video; backdated to May 4

[eastdetective]

[Today was May 4. Conan had spent all day with the nagging feeling that he had forgotten something rather important. But try as he might, he simply could not think of what it might be.

He forgot about that concern when he walked into his room in Maurtia Falls #5 and discovered that somebody had left a rather large and garishly decorated cake on his desk. A quick search of the room revealed no clue on who had brought the cake or how it had arrived in the room without notice.

And he didn't have the equipment at the moment to test it for poison or other traps. That left him with only one option.

He opens the video feed. To anyone watching he appears to be a brightly curious child wearing a pair of oversized glasses.]

Has anyone heard anything about someone leaving cakes in rooms? Because there's one in mine and I can't figure out where it came from.

[The boy adjusts his glasses and smiles.]

Don't worry!  I didn't eat any of it. Because something like this is really suspicious, right? 

[Conan wouldn't be nearly as suspicious if he had only remembered that today was his birthday.]

 

Comments

video

[virusbusting]

You found a cake in your room? Is it your birthday or something? Someone might've left it as a surprise.

[eastdetective]

[Conan blinks.]

Oh, right. I guess it is my birthday. I forgot all about it.

/casually jacks into this conversation

[kendo_taisho]

Why am I not surprised?!

Yer the only person I ever met who'd forget his own birthday!

[eastdetective]

What's so important about a birthday? Its just another holiday.

[kendo_taisho]

Cause without birthdays ye'd be stuck the same age for years at a time, duh. Don't ye wanna get tall?

[Everyone knows that's not how it works, Hattori.]

[eastdetective]

What kind of correlation is that?

[virusbusting]

How do you forget something like that?

[eastdetective]

Easily. It isn't like birthdays really mean anything.

[virusbusting]

They mean food, and sometimes gifts. And you're a year older.

That means you're...7? 8 now?

[eastdetective]

I don't want food, and there isn't anyone here that I would expect any gifts from.

Eight. I was seven before.

Voice

[megabytes]

...are you sure it wasn't just one of your friends giving you a gift?

[Humans in general give surprise cakes as gifts, right? It's not just a thing his mom does?]

Re: Voice

[eastdetective]

Why would one of them do that?

[Not that Conan had ever admitted even to himself that he actually had a few friends now. ]

[megabytes]

Because they wanted to...?

[Kid, do you. Do you not know why people give gifts to each other? Because that's what he's hearing here.]

[eastdetective]

I don't think I know anyone here who would bother. Unless it was some kind of prank.

[megabytes]

...don't you have housemates?

[CHILD DO YOU NOT HAVE CAREGIVERS WTH]

[text]; ID reads Kaitou KID

[tuxedo_magician]

Second year in a row that you've forgotten your birthday, Tantei-kun.

Honestly.

Re: [text]; ID reads Kaitou KID

[eastdetective]

I've never seen much point in bothering to remember something like that.

[text];

[tuxedo_magician]

Perhaps we should make it into a day to remember so you don't forget.

Re: [text];

[eastdetective]

....Pass. I'll be just as happy to ignore it.

[text];

[tuxedo_magician]

NOPE.

Sorry, Tantei-kun, no can-do.

[ In face, he should probably get in touch with Tantei-han, now that he thinks about it. ]

text;

[radioclub_jp]

[Having glanced at the other comments (and at his name on the comm tag)...]

Happy birthday!! (ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
How old are you, Edogawa-kun?

Re: text;

[eastdetective]

I guess I'm eight now.

[And wasn't it depressing to realize that he was actually eighteen now. A whole year of his life lost. ]

[radioclub_jp]

You guess? Come on, you could be a little more excited. You only turn eight once, you know.

[eastdetective]

It's just a birthday. They happen every year.

[And what was there to celebrate about turning eight for the second time? ]

[radioclub_jp]

[haha well if she knew that she'd be singing a different tune, buuuut.]

Mm, well, that's true.
But I hope you have a happy one regardless ★~(ゝ‿◕✿)