"I want to leave, I do not like this place, they are watching me, I am sure of it" Haibara murmured as she walked at a forced pace.
"Is it here?" Kaito asked.
"...It is here. I do not remember it well because I had a fever and was in bad shape, but it is around this area," she replied.
"As long as we stay close" Kaito said. Then he added, "Omnipotence."
"Why would you say that out of nowhere?" Conan asked beside him.
"I just hid our existence, so they might feel something strange."
"You hid our what?"
"I found it!" Kaito said, ignoring his question.
At that moment, Conan saw a flash in the distance and instantly understood what it was.
"Careful, sniper."
Conan and Haibara tensed up, trying to run, but before the bullets reached them, they stopped in midair around them.
"They are watching us, perfect" Kaito murmured, and with a single thought, the bullets retraced the exact path they had come from, killing both snipers, who did not even have time to react.
Then he raised a hand toward the distance, and an entire building vanished into nothing, as if it had never existed.
"What just happened?"
"The bullets... went back? How?"
Both of them, unable to understand anything, could only look at Kaito, searching for answers.
But Kaito was not paying them any attention. At that moment, he was focused. Using omnipotence, he simulated his ability "Evil", locating everyone who felt hostility toward him. That was how he identified several members of the Warehouse, especially the most important ones, who were observing at that very moment.
"Tsk, it seems Karasuma Renya did not see anything, but sooner or later he will," Kaito said.
At the same time, the air in front of them seemed to begin to twist, forming a vertical oval, and a portal appeared, leading to the place where they had been before, in front of Conan's house.
Although the portal did not clearly show that, Kaito grabbed Conan and Haibara and crossed through with them.
Kaito's Omnipotence ability has a limit of thirty seconds, and only about ten had passed, but the moment he crossed the portal and left the one kilometer range, the ability deactivated on its own.
"What just happened? Are we here again? How? Could it be that everything was an illusion?" Conan immediately began rationalizing everything that had happened.
"Are you really a demon?" However, Haibara was not as logical as Conan. She remembered what Kaito had said earlier and asked, keeping some distance from him.
Kaito did not answer, but his silence said everything.
"Can you really bring my sister back to life?" Haibara asked, with a mix of fear, excitement, and above all, hope.
"I can" Kaito nodded. "Do not worry, I promised you, so I will do it."
"Wait, are you not acting far too normal about this?" Conan asked. "He just deflected bullets, erased a building out of nowhere, then teleported us, and according to what he says, he might not even be human, or even from this world to begin with." Conan said, noticing how calmly Haibara seemed to accept the situation.
"I grew up in an organization of assassins. When I was little, my parents died and I was left alone with my sister. I was forced to develop a drug to kill people, which somehow ended up turning some of them into children. A few days ago, my sister died, and I turned back into a child before escaping.
My life is already strange enough. A demon with powers is strange, yes, but not impossible. The world is full of the stranger things" Haibara said.
"No, but... a demon... powers, how does something like that even work? Are there more like you in the world? What would happen if... one day I go to solve a case and the corpse was simply erased from existence?" Conan insisted.
"Do not worry, there is no one else like me. And in any case, I am the strongest among us" Kaito replied.
After all, the Lords within the same world can communicate with each other through the system.
But of the hundred thousand people who entered this world initially seven years ago, not a single one remains, according to the system, so that can only be the truth.
Except for Megumi. She could deceive the system and hide from the data, but Megumi went to another world simulation with the other team, so there is no possibility she is here.
"Are you the strongest among demons? Are you some kind of demon king?" Haibara asked.
"Wrong process, correct answer" Kaito replied.
"Wrong process? You are not the strongest among demons?" Haibara asked, confused.
"No. He said he is the strongest among them, not among demons, and he also said he is a demon from another world. That means that in his world there is more than just demons. Even so, he is the strongest, at least within the group he belongs to. And if he said he is a demon king, then he must have many demons under his control," Conan analyzed.
"So you do not come from something like hell, but literally from another world. How does that work? Are there many races with different powers? Are there specific traits per race? Are there angels? Are you demons just a race, or do you have any connection to biblical history? If so, are you 'That' demon king?" Haibara asked nonstop.
