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Episode 20

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Nishiwaki Yui-君がいるから...(Because you...)(FULL)(Kindaichi Case Files OP 3)

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[Corpse Party] Blood Drive OST - Return to Heavenly Host

DCMK Universe-Prime...

"I see."

Councilman Max Walker is now on the phone while walking in the hallway, intending to head to the briefing room alongside two MIB Division Agents, one of whom was Agent Tsukasa Mikuni. The councilman's expression was grave. He was currently speaking to someone who was reporting to him of the specific situation that was happening in relation to Heavenly Host.

Who was he speaking to?

It was a woman of great authority, a goddess by the name of Urd, one of the three Norns from Norse Mythology.

To explain what that means, in the context of Norse mythology itself, the Norns (pronounced like "norms" with an "n" instead of the "m"; Old Norse Nornir) are female beings who create and control fate. This makes them the most terribly powerful entities in the cosmos – more so than even the gods, since the gods are subject to fate just like any and all other beings.

But then, one needs to distinguish one other factor and that is that not every bit of mythology can be applied in the truest sense.

For there are many manuscripts from different periods of time—DCMK Earth-Prime—that are based on oral tradition far older (the first known written work has been introduced in the 9th or 10th century.) Unfortunately, even the different sources are not the only problem, as many authors of medieval times - but also from modern times - have been quite "imaginative" in translating and retelling those myths. So most of what is true may be lost in the realm of fiction. What was also not helping the matter is the Gardener Effect phenomenon that is a common constant in the Multiverse which allows writers of fiction to unconsciously view other realities and perceived them as some form of fiction as if they were the ones who thought of it themselves when in point of fact it is actually writing down historical events from other universes from their own perspective.

Now, as regards to the Three Norns of DCMK Earth-Prime, they all consist of three Goddesses. Belldandy (or Verdandi), Urd, and Skuld. They are so to speak the main administrators of an advanced heavenly supercomputer known as Yggdrasil, the World Tree which organizes and runs the entire universe. It manages the goddesses' license system and handles contracts from wishes granted to terrestrials by maintaining the Ultimate Force which is a program that makes sure a contract works out.

Urd, Norn Goddess of the Past, an older but beautiful woman with tanned skin and long silver hair, wearing exotic attire of black and dark purple, was speaking to Councilman Walker on the phone because the latter called the former and asked about the current situation with regards to the universe as a whole. To Walker's surprise, Urd wanted to call Walker as well in order to tell him of the dire situation because apparently, Yggdrasil has been getting a lot of unnatural glitches lately.

How is that a bad thing?

Well, for instance, these glitches refer to a phenomenon that is centered around Earth. There were multiple numbers of rifts occurring in various places and dragging out multiple restless spirits and other sorts back and forth from Earth to other dimensions to another dimension a.k.a. Heavenly Host which is the source of everyone's troubles. There were other forms of disturbing phenomena that were also shaking up the territories of other pantheons and powers. The Lamias, for instance, goat-like demons that are considered a nuisance in afterlife affairs that want to drag human souls to their twisted dimension without proper judgment, have been spotted in some of them, even going beyond Earth and into other dimensions/realms such as The Underworld - New Devil territory and outside the Solar System (also known as the Terran System and other names), and are being dealt with as well by intergalactic first-world powers such as the Deviluke Empire.

"I'd figure that the Valkyries must be pretty busy at this time," Councilman Walker said grimly.

"Oh, they are. From what I've heard from Lind, she and a couple of Valkyrie had just dealt with a couple of Horrors spotted in Switzerland causing trouble. Luckily enough, the Horrors didn't manage to eat anybody and the Valkyries got to them in time and cleaned house. As for my mother, the Daimakaichō, she recently called me before you did and told me that she was starting to get worried," Urd said gravely.

"Define worried," Councilman Walker noted the term and made him attentive because whenever Urd's mother, Hild, ruler of Hell (or Niflheim), is worried about something, then he and by extension, the SCP Foundation, needs to take this very seriously.

"Worried as in this incident may perhaps twist the fabric of our universe to the point of no return and probably blow up on our heads, both literally and figuratively. From what Skuld told me ever since this fiasco began, she managed to find something of note in regards to the source of all this and found this other dimension. I'd call it Nirvana for familiarity's sake since I recognized the old magick anywhere but you'd probably call it Heavenly Host for simplicity's sake because we'd find an abandoned elementary school building among other things that has this name."

"And what did she find out more about the place?" Councilman Walker asked.

Urd was silent on the phone for a few moments which made Walker a bit worried.

