Detective Conan x OOO: Hunt For The Mystical Medals
In the last chapter, Hiroshi Agase and Shihi Miyano (aka Ai Haibara) makes an appearance and now they're officially on board as they play support to Shinichi (currently possessed by Ankh) and Kyuji as she gives the Greed her promise to help him find his Core Medals and give him access to Agase's gadgets so that she can keep an eye on Shinichi's body while placing her faith in Kyuji knowing he'll protect the detective's body.
Now we're in a new arc wherein I'll be putting some detective and mystery elements since this is a Detective Conan fic. This time I'll be using a plotline involving another anime based on the murder mystery dōjin soft sound novel, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni. Of course there'll be plenty of action there while the Greed will be showing up as well making trouble while giving our heroes plenty of problems to encounter.
This story arc is inspired from the Higurashi no Naku Koro ni fics writtened by another fanfic writer, Kamen Rider Chrome, so I decided to borrow some elements from the series based on the visual novel and anime, though this arc will be based on the anime itself.
Don't worry…the Black Organization will show up again once this arc is over…
Disclaimer:
Detective Conan is owned by Gosho Aoyama
Kamen Rider OOO is owned by Ishimori Productions
In the previous story arc, three things have happened...
O - Ankh came close to killing Ran Mori but spared her under Kyuji's pleading and that he sensed Kazari's presence, so he left to find his fellow Greed. He loses track of him and he and Kyuji are approached by Shintaro Gotoh of the Kougami Foundation, offering them how to use the Ride Vendor to make use of the Candroids.
O - After a brief confrontation and told how humans have evoilved in the last 800 years, Ankh is revealed to have the ability to scan the mind of Shinichi Kudo besides controlling his body. Learning that Shinichi has access to the tools of today's era, he sneaked inside Hiroshi Agase's laboratory and began to find the gadgets he need to learn more about humanity, which led himand Kyuji to meet with Agase and Ai Haibara.
O - After learning of Shinichis current predicament, as well as to keep an eye on Shinichi, Agase and Ai came to a compromise with Ankh, which they allowed him to control Shinichi's body and to help find his core medals provided that he look after Kudo's body. Then Ai get to witness O's in acxtion and seeing how the Core Medals work, and how Cell Medals are made following a battle with the Kaikoga Yummy.
A few days later, the scene shifts to four areas of Tokyo where four individuals are roaming around, glancing at their surroundings while moving rather suspiciously as if they are studying the people passing by them, and they seem to be studying everyone's activities which seem to both entertain them and giving them insight on today's society.
At the East portion of Tokyo, a silver-haired young man, appeared to be aged 20, is walking gingerly and is dressed in black jeans, a white shirt, an opened yellow polo shirt and a cap. He seemed to be looking around the people passing by him and he is rather smiling.
At the West portion, a young man, who appeared to resemble a 23-year old, wears a green leather jacket and is also walking among the crowd, though he appeared to be in a rather foul mood yet he restrained himself as he left to head to a certain meeting place.
At the South portion, a young man resembling a 19-year old, who wears a grey mesh shirt over a black undershirt, is walking as well, though he seem to act childish yet it didn't attract attention from others as he proceeded to head towards a certain meeting place.
At the north portion, A high school girl is at a restaurant, sitting on a chair as she is watching a woman who appeared to be a nurse as she is typing something on her laptop and then she left to head towards the bathroom, where the girl took the opportunity to peek at the laptop's contents which she smirked as she saw something interesting and thoughts run in her head.
"Hmm…Himazawa Village…located in the northwest part of Ōno District, Gifu Prefecture…best known for being the site of Shirakawa-gō, a small, traditional village showcasing a style of buildings called gasshō-zukuri…the annual Watanagashi Festival, a celebration to commemorate and give thanks to the local god, Oyashiro…every year for the past four years, one person has been murdered and another has gone missing on the day of the Watanagashi Festival…Hinamizawa Syndrome…this is interesting…and an interesting way to take advantage of your desire…"
The high school girl then saw her bag opened and with no one around a the moment, she changed into several Cell medals and hid inside there before the woman returned to save her files and shuts down the laptop to take her belongings and left the restaurant. Because she was on a hurry, she did not take the time to notice her bag getting a little heavy due to the Cell Medals occupying the bag's space.
Anything Goes by Maki Oghuro
(Opening Song from Kamen Rider OOO)
(You count the medals 1,2 and 3
Life goes on Anything goes Coming up OOO)
ira nai mota nai yume mo mi nai
furii na joutai sore mo ii kedo
(kokkara hajimaru The show we're waiting for
Count the medals 1, 2 and 3 )
unmei wa kimi hanattoka nai
kekkyoku wa susumu shika nai
(michi naru tenkai Give me energy Count the medals 1, 2 and 3)
daijoubu. ashita wa itsu datte hakushi (Blank)
jibun no kachi wa jibun de kimeru mono sa
OOO! OOO! OOO! OOO! Come on!
