Conan: The Second Personality of Kaitou Kidd

Chapter 17

Mr. Crow moved his beak and uttered an incoherent call without exiting the shutter, "Gah."

In the role setting of the game, the prophet and the owl can communicate directly and understand each other's meaning, but Bai Shui can't understand the crow's cry.

He calmly relaxed his hands, making the hand holding the dagger and ready to twist the doorknob look more natural, stating this truthfully, "Sorry, I don't understand what you're saying."

The blood-eyed crow stared at him.

"I came to this world," Bai Shui asked again, "is it because of you?"

"If yes, call once, if no, call twice."

He paused, and looked at the crow, "You can understand me, right?"

The crow stared at him for a few seconds, moved its beak, and slowly exited the shutter, turning into a shadow on the window again, "Gah!"

"quack!"

After screaming, the black beak slipped into the shutter along the gap, and the blood-red eyes appeared in the gap above again.

"..." Bai Shui analyzed, "Yes, and no?"

"Part of the reason, but not the main reason?"

The crow withdrew, "Gah!"

It skillfully knocked open the shutter with its beak, staring longingly at the white water.

From its body, Baishui didn't feel the malice described by Aoko Nakamori, he paused, and then continued to ask, "I came to this world, and I played a few games with the character of 'Prophet' before I died. ?”

The crow withdrew, "Gah."

It got in again and continued to stare at the white water helplessly.

Bai Shui: "..."

This crow really doesn't seem to be malicious, it's quite well-behaved, and it can't be said to be exactly the same as Aoko Nakamori's description, it can only be said that it has nothing to do with it.

"Who was you in the library yesterday?" Bai Shui confirmed, and after the crow withdrew again and made a 'quack', he paused for a few breaths and asked another question, "The bright lights I saw yesterday, the gunshots I heard , is it a prophecy?"

Crow: "Gah."

really.

Well, now there is a rather important question.

Bai Shui moved his eyes down to look at the cuckoo clock, raised his eyes again, and continued to look at the blood-eyed crow. He asked, "Is this clock related to you?"

This time, the crow called twice, first admitting and then denying, probably meaning 'there is a connection, but not much'.

"Is it dangerous, will it harm humans?"

The crow thought for a while, "Quack."

"The death of the original owner of this body," received the reply, Bai Shui asked without blinking, "is it related to you?"

The crow freezes.

Its blood-red eyes also froze, and after a few seconds, it slowly moved and retreated.

"Gah?"

It seemed to be puzzled about something, fluttering its wings and screaming, "Quack quack?"

Bai Shui: "?"

After screaming for more than ten seconds, the crow crawled into the blinds again with its bristling feathers, looking at Baishui helplessly.

"You mean," Bai Shui considered his tone, and made up options that might be the answer, "It's not you? It has nothing to do with you? You don't know or understand what I'm talking about?"

At the last sentence, the crow decisively backed out of the shutters, yelling, "Gah!"

'I don't know', so it has nothing to do with crows?

Strange, what was the original owner's cause of death?
This body is clean, not to mention fatal injuries, there is no trauma of more than one centimeter, even the head that hurts from time to time is intact, without the slightest trauma.

It has nothing to do with the crow on the mysterious side, it can only be internal injuries, or other mysterious things that have not yet surfaced.

Bai Shui raised his hand, pressed his chest, felt the steady and calm heartbeat there, and recalled the abnormally rapid heartbeat before.

He temporarily put this question in the to-do list, juxtaposed with 'go to the hospital for examination when conditions permit', and placed it behind 'find the hospital examination report for Aoko Nakamori to knock sideways on the original owner'.

After a while, he raised his vigilance one level up, and said again: "You follow me, do you think I'm a 'prophet'?"

The crow didn't back out, its beak stuck in the crack of the shutter, and its blood-red eyes were still staring straight at the white water.

It did not hesitate to let out a somewhat ambiguous bird cry, "Gah!"

really.

So now there is another very important question: Baishui is not a 'prophet'.

'Prophet' is just a game character, he is a game player, not a game character itself, so he can't communicate with this crow without barriers, he can only use secret signs.

"I'm not the 'prophet' you think," Bai Shui and Crow looked at each other, while his tone was unhurried, he was ready to open the door and withdraw at any time, "I just chose this character in the game."

"You've got the wrong guy, I'm not a 'prophet'."

The crow stares straight into the white water.

It moved its bloody eyes, "Gah?"

"You don't understand what I mean? Can't tell the difference between a character and a player?" Bai Shui stared at him, and slowly said what the other party might want to express, "You understand the difference, you knew it from the beginning, but you don't understand why I So?"

The crow didn't move.

Bai Shui and it looked at each other for a few seconds, under the chin of that red eye, he paused for a moment before continuing, "You know... want to be friends with me?"

He hesitated in the second half of the sentence.

The crow said without hesitation, "Gah."

Bai Shui: "..."

Thanks, but he doesn't want to be friends with a bird with a sharp beak that looks like it could snap a human's skull off in a few minutes of chatter.

The crow called again hastily, "Quack quack?"

It is inconvenient not to be able to communicate directly. Bai Shui thought for a moment before slowly asking, "You want to know my name? Do you want me to know your name?"

"quack!"

In the mystical legends of each district, or each country, one point is emphasized invariably: the real name.

Telling the unspeakable existence of one's real name is equivalent to handing over one's weakness to the other party. The other party can harm others at any time, and one may be in danger.

After the crow agreed without hesitation, Bai Shui paused for a few seconds to recall the unanimous rules, and he said, "Bai Shui."

"My name is Baishui, you can also call me Baishui 44, Baishui April [-]th, Baishui [-]."

"You can call me anything, I don't care."

It's okay to just call it 'Bai Shui', but it's not his real name anyway.

Is there any relationship between 'I can't tell my real name to the mysterious being' and my pseudonym?It doesn't matter.

The crow stared straight at him, moved its beak, and let out a particularly gentle bird cry through the crack of the shutter, "quack."

It imitated Bai Shui's accent when he said his name, and called out a somewhat weird crow cry.

Stepping on the crow's cry was an angry scream from not far away, "Quick! Fight!"

That voice was extremely angry, and the moment he heard it, the image of an owl with fried fur and rampage appeared vividly in Baishui April Si's mind.

He reacted again: Miss Owl was calling him, and she was also addressing him angrily.

...Oops, danger.

He leaned against the door sideways, shook off the coolness that suddenly spread over the back of his neck, and looked at the crow.

The crow's beak exited the shutters, and its shadow on the shutters twisted, probably turning its head to look downstairs.

Aoko Nakamori's voice was closer, the anger in the voice decreased and the panic increased, "Kaito!"

She gritted her teeth, "You bastard, aren't you dead!"

There was the sound of running from far to near, followed by the sound of stumbling upstairs.

The crow's shadow froze on the blinds, and it waited for Aoko Nakamori to rush upstairs before slipping back into the blinds again, the coldness in its eyes faded, and it stared at the white water without blinking.

Bai Shui: "..."

Did Aoko Nakamori offend the crow, or did the birds repel each other?

(End of this chapter)