Shinichi looked back at the game with a sour expression. "They're AIs," he explained, idly wondering whether he'd be lucky enough to respawn in an area that might still allow him to win. Not likely. "Not very good ones, either. It might as well be one on one."

Oh well. They were still 2 for 2 in missions, and he almost had Kuroba's hack figured out. That would level the playing field.

The raider looked at Conan again, and cautiously asked, "Are you the one we met before?"

He was kind of hoping he wasn't. It was bad enough being warned that he might be turned into a kid without it happening to the very person who warned him in the first place. That implied a certain kind of inevitability that he wasn't at all fond of.