Conan Rick's Investigator

I have to say, this pearl as big as a pigeon egg is really beautiful.

However, Qin Zhibo only glanced at the Black Star and then shifted his gaze to Conan next to him.

Because Conan was not tall enough, he was held in Xiaolan's arms and looked at the Black Star twice. Then he immediately returned to the ground, holding the copy of the notice letter in his hand, looking thoughtful.

Since the last Sanni Temple incident, Qin Zhibo roughly understood Mouri Kogoro's daily way of solving cases.

The "Sleeping Mouri Kogoro" claimed in the newspaper is actually Mouri Kogoro who is in charge of sleeping, and it is Conan who solves the case.

However, the people in this world seem to be selectively deaf and blind when it comes to Conan's reasoning, so no one has discovered the bug in Mouri Kogoro's reasoning so far.

Judging from Conan's expression, he probably hasn't figured out the riddle on the preview letter yet.

Not only Conan, but also a tall and strong policeman sent by the police to handle this case - Chaki Shintaro and Maori Kogoro - clearly did not understand the preview letter, but still stubbornly gave two wrong answers.

Shintaro Chaki thinks Kaito Kid will come from the Tsutsumitsu River, while Kogoro Mori thinks he will come from the concert venue of idol singer Yoko Okino - the Beika Public Hall.

Forget it, leave them alone.

Although Qin Zhibo understood Kaito Kid's notice through the secret code investigation yesterday, he did not intend to tell the police and detectives at the moment.

Because his goal is not to capture Kaito Kidd, but to find the mysterious assistant around Kaito Kidd.

Only by contacting Kaito Kidd privately can the tasks assigned by the Nine Angels be completed more conveniently.

There's nothing to do here, so just retreat first...

"Everyone, I'm a little hungry. Let me eat something nearby first."

Qin Zhibo waved his hand and turned to leave.

Looking at Qin Zhibo's back, a thunderbolt suddenly sounded in Conan's mind.

Katcha!

Wait!

Have a meal……

Of course, Conan was not thinking about "taking him along for dinner", but his imaginative brain got a hint of inspiration from this very common word.

Eat → Restaurant → Nearby restaurant…

Conan: "!"

Conan quickly ran to the museum window, picked up his watch and looked at the buildings outside again and again.

After a moment, Conan put his hands in his pockets, and an unscientific light of wisdom emanated from his glasses.

I see……

I solved it, Kaito Kidd!

……

12:20 midnight, Beihu Hotel.

Originally, during the day, Qin Zhibo left the Rice Flower Museum under the pretext of having a meal, intending to check things out in advance.

But when passing by the lobby on the first floor, Qin Zhibo saw several people with the title of police officer walking back and forth in the lobby.

So Qin Zhibo guessed that there were still smart people among the police who guessed the meaning of the notice letter.

In order to avoid being mistaken for Kaito Kidd and caught when he went to the rooftop, and because it would take a lot of time to travel back and forth from the Beihu Hotel to Beihua Town, Qin Zhibo simply stayed in the hotel.

The scheduled time was about to come. Qin Zhibo closed the door of the room and walked towards the rooftop of Beihu Hotel with steady steps.

At the same time, a white figure was standing on the Tokyo Tower, looking at the Haido Hotel from afar.

Chapter 124: A Glance That Kaito Kidd Will Never Forget

At the edge of the top of Tokyo Tower, a striking white figure stood in front, and the white cloak behind him fluttered in the wind, making a rustling sound.

He wears a white top hat, and a monocle with a four-leaf clover pendant just stuck on his right eye. His face, which looks extremely mysterious to the world, reveals a calm and gentlemanly smile.

Almost no one in the world could imagine that the great thief soaring magnificently in the night sky would be a boy of only seventeen years old.

Kuroba Kaito looked at the roof of the Haido Hotel in the distance, which was the first landing point of this plan.

According to the answer to the riddle on the notice letter, he had to fly from the Beihu Hotel to the Rice Flower Museum and bring a joyful April Fool's joke to the police.

But now that he was once again on top of Tokyo Tower, Kuroba Kaito recalled the unpleasant memory at midnight a few days ago.

According to the original plan, he was to "borrow" the seal of the Emperor of the End of the World first, and then use the iron chain to leave from the direction of Tokyo Tower. However, a "witch" suddenly appeared on the way.

This lovely "witch" lady is none other than Koizumi Akako, the new student in our class.

Koizumi Akako continuously cast various magic tricks beyond human common sense to prevent herself from escaping, and used strange magic props to make Officer Nakamori become violent, so that he actually pulled out a gun and shot herself!

Finally, she used a magic circle to force herself to become her possession.

Although at the critical moment, thanks to the miraculous magic performed by nature - the seasonal disorder of spring snow escaped from Koizumi Hongzi's magic circle, and also took her away from the scene.

But Kuroba Kaito had to admit that the "witch" Koizumi Akako was the most difficult opponent he had encountered since he inherited the identity of his father Kaito Kid.

Magic vs. Magic...

But for some reason, when school was over today, Koizumi Hongzi, a classmate of mine, suddenly ran over and dragged me away from my childhood sweetheart to the corner of the corridor, talking to myself and saying some incomprehensible things.

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"Kuroba Kaito..."

"You must not go on tonight's operation, otherwise your true identity will be revealed."

