Detective: I'm Sato Miwako's Informant

"Aoko!"

The sudden sound brought Nakamori Aoko back to her senses.

He looked up and saw someone standing next to him, and exclaimed in surprise, "Shiraishi Detective... uh... Ichishu... it's you..."

"Ah! It's Shiraishi Shu!"

Before Nakamori Aoko could finish speaking, she was interrupted by Momoi Keiko's exclamation.

Then, Momoi Keiko approached Shiraishi Osamu with an excited expression, her eyes gleaming red as she said excitedly:

"Wow! It really is Shiraishi Osamu! I'm so lucky."

"Uh……"

Shiraishi Osamu felt a little uncomfortable seeing the girl pressing against him, so he took a small step back to create some distance.

"Huizi~!"

Nakamori Aoko grumbled in dissatisfaction, walked over, pulled her best friend away, and then said apologetically to Shiraishi Osamu:

"Shu, don't mind her. That's just the kind of person Keiko is."

"I'm not that petty."

Shiraishi Osamu smiled and waved his hand.

Humans are all vain.

He himself is surrounded by people he likes, and it would be a lie to say he's unhappy about it.

Momoi Keiko quickly replied, "I'm so sorry for causing you trouble. My name is Momoi Keiko, you can just call me Keiko."

Bai Shixiu smiled and said, "My name is Bai Shixiu, just call me Xiu."

Nakamori Aoko asked, "Shu, what are you doing here?"

“Actually, I didn’t want to come,” Shiraishi Osamu said, glancing at the enormous clock. “But with Kaito Kid making such a fuss, some of my friends wanted to come too.”

I just wanted to take a look, so I came along. Oh, and that girl I mentioned who looks a lot like you is here too. Come on, let me introduce you to her.

As he spoke, he led the two girls to Xiaolan and the others.

This meeting was quite eventful.

Everyone was incredibly surprised by Xiaolan and Qingzi's appearances and kept discussing them endlessly.

They even said things like they might be long-lost sisters, or that their mother was their sister, and so on—basically all sorts of nonsense.

There were already a lot of girls here, and now two more have joined, it's simply overwhelming.

Before long, the group of girls became acquainted and chatted happily.

Sonoko, holding her camera, said excitedly, "Ran, Aoko, quickly stand together so I can take a picture. We have to preserve this moment; it would be a shame to miss it."

Ran and Aoko exchanged a glance, smiled at each other, and then hugged each other, pointing their arms at Sonoko's camera.

As the count of 1, 2, 3... came to an end.

A photo of smiling faces was taken at a pause; the picture showed two girls who looked like twins, and they were really very beautiful.

"Why don't we all take a picture together?" Sonoko couldn't stop thinking about it and shoved the camera into Shiraishi Osamu's hands: "Osamu, take a picture of us."

0. Requesting flowers.......

"Row."

Shiraishi Osamu nodded, fiddled with the camera in his hand for a moment and then understood how to take pictures, pointing it directly at the group of women in front of him.

Miwako Sato, Kimie Shimabukuro, Ran, Sonoko, Aoko, Keiko Momoi...

Looking at the six women in the picture, Shiraishi Osamu pressed the shutter.

As a soft sound rang out, the image on the screen froze at that moment.

However, when he looked at the photo in the camera, he couldn't help but be surprised, because in one corner of the photo, there was also the figure of a girl with long, smooth hair, wearing a red dress, and her eyes were looking directly at the camera lens.

..0

Osamu Shiraishi felt that the girl was familiar, and after a moment's thought, he remembered her—Koizumi Akari.

"How is it? How is it? Let me see." Sonoko ran over excitedly.

"Here you go." Shiraishi Osamu handed her the camera, but his gaze was fixed on the direction of Koizumi Akako in the previous photo. However, when he looked over, he couldn't see anyone there, only a crowd of people still shouting.

the other side.

Koizumi Akako's gaze was fixed on one of the three helicopters overhead.

An old butler behind her whispered, "Is he here, Miss?"

Koizumi Akako nodded and said, "That's right, absolutely no mistake. It's this helicopter. I can sense that it releases an aura as strong as Kuroba's. It's as cunning and agile as a demon, and it has a master with eyes that can see into people's hearts. Who exactly is he...?"

Suddenly she felt a gaze and couldn't help but look into the distance, where she saw Shiraishi Xiu's figure, and her eyebrows furrowed involuntarily.

