Trick 003 | Kudo... Shinichi? | Dictated

[kid_in_disguise]

[ This voice might be unexpected to the few who know Conan's real secret. ]

To anyone who helped in the search for Conan-kun, I'm sure you've heard from Conan-kun himself that he's back now, in one piece and perfectly safe. It turns out Kaitou Kid never really had him in the first place-I'm not sure what he was playing at but I know this much-if you bothered to figure out even a portion of his notice you fell right into his trap.

If you attempted to unscramble the mix of words following the cipher in the post script of the notice then you should have revealed the message 'Congratulations detective, you have found the distraction.' he made it out that this was the distraction but there was a lot more to it than that as this was possibly one of the most important parts of the notice.

In the notice itself he said he'd be in the library but instead prepared another notice with the same cipher as before bearing the hint to go back and retrace your steps. I'm sorry to say it you tried to figure out that last notice then misinterpreted what he meant by 'retrace your steps.'

The truth is that when he put that in the notice it meant to go back to the original cipher and do it over again, and if you were to do that you'd still get the message 'Congratulations detective, you have found the distraction.' Meaning, of course, that the whole thing was a distraction and if you so much as attempted cracking the code on the notice you wasted your time.

There was another part on the notice stating to disregard a portion of the page leading us to believe the top part was irrelevant when in actuality the entire thing all except for the part I just stated was pointless.

Kid's never been guilty of kidnapping before, I should have known something was up the moment I heard he'd made that announcement.

((ooc: Kaito is pretending to be Shinichi at the moment to clear out any kinks and suspicions that might have arisen. Also rubbing it in your face. But that's hidden. ))

Comments

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[foolreversed]

[man screw you, random smarty pants he doesn't know!! He was still working on that cipher ffffff]

Maybe that was all some people wanted; a distraction.

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[kid_in_disguise]

Then no ones stopping you from continuing, just a fair warning though, you won't get anywhere.

dictated.

[tending]

Thank goodness he's all right..

[ shh, she totally read the rest of that ]

dictated.

[kid_in_disguise]

Yeah. But this isn't the last time he'll disappear without warning. He has a habit of rushing off and forgetting to tell anyone where he's gone. I suspect that's what happened this time around.

[foolreversed]

[SIIIIIIGH...]

Well there's no more fun in it if I know all that.

[kid_in_disguise]

[ Ordinarily Kaito might feel bad about ruining someone's fun. But since he was currently under the disguise of Japan's number one killjoy and really can't. ]

Ah, well.. I didn't think anyone would want to waste too much of their time.

dictated.

[tending]

Even so, I'm thankful nothing terrible happened to Conan-kun and I hope it stays that way. Now that I know what he looks like, maybe it will be easier to find him next time?

You really are a great detective, Kudo-san!

[foolreversed]

Anything we do in this castle is arguably a waste of time. But at least it was something to do until the next eventual loss or whatever.

[kid_in_disguise]

Don't worry about it too much. If Kid is here, he'll probably send out a real notice if he finds anything shiny that catches his interests.

dictated.

[kid_in_disguise]

Maybe, but that kid has disappearing at a moment's notice down to an art.

Ah.. thanks but, as I said, Kid never actually had him-Conan-kun turned up all on his own.