Shinichi never believed in the supernatural. Even during his time as Conan, he had never even considered that things like ghouls, witches, and the like were ever real. But then Kaito dies saving his life during their final confrontation with the BO and he's left devastated.

For the first time in his life, he wished that at least ghosts existed, if only so that he could see his rival and friend one last time.

Then the mysterious thefts and ghost sightings began happening at his current college and two suspicious men start poking around. His time as Conan means that he can spot fake police anywhere. He follows the two into his college that night and accidentally loses them. That's when he starts to hear the ghostly laughter that sounds very familiar.

Following the laughter, he bumps into the men again, only - this time - they're toting guns. He only has a split second to freak out before he's grabbed by the shorter one and tugged out of the way as something big and white crashes into where they were just standing. Looking back at their assailant makes his stomach churn.

A figure dressed in what probably used to be a white suit was swaying uneasily, staring at them. It let out a distorted voice as it sang a tune. Then, in a flurry of movement, it charged forward. Before the two men have a chance to shoot, it sweeps Shinichi up in its arms and starts jumping up and down, letting out a laugh - the same sound he heard before in the hallway.

That familiar laugh.

Pushing back just far enough to see the ghost's face, he's met with familiar monocle and those shining blue eyes. Letting out a laugh of his own that was mixed with a sob, he throws his arms around the ghost's shoulders and cries, calling him an idiot and asking how he could dare to die on him like that when they had made a promise to take down the BO together.

The ghost's form melts away to reveal a boy - forever a teenager - in a white suit and messy hair. He tells him that it took long enough for him to come find him and he had missed him.

the magician under the moonlight, crimson as the stone he seeks.

trying to get back into art. here's a sketch of kaitou KID diluc for my dcmk au, divided we conquer :)

Conan Edogawa and Ran Mouri cameo in the last anime episode of Kenyuu Densetsu Yaiba, two years before Detective Conan Anime premiered in 1996.

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Before Detective Conan had its very own anime series in 1996, they were already having their own cameo in the last anime episode of Kenyuu Densetsu Yaiba in 1994, where Musashi Miyamoto and Sayaka's Grandmother are bickering over the remote control.

That means they had been appearing in animated version two years before their actual debut on their own anime.

Story time!

Once upon a time there was a temple that held the Miraculous in a magic box, but when the temple was attacked, the monks gathered around and in a last-ditch effort invoked a spell that locked the Miraculous' power and scattered them all around the world.

The Miraculous spirits, in essence, went to sleep, and this handy spell prevented any random schmuck off the street from getting godlike powers. It wasn’t an ideal solution, as it prevented the spirits (which were concepts and forces of nature) from keeping the balance of... well, everything, but it wouldn't be a problem for a few centuries and that was well enough time, right? So to lift the spell, one has to gather all the Miraculous again and put them in the special box, then place it under the light of the full moon and speak an incantation. To make the task of finding them easier, the spell makes the Miraculous glow red against the full moon.

Fastforward until the Miraculous have faded into legend, most of the original monks have died and some organization finds old scripts. They trace the scripts to a long line of monks and find the mythical magic box, hastily emptied. Now they just have to start collecting. The wayward monks are tracked down and killed, but most of them hid their goods. With them dies the secret of another way to lift the spell, which is by making a kwami do it. See, one Miraculous was out of the box when the spell was placed, and thus avoided the lock. It's been just as lost, however.

Fastforward again until a jewel thief is hired to steal an old monocle. It’s all suspicious and Toichi is in it only to check out what the deal is. Instead of stealing the monocle from the old guy clutching it, Toichi instead warns him about Snake and makes to leave. The old guy, however, touched by Toichi's sincerity, asks him to stay and listen to a story. He tells him about magic and Miraculous and a spell, and a boy who grew up at a monastery and escaped the massacre within, then swore to keep hidden what he found. But it's been centuries since the lock was placed and either the world will suffer under the Miraculous in the wrong hands, or the steady loss of balance will do it. And the only one who knows of what's to come is old and sickly.

Toichi listens, but doesn't really believe. He leaves the man with his treasure, and the man sees him out with a pat and a smile.

A few days later the old man is found dead, with a broken monocle at his side. In a pocket of his suit Toichi finds a pendant on a white string. He remembers it being attached to the monocle. Unable to dismiss the fairytale of a man knowing he was going to die and with only a thief to confide to, he attaches the string to a longer one and loops around his neck. 

Out pops a white kwami looking remarkably like a dove. The only Miraculous that wasn’t in the box when the spell was placed.

