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Disclaimer: I DON'T OWN DETECTIVE CONAN. ---------- It was Valentine's Day. Once again. Akako sighed. Just like last year, here she was, handing out chocolate to all of the drooling boys calling "Akako-sama! Akako-sama!" with dreamy looks on their faces. With a smile laced with deceit, the temptress handed out her beautifully wrapped chocolates from her place upon the desk. "Here you go! Oh, and one for you, Ito-kun!" Of course she loved it when boys flocked to her. At least she used to. Koizumi Akako was a witch. Her goal ever since she had been a small child was to make every man her slave. She was irresistible; every where she went, men would fall for her charm. Some even proposed. (She turned down all of them.) There was one man who could resist her spell: Kuroba Kaito. Akako glanced over to the grinning magician, his arms filled with chocolates from various girls. She wasn't quite sure why, but no matter what she did, nothing worked. It was last Valentine's Day, she remembered, when she had trapped Kaitou Kid within her magic circle and he had managed to escape due to the sudden snow. Narrowing her dark red irises, she watched as Nakamori Aoko scolded her childhood friend. The witch felt a dark bit of emotion twist around inside her and the faintest trace of a frown appeared on her features. It was a feeling she wasn't used to; jealousy. Akako tried to push the unwanted, unneeded emotions away. An unsuccessful attempt. She was a temptress. The successor the Scarlet Arts. Why would she, Koizumi Akako, be jealous of a mere mortal girl? Akako didn't know the answer to that question herself. More recently, the feeling would continually bubble inside of her when she saw the two childhood friends together, happily laughing. Perhaps it was because she wished she had someone special. Someone who wouldn't just drool over her body and fall for her because of her spell. No, Akako wanted someone to like her for who she is, not magic. Kuroba Kaito was an obstacle that stood in her way of her ultimate goal. But for now, she would leave him alone. The witch didn't want to admit it, but she found herself longing for him as a friend, rather than a slave. And lately, she and Aoko had been speaking. Akako was surprised how naïve the girl was. She would smile warmly and talk to Akako like she was normal. She would ask for relationship advice (which was quite obviously about Kaito). The temptress found herself enjoying their conversations, which she couldn't quite believe. Akako let out a deep sigh. She scanned her fans and the girls who were watching with envy from the corner in the back. But as she observed her classroom, Akako caught a glimpse of another boy who was standing next to Kaito and Aoko. He appeared to be talking and Akako couldn't hear what he was saying due to the continuous chant of "Akako-sama". The witch easily recognized the light brown hair and calculating blue eyes. It was Hakuba Saguru, the detective from England. Now that she thought about it, Akako didn't remember the Englishman ever attempting to flirt with her. In fact, he had never even spared a glance at her in that way. Continuing her observation, she noticed the pile of chocolates behind him. He obviously had fans. Absently running her careful fingers through her magenta locks, Akako mused over the fact that more boys seemed to be immune to her spell. Perhaps she was losing her touch. The temptress frowned at the possibility. After all, she was considered to be one of the most powerful witches of the century. Akako reminisced through all of the times she had ever spoken with the detective. She had often enjoyed their conversations as he appeared to be on an equal intelligence level as her. (Once they had managed to get past the Sherlock phase.) Akako recalled the teen casting looks at Aoko and once again, a wave of jealousy passed through her. Every boy she coveted was taken by none other than Nakamori Aoko! Wait. The witch recoiled at that last part. She coveted Hakuba Saguru? Impossible. Akako laughed inwardly. There is no way I, Koizumi Akako, successor of the Scarlet Arts, would ever fall for a mortal boy! Once again, the temptress found her gaze trailing over the Englishman's figure. And that's when Akako knew she had feelings for Hakuba Saguru. --------- Saguru released a groan. Every Valentine's Day, girls would always sway over him and hand him chocolate with moony eyes. It was