[Comprehensive] Phantom Thief · Phantom Thief

At four o'clock in the afternoon, a group of passengers including Kaito and Rocky boarded the ship smoothly.

As the newly-built No. [-] luxury cruise ship in Japan, "Hesgate Goddess" is far from the world-class luxury cruise ships recognized by the industry in various standards, but it must be admitted that relying on the Meizhishan family With strong financial capital, this cruise ship actually has world-class strength in some aspects.

"The displacement is 1500 tons, and it can accommodate more than [-] passengers... Tsk tsk, the Meizhishan family is really a big deal."

Both Kaito and Rocky received first-class tickets, because the fake identity provided by Rocky was a brother relationship, so the two also enjoyed a special treatment. Or a two-way tandem room specially designed for people with special relationships.

Under the guidance of the waiter, he found the room, and Xiao Ai from Rocky's family happily flew around to tidy up the luggage he brought. Kaito looked at the spacious and bright top-level stateroom, and turned to sigh to Rocky.

The blond young man smiled slightly when he heard the words: "Being famous in the legend is not as good as seeing it once?"

——Before Kaito had been learning about the Hestier Goddess through various plane or video materials. Although all the data were very detailed, they couldn’t compare to the real impact brought by seeing it with their own eyes.

This made Kaito, who hadn't caught up with the 3D version of the shipwreck story in his previous life, unable not to be shocked...

So, "Rich people are the most annoying!"

Cursing his lips, Kaito took out his mobile phone and began to contact his wife Xiaoling, who had boarded the ship beforehand—although the monitoring equipment on the ship was absolutely indispensable because of the notices sent by several members of the Phantom Thieves Alliance at the same time, but the mobile phone communication Nothing will be affected, after all, this is a matter of personal privacy, and those who can board the Hestier Goddess...

Even if they are not first-class passengers, how many people are easy to get along with?

So Kaito is not worried at all.

[Xiaoling?Loki and I have already boarded the ship, and the signal of the communicator is good. It is predicted that Black Wing and Basteto have also passed the ship inspection smoothly. How is your... situation? ] Less than 2 minutes after the email was sent, Xiaoling's reply arrived.

【So far, everything is going smoothly according to plan, but... the situation seems a little unexpected. 】oh?

Kaito raised his eyebrows, what does unexpected mean?Xiaoling's side... According to the previous description, it should be with Meizhishan and the young people from Yingcun, receiving some guests who are close to the three families, and several police officers who finally agreed to board the ship because they couldn't hold back, right?So what is the so-called "unexpected" situation...

The answer couldn't be more clear.

……

【Don't worry, everything is going according to the original plan. 】

When Xiaoling received this summons, he was sitting with his president in a special conference room on the third floor of the cruise ship, facing several detectives and police officers with persistent or serious expressions.

"Sister Tiger, the nature of this incident is very serious. I have made suggestions to your Patriarch before, hoping that he will take this matter seriously, but now..."

The one who spoke was the police department Nakamori with the mustache who was the most impatient among them.

The chief of the police department was quite worried about the fact that the main owner of the Hestier Goddess, the Patriarch of the Meizhishan family, did not allow the regular police force of the Metropolitan Police Department to board the ship for security. There are two police officers with different positions and responsibilities, but the other party's family only appoints a young boy who has not graduated from elementary school to be the person in charge, and he can't help but feel dissatisfied immediately.

Although the young master's name was well-known throughout Japan because of NASA's poaching operation a few years ago, in the eyes of the Nakamori Police Department, how capable can a little kid be?But...it's just genius.

But his blatant contempt did not arouse the anger of the Meizhishan boy.

The handsome young man with blond hair and blue face sat gracefully on the main seat in the meeting room, and a pair of smiling blue water eyes swept over, even though those sapphire-like crystal and considerate eyes were filled with softness Smiling, but the moment that gaze swept across his body, the Nakamori Police Department suddenly felt a chill in his heart...

"The Nakamori Police Department, and everyone here, I know that everyone has a lot of doubts and...dissatisfaction with me and the arrangement of the Meizhishan family this time, but, just like my father said-Goddess Hestier The number is the private property of my sister’s mountain family, and the art exhibition on board was also initiated by the sister’s mountain family, and many family friends or acquaintances of collectors responded. Everyone brought out their own collections and gathered together to form an individual Joint exhibition, so...for this exhibition, we have full rights to reject any interference or...protection by external forces."