She said. "Things are not looking so good on the other side, Walker. From the images that we could get from Skuld's newly built projector machine, we saw things that we'd rather not have to see and it made Skuld quite a bit...shaken..."

"That's rather understating it," Skuld said softly.

Urd glances at Skuld, the Norn Goddess of the Future, who was leaning toward the wall, looking quite teary-eyed and shaken but grim, crossing her arms as if feeling rather cold, with Belldandy, a young man by the name of Keiichi Morisato (officially, he is known as the Heisei Successor Rider - Kamen Rider Gaim), and a robot named Banpei were standing side by side with her and comforting the poor goddess.

After giving Skuld an empathetic glance, she went back to explaining to Walker. "A whole lot of dead bodies and many of them tended to be students from all levels, along with some teachers and other unlucky civilians. There's also a bunch of horrors all being forcibly sent there and gathering in this place as if it was some kind of twisted party for them. Slashers, zombies, ghosts, demons, you name it. Also, there's the fact that we spotted Uncle Doctor, his eighth face to be specific, and the JOATs on the other side accompanied by a familiar Indian ghost and a couple of others."

Councilman Walker became attentive, especially taking note of a past incarnation of his Chief Scientific Advisor - The Doctor. Officially speaking, there were only thriteen incarnations known to the Foundation. "Can you describe to me who these couple of people are?"

"Well, most of them appeared to be students and there is one adult. Some were wearing school uniforms. Skuld did a search on them and we came with up a few names. Most of them came from some school in Tokyo called Kisaragi Academy while this other girl was from Paulownia Academy High School," Urd explained.

"Can you give me the names of these people?" Councilman Walker asked.

"Sure. Mochida Satoshi, Mochida Yuka, Kishinuma Yoshiki, Shinozaki Ayumi, Shishido Yui, and Niwa Aiko," Urd said.

"Thank you for providing the names, Lady Urd, because you saved us a whole lot of trouble from our end," Councilman Walker thanked the Norn Goddess of the Future.

"Why? Are these names important?" Urd noted the tone of gratitude.

"Yes, they are. One of them, Shishido Yui," Councilman Walker, smiling, glances at Agent Mikuni who noticed Yui's name being mentioned. "Is a very old friend of one of my agents. I'm glad that she is at least with the Eighth Doctor and the JOATs."

Agent Mikuni for his part was happy at the news and was glad that Yui, the woman who was the most important in his life, was safe and sound as much as she can be.

"Oh, and by the way, Lady Urd, is Morisato with you?" Councilman Walker asked.

"Yes, why?" Urd asked, glancing at Keiichi who noticed it, realizing that he was being talked about on the phone.

"Can you put the phone on speaker mode? I need to talk with him about something and I believe that you and your sisters need to be present in this conversation as well," Councilman Walker requested.

"Sure," Urd said. She begins to switch the rotary dial of the telephone counterclockwise and clockwise, with the dialed numbers being "9981132". Urd holds the phone and gestures to Keiichi. "Keiichi, Walker wants to talk to you."

"Yes?" Keiichi said. He was walking close, stopping a few meters towards Urd just as Walker was speaking.

"Mr. Morisato," Councilman Walker addressed the young man in American English. "I trust that you are more than aware of the situation that is happening lately."

"Just the gist of it, sir. I know that it's getting pretty bad out there and from what I've seen from Heavenly Host, it isn't pretty," Keiichi said respectfully in American English.

"Heh, you don't know the half of it, son," Councilman Walker made a grim smile. "Considering what Lady Urd had told me and adding on to the official reports that I've been receiving across other universes from other Foundation HQs, we may be dealing with a potential crisis that could affect the wider multiverse based on the nature of this dimension - Heavenly Host, Nirvana, Hell, whatever you want to call it. The point is that I'm going to need to ask for your help specifically as a Kamen Rider and for you to ask for your fellow Successor Heisei Riders to respond since I have reason to believe that their worlds would not be safe from this crisis as well. As of this moment, Code: Green Bugman is in full effect. GOD help us all."

Heavenly Host...

Magari Mizuki, standing on the edges of a rooftop, was overseeing the Eighth Doctor, the Companions, the Kisaragi Academy survivors, Dhruv Varma and Aiko Niwa walking through the forest.

"Heeh, so you're here as well, Night Baron. I knew that you wouldn't be that far behind while all of the shit is happening back on our Earth. And what a surprise, to think that you're associated with Lord Doctor of all people. I didn't really know that part of you until now. Naho-chan, Sayaka-chan, and Aiko-chan never even mentioned something like this either so I'd assume that they didn't know about it as well as me. Keeping secrets from little old me? You shouldn't have because that just makes things more interesting. What else are you hiding from me I wonder?" she spoke with pleasure due to seeing her heroic and dashing rival here in Heavenly Host.

