Conan's other self

The fake Kudo Shinichi incident did not have much impact on Maplehara and their lives.

After that, they returned to their ordinary lives.

Every day he would solve murder cases or bank robberies. The most exciting time was when he passed by someone disguised as Shuichi Akai and suspected of being Bourbon.

And when there was no case, Conan felt a little melancholy.

In that incident, he successfully met Xiaolan as Kudo Shinichi, and after successfully changing back, he hid his identity in the doctor's car...

However, the imagined thing of Xiaolan responding to her confession as soon as she saw him did not happen.

Confession and antidote are both time-effective...

Thinking about what Feng Yuan said to him, Conan felt more and more melancholy.

Because he thinks Fengyuan is right...

It had been several months since he last hastily confessed to Xiaolan at the Lookout Restaurant. Of course, he couldn't expect Xiaolan to respond to his confession so long ago when they met...

"Damn it! Missed again!"

Uncle Maori's unhappy voice interrupted Conan's thoughts and brought him back to his senses, "I'm so unlucky today..."

At the moment, they are sitting in the Poirot Cafe downstairs of the detective agency. Uncle Maori is reading the horse racing newspaper here, Xiaolan is eating dessert with a satisfied look on his face, and Conan is in a daze.

"Really!" Xiao Lan was a little dissatisfied, "It's rare for people to eat colorful fruits and immerse themselves in the atmosphere of the south... If you want to read the horse racing newspaper, you can just read it in the detective agency!"

"Um?"

Uncle Maori, who had turned his attention away from the newspaper, immediately noticed the strawberry on the top of Xiaolan's dessert, "Oh! What a delicious strawberry it looks like! If you don't want to eat it, just give it to me!"

With quick eyesight and quick hands, he grabbed the strawberry in his hand and put it directly into his mouth. Xiaolan reacted and quickly reached out to grab it.

"No! I specially saved this for last..."

"What does it matter..."

"hehe…"

Conan looked at the farce in front of him with dead eyes. Under his gaze, the strawberry fell to the ground because of Uncle Maori's hand while they were fighting for it.

No need to grab it now...

Immediately afterwards, a fat cat came out from under Uncle Maori's legs and fiddled with the strawberry.

"W-what's going on with this cat..."

"Do cats eat strawberries?" Xiaolan asked curiously.

"Just poking it around with your paws, right?"

Uncle Maoli picked up the cat's neck unhappily, "Really, where did this cat come from?"

"Meow!"

Then he was given a paw.

"You guy!"

Uncle Maori yelled at the cat angrily, and then the door of the cafe was suddenly pushed open, and a foreign woman in her fifties or sixties rushed in, with two bodyguards behind her.

Her name is Diana Kingston.

"Ah, Venus!"

Ms. Diana took the cat from the stunned Uncle Maori and held it tightly in her arms, "Great! You're okay!"

Matching her appearance, she spoke English throughout the whole process, even when she thanked Uncle Maori and Xiaolan.

"Thank you very much for helping me find her!"

It seems like people are thanking us...

"Because my father is a detective!" Xiaolan replied in less than proficient English.

"Great, I'm a mystery fan! I originally wanted to hear a few stories from you, but I have to catch the plane back... I want to invite you to my home in London to play, is that okay?"

…

One day later, Dr. Ali’s house.

"Ah, you are going to England next week?" Dr. Ali looked at the excited Conan in surprise, "What will you do when you go to school?"

"From July 1st to the 4th, Didan Elementary School and High School are both commemorative and weekend holidays. They can have four consecutive days off...Uncle and Xiaolan also want to go!" Conan replied, "And that cat The owner seems to be very rich, and she said that she has paid for the travel expenses and the hotel!”

"It's really good luck," Fengyuan said, "It's just a chance encounter with a cat, and such a good thing can happen..."

"Yeah! What a blessing!"

"It's great!" the doctor agreed. "You can go to London where you've always wanted to go..."

"Well! Although my father has taken me abroad several times, I have never been to London..."

Conan showed a longing expression, "I want to go to Baker Street first...and then go to Hyde Park where Holmes and Watson walked! And the British Museum where Holmes consulted information!

If I have time, I would also like to go to the stage of [The Hound of the Baskervilles], Dartmoor National Park... and the Reichenbach Falls where Sherlock Holmes fell with his old enemy Professor Moriarty..."

"Woo! What should I do if there are so many places I want to visit!" Conan said, looking at Fengyuan, "right, Fengyuan?"

"Ah...she didn't invite me..."

In fact, whether it was his original self or the influence of Kudo Shinichi's memory, Maplehara really wanted to visit the holy places of Sherlock Holmes.

"It doesn't matter! She will definitely not mind! And isn't there still funds for the resistance organization's activities that dad left behind? It's time to use them..."

From Conan's point of view, if he wanted to go, his other self, Maplehara, must also want to go. Of course, he didn't come here to show off in front of Maplehara.

but…

"What about the passport?" Fengyuan asked.

"ah?"

"Neither Edogawa Conan nor Maplehara Sora have passports."