For the next few months Kaito KID steals everything from jewels to paintings to ancient trinkets, but always returns them (and if some are forgeries then no one has to know). He's approached again and again by Snake, and the white monocle he wears is meant to insult as well as mock, make Snake question how much exactly Toichi knows. When Toichi Kuroba is killed in a tragic accident, a white monocle is found crushed next to his corpse, while Jii follows Toichi's will and leaves his beloved pendant in his lair.

Fastforward again eight years and Kaito finds the lair and costume, and goes to become KID and confront the other KID who turns out to be Jii. Later he finds the pendant his dad always wore and gets a surprise when he puts it on. He listens to a long story told by a god of peace, purity and thought, of hope, and finds a complex jewelry box with only a few compartments filled. He realizes his dad had a lot more secrets than even Jii knew.

Now it's Kaito’s turn to finish what his father started. Maybe he can't collect them all, but he can find as many as he can, hopefully the Cat and Ladybug ones as well. If he gets enough of them there's a few rituals they can do to find the other box, and thus his father's killers as well.

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Details:

The Miraculous Toichi collected are awake and live in a pocket dimension inside the second magic box, which Toichi rebuilt and then enchanted with the help of a witch. It was the one and only time he had to wear multiple Miraculous for a ritual and it was the closest he came to dying (outside of, well, dying.)

The Miraculous are grateful for being awakened and accept the Kuroba as their new Guardians, but agree that the Dove kwami has exclusive rights to Toichi.

Toichi wore the white KID suit before he started using the Dove Miraculous, so his transformation is just the regular suit but bullet-proof and not prone to mechanical failures, like a glider that fails to extend. Since he's a stage magician at heart, his suit reflects that and all his 'magic' can be explained by logic, and his physical feats are easily explained as him being extremely fit.

The Dove Miraculous has a purifying power similar to Ladybug's, but since there's no akuma to purify it's almost never used. Kaito did use it a few times tho, like with Akako, or to clean wounds, or when he got stuck with the kids in the wilderness and gave them purified water. The aspect of Hope leaks through sometimes when KID helps people find peace or fulfillment with his heists.

Kaito wore the actual KID suit for his first heist, so when he found the Dove Miraculous his transformation automatically took the form of that suit.

Kaito was offered any Miraculous from the box, but stuck with Dove because it was his father's.

Snake and his org don't actually know KID is a Miraculous holder, they don't know that the Dove kwami avoided the locking spell and can awake others. They hunt KID because they aren't sure how much he knows and if he has a monocle Miraculous. Snake still thinks it might be Toichi under the hat. He thinks he's being mocked with the monocle. (fyi there was never a monocle Miraculous, just the pendant, but in the case he’s ever discovered as a holder, Toichi wanted the monocle to mislead them) 

KID can change disguises quickly anyway, so no one bats an eye if only a puff of smoke is needed to transform a scantily-clad girl into a man in a bulky suit.

Kaito loves dramatically transforming himself like Hawk Moth, just with a flock of doves. He loves it even more that he did this on front of Conan and the other was none the wiser.

It doesn’t matter if the org has the Ladybug and Cat Miraculous, since they can’t use them while they’re locked. When Kaito finds out that the combo of those two can make any wish come true, it only takes one explanation of the consequences for him to decide it’s not worth it to bring his father back to life.

(・ω・)b alright then, have some screenshot redraws, with a complimentary Kaito.

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It starts when Kudo Yukiko burns on the ceiling of the Kudo mansion. Flames as hot as the sun scorch the building, burning through wood and furniture, bricks and cement charring as the heat amplifies.

Kudo Yuusaku yells at his son, Shinichi, to run, to get out of the house before it is too late. He shouts when Shinichi lingers, gaze staring up at his mother, telling him to take his adopted brother, Heiji, and run.

It does not take long until the house is cinders. Yuusaku leaves the house a widower, trying to keep his emotions in control, staying calm for his two sons. Shinichi does not cry.

Beside him, Heiji - only two - cries out in shook, horrified at the flames that tickle his face. Shinichi reaches forward and wipes away his tears, deciding that he will keep Heiji safe no matter what happens next. He squeezes Heiji's hand, hugs him close.

When Yuusaku books them into a motel for the evening - the first of many long evenings to pass - he does not mention Yukiko. He does not talk about the fire, or its cause, but he does warn Shinichi about monsters under the bed and how it is now his responsibility to keep his brother safe.

Shinichi nods in understanding. He is only four, but he will not forget this moment. It is the pivotal moment between normal life and abnormal life. It is the day Yuusaku promises to teach him how to hunt down the monsters, before they can pray on him first.