Out-of-control players in the world of Detective Conan

Ai Haibara stared at the corpse lying on the ground for a long time, unable to come back to her senses.

She squatted down and gently touched the corpse's face, then boldly pinched its nose and touched its hand.

And this scene.

This had a tremendous impact on Qi Ming.

"...What are you going to do to my corpse?"

"No, I was just wondering if I could dissect your body..."

Ai Haibara was talking to herself when it took her a while to realize that something was wrong with her words.

But it was too late to explain.

"Anatomy?!"

Qi Ming was shocked.

What do you want to do with Teacher Qi Ming's corpse?!

"Impossible, absolutely impossible!"

Qi Ming immediately took a large suitcase out of his backpack.

After placing his body inside, he carried the box into a room.

It was locked with several locks.

Due to game design, corpses cannot be placed in the game inventory.

But things like severed limbs are acceptable, like the head and hands of a savage...

That's extremely unethical.

Sigh, I guess I'll just fry it first thing tomorrow morning.

When Ai Haibara saw Qi Ming walk back with a sigh of relief, she sat back on the sofa, crossed her arms, and gave him a half-closed look.

"...I was just saying it casually, why are you getting so worked up?"

"I was just making a random movement, why are you making such a fuss?"

Qi Ming retorted and sat down next to Ai Haibara.

He thought for a moment and asked with some curiosity:

"Speaking of which, why didn't you tell me your true identity before? And why are you telling me now?"

Upon hearing Qi Ming's question, Ai Haibara remained silent for a moment before replying calmly.

“...I’m afraid you’ll take me back, and the condition for you to receive your reward is that I personally admit my identity.”

"As for now that I've said it," Ai Haibara turned her head, looking at Qi Ming with an inscrutable expression.

"I don't want to keep doubting each other, exhausting each other, or being suspicious and fearful of each other."

"Oh... With your high level of education, you still want to be a 'pot-puller'? Isn't that a bit late?"

"...Be serious."

Ai Haibara rolled her eyes at Qi Ming, then her expression turned somewhat serious.

"Now it's my turn to ask you, I also want to understand you."

"I hope you can answer my questions seriously, and I... will trust you completely."

Qi Ming raised an eyebrow, his expression also becoming serious.

"You ask."

Ai Haibara took a deep breath and said, word by word.

“Are you an alien?”

"……what?"

Qi Ming's previously stern expression instantly crumbled.

Then Ai Haibara continued to ask:

"Are your techniques some kind of space technology? Like conjuring cars out of thin air?"

"And that miraculous teleportation is also because your planet's space technology is already quite advanced?"

"..."

Did this girl's brain shrink because her body shrank?

Qi Ming rubbed his temples.

"Didn't I tell you before that this is a game? All the items you mentioned were taken out of my backpack."

Ai Haibara leaned forward slightly.

"I'm not joking with you."

Qi Ming also leaned forward slightly.

"I wasn't joking with you."

After staring at each other for a while, Qi Ming pointed to the corpse on the ground.

"I'll believe you if you can explain how I came back to life after I died."

"This world has magicians, ghosts, and even a potion that can shrink people. Isn't that magical enough?"

"..."

Haibara was speechless and lowered her head.

This is truly inexplicable.

But this is a game... This is no longer fantasy, but a chilling, even more terrifying reality.

However, a moment later, Ai Haibara closed her eyes.

After taking a few deep breaths, she looked up at Qi Ming and said.

“I just said I would believe you 100%, so I will try to believe you.”

"……Yeah?"

Qi Ming looked at Ai Haibara's serious expression.

After thinking for a moment, Qi Ming took out a purple bead from his backpack.

Then he took out a silver thread and strung the beads together to make a simple necklace.

Ai Haibara looked at the bead that was flashing with purple fluorescence and asked curiously.

"what is this?"

"Eight eggs."

"..."

"Hahaha, just kidding."

Qi Ming handed the necklace to Haibara and said with a wry smile, "Maybe this bead will work once you truly believe this is a game."

This bead is an upgraded version of the World Gazette that Qi Ming previously used to remove sleep and temptation—it can remove any level of abnormal status.

These are not ordinary beads.

These are beads that can only be obtained by spending real money.

While shrinking the body might not seem like a bad thing, APTX4869 is still poison at this stage, right?

If turning into a child is a negative effect of poisoning, then it can be purified and removed.

Just like in a movie, the protagonist is also an NPC in a game, but after picking up the player's glasses, he can see the world clearly.

Most of Qi Ming's items are unusable by NPCs.

But what if we made them believe 100% that this world is a game?

Qi Ming was very curious.

Qi Ming glanced at the time after seeing Ai Haibara playing with the purple bead with a look of novelty on her face.

"It's getting late, go wash up and go to bed."

"Ah."

Qi Ming yawned.

I'd better go to sleep quickly and see what tasks the system will give me the next day.

Oh right, there's another video I need to watch.

Nine hours of gameplay! And they won't let you speed it up! Are they crazy?

"By the way," Qi Ming, who was walking towards the bathroom, suddenly asked Ai Haibara:

Should I call you Shiho Miyano or Ai Haibara now?

"...Let's go with Ai Haibara."

"Ai Haibara said softly."

Perhaps the time when I was able to live a normal life began with Ai Haibara.

Wait, do I really think this kind of life is normal?

……

Qi Ming slept very well overnight.

Ai Haibara, however, couldn't fall asleep, Qi Ming's words kept flashing through her mind.

Sunrise and night rest.

Ai Haibara, who had only managed to doze off for two hours, crawled out of bed with faint dark circles under her eyes.

She glanced at Qi Ming, who was still snoring, and a surge of inexplicable annoyance rose within her, so she threw the pillow at him.

After everything that happened yesterday, I was overthinking and couldn't sleep, so how could you sleep so soundly?

It's unbalanced, really unbalanced.

"Get up."

Upon hearing Ai Haibara's voice, Qi Ming sat up in bed in a daze, then fell back down.

"Why should I get up? I don't have a job, I can sleep as long as I want."

"...Then you go to sleep, I'm going to school."

"What, school?"

Hearing the sound of Ai Haibara getting up beside him, Qi Ming instantly woke up, threw off the covers, and looked at Ai Haibara with a surprised expression.

"Hey Ai, we almost died yesterday, and you're still thinking about going to school?"

Ai Haibara didn't react for a moment, her eyebrows curving upwards.

"It seems so, isn't it?"

But you're the murderer! What are you pretending for?

However, at that moment, a voice that did not belong to either of them rang out.

【I am here】

Upon hearing this voice, Ai Haibara and Qi Ming fell silent.

"Was someone speaking just now?"

"Yes, yes, it sounds like a woman's voice."