Chapter 247: The Immortal Witch Before the Foreordained Ending...
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At the same time, at Agasa's house.
"Ah, Ai?" Dr. Agasa opened the door and was a little surprised to see the little brown head at the door.
"There has been progress in the antidote for APTX4869. I'll come to find Edogawa." said Haibara Ai.
The surprise in Dr. Agasa's eyes deepened, and soon turned into delight.
"Really? That's great. Although you're cute when you're little, I still hope you can turn back."
They came to the living room. Conan was sitting at the computer, reading something seriously.
Ai Haibara glanced at the page, which looked like a detective novel website, so she ignored it. "I've developed a short-term antidote for APTX4869."
"Really?!" Conan, who had been concentrating his attention, suddenly jumped up from his chair.
Ai Haibara took out a small box from her Fusai bag.
The small box was only half the size of a palm, made of translucent plastic, and contained a few red and white capsules.
Seeing the familiar appearance of the capsule, Conan couldn't help swallowing.
Seeing Conan's eager eyes, Huihara Ai warned: "This is only a short-term antidote, which can only last for 48 hours. Moreover, I don't know what side effects it will have on the human body, and what the reaction will be after taking it..."
"It's okay, I can try the medicine for you!" Conan took it quickly.
Haibara Ai looked at him and said coldly, "The development of this drug cost the lives of many mice in my lab. Edogawa, I didn't expect you to be so eager to become one of them."
Conan carried the medicine like a treasure: "It doesn't matter. For the advancement of science, I am willing to sacrifice myself... Huibara, today is the weekend and we don't have classes. It's a good time to try the medicine!"
Huiyuan Ai said speechlessly: "Didn't you hear what I just said? The effect of the drug is 48 hours. If you can't change back tomorrow, how are you going to go to class?"
"Just ask for leave!" Conan didn't care at all.
"Hey, Shinichi--" Without waiting for Dr. Agasa to dissuade him, Conan had already pinched out a capsule and swallowed it with the water.
Huiyuan Ai raised her eyebrows: "Doctor, let's go get him some adult clothes."
"Edogawa's clothes would be torn by him. Although I have seen and dissected many naked bodies, it doesn't mean I am happy to see Edogawa naked."
"Oh, oh!" Dr. Agasa was reminded and rushed to his room to get a set of his own clothes.
Haibara Ai stayed in the living room, observing Conan carefully.
Conan felt a little embarrassed by her stare: "Strange, there is no reaction after I eat it?"
"That's a capsule. It takes time for the shell to melt." Huiyuan Ai said, "Just lie down on the sofa and don't move. You'll probably feel bad later."
"You are the first human to try the drug. I can only guarantee that you won't be poisoned to death, but I can't guarantee anything else."
"Thank you, but I still don't feel anything now... Hmm!" Conan, sitting on the sofa, pressed his heart hard.
A familiar feeling washed over me.
My heart suddenly started to ache.
Conan opened his mouth involuntarily and let out a painful roar.
Huiyuan Ai frowned and quickly recorded in her mind: Three minutes after taking the drug, the subject experienced chest pain and cold sweats...
Conan rolled on the sofa in pain.
He roared for a long time, as if he was suffering inhumane torture.
When his body grew bigger and his original clothes were stretched and deformed, revealing large areas of his back and legs, Dr. Agasa finally found a set of clothes from his pile of bulky clothes that barely fit Kudo Shinichi's original body. He put the clothes on Conan, who seemed to be about to lose consciousness, and turned to Haibara Ai and shouted: "Little Ai, close your eyes quickly!"
After five minutes, the subject was about to lose consciousness, his body became larger, and the speed of bone and muscle growth happened almost instantly... It's really unscientific... Xiao Ai closed her eyes obediently.
After a flurry of activity, Kudo Shinichi emerged, freshly dressed in loose clothing.
He was still very weak, with cold sweat soaking his hair on his forehead, but he looked very excited and full of energy.
"Success! Great! Haibara, you are indeed a genius!" He kept checking his hands and feet, jumping around in the living room, making Haibara Ai hallucinate a big dog running around happily.
This was her first time seeing the real Kodo Shinichi. Haibara Ai didn't see in him any of the high-spirited detectives she saw in the newspapers.
Seven minutes later, the subject's consciousness returned to normal, and all physical appearances returned to the state they had been in before taking APTX4869. Watching Kudo Shinichi laugh heartily in the living room, hands on hips, Haibara Ai added another note to her mental record: Unsure of the mental effects of this temporary antidote.
"You've really changed back, Shinichi!" Dr. Agasa was very happy for them. "A temporary antidote has been developed. How far can the real antidote be? I think you will soon be able to shed your current identities and become adults again!"
