"Ouch!" Kaito cried out in pain, feeling a sudden darkness before his eyes. Countless tiny golden stars danced merrily once more, almost causing him to die on the spot.
What's wrong with this family?! They're completely unreasonable!
Did they all get injected with anti-male hormones?!
He covered his rapidly swelling forehead, and with his strong willpower and desire for clues to Pandora, he managed to get past Mine Shizuka, who seemed like a guardian deity, and continued his stumbling escape.
Then, at the next corner, he encountered the final boss of this instance—an old lady with a cane and sharp, eagle-like eyes.
Kaito was almost in tears, but his professional ethics (or rather, that damned, misplaced idol image) made him decide to make one last gamble!
He refused to believe that his charm was truly useless in front of this family.
"Oh~ my dear lady~" He conjured a red rose in an instant, his movements still elegant, "Time has never taken away your charm; on the contrary, it has added to your unparalleled elegance..."
The old lady didn't even lift her eyelids; her cane shot out like lightning and precisely tripped Kaito's ankle.
Wow!
Thump!
Kaito fell flat on his face, scattering the rose petals from his hand across the ground, just like his shattered self-esteem at that moment.
"Shizuka! Raylia! Grab your weapons! This scoundrel dares to flirt with me!"
The old lady roared with great force.
Just then, Mine Raizo arrived and saw that Phantom Thief Kid dared to use his charm on his wife, daughter, and mother one after another. He was so angry that his hair almost stood on end: "You bastard thief! You shameless lecher! Take this!"
In the next few minutes, Kaito experienced what a real "mixed three-on-one" and "family portrait of justice ganging up" meant.
Wooden swords, canes, and even brooms thrown by who-knows-who came at him came raining down on him.
They were incredibly ruthless and precise, hitting people with all their might! They specifically targeted fleshy areas like the buttocks and thighs, causing little physical harm but inflicting extreme humiliation!
"Misunderstanding! It's all a misunderstanding!" Kaito ran away, covering his head in a disheveled state. His white suit was covered in dust, water stains, and footprints, and his handsome face was almost ruined. "I just came to steal something! I didn't intend to do any extra business!"
Douzi still hasn't realized it.
It's not that his charm has faded, but rather that the women in this family, after seeing a certain incredibly handsome young man, have become completely immune to him, their threshold raised to the level of Mount Everest!
Is he somewhat handsome? Hmm, he's alright.
But that's not enough, far from enough! Just like after drinking the finest nectar, who would still crave saccharin diluted with water?
All of this, including Kaito's embarrassing attempts to woo girls, his repeated setbacks, and his brutal beating, was observed by Nakamori Aoko, who had secretly followed him out and was hiding behind a pillar.
The girl looked at the white figure that had once made her heart race, but now seemed somewhat... comical and greasy, and watched as his familiar tricks, which might have once fooled her, completely failed with others...
She suddenly let out a soft, long sigh.
The pent-up, inexplicable frustration in my chest seemed to dissipate with that breath, vanishing without a trace in the evening breeze.
A strange, liberating sense of comfort spread through her, so relaxed that even she was somewhat surprised.
So this is what it feels like to let go of obsessions and illusions.
It doesn't seem so bad...
I even felt a little like laughing.
Meanwhile, Conan, who had heard the commotion, also came out. Seeing Kaito Kid being attacked by three generations of the Mine family plus an enraged male protagonist, and being beaten so badly that he could only howl in pain, Conan's mouth twitched wildly.
The plot developments tonight are getting more and more outrageous.
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