The entire banquet hall instantly erupted.
"What? Kaito Kid?!"
"Chairman Suzuki was disguised as him?!"
The police officers, as if waking from a dream, immediately swarmed forward, chasing in the direction Kaito Kid had fled.
Conan also followed closely, nimbly weaving through the chaotic crowd with his small stature, quickly becoming the fastest one chasing Kaito Kid.
Kaito Kid, relying on his agile movements, quickly shook off all the police.
Only Conan remained in hot pursuit, completely impossible to shake off.
"Damn it, what's with this kid? He seems much smarter than Inspector Nakamori and the others."
Listening to Conan's continuous shouts for the police behind him, Kaito Kid, in a panic, crashed into a door with a "LADIES" sign next to it without thinking.
After entering, he belatedly realized that he had stumbled into the women's restroom.
However, he couldn't worry about that much now, and Kaito Kid directly slipped into an unoccupied stall and closed the door.
"Bang!" The restroom door bounced back and was then pushed open again.
Conan rushed in right behind him, his gaze sweeping over the empty sink area, then immediately went to pull open the nearest toilet stall door.
After he fiddled with it a couple of times, the stall door opened.
The person inside was not Kaito Kid, but a plump old woman with a bushy beard.
After two seconds of staring at the plump old woman, Conan suddenly remembered that he seemed to have entered the women's restroom.
"Ah—! Pervert!" The plump old woman shrieked.
Conan quickly waved his hands to explain. "No, Auntie! I'm..."
"You pervert! Who are you calling Auntie?! I'm not even 50 yet!"
Slap—
After a resounding slap.
Conan, clutching the slap mark on his face, obediently backed out and closed the stall door behind him.
Just then, another stall door opened with a click.
Rin walked out, humming a song.
"Eh? Conan?"
Rin saw Conan in the women's restroom, paused, then put her hands on her hips and frowned,
"Hey, hey, little kid! This is the women's restroom! How did you get in here? Not learning good habits at such a young age!"
"Rin-neechan! I... it's not what you think, I was chasing Kaito Kid..."
Conan waved his hands repeatedly, just about to explain, when another stall door also opened.
Suzuki Sonoko excitedly poked her head out. "Kid-sama?! Is Kid-sama here?!"
Immediately after, two flushing sounds rang out, and the two adjacent stall doors opened simultaneously.
Two Mouri Ran, dressed in identical clothes and with the same hairstyle, walked out from inside.
Everyone's attention was drawn to them.
"Ah?!" Sonoko exclaimed, pointing at the two, "Two, two Rans?!"
"It's Kaito Kid!" Conan immediately reacted, his gaze scanning between the two Rans.
Among the two Rans, one must be Kaito Kid in disguise!
"Don't move!" Conan shouted, his small body erupting with astonishing aura, "Kid, you won't escape this time!"
The most direct method to deal with a master of disguise is to pinch their face to verify their identity.
Conan didn't hesitate, taking a quick step forward, then a big jump, his small hand shooting out like lightning, precisely pinching the cheek of the Ran on the left.
The touch was warm and soft, completely real.
Conan's heart skipped a beat, and he immediately turned to the Ran on the right.
If the Ran on the left was real, then the one on the right must be Kaito Kid!
Just as he thought so, the Ran on the right moved, squatting down in front of him and pointing at her own face.
"Kaito Kid, what trick are you trying to pull now?"
Conan immediately understood, reached out to the Ran on the right's face, and pulled hard outwards.
"Hmm?"
Conan's expression instantly became fascinating, completely different from what he had expected.
The face of the Ran on the right was also warm skin, a real touch, with no signs of disguise.
"Ho-how is this possible?!"
Conan was utterly shocked, looking at his hands in disbelief.
The faces of both Rans felt completely real.
This was beyond his understanding of disguise.
No matter how superb Kaito Kid's disguise skills were, it shouldn't be possible to have no flaws even when pinching the face, right?
Rin and Sonoko were also stunned.
Rin scratched her head in confusion. "Eh? Both are real? Does Ran have a doppelganger technique?"
Sonoko, on the other hand, looked bewildered. "W-what exactly is going on?"
Looking at everyone's shocked expressions, Kaito Kid, disguised as the Ran on the right, laughed triumphantly in his heart.
Hahaha! Didn't expect this, did you!
Before this operation, I got two bottles of magic potion from Akako.
One of them is a disguise potion, which can make my body structure exactly the same as the person I'm transforming into within five minutes.
Forget pinching the face, even if you cut open the skin with a knife to test DNA, you wouldn't be able to tell the difference!
Rin then remembered the secret code they had agreed upon earlier, her gaze sweeping over the two Rans as she asked. "Which one of you is Ran anyway?"
"I'm the real Ran! You have to believe me. She's fake, she's Kaito Kid!"
Kaito Kid, disguised as Ran on the right, immediately blurted out the answer, his voice exactly the same as the real Ran.
Ran, hearing Kaito Kid's quick answer, paused slightly, then smiled and said. "If you're real, then I'm fake, I'm Kaito Kid."
Kaito Kid: !!!
No, is being a phantom thief this easy now? Why is the victim even helping me out?!
Rin, Sonoko, and Conan, who knew the secret code, immediately pointed at Kaito Kid simultaneously.
"He's fake! He's Kaito Kid!" The three said in unison.
"Ah?! But I didn't have any flaws either."
Kaito Kid knew his disguise had failed, and staying any longer would mean being caught like a turtle in a jar.
He pressed his belt without hesitation, instantly shedding his disguise, and a smoke bomb exploded at the same time.
"Poof!"
Amidst the spreading smoke, Kaito Kid, in his white attire, revealed himself.
"Farewell, everyone!"
He left a sentence, crashed through the restroom window, and leaped out.
"Don't run!"
Conan followed closely to the window.
He saw Kaito Kid land on the edge of the deck below, without the slightest pause, activating his hang glider and thrusters again, flying towards the upper levels of the cruise ship.
Conan knew that in this situation, he definitely couldn't catch Kaito Kid by himself, so he shouted loudly.
"Kaito Kid ran to the top deck! Kaito Kid ran to the top deck!"
Inspector Nakamori and Inspector Chaki, who were still scurrying around like headless chickens, heard this and immediately led their officers in a swarm to the top deck of the cruise ship.
Lycaon, who was originally drinking tea in the cruise ship's tearoom, twitched his fluffy ears on his head, put down his teacup, and also walked towards the cruise ship's deck.
At the same time, Hugo, who was sitting behind Lycaon's seat and drinking tea back-to-back with him, also put down his teacup and stood up.
However, the direction he departed was not the top deck of the cruise ship, but the control room that steered the cruise ship's course.