Chapter 2:
Ran sat in her room and cried all day, and Conan sat in the office and tried to think things over.
"This is so strange. Why would someone shoot Kaito Kid, and why was he still disguised as me after he left? Also, I thought Kid was too clever to just be shot by someone out in the open. None of this makes any sense. I guess I will have to go to the crime scene to figure this out."
And at the perfect moment, Kogoro called out. "Conan, Ran, I've been called out to investigate the murder of that kid. You guys coming?" He walked over to Ran's door. "Hey, you were friends with the guy, right? Why don't you come along? Ran?" He knocked on her door several times, but there was no answer.
"Jerk.....he should know better, he knows how much she cares about me. But what she said before..."he thought as he remembered his conversation with Ran that morning about her feelings for him. He spoke to Kogoro, and tried to sound excited.
"Hey detective, let's go already! Just leave Ran here."
"Okay, lets go." He sighed.
After the two took a cab, they arrived at the crime scene next to the alleyway, where many police officers and Inspector Megure waited.
Kogoro began his detective act immediately. "So, Inspector, give me all the details!" he stated proudly.
Megure grabed him by the collar and said "Mouri, this kid was a good friend of mine....and he knew a lot of people here....SO I WANT YOU TO TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY!"
"Okay, okay im sorry. So what happened here exactly?"
"We found this man lying in the alleyway right over there at 8:30 this morning, and he looked pretty traumatized. He was the only witness we have, so we began to question him. All he told us was that two mysterious men had kidnapped his son in return for the money used to fund his company. He couldn't see their faces because it was so dark out, and they did not mention their names out loud."
Conan began to think. "I suppose Kid stayed disguised as me so he could stroll around town unnoticed. The people who shot Kid probably were some enemies of his, which could be anyone on the police force, plus many others. But who could be crafty enough to be able to shoot the famous thief?"
"Inspector," said Conan, "Who were some of Kid's worst enemies? You know, some people who were really out to get him?"
"Megure replied, "Kid? You mean Kaito Kid? What does he have anything to do with this?"
Conan was surprised as it all became clear, and he thought to himself, "I completely forgot! I'm the only person who knows that the guy sitting over there is really Kaito Kid, not Shinichi Kudo! I can't believe I missed it before, the people who shot him were not Kaito Kid's enemies, they were mine! The people who shot Kid were also tricked by his disguise. The only enemies of mine I could think of that would have the desire to have me dead would be....it couldn't be..."
"Inspector, are you sure the witness didn't say anything else?" said Conan.
"Wait! He did say one more thing; he said he heard the men say something as he passed out from being slammed against the brick wall. Something about "the detective never interfering again." replied Megure
"I've got it!" said Kogoro. "the murderers must have been criminals that Kudo had caught in his cases, thirsty for revenge!"
"Impossible," the Inspector replied. "I have been at every single one of Kudo's cases, and I am sure that all of the criminals he has caught have been put in jail, and as far as I know none of them have escaped."
"Then one of the criminals must have hired an ally from outside of prison as an assassin."
"Or maybe, there was a criminal that Kudo was after, but got away...."
"And they wanted to kill him before he found them again and caught them."
"There are too many possibilities, there has to be one thing obvious out there. Maybe for once I am actually thinking too hard. Let's see....a criminal I went after but got away....the only thing I could think of it be!? Could the two mysterious men actually be the men from the Black Organization!? I will need to confirm my thoughts."
Conan walked over to the witness, who was standing by a wall isolated from the police and crowd.
"Excuse me sir," asked Conan, "was it really that dark here that you couldn't see the slightest attribute of the murderers?"
He replied, "Well I am pretty sure that they were almost completely covered in clothing, because all I could see was the skin on their faces."
"How can that be? There is a streetlight just beside the site where you were threatened."
"The light was very dim so I had no clue what they were wearing. Wait, the last thing I remembered was the one thing about the man who held the gun to me.....those horrible eyes....the eyes of a true killer....and for some reason, I couldn't see the eyes of the other man. Now run along kid; I have a lot of thinking to do"
Conan walked away as he thought "Any color would be visible in even the slightest light, all except for black. And if one man's eyes were not visible, then he must have been wearing dark glasses of some sort. And the eyes of a killer? That clue didn't mean anything alone, but when all the clues are combined, they prove my theory. The Organization must have been threatening this man in the alleyway, and saw Kaito Kid disguised as me walk past them. They thought I was still alive when they saw him, so they shot him when they saw him. Great! Now all I have to do is put Kogoro to sleep and tell Inspector Megure-
Conan started to run behind a garbage can by Mouri. He held up the aimed the stun-gun wrist watch, but then put it down in frustration.
"Damn," he thought, "this theory means nothing to them. The police fore is almost clueless about the Organization, and I can't tell them that the person killed was really Kid. But if the Organization is sure that they have killed me, than it is safe to reveal my identity to Ran! I have to get back to the Agency before they decide to have a funeral for me! Ran, I sure hope you believe me over the police! Shinichi isn't dead!"