Chapter 883: The best person to catch Kidd is Kuroba Kaito
Chapter 883: The best person to catch Kidd is Kuroba Kaito
At night, the time and place where Kaito Kid committed his crimes.
"Kaito, are you sure it's here?" Kuroba Kaito and Nakamori Aoko were hiding stealthily behind the clock tower on the top floor of the newly built hotel.
This was not the place where Kuroba Kaito had planned to appear in his own preview letter, but another one, the one that used his name to send the preview letter.
"There's no doubt about it. Although it's a fake, his preview letter is the one that imitates my style the most." Kuroba Kaito took out a piece of paper. It was the preview letter from Nakamori Ginzo that he had stolen from him not long ago.
The square below was filled with high-powered police searchlights, and with the full moon overhead, the content above could be clearly seen.
{When the tears of Gemini fall into the velvet curtain, the sword of the bronze knight will point to the seventh sigh. I will come on the five-line score of moonlight and take away the starlight sleeping in the curse.}
"Look, Aoko." Kuroba Kaito was hiding behind the clock tower. He wanted to point to the square below, but he was speechless when he saw the row of high-power searchlights that blinded his eyes.
So Kuroba Kaito took out his phone, opened the hotel's website, and clicked on a nighttime aerial photo of the square in front of the hotel to show Aoko: "The floor tiles of this square are divided into the shape of piano keys. Under normal night conditions, the main light source is the moon light in the central fountain. The white strips of floor tiles surrounding the square's walkway are regarded as the white keys of the piano. Under the projection of the light, the shadows of the ten unevenly distributed short pillars around them are the black keys of the piano."
"Really? The spacing between the pillars and the floor tiles are exactly the same as the piano." Nakamori Aoko said in surprise while looking at the picture.
"Hush, keep your voice down. The hotel's official website doesn't introduce these designs. Maybe the hotel owner wants to introduce them to someone personally, or maybe it's the designer's little idea..." Kuroba Kaito went back to the notice letter and said, "Now you know what the moonlight's musical notation is, right?"
"Moonlight Sonata?" Nakamori Aoko looked at the photo, then looked at the square below where the black keys were gone because of the searchlights: "Do you want to play the piano in the square?"
"Of course the moonlight is played by the moon." Kuroba Kaito pointed to the bright moon above his head. "If it weren't for these searchlights, at 7 o'clock tonight, the moonlight cast by the position of the moon would be reflected to the square by the concave mirrors on top of the lightning rods on top of the hotel, and correspond to the second chapter of the Moonlight Sonata from the inside out."
As for why it is Chapter 2, because Chapter 2 is the shortest.
"No wonder there seem to be too many lightning rods." Nakamori Aoko looked around and saw that there was a 'lightning rod' every three to five meters on the roofs around her: "Why is it here?"
Kuroba Kaito pointed his finger above his head: "Because the last sound is the shadow of the clock tower, a shadow cast directly by the moonlight."
There is a hollow circular hole on the top of the clock tower, which is perpendicular to the direction of the moonlight. Inside it is a convex lens with a small curvature. The moonlight passes through the convex lens and converges on the last "key". The organizer of the gem exhibition placed Kuroba Kaito's target, a pair of diamond earrings named "Gemini" made of a pair of large pink diamonds and large blue diamonds, under this beam of moonlight. He wanted to illuminate the gem with the dual brilliance of moonlight and lamplight.
"Oh... it feels pretty impressive." Nakamori Aoko nodded and looked around: "But... the other party didn't come?"
"Uh...this." Kuroba Kaito was also confused.
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"Master, could this be a trap?" Terai Huang Zhisuke asked worriedly.
If the other warning letter is a trap set by the police, Master Kaito will have fallen into the trap.
As the performance was about to start, Kaito Kidd, dressed in pure white, was already in place. However, the location he was in was not the clock tower where he was originally scheduled to appear, but the location where he was supposed to appear after interpreting another preview letter.
This is part of the cafe on the second floor of the hotel. There are some tables and chairs placed on the terrace above the gate, which is used as an open-air cafe.
Carefully adjusting his cloak to avoid wrinkles, Kaito Kid naturally chose a seat to sit down, waiting for the guy who wanted to impersonate him to show up.
