CHAPTER 29: Mysterious Officer
Suzume sat there at the table, sipping her coffee and reading the paper. The front page today was, 'Kaitou Kid Coming to Osaka!'. Suzume heard of Kaitou Kid, but she's never actually seen him except for picture in the paper.
Suzume heard footsteps from the hall so she looked over to see Heiji walking into the room. He seemed tired and he was rubbing eyes like a small child.
"Morning!" Suzume said, brightly.
Heiji glared at Suzume as he took his seat across from her. Suzume put the paper in front of her face, hiding from the glare. Wonder what I did this time… she thought. Truth was she didn't do anything. Heiji just had stayed up most of the night thinking about the wedding and how he almost kissed her. He barely got any sleep that night.
Suzume placed the paper on the table and looked at Heiji. "You hear the news?" she said.
Heiji lifted an eyebrow at Suzume's question. "Of course I haven't heard it," he said.
Suzume crossed her arms a pouted. "Geez, I was just asking…" she said, looking away. "Papers say Kaitou Kid is coming to Osaka to steal Poseidon's Ruby-Zoisite…"
Heiji chocked on the water he was drinking, but once he had cleared his throat, he said, "WHAT?"
Suzume jumped. "Kaitou Kid is coming to Osaka to steal Poseidon's Ruby-Zoisite."
"When?" Heiji said.
Suzume looked at the paper. "Osaka castle, midnight tonight," she said. "They say someone already deduced the letter he left."
Heiji was silent. He knew who solved the letter and he knew that person was coming here, even though he didn't want him to.
Suzume put down the paper and walked out of the room. "Where ya going?" Heiji said.
"For a walk," Suzume said.
Heiji then heard the front door slam shut. Heiji jumped at the sound and wondered, Wonder what I did this time… Heiji picked up the paper and read the article about Kaitou Kid coming to Osaka. "Edogawa Conan solving the mysterious letter…"
Suzume was walking down the street, her hands stuffed into her small, sweatshirt, pockets. Her boots clacked on the stones as she walked down the stairs to a small park. Suzume wasn't paying attention and ended up bumping into someone. "Oh, sorry," Suzume said.
Suzume still wasn't paying attention, and since the steps were wet, she slipped. But before she even fell down the steps, someone grabbed her hand and caught her. Suzume opened her eyes to find her face close to a man's chest. Suzume looked up to see blue eyes looking down at her. "You alright?" he said.
Suzume was frozen in shock. "Y-Yes, I'm fine," Suzume said.
The man was a police officer, but not from Osaka. He wore a hat over his brown hair and he looked like a teenager, even though he must have been older.
Then man didn't seem to let go of Suzume, in fact a hand was still wrapped around her waist pulling her close and another held her other hand. Suzume just kept looking in his blue eyes and he kept looking in her eyes.
"Um," Suzume said, pointing to his arm. "Can you let me go?"
"Oh!" The man let Suzume go and she was safely on the ground. The man stood next to her, with a foot on one step.
"Thanks for…umm…" Suzume couldn't find the words, she was still in shock from seeing such a cute guy in front of her.
"No problem," he said, knowing what she wanted to say. "So what's your name?"
"K-Kei Suzume…"
The man smiled brightly and bowed. "Pleasure to meet you, Kei-san." He then took Suzume's hand a kissed it. "I'm glad to see you alright."
Suzume's face turned red. The man let go of her and was looking her back in the eye. "You're a Detective, right?" he asked.
"Yes, I am," Suzume said, smiling. "The Black Sparrow Detective, that's me!"
The man gave a small chuckle and smiled at her. "Well," he said, "you're known everywhere. Are you going to see Kaitou Kid tonight?"
Suzume thought for a moment. "Uh," she said, "I might. I don't know yet."
The man seemed a little sad at that. "You should come," he said, giving a smile, "there very much fun. And it's funny watching-"
The man was cut off by someone shouting. "Come on Newbie!" The man looked up the stairs to see the person who was shouting, which was Inspector Nakamori. "Stop flirting, we have a job to do!"
The man blushed and shouted, "Yes, Sir!" He then began running up the stairs, but stopped and looked at Suzume. He then reached into his sleeve and pulled out a red rose. He walked down and gave the rose to Suzume and whispered in her ear, "I hope to see you tonight." The man then ran back up the stairs and disappeared with the Inspector.
Suzume stood there her face reddening, not even realizing she just met the charming Kaitou Kid.
