"I say... Inspector Nakamori isn't really going to resign, is he..."
On the way to the theater, Kaito Kid couldn't help asking Fang Zheng.
"He should have gotten the hell out long ago."
Fang Zheng snorted disdainfully at Kaito Kid's question.
"Besides, leaving now would be good for him."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Hehehe."
Hearing Kaito Kid's question, Fang Zheng glanced at him.
"A brat is still a brat. Do you know why Inspector Nakamori has been toyed with by you so many times, yet the Metropolitan Police Department has always turned a blind eye and never done anything about it?"
"Uh... I don't."
"It's simple. They're dumping responsibility on him."
"Dumping responsibility?"
"That's right."
Fang Zheng nodded and continued looking ahead.
"Although Kaito Kid keeps committing crimes, most of them are all bark and no bite. But that's just the surface. What if? What if Kaito Kid pulled off some major crime one day? Who would the Metropolitan Police Department find to take the blame? Inspector Nakamori, obviously. Do you think everyone in the Metropolitan Police Department is an idiot? Of course not. They're holding it all in, waiting to settle the accounts later. If the responsibility for that case is too great, they can dump everything on Inspector Nakamori. Look, Inspector Nakamori has chased Phantom Thief Kid for eighteen years and failed every time. Add one more huge burden on top of that, and he won't even get the chance to resign. Given everything he's done over the years, a dereliction-of-duty charge would be unavoidable. Just like I said..."
At that point, Fang Zheng shot Kaito Kid a cold look.
"Being unable to catch Phantom Thief Kid is incompetence, but knowing full well you can't catch him and still wasting huge amounts of Metropolitan Police Department