Chapter 108: The Prophet Appears, News 99+

Edogawa Conan's two short messages completely ignited the curiosity of most people in the group.

First, there was a text message addressed to Kaito Kidd: [Do you have any personal information that's not fatal and won't give the enemy a handle that you can share with me?]

[1412]：?

[1412]; What to do, and to whom to disclose?

[白马非马]: There is no useless intelligence, only people who don't know how to use it. Who are you giving this information to? Is it trustworthy?

At this time, Edogawa was engaged in a battle of wits and courage with Amuro Toru, and he didn't read the message, let alone reply, but this didn't reduce the number of message bubbles in the group chat.

[Sweet Party King]: @Football Athlete, why haven't you spoken for so long? You must have been kidnapped and forced to come here to ask this question.

[Ace Sniper]: If he was kidnapped, given Conan's personality, he would never let this group chat be at risk of being exposed.

[Sweet Party King]: Hey, you don’t understand this, this is the subtlety of the magic hacker - it allows people to selectively ignore this group chat.

The group fell silent immediately. Everyone who saw the message began to ponder the credibility of Gojo Satoru's words. Then, because the ghost itself was beyond the standard and outside the laws of this world, they quickly turned to thinking about how to rescue Edogawa Conan.

But No. 233, who had been paying attention to the group chat, did not let them stray from the topic and quickly called back Cheng Xiaoyu.

After reading the group chat message, Cheng Xiaoyu checked Edogawa Conan's current situation and found that he was sitting in the lounge of Poirot Cafe, engaging in a psychological battle with Amuro Toru. She typed a reply speechlessly.

[Ghost]: @Sweet Party King, stop talking nonsense. I didn't cast that kind of magic on this group chat, so don't make up stories. Edogawa Conan is safe now, chatting with Amuro Toru.

[Sweet Party King]: I was just joking.

[Ace Sniper]: So there really is this kind of magic? And there's also magical hacking? How did these two different systems merge together?

[Ghost]: I sincerely suggest you don’t care, don’t think about it, and don’t ask.

Shuichi Akai recalled the many stories of fantasy that depicted tragedies and even tragedy caused by excessive exploration and contemplation of the unknown, so he replied, "I'm sorry, I was reckless. I'm sure there must be some unusual danger involved."

Ghost: [That's not the case. I told you to forget about it because you definitely wouldn't be able to imagine or understand the principles behind this cross-system problem. I told you not to ask simply because I'm too lazy to give an academic lecture. Besides, you wouldn't understand it, and even if I did, it would be useless. You and I would both waste thousands of precious hours of our lives. So don't waste your time and energy dwelling on this meaningless rut. It's good for you, it's good for me, and it's good for everyone.]

Akai Shuichi:......

Ghost: [Let's compare it to an ancient person who's never encountered the concept of firearms. Imagine you're explaining what a gun is, how it works, the different types of guns, and how to use them. Many of these terms simply didn't exist in their current understanding. If you put yourself in this situation and imagine it, you'll immediately understand why I'm asking you to retreat.]

This vivid metaphor immediately crushed everyone's curiosity.

It feels like the ghost's opening words have a dispelling effect. Many people in the group feel that they may not be able to watch works with elements such as "demons", "outer gods", and "immortality" with the same mentality as before.

Due to the ghost's disenchantment and complaints, these words have become synonymous with unique life characteristics in their eyes, such as "salesmen who solicit business", "smugglers who speak in a high-sounding way", and "high-end soup ingredients", making everyone deeply understand what "distance creates beauty" means.

[1412]: Amuro Toru...is he the blond, dark-skinned guy with a particularly narrow mind?

[Ghost]: Yes, the one you first met on the train and the one you fought with on the rooftop.

[1412]:......

Why is it that he keeps meeting people who make him feel sick these days, Hakuba Tan, Edogawa, Conan, Kyokushin, and the pink-haired, squinty-eyed guy in the group who once blocked his door... and now there's Toru Amuro?

[白马非马]: @1412 You know him? How come you know everyone in this group? How many people did you offend?

[Ghost]: It’s okay. He didn’t mess with the married people or those with children in the group. He only messed with unmarried people of the same generation.

[1412]: ...What you said is so strange!

[Ghost]: Just tell me whether my description is accurate or not.

Kuroba Kaito: ...

Accurate, how can it not be accurate?

The only married people in this group are the Kudo couple and his parents, and the only unmarried people with children are Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru. Indeed, except for these six people, all of them have dealt with "Kaito Kid".

And that "it's okay"...

To be honest, although Kuroba Kaito has never seen what the Kudo couple look like, but Edogawa Conan is so difficult to deal with, the Kudo couple who taught him will definitely be more difficult to deal with. Kuroba Kaito doesn't want to face them at all.

As for Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru, excluding his own parents... although Kuroba Kaito didn't know the specific strength of these two people, he really didn't want to be enemies with such supernatural beings. That would be simply asking for death.

[Sweet Party Kingly Way]: @Ghost Shadow, you overlooked yourself. It should be said that it was Kaito Kid who provoked all the unmarried and childless people in the group.

[Ghost]: I didn’t miss anything. I am very rigorous in statistics.

[Sweet Party Kingly Way]: Peers?

[Pokémon Master]: Peers?

[白马非马]: Do you have children?

[Ghost]: @白马非马 has picked up children a few times, but the relationship is not their own. The young man is an only child, right? Childrearing experience does not guarantee parenting experience. Kindergarten and elementary school teachers, whether or not they have children, all have childrearing experience. Look at the adult members of the parenting group, they have no problem with this.

