At the gathering of Faces, Masks fall off-

It's rather unusual.

In the crowds of people gathered, Kaito didn't expect anyone to see or recognise him. After all, he's a master of disguise and discretion. Nobody ever sees him in a crowd. Now, in a masquerade, dressed as a woman, nobody should ever see him!

Count of Kudo Shinichi to break that rule!

And now everyone is staring.

Why is everyone staring?

Kaito doesn't want people to stare except when he wants them to! You only stare when the magician wants you to stare! You can't stare when he's preparing his trick! That's like peeking behind the red curtain! It's rude and it ruins everything!

Kudo always tends to peek behind the curtain, doesn't he?

So now, everyone is staring and Kaito still doesn't know what to do. He stands there, still as a statue, looking blankly down at the fully grown back Kudo Shinichi kneeling before him and offering him a gloved hand. The detective is wearing blue themed clothes with a medieval European flare to them, and a helmet-like mask. It doesn't hide the satisfied smirk he is wearing. That arrogant detective!


He's quite stunning.

Dressed in his silvery white dress and white feathered mask. Of course, KID couldn't stop his cheek to dress in the same colour scheme as his uniform. Yet nobody saw him. He was beautiful. The most beautiful girl and nobody saw. Shinichi himself knew that he wouldn't have seen either a few months back. Now that he knows who to look for, he is amazed at how blind he'd been.

Kuroba had added extensions to his hair and braided it beautifully so that it fell over his shoulder like a raven waterfall, black and white contrasting beautifully. His face is highlighted with makeup but he's not wearing a mask tonight. His indigo eyes suck Shinichi in instantly. That's how he saw him. Nobody in the world has eyes like those.

Kaito decided to accept the offer, if only to stop the endless staring and the rising whispers. He knows that Kudo Shinichi was popular and his recent reappearance after his successful take down of a criminal syndicate (mind you with KID's help although that's state secret) also boosted his already popular image. He should now be dancing and having eyes only for his Mouri-san, shouldn't he? So why is he asking Kaito?

He takes my hand but I can tell he's reluctant. I'm forcing him to act out by making such a spectacle of this. I don't care. If I didn't, he'd escape me, brush past me, disappear and leave me. And that … That is something I will not allow again. Not tonight. Not any other night.


We dance.

We dance.

The crowds forget again.

He makes them forget again.

My mind focuses back on the heist. It's my last one.

His mind is elsewhere. I can tell. He's more concerned by his last show.

I have 20 minutes and 12 seconds.

He's counting.

I play out my plan in my head again. Tonight is my grand finally. Pandora is already found and I am now going to make a grand show of destroying it, here, in this masquerade ball in the heart of a precious jewel and stones exhibition. The perfect setting.

Tonight is the last night. I'll lose him forever after. The dream will end and reality will drag us back in our daily lives. Tonight, I'm almost wishing magic did exist. I'm almost wishing KID could freeze time and make this heist never end.

It's time.

It's time.

The song ends …