Maori Kogoro began to understand everything

"Giegie is so handsome!"

Maori was given a headache by Sonoko's infatuated remarks - as an old father with a daughter, he hated such "too filial" remarks the most.

Chapter 59: The elusive international thief (X), the perverted thief dressed as a woman (√)

Of course, although he was troubled by the words of the nymphomaniac Sonoko, Maori was not troubled when facing the one who should be giving him a headache, Kaito Kid - although he had only met Kid a few times, his detective intuition told him that the person in front of him was not Kaito Kid at all.

"You are such a troublesome thief. I guess I have no choice but to teach you a lesson!"

Before the police could take any action, Sonoko's mother, Mrs. Suzuki, suddenly pulled out a small women's pistol from her handbag and fired several shots at Kidd.

"Bang bang bang!"

In the eyes of everyone in horror, Kaito Kidd fell from the ceiling covered in blood and fell heavily on the dining table. At the same time, the lights in the banquet came back on, and Kaito Kidd's bloodstained white figure appeared in front of everyone.

"what!"

"This……"

"mom!"

Sonoko looked at Mrs. Suzuki in disbelief. She seemed like a different person. She couldn't believe how her mother could suddenly kill someone so calmly.

Officer Nakamori, who had been chasing Kidd for more than a decade, also looked unhappy: "What on earth are you doing?!"

"Don't worry, Mr. Policeman,"

Mrs. Suzuki smiled calmly and said, "Because he is still alive. Our Suzuki Group's bodyguard just caught him with a tablecloth. He was just pretending to be shot down by my model gun..."

"What exactly is going on?"

Officer Nakamori stared with wide eyes as "Kaito Kid" sat up.

"This is the talented magician I invited to entertain today's banquet, Mr. Sanada Kazuzo!"

Mrs. Suzuki chuckled and formally introduced, "Just now he was just acting out the final ending of Kaito Kid..."

"Magician? Sanada Miichi?"

Maori looked at the handsome young man who took off his Kaito Kid costume, and seemed to be thinking about something.

"Dear guests," the young man said as he walked onto the stage, "Now please come to the stage and enjoy the magic show I am bringing to you..."

Maori followed to the edge of the stage, but did not watch the magic show. Instead, he continued to look among the crowd.

No matter how he hides, as long as Kidd's target is the "Dark Night Star", he will definitely take action and will definitely find out the real "Dark Night Star".

……

"Come on, now please draw a card at random."

As time passed, the magic show on the stage had reached its end, and Kazuzo Sanada invited Xiaolan and Sonoko to draw cards.

"Before you draw the cards, I will use my clairvoyant eyes to see through your hearts and predict the cards you will choose..."

Under the gaze of everyone, Kazuzo Sanada pretended to be thinking, and a pigeon suddenly appeared in one hand, attracting a series of exclamations.

"I think the card you will draw next should be the Ace of Hearts," Sanada Kazuzo asked Xiaolan to draw a card again amid the cheers of the crowd, "Please choose one."

"Will it really be the Ace of Hearts?" Sonoko shouted nervously and excitedly, "Xiaolan, the right one, draw the one on the right!"

"Ok?"

Maori looked towards the stage and inexplicably felt that something was wrong.

"Eh?"

Xiaolan and Ran pulled out their cards and exclaimed, "It's Kaito Kidd!"

"This is a message from Kaito Kidd!"

"What?" Everyone looked at the drawn cards in confusion.

There was an incredible note on the card: "Just like Caesar who was bewitched by the Queen of Egypt, I have come to your side, Kaito Kidd..."

"It's really a message from Kidd!"

The scene became somewhat chaotic: "Kid appears!"

"How can this be?!"

Sanada Kazuzo, who performed the magic trick, was even more surprised than everyone else. "How did he do that?"

"Kid is elusive and everything about him is a mystery. It's not impossible for him to interfere in other people's magic."

"Indeed, it is said that his magic skills are quite impressive..."

Maori silently looked at the guests who were talking about something.

The sudden appearance of the warning letter was only the first step, or the step that attracted people's attention and panic. Kidd's real action had not yet begun. Although it was still unknown how Kidd would take away the real "Dark Star", Maori had a strong feeling that this kid would soon make a big move.

"police officer!"

Just then, a police officer rushed to the venue and said, "We will arrive at Tokyo Port in less than 10 minutes!"

Officer Nakamori looked around and shouted, "Okay, guard the exit of the room, no one is allowed to leave!"

Maori's expression did not change, but his attention was more focused - the most critical moment had come, Kidd was about to take action, and he had to keep a close eye on him...

Looking again at the group of people who had just approached the stage, all the details appeared in Maori's mind - and soon, he found the highlight.

"Eh? My pearls..."

Xiaolan suddenly found that the black pearl she was wearing had rolled to the other side from the ground. She hurriedly squeezed into the crowd nervously, "Excuse me, can you help me pick up that pearl?"

Maori looked at "his own daughter" who was wearing a red dress and frowned slightly.

A man saw the pearls rolling down and squatted down to help, but before he could touch them, the black pearls on the ground suddenly exploded with a burst of smoke.

"what happened?"

The sound like firecrackers was extremely eye-catching in the venue.

"What's the sound?"

