Kaitou Kid was gone, and he was now able to do the much-needed time and his much-needed personal space so that he could get out of his bubble of Edowaga Conan. He could fully stop pretending, and he could be himself again, he could be 'Kudo Shinichi' and he could relax again. Even though he would not be in his own full grown up body he could now stop pretending the many faces and acts he had to pull and he could now himself in front of the two people that knew his secret. He could be himself without being questioned or watched, except for the part where Haibara would look at him as an experiment looking for any kind of changing formulating in that mad scientific head of hers.
Reading a book for instance was something that he could do without someone looking over his shoulder and asking him questions. Such as if he could really read such a thing because of all the big word or because there were no pictures and all it would be was words. Research that needed to be done to make sure that everything was in place and everything was fine. He needed to know that they was saved and that they had not been discovered or that anything comprising had been notified by the wrong person or persons unknown.
Especially with his latest uninvited guest and visitor that just could not help themselves to other things and he needed to make a certain thief did not help her hands to what was not hers.
Although he did have a certain trust in the thief and a little faith that she did not take anything for guaranteeing and let his guard down for anyone not even Kaitou Kid. Although he did have a certain kind of trust in the thief that he could not fully ever understand, a sort of gentleman's agreement if you will. He could consider Kaitou Kid a gentleman even though he was actually a 'she' because that was the role she played or rather was in that state of mind. Putting everything she had into it and becomes that person no longer being the person she was before that but a completely different person.
Kaitou Kid was definitely one of a kind or two of a kind since he knew the one before that, it was the only one meeting, though. And now he was starting to wonder whatever what happened between that Kaitou Kid and his father because that had to be one hell of a story that he was not told and one mystery that he was determined to solve one of these days.
Now looking at the laptop there was no finger prints on it as it had been wiped clean of the three fingerprints that had been on it beforehand. Opening the screen, it was also clean, and it was clear that everything had been wiped down and this was making him more suspicious than ever.
So, there was only one thing that he could do, and that was take it apart because he was starting to get suspicious and worried that there just might be something on that said laptop that is not supposed to be there. And when it would be put on a lot of unknown and potential things could happen from their location being sent or information being leaked.
Haibara was down on the lab working on the APTX 4869 and of course listening to Yoko Oniko again with her headphones just plugged into her head. He was really starting to get fed up with her music and it was all because when he was at the Detective Agency it was all that he would hear and the place was decorated with it, almost littered with it. There had not gone a day by that he had not heard it and was getting more fed up with it that was almost pain numbing in the head.
Agasa was fast asleep and snoring the night away peacefully like the world had no problems. He envied the Doc that he could sleep that easy and just wished that he could even sleep half as much he did or as peacefully.
And within fifteen minutes he had taken the laptop apart.
Three hours later he had searched every nook and cranny of it.
He had found a bug that had been placed inside the disc drive within the first hour as it was neatly tucked between the middle, where it would likely never to be found. He took it apart and he had seen bugs like this one like this before and the kind of work that it does. It belonged to the FBI and likely belonged to Akai who had been keeping his tabs on Haibara for quite some time. He smiled as he looked at it and then crushed with the palm of his hand he was going to see how this would end and if Akai could do it, without him knowing.
The second one he had found was the one that he had placed there just in case of emergencies, like this situation for instance in case someone had taken it. And this was the reason that he had found out that it was stolen in the first place and mainly how he was able to track it down in the first place.
The third one was the one that Agasa had made from the start as one of his new gadgets to see if it would work it had failed miserably of course. The thing did not even work or rather it did for five minutes and then had caused a major glitch in the network and put the entire internet down for two days. And then when it was working and the internet was back, Haibara wanted to print a few bits of information off and when she did the paper in the printer went on fire and was somehow the chip was the problem.
And the fourth one was the hardest to find out of all of them and of course had belonged to Kaitou Kid. The chip was white with the traditional Kaitou Kid signature on it, and the grin was even bigger than he thought it would be, taking up most of it corner to corner. Even though it was smaller than the others, it shone bright like a diamond when he held it in his hands. And also, it was winking at him as soon as he was touching it with the whole creepy way and almost looked like it wanted to whistle. It was one thing Kaitou Kid knows how to do is make you paranoid and creep you out at the exact same time, with the just one picture stuck on a label.
Once he came to his sense and direction of thought, he had crushed it in the palm of his hands making sure that it would be best to get it out of the way. And it would also be best to do a quick sweep of the house to inspect for any other bugs that might be around. The whole house would definitely have to be swept.
Then another second thought had crossed his mind, one of the last times he had a rather talkative chat with Kaitou Kid he/she had placed a bug on the back of his collar and listened to everything he had to say. Although Kaitou Kid did not know at the time that he had actually known about it and used it to his advantage to defeat and hopefully capture the thief. Well he did trick the trickster that time and had gotten the diamond back but the thief did escape with his assistant intact just over the net.
So close, but no cigar.
And after doing a further good check on himself he had found a chip on the top of his shoe lace, the aglet of all places to put one he had found it there.
It was small and shaped just like the Kaitou Kid signature and was just there staring at you as if it was seeing through your soul and was going t eat it alive because it was just that amused. And was giving the sinister that you could possibly have and at the same time the cheekiest look that you would actually get from the original thief. But a hell a lot more cheesier and it was even lighting up the moment he picked it up and was now playing a tune, while whistling along to it.
He just stared at it not knowing what to think but giving it a stressed-out smile.
"Oi! " he said.
And then he crushed it with his hand knowing all this was one big distraction and he was almost falling for it.
For all he knew everything on the laptop could have been downloaded and Kaitou Kid could be reading it all right now, which was not a good feeling.
He did not want Kaitou Kid to know his secret because it would be like opening Pandora's box and once it was open what came out could never be put back. Much like him finding out Kaitou Kid`s secret that he was still trying to a grip onto and handle as it was something that he could believe but was till processing.
It was much like finding out that he had been shrunk/de-aged and that it was actually possibly to shrink a person.
And now he had been living with that fact for quite some time and living in secret lying everyday of his life, something that he thought that he would never do but was now doing.
He was just hoping that she would not open Pandora's box.
And he just wished that he would not get another mind-numbing headache that he had always gotten when that thief was around.
'Kaitou Kid was female and he had not noticed' he thought as he could hit the side of his head.
And then just sighed as he buried his head in his work.
