Conan: The Magician of the End of the Century

Chapter 16 Phantom Thief vs Tengu
"You, what are you talking about? Dad was killed?! By whom?!"

When Kaito learned that his father did not die in an accident, he realized that Kidd might be Nakamori Ginzo who escaped from the roof, and was leading his troops to charge towards the roof.

After finding out that Konosuke Terai never knew who killed his father, Kaito reluctantly ended the topic and asked the last question.

"Is he... a thief? My dad, is it really Kaitou Kidd?"

After getting an affirmative answer from the other party, Kaito pressed the brim of his hat with an indifferent expression.

"yes……"

Just as Terai felt ashamed and remorseful for letting Kaito know such a cruel truth, suddenly there were a large number of police footsteps coming from the emergency exit.

"I'll be the bait, old man, hurry up!" Kaito jumped in front of Terai, covering his figure with his cloak.

"But, master!"

"I'm not a young master anymore." Kaito interrupted decisively, and raised his chin confidently, "I'm Kaitou Kid!"

While the searchlights on the helicopter were focused on Kaitou Kidd, Terai quickly moved from the shadows to hide behind the pillar in the corner.

"I got you, Kaitou Kidd!" Seeing the snow-white Kaitou Kidd photographed in the center of the helicopter platform, Nakamori Ginzo shouted, and immediately rushed up, "Hurry up, don't let him escape!"

Seeing a group of policemen rushing towards him like hungry tigers, Kidd turned around and ran, and finally came to the edge of the roof, with no way to retreat behind him.

"It's over here, you're doomed, Kidd!"

Just when Nakamori Ginzo thought that the winning ticket was in his hands, Kidd turned around, smiled charmingly, and then fell behind the empty back.

Everyone hurried forward in astonishment, ready to find Kidd's position, when suddenly a white figure shot straight into the sky from below, passed everyone's sight, and burned up in front of their heads in an instant, leaving only curls of smoke in the night sky drifting away.

It wasn't until the helicopter took pictures of the tower crane used to hang Kidd's clothes that Ginzo Nakamori realized that he had been tricked by the opponent again.

"Damn it, it's been placed again!"

……

"Goodbye." Kaito, who successfully landed on the ground using the rope, looked at the busy helicopter in the sky with a look of disbelief, and then quickly escaped into the shadows.

Just as he changed back into a high school uniform and was about to go home through the park, he suddenly saw a familiar figure standing under a street lamp in the distance, and the other party seemed to have spotted him.

"Quick~Dou~ You are here indeed!" Seeing Aoko Nakamori walking quickly from the opposite side angrily, Kuaidou's heart skipped a beat.

"Could it be that I was discovered the first time I transformed into Phantom Thief Kidd?! It shouldn't be!"

However, although Kaito was flustered, his face was not panicked at all, but he looked at the other party in surprise and said, "Qingzi! Why are you here so late? Could it be that you are waiting for uncle to get off work?"

"Isn't it because I wanted to borrow something from you, but it turned out that someone sneaked out in the middle of the night and was not at home, so I couldn't rest assured to come and have a look." Aoko Nakamori stared at Kaito Kuroba sullenly.

"Thinking of the way you said at school during the day that you wanted to catch Kaidou Kidd with your own hands, I guess you must have come here to stay." Qingzi looked at Kaidou with a smirk on his face and said, "How about it, catch Kidd Are you there, Mister Magician?"

"Ha, you guessed it all." Said Kaito with a regretful expression, "If I didn't take a detour to save a comatose kitten and send it to the shelter, it would be one step late , so that the thief who hides his head and shows his tail will not be allowed to escape."

"So you didn't catch it? So you're a braggart~~"

"Tch, if I can meet him head-on next time, I will definitely let him catch him without a fight!" Kuai Dou yelled, but he was complaining in his heart how could someone catch himself.

"Hmph, I hope you're not just bragging." Qingzi snorted disdainfully, and then said again, "Then should we go home directly now, or wait for my dad to get off work together?"

Kaito thought that he could not return to the sight of the police now, since the gemstone was still on him, it would be bad if he was suspected, so he directly refused: "Go home early, we didn't catch Kidd, uncle There must still be work to deal with the aftermath, so I probably won't be able to sleep tonight."

"That's right, then go home early, it's so late, and you have class tomorrow."

Looking at Kaito who was walking back with his hands on the back of his head, Qingzi silently followed behind him.

"Ah~!!"

Just as Kaito walked less than ten steps forward, Aoko's terrified scream came from behind him.

"Qingzi!" Kaito instinctively turned around and called out the opponent's name, but the scene in front of him made him feel as if he had fallen into an ice cave.

I saw Qingzi's neck was firmly held by a big black hand from behind, and behind her, a tall figure turned his back to the street lamp behind, completely covering Qingzi's body in the shadow.

"Who are you?! Let go of Qingzi!"

Although Kaito was fearless on the surface and showed an angry look, but from the outline of the tall figure in front of him, he judged that the opponent should be a big man over two meters, and the coercion from the opponent made him gasp Out of breath, his feet couldn't help trembling slightly.

"Kaito, leave me alone, hurry up and call the police!" Qingzi yelled to Kaito loudly, and wanted to continue talking, but the hand stuck on her neck suddenly increased the strength, making her unable to utter a word anymore .

Kuai Dou stared at the big hand strangling Qingzi's throat, intending to use Kidd's props to launch an attack, but he was afraid that Qingzi would find out his true identity, so he was a bit hesitant to make a decision.

Just when he was hesitating whether he should choose to call the police, and guessed whether the other party would really endanger Qingzi's life, there was a low-pitched laughing sound like a ghost in front of him.

"Hey, are you going to leave your girlfriend and run away alone?"

Kaito's thoughts were interrupted by the voice, and his eyes moved upwards from the hand that was holding Aoko's neck.

At this moment, the moon managed to show its head from behind the clouds, and sprinkled a ray of moonlight on the top of the huge figure.

What met Kaito's pupils was a red grimace with a thick and long nose.And the ferocious expression and sharp fangs on this face are definitely not the characteristics that humans will have.

It is the legendary big tengu!No, to be exact, it is a mask of a big tengu!
Just when Kaito was shocked by the sight in front of him, that huge figure suddenly moved.

"Since I don't have the guts to resist, I'll accept this girl. Fufuhu, this is a rare delicacy for hundreds of years!"

Accompanied by the evil words, a pair of huge black wings suddenly grew from his back, as if he was about to fly into the sky with Qing Zi.

Hearing this terrifying murmur, Kaito's mind suddenly went blank, and subconsciously rushed forward, trying to grab Aoko and take him back.

But just when his hand was about to reach Qingzi, a sudden change occurred.

A slender jade hand suddenly stretched out from the shadow in front of "Datengu", and firmly grasped Kaito's wrist like a steel clamp, making it impossible for him to break free.

"Catch, here, you... Mr. Phantom Thief Kidd."

(End of this chapter)