Chapter 8
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Thought / Dream / Event from the past
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※Notification / Unread Mail/Report※
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And You Calls Yourself Sherlock Holmes's Fan?!
(Or The Fool Who Summons the Naito Shin Nisei's Wrath)
"Well, I don't care whether you know or not though, so I don't believe I have to enlighten you." The Detective continued, still talking tonelessly. "What matter here is you give me your words that you will never antagonize Kid anymore, nor his civilian self for that matter." His toneless voice finally changed as he hissed at her while raising a hand, a ball of flame above his palm burning brightly in the darkness of the night - it was a trick, she knew it in her heart, but her mind believing that it wasn't a trick at all. "Do I have your words, Witch?" Naito Shin asked softly to her, but a threat could be heard clearly in the air.
Akako whimpered there, an image of her being burned alive like what had happened during the Witch Hunt filled her head. Tears tried to fill her eyes, but she held back valiantly, blinking to stop the sensation. She couldn't cry. A Witch would lose her power should she cry, so she couldn't shed her tears - she wouldn't.
"Well?" Naito Shin demanded impatiently, though never once did he raise his voice.
"Y- yes!" Akako forced herself to speak, "I give you my words, I will never antagonize Kid or yourself anymore, nor do I will antagonize Kid's civilian self".
"Good." Naito Shin said in satisfaction as he let the ball of fire drop from his palm, hitting the ground, only for the fire suddenly rose so high like a wall of fire straight out from hell.
"AAAHHH!" Akako screamed as she sat up on her bed.
She was breathing in short pants, her body wet with sweat, before breathing out in relief when she realized that she was on her bed and in her own room. Only a nightmare. She thought to herself once she wake up fully, but it was more of a memory of the past than a real nightmare.
It has been a long time since that night, so she didn't know why she saw the memory of her first encounter with the Naito Shin - in Night Baron Mode at that - in her dream now.
She looked at the clock on her wall and saw that it was around midnight, but instead of going to sleep again, she got off of her bed and headed for her Bathroom. She took a warm shower, before dressing herself in the clothes she normally wore whenever she summoned Lucifer, and then proceeded to do just that.
Summoning Lucifer, that was.
"What question do you have now, Red Sorceress?" Lucifer asked without preamble.
"I have learned my lesson, so who is the Fool who would summon the Wrath of the Naito Shin now?" Akako asked right away, "Why? And when?".
She thought that that was the only reason - someone would do something foolish that would summon Naito Shin's Wrath, for why else would she dreamed of the night she was faced with it?
"During a gathering of common interest, lives are taken by the pettiness of one among the gatherers." Lucifer answered her, "Relay this to Daitengu: A Fellow from the West will come into a realization, and will grow into a suitable Youkai".
With that, Lucifer was gone, again without being dismissed - it seemed to be the trend whenever Akako asked him something concerning Kudou Shinichi.
Sighing, Akako returned to her Bedroom and picked up her phone.
************** (Shadow Hunters)
****** (Seiryu)
****** (HVRIBF)
Double Enter.
She felt bad about ruining Kudou's mood about this gathering of common interest - whatever it was about, but he would prefer his good mood ruined than not being forewarned about someone's incoming death, because then he would have a chance to prevent it, however slim that chance was.
Before she could send the warning though, she had to familiarize herself with this Spy App first since she never used it before, especially because her mobile phone was only bought a few days ago. She finally bought one, mostly because Kuroba had been nagging her due to her being hard to reach - especially in an urgent situation, but the final straw was a Direct Order from Daitengu to 'just use a mobile phone already'.
She feared Daitengu's Wrath, after all.
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"What do you want to do, Conan-kun?" Ran asked him after Kogoro - who was again coming with them simply because they needed a chaperone, not that they actually needed as in really needed, but in the sense that they needed a chaperone to keep up their appearance of being normal teenager and kid - announcing that he was going to sleep.
"I will stay a bit longer." Conan answered with a smile, before he felt his Daitengu phone vibrated twice - a sign of a Report coming in, wondering who sent a Report so late at night and what it was about, he opened his Spy App to read it.
Sender : Seiryu
Subject : Divination
I had a Nightmare about that night, so I asked Lucifer who would summon Daitengu's wrath. His answer is:
During a gathering of common interest, lives are taken by the pettiness of one among the gatherers.
He also told me to relay something to you, Daitengu:
A Fellow from the West will come into a realization, and will grow into a suitable Youkai.
Reply
Well, doesn't this give me an idea of where Hiroyuki Kanaya is? Conan thought in annoyance, already believing that something would happen to make him wore his Night Baron Mask by the end of this case - for surely this gathering had become a case now, and what was worse was the implication that more than Kanaya would be dead if he didn't act soon.