Why was she here in Heavenly Host?

Martuba's Tomb's Founder had ordered Magari to enter Heavenly Host with an official mission. Or rather, several official missions all converging to one at this very location. One, she needed to find and escort Azusa Takai, the official second-in-command of the order, away from this place. Two, to find out the growing disturbance that had been happening from this place and DCMK Earth-Prime.

Getting here to this dimension was not easy. She had to go through all sorts of off-the-book trading deals from the black market just to purchase a couple of stones that has a special type of power in them. It has the ability to cross from Nirvana (Heavenly Host) and back to DCMK Earth-Prime in a sweat. Of course, she could have tried to find a rift that lead from here and back, but it was a risk that she wasn't taking from the sole fact that she may be trapped like a wild animal with no hope of escape in the lair of the devil (Sachiko) herself. And of course, the stones that allow her to move back and forth allowed her to at least maintain stealth in light of the fact that she'd rather not attract the devil (Sachiko) herself to her presence.

Of course, she was rather hesitant about even coming to Heavenly Host since she knew the fate of those that awaited them. But her succession in the order was on the line and that she needed to get her butt off to work and suck it up to her elders. Naturally, she was frankly annoyed. It all changed though the moment she got here and it wasn't just about Night Baron being here. Because for some mysterious reason, memories that she never thought to recall were being poured into her mind little by little, limited as they were. Memories of past lives, of how she had been to this wretched place before over and over and been given a similar collection of missions, depending on the variation.

It was quite odd and made her pay close attention. Looking at these past memories and experiences, comparing them with her own current experience of now. Personally for her, it was such a pain in the ass, if one were to borrow her foul-mouthed language.

Also, she'd noticed a few odd things. There were many black magic spells that had her order's marks on them. But what concerned her greatly was that nobody in the order actually made them. Or to be more than accurate, they were all created by her order's members from different time cycles. This entire dimension was in some kind of unstable time loop where things tend to repeat over and over like a broken recorder that has a different variation and flavor added to them. And this time loop is like one type of cancer that spreads to places where it shouldn't as is apparent from what is happening on DCMK Earth-Prime. Even the entire supernatural and magical community seems spooked about what is happening because of reports of disturbing phenomena occurring.

These memories also made her question her firm loyalty to the order which had already been waning for some time by each encounter with Night Baron. It sickened her a bit. Murder was one thing. Killing was one thing. She's not gonna pretend that she's some kind of saint because she isn't. She has blood on her hands and was fully culpable in her actions, having shown full consent to it and even deriving some form of sadistic pleasure for it. But a mass genocide and a literal end of the world (or quite possibly the entire universe and beyond considering how far-reaching in scale this is) was another entirely different thing altogether. Half of it is because the order had "fucked up" according to her.

To hell with Martuba, she thought. It wasn't because of trying to save her own skin only. As much as she refused to admit it since this may admit personal defeat on her part in light of her playful pleasurable conflict with Night Baron, she was growing some kind of conscience, and with it, some type of remorse and a sense of responsibility, if only a little bit.

She could just remember that one time that she was asked why she does what she does.

"Why? Why do you kill?"

It was an honest genuine question from Night Baron. There wasn't any form of judgment. It was rather something else. The look behind the man with the glasses was solemn. She can never forget the moonlight shining down on top of him. It was quite an odd but admittedly beautiful sight. A peaceful one.

Now, as her self-proclaimed rival, Magari had been immersing herself in mystery and detective literature. Oh, she read them all, especially for one Sherlock Holmes, a fan favorite of course for Night Baron. Even she, one of the vilest women that ever walked the earth, has great respect and admiration for the late great Sherlock Holmes as he was after all the greatest detective that ever lived in his lifetime and the leader of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen - aka the very first official superheroes that have the likes of Allan Quatermain, Captain Nemo, Wilhelmina "Mina" Harker, Tom Sawyer, and many others, protecting the world from very dangerous threats whose escapades reach their height during the darkest years of World War II. Oh, there were lots and lots of legendary stories during that particular period, some of which had the involvement of Martuba's Tomb.

Speaking of which, the method that Night Baron employed to her wasn't one of harsh judgment nor one of the cold logic and rationalization that Holmes was known for. As if acting out of character, he was employing another method. The heart.

For now, she would try to follow Night Baron and company in secret. If there is anything that she could find out more about regarding this place, armed with the memories that she was recalling a bit in spite of limited blind spots, then that's where she needs to start.

She made a decision as she smirked.

