The Split-Actress in Conan's World

“I can predict the future.”

Conan stared at the words, "Hey, I finally convinced myself to believe what you just said, and now you say you can predict the future?"

Haibara Ai didn't express any opinion, but just looked at them with interest while holding the magazine.

Chiyoko exclaimed, "It's not the conventional sense of foreseeing the future. Occasionally, some images flash through my mind, and the things in those images will happen soon. It's more like a passive prophecy."

"But this is not scientific at all!" Conan collapsed. The amount of information tonight was too much for him to handle.

Chiyoko touched her earlobe, looking vaguely guilty.

"Really? I think it's quite scientific."

Huiyuan Ai found an explanation for them: "You said you participated in potential development before?"

"Can it be explained that your brain passively receives information from the surroundings, and your subconscious mind processes them to generate a foreknowledge of how things will develop? However, since all this happens subconsciously, it is not under your subjective control?"

It barely makes sense.

Chiyoko nodded vaguely, and he spread out his palms and said to the two of them, "No matter what the principle is, we just need to prove that it really exists and can be used, right?"

He turned to look at Conan, who was racking his brains to try to explain this with science: "It just so happens that I saw a very interesting picture right now."

"Kudo Shinichi is solving cases in style."

After moistening her lips with tea, Chiyomi continued to supplement with two pairs of blue eyes, one deep and one light.

"It's Kudo Shinichi in high school student form."

Conan was skeptical: "You mean, I will change back soon?"

Haibara Ai closed the magazine and was very interested in this.

"I'm pretty sure there won't be a cure anytime soon."

She turned to look at the doctor: "If you want to verify this 'future', you just need to follow Edogawa for a few days, right? These days are my off days."

"Then please, Doctor, drive for us." Chiyoko asked smoothly.

"Hey, hey..." Conan's mouth twitched. Are these two guys discussing their criminal plan openly in front of him?

"By the way, didn't we discuss a communication badge last time? How's your research going, Doctor?" He didn't think too much about it. Considering that mobile phones were inconvenient for long-term communication, he asked the omnipotent Dr. Agasa.

"That one you're talking about, I've already made it. I just happened to make two more as a backup, just right for Ai and Hikaru."

Dr. Agasa touched his poor hair and took out a few badges with Sherlock Holmes patterns on them from behind the table.

"These badges have transmitters on them that can be tracked with your glasses. I've tuned you to a channel so you can use it as an intercom by pressing this button."

"You can give it to those kids when they come next time." The doctor said with a smile.

Several people got an extra piece of equipment.

So the next day, Chiyoko left Rinshakuha's house early and came to Dr. Agasa's house.

Haibara Ai was sitting on the sofa, holding a coffee cup elegantly.

On the table was her detective badge.

"Xiao Guang, you are here. Have you had breakfast?"

The Doctor waved to him affably.

He felt pity for both children. One had lost his family and was hunted by a dark organization, while the other was simply used as an experimental subject and lived a life in darkness.

"Good morning, Doctor. Mr. Rin has taken me to eat."

After politely saying hello, Chiyoko sat down on another sofa and joined in eavesdropping on Conan.

"Why is there only the sound of sniffling?"

After a while, he frowned and looked a little disgusted.

Haibara Ai took a sip of black coffee without sugar and said calmly, "A certain stupid detective kept thinking about the organization after returning home. He didn't even notice that the bath water had cooled down. In the end, he became a pitiful slug."

"Hey, hey, you guys are talking bad about me behind my back, I can hear you guys!"

Conan's deep childish voice came from the badge, with a heavy nasal tone.

"I don't mean to hide it from you." Huibara Ai snorted softly.

Chiyoko used his hands to comb his bangs up a little to avoid blocking his vision. He lazily complained: "Can you talk farther away from the receiver? Those who know may think you have a cold, but those who don't may think Megatron has taken over someone else's body."

"So what's the situation on your side now?"

After a few short coughs, Conan helplessly broadcast the scene: "A dark-skinned guy with an accent ran into the office looking for Kudo Shinichi."

"I didn't ask about Xiaolan's recent situation when I called her before. That guy deduced that I was around Xiaolan through this flaw, ahem..."

"Ah, he said he was a high school detective named Hattori Heiji from Kansai, and he also said something like 'Hattori from Kansai, Kudo from Kanto'."

Suddenly a loud noise sounded in the badge.

"What have you been mumbling to yourself for since just now, little brat? I have a special medicine for colds here, try it!"

"Ah, thank you..."

"Gudong-"

The voice gradually faded away from the receiver.

Then came Mao Lilan's urgent cry: "Conan, Conan!"

"What did you give him to drink?"

The male voice with an accent just now said very firmly: "It's Chinese Baigan liquor!"

Chiyoko: “…”

Conan's life is really exciting.

Haibara Ai also put down her favorite coffee, not knowing what to say.

"I hope this dumb detective doesn't fall down somewhere inexplicable."

After that, there was a long silence, as if someone accidentally touched a button and closed the communication.

Seeing that they were quiet, the doctor took out a pair of glasses of the same style as Conan's.

"This is a backup for Shinichi's glasses. It can also receive the signal from the detective badge."

There was a look of worry on his face.

Haibara Ai took the spare phone, but did not put it on. Instead, she placed it next to the badge.

"Don't worry, Doc."

