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[spoilsfun]

Ran-neechan?  I'm going to be a little late for dinner. I'm visiting the professor right now, and I guess we lost track of time.

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[spoilsfun]

[He tenses.

But this was Conan from only three days after he shrank. A Conan who was still convinced that hunting down the two men who had shrank him would be a simple matter of a few weeks. He was still convinced that he would only be stuck like this for a few weeks, a month at the most.

He was nearly as panicked at being found out as his older self would have been.

He relaxes, deliberately.]

I think you have the wrong number. I've never been anywhere near Ekoda.

[And he supposed that that locked down just who this guy was. ]

[tuxedo_magician]

Ah, no, I'm pretty sure I have the right one, Tantei-kun.

But I'm sure that I have your attention now, do I not?

[spoilsfun]

[Conan wasn't one to continue with a denial when it was obviously not working. ]

What do you want from me?

[tuxedo_magician]

To be honest? Nothing, other then why knowing why you've suddenly forgotten all about me.

[spoilsfun]

I haven't forgotten you. I already told you, I don't know you.

[tuxedo_magician]

What is the last thing that you remember then?

[spoilsfun]

There was a murder reported in Yoko Okino's apartment last night.

[tuxedo_magician]

That helps, considering the amount of murders you find yourself involved in.

[spoilsfun]

It was a suicide framed to look like a murder.

[tuxedo_magician]

Before April 1st?

[spoilsfun]

That's still a few months away.

[tuxedo_magician]

.... that explains it then.

[spoilsfun]

Explains what?

[tuxedo_magician]

Why you don't remember me.

[spoilsfun]

And why is that, apart from the obvious?

[tuxedo_magician]

We haven't met yet. Not formally, at any rate.

[ Totally not going into how f'ing weird this is, though. ]

[spoilsfun]

That's exactly what I've been trying to tell you.

[tuxedo_magician]

Yes, well, we could still be rivals.

I fear thing would be boring without, Tantei-kun.

[spoilsfun]

Are you that bored?

And I can't be your rival. I've got too many other things to do right now.

[tuxedo_magician]

Hakuba and Nakamori-keibu... they don't have the ability to keep up with me the way you do.

Surely you need some sort of break from the murders.

[ And the hiding. ]

[spoilsfun]

[Look, if he wanted to hunt down those guys in black and get a sample of the drug within the next month, he didn't have time to play around with thieves. ]

I can't possibly be the only detective in Japan that gives you a challenge. Go bother someone else.

[tuxedo_magician]

[ Hahah, yeah, about that Conan.... ]

There's a reason the papers have dubbed you the KID Killer, you realize.

[spoilsfun]

[He'll be getting back to his normal life any day now, okay? ]

...Who came up with that one?

[He really preferred modern Holmes. ]

[tuxedo_magician]

The papers, I believe. You know how the press is, they like to make up nicknames for everything. Look at the Heisei Holmes, for instance.

[ Just so you know that KID really does know who he's talking to, Tantei-kun. ]

[spoilsfun]

...How did you find out?