Conan: The Second Personality of Kaitou Kidd

Chapter 14 Another, Myself?

Semantic saturation?

Kuroba Kaito was taken aback.

The phenomenon of staring at a word and feeling more and more unfamiliar is called semantic saturation. However, staring at a corpse of a familiar person for a long time will make you feel strange? !

The 'uninvited guest' was using a notebook to make a draft. He probably planned to sort out a letter first, and then copy it on the letter paper. Therefore, this draft is not shy about revising. The lines in the corpse showed signs of repeated revisions two or three times. Seems to be thinking of an appropriate wording.

There's no proper wording for that.

Kaito Kuroba silently complained, and continued to look down.

The other party said distressedly that the furniture, facilities and layout of the house were the same, but there would always be a sudden moment when they felt very strange.

I also listed some examples separated by semicolons to fully demonstrate the strangeness: the things on the desk are not arranged smoothly, there are many books on the bookcase that I find boring at a glance, and there are many low-grade clothes in the closet , the musical instruments in the music class disappeared, and only the sheet music remained. Even for a cup of coffee, I had to rummage in the kitchen for a long time to find the cup and coffee.

The draft was not finished, so it stopped abruptly here, leaving a blank page and a half. On the second page, there was a closing sentence written in advance: [--Mr. Questions, looking forward to your reply. 】

Watching and watching, Kaito Kuroba gradually: "..."

Leaving aside the question that the whole letter is polite and humble, but there is something vaguely wrong at the end, let's just talk about the examples of strangeness, 'there are many low-grade clothes in the closet at home'?
Where is the low grade!

Isn't his wardrobe just some blue and white sailor suits and black and white maid outfits with the necessary matching socks!Isn't it just the pure style and royal sister style skirts worn by some normal girls!Isn't it normal to have these in the closet, guys who don't know how to appreciate beauty!A guy who doesn't understand the charm of magic!
Kaito Kuroba muttered a few words, and put [Chinese textbook], [newspaper], and [draft of the letter] side by side.

They are silent evidence, silently outlining the image of the "uninvited guest": the other party is a young man with a bottom line, normal three views and a relatively high sense of morality, and a student with music lessons in the course.

This domineering coming without notice was not the plan of the other party, but an accident that surprised both of them.

When he deduced this point, Kaito Kuroba pulled out a quill, pointed at the bright handwriting on the Mandarin textbook, and lost himself in thought.

It stands to reason that when it is speculated that the other party does not know, Kuroba Kaito should now reduce his hostility, even if it is only a little bit.

But Kaito Kuroba didn't.

Because, from the very beginning, Kuroba Kaito never raised 'hostility'.

When his mood fluctuated the most, it was when he first woke up and found that there were strange traces left by the other party everywhere around him, and when he guessed that the other party might be a fish wife, his mood was 'surprised'.Afterwards, Aoko Nakamori arrived with the mist of truth, Kaito Kuroba grasped the mist of illusory, his mood dropped to 'somewhat surprised', and the focus naturally shifted to 'investigate the truth'.

During this process, the shame and indignation caused by the 'weird women's bathroom' and 'low-grade clothes in the closet' were hundreds of times stronger than the basic hostility.

This is not right, why is he not hostile to an uninvited guest who came to visit his body without warning?
Kuroba Kaito frowned, lighting his quill pen in thought.

A gentle call came from the podium, "Student Kuroba."

The Mandarin teacher stood on the podium, and when Kaito Kuroba raised her head subconsciously, she first apologized gently, "I'm sorry to disturb you thinking about important things in life, classmate Kuroba."

"But this class is coming to an end, and if you don't ask any more questions, you will procrastinate, so I'm sorry, can you stand up and answer the questions?"

She was full of smiles, her eyes were bent, and her voice was so gentle that water dripped out, but all the students present shuddered, and immediately lowered their heads and pretended to be dead, wishing to plunge themselves into the desk like an ostrich.

Kuroba Kaito simply translated the teacher's words: I was distracted in a class, have you figured out how to die, dear student Kuroba?
He stood up against the murderous intent, shook his shoulders silently to get rid of the chill, and called out nonchalantly, "Teacher."

"What do you think I saw on the mirror in the corridor in "Mirror"?" The Mandarin teacher smiled kindly, "Please answer."

"mirror"?
Kaito Kuroba quickly searched for this keyword in his memory, and successfully found "Mirror" by Haruki Murakami. He remembered that the mandarin teacher was referring to the protagonist seeing a mirror that should not exist in the corridor late at night, and the mirror in the mirror. I looked at each other, but found that the mirror image would move by itself.

"I think what I saw in the mirror in the corridor is..." Kaito Kuroba replied without hesitation. Halfway through the answer, a blackness suddenly flashed across his peripheral vision, and he tilted his head subconsciously After glancing at it, he continued talking non-stop, and stopped abruptly when he saw the darkness clearly.

That blackness was a crow, the same crow I had met in the morning.

It stands on a nearby building, its eyes are faint red, staring straight at it.

On it, Kaito Kuroba did not feel the 'maliciousness' described by Aoko Nakamori, he cut off the answer he was about to blurt, not only because of the crow, but also because of the window.

It is morning, and the white sunlight shines into the classroom through the glass windows.

If the light is dim or the brightness of the classroom is higher than the brightness outside, the shadows of the people in the classroom will be reflected on the glass window. Now the sun outside is quite bright, so there is no reflection of anyone on the glass, and there is no Kuroba Kaito reflection.

With an idea flashing through his mind, Kaito Kuroba stared at the empty glass window and repeated the question from the Mandarin teacher just now, "What do I see in the mirror?"

He grasped the fleeting inspiration, so all kinds of 'clues' swarmed in.

①The distress in that letter is 'sometimes I feel strange at home', and the meaning of the contextual context is 'my home'.

②The newspaper reads 'Why me, why Kuroba Kaito? ', this sentence can be understood as two people, or as two names of one person.

③When I wake up in the morning, the positions of those sharp weapons on my body are strange and familiar. Only those who often hide things on their bodies can hide them there properly.

④ Aoko Nakamori noticed something abnormal, but he didn't feel that Kaito Kuroba yesterday was not himself, and the "uninvited guest" could also skillfully predict Aoko Nakamori.

as well as.

⑤Kaito Kuroba himself has no negative emotions towards the "uninvited guest".

The clues converged into a river, and Kaito Kuroba stood in the center of the river, feeling the impact, and stared at the empty glass window.

"The one in the mirror is..." He opened his mouth, unable to utter the second half of the sentence.

another me?

(End of this chapter)