Corpse collector in Conan

Kidd is usually chased by the police, detectives, and fans... He is very familiar with various ways of evading.

But like now, chasing others on the other hand is not very skillful.

Moreover, to his surprise: Jiang Xia looked quiet and not good at martial arts, but he didn't expect that he could not only hide and fight, but also run very fast. Moving quickly like this under the cover of trees, Kidd couldn't catch up for a while, and it was difficult to aim the tranquilizer gun.

"..." If this continues, Jiang Xia's companion who went to buy tires may come back...

Thinking of this, Kidd raised the muzzle of the gun and adjusted the button on it, preparing to use the steel wire to speed up the movement at the risk of hanging on the branch.

But the moment he raised his head, a shadow suddenly crossed diagonally above him.

...It seems like some giant bird has fallen into the woods.

Just as this thought flashed across his mind, Kidd's eyes suddenly froze.

Ahead, on the path Jiang Xia must pass, a dark shadow suddenly appeared.

——A huge wing suddenly stretched out from behind the tree, curling up like a Venus flytrap that had been lying in wait for a long time, accurately catching the detective who was running fast and had no time to change direction.

Jiang Xia seemed to be unprepared for this kind of ambush, and ran headlong into the wing. He was swept away by the closed wings and disappeared from Kidd's sight.

Kidd was startled.

"..." Wutian Dog?

...Fog Dog!

Although from Kidd's perspective, the body of the wing owner, as well as Jiang Xia who was later swept away, were all blocked by the closed wings and tree trunks.

But he would never mistake the shape and color of those wings. More importantly... there is probably no other creature with such huge wings in this world.

After subconsciously coming to this conclusion, Kidd quickly ran closer, walked around the tree trunk, and looked back.

I saw that the wrapped wings of the foggy dog ​​had been loosened at this time, revealing the very difficult detective.

Jiang Xia's body swayed, and she fell to the ground with her eyes closed, and then was caught by the foggy dog ​​like a snack.

Immediately afterwards, the pair of dark golden eyes unique to monsters raised and looked in the direction of Kidd.

"..." It's really him.

Kidd was instinctively surprised at first: "I haven't seen you for a while. I thought you were in trouble again because of the witch."

Then he suddenly remembered the business and ran quickly to Jiang Xia, who was wearing a foggy dog ​​vest, and looked at the motionless body in his hand: "...Is he okay?"

Jiang Xia drove the foggy dog, so he didn't want to pay attention to it.

But when he glanced at the anesthetic gun in Kidd's hand, he was worried that the phantom thief would replenish his body. So after hesitating for a moment, Jiang Xia used puppet clay to secretly make a pair of fangs, opened his mouth and showed a little, and gave Kidd a look.

He added concisely and concisely: "Anesthetic. Enough to sleep for half a day."

Kidd was startled.

...Although he had seen the foggy dog's fangs before, before, he thought they were just parts used to bite human flesh.

I didn’t expect to be able to inject anesthetics... Could it have evolved when humans were hunted in the past?

Kidd carefully looked at the pair of sharp and terrifying fangs that looked a bit like the legendary vampire, and then at Jiang Xia's body. After hesitating for a moment, he put away the anesthetic gun: "Then I'd better not stab him, the dose is too high." It's easy to damage the brain - you may not know it, but this detective is very famous in our human world and has a very good mind. He can't afford to pay for it if it's damaged... Well, your anesthetic should have no side effects."

As he spoke, he uneasily wanted to poke Jiang Xia's head with his fingertips as if inspecting a work of art.

He stretched out his hand, but before he could find it, Wutian Gou moved slightly and moved the "anaesthetized" Jiang Xia to the side, as if he didn't want him to touch him.

"?"

Kidd was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly became alert - Wutian Dog wouldn't count the captured Jiang Xia as prey.

...Fortunately, he was prepared.

Kidd sighed inwardly, flipped his wrist, and deftly took out a necklace inlaid with large gems.

——This time it was not stolen from elsewhere, but pried out from the safe left by his father.

According to legend, foggy dogs like to snatch away humans and hang them on trees to dry and eat.

But in fact, according to Kidd's observation, the rather civilized-looking foggy dog ​​in front of him seems to prefer various treasures to humans.

Every time a gemstone or other collection is bitten by a foggy dog, its color will become dim, as if it has been hollowed out. And after a while, they will slowly recover as time goes by.

At the beginning, Kidd meditated on the principle of this change, but could not figure out the mystery.

It wasn't until later that he met two strange witches and opened the door to a new world that Kidd completely gave up studying - it was normal not to understand things in the magical world.

...In short, because I don’t want the foggy dog ​​to eat people, I don’t want to feed the foggy dog ​​with my body.

In addition to diligently committing crimes, Kidd also rummaged through all the valuable things in his home and picked one or two items to carry with him every time he went out, so that when the foggy dog ​​came out to hunt, he could peacefully dissuade him from eating dried human meat strips.

Of course it will be the same this time.

"This is the Heart of the Blue that my dad took in France before. It's no worse than the ones I usually steal..."

Kidd glanced at the gem, then at Jiang Xia, who was being held by Wu Tiangu, and negotiated in a low voice: "How about exchanging it? Compared with bloody human flesh, I think eating gems is more in line with your elegant image."

Jiang Xia: "..."

He glanced at the gem.

Kidd seems to have some misunderstandings about the ghost recipes.

In fact, ordinary treasures did not have the energy core he wanted.

In this world, things that contain energy cores and can strengthen ghost fetuses and shikigami are actually stolen goods.

In addition to Kidd, the other thieves and thieves also hid a few bits and pieces in the items they stole, but they were much smaller than those stolen by Kidd. Maybe this is also some kind of world rule, just like when Jiang Xia first came to this world and Kudo had no sign of turning into Conan, he couldn't pick up ghosts at all...

In short, the gem that Kidd handed over now looks good, but there is no energy core in it.

It seems that when a son steals something from his father, it is not considered stealing...

But fortunately, there are other things in Kidd that can be exchanged.

——Jiang Xia remembered that since the last time, the phantom thief was dragged to the castle by the witches for an indescribable day, there were some signs of awakening his magic power. And magic power and energy core are equivalent...

…

Kidd was stretching out his hands, praying with a slight pain in his conscience that his father would not care about this gem. After all, the foggy dog ​​would usually return it after eating it.

Just as he was thinking about it, he saw Wu Tiangu's hand missing the gem and placing it accurately on his wrist.