They were at the gathering of Sherlock Holmes fans, in which Hiroyuki Kanaya - who was the person held the gathering - would give the first edition of A Study in Scarlet to the winner of the Game. Not that Conan really wanted it, since he already had a full set of the First Edition back at the Black Manor, but he just wanted to prove that he was really a Sherlock Holmes's fan by winning the Game.
Unfortunately, Kanaya had gone out and hadn't come back yet, and because of Seiryu's Report, he knew the man would never come back alive - the man had gone for hours after all, it would be a miracle if he was still alive by now.
He sighed in disappointment, and beside him, Ran - who had read the Report as well from above his shoulder, since 'Report' only went to Daitengu's Account unless Daitengu was the one giving the Report - echoed him.
"What's wrong?" Hattori asked curiously from his seat near them.
Oh, right. Conan thought as he stared at the Detective from Osaka. Hattori was from the West, since he did has the title of Meitantei of the West. He wondered what the Osakan would realize once this was over, and he made a mental note to observe the boy more. If he did show the sign that he would make a good Shadow Hunter - or Youkai as Lucifer called the Agents of their Organization, then he would recruit the Osakan Detective.
"Should we?" Ran whispered to him, and it was clear that she was asking whether to tell Hattori about Akako's ability to sometime See the future.
"Later." Conan whispered back, "We will see what he would realize first".
"Oi." Hattori said in annoyance, "You're talking about me, I just know it, so might as well you talk directly to me".
"Oh, it's nothing bad, Hattori-kun." Ran smiled at him, "We're just wondering if we should indulge your curiosity about our problem".
Hattori blinked at that. "Oh, if it's personal then you don't have to tell me, not unless you want to." He told them with a sheepish smile, "I don't want to intrude, after all".
"Then, we're sorry, but not yet." Conan replied to him, before replying Seiryu's Report.
Thank you, but unfortunately, I have a feeling that the first murder had happened. Still, hopefully Aosaginohi and I could prevent the rest.
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He typed Kaito's Codename there, then typed his message…
Bakeneko, I need you to run a background check for these people:
Ikuo Kawatsu (Education Teacher)
Toshiaki Fujisawa (Train Station Employee)
Nanako Shimizu (Librarian)
Hitomi Iwai (Vacation Home Worker)
Maria Toda (Medium)
Kento Togano (Student President of 'Analysis and Mysteries' Club)
Ayako Oki (Member of 'Analysis and Mysteries' Club)
Hiroyuki Kanaya (Mycroft's Homeowner)
Hiroyuki Kanaya most likely is dead now, so I want you to find anything about him that could make a Sherlock Holmes fan want to kill him.
Even if you think it's unimportant, still tell me about it. Most of the times, what people chalk as useless trivia end up being the key.
Seemed like Kaito was still awake, because he replied immediately.
Bakeneko : Ryoukai (Understood / Roger)
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Unfortunately, even the Kaitou Kid - who often checked people's background so that he could disguise as them almost perfectly - took some time to check that many people's background, and during that time two people had died. The first being Kanaya - whose death somehow managed to look like suicide, and the second being Ayako - whose death managed to confuse even Conan about whether it was suicide or murder. Aside from that, an attempted murder had happened, in which Hattori and Conan managed to prevent.
At least, Bakeneko's Report - with an attached file containing the background information - told him the final key for this case, and what he now knew made him mad enough to wear his Night Baron Mask indeed.
"Enough." Conan said firmly as soon as he finished reading the Report, which happened to be just after Kogoro said that the Owner was the one who did it and escaped outside.
"Huh?" Kogoro and the others - aside from Hattori and Ran - looked at him in surprise.
"I said enough." Conan repeated as he looked down, closing the App and the phone, before pocketing it. This action made the light reflected from his glasses, hiding his furious eyes from everyone in there. "Hattori and I have been saying from the start that the Owner is dead, Oji-san, so if you keep saying that the Owner is still alive and he's the one who did everything, then you will lead us astray from the truth." He said as he finally looked up, before glaring at the culprit - who was standing behind Kogoro, so Kogoro felt like he was the one being glared at.
"Oh?" Kogoro glared back at him, "Are you saying that you know who is the culprit, brat?".
"I am." Conan declared firmly.
Huh?! Faster than me?! Hattori looked at the 'boy' in shock.
"Che, you're probably just provoking us, like that Ayako woman earlier." Kogoro said mockingly to him.
