I will soon be called Great detective of Kansai!" What's the hell with the whole a toddler trying to be a detective at this age in this series?

"I'm-I'm Kazuha Toyama, Heiji's friend, pleasure to meet you!." Kazuha on the other hand was much more pleasantries to deal with, why other residences of this world can be this docile?

"Now then lovebirds, It's 5 in the afternoon and I'll still have chore has yet to be done so I bid both of you audieu." In all seriousness I just want to get out of this awkward situations as soon as possible though it may not be case with this cunning brats, he must be fumming that his deduction was wrong and smugness serves no purpose that irritated him further, I would rather not dealing with kid Heiji thank you very much.

"W-What are y-you talking about? Lovebirds? And audued?"

Ugh, kids, simultaneously cute and annoying at the same time, is this the hard stage that every family has to go through? No wonder I didn't settle for a family in my previous life.

"Don't worry, you'll understand them once you grows up."

Just as I on my road to heaven, something tugged my sleeve. I turned back only to see Kazuha holding onto to it.

"C-can we play again with you another time?" Of course it has to be that puppy eyes move of every damn time a child want to ask for something, in this case Kazuha Toyama want me to play with Heiji Hattori together with her, perhaps it's because my deduction skill capable containing that guy tendency to poke in other people's bussiness to play detective game which is basically Shinichi 2.0, or tantei-kun like I called him.

Now not saying that I'm cruel person to reject such precious creature like her, but accepting could created a potential domino effect in the far future. Why I'm thinking such far ahead? And you may think I'm a just paranoid about a simple request of playing with two kid, but I say otherwise. Ever heard of butterly effect? A butterfly effect, in science's term, a small change in one state of a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.

The prime example being a butterfly flapping it's wing in on area only to cause a huge tornado in another area. Just like I accepting such request of this simple friendship could lead to disaster in later stage, why? My existence has already an anomaly in this world, not to mention that both Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama maybe not main characters of the series but a major support character, aka one that help main protagonist down the road.

Example, I've already demostrated my deduction, it may sound simple but Heiji could shift his rival focus in future from Kudo Shinichi to me, which could create a problem that two may not meet each other and voila! Domino effect!

"Oi! Aren't ya keeping Kazuha waiting?"

Heiji's voice snapped me out of my thought, Kazuha still nervously holding my sleeve waiting for my answer. I looked at her contemplating.

'Seriously, should I? Dammit! Be it that way then…'

"Alright, we can meet again here."

And that's the story of how I got my entry into the plot of Detective Conan, with the help of Heiji Hattori the tantei-kun of Osaka and Kazuha Toyama. I just hope that thing won't get too alienated from my action.


"Are you f*cking kidding me?"

Sorry for language but for this once I have to swear because I feel like I'm being toyed with in possible way right now.

'I take back my statement about Kudo Shinichi and Shiho Miyano bad fate, because right now I'm the one who truly got the short end of the stick.'

Why am I suddenly have a outburst like this? Well let me provide some context that leading to this situation then.

It was one of the usual night at the Akihiko family, Father and I had an intense showdown between two of us in chess while Mother watching news on tivi. It was so close to victory but in the end I got too cocky trying forgo defend for attack that lead to fatal loss on my side.

"You improving quickly but your ego throws the game at the last minutes Airu." Father said with the same smugness radiating from him.

"I know Father, but you don't have to show me that smile to assert your dominance…" I rolled my eyes at his childish antic, seriously, Do all reincarnator have to go through this phase of treating as a child while you are techinally an adult? I feel sorry for them.

Well had the night passed on this peaceful, there wouldn't have been any shouting. Until a midnight bathroom needs.

I'm standing in front of my parent's 'work' room you may say, I've always skeptical of my father work ever since I discovered the existence of Beika, his word choice 'handler' seem awfully strange yet familiar somehow to me.

The room wasn't too special, nothing seem out of place for a 'normal' white collar. And that's exactly why I'm suspicious.

Think about it, if he worked in a normal company, the term 'handler' as well as his scheduled work are both abnormal for a worker like him.

