Uchiha Shadow wrote:DCUniverseAficionado wrote:This is like an argument for why Ran should be kept from finding out that Shinichi is Conan... I don't agree with that argument, and I don't agree with this one. Odds are that Masumi can keep a secret—after all, she's been keeping her own history and connection with the Mystery Girl secret for all this time. Say what you will about Ran's ability to keep secrets (which is another topic, entirely), but why would Masumi be just as likely to let slip a vital secret? Plus, the BO doesn't know that Shuichi faked his death—if anything, they'd be attracted to her/target her because of the fact that she looks like Shuichi, not because she was in on a plan that the BO isn't even aware of. As with Ran's connection to Shinichi, Masumi's mere connection to Shuichi will result in her being targeted—even more so because of the threat that Shuichi posed to the BO.
I didn't say that the BO knows about the plan, what I mean is that if they were ever to know of the plan, she would be targeted if she knows about it, and it's true that she can keep secrets, but what if they try the same thing as in the Bourbon arc? I'm not saying any of this will happen, but from Akai and Conan's point of view, it should be possible for something like that to happen.
Ah... thanks for clarification.
The only reason Vermouth disguising as Shuichi worked was
because she was kept in the dark about her brother actually being alive. She could've responded to Vermouth in a way that came off as ignorant, while really knowing the truth.
The case with Kogoro nearly being sniped by the BO goes to show that, knowingly or otherwise,
they target people connected to who they perceive as a threat—Gin was ready to kill Kogoro, and then go down the line of
people connected to him to find out who'd bugged them, before Shuichi intervened. By
mere associationwith Kogoro, Shinichi/Conan almost got him killed—Kogoro knew nothing about Shinichi's/Conan's silent clash with the BO.
If the BO found out about Shuichi's fake death technique, Kir would be slated for execution—that would be their first order of business. Next, they would search for Shuichi, and target
those connected to him in order to draw him out. If they knew about Masumi, she would be targeted
because of her connection to Shuichi, not because she could have potentially aided him in the fake death technique. Assuming that Vermouth and Bourbon would stay silent about Shinichi's/Conan's involvement, he and Agasa would not be targeted, because the BO
would see nothing to connect them to Shuichi with.
They would know about the fake death technique, but they would not be targeted. The BO would discriminate based on the people connected to a person who threatened them—the knowledge of the people connected to the person threatening the BO, in terms of knowing about said person's actions, would be irrelevant, or, at least, not as important as
mere association.
I'll accept that characters who are kept in the dark gaining knowledge about what they're being kept in the dark about
could lead to bad things for them and those keeping them in the dark who do so in what they perceive is an action of protection, but it should also be realized that the characters merely being kept in the dark could lead to bad things for them and those keeping them in the dark could lead to bad things for all of them. Kogoro had no idea he was about to die—if Shuichi hadn't intervened, who knows how many others would have been targeted, including Shinichi/Conan, himself?
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