"Otou-san." Ran said in warning, "You're the one doing the provoking here." She glared when he was about to retort, "Just stay quiet and listen to Conan-kun, please. He's angry enough as he is, I don't want you to anger him further".
"Thank you." Conan said to her with a nod of his head, before back to glaring at the culprit, "The one responsible for all three attacks…" He then pointed at the culprit, "… is you, Togano!".
Everyone looked at Togano, causing him began to sweat. "Wait a moment, kid!" He protested, "I was with you both when the Owner's car started to move and when Ayako died!".
This, of course, led to Conan starting his Deduction Show and told everyone what was most likely happened, and how his Alibi was only a mere trick.
Togano laughed then. "This is what happens when a kid is playing Detective!" He said confidently, "You can say what you want, but you don't have any proof!".
"Hooo?" Conan's eyebrow twitched as his anger increased, "Have you forgotten that Ayako-san found something in your room yesterday?".
"Hah, as if what she found matters." Togano retorted, "I'm sure that whatever she found, she didn't tell anyone about it".
With a smirk, Conan began asking him the first and second questions in the previous day's exam about Sherlock Holmes, before trapping Togano by changing the question about the Dancing Figures. He was trapped then, and Conan provided the proof being Togano's blank exam sheets.
Not only that, but Conan also revealed that his motive was because of the book that the Owner wrote with Fujisawa's help, 'The Mockery of Irene Adler'.
"Pfft, it's the opposite." Togano corrected in a helpless way, when Ikuo guessed he did it because he considered the Owner and Fujisawa were laughing at Holmes. "Irene was the only woman Sherlock admired, I can't believe she laughed at Holmes." Then his eyes tearing up, "But I couldn't forgive them, because they gave such a negative version of the facts! Laughing at the Holmes's studies in Japan. They couldn't... They couldn't... " His words were unfinished as he cried then.
If everyone thought that everything was over now, they were sorely mistaken. Because right at that very moment, Conan's glare darkened and an ominous aura flowing out of him in rivers. Three people noticed this and stepped away from him, two of them being Ran and Hattori, with the last being Maria Toda, surprisingly - or maybe not since she was a Medium.
"You can't forgive them?" Conan growled out furiously, "Ha! Don't make me laugh".
"W- What?" Togano asked in confusion.
Kogoro opened his mouth, probably to make a stupid comment, but Ran covered his mouth with one hand while making a shushing motion to everyone else.
"You killed the Owner and tried to kill Fujisawa-san because they gave a negative version of the facts? You can't forgive them because of it?" Conan continued to growl as he slowly walked over to the kneeling man, "Well, I can't forgive you! Committing such a grave crime for such a petty reason".
"Petty?!" Togano cried out indignantly, "You don't understand, boy-".
"No. You are the one who don't understand anything here." Conan cut in softly but furiously, shocking the man to silence. "Tell me, Togano, just who is Sherlock Holmes?" He asked slowly.
"A Detective…" Togano answered quietly.
"And what does it means to be a Detective?" Conan asked again, glaring down at the man with so much fury that Togano was rendered speechless. "A Detective…" Conan answered for the man when he kept silent, "... is someone whose job is to discover information about crimes and find out who is responsible for them, often working with the Polices in order to protect the citizens." Here Conan's eyes narrowed. "But what did you do, hm?" He asked the stunned man, but didn't receive an answer, "I ask, WHAT DID YOU DO?!" He slammed a walking cane - not Shin Nisei's Night Baron Cane though - that he pulled out from who knows where to the floor, the noise and his shout made everyone jumped in surprise. "Answer me, Togano." He hissed furiously.
"I- I ki- killed…" The man stuttered, feeling scared, despite the fact that he was speaking to a boy - but he felt like he was the one who was a little kid then.
"You killed." Conan spat the word out venomously, "You killed, and you calls yourself Sherlock Holmes's fan?!" He slammed his cane furiously again, making the man flinched and slowly crawling backwards in fear, but Conan didn't let him for he took a step for every feet the man had crawled. "You dares to call yourself His fan, and yet you do the very thing that He gave his whole being to fight against." Conan's voice then become so cold it froze Hell over. "Don't make me laugh." He repeated as he tightened his hold on his cane, "You - who calls yourself a fan of Sherlock Holmes - have stomped on the very core, the very essence of who Sherlock Holmes was." He turned around and began to walk out of the room, but not before saying one last thing to the man, "You are the one who is laughing at Sherlock Holmes and mocks Him".
The room was filled with silence after Conan's departure, with everyone staring at the door that Conan had just walked out through, and Togano knelt down in stunned silence - his eyes were wide and unseeing, tears still flowing down from his eyes, and shocked to his very core by the final words uttered by the mouth of what appeared to be a young child.
