Conan: The Second Personality of Kaitou Kidd

Chapter 418 Calm down
Hattori Heiji walked up the stairs.

He was actually very surprised: Why did Kudo Shinichi appear?
Conan is still here, shouldn't he?
But this is a museum, where two phantom thieves who ignored the police and detectives are about to face off.

One of the Phantom Thieves is Phantom Thief Kidd, who has superb disguise skills.

When he walked up the stairs and asked, he was surprised, and Hattori Heiji answered himself: It was probably Kaitou Kid who disguised himself as Kudo Shinichi, but unfortunately, he bumped into Maori Ran.

As for why I chose to disguise myself as Kudo Shinichi...

It must have been the last time they faced each other that they both left a deep impression on each other, right?
With this in mind, Hattori Heiji walked through the first floor and turned as the stairs turned. He casually glanced at the stairwell door he passed by and found that the stairwell door on this floor was locked just like the one on his previous floor.

Although they were completely ignored, the police were still struggling hard and silently preparing for the attack of the Phantom Thieves. One of the preparations was to block part of the stairwell and skylight.

When Hattori Heiji heard the keyword, he urgently pressed the button for the nearest floor in the elevator. When he went straight to the stairwell, the stairwell door on his floor was locked. It took him a while to open it, and he waited quietly for any movement. .

The reason why he waited in the stairwell was because the matter was too urgent at first, and he couldn't be sure whether Conan had an accident and transformed into Kudo Shinichi and came to respond.

If it were Kudo Shinichi, when he was about to become a child, he would never choose to stay on the target floor of the Phantom Thieves, which is crowded with people and even the bathroom is full of queues. Nor would he choose to go downstairs from the elevator, but would choose to get in. The stairwell slows down that special moment before going out.

However, since the 'Kudo Shinichi' who appeared was not Conan who unexpectedly boarded the tub, then the decision to wait in the stairwell was somewhat misguided.

……

The corridor suddenly became quiet.

"The one just now is probably Kaitou Kidd. Isn't he going to have a duel here? He must have thought of that guy Kudo, so he disguised himself as Kudo when he stepped on the spot."

Could it be that someone just entered?

It's open.

Hattori Heiji subconsciously stared at the past, "Huh?"

She said: "I remember that except for the floor where the target gem is displayed and the first floor, the safe passages on all floors are locked, right?"

As doubts quietly emerged and formed thoughts, he heard Mao Lilan's equally confused and surprised voice, "Is the door to the stairwell on this floor unlocked?"

The white stairwell door was ajar, with only a faint opening revealing the corridor behind it.

Hattori Heiji calmly lowered his gaze to observe Conan's expression, but he didn't find any surprise on his face about catching Kaitou Kid's tail. Instead, he caught some panic and uneasiness, "?"

"It stands to reason that the door should be locked... Could it be..."

"That, that," Conan spoke first to break the silence, looking at Mao Lilan's expression with some guilt, "it shouldn't be Kaitou Kidd, right?"

Walking up to the first floor again, Hattori Heiji saw the door to the stairwell on this floor while seeing Maori Ran and Conan coming down the stairs above.

Mao Lilan's gaze lingered on it, her brows furrowed, and she tried her best to recall for a moment. She recalled, "The exhibition hall on this floor is temporarily closed. The exhibition halls inside seem to have been locked. Only the corridor of the safe passage is open."

Who could it be, whose progress is blocked? This seems to be a question with an obvious answer, 'Kudo Shinichi'. '

Kaitou Kidd wouldn't be chased away by a high school girl and run into the stairwell in panic, right?
Hattori Heiji raised his eyebrows. He was amused by his own thoughts. He no longer thought about some ridiculous jokes and pulled his hat back. While thinking carefully about what Kaitou Kidd would step on and how he would act, he casually said To appease, "By the way, I remember that Kudo guy told you that he had something to investigate outside?"

He also explained why he knew, "Because it was a violation of fire protection, there was a possibility of a fire... so I paid special attention when my father was looking at the police planning and layout."

The door to this stairwell...

A floor number hangs above the stairwell door.

The three people looked at each other in silence, each with their own complicated expressions.

His tone became innocent and cute, "Kaitou Kid is so handsome and cool. He easily won Sister Mariko's heart! How could he run away and be blocked in the stairwell after being called Shinichi-nii's name a few times?" "

...So why did that guy run away in panic as soon as he heard someone calling him "Shinichi", as if it was Kudo Shinichi who was suddenly called by his crush when he was about to log in to his account? !

