Second Deduction [Video]

[modernholmes]

[Three days in this place, and he'd made no progress in deducing the motive behind this situation.  There seemed to be no pattern in who had been taken and how long they had been kept here.  Not even the victims who had been kept here for long periods at all knew anything real about the situation.  The few supposed reasons he'd heard were ludicrous and obviously merely a guess on the part of his fellow captives.  Obviously, he couldn't make any more progress in this case until he had acquired more information.

And so....]

Hello!

[He smiles brightly at the camera.]

My name is Conan Edogawa!  I wanted to thank everyone who helped me when I woke up here.  Thank you!

But I'm still confused.  Did everyone here just wake up like that?  Someone told me that we're here because the scientists brought us here.  Is that really true?  And has anyone ever met them?  They must be very mean people if they won't let us go home.

Comments

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

But don't you think its mean? They broke this city and now they're making all these other people clean it up.

[kongeriget]

Nope! Humans are supposed to be totally into building stuff, right? Exactly!

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

[Oi, oi, why is this guy so cheerful?]

But if they're taking people to build things, why did they take someone like me? Or the other kids I've met? I don't know anything about building!

[kongeriget]

Ya can learn.

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

But I don't want to build things. I want to be a detective like Uncle and Heiji-niichan!

[kongeriget]

Then ya can do that instead!

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

But you just said that they take people here to build things.

[kongeriget]

Well, yeah. But society needs more than that! It also needs laws and order and police to solve fucking murders already!

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

[Is that the kind of language you use in front of a child?]

Eh? Have there been murders here? But if you don't have police what do you do with the culprits?

[kongeriget]

（　this is just how he talks, man.　）

People don't care unless it's them.

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

[The boy is silent for a long moment. When he speaks again it is a much lower serious tone.]

Murder is the worst of crimes.

...Are you saying that people have been killed here, and their murderers are still walking free?

[kongeriget]

Yuppp.

But don't worry about it too much, kiddo. I'll get an adult to do something someday…

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

[That was as good as no solution at all!]

Ne, mister. Did you know? The best time to solve a crime is within the same day it happens. Even Holmes would have problems solving a murder if it happened a long time ago and all the evidence was lost.

[kongeriget]

Hey, I tried! No one cared. And I'm not a boss, or a detective.

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

Its wrong. For some crimes... no one should ever stop caring. Because if no one cares justice loses meaning.

[...] At least that's what Shinichi-niichan would say!

[kongeriget]

Well, he's right.

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

[Of course I am.]

Shinichi-niichan is very smart!

[kongeriget]

He a kid too?

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

No, he's a high school detective. Heiji-niichan is a high school detective too!

[kongeriget]

So that's pretty much a kid, right?

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

They're almost adults.

[At least people actually listened to me when I was seventeen.]

[kongeriget]

Yeah, okay.

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

[Okay, time to change the subject.]

Ne, mister, who are you?

[kongeriget]

I'm Denmark!

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

Oh? Your parents must have really liked that place.