“Idon’t talk about it casually,” it wasn’t his fault certain people were able to figure out a secret he was trying so hard to keep hidden. Besides, comparing ‘magic’ and science was impossible because ONE DIDN’T EXIST.
He didn’t care what the police saw — he needed to see this magic for himself before he would even begin to consider that it might be possible. And even then, he’d write it off as an elaborate trick.
“You’re not going to let this go, are you?”
“Well, if you had to tell me while I was bigger that people could shrink into kids, and that it’s happened to you, and I didn’t believe you whatsoever, but no real proof exists for you at the time to try and convince me, would you just let it go? Jeeze, you should feel lucky shrinking is the only really weird thing you’ve had to deal with… Just for a few words from my experiences: Robots, a pirate, a witch, and a certain chibified detective who kicks soccer balls from hell that shoot out sparks when he kicks them… “
“You’re crazy, you know that?” He had hoped that today would be a normal day. He had failed to stumble across any cases, though that didn’t seem to include nutcases.
Sighing and slipping his hands under his glasses, Conan rubbed roughly at his eyes. “There is no much thing as magic, or voodoo, or witches. Unless you’re trying to tell me that being shrunken down has made you think like a kid.”
“Oh yes, magic can’t exist, and yet you can casually talk about people being shrunk into kids to begin with… I don’t think many people would be picky about which stories they’d be calling crazy for either of them…”
The chibi thief paused for a moment, slight pout forming, but then he blinked and a knowing smile soon returned.
“…And even if I can’t completely prove it offhand, the police were around when I started bleeding from the head at random… and there were quite a few who saw a particular time ‘Kid’ flew away on a broomstick, including Hakuba. And before you say strings, it went outdoors to. Right across the sky. No helicopters around either.”
“Try me,” it wasn’t as if he could beat the whole ‘I was given a pill and forced to shrink’ thing. Oh, but he was wrong. There was an even worse answer than that, and one that took Conan completely by surprised. Twitching and clenching his fists, he felt his aggravation flare.
“Idiot, magic isn’t real!”
“You aren’t the one who’s been on the bad side of a witch using voodoo to give you internal bleeding and trapped you in a magic circle.”
Oh yes, just say that so casually, totally believable. Though to the magician’s credit, nothing in his tone is saying he was joking, and he seems to be completely serious about the absurd response.
The confetti went unnoticed because there was something very wrong with what Conan was seeing in front of him. Kaitou KID was not an actual child, yet there he was — almost the same height and sporting the same annoying attitude.
“No. . . Maybe,” he shook his head and scowled, “but why are you a kid?”
“I’ve always been a Kid, technically.” So much tease. “But an actual explanation would be… a little difficult to give…”
Kaito shrugged, looking off to the side a moment before a wide grin spread across his face.
“I’m a magician, so clearly it’s a work of magic~”
Conan only continued to give him a side-ways glance, the tip of his finger scratching at his cheek.
It was obvious that the kid knew him and was expecting to be recognized, but it took the pint-sized detective a moment to gather the clues given to him. Top hat, doves, looks like him. Hmm. . .
Wait. . .
“K—Kaitou KID————?!”
“Ding ding ding~ Let’s give the guy a round of applause~”
Kaito gave a few claps before spreading his hands and letting some confetti fly. Might not be able to carry quite as much like this, but at least he could still do basic tricks.
“Would you rather I’d worn the suit I got you to wear instead? Maybe that would have helped the meitantei figure it out sooner.”
The magician paused, blinking before sighing, then making a circle with his thumb and pointer finger to hold over his right eye.
“I’d pull out a hat and doves, but the top hat’s a bit big now, and the birds are still confused… and I’d been half thinking you might be able to catch on with the nickname, at least. And the fact that I look a bit like you. Jeeze, tantei-kun, I thought you had better intuition than that.”
(I like annoying people sometimes. Okay, a lot. But suddenly Heiji.)
Kid is best, let it be known~
(Random non-canon fact about Kid: He’s disguised as an actual person. As in non animated. Best disguiser ever in DC forever~ … 😀 )
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