Conan: The Second Personality of Kaitou Kidd

Chapter 88
Fourth floor.

The elevator opened slowly, Kudo Shinichi walked out quickly, turned around and rushed into the stairway.

The sound of the door sounded in the empty corridor, causing an illusory ripple.

Kudo Shinichi pushed the door. He glanced around in the corridor and said loudly, "I'm here, Kaitou Kidd."

His voice also rippled and echoed in the corridor, overlapping with countless accents.

In the accent, there was suddenly a strange sound other than human voices, which was somewhat similar to the sound of birds flapping their wings. After a few seconds, the reverberation of human voices became lower and lower, and the sound of birds flapping wings became louder and louder.

A dark shadow struck from the corridor above, and landed heavily on the handrail at the corner of the stairs.

It was a crow, a crow that survived with only one red eye.

It looked as if it had traveled a long distance, its pitch-black crow feathers were in a mess, its breath was a little unstable, and it was in a state of panting.

Kudo Shinichi's eyes narrowed slightly, "It's you."

It's Kaitou Kid's crow.

It has repeatedly helped the police and Kudo Shinichi to confirm that 'Phantom Thief Kidd is nearby', and now it appears again.

The crow rolled its eyes, took a deep look at Kudo Shinichi, and suddenly took off again, disappearing from the turning platform of the stairs from the fourth floor to the fifth floor.

There was another heavy sound coming from upstairs. It was the collision sound of crows landing heavily on human shoulders, and the low, hoarse and melodious cry of crows. It was not the kind of notification sound with strong penetration before, but A low coquettish voice.

Kudo Shinichi moved his eyes and looked directly above him. He reached out to close the door of the stairwell and raised his eyebrows, "Kidd the Kaitou?"

The crow stopped coquettishly.

The voice of 'Ginzo Nakamori' came from directly above, "Shinichi Kudo."

... Ah, ha.

Why is it still the voice of Ginzo Nakamori?It's still a cold voice of 'Young Commander', very young, sounds a little bit from the red camp, and doesn't blame Thief Kidd at all.

"'Police Department'," Kudo Shinichi also simply followed Nakamori Ginzo's address, he bit down on the title, and stepped on the stairs upstairs, "Are you too impatient? Or do you lack confidence in me?"

So I skipped some time-wasting links twice in a row, and went directly to the decryption link of the final answer.

He took two steps up, and heard the same sound of stepping on the stairs upstairs.

"Sorry," the other party apologized quite simply, "I'm in a hurry."

Huh?
The tone was too serious, and the wording was too short, Kudo Shinichi raised his head again, glanced suspiciously at the slanted stairway above, and recalled the last time he met Kaito Kidd on the rooftop.

At that time, the tone of Kaito Kidd's every sentence was quite upbeat, in a leisurely state, and a little bit of lively personality was added.

Now, the tone of every sentence of "Nakamori Police Department" is flat, calm and indifferent, and a bit of natural refusal is added.

Not at all, not at all like a person.

Thinking like this, Kudo Shinichi remembered one more thing: Seriously speaking, the Kaitou Kidd on the rooftop is somewhat different from the Kaitou Kidd he saw in the library when he was a child.

Library Phantom Kidd is leisurely, but it is obviously the leisurely elegance of Yusaku Kudo, a mature adult who calmly teases children.

Kidd, the strange thief on the rooftop, is leisurely, lively and youthful, and a little talkative.

The one upstairs, then...

In just a few words, the indifferent character is shown to the fullest, it is incredible, people can't think of 'Phantom Thief Kidd' or 'White Peacock Showing off a Beautiful Tail', even if it is a peacock, it will only make people think of being superior The kind of cold peacock that glances coldly at tourists.

In short, I don't blame Thief Kidd at all.

How can this be so?

"You're late," upstairs, amidst the rhythmic footsteps, 'Nakamori Ginzo' spoke again, and he said in a flat, declarative tone, "You arrived ahead of schedule for the first two meetings. Once, you didn't come until it was close to zero."

He asked reluctantly, "Why?"

Kudo Shinichi: "..."

Kudo Shinichi reflected on himself: Why did he intuitively think of "reluctantly" in just one sentence, and then think of the peacock being dragged by the tail and forcibly pulled in front of the tourists by the breeder?

The silence was too long, 'Nakamori Ginzo' asked politely: "Have you thought about explaining?"

"Cough," Kudo Shinichi said restrainedly, "There are some problems with the communication with the police, and we need a temporary explanation."

He didn't hesitate any longer, and directly said the key point, "Compared with last time, you seem a little different?"

'Nakamori Ginzo' didn't hesitate, and directly admitted, "Yeah."

"The attitude towards you last time was Kaito Kidd's attitude towards equal opponents," he said coldly, "I only have that attitude towards equal opponents."

"But this time..."

But this time, his performance disappointed Kaito Kidd?
Kudo Shinichi guessed the unfinished sentence.

He recalled the few times he had met with Kaitou Kidd before, and found that indeed, whether it was eight years ago or not long ago, when he spoke to Kaitou Kidd, the tone of the other party was quite relaxed and leisurely, and it was for equal communication partners. tone.

Even eight years ago, Kudo Shinichi was a primary school student, even not long ago, Kudo Shinichi was a novice detective.

It's completely different from this time.

...understandable.

This time, because Ginzo Nakamori politely refused the detective's assistance, Kudo Shin didn't arrive until one hour before zero o'clock, and even listened to the overall movements of the police personnel on the helicopter almost the whole time, without immediately intervening in the situation.

From the perspective of Phantom Thief Kidd, probably after the incident of almost catching Phantom Thief Kidd last night, he was a bit 'smug' and 'floating', and began to look down on Phantom Thief Kidd.

For a person like Kaitou Kidd who is tough enough to grab everyone's attention, shines under the spotlight, and is full of self-esteem at first glance, once he comes to the conclusion that his opponent underestimates him, he is only a little cold, which is nothing more than normal .

Likewise, 'hurry time' is an attitude towards unequal opponents.

"This time it was an accident," Kudo Shinichi also explained bluntly and frankly, "I didn't mean to underestimate you."

"Next time, I look forward to our next real fight. I will definitely go all out, and I hope you will treat me as an opponent and go all out."

Upstairs, 'Nakamori Ginzo' was noncommittal, neither giving a positive signal nor a negative signal.

The corridor was quiet for a few seconds, only the sound of stepping on the stairs overlapped.

Kudo Shinichi listened and found that the time interval between the other party's stepping on the stairs was almost exactly the same, very precise.

"By the way, you said before that 'children at home resist birds'," he asked, "but in the last few operations, crows will appear near you."

"why?"

(End of this chapter)