Conan: Chief of Rice Flower's Science Points

Chapter 195 Seeing Through
Shiraishi drove first and sent Aoko back home - the Nakamori family and the Kuroba family were both in Ekoda, so naturally not far from the station.

Ayako was sitting in the passenger seat and the two high school students were sitting in the back. When they were almost at their destination, perhaps it was a mistake, but Shiraishi mysteriously "got lost" and circled around before arriving at the door.

"Thank you, Brother Shiraishi and Sister Ayako! Kaito, you should also go to bed early, so you don't get up too late tomorrow!"

"Know it!"

After Aoko left, Kaito also wanted to leave, after all, his house was next door!
Moreover, on the way, Kaito felt Shiraishi's gaze in the rearview mirror several times, which made his back feel particularly cold and unnatural, so that Aoko even thought he caught a cold.

"Thank you, Officer Shiraishi. I'll go back too..." Kaito was about to leave when Shiraishi stopped him, saying, "Wait a minute..."

When Kaito was getting nervous, Shiraishi continued, "Can I borrow the bathroom in your house?"

"Please." Kaito certainly couldn't refuse such a request.

"Ayako, you just wait for me here." Shiraishi said to Ayako who also wanted to get off the car.

"Hmm? Okay." Ayako was stunned when she heard that, but immediately nodded in agreement.

She also guessed that Bai Shi must have his own intentions, but she was not sure what they were going to be - the same thing happened when he was looking for a long-haired girl at the scene just now...

The Kuroba family and the Nakamori family are two adjacent single-family houses. After Shiraishi came in, he immediately began to observe them.

"Officer Shiraishi, the bathroom is... huh? What are you doing..." Kaito originally wanted to take him to the bathroom as soon as possible, but Shiraishi suddenly "stared" at a wall next to the stairs to the second floor.

Kaito suddenly became nervous, but still pretended to know nothing and asked: "Huh? What's wrong?"

what happened?
A few months ago, Kaito wouldn't have thought anything of it, but...

A few months ago, Kaito discovered a "secret room" in his home!
The way to enter is through the secret door of the upstairs bedroom, through a long downward slide, and down to the basement.

And in this basement are hidden the important props of "Kaito Kid" and the message left by his father when he disappeared eight years ago!

It was because he accidentally entered this secret room after eight years that he decided to become "Phantom Thief Kidd II" and find out the truth about his father's disappearance.

The place where Shiraishi is facing now is the wall that the slide passes by...

As the first generation of Kaito Kidd, the important secret passage designed by Kuroba Toichi is naturally not simply "hidden in the wall", but it is hidden properly by using knowledge of psychology, perspective, architecture, etc.!
Not to mention "visual inspection", even with a ruler, it is easy to fail to measure a straight line and thus fail to discover that the slide is hidden here.

Otherwise, as a first-rate magician, Kaito is extremely sensitive to space, so how could it be that eight years had passed before he coincidentally discovered the secret room in his home?
Therefore, at this time, although this ignorant "big director" was staring at the location of the secret room slide, Kaito was nervous in his heart, but his face remained calm...

It's impossible to tell that directly, right? Maybe... the wall is just a little dirty?

"Is there a hidden pipe here... or a secret passage?" Bai Shi asked directly.

Kaito: !!!
That's how it can be seen!

"Eh? No way? Hehehe..." Kaito still wanted to cover it up.

Bai Shi was also stunned at this time, but he calmly walked around the living room on the first floor: "Don't you know? Then it should not be a pipe, but a secret passage... and this angle is a slide, right?"

Kaito: ???
"It should be this direction, right? Indeed, this way, the direction of the wall is used to the greatest extent. Even when comparing the inside and the outside, it will not feel that there is a lack of area."

As Bai spoke, he pointed at several corners of rooms in Kaito's house, and a section of the outer wall, and drew a diagonal line - Kaito understood, he was right!

"As for the location of the basement..." Bai Shi walked a little further and then said, "Ah, it should be underneath here." Bai Shi stamped his feet.

The basement of Hei Yu Daoyi was not very deep and was very soundproof. Normally, he wouldn't hear anything if he knocked on it, but...

When Bai Shi stomped his feet, the force penetrated directly downwards, shaking the basement and making a muffled sound!

"Huh?" Kaito was also stunned by the muffled sound - how much strength was required?

"Although it's not easy to find, but... the floor is indeed tilted. It should be the sinking caused by the steel structure of the secret passage." Bai Shi's powerful semicircular canals did not require the use of glass beads or the like to experiment. He could directly feel the subtle tilt.

"Huh? You seem to have no idea? Do you want to go upstairs to find the entrance?" Shiraishi deliberately asked Kaito.

Looking for the entrance?