"There are many races, there are traits but they do not define personality, there are Angels, both them and us are races and have nothing to do with biblical history. And I have the same name as 'That' demon king, but I am not him."
Kaito replied as Haibara continued asking more and more questions, with an obvious headache. He did not understand why the girl who had previously been scared and upset with him for having threatened her in some way had now become so lively.
"Why so many questions?" Conan spoke this time.
"I am a scientist, of course I am curious, especially about how his body and those abilities work. Are you not curious too, detective?" Haibara replied.
Conan thought for a second before speaking. "In your world, are there...?"
"I will answer your questions another day, it is late already," Kaito interrupted, saying his goodbyes.
"Wait! You did answer hers."
Conan's words echoed in the air without reaching anyone, because Kaito had already walked away.
In the stillness of the night, Conan and Haibara returned to their homes. Conan was quite surprised to discover that Haibara lived with Professor Agasa, his neighbor and the only person who knew his secret, although after everything that had happened today, it hardly surprised him at all.
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On a remote island, somewhere unknown in the world, there was a large mansion with only two residents.
An old man lay in bed, extremely aged. At first glance, he looked around ninety years old, but the truth was that he had lived for over one hundred and forty.
His identity was Karasuma Renya, founder and leader of the Black Organization, also known by Kaito as the Warehouse.
More than a hundred years ago, after creating a formidable organization in record time, for unknown reasons he decided to isolate himself and hide from the world. The only person he spoke to in person was Vermouth, another member of the Warehouse and his confidant.
At that moment, Vermouth entered the room with a tablet to show him something.
The moment he heard the noise, the old man covered his head and began to ramble.
"No! It is coming for me! I am sorry! I should not have played with death! Leave me alone!"
Vermouth was not surprised. Six out of ten times the old man would ramble, fearful that something was coming for him, although he never said what it was. Normally she would not have taken it seriously, but this time, for some reason, she felt it was not so far-fetched.
"Karasuma, there is something you need to see."
After a few minutes, when the old man finally calmed down and returned to acting like a normal person, he took the tablet and watched the video.
In it, Kaito could be seen, or at least what Kaito had allowed to be seen of him, and his actions that night.
Upon seeing it, the old man threw the tablet away and began rambling again.
"It is him! He is coming for me! He has not forgotten me! He has not forgiven me!"
"Renya, you must tell me what is happening, or I will not be able to help you," Vermouth said firmly.
Normally she would not insist, knowing the old man never spoke about that, but since watching the video, even she felt fear. The possibility that it was truly coming for them terrified her, and even more so not knowing what it was.
To her surprise, this time the old man spoke.
"Help me sit up."
Vermouth nodded and stepped closer, taking his hand to help him sit up before he began to speak.
"It was... it was one hundred and fifty years ago, during the event of the sunset. They said it was a sudden meteorological event, that the sky turned orange for days, but it was a lie. That was not a sunset, it was another world... it was hell.
That day, some people claimed to have seen meteors. The government denied it... but it was true.
I saw one fall, right in front of me. It was an object. Hell gave us a gift, no, it gave us ten. I know it. Just by touching it, I can feel that there are nine others just like it.
That day, hell gave me a present. It gave me a notebook with the power to control death.
But the more I used it... I could feel it. Something was watching me. From the moment I started using it, something marked me. My soul no longer belongs to me.
With the power of the notebook, I transformed a small group into the organization it is today. And after that... I never used it again. Even so, I know it. Once I die, my soul will be theirs.
That is why I do not want to die! I must remain alive forever! I must not let them take me!
But if they sent objects, what is stopping them from coming themselves? The other side is chasing me! They got tired of waiting and came to take my soul with their own hands!"
Years of running and hiding turned Karasuma Renya into a coward who fears everything, convinced that everyone is an enemy coming for his soul.
But deep down, hidden even from himself, there was a small spark of anger toward those who gave him the notebook and toward the being that was coming to claim him.
So well hidden that no one could notice it.
No one... except Kaito.
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