【Quick New】In the Name of Love · In the Name of Love- XXIV

Chapter 17 XVII Kidnapped Hijacking Incident

Kudo Shinichi was awakened by sharp pain and cold.

His vision gradually changed from the pitch black to a dim and blurred color, and the piercing sound of a thousand iron rulers passing across the blackboard echoed in his mind, and he felt dull pain all over his body.Pain comes sooner and earlier than sight.always like this.It took him two seconds to realize his situation—his hands were hung above his head, his whole body was almost suspended in the air, only his toes could barely touch the floor, and he didn’t know how long he had been hung like this. The muscles were trembling unconsciously, so sore that he wanted to cry out - of course he didn't, he bit his lower lip tightly.His whole body was wet, it was obvious that he was just woken up by a bucket of cold water.What a corny plot.In front of him stood an ordinary-looking adult male with his hands behind his back standing less than one meter away from him, looking at him with no expression on his face.The room was dark, except for four candles burning around it.

The two looked at each other in silence, and neither of them spoke to break the oppressive silence.

Until the man narrowed his eyes and said, "Kudo Shinichi."

Although his whole body was sore, Kudo still managed to pretend to be calm and smirked, and said in a brisk tone: "It's the first time we meet, please take care of me, I don't know your Excellency..." He paused and looked at him sincerely. looking at each other.

The man said blankly: "Forget about this, you are a smart person, you know what I want."

Kudo smiled innocently: "Sorry, please remind me?"

The man snorted lightly: "Phantom Thief Kidd."

Kudo's heart contracted tightly.

"That pretentious thief? I know what you want to know. Can you please put me down before that? I'm very tired." Kudo blinked, trying not to tremble in his voice.All he needs to do now is buy time and hope Kaito finds out he's missing and calls the police or something, while he finds his way out.It was a risky plan, but there was nothing he could do about it.

The man's lips were pursed into a straight line, and he looked at Kudo.

"Real name, address, and your contact information." The man's voice was cold and unemotional, like the sound of metal colliding.

Kudo sighed helplessly.

"Are you saying I know the thief? Don't be ridiculous. If I knew that much, I'd have him in jail."

The man sneered and said, "You are soul mates."

Kudo knew at that moment that something was wrong.

"Sir, you must have misunderstood—"

"Aren't you willing to cooperate without resorting to violence?" The man said as if talking to himself, then raised his eyes to meet Kudo's pupils that suddenly shrank because of fear, and curled up the corners of his mouth in satisfaction. "Just what I want."

Everything that followed was like pressing the slow play button, everything became long and difficult, every second seemed to be stretched into a century, and the position of each punch could be clearly heard by him. Hearing the sound of his bones struggling, the nerves transmitted the severe pain to his cerebral cortex, making his already dizzy brain even more blurred and distant.He held back the first few punches until he couldn't take it anymore and began to cry out in pain.

Maybe something is broken.

Kudo Shinichi's eyes darkened for a while.

Something must be broken, he heard the sound of bones snapping, vulnerable to the man's storm-like punches.

The man struck again.

Kudo's entire face was slapped away.He coughed twice and spat out blood. The whole person was in a state of embarrassment, but he was still able to laugh twice with difficulty. There was a mouthful of blood stuck in his throat, which made his voice hoarse and dry, and the sound of breathing was like an old The bellows generally creaked.He felt strangely calm and fearless at this moment.

"You guys are really jumping over the wall in a hurry, cough, why, can't you catch the Kaitou Kidd?"

The muscles on the man's face tensed, and then he punched again.

Kudo groaned in pain.

Although his body was severely injured, his spirit was as clear as a mirror.

He tilted his head: "I told you, no. Even if there is, do you think I will tell you?"

The man's eyes lit up with fire.

He squeezed Kudo Shinichi's chin firmly, stared at him closely, gritted his teeth, and said word by word: "Tell me all the information you know."

Kudo felt like his jaw was about to shatter.

"No comment—hiss!"

"tell me!"

"You guys are so anxious to find him, why, he finally found Pandora?" Kudo said intermittently, his eyes darkened for a while.His consciousness wanted to escape and fall into the darkness, but was stopped by that man.

"You know a lot." The man suddenly stopped his attack, took a step back, and looked at him with his arms crossed, "What else do you know?"

Kudo's consciousness began to float, and he tried hard to focus, but failed.He could only slide towards the dark abyss.

In the darkness, he heard Kaito's shout.

He frowned—he didn't know if ideology could frown, but he frowned.

"New one, new one, new one—"

The sound suddenly became deafening from far to near.

"...who?" he asked suspiciously.

Black Feather's voice became agitated instantly, almost crying with joy: "My God! Is it really you? Shinichi? You, how are you doing now?"

"Kaito? Are you... in my mind?" Kudo began to wonder if he had started dreaming, but this feeling was too real, and he could even feel the other party's intensely turbulent mood.what happened……?

