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   _{”It’s kind of a stupid story. I mean, it’s not stupid to me. I think it’s adorable.” She shook her head and folded her arms over the table, “M’ brother’s a defense attorney, but his first case was really difficult. He won, but he’d been stressin’ really hard over it.”}

   _{She paused, a tiny smile forming. “The guy he was workin’ for was this really sweet old man, but he was kinda poor. M’ brother was tryin’ t’ tell ‘em that he didn’t need t’ pay, but the guy gave him something anyway. It was supposed t’ be some family heirloom.”}

   _{Madison grabbed her phone and took a moment to flip through what few photos. When she found the one she was looking for, she turned her screen to Kaito and shrugged. To her it was a little too flashy, but the necklace in her picture was rather expensive and exquisite looking.}

   _{”The old guy was going to sell it if he get desperate enough, but he thought m’ brother could use it more. I’m not sure if he’s has it appraised yet, but he’s positive it’s real.”}

The magician leaned forward some to look at the phone, nodding to show that he was still listening. It certainly did look real. Not that he could tell too much from a picture. While he probably wouldn’t have gone after it now, it looked like the type of target he used to steal before finding out about Pandora and strictly targeting jewels. It was… kinda the perfect choice really. The police knew he’d gone after this sort of stuff before, but Snake and Spider wouldn’t be interested because they would know that the target wasn’t Pandora and, likely, that the one ‘stealing’ it wasn’t really Kid. And it gave him a good reason for the thief to actually appear in front of Madison.

“Sounds like it was quite an experience, if he felt he had to part with something like this to repay your brother…”

Kaito pulled away from the picture, smiling slightly.

“Well, it looks good to me. So…” He started counting on his fingers, “We have a general plan and a target. I can probably handle writing and delivering the note and coming up with a disguise…. So I think all we need to do is figure out a date to aim for and possibly coming up with exactly how we plan on giving it to him… though, that would depend more on what he does when he gets there, I guess…”