Conan: Ran, I really am Shinichi, you have to believe me!

"You're waiting for me? Who are you, kid?"

After getting up and tidying himself up, Kid, dressed in a flashy outfit and wearing a monocle, transformed into a handsome phantom thief, looking down at the tiny elementary school student.

"My name is Conan Edogawa, and I'm a detective with superpowers."

After hearing Conan's self-introduction, Kid suddenly realized:

"So you're Conan, the master criminal Conan who frequently breaks the law but the police can't do anything about you because of your age. I've seen you on TV."

Upon hearing Kid, the thief, claim to be a master criminal, Conan immediately panicked, his composure crumbling, and he loudly retorted:

"I'm not a criminal! I'm a law-abiding citizen, a good citizen, a law-abiding detective! You're the criminal! Your whole family are criminals!"

"Ha, you've escaped legal punishment because you're young. If you were my age, you'd definitely be arrested and in jail. How could you be living like this until now?"

"Alright, I'm not going to argue with you anymore, little one. You're waiting for me here because you must have something to tell me, right?"

Getting down to business, Conan stopped his pointless anger, took a deep breath to calm himself down, and said:

"I need your method of chakra cultivation. Of course, I won't let you suffer a loss. I will also tell you my method of chakra cultivation in exchange."

"Huh? What's chakra?" Kid's eyes widened in surprise upon hearing Conan's question. "What the hell is training chakra?"

Conan had been looking for Kid for a long time, and finally, he waited until Kid came out to steal something, so he couldn't wait to come and find him.

The reason Conan is in such a hurry to find Kid is because he has discovered that his chakra training has recently hit a bottleneck and he hasn't made much progress.

Meanwhile, Jiang Chengbei and his brother, two people who are more powerful than him and are also big villains, want to defeat them and rid the people of evil. Conan feels that while he is working hard to cultivate his chakra, he needs to find another way to make himself stronger faster.

I heard from his brother last time that Phantom Thief Kid absorbs the moon's chakra by using the mysterious power within the gems, pointing them at the moon, and looking at it.

In order to surpass Jiang Chengbei and his brothers as soon as possible, and because time waits for no one, Conan felt that combining Kaito Kid's methods might allow him to train faster, so he kept practicing Kaito Kid's methods.

Of course, before going to find Kaito Kid, Conan actually borrowed a gem from Sonoko to try it out, but unfortunately he didn't know how to use it and couldn't sense the mysterious power inside the gem, so today he could only come to Kaito Kid to exchange for a training method.

Seeing Kid feign shock, Conan curled his lip in disdain:

"Kid, stop pretending. We all train in chakra, we're all psychics, so there's no need to hide it. Just tell us the truth."

Seeing that Kid was still in shock and pretending to be a ghost, Conan said disdainfully:

"Stop acting. I've already found out from insiders that you stole the gemstone to use its mysterious power to cultivate chakra."

Once you've exhausted the mysterious power within the gem, pretend to be a good person and return it.

Sigh, ordinary people who don't know the truth might think you're a phantom thief who enjoys the process of stealing gems, and then returns them after getting the thrill of the theft. They might mistake you for a good person with quirks.

But as fellow practitioners of chakra, we all know that you've exhausted the most important and mysterious power within the gem.

So you're not a refined thief at all, but a complete and utter petty thief, a superpowered thief who only steals mysterious forces.

Now, I'm giving you a chance. Let's make a deal: I'll teach you my cultivation method, and you teach me yours.

I need to know how you used the mysterious power within the gem to cultivate chakra, otherwise you won't be leaving today. I'm going to arrest you.

"Ah? Hahaha... The mysterious power within the gem... Chakra cultivation... Hahaha..."

Little brother, you'd better go back to sleep. When you wake up tomorrow, go buy some comics; maybe they have the cultivation method you're looking for, hahaha…”

Seeing Kaito Kid's unrestrained mockery, laughing so hard his stomach was bent over, Conan's eyes blazed with anger. He had gone to such lengths, telling this stranger his secret that he also possessed chakra—a closely guarded secret that he hadn't even told Ran!

"Fine, since you want to pretend, then don't try to hide. I'm going to shoot your face with my chakra soccer ball!"

"Chakra soccer? What the heck is that? I know soccer, but chakra..."

Kidd was just about to continue mocking the elementary school student who was lost in his own fantasy when he witnessed something that shocked him:

Suddenly, a miniature soccer ball appeared out of thin air in Conan's palm. Then, the soccer ball grew larger and quickly became a normal-sized soccer ball.

Upon seeing this, after a brief moment of surprise, Kidd suddenly realized:

"Little brother, you're a magician too? Oh, we're in the same line of work."

"You thief, who's in the same line of work as you?"

You're a thief, I'm a detective, I'm here to arrest you, what kind of colleague am I!

Watch closely, this first soccer ball is going to hit you right in the face!

After saying that, Conan kicked out.

Having received Conan's warning beforehand, Kaito Kid, who was already prepared, moved to the side the moment Conan kicked the soccer ball.

With Kid's escape speed, his figure vanished from the spot in an instant. When he reappeared beside him, the soccer ball that Conan kicked also made a sharp turn and appeared in front of Phantom Thief Kid, flattening his handsome face.

"No...impossible!"

After hitting the target, the chakra soccer ball automatically deflated, shrank, and finally left not even a trace.

However, after enduring a soccer ball from Conan, Kaito Kid had two streaks of blood streaming from his nose, and his head was still spinning as he muttered to himself:

"Impossible, I dodged it, how could you still kick me?"

And where did this football go? How did it disappear?

To be able to do this in front of a great magician like me, and to leave me completely undetected, what level of magician are you? And who is your teacher?