ridiculous. However, there was one girl that caught his eye: Koizumi Akako. His cerulean eyes scanned over his classmate again. Saguru couldn't quite believe it himself. He never expected himself to fall in love. Love was an emotion he thought that he would never need. After all, Sherlock Holmes saw no use for it. But despite that fact, there was Irene Adler. Yes, the detective mused, Koizumi-san is most certainly Irene Adler in this case. She's as clever as me, although I wouldn't like to admit it. And as much as she seems to enjoy having all of those boys around, it is quite easy to discern that she wants something else from her body language. He thoroughly enjoyed his and Akako's conversations. She was quick and witty. Her eyes were sharp and observant. She was beautiful; an enigma to Saguru. The way she held herself, her red irises calculating… The detective was drawn to her, but definitely not in the way her 'fans' were. He had come to terms that he found himself attracted to Akako a while ago. And now that it was Valentine's Day… Perhaps it was too much, but Saguru actually longed for a chocolate from none other than Koizumi Akako. It was silly, he knew all too well. But he couldn't help but allow that tiny flame of hope flare up as he watched her hand out the wrapped gifts with a faux smile. "-ka! Hakubaka! Oi, you there?" Saguru quickly turned to face the annoyance of Kuroba Kaito with a frown. "What do you want, Kuroba-kun?" The magician grinned. "You have a crush on Koizumi, eh?" "Possibly. Now piss off." "Eh, Hakuba-kun likes Akako-chan?" Oh great, now Aoko was interfering. Saguru sighed again. "Forgive me, Nakamori-san. But I'd like to keep my own personal problems to myself." Aoko looked slightly hurt but nodded in understanding. "S-Sorry, Hakuba-kun." "No, don't worry. I'd just like to be able to think without being constantly being interrupted by Kuroba-kun." Kaito pretended to look hurt. "How you wound me!" "I would appreciate it if you were to shut up now." "Kaito, leave Hakuba-kun alone!" Luckily, Aoko dragged her childhood friend away and began to scold him. The magician merely rolled his eyes and the detective smirked. Then her turned back around and found himself face to face with Akako who had managed to appear there without making a sound. She smiled mysteriously. "Greetings, Hakuba-kun." Saguru recovered to regain his composure and returned the smile. "Hello, Koizumi-san. How are you?" "Well. And you?" "Fine, thank you." Their answers were short, quick and to the point. Only a moment later did Saguru register that all of the boys were behind Akako and all of the girls were behind him, save for Kaito and Aoko. Inwardly, he rolled his eyes. With a graceful movement, she produced a small, blood red wrapped gift in the shape of a heart seemingly out of nowhere. The boys stared in jealousy; none of their chocolates had been heart shaped. Saguru blinked and looked up, meeting her piercing red ones. "For you, Hakuba-kun." She handed it to him. He paused and easily accepted it after a moment. "I thank you, Koizumi-san." "You are welcome." There was a brief second of silence before Akako offered a curt nod and turned around, stalking to the exit. Before any of the boys could follow, she gave a look that stopped them in their tracks. They didn't follow the temptress and merely watched her go, disappointed. Kaito and Aoko had observed the scene in interest. "That was so sweet!" "You girls are all so sappy." "Shut up, Bakaito!" Meanwhile, Saguru simply stared at the neat and precise wrapped paper of the present he held in his hand as Akako calmly strode through the halls with triumph. Just maybe… I have a chance. ---------- So... This was short and random and I totally wanted to write Hakuba x Akako for Valentine's Day. I apologize. It's very quick and... Eugh. Well, I hoped some of you out there enjoyed this. Happy Valentine's Day! Thanks for reading!

Happy Valentine's Day! Here it is: http://dcwuser.deviantart.com/#/d4pr7ng

1) this question has been asked numerous times before. Using the search that is on every page would likely lead you to the answer you are looking for. 2) Asking on DCW, whom has had lawyers approach them before is not a good idea. Distribution of Conan is illegal,and thus merely linking can have lawyers appear again. 3) Ignoring 1 and 2, using Google would lead you to the answers that you are looking for. Please use the tools available to you to answer such questions in the future. Thank you.

