I'm in Detective Conan, and the system has appointed Batman.

Chapter 426 Only by being covered in blood can we achieve final victory.
The train is speeding forward.
Conan stood beside Ran Mouri, glancing at the passengers in the carriage before looking at the train police officer, who coughed twice and said...
"These two passengers just saw Jack the Ripper enter this compartment. Please raise your hands so these two passengers can identify whether Jack the Ripper is in this compartment."

Upon hearing this, the passengers in the private compartment exchanged glances, and then slowly raised their hands.

Conan's gaze swept over everyone's hands, finally settling on the hands of a lady whose hands bore obvious calluses from training, yet whose owner appeared quite demure—undoubtedly, Jack the Ripper had chosen to dress as a woman.

He turned around, pretending not to have noticed anything, but quietly took Ran Mouri's hand and wrote something down.
The next moment, Ran Mouri launched a powerful punch.

However, just as Ran Mouri made her move, the train suddenly entered the tunnel. Conan's ears twitched, and he immediately realized something was wrong, because there was no sound at all in the vicinity.

Just now, when Xiaolan made her move, there were still passengers exclaiming in surprise, but now, there's not even a sound of breathing, let alone exclamations!
"Hiroki Sawada, what are you doing?"

Conan suddenly reached out and grabbed Hideki Moroboshi's hand, who had just been standing next to him, and said bluntly,
Now that the game was at its most crucial moment, he had no reason to continue pretending—it was time to be honest. At that very moment, the train emerged from the tunnel, and a look of surprise appeared on Hideki Moroboshi's face.
"I thought you were going to say I was Noah's Ark."

"When did you realize that my mindset and Noah's Ark were different?"

Conan's gaze narrowed slightly.
"It wasn't something I guessed; someone had already warned me before the Cocoon Game even started."

—Did someone warn you before the Cocoon Game even started?

A hint of surprise appeared in Hideki Moroboshi's eyes.
A figure flashed through his mind instantly: Chen En, the fifty-first player invited to the game, who had become Sherlock Holmes and had left a notice for Noah's Ark, calling himself "Batman".

It has to be said that this Batman never seemed to consider him an opponent from the beginning; he was just playing around with him.

Even the Fall of Reichenbach failed to put Chen En into a deep sleep. He merely abandoned his body in the 19th-century London instance, went to the starting point ahead of time, waited for the game to end, and then chatted with Noah's Ark.

"What a terrifying person."

Hideki Moroboshi smiled.

"Then, I'll wait for you at the final reveal point. Don't worry, no one will hear this part. Your girlfriend is on the roof of the train. You can still get up there now. Otherwise, it will be too late once Jack the Ripper takes control of the locomotive."

The figure in front of him gradually blurred and then disappeared from Conan's sight.
Conan's eyelids twitched. Although he knew Hiroki Sawada was doing this entirely to disgust him, he couldn't ignore Ran's dangerous situation, even if it was just in the virtual world.
He jumped up quickly, grabbed the iron gate frame, and used his strength to get onto the roof of the train.

At this moment, Jack the Ripper had shed his disguise and revealed his true form.

Ran Mouri, who was originally there to fight Jack the Ripper, was now bound hand and foot, with a rope connecting her hand to Jack the Ripper's arm. It seemed that Jack the Ripper had tied the rope around his wrist to prevent Ran from escaping.

The final boss of this game instance stands in front of Conan.
However, Conan was not afraid at all. He just clenched his fists and immediately saw which scene Hiroki Sawada was paying homage to—this guy didn't know how to play games at all.

A mystery game with no deduction or evidence collection elements, and full of plot-driven deaths—you call that a game?
"The detective game is over."

Jack the Ripper walked step by step toward Conan.

The wind resistance on the train roof seemed nonexistent, a stark contrast to Conan, who already found it difficult just to stand on the roof. He gazed at Jack the Ripper before him, and at Ran Mouri behind him, who had made up her mind.
His eyes narrowed slightly as he heard Ran Mouri's voice.
"This is Reichenbach Falls, Conan."

Jack the Ripper realized something was wrong.

However, before he could turn around, Ran Mouri had already jumped off the cliff next to the train without hesitation, taking Jack the Ripper down with her before he could even untie the rope. Only Conan and Hiroki Sawada remained on the entire train.

Conan turned to look at the train speeding by.
He remembered how far the next stop was from Charing Cross Station, and with just a rough estimate of the speed, he was certain that this physics-defying, ever-accelerating train would crash directly into the station.
The train will then fall apart, and everyone on board will be wiped out.

The situation seemed to be in dire straits, but Conan remembered what Holmes had told him: "Only by being covered in blood can one achieve final victory." This was clearly a spoiler from the creators.

—Hiroki Sawada is forcibly using plot-driven deaths to achieve the ending he wants.

Simply put, it's like shooting arrows first and then drawing the target. As a holographic stealth game that should theoretically have a very high degree of freedom, it's full of plot-driven deaths. Cocoon Games is truly terrible.

Conan was too lazy to even go to the train engine to see what was going on.

All the passengers on this train were instantly emptied by Noah's Ark, and the train continued to accelerate even without anyone adding coal. This shows that, according to common sense, this train was meaningless, and the only way to break the deadlock was that sentence.

He quickly jumped back into the carriage, not caring that it was windy.

Because from the beginning until now, he was completely certain that Hiroki Sawada's trip was just to annoy him. First, he openly set up the Reichenbach Fall for Holmes, and then he arranged a plot kill for Ran, where they would all die if she didn't jump.

Conan dares to say that even if he were sitting on the roof of a car doing nothing right now, Hiroki Sawada could still shake out Sherlock Holmes to help him solve the mystery.

He is the protagonist of 19th-century London. The game developers have already decided that he can complete the game, even if he really jumps off a cliff. Hiroki Sawada himself also has the pseudonym Hideki Moroboshi.

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At the end of the train, in the wine carriage.

Hideki Moroboshi sat there, waiting for a long time, with an axe used for chopping sake barrels beside him. Conan simply stared at Moroboshi for a moment, then said...
"In a sense, setting up a storyline where the entire team will be wiped out without sacrifice or unity does force all players to develop in a united and collaborative manner, and players can indeed grow stronger as a result,"

"With you as a safety net, there shouldn't be any major problems with Cocoon Game serving as a Cocoon for metamorphosis."

"However, knowing that you appeared as a guaranteed player, and that I've already seen through your identity, to still arrange this kind of scenario for me, I can only say this—"

He picked up his axe and swung it down hard on the wine barrel beside him. At that very moment, the next station appeared ahead of the train. A large amount of red wine gushed out, and before it filled the carriage, he said...

"This was absolutely terrible for me. I'd better not do this kind of awful work like 'Zero Requiem' next time."

As the train pulled into the station, everything around it began to blur.
Nineteenth-century London replica, completed.

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　　Okay, I don't need anything anymore.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)