Zongman: My days as a chaebol in Japan

Unfortunately, it was too late for Sonoko to say this. When Suzuki Tomoko was helped up, there was a strong sound of wind from the sky, followed by colorful ribbons all over the sky. Everyone at the banquet closed their eyes and only opened them again after this round of colorful ribbons passed.

And the voice of Kaito Kidd was heard again from the loudspeaker.

"Everyone, please enjoy the thief's gorgeous departure. Oh, by the way, the Metropolitan Police Department Commissioner and the Detective who are working hard to blow the cold wind on the rooftop of the hotel." Above the banquet, a man wearing a white suit, a white hat, and a mask that Xiaolan had just seen appeared.

His feet stepped on the air, and the air seemed to become a staircase under his feet, helping Kidd to step into the air step by step.

Xiaolan and Sonoko were also surprised by Kid's action, then they looked carefully and immediately saw the transparent thin lines on his body.

Kidd walked into the air, then stretched out his hand. A jewel necklace appeared on his white glove, with the numerous black stars inlaid in the center.

"Put the most important thing in your own hands for safekeeping. I have seen through your plan. I will take the Black Star. Haha," Kidd said and continued to move upwards.

"Quick, helicopter, surround this place," Megure Juzo sent out the helicopter that he had requested because the mission was to capture Kaito Kidd.

Two helicopters took off above the banquet venue, shining strong lights, and Kidd's figure was instantly locked on.

At this time, Kidd had already reached an altitude of 20 to 30 meters. A pair of hang gliders suddenly opened behind him, and he dived out of the range of the strong light. Because the helicopter could not land too low, it could only capture Kidd's figure in the air.

Seeing Kidd's tone full of smugness and disdain, Li Xuan, who was interrupted from talking to the Toosaka Rin sisters and Leila who was now holding his arm, glanced at Kidd, who was gliding in the air, and the black star in his hand suddenly disappeared.

"Huh!? Where are the things? Where are my things?" Kaito Kidd in the air was stunned for a moment and almost lost his balance and fell from the air. The Black Star that was in his hand in the last second disappeared in the next second without any trace.

Before Kaito Kidd could react, he suddenly felt a burning sensation coming from his glider. His glider was on fire.

"Hurry, Kidd's escape tool is useless, go arrest him," when Megure Jusan saw Kidd's hang glider suddenly catch fire, he immediately ordered the Metropolitan Police Department to run over as fast as they could.

Unfortunately, because Kidd had already flown to the sea at that time, he abandoned his hang glider and fell into the water. His suit turned into a diving suit, and he swam out of the capture range of the Metropolitan Police Department.

-Kaito Kidd

Chapter 320: The Detective Taunted by the Phantom Thief

"Huh, I finally escaped, but how did the Black Star disappear? Was it because I lost strength just now?" Kidd thought about this question as he swam towards the place where he hid his means of transportation.

"Puff", Kidd felt like he hit something, it felt like skin, he didn't know what kind of marine creature it was.

Could it be a dolphin that appeared in the shallow water?

Kidd put aside the matter of the Black Star for the moment and looked over carefully. He wanted to confirm what kind of creature he had hit.

Then, he saw a great white shark about ten meters long looking at him, and there was a very intelligent look in its small eyes.

"There's a great white shark in the shallow water!? Are you kidding?" Kidd swam desperately, and the great white shark behind him swam slowly. When it saw Kidd slowing down a little, it would show its sharp teeth, come forward to intimidate him, and pretend to bite nothing.

Kidd's adrenaline was rising wildly at this time. He paddled his hands in the water quickly and flapped his thighs wildly. At this time, even if the flying fish Pus came and took the purple potato potion, he would be left behind by Kidd.

The great white shark chased Kidd for nearly two kilometers before turning around and leaving.

But Kidd didn't stop yet. He struggled for a while, but finally his hands and feet were too weak and he had cramps. He stopped and thought, it's over. My career as a phantom thief has come to an end.

However, the imagined feeling of sharp teeth biting into the flesh did not come. Kidd barely controlled his body to float to the surface, maintaining a backstroke position, and was rescued by the butler Terai Kōnosuke who came rushing over.

"Master Kaito, are you okay? I didn't wait for you at the agreed place, and I was worried that you might have an accident, so I came out to look for you," Terai Huangzhisuke, who was driving a speedboat, rescued Kuroba Kaito and began to explain.

Kuroba Kaito didn't breathe a sigh of relief until he was rescued, "Butler, there is a great white shark here, can you believe it?"

When Terai Huangzhisuke heard what Kuroba Kaito said, and finally heard that he was being chased by a great white shark, although he didn't know why the great white shark left, Terai Huangzhisuke's expression went from tense to relaxed, "Master Kaito, your action this time is too dangerous."

The great white shark is a type of shark with a very high desire to attack and holds the highest record for human kills among sharks. Great white sharks sometimes enter shallow sea areas to hunt, but Sakura is a country that likes to hunt whales and sharks, and the appearance of a great white shark here was really beyond Kuroba Kaito's expectations.

