Kuroba Kaito stormed out of the entrance of Tropical Land, fuming and scaring the poor ticket girl positioned at the exit. "Damn that Aoko," he snarled under his breath as the girl stared confusedly after him. "She just had to go and bring up Kid and her damned views. Damn it all."
He had been expecting the day - his first official date with his childhood friend - to be a positively memorable experience, but it had turned out horribly. First Aoko had refused to go on any of the "scary" rides (the Mystery Coaster hardly qualified as a scary ride, for God's sake) and then she had purposefully spilled her entire jumbo-sized soda onto his lap as revenge for his mocking over her fear of the aforementioned "scary" ride. The disaster had rounded off with the ever-enthralling topic of Kid suddenly being brought up and Kaito being subjected to a rant on "that idiot thief."
After having heard enough, Kaito had finally snapped back at her and marched off. Because hey, it wasn't like he could explain to her, the daughter of Inspector Nakamori, that he was trying to stop an entirely evil organization from obtaining Pandora and eternal life; there was no way she would -
Kaito's mental rant came to a sudden halt when, on the verge of rounding a corner, he heard a groan from behind a dim, unmarked building positioned a few meters away. What was that?
The same sound, something of pure agony, came again, and now Kaito was sure he wasn't hearing things. Glancing around, he calculated the risks of looking over at the unidentified source. There was a chance that he could get into some sort of trouble if he went to investigate -
Another groan, this one somehow even louder and more pained. His goodwill quickly overpowering his apprehension, Kaito changed course and began striding quickly over. He rounded a corner and froze.
Because what he found was... surprising, to say the least.