A Certain Kind of Sadness - Log with Beatrice
[He had made the necessary arrangements. As far as Ran and Kogoro knew, he was actually have to spend some time with his 'real parents.' A special trip. As did Jodie, just in case
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[The final place was a place familiar to him. A private villa of his family's on Hawaii. He had made a call to his parents, saying he'd explain how he got to Hawaii later, but he needed the time to himself, so don't mind any unexpected charges from the house.]
[He figured he had two days before they were there. He'd be gone by tomorrow anyway.]
[But the place was private, at least a twenty minute walk to the small town on the island. So no one was likely to come by on their own. Not that he worried, making up lies to get rid of the locals would be easy enough.]
[So Conan took the time to enjoy the sea breeze, laying out on the porch, staring at the clouds above, knowing he would have to say something soon.]
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Conan?
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You know. I've thought about it a lot, but I could never pick out the exact moment I fell in love with Ran.
All I know is the moment when I realized that's what my feelings were.
[He starts out slow, his voice soft. Loud enough to be heard, but almost like if he talked too loud, something would break.]
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If it was going to be about Ran, it was going to hurt.
Nothing about this wasn't going to be full of pain. ]
And... ?
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It's not on her face. ]
That truly is a sweet story... She really... means so much to you.
[ She isn't jealous. She can't be jealous of the truth. And she can't be jealous of a love so present and perfect in his life, of a girl so extraordinary she saw it every day whenever the two were on the island together. Even when she had given her heart away for Battler, she knew in the end...
... 'Beatrice certainly could not win.' when it came to her own story. And thus the witch fell into the sea.
But she always knew he was meant for a happier ending. ]
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[ She speaks from experience. ]
Unless something stops them forever... a girl like that will never stop waiting.
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Not while 'Kudo Shinichi' still exists.
[And there's a tone there, a tone that's heavy and weighed down with the words he's not saying.]
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What has gotten in the way of his existence?
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By no means brought in from outside this kakera, the Kudo Shinichi that Ran knows can no longer return by means that are native to this kakera.
[Words said carefully, to lock out the possible interference from Bernkastel, to lock out the magical means not native to this world. Words that said something happened that denied him his original body.]
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So no magic of any world can-- [ Magic can only distort the truth. It cannot fix a broken one. ]
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[ A witch cannot fashion a new truth out of thin air. Even Bernkastel would have to create justification for a miracle, and why would she ever do that for him? The only person who could fix it...
... was a monster who hated him...
... if he was alive and well, she could only assume something happened that meant his body could no longer change. ]
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