The butler whispered again from behind, "Young Miss, he's someone who's been frequently featured in the newspapers lately. His name is Shiraishi Osamu, and he's a person with considerable deductive reasoning skills."

"Is that so..."

Koizumi Akako responded softly, slowly withdrew her gaze, and turned her attention back to the clock tower.

Everything that happens today will begin here, and it will also end here.

Chapter 0082: The Identity of a Substitute Teacher

When the time came to midnight.

"Thump...thump...thump?"

The giant clock chimed, its ringing echoing across the sky above the station.

The crowd below fell silent, all staring intently at the large clock above them, their eyes wide, waiting for the appearance of Phantom Thief Kid.

Aoko clenched her hands nervously, staring at the clock with a worried expression, murmuring, "Don't appear...please don't appear..."

Sonoko held her breath, pointed her camera at the large clock above, and murmured, "Appear, Phantom Thief Kid, let me take your picture." Sato Miwako stared sharply upwards. Although she wasn't involved in this operation, she didn't want the thief to be so brazen.

"Ah! It's smoking!!!"

Someone shouted "340!" and immediately everyone became noisy, their voices echoing all around.

Above, a cloud of pink smoke enveloped the huge clock face, obscuring the entire clock.

"No?!" Aoko cried out in anguish, her eyes instantly reddening with tension, and she instinctively grabbed the hem of Shiraishi Xiu's clothes beside her.

Shiraishi Osamu glanced at her, gently patted her hand clutching her clothes, and comforted her, "It's not that simple, it's just smoke. It couldn't have been stolen so easily."

It's like being slapped in the face.

next second...

An even louder clamor arose from the crowd, with some people even cheering loudly.

"No...it's gone..."

Shimabukuro Kimie stared wide-eyed in surprise, as did the other girls beside her, all widening their small eyes in astonishment.

Aoko's nose tingled, and she almost burst into tears. She threw herself into Shiraishi Xiu's arms, unable to believe what she was seeing.

"This……"

Shiraishi Osamu gently held Aoko, his eyes fixed on the large clock above. The hour and minute hands on the dial had disappeared, leaving only a disc on top.

He was certain.

The smoke had only briefly enveloped the area; no object was actually transporting anything through the night sky, so it was as if everything had vanished into thin air.

But he didn't believe it.

Because he knew that Kaito Kid didn't know magic, so he must be hiding something.

Unfortunately, it was only a hundred meters above the ground, so he couldn't directly dismantle it. The pistol could fire bullets, but firing a gun here would only be asking for trouble.

buzzing...

The sound of approaching helicopter rotors came from overhead.

Then the door of a helicopter opened, and Shinichi Kudo appeared there, holding a pistol, and fired at the empty watch face.

With two loud "bangs".

A ripple appeared on the dial, like a piece of cloth being blown up, revealing the Phantom Thief Kid hanging on the hour hand, and a policeman—Nakamori Ginzo—peeking out from the dial.

"really……"

Shiraishi Osamu muttered to himself, then glanced at Kudo Shinichi standing in front of the helicopter door, patted Aoko's head in his arms, and said, "Aoko, look, it's just an illusion, it wasn't..."

Steal it.

"Ok?"

Aoko decisively raised her head in Shiraishi Osamu's arms, tears still clinging to the corners of her eyes. Seeing that the large clock above had indeed not been stolen, she immediately smiled.

They breathed a sigh of relief.

The phantom thief Kid hanging on the large clock is in a bit of trouble.

There were three helicopters hovering around, so it was impossible to use a hang glider; the wind was just too chaotic.

Meanwhile, Nakamori Ginzo, who was peeking out from the side, looked to be in a similar predicament.

"This is troublesome..."

Kaito Kid cursed under his breath, looking helplessly at the boy who was about his age standing in front of the helicopter's upper cabin door.

The reason he was being chased around the clock tower by the police today was because this boy, who was about his age, was in charge.

"what to do……"

Kaito Kid muttered to himself again, then suddenly looked at the fluttering curtain in front of him and the crowd below, his eyes lighting up.

He took out the playing card launcher and fired two shots at the rope connecting the curtain.

With two sharp "whoosh" sounds, the rope snapped, the curtain slid down, and he fell down the huge curtain into the crowd below.

at the same time--

The system's voice echoed in Shiraishi Xiu's mind—