What is Kaitou Kidd afraid of!

"So," Conan said bravely, "Maybe it was a staff member who just happened to be on this floor to deal with something? Maybe he was setting up a trap to deal with the Phantom Thieves! Let's not disturb the police, right?" "Yeah ," Mao Lilan's eyes flickered a few times, agreeing with the first half of Conan's sentence, "Kidd once played the role of the Nakamori Police Department. If it were Kidd, he would probably treat us quite calmly and with a Shinichi attitude. Rather than clearly hearing someone calling Shinichi, he still left."

And ignored the second half of Conan's words to persuade him to retreat, "So..."

Therefore, it is either Kudo Shinichi who is in a special situation and it is inconvenient to see his old friends, or it is Kaitou Kid who is in a special situation and is inconvenient to stay longer.

Or someone else altogether.

All in all, it's probably an anomaly.

"Shall I call Dad and ask him to bring a team of police over?" Mao Lilan asked, "But if only the corridor is open and we stand here talking, we should be able to hear something inside..."

One of her hands was still holding Conan's hand, and her slender fingers easily held the child's hand in her palm.

From the moment she held hands again, she never let go. Even when taking out the phone, she used her left hand to pick it up and press the buttons with her left hand.

There was a crisp sound of pressing keys in the stairway.

Hattori Heiji looked at the slightly opened door, then at Conan, and indicated with his eyes: What's going on between you and Kaitou Kidd? Do you want to help cover now? How can I use this as a cover?

Before he could get a reply from his eyes, he heard the sound of Mao Lilan pressing the keys and paused. He immediately looked away and looked around casually, pretending that he was just thinking about it and said, "How to stop?"

Before he finished speaking, he knew why Mao Lilan stopped suddenly.

There is a very slight, very slight, almost imperceptible sound of the phone pressing keys.

Because it is too light, it almost blends into the background sound, which is lower than the volume range that the ears can hear. If it weren't for Mao Lilan's key press, it was intertwined with the low sound of the mobile phone key press, making it more obvious. They are now Nor will it be heard.

The low sound of cell phone pressing came from behind the slightly open door.

Hattori Heiji and Conan looked at each other.

Mao Lilan reached out and pushed the door open.

The door was only ajar, and could be easily pushed open with just a little force. As the door was pushed open, the scene inside the door poured out together with the light, leaving a patch of light and shadow on the ground along the crack in the door.

This floor is indeed closed, with only two corridors open. From the stairwell, you can faintly see the locked exhibition hall door deep in the corridor.

The corridor is composed of walls and a portion of thick semi-tempered glass, so there is plenty of light, and almost the entire corridor is the warm color of the sun.

At the corner where the first corridor connected to the second corridor, a boy who was obviously a high school student leaned against the window with his legs bent.

He was wearing a peaked cap and was editing text messages on his mobile phone with his head down. The shadow of the sun and the hat transitioned on his face, outlining his still somewhat childish jawline.

Although the sound of pushing the door was very small, the boy in the peaked hat seemed to hear it. While pressing the button, he raised his eyes and showed his full face, "Ah, you are chasing me."

It was a young man's face with a youthful spirit, his brows were lowered a bit, looking a bit sharp, and he had appeared in major newspapers with high spirits.

It was a face that Mao Lilan was very familiar with: Kudo Shinichi.

The moment she looked into those blue eyes, her water-purple eyes became rounder in surprise, dancing with bits of gold from the sun, "S-Shinichi?"

Hattori Heiji stared intently for a few seconds, then lowered his head to look at Conan, then looked up again, "... Kudo?"

"..." Conan popped up a question mark, "Huh?!"

'Kudou Shinichi' looked at them, then lowered his head and pressed the keys on his phone a few times to send an email. Then he put away his phone, put it in his pocket and stood up straight, "Sorry, I'm in a secret investigation mode now. I'm afraid He was discovered by Kaitou Kidd, so he cannot appear in public as Kudo Shinichi.”

"However," he tilted his head, most of his cheeks were illuminated by the sun, and there was some subtle redness, like the redness left by rubbing his palms, "I didn't expect you to recognize me... …”

He moved his gaze to the sky outside the window, lowered his voice, frowned for a moment, and then relaxed, "As expected, it is always impossible to 100% predict the reaction of the person you are interested in."

(End of this chapter)