"He was just drunk, he wasn't drugged. Besides, wasn't the lady from the office with him?"

......

Conan turned around in a daze, and the door of the office was opened. A cool breeze blew in, making him a little more sober.

knock --

A wealthy lady in an exaggerated coat stood at the door, knocking on the open door wearing black gloves.

She took off her sunglasses and said impatiently, "How many times do I have to ring the bell before you guys can hear me?"

"Is this the way you treat guests?"

The visitor was Ikemura Kimie, the wife of diplomat Ikemura Isao.

Kogoro Mouri broke away from the farce between Hattori Heiji and Conan, and seriously invited this unusual client to sit at the table. Ran Mouri brought two cups of tea in a timely manner.

"May I ask what you would like to ask for?"

He held his hands in front of him, looking like a reliable detective.

Ikemura Kimie took off her loose fleece coat, revealing a fitted light white suit underneath, giving people the impression of a strong woman.

She pushed a file bag in front of Kogoro Mouri. Inside was a few photos. The woman in the photos was leaning against a man with a happy look on her face, and they looked very much a perfect match.

"This is......"

"My son has decided to marry this woman, and I hope to find out if this woman is worthy of our Chicun family."

She clicked on the file bag, which contained, in addition to the photos, some records of the woman's past experiences.

"We need to investigate the conduct record of your son's girlfriend." Kogoro Maori looked through those things with understanding.

Katsuragi Sachiko, 24 years old.

After graduating from Mitsuba Junior High School with excellent grades, she successfully entered Toudou Medical University and received training to become a female doctor.

She also looks pretty good, and is a cheerful and smiling girl.

"Is there anything you are dissatisfied with?"

This resume cannot be said to be impeccable, but it is also very good, Kogoro Mori asked puzzledly.

Ikemura Kimie said calmly: "I'm not upset with her, it's just..."

“Because the conditions are too good, I don’t like it.”

Being suddenly interrupted, Ikemura Gongjiang looked in the direction of the voice and his face seemed to be a little stern.

Hattori Heiji leaned against the file cabinet with his hands in his pockets, without stopping his evaluation.

"Humans are inherently suspicious and jealous creatures. When they see something perfect, they tend to find fault with it."

Maori Kogoro's expression darkened and he shouted, "Hey!"

"Aunt, am I right?" Hattori Heiji looked directly at Ikemura Kimie without being humble or arrogant.

Ikemura Kimie did not answer, but turned to Maori Kogoro: "Who is this child?"

"My daughter's friend!" Uncle Maori smiled and turned around to drive her away, "Go, go——"

Ikemura Kimie was speechless. She always felt that there might be something wrong with her plan.

This Maori detective agency is full of weirdness.

She shouldn't have chosen this place based on the reputation in the newspapers.

Standing up and picking up his fleece coat, Ikemura Gongjiang forced the topic back: "Anyway, when we get to my house, my husband will talk to you in detail."

When Maori Kogoro heard that he had to go to the client's house, he felt lazy and couldn't help but complain: "If I had known this, wouldn't it be better if you two came together..."

"Uncle, you really don't understand these celebrities. If a diplomat showed up at a detective agency, all kinds of fabricated scandals would be flying around the next day."

Hattori Heiji explained to Mori Kogoro before Ikemura Kimie spoke.

"Oh, by the way, if that's the case, I'll go with you!"

He raised his white baseball cap and said to Maori Kogoro's unhappy look, "If I go with you, it won't look like a private detective investigation, and it won't arouse suspicion."

Ikemura Gongjiang put on his coat and sunglasses again: "What you said makes sense, so I'll trouble you."

"Mrs. Ikemura?!" Kogoro Mori didn't expect that his client would also join in the fun with the kid from Osaka.

Hattori Heiji looked at Mao Lilan who was standing beside him and said, "Will you come with us?"

"Why should I go too?"

"Wouldn't it be better if there were more people?"

He gave a confident smile, and Mao Li Ran vaguely saw Shinichi's shadow.

"Besides, Kudo Shinichi might show up!"

"Sister Xiaolan, let's go too!" Conan also came to join in the fun, pulling on the corner of Mouri Ran's clothes and acting coquettishly.

Mao Lilan looked troubled. She looked at Conan worriedly: "But you are still sick..."

"I'm much better now. My brother's medicine is very effective!"

Hattori Heiji touched his nose proudly: "I say?"

It was definitely thanks to that glass of white wine that after the initial dizziness wore off, Conan felt warm all over and his cold symptoms improved a lot.

It's just that my thinking is still a little slow.

He insisted on going for two reasons.

One is that this guy from Osaka seems to be obsessed with Kudo Shinichi for some reason. He is worried that if he doesn't follow him and keep an eye on him, this guy will come up with some strange inferences and lead Xiaolan astray.

Another reason is that he always felt that there was some hidden story behind this commission.

Just like Uncle Maori said, two people could have come together, but only the diplomat's wife came.

If, as Hattori said, they were afraid of a scandal involving diplomats, they could just disguise themselves like Mrs. Ikemura did.

What's more, how can the scandal that a diplomat himself can fabricate by going to a detective agency compare to the scandal that the diplomat's wife can fabricate by going to a private detective alone?

It's weird no matter how you think about it.

So he decided to follow and see what was going on.

Several people soon arrived at the diplomat's residence.