Anything Goes! sono kokoro ga atsuku naru mono
mitasa reru mono o sagashi te
Life goes on! honki dashi te tatakau no nara
makeru ki shi nai hazu!
Now then, readers...count the Medals! the current Medals that O's have are:
- Taka Medal (hawk)
- Tora Medal (tiger)
- Batta Medal (grasshopper)
- Kamakiri Medal (mantis)
11: Higurashi no Naku Koro ni, Mura wa, dōki part 1
Inside an abandoned bar, three of the four persons who roamed the streets of Tokyo arrived, save for the high school girl who changed into Cell Medals and hitched a ride on the woman's bag. The three men then meet up, though they sat at separate places and they started to conversation and are wondering what to do next. The man with the yellow polo shirt and cap then glances at the other two at seeing their appearances.
Man with yellow polo and cap: "That's good…those forms suit you well."
Man with green leather jacket: "It's not good…but it's better than nothing…better than the humans making a fuss over us since we fought them at the tunnel a few days ago. At least they won't pester us for now and we can move whenever we want."
Man with yellow polo and cap: "That's right…it makes it easier for us to move around with minimal trouble…."
The man with the yellow polo and shirt then glowed into Cell Medals and revealed his appearance of a feline-like entity. He turn out to be Kazari, and then he told the others what he feels.
Kazari: "As much as I hate to admit…but what we saw just now…it shows that humans have indeed evolved…and look what humanity is like today…if humans do change…so should we."
The man in the green leather jacket followed suit, his body glowing and changing his appearance and revealed his true form – who turn out to be Uva, the insectoid Greed, and the young man with the grey mesh shirt over a black undershirt also followed, revealing his true form of Gameru – the heavy animal Greed.
Gameru: "Wait…where's Mezuru…where is she? She isn't back yet…why is that…?"
Kazari: "Maybe she is still strolling outside…studying the humans..their culture..their way of lives…"
Uva: "Looks like it…and maybe she has found a human with the right desire to conceive a Yummy…"
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Somewhere within Central Japan,at a restaurant in the Chibu Region, the woman arrived and sat down to order snacks and delve into her laptop again to study the Hinamizawa Syndrome and after eating them she went to the bathroom to do some toilet duty and then the Cell Medals levitated out of the woman's bag and solidifies into the high school girl and she again peeks at the laptop and saw the subject about the Hinamizawa Syndrome.
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The Hinamizawa Syndrome (雛見沢症候群, Hinamizawa Shōkōgun) is a psychological disease found in Hinamizawa. It can cause anxiety and paranoia which can force the person to commit strange and violent acts, including suicide. The symptoms of this disease are an amalgamation of real symptoms, including clawing out one's throat, which is a real symptom called formication.
Dr. Takano's Report regarding on Hinamizawa Syndrome
According to the report, Dr. Takano had already discovered the existence of Hinamizawa Syndrome about 20 years prior to the story. He wrote a report regarding the town and its disease plaguing its residents and called it Hinamizawa Syndrome. His goal was to make the disease public, with an eye securing funds for its treatment and increasing the awareness of the general public. However, the higher officials didn't accept his report on the matter; to do so would mean accepting the blame of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident themselves. After Dr. Takano's death, his adopted granddaughter Takano Miyo decided to take over the research on Hinamizawa Syndrome, and received a great deal of funds from a mysterious woman named Nomura, representative of a underground organization called "Tokyo". It's implied through the some parts of the series that the disease may be related to some sort of parasitic organisms that live in the Hinamizawa residents.
Levels and rankings in Hinamizawa Syndrome
According to Dr. Takano's research, Hinamizawa Syndrome has five different stages, ranging from LV1 (weakest) to LV5 (strongest).
Level One and Two (LV 1 and 2)
Weakest levels; almost all villagers and residents of Hinamizawa are infected, although they are at the lower stages of either LV1 or LV2. The syndrome does not cause apparent changes until its later stages. This indicates that the entire village is highly unstable and will easily grow hostile from any stress or anxiety, such as the dam project. Some more than others, are susceptible to simple paranoia and stress, which has been shown to activate the Syndrome.
Level Three
Beginning at LV3, the mental condition of the patient will start to deteriorate and they become mentally and emotionally unstable.
Level Four
Paranoia and hallucinations start to appear surrounding the onset of LV4.
Level Five
Strongest level; this is when people began to hear 'Oyashiro-sama's footsteps', and patients are known to start clawing at their own flesh. In some cases, there is a previous psychological motive that serves as a catalyst for the scratching. For example, a female patient hallucinated that her neck was infested by maggots because of a previous incident regarding her belief that her blood from her mother consisted of maggots. This is an example of extreme formication.
"Formication" is when a person suffers from the sensation that insects are crawling under their skin and scratches intensively to either remove the imaginary parasite or to simply end the pain. It is a real symptom to certain sexually-transmitted diseases such as syphilis and herpes. Skin diseases can cause this form of extreme irritation to the skin. Formication occurs in real life due to excessive use of amphetamines.
