invisible signal

For the children at that time, it was simply a proof of identity for the second time.Whether it is (in their opinion) powerful functions or handsome and simple appearance, it is enough for them to carry it with them at all times to show off to their friends.

【Talk ten】

Because that memory was too secondary, Kudo Shinichi directly and selectively deleted it from his hard drive.

While he was piecing together memories from the pitifully few memory fragments, the Kaitou waited patiently at the other end of the communication.

To be honest, Kaitou felt a little regretful, after all, his quick talk might lead to his identity being exposed.If he can get through this crisis safely, the rest of his life will probably not be as simple as being in prison.

Of course, if you can't get out of this no-man's land, you don't have to worry about the rest of your life.

"Wait, wait," Kudo finally responded, "Since you are holding that badge...you were also a member of the regiment before?"

"The head of the group is really out of touch." Even with a fever, the speed of the strange thief's rebuttal did not slow down.

"If I remember correctly..." Kudo remembered the pile of badges he had buried in the iron box of the time capsule. "After the detective team was disbanded, all the badges were taken back by me. Why do you still have them?"

"...You just don't remember anything at all." The strange thief curled his lips angrily. "You don't even know who I am."

Kudo had never doubted himself as much as now.

In his memory, there seemed to be such a little boy with black hair in his team.

"Sorry," Kudo really didn't know how to continue, "I... can't remember your name."

【No call】

Speaking of the detective team, more than half of the members of the team are making trouble during the "task".After all, they are seven-year-old children, and their concentration and patience are at a time when their energy bar is extremely low. To let them stay silently in the same place for several hours is simply worse than asking Shinichi Kudo to sing a complete song Still difficult.

The latter are at least of inferior quality.

For example, in a spot investigation operation, Kudo, as the team leader, arranged a monitoring point for each team member, requiring them to report the situation at their location every 5 minutes, while he himself stayed at a distance. Surveillance points are relatively close to the intersection waiting for an opportunity.However, at the beginning, the group members were indeed reporting the situation seriously, but soon the so-called reports became spam.

"Report, my legs are sore."

"Report, I want to go home..."

"Report……"

"Report……"

Gradually, the content of all the reports tended to be consistent, and the voices of other members could even be heard in the communication.

These guys... Kudo, who was still a child, sighed sincerely and seriously.

Surprisingly, they were monitored together, and it wasn't a group activity... He left the intersection where he was and was going to find the group of brats, but was interrupted by a clear voice.

"Report! Target found!"

It turned out that someone was still watching carefully.Picking the corner of his mouth in relief, he brought the badge to his mouth.

"How is the movement of the target?"

"Report! Tracking!"

Don't stalk without permission, hey!Otherwise, what's the point of team surveillance? !

Dripping cold sweat and leaving his position immediately, Shinichi Kudo shouted to the badge angrily: "Stay where you are! Which one is your monitoring point?"

no respond.

"Damn it..." He took out the tracking glasses from his pocket and was about to check the location. In an instant, the screen was filled with dense positioning points, so scared that Kudo almost sat down on the ground.

Not far away, a group of talking and laughing children were moving collectively.

Ah yes, this group of guys has started "teaming".

Ignoring the greetings from the small group members, he continued to run in the direction of the anchor point that was independent of the large group.At this time, the communication was connected again in due course.

"Report! Has sneaked into the target's home!"

What? !

This action is a bit unexpected...

【Call Eleven】

"It's fine if you don't remember." The strange thief let out a long sigh of relief, "If you find out your identity, I really can't bear to walk around..." Before he finished speaking, the detective couldn't stop laughing interrupted.

"You...what are you laughing at?" The strange thief felt guilty.Could it be... exposed?

"Pfft ha ha ha... Sorry," Kudo stopped laughing, "I just sighed, so my former friend was a phantom thief," sighed with emotion, and looked at the somewhat worn badge in his hand, "It's amazing... ..."

"It's not magical at all," the strange thief dismissed it, "There are no normal people around you, detective."

"... also." After carefully thinking about the people he knew, Kudo found that he couldn't find any rebuttals at all.

