[Comprehensive] Phantom Thief · Phantom Thief

This is really...

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Seemingly calm and composed, he sat upright next to his friends, smiling and nodding his thanks to the staff who brought them tea and snacks, but God knows what kind of turbulent waves are churning in Kaito's heart right now ——

He...is he still mentally prepared to face that person so defenselessly!

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Kaito is currently in the midst of the main reception room on the second floor of a typical old-fashioned European-style house.

And this old house with a rather unique style is currently taking on the "heavy duty" of the main shooting background of a new movie starring Kaidou's friend You Jun.

——As for the reason why Kaito appeared here?

In fact... it was just because he was worried about his friends.

After experiencing the bewilderment and astonishment brought about by encountering someone again unprepared at the first moment, Kaito, who reacted quickly, somehow thought of the job the other person was engaged in.

Contact my friend's career again...

Suddenly, Kaito felt as if he had grasped the point of the matter.

So, under his insistence and You Boy's deliberate connivance, the manager, Ms. Uzuki, had to compromise and take him back to the shooting scene.

"So, you are... intimidated?"

Taking a sip of the warm black tea, Kaito glanced sideways at his black-haired friend who was obediently sitting next to him, holding a glass of milk and sipping. Manager Uzuki, who is obviously worried.

——You's manager, Ms. Uzuki, is a mature woman with short brown hair and a smart business suit.

This woman has been serving as You You's agent since her debut, and also worked as an assistant for quite a long time. No matter how you look at it, she is a very capable and completely trustworthy qualified broker.

And it was this Miss Uzuki who first discovered that Kaito accidentally smashed Yu's real body.

What Kaito did to the other party was completely different from what he had imagined at the beginning. He did not directly put pressure on himself through the huge power of the brokerage company, supplemented by the cold and hard methods of money offensive, but sincerely and solemnly asked himself not to reveal the secret of the ghost. The identity of the practice is still fresh in my memory.

——This is a real strong woman who has scheming and ability, but at the same time, she will never do anything to achieve her goal. You can be brought by her side at the beginning of her debut. Now it seems that she is really very lucky things.

But right now, this strong woman, Ms. Uzuki, actually showed such an obvious worried look, and...

Kaito's eyes pretended to be inadvertently swept over the beautiful blond young man sitting next to Uzuki with a calm and elegant smile——

It turned out to be so serious that it was necessary to hire detectives to solve the problem. It is conceivable that the incident where You was threatened this time would definitely not be a trivial matter!

"Why didn't you tell me?" Kaito didn't care about Uzuki-san's answer, and turned to look at his black-haired friend beside him again: "Obviously it's such an important matter..."

"...It's really nothing." Putting down the completely empty milk cup in his hand, You looked back calmly, and his tone was still calm and calm: "Miss Uzuki has already invited a professional detective to come. Besides, what can Kaito, who is a high school student like me, do? This kind of thing has nothing to do with Kaito at all, and you can't involve Kaito who has nothing to do with me because of me."

"quiet……"

For his friend's answer, on the one hand, Kaito felt extremely warm and heartwarming, on the other hand... also felt that he had been a bit of a jerk recently.

Mingmingyou has been troubled so much, he didn't notice it at all, and he didn't say anything, and on the contrary made you worry because of his strangeness...

Thinking of how you just ran out from here to find yourself without anyone following you, if something really happened at that time...

Kaito thought, he would never forgive himself.

"You bastard!" He raised his hand and rumpled the satin-like soft black hair of the boy beside him, Kaito raised the corners of his lips, feeling that all the knots accumulated in his heart for a while seem to be all here A moment vanished—

Yes.

Even though he was close at hand, he did not disguise himself as Kaitou Kidd this time, and the person sitting not far from him also failed to recognize him immediately, but... so what?

Life still has to go on.

What's more, Kaito can probably guess that the reason why the other party behaves like this is mostly because of some means used to affect his impression and memory of himself. As for the reason...

It's nothing more than "I don't want you to suffer any harm because of my relationship" again.

