Conan's pupils trembled, and after being stunned for a moment, he chased after him, and Mao Lilan and others also ran over. But until they ran to the gate of the castle, they saw no one, and no vehicles leaving, so they could only return to the basement.

.

Everyone else's attention had shifted to the easter eggs, but Conan kept frowning.

Because the phantom thief "codenamed" Shadow Cat does not issue warning letters in advance like Kidd does, and except for the time when he emptied Professor Moritani Teiji's vault, he rarely targets personal property, and there are more "victims"

It is a bank and a bandit group, so the public is not actually aware of the existence of "Shadow Cat".

Even the Metropolitan Police Department can only determine the existence of this person from the card left each time. It does not know when he came or when he left. In the files created, the other party’s gender and age

, appearance, etc. are all "unknown", and it is not clear whether the other party committed the crime in a group or alone.

When publicizing to the outside world, the police's public relations department will not deliberately display the cards left by Shadow Cat - although the amount of crimes Shadow Cat has done is not small, the number of cases is not many. Many thefts and robberies occur every day in Tokyo.

In the incident, the people of Tokyo can at most lament the dire straits of their living environment. But if the public knows that the same person has always committed the crime, then they will definitely question the Tokyo police's ability to handle the case. If the number of crimes is increased several times, even the police director

They have to bow and apologize to the public on TV.

——There is nothing we can do about Kaitou Kidd. If the police don’t promote him, he can make a big fuss by himself, which makes the police very passive. But for a low-key thief like Shadow Cat, the police will not deliberately go after him.

Promote how powerful he is, so as not to end up like the Nakamori Ginsan Police Department, who tried their best to capture Kaitou Kid but were disgraced every time, and were ridiculed by the outside world as a "waste police department" and a "waste of taxpayers' money"

money" etc.

So Conan knows that there may be imitators of Kidd, but it is difficult for Shadowcat to imitate. Especially this unique style of mark is even less likely to be known to outsiders.

So...that person just now...is really Shadow Cat?

but……

He suspected that Kitahara Sosuke was the "Shadow Cat" several times, and some new discoveries overturned his conclusion. Not long ago, he finally confirmed that the "Shadow Cat" was Kitahara Sosuke! Conan has been struggling with this recently.

, observing secretly, thinking about how to make him "change his evil ways and return to righteousness".

But now it seems... he himself misunderstood?

No, we need to confirm...Kitahara Sosuke's whereabouts at this time!

After all, he returned to Tokyo last night. If he completed the transcript and rushed to Yokosuka in advance, it would not be impossible... Perhaps the reason why he left with Megure Police Department and others yesterday was to get to the castle first and get the Emperor's Easter Egg in advance.

!

I thought about how Kitahara Sosuke avoided answering when I asked a question yesterday... I thought about how that guy usually had no interest in solving cases, but he was unusually active yesterday...

[Human nature is inherently greedy. In the face of a temptation worth 1.5 billion yen, those who can remain as unmoved as you are rare species.]

The previous words sounded like they were enlightening him at the time. But if you think about it from another angle... how could it not be that person's confession?

"What's wrong, Conan-kun? You look so scary."

Mao Lilan knelt down and looked at him worriedly.

"Nothing." Conan hurriedly showed a forced smile. From the corner of his eye, he saw a group of people discussing around two eggs. He couldn't help but asked strangely: "Huh? Why are there two eggs?"

It's true that the red Easter egg just fell from the man in black, but isn't the green Easter egg from Suzuki's house?

"It was Yuanzi who brought their emperor's Easter eggs." Mao Lilan said.

"Actually, it was Kitahara-san who suggested me to do this before he left!" Suzuki Sonoko heard what the two said and said with a smile: "He said that since Miss Natsumi's great-grandfather, Mr. Kiichi, made two eggs at the same time, then these two

There should be some connection between the eggs. So if we want to come to the castle to find another Easter egg, it’s best to bring the one from our home too, so that we can know what the secret is hidden in this set of Emperor’s Easter eggs.”

"What are you talking about! It was Beiyuan... Brother Beiyuan suggested that you bring the egg of memory?" Conan asked eagerly, his expression even looking a little fierce.

"Yes, yes!" Suzuki Sonoko was startled by his tone and stuttered: "Yes, is there any problem...?"

"No...no..."

Conan said this and couldn't help but smile.

If Kitahara Sosuke is really the Shadow Cat...if it is really Kitahara Sosuke who wants to get the Emperor's Easter Egg...he will definitely know that there are two Easter eggs here, so it is impossible for him not to snatch them away when he escapes

Suzuki Sonoko's handbag!

