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[It suddenly just got a whole lot colder in the dressing room...]

[The Kid standing in the hallway seems like any other - white suit and hat, monocle - but the monocle is frosted over and you can't quite make out his eyes...his head is tilted as he looks around at the mansion curiously.]

This isn't the museum...it's so warm...

Miss Witch? Is this another of your little tries to trap me? If it is, I will be very upset...I have a heist to attend~

[Despite his light words, Kid is frowning. Stupid little witch...only wanted what she couldn't have...constantly interfering...he couldn't miss his heist, what if this was one of the ones that Snake turned up at?]

[And it was so warm here...wherever here was...he turned, and started down the hall, wandering aimlessly to find somewhere slightly cooler while he waited for Miss Witch to show up.]

(OOC: This Kaito is slightly different from normal - details are in his profile!)

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Jeeze, why is this part of the mansion so cold?

[And there's an Aoko walking through the hall. Wearing a skirt of all things. She changes to fit in with the usual style, the exception being some odd cylinder with a brand symbol around her neck, and she finds the place with the broken air conditioning.

Then she turns into a hallway and stopped, staring at the Kaitou Kid she saw.]

...Kid?

[Kid turns at the sound of his name, the hallway getting even colder as he stood still, watching the girl walking towards him with his head slightly tilted in curiosity. This girl seemed familiar....Ah!]

Nakamori-chan, yes? 'Kid go home' signs at heists...

[He relaxed slightly as he spoke. Nakamori-chan was the Keibu's daughter - she wouldn't do anything to him, apart from possibly trying to capture him.

And besides, he'd always found those Anti-Kid signs slightly hilarious, and he found so few things to be honestly amused about these days...]

[Aoko paused, looking to be actually thinking.] Yeah...it was some sort of anti-sign, so that was me!

[Odd she didn't seem to remember it right away. Then again, this Aoko wasn't quite as young as she looked.]

[Kid raised an eyebrow, though you couldn't see it behind the shadows of his hair.]

Nakamori-chan doesn't remember well? I'm hurt...

[It's getting colder, and the glass on the windows are starting to frost over, but Kid doesn't seem to notice.]

[She pouted.] Well, it's been a while. A...really long while.

[Looks at the windows and shivers.] ....did you mess with the air conditioner for some new trick.

[She's also surprisingly casual despite being around Kid. Comfortable, almost, except for the shivering.]

A while...? You were at my last heist...

[Something is going on here...she's not reacting right to an internationally wanted phantom thief...]

No, no trick. I need my cold.

[His tone sounds almost apologetic, because he knows it's uncomfortable for humans, remembers it being uncomfortable...but it's so warm here, and he really does need his cold...}

The last heist of yours I was at, I was with Conan-kun doing the detectve thing and chasing after you.

[Again, casual. Very, very casual.]

But that's also a long story where it's kind of a game.

[Frowns at that.] Need your cold? [Bites her lip and ponders. Okay, she'd just bite the bullet and probably freak out this Kid.] You're Kaito, right? Kuroba?

[Kid freezes.]

No. I remember my detectives - you've never chased me.

[Something is seriously wrong here...and this girl feels...odd. He hadn't noticed it before now, but there's something off about her, something...old...]

Games are only fun when nobody gets hurt.

[He nods, not offering anything more - before taking a step back when she says THAT NAME-]

No. Not anymore.

[His words snap out harshly, cold like a blizzard, freezing the ears.]

Of course nobody gets hurt. It's just a mental and physical challenge.

[Oh, does not like his reaction to is name. Not at all. Aoko looked saddened.]

...this cold...it's from you, isn't it? And not because of any devices. [A Kaito who WAS Pandora, another who was a legendary heroic spirit, her own Kaito being an immortal with her. No, the idea of Kaito being something other than human was no longer foreign.]

[Kid relaxes slightly at that.]

Nakamori-chan picked that up quick...

[It's sort of a compliment. Not many people realize, and those that do are usually like Tantei-kun and Tantei-san, in that they can look past what they should be seeing, and see what is really there.]

[Kid tilts his head at her curiously.]

Nakamori-chan doesn't seem surprised.

It's become a sort of theme lately, to meet Kaito's who aren't human. And I've gotten used to strange things over the years.

So you're making everything cold...some sort of ice spirit, right? With the ghost on you, it's can't just being a ghost.