She begins to jump off the rooftop and land on the ground. But of course, not without brandishing her portable scythe and managing to behead a couple of Walkers. If she's going to play the "good girl" this around, fine, but she's not going to be nice about it. To be fair, she was slaying the undead and not actual live people. They were dead anyway so somebody needed to take them out before becoming a nuisance.

"Ahah, there she goes again, off trying to do her own thing."

But aside from Magari Mizuki, there was somebody else on the rooftop who was watching both Night Baron and co, and Magari. It was a young woman who appeared to be between the age of sixteen and seventeen. She was very short in terms of height, about 147 cm (4'10"). She has long, blonde hair that falls below her waist and has twin tails styled on the side of her head. She was wearing a white short sleeve shirt, a yellow vest with a green ribbon, and a navy blue skirt, reminding one of the summer uniforms of Teitan High School, the same school that Shinichi Kudo (currently Conan Edogawa) goes to. There was also a pair of shades that she was using.

"Honestly, to think that I'd get to see you here, Shin-Shin," the young woman made a loving smile that was directed at Conan Edogawa who was seen from afar, putting her right hand to her face. "It seems that I was right to follow that twisted girl after all. Like my mama always said: "A woman's intuition is a frightening tool for dramatic flair and suspense.".

On the surface, she appears to be scatterbrained and playful to a fault, which includes giving nicknames to others. Her hobbies include fancy clothing, especially that of Gothic Lolita. Also, she is a major otaku and loves playing dating sim video games to the point where she regularly attends comikets and often puts things into dating sim terms. Because of her cute "moe" appearance and personality, she is quite popular in Teitan High, even scoring in the artificial popularity poll among the top ten. But of course, there are other sides to her character that only Shinichi Kudo knew.

She was the secret daughter of the world's most wanted gentleman thief, Arsène Lupin III, and a professional criminal, burglar, and confidence trickster, Fujiko Mine.

To give her a semblance of a normal kind of life, of course, her parents decided for her to live in Japan where she can experience the daily things that an average teenage girl would experience such as making friends and forming hobbies like your average teenage girl. But of course, just because she's normal doesn't mean that she isn't dangerous.

Like her parents before, she always had a knack for adventure, even finding it thrilling. Of course, she was sort of brought to this dimension against her will and she had been trying to make do with what the situation was, being a lot better off than most since she has her tools with her. Somewhere along the way, she spotted a familiar face, Magari Mizuki, who had managed to slice a couple of the zombies and head towards the rooftop.

Naturally curious as to what would Martuba's Tomb's best enforcer would be doing in this place, she decided to follow her. And lo and behold, she hit the jackpot by spotting Night Baron. And of course, she spotted the Doctor (a past face), Conan's other fellow companions (that she knew), Dhruv Varma (that she knew), Aiko Niwa (whom she is familiar with), and a couple of individuals that she didn't recognize.

Who is she?

Riko Mine Lupin IV.

Part-time high school student, part-time adventurer, and part-time thief.

"Not to worry though, my dear Detective Under the Moonlight, whereas I, Riko Mine Lupin IV, your best girl, have entered center stage just for you," she said with a smile as she took off her shades and put them back in her pockets, and then, she was raising her right hand that had the gesture of two open fingers likened to the edges of a scissor and made a cute face, blinking her right eye as her two fingers straight form a picture-perfect triangle missing one side, and her tongue sticking out. Overall, the living perfect definition of a moe character whose appearance is very deceiving.

I spy with my little eye.

One. Two. Three.

Aiko Niwa. Magari Mizuki. Riko Mine Lupin IV.

The three young women are considered to be a part of the unofficial and ever-expanding Kudo Girls, the James Bond archetype kind of girls for Shinichi Kudo - Conan Edogawa, otherwise known as Night Baron. Even The Dark Knight has hearts that were inspired by him.

How many Kudo Girls are out there?

Who can say?

But what is known is that there is already one main Kudo Girl in Shinichi Kudo's life at this time. But the other girls would of course have different responses and reasonings on the matter as they are all different in terms of character and personality. And like professional stage actors with each role to play, turn the stage into something a bit more mysterious for the audience to figure out for themselves.

Night Baron takes center stage but of course, it would not be complete without his girls.

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ED Song:

Hidan No Aria Opening FULL ~Scarlet Ballet~

New Characters:

Keiichi Morisato/Kamen Rider Gaim - VA: Masami Kikuchi

Belldandy - VA: Kikuko Inoue

Urd - VA: Yumi Touma

Skuld - VA: Aya Hisakawa

Riko Mine Lupin IV (DCMK Universe-Prime) - VA: Mariya Ise