You know, when "Shadow Cat" ran up the steps, Suzuki Sonoko was standing next to the entrance, without any protection at all!

So...sure enough...did he suspect the wrong person again?

"But it's really weird!" Suzuki Sonoko touched her chin and said, "The red egg is empty, but it's just enough for the green egg to go in... But if that's all, it can only be said that one egg is divided into two.

, it’s not really a great secret, right?”

"Um?"

Conan, who was keen on solving puzzles, immediately felt a nerve in his mind: "Let me see."

"Don't touch it! I can't afford to pay for it if it gets damaged!" Kogoro Mouri slapped his hand away and said with a bit of awe: "The diamonds on this are really big!"

Different from the statues of Emperor Nicholas II and his family and interesting little mechanisms inside the green egg, the inside of the red egg is empty, but the surface is inlaid with many sparkling "diamonds" of different sizes, and the top one is even bigger.

Outrageous.

Natsumi Kasaka came over and took a look. After all, she was the eldest daughter of a wealthy family. She recognized it at a glance: "Mr. Mori, this is not a diamond, it's just ordinary glass."

"Ah?" Mouri Kogoro looked disappointed.

But Conan's mind seemed to light up. He thought of the glass ornaments along the way and the photometer mechanism left by Mr. Xiyi, and instantly understood the design. He ran over and picked up the easter egg and said at the same time: "Sister Xiaolan, prepare a flashlight.

."

"good."

Mao Lilan stopped her father who was about to get angry, and put the flashlight into a circular high platform on one side according to Conan's instructions. Conan asked others to extinguish the light source, and then placed the Easter egg above the flashlight whose light shrank into a bunch.

In an instant, the entire egg was illuminated by a beam of light, and the outer egg became transparent. The statues of the emperor and his family on the inner layer slowly rose, and the pages of the book in his hands were opened. Then more than a dozen rays of light were refracted from the glass on the egg.

Projected and reflected on the wall, it turned out to be a photo of the emperor's family.

"It turns out that what they were reading in the egg was not a book!" Mouri Kogoro said in shock.

"It's a photo album!" Mao Lilan said softly.

Conan also looked up at those photos and was shocked: "That's why this easter egg is named Memories."

Siluov praised: "If the emperor's family had not been killed, then this could really be regarded as the most precious gift."

Kasaka Natsumi also saw her great-grandfather and her great-grandmother, who had never been masked before and didn't even know their appearance. She was touched in her heart and had tears in her eyes unknowingly.

As the light gradually faded, Siruov held the egg in both hands and handed it to Natsumi Kasaka and said: "This egg is a great legacy left to you by Mr. Kiichi. Even the Russian government should not take away its ownership from you. I

If you give it up, it will be more valuable if you have it.”

"Thank you very much." Natsumi Kasaka took it, "Ah, but the egg inside belongs to President Suzuki..."

"It doesn't matter, I'll give it to you! My dad won't mind." Suzuki Sonoko waved her hand and said, "Anyway, it's just placed in the warehouse at our house."

"Is it really possible?" Natsumi Kasaka was a little worried: "This is worth 800 million..."

"It's okay, it's okay!" Suzuki Sonoko said as if she didn't care.

"It really deserves to be a garden!" Mao Lilan praised happily.

Suzuki Sonoko showed a proud smile to her friend.

"Thank you...Thank you so much..." Natsumi Kosaka said with gratitude.

Art dealer Shoichi is still a little unwilling, but looking around, everyone is more important than him. He was caught trying to steal the Kasaka family's treasures before, but now Butler Sawabe is still staring at him coldly.

As for him! He could only mutter a few words in a low voice and gave up.

…………………………

After completing the transcript, Kitahara Sosuke was invited by the Megure Police Department to observe the police interrogation of U Siqinglan. In fact, based on the evidence currently available to the police, even if she does not admit her crime, it is enough to be prosecuted.

Perhaps knowing this, Pu Siqinglan confessed to what she had done, but she showed no sign of repentance. Instead, she made the police officers in charge of the interrogation, Memu Police Department and Takagi Wataru, furious to death.

Counting that time was almost up, Kitahara Sosuke said goodbye to the Megure Police Department who had once again left the interrogation room to calm down. He walked out of the Metropolitan Police Department and walked to a nearby ordinary apartment. When he opened the door, he saw another Kitahara Sosuke in black.

Sit inside.

"You're back?" Kitahara Sosuke in black looked up at him and asked, "Is everything going well?"

"Didn't you hear everything through the headphones?"