Yeah... No topic ever warrants 3 topics... ever. It just doesn't. Edit your post, add stuff to the current... Something... We don't need duplicate threads ever, they provide no benefit to anyone, and only serve to annoy because it breaks up the discussion. Now! On to what I think about this whole thing! Keep in mind this is all my opinion. First! I have no idea the demand for a DCW Wiki app. I cannot imagine it being too high, unless you have a group of friends that you debate with in person over DC with. The only people I can see who would need it are those who use their mobile phones a lot and are always on the go. But really, for most purposes Wikipedia serves most for their wiki needs on the go (and their mobile app is just lovely). I personally do not see the need for it. NEXT! That trailer... My reaction: Sorry, I couldn't resist. I've literally been waiting for an opportunity to use that clip! Seriously... We saw nothing of its functionality (and I'll get to that in a bit). A trailer is supposed to excite and highlight the key elements or at least the most exciting things. It is an interest builder. It really didn't do that. You need to show off what sets your app apart from just going to the actual site on your mobile browser. THIRD! The app itself (this will be a two parter)... From the trailer: It looks like its a zoomed in portal to the desktop site. That is it. No offense to you, but... that isn't good design for a few reasons. First is that, DCW especially, is very image intensive, that means high bandwidth. So those people with data limits will be at higher risk of using up their allotted data. Second is that it was obviously designed with desktop in mind. This makes it cumbersome to use efficiently as an app. Lastly... it isn't intuitive nor integrated into the Android ecosystem. Basically, what should be an actual wiki app, is just a glorified bookmark. My suggestion... Ask around at how to convert a wiki into a mobile format for an app. The trailer also failed to show what separated it from just a bookmark widget linking to the DCW wiki. Native editing capabilities, integrated search bar... nothing of that degree was shown (the latter is the kicker though, most wiki apps don't allow for editing but all that I have seen and used had some sort of search function) From what I found on the internet (that site where you can post demos of apps and make them downloadable or not) (this will be short, and I am also assuming its the same app) The DC Fan app I believe you called it... The wiki part is confirmed to what I thought, and really should be redesigned to a mobile format. The other two things on there... the video and manga... needs to be removed. That is violating copyrights, as well as the Market policy. It is not good. I hope you take my suggestions in stride and show an updated app that makes sense for a mobile platform. Scrolling should really be only up and down, not side to side. There are many ways to go about it, and you should find the best method that suits you and your programming and design style. As it stands, having a bookmark widget will do the same as your app. Best, Kyuu

I've flagged at least 2 user accounts as spam in the past two weeks in order to stop their twitter updates from showing, but I am running into a serious problem with user Scar Akai who is a long time member here and has had his twitter hacked. The hacked twitter has been sending weightloss spams, and now sends them up to several times a day. I have sent him a few messages telling him to delink his twitter because I can't delink it myself with mod-powers. If he doesn't act, I'm going to be forced to flag a perfectly legit old user as a spam account to make it stop. If anyone can get in contact with him, great, because I have now sent him two emails. I'm posting this here because I think this sort of thing is likely to become more common; one of the other users I flagged was hacked as well. I really think DCW needs to rethink its twitter policy in the status updates.

I found out that there's a wolf atop my post! :eek:

First of all just because people don't want Ran to get saved (like me) it doesn't me we don't like her as a character. And just because we don't like a character it's fine. People are free to dislike y/y? I'm not fond of swimming when there is seaweed, does that mean I need to get burned on the stake by seaweed loving fans? Seriously. Anyways I don't understand why movie/anime staff keeps insisting that Ran IS IN DANGER OMGGG!11! for their openings and movies. It's just writing by people who can't write dramatic tension and romantic development without dramatic explosions. Didn't Gosho show over and over that when Ran doesn't really get in the danger- it's more of a gag nowadays. What happens when a criminal threatens Ran? Conan goes RAN I'M COMING TO SAVE YOU before Ran axe kicks them in the face. And when she DOES get into danger she either takes care of it herself or someone will help her out, she's not surrounded by FBI, CIA, POLICE, detective father, lawyer mother, detective best friends, karate friends, millionaire best friend for nothing.

These are my favorite characters: 1.Gaara ~ I just really like him. He's quiet(totally my type). And his childhood story is so sad... 2.Naruto ~ I can't just ignore the main character! But I only like him when he inspires. 3.Kakashi sensei ~ only when he's cool...I hate his craziness over Jiraya's books 4.Sai ~ He's hilarious...especially when he joined the Team Kakashi and he has to read books to know how to be friends with people!!!! Plus, he's quiet. Girls 1. Hinata ~ she's the prettiest!!!!!!!! And she's a quiet-type...like me!!!ahahaha 2. Temari ~ I like her huge fan!!! 3. Sakura ~ though I don't like most of her personality...she easily cries...like me 4. Tenten ~ Many people often don't notice her...why??? I like her abilities.

She's what you call a protagonist.

