Chapter 2425 2437 [Capturing the "Phantom Thief"]
"By the way, didn't the detective become smaller? But why did he appear in the form of a high school student just now? Could it be that he can change his size at any time and anywhere?"
Kuroba Kaito walked out of the alley and looked at this city full of mysteries. His mind was filled with thoughts: "This technique is pretty good. If I can master it, then there will be no blind spots in my disguise... No, no, no, calm down. This kind of change is very dangerous no matter how you look at it!"
The thief walked away with a beep. Although he was very interested in this case and the transformed detective who appeared during the murder, he had more important things to do tonight.
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The other side.
In a van with thick sun-proof film on the windows, several figures sat together, silently watching a surveillance video on their laptops.
The scene of the incident was an exhibition hall filled with smoke. A group of police officers from the Second Investigation Section were running around in the smoke like headless flies.
From the accompanying eavesdropping device, the angry voice of Inspector Nakamori was heard: "Kid has mixed into the crowd!... What? He has already flown away from the sky on a hang glider? Idiot! That is his usual stand-in dummy. His real body must still be among the crowd in the exhibition hall - stop everyone in the hall immediately and search them before letting them go!"
Off screen.
The leading man in black looked deeply at Inspector Nakamori on the surveillance camera, his eyes full of meaning.
After a few seconds, he looked away and switched to another scene: this time, it was the image of the entrance of the venue where the incident occurred.
——Faced with the sudden police blockade, the guests in the venue were obviously unable to accept it and were angrily confronting the police who were blocking their way.
During the stalemate, a youthful and tender figure walked through the crowd and ignored the police.
"Wait!" A young police officer turned around quickly and grabbed the cute girl in a pink dress. "The commander said we can't leave now!"
"Really?" The girl turned back in surprise, "But I'm Nakamori Aoko, I'm just here to bring my dad a lunch box, I really can't leave?"
The old police officer nearby noticed the commotion and quickly said to the young police officer, "Don't you know? This is Inspector Nakamori's daughter."
"?!" The young policeman didn't expect to catch a relative by chance, so he quickly let go, "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry!"
"It's okay, you've worked hard." "Nakamori Aoko" smiled sweetly at him and turned away. A large number of reinforcements passed by her, but no one thought of stopping them.
With a "click", the man in black outside the screen pressed the pause button: "The following are the photos taken by our people following us."
He exited the video playback page and clicked on several photos one by one. "This woman received the notice we put on the gemstone, and then rushed to a nearby mailbox, put the gemstone in an envelope and posted it."
He seriously asked the guys in the car: "Do you know who the recipient is written on the envelope?"
The younger brothers shook their heads in confusion.
The black-clad boss lit a cigarette and exhaled quietly. His weathered eyes seemed to see through the darkness of the Metropolitan Police Department. "It's Inspector Nakamori. As far as I know, this is not the first time Inspector Nakamori has received such a letter. Do you know what this means?"
The brothers continued to shake their heads.
"Stupid!" The black-clad boss snorted coldly and crushed the cigarette fiercely. "This shows that there must be some kind of connection between the international thief Kaito Kidd and this seemingly ordinary Nakamori father and daughter!"
"Uh..." One of the younger brothers pushed up his glasses and asked in a low voice, "I heard that the reason why Kaito Kid is so difficult to catch is because he has the ability to change into any kind of person he has seen at any time. Could it be that because the identity of 'Inspector Nakamori's daughter' is more convenient, so he deliberately disguised himself like that?"
The gangster shook his head and said, "No matter how useful other people's identities are, they can only change their appearance once or twice at most. But Nakamori Aoko has sent stolen goods to Inspector Nakamori at least five times."
The younger brothers still couldn't believe it: "But Inspector Nakamori is the police officer who is responsible for arresting Kidd. He has been tracking down Kaito Kidd for more than 20 years. How could such a person..."
"Nothing is impossible." The black-clad boss waved his hand solemnly, "Don't forget, Kaito Kidd is an excellent magician. And magicians love to tease the audience and make the impossible possible."
"And Kidd didn't want the precious treasures that he had obtained with great difficulty, but returned them one by one to the police - don't you think there is something fishy going on?"
The loyal younger brother suddenly realized: "Now that you mention it, it is indeed a bit strange. He did not return the things to the victim, nor did he return them to other police officers. Instead, he only focused on Inspector Nakamori to return them..."
Another smart guy pushed his glasses and said, "If the gem is returned to the owner, the owner might conceal the return of the gem and continue to use the fact that Kidd stole it from him to defraud insurance, which would damage Kidd's reputation.
"And if it was returned to another police officer, the police officer's salary might not be worth a gem in his lifetime. If the police officer couldn't resist the temptation and took the gem, it would also ruin Kidd's reputation."
The last little brother listened in silence for a long time and concluded: "In other words, Kidd actually trusts that Inspector Nakamori?"
The black-clad boss smiled mysteriously: "Rather than trust, I prefer another truth - that Inspector Nakamori is actually the mastermind behind the Kaito Kid!"
Young brothers: “?!”
The black-clad boss said coldly, "Whether it's Nakamori Aoko or Kidd who's active at night, they're just pawns in the hands of this policeman. The reason why Kidd has to return the stolen items to Inspector Nakamori time and time again is because without his secret help, this so-called phantom thief would have no way of stealing the gems from the police's encirclement!"
The younger brothers seemed to have opened a new door: “?!!”
"For example, in the most recent case." The black-clad boss was surrounded by the admiring gazes of his younger brothers and secretly raised his chin. "Inspector Nakamori deliberately left a gap in the encirclement downstairs so that his daughter could slip away smoothly."
"That is to say, the legendary Phantom Thief Kidd is just a plastic stand-in that doesn't exist in the world, so no one can catch him. The real Phantom Thief is actually this girl on the screen!"
The black-clad boss looked at Nakamori Aoko on the screen, a cold light flashing in his eyes: "Over the past decade, Kidd has continuously caused us losses, and now it is finally time for us to take revenge."
(End of this chapter)
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