Chapter 2: The Other Me

It's over, I seem to be a kid too. Shinichi Kudo, who failed to integrate into the setting earlier, was stunned for a moment, and failed to react in time to the approach of the air.

And then...

Empty poke out of the air... Pulled Shinichi Kudo to the side of the road.

"Bastard! If you don't walk to the side, you want to die! Be careful, stinky imp! ”

A van drove by, leaving only the driver's insults and splashes of water. Shinichi Kudo, who was drenched, sneezed.

"Let's go back first, shall we? I want to change my clothes. "It's a bit of a surprise that the empty eye delivery truck that built the seventh-level floating slaughter left.

Because of Kudo Shinichi, they had made a special detour before, but they didn't expect to encounter this famous scene.

It wasn't raining heavily, but it didn't stop, and he was now covered with only a coat around him. Although I am just a child's body, everything that should be covered can be covered, and it will not affect the appearance of the city... But that's really breathable.

After such a show, Kudo Shinichi seems to realize that things may not be as he thinks. This guy doesn't seem to have solved his thoughts, and even saved his own life.

He was just wandering, if it weren't for being pulled away... The driver's uncle won't be in the mood to open his mouth and curse.

After walking for a while, the silence was maintained for a while, and Kudo Shinichi, who was in the child's body, soon felt a little tired, and finally couldn't hold it anymore, and spoke again: "Who are you?" ”

Who the hell am I? That's a good question, Sora thought about it for a moment.

In fact, since he crossed over, he has been thinking about what kind of identity he should live in this familiar and strange world with the face of Shinichi Kudo.

Orphans with amnesia, orphans without amnesia... Wait, he had thought about a lot of identity settings before, but just now Kudo Shinichi's wonderful reasoning gave him a new idea.

"I'm Shinichi Kudo."

Heh, again?

"You're also Shinichi Kudo."

Nonsense, use your words.

"We're all Shinichi Kudo." Sora stopped, turned around, and looked at Shinichi Kudo who was stunned playfully, "In the evening, Shinichi Kudo left Maolilan behind to follow two suspicious characters dressed in black, but he didn't expect to be beaten with a stick by one of the guys, and then he was poured strange drugs, and when he woke up again-"

"He became not only a child, but also two people. You," Sora pointed to Shinichi Kudo, "and me." ”

The air seemed to freeze, and Sora could clearly hear Kudo Shinichi's breathing intensify a lot. And then—

"Who would believe that!"

"Indeed... But as you can see, we've all become kids. ”

"It's outrageous to become two people!"

"Isn't it outrageous to be a child? This is against the laws of physics. ”

“… That's a lot more reliable than becoming two people. ”

"Then let's try it."

"Huh?"

"What if... A person has both the appearance of Kudo Shinichi and the memory of Kudo Shinichi, so if he is not Kudo Shinichi, who else can he be? ”

……

A few minutes later.

"What was the last thing I said to Dr. Asasa?"

"Doctor, I forgot to tell you, you didn't zip up."

… Do you know this? Shinichi Kudo fell into deep doubt inside. He'd been asking a lot of things in a row that few people should know, but the guy on the other side was all at ease.

He even remembered it better than he remembered.

"When you rule out all the impossible, whatever is left, no matter how impossible it may seem, it must be the truth."

"Not necessarily," Shinichi Kudo narrowed his eyes, "Maybe you've been spying on me since I was a kid, so you're going to know almost everything about me." ”

"Why don't you think a little more? For example, your life is just a scene on the screen, and everyone around you is just actors. And the life you do without knowing anything about it is just someone else's entertainment. How's that? ”

“…… Hey, hey. Kudo Shinichi stared blankly and felt a little big. Compared to this, it doesn't seem so difficult to accept to take a strange drug and split into two people.

A wild dog came out of nowhere, and Kudo Shinichi was slightly startled, but the dog barked twice when he saw the two of them, then turned around and disappeared.

Sora watched the dog disappear just like he had seen the delivery van leave, then sighed and decided to speed things up.

"Then again, you've always been asking me, and it's time for me to ask you."

Kudo Shinichi was stunned for a moment.

