Conan: The Magician of the End of the Century

Chapter 17 Victory in the First Battle
Kuroba Kaito stared at Aoko in front of him dumbfounded, with a creepy smile, he said the words that almost made his heart stop.

His first reaction was: his identity as Kaitou Kidd has been revealed!
Then he immediately realized that the girl in front of him is definitely not his childhood sweetheart!
Kaito desperately tried to break free from the other party's tightly clamped hand, but found that no matter how hard he tried, the girl-like slender hand remained motionless.

"You are not Qingzi! Who are you?!"

Kaito tried to distract the other party with questions, and quickly fumbled for the pocket behind his back with the other hand, trying to take out the poker pistol, but unexpectedly found nothing.

"Mr. Strange Thief, are you looking for this?" I saw "Qingzi" twirling the disappearing poker gun with his free hand, looking at him playfully and saying, "What a fun little toy. Good boy You have to take good care of your toys, or don’t cry if you lose them.”

At this moment, Kaito was completely filled with fear.

It was his first time acting as Kaitou Kidd today, and he had already made sufficient preparations in advance.However, the props on his body had been used up in the previous confrontation with the police, and the remaining weapons were stolen by the other party unconsciously.

Now that I am firmly grasped by the other party, it can be said that I have fallen into a desperate situation...

……

Just when Kaito fell into endless panic, thinking hard about a way to break the situation, and looking for the last chance of life, Ishino, who was opposite him, had no waves in his heart, and even wanted to laugh a little.

That's right, the one who pretended to be Aoko Nakamori was none other than Ishino who had been standing here waiting for his brother-in-law to take the bait.

For this exam, Ishino can be said to have done enough homework.

In his impression, Kaito's vigilance is quite high, even if he launches a surprise attack from very close to him, even if he arranges traps in advance, he may be discovered by his intuition like cheating.

And even if the surprise attack is successful, Kaidou still has a large number of props as countermeasures, such as smoke bombs, poker guns, hook locks and other gadgets hidden everywhere on the body.

Therefore, if you want to take advantage of the terrain and physical fitness, and take the initiative to catch Kaidou, the possibility of failure is very high.

In order to ensure passing the exam, Ishino decided to do the opposite.Since taking the initiative to attack may fail, then letting the opponent take the initiative to approach, the success rate is quite high.

So Ishino designed this plan, pretending that "Qingzi" was held hostage by the enemy, but "Qingzi" itself was the real trap plan.

Ishino confirmed through the camera set up on the roof that Kaito had run out of props.And just now, when he was walking behind Kaito pretending to be Qingzi, and when the other party was distracted thinking about how to deal with it because he was afraid of being exposed, he cleverly walked behind the poker gun behind him.

In fact, if the other party observes carefully, they can still find that the body of the "big tengu" behind "Qingzi" is actually just an empty shell built by some brackets.

However, Kaidou's care is chaotic, and at the moment when Qingzi encounters a major crisis, he loses his sense of normalcy.

Coupled with the fact that Ishino exudes a substantive coercion through the main body, Kaito has no extra energy to observe the opponent carefully.

Ishino relied on his own understanding of the relationship between the two, and took advantage of this to let Kaito attack rashly, revealing a huge flaw, and finally Ishino won with one blow.

……

Seeing Kaito's desperate expression, Ishino put away his thoughts of continuing to tease his brother-in-law, let go of the opponent's hand, and threw the poker gun in the other hand over.

Having achieved this level, Ishino knew that he had actually passed the exam.

The teacher asked him to catch Kaitou Kidd, but he definitely didn't want him to take his precious son to prison.The bigger possibility is to teach this arrogant and reckless kid a lesson so that he can put down his pride while assessing his own ability.

When Kaito was stunned by the other party's unexpected behavior, Ishino kept Aoko's voice and said with a smile, "Kaito Kidd is so capable? It's really disappointing."

After finishing speaking, he submerged his figure into the shadow of the "big tengu" behind him, turned around and left.

"I have given the pupil of the moon to your little girlfriend. I hope that when we meet next time, you won't let me down again, huh huh..."

Hearing the other party's words, Kaito quickly took out the gem from Terai's grandfather from his chest, and after a closer look, he found that it was indeed a fake, and was instantly shocked by the other party's tricks that he couldn't understand.

Then I suddenly thought of another signal in the other party's words, and shouted at the back of the other party in a panic: "What did you do to Qingzi?! Where is she now?!"

However, what responded to him was a sentence that he missed very much, but also unexpected words.

"Hoo hoo, remember, no matter when, don't forget to put on a poker face..."

……

When Kaito heard the last sentence, he couldn't tell whether the other party was an enemy or a friend for a while, so he had to rush home first to confirm the situation of Aoko who lived next door.

At this time, Qingzi had already fallen asleep on his bed, and the pupil of the moon was lying on the table in the living room, in the clean lunch box.

That's right, in fact, "Aoko" who gave Nakamori Ginzo a bento yesterday afternoon was also pretended by Ishino.

In fact, the real Aoko has been participating in club activities this afternoon and did not go home at all, but Ishino investigated her itinerary in advance, sneaked in while there was no one at home, and used Aoko's home phone to call Nakamori Ginzo That phone call.

After successfully entering the museum in the evening, because the guards were all men, Ishino used the excuse of cleaning the bento box to complete the disguise in the empty women's bathroom, pretending to be a shift guard, and successfully approached Hitomi Tsuki and package it.

Afterwards, he changed back to Aoko's image, put the jewel in a bento box, and brought it back to Nakamori's house.

Don't ask why Ishino can pretend to be Aoko Nakamori, who is a little smaller than himself, but the bone shrinking method taught by Grandma Yoko is so amazing that he can change his body shape arbitrarily within a certain range.

Ishino felt that it was not surprising that he could do this in the world of Ke Xue. After all, Kaito had disguised himself as Ran, who was much smaller than himself, and hadn't been seen through for a long time.

In the next few hours, Ishino began to prepare for the scene of ambushing Kaito at night.

The reason why the image of "Big Tengu" is created is mainly to cooperate with his future "catch people" plan.

In Japan, the Ootengu is a legendary monster that takes people away after being coaxed into a "ghost" and even has the habit of cannibalism.

This legendary image, combined with the "magic" he will perform in front of the world in the future, Ishino feels that there is a perfect fit between the two.

After all, life needs some sense of ritual.

(End of this chapter)