[Comprehensive] Phantom Thief · Phantom Thief

Kaito's target this time is a bronze statue that has nothing to do with gems.

This medieval bronze statue, which is said to have been unearthed from a certain country in Western Europe, has been exhibited in the Ekoda Museum since last month. In terms of historical and literary value, it is naturally extremely high, but for Kaito...

"It's just a tasteless..."

After silently posting the data integrated in the computer for a while, Kaito finally came back to his senses and sighed helplessly.

In fact, if he had to choose, Kaito would never want to steal such a non-gem art that has nothing to do with Roichi's disappearance, and because of its size and weight, it is very difficult to steal.

But Kaito has no choice but to meet the mysterious organization that artificially created the "accident" of Kuroba Pirates' escape magic eight years ago, so there is no way to convince Terai, who is his assistant, to let that grandfather choose only for him. Gem related goals...

——So, in fact, having an assistant who is too capable can sometimes become a very troublesome thing...

He raised his hand and rubbed the center of his brows, expressing his incomprehension to Mr. Terai's inexplicable insistence on wanting him to steal the bronze statue, but he couldn't help but say a "no" to that old face full of eager expectations. "Word, Kaito smiled wryly and shook his head, suddenly feeling that he hadn't been so soft-hearted lately.

First, he agreed to help Dark and Daisuke, who were in bitter love, and then he couldn't hold back Grandpa Terai's request, and issued a notice to a bulky bronze statue that was completely uninterested...

"I think if you continue like this, sooner or later, I will face you =="

Facing Loki, who was ignoring the already dark night outside the window and still refusing to leave his room at such a late hour, Kaito was half joking and half self-deprecating.

——Isn’t it.

If it really goes on like this, if he walks on the road to the peerless Virgin and refuses to return, what relationship can he have with Loki, who is the "evil god", other than an enemy?

Kaito's half-joking half-ridicule got Loki an undisguised smirk: "Puchi, Kaito, what are you thinking..."

Smiling a few times, the beautiful blond young man raised his eyes, and looked softly at the black-haired boy who raised his eyebrows in front of him softly, "I can't bear it because I admire Dark, and I can't refuse Terai because I respect it, but think about it, If these two people were not acquainted with you and have a special relationship, even if their experience was a hundred times more miserable than this or they were ten years older, would you still make the same decision as now?"

"Kaito, it's not that you are too soft-hearted, it's just that you are too tolerant of your own people."

Usually, one should feel very lucky to be put into the heart of such a person and regarded as the existence of "one of us".

Loki didn't say the last sentence, but from the way he stared at him, Kaito already understood everything.

So he couldn't help showing a smile: "I'm as good as you said?"

"No, maybe...it's better than what I said." It's just that he couldn't remember how good it was.

The more we get along, the more we understand, the more we understand, the more we want to get back our previous memories——

Loki thought that he probably never had such a strong desire to retrieve the lost memories as he is now...

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It's night, Jiang Gutian Museum.

"Huh? Let me see, let me see, there are 8 helicopters circling in the sky for vigilance? There are 200 criminal police officers at the roof window and at the entrance of each step? Wow~ Infrared sirens are activated underground! This is really... so big His handwriting!"

Holding a palm-shaped mobile TV in his hand, Kaito, who was learning about the various security inside and outside the Ekoda Museum today from the simultaneous live broadcast of the TV station, couldn't help raising his eyebrows at this point. I don't know if he was talking to himself or Speaking to the respectful Terai behind him: "You are worthy of being the only son of the White Horse Police Chief! If there is no White Horse today, but only one person from the Nakamori Police Department..."

I believe that even if there is an unprecedented live broadcast from the TV station, it is absolutely impossible for the Metropolitan Police Department to approve the deployment of such a "little" strange thief for the sake of such a "little" monster.

"Then, I'm leaving, Grandpa Terai." Kaito pulled the brim of his hat and greeted in a low voice, throwing the mobile TV into the arms of the old man behind him.

