"..."
"So, you're a detective too, aren't you?!"
"Why are you being so violent?"
Kuroba Kaito silently grumbled to himself, but then he thought of Fujino's absurd combat strength, which had long surpassed all common sense...
Fine, this was exactly what worked on him!
So he explained, "The place where I'm planning to make my move is on an airplane."
"An airplane?"
Fujino complained, "So you've gotten used to being all cryptic or something? I don't know much about the details. Explain it properly."
"I found out that after the performance, they'll be heading to Hakodate in Hokkaido for a vacation. So I'm planning to steal the Gem of Destiny on the plane."
Kuroba Kaito explained evenly, "The four English letters in the calling card might seem meaningless at first glance, but they're actually among the twenty-six letters used in international aviation radio communication. R is Romeo, J is Juliet, V is Victor, and B is Bravo—similar to the NATO phonetic alphabet you mentioned."
"As for the twenty-six letters dancing around, that refers to airport radio communications. It means I'll commit the crime aboard a plane that uses those letters—in other words, I'll steal it on an airplane. As for the Two of Spades torn in half, that represents odd numbers that can't be divided evenly by two. That means I'll steal the Gem of Destiny on an odd-numbered flight."
"Flights departing from Tokyo all have odd numbers, while arriving flights have even numbers. So that also directly indicates that I'll steal it while she's heading to Hakodate..."
"..."
Listening to Kuroba Kaito's explanation, Fujino couldn't help giving him a deadpan stare.
Then, with the corner of his mouth twitching, he complained, "Good grief, first there's twenty-six letters dancing around, then there's some abstract nonsense about an endless number of