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Fourth Deduction [Video]

[This entire situation was completely illogical. He'd seen the murders and he suicides in that other place, before all of his memories simply stopped. And now it was like none of that had ever happened. How was it possible? How had they pulled off that trick?

For once, Conan was stumped. He needed to think. And Conan had always done his best thinking while kicking a ball around.]

Ne, does anyone know where I could find a soccer ball?

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A soccer ball?

[Insert a notable pause.] What does that look like? [One more pause and then--] Ah--you mean a football!

Erm..even knowing what sort of ball you're looking for, I don't know where you could find it.

[ooc: I thought really hard about what a kid from London would think of first when he heard 'soccer' but I came up short. This will have to do.]

Ah? That's too bad.

[XD, its so confusing having different names for the same game. I ended up going with what they call it in the subs I've been watching.]

[This child is also stumped, but he's definitely sadfacing instead of happyfacing.]

Ah--there's a gym class at the school, though. They might have a football there!

[Disregard fail post; and also I KNOW. I try to make sure I'm using British English to the best of my knowledge.]

Thanks, I'll check it out.

[And Conan definitely notices that. Well, it wasn't that he expected real children to put on the same act he was.]

How are you doing, Robin?

That's a definite possibility. If they have some spares, I mean.

[Well, Conan is supposed to be fluent in American English. One can argue he would have picked up there.]

[It's normally hard to get Robin down. But all that Au Discedo death was definitely affecting him.]

We can go look when the school is open. There might be a spare there..

[Short pause.]

How did you get home?

[Conan himself was angry, both at the people responsible for the whole affair and at all the idiots who had gone along with it. But it was an adult anger, and so he could not show it. Better to hold it until he could direct it at the proper targets.]

The monsters everyone keeps talking about? As for that, I have yet to see any evidence that they actually exist as anything more than a trick designed to keep us within this city.

Is the school open often?

[Please don't tell him there was a grade school here.]

...I don't know. [And it was painful admitting that.] I think that I must have lost some memories somehow.

[Both of Robin's eyebrows go straight up. Yep, it's an 'are you crazy?' look. He shakes his head after a minute.]

I won't believe in something like that without evidence.

Animals may be dangerous. But the truth is, that it is a simple matter to use such a thing as a scare tactic. Announce that a dangerous animal is in the area, and many people will never look any further for the true cause of a crime.

And how do you know that what you saw was in fact an animal?

When people want to teach classes. We don't have actual instructors here like in primary school at home--people just volunteer to teach whatever they already know.

[He frowns a bit.]

I don't really remember much either. Well, that isn't to say I don't remember the overall idea of what was happening...just the specifics.

[ooc: I know it's the art style but Luke looks way younger than Conan to me X_x;; Every time I look at the icons that thought crosses my mind. ]

Oh? That isn't so bad.

I remember the first few deaths. But nothing after that.

[Child art styles are amusing like that. Then there's the way that half of Conan's icons have very unchildlike expressions and postures.]

I go to most of the classes. There isn't much else to do here, and the Professor made me promise not to wander around town alone. So I mostly just go to the classes, and then I come home and study. I do sometimes do more than that, but the Professor really did make me promise and it's not quite gentlemanly to break a promise you've made.

[He pauses.] I remember that too..

[Truth. This is truth.]

Oh? Keeping promises is quite the responsible thing to do.

[Conan mentally calculates the odds of convincing whoever teaches that class to let him study something interesting. Anything was better than reviewing the basics of subtraction again.</>]

It's not always fun, though.

[He shrugs.] But the classes aren't bad. There's a lot of language classes, and gym. It's not much like primary school, where you have to go to English and History and Mathematics--most of the other kids here just go to a few of the classes for something to do.

I have a soccer ball!

But it keeps you out of trouble, doesn't it?

[You should treasure the ability to keep your promises. Because someday, you might not be able to any more.]

Oh? That sounds a little interesting.

[Oh? A new child? And this one even younger than his current appearance.]

Really? That's great!

[She smiles and nods.] My friend gave it to me. Do you want to borrow it?

Only sometimes. The Professor says I'm good at finding trouble.

He says it like I go out and try to get in trouble. I'm not trying to get in trouble! it just happens sometimes.

Well, some people are just like that. I have to admit that I find quite a lot of trouble myself. But then, I am a detective.

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