'Kitahara Sosuke' reached under his neck and pulled off a mask, revealing the face of Kuroba Kaito. Then he took out an invisible earphone from his ear - when the police asked him questions that he did not understand, he

Kitahara Sosuke told him through the headset. Kuroba Kaito pulled up his clothes again, shook them out, took out some of the stuffing materials inside, finally threw off the shoes with invisible booster pads, lay down on the sofa, and let out a sigh of relief.

"I didn't expect that taking notes would be so tiring... Being a police officer is really hard."

Kitahara Sosuke picked up the mask he threw on the table and looked at it. The flat mask looked fake, and he didn't know why it looked like the real thing when he put it on Kuroba Kaito's head.

"I'm listening through headphones, and I don't know other people's reactions. No one noticed anything strange, right?"

"Of course not, who do you think I am!" Kuroba Kaito boasted: "This little thing can't trouble me at all!"

"That's great! I know this is nothing to you! There are still six bottle caps left, please give me more advice in the future!" Kitahara Sosuke said with a smile.

"Hey!" Kuroba Kaito shouted angrily.

"Haha, just kidding."

In fact, Kitahara Sosuke was worried that Kaito Kuroba would deliberately cause trouble for him and leave some unclear clues, which might be discovered in the future. But looking at his reaction now, it was obvious that he had not thought about it that way.

"Speaking of which, what were you doing when I pretended to be you to take notes?"

"It's nothing." Kithara Sosuke said lightly, "I just don't want to take notes."

"Liar! You are not doing anything illegal, are you?" Kuroba Kaito rolled his eyes and tried to win back the victory: "...if the famous detective and the police officers knew about this,

……hey-hey……"

Kuroba Kaito let out a sinister laugh.

"Oh?" Kitahara Sosuke was not false at all: "Then if the Nakamori Police Department knows that you are Kaitou Kid himself..."

"I'm sorry, I was wrong." Kuroba Kaito panicked for a second. His identity could not stand up to being revealed more than his opponent's.

Because his father died young and his mother was abroad, Kuroba Kaito spent almost every night eating at the house of his childhood sweetheart, Nakamori Aoko. The one who cooked for them was Nakamori Ginsan Police Department. Poor Nakamori Police Department never knew that

The thief Kidd whom he played around sat at his dining table every day, and many of the strategies for dealing with thief Kidd were told to him personally while he was eating.

"Thank you for your hard work today. If I come to see you for anything next time, we will meet here again."

Kitahara Sosuke threw a key to Kuroba Kaito: "You can also use this as a safe house in the future. By the way, there are some equipment in the bedroom that you may need. It doesn't matter if you take it as you like."

"Hmph, who would regard your place as a safe house!"

Before Kuroba Kaito grabbed the key and threw it back, he saw Kitahara Sosuke walking away. His nonchalant look was particularly irritating. He lay on the sofa and hesitated for a while, but in the end he couldn't hold back his curiosity.

Heart.

"I'm just going to see what's there..." Kuroba Kaito muttered: "If you find any prohibited items, that will be your leverage..."

He opened the door and slowly opened his mouth.

"This, this is also called something..."

Food, gasoline, purified water, various medicines and detoxifiers, bulky-looking satellite phones, computers, unnumbered banknotes and small gold bars, simple surgical instruments and gauze, old and new items for men, women, children, etc. Clothing, chemicals in refrigerated cabinets, monitoring equipment and lighting equipment, signal transmitters, etc.

All kinds of things are piled up, but... none of them are illegal, as if the owner here is just a doomsday preparer who simply believes in "doomsday theory". There are many things here that Kuroba Kaito has never thought about It needs to be prepared, but he can really use it.

"Is this guy... so invulnerable?"

…………………………

"People from my father's side?" After returning home, Kitahara Sosuke heard Asano Kyoko talking about the previous visitor: "Did he say what it was about?"

"No." Asano Kyoko shook her head: "The man named Gan Shinji only said to ask the young master to come over."

Kithara Sosuke frowned and said, "Okay, I understand, you go ahead and do your work."

"yes."

After Asano Kyoko left, Kamino Higashi asked: "When is the young master planning to go to Kitahara Residence? I can make arrangements in advance."

"No, I have nothing to do with that place anymore." Kitahara Sosuke just thought it was a fly flying around and didn't pay much attention.

"Yes, I understand."

Shenyedong didn't ask anything, but when he stepped out of the door, his eyes suddenly turned cold.

"Towa will...Kitahara Shigeru...Humph!"

The old man looked in the direction of Beihara's house and showed a cold smile.

"Young Master." Yoshinaga Junpei reported through the internal intercom: "The boy named Conan is here to visit you."

"Let him in."
Chapter completed!