Curling his lips, he would never admit that thinking of this place made him feel better. The young magician turned his gaze back, and looked calmly at the blond young man who was looking at himself and his friends with interest: "So if you think about it, this This...is the Mr. Detective that Uzuki-san found?"

"Yes." The brown-haired beauty manager said and nodded, "Because the office of Mr. Detective opened on the corner of the street, when Mr. Youping received the threatening letter for the second time, I and the agency After discussing with him, he went to visit his detective agency."

"It's my honor." Until then, the beautiful blond young man who had been sitting quietly as a bystander nodded slightly to Kaito under Uzuki's introduction, and there was no special emotion in his expression: "Hello, Mr. Hashima's friend Kuroba-kun, this is the first time I meet you. I am the head of the Tsubaki Detective Agency, Loki."

The moment the young man announced his family name, his expression was in a trance, and although Kaidou's mouth was very natural, he immediately followed up with the same greeting ("Ah, it's the first time we meet, I'm Kuroba, I'll trouble you about Yuu.") , but my heart... was filled with all kinds of situations when the two first met...

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That year, when Kaito was nine years old, his father Kuroba Touichi was unanimously determined to have died because of a major accident in a large-scale fire escape magic show.

Chikage decided to hold a grand but low-key funeral for Touichi, but Kaito knew that his mother knew as well as himself that there was nothing in the coffin buried in the ground except for a set of Touichi's magic costume.

——At the scene of the accident, the body of Robber One was not found at all.

"Actually... that's fine too."

Kaito still remembers the complicated expression that appeared on Chikage's face when she heard the news, a mixture of joy and sadness, and she couldn't tell whether she was smiling or crying.

He immediately understood that Qianying was the same as himself, and he probably suspected that Pirates hadn't died at all, but for some unspeakable reason, he couldn't openly appear in front of everyone again.

Even this "everyone" also includes Chikage and Kaito who are his wife and son.

—Of course, this is the most optimistic guess.

It is more likely that although Pirate One did not die, he was severely injured and could not regain consciousness, or he was simply robbed by the mysterious organization that secretly planned the accident, and he may be imprisoned in an unknown corner now...

All kinds of negative conjectures occupied almost all of Kaito's thoughts during that time, leaving him no time to think about other things.

Because at the end of the day, it's actually... all his fault.

If he hadn't indulged himself too much because of Pirate One and Qianying's love, if he could think of something to stop things from happening before Pirate One performed this performance, maybe...

Maybe stealing one won't...

However, there are no ifs in this world after all.

So Kaito couldn't stop the self-abuse-like remorse and self-blame in his heart.

Even if he knew, this kind of him... must have worried Qianying again.

During that time, Kaito seemed to be a different person.

The bright and sunny smile was no longer on his face, and the pair of blue eyes that were once clear and clear like the clear sky also lost their expression and became blank and empty.

Although he still continues his unchanging life every day, whether it is Chikage or the classmates who have been close to Kaito before, everyone can clearly feel Kaito's strange emotional loneliness.

——There is something, with the disappearance of Dao Yi, after all... it is still different.

Chikage has always known that for Kaito, Pirates is a very special existence.

When Kaidou was a chubby baby, his first smile, first hug, first sweet kiss... everything belonged to Touichi.

There is a very special kind of intimacy between the father and son, even Chikage, who is their wife and mother, can't get involved. Closely leaning on each other, discussing in a low voice or arguing loudly with excitement and excitement...

Just watching from the sidelines already made Qianying feel full of happiness.

It's true that she loves Pirate deeply, but the one who was hurt the most by Pirate's departure was their son Kaito.

Qianying didn't say or do anything, not because she didn't know, but because she understood too much——

Kaito...is always her and Touichi's child.

Qianying believes that he will not remain depressed like this forever, because that is not the result that Pirate One expected to see.

Even if it's for Stealing One, Kaito will cheer up.

And at that time, neither Kaito nor Chikage ever thought that it was not Kaito's will itself that dragged Kaito out of the dark shadow of losing Touichi, but...

"Hello, I'm Loki. It's the first time we meet, please take care of me."

——This is a...predestined encounter.