"Come to think of it, didn't that detective shrink? Why did he show up in the form of a high school student just now? Could he already change size whenever and wherever he wanted?"
Kaito Kuroba walked out of the alley and gazed at this city full of mysteries, his thoughts swirling. That trick is pretty good. If I could master it too, my disguises would have no blind spots... No, no, no. Calm down. That kind of transformation looks far too dangerous!
The Phantom Thief muttered to himself as he walked away. Although he was very interested in this case, as well as the transforming detective who had appeared during the murder case, he had more important business to attend to tonight.
Elsewhere.
Inside a van with its windows covered in thick sunproof film, several figures sat in a circle, silently watching a segment of surveillance footage on a laptop.
The scene of the incident was an exhibition hall filled with smoke. A group of Second Investigation Division officers ran around inside it like headless flies.
Meanwhile, the accompanying listening device carried Inspector Nakamori's furious voice: "Kid has blended into the crowd!... What? He already flew away on a hang glider? Idiots! That was his usual decoy dummy. His real body must still be among the crowd in the exhibition hall—stop everyone inside! No one is to leave until they've undergone a body search!"
Outside the screen.
The leader of the Men in Black stared deeply at Inspector Nakamori in the footage, his gaze meaningful.
Only after a few seconds did he look away and switch to another clip. This time, it showed the entrance to the exhibition hall.
—Faced with the police's sudden lockdown, the guests inside clearly could not accept it. They were currently confronting the