I'm in Detective Conan, and the system has appointed Batman.

Chapter 416 A game where you can only win or lose isn't a game at all.
Inspector Megure placed his hopes on Chen En.

However, Chen En simply pulled out a white coffee cup from somewhere.

He stared at the game screen in front of him, took a sip of coffee, and watched as the game's visuals changed as it progressed. Unlike before, Professor Agasa was now able to do more things.
At least, the in-game and out-of-game communication function enabled by Professor Agasa was not turned off by Noah's Ark.

— Hiroki Sawada wanted to isolate the connection between the game and the outside world, with the aim of letting players of the Cocoon Game grow up in the face of death without the help of adults. However, the problem is that the game he provided was not for children.

Even Conan, known as the Sherlock Holmes of the Heisei era, was completely dumbfounded.

So much so that at the last moment, Hiroki Sawada had to resort to a deus ex machina to bring out the reclusive Sherlock Holmes to remind Conan. With such difficulty, and the so-called helper only providing a single clue, it hardly qualifies as a game.

There are no tutorials, no room for error, no gameplay, it's just a one-sided massacre.

Hiroki Sawada, influenced by his adoptive father Thomas Sindora, was too extreme in this regard. He completely failed to consider the fact that children, with their limited experience and knowledge, would only be overwhelmed by danger and unable to think clearly in the face of such games.

A crisis alone is not enough to help children improve; they need at least a channel to acquire knowledge.

Surprisingly, the internal situation of Cocoon Games has undergone some changes.

Chen En had to consider whether he should participate in the game as the fifty-first player of the Cocoon Game, personally compete with Noah's Ark, and complete this virtual game in his own way.

As is well known, Cocoon Games has a fifty-first game pod, which is installed on the stage.

Using stage mechanisms, the game pod could float and sink freely. Originally, the game pod was not connected to the game channel, but Chen En had previously asked Kashimura Tadahira to solve this problem.

If things take a different turn, Chen En will use a special virtual computer to access the game pod of the Cocoon Game, ensuring that he can directly manipulate all of its backdoors with his own consciousness while entering the virtual game world.

He is still thinking.

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At this very moment, inside the screening hall of Cocoon Games,

Many parents have been given communicators to communicate with their children inside the game instance. They are racking their brains and doing their best to guide their children on how to deal with the current crisis.

For the first time since becoming celebrities, these Tokyo luminaries felt like they had lost a lot of brain cells.

Their efforts seem to have yielded remarkable results. With the encouragement and support of their families, the children have mustered their courage and overcome one crisis after another. So far, very few players have been eliminated.

—This doesn't seem right.

Noah's Ark was clearly aware of this.
Although this is a game, it's not a fun place. None of the dungeons have any margin for error. Just like real life and death, if you're not careful or don't notice something, you'll die instantly.

However, the current version has more room for error and more time to think when encountering danger.

Someone modified the Cocoon game's content, using hidden mechanisms that neither He nor Hiroki Sawada have yet discovered, directly altering the game's fundamental rules and giving players time to think. Only players who give up thinking will be directly eliminated. This might allow players to progress much faster than they anticipated.
However, this deviates from Hiroki Sawada's original intention, because Sawada hoped that players could grow and progress independently, completely unaffected by external influences, even in life-or-death situations.

"That's really impressive, Batman."

A stream of data representing emotional fluctuations flashed across the Noah's Ark program.
However, the reminders from outsiders only really work for the four less important copies. The real core copy, 19th-century London, is completely ineffective in terms of any parent's reminders of key points and knowledge.

—That was the main battlefield chosen by Hiroki Sawada.

He wanted to bring Batman into the game, to have a proper talk and showdown with Batman in this virtual world, and to make the 19th-century London replica a stage for fate that no one could predict.

Hiroki Sawada has already chosen a catalyst that will absolutely bring Batman into the Cocoon game.

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Prior to this, the interior of a 19th-century London copy.

Previously, during their first encounter with Jack the Ripper, Conan had already noticed that Hideki Moroboshi seemed a bit off. Therefore, although he was focused on the game at hand,

However, he maintained a certain level of focus on Hideki Moroboshi throughout, and then said,
"Did everyone hear that? The Scotland Yard officer said 'Inspector Lestrade'."

"This is a completely fictional character from the novel Sherlock Holmes. To be more precise, he should be called Inspector Lestrade. However, that's not important. What's important is that Inspector Lestrade represents something."

The members of the Detective Boys, along with the three players next to Hideki Moroboshi, focused their attention on Conan.
Ran Mouri, standing next to Conan, covered her mouth and said in surprise,
"Inspector Lestrade is a character from the Sherlock Holmes stories. If Inspector Lestrade exists, then there must also be a famous detective, Sherlock Holmes, right?"

Upon hearing this, the members of the Junior Detective League exclaimed in surprise.

The back of their Junior Detective League's detective badge features Sherlock Holmes with a pipe. They couldn't possibly be completely unaware of this world-famous detective, Hideki Moroboshi remarked softly.
"I know, but where should we look for Sherlock Holmes?"

Conan and Ran Mouri exchanged a glance.
Then the two of them said in unison,
221B Baker Street!

—Even though it's just a game,
However, Conan would be quite happy if he could actually go to Baker Street. Moreover, since Sherlock Holmes really exists, Conan's understanding of Holmes would make it no problem to have him join as a teammate.

From this perspective, this might be the Noah's Ark that replaced Hideki Moroboshi.
Perhaps they just want to experience the game by using the player's identity?
Looking at the enthusiastic members of the Junior Detective League,
Hideki Moroboshi's eyes narrowed slightly.

He was somewhat surprised, because Shinichi Kudo seemed to have completely blended into the segment, while the little girl next to him... who couldn't be found in the DNA database, was still calmly observing.

—But it doesn't matter anymore.

He has already designed the script.
Another, a script that unfolds completely differently from the original one.

(End of this chapter)