【Quick new】Third person

Recap

"So, what are you hiding from me? Is it related to the accident I encountered before?"

"And now I'm an accomplice to the guy who protected you."

"Will you forgive him?"

"Kaitou KID will appear in Mihua Town tonight, does Shinichi-san know?"

In the evening of this day, Kudo Shinichi came to the Mori office to pick up Edogawa Conan and return to Kudo's house.Seeing him standing downstairs in casual clothes talking to Mao Lilan, the boy rubbed his toes on the ground absently.

"Is there really no need to stay for dinner? I just bought a lot of ingredients..."

"Lan, you obviously have a lot of homework right now, don't you? Sonoko said last time that he needs tutoring, and the final exam will be coming soon."

The boy looked at her back against the light behind her. Mao Lilan hadn't had time to change her uniform yet, so she should have just returned from school not long ago.If the two of them stayed to eat, she would definitely not be sloppy.It will take some time to prepare more hearty dishes. For a high school student who is about to take the second exam (Note 1) after graduating from high school, time is becoming more and more precious as the summer atmosphere becomes stronger.

In this way, Kudo Shinichi is indeed very thoughtful, Mao Lilan also smiled, "Because there are people like Shinichi around me, sometimes I forget that I am still an ordinary high school student. Ah, that's great, Shinichi If so, don’t worry about the exam at all.”

"Then see you tomorrow, try not to stay up late."

"I should say this to Shinichi...see you tomorrow." She still didn't forget to turn around and bent down to pat the boy on the shoulder, "Conan-kun, come play again next time."

He nodded obediently, "Goodbye, Sister Lan."

Watching Mao Lilan go upstairs, two people, one big and one small, each with their own concerns, walked slowly back to Kudo's house.

Kuroba Kaito sighed inwardly.

Ah... the second test... I don't plan to help that guy take the test... Who knows which school he wants to take... But it's probably Tokyo University, so to speak-

I'm about to go to university, think about it, you and I are both, and you don't have the self-consciousness as a student at all.

Thinking of this, Kaito Kuroba looked at the boy who was walking beside him with the skateboard in his arms, and the boy happened to be looking up at him too.The moment his eyes met, he instinctively felt that something was wrong.The boy's plain eyes with unknown meaning made his heart tremble.

"Conan...?"

"Um."

The boy turned his gaze back to the front of the street, and hummed lightly.He didn't want to show clearly that he had something on his mind, but after last night, he suddenly got tired of pretending to be a junior elementary school student who didn't match his mind.In front of Lan, he could barely pretend to be the same as usual. If she called his name with a questioning tone, he would raise his head and respond to her, "What's the matter, sister Lan?"

It was a reluctance to say it, because in fact, when he was looking at her back just now, his mind was full of Hui Yuan Ai's flat and serious voice.

You lied to her for a long time, even if you don't remember now, this lie has continued until now.

Will you be forgiven, and what if she won't—

Looking at it this way, it seems that I have selfishly thrown my emotions to Kudo Shinichi again.You don't need to look up to know that the guy has a hesitant look on his face, he hesitates to speak for a while, and in the end he probably can only ask such boring questions as what's for dinner.

"What do you want for dinner?"

really.The boy sighed silently.

will you forgive him

"I can do it, Brother Xinyi decides," Wei Lie added, "Didn't it mean that our tastes are very similar?"

Kudo Shin was taken aback for a moment.

"Lan-sister said, tastes and interests are very similar. So it's okay for Shinichi-san to decide on this kind of thing."

"You... eh?" Just when he didn't know how to answer the call, the cell phone in his pocket rang.Glancing at the incoming call, Artificial Teng Shinichi's expression became a little serious, and he answered the call and walked to the intersection, where the pedestrian lights just flashed.He subconsciously took a quicker step and crossed the road, but the boy deliberately lagged behind by half a beat, and stopped at the corner of the street.Kudo Shinichi soon realized that he hadn't followed, so he stood on the opposite corner of the street waiting for him while talking on the phone.

The boy looked at the sky, and the sunset glow was mostly covered by tall buildings.It is about to enter the midsummer, so the chirping of cicadas overlaps and hovers over the city, as if they will never tire.

