[Comprehensive] Phantom Thief · Phantom Thief

How did Kaito recognize Kindaichi at a glance?

Really kneel down!

Putting braids aside, who else besides Kindaichi would have braids and a pair of such a mighty personality that is as iconic as the thick, eyebrows, and hair of Nohara's eldest son, Shinnosuke?Who else? !

So it's a bit too difficult for Kaito not to recognize him at a glance, okay?

Covering his face silently, without any precautions, he suddenly encountered a magician boy who was an unexpected murderous god. At this moment, he really wanted to cry up to the sky (or... roar?)——

This world...do you dare to be more cheating?dare!No!dare!

However, whether it's Kaito's own rationality and restraint, or the bursts of warmth from Loki, who has already appeared at the side, reaching out at the right time and firmly holding Kaito's palm, it is extremely reassuring. The temperature of the ironing made all kinds of impulses in Kaito's heart quickly calmed down, and he didn't show the slightest on his face.

"What's the matter? Do you know that person?" Of course Loki found out what made Kaito react so abnormally, but originally, he didn't intend to ask about it—after all, from Loki's point of view, it was Kaito's own matter.

He has no memory now. Although the relationship with Kaito is often natural and tacit, as if the years of separation between them and his memory no longer exist, Loki knows that there is always a relationship between them. An invisible barrier, no matter how close the two are, they cannot really touch each other without barriers, because some things, after all... cannot be lost.

In this regard, Loki was not in a hurry.

He really wanted to get his memory back, but he wouldn't deliberately force anything in order to get it back.

As a high-ranking god who has regained the most important divine power and imprint of godhead, Loki knows better than the smattering Kaito what kind of crisis and danger will be brought to him by forcibly touching the seal of memory.

Therefore, he must not be impatient.

——This is for his own consideration, but...why not for Kaito's sake?

After getting along day and night during this period of time and insinuating side-by-sides from time to time, Loki can already be sure that the young man named Kaito Kuroba definitely lived in his life during the years when he was exiled to the human world. occupies a very important place in life.

In the same way, for Kaito boy, the weight of Loki in his heart will not be so low.

So if Loki stimulated the seal because he wanted to forcibly retrieve the memories between Kaito and Kaito, and was injured because of it...

I also know that Kuaidou will never feel good in his heart.

So Loki can't be aggressive or impatient, he can only grope little by little, looking for a way to loosen and unseal the memory seal without stimulating it, or... a method that can unseal the memory seal in one fell swoop. The opportunity to untie it.

This may be a rather long process, but Loki thinks that he and Kaito... should still have time.

But this time...

Seeing Kaito's previous shock mixed with a little panic reaction, Loki felt that he should intervene—even if the barrier hadn't been completely broken, the relationship between him and Kaito... Some new fetters have been created.

And this layer of fetters, in Loki's opinion, is already tough enough... to withstand a certain degree of impact, and will not be easily damaged.

——The fact is indeed as Loki expected.

Kaito confessed(?) all the worries in his heart to Loki without much hesitation.

"I don't know the man, but I've heard of him."

"His name is Jintian Yiyi. He is the grandson of the legendary famous detective Jin Tianyi Kosuke. Before Kudo Shinichi disappeared, he was also called the two famous young detectives of Tokyo. Many difficult cases that make the police feel difficult are quite famous in the Metropolitan Police Department - it is completely different from your real private detective who only picks up some privately commissioned small cases based on interests and specific attributes. yo~"

Didn't pay attention to the little teasing inside and outside of Kaidou's words, Rocky has always been better at grasping the key points: "Even so... what does he deserve so much attention from you? Another famous detective with the same name as him, I remember that you seemed to tell me that you have confronted him more than once?"

——So, you are all detectives, how can this one in front of you make your emotions fluctuate so much?

Loki's question was very obvious.

Faced with such a question, Kaito could only shake his head and smile wryly.

How would he tell Loki that in terms of ferocity, Kudo Shinichi or Edogawa Conan is completely incapable of being compared with this young Kindaichi?

Conan has been serialized for ten years, during which there are more than 800 episodes of manga and 600 episodes of animation, there are at least dozens of hundreds of episodes where there are no dead people, relatively safe abduction, the duel between the detective and the thief, the answer to the code, and the dismantling of the bomb. Something like that, but Kindaichi...

Not to mention that he didn't say anything about dead people, but the number of dead people alone would make Conan completely defeated!

Even if it is a serial killing incident in Conan, there will be three or four deaths if you die, but Kindaichi... three or four are not too few!It's commonplace for all other protagonists to be wiped out!

If Conan is just a moving Grim Reaper, then Kindaichi... is simply a deadly weapon with its own radioactive death rays!This level of danger...

It's completely different, okay?

