Volume 1 Beginning Chapter 68 Why are you so skilled?
When the predicted time arrived, a cloud of smoke exploded along with the sound of the bell.
"Ah! I can't see it anymore!"
"Wait, don't step on me!"
"hateful!"
When everyone regained their sight, they discovered that—
——The painting that they were supposed to protect today has disappeared without anyone noticing!
Instead, there was a piece of white paper with a Q version portrait of Kaito Kid and the words "I'm taking this painting."
“Oh no!” Inspector Nakamori yelled, turned around and ordered the police officers, “He must be around here, search him!”
"yes!"
After the smoke completely dissipated, only one police officer seemed to be choked by the smoke and was unable to keep up with the team in time.
"Ahem... Ha, have a safe trip." Kaito, who was dressed as a police officer, stood up with a smirk and came to the front of the painting.
He skillfully peeled off the white paper covering the surface, but the real painting was still there, just hidden under the white paper.
"But I always fall for this kind of trick..." he muttered to himself.
"Alright, alright, don't be complacent. I advise you to move faster." Nan Ling said in the headset, "The White Horse Agent is just outside this exhibition hall."
"Wha-what-" Kaito made a fake shocked sound as he took the canvas off the frame, "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
"Do you think I'm the ghost behind Bai Ma Tan? I know his every move?" Nan Ling said bluntly while staring at the surveillance screen.
After separating from Kaito, he went to the surveillance room of the art museum. After easily dealing with the guards, he naturally took over the surveillance system.
By the way, it is really not easy to find surveillance cameras in the Conan world... Maybe you can only see a few scattered around in places like art galleries.
"He's going in." Nan Ling said quickly.
"--Yes, it's a very simple trick." As expected, just as Nan Ling finished speaking, Bai Ma Tan pushed open the door of the exhibition room and said while leaning against the wall with a look of confidence of victory.
Kaito simply glanced at him and continued to tear down the painting.
Time is tight and the task is heavy, and Nan Ling is still urging him through the headphones.
It's simply amazing, like a soul-calling spell.
"When something is not where it should be, people will have the illusion that it has disappeared." Hakuba analyzed Kidd's modus operandi with ease, as if everything was under his control. "This kind of visual trick is not popular among magicians nowadays - wait a minute!"
Kaito had already started running away on his own.
Not listening at all.
Bai Ba Tan came back to his senses from his own reasoning and looked at Kidd, who was not listening to him at all and had already run some distance away, and felt a deep sense of powerlessness.
No...why don't you listen to what others are saying?
Logically speaking, the duel between the phantom thief and the detective—
Shouldn't I have a tit-for-tat conversation first, then throw out my trump card to cut off his escape route, then watch him panic because he can't escape, and finally capture him gracefully?
How come we haven’t even taken the first step yet?
This doesn't fit the script!
"Who wants to listen to him showing off?" Kaito smiled bitterly as he heard Nan Ling say bluntly in the headset, "Don't listen to him, just go away."
"OKOK." He replied softly.
"I have cut your rope, and I have released the balloon on the roof. You have no way to escape." Hakuba shouted at Kaito from behind.
He still maintained that confident look.
"Mr. Kaito Kidd, whose true identity is unknown, I will reveal everything about you to the world."
Kaito was not happy to hear this.
He couldn't just pretend he didn't hear such provocative words.
He ignored Nan Ling's voice in the headset urging him to hurry up, but stopped and turned to face the detective who was chasing him.
"For a magician, secrets are life." He said in a mysterious voice that belonged to a phantom thief, "How could I let you reveal it to the world so easily?"
He reached out to adjust the brim of his hat, a cold light flashed across his monocle, and a smug smile appeared in his sapphire blue eyes.
"I put a rope at the front left window and slid down." Nan Ling said in a calm voice in the headset.
The timing was perfect.
Kuroba Kaito showed a arrogant and elegant smile that belonged to a phantom thief.
"Goodbye, White Knight." He smiled and dropped a small ball.
"Bang——"
“Crack—”
As the smoke dissipated, the nearby window glass exploded almost at the same time, and the howling cold wind mixed with snowflakes rushed in in an instant.
The pure white figure of Kaito Kidd stood in the snow and cold wind, and his wide cloak fluttered in the cold wind.
"Looking forward to meeting you next time." The other party's voice was lost in the whistling wind and could not be heard clearly.
Bai Ma Tan blinked.
I don’t know when, the white figure has completely disappeared in the falling snowflakes.
So I lost...?
He looked down at his hands.
As expected of him... the famous phantom thief who has been famous for so many years. Compared to me, I still need to hone my skills.
Nan Ling stood by the window of the monitoring room, looking at the heavy snow outside.
As soon as he made sure that Kaito had successfully landed on the ground along the rope, he pulled the rope back to ensure that Hakuba would not be able to find any clues.
The window of the monitoring room where he was was in a perpendicular line to the window he pointed to Kaito.
The rope that Nan Ling lowered just hung in front of the window, which was the window that was shortest to Kaito along the path of the rope.
That's why he chose that particular window.
However, it is not enough to just leave the building.
"Go around to the side door of the art gallery and climb over there. There is a black car parked there. I left my keys in the car."
Nan Ling said into the headset.
"Ah... If no one is chasing you for the time being, just wait for me. If there is someone, just drive away."
"No problem!" Kuroba Kaito's excited voice came from the other side, "You didn't see the guy's expression just now..."
Nan Ling listened to the bursts of voices coming from the headphones and sighed inaudibly.
Why is he a chatterbox again...
He took a look at the monitoring room, and after confirming that he had erased all traces, he turned around and left.
The corner of the black clothes flashed by, and Nan Ling avoided the patrolling guards like a silent ghost and walked out of the art gallery easily.
"Here, here!" Kaito still maintained his costume as Kaito Kid and waved towards Nan Ling with full energy.
"You're so quick, I just got here not long ago." Kaito's expression was a little resentful, "I'm obviously the Phantom Thief, why are you more skilled than me!"
"It's a work requirement." Nan Ling dealt with the question lightly.
Kaito was tactful and didn't ask any more questions.
Even though he had a good relationship with "Seven", and could even be considered his "uncle master", this person completely belonged to that dark world.
Isn't it normal to have some skills?
"Let's go back to the bar." Nan Ling sat in the driver's seat.
The person next to me is not yet an adult, so I don't dare let him drive.
