Refuse to allow Conan to join the main storyline

Sakurai opened his eyes a little weakly and smiled at Koizumi: "It's okay, I'm back."

Koizumi let go of her hand and looked at her with a changing look in his eyes. After a long while, he asked doubtfully, "...was that Sakurai Izumi himself?"

Sakurai slowly sat up and smiled helplessly, "Yes."

Xiaoquan suddenly widened his eyes and was speechless: "No, no no no, you... your soul is immortal? No, it's inheritance, you, then are you the first one or..."

Although Koizumi's words were confusing, Sakurai understood it all.

She smiled helplessly: "I was worried that you wouldn't be able to accept it, but I didn't expect you to guess it yourself. You are really smart. No, I should say that you really have an amazing imagination, Quan."

Koizumi suddenly jumped up from the ground, slapped his head hard and paced back and forth in the space, muttering to himself like a madman.

Sakurai got up from the ground and stood in the corner, looking at Koizumi silently, waiting patiently for her to sort out her thoughts.

After a long time, Koizumi finally stopped his neurotic behavior and walked back to Sakurai.

She took a deep breath and spoke slowly: "In all the records of Sakurai's reincarnation, there are only three people... three adult souls who have the possibility of controlling the body. Which one are you? The 26-year-old, the 18-year-old, or the 21-year-old?"

Sakurai smiled, "I'm the 18-year-old one."

Koizumi took a breath and said, "You are the little lover that Dr. Gu fell in love with, and the one who later died on the laboratory table."

Sakura nodded, "Yes, that's me."

"Your name is?"

"It doesn't matter. We are all one now. So, although my soul is that of the 18-year-old, it is also the Sakurai Izumi of today."

Koizumi swallowed silently and said slowly: "...So, the souls of all the dead are still there."

"Yes."

"You are...you are a collection of these souls?"

"Yes."

"What happened to Sakurai Izumi who looked like a child just now?"

"That part of her soul showed signs of awakening after being stimulated. In order to pursue her childhood memories, I accelerated her awakening process."

"Where is she now?"

"I see that you have almost understood this body's childhood, so I forced her to continue sleeping."

"But why...if she is the real Sakurai Izumi, why are you controlling this body?"

"She doesn't look like she has the potential to live an independent life in society. You should have seen that, right?"

Sakurai waved his hand and two sofas materialized: "Sit down and tell me. It's a long story. I will tell you everything I remember."

"Yeah, and I think I need something to perk me up."

Koizumi muttered to himself, sat down on the sofa, picked up a can of cold Coke, and found cigarettes and a lighter.

When everything was ready on her end, Sakurai also sorted out her own thoughts.

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"First, because the 26-year-old soul, like all the other young souls, never revived after death, I am probably the only one who can answer your question."

Sakurai smiled and said, "Before I explain all this to you, let me ask you a question. Do you know how much the soul weighs?"

Koizumi raised his eyebrows and said firmly: "You are talking about the 21-gram theory of the soul."

The "21-gram theory" originated in the early 20th century from a controversial study by Dr. Duncan McDougall.

McDougall claimed that a person's weight would immediately decrease by 21 grams after death, so he inferred that this 21 grams might be the weight of the soul.

However, the theory has been widely questioned and criticized because McDougall's experiments were not rigorously controlled, the sample size was extremely limited, and the results were inconsistent. More importantly, his theory did not provide a credible mechanism to explain why the soul has weight or why it leaves the body at death.

Koizumi narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "You mean, that gentleman did the experiment on the 21-gram soul?"

Sakurai nodded seriously: "After I was captured by the organization, the experimenters tied me to a special bed and put me on a very fine scale to weigh me.

"A huge and complex magic circle was built on the floor of the laboratory. The center of the magic circle was the experimental table that killed me. There was a small bed in each of the four corners of the room. Four children ranging from 1 to 5 years old were lying on the bed. They were all children from the Baijiu Welfare Home.

