"And here I thought that was your instinct," Conan said, a quip that was out before he could stop it. But, on second thought, maybe a joke would do Kaito good.

"Because of the affects of it being a dimensional nexus, the idea that our lives are just a show, something that happens to a lot of dimensions, also come into play here. There's a room with DVDs from all of our worlds. I'm having Leormon dig up the cases where a 'Shinichi' was going against Kid. Most of them are Conan, but I'll look for ones that might help with his mentality more when I go look."