Conan: Science Cartoonist Kudo Yuji

The monocle reflects in the moonlight, making it difficult to see the smile under the hat. Kidd put the gems into a black suitcase, and the entire building and nearby blocks were restored.

"There's even a shielded box! You...how did you steal the gem in an instant!"

"Shh!" Kidd raised his index finger to his mouth and pursed his lips: "It would be pointless to say it."

"Oh! Kidd!"

Grabbing the microphone, the female host jumped excitedly in front of the camera. Before she could speak, she saw twenty or thirty hooks appearing around the roof of the building to pull on the guardrail. People in black clothes kept climbing up. .

"Sir, be careful!"

With Yuji and the others guarding him, Suzuya swung out his scythe and saw a leading figure walking out of the men in black.

"Finally, Pandora, we have found it."

The man glanced at Kaitou Kidd, sneered twice, and then slowly looked at the cleaning maid who had just appeared from the stairs with a mop.

"Old guy, we have an agreement, you come and play with us about Pandora."

Because there was only one maid in the man's sight, Suzuki Jiroyoshi knew who he was looking at and stared at his daughter.

[You brought her in because you were angry with your father, right? 】

So this maid is the real Kidd, and the concave-shaped Kidd on the roof of this dead-cold building at night is actually his assistant...

"That's not right. When Dark Star was released, didn't it say that Kidd of the previous generation was already dead?"

The man in black calls the assistant "boy", while the maid calls him "old guy". Could it be...

Thinking of the Phantom Thief's habit of making false claims, Consultant Suzuki understood something and turned to glare at "Kid" who was holding his hat and looking back and forth between the maid and the man in black.

"The gem in your hand is probably a fake."

Being brought back to reality by the old man's words, Kuroba Kaito knocked on the suitcase in his hand and joked: "I didn't expect that Mr. Suzuki didn't believe in his own protective measures at all."

"is it?"

Suzuki Jiroyoshi's face suddenly showed an expression of relief and pride: "I just believe in you as my opponent all the time."

"Wha...what, even if you say so, I don't have the gems in my hands, so it's not my decision to return them to you."

There was an inexplicable atmosphere between the old man and the young phantom thief, which made the people standing aside and watching the excitement a little uncomfortable.

Based on "Kid's" words, he confirmed that this person was indeed the one he dealt with in Japan. Consultant Suzuki also understood that the maid behind him should be the generation that was said to be dead.

Thinking of the generation that appeared in Las Vegas, the daughter who studied here, and the Phantom Thief Lady who started a cloak duel with Kidd after his daughter returned to Japan to compete for Kidd's name, Consultant Suzuki raised his eyebrows, and thought in his mind The figure of the girl emerged.

[That’s right, they all have the same bad figure. 】

"That's enough!" The man in black took out a pistol from his pocket, pointed at Suzuki Jirokichi and threatened the maid: "Kid, no, Kuroba Toichi, you should take off the mask on your face."

Not frightened by the man's gun, Suzuki Jirokichi looked at the maid calmly, but his expression changed slightly when he heard the name of the deceased magician.

His daughter and Kuroba Chikage are as close as mother and daughter. He knows this, but since Kuroba Toichi is still alive, then...

"Ok."

With a sizzling sound, he threw the mask away from the roof of the building. His back, which was curved due to playing the role of a maid, slowly straightened. His white lotus skirt fluttered in the wind. After eight years, Kuroba Thieves once again appeared in front of so many people with his true appearance. before. "It's really shameful~"

As talkative as ever, everyone silently turned to look at the boy who was hiding behind the brown-haired girl's complaints. As if to pity the protagonist in the center of the stage, no one echoed Kudo Yuji's words, although they also held the same view.

"Kuroba Toichi, break the agreement between us. If you like to be outside the rules, we don't need to say anything else."

The man in black's earphones lit up three times. He seemed to have received some instructions and nodded: "The leader has given an order. If your son obstructs you again in the future, we will not be merciful."

"So you two can still reach an agreement?!"

Kuroba Kaito, who was standing at the top, shouted. He grabbed the lightning rod in his hand and looked at the father in maid uniform from a distance.

"Didn't you get murdered by a bomb because you hindered their search for gems? It turns out that your relationship was just okay. Even the bloody feud you always told me was a lie!"

Grandpa Terai actually lied to him the first time they met?

"Then those guys in Japan..."

Kaito turned to the man in black again. From just now, he felt that the man in front of him looked more powerful than the guys he fought every time.

"Eight years ago, we tracked down clues about Pandora at the same time as Kaito Kidd. It was first in Egypt, and then the gems ended up in North America."

The man in black didn't seem to be hiding anything and told Kaito the past openly, but the black feathered thief remained silent and acquiesced to his intention.

"Your father, Kuroba Toichi, faced us as Kidd for the last time in London..."

The gun in the hand of the man in black was pointed at Suzuki Jirokichi. Suzuya looked at the boss to indicate whether he wanted to go up and kill him. After receiving a no-no response, Suzuki slowly stuffed the iron rod back into his sleeve.

(Anyway, it’s not me who has sore hands, so I can still listen to the story.)

"You also got it, the true whereabouts of Pandora."

Eight years ago, at the top of Big Ben in London, Kidd, dressed in white, suddenly turned around and looked at the embarrassed appearance of the man who had climbed up. He was very happy.

It was great to climb up without anyone seeing it.

"Ah, in the interlayer of the painting at the Paris auction, there is a sailing diary written by a Spanish sailor himself. It records that their fleet once exchanged a glass ball for a strange gemstone in Africa, and there was actually another stone inside. .”

The man took a few breaths, finally calmed down a little, and revealed the clues that the leader had ordered to be auctioned.

"Where did you get the whereabouts of Pandora?"

Pulling out a pistol and threatening Kuroba Toichi across from him, the man was just about to say something about his wife and son as usual, but unexpectedly Kidd was very cooperative.

"The handwritten notes of a Southern American plantation owner whose descendants are friends of mine."

Kidd uncharacteristically pulled out a piece of stick from his chest. With a flick of his wrist, the stick turned into a cut cigar. He tried to inhale it, then took out a blowgun lighter, lit it, and took two puffs.

"The notes say that when his ancestors were buying those high-quality and cheap cotton-picking machines, they happened to see a richly dressed Spaniard selling a stone to those big men."

"We finally have a whereabouts, are you still going to stop us?"

It was rare for the two of them to talk like this, and the man put away his gun: "After all, there is no conflict between you and us, right?"

Kidd is a criminal and is being chased by the police. They are being chased by the police and are also criminals, so rounding off, they are equal to Kidd. The two sides are basically the same person.

"Or do you, a flying thief, also want to have a taste of what it's like to be a hero?" (End of Chapter)