[Video] *~And I say Bombs Away~*

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[Saguru has flipped on the Blackberry in the courtyard of the Hofbräuhaus, over dinner and ... well, that's a half empty liter mug. Yes, after Halloween, and after a few days spent ... it started out as him fussing over Mukuro and had at least one good evening of him trying to continue such after having definitely had too much to drink, and in

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Who's "the Author"? [... Oh. Right. And...] ... Saguru-niichan.

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[D'awww. One of these days ... he really needed to let on how much he knew.]

The one that's in control of this place; from what I've been able to find over the past year, she seems to be the source of the reality-warps here, and is apparently an American teenage fangirl with no clue that we're actually real - hence things like that trip to that foggy town... as long as she doesn't know we're real, she's a small child with an ant farm.

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[... Reality warps. Fangirl. This really wasn't helping to answer his questions right now.]

So things like that happen all the time? Randomly? Or is there a set pattern to it?

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[You just went from Silent Hill to Munich during a mis-timed holiday. If it walks like a duck, has feathers like a duck, and quacks like a duck, it's probably not a platypus.]

Usually things change weekly; some things will last for more than one week with changes, and sometimes there'll be a half-week event with not much happening the rest of the week, but usually it's a fairly regular and predictable timetable. Unfortunately, what happens is nowhere near as predictable outside of her tendency to observe holidays.

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She celebrates holidays as well, huh. [Not that Conan wasn't already theorizing about it since the Oktoberfest event started.] How long has Saguru-niichan been here? Does he know how long Heiji-niichan has been here too?

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That foggy town was her idea of Halloween. [After all, her 'celebrating' didn't necessarily mean it'd be a party to them...]

[And as much as that was very acid-tinged, there's an odd, wry smile.] I've been here eleven months, twenty-nine days, eight hours, and about twenty minutes ... it'll be a full year early tomorrow morning. As for Hattori, he's been here about nine months, seven days, and somewhere within ten hours.

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... I'd hate to see what she did for previous years.

[Conan will just stare dumbly at Hakuba. He can't tell if it's because of the (almost) precise timing, or because the two detectives have been here for that long.]

But-- That can't be true. I just saw Heiji-niichan recently. He brought a case to ojiisan.

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According to someone who was there, it wasn't nearly that bad last year. [Yep, that's a slightly out of character grin that goes along with "Yes, we're the butt of the universe's joke! :D"!]

Time doesn't work right here; you can ask him yourself - might want to check what the last thing that was happening before he showed up here was for him, too.

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[... Oh my gosh has Hakuba gone a little nutty in the Manor?]

Do you mean that we could possibly come from different points in time? Heiji-niichan could be from my future? Or past?

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[A little, kind ofHe settles out of that back to normal pretty fast, at least; not quite the energy or sanity-loss to keep that up right now.]

That's been my experience; I'm afraid I'm not going to be much help, since I had been in Paris when I arrived here, and most of your cases don't quite make the news that far... nevermind that outside of Kid heists, if something does make the news in your area, I usually have to play off inference to place which ones might've been yours. [PS, even if he wasn't aware of the Org, he'd have been stalking you anyway because you've gotten close to His Thief a few times.]

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Cases? [He hasn't solved any cases. :|] You mean the cases ojiisan handles?

Hm... What's the latest Kid heist for you? [Hakuba, you creepy stalker. You take "trailing" to a whole new level.]

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[Every time you do that you just ... get him lapsing into predator mode a little ... even drunk. :| ]

Yes, the ones you've been 'helping' with.

[Of coooourse it's really Kogorou solving those ... but anyway.]

The last heist was the Kirin's Horn; it'd only been a couple months since. [SOB DCMK TIMELINE.]

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I'm smart, aren't I? But ojiisan's even smarter. He always manages to find the bad guy! [Indirectly praising himself? Yes.]

[WHY GOSHO.]Maybe you just didn't hear about the later heists? It's possible that you might miss something, after all. [Just. Let him believe in this. It's more believable than messed-up timelines, okay.]

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[See this face? He's humoring you. That's the ONLY REASON he's not snarking at this.]

[It's also mixed with a little bit of 'you obv. aren't thinking very much about who you're talking to'.]

The only reason I can't quote how long I've been here to the second is that I was asleep at the time, which means I can't quite pinpoint it, and I know you've encountered how much I value precision in timekeeping before. Kaitou Kid is my main case, and one I've hardly given up on. I can quote, from memory, every heist that's happened since the original thirty years ago. Unless he abandoned his usual tactics and became a cat burglar without my notice, no, I doubt I've missed at least hearing of one.