People are in Conan, but Ace Attorney

Chapter 991 Uncontrollable Curiosity
Everything around disappeared.

Beika Town, belonging to the world of the dead, has vanished without a trace.

The area around Xiang Yuanguang transformed back into the basement of Xiang Yuan's old home.

Nothing seems to have changed.

Only the jade pendant in his pocket, which had been warm but had now cooled, proved that what had just happened was not Xiang Yuanguang's illusion or delusion, but a real event.

"what happened?"

Asai Shigemi, who was standing next to him, asked with some confusion.

He noticed that Xiang Yuanguang had been staring blankly into space after picking up the black diary, seemingly lost in thought. He immediately asked him again with some concern.

Is there something wrong with this black diary?

"Is there something wrong with your body? Is the back of your head that was hit by the fire extinguisher starting to hurt again?"

—I tested it, and don't even mention fire extinguishers.

Damn it, so many chapters have passed, and Damn's fire extinguisher is still chasing me!

Xiang Yuanguang said with a black line on his forehead,

"The injuries from the fire extinguisher have long since healed."

Although he had experienced headaches before, it didn't seem to be a headache caused by the old fire extinguisher injury, but rather a headache caused by his memories of Xiang Yuan.

The two should not be generalized.

However, Hikaru Mugen happens to have a question he wants to ask Narumi Asai.

He asked,
"Asai, during the first trial of the Moon Shadow Island case, did I make any promises to you?"

—What did you promise?
Asai Narumi was stunned.

He asked back,

"Why are you suddenly asking this? If it's about promises..."

"When Attorney Xiang Yuan comforted me, he did seem to promise that something like this would not happen again."

"But I haven't seen Attorney Xiang Yuan since then."

"I didn't meet you again until three years after that case was over."

However, even Asai Narumi himself never imagined that he would meet Mugen Hikaru at that exact moment.

It was just a spur-of-the-moment decision for me to participate in the recording of a program at Nichiri TV.

However, if he hadn't impulsively participated in the recording of that detective show, he probably wouldn't have met Xiang Yuanguang three years later, and everything would have gone off track since then.

The facts were just as Asai Narumi had thought.

If Xiang Yuanguang hadn't met Asai Narumi at the Nichimi TV station, he wouldn't have known that the Moonlight Sonata murder case would happen soon, and naturally, he wouldn't have gone back to check the case files and prepare to overturn the case.

On the stage of fate, any deviation can lead to drastically different outcomes.

Having received the answer, Hikaru Xiang didn't say much, but simply handed the diary to Conan.

He was satisfying the irrepressible curiosity of the Grim Reaper elementary school student.

Otherwise, Conan probably won't be able to sleep tonight.

Conan took the black diary.

He raised an eyebrow, intending to see what kind of diary could have made Xiang Yuanguang lose his composure for so long after just one glance.

This black-covered diary couldn't possibly be the Death Note, could it?

Conan opened the cover.

The first page, as is customary, bears the name of Hikaru Mugen, immediately ruling out the possibility of it being a Death Note.

He then turned to the second page and glanced at its contents.

Conan:?
Chiaki Nanami, standing nearby, curiously peered in, wanting a peek. However, Conan immediately closed the black diary in his hand, handed it back to Hikaru, and said with a serious expression on his small face, "..."
"This is something very important, you don't actually need to show it to me."

If you don't show it to me, I'll just toss and turn all night.

You showed it to me. Before this outcome is announced, I'll be tossing and turning for at least a week.

Conan's reaction piqued the interest of Ai Haibara, who had initially been indifferent.

There aren't many things that can elicit this kind of reaction from Conan.

However, Ai Haibara did not intend to ask for it in front of others.

She lives in Xiangyuan's Omnipotent Office.

She'll just take it and look at it when she returns to Tokyo from Xiangyuan's hometown tomorrow. It's only a matter of looking at it one night later; her curiosity isn't that strong yet.

"Since Young Master Xiang Yuan has already found what he is looking for."

"Then I'll reseal the basement... I'll bring people in to clean it up after a while, clear out the stuff here, and use it for something else..."

The old butler beside him spoke calmly as always.

He seemed completely uninterested in what was recorded in the diary that Xiang Yuanguang had found.

In fact, the old butler was not interested.

Having worked as a professional butler for so many years, he knew when he should be curious and when he shouldn't... Besides, the diary really didn't appeal to him.

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The basement was quickly locked again.

Having retrieved the diary, Xiang Yuanguang returned to his bedroom.

Looking at the deepening night outside the window, he simply turned on the desk lamp, not intending to go to sleep so early, but rather to check on the results of Xiang Yuan's investigations over the years.

Xiang Yuan said that as long as he handed the diary to the investigator, the problem could be solved.

However, just to be on the safe side, he should at least know what's written in the diary. He can't possibly be completely clueless when the investigators ask him questions, can he?
Xiang Yuanguang opened the black diary, ready to read.

The bedroom door was quietly pushed open a crack.

Then, a small figure appeared in Xiang Yuanguang's line of sight.

It's Death Elementary School Student.

A thirst for knowledge is growing within Conan.

He skillfully moved a stool to the side, stood on it, and then looked at the contents of the black diary with Xiang Yuanguang.

He was also very curious about what Xiang Yuanguang had recorded over the past few years.

Although on the second page of the diary it says that Xiang Yuanguang was going to investigate and deal with the traffickers of addictive drugs after the trial on Moon Shadow Island ended.

But Conan has no idea to what extent it has been accomplished.

He was eager to know exactly what Xiang Yuan had investigated and to what extent.

Anyway, now that he's seen this diary, he'll definitely end up fighting these drug traffickers alongside Xiang Yuan. In that case, getting more information will be beneficial for the battle later on.

Xiang Yuanguang and Conan are reading diaries here.

Meanwhile, Asai Narumi leaned against the headboard, looking at a book she had taken from the bookshelf.

He wondered why Yuan Guang had suddenly brought up the promise he made back then.

Xiang Yuanguang only asked him this question after seeing the black diary that he had left before he lost his memory.

They must have thought of something.

Could it be that Xiang Yuanguang disappeared for three years to fulfill his promise to him and investigate matters related to heroin?

(End of this chapter)