"Yes, please be careful, Master Kaito."

He bowed respectfully, and when Terai raised his head again, the young phantom thief in white had indeed disappeared from his sight.

"Master Thief, if you're still here..."

Seeing such an outstanding Kaito-sama, don't you feel very proud and relieved?

Tears welled up in his eyes for a moment, but the white-haired old man did not let go of his emotions. He quickly picked up his mood. The old man quickly turned around and left the roof of the high-rise building facing the Jiang Gutian Museum, and set off for the previously agreed Good location, ready to meet my young master.

At the same time, Kaito, whom the old man Terai had been thinking about with all his heart, had successfully entered the basement of the museum through the ventilation hole.

Taking out the infrared mirror that was prepared before, the densely distributed red induction lines that come out from the lens, it looks like Kaito who is quite confident in his own technology, and he can't help but feel his scalp tingling...

"Should I be thankful that I don't have trypophobia?" Kaito whispered to himself with black lines on his face. Kaito's eyes quickly scanned the infrared sensor distribution of the entire room, and the angles that could be passed through were missed out of the interlaced lines. In Kaito's mind, he was rapidly screening and evolving, and finally... finally formed a route that he could pass through...

"Is this a recognition of my strength, or overconfidence in myself? The white horse..."

Thinking of the scene in the original novel that will take place shortly after this, the young Phantom Thief who relied on his "prophetic foresight" hook hooked his lips and secretly raised a smile full of interest...

With both hands, he quickly changed the original launch port of the Magic pistol to another mode, aiming at the previously calculated point, Kaito pulled the trigger, and fired a powerful suction cup with a flexible steel cable attached to the rear.

Dexterously exerting a little force, Kaito climbed up the steel cable from the ventilation hole, and Kaito began to carefully avoid one infrared warning line after another with the help of the steel cable.

His movements are flexible and agile, he is obviously dodging left and right, but there is no trace of panic. On the contrary, there is an indescribable sense of rhythm and rhythm in the movement of rushing from left to right, even in the silent and wide In the basement, it still makes the bystanders feel...

Pleasant to the eye.

——Frankly speaking, as one of the bystanders, the white horse detective boy who was hiding in the dark and watched with bated breath the every move of the white-clothed strange thief not far away thought so.

In fact, before meeting Kaitou Kidd, the boy with a white horse never knew that someone...could make the act of "crime" so gorgeous and elegant.

When he first saw that Mr. Phantom Thief climbed out of the window sill, taking advantage of the moonlight and crystal snow, spreading his wings and dancing in the night sky...

Detective Baima had to admit that for a moment, he was almost... seduced too!

Fortunately, the gust of wind came so timely that the strange thief named Kidd was swept away, losing the dangerous and deadly attraction before, otherwise...

Otherwise, at this moment, he still doesn't know if he can continue to stand here with a firm mind, waiting...to personally capture the magician in white under the moon...

Shaking his head, he threw the unreasonable doubts out of his mind. Seeing that the strange thief not far away was about to reach the ceiling smoothly, Tan Baima pushed open the secret door in front of him. When the strange thief heard the sound and looked back, he restrained all True expression, leaving only an impeccable confident smile——

"That's it! Phantom thief...Kid."

After finishing speaking, without waiting for the other party's reaction, Baima suddenly raised his hand and pressed a button by the wall...

Immediately, a large amount of white mist began to spray out from the four corners of the room, and permeated the entire basement at an extremely fast speed...

"It really is hypnosis gas..." He muttered in a low voice, and Kuaidou, who had been on guard against this for a long time, unhurriedly first knocked out the gas mask that Detective Baima was about to put on his face with a magic gun, and then quickly pulled it out. A small ring-shaped device was produced, and it was inserted between the teeth——

The latest scientific research achievement produced by the Kuroba Family's Secret Research Institute was just handed over to him by Elder Terai earlier today... a small oxygen replacement device!

