Chapter 80, Nineteenth Cycle (2)
Rei Furuya got home at 1 p.m.
He took out a thick notebook and a pen, sat cross-legged at the low table, and picked up the pen with a serious expression.
This world is called "Detective Conan," which may be a detective mystery game. The protagonist is Conan Edogawa, who is Shinichi Kudo who shrunk after eating APTX4869.
So the main storyline of the world is undoubtedly Shinichi Kudo defeating the Black Organization that turned him into Conan Edogawa, and returning to his life as a high school detective to continue living as Shinichi Kudo.
Rei Furuya wrote "[Conan Edogawa]" and "[The Black Organization]" at the top and bottom centers of the pages, respectively, and drew circles to emphasize the protagonist and the villain.
Then, he tore off the paper and set it aside, and began writing Edogawa Conan's name on a new page, writing down all the information about Edogawa Conan and Kudo Shinichi as if he were writing a biography.
Conan Edogawa's personal file took up five whole pages, and after it was finished, he placed it directly on the ground to the right.
Then there was the Black Organization, after all, it was the organization he had infiltrated for so many years. Even after removing all the important information about the members and their details, it still took ten pages of paper, which Furuya Rei placed on the ground to the left.
After writing the main character and the villain, Furuya Rei picked up the character relationship diagram from the beginning on the table again, and extended it next to Edogawa Conan to include a character named [Kudo Shinichi].
Shinichi Kudo then spawned a string of other characters, including Yusaku Kudo, Yukiko Kudo, Ran Mouri, Kogoro Mouri, Eri Kisaki, Sonoko Suzuki, Professor Agasa, and Inspector Megure...
After connecting and labeling all the relatives, neighbors, childhood friends, and cooperative relationships among the above important figures, Furuya Rei put the paper down again and wrote the name "Kudo Yusaku" on a new page of the notebook.
After finishing writing down Yusaku Kudo's information, Rei Furuya placed it next to Shinichi Kudo on the ground, and then continued writing the second, third, fourth... After finishing all of them, he picked up the first piece of paper again, and the pen tip landed on the [Conan Edogawa] in the very center.
In his writing, Conan Edogawa quickly expanded into more and more branching relationships with other characters.
[Ayumi Yoshida], [Genta Kojima], [Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya], [Shiho Miyano], [Ai Haibara], [Akami Miyano], [Masami Hirota], [Heiji Hattori], [Kaito Kid], [Kaito Kuroba], [Wataru Takagi], [Mikako Sato], [Ethan Hondo], [Hidemi Hondo], [Rena Mizunashi], [Ki], [Eisuke Hondo], [Matsumi Sera], [Shuichi Akai], [Dai Moroboshi], [Ray], [Subaru Okiya], [Jodie Starling], [James Black], [Andre Carmel], [Gin], [Vodka], [Vermouth], [Renya Karasuma], [Rum], [Curaçao], [Pisco], [Ireland], [Tequila], [Kenji Hagiwara], [Jinpei Matsuda], [Chisato Hagiwara], [Takaaki Morofushi]...
And, [Rei Furuya], [Toru Amuro], [Bourbon].
After writing his name, Furuya Rei paused for a few seconds before writing down [Morofushi Kagemitsu], [Midori Kō], and [Scottish] next to it, connecting the five of them with lines and marking them as [Police Academy Classmates] and [Childhood Friends].
After writing down all the people he knew, and then expanding on them to include his relatives and friends, the names alone already filled most of the page.
Fortunately, most of the Black Organization in the second half is related to Conan Edogawa in the first half, so all you need to do is write down one name and connect the two lines.
After finishing "Conan Edogawa," Rei Furuya moved his pen to "The Black Organization."
There are actually quite a few people in the Black Organization. Rei Furuya has been an undercover agent for many years and knows a lot of people at the lower, middle and upper levels. Moreover, he has a relatively clear understanding of the intelligence. He understands that everyone in the organization may be related to the main storyline, so he simply wrote down the names of those who are somewhat capable.
He checked the entire page one last time after it was filled with dense lines of names and connections before putting it down.
Then, Rei Furuya's pen returned to the notebook, this time turning the page horizontally and drawing a long straight line in the very middle, running through the entire page.
This line marks an event, not a person.
He raised his hand to support his chin, deep in thought.
If this is the main storyline of the world, then where will this detective game officially begin?
Rei Furuya picked up his pen and drew a vertical line in the middle, marking it as "[Shinichi Kudo was fed APTX4869 by Gin and became Conan Edogawa]".
This is where the game begins; the following year will be the key development phase of the game's storyline.
However, Rei Furuya's pen slid forward in reverse, finally stopping at the edge of the first page, marking it as "Half a century before the organization's birth."
The third entry falls between the two, marked as "[7 years ago, on October 1st, Kenji Hagiwara, Jinpei Matsuda, Hiromitsu Morofushi, Wataru Date, and Rei Furuya graduated from the police academy]".
Then, he added the following at different times:
[40 years ago, Karasuma Renya massacred the Twilight Villa and then faked his death to disappear into the organization's inner circle]
[Vermouth killed Jodie Starling's father 20 years ago]
The Miyano family joined the Karasuma Group 19 years ago.
