Rebirth from Conan

Chapter 119 Diary
2 month 14 day.

I don't know why it jumped back to February.

After shortening his height and physique to a thin man of about 1.7 meters, Xia He woke up from the bed, immediately walked to the mirror in the bathroom, and began to do his disguise work for today.

About ten minutes later, looking at "Itakura Taku" in the mirror, Xia He pushed his glasses on the bridge of his nose, and lifted the slightly sparse bangs on his forehead, then he showed a very satisfied smile.

Today is Xia He's second day living as Itakura Taku.

And at nine o'clock last night, Xia He, who had turned the entire apartment where Itakura Taku lived upside down, actually found a diary recorded in a USB flash drive in the corner of his closet.

……

April 3

A burly man with a Kansai accent suddenly came to me and seemed to be very interested in a software I had developed before.

But when he knew that I didn’t want to continue the development because of my worsening eyesight, he just left...

A man dressed entirely in black...

Hope I won't see him again...

April 3

The pen on the table was moved another 5cm...

Someone sneaked into my office...

April 4

This time someone broke into the house without permission...

The police won't handle this kind of case...

There is no way, because there is no trace of intrusion...

Nothing was stolen...

April 6

Changed the door lock...

A hidden camera was also installed...

But it seems to be of no use...

April 7

Who is it? !
Come out to me now!!

April 12

I am so tired……

If this continues, I might be killed one day...

April 1

To escape from this horrible life, I left a note in my desk for the intruder.

The content is:
"I am willing to accept your conditions..."

April 1

Surprisingly, the other party replied very quickly.

The intruder left a message where I left the note...

There were only two words written on it in red: "OK"...

There is also a strange phone number...

The red words were probably written in blood...

Maybe he wanted to warn me that if I leaked the secret, I would die...

April 1

I hesitated for a long time, but still didn't call the police.

I ended up calling that number.

The person who answered the phone was actually a woman...

The way she spoke was exactly like a high-flying car girl...

Her request was that I complete the software under development within one year, and they were willing to buy it at a high price...

It seems that he is the companion of the burly man who came before.

April 2

The way to contact them has changed to email.

I set two conditions.

One is to transfer the deposit for my remuneration to my account...

The other is that you are not allowed to harass me again... December 12

No, I still can't do it!
The reason why I decided to stop the development of that software was not only because my eyesight was getting worse, but also for the sake of all mankind...

April 2

The delivery deadline is approaching...

I planned to hide the unfinished software and the check for the same amount of money next to the computer in the villa, and then flee abroad...

But before that, maybe Mr. Sakuno's son can really help me. After all, he is the savior of the Japanese police.

Savior……

It shouldn't be a problem to just save an ordinary person like me, right?
April 2

I will never forget what the woman who answered the phone said to me...

Yes, it was that time, I couldn't stand her tone of voice, and I couldn't help asking her: "Who are you?!"

The woman smiled and said to me in English: "We can be both of God and the devil.
Since we're trying to raise the deadagainst the stream of time.』

As soon as the woman finished speaking, the cat meowed loudly behind her.

She hung up the phone impatiently...

……

The diary ends here.

After all, February 2 was the date when Itakura Taku and Xia He met in the restaurant. Then, in the early morning of February 11, he was dragged by Hattori Heiji and boarded a plane to Osaka.

"High-flying car girl..."

Xia He muttered the word in the diary.

Gao Fei Che, a term in the ACGN world, refers to a very domineering chess position on the chessboard, which describes someone who is very overbearing and looks down on others.

Similar to tsundere, but not tsundere.

It can be said that he is simply arrogant.

Therefore, Xia He guessed that the woman written in Itakura Taku's diary must be Vermouth.

As for the meaning of that English paragraph...

"Not only can we be gods, we can also be demons. This is because we attempt to resist the flow of time and resurrect all the dead from the underworld."

What does this mean?
Xia He frowned in confusion.

Bringing the dead back to life...

If he had not traveled to the world of science, he would have believed that the real name of the Black Organization was "Akatsuki" and that they were secretly researching Impure World Reincarnation.

The cat mentioned at the end of the diary also made Xia He feel a little confused.

He thought that when he was cooking at Vermouth's house a year ago, he never saw the woman having a cat.

"Maybe it was raised by the Karasuma Renye family?"

He muttered to himself, then took out a limited edition watch from the watch cabinet in the room and put it on his left wrist.

Itakura Taku loves brand-name watches and shows them off every time he goes out. This can be seen from the first time Xia He met him in the restaurant.

Just as he was about to go out to discuss business with Itakura Taku's partner, the doorbell suddenly rang.

Xia He walked over and opened the door. The person who came in was Itakura Taku's good friend, Soma Ryusuke, who is currently an employee of a software development company.

According to Itakura Taku, Soma Ryusuke once asked him to develop an artificial intelligence shogi software that could defeat professional riders. To this end, Soma Ryusuke collected tens of thousands of shogi games as references over the past 20 years and sent them to Itakura Taku's email.

But every time, Itakura Taku showed no interest and politely refused, saying that he would wait for a while.

After all, we are all adults now. Who would do such a laborious and unprofitable thing just to fulfill their childhood dreams?

However, after hearing this story, Xia He felt that Itakura Taku's friend was quite smart.

If Itakura Taku had agreed to develop this software, AlphaGo might have become world-famous by now.

"Itakura, I brought some beer and food. Can we have a nice drink today?"

Just like returning to his own home, Soma Ryusuke carried two plastic bags, kicked off his shoes, and walked into the room with a smile on his face.

Seeing this, Xia He frowned subconsciously.

It’s not because Soma Ryusuke has smelly feet…

It was because he felt a strong murderous intent from this man.

My goodness, this guy has been stood up for almost twenty years, so he can no longer tolerate it and finally made up his mind to kill his good friend?
Even though Xia He wanted Itakura Taku to fake his death, the trading day hadn't arrived yet. If he died so soon, how could he meet with the people from the Black Organization?

So he thought about it, and before Soma Ryusuke sat down, he said directly: "Regarding the shogi software you have been talking about to me, I have started to develop it some time ago."

Soma Ryusuke: “?”

(End of this chapter)