"...I don't know what's going on. Please, leave that alone and tell me how you're doing now."

"Barely alive. It's not—" Kudo faintly felt that something was wrong, as if something was strung together somewhere.However, Kudo was too exhausted, and he couldn't even grasp this clue that was within reach.

"Please hold on a little longer, I'll be there soon!" Black Feather's voice was full of anxiety.

"Quick fight—!"

--hiss.

Cold water again.

Kudo yelped in pain, was pulled back to reality from the darkness, and the conversation with Kuroba was also interrupted.Maybe it was a dream.He didn't know, he really didn't know, no matter what, he had to cheer up and face this man first.He said with difficulty: "Next time, how about a different way to wake people up?"

"...you haven't finished yet," the man said.

Kudo sighed: "Seriously, do you really believe in the legend of immortality?"

The man smiled slowly, with a meaning that Kudo couldn't understand in his smile: "Oh, of course, Kudo Shinichi. I believe it very much."

Kudo realized that he probably missed something, but his spirit really didn't allow him to use his brain too much.He changed the subject and said, "I can't get out of here, can I?"

The man shrugged: "We'll take care of it."

Kudo's heart instantly went cold.

Calm down, calm down, no matter what, delay time.

He took a deep breath.

—Damn, the lungs are definitely injured.

He gritted his teeth: "I promise to give you the contact information of Kaito Kidd."

The man raised his eyebrows.

"—but you have to answer me a question."

The man sneered: "Do you think you have the right to negotiate?"

Kudo looked at him fixedly, and smiled after a while: "What do you think?"

The smile froze on the man's face.

In the next second, he received another violent blow on the stomach from the man to vent his anger. The dull impact of fists and muscles resulted in another uncontrollable vomiting of blood.He coughed hard, with the lingering bloody smell in his mouth, and the scarlet liquid flowed down the corner of his mouth, but Kudo smiled with satisfaction.

"Pandora. Why did you get it?" Kudo asked.

The man clenched his fist tightly, looking like he was about to strike at any moment.

"For the sake of my death, there is also Kaitou Kidd's contact information." Kudo said.

Suddenly, he realized something was wrong.

Kaitou Kidd is his soul mate.

The voice of Kaito Kuroba that suddenly appeared in his mind—it was a telepathy that only happened between soul mates with a probability of one in ten thousand.

Uncontrollably attracted.

The left wrist that is always blocked.

Occasionally delivered the eyes that I couldn't understand.

Unable to be with one's soul mate.

After he rejected Kaito Kid, Kuroba Kaito suddenly showed a cold attitude.

...is this the truth?

If it wasn't for the wrong situation, Kudo would really have laughed out loud.

What are you doing?What are you doing?

He lowered his head, his whole body trembling slightly due to the biting cold, but a raging flame was burning in his heart.All this is too absurd, but I am actually so ignorant, after meeting Kaito Kuroba, it was like being blinded by love, lost my direction, fell into the swamp and still tasted the essence.

Ridiculous, extremely ridiculous.

Thinking that I have escaped from the claws of fate, firmly believing that I am the master of my own destiny, and choosing my future partner, even if the other party is a fan of fate, I will try my best without hesitation.

For a time he even thought he had succeeded.

Every minute and every second with Kuroba Kaito is still vivid in his memory, but the trust given to him seems like a huge irony at this moment.The pain in his temple seemed to explode in the next second, and the intense emotion in his body was like boiling magma, almost burning him to death, rushing out from his skin.

The man looks at him.

"It's okay to tell you. This is the great cause of the empire. Pandora is the key to the age of the empire, and the empire will live forever," he said.

Kudo blinked slowly, and it took a moment for him to come back to his senses.

……empire?

—Kaito Kuroba.

……key?

—He lied to you.

……empire.

--ridiculous!

...focus, he said a very important message.Ask him, then ask.

- how ridiculous!

Kudo felt that he was going to be tortured and went crazy.The physical pain is insignificant at this moment, the confrontation between reason and emotion makes him miserable, almost collapsed, he just wants to find a corner to scream, escape from all this, avoid everything, let lies and deceit all hell go.

But before that——before that, he had to deal with the matter at hand.

He bowed his head, trembling all over.

The man narrowed his eyes, realizing something was wrong.

He pinched his chin almost eagerly, and raised his face: "Hey——"

Kudo looked up at him.

Then he smiled slowly.

"Actually, I know Kaito Kidd's true identity." He said softly, "Do you want to know?"

The man's eyes widened.

The curvature of Kudo's lips rose even higher, but it was mixed with sadness that the man couldn't understand.

"Go to hell."

He said it word for word.

At the same time, the door of the warehouse collapsed, and dust flew up noisily.In the smoke, a white figure stepped out, the cloak fluttering behind him.His voice was bone-chilling.

"The magic has begun, everyone."