"It should be said that you attracted a bunch of monsters by your side just because you like to find excitement, detective..."

"That's right, you're a monster." Recalling the communication in his childhood, Kudo couldn't help being amazed, "It's just a surveillance, but you actually managed to invade a house, you deserve to be a monster..."

"It's not normal for you to suspect ordinary people casually and gather a group of children to stalk you."

Choked by the other party's words again, Kudo was in a good mood for no reason.

Although the previous conversations were really like children arguing.

"By the way, you haven't answered my question yet." Kudo suddenly remembered the original intention of his topic, "Why do you still hold this badge after the detective team disbanded?"

"Ahem...what?"

"As I said before, after the detective team disbanded, all the badges were taken back by me." Kudo looked at the rusty box on the desk, "How do you explain the one in your hand?"

"Disbanded... when did you disband?"

"……You do not know?"

"Forgive me, I didn't listen before..." The tone of the strange thief was obviously hiding something.

Kudo found that the complexity of things might be deeper than he imagined.

【No call】

When a blind cat meets a dead mouse, it inadvertently inserts willows and willows into shadows.

The topic that Kudo Shinichi chose to avoid setting information directly cuts to the point.

The young Kudo finally decided to disband the detective team, not on a whim.Detective, as the family business of the Kudo family, seems to have an innate physique of death.Therefore, in the few opportunities to attend social places with his parents, at the age of seven, he has already witnessed many crime scenes with his own eyes.

Here we have to lament the strength of the Kudo family's psychological quality.Not only did he not have a psychological shadow on the blood and cruelty at the crime scene, but what remained in Kudo's memory was his father's calm investigation at the scene and finally correctly identified the murderer.

This is the real detective.Compared with this, his own detective team is too childish.

Instead of playing detective games for self-entertainment, it is better to practice hard and move towards the direction of a real detective.

Kudo Shinichi secondary disease graduation age: seven years old.That's not really the right thing to say.

The highest state of secondary school is probably to make the ideal a reality.

Far away.All in all, due to the drama of reality, Kudo Shinichi disbanded the boy detective team.On one afternoon that wasn't special to him, he called the regiment together and took back what he thought were all badges.

In order to motivate himself to move towards the goal of being a detective, he imitated his peers and found a metal box, put all the badges including tracking glasses in it, and buried it near a shrine as a time capsule.

When he dug out the iron box again, he was a high school detective.This is something.

But all of this, Kuroba Kaito didn't know.After all, such a trivial matter as the disbandment of a youth organization will not be reported in the newspapers.

And that day, the newspaper headlines were all about something else.

Big mistake.

The scene is chaotic.

The star falls.

...killing magic.

No one knows why, and the magician's family didn't show much sentimentality.The magician's wife is a wise woman who knows how to express her grief gracefully to the outside world.But the magician's legacy... was just a seven-year-old child.

At the funeral, everyone felt sorry for the boy who was so well-behaved and silent.

Even crying loudly is more conducive to venting your emotions than being silent.

A long time later, when Kaito Kuroba himself realized the alienation from the outside world, some distances reached the point where they could not be overcome.

Except for Qingzi who treats him like a family member, the friends who usually play together have automatically alienated him.

And when he picked up the badge again, there was no sound from the other end of the communication.

Are you even going to abandon me?

【Call Twelve】

Of course, Kudo Shinichi is not obliged to explain to the strange thief why he disbanded the detective team, and the strange thief is not obliged to explain to the detective what happened to him at that time.

This topic is gone.

Both felt a little embarrassed.

"Well, ahem..." In the end, it was the Phantom Thief who broke the deadlock involuntarily. "Are you satisfied, Detective?"

"Are we discussing the next plan, or talking about something else?"

"Tell me about your next plan."

When he spoke, Kudo hesitated. "Your body..."

"I have nothing else to do anyway."

"When you can act..." Kudo sorted out the limited information he had obtained so far in his mind, "Just as you said before, first figure out what's going on with that artificial light."

"The results may not come until night." Looking up at the still bright sky, the strange thief's tone was not optimistic. "But it's weird..."

"Any questions?"

"I don't think this place... is a no-man's land."