Chapter 96 Detective Nevercry
Cheng Xiaoyu continued to offer advice: "If you can't do it yourself, just give this book to Akai Shuichi and let him do it."
Conan Edogawa: "Lynching and intentional injury are illegal. Mr. Akai is also a transnational law enforcement... He can't just beat people up and run away. He can't just hand over Mr. Akai along with those people when he hands them over to the police."
That is indeed the truth. The people who wrote these two books would not wait for the police to torture them and bring them to court after being interrogated.
Cheng Xiaoyu: "So you asked me to come here to get information from them?"
Conan Edogawa: "Not really. I haven't told my parents or Mr. Akai about you. So I was wondering if you have something like [Veritaserum] that I can give me so I can get information from them."
Cheng Xiaoyu was surprised and asked, "You also watch Harry Potter? I thought you weren't interested in this kind of imaginative and magical works. Even if you were watching it with others, the full name would be 'Detective Never Cry'."
Conan Edogawa: "...I'm a detective, not a stone."
Where does this stereotype come from? Just because someone often uses rational thinking doesn't mean they can only use rational thinking.
"That makes sense," Cheng Xiaoyu said. "I don't have anything like 'Veritaserum' on hand right now. Who needs it when I can use my soul-sucking technique to directly extract a person's soul and watch the playback? How about this? You lure Akai Shuichi away, and I'll go take those three guys in your basement. That way, you don't have to worry about them escaping or how to transfer them."
Conan Edogawa was embarrassed: "But if that happens, my parents will definitely be scared... The sudden disappearance of a killer who was originally imprisoned is more frightening than the sudden disappearance of a cockroach that was originally imprisoned."
"Why not just tell your parents about my existence?" Cheng Xiaoyu said. "This isn't criticism or complaints. I didn't clean up the mess properly yesterday. You must have put a lot of effort into hiding me from the police and my parents. I can sense your respect for my privacy, so I agree that you should tell someone you trust about my existence."
Edogawa Conan lowered his head and looked at his toes, remaining silent.
This clearly shows that there are other problems.
Cheng Xiaoyu didn't urge him. She stood up and walked to the nearby vending machine and bought a drink at random with her eyes closed. When she sat back down, Edogawa Conan whispered sullenly:
"Honestly, I don't really want to tell my parents, and I don't want to ask them for help. I know I'd be able to progress much faster if they helped, but I just... don't want to."
"I think it's because Mr. Akai and Mr. Amuro were already involved in a conspiracy with the brewery. They weren't put in danger by 'me,' but my parents... they shouldn't have been involved, but now they're being threatened by the killer."
"So what does this have to do with what you didn't want to tell me and your parents?"
Cheng Xiaoyu opened the soda and said.
"Do you think I'm a threat to your parents? Oh, don't be so quick to deny it. Even if you think so, it's human nature. You don't know any better than I do the threats posed to humans by my kind and other dark creatures. I can tell you clearly that most humans' stereotypes about demons are not stereotypes. People like me are outliers."
Conan Edogawa complained: "Please turn off your three-dimensional protective device. This is not my reason. You already know my true identity and where I live. If you really want to do something to my parents, do you have to wait until I tell them? I... to be honest, I just don't want to ask my parents for help."
I had made great ambitions before and told my parents that I had grown up and was independent and that they didn't need to worry about me anymore. Now it's really embarrassing to go back to their wings and seek help and protection.
Edogawa Conan covered his face: "Analyzing rationally, I know that seeking help from my parents, showing weakness and confessing everything is the best solution at the moment. I know that I am just trying to save face and suffer, but I just... I just can't admit frankly in front of my parents, 'I can't do it'. I know they won't blame me or laugh at me, but I just... I just can't do it... Sometimes I really think there is something wrong with me, but I can't see a psychologist right now..."
Why is he always so awkward? Why doesn't he feel comfortable opening up to his parents? Why doesn't he dare to be honest with Xiaolan?
Sometimes Edogawa Conan really hates himself for being so dishonest.
Oh, Cheng Xiaoyu understood.
"I don't know much about psychology, but I do know that this is a widespread psychological pain that occurs when people are in a teetering position between independence and not yet complete independence. This phenomenon often occurs among young people whose family backgrounds are not hostile and who have relatively independent personalities. I made up the above scientific name and description, and I don't know the specific scientific name. After all, as I said before, I don't know much about psychology. Anyway, you just need to understand my meaning."
Cheng Xiaoyu took a sip of her drink. "So if you're just saying these contradictory thoughts, then I can tell you very clearly that you're not sick. Now, I can explain the essence of your condition in simple, though somewhat crude, terms...it all depends on whether you're willing to listen."
