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Kid silently sighed, remembering the "marionette" Jiang Xia had replied to him with yesterday—this group of detectives really was the Phantom Thief's natural enemy. Good thing they didn't watch many magic shows, or the magician onstage would probably be driven insane by this bunch tearing his act apart.
"Hmm? But think carefully, a while ago, Jiang Xia really did solve quite a few magic-related cases. It was like he'd gotten into a grudge match with magicians..."
Remembering those unlucky colleagues whose tricks had either landed them in prison, gotten them killed, or been exposed, Kid suddenly felt that he was actually pretty fortunate.
"Speaking of which, that kid Jiang Xia is way too unlucky. How does he run into cases everywhere he goes? A few days ago, even that suspicious boss of his Detective Agency got caught in an explosion. I wonder if that Mr. Amuro got a concussion."
And then there was this glasses-wearing brat beside him...
After spacing out briefly, Kid still wasn't willing to be exposed by a detective just like that. Still wearing Suzuki Jirokichi's identity, he said:
"I remember that after yesterday's rehearsal ended, you saw the surveillance footage Kid left behind—if Kid really had steel wires on him, with so many helicopters and cameras, there's no way they wouldn't have caught even the slightest clue, right?"
Conan said, "The other cameras were too far away. There was no way they could capture two strands of steel wire that thin in the night. The only one that could possibly have caught them was No. 7 Helicopter directly above Kid.
"But the pilot inside No. 7 Helicopter was actually your accomplice. So the surveillance footage left by No. 7 Helicopter wasn't real footage at all. It was footage Uncle Suzuki shot while promoting the museum,