"Hey, hey—" Kuroba Kaito played dumb as always, "What are you talking about? What's the action? What's the real identity? I already said I'm not Kaito Kidd..."

However, Koizumi Hongzi ignored Kuroba Kaito's explanation as usual, flicked her long crimson hair, and turned away gracefully.

"Anyway, the witch's advice has been provided to you."

"Believe it or not..."

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Back in the present, Kuroba Kaito stands up front, deep in thought.

A bald old man behind him stepped forward and said respectfully, "Master, what's wrong with you?"

"nothing……"

"Alright! It's almost time to set off."

"Sending a notice in advance and then not showing up on time is not gentlemanly at all~"

Kuroba Kaito's voice was still full of energy, and at the same time, the cloak behind him expanded with a "swish" and turned into a triangular hang glider.

Leaping down from a height of hundreds of meters, the Moon Magician is flying to his show venue in the moonlight.

As he looked at the white phantom that was quickly moving away, Terai Huangzhisuke's face showed a hint of worry.

No matter what time it is, don't forget to keep a poker face, Master...

……

Downstairs at the Haido Hotel, Conan looked up breathlessly at the reinforced concrete behemoth in the dark.

Relying on his short stature, Conan sneaked in through the side alley of the Beido Hotel, walked through the lobby lined with plainclothes officers, entered the hotel elevator and went straight to the top floor of the hotel.

All of this was transmitted through the headset to the ears of Ginzo Nakamori, who was outside the hotel holding a retro pipe and cosplaying Sherlock Holmes.

"Team leader, a child ran upstairs to the restaurant. What should we do?"

"Don't worry about him, our target is that Phantom Thief."

"No matter how powerful that Phantom Thief is, he can't disguise himself as a child."

With Nakamori's permission, Conan had a smooth journey and went straight to the roof of the Haido Hotel.

But just as he was about to look up and turn the door lock, Conan suddenly discovered that the door on the roof was not locked and he could open it by just turning the handle.

Conan pushed the door open a crack with subtle movements and saw a man in a brown windbreaker standing on the roof.

This person is...

Conan narrowed his eyes slightly, but they immediately widened in surprise the moment he recognized the man's identity.

Qin Zhibo!

How could it be him?

Since confirming the correct meaning of the notice, Conan has been thinking about several scenarios of close contact with this legendary thief.

But none of those scenarios would be like this one.

Arriving at the rooftop of Beihu Hotel, the person waiting there at midnight was the recently famous detective, Qin Zhibo!

Suddenly, all the entries about Qin Zhibo in Conan's brain seemed to become clues and automatically connected into a string.

He has keen observation skills, strong logical reasoning ability, mysterious kung fu, is a top student who graduated from Miskatonic University, and always appears in inexplicable places for inexplicable reasons.

He happens to be an older man...

Apart from his attainments in magic, Qin Zhibo currently has no other achievements. However, his extremely outstanding personal abilities, past experience of studying abroad, action patterns and age all fit in with Kaito Kidd!

Could it be... Qin Zhibo = Kaito Kidd!

Conan felt like he had discovered a new world!

And after carefully reviewing Qin Zhibo's performance today, Conan's brain, which was so excited that it was even trembling, had one more piece of evidence to prove this point.

That is, Qin Zhibo failed to crack the preview letter of Kaito Kid for the first time today!

In the last Moon Shadow Island incident, Conan knew that Qin Zhibo's ability to reason through riddles was not weak. There was no reason why he could not crack Kaito Kid's preview letter in one night and one day.

This further proves that Qin Zhibo is Kaito Kidd!

Thinking of this, Conan, who was hiding behind the door, showed a sinister smile on his face, and the angle of his mouth corners gradually turned upward.

Conan, who has been living in fear for a long time, always worried that Qin Zhibo would expose his true identity, finally has something to hold against Qin Zhibo this time!

And this handle is obviously much bigger than his own.

Hooray! Hooray!

Conan shouted "Long live" in his heart and secretly looked forward to the predicted time coming soon.

As long as he could catch the moment when "Phantom Thief Qin Zhibo" changed into Kaito Kidd and hit him with the watch anesthetic needle, he would be caught red-handed.

Even though he is just a child, the police must believe that Qin Zhibo is Kaito Kidd.

……

At this time, Qin Zhibo, who was standing quietly on the rooftop admiring the night view of Tokyo, had no idea that he was being spied on by a child who had mastered the stealth skill and was imagining a lot of illegal activity records for him.

When the moment of 12:30:00 Tokyo time arrived, a shadow gracefully descended from the silent night sky.

Qin Zhibo turned around and looked back. After being stunned for 1.5 seconds, he said a word that Kaito Kidd would never forget.

"black……"

Chapter 125: You mock the detective, does it have anything to do with me, the investigator?

Seeing a clear shadow slowly lengthening on the ground, Qin Zhibo immediately realized that there was someone behind him.

Turning around, I saw Kaito Kidd leisurely landing on the attic behind him, with a crescent moon behind him highlighting his slender figure.

Exactly the same as the photos occasionally captured in newspapers, the pure white suit was doubly conspicuous in the night, and the fearless smile was revealed under the top hat.

Not only that, Qin Zhibo also saw lines of personal information floating above his head.

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Name: Kuroba Kaito

Sex: Male

Age: 17

Main occupation: Thief