Smiling eyes slowly swept over the faces of all the people present who had turned rather ugly after he said the last sentence. In fact, he didn't want to play such an unflattering role, but he couldn't refuse his father. The Meizhishan boy entrusted by the adults sighed secretly, but showed an unquestionable tough look on his face: "It is the father and my sister's Shan family who have made a contribution to the Metropolitan Police Department to allow you to board the ship under the strong request of everyone." The biggest concession. The Hesgate Goddess is a precious treasure that my father has invested countless efforts in recent years, and finally built it proudly. Her maiden voyage ceremony cannot be disturbed or interrupted by any accident-please believe that if it is not the case, we will also Unwilling to appear so...uncooperative."

The Meizhishan boy did not lie.

If this newly built luxury cruise ship is not the love of his father and adults at this time, it does not matter if a large number of police personnel are allowed to station, but the head of the Dangmeizhishan family has given this cruise ship more than necessary interest and care , then the maiden voyage ceremony of this cruise ship does not allow any accidents, because...

This is already a matter of the face of the Patriarch of the Meizhishan family.

Although everyone in the family does not have any bad habits that rich people are accustomed to, and most of them are very easy-going, but one of the family characteristics of the Meizhishan family that is well-known throughout Japan is... love to show off.

If the Hestier Goddess, which is being loved by his father and can make him stand out, has attracted other attention than himself due to the presence of the Metropolitan Police Department personnel...

I can also imagine with my toes, how "furious" my father will be at that time.

Blinking his eyes, the blond boy returned to the original harmless (...) shining smile: "So... Nakamori Police Department, Hito's Commander-in-Chief, Hakuba-senpai, and... Utsumi Police Officer, please forgive me for this matter , I can’t be the master and make it convenient for you.”

It was already a big concession to allow them to board the ship and participate in the security work. Now that the Goddess is about to set sail, these people are still thinking about convincing him to allow the hundreds of police officers waiting at the port Embark?Is it true that the Goddess of Hesgate is the Titanic?==

Elegantly bowing and saluting, the Meizhishan boy pretended not to notice the hesitation of several police officers present, and left the meeting room with his student union secretary and accountant.

And after he left, the remaining few people looked at each other for a while, but no one took the initiative to speak——

They don't really know what to say.

Including Toshio Uchikai, who was dubbed an ordinary little policeman by Xiao Ai, the third lady of the next life family, these few people are usually used to be in charge of giving orders, and their behavior styles are also very different from each other. It's just to put forward their opinions and requests to the young master of the Meizhishan family. If they really want to cooperate with each other...

That's the joke.

"But don't you think it's a bit too much a coincidence this time?" The young detective with brown hair spoke first, breaking the awkward silence of the room, "This group of strange thieves seems to have made an agreement."

Not just the place and date, but even the time...

"But if you think about it, you know it's impossible. Don't talk about others—of course I don't understand others. Maoyan, which I am mainly responsible for, is itself a multi-person organization. There is really no need to join forces with other people. Besides ..."

Aren't monster thieves all from Lone Rangers?Will they team up?That's probably much more difficult than getting the people in this room to cooperate with each other, right?

"No matter what, this negotiation will not achieve the results we want to see. In this case... Gentlemen, let us each rely on our own abilities so that we can do it ourselves."

It was Hito, who had been silent all the time, who made the final "summary statement".

This is a handsome young man with short ice blue hair and eyes as sharp as unsheathed knives.

Among all the main persons in charge gathered here, he is probably the one who attracts the most attention besides Detective Baima——

Age naturally plays a part of the reason, but on the other hand... there is indeed such an indescribably strange attractiveness about this young man, which makes it impossible not to pay attention...

"Hidu-kun is right. Now that the matter has come to this point, everyone... we can only follow the trend and follow the trend?" The second person to make a statement was Baima Tan.

Originally, he didn't particularly count on the assistance personnel sent by the Metropolitan Police Department. "If you want to catch Kidd, the most important thing is to predict his action pattern."

And Baima is confident that he can do this even without the assistance of a large number of guards.

"I just hope that when the time comes, the private security team of the Meizhishan family can cooperate a little bit..."

I don't know why, this time... there is always a bad feeling.

Looking down at the copy of the notice in his hand again, the brown-haired young detective frowned slightly involuntarily...

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The Hestier Goddess, night, seven o'clock.

Two hours ago, under the attention of countless media and ordinary people, this luxury cruise ship, known as the No. [-] in Japan, officially set sail and left the port of Tokyo where it docked before.

