Kaito watched the boy with an unreadable expression, trying to discern the lies from the truth. Obviously the boy was probably going to try to feed him some sort of bullshit, and he almost felt obliged to write down the kid's story in order to check for inconsistencies later.
"My name's Edogawa Conan," began the boy, Conan, apparently, eyes trained directly into Kaito's. Kaito was vaguely surprised at how his voice suddenly seemed more... childlike and less genius all of a sudden, but he was mostly lost in the blue of Conan's irises. In the back of his mind, he cursed his sudden affinity for six-year-old boys.
"Today I went to Tropical Land with some of my friends. It was... uh, Ayumi-chan's birthday," Conan continued, and Kaito again was entranced with the six-year-old lilt to the words. This Conan kid was either an incredible actor or telling the truth, and Kaito, a prodigious actor himself (with his night job, he kind of had to be), couldn't even tell which it was.
"I've always wanted to be a detective," exclaimed Conan, grinning and making Kaito raise an eyebrow as the thought odd kid passed through his head. "And I saw two men dressed in black, like bad guys, leaving the park, so I followed them out when my friends and the other people weren't watching. I saw one of the men giving another guy a suitcase with some paper in it, and then somebody hit me on the head really hard. I don't know what happened after that." He grabbed the back of his head with a small mewl.
"Where are your parents?" Kaito asked, after a short pause. The story sounded decently logical, and Conan seemed decently honest, but this was one rather important point.
Conan faltered for a moment before saying, "Mom and Dad went to America for something and they left me with a family friend, Professor Agasa..."
Well then. Kaito sat back, regarding Conan for a long moment.
Sorry for the skipped day & this terrible chapter. I did have a lovely vacation, though.