"The hidden storyline 'Final Judgment' has begun..."
What the heck is this?
Yoruichi Toyama stared in surprise at the stage as the curtain rose.
No, that's not a stage. Behind the curtain, there's a deep blue expanse.
The seawater, like a saturated and crystal-clear blue, was teeming with unidentified marine creatures that swam leisurely. Even when Yoruichi Toyama approached and curiously reached out to touch them, they showed no fear.
Behind these views stand massive platforms and pillars that appear to be built of snow-white marble.
Judging from its scale and form, it resembles a temple or shrine with an exotic style.
No, what is this?
Where's the mystery-solving game I was promised?
The art style suddenly shifted to the bizarre and supernatural, didn't it? ...
Yoruichi Toyama made a strange comment, while behind her, light and shadow flickered and figures appeared one after another.
“Yuanshan,” Mingzhi walked over and stood beside him, scrutinizing the strange scene before them with a critical eye, “What’s going on here?”
"have no idea……"
Yoruichi Toyama turned her head and froze when she saw another figure.
"G-Kudo...?"
Shinichi Kudo, a 17-year-old high school detective, scratched his head and awkwardly spread his hands.
"Um...look, my dad...Mr. Yusaku Kudo said there was a surprise, I never expected it to be like this!"
I corrected my address to Yusaku Kudo in time because the person behind me also came forward.
Unsurprisingly, the ones who were able to clear the game, and at this speed, were Hakuba Saguru and Hattori Heiji.
However, neither of them was paying attention to the hidden instance at all; they were staring at each other, as if they were arguing about something.
"Player has been teleported."
"A total of 5 players successfully completed the game and entered the hidden ending."
As Noah's Ark was announced, the entire opera house scene vanished into nothingness, with the deep blue sea stretching out endlessly, making one feel as if they were already at the bottom of the sea.
"Hey, this isn't right, is it? Hey!" Toyama Yoru looked up, trying to find that wretched AI, Noah's Ark, in the empty seawater.
The voice of Noah's Ark came from the void.
"What's wrong?"
Yoruichi Toyama was used to bickering with him and didn't find the wording strange at all.
But Hakuba Saguru, Hattori Heiji, and Conan, who had transformed into Shinichi Kudo, all wore inexplicable expressions.
"This system can actually speak like a human!" Hattori Heiji said with some amazement.
Shinichi Kudo and Saguru Hakuba both raised their chins in the same way.
"It seems to have said before that it is artificial intelligence, or AI."
"So, is this what unlocks the hidden ending?"
The two spoke almost simultaneously, and then looked at each other after they finished speaking.
"It seems that if we had teamed up with Conan back then, we would have cleared the game much faster."
Hakuba Saguru uttered a sarcastic remark.
Hattori Heiji, who was already furious, immediately rushed up to argue with him.
Yoruichi and the others had no choice but to appease the two troubled children before they could quickly exchange information.
First, there's the issue of Conan's image.
Noah's Ark helped explain this. The player information for the game was collected beforehand after the invitation list was finalized, and the IDs sent to Yusaku Kudo were, of course, based on Shinichi Kudo's personal information.
This is the "surprise" that Yusaku mentioned earlier.
At least it allows my son to use his real identity when playing games.
As for the team composition, it was indeed as Yoruichi Toyama had predicted: apart from Hakuba Saguru and Hattori Heiji being forcibly paired up, everyone else was playing solo.
Judging from their angry yet vague accounts, they had quite a few conflicts while working out the plot.
Moreover, this time, without any troublesome kids holding him back, Shinichi Kudo successfully caught Jack right at the opera house.
It was Hakuba and Hattori who ended up in the train battle royale storyline.
"And you two...?" Yoruichi Toyama asked, suppressing a laugh.
I thought to myself, neither of us seems like the type to sacrifice for the other.
The two police officers glanced at each other simultaneously, then turned away at the same time, letting out a haughty snort.
Then he stammered out that it was actually the two of them who worked together to knock Jack off the top of the train.
During the incident, Hakuba Saguru accidentally slipped and fell, but Hattori Heiji pulled him up.
As the train finally crashed into the station out of control, Hakuba Saguru, who had a sudden inspiration and remembered the tip from the homeless man he had met earlier, remembered to break the wine barrel and hide in the wine to save his life.
"So that's what 'covered in blood' means!" Shinichi Kudo exclaimed in sudden realization.
"That vagrant must be Sherlock Holmes in disguise, here to give us a hint."
Judging from this guy's gleaming eyes and the way he's practically radiating hearts, he's not much better than Conan.
All I can say is that's what brainless fans are like.
Yoruichi Toyama sighed, and when she instinctively tried to rub his head, she found it a bit difficult to reach.
It's not as fun as Detective Conan!
Shinichi Kudo certainly didn't expect that restoring his original appearance would instead make him disliked.
"In short, as I said before, you only win if you complete the entire game."
After waiting for a while, I found that these people had started chatting on their own, so Noah's Ark, a little annoyed, made its announcement again.
Nobody argued with it anymore.
In a game, you have to bow your head.
Even Shinichi Kudo and his two companions, who were not yet fully aware of the situation outside, sensed a conspiracy.
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