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A dove tilted its head.

Person here? It turned its head around.

Person there?

Person in my museum?

“Ken-kun…? Okay, that’s fine, I guess.” It’s a bit strange that someone not Minato-san or Minako-san wishes to call him that, to be honest. “Okay, then I’ll keep calling you Shinichi-san, then. You can rely on me!”

“Fine by me, Ken-kun.” He stood straight again, his hands in his pockets. “Well, I’m going to go back to work; so catch you later, okay?” Shinichi snickered and turned to walk to his office, giving a small wave in the process.

“Ah, yeah! I’d like the lemon meringue pie then.” Although the key lime pie sounded absolutely delicious at the moment as well. Jesus, stop doing your work well. Raphael. Shinichi laughed at the ginger until he blinked, almost enchanted by the rhythmic way the waiter adjusted his glasses.

“Uh...” Shinichi’s mouth fell agape until he noticed the dumb nature of his own display and closed it again. “Say, what are you doing, working here?” He quickly recovered. “Aren’t you a student too?”

“We ran out of milk…”

Oh, god- um, C-ta just sort of froze in place and looked at Shinichi’s– head? He didn’t really know what to do by this point, although he did figure it was probably something the detective had wanted to do for a long time now. He bit his lip and told himself to bear with it, returning the hug and trying not to look awkward.

No, Shinichi has not entered an alternate universe - such is the general adoration of ‘members of justice’ that Ken has that he even looks up to him, as irresponsible as he can be. He still doesn’t know why Naoto-san doesn’t seem to get along with him now though, nor does he know a thing about a potential death of a white-haired person in another universe. That would be a really sombre mystery though.

As for everything vanishing in some kind of reset, Ken would probably see that as a very confusing and curious case indeed, but that is neither here nor there. Perhaps there is also a sense of the old ‘Detective Boys’ group that makes Ken happy to look up to Shinichi as well. Fourth wall breaking aside, Ken folded his arms at the apology. “Just make sure to try and be more careful, Shinichi-san. If you get in trouble like that again, I’ll just…I’ll just…I’ll have to sass you a lot so it sticks in your head next time.” He’ll do it, too.

Suddenly, pat on head. As much as Ken doesn’t usually like being treated like a kid, to have his hair ruffled reminds him of how his mom used to do that, so it’s nice…

Shinichi put his hand to his chin as he looked down at the younger boy, contemplating something before he started smirking.

“Then I’ll call you Ken-kun.” He announced, for once being fine with calling someone else by their first name. Shinichi didn’t need to go Ashita no Joe with his speech around children, really. “And you can continue calling me Shinichi if you like.” Though he briefly wondered why the boy glued ‘-san’ to the end and not ‘-niichan’. Kids these days.

That is until she took a co-worker’s invitation to a Phantom Thief Pandora heist on a whim. It was supposed to be just business when she cornered the elusive magician in red. But under the light of moon, dashing criminal got away with stealing not only his target for the night, but also Jennifer’s lips.

Worst of all, young detective noticed Pandora had ‘borrowed’ Christa’s shiny new Harley Davidson as part of his initial escape plan… only after she shot it out from under the thief and sent it ablaze. Now, it seems all the progress she made wooing her buxom secretary also went up in flames. But is there actually more to Christa’s anger?

Join Jennifer in this steamy tale of secrets and passion as she strives to put the devilish thief behind the bars and reclaim her blonde darling’s heart. And in the progress, learn much more than she bargained for about the thief, the blonde and herself.

Shades of Pandora. Nothing will go according to the plan.

“My wife and I found ourselves completely immersed in the world the author paints. She expressed her wishes to portray Jennifer when it inevitably gets a movie adaptation. In the meanwhile, we will be looking forward to a sequel.”

Kudo Yusaku - Award-winning Mystery Author best known for Night Baron series.

“Every Kaitou KID fan should have it in their library! Clover-sensei is definitely a fan herself. Her research when creating Pandora’s character was stunningly accurate. Even with the twist, maybe because of it, I was giggling like a middle school girl till the very last page. I could totally put myself in Jennifer’s shoes. We had a real laugh when my best friend found herself empathizing with Hope.”

Suzuki Sonoko - President of Kaitou KID Fan Club and High School Detective.

“I read this book fully expecting to find a yet another fangirl pornography, a travesty. But Ms. Clover amazed me with her extensive knowledge of detective work in addition to vivid descriptions of crime scenes and deduction progress. Not to mention the respect she reserves to Sherlock Holmes. While there are a number of points I can not agree with -as I have ample reason to believe KID is a man- she managed to capture my heart with the way she brought her characters to life.”

“Don’t say it like that… whose care have you been in this whole time?” Plus, that was so formal and strange that it flustered him a little, but maybe it was somewhat worth it. He hadn’t seen Shinichi look that happy in a long time, aside from when he heard news of coffee machines being fixed.

And right at that moment, Shinichi did the most unbelievable thing possible. -- Which, considering who his mun was, wasn’t that strange, actually. -- He wrapped his arms around C-ta and pulled him into a hug, his nose pressed against the other’s neck as a result of that.

“Don’t get me wrong, this is… really on whim, haha…” He rubbed the back of his neck, not looking at Shinichi despite facing him. 

“I’ll be in your care then, C-ta.” Ironically enough, he already was in C-ta’s care, but let’s dismiss those details.