"Impossible. Who exactly are you suggesting is the other shrunken 'me'." Conan asked.

"A-Arthur of course!" Ran answered.

"Well you did see Arthur and Shinichi-niichan at the same time, so they can't be the same person." Conan chuckled nervously.

"T-then maybe they aren't the same person. Maybe you stopped him from shrinking when you time travelled!" Ran countered.

"Then who would Arthur be if not my brother? You do know that Shinichi doesn't have a brother, right?" Conan asked.

"T-then maybe Arthur is the shrunken Sherlock of your timeline!" Ran countered.

"Yeah, but you can see more pain in Sherlock's eyes than Shinichi's, yet there is more pain in my eyes than Arthur's. Infact, at most times Arthur feels he is at the top of the world. Besides, if that were the case who is the guy right over there?" Conan pointed at Shinichi.

"M-maybe the Arthur-kun I saw today was actually one of your kid friends in disguise, like Sharon was in New York?" Ran guessed.

"If I was Shinichi-niichan then I wouldn't be putting random kids in danger, especially when I could've just had Heiji-niichan dress up as the supposed me." Conan countered.

"B-but Hattori-kun has an accent! He can't pretend to be you if he has an accent!" Ran guessed.

"Yeah, but none of my kid friends have the same voice as me, nor Arthur." Conan countered.

"W-what if you're speaking for both of you? Your voices are similar enough that it could work!"

"Have you ever tried having conversations with yourself? They sound forced and they're kind of easy to spot if you know what to look for." Conan answered.

"W-well, if Agasa-Hakase could invent a time machine I'm sure he could invent something to change your voice!" Ran, looking like she'd just won, answered.

"If you eliminate the impossible, whatever's left, however improbable, must be the truth." Conan quoted, "It seems improbable that Shinichi is Shinichi, Sherlock is Sherlock, and Arthur and I are Sherlock's brother, yes? However, you say that those are not true because I'm a time traveler, we both were shrunken into 7 year olds, and that the current Arthur is a fake, yes? However, at least two of those three are impossible, therefore, I'm not the future Shinichi, neither Arthur not I are shrunken, and Arthur is not a fake."

"I suppose there's no way that I could win in a deduction battle against you that easily, Shinichi. I'll let this slide for now, but I'll be back with definitive proof that you can't deny. And when I do I'll make you live to regret lying to me." Ran let out a sad sigh, that almost made him want to tell her everything, well, if it wasn't for the threat.

"I'm just glad she didn't bring what I thought she would up, now that was a big mistake…" Conan thought to himself.

At Shinichi and Ran's date...

"So, Shinichi, what did you want to talk about?" Ran asked, looking a bit irritated.

"Uhm, Ran, are you okay?" Shinichi asked, concerned and upset.

"O-oh, I'm sorry Shinichi, I just had an unpleasant conversation earlier…" Ran apologized.

"With who?" He asked, ready to beat up whoever did it.

"Edogawa-san." Ran muttered, crumpling the piece of paper in her hands into a ball.

"Edogawa-san was talking to you? W-wait, was he flirting?" His face lit up, red with anger.

"N-no! In fact, he was a bit rude and sarcastic." Ran answered.

Sighing in relief, Shinichi started trying to steer the conversation in another direction, but Ran wouldn't let him.

"So, why do you care so much about him flirting with me?" She asked, blinking innocently.

"Oh, ehrm, when he thought I had a crush on you he promised not to flirt with you." Shinichi dismissed it as nothing.

"Oh? Also, could you tell me a bit more about Edogawa-san, I'm curious?" Ran asked.

"B-but. I honestly don't know much about him myself." Shinichi admitted, then again tried to steer the conversation in another direction.

"Well, what DO you know about him?" Ran asked irritatedly.

"Everyone he knew besides Arthur-kun and Conan-kun are dead, I've caught on that most or all of them were murdered. I've also found that you are very similar to the person who was his love interest before she was murdered. Another weird thing is that he often calls me the greatest detective world wide, then proceeds to defeat me in a deduction competition. That's all I know, so how about we order dinner?" Irritatedly, Shinichi answered.

"Ahh… yes… gomen." Ran nodded, a frown on her face, then a few seconds later a commotion started.

"Ahh, you should go see what that's about." Ran suggested, causing Shinichi to bolt out of his seat.

When he went to the bathroom to revert...

"Conan-kun." He glared.

"Here's your clothing, Haibara went back to the professor's and is now removing her makeup." Conan told his past-self, then asked, "What's wrong?"

Snatching the clothing from Conan, he answered, "I heard Ran had a conversation with Edogawa."

"Ahh, I didn't expect that she'd tell people, especially as she talked to him as me and it wasn't really a conversation, more of she accusing me of ridiculous things and me countering them." Conan muttered.

"Ridiculous things? So it wasn't that you shrunk?" Shinichi asked, not so irritated anymore, but curious.

"Huh? O-oh, yeah, yeah, that I shrunk. Heheheh." Conan rubbed the back of his head nervously.

"Hmm?" Shinichi sounded, but quickly stopped poking around as he collapsed and shrunk.

Conan and Arthur informing Ran of Shinichi leaving

"Ran-neechan, Shinichi-niichan had to go early, but he wanted to tell you to wait for him!" Arthur informed.

"Oh, thank you for telling me Arthur-kun!" Ran gave Arthur a painful smile that transformed into a small, concerned, frown when she looked at Conan, "M-make sh-sh-sure to tell him that I will!" She stuttered and began to sob uncontrollably, apologizing to Conan for accusing him of 'those awful things' and sobbing over Shinichi leaving her again, along with a couple other things.

The twosome of childified teenagers began to comfort Ran, and after a few minutes of successfully doing so, they lead her out to the car that Kogoro

Sorry for the long wait between the last chapter and this one, but I'll start working on the next one right away. Also, I'll probably redo this chapter later on, though not changing the plot or storyline of it.

Challenge: Find all the mistakes Conan made around Ran and post them in the comment section below.

Anyone who succeeds will get a shoutout at the beginning of Chapter 4

Next Chapter

The Battle Game Trap

The Mysterious Passenger

The Man from Chicago

English Teacher vs Great Western Detective

How will Edogawa Conan react to the FBI?

How will Conan react towards Vermouth on the bus?

Will Arthur, Haibara, and Hattori get suspicious over him realizing that they're the FBI?