Once you find it, you will discover the true identities of the two generations of "Kid"!
"No! I think... this must be a test my father left for me. I'd better leave it until I discover it myself!" Kaito was very panicked, but on the surface he looked like a "good boy full of fighting spirit".

It seems...he has mastered the most important magician's skill, the "poker face".

"Test?" Bai Shi smiled kindly at this time.

Kaito looked at the big man with a grim smile on his face, and said with a stiff face: "Well, my father is also a very good magician... He has performed for the Suzuki family before. Do you know Kuroba Touichi?"

"I see, is this a little trick of a magician family?" Shiraishi said, as if he believed it. Kaito blinked his big eyes, which were full of honesty.

Shiraishi finally said, "Then I won't interfere any more. I hope you can become a great magician like your father soon."

"Yes! I'll try my best!" Kaito was slightly relieved to see that he believed him. In his heart, he wished that he would leave immediately, but he still had to pretend.

at this time……

"By the way, Heiyu Daoyi disappeared eight years ago, right?" Shiraishi suddenly said.

"Well..." Kaito was trying to convince him that "Magicians all like to disappear."

However, Bai Shi didn't listen to his explanation at all and just kept talking to himself: "By the way, Kaito Kidd also disappeared eight years ago, and then reappeared not long ago..."

"Hmm? Hmm! Kaito Kid... is also a very good magician." Kaito wanted to play dumb at first, but he immediately realized that he shouldn't pretend not to know, so he immediately changed his words.

"Yes, he's also a magician." Bai Shi smiled at him meaningfully.

When Kaito saw Shiraishi grinning at him again, his scalp tingled.

Fortunately, Bai Shi then turned around and left, saying, "Then I'll leave first... I wonder if that magician will come to my jurisdiction one day. If you like watching it so much, you can still go and watch it."

Shiraishi said as he left, not giving Kaito a chance to explain...

It wasn't until Shiraishi left that Kaito muttered, "You...didn't go to the bathroom either..."

At the same time, Kaito realized that this guy... must have discovered his identity!
At least like Koizumi, he highly doubts his own identity!

However, Bai Shi never mentioned it, and he didn't feel comfortable explaining it on his own initiative.

"Yika Town..." Kaito thought to himself that he should be careful with this place in the future.

After all, if your identity is exposed, there will be no point in escaping.

At the same time, Shiraishi, who had left the Kuroba family, also had a strange look on his face, and he sighed in his heart: As expected of the second generation of Kaito Kidd...

Just when Shiraishi was speaking, Kaito's body and some places around him were "flickering" in Shiraishi's view - Shiraishi was stunned for a moment.

It's not an optical flash, but... a flash in Bai Shi's "heart" - clues, all clues.

Bai Shi was stunned at first, but then he realized that it was not a clue to solve the case, but... a clue to magic techniques!

Bai Shi observed that every time he touched his sore spot, he would show more "shining points". Obviously... this guy was always ready to "show off".

However, even with the "bright spots" as clues, Shiraishi was unable to see too many flaws, because Kaito's magic level was indeed high enough and he was constantly hiding them.

But until the end, Kaito didn't really show off - on the one hand, it was because Shiraishi didn't completely reveal it; on the other hand, and most importantly...

Kaito is confident that he can get away, but he also understands that since Shiraishi has completely seen through him now, it would be difficult to make him believe that he is now "Kid pretending to be a high school student" - if his identity is exposed, there is no point in simply getting away!
……

After returning to the car, Shiraishi drove Ayako back to her villa. Ayako originally wanted to meet with Shiraishi tomorrow night - tomorrow is Friday, and the director can have weekends off!
But Bai Shi didn't agree this time...

"Not tomorrow. I should meet that girl tomorrow night." Bai Shi told the truth.

"Hmm? Is that girl related to... the case?" Ayako asked worriedly - of course, she was not worried about Shiraishi's work style at all, but was worried... this is Ekoda District!

It would be fine if they were handling the case across regions, but they were directly putting it in front of Director Bai Ma?
"No, it's just that there's something about her that interests me." Bai Shi said seriously.

Ayako:……

Although the statement was very misleading, Ayako, who knew Shiraishi well, did not misunderstand it.

It is very possible that a high school girl falls in love with Shiraishi out of ignorance, but the opposite... is absolutely impossible!

That’s right, what Shiraishi is interested in is of course “Red Magic”.

Shiraishi did not expose Kidd, and the reason he went to "alert the enemy" was not only to warn him, but also because... Koizumi Akako!
Koizumi-san, you don't want Kuroba-san's identity to be exposed, right?

……

At the same time, in Koizumi's seemingly ordinary home, in the interior space that looked like an ancient castle, Koizumi Hongzi was studying an ancient magic circle - a legendary... magic circle for taming and subduing magical creatures!

(End of this chapter)