Edogawa Conan: "You can tell me, even if the words are rough, they are true." I still know this.
Cheng Xiaoyu: "Actually, it's the backlash from all that pretentiousness. I feel like I can't save face anymore. Are those people you're embarrassed to confess to the same people you used to pretend to be cool with? And among those people you can confess to, have they ever asked for help when you failed to act cool in front of them? I call this the 'Law of Conservation of Pretentiousness': your pretentiousness will eventually become an idol burden that weighs you down."
Edogawa Conan: "..."
Having said that, your words are too rough!
"Young people are often full of edges and corners, refusing to turn back until they hit a wall. They act impulsively and are thin-skinned. They have high attack and explosive power, but low defense. This is why they are bound by the 'law of conservation of pretense.' Conversely, those who can hold their heads down and fit the world's description of 'maturity' are rounded, don't easily show their edges, are stable, and have high defense... In short, they either act less pretentiously or are thick-skinned."
Conan Edogawa: So do you really have to use the term "Law of Conservation of Pretentiousness"?
"So you think I should go have a heart-to-heart with my parents? Like a real kid?"
"First, no matter what form you take or what definition you fall under, you're still a minor. Even if you're an adult, you're still your parents' child," Cheng Xiaoyu said. "Second, the decision is yours. But let me make it clear, I won't go all the way to prove your point to your parents. If your parents don't believe you, that's their business and yours, not mine."
"Thank you." Edogawa Conan said from the bottom of his heart, "You are actually very good at psychological analysis, thank you for talking to me about this."
"Pfft." Cheng Xiaoyu laughed. "Psychological analysis? No, no, no, this has nothing to do with psychological analysis. This is purely personal experience and experience. I said this is a very common and normal phenomenon, the psychological pain of growing up. If you go to Maori Kogoro, go to Dr. Agasa, go to anyone with more life experience than you, they will come to the same conclusion as me."
Geto: "Yes, it's normal for children of this age to feel lost and embarrassed to confide in others. However, this is also the time when they need help and guidance the most... I have a lot of say on this point."
Edogawa Conan was so scared that he almost fell off his chair. Fortunately, Geto Suguru reached out and helped him up: "Mr. Suguru? Why are you here?"
"As a sorcerer, isn't it normal for me to be at Tokyo Jujutsu High School?" Suguru Geto said with a smile. "I heard there seemed to be counseling services for troubled teenagers, so I couldn't help but stay a little longer."
In fact, he wanted to see whether Cheng Xiaoyu would make some brutal remarks that would leave a psychological trauma on the child, just like she had done to him.
It's not nice to be scared yourself, but humans are such wicked creatures, and it's really fun to watch others repeat your mistakes and fall into the same pit.
As it turned out, this conversation was actually quite like a normal psychological counseling session, which disappointed Geto Suguru who wanted to have fun.
Conan Edogawa: "I apologize for my rude behavior towards you earlier."
Xia Yujie smiled and said, "I forgive you."
Cheng Xiaoyu: "Are you almost done with the magic world? You're in the mood to come and have some fun."
Geto Suguru: "It's almost done. There weren't many of us left anyway. I just recently discovered that someone was following me on a previous mission that I hadn't finished yet, so I thought I'd just come over to talk to Ghost about how to deal with it."
Cheng Xiaoyu: "Is he still alive?"
Geto Suguru was still smiling, but that smile sent a chill down Edogawa Conan's spine: "Anyway, he's not dead yet."
Then, from Edogawa Conan's perspective, a person with his limbs twisted into unnatural shapes suddenly appeared and slowly slid down in front of them... as if he was spit out by something invisible.
"I met him on the road." Geto Suguru stepped on the man's head. "He tampered with the car and it exploded halfway through the drive. He's probably not from the winery. The people at the winery are entangled with the upper echelons of the old curse world. They wouldn't be stupid enough to try to kill me with a bomb."
Cheng Xiaoyu: "It's hard to say. The winery actually thought they could get the old high-ranking members of the curse world to kill you, a top-grade curser, with just a letter of denunciation and bribery. They didn't even know that [Umekawa Kuzi] might be a curser, so how deep can their understanding of the curse world be?"
Ultimately, both the brewery and the old neon magic world have a sense of superiority and arrogance that allows them to easily control the lives and deaths of others. It is impossible for them to develop a true alliance.
They are so arrogant that they cannot tolerate anyone or anything that disagrees with them, so they will inevitably die from their arrogance.
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