{When the reflection of the twin roses withers in the mirror, the pendulum will tear through the shadow curtain at the seventh heartbeat, and at the moment when crimson and indigo meet, it will take away the twin tears in Pandora's box with a siren's kiss.}
"No, Uncle Nakamori can't imitate my style so well." Kaito Kid took out another preview letter that he had just stolen from Ginzo Nakamori not long ago: "Before, the old man from the Suzuki family asked me to save his dog, but the preview letter he imitated was not as good as this one."
"How similar is it? When I saw it, I knew what it was referring to at a glance. It was just like the abandoned draft I discarded when writing the preview letter ran out of my head by itself."
"As for Officer Nakamori, he is probably following the saying that crimson and indigo meet and is hanging around the swimming pool and hot springs."
"There is a cinema and a concert hall in the hotel. The cinema will show the classic movie Moulin Rouge tomorrow night, and the concert hall entertained shareholders and government officials with the musical Bluebeard last night. You can find all of this in the promotional blog for the hotel's opening ceremony." Kaito Kid pointed to two places: "And standing at the intersection of scarlet and indigo is right here and now, the atrium balcony where you can't see the gem directly, but you can see the gem's reflection in the water curtain."
"Even that little detective couldn't understand my code thinking so thoroughly." Kaito Kid analyzed: "The other party should want to lure me to meet, but when sending the advance letter, he didn't expect that I had already sent a advance letter to this gem, right?"
"But Master... it seems like there's still no one here. Could they have been scared away?" Terai Huangzhisuke was a little worried: "And, could it be that organization..."
"I am also worried about this." Kaito Kid nodded: "So I can't fight alone. If a member of that organization shows up, the two of us can beat him alone, grandpa."
"Young master, you really trust my old arms and legs." Terai Huang Zhisuke wiped the sweat off his face with a handkerchief.
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"The time is almost up, but there's still no one here." Nakamori Aoko looked down at the time: "You're wrong, idiot Kaito!"
"Hmph, that guy must have surrendered before the fight." Kuroba Kaito refused to admit it and did not believe that he had made a mistake in interpreting the secret code.
Click, click, boom——!
As the gears turned, the minute hand of the clock in the bell tower pointed to the top, the hour hand reached VII, and then the staggered bells rang out in sequence according to the first seven notes of the second section of "Moonlight".
"There's nothing I can do. I can't let my fans down. That guy doesn't dare to show up, so I'll take over." Kuroba Kaito pulled up his clothes and instantly transformed himself into Kaito Kid: "Ride on the Moonlight and receive the twin stars."
This was not the first time that someone had used his name to impersonate him and do bad things, but he never let those deceived fans down, and he would show up every time to punish the thief. This time should have been the same, but he didn't expect the other party to show up at all.
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"He hasn't shown up yet. What a shy fan." Hearing the bell ringing, Kaito Kid in the cafe walked forward helplessly: "Then I will complete the performance he booked first, and let Siren sing first."
So Terai Huangzhisuke pushed the machine they brought, which had already been connected to the coffee shop's power supply. Then Terai Huangzhisuke pressed the switch and ran away, covering his ears.
Once this machine is turned on, it is not good for your health to get too close to it.
... "Damn it, where is that bastard Kidd hiding!" Nakamori Ginzo came out of the swimming pool with an angry face and put on his clothes.
I searched the hot springs, the swimming pool, the concert hall with the piano, the terrace with the astronomical telescope, and even the bar with midnight blue as the main color and lots of red wine, but I didn't see even a single piece of Kaito Kid's clothes.
Kaito Kid and Kuroba Kaito were both analyzing each other's preview letter, and Nakamori Ginzo was already bad at deciphering codes, and once again there were two preview letters in front of him.
Then Ginzo Nakamori slapped his head: there are two earrings, and their name is Gemini. These two preview letters must be a trick that Kaito Kidd came up with for this "Gemini". The two preview letters should be interpreted together.
It's difficult to decipher one letter at a time, let alone interpreting two letters together. Naturally, the result of Nakamori Ginzo's interpretation will be a mess, or what we commonly call nothing.
Seeing that the time was getting closer, Nakamori Ginzo could only disperse his police officers and wait until the time came, and whoever saw Kidd would rush forward.
"When I find this guy, I must punch him, like this, like this, and like this..." Nakamori Ginzo muttered to himself, his hands still in front of his eyes, laughing and throwing left and right hooks at the imaginary Kaito Kid.
The two police officers behind him whispered, "Inspector, you weren't like this before. How did Kidd provoke you?"
