Anti-parallel, highly helical

The world is in perpetual change, whether it is objectively realistic or subjectively determined.

Even now, Kudo still has no way to connect the guy nestled on his sofa with the "monster thief" he knew in the past.

If the usual behavior patterns are roughly the same, the phantom thief in daily life will probably also be a mystic, who has a lot of popularity on campus, but has few companions around him.Because the usual activities are too elusive, maybe I will become a role that even the teacher has to give up three points.

All in all, if the strange thief outside his identity is such a person, Kudo thinks that he will not be too surprised. Even if all the suspicions are confirmed in the end, the mental shock will be weakened a lot.But the "Black Feather Kaito" in front of him was very different from the phantom thief he knew.

Even if it is a deliberate optimist style to hide his identity, there is no need to be so different.If you want to create an identity opposite to that flamboyant and flamboyant character, you just need to live like an ordinary person, neither too high-profile nor too withdrawn, have a few friends you can talk to, and occasionally get along with Childhood sweethearts go to school together.Just doing this is enough.Although this kind of "ordinary" requires painstaking efforts for the innately high-profile character of the phantom thief, it is unimaginable for Kudo to some extent that Kuroba can live like the protagonist regardless of his identity.

How on earth does he handle the balance between this?

"Hey, detective," Kuroba stared cross-legged at the small news scrolling at the bottom of the TV screen, "Do you think it's easier to repeat the facts, or to fabricate the facts?"

"It's not easy," Kudo spread his hands meaninglessly, "No matter what it is, it's the transmission of information, isn't it?" In order to purposely convey a certain information or belief to others, faithful reproduction and The fabrication of rhetoric undoubtedly requires effort and thought.

"Well, that's right." Hei Yu, who had lost interest in the news, was about to tune the channel, "Even if it's nonsense, it's really not easy for people to believe..."

As long as the language is used as the carrier, no matter what its form is, the content is controlled by the language behind it.The selective reception of information thus gradually builds the whole world.

The sudden ringtone of the mobile phone seemed abrupt in the background sound of the TV news, which could almost be regarded as white noise.

Kuroba, who has experienced a long period of "isolation" to recuperate, received the first phone call since regaining the sovereignty of communicating with the outside world.

"Hello?"

"Hei Yu-kun," Hei Yu could guess who the other party was without self-introduction, and Hei Yu resisted the urge to hang up the phone and continued listening. "You've really gotten into an incredible 'suitor' recently."

"Huh?" Black Feather raised his voice disapprovingly of Baima's inexplicable words.

"I am now... across from your house," Baima observed the surrounding situation from a distance across the road. "...There are also some suspicious guys here today."

"...I never asked you so much," Heroha thought for a while and reluctantly switched the call to hands-free after receiving Kudo Tanxun's eyes, "So, it's all Who, those so-called 'suspicious guys'?"

"A group of non-professionals who think they have perfectly disguised themselves as office workers," said the long attributive without a pause, with some sarcasm in the gentle tone, "but not every day."

"According to you..." Hei Yu frowned and raised his voice, "...You are guarding my door every day, you bastard white horse!" He even said it as if he was helping, but the detective was the real one. The most terrifying existence.

Ahh so terrible so terrible.

"Student Nakamori regretfully wants to come to visit every day." Baima's tone didn't seem like he was making up an excuse, "I worked very hard to prevent the lie from being exposed, Heiba-kun."

"Didn't anyone else appear?" Kudo, who had been listening attentively, also began to ask, "For example, foreign women... or something like that?"

Because the voice lines are too similar, I don't know if it's because I didn't recognize it or I didn't care at all, Baima didn't say much, and answered the question directly: "I don't think it's worth the appearance of a lady like that with Kuroba-kun's charm?"

Can't you simply say "no"? !Black Feather let out a low "tsk".

The art of the hell talking.

"Understood, thank you." After a simple thank you, Kudo cut off the call.

"Hey," Kuroba looked at the detective's incomparably natural movements with a dark face, "That's my cell phone."

"Sorry, before I knew it..." Handing back the other party's belongings, Kudo's expression was not as relaxed as his tone, "...It seems that they still have unresolved matters."

"He came to the door again..." Hei Yu bit her nails anxiously, "Is that why you don't give up?"

"Huh?" Sensitively feeling something wrong in Kuroba's words, without hesitation, Kudo asked the question directly. "Why do you say 'again'?"

"...not everyone can bear to be a famous detective," recalling that he hadn't said anything about the note, Kuroba sighed, thinking about how to explain the matter clearly.

"Be clear in advance, the Phantom Thief works alone."

No collusion with criminal groups, no force majeure and no cooperation with detectives.

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White Horse Detective: On the Self-Cultivation of Stalkers.

It turns out that the world is also operating in a place that I don't know, in a way that seems beyond imagination but is actually extremely normal.

Kuroba drank some water to moisten his throat and began to talk.At the same time, Kudo was also sorting out his thoughts.

Now he began to understand a little bit, what Miyano said before, "everything happens by chance".He originally thought that Kuroba was really just an ordinary high school student who participated in a courage test in a museum that was closed on weekends in broad daylight.

