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Tokyo

17/6/XXX9

Beika Town

Looks like yesterday's case made the headlines... A shot of me and Megure-keibu decorate the front page. Yesterday has been the case of the host who killed his wife, while faking, an already healed, broken leg. As I walk past a electronics shop, I see a news broadcast about the event, as we'll as a bunch of my fans hanging out, watching the program. I grin at the high of having fans and being famous, well, famous for a high school detective.

Suddenly I feel a hard impact on the back of my head.

"Look at you, acting like such a dork." Ran is standing up behind me, holding her karate stuff, which she just hit me with.

"What are you mad about, Ran?" I say, rubbing my head. Ow.

"Oh nothing..." She slips here karate things into her bag, dangerously calm.

"I'm not angry at all that it's your fault my father... Can't get any work!" She sticks her tongue out at me.

So her deadbeat dad's is still trying to be a detective...

"What? Your dad's still a detective?" He's just bad at his job, it's not my fault he can't get work... I voice my opinion to Ran who still seems stoic.

"I said I'm not mad about anything!" She attacks a telephone pole right next to my head, removing a huge chunk of it. I take a step back, hoping not to get caught in any follow up attacks. I guess that's the karate captain for you...

Suddenly a soccer ball intercepts us, and a bunch of kids yell at us to kick it back to them, which I do.

"You know... If you hadn't quit the soccer team, you'd be a national hero by now..."

"I only played soccer to develop necessary reflexes for a detective to have. You know... Holmes practiced fencing!" I thought that I'd take this opportunity to try to convince Ran to read the Sherlock Holmes novels.

"But that's a book."

"But everyone knows who he is! He's amazing, always cool and composed! Brimming with intelligence and refinement! His reasoning and observation skills are peerless! And on top of that he's a professional violinist! Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes! The world's greatest detective!"

I giggle to myself, hehe, Conan... That's right, Hakase invited Conan-kun over, he'll be here tomorrow, I think.

"What are you grinning about now Shinichi?"

I decided to keep it secret. Ran would probably love Conan-kun. I reach into my bag and pull out a stack of letters.

"Look Ran! Fan letters! Everyone loves a detective otaku!"

She looks at me with a deadpan look and sighs.

"Oh really...well, since your into this detective stuff, why don't you become a writer?"

A writer!? How boring. Just because my dad is into that stuff doesn't mean I am.

"I don't want to write about detectives, I want to be one! Just like Sherlock Holmes!"

I see the street I turn off and take a step in that direction.

"Well, see ya!" I wave, and start down the street when I hear:

"Hey wait!" I turn and see Ran run up to me.

"You didn't forget about your promise for tomorrow, did you?"

Promise? I try to remember if I made any promises, after coming up with nothing, I try to think of what I would promise Ran.

"Promise...?" I shake my head.

"Weren't you the one who said it!? You said that if I won the city tournament, you'd take me to the amusement park!"

Oh yeah. Before the tournament I'd said I'd take her if she'd win.

"Of course I remembered! Come on Ran, I was joking! Tropical Land tomorrow at 10 o'clock!"

She huffs and turns away from me.

"Don't forget that you're paying for all this."

She heads in the direction of her house, leaving me to sort what had happened through my head alone. Tropical Land. Tomorrow. 10 o'clock. Conan-kun was supposed to come tomorrow... Oh well. Agasa-Hakase can take care of it. When we're done at Tropical Land, we can to his place and I'll introduce them. I grin and start walking in the opposite direction.

I just hope nothing interrupts out schedule.

Tokyo

4:34pm 18/6/XXX9

Beika Town, Tropical Land.

"So you see... One of the amazing things about Holmes is, the first tome he met his partner, professor Watson, he could tell he was a military doctor from Afghanistan just from a handshake."

Yes, I knew I was rambling, but Ran really should read the Sherlock Holmes books! It's important.

"Just like this." I grab the hand of a lady waiting in the line next to us. I feel calluses on her hand, and I'd spotted a mark on her legs from using vertical bars, which was common for gymnasts.

"You're on a gymnastics team, right?"

She looks confused. And her friend asks her if she knows me and she shakes her head.

"She's got callouses on her hand!"

"Wouldn't you get callouses from playing tennis too?" Ran asks, confused.

I explain the rest of my deduction to Ran.

"Geez, so you already knew even before you shook her hand. You-"

"Hey! Don't you be trying to make a pass at my friend here!" A large man with a lady hanging off him shout me. They must be friends with the gymnastics woman.

4:40

I felt a splash of water on my cheek, as I look around to its source, but he roller coaster is moving too fast and it's too dark to see anything.

Suddenly there's a spray of warmth on the back of my head, and I hear everyone in the car start panicking.

We head towards the end of the short tunnel, and I turn around to see what was going on. My eyes widen as I see what's happened to the man in the seat behind me.

His head has flown off out of sight and a spray of hot crimson is erupting from the stump left behind. The other occupants of the car, including Ran, scream at the sight of it. I glance back at the tunnel, now too far away to see anything clearly.

