Fourth Deduction [Video]

[modernholmes]

[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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[Video]

[luke-triton.livejournal.com]

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

[Short pause.]

How did you get home?

Re: [Video]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

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.

Re: [Video]

[luke-triton.livejournal.com]

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. ]

Re: [Video]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

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.]

Re: [Video]

[luke-triton.livejournal.com]

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.]

Re: [Video]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

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.</>]

[Video]

[luke-triton.livejournal.com]

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.

Re: [Video]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

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.

[Video]

[luke-triton.livejournal.com]

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.

Re: [Video]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

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.

[Video]

[luke-triton.livejournal.com]

Hm...I suppose.

You're a detective?! [Yes, he's not as good at hiding his surprise as he probably should be, and he seems a bit perplexed. He is trying not too look too confused, or make it too obvious that he's thinking that Conan was a bit young to be a detective.]

I thought you had to go to University before you could be a detective.

Re: [Video]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

You are thinking of a police detective, I think. I am speaking of private detectives. Like Holmes.

But there is no school or class that can make someone a true detective. Detective is something you become through experience and observation. We're students of human nature, using logic to see through the tricks that criminals play on human minds. After all, to the right mind any crime is only another puzzle.

But if you had to be specific about it, I suppose you would call me an elementary school detective.

[Because no one would believe me to be a high school detective, looking as I do now.]

[Video]

[luke-triton.livejournal.com]

Ahh! I know that official inspectors go to University first--sometimes they aren't the best at the job, though. You can't teach logic or puzzle solving skills, I suppose. It's something you just have to be good at!

The Professor helps solve mysteries from time to time--and I always go along. I'm his apprentice!

It does rather make sense, though. You might learn how to examine a crime scene, but it's not just about what things are out of sorts in the room when you walk in, figuring out a mystery.

Re: [Video]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

As for that, the job isn't quite the same. Right? Police detectives are there to collect the evidence and arrest the criminals. It is only when there is a puzzle that needs solving that a detective is called in.

Is that so? What kinds of mysteries does your Professor solve? I help Uncle like that sometimes!

[Really, I'm the one that's solving all his cases. But that's the way it has to be for now. It would be troublesome if anyone figured out the secret behind Sleeping Kogoro.]

[Video]

[luke-triton.livejournal.com]

Well, technically the jobs aren't the same, I suppose. But if you're a detective, even if you don't actually put evidence in those little bags you still have to thoroughly look at all of it, and all of the facts with it!

Mmhm! We helped solve the mystery of the Elysian Box, and the Golden Apple, and of a future London--though that one was just a bit odd.

I mostly help the Professor keep track of his notes and the like. I like to help and I do when I can, but I suppose I'm not quite as observant as the Professor just yet...maybe someday I will be, though!

Re: [Video]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Before you can solve a case, you have to know all the facts. Even the tiniest observation might be the clue needed to reveal the criminal's deception.

Oh? What kinds of cases were those?

Like any other skill, observation can only be increased with practice. It is the greatest single tool a detective can possess.

[Video] Sorry X_x

[luke-triton.livejournal.com]

Well, the Golden Apple wasn't an apple. The person who found the Golden Apple got to have Baron Reinhold's fortune. But the apple wasn't an apple, exactly--it was a girl. Miss Flora! You might know her, because she's here. But maybe you shouldn't tell her I told you this...

The Elysian Box was supposed to kill everyone who opened it. It was cursed. Except for the fact that it wasn't really cursed, it just had some gas in it--if you opened the box, the gas in it made you believe whatever you expected to believe.

The mystery of Future London...that one is a bit more complicated to sum up.

Re: [Video]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

I... heard about a case once called The Golden Apple. But it doesn't sound similar.

[Video]

[luke-triton.livejournal.com]

Really? What are your Golden Apple case about?

Re: [Video]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

It was a murder in New York City. The location was the performance of a play called The Golden Apple.

[Video]

[luke-triton.livejournal.com]

A murder! That's awful.

Every time the Professor and I come across a murder, it turns out to be something that just...seems like a murder. I suppose Scotland Yard isn't quite doing their job correctly when they report something as a murder when the person isn't actually dead...

Re: [Video]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

That is completely unprofessional of them. With their reputation they should have a responsibility to do better.

[Video]

[luke-triton.livejournal.com]

All right--well, I suppose that's a bit unfair.

The first time that happened, the detective wasn't actually a detective but someone pretending to be a detective. And the person that was dead was actually a robot...So that doesn't quite count.

The other time it happened, it was when we found that Elysian box--the one that had the gas in it that made you believe that whatever you expected would happen. So...that time..well, that I can't explain. I can't quite understand how a gas would make you look dead, but I did see Mr. Schrader and he did look awfully dead for a man who would turn out to not be dead later.....