"After a guy dressed like a cultist stabbed my neck with a silver knife, I was probably too excited at the time and my consciousness did not dissipate immediately. I vaguely remember that my vision shifted from the laboratory table in the center to the small bed in the corner, where the five-year-old child was, and then I lost consciousness.

"When I woke up again, I had become the 16-year-old Sakurai Izumi, but I didn't realize it until I saw the resume given by Shinji Hagiya. Then I realized that I was not myself, and gradually recovered my previous memories.

"Finally, after seeing the photo that you upgraded to level three, Sakurai Izumi's childhood memories slowly awakened."

Koizumi subconsciously held her breath and clenched her teeth, and the cigarette in her hand was unconsciously grasped in her palm and crushed into crumbs.

At this time, she breathed a sigh of relief: "...You remembered all your memories?"

"No, but it's enough to help you sort out the whole situation."

Sakurai leaned forward on the sofa, staring at Koizumi, and said slowly: "That gentleman, Karasuma Renya, is doing a soul extraction experiment."

"First, he discovered that the first 26-year-old me had some special abilities. He tried to preserve this soul with special abilities, so he combined the 21-gram soul theory with some unscientific experimental methods to create a soul extraction experiment.

"In his experiment, he found that the dead person did lose 21 grams of weight, while a baby placed next to the experimental table gained 21 grams.

"They believed that, in theory, the soul with special abilities was indeed transferred to the baby, but they could not immediately verify the results of the experiment. Since they did not find anything special in the baby, they continued the soul transfer experiment until someone raised an objection, wondering if the child was too young for the ability to manifest. So the experimental subject was changed from the baby to a four or five-year-old child.

"But no matter how they conducted the experiment, the children still showed no special features. It was not until that special soul was transferred to me that I occasionally gained the ability of 'danger perception'.

"With this ability, I escaped and lived peacefully until I was 18. Then I was found and captured by the organization and became their experimental subject. Later..."

Sakurai's story got stuck, so Koizumi continued it for her.

"Later, after the experiment in which you died, Dr. Tani set fire to the laboratory. The child who had acquired your 'danger perception' ability may have escaped and been caught again, or the organization may have changed the strategy of the experiment and raised him until he was 21 before killing him. Then this special ability was inherited by Sakurai Izumi.

"Izumi Sakurai was born and raised in the organization. She was locked up in a laboratory for research, and then was sent out of the laboratory by Sister Bayonetta for some reason. Until this moment, the original Sakurai's memories were clear and complete."

Sakurai nodded and continued her story: "But she couldn't survive on her own in the outside world, and soon collapsed. In order to save herself, or perhaps stimulated by other factors, other personalities awakened. After many personalities took turns to fight, my personality finally gained the upper hand and gained control of this body."

Koizumi nodded. "Indeed, this can explain why all your previous memories are broken and incoherent. It can also explain why your memories of your childhood do not match reality."

Sakurai: "Yes. However, these are all conclusions based on my investigation of the organization and my experiences in that life, and I cannot guarantee their authenticity."

"Do not……"

Koizumi rubbed his forehead vigorously. "I feel that this should be very close to the truth. And the so-called special ability should actually be..."

She looked up and her eyes met Sakurai's. They both said in unison, "It's the system."

"What I didn't expect was that the soul was preserved every time I reincarnated... So, the reason why the system was damaged can be explained."

Koizumi let out a long sigh: "Maybe it's not that the system is broken at all, but because the saturation of the soul exceeds the system's carrying limit, so it bugs out."

Sakurai frowned slightly: "But this doesn't explain the task given by the system."

Koizumi was silent for a moment, then raised his voice and said, "System, check the tasks."

The light curtain appears.

【Liberate the imprisoned system】

liberation……

"Perhaps there is still something wrong with our reasoning, so let's put this aside for now. However, I do know how to complete another task."

Sakurai looked at her in surprise: "End that gentleman's ambition? You already know what his ambition and desire are?"

Koizumi sneered: "I don't care what ambitions or desires he has, just kill him and be done with it!

"Whether it's that bastard old man, his bastard laboratory, or his bastard organization, all of them should go to hell!"