[Sweet Party King]: Are you not going to explain the term "peer" at all? Aren't you over a thousand years old?

[Ghost]: That’s what I meant. I’m about the same age as them in my tribe.

If you must say, she was still a human cub when Detective Conan was serialized, so how can she not be considered a peer?

[Pokémon Master]: ...So does your organization count as employing child labor?

Cheng Xiaoyu: ...

No. 233: [......]

Damn it, she couldn't explain or refute this question!

But human curiosity will not stop because of her silence.

[1412]: I remember you said that you have been working in space-time maintenance for about a thousand years... So you have been working since you were a baby?

[Ace Sniper]: This is not right. Even if physical fitness can be ignored due to racial issues, knowledge and thinking are things that cannot be innate at birth, right?

[Sweet Party King]: Could it be, like in literature, that they were collectively born out of a single will and for a single purpose? That doesn't make sense. I remember you saying your actions were completely different from your own kind in the same world. How did you, as a baby, get rid of this indoctrination that was instilled in you from birth? Did something forcefully end this brainwashing for you?

Cheng Xiaoyu: ...

She shouldn't have said too much before, and now Gojo Gomon is almost right about what he said.

This is not surprising, as many principles of mystical testing are interconnected, and even interconnected with some scientific principles. In his spare time, Cheng Xiaoyu often discussed academic issues with sorcerers such as Gojo Satoru.

What's more, the sources of black energy and cursed power are very similar. One comes from the darkness in the heart, and the other comes from one's own negative emotions. They are also similar in their use.

Therefore, when Cheng Xiaoyu uses black energy, she will be seen by Gojo Satoru's six eyes, so Cheng Xiaoyu was mistaken for a cursed spirit before, and Rum's "cursed power detection" cursed tool will react to the black shadow soldiers she drives with black energy.

Pokémon Master: From a biological perspective, if a creature violates its natural state or behaves in an unnatural way, it's likely being disturbed by something. This is especially true for newborn babies...

The original race was rapidly exterminated on a large scale, their original living environment was destroyed, radiation, external threats, forced brainwashing, abuse...

“…”

Xia Yujie quickly withdrew the previous message

[Pokémon Master]: Sorry.

In fact, Cheng Xiaoyu was not so resistant to people guessing about her experience. She had always been brave enough to admit her feelings. What's more, this part of her experience of transforming from a human to a demon could even be considered healthy and positive, just like "where I went to elementary school" and "life in elementary school", which were not usually mentioned but there was nothing that could not be said.

She was unhappy simply because she was a little depressed that people guessed about her because she was too talkative, but Geto Suguru's sudden apology quickly turned her depression into confusion.

Cheng Xiaoyu: No? What are you apologizing for?

Why don't you finish what you are saying? What on earth are you thinking about?

Do you have any objections to my healthy, green childhood, where the only cloud was my studies? If you do, please share your opinions!

Geto Suguru's reaction made Akai Shuichi and Kuroba Kaito quickly realize the inappropriateness of this topic.

Whatever the reason, it must be cruel and unavoidable to let a baby leave his homeland and natural living environment and start doing high-risk work to maintain the world, which goes against the mainstream thinking of the race.

Whatever the reason, however curious, they should not poke at the deepest wounds of others.

Even though the ghost is not human, she is their partner now.

But they could no longer withdraw their messages, so they had to apologize in the group.

[Ace Sniper]: Sorry, those were just nonsense I made up, don’t take it seriously.

[1412]：Um... Actually, I was just talking nonsense, sorry.

Cheng Xiaoyu: ???

What should I not care about? What are you thinking?

Fortunately, this familiar feeling of misunderstanding was not the first time that Cheng Xiaoyu had felt it. She quickly realized that she might have been using her brain to help advance the "personality completion plan" again!

[Ghost]: I don't know what you're talking about.

[Ghost]: Once again, I'm going to reiterate—I literally have no idea what you're talking about, but I can tell you that my origins and upbringing are so healthy that they wouldn't even fit in the superhero universe, or even in your world of sorcery, the Big Three! Please, if you have questions, just ask. Don't auto-fill in character settings I don't even know about, okay? I really don't want to be mistaken for a villain and fight my allies because of my own fantasies! I wasn't captured by some unscrupulous organization and forced to sign a contract to sell myself. The employment contract I signed with the organization is more legitimate than the labor contracts most bosses in your world sign!

She is about to get off work, please don't let anything happen at this critical moment!

Cheng Xiaoyu was not the only one in the group who felt confused.

[Sweet Party King]: I don’t know what they are talking about, but what I actually want to say is that you were raised by a different race whose cognition is completely opposite to that of your own race, and spent the time you developed initial cognition in that environment, just like the demon hunters and vampire hunters in some works who have demon blood and vampire blood but were raised by humans.

[Sweet Party King]: Of course, it does not rule out that you are born with more ideas. Some people are born with antisocial personality, and it is normal for demons to be born with antisocial personality.

Gojo Satoru was also very puzzled as to why the people in the group reacted so strangely. He really just wanted to have a non-scientific academic discussion on mysticism with Cheng Xiaoyu.

This kind of cognitive distortion is not uncommon in the world of sorcery, and even cases of racial transformation are not uncommon. Sorcerers who are killed by non-cursed powers will become curses. Ryoumen Sukuna is a typical example of a curse that was transformed from a human.

So he wouldn't find it strange even if the ghost said she was transformed from a human.