Conan: The Second Personality of Kaitou Kidd

Chapter 406 No Choice
  Fire escape magic requires the coordination of a prop box.

Under the illumination of the lights, the stage lifting platform slowly rose, and a wooden box the size of a coffin rose onto the stage.

The lift platform continues to rise.

It is composed of a thin floor and four stick supports. There is nothing under the floor. The audience can easily see that the wooden box is almost alone in mid-air, without any room for escape.

The light only shines on the wooden box.

It was nearly ten meters high.

Several staff members walked onto the stage and built a small staircase for Kuroba Toichi in the dark to walk step by step to the lift.

Black Feather Thief looked back again.

He must be very familiar with Kuroba Kaito's position to be so precise every time. As long as he tilts his head slightly, he can look at Kuroba Kaito and Shiraizu in the darkness.

Rarely, he did not start the magic immediately, but remained silent for a few seconds.

The audience, which had been buzzing with excitement and cheers since the announcement of the fire escape magic, gradually fell silent.

They mistakenly thought that Kuroba Toichi was waiting for An Jing.

The light did not hit Kuroba Toichi directly. He stood on the edge, his figure was faintly illuminated by the scattered light, and the details of his expression were hidden in the intersection of light and darkness.

There was a subtle, instinctively unsettling aura that became thicker, reaching its peak the moment the Black Feather Thief withdrew his sight and turned his head to step onto the stairs, just like the almost imperceptible spider silk in the darkness.

No one in the audience noticed that everyone was watching the black feather pirate who was walking up the stairs step by step, like heading towards the gate of heaven.

The young Bai Shui was a little uneasy and asked again: "...Are you really not playing any pranks?"

He became vigilant, like a keen little animal. From the sound of his voice, he might see something bad happen at any time and run away, but his eyes were still fixed on Kuroba Toichi, "Wait a minute, your father won't suddenly Will you be called upon to perform parent-child magic?"

Standing on the stage, in the center of the audience's attention, and pretending to be Kaito Kuroba's cheerful smile is something that will definitely make Shiraizu feel uncomfortable.

Black Feather Pirates is actually a bit abnormal.

Shiraisui and Kuroba Kaito, who were so abnormal that they were young, definitely noticed it, but because of the lack of important clues, they seemed to be in a fog. Even if the uneasiness became more and more intense, they could not guess what was about to happen.

Black Feather Pirates never looked back.

He walked to the middle of the stairs and began to speak. His tone was soft and elegant, as if he was an excellent magician in control of the overall situation. "Many viewers have seen my fire magic because of the ingenious design of a friend." , I actually quite like flames,"

It’s ‘Crimson Tears’.

Kuroba Toichi was talking about the 'Crimson Tears' which was inlaid with photos and full of love.

He still didn't look back, stepping up the stairs step by step. The sound of low footsteps expanded along the microphone and spread throughout the audience, like a prey that was unaware of the cobwebs in the dark.

It’s not that I don’t want to look back, it’s that I can’t. It doesn’t have to be at this moment, but it can only be at this moment. It’s not that you want to cruelly fake your death in front of your biological children and wander around the world, but you must die without resistance when the spider comes to your door.

Because he is Kuroba Toichi.

If he were just Kaitou Kidd, he would have no scruples and could easily manipulate the Animal Organization. He could intentionally steal the Animal Organization's targets again and again, deliberately excite the Animal Organization, and make the other party gather all the power of the organization and the Phantom Thief Kid. Virtue plays the game and plays the game with ease.

Even if we take it seriously, the Animal Organization is a dangerous organization hidden in the darkness, dormant in the shadow of the human world.

Kaitou Kidd is very mobile.

Only one person can cross the long night, flash like a white miracle and take away the target item, or disappear in the enemy's circle with the wind. When the day comes and the sun's rays shine on the world, Kaito Kidd will quietly He blended into the human world silently, and even the most powerful enemy could not find this magician under the moonlight.

However, he is still Kuroba Toichi.

He still has a wife he loves deeply, a child he loves deeply, and Kuroba Toichi who has a fatal weakness.

Kaitou Kidd has many choices, while Black Feather Thief has only one choice.

That is, when the animal organization's eyes fell on him, he took the opportunity to escape from his shell and fly away, far away from his wife and children, without involving them.

As a weakness, Kuroba Kaito knows it.

but……

He silently stared at Kuroba Toichi, spanning ten years, quietly watching his father's back.

The back figure stepped into the light beam, and when he looked back at the audience, his face was already wearing an elegant smile belonging to a magician, and his tone was relaxed, "Today, I am going to perform a somewhat unpleasant fire magic. I hope that Don't be angry when my friend learns that I actually constructed an escape magic using his favorite flames and performed it many times."

"After all," he teased, "escape magic is bad luck, isn't it? What if-"

If the magician fails to perform, it becomes a murder scene.

