Conan Moslin

On the day of the performance, at the Mihua Theater, outside the theater, dark clouds covered the sky, making it a bit hard to breathe. Even so, the theater was almost full.

The performance of the magician Toichi Kuroba's daughter was very much anticipated. People who had seen Toichi Kuroba's performance would want to find the shadow of Toichi Kuroba in her. So many people came on this day.

This also includes the children that Kuroba Kuriyasu donated the tickets to, and -

"Xiaolan! Hurry up! Let me see if there is a prince charming who belongs to me here today——"

"Sonoko! You're always like this!"

"Hey, your boyfriend, Kudo Shinichi, why hasn't he come yet?" Suzuki Sonoko asked mischievously.

Mao Lilan blushed immediately: "How could that be? He is not..."

"Hey, why are you being so modest?"

Mao Lilan turned her slightly blushing face away, only to see a familiar-looking person walking straight behind the scenes.

"new--"

No, that's not right, this is not Kudo Shinichi.

How could there be people in the world who look so alike?

Who is he?

"Ah! So cold!" A bottle of Coke was pressed against Mao Lilan's face.

She came to her senses.

……

Kuroba Kaito walked straight behind the scenes. It had been a long time since he had been to the backstage of [Bu Ye Hou].

Just now when he was walking on the road, he caught a glimpse of a girl who looked very similar to Aoko.

Although curious, Kuroba Kaito did not stop.

Li An, wearing a burgundy suit and a bow tie, was walking out from behind the scenes.

Kaito just opened his mouth: "Sister——"

Kuroba Kurian just smiled at him and passed by Kaito without any pause.

“!? ” Sister, you don’t want your brother anymore?

……

In this magical world, in addition to magicians and illusionists, there is another profession, detective. In particular, in various places, there are some high school detectives who have a great aura and solve many cases, which makes the police praise them.

Li An once asked [Ming] to collect information about a lot of high school detectives. In addition to the most familiar ones, there are many other high school detectives working hard in various places. Some are unknown, and some are famous.

Maybe, I’ll meet a few of them in the future?

So why should high school students be made to endure so much?

Kuroba Kurian received a message from Queshe in the audience that the person she wanted to meet had arrived.

Of course it wasn’t Kuroba Kaito, but the detective who had recently become famous in the Tokyo area - Kudo Shinichi.

This was probably her second time meeting them.

So Li An came out from the backstage, ignoring his brother, and walked towards Queshe without haste.

"Xiaochun, long time no see, how are you doing recently?"

"Sister Li An, I'm fine. I went back to the island for a short vacation and secretly visited my parents' graves. I saw a new doctor there recently, and I thought she looked familiar." Queshe replied.

Queshe, who can also be called Xiaochun, is sixteen years old this year and a first-year student at Teitan High School. She is the child that Soramu Kaoru brought back twelve years ago. She wears a high ponytail, but she doesn't look feminine at all. Instead, at first glance, she looks more like a sunny boy with artistic talent.

"That person..." Kuroba Kurian remembered something and said, "Yuko and I will go and see him after a while."

"Thank you, Sister Li An."

In addition to simple greetings, there are also some code words to communicate other recent events.

When Sonoko saw Kuroba Kuriyasu and the people around her, she excitedly said to Xiaolan, "Ahhh, it's Kuroba Kuriyasu, the chief magician of Buyehou! The handsome guy next to her! Xiaolan, did you see him?"

Her voice was a little loud, and several people in front turned their heads to look at her.

Xiaolan thought that Kuroba Kurian looked familiar, but she couldn't remember when she had seen him before. Just as she was about to speak, Kudo Shinichi interrupted her: "Hey, look carefully, that person doesn't have a noticeable Adam's apple, she's a girl. And haven't you seen her before? She seems to be from our school? She should be very famous in the first grade, her name is..."

"Ha...haha...really?" Yuanzi smiled awkwardly, "Why are you so familiar with this person?" She looked at the two people again, but saw Li An turned his head, looked at them for a while, said a few words to that person, and walked towards them.

Kuroba Kurian greeted them with a smile, "Long time no see, Ms. Maori, Mr. Kudo, and this lady."

Kudo Shinichi realized that they seemed to have met at a Broadway show in New York a year ago. That day...

At that time, she was with Sharon Wynyard, who was from the same school as her mother, and she and his mother were of the same generation!

Kudo Shinji had nothing to live for, but he still greeted Kurian politely.

"Let each of them discuss their own affairs." Li An suggested. She didn't want to be an elder, and she wasn't an elder either. Her brother was the same age as them.

The show officially began at three o'clock in the afternoon. The rain had been drizzling for a long time and might continue.

"Xiao Lan, why didn't you tell me that you had met Miss Li An?"

"Ah... I can't remember clearly. I should have seen it before..." Xiaolan still couldn't remember. She was a little distressed. Why couldn't she remember?

It seems...it's an illness...and an incident.

“The show has begun!”

"What, these magic tricks..." Kudo Shinichi was in low spirits. He didn't want to come here. After all, magic tricks are all performed through visual deception, and it's easy to find flaws and performance methods. But Dr. Agasa gave him tickets, and Ran wanted to come and see it, so he had no choice but to accompany them.

"Ms. Li An is on stage."

Kuroba Kurian came on stage with a smile on her face. She was so calm and natural. She was so dazzling on the stage and attracted everyone's attention. She played a deck of cards smoothly and skillfully. There were also the floating magic and pigeon magic that Kuroba Touichi was once famous for, which were both amazing. However, in this performance, she was the protagonist, but not the protagonist. When Kuroba Kurian stepped down to prepare for the last large-scale finale magic, she had about 30 minutes to prepare.

During this period, Yuko Sora and several other magicians will walk off the stage to interact with the audience and teach the children some simple magic tricks.

Kudo Shinichi didn't really watch the magic show. He focused his attention on the people in the front seats, which were still empty. In a packed house, it seemed a little unusual to have such an empty seat.

"Is Sugiura not here yet?"

"No. Yesterday, I noticed that he was not in a very good mood. He might not want to go out."

"It's almost five o'clock. Let's contact him. We have to let him catch the last magic show."

There were three people, two women and one man, sitting there, watching the performance very seriously. They whispered to each other from time to time, and sometimes looked at the empty seat with worried eyes. During the performance, when Kuroba Kurian was leaving the stage to prepare and the others were scattered in the audience, the three of them left their seats for a while, and Sonoko complained that they always blocked her view of the handsome guy.

……

In the audience, Nakamori Aoko watched the performance seriously with envy. Kuroba Kaito was a little angry since Kurian ignored him. He walked around the backstage, and when he found that he could not do anything, he returned to the stage to watch the performance. When it was Kuroba Kurian's turn, he pouted again and again, but his eyes were still fixed on his sister.

When he grows up, he will surely become such an excellent magician. She and her father are still far from that.

No, no, no, he is an excellent magician now. The only one who can surpass him is his father, not his sister!

By the way, why is my sister so free after entering university, touring all over the world, and the teachers don’t care?

"Sister Li An is the best!" The girl next to him cheered and applauded and hugged his arms.

Kuroba Kaito was shaken back and forth, and thought dazedly, well, this is pretty good.

(Kuriyasu and Yuko took a year and a half off from school to attend performances and “experience life”. So she had a very long vacation.)