Kaito...s? More then one?

[He'll even ignore the name for now, to satisfy his curiosity.]

Over the years...Nakamori-chan feels old.

Aa. Does Nakamori-chan know her legends? Pregnant woman aren't the only ones who died violently in the middle of a blizzard...

Yes. This place...it's a place in between dimensions. It pulls people here, alternates. Like my Kaito is here and he definitely doesn't make everything cold.

[Pauses and nods.] There have been beings that said that before. Because of the reason having a strong magical aura, it gets noticed. Aoko is old. [Very, very old.]

[She frowns, thinking.] Pregnant woman that dies in a blizzard...?

Yuki Onna? Wasn't that her legend?

[Shinichi's not surprised by the drop in the temperature -- he's been wanting to talk to Haibara after all. He follows the cold, turning down a corridor as he calls out.]

Haibara! Wait up, I--

[Pause. This is unexpected.]

The Kaitou Kid?

[Kid turns at the oddly familiar voice, and freezes in shock-

He looks like his father, like Meitantei-san, dammit Kudo WHY COULDN'T YOU SOLVE IT -

Before relaxing again, mind on the here and now and not the echoes of laughter and the scent of gunpowder and blood.]

Tantei-kun, all grown up again...

[What is happening here?]

[And that feeling in the air, the sense of darkness and death and something else, something other, but without the coldness of ice and snow he's so used to...]

Tantei-kun...?

[And he hates that he sounds so uncertain, so young, but he can't help it because nothing is making any sense and Tantei-kun is, Tantei-kun is...]

[There's echoes of 1412 there, and Shinichi stays still a moment, trying to sort out the complicated layers of recognition here. The Kid, of course, more like the one he knows than others he's met and yet not, and that coldness, overwhelming almost everything else, but it can't mask death to one that knows it.]

Kid.

What happened to you?

[Kid smiles, falsely bright.]

Died.

[And now everything is different, and shook up, and he has to focus but he can't when the wind says fly with me and the water says swim with me and the ice says just lie down and go to sleep... Kuroba Kaito is dead. He died 8 years ago. Kid though...Kid was reborn in the freezing ice and the sight of blood on snow and the scent of gunpowder and the sneer on his face as he shot him through the heart...]

[His head hurts.]

Died - then got back up.

I'm so cold, always so cold...

I'm not supposed to be here - I wasn't, for a while. Eight years...I should go back, should move on, but I can't yet...

My head hurts.

[My heart hurts...then and now and soon...he's not dead, Kid, not properly...but he is, possibly, sort of broken. Shattered and brittle like shards of ice.]

I gathered. I know dead ... [Peering curiously at Kid, trying to work out what it is that's different -- he doesn't feel like Haibara or the ghost Aoko does.] But you've something else--

[Kid's words register and Shinichi looks up surprised. ]It's all right. This place -- they can't make you leave.

Eight years?

Something else. [Kid agrees placidly, calmer now. Can the grown Tantei-kun figure out the puzzle?]

[Kid relaxes slightly at Shinichi's words, a tension he hadn't known about leaving. This wasn't what he'd feared then, he wasn't being taken away, back to the in between space and what came after. He'd be happy to move on when he was finished, when Snake was caught and Pandora destroyed and the bodies found and buried properly.]

Eight years, stuck in the in between. Couldn't move on, couldn't go back- if not for the cold, would still be there. Made a crack in the walls, the way I died, and a crack is all I need - but it changed me, coming back.

It's so cold now, all the time...

[Shinichi's expression is thoughtful, possibly sad -- but that's banished in a second as he smiles.] Kudou Shinichi, deceased. Nice to meet you.

[He has a suspicion of course, what with the cold -- even if he has to remind his inner realist that a ghost has no place to quibble about what is or isn't realistic.]

Think coming back changes everyone. You've done well to keep together this long.

[Heiji is slightly surprised by the drop in temperature, but assumes it's another ghost. He turns around and notices Kid. He makes sure to keep a good distance though as he's feeling bad vibes from him. An ability he hasn't lost even in death.] Ya new 'ere, Kid?

[Kid frowns slightly. So many dead people.]

Aa. New.

[He vaguely recognises this detective - something about Osaka...what's his name again?]

Hattori...Heiji?

Hmm?

[Unless she's very much mistaken, she's the only witch around here. Akako looks down the hall.]

Who called for me?

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