Chapter 109: Phantom Thief
Recently, Jiangxia has received very few cases.
The subscribed newspapers are still delivered every day.
But Jiang Xia flipped through the pages for a long time but couldn't find his own image. His collection of clippings hadn't been updated for several days.
Finally, Jiang Xia folded the newspaper, threw it on the table, sighed, and looked at the front page.
There is a photo printed on it, which shows a blurry figure under the moonlight - combined with the title, this is probably "precious footage of Kaito Kidd escaping after succeeding in his theft."
In this world, Kaito Kidd is a bug-like character. His main job is a high school student in an island country with many talents, and his part-time job is a thief who moves like the wind under the moonlight and is very good at magic and disguise.
Although the appearance and age of Kaito Kid are unknown to the outside world, he still attracts countless fans with his superb acting skills.
In addition, before Kidd committed a crime, he liked to send a warning letter to the victim that needed to be decrypted, and his behavior was very artistic. Therefore, reporters especially liked to report on his stories.
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Jiang Xia had seen Kidd in newspapers several times before. But because this thief seemed to have the ability to resolve murders - every time Kidd appeared, there were not many deaths - Jiang Xia had a general impression of him, so he just ignored him and skipped over it.
But this time...
Jiang Xia read the contents of the newspaper and always felt that this incident might be related to him.
——This time, the Phantom Thief's notice was sent to the chairman of the Suzuki Group, Suzuki Sonoko's father.
Kidd's target is the pearl, the Dark Star, which is regarded as the "Guardian of Suzuki" by the Suzuki family.
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Just as he was thinking about it, Jiang Xia felt his cell phone vibrating.
He picked up the phone and heard Suzuki Sonoko's voice coming from the receiver.
"Have you seen the news?" Suzuki Sonoko sounded very excited, "Kid is coming to steal our things!"
Jiang Xia: “…”
Her tone was as cheerful as if it was Chinese New Year. If you didn't know her, you might think she was Kidd's assistant, not the victim's family member...
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Suzuki Sonoko came to invite Jiang Xia to help her catch Kid.
The apparent reason was to relieve the pressure on her hard-working old father.
In fact, she was curious about what the legendary thief Kidd looked like. Jiang Xia was so good at solving cases that he might be able to easily see through Kidd's theft plan and catch Kidd.
Moreover... as a girl who has just passed the chuunibyou period and has not yet completely recovered from chuunibyou, Suzuki Sonoko actually wants to see two handsome guys fighting for her (the family treasure) - that's right, the focus of the battle is her, not some dark star.
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Jiang Xia actually had little interest in the Phantom Thieves. In his impression, when Kidd first appeared, everything was basically peaceful and there were no murders at all.
Until later on, Kid's aura gradually couldn't suppress the growing Conan, and the number of murders when he committed crimes increased a little.
There was nothing fishy about the "Dark Star" case from beginning to end.
However, Jiang Xia thought for a moment and did not refuse Suzuki Sonoko's invitation, and tried hard to create the glorious image of "Jiang Xia never refuses anyone's invitation to go out."
——Only in this way can Suzuki Sonoko feel at ease to ask him out. She doesn't have to worry about whether Jiang Xia will accept the invitation before inviting him, and then arbitrarily cross out the projects that she thinks Jiang Xia doesn't like but have murder cases.
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Soon it was the day before the preview.
Jiang Xia found the Rice Flower Museum according to the address sent to him by Suzuki Sonoko.
Conan and Mao Lilan also came.
However, they were all not in the hall at this time. It was said that they went to observe the terrain around.
Jiang Xia simply greeted Chairman Suzuki, and then, in the other's expectant eyes of "You can definitely keep it!", he walked to the display case and looked at the huge black pearl - the Dark Star.
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According to the theory of psychics, some objects that embody human obsession contain a kind of energy called "energy core" that can be used to feed ghosts for upgrades.
Typical items carried are usually antique utensils or glittering gemstones.
One year ago, Jiang Xia had just transmigrated to this world. After landing, he went to the cemetery hospital to look for ghosts and murderous intent, and visited museums or jewelry exhibitions to try to find energy cores.
But at that time, just like he failed to find the ghost, Jiang Xia also failed to find the precious object with the "energy core".
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A while ago, as Kudo Shinichi became Conan, Jiang Xia started seeing ghosts again.
He went to the museum again with great anticipation, but unfortunately, he still did not find the energy core.
Yesterday, after receiving Suzuki Sonoko's invitation, Jiang Xia suddenly thought:
Is it possible that among the treasures Kidd wants to steal is the energy core that he can't find?
After all, in Jiang Xia's impression, if Conan is the protagonist of this world, then Kidd is definitely the second person with the protagonist's aura. If one of them is in charge of ghosts and murderous aura, and the other is in charge of the energy core used to upgrade stars... it seems very reasonable.
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But, now.
After seeing the dark stars up close, Jiang Xia was a little disappointed.
——He couldn't feel any energy from it.
And there was no scent of energy core in the entire museum.
"..." Jiang Xia's motivation dropped sharply as his secret expectation failed to come true.
He sighed, and while everyone else was busy with their own things and no one was paying attention to him, he decided to find a place to sit down and rest.
Just after taking a few steps, three people suddenly walked into the gate.
Jiang Xia raised his eyes and saw, as expected, Mouri Ran, Suzuki Sonoko and Conan.
(End of this chapter)
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