Case 10: The Mysterious Cake

[jamesholmes]

[The voice coming over the journal today is slightly embarrassed sounding. Yup this is long over due and he's finally getting to it.I, would like to apologize to all who may have been harmed in the course of the loss I was under, not too long ago. The time, well let me only say I have changed since that me and my present self. Most notably to

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[modernholmes]

So you've recalled yourself.

[jamesholmes]

Indeed I have. Terribly sorry about myself and Nikola.

[modernholmes]

Oh I wouldn't say that was needed. I learned some very interesting things.

[jamesholmes]

Oh did you now? [Conan would, James knows this, but he's curious what the young man knows.]

[modernholmes]

I would say so, Mr. Holmes.

[jamesholmes]

Of course, Nikola. But you are aware there is someone else who is that man yes?

[modernholmes]

Nikola?

I could hardly be unaware of that. He does live across the hallway from me.

[jamesholmes]

The Serbian who was with me when I talked to you, Nikola Tesla.

And does he now? I met him upon his arrival here, fascinating young man.

[modernholmes]

The entire situation is interesting.

[jamesholmes]

It is indeed, very interesting to be sure. Anything of particular interest to you however?

[modernholmes]

I find it very curious. That here there should be two people who could refer to themselves as Holmes. Where, in my own world, I was once nicknamed the Holmes of the Heisei era.

[jamesholmes]

[That gets Conan a laugh.] I do not find it so odd, but then again in my own world I also know such figures as Jack the Ripper, the Invisible Man and Nikola Tesla, as well as one man who could have been Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

[modernholmes]

Of all those, only Jack the Ripper was real in my world.

[jamesholmes]

Someone else invented the radio in your world? Nikola Tesla is not a fictional figure, in my world at least.

[modernholmes]

Tesla? [Conan frowns in thought.] The name is slightly familiar. But the patent for the radio is held by Guglielmon Marconi.

[jamesholmes]

Marconi holds the patent yes, or rather did after some disputes, however much of Nikola's work was centered around it. Indeed much of Marconi's work relied upon Nikola's.