At Dr. Ali's house, Ayumi was sitting on the sofa, looking quite excited.
Last week, Phantom Thief Kidd accidentally landed on the balcony of her house while evading police pursuit. He was like a vampire in the TV series, elegant and mysterious.
Ever since that time, she had always wanted to see Kaitou Kidd again.
A few days ago, when they went to the Metropolitan Police Department to take notes because of the Blue Castle, they happened to hear Officer Shiratori say that the Metropolitan Police Department had received a notice letter from Kaitou Kidd.
As a result, the Metropolitan Police Department gathered elite soldiers from all walks of life to prepare to take this opportunity to take down Kaitou Kidd. At the same time, as expected, because of the Suzuki family, they invited the famous detective, Maori Xiao, who has repeatedly solved strange cases and gained fame.
Goro.
The target of Kaito Kidd's theft is the [Memory Egg] owned by the Suzuki Consortium.
The Egg of Memories is an egg-shaped device with a complex mechanical structure ordered by the Russian Tsar from 1885 to 1916. It was given to the Queen at Easter. According to historical records, there are fifty of them in the world, and each one is invested.
The treasures created by spending huge sums of money are priceless.
The Memory Egg that Kaito Kidd is eyeing is the fifty-first one that has never appeared in historical records.
Because this treasure is currently on display at the Suzuki Museum of Art in Osaka Castle Park, which is about to open soon, and the police also came to the conclusion after interpreting the code on Kidd’s notice letter——
Kaito Kidd will appear at Osaka Castle’s castle tower from dusk on August 22nd to dawn on August 23rd to seize the Emperor’s Easter Egg!
Therefore, in order to protect the [Memory Egg], the Suzuki Consortium invited Mouri Kogoro to Osaka, and Mouri Lan and Conan naturally followed.
By the way, this [Memory Egg] was discovered in the treasure house of the Suzuki Foundation last month, and Sonoko Suzuki, the daughter of the Suzuki Foundation, used it as a toy when she was a child.
Mitsuhiko and Genta also sighed and complained that Conan left them behind and went to Osaka.
"Don't be depressed, let's eat some watermelon." Dr. Ali came over with a plate of cut watermelon.
When the three of them were about to start eating, Haiyuan Ai, who was sitting on the sofa opposite them and reading a magazine, suddenly felt a bad premonition.
Sure enough, the next moment, the doctor's voice sounded: "Wait! You must solve the puzzle first before you can eat the watermelon!"
If Yuan Huaiyu saw this scene, he would definitely shout in his heart - Riddler, get out of the rice pops!
…
Time flies by, and the predicted evening of August 22 will soon arrive.
The seemingly peaceful Osaka was already undercurrent. Especially the castle tower at the location of the announcement was heavily guarded. Even a mosquito that flew in would be inspected three times.
In the afternoon, Mouri Kogoro suddenly had an idea and interpreted the time of the crime in the notice letter, and concluded that Kaitou Kidd would start his operation at three in the morning.
Since there is still a long time before three o'clock, everyone's inner tension is not yet completely relieved.
Conan and Heiji were wandering in front of the Suzuki Museum of Art when they happened to see a brown-haired beauty and an old man who looked like a butler being stopped outside by the police.
They vaguely heard that this beauty wanted to explain something to President Suzuki about the [Egg of Memory], but at this special moment, how could the special police let her in?
Not paying attention to what happened at the door, the two high school detectives began to discuss the secret code in Kidd's notice letter.
They always feel something is wrong——
Could the code that even Officer Nakamori and Kogoro Mori were able to decipher really be the real warning message for Kaitou Kidd?
And the fact is exactly what they expected. As they pondered, inspiration suddenly appeared, and they became more and more frightened.
"No! The time of the crime was not three o'clock in the morning, but seven twenty in the evening!"
"Kudo! The glowing tall building in the trailer is not the castle tower, but Tsutenkaku!"
…
Sky-reaching attic roof.
A dove with snow-white feathers flapped its wings and landed on a finger wearing a white glove.
Wearing a white magic dress, Phantom Thief Kidd took off a miniature bug from the pigeon's leg, smiled confidently, and shouted to the brightly lit city below:
"Ladies and gentlemen (ladies and gentlemen)——"
At the highest point of the city, no one in the noisy Osaka seemed to be able to hear his voice, which gave the boy a sense of pleasure that "only the lights of the moonlight cheered for him."
"The show is about to begin..."
While muttering to himself, he stretched out his hand, pointed it forward, and pressed the remote control of the detonation device in his hand.
But at this moment, a long voice suddenly sounded behind him, causing his hands to freeze in shock.
"Hey, hey, hey, forget it's noisy at night, if the substation is also blown up, it will cause great inconvenience to everyone's lives..."
Kaitou Kid suddenly looked back, and saw a man wearing a blank mask standing not far behind him.
The words just now obviously came from this person.
"Oh? That seems to be true." Kaitou Kidd calmed down after the first few seconds of surprise, and said calmly, "If you can find this place, it seems that this gentleman has cracked my password.
The riddle on the notice letter?”
The man with the blank mask stood there and said softly: "From the lion at dusk to the girl at dawn, the clock without a second hand reaches the 12th word, descends from the bright sky pavilion, and accepts the egg of memory..."
"The lion and the girl refer to the constellation Leo and the girl respectively, which indicate the date of your action. There is no problem with this. The people at the Metropolitan Police Department have also figured it out."
"But in the second sentence, under the misguidance of the famous detective Mouri Kogoro, they interpreted the time of the crime as the three o'clock indicated by the twelfth letter L in English on the clock as you expected.
I realized that it was actually the twelfth character [ヘ] in the first line of your notice..."
"So your real forecast time is 7:20. As for the glowing pavilion, it refers to the Tsutenkaku tower on top which is used for weather observation."
Kaitou Kidd smiled: "That's absolutely right. Who are you? You came here alone wearing a mask. Could it be that you haven't told the police this correct reasoning?"
"Of course not, but there are two guys who probably already know the truth in the notice letter. They should be on their way here."
The visitor slowly took off the blank mask on his face.
"Time is of the essence, little Kaito, let's keep the story short."
Kaito Kidd, or rather Kuroba Kaito's eyes instantly froze.