[18 years ago, Atsushi Miyano and Elena Miyano died]
【Koji Haneda died 17 years ago】
[Kuroba Toichi faked his death 8 years ago]
[Kenji Hagihara died on November 7, 7 years ago]
[Five years ago, Rei Furuya, Kagemitsu Morofushi, Shuichi Akai, and Hidemi Hondo infiltrated the organization as undercover agents.]
Ethan Bentang died 4 years ago.
Matsuda Jinpei died on November 7th, 3 years ago; Morofushi Kagemitsu died on December 7th.
[Two years ago, Shuichi Akai's undercover identity was exposed, and he returned to the FBI]
[One year ago, Vermouth failed to kill Shuichi Akai and was rescued by Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mouri, whom she considers the most important people in her life.]
...
The organization was destroyed on December 25th, one year later.
After writing down all the important events that happened along this route, Furuya Rei began writing down all the character information related to the main storyline, and then placed them in the corresponding two opposing camps.
Ordinary people would place it in front of them on the table, while undercover agents would place it on the tabletop.
As the blond youth hunched over the table continued to wield his pen and paper, stacks of neatly written papers gradually piled up on the floor beside him, almost filling the entire room, even the bed.
As darkness fell, it was already six o'clock in the afternoon when Furuya Rei came to his senses.
He got up, took a sip of water, turned on the light, and carefully tiptoed back to sit amidst countless pieces of information, continuing his calm brainstorming.
By the time he finished writing and researching the final piece of intelligence, it was already 8 p.m.
Rei Furuya rubbed his temples wearily, closed his eyes, and leaned back on the bed covered with manuscript papers. He covered his eyes with the back of his hand and quickly processed all the information in the darkness.
After a short while, he opened his eyes, got up and stretched, and began to collect all the papers containing terrifying and unspeakable information, then burned them all together.
So many papers had been burning for a long time when Furuya Rei sat cross-legged in front of the brazier, looking down at the flickering flames, and made a final summary in his mind.
He himself is undoubtedly a very important main character, as is Hiro, but Hagi, Matsuda, and the class president should not be; their fates can probably be resolved relatively easily in the original way.
If the worldline is changed to a point where they can survive, the deviation should not exceed 2%.
So, who are the important plot characters closely related to the main storyline?
Hondo Hidemi joined the organization as usual, five years ago, but Furuya Rei, Morofushi Kagemitsu, and Akai Shuichi all joined a year earlier. This change did not raise any alarms.
The fact that Shuichi Akai and Akemi Miyano met and fell in love is unchangeable, but it is possible to break them up after Ray gets his codename. Is it because their breakup was already within the convergence range of the world lines?
Destroying the organization directly is not an option, but affecting Shiho Miyano's research on the APTX4869 drug is possible. Is it because Shinichi Kudo taking APTX4869 and becoming Conan Edogawa is within the scope of the world line's convergence?
However, Rei Furuya had previously dropped out of police academy to become a politician and began dealing with the organization's henchmen, without being warned of heart pain at the time.
Is it because the world and the system are confident they can bring his storyline back to a conclusion in the future? Or is it because the time hasn't yet reached the point where the impact will be felt?
Rei Furuya flushed all the ashes from the burnt paper into the toilet, grabbed his coat and hat, went outside, took out his phone, and scrolled to [Kei's] contact page, where he became conflicted.
Now, he has a general idea of what kind of change is within the world line's tolerance range of 1%, and what kind of change is beyond the world line's tolerance range of 2%. However, he still needs to try things out to truly determine the specifics.
What he's struggling with now is whether or not to try to prevent Hiro from becoming an undercover agent in the first place, just like Hagi did.
This wasn't just because he didn't want Hiro to experience the painful undercover work again, even though he felt he could manage on his own and Hiro could stay in the Metropolitan Police Department as an ordinary public security officer... but he knew this couldn't be a reason to persuade Hiro.
His biggest worry was that Hiro and Matsuda died too close together. What if—and I mean what if—they died almost simultaneously while one of them completed the game, and once the game was saved, the other would never be able to be brought back to life.
Rei Furuya could not accept this ending.
However, the possibility that Morofushi Kagemitsu's decision not to go undercover and become Scotland would change the timeline by more than 2% is fifty percent.
In other words, the chances of successfully surviving Hiro directly are fifty-fifty compared to him dying again and having to reload the save.
Or rather, the probability of failure is indeed higher. The reason why the probability of success is higher is because of Hagi's precedent, but Hagi is not a key main character after all...
Reiichi Furuya, abandoning his previous composure and calmness, paced anxiously and guiltily in the underground parking garage before finally slamming his fist against the wall.
More than that, he understood one thing.
The possibility that Morofushi Kagemitsu will accept this plan is zero.
*
At 9 p.m., when Wataru Date, Kenji Hagiwara, and Jinpei Matsuda arrived at the agreed-upon abandoned building, Rei Furuya and Hiromitsu Morofushi were already inside.
But unlike before when they were always close together, chatting and laughing, there was a distance between them that, though not very far, was enough to make them doubt their eyes. The stagnant, heavy, and terrifying atmosphere made them realize that the situation was more serious than they had imagined.
Matsuda Jinpei looked left and right, then exclaimed in shock, "You two had a fight?!"
Is the world about to end?
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