That's right, the attributives are so long, and they are neither logical nor realistic, so how can they be "ordinary".The next few encounters also seemed to be covered with the skin of "carnival of ordinary high school students", but after thinking about it, it is indeed not the same thing.Putting personal factors aside, Shinichi Kudo would not believe that Detective Baima would appear in the game center as a colleague.In addition, the game center is quite close to the museum visited by the phantom thief last time...

The answer is actually pretty obvious.

"Hello?" Kuroba paused when he realized that Kudo was distracted, stretched out a hand and waved in front of his eyes, "Detective?"

"Huh?" Kudo came back to his senses.

"Really, are you listening..." Leaning back dissatisfied, Kuroba held up the quilt at hand, "What do you think?"

"...My opinion?" Although Kudo had been thinking about other things, he still listened carefully to Kuroba's narration, "I think there are more questions... For example, what do you think Why did they use the word 'assist'?"

Instead of "needing" the assistance of the phantom thief, it is possible to "provide" assistance for the phantom thief.On this point the position seems rather strange.Generally speaking, characters like "Phantom Thief" who stand on the opposite side of the law and the police should be suitable for being used rather than being assisted. After all, if you want to assist such a high-profile character, it is also very easy to organize your own existence will be exposed.

"By the way, you said before..." Kudo put his hands together, "You asked if Belmode acted independently this time?"

"That's right..."

"How did she answer?"

He only knew a little about the actress who was considered a public figure, and Kuroba, who didn't know much about the organization she served, only asked that question out of caution. "...She said, 'It's both.'"

"That is to say, it was originally planned to contact you, but she herself proposed to come forward?"

"Maybe," Kuroba put down the glass and licked his dry lips, "after all, she knows me."

With so-called "acquaintances" coming forward, the probability of successful negotiations may increase.This is true no matter what class you are in.However, once there is a crack in the bond of this human relationship, the benefits that the relationship can bring will not exist.

"She knows you?!" Before that, Kudo had never considered that the Phantom Thief and the organization would have a connection where he didn't see it. "So, she knows you are...?"

"It's not the kind of 'acquaintance' you think," Hei Yu seemed a little upset, "It's just that I met a few times when I was a child."

"When I was a child?" Kudo vaguely felt that the delicacy and complexity of the gears operating in this world had exceeded his expectations, "You mean...you have seen her many years ago?"

"Is it weird?" Hei Yu didn't think so, "She's my father's apprentice, so it's strange that I haven't seen her before."

At that moment, Kudo seemed to hear the crisp sound of the gears engaging in the incident.

connected.

A few days ago, when he was investigating the reasons for the Phantom Thief's actions out of interest, he asked his parents about Kuroba Pirates.He originally thought that his parents' almost nonsense answers were just small talk and not informative.

It is true that there is not much information, but it actually carries important facts.

"Dao Yisang is really very gentle, whether it's to me or to her..." At that time, my mother's answer was like this.According to her, when she was learning from Kuroba Pirates, she should have met Kuroba Kaito himself as a child.And the identity of the "she" mentioned in this passage can basically be determined.

"Very gentle".That kind of person is actually the first generation of Phantom Thieves...

Kudo Shinichi suddenly shuddered.

A man who flirts everywhere...

"What's wrong with the famous detective?" Looking at Kudo, who was obviously lost in thought again, Kuroba stretched out his hand again and waved in front of his eyes, "What are you thinking?"

"I was just thinking..." Kudo subconsciously said what he thought, "Your father is such a terrible man."

"Huh?" Hei Yu couldn't help sighing in his heart for this nonsensical speech, so don't try to figure out the detective's thinking circuit, "What did my father do?"

Before Kudo could excuse his inadvertent remarks, his cell phone rang in due course.

"I didn't give any permission to go out," just as the call was connected, Miyano's sullen voice came from the other end, "Is that guy with you?"

"Eh?" Kudo turned around and looked at Kuroba who said "I'm here of course", "I'm right here..."

"Let him come back," said the speech without redundant explanations, implying that the speaker's mood has reached a critical point, "immediately."

Reluctantly hung up the phone, Kudo shrugged to Kuroba, "She told you to go back."

"But, detective," Kuroba said without moving, "I can't walk anymore."

"Just a few steps away, you told me that you can't walk anymore?" If you have the strength to come over, you don't have the strength to go back?

Tilting his head innocently, Kuroba smiled slyly. "I'm sort of 'rehabilitating'."

Feeling the temperature slightly higher than body temperature and the unexpected weight on his back, Kudo sighed.

In the end, this is the way to go...

Is this guy a child, and he still needs someone to carry him back... But the weight on his shoulders made him feel relieved for no reason.

Occasionally, like to relax and take a break during a tense battle, it seems nice.Pretty good.

If it can go on like this...

Kudo suppressed his thoughts of setting a flag.

"You still seem to have a fever." Fortunately, the journey was not long, and he could arrive in time before Miyano completely lost his temper.Kudo walked unhurriedly, "...is it because of that gene?"

Hei Yu said that he is also a non-professional and doesn't understand anything, "Probably so."

Kudou's hair rubbed his cheeks slightly itchy, and he turned his head unconsciously.

If you are like this, do you trust the other party too much?

It's not like I didn't think about it before, whether the rejection of the so-called cooperation is really just to "don't want to stand on the opposite side".

Maybe, I just chose a favor with closer interests.

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Voiceover: Every moment has the potential to become a time capsule.