The establishment of the Time Travelers Alliance began in the first year of Conan

Chapter 51: Sealed Experimental Results (Chapters 50 and 51 are related to the work)

(Chapters 50 and 51 are related to the work and are not included in the official history)

The morning sunlight at Teitan Elementary School shines through the windows into the classroom. The air is fresh and even the chirping of cicadas seems particularly crisp.

It looks like "today" has turned into summer again.

"Two two equals four, two three equals six, two four equals eight..."

Lying there bored, Conan looked ahead with empty eyes and a wandering gaze.

No matter how enthusiastically the teacher on the stage read the multiplication tables that were repeated over and over again, Conan could not muster any interest. Even the lively and loud recitations around him were like a spell.

Yawning unconsciously, Conan really felt like he was in prison.

Really, when will this boring day end?

"Please spare me--" Conan never thought that one day he would have to go to first grade.

I really didn't expect that I would end up in this situation.

After that accident, he turned into the little boy Conan, whose body became smaller but his mind remained the same.

The classmates were laughing and joking, whether they were discussing whose clothes were nicer or comparing whose pencil was cooler, but Conan felt his scalp tingling when he heard them and he couldn't muster any interest.

He was completely unable to enter this kind of young social circle.

More importantly, if I continue like this, when will I be able to find a way to make myself bigger?

Fortunately, first graders finish school relatively early.

With a bored expression on his face, Conan walked home while trying to find a way to break the deadlock with his child's body.

Following a series of light running sounds, a crisp voice broke his thoughts. Yoshida Ayumi called the name of her new transfer classmate.

"Conan-kun! Conan-kun!"

Conan turned his head and saw Ayumi Yoshida jogging towards him from behind with a bright smile on her face.

"Let's go back together! Conan-kun! You've just transferred here, so you must be very shy. We can be your friends!"

He frowned helplessly. Ah, it turned out to be a troublesome child.

Thinking of this, Conan forced a smile:
"Uh, no thanks, thank you for your kindness, I have something to do..."

"What?! You dare to resist what Ayumi said?" A threatening aura followed.

Then he saw a boy among the "few of us" that Ayumi mentioned, whose body shape was totally different from that of a first-grade student and could even be said to be twice the size of an average child, raised his fist.

"Genta, please don't be so rude. You scared the new classmate." Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya, who has straight black hair with bangs on both sides, showed the same distressed look.

"Stop talking so much! I think you are—"

I don't want to be involved in this kind of childish fight between kids.

"Anyway, thank you for the invitation." Conan forced a polite smile and waved his hand gently. "I have something to do, so I'll leave first."

He turned around and ran away, leaving behind several stunned classmates. He also wanted to go back to see if there was any new progress with Kogoro Mouri today.

……

"After the target left the school, it became dark." After experiencing two cycles, Lupus was not surprised at all by this sudden change in the sky.

So he reported Conan's abnormality recorded "today" as a routine matter.

"The target's RSI anomaly affected the other three children specifically noted in the intelligence, and they successfully found Maori Kogoro's detective agency."

"Team A recommends that Team C investigate the legitimate reasons why the parents of the three secondary targets neglected their children after school, based on the location information provided by the school. Over."

Lupus has bought the sushi restaurant to the right of Kogoro's office as a reconnaissance point. The new owner used the camera to take a few pictures of the children hiding in the corner and uploaded them to the system.

"Yes, the next task is for Team B. I can already see the taxi that Yoko Okino and her agent took. This proves that Wales's attempt to divert Yoko Okino's attention by selecting other detectives has failed."

"Yes, we did not make any further intervention according to the plan."

The executive team had already laid out their plan; the idol's murder case would be the alliance's first attempt to directly interfere with the case.

“Direct interference” here means trying to prevent the incident from happening in the first place.

However, the experiment on Miyazaki Sukehiro in the time stabilization warehouse completely scrapped the entire series of plans. Several people in the executive layer almost scrambled to stuff the ideas of the "utilization faction" and the "erasure faction" into the crusher.

There were some very, very scary results from that experiment yesterday.

Now, apart from Lin Sheng and a few executive staff, no one knows what exactly happened in the experiment.

Fortunately, we are now in a new [cycle], but even without worrying about the consequences of the experiment not being properly handled, the Alliance spent a whole day dealing with the aftermath of the incident.

All personnel below Level 5 clearance who directly witnessed the results of the experiment were administered a maximum level of amnesiacs.

Even including Dr. Agasa.

Even the Alliance's direct intervention in Dr. Agasa this time did not encounter any other interference in the timeline.

It's as if the [story timeline] wishes the doctor would forget what he saw.

At the same time, a rule prohibiting any experiments that could cause a "direct disruption" to the story's timeline was written into the Alliance's Temporal Exploration Department's guidelines.

Thinking of what happened yesterday, Lin Sheng couldn't help but rub his head. "So, after all these twists and turns, we still have to start with Conan?"

That was definitely the greatest loss the CYZ Alliance had ever faced. Thinking of the scene where the [story timeline] collapsed directly at that time, even Lin Sheng couldn't help but shudder.

"It's like a steel bar stuck at both ends. A hard approach won't work, and the impact of Conan's RSI value in the cycle is really..."

The alliance's only temporal stabilization chamber, along with the entire floor, was sealed off. Lin Sheng even activated the most emergency plan, which was also the reason why he agreed to this experiment.

This was the third time the prophecy machine was activated. Just like the memory erasure of Dr. Agasa was so smooth, the machine started up so smoothly as if the entire timeline, dual timeline, loop and universe were all on Lin Sheng's side.

Even the consumption of APTX-4869 is less than one ten-thousandth of the last time used.

This experiment only contributed two good news to the alliance:

One is that the Alliance finally gained a black member who was recognized by the [story timeline], instead of the gray member who had always been targeted by the timeline.

Another good news is that after this experiment, defeatism and escapism only accounted for more than half of the executive level survey respondents.

To be honest, Lin Sheng was already mentally prepared for the entire executive level's strong demand to change the direction of the alliance to the goal of "escaping from the scientific universe."

But because of this, even though he shared all the information about the next event with the executive level, the plan submitted by the executive level "today" can be said to be extremely conservative.

　Chapters 50 and 51 are related to the work, do not affect the main text, and are not included in the official history.
　　
　
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