[Comprehensive] Phantom Thief · Phantom Thief

What Loki's divination brought to Kaito was not a shortcut hint to the success of the operation—of course, as a qualified phantom thief with excellent skills who hadn't even used his most important special hole card once since his debut, Kuaito Dou also doesn't need such a prompt.

In fact, what he sensed from Loki's divination was another kind of hint, about a certain character... who was almost thrown into the deep sea of ​​memory by him, and might be completely forgotten if he didn't appear again—the legend Among (?) Kaitou Kidd's real rivals, the high school boy detective who returned from England, White Horse Detective!

—Wait, what's with that weird sense of rhyme in the last two lines?

The corners of his lips twitched and twitched silently. Kaito made the final adjustments to his appearance in the mirror, and at the same time adjusted the temperature of the air conditioner attached to the car by two degrees to ensure that a certain police officer who he "borrowed" In uniform, the little policeman who can only wear undergarments and sleep under the effect of hypnotic gas will not be so cold and sick on such a snowy night.

—Speaking of which, the recent weather in Tokyo... is really weird.

The afternoon is still as warm and bright as early spring, but at night, without warning, small snowflakes suddenly fluttered.

Kaito intuited that there seemed to be something wrong with this, but what exactly was wrong... He really didn't have a clue.

Perhaps, since he met a detective in the first grade of Wannian Elementary School, time has become completely chaotic and distorted, right?

Shaking his head, trying to get such unscientific thoughts out of his mind, Kaito stretched out his hand and patted the side of his face a few times, reminding himself - it's time to work!

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Western art exhibition hall, at night, at 21:[-].

Kaito successfully invaded the exhibition hall through the ventilation hole on the first floor.

After carefully paying attention to the police force arrangement near the hall, Kaito found a blind spot where the monitors and human monitors shared, and jumped from the ceiling to the ground.

"Tsk tsk...it's really a sea of ​​people."

Recalling the group of police officers he saw in the exhibition hall on the first floor where his target for tonight—the famous painting "Adam's Smile" by Picasso was placed, Kaito turned away. Cursing his lips, he silently made a big grimace in his heart at a police officer surnamed Nakamori who made this arrangement—the intelligence and skills never improved, and the number of people who could be mobilized to ambush and hunt him was increasing every time, Mr. Police Department, You... your true abilities are limited...

While pretending to shed tears of sympathy for a certain police officer, Kaito walked out of the hiding corner in a very natural manner, and successfully sneaked into a team waiting for him without being noticed by anyone. In front of the exhibition hall, among the police officers queuing up to enter.

Kaito's actions were so cautious that he did not attract any attention from the Nakamori Police Department.

But this is actually not a big deal for Kaito, because in most of the past, unless there is a very special accident-such as encountering another colleague or even more unlucky, encountering a certain Wannian puppet Detective Zhengtai—otherwise his actions would not be seen through by the Nakamori Police Department, and the results of his actions are often easily obtained without a doubt. This made Kaito often feel that his actions were a little bit Lack of necessary thrills.

——Although police department Nakamori would definitely make him jump to his feet if such thoughts were found out, but unfortunately, this is Kaito's true thoughts.

So this time, under the reminder of Loki, he realized the arrival of Detective White Horse. To be honest, Kaito actually expected more than he resisted—although a strong opponent would make it more difficult for him to complete the task, and might even threaten his final action. But in the same way, Kaito can also enjoy the sense of tension and the sense of being chased and compelled by the Nakamori Police Department and others from such a duel...

——For a phantom thief who pursues exactly this sense of tension and being pressed, what could be more exciting than this?

There was an interesting smile on the corner of his mouth, and Kaito subconsciously reached out to touch the police manual that was lying obediently in his pocket at the moment——

It's fine if he didn't think about it before, when he recalled the character of Detective White Horse from Loki's divination, all the plots related to him flooded into his mind at the same time.

Including the first appearance of Detective White Horse, including every "confrontation" between him and Kaito after that...

Although I can't say that I recalled all the details, but in the first confrontation between the two, Kidd accidentally left the police handbook belonging to a police officer he was pretending to be on the snow in front of the exhibition hall. Among them, Kaito still has a deep memory of the plot where Detective Baima caught a flaw because of this—after all, it was the first time Kidd made such a low-level mistake.

Kaito thought, maybe it was because Kidd had just become a phantom thief at that time, and he was not careful and mature enough, so this kind of carelessness appeared, right?

But now it was him, Kaito would not allow himself to make such a mistake.

Early on, he cleaned up all the traces that might have exposed him in advance, and even a certain little police officer who was left in the police car and was sleeping soundly under the effect of hypnotic gas was temporarily suppressed by Kaito with a special magic method. Hiding his figure, to ensure that even if Detective Baima went to check the car window now, he would never find anything unusual, Kaito curled his lips, and followed a group of criminal police standing in front of him, at the gate Before closing, I entered the huge exhibition hall where the famous painting "Adam's Smile" was stored, and at the same time, there were densely packed guards in every corner.

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Kaito has successfully sneaked into the exhibition hall, now let's turn the camera around and focus on a certain young detective who is outside the exhibition hall at this time.

Wearing a stylish and conspicuous old-fashioned British detective outfit, the brim of the hat was deliberately pulled down, and the hem of the yellow-brown clothes was rattling by the night wind...

