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[taps_ghosts]

"Okay so ..." The familiar Osakan detective is holding a portable EMF meter up to the walls of the mansion. "Energy readings are off the scale. I don't even know what half those lights mean ... and the K-2 meter is going nuts. Which means ..." Heiji sighs, ignoring the beeping of the K-2 meter as he reasons aloud. "Either the fall really messed up

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[thiskaitohaunts]

This Kaito is at the moment choosing to be invisible. And is right now laughing is dead behind off, thanks. He's heard of that Hattori, because he's met that Hattori's Kazuha.

And is HIGHLY amused.

[taps_ghosts]

Heiji's discounting the way his K-2 meter has gone off the scale as due to the mansion's inherent atmosphere and has turned it off as he looks around the place.

[thiskaitohaunts]

Aaand, that's set him off again. Only now he's taken to flitting about the place like the (literal) phantom he is.

[taps_ghosts]

The mansion's got a lot to attract any detective's attention, and Heiji's busy sizing up the contents of the bookcases, the relative age of the furnishings and the traces left on them by the mansion's inhabitants. Definitely not the place he came to investigate ...

[thiskaitohaunts]

And if he'd been visible, you'd bee able to see him creeping up behind Hattori, mischief in mind. Once he's right behind the guy, leans forward.

"...BOO."

[taps_ghosts]

And Heiji doesn't react. He picks up a copy of the Hound of the Baskervilles left on a coffee table, no doubt by one of the mansion's many Conans, and flips through it, before setting it down again and heading purposefully down one of the corridors.

Weird. It's like he can't hear Kaito or something.

[thiskaitohaunts]

...And now Kaito's pouting, because he'd been sure he'd meant to be heard just then. Sure. So he puts on an extra effort while making himself (mostly) visible again, and plonks himself right in front of the Osakan, making a face.

[taps_ghosts]

Heiji reacts to that by shivering -- then pausing. Sudden chills only mean one thing to a ghost hunter, and he pulls out his EMF meter. "High readings," he murmurs to himself as he places it where he felt the cold chill. "But is that due to the mansion's environment or a presence?" He considers his equipment. Maybe there's a way to tune out the interference from the mansion?

[thiskaitohaunts]

Kaito waves a hand in front of Hattori's face, not impressed.

"Oii...." This? Was annoying. The one time he really, really wants just talk to any of the new arrivals, and this happens. Balefully, he brings out the trusty pad and pen - which will be completely and utterly visible to the living spectrum, since they are items he's filched from Nakamori's own desk - and starts to write.

Can you really not seeing or hearing me at all, or are you just plain messing about with me, Hattori?!

[taps_ghosts]

That gets a reaction -- and the scale of the reaction make it very clear that Hattori was not messing. "No way! First a dimensional vortex, now a paranormal encounter? This is-- I mean, sorry, sorry! I'm listening! Well, not listening since I can't hear anything, but go on. I'm watching." Pause. "Hey, how do you know my name?" Could it be--

[thiskaitohaunts]

...Dammit. Not just a sick joke.

He sighed. Well, at least it was certain his handwriting skills weren't ever going to get lost.

First things first, Useless Ghost Hunter Hattori. I'm not just some 'paranormal encounter' so don't treat me like I'm not a person. Second, I know who you are in my world. I've just been given a great big neon sign saying you don't apparently know me in yours. Either that or the Mansion's just choosy and doesn't like me.

[taps_ghosts]

"First things first, use-- oi!" Hattori stopped reading to glare at where the cold presence was emanating from. "Don't you start! It's bad enough Kazuha an' everyone saying you don't exist without you joinin' in. An' I said I'm watching." He traced his finger over the last sentences. "Alternate worlds then?" So it wasn't him.

[thiskaitohaunts]

He's laughing. Kaito guesses Hattori's just Hattori in any universe.

All right, then, 'Oi', I shall now call you that. Yes, alternate worlds. I've been here long enough to know that by now. And... who d'you think I am, then?

Probably Kudo, having talked with that world's Kazuha during his first few hours in the Mansion. But teasing was fun.

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Hattori rolled his eyes. Yeah, you're hilarious, whoever you are. "Very funny. What's different in your world? Obviously we know each other, for a start. An' I always figured if I met any ghost it'd be Kudou."

[thiskaitohaunts]

Have a smiley on the pad! :) I do try my best! My world? Well, for one thing, it's me that's dead, not Kudo. And you're a psychic.

...Kuroba Kaito. Nice ta meet you?

[taps_ghosts]

"Keep trying." There's no real bite in Hattori's words. He's intrigued by a world that sounds so different. Kudou alive? Hattori psychic? "Kuroba, huh? Nice to meet you. I'm Hattori Heiji, but you already knew that. Psychic? The same way Mori-san's old man is?"