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Sorry I took so long to update! (Only a few days, though… No rush here~) I've been so engrossed in Tokyo Crazy Paradise that I just wanted to continue on reading… Ahaha… Enjoy~
"Cool!" she said as she pounded another nail into the Beta's finger. "You should have tetanus by now, but I don't see any symptoms!" she happily said, injecting some more of the drug that she forced him to use. The man had been screaming in pain, until his voice was hoarse, and what was left of him was only shallow breaths.
The drug had made him feel as if he were burning inside, an intense burn that wouldn't go away. The woman smiled. She knew what exactly was happening within the Beta's body. Internal organs dissipating and reducing into nothing more than blood, his nerves getting dulled, yet the pain once reached to his brain would feel a million times more painful and a few hours longer to feel it.
"Hey, hey, listen! The other day, I met Kudou Shinichi! He was soooo cool! Especially when he gave me back my bag and I saw his eyes… So calculating… I hate him the most!" she said cheerfully and cut a finger from the man, making him scream.
"And then, you see, I feel this weird feeling when I saw him too! That girl was kinda annoying, being all over Shinichi before I even got to him!" she said, her blade touching her lower lip, thinking. "Maybe I should take him, after all? He looks too strong though…"
As she thought, four fingers were cut, and the man now had a finger-less hand. "I know!" she said suddenly, jabbing her blade into the man as the realization hit her. Telling him her plan, she grinned. The man could only look on with lifeless eyes.
"Megure-keibu," Shinichi said, coming up to him as the documentary people took photo shots of the corpse. "Ooh, Shinichi-kun!" Megure said with a smile. "I thought you weren't gonna come?"
"Well, I had to come. I get this feeling that if I don't come at all, I'd miss my chance to catch the criminal…"
"That tone of speaking… Are you saying that you know the culprit?" Megure asked, a little bit surprised. "It's nothing more than a suspicion, but I think that it's Clarisse Elizabeth…"
"Clarisse…" Takagi said, equally as surprised as Megure. "Elizabeth…?" Sato asked, her eyes squinted in seriousness. "Who are you talking about?"
"To answer your question, Sato-keiji," Shinichi said in a calm and collected manner, "you'll have to go and follow me to campus."
The three officers nodded and off they went to Shinichi's campus.
"Kudou-kun! Why're they here?" Hattori said, first thing he saw the East Detective. "Hattori… We're gonna look into a case which is possibly related to the serial killer," he replied with a confident smile. "Humm… Oh, by the way, Kuroba-han's been lookin' for you," he said with a wide grin which made Shinichi blush, remembering his birthday.
"Y-yeah… Tell him I'm sorry 'cuz I really need to go to the archives…"
"Sure, sure! Take care!" Hattori said with a see-you-later hand wave. Shinichi continued to lead the officers towards the archive room. "This is Clarisse Elizabeth," Shinichi said, pointing at a picture of the said woman. "Hrm… I see…" Takagi said, thoughtful.
"If the circumstances were like that, then I understand why you're suspecting her," Megure said, writing the new info down in his police notebook. "Aah, and also," Shinichi added, taking out another picture, this time, of a man.
"Valence… He 'hunted' the people who had a good life, the fortunatus… Clarisse was the only survivor of this tragedy," he said, adding the info while he was at it. "Is it some kind of psychological reaction…?" Sato mumbled.
"It could be," Megure agreed, nodding. "Th-then…!" Takagi started, but never finished whatever he wanted to say. A knowing look passed between the three, and they nodded. "Thank you, Kudou-kun. Now leave this matter to us."
Shinichi sat on a chair in the archives room, sighing and reviewing whatever he knew about the serial killer. He looked at a map, trying to pin point the next possible location where the murder might take place.
'Taking into consideration of where the corpses were usually found, it should be somewhere abandoned, yet near the city… Some place where someone can scream all they want, and no one else to hear it… A harbor, an abandoned storage house…' Shinichi closed his eyes in thought. "… Abandoned, huh…?" he muttered.
Kaito smiled, putting down his needle, looking at his artwork. Even though he knew that the heist is only a few weeks or so away, he couldn't help but prepare everything far before the D-day. Nodding to himself, satisfied, he walked away and closed the door, making his way to the calendar.
After the heist, it would be a few days away to full moon. But more importantly, he smirked, is the fact that Shinichi would be in another heat within a few days after that. He licked his lips in anticipation. 'Nothing like another heat after a well-done heist, huh?'
"Shiho~" Akemi called. 'These days,' Shiho started to think, 'Akemi-nee-chan keeps on calling me all cheerfully, it seems…' Nodding to herself, content, she then went to answer her sister's call. "What is it?"
"Nee, nee! I found this pamphlet lying around, and I really wanna go there!" she said, pointing out at an extremely colourful pamphlet which made Shiho wince. "Ice Cream Heaven… huh?"
"Yes, yes! And guess what? There's this rumor that Kaito KID's gonna attend because of a heist!" she said, excited. "Ara? Shouldn't his heists have some kind of announcement beforehand?"
"Yup, yup! Today's news should broadcast it today, since someone found a heist notice and sent it to the police!" Akemi jumped. "Hmm… So are you interested?" Shiho asked.
"Of course! There's gonna be lots and lots and lots of ice cream! No way would I miss that!" the Beta said, crossing her arms with a grin on her face. "And I also want you to come with me!"
"Huh? Why? I have no obligation to go there…"
"But I don't have any friends to go with…" she whined. "Huh? How about Sonoko-san and—"
"Just come with me!" she pushed and Shiho sighed. "If I don't have anything going on that day, alright?" she said finally. "Yay!" Akemi jumped in happiness. It's not like it's an everyday occurrence in which she can just convince the scientist and make the said Alpha bend to her wants.