"Ah--Oops! I totally forgot!"

"Yes, yes..." the doctor said, "both of your current identities are fabricated, and you don't have passports at all..."

"Hey, doctor!" Conan begged, "Can't you think of a way? For example, forge a passport or something!"

"What are you talking about! That's a crime!"

"Damn it!" Conan scratched his hair in distress, "I thought I could finally go to Sherlock Holmes's holy land. Do I have to stay and look after the house again?"

There was a brief silence in the living room.

"If you go there by yourself, there is nothing you can do..." After thinking for a while, Fengyuan said.

"Huh? There's nothing I can do..."

"Here's the antidote. If you take the antidote in good time, you can go to London as Kudo Shinichi."

"That's right!" Conan suddenly realized and hurried to Haibara Ai, who was sitting on the sofa nearby. She seemed to have been flipping through a fashion magazine. "Haihara, do you still have the antidote from last time? Give it to me first. Come and get a hundred!”

"Don't even think about it!" Haihara Ai didn't even raise his head, "Let's not talk about the antidote for now. Even if you change back, only one of you can use the identity of Kudo Shinichi, right?"

"I won't go," Fengyuan said immediately, "and I have a method. It will be the same next time I go..."

Haiyuan Ai raised his head and looked at Fengyuan. Fengyuan looked away. Conan, who had just been overwhelmed by joy, also came back to his senses and felt a little embarrassed.

"Um, Maple Leaf..."

"Anyway, that's it." Fengyuan interrupted, "It's rare that someone is willing to reimburse the expenses. Don't miss such a good opportunity..."

"Hmph..." Hui Yuan Ai snorted, "Even so, I only have one antidote here. Even if I do it now, I don't know if I can catch up..."

"I happen to have a spare one here..."

Haiyuan Ai rolled her eyes at Fengyuan angrily, then looked away and looked at her magazine, "There are two pills in total, just for going back and forth. The effect of each pill can last about twenty-four hours..."

Although Conan took the antidote by accident last time, it still provided enough research data for Haibara Ai to further improve the antidote and precise the time of its effect.

"Well, well..." Conan nodded quickly.

"Also, if you take the drug continuously, the duration of the effect will be halved..."

"I know, thanks, Haiyuan!"

Haiyuan Ai then got up and went to the basement to get the antidote he had stored. Conan took his spare antidote from Fengyuan, and then pulled him aside, "Sorry, Fengyuan..."

"It's okay, I don't have any thoughts about the Holy Land Tour," Fengyuan thought for a moment, and then added to reassure Conan, "Just like I don't have any thoughts about Xiaolan..."

"...You guy," Conan replied with a dead eye, then paused, "Thanks, I will definitely bring you a bunch of souvenirs back..."

Feng Yuan did not seem to be as eager as he was, and Conan felt a little better, but only a little.

However, I definitely have to go...

Conan really couldn't resist this temptation.

When traveling to London in this way, it is obvious that you cannot go with Uncle Maori and Xiaolan, so Conan needs another adult to accompany him, and this candidate can only be Dr. Agasa.

The doctor didn't refuse.

They plan to leave next Thursday.

Uncle Maori and Xiaolan will take a flight from Haneda Airport in the morning. When they arrive in London, it will be the afternoon local time and they will be able to catch the dinner that Ms. Diana invites them to.

The flight lasted fourteen hours. In order to save time, after arriving in London, I met Uncle Mori and Xiaolan as Conan. On Wednesday night, Conan and the doctor set off for Haneda Airport together, planning to stay nearby for one night. Let Conan transform there.

After saying goodbye to the doctor and Conan, Maplehara closed the door.

Haiyuan Ai was standing on the side, folding his arms and looking at Fengyuan with a scrutinizing look.

"What's the matter?"

"Do you regret it?" Hui Yuan Ai said.

"ah?"

"You really want to go too, don't you?"

"How can there be..."

Haiyuan Ai snorted, "Liar. When Edogawa was talking about where he wanted to go that day, you clearly showed a longing expression. I saw it..."

"There is no such thing," Fengyuan refused to admit, "and you were obviously reading a magazine at that time..."

"Ah, Mr. Detective was so eager to go that he didn't even notice what I was looking at... Although you are good at concealing your emotions, that expression only lasted for a moment, but I just happened to see it..."

Just happened to see it again...

Fengyuan stared at Haiyuan Ai's eyes. Those ice-blue eyes seemed to be tumbling like the sea...

Not to be outdone, Hui Yuan Ai stared back.

She seemed a little unhappy that day...

Maplehara was defeated by the stare.

"Okay, I want to go too, but there's nothing I can do about it..."

"It's not like you have to spoil Edogawa..."

Hey hey, what do you mean by being used to...

"No way..." Fengyuan defended, "The person who invited him was Conan. Besides, I don't want to go there alone..."

"The doctor is with you."

"Then I have to leave you at home alone..."

"I can go and stay at Yoshida's house for a few days..."

Hui Yuan Ai put his hands on his hips and retorted fiercely.

