Chapter 3

Thoughts/Dreams/Memories

[In TV]

"Dialogue"

Letter

Emphasis

Omake 1:

The Comment that Push the Button

7 years old Kuroba Kaito hummed contently as he wrote a few riddles on a paper, and he had made the riddles to be connected to each other. So if someone wanted to solve the final riddle, they had to correctly solve the rest of the riddles first.

"I hope Shin-kun will like them." He said out loud with a big grin on his face, before looking at the Dove that nesting on his hair. "What do you think, Hikari-chan?" He asked his beloved Dove, one of the pair that he originally owned himself and not by his Tou-san. He had given the other one to Shinichi though, so they could send each other letters easily, and thus Hikari was the only one that he owned personally now.

Hikari cooed softly to him in answer.

Kaito smiled and patted her head, then he folded the paper containing the riddles, before tying it around one of Hikari's legs. "Please deliver it to Shin-kun, Hikari-chan." He told her softly.

The Dove nipped his finger lightly before flying out of his bedroom's window.

"Now, how long would it take for Shin-kun to send the answers?" He asked to no one, before pulling a magic book to read.

All that was left to do was wait for the answers from his dear Fiance, since he made those riddles in the first place was because Shinichi liked them.

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Roughly 3 hours later, Hikari returned, surprising Kaito. He knew that it took about 15 to 20 minutes for Hikari to fly over to Beika, and about the same time to return to Ekoda. So, the fact that his Dove returned now would mean that Shinichi had solved all of the riddles, and had sent the answers back to him.

"That's fast." Kaito commented as he gently took the new letter off of Hikari, "I wonder if he got all of them right …".

Opening the folded paper, Kaito immediately read what Shinichi had wrote as the answers to the riddles. He blinked in surprise once he was done, Shinichi had gotten everything right, and in such a short time too. Normally, it would take at least 5 hours for Shinichi to solve his riddles.

A year ago, Kaito found out Shinichi's love for solving codes and riddles, so Kaito - who already developed a crush for Shinichi that time - decided to send about 5 riddles once a week. Each time Shinichi answered right and praised Kaito for thinking up such good riddles, it drove Kaito to improve his skills in making riddles, so he could get more praise from his crush.

"I wonder if connecting them together makes it easier for Shin-kun …" Kaito wondered out loud, already planning to make it even more difficult next time.

A soft coo pulled him out of his thought, and he looked at the source to find that Kaiichi - the male Dove that he had given to Shinichi, that was named with the combination of Kaito and Shinichi's names by his secretly sweet Fiance - had come in sometime during his wondering, and was now waiting for him to take off the letter around his leg.

"Oh, thanks, Kaiichi-kun." Kaito said while taking off the letter, before unfolding it to see what Shinichi had written to him now.

Dear KK,

Would you believe me if I said that I had just gone through an adventure in Beika yesterday?

Two days ago, at night - Ran had been going on and on about a ghost in school, so I decided to check it out with Ran tagging along. Who would have known that this little act would lead to such a big adventure? Anyway, I will tell you more about this adventure in person later, since this story is better being told in person than in letter - especially since I'm not as good as Tou-san in writing stories.

I'm sure that you're wondering how I solved your riddles so fast, here are the answers:

Connecting the answer of one riddle to the next makes it easier for someone to solve it.

The riddles that I got in my adventure were harder to be solved, they needed me to work together with Agasa-hakase. Although, I did the most of them. So, I have been studying more, just in case someone challenges me to solve riddles again.

How about you? Anything interesting happened to you lately?

KS

A vein throbbed at Kaito's forehead. "Harder than my riddles, eh?" Kaito asked to no one after he finished reading the letter, "Challenge accepted, Shin-kun. I will make sure my riddles makes you scratches your head in bewilderment from now on, just you wait!" He huffed in determination.

He wouldn't lose to whoever challenged Shinichi to solve those riddles.

Never!

Line~Line~Line

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