Detective Conan and Magic Kaito characters, settings, and ideas do not belong to me but to Aoyama Gōshō.
Warnings: Language, minor violence
TMPD Antics
By Taliya
XLI: Hakuba and Kuroba
The items in question were a diamond necklace, earrings, rings, bracelet, and brooch set collectively—and rather un-inventively—dubbed The Countess' Diamond Collection. The theft had occurred the previous night, and the thief in question had left a note behind with Kaitou KID's signature doodle. Kaito, as a member of Division Three, was at the museum to find any evidence of the perpetrator. He had dusted the display case but found no fingerprints, and was now trying to figure out how the thief had unlocked the case without ever having touched it. He personally suspected an inside man—someone with access to the museum at night, allowing them time to study the locking mechanisms used for the display, as it was not a simple lock and key. One of the security staff, most likely.
The guards on duty that night had been dosed with a gas sedative. Video footage revealed the thief had been clothed from head to toe in black. A check around the security office revealed small canisters of the knock out gas equipped with timed detonation devices squirreled away in the vents of the air conditioning. It was a good setup, something that he himself would have used. Forensics had confirmed that it was not the same chemical mix of compounds used by Kaitou KID, and that this particular combination could be bought on the black market. But even though the phantom thief was now out of the running as a potential culprit…
Mentally, Kaito was grumbling darkly about how he would pay back the imposter tenfold. Some of his more inventive ideas thus far included duct-taping the moron upside-down to the front doors of the TMPD headquarters in nothing but his underwear (or something slightly more modest if the thief happened to be female), disguising the dingbat up in full-blown western-style female royalty regalia and gluing them into a charge-free public kissing booth, and dousing the numbnut in canine sex pheromones and letting them loose in the city. Nothing that would kill the poor sod, but definitely humiliating enough to remind them to never invoke Kaitou KID's name without explicit permission.
As KID's signature had been found at the site, Saguru and his coworkers had also been called in to verify that the theft had been committed by an imposter. The blond had been thoroughly unimpressed. Inspector Nakamori's comments regarding the fake KID note had been unprintable unless the newspapers were willing to make use of long strings of symbols in place of the words he had used.
"Of course it's an imposter," Saguru snorted as he spoke into the microphones aimed at his face, "Kaitou KID would not leave a notice after the fact. He's too arrogant to be as sneaky as a common thief. It's not his modus operandi. And…" Here he smirked into the media cameras, "I'm sure KID will get them back, if not at least by threefold."
Kaito's eyes glimmered with puckish delight as he caught Saguru's eye, and the Division Two officer rolled his eyes before he spun and stomped away from the crowd of reporters shouting for Saguru to answer a few more questions.
Author's Note: Note to self: never get on KID's bad side. He can be downright vindictive, even with his nonviolence policy. Sorry for the slow update, I've had a very trying week thus far. My best friend miscarried her twins, and my other friend's apartment flooded thanks to the puppy upstairs chewing through their owner's toilet water line. I hope you enjoyed it.
Completed: 29.10.2015