Thanks to HADAA for pointing this out. (Later Edit: and Abs. for telling me about it) Many of you are familiar with the whole Akai Shuichi is a pun on Char Aznable thing. Well, it turns out Char Aznable had a sister, Sayla Mass. The original Japanese name is セイラ マス or Seira Masu. The similarity between Seira Masu and Sera Masumi is hard to ignore. Put that with the eyes look alike thing and that's more than enough evidence to convince me Sera is Akai's younger sister. Assuming Sera is Akai's little sister, this situation strongly reminds me of how the Eisuke arc played out. Akai went missing so now Sera has come to investigate what happened. I am not sure how she found out Conan was involved, but her suspicion and interest in him makes complete sense if she knew Akai and Conan were seen together before Akai disappeared. She would look into Conan like Eisuke did while looking for Hidemi. Knowing this, where could the plot go now? Sera could run into scar Akai and mistake him somehow. In that case, the plot would really get rolling because Bourbon might try to use her or kill her. I think this is the most likely plot choice. Sera meeting with Okiya and uncovering that he is Akai would be a dead end plotwise unless Sera is being followed. In the Eisuke arc, Conan was suspicious that Eisuke was unknowingly being used by the Org to find Hidemi, but that turned out not to be the case. If Bourbon knows about Sera, then he could be using her as an unwitting bait for Akai, and in the process of following her stumble across her investigation of Conan and take interest in it himself, leading to the showdown with him. In any case, Sera's presence will trigger Akai to do something once he finds out she is in Japan looking into his death/disappearance. Akai doesn't have much of a choice because Sera is investigating Conan and Shinichi which will bring her to Shinichi's house eventually. Akai can't ask the FBI to help since they think he is dead, also with Bourbon wandering around looking like scar Akai, he has to do something to protect her before she meets scar Akai and becomes a target. I also think that Sera is going to drive the Ran's suspicion plot that has been waiting in the wings since the start of the Bourbon arc. Back during the Shiragami case (V62 chaps 650-651), Heiji used Shinichi's fingerprints on his omamori as evidence to show "Shinichi" was a plastic surgery lookalike. Shinichi/Conan's fingerprints got on Heiji's omamori in the first place when Conan pulled the handcuff link pieces out of the bag to show Ran that they blocked Numabuchi Kiichiro's stabbing attempt (V19-F8 188 pg 8). Ran remembers this incident in the sports bar case (V66-F8 693 pg 11), and asks Kazuha about the discrepancy: she knows Conan handled the omamori a long time ago, but when did Shinichi handle it? Basically, when Sera becomes serious (if she isn't already) about trying to uncover Conan is Shinichi, she may either tip off Ran about her suspicions or her investigations may be noticed by Ran and result in Ran's suspicion. Conan will have to work to deceive Ran and Sera because I doubt Conan will want Sera in the loop about the effects of APTX. Note that this situation closely parallels the question of Akai's fingerprints on Conan's cellphone (and Conan may try to resolve it in a similar fashion.) The appearance of suspicious Sera suggests to me that the Bourbon arc is going to start building towards a conclusion since both halves of the plot (Ran's suspicion, and Okiya/Scar Akai) are now in play and will likely reach a climax at the same time (e.g. a dual confrontation with the Org/Ran's suspicion arc).

Since Sera is most likely going to be a recurring character, it makes sense to have a thread dedicated to speculating about her outside her introductory case thread. Edit: I like listing things so I'm going to list all the theories I subscribe to about Sera here with evidence to support. Some of this is copied from later posts. It is also in progress pending new information. Last updated (Apr 18 2012) Index Sera Masumi's identity Sera is Akai Shuuichi's sister Direct Evidence Literary device arguments Minor points - i.e. weak arguments Sera is not...A loyal member of the Black Organization Scar Akai The hat lady from the prescreening case Sera's Goal Sera is looking for Akai Sera is looking into Conan and the people around him Sera is specifically targeting Conan because she found out that he and Akai had some sort of connection before Akai's disappearance Sera's purpose in the plotSera will drive Ran's suspicion Sera will come across Bourbon MiscellaneousSera knows Conan is Shinichi. Sera's comment about deleting Haibara's picture. Why doesn't Sera go to the FBI for help finding Akai? Why doesn't Sera tell Conan who she is and that she wants to find Akai? If Sera is after Akai, why is she interested in Ai and Conan? Why would Okiya, if he is Akai, step up protection after hearing about and seeing Sera? Old arguments Sera Masumi's identity Sera is Akai Shuuichi's sister Direct Evidence Sera and Akai's eyes match Sera has bags under her eyes identical to Akai Shuuichi's. The "siblings with identical eye designs" has been done before with Eisuke and Hidemi. Characters who know Akai think she is familiar • Conan thinks she looks familiar and feels like she is not an enemy. (73-9 pg 11) She has some similar features to Akai Shuuichi, like the