[Didn't sleep well the first night after getting the diary. Woke up at noon and browsed the news, saw that the daughter of the Suzuki Conglomerate encountered a murder case at her university class reunion. I recalled for a moment, and the plot on Conan's side should be at the "Bandaged Man" case from the childhood trauma series.
I wonder what a manga that wasn't finished even after thirty years of serialization in my past life will become in this world.
However, the setting on Conan's side can't be measured by the standards of ordinary people in the first place. Especially the APTX4869 at the core of the story, which shouldn't be something that appears in this era.
You swallow a capsule, and within ten minutes, you go from a 1.75-meter-tall high school student weighing over 100 pounds to an elementary school student just over 1 meter tall and weighing less than 40 pounds.
What's even more absurd is that just by drinking a bottle of strong liquor, you can temporarily change back to your original form. Who knows how the dozens of pounds of body weight that disappear and reappear out of thin air are converted in terms of energy.
However, although Conan's side seems very unscientific, with all sorts of black-tech gadgets being thrown around, as a detective manga itself, the development of the story still has to follow basic logic. At most, there are just a few more criminals.
On the other hand, another manga by the same author as Conan, the setting of Kaitou Kid, really does have a witch of unknown depth hidden within it. And according to the settings in the work, the Pandora Gem that Kaitou Kid has been searching for is also said to hide the secret of eternal life.
It's a pity that when I transmigrated, both of these works were far from finished. I couldn't figure out who the final villain was, nor did I want to get involved in their plot to watch the fun. I can only let the two protagonists work hard to fight the BOSS themselves.
As for the female protagonists who are reading the diary now, you shouldn't think about getting involved either.
One of them is a modern Sherlock Holmes, the other is a phantom thief with an IQ of 400 in the settings. If you suddenly appear in front of them, they will be able to sense that something is wrong in minutes.
In addition, the death rate of APTX4869 is higher than 99%. Only a very small number of people can enjoy the treatment of regaining their youth. Even if you really manage to get your hands on it, you will most likely gain the attention of a world-class criminal organization.
In the plot, they are super terrorists who dare to bomb the Shinkansen, strafe the Tokyo Tower with an attack helicopter, and will set off an explosion if you look at them for too long. Even the second daughter of the Suzuki Conglomerate was almost killed by their guns over a small matter.
So for the sake of your own lives, it's best to stay away from Beika Town these few years if you have nothing to do. This place will probably be the place with the highest homicide rate in all of Japan for the next few years.
But since we're talking about supernatural powers, then I'll mention in passing that there are actually supernatural factors in Hoshino Ai's story as well.
If she is already pregnant now, then the two children in her belly are reincarnated individuals with memories of their past lives, and they will begin to secretly investigate the true cause of Ai's death after she is killed.
To be honest, this development is quite exciting, but considering the precedent set by the author's previous work, Kaguya-sama, where the situation was excellent but then he suddenly started with bizarre operations, playing with politics and business wars, and couldn't grasp the plot, resulting in a bunch of infamous scenes and a sloppy ending, I can't guess what the truth of Hoshino Ai's death will be either.
I seem to have gotten a bit sidetracked. After all, it's not even certain if Hoshino Ai is pregnant now. To talk about things that will happen in a few years or even more than ten years is still too far off.
Speaking of which, how many hidden secrets are there in this world?
But I have no intention of getting involved with those things right now.
I'm not some ally of justice. What I can do now is to honestly lay low and write my diary for a few years. It's not too late to emerge after I've become invincible. There's no need to torture myself.
As for you all, you don't have to worry either. Even if the sky falls, there are other protagonists in front to hold it up. Living your own lives well is the most important thing.
Today's diary update is a little earlier because I'm afraid that after you read my diary, you might stay up all night again, unable to sleep. So I'm quite considerate, aren't I?]
Shinomiya Kaguya read today's diary, word by word.
Today's diary was a little shorter than yesterday's, but the things it revealed were just as explosive.
She first pulled out Edogawa Conan's file.
Concise, very concise.
6 years old, parents' information currently unavailable, first grade at Teitan Elementary School, temporarily residing at the home of detective Mouri Kogoro.
As for Mouri Kogoro's file, it was much more extensive.
From his elementary school to his graduation from the police academy, his marriage to the now-famous lawyer Eri Kisaki, having a daughter and then separating, being a police officer for a few years before suddenly resigning to open a detective agency, and then being just a third-rate detective for the past few years until he suddenly had a realization recently, continuously solving multiple murder cases, and earning the title of "Sleeping Kogoro" were all recorded in the file.
"So, it was actually this Edogawa Conan, who suddenly turned into a child, who was guiding him from behind to solve the cases?" Through the records in the diary, Shinomiya Kaguya could naturally judge the truth. At the same time, her heart also felt a ripple because of that APTX4869 that could make people regain their youth.
It was just a pity that she quickly saw the warning from the mysterious person that followed.
A 99% death rate, and that criminal organization that dared to strafe the Tokyo Tower with an attack helicopter and had even nearly killed the second daughter of the Suzuki Conglomerate in the story. Shinomiya Kaguya knew very well that this was indeed not an existence she could provoke.
The Pandora Gem mentioned later, which could grant eternal life, was the same. She currently had no right to even consider this matter.
After she finished reading the rest of the diary, she fell into deep contemplation.
That Hoshino Ai's children were reincarnated individuals—this matter, taken alone, might be very explosive. But compared to the APTX4869 that could make people regain their youth, the Pandora Gem that could grant eternal life, and the many more secrets that might exist in this world, it was really nothing.
The impact on Shinomiya Kaguya's mentality was not as great as the one sentence the mysterious person had casually mentioned in the diary about Kaguya-sama's plot collapsing and ending sloppily in the later stages.
"This Kaguya-sama should be my story."
The diary did not mention a surname, but just as Kasumigaoka Utaha could tell at a glance that the Kasumigaoka-senpai mentioned in the diary was herself, Shinomiya Kaguya was also very sure that the Kaguya-sama mentioned by the mysterious person was herself.
"Because it involves politics and business wars in the later stages, the author couldn't grasp it, leading to problems with the plot..."
With just this one sentence, Shinomiya Kaguya could not deduce the specific experiences of her future, but from the mysterious person's slightly teasing words, she could tell that it was not a good thing.
"Why couldn't you write a little more? Even just one more sentence would have been fine..." Even though Shinomiya Kaguya had known since she was young that she would become a family tool in the future, she still had the right in her heart to freely decide her own life.
Thinking this, Shinomiya Kaguya wrote the number 3 in her diary, representing the three paths laid out before her.
Find a way to find this mysterious person, ask clearly about her future, and make plans in advance—but besides revealing the clue that he had a sister, there was currently no other information about the mysterious person.
Resign to her fate and act according to the original trajectory of her life—this was the simplest, and also the path she was most unwilling to accept.
Seek the secrets of this world and obtain the power to change her own life—this seemed to be the most confusing path, but...
Shinomiya Kaguya looked at the diary in her hand. This was naturally also a part of the world's secrets, and might even be the biggest one.
"After accumulating 5 more Reading Points, I can unlock the usage rights of the diary. At that time, can I change my future through the power of this diary?"