Because they occasionally go to school to take care of small animals, Haibara Ai will also go to Ayumi's house to meet her, so she is relatively familiar with Ayumi's house, and it is no problem to stay there for a few days.

"Forget it, it's already this time," Fengyuan said, "And I still want to wait until next time..."

Fengyuan paused and said, "If we have the chance, let's go together..."

Haiyuan's mother is British, so even if Haiyuan is not interested in Holmes, she would probably want to go and have a look.

That's what Feng Yuan thinks.

Hui Yuan Ai was stunned for a moment and lowered his eyes slightly.

"Perhaps there will never be such an opportunity in this life? If Kudo Shinichi's identity can still be used, once Miyano Shiho's identity appears, it will immediately attract the attention of those guys..."

"There's always a chance..."

Feng Yuan said, then stopped.

A car stopped outside the door and braked suddenly.

Then someone got out of the car and walked straight towards the doctor's house without concealing the sound of his footsteps. From the sound of their footsteps, he could tell that they were two people.

and…

"Ah, you are really optimistic——"

Halfway through Haihara Ai's words, he was interrupted by the doorbell.

…

The next day, on the plane to London.

"It's amazing! It turns out that the first class cabin is so spacious!"

"I said, didn't you fly first class last time?" Uncle Maori said while sighing inwardly at how rich Ms. Diana was, "That time when we went to Hakodate..."

"Yes...but it feels like it will be more spacious this time..." Xiaolan said, showing a regretful expression, "But, what a pity...Conan couldn't come with us..."

"Yeah, I said there was something urgent to deal with suddenly..."

Xiaolan nodded, "But he seems to be coming on the next flight with Dr. A Li...even the doctor's ticket was issued together. Ms. Diana is such a good person!"

"Yes," Uncle Maoli agreed, and then glanced at Xiaolan, "But she didn't say that she even paid for the gift. Don't buy random things!"

"ah?"

"You will definitely buy a lot of things, right?" Uncle Maori said in a somewhat unhappy tone, "For that little detective who is a Sherlock Holmes fan..."

"I-I don't know how to buy a lot!"

"That's right. Compared to the gift, I'm sure he would rather come..."

Listening to her father's words, Xiaolan showed a longing expression.

Really... It would be great if Shinichi could come too...

"Ah sneeze!"

In the economy class of the same flight, Kudo's new version of Conan was sitting next to Dr. Agasa and suddenly sneezed.

In order not to revert to a child on the plane, Conan had some free time. I deliberately said I would take the next flight, but actually took the same flight, just to cover this time.

After the plane arrived at Heathrow Airport, Conan hid in a toilet cubicle early, and waited until his body turned back into a primary school student before joining the Doctor with Uncle Maori and Xiaolan.

"So…"

Uncle Maoli glanced at his watch and said, "There is still some time before we make an appointment with the rich aunt at the hotel in the evening..."

"Let's go sightseeing first!" the doctor suggested.

"Where do you want to go?" Xiaolan asked Conan.

"Of course it's...the Sherlock Holmes Museum!"

Conan replied happily.

However, it would be great if Maplehara could come too...

…

"Ah sneeze!"

On another plane, a man couldn't help sneezing.

He looked to be in his thirties or forties, with short black hair, square black full-frame glasses, and a beard above his lips. The woman next to him was always surrounded by the corner of his eye.

In the seat across the aisle, a young woman who looked less than twenty years old kept looking at him secretly. In fact, she had been like this since boarding the plane.

"that…"

After a while, she finally couldn't help but said, "Are you Mr. Kudo Yusaku?"

She spoke English, judging by her accent, she was British.

"it's me…"

"It's really you! It's so great to meet you here!" The young woman stammered, "Sorry, I'm your fan! I've watched every work many times! "

Her excited voice attracted the attention of others, and there were some whispers around her. Obviously, as the world's leading mystery novelist, Kudo Yusaku is quite famous.

"Thank you. I think this is a compliment that every author cannot refuse. Of course, I am no exception..."

"You, you are so polite... By the way! Can you please sign your autograph? My whole family is your fan..."

"Of course." The man nodded slightly.

"They will definitely be jealous to death..."

She took out a notebook and a signature pen from her arms, and turned the notebook to the title page, obviously hoping that the other party would sign here.

The man took it and signed his name skillfully.

"Thank you! Thank you so much! I really can't believe it..."

The young woman took her notebook back and took a look.

It was exactly the same as the signature of Mr. Kudo Yusaku she had seen online...

Just by looking at it, I feel that my intelligence is improving rapidly...

She carefully put away the notebook, and then looked at the beautiful woman with brown curly hair next to him with some hesitation, "Then the person next to you is..."

There is no doubt that that person is Kudo Yukiko.

She wanted to get Yukiko Kudo's signature again, preferably together with Yusaku Kudo's signature...

But Mrs. Kudo seems to be sleeping soundly under a blanket...

"Yes, my wife."

The man turned his head and looked over, his eyes soft, and noticed that the eyelids of the brown-haired woman next to him moved slightly, "But...she is sleeping soundly now, so don't disturb her, right?"