Ran grabs my arm, her eyes scrunched shut. I can feel her trembling, I'm not that phased due to my job as a detective, I've seen similar things before, but I know it must be hard. I squeeze her arm in response, hoping to calm her down.

4:43

As the roller coaster car slows to a stop, and the safety guard released, I jump out. When people waiting in her line notice the beheaded body, they scream for an ambulance and the police.

Inspected Megure will probably be called in, so I don't have to worry about me or Ran being suspected.

A man in black, one of the two who had ridden with us, starts muttering. "Hmph... Unlucky bastard." He and his partner move to get away from the scene when something dawns on me.

"Wait!" I shout, hoping that it will stop the men from leaving. "This was not an accident! It's a murder!" The man turns back to me, face still covered by his hat. His friend mutter to each other before the taller sighs, crossing his arms. He turns to me, expectantly.

"And the killer,"I continue after the pause. "Rode on the coaster with the victim... One of us seven!"

I already had an idea of who the murder was, but I would need to have a better think before I told everyone. Especially since I had almost no evidence at this point.

"Shinichi..." I hear Ran murmur my name, but I need to concentrates so I squeeze her arm before refocusing on the scene.

The taller man in black looks unimpressed. "Psh. Bullshit. We're out of here!" He and his friend start to move away again when we're interrupted.

Sirens start loudly nearby and someone, who I recognised as the inspector, shouting for onlookers to move out of the way.

"Shit." The shorter man in black looks distressed at the sign of the police, even though I'm sure hat this point that hey are innocent of this particular crime.

"Move, move! This is the police!" Inspector Megure heads towards the gap in the crowns where the seven riders are standing.

The inspector seems to notice me and Ran as he enters the space. "Oh, Kudo-kun!"

"Ah, Inspector Megure." I reply. I was about to explain the situation when I hear one of the men in black exclaim, "What? Kudo?"

Does he know me? I've never seen him before, so it mustn't have been a case. He must've hear of my through the news, as most do.

The crowd, upon hearing my name, start shouting, one or two squealing in delight.

As much as in love the attention usually, I really need to concentrate on this case, especially with Ran here.

5:16

"Let me see if I have this right, Kudo-kun..." A rough diagram sat in front of us, illustrating the seating positions of everyone on the car.

"On this jet coaster itself, there are no signs of an accident or mechanical failure. From the circumstances, suicide is unlikely." Inspector Megure is staring intently at the drawing, clearly trying to come to some sort of conclusion from the given evidence. But he doesn't have all the evidence, and my conclusion is becoming more and more likely from what I see, now that everything has been set out.

"Correct, inspector, this is clearly a murder."

"If we exclude you and Ran-kun, we have 5 suspects. I'm the front, two of the victims friends. In the second row, there's you and Ran. Riding in the third row with the victim was the victims friend and lover. Finally, the two men in black rode behind them in row four."

The inspector glanced back at the group of suspects before continuing.

"However," he continues, "with everyone wearing safety guards and unable to move, the only on who could have killed him is the woman who was sitting next to him…" He tries to continue, but he gets interrupted by the men in black.

"Hey hurry it up!" The taller of the pair, whom i have dubbed 'Man 1' is staring down at us angrily.

"We don't have time for this bullshit detective game…"

"O-Oi…" Man 2 is eyeing everyone anxiously, especially the inspector and the police men.

I turn to face Man 1, hoping to calm him down before I present my deduction. As I look up, I can see under his hat and see his cold eyes. I immediately fell a shiver go down my spine, his eyes are cold as ice! I've seen serial killers with something similar, but this guys on a whole other level.

Who is he?

5:18

"Inspector! We found this in this woman's bag!" A police officer in charge of searching the suspects, presented us the bag belonging to the victims lover, who had been seated next to him on the ride.

"That's not mine!" The woman looks frantic, her eye's watering, "I don't know how it got there!"

I reach over and pull a bloodied knife, wrapped in cloth, out of the handbag. No, she's right. It's not hers, and couldn't have murdered that man.

"Aiko…" The gymnast and other friend have backed away from her, both on the verge of tears.

"How could you do such a thing? I thought you two said you were getting along well…"
Aiko, now full on crying starts screaming, "No! It wasn't me!"

"Okay so the bitch did it! Let us go now detective!" Man 1 and Man 2 start to leave, pushing past police officers.

"Right! Take her in as a suspect!" Inspector Megure starts ordering the officers around.

"That person is not the killer." Ran looks up at me, confused. I send her a quick smile before continuing.

"The killer is…" I pause for dramatic effect.

"You!"

5:26

I watch as the Inspector and officers escort the gymnast to their parked cars outside the fair ground. I saw an officer sealing a bloodstained, broken pearl necklace into a forensics bag. The lost pearls must have fallen off when our murderer use them to behead her ex-boyfriend on the jet coaster.

The sun was setting in the distance. It had taken ages to find the necklace and confirm my deduction as true. Especially after I had used the Inspector and officers to reenact the scene.