After returning to his residence, Kuroba Kaito had a nightmare that night. He dreamed that he was bitten by a great white shark and then swallowed.

He jumped up from the bed, his face, which was 80% similar to Kuroba Kaito and Kudo Shinichi, was pale and covered with cold sweat.

"Phew, luckily it was just a dream"

In the classroom the next day, Kuroba Kaito's childhood sweetheart Nakamori Aoko looked at him in surprise. Today, Kuroba Kaito was like a salted fish that had lost its motivation. His usual liveliness seemed to have disappeared.

...

At this time, the great white shark that scared Kuroba Kaito into a nightmare was on the beach of Rizhao City. However, it was no longer in the state of a great white shark, but in the state of a ball of water mist.

This cloud of water mist was the result of a sea beast that Li Xuan and Erza caught at the trial ground of the Fisherman Tribe during the Golden Week while they were exploring for treasure in West Africa.

The sea beast was brought back by Li Xuan and raised at the junction of Rizhao City and the sea.

The sea beast with the soul mark of Li Xuan followed Li Xuan obediently, and then under Li Xuan's command, completed the task of chasing and teasing Kuroba Kaito.

Li Xuan used the power of space to take the Black Star from Kidd, who was transformed by Kuroba Kaito, and returned it to Sonoko, receiving a reward for her boldness.

Then the sea beast's punishment order was Li Xuan's punishment for Kidd, the spirited young man, for interrupting his conversation with the Toosaka Rin sisters and the beautiful Leila.

Return to the banquet venue.

Kogoro Mouri and his group returned with unhappy looks on their faces. As a well-known and capable policeman in the Metropolitan Police Department, Kogoro Mouri had earned his honors based on his own strength before he resigned. He did not expect to be fooled twice in a row by a thief tonight.

The first time, it was Kid who called him pretending to be Megure Jusan. He didn't even read the caller's message carefully and was fooled by Kid's imitation of Megure Jusan's voice.

The second time was when he fell for Kidd’s fake bait and tricked his group back.

Thinking that he had been fooled twice in the same place, Kogoro Mouri was now very unhappy with the Phantom Thief Kid. He decided that next time he saw the Phantom Thief, he must catch him.

When they returned to the Haido Hotel, there was a message left for them by Kidd on the ground, "If the Phantom Thief is a skilled, creative artist who steals treasures, then the detective is a person who only follows the Phantom Thief and nitpicks, and is at best just a critic."

Being hit right in the face by a powerful weapon, Kogoro Mouri's anger almost burst out of his head.

Conan, who had been following all the time, was accompanying them throughout the whole process. In fact, he only vaguely understood the contents of Kid's letter and the corresponding things when Kid showed up and Megure Juzo called to inform him.

But by this time, Kidd had already risen into the air under the headlights of two helicopters, performing a remarkable aerial walk and later a glide.

What surprised Conan a little was that Kidd's hang glider caught fire in the end. Kidd's intelligence level didn't seem like someone who would forget to maintain his hang glider.

When Kidd finally fell into the sea, Conan guessed that the Metropolitan Police Department would probably not be able to catch Kaito Kidd this time, because Kidd's flight route was the sea, so he should have worn corresponding diving equipment and dived to avoid the Metropolitan Police Department's search.

But Conan was also unhappy because he actually let this Kaito Kid commit the crime in front of him, who aspired to be the Sherlock Holmes of the Heisei era.

As for Kid's method of committing the crime, Conan also thought of it. With the help of smoke bombs and disguise, he could easily sneak into the banquet and then get close to Suzuki Tomoko, the head of the Suzuki family.

The most likely person Conan thought of was the real Dark Star, and that was Suzuki Tomoko. The value of the Dark Star was very high. Even if Suzuki Tomoko thought of creating many Dark Stars that looked exactly the same, the most important thing was that she would keep it for herself.

Kidd should have realized this problem when he first took the Black Star from the glass cabinet and found something wrong, so he released the smoke for the second time later. He deliberately knocked Suzuki Tomoko down and took away the necklace hanging around her neck, which had a Black Star on it.

-Kidd

Chapter 321 Clock Tower

The appearance of Kid brought a fighting spirit to Conan's eyes. He had the same idea as Kogoro Mouri. The next time he encountered Kid, he must catch him.

Then we saw Xiaolan and Li Xuan holding each other's waists in the center of the banquet, and the two of them danced an elegant dance. The whole dance was elegant with a hint of courtship. Finally, Li Xuan bent down and kissed the shy Xiaolan to end the dance.

When Conan saw this scene, he instantly felt extremely anxious. He was eager to find a way to remove the child from his body. He wanted to restore Kudo Shinichi's identity and then snatch Xiaolan back from Li Xuan.

What made Conan even more upset was that after Li Xuan, he also danced the same dance he had just danced with Xiaolan with the troublesome woman Sonoko, and the two daughters of the famous Jewel Group and Tohsaka Group on Sakura's side, and ended with them kissing each other. This situation is not surprising to many people here.