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"My, my…what a knowledge I came across to…and I think this will be the perfect way to jumpstart things…perhaps I should head to this village to test out the humans' desires…I hope my Yummy that I spawned won't catch this mysterious disease…"
The high school girl then disperses herself into several Cell Medals and hid inside the bag before the woman came and packed her things as she is leaving to head to another destination, and yet the woman is unaware of the "stowaway" who is inside her bag as she unknowingly gives her a "ride" to her next destination.
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About two hours later, the woman arrived and is heading towards a village monarch that says "Hinamizawa Village", and the woman is sighing as she finally arrived and is getting ready to enter when three adolescent teens came top greet her and the woman greeted them in return.
"Miss Takano!"
"Nurse Takano! Hello!"
"Good to see you, ma'am!"
The woman who arrived is revealed to be named Miyo Takano and she greeted the three teens who are identified as Keiichi Maebara, Rena Ryugu, and Shion Sonozoki. The trio are residents there and are waiting for her as they intend to undergo check upafter Takano said that she is on a medical mission which she chose the three as their "first patients", and as the four are talking, they didn't noticed that the bag she put down, was partially opened and there the Cell Medals stealthily levitated and solidifies into the high school girl and sneaked behin the four and pretended to befriend them.
"Hello…"
"Oh, hi…you must be a new resident here…"
"No…just passing by…is that a new village I just heard?"
"Yes…this is Hinamizawa Village…"
Rena and Shion bowed to the stranger while Keiichi was a bit shy to converse with her, but then the girl shook hands with the three teens, which she secretly read their mental desires and she secretly found them as the perfect and ideal hosts whose desires would create strong Yummies. As Takano turned her back to arranged her belongings, the high school girl slowly revealed herself as the female Greed, Mezuru and slowly took out three pieces of Cell Medals and slowly inserts them onto the foreheads of the three teens.
"Now then…unleash your inner desire…your paranoia are strong enough to quench those desires…and soon you will have the means to end your sufferings…nice knowing you…and I hope your endings will be swift…though I can't vouch for your "ideal" endings…"
Mezuru then disperses into Cell Medals and flew away from the entrance of Hinamizawa Village just as Takano turned around and notices that the woman is nowhere to be found. She asked the three teens if they seen her which the trio are unable to recall her after snapping out of their trances due to the Cell Medals entering their bodies. The four then left and are heading for a clinic where Takano's colleague, Kyosuke Irie, is the head doctor of the village.
As Takano and Irie began to have the three undergo checkups, the Cell medals in each of the three teens' body glowed and teleported out of their bodies and are stationed in certain areas, one of them inside the Irie clinic, the other at Keiichi's house and the last in Rena's bag.
To Be Continued…
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni by Eiko Shimamiya
(Theme Song from Higurashi no Naku Koro ni)
Furimuita sono ushiro no (Shoumen daare?)
Kurayami ni tsume o tatete (yoru o hikisaita)
Amadare wa chi no shizuku to natte hoho o tsutai ochiru
Mou doko ni mo kaeru basho ga nai nara
Kono yubi tomare watashi no yubi ni
Sono yubi goto tsurete tte ageru
Higurashi ga naku akazu no mori e
Atomodori wa mou dekinai
Hmm...an ending song...well, after watching a few episodes of this anime the opening song itself was suspensful enough, and I decided to give this arc a suspenseful tone so I decided to post it here as this fic's ending song, though this is only for this story arc. A new ending song will be posted depending on how important that arc would be...
Okay…this is quite a surprise…
What was supposed to be the next continuation of the Detective Conan crew ends up with characters of Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni hogging the spotlight, but do not fret…they ARE going to be an integral part of this arc and both Shinichi/Ankh and Kyuji are going to get embroiled here as well as discovering something hidden and will soon cause a struggle that would expose the bad guys in the eyes of the Japanese diet.
The Greed appeared and now shows that they have the ability to assume human forms, with Mezuru choosing the three main characters of Higurashi as host bodies to spawn new Yummy creatures. This will certainly cause trouble for everyone…
Preview:
Shinichi/Ankh are going to Hinamizawa after one of them gets something that attracts their attention while Shiho/Ai remains at Agase's lab as their "support" to provide leads to solve a hidden and dark secret of the reclusive village…
It's going to be a dark and a tense ride towards the next chapter, something Ankh would find rather enjoyable…provided that he gets some of the Cell Medals since one of the Greed have already left the village…
Notes:
Okay…here is the list of characters of the three series involved, so you'll know…
Detective Conan
- Shinichi Kudo/Conan Edogawa
- Shiho Miyano/Ai Haibara
- Hiroshi Agase
Higurashi no Naku Koro Ni
- Keiichi Maebara
- Rena Ryugu
- Shion Sonozaki
- Miyo Takano
- Kyosuke Irie
Kamen Rider OOO
- Kousei Kougami
- Erika Satonaka
- Shintaro Gotoh
- Ankh
- Uva
- Mezuru
- Kazari
- Gameru