"I heard that Kidd seduced the police chief's daughter."
"Isn't this normal? What young girl doesn't like Kidd? My daughter also keeps telling me not to hurt Kidd."
"No, it seems like we met and we have a crush on each other."
"Stop talking nonsense!" Nakamori Ginzo turned his head and roared loudly. The two policemen immediately stopped gossiping and stood at attention as straight as a poplar tree.
Ginzo Nakamori was so angry that he wanted to take out Kidd's preview letter and take another look at it, thinking about where else he had not searched.
When I touched my pocket, I felt something was wrong. I took it out and found that the two notices had turned into two playing cards.
One was a Joker card, with handwriting on it: {This is not my notice, I borrowed it.} The signature was still a sketch of Kaito Kid.
The other card was also a Joker card, with an identical handwritten message and the same stick figure at the end.
What do you mean, are you afraid that I will lose the game of cards and send me a pair of bombs? The notice letter was not sent by you? Neither of the two notice letters?
Nakamori Ginzo looked up and found that the owner of the gem, the operator of the newly built hotel, was about to come and talk to him, but a police officer was stopping him with a distressed look.
Ginzo Nakamori was also helpless. When he saw the president, he knew what he wanted to say - he hoped that the police could turn off the searchlights in the square, on the grounds that they were affecting the audience's viewing of the gems.
In this regard, Ginzo Nakamori could only say that although he was the one who reported the case, the police were here to protect Jewel and catch Kid, not to follow his arrangements. The only person who could make the police suffocate was Suzuki Jiroyoshi.
Besides, do you think the audience is here to see the gems? They are here to see Kidd! If the searchlight is not turned on, the bastard Kaito Kidd, who is best at taking advantage of troubled waters, will be able to take the gems away without anyone noticing. By then, the audience won't even be able to see Kidd!
When this topic was brought up before, the president insisted on turning off the searchlights, but when asked the reason, he hesitated and his face turned a little red.
Ginzo Nakamori frowned and saw that the president was still pestering the police officer, so he simply walked over and planned to communicate with him again, either to ask him why he wanted to turn off the searchlight, or to ask him to recall if he had missed anything.
At this time, the bell in the clock tower rang, meaning it was already seven o'clock.
No matter how you interpret the two letters of warning, there is no dispute that the gems were stolen at seven o'clock.
"Everyone be on high alert, Kaito Kid may appear at any time!" Nakamori Ginzo didn't have time to deal with the depressed-looking president, and immediately spoke into the intercom.
But soon, after the sound of the bells in the bell tower ended, a shrill, non-human voice echoed in the square. It had a certain rhythm, like Vitas's dolphin sound.
"Kid, it must be Kid who did it!" Nakamori Ginzo covered his ears in pain and loudly denounced Kid: "The Siren in the preview letter refers to this!"
The effect of this extremely high-pitched tone is not only unpleasant to the ear, it can also resonate with some objects and produce unusual destructive power.
The police officers in charge of guarding the searchlights in the square covered their ears to resist the evil sound that was infecting their brains, and at the same time they noticed that their searchlights were vibrating.
In fact, it was the glass panel of the searchlight that was vibrating.
Puff! Puff! Such sounds were heard from the searchlights one after another, and then all their searchlights quickly dimmed. The xenon searchlights that could illuminate the environment as bright as daylight finally turned into a dull dark red.
Because the glass was broken, the xenon gas in the xenon lamp leaked out, and all the lights went out.
Even without the searchlight, it would still be bright here under the moonlight, but everyone's vision had already adapted to the presence of the searchlight, so that for a brief moment after the light went out, their vision was completely dark.
"Protect the gems!" When he saw the searchlights go out one after another, Nakamori Ginzo immediately gave orders.
However, in addition to the searchlight, there is another very important thing that can be shattered by the ultra-high-pitched sound - the glass display cabinet used to display and protect the gems, Pandora's Secret Box.
At the same time, because all the searchlights were turned off and almost no light was emitted, the moonlight and the shadow of the clock tower were cast on the ground.
Especially the beam of moonlight that penetrated the convex lens, passed by Kuroba Kaito, and generously cast his shadow on the ground.
The police officers who were protecting the gem at close range saw a shadow that they were most familiar with cast on the ground by the moonlight. The shadow was only a few millimeters away from the gem. (End of this chapter)
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