Conan: The Second Personality of Kaitou Kidd

Chapter 424: The Cunning Kaito Kidd
The time for the Phantom Thief's notice is 9pm.

From the moment it got dark, Nakamori Ginzo was on high alert, and he and Mori Kogoro were on high alert.

His eyes were like sharp blades, sweeping across the smooth glass windows, floor and walls inch by inch. When he saw the police officers standing quietly on guard, he became even more severe. His eyes almost pierced through the skin of every police officer to see if it was Kaito Kidd inside.

After scanning his eyes several times, he focused on the clock which showed the current time was 8:30 pm. He turned his head solemnly, secretly took out his phone without telling anyone, and immediately put on a charming and apologetic smile, "Ahaha, Aoko, did you really go to Kaito's house?"

"Ah, no, no, Dad didn't mean anything else. You said you were going to Kaito's house with your classmates to watch the news. It's still early now. How could Dad misunderstand you, hahaha..."

"What? You must have heard it wrong, haha. There was a sound of wind here just now. You must have heard it wrong. There was really no sound of the phone clicking, and there was no crying, haha. I am very confident about Kaito, and you can be confident too. I will never beat him to death, haha!"

Nakamori Aoko: "Dad!"

Nakamori Ginzo sneered and complained in his mind: I can't stand it, I really can't stand it. What parent can be calm and at ease when their daughter goes to the home of someone she likes?
But my daughter was obviously not happy to hear such words. In the situation of "Ahaha, the two thieves are arrogant and treat the police as shit. You have to cover your noses and concentrate on the duel in a place full of shit!", this was undoubtedly a double whammy.

But he had to work overtime and had no time to spend with his family. What could Nakamori Ginzo do? He could only smile awkwardly while holding his phone. But after a few seconds, he said suspiciously, "Aoko, are you talking to someone?"

Aoko Nakamori is talking to someone.

From Ginzo Nakamori's perspective, she suddenly paused while talking to him in a low voice, and then her voice became a little distant. She inexplicably talked about apple juice and orange juice, and said that if she finished drinking coffee, she might have to look deep in the cupboard.

"I haven't looked for it before, but," Nakamori Aoko said, "just like rabbits can't eat watermelons that are rich in water."

She paused and added, "Actually, you can eat it if you can, but you can't eat too much."

"But, even if he can eat it, he certainly won't keep things like watermelon far away if he doesn't really like it."

"So, I guess Kaito's family either doesn't have anything with a strong smell or taste like coffee, or it's stored in a very remote corner~"

At the end, her tone became light and lively, as if she was a detective who had solved a difficult case, and it sounded like she was wagging her tail triumphantly.

But: apart from Aoko Nakamori, there was no sound of any other living people on the other side?

Nakamori Ginzo tried hard to listen, but he only heard a very low sound of the TV, and did not hear any voices that resembled those of Kuroba Kaito, Nakamori Aoko, or other classmates.

It was not until he asked the question out loud that he heard a very young but rather angry female voice, "Humph!"

"Hey? I'm talking to my classmate, Dad. Just now, uh, she was standing far away! So you didn't hear her talking. Now..." Nakamori Aoko hurriedly coaxed, and then asked in a low voice, "Is it okay now?"

She resumed her normal voice and spoke to Nakamori Ginzo, "I was just talking to Hongzi, the classmate I mentioned to you before, Koizumi Hongzi."

"We are very good friends."

The angry female voice that had been humming just now suddenly disappeared, no longer serving as background music along with the inexplicably angry sound of gnashing teeth.

Nakamori Aoko sounded a little confused, "Hey, Anko? Are you going to go find some coffee?"

"…You're walking so fast…"

"Anyway," she cheered up, "that's it, just go ahead and catch the Phantom Thief, Dad!"

But he seemed to be hesitant to speak: one of the Phantom Thieves was Kuroba Kaito.

"Well, Dad," Nakamori Aoko hesitated and said carefully, "You were just joking just now. You really won't kill Kaito, right?"