They could only admire that Li Xuan and Xiaolan were a perfect match made in heaven.

In addition to dancing with Xiaolan and several other beautiful girls, Li Xuan even danced with a beautiful woman with her blonde hair tied up and a gentle face. However, this dance was a normal waltz. After the dance, Li Xuan lifted the blonde woman's hand and kissed the back of her hand.

The banquet had an extra grand performance because of Kidd's appearance, and then it entered the normal banquet stage.

Li Xuan talked to Suzuki Tomoko and went back with the Toosaka Rin sisters. Ram had been away for a while.

Toosaka Rin, Xiaolan and the others walked in front, while Li Xuan walked behind with Leila who was about to leave.

The corridor was not very long, but Li Xuan and Leila came out about a minute after the Toosaka Rin sisters came out.

Leila still had a gentle smile on her face. After saying goodbye, she came to the special car parked outside the door. Leila's driver had a very distinctive appearance, with a goatee, a serious face, and raised hair. He really looked a bit like a goat.

The driver in a tuxedo saw Leila coming out and opened the car door, "Mrs. Leila, please get in."

Leila looked at Li Xuan, their eyes met, Leila's face suddenly turned red, and she quickly got into the car.

"Caplico, let's go back. Lucy will be very happy with the news I brought back," Leila said to Caplico in the driver's seat in the back seat.

"Yes, Madam Leila."

The vehicle slowly drove away, and Leila saw Li Xuan again in the rearview mirror. His peerless appearance and temperament left a very deep impression on her heart. Then she thought of what happened in the corridor just now and touched her pink lips. The blush on Leila's face, which had not completely dissipated, immediately deepened again.

“Capricho, lower the air conditioning a bit”

"Yes, Lady Leila."

...

When Li Xuan returned the Black Star to Sonoko, the sisters Toosaka Rin had already appreciated it, but they concluded that it was just an ordinary, relatively rare gem, but not one-of-a-kind in the world.

Li Xuan saw the two people who were a little disappointed, and touched their heads, "Don't be disappointed, tonight is not over yet, let's go to the next place, that place should allow you to gain something."

Toosaka Rin and Toosaka Sakura looked at Li Xuan with curiosity, "Xuan-jun, aren't we going back to the villa tonight?"

As soon as he finished speaking, huge wind and waves came from the sky.

Looking up, a silver-white private plane appeared in the sky above Li Xuan. Then an automatic elevator descended from the private plane, and Ram's pretty figure fell down with it. "Good evening, young master. Rem is controlling the plane, please."

Li Xuan boarded the private plane with the Tosaka sisters, Miyazono Kaoru, as well as Sonoko and Xiaolan who came after the banquet.

There is enough space in the Rizhao villa, and Li Xuan also brought his private plane over. Now he is going to take the Tohsaka sisters to the Clock Tower in London, England, where there is a monarch who specializes in minerals and has made in-depth research on gem magic.

At the same time, the Clock Tower is an existence between the human world and the extraordinary world.

Li Xuan's private jet is made of special materials, which can not only cut wind resistance, but also accelerate in unconventional ways.

Ram, who was promoted to the realm of true person, came to the engine and his internal energy was instantly poured into it.

The speed of the private jet instantly exceeded the speed of sound, but the people on the plane were not ordinary people, and the materials of the plane also withstood the pressure of the speed of sound.

In less than an hour, Li Xuan arrived in Britain on the other side of the ocean. Rem opened the map and the plane arrived at a very tall tower with a huge clock on the top of the tower.

This is the clock tower. The clock tower is just a landmark building, and the dozens of hectares of land around it are the territory of the clock tower.

There is an aristocracy system in the UK. The Clock Tower is a first-class consortium formed by twelve nobles who have been passed down from ancient times. They have been seeking opportunities to be promoted to a chaebol.

It is worth mentioning that the Holy Grail Game discovered by Sorena involves the Clock Tower.

Li Xuan's plane landed on a dedicated apron. When he got off the plane, a girl with long white hair and a graceful figure was already waiting with a dozen attendants.

"Good evening, Master Li Xuan. Olga Marie, daughter of Marisbili Animusphia, the monarch of the Clock Tower's Astronomical Department, sends her greetings to you." When the graceful girl with long white hair saw Li Xuan coming down, she walked forward, folded her hands on her abdomen, lowered her body slightly, and made an aristocratic greeting.

Olga Marie, one of the twelve monarchs of the Clock Tower and the daughter of Marisbili Animusphia, the Minister of the Astronomy Department, contacted the Clock Tower and submitted an application for a visit after receiving Li Xuan's order. The Clock Tower was very cautious after receiving Li Xuan's application, so Marisbili Animusphia of the Astronomy Department sent his daughter out to meet Li Xuan.

"Good evening, Miss Animusphia. I hope my late night visit does not cause you any trouble." Li Xuan reached out and pulled the white-haired girl up, while holding her hand and kissing the back of her hand.

The hand kiss is a formal etiquette among British aristocrats. Li Xuan is no stranger to it.