SPLSHIMS Chapter 2: Logic and Parents
Chapter 2: Logic and Parents
The next couple of hours were taken up by Malfoy explaining what Diagon Alley was and why they were going there. Which led to him explaining more about the Wizarding world. Well, trying to explain, since about every five minutes or so he’d be interrupted by questions, as well as the magical world’s most fearsome and annoying opponent:
Logic.
“It’s a stick,” Saguru insisted, gesturing to the thin hawthorn stick Draco was holding.
“No, it isn’t; it’s my wand,” the blonde Slytherin replied, glaring at his stubborn cousin. This lead to a whole argument between Saguru, Draco, Heiji, and Shinichi about the values of magic, and how a stick (“Wand!” Draco protested) could possibly allow a person to be able to lift objects, alter a person’s physical being, or even kill.
“Granted, we’ve run inta cases where sticks have killed people, but they were more like clubs, and the victim died from blunt head trauma,” Heiji said. “Not Latin words bein’ spoken while wavin’ a stick around.”
To make his point (and also because he was just plain annoyed), Malfoy stunned Heiji, making the Osakan the center of much amusement after the other three had picked their jaws up off the ground. With a smirk, the Slytherin then revived him, Heiji shooting him a glare.
“I don’t like that look in your eyes,” Shinichi remarked nervously, gazing at Kaito out of the corner of his eye.
Kaito turned to him with a near manic grin. “Who, me? I was just thinking that this could be really fun to learn! I mean, sure, I’m a magician, but to be able to do real magic…” He trailed off, indigo eyes sparkling with excitement.
“I have a distinct feeling that KID heists are going to suddenly become more troublesome,” Saguru muttered, holding his head in his hands.
Kaito decided to ignore that comment for the moment, instead turning to his doppelganger. “So Shin-chan, you wanna go?” The magician gave Shinichi his best puppy eyes, which the detective responded to with a deadpan look that softened after a moment.
“Well, we have graduated, and it’s not like my parents really care what I do anyways.” Shinichi frowned. “Come to think of it, I wonder whether they know anything about this. It’d be just like them to never tell me about it just because they forgot,” he grumbled.
“Aren’t they in Los Angeles right now?” Heiji asked. His fellow tantei nodded.
“And with the time difference…” he muttered. A shark-like grin then spread over Shinichi’s face. “Hakuba, could I borrow your phone?”
“Would you use it even if I said no?” the British detective replied dryly.
“Probably,” Shinichi nodded.
*In Los Angeles*
“Yukiko, darling, could you get the phone?” Yukiko Kudo heard her husband Yuusaku call.
“Why can’t you get it, Yuu-kun?” she called back.
“I’m at the part of my manuscript where the murderer is about to be unmasked; I’m plotting!”
Yukiko let out a long-suffering sigh, muttering under her breath about lazy authors with uncomfortable things stuck in uncomfortable places, and denials of Yuusaku getting anything in the future. “Hello?” she answered the phone with a disinterested tone.
“Kaa-san?” she heard a familiar voice and immediately she brightened.
“Shin-chan~! I haven’t heard from you in such a long time! How are you doing, darling?” Yukiko gushed over her only son.
“Uh, fine, kaa-san. Uh, listen, I’m in England at the moment, and I have a question for you,” Shinichi said.
“What are you doing in England?” his mother asked.
“Does the name ‘Hogwarts’ ring a bell?” Shinichi inquired, ignoring her question.
“Uh, that’s the boarding school Yuu-kun went to,” Yukiko answered. “But what are you doing in England, Shin-chan?”
“Could you put tou-san on?”
“What are you doing in England?”
Irritated sigh. “Could you just put tou-san on?”
“Not until you tell me what you’re doing in England.”
Shinichi sighed aggravatedly. “I came to help Hakuba with something.”
“Oh, you mean that nice boy with the bird?” Yukiko asked.
“She thinks we’re nice,” a male voice in the background said.
“Saguru, you’re much too conceited,” another person said.
“Be quiet, Draco,” the first person replied.
“Guys, shut up!” Shinichi called. “Could you put tou-san on now, kaa-san?”
“All right, Shinichi,” Yukiko replied. Going to Yuusaku’s studio room, she knocked on the door before opening it. “Yuusaku, Shinichi wants to talk to you. Here’s your father, Shin-chan!” she told her son cheerfully before handing the phone to Yuusaku.
“Shinichi? Why are you calling?” the mystery writer inquired.
“Tou-san,” the Meitantei of the East said, his voice oddly devoid of emotion. “Have you ever heard of ‘Hogwarts’?”
Oh, crap, this is not gonna be good, Yuusaku thought. He was right.