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The "safe zone" looked like an ordinary two-story apartment building. They passed through several doors with defensive spells and arrived at a special room.
The room contained numerous beds, with basic household items placed on bedside tables and a long table in the middle. Each bed was separated only by a curtain, creating a layout reminiscent of a combination of a hospital ward and a dormitory.
These beds are all vacant, and Bai Ma Tan can choose any bed to sleep in.
Superintendent Hakuba opened the door to the inner room and instructed Hakuba, "Don't be fooled by this building's unremarkable exterior. It's actually encircled by a barrier. Any unregistered presence of magical energy entering will trigger an alarm and block them from entering. Neither cursed spirits nor curse casters can enter. You must not leave this building until the investigation is complete. I've already requested leave from school for you."
Cheng Xiaoyu stood outside the door waiting and only went in after Superintendent Baima finished talking to his son.
Bai Ma Tan: "I'm sorry to have embarrassed you."
"It's nothing." Cheng Xiaoyu said, "Do you want to sleep now? If so, I'll turn off the light for you."
"No, I've already slept. Kidd's hypnotic gas is really strong, and I can't sleep after seeing so many exciting scenes just now. And there are some things I care about..."
Bai Matan pulled over two chairs and he and Cheng Xiaoyu sat on one each.
Seeing this scene, Cheng Xiaoyu knew that Bai Ma Tan was getting curious. She kicked the trash can out from the foot of the bed, fished out a handful of sunflower seeds from the shadows, stuffed a few into Bai Ma Tan's hand, and started cracking them. "Want to chat? Sure, I love chatting the most."
Bai Ma Tan held a handful of melon seeds, hesitated for a moment, and then put them in his pocket. "You said you were a human before?"
"Yeah. When I was 16, I got into some trouble and was expelled."
Cheng Xiaoyu continued to crack melon seeds without caring, thinking that it was too boring. Why not ask the Ghost Corps to get two bottles of soda.
"This kind of thing is very common. There are stories of 'falling into demons' in legends, and in the world of curses, there are many cases of humans becoming cursed. Gojo Satoru almost figured it out last time."
"I see."
Bai Ma Tan carefully observed Cheng Xiaoyu's expression and confirmed that she did not seem to be depressed about this matter, so he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
He is not the kind of person who would deliberately expose other people's scars out of his own curiosity, and the purpose of today's conversation is not to check the household registration. A big part of the reason is that he saw the bloody scene up close and urgently needed something to talk about to divert his attention.
Cheng Xiaoyu brushed off the residue on her hands and scooped up another handful of peanuts. "By the way, are you going to explain to your father? I think he's really scared by your recent situation."
Bai Ma Tan sighed: "I can't explain it. If he knew, he would definitely be even more worried. After all, it's not me who encounters troubles lately, but troubles that encounter me."
If the danger was caused by Bai Ba Tan's own initiative, it would prove that he was sensible and that Superintendent Bai Ba believed in his son.
It’s like when a person is sick, as long as the cause of the disease can be found and controlled, the disease can be controlled.
What’s more terrifying than not being able to find the source of bad luck is having no source at all.
But Spider's assassination attempt and the gunship strafing at the winery were all Baima's own misfortunes. If he had just encountered armed gangs during yesterday's fishing incident, Baima Superintendent would not have been so frightened as he was just now, but two first-level curse masters happened to appear.
This is really bad luck.
Cheng Xiaoyu had no choice but to comfort him, "Relax, you might have just awakened some detective qualities. Look at what Kudo Shinichi next door has been through in the past year since he was hit from behind and shrunk."
Hakuba recalled how Edogawa Conan had found cover to dodge the armed drone more skillfully than he and Kidd had last time, and fell into a long silence. Finally, he smiled helplessly and said, "Maybe being found by a case is the detective's fate. In that case, I have no choice but to accept it."
"By the way, have you compiled the intelligence on those killers and curse masters?"
Cheng Xiaoyu: "It has already been sent to Kudo's house. Their intelligence acquisition pipeline is running."
Perhaps because they had witnessed Cheng Xiaoyu's devilish appearance up close and were so frightened that they lost all their sense of hearing, the eyes of those killers and curse masters became clear, and both questioning and recalling memories were particularly smooth.
Bai Ma Detective: "How did you deal with the scene afterwards?"
He was lying in the hospital in the blink of an eye. He only selectively reported what he saw before he fainted as agreed with Ghost Shadow. He didn't have the chance to use his phone to join the group chat, and had no chance to know what happened afterwards.
He only knew that Nakamura Shin insisted that the armed men who were killed were replaced by unknown persons.
Cheng Xiaoyu: "Nothing. I used the bodies of those two curse masters to perform a puppet show, making Rum think that they were fighting and detonated the bomb."
Bai Ma Tan couldn't help but worry: "Can such a result deceive Rum and others?"
Cheng Xiaoyu: "Fights and demolition of houses are quite common in the world of curses. Some of the cases you see on the news now, such as gas explosions, ground collapses, and collapses caused by aging buildings, are simply public relations cover-ups. Restrained cursers often demolish houses when they fight, let alone cursers who don't restrain themselves in ordinary society. Demolition of houses is especially common when they fight."
Bai Ma Detective: "So, if they have a serious fight, they'll tear down the house and destroy the evidence, but if it's not serious, they'll just introduce smoke and dust like ordinary people? No wonder curse masters are so hard to detect."
