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Ah -- this is a little abrupt! Apologies if it sounds weird but -- I've been keeping it inside for too long, and I needed to say it.

[Today Asgard, your tiny detective is steeling himself for a difficult admission. It's delivered with an intentness that Conan usually doesn't display on such public feeds. You'll soon see why -- detective is serious business after all.]

My reasoning was flawed.

The greatest detective of my world taught us that to be a perfect reasoner one must be an observation machine, detached, impartial and rational. The moment you allow emotion to enter your reasoning, you run the risk of being swayed by it. I think I do a good job of applying his methods most of the time, but lately--

[This is the hard part. Conan looks down.]

A lot of my friends have left. I wasn't trying to pretend I wasn't sad or didn't miss them ... but I guess I didn't realize how much I depended on them. Or how much that loss was effecting my ability to reason. Odin, I realize you do not care, but I was not reasoning to the best of my ability and for that I'm sorry.

For everyone else -- I'm Edogawa Conan, detective. From now on I'm definitely going to show you the best of my reasoning!

Ah -- Ushahin-san, I think your name was? You asked me if the gods had lied. I've considered my evidence and I have to say that technically they haven't. Some Travellers have claimed that they lied because they told us Ragnarok was the end of the world and we're still here -- Ragnarok is a war. We've seen one battle. They did promise to return us when the city was restored to colour, but it was drained before that happened, and the gods acknowledged that here.

However, there are two cases where I think the gods have deceived us, if not by outright lying, then by omission and deception. The first was Freyr's question about physical affection. Despite the responses of many Travellers being negative, the gods went ahead and forced us to go through with their plan anyway. It was to generate emotion for the city, and I imagine the feelings of betrayal experienced by many travellers heightened its effectiveness. The second dates back to the start of the trouble with the Giants. The Dragon who delivered the Ultimatum to the gods claimed that they had violated a treaty through some action -- I believe by bringing us here. Granted in wartime, such promises are moot, but the gods have never explained what the treaty was. It's possible it was alluded to in Loki's most recent post. So, not lying -- but I couldn't tell you to take their word.

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[as before, only half of his face is visible on the screen]

Your thoughts are interesting, child. I am glad the question still turns over in another mind.

It seems a stretch to me to call the first a lie. A deception, certainly, but can you truly say you have never deceived someone thus? It seems a prank, if an awkward one.

The second, though...

Mm! I wouldn't call it that either. I wasn't sure whether it applied to your question, but I decided it demonstrates how the gods have approached us in the past and the results of that.

[Since today is Conan's day for being frank.] Do you think I'm placing too much importance on that?

...Why does it matter so much? Perfect reasoning?

It matters because people trust detectives to reveal the truth. They base their actions on what a detective tells them. If a detective makes a mistake, it could have a serious impact on people's lives.

So are you a detective? One like in the books?

Just like in the books.

[Hugo's lips draw to the side in a little half smile in awe]

You're Detective Conan.

It is something to know, certainly.

[he sets his chin on his hand and looks at conan through the screen]

That depends on what you're seeking, child, and what you are willing to do in order to protect what you value. Perhaps the gods broke the trust first, by bringing us here, perhaps it was the giants, as the Frost Queen secretly collected souls. What caused the grey sickness? Certainly not the gods, not purposefully, if it stole away one of their own. Did the giants try to weaken Asgard? Did the Frost Queen's souls create an imbalance? Or is it simply a natural folly of this world, a plague somehow confined to this ground?

And in the end, does it matter who cast the first stone?

[Just a ridiculously fond smile, nothing else.]

[When you put it like that--]

Ah, I guess I am!

Are you a good detective?

I think you're right -- knowing what we personally are willing to do and what we protect is the most important. But to do that, we need all the facts we can have.

I'd like to answer at least one of the questions you raise!

[What. What is that expression.

You better not be getting emotion all up in this serious detective post.]

That was really mature, Conan.

[She's playing the game a little, pretending he really is the little boy he appears, but it's a message for Shinichi as well. No one ever stops growing up, after all.]

I'd like to think I'm pretty good! But I'm going to have to work really hard to solve this particular case. Asgard's not exactly like a regular case!

[He almost wishes he could have had you there back in Paris then, Conan, if you are a good detective then perhaps you could have found the missing key to the automaton. But he bites his cheek, knowing it's pointless to think about that right now.]

But what about Asgard are you trying to solve?

Need?

What you value is a question of heart, child, not of facts. If you are willing to risk the world waiting for answers that may never come clear, that too is a matter of heart. Would you lay down and let the worlds freeze if it turned out that the gods acted 'unfairly' to try and save everything?

[In steeling himself to admit his error, Conan expected to be mocked, scolded, maybe patronized or encouraged the way you'd cheer up a precocious kid.

This -- ]

Thank you, Nakama-neechan. I guess this was -- overdue. [It's been holding him back longer than he really wants to admit.]

Don't beat yourself up, though, okay? You're always going to be human, and you've just done the best thing you could do. It can end here.

Not for something as petty as 'acting unfairly!' And I'm not going hesitate either. I'll act with what information is available when the time comes. Until then, I'm going to look for all the information I can, Ushahin-san.

[ As much as she'd rather forget about the whole hugging incident we all know about, she's grateful. Conan is still here - and he hasn't forgotten.

Although she still feels very bad for Freyr, what Conan says is all true anyway. ]

Thank you for sharing it with the network again. Many people arrived and left ever since we had the festival, and new people must know what the gods have done to us.

[ Pausing. ] And you're also being mature about this.

Fair enough. I hope you will share what you may glean with the rest of us.

Everything! How we got here, how we get back, how the laws of this place work -- ah, I mean natural laws. Like the magic. I know how to use my power -- but I want to know how it's possible to have one.

That's just an example.

[Well that was...enlightening?

Which is why Norman's yelling from the livingroom.]

HEY CONAN! Want to go do something when you're done talking to everyone?

It's not ending.

Asgard's a tough case, but it's my case.

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