Chapter 3640 3655 [Ghostly Shadow]
Sonoko Suzuki, exhaling her soul, slumped against the wall with a thud: "Reality is definitely far worse than the game. I'll just continue working on my Phantom Thief dungeon. This time, I'll release some new themed CGs. As for the boss... I'll put an evil, high-tech old man guarding the gate."
Ran Mouri was startled when her companion suddenly ran and rammed into the wall: "Sonoko?"
But Conan, with his sharp eyes, noticed something else: "Kid is here!"
"?!" Inspector Nakamori's eyes sharpened, and he quickly looked at the surveillance camera... then realized he didn't know which one to look at.
A hand rose beside him, and Jiang Xia kindly pointed it out. Inspector Nakamori followed his gaze and saw on one of the surveillance cameras facing the moon that a triangular hang glider was quietly passing through the night sky next to the full moon.
In the night sky, even the white hang glider seemed to blend almost into the darkness. And Kidd was quite far from the camera, appearing no bigger than a fingertip.
Inspector Nakamori rubbed his eyes and couldn't help but steal a glance at Jiang Xia beside him: "..." To be able to find such a small thing from so many screens in an instant... This detective really lives up to his reputation.
...Wait, did you find that elementary school student too?
"Is it not that they're better, but that I'm the one with the problem?" After a brief moment of self-doubt, Inspector Nakamori decided to ignore the details for now. He slammed his hand on the table and ordered, "Enlarge this surveillance footage immediately!"
The technician operating the monitoring system was startled. He turned to look at his boss, and seeing that Suzuki Jirokichi had no objections, the technician quickly picked out the image and enlarged it by typing on the keyboard.
Soon, the triangle, the size of a fingertip, rapidly enlarged and gradually filled the entire screen.
Upon closer inspection, there was indeed a figure wearing a white top hat and a white suit under the triangular hang glider.
"Kidd?! This guy actually came down from the sky! Can't he see all these helicopters?!" Startled, Inspector Nakamori suddenly remembered something and loudly asked the technician, "Which helicopter transmitted this footage from?"
Technician: "It's aircraft number 7. Its current location should be above the area behind the museum."
"The sky behind us..." Inspector Nakamori rushed out of the monitoring room, and Conan immediately followed. Amid Ran Mouri's surprised shouts, the two, one big and one small, ran away as fast as they could, like two wolves that had smelled a bone.
Ai Haibara glanced at them, then turned back, suddenly startled. She tugged at Jiang Xia, who was also looking at the door, and pointed to the monitor: "Kaito Kid..."
Kidd is growing rapidly!
—As if it knew the location of the camera, the hang glider soaring in the night sky suddenly changed direction and flew straight towards us.
A complete human figure occupied the entire monitor screen. As Kidd got closer, the figure rapidly enlarged until only a smiling face covered by a monocle remained, firmly pressed against the screen, as if it were peering into the monitoring room through the lens.
"..." The technician closest to the screen couldn't help but stiffen his neck and step back.
Remembering something, he asked Suzuki Jirokichi in a bit of a panic, "Mr. Suzuki, should we activate the mechanism to retrieve the 'Blue Miracle' from the rooftop?"
The Blue Miracle was placed on a board, protruding from the rooftop, as if waiting for Kidd to steal it. But the board it was on could actually rotate; once the mechanism was activated, it would flip back into the building in less than a second, and then another board would block the gap in the rooftop.
As he asked the question, the technician had already placed his hand on the emergency button, afraid that if he pressed it even a second too late, the ghostly thief on the monitor would glide to the roof and steal the Blue Miracle.
"What are you afraid of? You're not allowed to accept it." Suzuki Jirokichi remained as steady as a mountain.
“Kidd said he was only here to scout the terrain and wouldn’t make a move. And didn’t his announcement say he would ‘come on foot’ to take the Blue Wonder? Look at the surveillance footage, his legs aren’t moving at all, how is that walking?”
Technician: "..." What if the "walking" he said was just a figure of speech? For example, using the word to show his leisurely attitude, rather than actually walking.
To put it another way, it's not impossible that Kidd could symbolically take a couple of steps in the air and then steal the Blue Wonder after gliding all the way to it.
But despite his inner turmoil, since the owner of the "Blue Miracle" wasn't in a hurry, he had no reason to be either...
The technician adjusted his mindset and tried to switch to spectator mode.
...
The monitoring room was completely calm.
Outside the museum.
Inspector Nakamori stormed out the back door... and then suddenly found himself surrounded by a crowd.
—Compared to those in the monitoring room, the onlookers outside, who had been staring at the sky, actually had a better view. As soon as Kidd appeared, some sharp-eyed fans recognized him and screamed.
These screams, like bugle calls, immediately drew everyone's attention to Kidd, and they crowded to the back door of the museum to occupy a better viewing position.
Inspector Nakamori stumbled into the group, like a sparrow caught in a sticky mouse trap; he thrashed about, but his progress came to zero.
"Stop pushing! Let me through!" Inspector Nakamori pulled out his police badge and waved it. "Don't delay me from arresting Kid!"
Startled by his voice, passersby turned to look. Some did step back, but more Kidd fans quietly gathered around, further obstructing his path.
Nakamori Police Department: "%￥*&@!!"
After much effort, he finally managed to break through the crowd, but when he looked up, the sky was empty, and there was no sign of Kidd.
After a moment of stunned silence, Inspector Nakamori asked his subordinates standing guard by the roadside, "Where's Kid?!"
The subordinate pointed to the sky, tracing the line from left to right, and said, "He just flew out from behind the building on the left, passed overhead, and was blocked by the building on the right... and then he never came out again."
Zhongshan Police Department: "..."
...
Unlike Inspector Nakamori, whose coat was askew, Conan was not hindered much and nimbly weaved between the legs, arriving at the roadside quite early.
Seeing Kid disappear behind the building, Conan stopped and didn't chase after him.
Anyway, those that run on the ground can't catch those that fly in the sky, and based on his experience, Kidd's brief appearance and disappearance in the sky meant he wasn't on his way, but rather preparing to make his entrance.
"Could he have already blended into the crowd?" Conan turned around and scrutinized everyone around him, feeling that everyone looked like Kaito Kid.
He was just thinking about whether he could pretend to be a primary school student and pinch everyone's cheeks. Just then, the surrounding crowd stared in shock at the sky and simultaneously let out a chorus of incredulous gasps!
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