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Yet another Conan has come to the Dressing Room. One who was actually a bit taller than the usual Conan. He looks more like he's eleven. Maybe even twelve.

Brought in kind of at a bad time too.

Which should be obvious to anyone who happens upon him as he stumbled through the hallway as he's clutching at his arm. Which is bleeding. Quite heavily. And that's not accounting for all the smaller cuts, torn clothing, and bruises covering the rest of his body.

"Damn it," he muttered, leaning against a wall. "Hello! Heiji! Kaito! Anyone!" Damn, damn, damn, where was he?! One minute he's running from Snake after escaping narrowly from the 'little surprise' left for Kid in his landing spot, and now he's in some hotel. At least it felt like his arm was only grazed, but he'd need stitches and he really couldn't afford going to a hospital.

If he could find a phone in...wherever here was.

He didn't even recognize this place!

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"I can't just let someone like that run around! Especially when he's willing to hurt Aoko! It's bad enough to watch Kaito get guilty because she hates Kid! Her getting hurt by any version of Kid will just be...it's unacceptable!" Conan declared angrily. Gone was the dull look, but this wasn't the usual fired up Conan. This was a Conan who had a far more...desperate, manic look in his eyes.

Now he regretted telling him, though it wasn't like he'd known Conan would react this way. He noticed the look in his eyes. He didn't like it. "Tantei-kun... Shinichi! I know! Don't you think I know that?" He grabbed his other shoulder and looked him square in the eye.

"I understand that you want to stop him. I want to stop him too, but I don't even know where he is, we don't have enough information on what he's capable of and again you are not in any condition to be going after anyone. Now calm down!"

"But-" Conan started and paused. Kaito...Kaito was right. He scowled. Of course he was right.

"...right. Sorry," He said, pulling off his glasses and rubbing the bridge of his nose. "I...I don't like that thought. You two are so close and she looks so much like..."

He trailed off. No, he couldn't go down that line of thought. Nothing good was that way.

"I need to calm down." He'd run in too many times in the past without thinking and it'd gotten him hurt before. Odd that it was Kaito, KAITOU KID, mister unpredictable, who often got him to act rational.

... Ah, so that's why he reacted that way. He probably should have thought of that. It wasn't like he hadn't noticed that Tantei-kun's beloved Ran looked an awful lot like his friend.

Well best not to think about that now.

"Yes, you do." He agreed as he let go.

Of course, that was only the tip of the iceberg. Had it been anyone else aside from Heiji or Kaito to try and talk him down, they would have failed. Rather horribly at that.

Conan nodded, slipping the glasses back on. "Right. I'll rest, but tell me more about this place. Anything else I need to know about?"

He thought for a moment. "Well, this place is pretty much endless and seems to have anything and everything we'd ever need. I'm starting to think the rooms move around a bit too, and sometimes the place likes messing with us. Nothing serious so far though. The other day it was like you couldn't touch anything without leaving paint on it. I don't know anything more than that. I've only been here for about three weeks."

"Could be worse. At least we're not kidnapped to a world and expected to pay for things right away," Conan commented, crossing his arms in thought. "Paint isn't so bad either. Better than mind reading mistletoe or things that change your actual body."

Kaito watched him and couldn't help but comment. "Mind reading mistletoe?" He repeated, sounding amused.

"Not as funny as you think when it's trying to tell people you're not really seven," Conan said flatly.

"Right." Yeah he could understand that. The mental image was still kinda funny, but he'd keep that to himself.

"And kept propositioning Aoko for you."

"Propositioning Aoko-chan?" He repeated. It's not like he didn't know what he meant or anything, but Aoko? Really? He knew that everyone else in their class liked to tease them about how close they were, and he sometimes suspected she liked him as more than a friend, but he didn't think of her that way.

There was a notable pause at Kaito's response. "...I guess there had to be a world where you weren't childhood friends?"

"No, we've only known each other for about three and a half years." He said, frowning. They were childhood friends in his world? So did that mean that this other Kaito was never Dove? Yet he was still Kaito and still the Kid. Hmm...

"I guess that means we didn't first meet for the clock tower case," Conan muttered thoughtfully.

He looked a little bemused. "Actually I think we did."

He looked mildly surprised. Even if that dullness had returned to his face. "Really? You had saved it because it was where you met Aoko as kids in my world."

"Really? That's where we met the first time in my world too." What a crazy coincidence. If his luck wasn't so weird he wouldn't believe it either.

"Really? Interesting," Conan muttered. "...I guess some circumstances are always constant."

"I guess so." He agreed, scratching his head. Though now he couldn't help but feel just a little jealous of this other version of him. He'd been able to live a normal life from the start. Lucky guy.

"I wonder why it took so long," Conan said thoughtfully. "It was a chance meeting, but still, with your luck..."

Yeah, with his luck he really would end up collapsing behind the house of his supposedly dead real parents. "Well... I wasn't living Ekoda until about that time." Not really a lie.

"You weren't? That must have been a pain for Nakamori-keibu, if Toichi lived somewhere else."

Well that confirmed it pretty much. "Hehheh. Yeah." That thought was actually kinda funny.

Conan raised an eyebrow, just slightly. "...right. Well, since you're not giving hints, I'll be straight forward. I know something dramatic changed. So you don't have to pretend it didn't."