Before Kid could fully digest the villain's scripture his dad had given him, the next line came.
Kuroba Toichi's voice continued slowly: "Another troublesome type of audience is excessively curious. Such people won't quietly watch a magic show. On the contrary, in order to figure out the mechanisms and principles behind the trick, they won't hesitate to interfere with the performance."
"Excessively curious..." Kid muttered. "Is that referring to detectives?"
Jiang Xia's figure appeared in his mind first, but he quickly felt that something was off.
"That strange detective the yokai like so much never seems curious about my methods. Even when the police invite him to the scene, he just watches listlessly and spends most of the time dozing off... Damn it, why isn't he curious?!"
Kid slammed a hand onto the table. The impact made his hand hurt, and he had to console himself: "Maybe Jiang Xia knows too many yokai and has seen too many things beyond common sense, so ordinary magic tricks don't interest him? Come to think of it, I remember that detective also has some miraculous smoke that can grow wings. Mist Tengu probably gave it to him..."
As he thought, Kid felt around in his pocket and took out a hazy wisp of smoke.
Hehehe, he had some too.
Mist Tengu had given this to him last time.
It had previously been folded away in a small box. Once he took it out, it quickly expanded into a Small Mist Ball again.
"Jirokichi Suzuki said he placed on that gem-studded Golden Statue at the very top of the Museum. Should I use this smoke, fly up there with wings, and take the gem directly?"
Kid was tempted, but after weighing it for a long while, he ultimately shook his head regretfully. "I remember