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[17-going-on-8.livejournal.com]

[He still thinks most everyone on the island is insane. No, he still doesn't believe in all the magic. And yes, he's still trying to find some way to logically explain everything.

But even detective maniac Edogawa Conan needs a break. Which was why today he was taking a break. At present, he was sitting under a tree with a stack of comic books on top of his jacket laying on the ground.

They were Sherlock Holmes comics. He wanted to see if they were any good since he hadn't gotten the chance to read them back home. For the moment, he seems more than content.

...now, really, he's just asking for someone to bug him.]

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[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

...

You reeeeally just don't want to admit she's been here for as long as she has.

[17-going-on-8.livejournal.com]

It's impossible for her to here for that long. She might THINK she has been and everyone else does, but that's a trick behind whatever runs this island.

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

... *a light punch to the top of his head* You'll learn eventually. Maybe when someone you know shows up and says they saw you five minutes ago.

[17-going-on-8.livejournal.com]

[Shoots him a glare on reflex. HATES the hits to the head.]

That will be impossible!

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

Just you wait.

[17-going-on-8.livejournal.com]

If it DOES happen, then it's just something about this place that distorts time.

[After all, the Cocoon game had twenty four hours go by in game, but only a few hours out of game.]

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

Now you're starting to catch on!

[17-going-on-8.livejournal.com]

[Flat look.]

That's not to say it's because it's 'magic' or this is a sentient island.

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

*shrugs* We've made progress. You'll figure it out eventually.

[17-going-on-8.livejournal.com]

And what progress is that? I just hear 'it's a magic island,' in one form or another.

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

You admitted it could distort time. That's a start.

[17-going-on-8.livejournal.com]

...it's possible for it to do that if it's the Cocoon system.

It felt like twenty-four hours passed in there when it was less than a fourth of that time.

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

Cocoon system?

[17-going-on-8.livejournal.com]

It's a virtual reality system. It submerges you completely in a virtual world. As long as the people who were in charge know things that might make a person's body 'unique,' then it would not be difficult to make it so no one could tell the difference between what was fake and what was reality.

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

... So you're talking about something that's fake?

[17-going-on-8.livejournal.com]

Yes. A fake world. It just seems real.

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

So what? You saying this is all fake?

[17-going-on-8.livejournal.com]

The crazy island is, at least.

1/2

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

*a LOT of anger flaring up there*

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

... *but he is a kid so he'll hold it in* Watch your mouth before you say stuff like that.

[17-going-on-8.livejournal.com]

[Noticed that anger flare.

...kind of glad there's an advantage to being a kid.]

Magic island, virtual reality system, it all seems improbable, but I've been in the Cocoon system. I know how real it can feel.

Why should I believe this place is magic over something that's at least logical?

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

Because you don't know a goddamn thing about what you're talking about. Kid, I get you're trying to make sense of it, and that's great and all, but it got old a few weeks ago. You're missing the big picture. To some people here, magic or things that aren't logical are logical. Are you expecting me to believe their entire life is fake? That my entire life is fake? That something that ties me and the others together, even while I'm here and they're still back home, is all a lie? I'm not even talking about the island anymore, I mean things that have been going on for thousands of years back home, so you'd better start thinking fast to counter that one.

You've got to accept that shit here isn't going to work like it does where you're from. Shit where people here are from probably doesn't even work the same. I can guarantee my home's a hell of a lot different than yours. And if you dare say any of that is fake again, if any of my friends here, any of what's happened here, any of it at all is fake, I...

*and he's just going to toss the holmes comic down on the sand, shove his hands in his pockets, and leave*

He really didn't want to make Crow mad. He's just stuck in his logic. D=

[17-going-on-8.livejournal.com]

[And Conan...

He sat there, staring after Crow. It would be a lie to say he didn't feel guilty. He knew this was a problem. He knew about this flaw, but to say it was magic? No, he couldn't accept it. He even said it to Beatrice. To say something was 'magic' was just an excuse for not looking for a truth that could be explained, that made actual SENSE.

Still, then came the problem of people's lives. People who lived in 'different worlds.' He could say that they were insane or maybe it was manufactured if he looked at it in a cold, objective way, but even that...

He didn't like it.

Especially when he thought about it, what guarantee was there that HE wasn't in that category? After all, he was in a seven year old body and thought he was seventeen. He very well could just be crazy or have a made up life in that sort of scenario.

But to just say it's magic and that's it...no, there was a way to make it all make sense. He wasn't sure how and the Cocoon was just the one that seemed most probable in all the highly improbably things. But he couldn't declare anything as the actual TRUTH yet.

Not until he could prove what WAS true.]

[stolethegame.livejournal.com]

((... Aaaaah Conan. ;A; Poor little-but-not-guy. When it is not three AM I am probably going to come back here with Crow's inner feelings on the matter))

[17-going-on-8.livejournal.com]

((He's trying! He's just not accepting the magic with how things went for him. It's not easy for him and then he got reinforcement in trying NOT to believe it. So he's kind of....gonna be incredibly stubborn about it for a long, long time.

...he'll apologize to Crow, probably. And lie through his teeth.))