Unknown to them though, Hattori Heiji - who had been silently observing Conan ever since the boy said 'Enough' and getting double vision through the entirety of Conan's Deduction Show - soundlessly exited the room through the broken window.
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"It's been along time since I saw you that furious, Kudou."
The quietly spoken words told him of Hattori's presence, but Shinichi - who had long since dropping l his Conan mask, too furious to maintain his disguise - didn't turn around from his position of standing on the rooftop of the building and staring into the distance, nor did he gave any acknowledgment to Hattori's presence.
Hattori was silent for a whole minute, waiting for his response, but Shinichi didn't even react to the statement. Snorting, Hattori put his hands into his pants pockets. "What?" He spoke up again, "Not even going to deny it?".
Shinichi exhaled softly and closed his eyes. "And what - exactly - makes you believe that I am him?" He finally responded quietly, before returning to stare at the far away place in front of him.
"What, indeed." Hattori replied in agreement. "I could say that there's no way that a little kid could solve such a complicate murder case faster than me…" He began to say as he approached the other, one slow step followed by the next, "... but Naito Shin have proven that there is, in fact, a way for such thing to happen - years ago. I could say that you looks exactly like him, but there is Kuroba, who also looks like Kudou - just with a different hairstyle. I could also say that your mannerisms are the same as him, but that would be a lie, wouldn't it?".
He stopped right beside the one he believed to be Shinichi, also staring at the distance. "From what I have seen so far, Edogawa Conan acts and reacts differently from Kudou Shinichi, except from the few shared interest - like in Sherlock Holmes, being a Detective, Soccer, Magic, and the love for the thing called Coffee." Hattori sighed then. "If I am an outsider looking at you, I won't even think for a second that you could be him." He admitted with a wry smile.
"But I have known you for years, regardless of the fact that we have rarely seen each other throughout the said years." He continued softly, "While it's not logical for a Detective like us, I can feel it in the depth of my heart, that you and him are one and the same. Besides…" He then continued in a lighter tone, a humorous smirk on his face, "That kind of Fury that might as well could freeze Hell over, you are the only one whom I know could pull it off so perfectly - like a Demon coming straight out from Hell".
A twitch of lips was the first reaction that Shinichi made - seemingly without his permission, then a snort escaped from his nose, a chuckle, and then finally a full blown laughter came out from his being. Hattori grinned, before laughing alongside him, amused by his own reasoning.
"Honestly, Hattori…" Shinichi finally spoke up, "You really are one of a kind." Which was as good as an admission that he, indeed, was actually Shinichi.
They were silent after that, simply enjoying the comfortable silence, before Hattori decided to break it.
"So?" Hattori inquired curiously, "What have you got yourself into this time?".
"You speak as if I always got in trouble." Shinichi scowled at him.
"You are a trouble magnet." Hattori replied cheekily.
"Like you're one to talk." Shinichi muttered with a derisive snort, "You got into just as much trouble as me".
"Touche." Hattori said in agreement, before smirking teasingly again, "Not to your magnitude though".
Shinichi glared at him, "Do you want to hear it or not?" He demanded petulantly.
Hattori chuckled again and raised his hands in surrender. "Okay, okay. I'll be quiet." He promised at last.
So, Shinichi gestured for Hattori to kneel down, and he whispered everything to his friend and fellow Detective - well, almost everything, since he didn't tell the other the truth about Kid and Vermouth.
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With Morning came the Polices and their ride to home. As usual, Conan and Ran had had their paperwork written, so they only need to give their verbal answers to the Polices. Unfortunately, they still had to wait for Kogoro and Hattori to finish writing their own paperwork at the station. Ran was waiting for Kogoro so they could walk home together, while Conan was waiting for Hattori so he could see the other off at the train station.
"Matte, Hattori." Shinichi - because it was Shinichi who was speaking then - halted him just before he entered the train, causing the Osakan to look questioningly at Shinichi. In answer, Shinichi held out a folded paper, which Hattori accepted with a curious look on his face. "Memorize it." He ordered shortly, "Once you do, burn it to ash. Don't let anyone see it, and never tell anyone about it either".
Hattori blinked at the instruction. "What is this about?" He couldn't help but asked.
Shinichi smirked at that. "You will know later." He said mysteriously, "I'm sure you can figure it out yourself anyway".
With that, Shinichi wore his Conan mask again, and then turning around to leave - leaving a confused Hattori behind to look at his retreating back, before the Osakan had to hurry and entered the train, or else he would be left by the train.
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