Giving Shiho a light peck on her cheeks, she then went out to her part-time job, leaving a frowning scientist and a very distracted professor behind. "I'll be going now!"
"So you think that something like this is gonna cover up your mistakes?" Chianti said, her gun pointed at the woman's head and her boot stepping on her shoulder. The woman whimpered, sometimes gazing at the fallen man beside her. His body had three shots right into his vital organs.
The perpetrator to those wounds only blew out smoke from his mouth, enjoying his cigarette whilst watching the Beta do her job. "I-I-I-I-I-I'm so s-s-s-s-s-sorry!" she cried. Looking at the time, Chianti threw the woman beside the dead man, grabbing Korn's arm.
"Let's just leave them," she said.
Moments after they drove away, a huge explosion happened, engulfing the hotel they were in in flames. "There are probably gonna be many casualties," Korn said, his eyes closed. "Hmph. Since when do we care about casualties?" Chianti said, venom dripping from her every words. A smile made its way onto Korn's lips. "You're right…"
"Well, anyways. On the KID hunt, we were given another chance by him," Chianti said with an evil smirk. "Oh, you mean the Ice Cream Wonderland thing?"
"Heaven. Ice Cream Heaven."
Korn let out his breath.
"Let's make it the world's coldest and sweetest grave too, shall we?" Chianti said darkly.
"Yes, Ran! Please, please, please accompany me to the next heist!" Sonoko said through the phone, her plea sounded genuine as Ran watched the news with an unimpressed look on her face. The headlines said, "KID's next heist will be in Ice Cream Heaven?!"
The Beta let out a simple laugh. "Shinichi's gonna be there too, you know?"
"Of course! That detective is always in KID's heists," Sonoko huffed, sounding annoyed. "One day, he's gonna go and try to catch him, but end up getting caught by KID-sama instead!"
"Haha, I guess that can also happen…" Ran said, thinking, 'But Shinichi has an Alpha of his own… I wonder if KID's an Alpha, though?'
"Anyways! You're gonna come, right? Right?" Sonoko said, rather than asked, excitedly.
"Sure, sure. I'll go and watch the magic show he's gonna put up," Ran said in a defeated tone. Sonoko cheered from the other side of the line before saying good night and hung up. "Really, that Sonoko never gives up, huh?" Ran said to herself.
"Of course! Girls who are that determined to get her something she wants most is the most annoying," Mouri said from behind the newspaper. "What are you saying, dad?" Ran asked.
"I mean, really. Kaitou KID is clearly a criminal. Is she blind or what?" he said grumpily. "Dad…" Ran paused, trying to read him, but to no avail. "What happened?"
He shot her a glare. Ran smiled at that. Her earlier attempts on secretly trying to make her parents get back together ended up like always, but she's never gonna give up. Of course, she thought, he was talking about her.
Ayumi and co watched Kaito play with his deck of cards. "A~nd so, what else do you think these can make?" he said with glee. "Unagi!" Genta said expectantly. Immediately, Kaito's hands moved so fast that none of them could follow its movements, and in front of them, an eel-like shape took form.
"Uwaaaah!" everyone said. Kaito felt pleased with the amazed looks of his audience, not just the three kids, but also people who began to crowd them. After a round of applause, Kaito grinned sheepishly. "Really, you should try to at least get that annoying smile off your face, Bakaito," Aoko said from behind him, somewhat startling him.
"Don't just sneak up on me, Ahoko! You know how sensitive my heart is to surprises…"
"Considering you make weird explosion-like sounds from your house on a daily basis? I don't think so," she said with an accusing grin. "Aw, come on… That's all for fun and my magic shows too!" he said, grinning back at her.
"Yeah, and those strings hanging off of your fingers are any indication for your 'fun'? It's just tricks and illusions," she said with a pout.
"Hai, hai, I'm sorry for ignoring you these past few days, but give me a break! I've got important stuff to do too!" Kaito said, his hands held up until it was level with his face as if surrendering himself. "I forgive you," Aoko said with a cheerful smile after she thought about it.
'I mean, people's got their own lives to worry about too, even if it's someone like Bakaito,' she thought.
Chianti stood in the abandoned building. Sure, maybe searching for extremely strategic places to shoot from is a must for snipers, but to find a dead body, one whom died a gruesome death? Not much of a shock to her. Although, it did pose a threat.
If the police were to find this place, then she wouldn't be able to shoot or do anything at that, since the place would be closed off for police investigations. She clicked her tongue. The smell of dried blood and slowly decomposing body made her want to retch so badly.
There were no other places to aim the 'Ice Cream Heaven' event as strategic as this. Even if there was a place, there was almost no chance that Kaitou KID would pass there for his escape. Then only place to hit him accurately was from this very abandoned building, but if she were to give up the golden position just because of some stranger's dead body being found here…
She had no other choice. She'll have to shoot from the roof top of another building. The chance of the bullet hitting KID accurately might decrease, but it was the best chance for her, because she didn't want to be framed for the serial killer case.
With her boots clacking, she walked away.
A/N
Okay, I have to admit that it took days for me to get this one done X(. I needed to do something, and my yaruki suddenly went down the hell hole and then came back with this weirdosity and I feel so, so sick of reading… *being honest*.
SO! I'm just gonna say that I'm gonna take a break until the wordsrushingthroughmyheadjustorganizesitself and until then, I'll hold back chapters 11~(possibly)15.
- To be continued -