Conan’s Corpse Picker

   Chapter 434 You are so slow

   The magician will not target the identity of "Phantom Thief Kid" for the stolen treasure, and "Kuito Kuroba" is just an ordinary high school student, and he will not be enmity with others.

  In this case...

Kidd suddenly had a new conjecture, and his expression gradually became serious: "For those who study mysteries, monsters should be very precious materials, or even materials... Maybe when I appeared before, someone discovered the foggy dog. Will appear around me, so you want to find the mist tengu through me?"

After all, Kidd thought, he has lived so long, and he has only seen one monster, the fog tengu, and the fog tengu itself rarely appears in human society... Compared with the "Kai Thief Kidd" who seems to be only interested in worldly goods ”, the target of those mysterious magicians is more likely to be the fog tengu.

"...Hurry up again!" Kidd ruthlessly squeezed the old grandpa who was over sixty years old, while carrying out a mechanical cannon-like equipment from the prop box, fiddling with concentration, preparing to use technology to attack the unscrupulous black people that may exist. magician.

  …

  Shinagawa District, the sky above the city nearly 100 meters high.

   Crows flock together, and the ancient throne floats among them.

   Koizumi Koizumi sat on the throne with a cursed doll in hand. The intricately patterned gold ornaments on her body gleamed in the moonlight, and her posture was elegant and arrogant, like a queen who had everything in her hands.

   But looking carefully, she could find that her gaze towards the cursed doll was filled with doubts, as if she had encountered some incomprehensible problem.

  ...According to Koizumi Koriko's script, Kidd should have been dragged in front of her now, struggling to beg for release.

   However, in practice, Koizumi Hongko was surprised to find that her dragging progress was unusually slow.

   Just now, she even increased her magic power several times, intending to speed up. However, I don't know why, the magic power was lost, and the progress of the dragging was even slower, which inexplicably gave people a feeling of grinding and wanting more.

  …The magic has gone wrong?

  ...she backed off?

  Today is a full moon, so it stands to reason that the operation of magic should be smoother than she expected.

  But now...

   Koizumi Koizumi frowned lightly, thinking over and over again, but never came to a conclusion.

   Therefore, after trying it a few times, although she didn't know the reason, she didn't dare to input magic power to accelerate the acceleration. She had to be careful to maintain the most basic magic power output, be patient, and wait for the target to appear before her.

   Time passed by incomparably slow.

   Koizumi Koizumi went from exposing her aura and ruling the city, to secretly limp and paralyzed on the throne, and finally sleepy enough to cover her lips and yawn several times.

   Just when she was boredly counting the crows under her feet and began to secretly regret laying the traps so far away, a figure finally appeared in the distant night sky.

   Koizumi Hongko saw it sharply, and her spirit was lifted.

   She straightened her slumped back and assumed the queen-like pose again.

   Then he lowered his eyes and glanced at the city below.

   Directly below her, at the intersection nearly 100 meters away from the air, there was a sophisticated and hidden magic circle.

   That is the core arrangement of Koizumi Hongko today.

  —— Those who step into it will be burned by a lot of magic power, and they will experience the pain of burning flames. The body will not be hurt, but the spirit is like being repeatedly rubbed on a red-hot iron.

Koizumi Hongko plans to pull the target ten meters away, then relax the control, let the other party take the initiative to approach her in order to seek relief, and finally step into the magic circle... There is no special meaning, mainly because he likes that kind of prey The feeling of walking into a hunting net.

   As I was thinking, the prey in front of me was already approaching.

   Koizumi Hongzi raised his chin arrogantly and gently, looking at the person floating in front: "You're here, Ki..."

……Ok?

In front of    was not the imaginary white-robed thief, but a strange man she had never seen before. The man was dressed in a simple and mythical kimono, with huge but not heavy wings waving behind his back, and his eyes were different from ordinary people.

  This is...a monster?

   And in terms of shape, the pair of crow-like black wings is a bit like the legendary Tengu...

   Koizumi Hongko's sentence "Kid" got stuck in her throat and was stunned.

   She looked at Jiang Xia, who was flying close, and lowered her head subconsciously, looking at the miniature Kid doll in her hand: ... With Kuroba Kaito's handkerchief positioned, it shouldn't be the wrong person.

   Koizumi Koizumi's eyes moved back and forth between the doll and the mist tengu, her face still maintaining a mysterious and charming smile, and her heart began to rush out her usual reasoning.

  ...According to her previous divination, it is known that Kid = Kuroba Kaito. This is the conclusion drawn before, it should be correct.

   Also, when Rajed came over, she used the handkerchief she got from Kuroba Kaito during the day to locate it.

   In other words, this monster that looks like a tengu in front of him is also equivalent to Kuroba Kaito.

   So fog tengu = Kuroba Kaito = Kid?

   Thinking of this, Koizumi Hongzi's eyes moved, and she suddenly had a bold guess.

...Could it be that the real bodies of Kuroba Kuito and Kidd are actually a monster? Usually Kidd can disappear from the front of many police officers as soon as he turns around, because he can instantly change from a striking white monster to a black-hued monster The tengu, and then successfully escaped into the night?

   Koizumi Koizumi touched her small chin, and felt a lightning flash across her mind, and she had a feeling of "that's it".

  …

  Jiang Xia flew for a while in the direction of the magic power, and saw a large gathering of crows in front of him. In the center of the crows stood a throne, and on it sat a beautiful girl in strange clothes.

  ...This should be the source of that energy core, Koizumi Hongko.

   Jiang Xia looked at her carefully, and always felt that Koizumi Hongzi's complexion had not changed, but after seeing him, his eyes seemed blank for a moment, and then he fell into thinking...

   In short, she just looked a little dazed, but she didn't react like "pulling the wrong person" and being surprised and annoyed.

   Thinking of this, Jiang Xia glanced at the illusory black line that he had tied countless knots around his wrist and was still struggling to this day.

   When it was connected to Kidd just now, the interface was very smooth.

   Unlike now, how unnatural it is.

   However, as the person who made it, Koizumi Koizumi never saw this black line from beginning to end. Compared to this, her eyes were more focused on the wings and eyes of the Wutengou puppet.

   In view of the black line struggling so hard, Koizumi Hongko is not like he is deliberately ignoring it, but it is more like he really can't see that illusory black line.

  … Can be made, but can’t see?

   Jiang Xia's heart moved, thinking of something, and secretly poked at the mermaid on his hand.

   (end of this chapter)