For Kaito, the days until Saturday stretched like chewing gum. At school he had real problems paying attention and he stopped teasing Aoko at all. Basically, he didn't know what to want. Of course, he wanted Shinichi to find his father's killer. That was why he had started the whole thing in the first place. But if he had suspected beforehand that the murderer was more likely to be found in the private or professional sphere of his father, then he would not have had to unmask. But now the die was cast and there was no turning back, because the detective would not easily forget what he had learned ..
When Shinichi rang her doorbell on Saturday, he greeted him warmly. He just liked him and that wouldn't change, no matter what the future might bring. He also told himself that the punishment he was going to get couldn't get too bad. He'd stolen more often than not, but he'd also returned everything he had stolen, and contrary to what Shinichi believed, it would not harm his future career as a wizard if it was revealed that he was the Kaito Kid.Rather the opposite! People would flock to see his show. But that was now a long way off. First his father's murderer had to be found and convicted.
"But you will be noticed by every wizard!" he laughed, because Shinichi looked the same as always, except that he was carrying a backpack.
He waved it off. "I'll take care of that shortly before we go. First of all, I want to look at the listing that your mother and your father's assistant have made!"
Kaito nodded and they went back to his room. "I've already looked at them. I can still remember one or the other very well. Some have become well-known magicians, others assist magicians!"
Shinichi nodded as he delved into the notes. Finally he tore himself loose, folded the list and put it in his backpack. At the same time he took a single tablet out of a small pill box."Would you have a glass of water for me?" he asked the stunned Kaito.
The young thief rushed downstairs to get it for him. We have to leave soon! The taxi has already been ordered! "His mother called after him.
"Yes, yes!" he muttered. “We'll be right there!” He decided to hurry Shinichi, no matter what he was planning to mingle with the wizards unnoticed, but he waved him off when he started talking about it. He put the pill in his mouth without comment. His face, yes, his whole posture told Kaito that he would rather not do it. He quickly washed the tablet down with the water. At first nothing happened, but to Kaito's surprise, the detective's eyes spoke of fear. Before he could ask why, the detective suddenly groaned, got up from his chair and sagged, his face contorted with pain. Before Kaito's astonished eyes, he began to toss and turn. He let out loud screams of pain.And then - did the detective's clothes grow? The young thief took a closer look. No, he corrected his observation. It wasn't the clothes that got bigger, but Shinichi that shrank. He hurried over to him quickly and leaned over him. Just in time to catch the first clear look of a 10 year old boy.
"Surprised?" asked Conan Edogawa's boyish voice, which he knew only too well.
Kaito first took a deep breath. It took him a moment to collect himself again. Then he answered with a slight nod. "You can say that. You gave me a huge scare. How is that possible?"
Conan gave a bitter laugh. "I can only tell you what I know myself. What the inventor of the poison that made me so shrink explained to me. This poison was supposed to kill me back then. The fact that it didn't do that depends on an abnormality in my body together. That's why it made me feel small. The problem with this is that this poison has such a connection with my body cells and if it were destroyed I would have to die.That is why she practically only invented a neutralizer that prevents the poison from working. "
"Aha!" understood Kaito. "So that's why you're big again. But if you take these pills ..."
"Yes!" Conan nodded. "You neutralize the antidote for a few hours and then I feel small again. I rarely use it because the pains of metamorphosis are grueling. But during my time as Conan Edogawa, I noticed that adults are themselves around children do not hold back as they do with their own kind. They are more open because they believe that children of that age do not yet understand everything! "
Kaito nodded understandingly. Yes! He could imagine that, who would suspect the sharp mind of a youthful master detective in the body of a 10-year-old boy. "Then we can go now. I assume that you have suitable clothes with you!"
Conan smiled. He peeled off Shinichi's much too large garments, folded them, stowed them in the backpack and took out - a little dress.He quickly slipped inside. "So!" he said to the stunned Kaito. "And now you will make me a girl with your disguise!"
"But why is that?" marveled the thief.
"Because my picture as Conan was also to be admired in all the newspapers!" the detective explained to him. "They still had a photo of me in their archives. You remember. Back then, when I was able to prevent your theft of the Black Star, a portrait of me appeared in the reports!"