'I'm missing something here'

Having examined the room and found nothing out of ordinary, I briefly considered if I had been too much paranoid.

'Think Airu! Which place in the room should I hide an important object from prying eyes of your children' that's oddly specific but I'll roll with it.

I realized something strange though, this room despite having an air conditioner and on the second floor, meaning it's lack no source of wind, that ceiling fan may used for special occasion but isn't the pedestal fan seem overkill?

'As I expected'

When I tried the start the fan with the remote, it didn't work but instead a 'Chink' sound play from my father wooden desk. Opening one of the drawer, I a saw a secret compartment has showed itself, inside it is a stack of file and a metal white suitcase.

I didn't pay too much attention to the suitcase but was intrigued by the file though. The black color of the cover however sent a sudden chill down my spine.

'Wait! This is Detective Conan world right? What if… what if… my parents work for the Black Organization?...'

The theory sound absurd but not impossible, after all from the informations in the manga, it's clear that the Organization had far-reaching influence, so the possibility is still there.

Resolved to steel myself, I opened the file only to be greeted by something I would never expect to see it here. Something even worse than the Black Organization.

Why did I find? A logo.

Now why would a logo scare the living daylight out of me? Well, I'll describe it and if anyone can guess it, you'll realized something very wrong with it's existence.

The logo is a triangle with black background and white outline, in three corners are 3 small triangles with two at the bottom in middle of it a number one embroidded in Roman numral, the top one is number zero with an eye.

The middle of the logo is a white skull wearing a royal crown and two bone in X formation below it, the right side of the skull is the K word and left is D word.

Finally at the bottom is a phrase, which should help you determined which organization this logo belong too, 'MERCES LETIFER' embroidded in all of it's glory.

So, can you guess it now?

Don't worry if you couldn't because even I'm at lost how this…. 'thing' exist here. Simple because this organization wasn't supposed to be exist in this world!

'Merces Letifer' in Latin mean 'Lethal Trade', that phrase belonged to the ICA or International Contract Agency, a hired gun organization of professional assassin in the Hitman series!

Yeah the universe with one bald man who managed to killed everyone and walk away easily with it because he's the infamous Agent 47! That world!

I was so dumbstrucked by it that my entire body seem petrified by the sudden revelation. Only by the light of the hallway suddenly lit on that I was out of my stupor.

'Dammit, not now!'

I placed everything back in order and tried to think a way out of this problem.

'If father's truly worked for ICA then his skill is no joke, he'll even noticed slightest displacement of object and hiding isn't an option either, tracking down the target is one of the most basic skill of a hitman.'

I looked at the window and a stupid idea popped inside my head. Well for an adult it should be normal but for this body? Yeah it's bloody crazy.

"Honey what's wrong?"

"I think I heard a loud child's voice…"

"You sure? Airu-chan is asleep in his room, it could be a thief?"

"No, the voice was too high-pitched to be a voice of an adult, not even teenager has that kind of voice, just in case let's check Airu's room."

'Dammit!'

I scaled down from the second floor in a body of four year old boy, the howling wind didn't make it any easier. 'If I don't speed up, I'll in deep trouble'

"Thank god, the window to my room is opened."

Just as I put the blanket over my body, the door to my room swing wide open, I tried to pretend to sleep and ignored the scrutinize gaze from Father.

'Act natural, act natural, ACT NATURAL!'

"See honey, he's still asleep, I think you're just paranoid."

"Hmm, must be it."

'Oh god that was nerve-racking!'

After parents left my room, I lied there motionlessly, too blood rushing and shocked by tonight unveiling that I couldn't sleep

'Parents are working in ICA, something that SHOULD NOT exist in this world, I made friend with two people that could derail the plotline in future. Why? What the hell is going on!? Someone please tell me that I'm not tripping! As if the Black Organization wasn't enough, now the ICA too? What kind of f*cked up world have I landed into?!'

There's only one word I want to give to fate right now

'FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCC….'

The End