The first order
(Continuation of "On behalf of the master thief" and "Free path for the Kaito Kid"

When Shinichi Kudo came to the school yard the next morning, an angry Ran Mori was waiting for him. He saw at first sight that she was seething with anger. He winced as she rushed towards him. He already suspected what was coming and she actually yelled at him.
"Shinichi Kudo! Why do I have to find out from the newspaper that you almost blew up?"
He waved a reassuring hand. "Oh! It wasn't that bad!" he tried to tone down the facts a little, but that only made her angrier.
"Are you crazy? The newspaper says that the Kaito Kid saved your and Hakuba's lives and you confirmed that to them yourself. So stop talking stupid. Why didn't you call me?"
He looked at her seriously. "It was very late last night when I finally got some rest. First, Inspector Megure, his colleague Inspector Nakamori and Hakuba were with me. As soon as they were gone, Kaito Kid was standing in my apartment!"This is how he described that Kaito Kuroba was present.
"What?" Ran amazed, forgetting her anger in surprise. "Kaito Kid came to you?"
Shinichi nodded. "Yes!"
"But what did he want from you?" she asked.
"Well! He probably wanted to find out whether the police were harmed in the explosion and he was obviously very relieved that they were all able to leave the house on time!"
"Yes!" smiled his girlfriend. "I can well imagine that. He's a thief, but human lives are more precious to him than any jewelry. That's why he's not a really bad guy!"
"Well!" Shinichi smiled against his better judgment. After all, he had made sure that the Kaito Kid was now in the service of the government. "But that will not save him from punishment. If he is caught at some point, he will face the full severity of the law!"
"It's not fair!" threw in Ran. "After all, he always returns his stolen property.So he doesn't really harm anyone! "
The detective shook his head seriously. "That's not true. What do you think it will cost the police if they try everything to prevent his crimes? It harms our state and he will have to pay for it!"
"But he saved your life. You can't just forget that!"
Her friend smiled. "Neither will I. Fear not. I deliberately told the whole truth to the press people who showed up last night after the Kaito Kid disappeared. From we signed a truce with him to the point where we saved our lives. The The public will remind me of that. But I also explained it to him during our conversation yesterday that I would not pursue him any less because of that and he accepted that and probably did not expect anything else. However, I promised him if he was really composed will use all my connections so that the penalty is as low as possible! ""And he didn't say anything about that?" inquired Ran.
"But!" Shinichi grinned. "He said I shouldn't worry about thanking me for anything. And he's not going to ever let himself be caught, neither by me nor by anyone else!"
At that moment, Sonoko Suzuki intervened, who had come up to them unnoticed by both of them and had listened. "Of course you won't catch it. It's unique. Nobody will ever be able to overpower it, and certainly not a crime spinner like you. I can't understand why he's messing with you anyway. He doesn't need to. "There was jealousy in her voice. She had been into the master thief for a long time, but he had seldom approached her. If so, then she always knew afterwards that it had been him and that didn't really satisfy her. "You always see him! Whether as Conan or Shinichi. Why he even paid attention to you as a primary school student is incomprehensible to me!" she complained.The detective laughed in amusement. What would Sonoko say if she knew that he could reach Kaito Kid at any time and knew exactly who he was in private life? "Maybe because he saw through me pretty quickly and knew the truth. But my secret was safe with him. And since nobody knows who he is, he wasn't really in danger of being attacked by my enemies. Besides, he's alive his life is not too safe anyway. "
Ran groaned. "No! Please don't anymore! I don't want to hear from this criminal organization anymore and I'm just glad that it's over. It was the worst time of my life when I didn't know where you are! But now you're putting yourself in danger again . That scares me so much! "
Shinichi looked seriously into her eyes. "Nobody knows better than you that life as a detective is not completely safe. Your father has also found himself in many dangerous situations. I am not deliberately endangering myself, but I also cannot really rule out that something might happen to me happens.Like yesterday at this house, for example. It was unpredictable that there would be a cave system underneath that was mined. Fortunately, thanks to the Kaito Kid, things turned out well, but things can turn out differently. But I see being a detective is my life's work and I will not avoid it! "
His girlfriend nodded slightly. "Yes!" she whispered. "I know. And I can handle it too. But when it was extremely tight again, I get through and through. I'm not so strong that I could remain untouched by it!"
"He shook his head." That's not true, Ran! You are one of the strongest people I know. The point is not that you remain untouched when I am in danger, but that you can live with it. I've admired your inner strength the whole time I shared your life as Conan! "
Somehow the air crackled between them, while their eyes dipped into each other and maybe they would have finally expressed their feelings for each other if Sonoko hadn't pushed himself between them at that moment."Come on! Come on! Hurry up! Otherwise we'll be too late!"
It seemed to Shinichi and Ran as if they emerged from another world that had only belonged to them both.
"Damn it!" the detective nodded as Sonoko's words penetrated his mind. "She's right. We have to hurry!"
Then they started running like they wanted to win a 100 meter run.

