Against the city's gradually darkening night sky, the white figure standing high atop Tsutenkaku Tower was strikingly conspicuous.
Having already realized the truth behind the calling card, the detectives stared at the phantom thief a hundred meters away, arms spread wide, visible only as a vague silhouette, and gritted their teeth.
"Damn it, he still got there first..."
Conan frowned because he had been too late to stop Kaito Kid. Heiji Hattori, who knew Osaka better, took advantage of the terrain to sweep his gaze around the area, focusing on more than just that.
"The streetlights have been cut off, but the traffic lights are still running. Power to the basic infrastructure has been preserved just fine. Only the commercial districts and hotels across the city have mainly been blacked out. The targeting is way too precise. How did he do it?"
If the whole city had truly suffered a total blackout, then Kaito Kid's method would have been easy enough to unravel, and municipal repairs would have been simple as well.
At most, he would have prepared in advance and violently damaged the city's main substation or cables. That problem would still have been easy to solve and prevent. The police and they themselves had merely failed to solve the riddle quickly enough and had not guarded against this move.
A thunderclap in utter silence—being able to cut off a city's power supply, or rather its lighting, so accurately and precisely was even more terrifying than the flashy magic itself.
And such precise control over the electricity, such a grand "light show," had only been meant to help Kaito Kid locate the temporary storage site prepared by the police. That was just too...
"Could Kaito Kid be some kind of computer technician, systems operator, or... electrical engineer?" Heiji Hattori