Eighth Deduction [Video]

[modernholmes]

[Conan smiles at the camera brightly and apologetically.  He needed to do some damage control for his rather noticeable return to Discedo.  At the least he could be glad that the camera had never turned on during his change.]

Sorry if I made anyone worry.  But I'm okay now!  Heiji-niichan found me!!

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[Video] Conan fails at defusing crankiness

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

[Conan crosses his arms behind his head and glances off to the side irritably.]

Believe what you want.

[Video] That's ok. I think his little rant has defused him a bit. Maybe.

[luke-triton.livejournal.com]

[When you're angry at someone, you're supposed to not want to talk for a while, so Luke tried to keep up the act for a bit, but at the end of a few minutes he realized he was just too happy Conan was back to stay so angry.]

Did you go home?

[Video]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

My memories suggest so.

[Video]

[luke-triton.livejournal.com]

Was it nice being home for a little while? Even if it was just for a little while.

[Video]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

It would have been if I had actually been home.

[Conan and Heiji do not believe in all this coming from different times silliness. Their working theory is that someone has developed some new mind manipulation techniques and has blocked certain memories from Conan's mind. And that the same people were stalking them long enough to perfectly mimic Conan's state at a certain point. Since Heiji is from a time that is still several months ahead of Conan.]

[Video]

[luke-triton.livejournal.com]

[He didn't go home?]

What do you mean? If you didn't go home..where did you go..?

Re: [Video]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

I am only saying that there is no proof that I actually went home other than my memories. And there is no way to validate those. There are also several inconsistencies with the timing and details.

[Video]

[luke-triton.livejournal.com]

[There was a little part of him that became inwardly incredibly distressed by this. He'd always accepted much of what went on here at face value, if only because thinking too much on the matter made things make no sense whatsoever--including that sometimes people didn't always remember the same things or weren't from the same exact time. Conan's skepticism, however, is making him wonder if that meant that nobody ever got to really go home--especially if they came back.]

How could what you remember be wrong, though? For the most part we are in control of what we remember, it's not as though someone can just say that you ought to remember something that never happened and suddenly you do.

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[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

Memories have never been a reliable proof by themselves. There have always been ways that the human mind might be tricked or fooled. I don't know what method they might be using, but the possibility exists.

[Video]

[luke-triton.livejournal.com]

So then..how would we know if we did go home, if we can't trust what we remember?

That doesn't quite make sense. Wouldn't someone have to know everything about home? What all of our friends and family are like, and every building and every class and every little decoration just right. How could someone do that?

[Then again, he and Layton had sort of fallen for the Future London trick, at least for a while..]