onnoff

🦅 "Do you also steal chocolates?" 🕊 "No, I receive them instead."

I used to post a complaint or two about this arc, about how I find it's unnecessary or that I don't like how it's one of the chapter that turned what makes the original concept of Magic Kaito quirky and fun into a more darker and serious tone.

However, I have another thought.

At the end of this arc, Jack Connery died by falling down from a high place, despite Kaito had tried to save him.

What makes this tragic it was the loud call from Jack's son, who he loves and is the last person he wants to be seen as criminal, that makes him lose his balance.

And Kaito has acted quick and done the least he can do in short amount of time

is to preserve Jack's, a father, image as a hero.

Kenta is the only one who doesn't notice the mask, so as far as the kid know or understand, his father had died in dunty.

But what makes Kaito's action significant is his flashback on Kenta's line: "I'm going to be like Papa!"

If Kenta had found his father died as Nightmare, there's a chance he would become Nightmare.

The possibility this quite high considering that this arc happened after The Golden Eye arc.

The arc where he had met Ruby Jones, who is essentially similar to him, a thief who taking on her father's will and becomes a thief.

Children, who idolizing their parents, even their dark side, will become grown up that would do crime,

or put themself in danger.

In the name of the parent they love.

And Kaito knows his choice is dangerous, not that he's regretting his choice. But he would rather be the only person who would do these extravagant actions for his "late" parent than anyone else.

Because the first time he had met a person that share similarity with him was in The Sunken Ship chapter.

Who has a father who do crime and left a final (kinda horrible if is interpret wrong) advice

Who is so attached to his father's legacy that he chose to go down with it.

This could be a foreshadowing to Kaito's future, the path he chooses is dangerous, and one day he could died as KID.

Yet, there's still hope for him.

Does the calculations for how long it will take a car pushed off a skyscraper to hit the ground while actively in said car and actively falling off said skyscraper

Wins At Heist only because he has multiple lineups of international birthstones memorized

Glances at a glass box, eyeballs the dimensions, and then goes into the bathroom and cuts a panel that fits inside said box so perfectly that it's watertight

Somehow manages to tinker with the mechanisms of a revolving restaurant (already insane) and hangs stationary inside while shooting accurately at a target as it spins past him (okay, flex). Also manages to time all of this so his final shot aligns with the moment a secondary moving target is directly behind the person he's shooting at (what)

Is so insanely bad at pool that he rigs the entire table with wires that he subtly plucks to guide the ball along the trajectory he wants it to go. Which seems like it would be harder than just teaching himself how to play pool.

then he met him as Kuroba Kaito, resident class clown and prankster. who, despite being a criminal, performs magic for the sole purpose of bringing joy to others. who stops when he sees a crying little child to magic them a toy. who is immature, certainly, but has a heart of gold.

i wonder when the line started to blur. when did Kaito go from 'criminal that must be caught' to a friend? because, well, Saguru called him from Paris to warn him about Nightmare. sure, it was supposed to be a rival thing, but it still speaks to some level of care, doesn't it?

i wonder how he would feel when he realizes it's 2 generations of KID, and the predecessor was murdered by an underground crime syndicate. i wonder how he would feel when he learns that those very same people are after Kaito's life. i wonder how he would feel when KID gets hurt during a heist and Kaito appears the next day, poker face intact, moving like he does not have a hidden wound.

does his heart break, i wonder? does he try to help, only for Kaito to inevitably reject him? does he lose sleep trying to help anyway, pouring over cold cases for that one connection, that one hint that might let him take Snake down?

does he drive himself insane with worry?

my soul left my body during the process of restoring this iconic moment

Btw making a new video about Kaito 😜🤙

I did do a fully drawn face for this with a little animation

So you have to see it too

https://archiveofourown.org/works/80965216

ship: hakukai/sagukai

in which Saguru receives pretty rocks from a not-so-secret admirer, and eventually gives one of his own. ———————————— i was inspired by penguins and their silly courting rituals