"What were we thinking before we went to bed last night?"

… What was I thinking before I went to bed last night? Oh, by the way, because I made an appointment to go to the amusement park with Xiaolan today, so last night... Kudo Shinichi blushed slightly, but the next moment he thought of something, and he had a bad premonition in his heart, hey... No way...

"Oh, by the way," Sora replied to himself, "we're thinking about Ran." What is she doing? ”

"She's dressed in white—" Sora continued, but Kudo Shinichi almost jumped up as if he had been hit in the foot, and then rushed up to try to stop Sora from continuing.

But it didn't work.

Sora just casually took a step to the right and dodged.

“… Wedding dress. In the dim yellow light, Xiaolan glared at the person in front of her with resentment, her face full of reluctance—" Sora said slowly, and Kudo Shinichi's body gradually stiffened, "—reluctantly read the Sherlock Holmes detective book to the guy named Kudo Shinichi. ”

"Tsk, I'm nasty."

Shinichi Kudo, who had almost hit the street lamp, turned around, and in the dim light, he could see that his face was now blushing like the position of a member of some black-clad organization.

Then the two sides fell into silence for several minutes.

Just as Sora began to change from counting sheep to counting rats, Kudo Shinichi finally broke the silence again.

"So... We are all... Belch... Shinichi Kudo split out? ”

"That's right."

"But your personality is obviously different from mine." Shinichi Kudo struggled to the death, pointing out the suspicions.

"Because I'm Shinichi Kudo's subconscious, and you're Kudo Shinichi's epiconscious." Sora yawned and patched his settings.

Kudo Shinichi was a little skeptical of this statement, but there were too many things happening tonight, and something as unscientific as becoming a child had actually happened, so splitting into two people didn't seem so unacceptable -

What a ghost!

This is also unscientific!

Calm down, Shinichi Kudo, be sure to calm down.

Kudo Shinichi cheered himself up in his heart and tried to sort out the current situation with his chaotic brain.

First of all, this guy looks exactly like himself, and even has the same injury position, and secondly, this guy not only knows what he should know alone, but even knows what he used to think -

"Okay, subconscious," Kudo Shinichi sighed, "what do we do now?" ”

"Of course, I went home and changed my clothes first." Empty Return, "Table Consciousness." ”

Kudo Shinichi didn't fully believe in such an unscientific thing, but he couldn't think of any other explanation for the time being, so he had to accept this setting for the time being. The two of them regained their silence and began to walk in the direction of Kudo's house.

Shinichi Kudo deliberately fell half a step behind and let Sora walk ahead.

Sora knew that he wanted to see if he knew where his home was.

Kudo Shinichi also knew that Sora knew that he was tempting.

This kind of casual temptation will undoubtedly appear many times in the future, but at this moment, both of them are walking down the street as Shinichi Kudo.

It was late and it was raining lightly, and there were only occasional trucks passing by on the road, and there was not a single pedestrian, which also saved the two a lot of trouble. After all, they are still dressed as high school students, and they are just two little children. By the time Kudo started to gasp for breath, they finally arrived.

Kudo otaku.

Sora glanced next door. Next door, Dr. Asasa's house looked like there had been a small explosion not long ago, the walls were falling down, and the faint light told him that the doctor who was good at invention and explosion was still hard at work.

Shinichi Kudo jumped upwards, trying to reach the latch of the iron door.

"Hey, don't look at it, come over and help."

"You crouch down, I'll come."

Kudo Shinichi rolled his eyes, but honestly crouched down and let his subconscious step on his shoulder to reach for the latch. Empty pulled the latch and jumped off.

Of course, he doesn't have to step on Kudo Shinichi to open the door.

Without waiting for Kudo Shinichi to stand up, Sora took the lead in entering, then took out the key from the place in his memory, opened the door, and walked straight towards the bedroom of Kudo Shinichi in his memory.

This is also part of the effort to deepen Kudo Shinichi's trust.

Kudo Shinichi fell behind, looking at the guy in front of him who was as familiar with this home as himself, and couldn't help but sigh again. He, Shinichi Kudo, heir to Sherlock Holmes, may really crack.