Shinji is an evil genius... he comes up with suspicious plots way too easily. I get the feeling that if he weren't a detective he'd make a very good criminal...
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29. One Long Night
Now then, I'm sure you're all wondering what this dangerous, flashy, stupid, mysterious plan of ours is. Naturally it can be only one thing, instead of attacking the Black organization directly, we'll basically be asking them to come to us.
'Shinichi Kudo' is going to solve a case and proudly take the credit as though he had never been poisoned by Gin and Vodka. The organization will of course think that's strange considering he's supposed to be dead, and they'll probably come to kill him for good, but we'll be ready for them.
The biggest issue with this plan is that we can't be certain of exactly what the Black Organization will do when they realize that Shinichi is alive, but we'll handle that when we get there.
Of course the case he solves will have to be a big one, one that will instantly give him a large amount of publicity. How do we make sure that happens? Easy. Three boys that can't seem to go anywhere without running into a murder case walk around Tokyo together with a girl with unreasonably good luck, we probably won't make it five feet without a corpse appearing out of nowhere.
Joking aside that really isn't what we intended to do...
The truth of the matter is that the 'case' Shinichi would be 'solving' was something Conan and I were arranging ahead of time, not that anyone would have been able to tell.
At this point you're almost definitely wondering; what kind of case Conan and I could arrange that would be flashy enough that Shinichi Kudo would get a massive amount of publicity without us landing ourselves in jail. It's simple, though I suppose it would have been quite difficult if we weren't friends with a certain well known criminal.
The international phantom thief 1412. Kaitou Kid.
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Conan and Shinji didn't tell me why I was doing this. They told me that for that plan to work I needed to catch Kaito- I mean Kaitou Kid, but he's our ally right? Why am I trying to arrest someone that's on our side?
Sure if I could capture this super flashy thief my publicity would go through the roof, but that didn't settle the matter that he's not actually a bad guy.
Whatever, I'm sure they have some trick planned that they aren't telling me about...
The target of the night's heist was a large black diamond known as 'death's heart'. Apparently there was some strange legend about all of it's previous owners dying tragically painful deaths or something like that, but I don't really believe in that sort of thing. Kaito- er I mean Kid, clearly stated that he would be arriving on his hang glider around midnight. Naturally it can be assumed that he would be leaving on his hang glider from the roof of the building as per usual -really I have no idea how the Kaitou Kid task force has yet to catch on to his favorite place to leave from.
With Kaito's amazing skills as a magician, I highly doubted that I would be able to keep him from taking the jewel (especially with my knowing why he became a thief to begin with) but as for making sure he can't get away with it... that should be a simple feat. So I waited for him on the roof.
But when he arrived something seemed different about the thief. His actions matched how I imagined they would be, but something was strange.
He smirked as he his prize up into the moonlight, and spoke in a familiar voice after an almost disturbing chuckle, "This one isn't it either."
I took the cue and came out from where I was hiding, "Yo, Kai-er Kid, don't think you can get away this time."
"How rude, this is no way to treat a friend Meitantei-kun," the white-clad thief replied.
"I'm not sure why but for some reason, capturing you is part of the plan," I said as I got ready to use the tranquilizer watch that I'd borrowed from Conan, "Please, don't think badly of me for doing this, Kid."
"It's fine, I was already informed of this plan beforehand," he laughed, his face showing a smug expression, "Though I must say, your observational skills aren't quite as sharp as I thought."
What does he mean by that... is there something I haven't noticed...?
Not bothering to look around in case it was just a bluff I shot him with the tranquilizer. After making sure that the thief was indeed unconscious and not just faking it I carried him down to where the Kaitou Kid task force was waiting, I gloated happily to the press and task force alike about how I had caught the uncatchable Kaitou Kid.
Afterwards Ran, Conan, and I went out to eat dinner at a good restaurant (a ramen place Conan knew of with noodles so good they're supposedly to die for) as a celebration of the success of our plan.
It took a while before I finally realized that something was missing.
"Um... Conan, where's Shinji?" I asked hesitantly.
Conan looked up at me with an expression that seemed to say 'are you stupid?' before he replied, "The tranquilizer probably wore off thirty minutes ago so he's probably being questioned by Nakamori-keibu right now... well in any case he should be home soon..."
So that wasn't Kaito... that was Shinji... I just arrested myself, no kidding... my life is so screwed up...
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Being yelled at by Nakamori-keibu is no fun. Naturally, I more or less deserved it, being a phantom thief even if only for one night.
But geez, what a way to spend the time I have in this body... growing older just to commit a crime and get arrested.
Having taken a single pill that should have normally lasted twelve hours I predicted that I would have six hours before my teenaged body turned back into my small child body. When that happened the police would just assume that Kaitou Kid escaped because there's no way he could ever turn into a child, one of the police officers would take me home and Nakamori-keibu would shout strings of curses at the sky for Kid's escape.
Two hours left...
This is going to be a long night...
