SailorStar9: With Chapter 84 uploaded, this is Chapter 85 of this fic. (Sighs) Guys and girls, is it too hard for you to leave a review, instead of just putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?
Disclaimers: I do not own Sailor Moon or Detective Conan, I only own this plotline and the pairing.
Pairing: Established!Furuya Rei/Mizuno Ami
Chapter 85: The Marriage Registration's Password, Part Two
"Don't you think it's cold in here?" Haibara shivered.
"Ojii-san, can you turn on the heat?" Conan asked.
"I wish I could." Hachitsuka replied. "But the cooling and heating unit has been broken since yesterday. It doesn't work. I'm sorry, but you'll have to endure the cold."
"Did you even come up with this code?" Yumi was not convinced.
"Yeah, I did." Hachitsuka blinked. "Why don't you think so?"
"Because it isn't the original." Yumi answered. "It's a photocopy. I'm saying you probably copied a code somebody else wrote down somewhere."
"I guarantee you I wrote that code." Hachitsuka insisted. "I only copied it because I felt like it."
"If you made the code, at least give us a hint." Yumi whined.
"Even without a hint, if you're prepared to marry Taiko Meijin, you should be able to solve the code quickly. If you're prepared to be a true married couple, that is."
"Give me that." Conan snatched the piece of paper from Yumi, sat himself on the rotating chair and started folding.
"It spells something." Miwako beamed. "Yumi, enter the eight-digit password." she urged, after Conan hopped off the chair.
"Those aren't numbers." Ayumi pointed out.
"It's katakana." Mitsuhiko blinked.
"That's okay." Haibara assured. "Most adults could decipher an eight-digit code from that."
"And the code I just showed you isn't the only one." Conan grinned. "There's a pair."
"Ai-chan is right. Ayumi gawked. "Yumi-san entered an eight-digit number without hesitating."
"But the code was written in katakana." Genta wondered.
"Why did those characters appear when you fold the code sheet?" Mitsuhiko was puzzled. "You didn't get any hints."
"We did get hints." Conan corrected. "The fact that he went out of his way to copy the code sheet and that the sheet was in the trash bins were hints. What would have been obvious if he hadn't made a copy? Take this sheet I just folded as an example: what disappears when you make a copy?"
"It's the creases." Ayumi beamed.
"If there were creases on the paper, we would've known right away how to fold the sheet." Conan nodded.
"But how were we supposed to know how to fold it without them?" Mitsuhiko pondered.
"That's why this sheet was inside the trash bin." Conan explained. "There's an old expression."
"'A crane in a junk heap'." Haibara cut in. "it refers to someone exceptionally talented or beautiful mixed in with a group of unexceptional people."
"A junk heap is a place where you dispose of your garbage." Conan added. "Since this code is in the trash can, it means we should fold this code sheet into a crane. If you fold it into a crane with the code facing up, it spells the words 'root' and 'five'. The number you square to get five is called the square root of five or root five. Most middle and high school students are made to memorize the first eight digits."
"'Enter another eight-digit number'?" Yumi exclaimed when a new message popped up after she inputted the first password. "You mean roto five isn't the only password?"
"It's okay." Conan replied. "We just have to fold another crane out of the code sheet. The old man gave us a hint when he mentioned married couples. Start by folding back to this shape with the small overlapping squares. Fold like part like so. Then, you just have to fold a crane again. It should reveal a different word like root five."
"It's not katakana this time." Ayumi blinked.
"Sonant marks?" Mitsuhiko echoed after Conan explained. "These two dots on the upper side of the cup are sonant marks?"
"How does that help you determine the number that goes inside the circle?" Ayumi wondered.
"Try counting up from one." Conan instructed. "How do you count fingers?"
"Ippon, nihon, sanbon, yonhon." Ayumi trailed.
"How about mice?" Conan asked.
"Ippiki, nihiki, sanbiki, yonhiki." Genta counted.
"How about beverages?" Conan prompted.
"Ippai, nihai, sanbai, yonhai." Mitsuhiko replied.
"When counting objects, which number uses sonant marks?" Conan inquired.
"Three." the three Detective Boys chorused.
"Apparently, you're supposed to enter the root of three." Haibara informed the two female police officers.
"What is this?" Yumi exclaimed when the screen turned on to reveal the camera lens had been turned to her. "The screen just switched to showing what's being captured by the camera on top of the computer."
"Look closely." Hachitsuka snorted.
"The envelope is inside my coat pocket." Yumi gaped.
"I see." Miwako deathpanned. "When Yumi ran into you in the hallway, you used your pickpocketing skills to hide the envelope in Yumi's breast pocket. The championship match is taking place at the Jinya Inn in Kanagawa." she referred to the news bulletin on her handphone. "They break for lunch until 1:30, so..."
"Someone's calling." Yumi noticed she had an incoming call. "It's Chukichi."
"Hello." Haneda voiced from the other end.
"Chukichi?" Yumi blinked. "I thought you couldn't use your phone right now."
"It's all right." Haneda replied. "The match is already over. You can throw away the envelope. It's meaningless now."
"Oh no." Mitsuhiko exclaimed, when an updated news bulletin came in on his phone. "They're reporting online that Taiko Meijin lost the match."
"'Evidently troubled by something else, Taiko Meijin made one poor play after another and lost before lunch.'" Miwako borrowed Mitsuhiko's phone and read the article's first line. "Apparently, it's true."
"Stick to the plan." Haneda insisted. "It was the motto of my brother-in-law, the respectable shogi player, Haneda Kohji. I'm sorry, Yumi-san. Men don't like to go back on their word."
"Really?" Yumi scoffed and shredded the envelope into pieces. "I don't know what you put inside this envelope, but if you've got something to say to me, say it to my face. If you ever get your seven or eight whatevers and become a champion again, I'll hear what you have to say. So, don't let anyone beat you until then, you balding mouse!"
"I thought she was Chacha, but she was Nene after all." Hachitsuka realized he was wrong about Yumi. "I can see she wears the pants in their relationship."
Meanwhile, elsewhere...
"Checkmate." Ami ended her chess match against her opponent.
"The winner for the Women's Championship for Chess, the new uprising star, Mizuno Ami!" the emcee announced.
SailorStar9: Any OOC-ness is regretted. *Sighs* Don't you just hate plot bunnies sometimes? Read and review.
