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[consultingbishop]

So, hey...

[Hey, Keelial. Remember him? He looks a lot more tired than before, his hair is ruffled and his shirt looks partly undone. It looks like he's sat in the College.]

Anyone noticed the pattern on the Turtle's shell? It's... pulsing. It started like... three? Four days ago? The time between the pulses is getting shorter.

I'm not sure what this means, but... hey. It sounds important, right? I've done some math and, well... I think... [Yawn.] ...I think the pulses are gonna stop in a week or so. If the period between them keeps getting shorter.

Assuming that's what this is.

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[consultingbishop]

To what?

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[spoilsfun]

It could be a lot of different things. But if there's a mathematical element to the spacing of the pulses, and they can be predicted to vanish at a certain time, then it would be reasonable to theorize that something will happen at that moment.

Coincidences rarely exist.

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[consultingbishop]

That's, uh... A very astute observation.

[How old is this kid?]

I mean, that's likely, but... I dunno. I've only been here a couple weeks. I just noticed the pulsing.

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[spoilsfun]

I've been here about six weeks. Not long enough to know whether this has happened before. [He suddenly shifts into much more childish manners. ] But maybe one of the people who've been her for a long time would know!

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[consultingbishop]

That's the point of this. I don't think anyone else's noticed.

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[spoilsfun]

Really? No one?

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[consultingbishop]

Doesn't look like it.

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[spoilsfun]

Not even the fact that there were patterns in the lights?

[Conan hadn't gotten as far as making predictions, but the fact that there had been a pattern in it had been the first thing he'd noticed. He'd been playing around with the idea of it being a communication through code.]

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[consultingbishop]

Especially not that.

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[spoilsfun]

[You're destroying what little is left of Conan's faith in other people's observational ability.]

How could everyone miss that?

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[consultingbishop]

Well, if anyone has noticed, they're not saying anything.

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[spoilsfun]

I'll hope that everyone just decided not to say anything. It leaves me with a little hope that not everyone here is completely unobservant.

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[consultingbishop]

Especially when it's something like this. I mean, back where I'm from, turtles don't glow.

[A pause.]

At least, I think they don't.

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[spoilsfun]

Not at my home either. Not without fluorescent paint or some other trick.

[He pauses thoughtfully.]

Although there was the case of the blush mermaid recently. That turtle didn't glow, but it did glitter rather nicely.

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[consultingbishop]

Blush mermaid?

[You're starting to not make sense, kid.]

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[spoilsfun]

It was a jewel. The actress who previously owned it had been a passenger on a cruiseship that sank. In order to ensure that her pet turtle would be rescued and cared for by someone, she glued her jewels to the turtle's shell and released it into the ocean.

Not long before I arrived here, a famous jewel thief at home tried to steal it.

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[consultingbishop]

Pretty cruel thing to do to a turtle, isn't it?

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[spoilsfun]

[ Conan shakes his head.]

She died in the shipwreck, so we can't ask her what she was thinking. Perhaps she panicked and could not think of any other way to protect her pet.

But her gamble did work. A passing boat saw the light reflect off the jewels and picked it up. And Uncle Jirokichi bought it for a lot of money. He plans to give it a good home after it sheds the outer layers of its shell.

And the turtle was not harmed. Super glue and epoxy have been used before to repair damaged turtle shells.

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[consultingbishop]

...You sure know a lot about this sort of thing.

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[spoilsfun]

I'm a detective. It's important for a detective to know a lot of things about a lot of different subjects. Because you never know what might be important later.

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[consultingbishop]

A detective, huh? Well, you sound like you know your stuff.

[He's not pointing out the glaring contradiction... just yet.]

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[spoilsfun]

I'm just good at listening. I live in a detective agency back home, so I hear a lot.

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[consultingbishop]

Uh... huh.

[Alrighty, then. Seems Legit™.

But Peter isn't here to pry into people's private lives.]

That what you wanna be when you grow up?

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[spoilsfun]

Mmm! I'm going to be just as good a detective as Uncle Kogoro and Shinichi-niichan! [Neither would be difficult. Because he was Shinichi and he was already solving all of Old Man Kogoro's cases for him. ]

I want to be like a real life Holmes.

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[consultingbishop]

Well, hopefully you can avoid the smoking and sociopathy.