No matter how the media all over Japan will evaluate the cruise ship and its maiden voyage until the next morning, in the next four days and three nights, the more than 700 passengers and more than [-] staff members on board will probably be I won't have time to pay attention to——

Because, from this night until the end of the maiden voyage, there will be a variety of entertainment activities on the Hestier Goddess one after another, from art exhibitions to large banquets, from bar dance floors to legal on-board casinos... …

This cruise ship is indeed a "small mobile entertainment city" as the Meizhishan family declared.

At this moment, in the main banquet hall on the second floor of the hull, what is being held is the first large-scale dinner after setting sail, and at the same time, it is also the celebration banquet for the maiden voyage of the Hestier Goddess.

All kinds of delicacies are placed on long mobile tables covered with white tablecloths with exquisite hollow patterns for guests to take freely. On the performance stage in the center of the venue, magicians and many well-known artists share Hand in hand, present one wonderful performance after another.

The hall was brightly lit and crowded with people, and the well-dressed gentlemen and ladies put on the most appropriate expressions, and between the toasts, they completed exchanges or... confrontations...

"Heh, I saw our little detective Mr.~"

In a corner of the venue, Kaito wearing a disguise was holding a glass of refreshing iced drink, and while sipping, he whispered to Loki.

"Do you know? It's a good thing I'm here this time, otherwise the current scene..." ——Luxury cruise ship, far away from the coast, fully enclosed voyage for four days and three nights...

"Murder will definitely happen, and it will be a serial murder!"

After all, the other party is that legendary elementary school student of death!

"I'm lucky, right? Because my uncle, Kaitou Kidd, is the killer weapon of Shinigami boy~"

Indeed, once Kidd is involved, more than 99% of them will probably not be killed or injured, because Mr. Phantom Thief appears, and the main theme will naturally be a duel between Phantom Thief and Detective!

"However, it is estimated that this time, the life of the little detective will not be too easy."

The owner of this cruise ship is not named Suzuki after all. Even if Conan, Xiaolan and Kogoro got the ticket through Sonoko's relationship, they must not be able to easily participate in the security work, because there is no relationship between them and the owner of the cruise ship. What facilitates the special relationship.

In addition, Kaito, DARK and Maoyan released at the same time, the three trailers that are completely consistent in time...

"Looky, guess if there is a police officer who is secretly wiping away tears now, complaining, 'Fuck, what a broken exhibition, why don't you separate it? Put so many things together, look at the thieves you've attracted. Huh!' or something like that...?"

——Boy Kaito, you don’t know, you really got the truth this time →_→ “Is it just that proud?” Loki, who most despised someone’s complacent appearance, couldn’t help but chuckled when he heard this, he was so in suspense Resisted and almost reached out to scrape the bridge of the other's nose.

The expression on Kaito's face became more and more smug.

"Call senior! Call senior! Everything here is normal, and we will act as planned tomorrow night. Is there any accident on your side? Over."

After being confirmed by Xiao Ling that there would be no monitoring equipment running at the dinner party, this group of "little thieves" who made the poor police officers teary(?) immediately decided to use the dinner hall as their own back garden. Get in touch freely!

"Over Mao, you must be making a movie ==" DARK's voice came from the headset in a very low voice, "There is no accident on my side, I pretended to be a waiter according to the plan to solve the problem of the Meizhishan family's private security team. After seeing people, I found that they were really...overconfident."

In the last few words, a certain big monster gnashed his teeth, which made Kaito even more certain that the leaders in charge must not be as simple as "overconfident".

But... that's fine too.

After offending DARK, a prank-loving and vengeful phantom thief, after that... let them ask for their own blessings.

"Sister Xiaolei, everything is going well here with Senior. It is not convenient for Xiaoqian to talk among the crowd. How is the situation on your side?"

"There's something wrong with Xiao Ai's shoes, but it's okay and everything is going smoothly."

"Got it~ Then the preliminary preparations are considered to be successfully completed, and the next thing is to wait for the time to come..."

Let's make a super cool debut together!

The corners of his lips curled up in satisfaction, Kaito turned his head, and smiled brightly at Loki: "Everything is ready, if there is an accident tomorrow night... I will be counting on you? Brother~long~big~people~"

Facing someone's sudden wicked role-playing behavior, he just slightly raised his eyebrows, Loki raised his eyes, and met those blue eyes that seemed to hide thousands of brilliance——

"Happy to oblige, my dear."

——He likes Kaito's expression full of anticipation and confidence before every action, especially those bright eyes that seem to contain endless starlight.

The atmosphere between the two seemed extremely harmonious and peaceful for a while, but...

In different corners of the venue, there were a few unidentified black shadowed people who lowered their heads fiercely, so as to hide the extremely fierce and ferocious expressions on their faces——

Why……

not dead yet? !