Seeing Kaito Kid bleeding from his nose, utterly shocked and unable to believe what was happening, Conan smiled slightly:

"I already told you I can use chakra too. This is a chakra soccer ball that I developed myself, so stop pretending."

Also, I didn't have a teacher; I was self-taught. I became successful through my own efforts; no one guided me.

"Also, I know you practiced chakra by holding a gem and looking at the moon. Now I just want to know how you did it, and why I can't practice even when I do the same thing. I want to know the secret behind it."

"What chakra? I really don't know!"

You little brat, how dare you kick my handsome face! I won't let you get away with this!

"Now it's my turn! I'm going to shoot you in the right leg you kicked me in!"

Following Conan's example, after giving Conan a hint, Kaito Kid takes out his playing card gun, aims at Conan's right leg, and begins to shoot.

Then, something embarrassing happened to Kaito Kid: no matter how he shot or where he aimed, Conan, whose body had been modified by chakra and whose physical abilities had been enhanced, was now far stronger than when he was Shinichi Kudo.

So no matter how hard Kaito Kid tries or how well he aims, he misses every time and doesn't even manage to hit a hair on Conan's head.

Seeing such a nimble child, even more skilled than himself, Kid was immediately embarrassed. He shouted, "I'm going to unleash my ultimate move!" and then fired several shots at Conan. Finally, he turned around, flicked his cape, leaped up, and started running away.

Bang~~~

As a result, just as Kaito Kid jumped into the air, he was knocked down by Conan with a soccer ball, landing on the ground looking like he was eating dog poop.

Kaito Kid: ...

Does chakra really exist in this world? Otherwise, why would this child be so powerful?

That's right. If this kid wasn't so amazing and possessed chakra, how could he have caught those vicious murderers with his bare hands?

By the way, I heard he's still that serial gunman we've never caught. He's this good even without drawing his gun. If he does draw it, I'm doomed.

It's not fair that even elementary school students are so amazing!

After resting for a while and waiting for his head to clear up a bit, Kaito Kid realized that Conan hadn't come forward to arrest him, and he started thinking about escaping again.

So, after a smoke bomb, Kaito Kid, who had just jumped up and opened his hang glider, was knocked down by Conan's blind shot of a chakra soccer ball.

Phantom Thief Kid: "Damn it! You were surrounded by smoke and couldn't see anything, how could you still kick me? Do you even have any sense of science?"

"My chakra soccer ball can automatically lock onto its target; you can't escape!"

Conan crossed his arms and placed one foot on a chakra soccer ball. Now it was his turn to show off. Even the dashing Phantom Thief Kid could only stand aside and quietly watch him show off.

Realizing he couldn't escape today and was about to be defeated by this elementary school student, the show-off who tried to be cool but ended up getting slapped in the face instead, was heartbroken.

Remembering Conan's constant talk about chakra, now that he had experienced chakra firsthand, although he still didn't know exactly what chakra was, he could roughly guess that it was a kind of superpower.

Therefore, he now yearns for the chakra that Conan talks about, especially the method of chakra exchange training that he mentioned.

So, abandoning his usual playing cards, Phantom Thief Kid smiled obsequiously at Conan and said:

“Little brother Conan… um? Little brother Conan… ah? Big brother Conan… hey, little ancestor Conan, I agree to let us exchange chakra training methods.”

You're more powerful than me; I can't escape your grasp no matter what. Could you teach me your cultivation method first, and then I'll explain mine?

For many years, Kaito Kid has lived alone. As a child living alone in Japan, he needed to be able to read people's expressions to avoid being bullied. So, by observing Conan's expressions, Kaito Kid finally found the best way to address him.

After making Conan happy, Conan, who was striking a pose and looking cool, glanced at Kid indifferently:

"When did you start training your chakra?"

Based on the principle that one lie requires countless more to cover it up, Phantom Thief Kid immediately spouted:

"I've been training with my dad since I was little. What about you, Conan, my little ancestor?"

After hearing what Kaito Kid said, Conan gave a disdainful sneer and then held up one finger.

"A year? That's so short? You can become this good after just one year of training?"

After seeing Conan's hand gesture, Kaito Kid wiped the blood from his nose, his face beaming with delight. He definitely had to practice with something this good!

"Conan, you are really amazing! You can become so good in just one year. You are truly gifted!"

"If you were to use my family's advanced, ancestral martial arts technique, you would achieve twice the results with half the effort, and after a year of practice, you would be several times more powerful than you are now."

"What? A year? I started training my chakra less than a month ago. If..."

"Stop flattering me. After our exchange just now, I found that you are not that powerful. You are only slightly stronger than an ordinary person. So I suspect that your family's cultivation method is not effective at all. I think we should not switch."

"You come with me to the police station and confess to all the illegal things you've done, including the cases you've been involved in."

"No, brother, I'm willing to exchange methods for cultivating chakra. Also, the reason my strength is inferior to yours is not because my family's cultivation method is bad, but because I lack talent."

"It's not that my cultivation method is bad, it's that I'm incapable! Let's exchange methods, that way you can improve even further!"

After thinking it over, Conan finally agreed with Kaito Kid's suggestion: "Okay, let's switch then."

You sing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" to the moon.

"What?"

"You sing 'Twinkle Twinkle Little Star' to the moon, will the little star know it?"

If you don't know, I'll teach you: "Twinkle, twinkle, little star, how I wonder what you are..."

"Huh? Fine, the situation is beyond our control, whatever you say goes."

Completely bewildered, Kaito Kid, in order to extract the method of chakra training from Conan, had no choice but to listen to Conan and start singing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" to the moon, just to show off his singing skills before learning the real kung fu.