"...as I said, I didn't know the full situation," Conan said, not meeting Heiji's eyes. "The other world I've been too, sometimes people are returned to the time they were taken, sometimes they aren't. People are taken from alternate worlds, or from different times in the same world. Ran and I...we were both there. But I went home for a while. I was taken the moment I left, maybe a minute or two passing in between. Either way, I wasn't missed. Ran..."

He sighed. "An assumption. I had assumed she was taken around the same time as Kaito and Aoko, who I already knew were from the future. Kaito was taken after the teleportation heist and I was before the Seiran. In the end, I thought she was a Ran from their world because theirs certainly wasn't mine. I found out when I went back, that wasn't so, but at the time..."

"Ran wasn't returned to the time she was taken. Time was passing back home while she was in the other world. Unfortunately at the time she was taken, there was a kidnapper in the area for girls in her age group. One who decided to take advantage of the fact the famous detective's daughter was missing to keep him from going after him since it was already assumed he likely took her. One...who was with Them. And They didn't like him doing that as it drew too much attention. And you know how they are with witnesses. With half of the girls whose body could never be identified..." He trailed off.