”You’re holding up the line…” That wasn’t the real reason behind him approaching the teen, but he wasn’t about to admit that he’d felt some concern. Although, now that he had approached the teen, he was feeling an inkling of déjà vu — like he’d seen this guy before.
Shaking his head, he pointed towards the entrance of the aquarium and noticed the large gap between the teen and the last person stepping inside.
”Are you going in or not?” The cold sweats and nervous twitching were enough of an answer, “Or are you too scared?”
“Ah…”
Kaito blinked and turned to check that… yep, his turn to go in. …Greeaat… A recurring thought to just cancel this heist popped up in his head again, soon followed by the constant argument that if he did, they might try putting it somewhere like this again. And he couldn’t really have the police – or anyone, really – learning that swimming finned devils tended to ward of a certain white thief…
Aw, jeez… Why did Jii have to be out of town for this one?! Sure he could do heists on his own, but…
Oops, he’d been staring off into space again. A quick glance back down at the chibi detective and he gave another small smile.
“Ah, no… I’m going in. Sorry about that.”
The magician only paused a few seconds more before taking a breath and stepping forward to pay for admission, looking more calm and friendly than he had just moments ago. He could do this, they were behind glass. He’s had to scuba dive in the ocean with the things before, albeit under more pressing circumstances than just casing out where and how the gem had been placed.
A quick exchange of thanks and he moves out of the way, starting to walk further inside. It’ll be fine, he’ll be okay, just… maybe focus more on the people than what they would be looking at? That might work, but if tantei-kun was going to be sticking around, that might be more suspicious than what he’s doing already just by going into a building he clearly isn’t comfortable being in. He didn’t have to be in here long. Judging from the map, they’d put the target fairly close, though from the layout, it almost looked to be a large hallway of some sort? Must be an easy place to defend if they put it there. Maybe he can get by without actually having to see too many of these things…
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