The young detective who is looking down at something on the front steps of the museum has a tall and tall figure. If you ignore the Japanese police officers who are standing guard on the periphery of the exhibition hall with their hands behind their backs, and add an old-fashioned pipe in the boy's hand... from the back From the looks of it, the boy probably looks more like a famous English detective, right?

Maintaining the posture of lowering his head and carefully observing the ground, he took another two steps forward. As if he had suddenly noticed something, he suddenly raised his eyes and looked into the sky——

At the end of his line of sight, a majestic dark brown falcon was gliding towards it, and it seemed that in the blink of an eye, it landed firmly on the forearm that the boy had already raised...

"Watson..." Stretched out the other free hand to gently touch the soft wing feathers of his beloved pet. The young man named White Horse Tan frowned, with a face that could be called quite handsome. On, at this moment, I actually brought a bit of dignified and bewildered...

"According to my reasoning, Kidd should obviously find an opportunity to hypnotize the guards outside the venue, and then take the opportunity to sneak into the exhibition hall. But now..."

——He checked the perimeter of the entire exhibition hall back and forth no less than three times, but he didn't find any problems with the guards at any post.

The White Horse Detective also went to check the police cars parked in front of the museum before this, but because it was not clear which car would be guarded and which car was arranged in front of the museum to follow and chase Kidd at any time, so once he was caught by the police If you have been fooled by Dou's magic tricks, and you can't find something wrong with the police officers in the car...

Even if he is confident and powerful like a white horse detective, he will definitely not be able to find a clue at this time.

"I thought it was just exaggerated by the media, or that the Japanese police were too useless. I didn't expect..."——I didn't expect that Mr. Phantom Thief seemed to be more capable and resourceful than he imagined...

"That's good. At least... the next few days in Japan won't be as boring as I thought before, right? Watson?"

Raising his hand and letting go of his beloved pet, Baima Tan turned around with an interested smile on his face, and walked quickly back to the exhibition hall.

And at the same time-

It's exactly ten o'clock.

When the footsteps of the second hand passed the last scale, accompanied by a loud "bang", under the eyes of everyone, a thick pink mist suddenly rose around "Adam's Smile", which was hung in the most prominent position in the hall !

When the fog cleared, what appeared in the eyes of Nakamori Police Department and others was a completely blank picture frame, and in the middle of the frame, the famous painting that had disappeared and replaced it with a piece of writing that said "The painting has been acquired, Phantom Thief Kidd" Blank paper for message...

"Kidd, the bastard... Chase! Chase! He should still be around!"

Roaring loudly, a middle-aged police officer turned around and rushed out of the exhibition hall first.

Seeing this, the rest of the policemen couldn't help scrambling to follow behind him, and it wasn't until the figure of the last policeman disappeared behind the door that Kaito emerged from the stone pillar hiding beside him and walked away. Go forward and take down the picture frame hanging on the wall.

—In fact, he didn't take "Adam's Smile".

Taking advantage of the cover of the fog to remove the white paper with the message written on the screen, Kaito immediately presented a strange painting with strong personal characteristics.

"Sure enough, it is the work of that master, this style..." Kaito sighed, and was about to put the painting in his pocket...

"Something isn't where it should be, and people subconsciously create the illusion that it's gone..."

A clear voice suddenly sounded from behind, Kaito stuffed the rolled up painting into his arms, turned around, raised his eyebrows and looked at the young detective who appeared behind him at some point...

"This magic technique of visual illusion... Kaitou Kidd, I have to say, you let me down."

Slowly approaching from the shadows where he was hiding, the brown-haired young detective shook his head and sighed.

In the eyes of Kaito, a really cool and calm phantom thief and magician, that self-respected chic and calm posture, for some reason, suddenly gave him a strange feeling of "this kid is quite cute". feel……

"I'm really sorry, cute boy detective."

Saying that without sincerity, Kaito dodged and jumped onto the second-floor porch.

"However, I had a good time tonight." So your mood—whether you are disappointed or looking forward to it, I will not be responsible for all of it, okay?

With such a bright expression written on his face, Kaito was about to jump out of the window...

"Why do you want to steal something?" An eager voice of questioning quickly came from behind.

"Why...do this kind of thing?"—appeared!The classic lines of White Horse Detective.

It is said that he will ask this question to every murderer he finds out through reasoning.

Kaito suddenly laughed.

"Ask me why?" Kaito laughed wildly as he pulled the hang glider button behind him, "Hakuma-kun, you...haven't caught me yet!"

——So, you are not qualified to get an answer from me!

With a sudden leap, Kaito glides far into the sky amidst the sudden wind.

"Mr. Phantom Thief..." Bai Matan, who had already rushed to the window, whispered, and raised his eyes to look at the white figure that looked more and more erratic against the background of the moonlight and falling snow: "Tonight... the wind is too strong, Not suitable for flying at night..."

Before the words were finished, a strong wind hit, and the figure that had already gone away was swept away by the wind. Not only did it retreat a little, it even...was a little shaky.

but……

If Detective Hakuba thinks he can trap Kaito in this way...

"That's too naive."

As a qualified phantom thief who regards the hang glider as the most important escape tool, how could Kaito not consider the wind force and direction?

"Just right, let's try the new thing that Grandpa Terai asked to make."

Thinking of this, Kaito was about to press a certain button on his waist...

"Oh? Look what I caught? A naughty... kitten?"

——Accompanied by a low chuckle, Kaito was suddenly taken into an unfamiliar warm embrace...