"No matter what happens, okay?"

Kuroba Kaito is a Phantom Thief.

This is definitely an arrest!!!
But Kuroba Kaito became a Phantom Thief because he was looking for the truth about his father's 'death', and he is still fighting against the evil criminal organization...

This is... Nakamori Aoko wanted to say, "You can trust the police!", but only a four or five-year-old Japanese child could say such naive words with confidence. Even if her father was a police captain, she was speechless for no reason.

When the law can punish the criminal, but the victim insists on retaliating, it may be the victim's fault. However, when the police and the law are unable to clarify the truth and punish the criminal, the victim's revenge is undoubtedly the fault of the police, prosecutors and laws.

She could only beg for mercy on behalf of Kuroba Kaito in advance.

Hearing this, Nakamori Ginzo laughed happily, "Ahahahaha."

"What the hell are you doing, Aoko? Is your father such a cruel person? How could he really fight Kaito? Why did you ask me so carefully after such a long time? It's as if I would come over and break that guy's legs right now!!!"

The last laugh was mixed with a sound that seemed like grinding teeth.

But ignoring the sound, he was indeed laughing happily, and after putting on sunglasses, he could definitely run for the title of Mr. Laughing.

"Wuwu, Dad, Dad hung up the phone, wuwu..."

Nakamori Ginzo hung up the phone happily and cried with joy. He then tried to be strong again and turned the urge to grab a dog on the street and break its legs into motivation to catch the thieves. "It's almost time! Everyone, be alert! We must catch those two guys this time!"

"Break their legs!!!"

Police officers: “…”

They stood silently like wooden men, refusing to move at all, in order to prevent their boss from mistaking them for Kaito Kid. They all listened carefully and pretended that they were really a tree and did not hear any sobbing or crying.

Nakamori Ginzo checked the time on his phone, then clicked into his empty inbox. He muttered in confusion, "Hey, why hasn't Mr. Kudo replied to me yet? Didn't he say yesterday that he would come to participate in the operation if he had time? Why didn't he reply to my messages today? Did he encounter any emergency?"

Unable to figure it out, he put away his phone suspiciously, and looked at Kogoro Mouri who was watching his ears and nose and his heart as if he didn't exist at the other end of the exhibition hall, and Conan who was forced to watch his ears and nose and his heart after being violently hit on the head. He became happy again: It doesn't matter, Mr. Kudo is not free, but Detective Mouri is free!

Although this detective seems quite unreliable...

But he is so famous, he must be reliable!

Thinking of this, Nakamori Ginzo walked over and said nonchalantly, "I just received an emergency call. Okay, I have arranged everything. From now on, all calls will be tricks of the Phantom Thief. No matter what emergency requires me to leave the scene to deal with it, it is a trick to lure the tiger away from the mountain!"

"Is that so?" Maori Kogoro smiled awkwardly, "Then just wait till nine o'clock!"

The upper floors of the exhibition hall fell silent, with only the sound of the ticking second hand.

As the clicking sounds of the nine o'clock approached, both the police officers and detectives became serious, and were on high alert at the last minute. They kept looking around at their companions and the quiet scene in the hall, and focused on observing the gems, trying to capture any trace of the thieves as soon as they appeared.

The second hand is still ticking.

After sixty ticks in the countdown, the minute hand jumped slightly, pushing the time to nine o'clock.

"Click."

The sound of the second hand and the minute hand overlapping each other was heard, and at the same time there was a crisp sound that was similar to that of a can rolling on the ground.

Then there was the sound of smoke puffing out.

"Inspector!"

"It's smoke, ah-chu! It's smoke pepper bombs!"

In the thick white fog that suddenly rose and quickly filled the entire venue, the sound of sneezing rang out two or three times in unison.

A young police officer who was closer to Nakamori Ginzo shouted a condemning voice from the pitch-black fog, "It's the scheming Kaito Kidd!"

(End of this chapter)