Conan Moslin

"Sister Li An! You are here too..."

Before Conan's surprise could reach Li An, someone else came up to the booth and raised the microphone to speak to everyone.

This is a middle-aged man with a square face and a mustache. He is wearing a dark brown suit, his brows are furrowed, and his eyes are serious and sharp.

"I'm Officer Chaki from the National Police Agency..."

"The damned criminal in the legend has sneaked in..."

"..."

"The police suspect that this guy may have already infiltrated your group and passed himself off as a real person."

"…In order not to spoil everyone's fun, we will not conduct a one-by-one inspection."

"But everyone can use a secret code. Each of you can form a group with the people around you and decide on a secret code that only the two of you know."

Kogoro Mori suddenly realized and pounded his hands in admiration, and then the people around him began to form groups of two to give secret signals.

Li An watched the person on the stage put down the microphone and recalled the message he had sent to the villa using his identity last time.

Officer Chaki was extremely angry about the fact that "Kaito Kid" was impersonating him, so he took action personally this time and was determined to catch Kaito Kid.

This is probably Kuriyasu's behavior, Kaito will pay for it.

But with how confident he is, he won't be afraid no matter how many people come, right?

Mao Lilan looked around and didn't see any other familiar faces, so she proposed an idea: "Sister Li An, how about the three of us come up with a secret code together? After all, Conan can't be impersonated."

Li An nodded without thinking and agreed: "You think of one."

She was too lazy to use her brain.

Mao Lilan lowered her head and thought for a while. She didn't know what she thought of, but she suddenly laughed and said, "Simplifying it might work wonders. How about thinking of a color?"

"How about this?" She was wearing a red dress and leaned over slightly to look at Conan. Her eyes revealed a bit of seriousness. "Conan, do you like red or blue?"

Conan's heart suddenly skipped a beat.

Her eyes were so strange, as if she was asking Kudo Shinichi through him.

"Conan?"

"Red... red, right?"

"Red..." Mao Lilan smiled brightly, "I knew you like red!"

That’s because you like red the best... Conan thought so but didn’t say it out loud.

She smiled as she looked at Conan's blue suit, his red bow tie, and the pair of plain glasses he almost never took off, and finally said, "Then my code is blue."

Watching the two people interacting, Li An inexplicably felt that something was wrong.

"…Then I'll choose white."

Li An quietly interrupted the strange atmosphere between the two people, feeling as if he was going to be struck by lightning.

Mao Lilan nodded and was about to say something when the lights around her suddenly went dark.

Li An casually pushed away the jewelry boxes piled on the table, and a rustling sound rang out in the banquet hall, followed by buzzing whispers around him.

"What happened?"

"What happened?"

"Could it be a Phantom Thief..."

"It must be him!"

"he came!"

Drowning the whispers of the crowd was a long laugh that was extremely inconsistent with Kaito Kid's personality.

"Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha--"

"What's going on! Please answer the generator room!" Officer Chamu in the meeting room grabbed the intercom and asked immediately.

An explanation came from the intercom: "Officer Chaki, this is——"

Before he could finish, black smoke rose from the corner of the dimly lit cabin banquet hall, followed by a beam of strong light piercing towards the corner of the wall.

Officer Nakamori turned his head in shock and saw where the lights were gathered. Several white doves were flying up around him in the smoke.

Kaito Kid, dressed in a familiar white suit, stood on the decorative bar in the corner of the cabin.

He lowered the brim of his hat and chuckled, "It's useless even if you use a secret code."

"what?"

The person in front of me showed a smug smile.

"Of course it's because I got the Dark Night Star a long time ago!"

He threw the shining pearl in his hand casually, not caring at all that the treasure might fall to the ground if he accidentally touched it.

"you!"

"How is this possible!"

Suzuki Tomoko stood beside her daughter, who was full of admiration, and looked calm and composed: "This thief... is really a headache."

A clear and gentle female voice suddenly rang out from the crowd.

"Indeed."

As if in a stage play, Kuroba Kuriyasu laughed loudly and said, "Long time no see, Mr. Kaito."

She smiled, but her tone was teasing: "You can't fool me, what you have in your hand is not the real thing."

Mr. Kaito calmly put away the pearls: "Ma'am, you can't fool me."

"Isn't the one you have a fake too?"

As if he had noticed the flaw in his language, he smiled to cover it up: "I should leave now, dear lady."

He pulled his cloak and was about to leave, but was immediately interrupted by Li An's voice.

"How about we play a game?"

"Oh? I want to see what the lady thinks?"

All the light was focused on Kidd. No one could see Li An's expression in the darkness. All they could hear was her still gentle and calm voice echoing throughout the venue.

"Mrs. Tomoko gave me the real Dark Night Star—"

Li An flicked the wine glass in his hand, and a cluster of fireworks suddenly appeared in the glass, diverting some of the crowd's attention away from the thief.

The firelight illuminated Li An's face and also lit up the light in her eyes.

"Just to lure you out..."

She leaned forward slightly and poured the wine in the glass into the shallow plate in the center of the banquet table beside her. As soon as the wine entered the plate, flames of the same color jumped up.

Li An's smile remained unchanged. She put down her wine glass and opened the jewelry box closest to her.

There is also a dimly lit "dark night star" inside.

At this moment, she was wearing another one on her chest.

Since the first one is fake...then the second one...

If it is hidden in many jewelry boxes but not worn, it must be real.

The people around thought silently, and then their expressions became complicated.

How dare she use such a precious pearl to lure out the Phantom Thief!

Mrs. Suzuki actually agreed!

Li An carefully placed the jewelry box on the table. The moment he let go of it, the flames in the center of the banquet table formed an arc that quickly covered all the jewelry boxes on the table.

Even though he knew that no one could bring dangerous objects in, the "master" of the Dark Night Star at this time would never dare to damage the pearl, and people near the flames involuntarily stepped back.

Those who brought jewelry boxes also placed the boxes on the banquet tables in various places, for fear that there might be some fire mechanism on the boxes that would cause them to suffer unexpected disasters.

For a moment, almost everyone was empty-handed.

The thief's expression changed unconsciously, as if he still didn't quite believe that the real Dark Night Star would be in her hands.

"The real Dark Night Star is on the table." Li An's eyes were fixed on the Phantom Thief, as if he was trying to identify his identity.

"If you want to take it, come here and choose!"