Chapter 15: Solution

By the time Conan and Ran came back from the excurse to validate Conan's theory, the teenage girl has decided that blue would be the way to go, because it did suit Conan's eyes better. And now, after she had finished this important train of thoughts, she notice the puzzled expression Conan wore, which indicated that he didn't find the needed evidence to determine the culprit. She was tempted to cheer him up, but before she could open her mouth the boy spoke up, "It makes no sense."

A little bit puzzled over the sudden statement, Ran asked, "What makes no sense?", hoping that, much like Shinichi, Conan would better structure his thoughts and theories when he had to explain them to somebody else, who wasn't an ingenious high school detective.

"This case!" Conan spate out, frustration clearly hearable, "It is like the thief walked through a wall or teleported himself."

"Well, maybe there is a secret passage somewhere in the house", Ran offered and Conan had to grin a little over her fantastic suggestion, which she always brought up when he asked her about her opinion on a case.

"Why should the Suzuki family build a secret passage?" Conan asked turning his head to face his big sister, "and even if they did, how could our intruder know about it, if Sonoko-neechan either didn't know herself or thought it not important enough to show or tell you?"

Ran had to admit that the point Conan made was an excellent one and Sonoko would definitely boast over any sort of secret passage she knew, especially if she owned the building featuring it.

"Well… " Ran tried again, scratching her head slightly, "then maybe the culprit can shrink himself"

"There is no way that humans can just shri…" Conan started but cut himself of, avoiding this topic to not plant any strange ideas in Ran's mind. "She really is better of not knowing" the detective thought to himself, "or else she wouldn't be able to smile like that.", he added sadly, recalling her grin from earlier, still not quite understanding the cause of it.

"Well, maybe Kaito Kid stole the chocolate since he could obviously pull that crime off without leaving evidence." Ran started to spin her fancies even further, seemingly not noticing how Conan interrupted his sentence," maybe he needed practice."

"Why should he need practice in stealing chocolate from a child?!" Conan questioned mentally, thinking that it would be more likely to find chocolate where Kid had broken in, but the mentioning of Kaito Kid brought up an idea.

"Maybe… But, no… but if,… then… IT COULD WORK AGAIN!" the small boy suddenly ejaculated, startling Ran slightly and dashed off to the house while shouting instructions back at Ran, "Gather everyone in ten minutes in the girls room."

Ran, still standing at the exact same spot, was a bit puzzled as to what could work again, "Is he trying to recreate the crime? But then why does he need 10 minutes to recreate it? Maybe he needs to find something first, or somebody.", then, the rusty detective reasoning Ran had inherited from her parent's and sharped by observing Shinichi, kicked in and she started to think back, search for clues in what Conan said and ultimately produced her own theory. "Maybe it really was Kaito Kid who stole it, but not because he needed practice, but stole it unintentionally instead." She muttered while slowly trudging back to the house, "Sonoko told me that they would display a large Ruby here the next month and Jirokichi already hinted at this in an interview, Kid would probably be able to understand the hint and had come to check out the place while nobody is there. If that is really the case, then maybe one of his doves stole it, when it spotted the chocolate through the open window and Kid simply didn't notice that." But at that thought Ran paled, if this was true then Conan sought out Kid in order to discuss the matter with him, but before she stormed off to protect her little brother with her life, she remember not just the no harm policy of Kid, but the strange sort of pact Conan and Kid had agreed on and which prohibited both from doing anything to each other outside of the heists. Even though, the thought of small Conan meeting an internationally wanted criminal on his own made her feel uncomfortable, she shoved the thoughts aside when she rounded the corner and caught sight of the other six people, smiling when she noticed that the 3 kids have made up with each other. "They really trust each other a lot," she muttered to herself, thinking back at her own time in grade school, "much like Shinichi and I did and still do."

"Oh Ran-neechan" Ayumi's tiny voice piped up after she spotted the older girl and Ran made her way over to them, telling them about Conan's instructions. Obviously the three wanted to chase after their friend and help him find that idiot who stole Ayumi's precious chocolate but Ran and Hakase manage to convince them to wait for Conan in the house and so the group, lead by the 3 restless children, went to the girl's room.

When they opened the door however, they only found Conan sitting in front of the slightly opened window, waiting for something, but when they wanted to ask him what that was, he silence them with a rough gesture and motioned them to sit down and be quiet.

Not wanting to ruin the strange plan of the small detective the rest of the group did as he ordered and sat down, waiting for something to happen.


As always all right go to Gosho Aoyama, the original creator of the Detective Conan Universe.

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Yes, I drew the picture myself.

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