eyes and the wavy/kinky black hair. Akai was an ally so it makes sense Conan would have this impression. • Camel, Jodie, and James Black think she looks familiar. (File 778-780) They are all familiar with Akai. Sera's relocation history matches up with Akai's infiltration activities. Sera lived in Japan until three years ago when her family moved to America. (V73-9 pg 2) This matches with the time when Akai was infiltrating the Organization five to two years ago. The family's move to America could be the FBI's attempt to protect them should something go wrong with Akai's infiltration. Sera recognizes Scar Akai (who looks like Akai) Sera's reaction to Scar Akai was one of recognition. She called Scar Akai "an old acquaintance" (she couldn't exactly come out and say "brother"). Later, Sera comments about "this person in the past who never laughed". "In the past" implies this person had an existence failure, like Akai who is supposed to be dead or had run off on a mission and never returned. Also Akai is not the laughing type. He was cold before Akemi died and is worse now. Literary device arguments Sera's name origin is a pun on the younger sister of Akai's name origin. Sera Masumi's name is derived from to Mobile Suit Gundam character Sayla Mass (セイラ・マス, ''Seira Masu''). Gosho references this in an interview. Akai's name is derived from Sayla Mass's older brother's name, Char Anzable. (Akai's name comes from the Mobile Suit Gundam character Char Aznable, whose nickname was the "Red (Akai) Comet", and Char's voice actor Shuuichi Ikeda (who is also Akai's voice actor). Additionally, his alias, Dai Moroboshi, comes from Char's real name, Casval Rem Deikun (sounds like Dai-kun in Japanese). Moroboshi can also mean falling star, another possible allusion to Red Comet. ) Minor points - i.e. weak arguments Sera and Akai share some habits. Both often wear headwear when the situation allows it. (Akai wears beanies, Sera various hats when not in school or uniform) Sera and Akai also share the habit of pocketing their hands. Neither are exclusive behaviors however. Sera is knowledgable about law enforcement. Sera has knowledge of law enforcement, even the Japanese law enforcement, which would be expected of someone who has a sibling in law enforcement whom she cares about. Sera reacts to the FBI She reacted when Conan introduced Camel as being part of the FBI. (File 778) Akai was in the FBI. Sera reacts Okiya Subaru Sera reacted strongly to Okiya Subaru, who may be the real Akai. Sera is not... A loyal member of the Black Organization If Sera was a loyal member of the Black Organization, she should have identified Ai was Sherry and have reported or eliminated her. Sera seems to already know Conan's identity (see below), but she has not done anything to harm him. Also, she would have also been more cautious in front of Conan and speaking about how much she knew in front of Mouri Kogoro. Besides the picture of Haibara reflected in Agasa's glasses, she also revealed she had information that she collected previously on Agasa (knew about Agasa is advance of his introduction) [771.4]. She revealed that she had done research on the professor to Kogoro and Ran. Also, she overtly tested Conan's deductive abilities in her introductory case. If she was Conan's enemy, she would have concealed that she knew who he was [768.16] and what he was capable of [769.4] in advance to ensure she had an advantage and would have also been more subtle about testing Conan's abilities to avoid making him realize that she was testing him. She wouldn't nearly directly ask if Conan was the brains behind Kogoro either.[771.4] She also deleted the information she collected on Haibara. If she was a target, deleting the info doesn't make sense even if she isn't going to do anything to Haibara right away. Also a hotel is not a very secure base of operations for a BO agent. People can enter and exit as they please as long as they have a card, which can be used to break in if copied or if Sera is impersonated. Why not use a better backstory so she work from a residence that provides more security for one's personal belongings? Scar Akai Sera appeared at the same time as Scar Akai in 801. The hat lady from the prescreening case Sera is not the lady in the hat who followed Yukiko and the Detective Boys on Akai's orders during the film prescreening case (chaps 417-419). Conan asked Takagi to stop by their car and ask them questions about whether they had been drinking and such to get them to stop following the gang. Takagi would have recognized her during her appearance case. Also the shadowlady with the hat was shown smoking. Conan probably would have noticed if Sera smelled of smoke because that would be unexpected for someone who is supposed to be high-school aged. Cigarette smoke smell is also difficult to get out of clothes and hair, and we already had a shot of Sera's apartment and there were no obvious signs of smoking so Sera must have kicked the habit temporarily if she was hat lady. Sera's allegiance and occupation Sera is most likely a high school girl on the side of Akai. • Sera responded to Scar Akai as an acquaintance. (Assuming she mistook Scar Akai for the real deal.) • Sera is most likely not an FBI agent because Camel did not outright recognize her. (File 778) She is also seems a bit young although she could be concealing her real age. • She is well