"Yes! I remember all too well!" Kaito shook herself slightly. "Because of your interference I was forced to swim all the way back to the harbor and the water was freezing. Brr! I caught a cold pretty bad. Man! Was I angry with you at the time! And then there was this newspaper report that made you a hero did. That gave me the rest! "
Conan laughed in amusement. "You understand that I don't regret you too much. But now finally get started. Make a girl out of me, otherwise the wizards may recognize me!"Kaito nodded. He hurried to his secret chamber and came back to Conan with a few things. Then he started fiddling with it. It wasn't long before he pushed it in front of a mirror. "Don't you look cute?" he wanted to know with a laugh.
He sighed, but had to admit that the other was right. He had long brown hair with a pink bow. He curtsied slightly. "Hello! I'm Kira Kuroba! A distant relative visiting you!" he said in a clear voice.
The master thief couldn't help it. His laughter got stronger and stronger. The fact that his biggest opponent stood in front of him as a little girl and curtsied was just too much. How can you be serious about this? The fact that she glared at him didn't change anything. On the contrary! That made the situation even stranger. He had to laugh at his stomach and was incapacitated for the time being.
So he also missed the knock on the door. He also didn't notice that Jii and Hibarue Kuroba suddenly stood in the room and looked with big, incredulous eyes at the girl in the middle of the room and the laughing Kaito."Hello!" the unknown child beamed at her. "I'm Kira Kuroba. A distant relative visiting you!" it repeated the words from before. "Maybe I should have shown myself to him before when I still had to chase him!" he then said with his finger at the Kaito, who was now gasping for breath, rolling on the floor, in his normal Conan voice. "Then I could have arrested him with ease!"
Shinichi Kudo? "Jii asked incredulously.
"Yes!" he nodded and explained briefly again why he could return to his child's body for a few hours if he thought it was right.
Gradually, Kaito calmed down from his fit of laughter and was able to slowly get up again. Kira pressed something else into his hand. "There! This is for you!"
He took it and looked at it questioningly. It looked like a pin with a capital K on it. "What's this?" he asked.
"A sender and receiver. I will stay as close as possible to you at this meeting and would like to ask you to go to the people on the list and ask a little about your father, but if we get separated and I need you, I can you so achieve! "Jii urged to leave. "We have to go. The taxi is waiting!"
Kira grabbed Kaito's hand and pulled him out of the room. "Come on, cousin Kaito. We have a murder to solve!"
Jii and Hibarue Kuroba looked after them with a smile. "You could almost forget how dangerous this cute girl is for Kaito!" she whispered softly. Jii nodded uncomfortably. "Yes! Shinichi Kudo is very personable. The two could be best friends, but they are on different sides."
They followed the two slowly.

***

The magicians' meeting took place outside of town in a large, spacious western-style mansion that the magicians had rented for these days, as they did every year. At the entrance stood an old friend of Jii who greeted him happily.
"Jii!" he shouted.
"Kyhohei Ichimura!" he replied brightly.
"How nice that you finally come this year. You haven't been seen since Toichis died!"Jii shrugged. "It was too painful for us. But time heals all wounds and we think that the time has come for Toichi's son to get to know his father's former colleagues. Perhaps that can help him, because he is already a very talented magician ! "
The man eyed Kaito appraisingly, then nodded slowly. "Yes! I can well imagine that. He has that certain something. He can become a really big guy!" Then his gaze wandered to Kira. "And who is that? An attentive little lady!" he judged with a keen, experienced eye. "You won't miss a thing so quickly!"
Jii wondered again about his old friend. He had immediately recognized that there was more to the cute girl than one would normally assume at first glance.
"This is Kira Kuroba, a distant relative who currently lives with Ms. Kuroba!"
Kyhohei Ichimura was satisfied with that. "Well! Then I wish you a lot of fun. Oh yes! In a quarter of an hour I'll give a little magic show for the younger ones present.Maybe the young lady wants to watch? "
To the great surprise, Kira nodded Kaitos, Jiis and Hibarus. “But of course I want to see that!” She turned to Kaito. "Are you coming with me?"
He nodded slightly, because he remembered Shinichi saying they should stay together. He had no idea what he was doing at this performance, but he would