He had learned about the tight human resources in the curse world and the sieve-like management of the old curse world when he met Yuta Otsutsuki on the African savannah. The combat-capable people were mainly on the front line dealing with cursed spirits, and the investigative personnel in the curse world were mainly focused on investigating the intelligence of cursed spirits. There were very few people who could investigate and capture curse masters.
Bai Ma Tan felt that he might be able to do something for this group of people who have been silently dedicating themselves in the dark: "Do you think ordinary humans can track down the curse master?"
Cheng Xiaoyu: "Yes. Curse casters are human too, and humans leave traces. Spellcasters and curse casters tend to focus too much on traces related to their spell power and ignore the most basic physical traces. That's why Gojo Satoru wants to deepen communication with the police, mainly to form a special investigation team to investigate curse casters."
If that's the case, maybe I can go to the magic world and help investigate the case later.
White Horse explores.
He is not good at investigating cursed spirits and curses, but when it comes to solving cases and catching criminals... Detective Hakuba is very good at it.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have made Spider and the Zoo organization so afraid of him that they wanted to kill him to silence him.
Part of the action at Kidd's fishing grounds was to make the winery retreat and make the zoo more cautious when attacking Hakuba Tan and Kaito Kidd. After that, there was actually no need for Hakuba Tan to appear on the scene.
There was a severe shortage of people who had an understanding of the world of sorcery, were receptive, and had investigative abilities, and Hakuba Tan just met these criteria.
Not only can you use your power to bring more criminals to justice and save more lives, but you can also learn about what's happening on the other side of the world. It's a win-win situation.
In fact, Cheng Xiaoyu was more restrained in what he said. In fact, Gojo Satoru and Getsu attached more importance to this aspect. They even planned to send some of the people to the police academy for theoretical training, or invite instructors from the police academy to come.
After all, they suffered a great loss in this matter back then.
During the Tennōriko incident, Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru were very careful to clean up the remaining cursed energy along the way, thinking that this would ensure they would be safe, but they were still tracked down by Fushiguro Jōrō along the physical traces.
Cheng Xiaoyu: "Although that incident didn't result in any actual deaths, Gojo Satoru and Geto Suguru were still proud young men back then, and they definitely bear a grudge for such a heavy loss. Even now, they dislike Fushiguro Shirou—the person whose spirit was summoned this time. The attitudes of the three parties now meeting... you can compare them to the attitude of the [Working Emperor] towards the [Ace Sniper]."
White Horse Detective: ...
I thought it was shocking that the curse master asked a soul to possess his body and then got stabbed in the back by the soul. It was even more shocking that the soul he asked was an old acquaintance. But I never expected that there are always people better than you. The show effect at that time actually had an even more shocking secret?
Bai Ma Tan's eyes were blank for a while.
"After this matter is resolved, will Kaito Kidd never appear again?"
Cheng Xiaoyu paused cracking peanuts. "Why are you asking this all of a sudden? And this change of topic is so abrupt."
"You said we were just chatting, but nobody has to plan a topic before chatting. Don't we just talk about whatever comes to mind?"
"Oh, that's true. Since we're just chatting, let's eat together. Aren't you tired of talking?"
Cheng Xiaoyu stuffed a handful of peanuts into Bai Matan's mouth, put the bag of peanuts on the bedside table, and then lowered her head to continue cracking the peanut shells.
"Why don't you just ask him in person in the group?"
"How many words of truth does that guy say?"
Bai Matan glanced at Cheng Xiaoyu who was peeling peanuts enthusiastically, thought for a while, and then joined the group peeling peanuts.
"I initially thought Kaito Kid was a thief who committed crimes for the thrill of it, but after interacting with him a few times, I realized he wasn't that type of person. It wasn't until the Spider incident that I became convinced of my suspicions. His reason for being Kaito Kid must be connected to the organization behind Spider. Not long ago, I became even more convinced that his sole purpose in becoming a Phantom Thief was to destroy the illegal organization called Zoo."
Hakuba realized that Kaito Kid had the same goal as himself, but he chose a more extreme and dangerous path to pursue justice than Hakuba.
Kaito Kidd is a crazy gambler, and the chip is his own life.
If you succeed, you will retire into the dust; if you fail, you will be doomed.
"Now that Pandora's Stone has been found, once the zoo falls, there will be no reason for 'Kaito Kidd' to appear again. 'Kidd' will disappear along with this darkness."
What made him most certain was that many of the plans in this fishing trip chose to put the most clues and the blame on Kaito Kid, who the police could not find at all. This undoubtedly increased the risk of his subsequent actions.
Kuroba... No, Kaito Kidd is indeed arrogant, but he is definitely not arrogant to the point of being so careless.
The only explanation is that this white thief soaring in the night sky will be sealed forever and never activated again, so there is naturally no need to worry about those risks.
Cheng Xiaoyu: "Although I can't answer your question on Kidd's behalf, if things develop as you said, wouldn't that be great? But why do you look unhappy?"
Hakuba Tan couldn't explain how he felt. He could understand Kaito Kid's choice and knew that it was the most reasonable approach at the moment.
But he still felt a little depressed. It was like a classmate asking him to play a game, and after a while, the other person suddenly quit, saying they were transferring schools and they couldn't play together anymore.
Although Kuroba Kaito had not actually transferred to another school, they were still able to chat, but the "Kaito Kid" that could become their common topic was no longer there.
Perhaps deep down in his heart, he has already recognized this special friend.
"Kudo Shinichi actually felt the same way. He guessed that I knew Kaito Kid's true identity and said he was a little envious that I would have the opportunity to compete with Kid in intelligence and have a conversation in the future, while he would never have the chance again."
Cheng Xiaoyu:.......
Hard to say.
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