acquainted with the names and procedures of various elements of the Japanese law enforcement although she has been living in America for three years. That means she likely has a personal interest in law enforcement for some reason. • In the process of investigating Conan, she discovered Shinichi Kudo is alive. She also obtained an image of Haibara and her current address. She has made no moves against either party, suggesting she is not part of the Organization. • Sera seems to already know Conan's identity (see below), but she has not done anything to harm him. Sera's Goal Sera is trying to locate Akai Shuuichi or is trying to find out why he died, and she is doing so by looking into the people connected with Conan. Sera is looking for Akai If Sera is Akai's sister, as argued above, it would make sense for her to wonder what happened to him or investigate his supposed death. This parallels the situation with Eisuke and Hidemi. • Sera chases after Scar Akai when she seems him, and calls him "an old acquaintance." If she thinks Scar Akai is the real Akai or someone who looks exceedingly like him, her reaction clearly suggests she is interested in Akai. Later, Sera comments about "this person in the past who never laughed". "In the past" implies this person had an existence failure, like Akai who is supposed to be dead or had run off on a mission and never returned. Also Akai is not the laughing type. He was cold before Akemi died and is worse now. • Sera revealed she had taken a special interest in Okiya Subaru before the Detective Boys informed her about them. She specifically was wondering if someone had just moved in to the Kudo household without permission, indicating that she is interested in a person who might just move in. • She also asks about Agasa's living situation. After learning via Genta and Mitsuhiko that the only occupants were the professor and Haibara, she discards some of the information she collected on them, possibly indicating they were no longer of interest because Akai or someone who could be Akai was not living there. • Sera comments that "Deletion. For data at least ... is an easy task to accomplish." (File 777 pg 16) Although Sera was deleting a picture of Haibara from her computer at the time, it could be interpreted as a general comment that while data is easy to erase, it is much harder to erase traces of someone in real life. By implication that would reveal she is interested in someone who had been "erased", like Akai for example. • Sera takes a special interest when Conan reveals Camel is an FBI agent. This suggests that her motive involves the FBI. Sera is looking into Conan and the people around him Sera knows about Conan and is specifically looking into him and the people around him. She knew Conan's name in advance without being told and that he was a detective in his own right. She likely thinks Conan is the force behind sleeping Kogoro after asking Kogoro a pointed question about Conan being by Kogoro's side for all his cases. She specifically tries to meet with Conan and talk to him on at least one occasion. She also deliberately messed up the explanation to a case, seemingly in order to test Conan's deduction ability. Sera has also investigated the people around Conan. She asks various people probing questions. She actively collected and stored data on her computer about Agasa. She also knows information about people in advance indicating she has done research. She knew Ran was a a high level karate practitioner when they met. In file 771, it is revealed that she also knows Professor Agasa, although she calls him "Professor whatshisname" at first. She looked up a video of Agasa's online and managed to get an image of the video taker Haibara by zooming in on his glasses. She also went to visit Agasa's house and asked Mitsuhiko and Genta about the person living in the Kudo house and Agasa and Haibara. Sera is specifically targeting Conan because she found out that he and Akai had some sort of connection before Akai's disappearance As for how she found out about Conan and Akai's relationship, I think she acquired some of Akai's pictures of Conan and Haibara from when Akai was investigating them in the Vermouth arc. Specifically Akai had one of the Detective Boys as they were about to enter a film studio with Yukiko. This would explain why she targets Ai at all; she was quite prominent in the picture and thus possibly Akai's person of interest. As for how she got it, Akai kept the one of Shiho (with Conan, the DB, and Yukiko in the background) as a personal memento and the FBI overlooked it when sending his things back to America after he "died". This is plausible because Akai kept it in his truck, but it is no longer there during the events of Red vs. Black, and the police obviously didn't find it in the glove compartment or Takagi would have asked Conan about it. She could have also grilled someone in the FBI. A bunch of FBI agents saw Conan and Akai together in the strategy meeting. The way Conan and Akai were interacting made it clear that they knew each other and had been planning together. Camel and Jodie didn't recognize her though. Sera's purpose in the plot I think it is extremely likely the climax of the Bourbon arc will involve a simultaneous confrontation with Bourbon and Ran suspects Conan plot. Sera is a catalyst to drive both of these forward. Sera will drive Ran's