***

The whole class was looking happily at the door when Kaito Kuroba stormed into the room. They had expected that he would come spraying with joy, because of course they all knew that the day before, the Kaito Kid had reappeared after almost two months. Lately they had seen their classmate, who was usually so funny, often downright unsettlingly quiet. He hadn't even gone into the teasing of Aoko Nakamori, sometimes giving her a downright sad look. Then they learned that Kaito Kuroba's father had not had an accident at the time, but that he had been killed by a good friend. Ironically, Kaito Kid's greatest opponent, Shinichi Kudo, had convicted the killer.But even then, her classmate had been strangely quiet for a few weeks. Only a few days ago his behavior changed again. He was suddenly happy again and now that the Kaito Kid had reappeared, he was oozing with joie de vivre, just as they had expected. He stormed to his seat, threw the school folder with a swing next to the desk and sat down. Suddenly, without anyone seeing where, he was holding a newspaper and of course opened the page about Kaito Kids reappearing.
The classmates looked at Aoko Nakamori in amusement. Usually she was always furious when the gentleman thief showed up or heard something from him. But somehow the normal process wasn't really right today, because Aoko was also beaming with joy. When her next-door neighbor gave her a big look, she explained why she was in such a good mood.
"My father is so happy that this lacquer monkey turned up again because he was afraid that his special commission would be disbanded.He has already been threatened with that. Besides, the Kaito Kid didn't steal anything and didn't announce theft either! "
"No!" laughed Kaito. "That's why he saved the lives of those snoopers Kudo and Hakuba. That's a joke. He saves his greatest enemies. Isn't he just great?"
Aoko looked at him now getting angry. "I thought Shinichi Kudo was your friend. How can you cheer his greatest opponent?"
"But he gave this interview himself, so you have all the information. Shinichi is an honest guy and that's what I like about him so much. But he knows that I'm a fan of the Kaito Kid and accepts that. He's a really good friend! " he explained. Besides, he thought further, he had told him to behave just as he did before. Otherwise someone else would discover her little secret.
Suddenly he saw Akako Koizumi standing in front of him. She looked at him with her mysteriously sparkling eyes."The white sinner has been purified and now wears a halo. But that doesn't make his life any less dangerous. On the contrary! Take care!" she oracle.
Kaito, like every time she talked to him like that, was shocked at how much she knew, but as always he waved it away, pretended to be unmoved. "How many more times should I tell you? I'm not the Kaito Kid! You'd better tell him!"
She just laughed. He couldn't fool her. Her prophecies always came true, and no one had been more surprised this time than she was when she got the point. Obviously a lot of things had changed in Kaito's life, but he seemed content with it. Unfortunately, these changes didn't bring him closer to her as she would have liked, but she wasn't going to give up. She wanted to own the White Sinner, but she didn't want to endanger him either. So she acted according to the motto: come time, come advice! At some point, she hoped, he would realize that she was the best partner for him.She, with her witchcraft, could help him perfectly with his break-ins. But as long as he didn't see that, she would just make it clear to him through her prophecies that he couldn't fool her.
Kaito considered talking to Shinichi about the witch, but he knew she was a pure realist. There was always a logical explanation for him. It was the same with his own magic, but it was different with Akako. No! As long as she limited herself to prophecies and no longer attacked him directly, which had already