"It's the pearl! The pearl exploded!"

The guests started to make a commotion. Before some of them could figure out what was going on, several pearls rolled out from the ground and exploded under their feet, accompanied by smoke.

The explosion was not very powerful, just some fireworks. But it successfully caused chaos at the scene. The guests, who were usually very dignified, dropped their black pearls and rushed to the door.

"What a joke!"

"Open the door quickly!"

"Everyone, calm down!"

Seeing this, the tea wood manager shouted more and more anxiously, "Calm down, this is Kidd's trick!"

"uncle,"

Conan calmly looked at the rioting crowd, his eyes moving back and forth between several suspicious people, "It seems that guy will be exposed soon..."

He, like Maori, understood that the real black pearl was in Mrs. Suzuki's own hand. Because of the special nature of pearls, they are easily corroded by acid. When they are contaminated by the oil on the fingers, the surface of the pearl will acidify and gradually lose its luster.

Only a few of the guests noticed this and did not touch it directly, including Mrs. Suzuki herself.

In addition, the luster of pearls will gradually fade and can only last for a few decades at most. The genuine black pearls of the Suzuki Group have obviously lost their luster. The only person at the scene who meets all the conditions is Mrs. Suzuki.

And now, anyone who takes advantage of the chaos to get close to Mrs. Suzuki is likely to be the Kaito Kidd who wants to steal the "Dark Night Star"...

"No,"

Mao Li shook his head and took the initiative to walk towards Mrs. Suzuki, "He has already revealed his true colors."

"Eh?"

Conan was stunned for a moment, then his expression changed drastically as he looked at Maori, "Could it be that you are..."

However, before Conan could finish his words, Mrs. Suzuki accidentally fell to the ground due to the pushing of the chaotic crowd. Seeing this, Xiaolan, who was right next to her, hurried over to help her.

But Mauli grabbed her arm.

"Eh!?"

Xiaolan turned around blankly, "Dad, Dad?"

Sonoko helped Mrs. Suzuki up and looked at Maori in surprise, who was doing something strange: "Uncle, what's wrong?"

"I have something to talk to Xiaolan about."

Mao Li said this and pulled Xiaolan out of the venue.

"Dad, what's going on?"

With a helpless look on her face, Xiaolan was dragged by Maori away from the sight of other people and walked to the aisle at the bow of the ship.

"It's very rude of you to do this. Sonoko..."

"At this distance, I can guarantee that you won't have any chance to resist."

Maori stopped and still didn't let Xiaolan go. "But don't worry, as long as you hand over the Dark Night Star, I can be gentler, Kidd."

"W-what?"

Xiaolan was stunned and laughed dryly, "Dad, what are you talking about? How could I be a Phantom Thief..."

call out--!

Maori's other hand exerted force, and in just a blink of an eye, it broke through the air and placed its hand knife-like posture less than a centimeter away from Xiaolan's forehead. The latter's expression and body froze instantly, and she could no longer quibble.

"Are you sure you want to keep talking? You're such a daredevil pretending to be my daughter... or are you planning to compete with me in how fast you can throw a flashbang or a smoke bomb?"

As Maori asked this, he increased the strength of the hand that was restraining Kidd. To the latter, Maori's hand felt like an iron clamp.

"..."

Kidd felt Mori's momentum and movements, his face turned green, and at this moment, Conan appeared at the entrance of the aisle, looking at Mori and Ran with a smile on his face:

"Uncle, well done! Hurry up and grab his face!"

"Why should I worry about you when you haven't even brought your camera?"

Mao Li glanced at the confused Conan from the corner of his eye and said unhappily, "Hurry up, go back to the banquet hall and borrow a camera from the police. I want to take pictures for the front page of tomorrow's daily newspaper!"

"……it is good!!"

……

Half an hour later.

"Haven't you found Kaito Kidd yet?"

The police finally learned from Conan sent by Maori that Kidd was disguised as Xiaolan, and arranged a large number of police forces to search every cabin on the ship. Helicopters and patrol boats also kept on curfew, but they still couldn't find Kidd. They only found a hang glider that seemed to be the one Kidd had prepared to escape.

"hateful,"

Officer Nakamori glared at Maori angrily, "Since you knew who Kid was disguised as, Maori, why didn't you tell us? You actually met him alone and let him escape!"

"Don't be angry, Nakamori-san,"

Maori, wearing gloves, played with the "Dark Night Star" that Kidd was forced to hand over. "Anyway, you haven't caught him for so many years, so this time won't matter..."

"what?!"

Officer Nakamori was so angry at what Mori said that he blew his beard and glared.

But Maori didn't finish his words:

"Besides, compared to the empty-handed you had before, you have gained a lot this time... No!"

“Hmm…?!! What is this?!”

……

Just as Inspector Nakamori was admiring the "Phantom Thief Kid HD Blockbuster" shot by Conan and Mori with shining eyes, Kid himself, Kuroba Kaito, climbed up the shore from the sea with tears in his eyes.

After wringing out his clothes a little and picking out the fish that had gotten stuck in his pants and throwing it away, Kaito sneezed and called Terai Konosuke, the housekeeper of the Kuroba family:

"Grandpa Terai, I'm going to the sea..."

……