suspicion Sera's suspicion of Conan will drive Ran to suspect Conan is Shinichi either by directly wondering about the possibility to Ran, but more likely by uncovering something that makes Ran suspicious. Back during the Shiragami case (V62 chaps 650-651), Heiji used Shinichi's fingerprints on his omamori as evidence to show "Shinichi" was a plastic surgery lookalike. Shinichi/Conan's fingerprints got on Heiji's omamori in the first place when Conan pulled the handcuff link pieces out of the bag to show Ran that they blocked Numabuchi Kiichiro's stabbing attempt (V19-F8 188 pg 8). Ran remembers this incident in the sports bar case (V66-F8 693 pg 11), and asks Kazuha about the discrepancy: she knows Conan handled the omamori a long time ago, but when did Shinichi handle it? Note that this situation closely parallels the question of Akai's fingerprints on Conan's cellphone (and Conan may try to resolve it in a similar fashion.) Sera seems to already have uncovered Conan is Shinichi. (801 and see Miscellaneous section below) She also asks Ran to bring some photo albums, which Shinichi will be in, because she wants to see what Shinichi looks like to confirm her suspicions. She is already "pointing" Ran to some evidence that will make her suspicious. Sera will come across Bourbon (Edit: Already happened!) I think it is likely Sera will run into scar Akai, who is Bourbon is disguise, and mistake him for the real Akai. Either she will try to find or make contact with scar Akai herself, necessitating intervention by Conan and Akai (disguised as Okiya), or Bourbon will attempt to use her to lure the real Akai out or kill her, also necessitating intervention by the same two. Sera meeting with Okiya and uncovering that he is Akai would be a dead end plotwise unless Sera is being followed. In the Eisuke arc, Conan was suspicious that Eisuke was unknowingly being used by the Org to find Hidemi, but that turned out not to be the case. If Bourbon knows about Sera, then he could be using her as an unwitting bait for Akai, and in the process of following her stumble across her investigation of Conan and take interest in it himself, leading to the showdown with him. In any case, Sera's presence will trigger Akai to do something once he finds out she is in Japan looking into his death/disappearance. Akai doesn't have much of a choice because Sera is investigating Conan and Shinichi which will and has brought her to Shinichi's house once already. Akai can't ask the FBI to help since they think he is dead, also with Bourbon wandering around looking like scar Akai, he has to do something to protect her before she meets scar Akai and becomes a target. Miscellaneous Arguments Sera knows Conan is Shinichi. Sera has demonstrated overt suspicion of Conan's talents, but her thought she "had known that for a long time" after Ran mentions Conan, just like Shinichi, is a Holmes addict suggests Sera knows his identity. She also asks Ran to bring photo albums of Shinichi, which will contain pictures of Shinichi when he is young. Sera can easily find pictures of Shinichi on the internet, but not Shinichi's past pictures, which suggest verification of her theory is her motive for wanting to see the album. Sera also takes interest when Sonoko describes Haibara as a introverted woman trapped in the body of a small child who overlaps a lot with Conan. Sera's comment about deleting Haibara's picture. It's obviously an attempt by Gosho to make Sera look suspicious without having her do anything that logically deserves suspicion. Sera comments that "Deletion. For data at least ... is an easy task to accomplish." (File 777 pg 16) Although Sera was deleting a picture of Haibara from her computer at the time, it could be interpreted as a general comment that while data is easy to erase, it is much harder to erase traces of someone in real life. By implication, that would reveal she is interested in someone who had been "erased", like Akai for example. She most likely erased the picture of Haibara because she ruled out Agasa's house as somewhere Akai might be living. After talking with Mitsuhiko and Genta in 775, she finds out no one else is living there besides the professor and Haibara. As Akai isn't there, she deletes the info she collected because she doesn't need it any more. If it isn't useful and someone might become suspicious of what she was doing if it was accidentally seen, there is no reason to keep it around. Why doesn't Sera go to the FBI for help finding Akai? If Sera is looking for Akai, why doesn't she scope the FBI, tell them who she is, or ask them for help? In summary, they might send her back or block any investigation she might make. Besides being a civilian who shouldn't be involved, Sera is also a high risk one at that. Her identity as Akai's sister may mean the Org could try to use her as leverage against the FBI or as Akai, or kill her because of her relation to Akai. Anyone in the Org with a personal vendetta against Akai (like Bourbon) would also go after her. Sera, assuming she thinks Akai is alive, doesn't know if the FBI knowingly faked Akai's death, or Akai did it on his own and tricked the FBI. If it was the first case, Sera would expect that she would be sent back immediately because the FBI would not want to have their operation endangered by her snooping around. In the second case, Sera would expect that they would send