"It's not that easy, Doctor." Kudo Shinichi wiped the sweat from his head and casually pushed the sweaty hair aside: "Before the real antidote is invented, we must first eliminate that evil organization."
"Otherwise, I'm afraid neither Huibara nor I will be able to carry on our activities openly under our original identities."
"Huiyuan is already making rapid progress, and we can't fall behind!"
Haibara Ai sensed something was wrong and narrowed her eyes: "Edogawa. Did you encounter anything related to the organization?"
When encountering something related to the organization, you actually hid it from her and didn't tell her?
Kudo Shinichi didn't feel guilty at all about being caught: "There was a case a few days ago, and one of the people involved was related to the organization."
"Although the person involved in the case has disappeared now, we found some clues from his diary."
"I didn't tell you because we didn't know that this person was related to the organization at the time. I was just guessing at the time. It wasn't until I saw his diary that Dr. Agasa and I were sure that this person was problematic."
He walked to the computer where he had been browsing at the beginning and motioned for Haibara Ai to come and look.
"This man's name is Itakura Taku, and he's a very famous film CG special effects artist. However, due to his declining eyesight, he has changed his career and is now a software engineer. I received a commission a few days ago, and it was about him."
"Three people came to the uncle's office at the same time, asking him to find Taku Itakura. They had all asked him to develop a piece of software for them. But he suddenly lost contact and ignored them. Now that the agreed delivery date was approaching, they started to get anxious and finally found the uncle."
"The case itself isn't important. I've already solved it. One of the three men wanted to kill Itakura Taku—but he failed, and he disappeared. What's important is Itakura Taku himself. Among the accounts of those three men, one thing caught my attention: They said a tall, bearded man dressed in black with a Kansai accent had come to see Itakura Taku and told him, 'You've lost your value.'"
"Don't you think this is very similar to the organization's style, Haibara? Wearing black clothes and saying that kind of thing..."
"Although," Huiyuan Ai couldn't help but interrupt him, "Not everyone in the organization likes to wear black clothes, and saying that doesn't mean anything..."
"I know." Kudo Shinichi smiled, "So I was just suspicious at the time."
"But I saw this disk with the word 'diary' written on it. I used some means to obtain a copy of the diary that would have been taken away by the police as evidence - this is the one you see on the screen now."
Haibara Ai suddenly realized.
At first she thought Edogawa was reading an e-book.
"So, great detective, what did you find in this diary?" Haibara Ai glanced at a few lines.
It's all just a list of daily events, nothing worth noting.
"The words you see now are all a trick set up by Itakura Taku. The real diary is hidden here--" Kudo Shinichi grabbed the mouse and dragged the cursor.
As the cursor selects more and more characters, the seemingly blank space hidden between the diaries reveals its true appearance.
It turned out that Taku Itakura wrote the words he really wanted to record in white characters in the compartments of the fake diary.
What on earth are they trying to do? I'm almost going crazy.
I told them I was willing to accept any offer. Soon, they left me a suspicious phone number...
The woman spoke in a condescending tone, like a queen... She was in cahoots with that burly man. She asked me to continue developing the software, gave me a huge sum of money, and told me that once I finished the software, she would pay me even more for it...
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But is that really possible? That software is a blasphemy to both gods and humans... If there really are gods in this world...]
I can't stand it anymore. These people are mad. What on earth are they trying to do? I can't go on... For the sake of all humanity, I can't go on. These madmen are trying to play with time, turning all of humanity into pawns on a chessboard... (Note 1)
She's getting impatient. Why? This isn't the same time as our agreement. She's threatening to deliver the software to her before the new deadline. What happened?
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I finally know the origins of those guys. They use liquor names as their code names, have spies all over the world, and possess vast funds and connections... I still can't understand why they're investing so much money in this? It's clearly not worth the effort for them...
[…The software is finished. Even though it's a horrific beast capable of destroying the world, looking at it, I can't help but marvel at its beauty. It's perfect. While creating it, I doubted myself, doubted whether such a thing could even be created. But when I successfully completed it, my doubt shifted from myself to the entire world.]
Is the world we live in really real?
I didn't understand. Confused, I asked the woman this question. She smiled, seemingly understanding my confusion. Her two sentences stayed in my mind:
"We are both gods and demons. For we will defy the flow of time and bring the dead back to life."
"If this world is a novel with a pre-written ending, then what we have to do is rewrite the past and the future before the predetermined ending arrives."
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(Note 1: Itakura Taku's diary can be found in TV series 309-311: Contact with the Black Organization. Some adaptations have been made based on the original work.)
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