Chapter 2413 2425 [The Panic of the Phantom Thief]

"Okay, don't worry about these little things." The president's daughter coquettishly reached out and hugged him. She stuck to this mature and reliable man and asked expectantly, "Have you told my father about our relationship? What is his attitude?"

"Of course." Minister Ohba mentioned this with a happy expression. "Before I asked him, I thought he would object, but he agreed right away. He even said he was happy to entrust his daughter to a motivated young man like me."

"Really?" The president's daughter finally felt relieved and laughed, "Then we can be together forever."

The two people hugged and kissed each other happily.

…

In the elevator.

At the top of the VIP elevator, an uninvited guest quietly appeared.

Kuroba Kaito half-crouched in the dark elevator shaft. Holding the cable beside him, he quietly looked into the elevator through the ventilation hole.

Originally, he just wanted to come and check things out while it was still early, but as he walked around, he discovered that something seemed to be wrong.

——Apart from anything else, as soon as he reached the roof a few minutes ago, he keenly noticed that there was someone upstairs.

Kuroba Kaito used his carefully honed skills as a phantom thief to sneak up on him, and was shocked to find that it was a guy holding a sniper rifle and observing the Tokyo Tower from afar.

"What a terrible outlaw! He even used a sniper rifle to deal with me. Who is the person who wrote the notice to me this time?"

Kuroba Kaito was secretly alert. As a Phantom Thief who liked to soar in the night sky by hang gliding, the sniper rifle was undoubtedly his biggest enemy. He still remembered the last time he was nearly killed by a sniper shot from Skoubing in Osaka. Fortunately, Mist Tengu extended his wings in time to knock it off its trajectory.

"Speaking of which, Brother Youkai, I don't think you'll be spotted by the sniper on the rooftop."

Kidd took out his phone and sent an email to Mist Tengu, reminding him to be careful of cunning humans: "It shouldn't be a big problem. My target tonight is Tokyo Tower, and the monster obviously prefers to wait until I succeed before gracefully showing up to add to the meal rather than working with me. He just needs to show up with his back to the building."

Anyway, with this guy squatting on the roof, Kuroba Kaito felt very uneasy.

"That guy was wearing a knitted hat and a mask, hiding most of his features. I couldn't see his face clearly. He was covered so tightly, could he be a wanted criminal? ... Tsk, I have to find a way to test him, and it would be best if the police could arrest him. Compared to a harmless thief like me, the guy running around with a gun is the real criminal."

After thinking for a moment, Kuroba Kaito soon came up with an idea.

——The top floor of this building is a rooftop, and one floor below is a high-end restaurant where the banquet is being held.

"I can disguise myself as a person with a good reputation, and have him pretend to be robbed or stolen and ask the hotel staff to call the police." Kuroba Kaito nodded secretly, "That person must be important enough to get the police to come with just one sentence. Otherwise, if the hotel staff don't believe in evil and run to the rooftop to check, they might be shot by that guy and someone might die."

Thinking of this, Kuroba Kaito turned his gaze to the manager of this hotel.

...However, today was a banquet, and the manager was so busy that he didn't even have time to go to the bathroom. Kuroba Kaito secretly observed for a long time, but he didn't see the opportunity when he was alone, so he had to retreat regretfully.

Fortunately, a mature thief would never be stumped by such a small matter. Kuroba Kaito turned his eyes and looked at President Tatsumi who had booked most of the venue.

This time, the plan seemed to go smoothly - almost as soon as he arrived, he waited for the president to be alone.

"What good luck." Kidd adjusted his gloves, took out the anesthetic, and prepared to choose a suitable time to knock out the president in this VIP elevator that few people took, and become the president himself.

However, just before he was about to lift the roof and jump down, the elevator door suddenly slid open silently.

President Tatsumi, who was looking at his watch in the elevator, was startled and looked up at the door.

Kidd was also stunned for a moment, and instinctively held his breath and stopped his movements, also looking for an angle to look over.

The next moment, a pistol with a silencer appeared in their sight. Without hesitation, the person standing outside the elevator seemed to have expected this and pulled the trigger hard the moment it appeared.

“Bang!”

It happened to be the start of the cocktail party, and paper fireworks were fired in the banquet hall. The cheers of the people and the sound of the fireworks exploding drowned out the sound of the gunshot and the sound of President Chen Yi falling to the ground.

After firing the gun, the murderer withdrew his hand leisurely.

Without anyone operating it, the elevator door closed again, leaving the corpse with its eyes open inside.

Kidd: “…”

Kidd: “…………”

President——!!

"What's going on? What's going on?"

The thief, who usually just steals things and rarely encounters murders, couldn't help but wonder: "How come he suddenly... suddenly died?"

...Could it be that those people discovered his plan and wanted to kill him, but accidentally killed the president before he could replace him?

"No, no, it shouldn't be." Kidd wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, "I just came here not long ago, there is no time to replace. Maybe... this is just an ordinary murder case?"

The more I think about it, the more I feel that this is indeed the case.

Kuroba Kaito was lying in the dark and cold elevator, looking at the gradually freezing corpses through the air holes, and exhaled slowly: "Forget about the sniper rifles on the roof, but how come every passerby in the building has a gun? Mihua is really dangerous, we still have Jiang Gutian..."

"Speaking of which, what should we do now?"

A thief whose plan was interrupted looked at the unfortunate corpse on the ground and fell into deep thought for a moment.

…

A few minutes later.

In the restaurant.

Haibara Ai was eating when suddenly her ears twitched and she raised her head.

Like a vigilant rabbit, she listened carefully for a long time, then hesitantly asked Jiang Xia in a low voice: "Is there someone running around in the corridor?"

Jiang Xia picked up a piece of dessert and nodded: "I seemed to hear the voice of Inspector Megure."

Huiyuan Ai: “……?”

Her tense heart relaxed a little again - as long as there was no one being chased by Gin in the corridor, then everything would be fine.

At the same time, another table.

A high school student who was telling a Sherlock Holmes story to Mouri Ran also vaguely noticed something. Kudo Shinichi stopped talking and looked out the door from a distance.

Mao Lilan was good at catching screams, but she was not so sensitive to the noise of the police. Compared with the chaotic movement outside, she was more curious about another thing: "You said before that you had something important to tell me - what is it?"

(End of this chapter)