6:03

Ran had started crying after the police made the arrest, probably from relief or shock… I tried to stay silent as she privately calmed down.

"Hey c'mon don't cry." I try to cheer her up, it's been a messy day.

"How can you be so calm after that?"

I grin sheepishly.

"Oh, I've been around lots of crime scenes, so I see a lot of bodies in pieces…"
"Oh my god!" Ran starts bawling again.

"H-hey, just forget about it okay? I mean…" I try to find my words.

"This kind of thing happens a lot!"

"It does not!" Ran seems really upset, I brainstorm some ways to make it up to her. Suddenly, I notice Man 2 look around suspiciously before entering a back alley behind a shop.

I make a split-second decision and head the way Man 2 went.

"Sorry Ran! Go on ahead of me." Sorry Ran, but this could be really important.

"Shinichi…" I nearly hear her behind me as I sneak my way over.

5:30

"Sorry I made you wait… Mr CEO." Man 2 walks over to a bald fat man carrying a large briefcase.

"Look! I came by myself, just like you said!" He's sweating a lot, and is talking fast, reminding me of a cornered animal.

"I know you did." Man 2 moves closer to the CEO. "I checked to make sure from the top of that roller coaster."
That explains why they were riding the jet coaster, I had been confused about why those two were riding it. They didn't seem like 'fun' types.

"C'mon, gimmie the thing…" The CEO seems hesitant to name their exchange so I lean in closer to hear everything better.

"Don't be so impatient…The money comes first." Man 2 grins, clearly enjoying the CEOs struggles.

"Here! No problem right?!" The briefcase opens, revealing tightly packed wads of money, there had to be at least 100 million yen in there! I pull out a small camera from my pocket and take a few shots.

snap! snap!

"Right, the deal is complete." Man 2 grabs the briefcase after examining the contents.

"Now gimmie the film."
Film? Is he a smuggler or did he take a bribe or something…

"Here ya so! Film of your company's gun smuggling… You shouldn't be so naughty!"

snap! snap!

"Shut up! compared to the stuff you guys do…"

I see Man 2 start to pull a gun out of his jacket and I lean in, ready to jump in, when I hear something strange.

"Your detective game…"

I start to turn to the source, when I feel a sharp pain on the back of my head.

I collapse, immobile, but still conscious. I close my eyes, feigning unconsciousness.

"Should we kill him?"

"No guns, especially with those pigs around from before."

"Why do you think he tailed us? He's not… with them, is he."
"Not unless the FBI are telling teenagers classified information, then no."

"So, they public doesn't know about the Apoptoxin yet."
"Not yet…"
"Oi! You thugs!"
"Tch. Mr CEO need to learn to hold his tongue."

Thwack! Slap! Oof!

"What should we do now then?"
"How about the APTX 4869? Might as well, the public will know soon enough. What better way then through a demonstration?"
"Hmm"

The voices seem further away, so I take my chance.

"Hey!"

I jump up and start running, but the two men weren't as far away as I'd thought.

Man 2 tackled me from behind before I could get out front the building.

"Not so fast, brat."

10:00

I'm still surprised I got away from those guys especially after that intense chase and after passing out. Twice.

I was currently limping to the Professors. I could see the back entrance, just a few blocks away. My head was spinning, though, and my back and stomach ached. There was also a sharp pain in my left leg, I'd probably pulled something while running.

As I reached the gate, I heard a familiar voice.

"Go in and take your stuff while I park." It was the hakase.

As I reach the front through the yard, I spot a small figure at the door.

I grin as I watch him try and find the key to the front door.

"Yo, Conan-kun. Welcome to Japan."


1 Message 10:41pm

Oi, Shinichi. I don't know where you've run off to, but you'd better get back soon or I'll be real mad! If something big happened please just call or stop by to say. And I don't 'freak out'. Please reply soon Shinichi.

-Ran


Ok, so I got some questions that I'll answer or deal with now.

the PROLOGUE is 2 years before Chapter 1. It's just a back story and is just that. BACK. so like yeah.

Also I won't do every chapter, that a huge trek. I'm only doing story relevant ones. Also I'll jump for Conan POV to Shinichi POV to help move the story along. When ever Shinichi appears: YAY a Shinichi POV

If not the it'll just be Conan unless one of you guys wants a random Shinichi. :3 so yeah!

The dates will stop soon due to continuity stuff, but will be used to show time skips or flashbacks. THEY ARE SIMPLY A REFERENCE POINT TO SHOW TIME PASSING. OR IF THE DATE IS SPECIFIED IN THE MANGA.

Thanks to everyone who reviewed or fav'd I really appreciate it.

I'll try to update every Monday night(Australian time) but there may be delays. I'm a high school student Sooo ye.

See ya next time! ~Loz the Cheese Wizzard.

PS Say if you want me to use words like 'arigato' or '-keibu' or 'hakase' IDK what u prefer I've been trying to avoid them but YOU CAN DECIDE!
Ok bye for realz

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