Beside him, Kid watched Jiang Xia's actions. Thinking of how this Detective had covered for him in front of the police just now, he felt somewhat puzzled.
—Why had Jiang Xia helped him?
...Or had that fake little kid already changed back, and Jiang Xia believed the "Kudo Shinichi" before him was genuine?
But Kid remembered that just a few days ago, he had spotted "Edogawa Conan" appearing alongside Jiang Xia in the corner of a newspaper photo... Could Kudo Shinichi really have successfully transformed back in just those few days? Or had he found a way to temporarily return to his original appearance?
At that thought, Kid looked at Jiang Xia and tentatively struck up a casual conversation in Kudo Shinichi's voice. "I didn't expect you to come out this late to catch a Phantom Thief—what, did you suddenly change your ways? Don't tell me you're learning from me?"
—In Kid's impression, whenever he made a move, Conan would be the one racing all over the scene, trying to bring the Phantom Thief to justice.
As for Jiang Xia... most of the time, he merely dozed amid the police officers, or leaned against some comfortable sofa or stool and drifted off. He looked as though he had come to accompany a child at play while he watched from the sidelines.
Only when a Murder Case occasionally occurred would Jiang Xia enter "Detective" mode, hurrying off to solve it like an energetic young man.
This had truly bothered Kid—Jiang Xia's attitude always gave him the feeling that this world-shaking Phantom Thief was merely an ordinary petty thief, not worth a Detective's effort.
...Not that he would hold a grudge against a Detective and embark on the path of a murderer because of it. But Kid really was curious why Jiang