There was a distance of four lanes between them, and Kudo Shinichi could be seen standing upright in the gap between the busy traffic—his senses circled around and finally returned to him.He looked at him in casual clothes, talking on the phone sideways, too far away to hear his voice, but seeing that he never smiled and frowned, it was probably a business matter.

This figure coincided with the white monster under the moonlight, and he remembered the scene he saw in the dark less than 24 hours ago. The one that matched the moonlight so well should have been far away from the life of an elementary school student, and only existed in the news A character like an urban legend.

A tall top hat, a white cape, a well-fitting suit, and the cuffs of a navy blue shirt can be seen faintly.And this famous phantom thief was sitting on the lawn outside the French window of Kudo House, spinning his white pistol, shooting poker cards at the sky to play.

——Like a big boy who is agitated and somewhat helpless.

He didn't go out.He knew that if he confronted him at that time, then the peaceful life between the two of them would end here, Edogawa Conan was so sure.If he had asked at that time, Kudo Shinichi, or Kaitou KID would have told him the truth.Because thinking about it carefully, he never seems to have tried very hard to hide it.Some flaws were not deliberately exposed, but they were not hidden as much as possible, let alone those words that were full of hints and clues after thinking about it.So the boy hid. It was too simple for a child's body to hide quietly somewhere in the huge Kudou mansion in the dark, not to mention that he himself seemed to have the talent for doing such things.When I returned to Mori's office later, I pretended to be an innocent child and made up a reason to Mori Ran, and added that I don't want to tell Brother Shinichi, I don't want him to worry about such words.Mao Lilan scolded him and didn't say anything else. It seemed that similar situations had often happened in the past, like saying a few words at the scene of the case and then disappearing suddenly, so that Mao Lilan really didn't take it to heart.

Sure enough, he is also good at lying.

You, me, his secret.

Regarding this puzzle, he probably solved the first part of the answer.The origin of his sense of disobedience when facing Kudo Shinichi—because he is not Kudo Shinichi at all.

This person's Kudo Shinichi, who exists in other people's mouth, gives him a slightly different feeling, and his subconscious mind is also telling him that Kudo Shinichi is not such a person.

Even if he acts very similar, they are two people after all.

So now the question is, why does he, tentatively called KID, pretend to be Kudo Shinichi, and where is the real Kudo Shinichi.Most importantly... what does all this have to do with me?

"After all, I'm an accomplice, not the mastermind. It's too boring for me to tell you everything, isn't it?" Hui Yuanai finally said.The girl in a white coat took out a red bow tie and a watch from a drawer, and pushed a pair of glasses in front of him, "These were originally your things. This..." She pointed to the pair of glasses , "This is the pair you wore before."

The boy holding the skateboard stood at the corner of the street, pushing his glasses on the bridge of his nose.If you don't look carefully, you will think that this is still a pair of glasses without prescription, but he raised his hand and touched, and there is a knob in the corner of the right lens frame.He looked at the man on the opposite street corner, then pressed the knob, and slowly turned it, the boy's face was enlarged on the electronic screen in front of him.

OK, see you next Saturday night then.

He followed his mouth and said it.

The red light turned green again, and Mr. Phantom Thief hung up the phone.Seeing that the boy on the opposite street corner was still in a daze, he took the lead and walked towards him.So under Conan Edogawa's gaze, he trotted through the four lanes, returned to him, and with a hearty smile, stretched out his hand to him.

"Then let's eat teppanyaki, shall we go?"

The small palm was gently pulled, and Mr. Phantom Thief walked to the outside of him naturally.

Presumably there is also a second part of the answer.

"I will forgive you."

"Ugh?"

"That is to say, if the restaurant chosen by Brother Shinichi isn't delicious."

"Ah? No way haha—"

Even if it seems strange to say that, there is a voice in my heart telling me——

You will forgive him.

So don't be afraid to get close to the truth, "you, me, he" are all waiting for you behind the mirror.

Note 1

Japanese students have at least two chances to take the college entrance examination.The first national unified examination is in late January, and the second is the examination organized by each school itself, which is called the "secondary test", usually in February-March.