[Conan] You are my two-way choice

In the coffee shop next door to Ekoda School, there was still the same seat by the window, and Akakawa Natsu was sitting in front of Kudo Shinichi at that time.

Ever since he saw her in Millennium Sakura, he put aside some things and started the investigation of Akakawa Natsu and Satsuki Ze.For the first time, the police department was hacked and most of the data was damaged, which made Kudo Shinichi empty-handed.

The second time at this place, he got the information bag of that mission, and met Akakawa Xia for the second time here.

——"Akakawa Xia, who are you..."

——"Kudo-kun, I, Akagawa Natsu, am not Kana Natsume."

At that time, he hadn't recovered from Kana Natsume's death. When he met Akagawa Natsuki who looked exactly like her, he still subconsciously regarded her as Kana Natsume, the detective partner whose reasoning was comparable to his own.

That day, Akagawa Natsu told him in a very definite tone that she was not Kana Natsume, with sharp eyes filled with melancholy and sadness.Unlike Kanna Natsume, deep and sharp, but indescribably clear.

Whenever she sees Akagawa Natsu, she always has a little melancholy, that melancholy does not belong to Kanna Natsume, but only belongs to Akakawa Natsu to Gao Yueze.

Kudo Shinichi looked at Gao Yueze opposite him, he was stirring with a spoon as if nothing had happened, there was a trace of sadness between his brows, but he quickly disguised it.After ordering two cups of coffee for a long time, the two of them didn't move their mouths, and neither of them made a sound, and they kept it in the cooling room.

After a long time, Gao Yueze broke the silence that belonged to the two of them: "Chen... Dongfang, what did he say?"

Under Kudo Shinichi's surprised eyes, Gao Yueze continued: "The investigation of these two months has been hard, Mr. Sherlock in the Heisei era."

Kudo Shinichi picked up the coffee that had been cooled for a long time, and took a sip. At this time, he felt that the coffee he usually drank was very sweet. Could it be because he knew the truth, and felt that everything he ate and drank was sweet, and he was not going to tell Gao Yueze changed the question about Dongfang Chen asking him to hand it over to Gao Yueze:

"To cut to the chase, I hope she comes back."

Want that idiot back with us.

Even though Kudo Shinichi didn't say her name, Gao Yueze knew it well.

"Although I really want to help, but I can't do it." After hearing Gao Yueze's words, Kudo Shinichi suppressed the urge to rush up and question him. Since the Moonlight incident, he is no longer that person. A rampant teenager who only cares about the truth, but cares more about life and truth.

"I'm glad you didn't rush up to question me," Gao Yueze's eyes sharpened, and the atmosphere was very tense when talking about important things, "Even if she recovers her memory, she can't become Kanna Natsume, because she already dead."

Since that day, Gao Yueze tried to find the soul of Natsume Kana in the depths of Natsu Akagawa's soul every night, but every time he failed, and finally he came to the conclusion that Natsume Kana was killed by him that day. While hypnotized, she 'suicided'.

"'Dead', how can this happen?" Kudo Shinichi sensed the word 'death' in Gao Yueze's words, and felt the seriousness of this time.

Gao Yueze explained to Kudo Shinichi in simple and common language:

"What I know now is that after she was hypnotized by me that day, her soul 'suicide' in the dream, and the memory disappears with the life, even if the memory recovers, the lost life cannot be returned."

"But when I realized it recently, I discovered that Kanna Natsume cast a spell on herself a long time ago, and the magic looks like red magic."

Red Magic, Red Koizumi.

"That magic requires a specific person and a specific sentence to unseal it. Once it is forcibly unsealed, I am afraid that Kanna Natsume will no longer exist this time. Only a body with her memory but no soul exists in the world. It is like a dead person. And neither the user nor the heir of the magic can say anything about the spell, oh of course, I'm a black magician so it's kind of ok."

"Kuroba Kaito..." After Kudo Shinichi finished listening, Kuroba Kaito's heartless smiling face appeared in his mind, and he unconsciously said his name.

"Well... I need you to explore," Gao Yueze said after drinking the last sip of coffee, "Tonight I will wake up the memory of Kana Natsume, and I will leave the soul to you."

"Thank you."

"Don't thank me, I should say sorry to you."

If at that time, I was not blinded by revenge.

——"Kana Natsume, let's play a game, how strong is someone who likes you..."

I still remember her furrowed brows on the bed when she uttered these words that night, and her bony hands grabbed the bed sheet under her body, leaving a few bloodstains.

He jumped for joy in his heart for an instant, it really could make him so painful.

It's the best way to get revenge.

but,

――"Stopping the name of the heir of black magic, Satsuki Ze..."

When he gave his name, the struggling and restless people on the hospital bed miraculously stopped.The handsome eyebrows that suddenly stretched made him stand there in a daze for a long time.

He should have thought of it a long time ago, when she suddenly let go of her hand holding the sheet, he should have thought of it long ago.

"She is such an idiot, she trusts me so much..." Gao Yueze murmured.

Did she know how much she hated you at that time, did she know that every night she stood by her bed, the pistol/gun was bolted and aimed at her head.

"I don't believe in you, but in that person, that person's promise." Kudo Shin turned his face away, "She believes that the person that person likes is absolutely trustworthy."

Xiaoxia, that childhood sweetheart who won't be by my side from now on, the one I love the most.

"What Dongfang said is nothing more than that 'she' is dead. Hurry up and wake up from this farce, something like this." Gao Yueze looked at Kudo Shinichi and said, Kudo Shin nodded, what Gao Yueze said was consistent with The East had said exactly the same thing to him.

"In short, I'll leave the rest to you. See you later." After Gao Yueze finished speaking, he waved his hand, picked up the bill on the table, and walked out of the coffee shop after handing it over at the cash register.

Kudo Shinichi watched Gao Yueze's back until he completely disappeared from his sight, picked up the coffee, drank it all, and walked out of the coffee shop.

Neither Gao Yueze nor Kudo Shinichi knew that their actions this time would be sabotaged by others.

The two people in the dark waited for an opportunity to move, and the light disappeared behind the darkness.

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