DAY 1 2 9 ;; video. | action if in the area!

[requisite]

-no such thing as a 'murder magnet', Kaito-niichan. You're just making stuff up!

[The video feed is elevated, looking down on Conan's head from above and slightly behind. The pseudo-seven year old may not be aware he's being filmed, but the childish persona is in full force -- cute, slightly petulant tone of voice, and his forensic unit paperwork and notebooks out of sight in his brightly coloured school bag. Unaware of the scrutiny being directed at the top of his head, Conan continues his complaint.]

Anyway, Uncle's a detective, so it's not surprising that in the line of work, we'd encounter cases!

[Cases, he says… You know, the last time he checked, Japan’s crime rate was supposed to be low. The teenager’s fiddling with his bracelet causes the sound to oscillate for a moment. His tone, however, maintains steadily unimpressed, and perhaps just a little incredulous. ]

Uh… huh. And you wanna tell me how you manage to just happen to stumble on these ‘cases’ wherever you go? It just tells me that if I wanna get to the bottom of all this weirdness lately, I’d better start with the center of it all. Who is, naturally, the most suspicious guy.

[The look that Conan gives Kaito is baleful -- not helped as he takes in the bracelet, realises that he is being recorded.]

You make it sound like I'm responsible! I'm investigating!

So am I! I’m in the process of documenting the natural properties of detective-brats and their ability to somehow self-sustain their professions. Seriously, you attract weirdness. And dead people. You know, I wouldn’t be surprised if cosmic karma was all ‘oh, hey, it’s that brat again, let’s make him trip over some dead bodies’.

[Conan rolls his eyes as Kaito's monologue continues, quickly becoming distracted by something he's spotted off camera. He stops walking; caught up in his speech, Kaito doesn't immediately notice.]

-- and if I can reverse-engineer that, I’ll be a millionaire. I mean, who wouldn't want an all-purpose murder repellant? [Beat] Oi, detective-brat, you listening?

[Turning as Kaito does, the feed swings round to show Conan opening the door of a shed that opens the street. As the door swings open, a man is revealed. His posture, his unnatural lack of colour, the fact that without the shed door holding him in place he falls to land flat in front of Conan -- it is immediately obvious that they've found a dead body.

There's a moment when neither of them react, and then Kaito swallows audibly.]

I repeat -- murder magnet.

Turn that off.

[ ooc: this is a joint post between Conan Edogawa holmes_fanatic and Kaito Kuroba requisite! they will both be replying to this post! double the fun, yes. ]

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[holmes_fanatic]

Even so! With so many different worlds, there's got to be one where what Kaito-niichan thinks is him being clever is fact.

[compressed]

I'm not denying that one doesn't exist--it's just that you aren't one. [If that means anything to you, Conan.]

[holmes_fanatic]

[It's not the point that Conan was trying to make and he pauses. It's an odd answer for someone as young as Damien looks, but he's from the same world as Yifei and she's a god, or something. Which means -- what?]

I hope that means that Damien-kun's right about people not believing Kaito-niichan!

[compressed]

[Don't try to wrap your head around it, Conan... there's nothing logical about it.]

Yeah. [And a small pause.]

... How is it going over there?

[holmes_fanatic]

[Conan is so relieved to drop that subject and turn to one he's confident on.]

The scene pretty much speaks for itself. Single victim, likely caught up in whatever that weirdness that happened last night was. We'll have to interview his friends and family and the people around the scene and look into his affairs, but my hunch this is a bad case of wrong place wrong time.

[compressed]

That's a really bad case of bad luck, huh...? [He remembers what happened last night and his expression slightly changes.]

Is it really only the travelers that don't stay dead here?

[holmes_fanatic]

It -- really is. I've seen a few citizen deaths in the city and none have returned the way we do.

[compressed]

Wow, that's... [he's at a loss as to what to sat for a moment.] ... kind of not fair.

[holmes_fanatic]

It really isn't!

[compressed]

... But hey, how do you know how to examine dead bodies? Don't you need a degree or something for that?

[holmes_fanatic]

Technically, I'd need a degree -- that's why I started working in the hospital lab to start with. I knew enough from watching Uncle to know I want to do this as my job and so I asked them if I could be an intern. Then on my second day there was a murder and I knew more than anyone else about scene protocol 'cause of helping Uncle and so now I'm allowed.

[compressed]

... What a chain of events. [He's pretty impressed--no, VERY impressed. And well, that kind of motivates him to try a little harder because if Conan can do it, maybe he can too! ... Maybe.]

That's really cool though... that you can do that sort of thing.

[holmes_fanatic]

Mm! I'm pretty lucky that the people here in Asgard trust us travellers enough to let us do things like this!

[compressed]

I thought it was because they didn't care at first and then you earned their trust as they started to think more for themselves... or something like that. Wasn't it?

[holmes_fanatic]

Ah -- no one's said anything, but it's possible ...

[compressed]

But the results are the same, so I think that's okay... [He nods a little to himself.]

... Oh, am I interrupting your investigation?

[holmes_fanatic]

No, it's okay! There's not much that can be done until the Unit arrives.

But it's good you're talking to Kaito-niichan. I don't think he's very happy right now.

[compressed]

[Conan...]

... I don't think most people would be happy after seeing a dead body.

[holmes_fanatic]

Well, obviously! But I mean he's really not happy.

[compressed]

...?

[Damien slightly tilts his head.]

If the corpse isn't the main reason, then what's wrong with him?

[holmes_fanatic]

Don't ask me! I don't know him that well, you know!