As an ordinary passerby, if you are involved in the plot of Conan, you may still have a high chance of surviving, but if you are involved in the plot of Kindaichi...

This death rate is comparable to a high-risk world like Hunter Hokage, okay?

So how can you let Kaito not care?How can it be dear!

Momo roared in his heart, but in the end Kaito could only shake his head silently under the worried gazes of Xiaoling and Loki, expressing that he was just a little bit evil (==), and his spirit was not good.

It was easy for Mrs. Xiaozheng to get rid of it. Seeing that his brother Kaito was taken care of by Loki, he was comforted by gentle words for a while. Seeing that Kaito really had nothing wrong with him except for his ugly face, he met him at home. Under the call of Naga and Takamura seniors, they ran over to discuss emergency measures—after all, they died at the end of the test of courage. Although their CLAMP Academy detective team is essentially a house of everything for women all over the world Attribute club (...), but it still bears the title of "Detective Team" anyway, doesn't it?When something like this happened, with the personality of a handicapped boy like Meizhishan, it was impossible not to take care of it.

Of course, Kaito thinks that the most important deciding factor is actually the fragile girl who was crying because of the sudden death of her companion... ==

Seeing Xiaozheng running far away to the chairman of his family and the senior Yingcun who were waiting not far away, although Kaito was a little worried that he went to approach Kindaichi, but considering the skill of the young man in Yingcun and the aunts Hammer's attitude towards this Three Zhengtai’s preference and the extremely domineering mother-in-law cheating for him, Kuai Dou, who felt that he was more dangerous than Xiaoling, turned his head with enthusiasm, and met Loki’s pair of emerald green eyes full of deep meaning...

"Okay, after going back to your room, let's discuss the previous topic in depth, right? Now..." Why don't you go and have a look?

Thinking that the person next to him was at least a well-known private investigator, Kaito winked at the direction where the crowd gathered, indicating that Loki could go and have a look if he wanted to.

"I'll let it go." Unexpectedly, a certain person just shrugged his shoulders and pulled Kaito up with his arms around his waist: "This incident has nothing to do with evil spirits or demons. "

— In other words, he wasn't interested.

"Besides, isn't there still the grandson of the famous detective? The victim is someone he knows, so I won't join in the fun."

Besides, for Loki, Kaito's safety is much more important than those strangers.

He didn't know what was disturbing Kaito and made him feel uneasy, so at this time, rather than investigating ordinary murders without any supernatural factors mixed in, Loki thought it was best for him to be by Kaito's side. should do.

"But Miss Liulizi is really a bit unlucky."

You know, in order to realize some of his own bad tastes, in the middle of the test of courage, Loki once left Kaidou and Xiaoling for a while, and released some "little dogs" he raised in some unoccupied corners. Pets", so except for Kaito and others, the others were more or less "entertained" by some real ghosts.

"But from the information fed back by the familiars, none of them saw who killed the girl."

To avoid such a dense group of small spirits by such a coincidence... the murderer is really lucky.

However, all this is not a problem that Kaito and Rocky need to worry about.

Because of the murder, the planned bonfire party could never be held.

And the groups of people who came out of the courage-testing cave after the victim and her friend were all suspected of being the murderer, so they were gathered in the hotel lobby where Kaito and the others were staying, waiting for an interrogation from a certain young detective—— Of course, they obeyed the control so much because of the sword-wielding police department who almost never left the side of Kindaichi boy.

"I really don't know which of these two will help the other more."

Since it was proved to be irrelevant, Kaito and Loki's actions are naturally free, but this kind of thing happened, and Loki, who originally planned to enjoy the taste of soaking in the open-air hot spring on the snowy mountain with Kaito at night, also I had no choice but to give up the original idea, and together with Kaito, I stood among the crowd gathered together to watch the excitement in the hotel lobby.

At this time, it was almost midnight, and the front of the hotel where the bonfire party was supposed to be lively was deserted. At night, it was just a small piece of small snowflakes floating in the air, and it began to grow gradually, and soon covered it. Live in the boundless sky.

While Jin Tianyi was interrogating each suspect individually, the Jianchi Police Department walked out of the room temporarily used as an interrogation room to call the local police station to explain the case, and asked them to come to the mountain tomorrow to collect necessary on-site evidence. Investigations and the like, but when I picked up the phone, I found that there was no sound at all - at some point, the hotel's phone line was cut by someone!

At this time, it was already snowing heavily outside the window. In such weather, it would be very dangerous to go to other nearby hotels to borrow a phone or drive down the mountain, and everyone’s mobile phones also lost their signal in the heavy snow. Or maybe... the signal has been artificially interfered with.

In short, they are now trapped on this snow-capped mountain, which can accommodate about 500 people. At this time, all the rooms are full and the small hotel is full of customers——

With an unknown... murderer who obviously didn't intend to kill just one person.