Conan Moslin

"Team B, Team D, if you hear me, please answer!"

"Team B, Team D?! Please answer when I hear you!!"

"Damn it! We can't get in touch with him since just now!" Officer Nakamori threw the walkie-talkie on the car seat and asked the officer in the driver's seat through the gap in the front driver's seat, "How long will it take us to get back?!"

The police officer who was driving glanced at the flashing red and blue police lights in the rearview mirror, and drove smoothly across the Tsutsu River Bridge, his palms sweating a little: "We are almost there..."

"Li An" and Conan sat in one of the police cars following behind, and just followed obediently to the location of the real dark night stars.

"Sister Li An... why don't we go home?" Conan looked at the police officer in the front row and asked her in a low voice.

This is to ask him why he wants to go looking for the dark night stars?

"Li An" glanced at him and gave a high-sounding explanation: "Of course it's to help Uncle Nakamori protect the dark night stars."

Conan: ...

A thief told him that he was going to protect the dark stars?

You seem to be teasing me.

The guy who just leaned over to him on the roof and said, "Don't you want to come with me to see what's going on over there?" was a fake, right?

Oh, by the way, she was originally the fake Li An.

Of course, Kidd would never let the real Dark Night Star be stolen.

He would return all the gems he stole, but if someone else stole them in his name...

Then the reputation of Kaito Kidd that he and his father had worked so hard to build up would be completely ruined.

He still has to continue to cause trouble for those people and solve the historical problems left over from the previous generation. He cannot fail here.

Just as Conan was about to continue asking, Dr. Agasa called.

"Shinichi, from your father's case files... Phantom Thief No. 1412..."

After listening to his words, Conan's knowledge of Kaito Kidd was enriched immediately.

He looked at the person sitting next to him with a strange look.

A thief who just steals gems for fun but doesn't take them?

Not long after I hung up the phone, the car stopped.

The two men got out of the car and rushed in aggressively with a group of police officers.

He and Kidd were left behind.

At this time, Kidd suddenly asked a question that came out of nowhere: "Little guy, do you remember what day it is today?"

Conan blinked, not reacting: "What?"

Kidd chuckled.

……

Just as Li An initially judged, the real Dark Night Stars is not in the Rice Flower Museum, nor in the Beihu Hotel or the Rice Flower Guild Hall.

It is hidden in a small single-family villa across the Tsutsu River.

Naturally, it is the Suzuki family’s land and house.

After coaxing Officer Nakamori away in the name of his superior, Kuriyasu has been staying nearby, calling himself a "guard."

To be precise, it’s not “she” but “he”.

He followed the local customs and wore the uniform white shirt, black tie and blue police uniform, with a baton on his waist. Only his young and somewhat shy face made him look even more harmless.

As a police officer on "shift change", it seemed against the rules for Hou Lian to be ordered to replace Nakamori and guard here.

Officer Nakamori felt a little strange when he was called out.

He had indeed never seen this guy before, and he didn't trust him very much, but with Officer Chamu's order...

Li An watched Officer Nakamori leave, looking back every few steps, and then slowly walked into the courtyard of the villa.

She looked around, memorized the terrain in her mind, then went around to the back door of the villa and went up to the second floor.

She stood in front of the window, looking towards the courtyard——

……

The villa has a golden-red background, with large patches of wallpaper with light patterns, and the floor is covered with brown fine-grained wooden floors.

Entering the lobby of the gate, there are two huge floor-to-ceiling windows on both sides of the upward curved staircases. Going up the stairs, you can see the scenery inside the villa.

If you call it scenery, it's just a few newly sprouted trees and half-human-high shrubs surrounding a few winding gravel paths.

After all, it is a small villa, so exquisiteness is the key to beauty.

At this time, the curtains of the floor-to-ceiling windows were drawn, and some light came through the gaps at the bottom of the curtains.

Pushing open the door of the front hall is the living room, which has been cleaned inside, leaving only a layer of carpet.

In the center of the living room, there was a display stand for the collection of dark night stars, surrounded by several police officers.

From the very beginning, Officer Nakamori had been pondering over a piece of code paper, and finally he came up with something.

Not long after, he received a phone call and left.

Sen Zhong had just been called out and hadn't come back yet.

Some people speculated that he was trying to catch Kaito Kidd, while others thought that he was the one who cracked the code.

All in all, everyone had almost the same idea - Officer Nakamori, let's go catch Kaito Kid!

The police officers in the villa did not see Officer Nakamori come back, so they continued to stay where they were, doing their duty faithfully.

Even if Kaito Kid's target is the fake one from the Beika Museum, maybe?

Maybe he'll come over?

This may soon come true.

Click.

The lights in the villa flickered, and then it was pitch black.

power cut.

"Hurry! Protect the dark night stars!" one of the team leaders shouted.

"Guard the door! Don't let anyone in!"

"Yes!"

Boom! Crash—

That was the sound of breaking glass.

An officer looked in the direction of the sound and saw something thrown in through the broken window.

The moonlight shining through the window shone on it, casting its dark, round shadow.

It rolled a few times, then cracked.

Smoke rose and spread in the air.

By the time the police officer realized something was wrong, it was too late.

"Oh no! Cover your mouth and nose! That's..."

"Hypnotic...bullet..."

The lights came on and the unconscious police officer was lying on the ground.

……

When Officer Nakamori came in with a group of officers, he saw——

The villa was in a mess.

The glass of the booth in the living room disappeared, and there was nothing on the cushions.

The curtains of the floor-to-ceiling windows were drawn open, and broken pieces of glass were scattered on the ground. It was unclear whether they were from the windows or the glass of the exhibition stand.

A black pearl rolled to the ground. It was not embedded in the silver jewelry. It was cracked in the center and seemed to be broken.

A group of police officers were lying all around, sleeping soundly.

If you count carefully, there are fifteen in total.

"Dark...dark night stars..." Officer Nakamori covered his chest, feeling that something big had happened.

Rather than being stolen, the fact that this pearl, which symbolized the good fortune of the Suzuki Group, was damaged under his care was something he could not bear.

There was dead silence.

"Kuroba Kuriyasu" frowned, pushed through the crowd, helped Officer Nakamori up, handed it to the officer behind him, then took out a handkerchief from his pocket, picked up the black pearl and examined it carefully.

Conan didn't follow her, but stretched his neck to see what was going on.

Everywhere you look, you see blue police trousers and the hems of their uniforms.

Conan: ...

The pearl felt a little light when he held it in his hand, which made "Li An" feel that things might not be so bad.

The black pearl is hollow inside and seems to have a faint residual apple flavor.

That's the smell of hypnotic gas.

"Li An"'s expression relaxed a little, but his heart sank.

She said to Officer Nakamori, who looked as if struck by lightning, "Uncle Nakamori, don't worry."

"This pearl is fake."