It doesn’t need a heavy oxygen bottle, and it’s not as bulky as a gas mask. As long as you bite it in your mouth, it can easily filter out other components in the air other than oxygen, and it can be extracted freely in the underwater environment. The small replacement device that provides the holder with a continuous and sufficient amount of oxygen was conceived by Kaito after referring to a similar tool of the Maoyan sisters and handed over to the research institute for completion.

Unexpectedly, it was delivered in time, which saved Kaito from having to compete with Baiba for the gas mask.

Swish Swish Swish a few more shots, forcing the white horse to stay away from the gas mask. After confirming that the opponent had indeed fallen into a deep coma under the effect of the hypnotic gas, Kuai Dou jumped forward and fell soundlessly to the ground.

He quickly took off the coat of the white horse and put it on himself, took out the disguise tool to make himself into a white horse, and lifted the gas mask to open the hidden door on the ceiling of the basement that leads directly to the floor of the bronze statue exhibition hall. Dou's camouflaged version of "White Horse" proudly announced to the Nakamori Police Department in the exhibition hall that he had successfully captured Kidd!

"He's in the basement right now, asleep under the effects of hypnotic gas."

Kaito didn't even say a single request for the Nakamori Police Department to arrest people, just such a simple statement made the police chief excitedly rush downstairs to arrest people with a whole exhibition hall of criminal police.

"So, if you are so reckless, how could you catch me!"

Kaito pretended to shake his head when he saw that even the reporters who originally planned to interview him as a "boy detective" ran downstairs impatiently to get information about "Kaito Kid's true face!" Sighing, he squatted down and lifted the base of the bronze statue.

Melting the iron chains embedded in the base of the white horse with a small blowtorch at high temperature, and then unhurriedly pulling away the giant rucksack-style hydrogen balloon behind him, Kaito turned over neatly and jumped onto the bronze statue, after that... Without anyone guarding them, they just floated out of the exhibition hall together with a bulky bronze statue...

When Police Department Nakamori and others ran to the basement and discovered that the person lying there soundly asleep was actually a boy with a white horse whose coat had been stripped off, Kaito had already used a small mirror to Using magic techniques, he and the bronze statue "hidden" in front of them, successfully avoiding the sight of helicopters and ground patrol personnel, and finally...successfully meet up with old man Terai at the agreed place.

"Tsk! This big guy is really heavy..." He worked with Terai to load the bronze statue into the compartment of a medium-sized truck specially prepared for this operation. Looking at his white-haired old man——

"Huh? Grandpa Terai, what's your expression?"

Feeling gratified, moved, guilty, and revered...

As an older person, is it really okay for you to have such wild mood swings?

Kaito had a black line on his face.

"It's nothing, as expected of Master Kaito!" Without making Kaito entangled any longer, Terai quickly recovered his emotions, turned around and opened the car door——

"Then, Terai, I will bid farewell here first. Master Kaito, please go home as soon as possible. On the way... please be careful."

hey hey...

Be careful on the road or something should be my line to you!After all, the person responsible for hiding such a large stolen item is Grandpa Terai, you are right ==

Looking more and more envious, I watched my old [accent] assistant stretch out his arm from the car window in high spirits and waved it handsomely (==), then drove the truck and ran away without hesitation, alone The corner of the mouth of the young Phantom Thief who was left behind in the corner of the street twitched again and again, but... because the old man who made him full of all kinds of complaints had already left in a hurry, Mr. Phantom Thief could only sigh in frustration in the end He took a deep breath, turned around, and after preparing to change into an overly conspicuous outfit, he disappeared from the crowd. (The idiom juvenile is really not used in this way ==)

However, at this moment, accompanied by a pair of gentle and fragrant arms wrapped around his neck in an instant, a sweet female voice resounded in the boy's ears——

"Look~see~you~you~yo~"

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