"I'm off today. Also, this is from the mailbox by the door; I'm just bringing it in for you."
As he spoke, he handed a thin, but rather elegant-looking letter to the bar.
"Give me a cup of black tea, no milk, no sugar."
Yoruichi Toyama shrugged, made him some tea as instructed, and then picked up the letter to read it carefully.
The envelope was addressed to "Black Cat Detective Agency, Mr. Yoruichi Toyama", and the return address was Beika City.
In addition, it is embossed with delicate guilloché patterns, which reveal the words "Suzuki Foundation" when held up to the light.
"Suzuki?" Yoruichi Toyama was slightly surprised. "Isn't that Sonoko's family company?"
He said it casually, but it immediately drew criticism from Young Master Mingzhi.
“Referring to the Suzuki Group as a ‘company’ is rather hasty.” Akechi pushed up his glasses, the reflection in the lenses seeming to indicate the seriousness of his words. “After all, their assets are probably in the tens of billions.”
"Is that so?..." Yoruichi Toyama, who had absolutely no concept of money exceeding one hundred million, replied and pulled out the letter.
It was a rather formal letter of authorization, neatly written on exquisite stationery:
"Mr. Yoruichi Toyama:"
"We cordially invite you to the Mika Museum Jewelry Exhibition on April 1st to protect our family heirloom, the 'Black Star,' from falling into the hands of a notorious phantom thief. We look forward to your presence."
Shiro Suzuki
"Oh!" This was Yoruichi Toyama's first reaction. This Kaito Kid is really considerate. She had just shifted her focus to him, and here he is.
"Shiro Suzuki..."
"He's the chairman of the Suzuki Group, the one with real power." Akechi was clearly very free, so he answered every question, and even answered before the question was asked.
"The Sonoko we met at the wedding of Matsumoto's daughter is the second daughter of Suzuki Shiro."
However, I know this too...
Yoruichi Toyama smiled and shrugged, indicating that he didn't appreciate the gesture.
But then I thought about it again and realized it was a bit suspicious.
"Tell me, did you already know I was going to get this job, and that's why you came all this way?"
Although the First Investigation Division is responsible for searching for rapists, while the Third Division is responsible for catching thieves, given Akechi's curiosity, why wouldn't he want to get involved?
Maybe it was him who recommended him to Chairman Suzuki!
"You're overthinking it!" Seemingly sensing Yoruichi Toyama's suspicion, Akechi laughed and put down his teacup.
“I have no say in front of the chairman of Suzuki; I only heard from my colleagues that they had encountered some trouble.”
"I think you'd be interested too, right? That world jewelry exhibition? I'm here to invite you to visit it together."
"ha?"
Yoruichi Toyama pointed at her nose in surprise.
You asked me out?
Young master, you're on vacation with nothing to do, why don't you go out and ask girls out? Why did you ask me to go to a museum?
I've never heard of you having this tendency before.
Seeing the somewhat wary and confused look in the person's eyes, Mingzhi couldn't help but roll his eyes.
"Forget it, to be honest, I don't want to owe you a favor for no reason..."
“An elderly police officer called me and said that you might be in trouble recently… well, anyway, he wanted to come and see you, that’s all.”
He was actually sent by Amuro Tooru!
Even a certain secret agent can command the young master of the gold watch group!
Yoruichi Toyama was inexplicably surprised!
...Of course, it's not that they don't appreciate it.
When Amuro Tooru told himself it would be best to leave, he didn't reveal his true intentions.
Perhaps fearing that Yoruichi Toyama would misunderstand, and also because the Akemi Miyano sisters had left, she subsequently fell into a slump.
He was quite thoughtful.
However, after arguing face-to-face, she immediately arranged for someone to come and offer comfort. This can't even be described as just being arrogant!
What's this called? "Those who criticize me to my face receive the highest reward?"...
Yuanshan Ye's mind was in complete chaos, and just as she was feeling confused, she received another eye roll from Mingzhi.
"You also received a request from the Suzuki Group, didn't you? Hurry up, do you want to go?"
"Go! Go! Go!"
...
Peng Zhijie stayed at the shop, while Taro slyly jumped onto Toyama Yoichi's shoulder and got into Akechi's BMW to head to the Beika Museum.
"That phantom thief... Is someone trying to steal jewelry from the Suzuki Group?"
On the way, Yoruichi Toyama tentatively asked.
He had some recollection of the events involving Phantom Thief Kid, but because he wasn't particularly interested, he couldn't remember the details clearly.
This is a good time to review the situation.
“You don’t know?” Akechi raised an eyebrow. “A very famous thief, ‘Phantom Thief No. 1412’ wanted by Interpol, also known as ‘Phantom Thief Kid’ in Japan.”
"That guy has his eye on the Black Pearl 'Black Star' that the Suzuki Group is exhibiting, so he sent out a notice to steal it. Section 3 is already swamped with work."
It was quite obvious that Yoruichi Toyama sensed a hint of sarcasm when he mentioned the "three lessons".
But after thinking about it, I decided not to accept the offer.
Inspector Ginzo Nakamori has always been in charge of the Kaito Kid case in Section 3.
This uncle's abilities are basically on par with Inspector Megure's, except that he has a more volatile temper.
He always vowed to catch Kidd.
However, he has a daughter named Nakamori Aoko, who is a classmate of Kaito Kuroba, the true form of the current Phantom Thief Kid.
They're still like Shinichi Kudo and Ran Mouri, or Heiji Hattori and Kazuha Toyama—unspoken couples.
This Inspector Nakamori, with Kaito Kid right under his nose, is just playing the father-in-law catching son-in-law game all day long. He's really something else.
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