This joke was not very friendly to the magician, but the person who spoke was the magician himself, and the audience was amused, and there were bursts of pleasant laughter.

The Black Feather Thief smiled and snapped his fingers, "Please push the stairs away. Next, I will enter this box."

He was still looking at the audience, but did not look in the direction of his child again, and lay down in the wooden box with a relaxed smile.

Wooden box closed.

The stage lights dimmed, but only for less than a second before a new light source came on, a flame.

There was a flame burning. At first there were only a few small flowers, like orange bouquets, but soon they jumped and spread to the entire wooden box, distorting huge afterimages and completely covering the wooden box.     This is a silent magic.

The magician was inside the wooden box, unable to speak. The audience could only wait with bated breath, staring at the orange flames in the darkness, intently trying to see every detail.

So he became an eyewitness to "Kuroba Toichi's magic show failed and died unexpectedly."

The flames were burning, almost igniting the entire lift platform. It was like a red bush in the sky. Kuroba Kaito felt the young Shiraizu unconsciously clenching his hand.

In the darkness, he could only stare intently at the only orange light.

On the stage, the lift platform burned to a certain extent. It seemed that some mechanism had been burned down. There were abnormal protrusions. The ten-meter-high lift platform suddenly tilted, and the wooden box slid a little towards the tilted corner.

After just one slide, the lifting platform suddenly fell apart and turned into pieces of flaming meteorites in mid-air, scattering and hitting the stage in the darkness.

The wooden box fell from a high place, like a sky fire streaking across the long night sky and falling to the ground.

There were exclamations in the audience, and then the exclamations suddenly became louder.

There was a scream.

Some spectators were relatively calm and calmed down their panicked companions, saying things like, "Don't panic, this is magic."

Kuroba Kaito faintly heard a very vague comfort coming from the darkness behind him, "Mr. Kuroba Toichi is a legendary magician, and his child is right under the stage. If you look closely, it's..."

Probably at the moment when the spectator pointed at the young Shiraizu, Kuroba Kaito caught a figure in the broken box from Shiraizu's sight.

The specific details of the figure were blurred by the flames, and all you could see was that he was still lying down, his hands seemed to be covering his abdomen, and he seemed to be moaning.

It was at the moment when an audience pointed out that Kuroba Toichi's child was sitting in the audience, and at the moment when young Shiraizu saw the figure, he said nothing, and he and young Kuroba Kaito remained silent at about the same time, like a flash of lightning. Rushing towards the stage.

But the flames jumped up to the curtain at the edge of the stage, and soon a raging fire ignited, covering everything on the stage.

There is an open space three to four meters wide between the stage and the auditorium, which becomes an excellent isolation zone at this time.

The young Baishui bumped into the table, the chairs, and other audience members. After falling, he jumped up and rolled to the ground. His eyes were fixed on the stage, and he ran in a straight line, knocked out of the auditorium, and into the isolation area. bring.

He crashed out of the isolation belt again and hit the high stage.

He rushed towards the wooden box.

But a raging fire was already igniting on the stage, shocking screams were heard in the auditorium, the audience was in chaos, and the air was surging.

The flames burst out suddenly, pushing away the young Bai Shui, causing him to fall backwards due to the impact, and then fell off the stage.

He quickly got up again and rushed onto the stage again.

This time, as soon as he climbed up, the spreading flames pushed him away without hesitation, like a coincidence, pushing him away from the fatal danger.

He climbed up again and again, and was pushed down again and again, as if he didn't notice the feeling of his skin being burned by the flames.

Until the flames stop.

Until the broken wooden box revealed a dark human body.

Until I got in the ambulance.

Until I entered the operating room, cold anesthetic solution poured into my veins.

The young Baishui seemed to have just come to his senses.

"You won't die..."

Kuroba Kaito is the protagonist.

"...So I can't get through it..."

The past will lead to death, so it can't pass, so the flames will be uncharacteristically pushing him away bit by bit as if they have spirituality.

"Why..."

Why did Kuroba Kaito's father die?
  The anesthetic took effect, and the body fell into an unconscious sleep.

Kuroba Kaito suddenly woke up.

He struggled to sit up from the colored paper floor in the school doctor's office and shouted almost instinctively, "It's Dad!"

"It was dad who pushed us away!"

It's not the so-called 'the protagonist will not die, so even if they go deep into the sea of ​​fire, the flames will push them away', but 'Black Feather Pirates is secretly controlling the flames and pushing them out'.

Kuroba Kaito didn't know what the young Shiraizu was thinking specifically, but he could guess part of the young Shiraizu's thinking logic after seeing this scene.

"It's not because you didn't accompany me to help dad organize the props that the magic accident happened. It's because dad was targeted by a spider and had to fake his death because of his true identity!"

"Hey!!!"

(End of this chapter)