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Kid sighed in relief as he stepped outside, gently rubbing an eye and closing the door behind him. Cutting the power had gone well, but he’d already done it so often in past heists that Nakamouri-keibu had some flood lights prepared…

That hadn’t been fun.

Even with the black contacts he’d taken to using, the lights were enough to make everything he saw fade into white… He was lucky he hadn’t run into anything after that, though he was certain he’d come close more than a few times. It seemed he still only see best when it was naturally dark. Not too bad, considering he worked best at night, but it was still annoying for school and other things he had to do during the day… Did help with the electric bill, though.

The thief paused his musings as he caught the sound of shuffling feet, glancing off to the side before smirking. It had been a while since he’d seen the detective, since he hadn’t wanted to plan anything until he’d dealt with his vision problem to some degree. And with all the problems he’d been having during the heist, he hadn’t been able to tell if the other had come or not.

“Long time no see, tantei-kun.~ Did you miss me?~”

He’d been there and he’d been paying special attention. The thief had been off the entire time and he hadn’t been anticipating him to turn the lights off to pull off the heist. Not that it was the first time, nor the last, but he would have thought the thief would have done something a bit more since it had been his first heist in a bit. 

Then there was the way he had seemed more thrown off then usual by the flood lights.

“Miss you?” he echoed playfully, pose relaxed though his eyes were sharp and trained on the thief. He’d figure out what was wrong with him, if anything. “I suppose I did, if I showed up to your heist.”

“Hmm… I suppose that’s true. It does make me feel special, being the thief you’ll take time out of your oh-so busy nights to come see.” Kid threw a grin at Shinichi before raising the gem up to check it, casual and looking as though he was admiring it in front of the other like normal.

…Eeeexcept that it wasn’t. Oops… One aspect of his altered sight he hadn’t considered. Day was blinding white, night looked like day, and pitch black looked like a dimly lit room… Useful, but he wouldn’t be able to tell even if it did glow like this, unless it drastically changed the colour…

The thief’s air of confidence faltered, briefly, as he realised this, though it didn’t last for long. Shaken a little, that it affected even this important part, the reason he did this job, but not the end of his work entirely. …He could get Jii to check the targets later. Though, that did mean he wouldn’t be able to make calls on whether to leave the jewels behind at heists, or immediately return them until they could be checked… No ‘fine, you just want the gem back, and I don’t need it, so here’ situations from on out. …Umm…

“Unfortunately, if you wanted the gem, I’m afraid this is one I want to keep a while longer,” he continued, lowering his arm with the same amount of false laxness. “So I hope that ‘missing me’ really was for me and not the shinies I liked to leave behind for you.”