Chapter 1: A Detective Who Becomes a Child
Kaedehara is not called Kaedehara now, but it is called so first.
His name was Kong, the name given to him by his master.
As a person living in the era of the end of the law, Sora has neither the ability to awaken the bells and whistles, nor the magic to live forever, except for being a little more handsome than ordinary people and being able to play a little, Sora can only be said to be mediocre, belonging to the kind of passerby who does not even deserve a complete name in the aura revival text.
But fortunately, he crossed over.
At this time, he was only wrapped in a coat and was held in the arms of a man.
He had apparently taken on the form of a child—probably a consequence of the crossing, but the extra memories in his mind that didn't belong to him told him otherwise.
As far back as he remembers following two suspicious figures dressed in black to a remote location, he was knocked unconscious by one of the guys behind while secretly filming evidence of their crimes, and then given strange drugs.
This may be the reason why the original owner, a high school detective named Shinichi Kudo, has become smaller.
Sora knows the name.
As his memories were absorbed, he was able to understand what the police officers around him were saying. Words such as "twins," "infirmary," and "penis" poured into my ears, scrambled into combinations, and then formed complete sentences.
When he had fully accepted the memory, he had mastered the language out of thin air, and it was only then that Sora opened his eyes again and looked at the other child who was being held in his arms by another person beside him.
The kid seemed to have just understood what the police were saying, and happened to look at it.
Glancing at the child, he noticed that the child's eyes were full of shock and confusion. The next moment, the steps of the two police officers holding the child staggered, and the staggered eyes of the two were disconnected.
Still, he looked in that direction in a daze... That kid was exactly the same as the extra memory in his mind that Kudo Shinichi had when he was a child.
And judging from the conversations of the police officers, I am afraid that his appearance is the same.
Sora sighed silently, realizing that something might have gone wrong with his crossing.
From memory, he came to this world to replace Shinichi Kudo. But it has not been completely replaced.
He has exactly the same appearance as Kudo Shinichi, and he has Kudo Shinichi's complete or even clearer memory... But the original Kudo Shinichi is still there.
In other words, now, there are two Kudo Shinichi.
……
The police officers who found the two children who had passed out on the ground did a brief examination of the children, and found that if they were not rushed to the infirmary, the wounds of the two children would be completely healed, so the group hurried to the nearby infirmary.
One of the children was quiet — probably the older brother of the twins — and the other was so noisy that he woke up talking inexplicably, but the little one suddenly quieted down when he saw his brother, much to the relief of the officers.
They brought the two children into the infirmary, bandaged the wounds that had actually healed, and then found old shoes for one of the children, who was only wrapped in an adult's coat, and began to discuss sending the children home.
Sora sat aside and listened quietly, watching Shinichi Kudo, who was wrapped in his shirt, sneak up in front of the floor-to-ceiling mirror, looking at Shinichi Kudo with a shocked expression.
Kudo Shinichi's brain was already down.
He abruptly glanced back at the guy sitting on the stool "obediently", and saw that the child, who was exactly the same as he was when he was a child and still is, was looking at him thoughtfully.
Then he turned his head to the side, and when he saw that the officers were not paying attention to him for a while, he crept to the door of the infirmary, pushed it open, and dragged his ill-fitting shoes and pants and ran.
It was raining lightly outside.
The moon had already risen, the street lights were dim, the ground had begun to accumulate water, and the shoes that didn't fit well made it difficult for Kudo Shinichi to run.
However, the dim environment also allowed him to quickly get rid of the police officers who caught up with him, and got rid of the fate of being sent directly to the nursery in order to save trouble.
Kudo Shinichi is in a mess at the moment, and it is still difficult to accept the status quo. It was obviously instinct to go home first in this situation, but Kudo Shinichi deliberately made two detours and stopped by a dim streetlamp.
"Now you can say that," Kudo Shinichi turned around, squinting his eyes, "who the hell are you?" ”
“… Shinichi Kudo. ”
"Tsk, that's what I thought." Although the pants didn't fit at all, Kudo Shinichi still put his hands in his pockets and his eyes sharpened.
Sora raised an eyebrow, which was different from what he thought.
"You're in the same league as those guys, aren't you?" Kudo Shinichi continued, "Originally, I wondered if you just happened to be exactly like me when I was a kid, but after noticing that you had the same wound on your head as mine, I knew it wasn't that simple. ”
"So I guess, you guys want to replace me as a child, and use Shinichi Hito's identity to do some shady things, right?"
This guy is exactly like himself... So all this was premeditated, and those two guys dressed in black probably also deliberately led themselves over.
Kudo Shinichi was a little annoyed when he thought of this, and he felt that he was indeed a little reckless, but he still carefully observed the expression of the guy opposite... However, the other party did not look as surprised as he expected to be exposed.
"So," Sora asked, his voice sounding almost exactly the same as that of Shinichi Kudo when he became smaller, but the way he spoke and the tone of his voice were slightly different, "Why do you want to pretend to be Shinichi Kudo who has become smaller?" Is it bad to disguise yourself directly as Shinichi Kudo? ”
"Because of you." Kudo Shinichi continued to reason, "I'm afraid you came up with this plan by accident when you found out that you were very similar to me when you were a child. ”
"But you may not be so much like me... And you probably don't know that much about me. I think you're probably trying to claim that you're the smaller me and trick the people around me into believing you,"
For example, Xiaolan, Kudo Shinichi added this sentence in his mind.
"Then you can use Kudo Shinichi's identity without behaving exactly like the original me, reducing the risk of being discovered."
"However, things went wrong."
Shinichi Kudo continued.
His head was still a little dizzy, and turning into a child was a big shock to him, making it difficult for him to concentrate.
"You wanted to kill me outright... But not only did I not die, but I became a child like you, and the police came so fast that you didn't have time to dispose of me, and you only had time to put my coat on your body..."
If it was a case he had experienced in the past, the inference would have reached this point, and the prisoner should have knelt on the ground and made a self-statement... But these guys on the other side are obviously not ordinary prisoners.
In addition, Kudo Shinichi himself knows that his words are not reasoning at all, but can only be said to be a temptation. What happened tonight is so bizarre that it even faintly shakes my worldview... But he obviously doesn't have time to investigate slowly, and the fact that he can get rid of those police officers but can't get rid of this guy in front of him is a testament to this.
"Seems to make sense."
"But... I have one more question, "Sora took half a step forward," and if what you said is true, then why do you dare to have a showdown here? Now get rid of you... Doesn't seem too late? ”
"Heh... You seem to have forgotten," Shinichi Kudo said with a confident expression, "You're just a kid now... Son..."
Kudo Shinichi's face turned pale.