her back because of the danger she is putting herself and the FBI in. Also, if the FBI think Akai is dead, she wouldn't have much help from them anyway because they wouldn't tell her anything because it would be involving a civilian and they want to keep the Org investigation secret. Why doesn't Sera tell Conan who she is and that she wants to find Akai? Her task would become substantially harder if Conan decided to exclude her because it means she has laid all her cards on the table. She doesn't know how Conan will react which means telling him would be taking a gamble on him excluding her or informing the FBI she is in Japan to get her sent back. In any case, Conan would exclude her no questions asked because he is harboring Akai and she thus a liability. Conan locked down on Eisuke the moment he realized he might be connected to Rena and did as much as he could to avoid doing anything Eisuke would be interested in. That lockdown didn't let up even when Conan decided that Eisuke was probably not an enemy (nail and hammer case) because Conan was still worried that Eisuke could be used by the Org, and it could be the same deal with Sera. Right now, Conan knows Sera is suspicious, but doesn't know what her goal is. If he knew she was looking for Akai, he could make various arrangements to make it harder for her to find out. As he doesn't know how to block her investigation, he can't take any targeted measures to dissuade her other than not tell her anything relevant. If Sera is after Akai, why is she interested in Ai and Conan? My suspicion is that she knew to look into Conan and Ai in the first place because she saw Akai's pictures of Conan and Haibara from when Akai was investigating them in the Vermouth arc. Specifically Akai had one of the Detective Boys as they were about to enter a film studio with Yukiko. This would explain why she targets Ai; she was quite prominent in the picture and thus possibly Akai's person of interest. I assume she looked into everyone in the photo. Conan would come out prominently because of his involvement with Kaito Kid, and from there Sera started digging, like Eisuke, and noticed Conan's appearance correlated to Mouri's rise. Yukiko's presence ties in Kudo Shinichi, which explains why she takes interest in his name and when Conan used his name for a case. Sera wouldn't have asked Kogoro if Conan was around when he solved cases if she didn't make nearly the same connections that Eisuke did. In order to get anywhere, Eisuke had to hang around Ran and take advantage of Conan's love of cases. From Sera's perspective, Conan is going to be more interesting than anything she could dig up on Ai who has done an excellent job of keeping her public records unremarkable. As for how she got the pictures, they don't have to get sent to her in particular, they could have been sent home, the way a dead soldier's personal effects get sent back. While the FBI can't get ahold of the body or Chevy because they are in police custody as murder victim John Doe and his stuff, the FBI might send back everything where Akai was shacking up and the picture was in his personal possessions. While the FBI would have kept mission related info, Akai may have kept the picture hidden somewhere personal because it was one of Shiho Miyano and meant something to him. The FBI overlooked it when they went through his things. Why would Okiya, if he is Akai, step up protection after hearing about and seeing Sera? Please see this post. Why did Sera cry and say she was a bad girl in 814? Sera's crying started when she she watched Ran putting a band aid on Conan. Although this is only a hunch, I have a feeling that watching them triggered a recollection of something very similar that happened between her and Akai when they were younger. She may have met Shinichi when she was younger and remembered something about their meeting then. As for why she says she is a bad girl, I do not know. The meaning and context are pretty vague so there are lots of possibilities. Old Arguments Sera is not Scar Akai Sera didn't know Camel was an FBI agent until the restaurant case where he appeared. [778.11] Scar Akai, assuming he has been targeting FBI agents in his appearances, would have known Camel is an FBI agent after the Beika department store bomb scare. Even if he didn't know before, Scar Akai would know Camel is an FBI agent from the way that Jodie was interacting with him in the Beika Dept store. If Scar Akai was following them earlier, he might have noticed Jodie introducing Camel as "Agent Camel" to Ran and Kogoro. Also, considering the two of them together, it's a pretty easy deduction to make, especially if Jodie is dragging Camel around to interrogate salespeople about a hat scar Akai knows to be his. (Which implies Jodie is looking for info on Akai, and Camel is party to this.) Also Scar Akai may have very well seen Jodie, Camel, and James Black together pre-Teito bank heist while picking the right moment to appear in front of Jodie. If Sera is Scar Akai, she would have at least strongly suspected Camel was FBI by the time Conan introduced Camel in the Danny's case. Her reaction isn't like that though; it's a just found out reaction. "Oh? FBI, huh..." Because Sera was thinking it instead of saying it aloud, there was no reason for her to "lie" in her head, because that wouldn't make any sense and Gosho never lies to the readers.