Chapter 406: Lynn's Past

"Don't look so sad. Didn't he promise you he'd bring your family back?"

Lynn, of course, could see what Klein was thinking. He couldn't help but wave a hand in front of Klein's face, half-joking yet full of confidence. "Although he has a rather nasty personality, he's reliable when it comes to getting things done. Since He promised to bring your family back, He will definitely keep His word."

"And besides..." Lynn stroked his chin and said, "Don't forget, I can take you on time travels. Even though I can't bring your family directly from the past, as long as you work hard and eventually fully accumulate the Sefirah Castle, becoming its master, we can go back to the Pre-Epoch together. Then, you can personally bring your family to the Sefirah Castle and reunite with them in this new era."

Klein snapped back to reality, listening to Lynn's serious words. His mood lightened significantly, and he couldn't help but say, "So, in the end, I still need to work hard to advance!"

Whether it was to fulfill the agreement with the Angel of Secrets, to one day bring his family back himself, or to prevent another apocalypse, Klein felt he needed to push himself to advance.

'Fortunately, my Magician potion has almost been digested. As long as I gather all the materials for Faceless, I can immediately advance to Sequence 6...' Klein calculated his progress, feeling a strong sense of urgency, but also brimming with motivation.

Then Klein remembered something, and he looked at Lynn. "If that day really comes, I could also summon your family too in the Sefirah Castle..." As he spoke, Klein suddenly stopped because he realized that Lynn had never mentioned his family.

Apart from the family he had in the world after crossing over, Lynn had never mentioned his family from before, even when he talked about time traveling to meet his family from the past. Lynn always spoke about Klein's situation instead.

This made Klein start to have some unsettling suspicions.

Lynn, on the other hand, glanced at Klein at that moment. He could naturally tell what Mr. Fool was thinking, but he didn't rush to explain. Instead, he served himself a bowl of soup, took a sip, and then said, "I don't have any family in the Pre-Epoch. I'm not quite like a normal person. From the moment I became conscious, I lived in a laboratory, so I don't have any blood-related family..."

"Laboratory..." Klein was visibly shocked. He looked at Lynn with some concern, clearly wanting to ask but also afraid of touching on Lynn's scars.

"Don't be so careful. It's not a past I can't talk about," Lynn shook his head and smiled at Klein before continuing:

"I was born as an experiment, originally designated as No. 0, so I never had a proper education because everything I learned was taught by the researchers. But they never abused me, or rather... they didn't dare to abuse me."

"No. 0..." Klein mulled over this designation in his mind, suddenly realizing something.

The name 'Lynn' was just a homophone for '0'.*

"As for the rest, there's not much to say. I stayed in the lab until I was 18, and then due to some accident, I finally left the lab and started living a normal life outside..." Lynn said this with a somewhat peculiar expression, hesitating for a few seconds before adding, "Well, I guess you could call it a normal life?"

Transmigrating to the Detective Conan world, joining the Organization, and becoming an undercover agent probably counts as a normal life, right?

Lynn thought uncertainly.

He spoke lightly, but Klein couldn't help but imagine a lot.

Mr. Fool could almost picture how someone like Lynn, who had lived in a laboratory before adulthood, would fare when he first left. Everything in the world might have been unfamiliar to him. Before leaving the lab, Lynn might not have even seen the real sky, let alone interacted with the variety of people in society.

Klein even wondered if Lynn had the common sense of a normal person when he first left the lab.

Lynn might have been deceived by others when he first started interacting with people, maybe even starved because he couldn't find work, or perhaps he met some kind people who helped him. After going through many hardships, he gradually adapted to life outside and became the Lynn he is today.

Thinking of this, Klein looked at Lynn with eyes full of sympathy, like he was looking at a pitiful child of the new century.

Lynn, noticing Klein's thoughts, slowly raised an eyebrow.

He recalled his life right after crossing over to the Detective Conan world: first discovering he was a member of the Black Organization, then bumping into Gin, tricking Vermouth, taking advantage of his foreknowledge and status as a minor to mess with Bourbon, securing a long-term benefactor, and using the chaos of the Conan world to rack up achievements and secure a codename. All the while, he embezzled a lot of money from the Organization...

Was it really pitiful?

Lynn, who had thrived in the Organization, couldn't help but reflect. He then nodded.

Yes, it was indeed pitiful. After all, he had just emptied out the Organization, destroyed its remnants with the help of the official authorities, and before he could establish his new organization, he crossed over to this world.

So pitiful!

Thinking of the money he didn't have time to spend and the employees he didn't get to overwork, Lynn was filled with heartache.

As for Mr. Fool's imagined scenarios of missing common sense, being deceived, it was laughable—completely non-existent.

Lynn was a natural trickster. Even if his mind was empty, he could deceive others purely by instinct. Back in the lab, the psychologists who treated him were almost swayed by his reverse psychology. And the researchers who taught him didn't neglect common sense—they were just deliberately steering him toward being a good person.*

Moreover, aside from not being able to go outside, Lynn was perfectly capable of using the internet.

However, thinking of his unknown true form and his unique identity, Lynn couldn't help but feel a bit confused.

What was the situation with the lab he was in before crossing over? Did they know about his unique identity?

And that man, the "Father"...

Thinking of it, there was a woman named Carter too, who raised him since childhood, almost like a mother, Lynn frowned, feeling instinctively that something was hidden in all of this.

"By the way, I slept for a week. Did you help cover for me with Miss Justice?" Lynn, unable to figure things out after thinking for a while, decided not to dwell on the past. He suddenly remembered something and asked Klein.

"I told Miss Justice that you got caught up in some unexpected trouble, so you couldn't complete the transaction for the time being," Klein, already used to Lynn's erratic thoughts, nodded and said, "Now that you're back, it's best to communicate with Miss Justice as soon as possible."

*TN: In Chinese, the number "0" is pronounced as "líng" (零). The pronunciation of "Lynn" can resemble "líng" in Mandarin.

*TN: So he is basically Yogiri Takatou... Got it.

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