"It's terrifying," Kidd shook his head with a smile as he looked back at the floor behind him. "You're a terrible boy—just as terrible as the kid named Conan Edogawa who came with you."

"Maybe he's not here, but I'm probably enough, right?" Chiba switched from a standing position to a half-crouching position, and aimed one eye at the firing line of the crossbow bolt mechanism of the Traceless Umbrella, fully prepared to aim. "So, do you have anything else to say first?"

"Of course," Kidd the Monster Thief smiled and nodded. "Like I said, you're not enough alone."

At the same time, several small white balls flew out at the same time from several directions behind Kidd, the monster thief.

“！？” Qian Yu was shocked, but he didn't know what these things were.

But soon, he knew what these things were.

With a few explosions, a large amount of smoke burst out of these small white balls, and the figure of Kidd the Monster Thief disappeared into the dense fog in an instant.

"Cut ......" Qian Yu looked at the spreading smoke and chose to step back - the auxiliary unit couldn't see far enough in this level of smoke, which meant that if Kidd the Monster Thief lurked in the smoke and planned to wait until the smoke enveloped him, he wouldn't be able to do anything about it. The safest solution for a child would be to step back and make sure he is always out of range of the smoke, so that the crossbow arrows in his hand can always ensure that he has full strategic initiative outside of Kidd's attack.

But the problem is that the smoke has spread to this point and shows no signs of thinning out even a bit...... It is equivalent to saying that the smoke forms an invisible barrier, and the monster thief Kidd hides behind this barrier, completely out of the control of Thousand Feathers.

Where is this guy now? Want to do something?

Just as Qian Yu was thinking about this question, there were a few more sounds of the small ball that could emit smoke from before. "Bang bang!"

Compared to the sound of the ball just now, this sound seems to be a little farther away.

Then came the sound of the elevator opening.

“！！！” Chiba immediately guessed the strategy that Kidd the Monster Thief might be planning to adopt.

With such a guess, Qian Yu immediately detoured to the side of the smoke, and then looked in the direction of the elevator.

The entire elevator was shrouded in extremely dense smoke.

"What's going on!" The voice of Jiroji Suzuki came from the elevator. "This kind of smoke must be the Kidd the Strange Thief!"

"Damn it......" Qian Yu showed a helpless expression - because it was the monster thief Kidd who released this smoke bomb, there was no doubt that he knew what he wanted to do now, and they could only passively defend against the unknown moves of the monster thief Kidd.

This is too passive......

Then, suddenly, the sound of the elevator door closing could be heard from inside the smoke.

Kidd the Strange Thief went down in the elevator? Or is he actually still here, and the only people who took the elevator down were the people who came up on the elevator just now? Or rather......

Qian Yu suddenly pressed against the wall, nervously looking at the first cloud of smoke that still showed no sign of thinning the slightest.

Kidd the Strange Thief just threw a few smoke bombs at the elevator door to divert his attention, but in fact he was still hiding in this cloud of smoke and preparing to attack him?

After a long time, the smoke created by the monster thief Kidd in the first place finally began to thin out after expanding to a third of the observation halls, and the auxiliary units finally began to be able to see the inside of the smoke. But by the time the auxiliary unit was able to barely see the other side through the thickest part of the smoke, there was still no one inside.

At the same time, Qianyu received a text message from Gray Yuan - the people who had just taken the elevator to the observation hall where Qianyu was all evacuated in the elevator with a car smoke, and there was no one more, no one less.

Could it be that Kidd the thief is in this cloud of smoke at the elevator doorway? Qian Yu refocused her gaze on the smoke from the elevator doorway.

Probably because of the presence in the corners, the smoke lasted a little longer than the previous one, but eventually began to dissipate. And when the smoke cleared, the scene in front of him was completely unexpected by Qianyu.

“！？” Only then did Chiba understand what the idea of the strange thief Kidd was fighting. "This guy ......"

…………

Time went back a few minutes to when Kidd the Monster Thief had just thrown out the smoke bomb.

Kidd knew that the kid in front of him might not be easy to deal with, and the pursuer might be about to escape in the elevator, so he had to find a way to get out of here immediately.

But it's hard to get out of here...... There's no three-dimensional structure to hide in here - if there were beams or something, you could consider it, but there are none here.

Not far away, there is a rest room used by the staff of the Tokyo Observatory to rest, but there is no way out, and once it is blocked, there is only a dead end.

Well, the only way might be to find a way to escape by that elevator.

But how do you escape? There must be a lot of people in the elevator, and it is impossible for them to mix in it.

Wait a minute, maybe ......

Kidd, the strange thief, pulled out a few more smoke bombs in his hand, and he also had a plan in mind.

Walking quickly to the edge of the smoke, Kidd the Monster Thief glanced through the thin smoke in the direction of the elevator, which was about to go up.

Kidd the Monster Thief immediately threw the smoke grenade in his hand in that direction, and then ran to the detonation point of the smoke grenade himself.

He didn't hear a very rapid run, which meant that the child was probably still in place out of caution, which meant that even if he ran out of smoke now, as long as the footsteps were soft enough, the child would not have noticed it. When Kidd ran to the elevator door, the smoke bomb had exploded, and a large amount of smoke enveloped him in an instant.

Next, it's who it seems...... If you want to be within the range of those who can change into the emergency costume items you have prepared......

Just as Kidd the Monster Thief prayed, the elevator doors opened. And the moment the elevator door opened, Qian Yu saw all the people coming inside.

Two of them seemed to be subordinate to the department that maintained order, one looked still a little dazed, and it seemed that the service staff who had just been pulled over to make up the numbers, Jiroji Suzuki, who was out of breath, and Kogoro Maori, who seemed to be still confused.

Among them, the waiter, who was quite dazed, stood at the outskirts of the elevator - looking like everyone else had entered the elevator and was forced into the elevator to cheer them on.

Probably brought all the men who could bring it? The elevator was far from being overloaded, but it was already carrying people who were not very capable of fighting.

So, thank you for the opportunity you have created for me!

Glad to think so, Kidd covered the mouth of the out-of-condition attendant and pulled him out of the elevator - the smoke had completely enveloped the elevator, and no one else in the elevator could see it.

After knocking the waiter unconscious, the thief Kidd immediately briefly embellished his clothes, changed his clothes into the clothes of the same department as this person, and then simply changed his makeup, making his face exactly the same as this person's face - this person's face model he had already learned through the intelligence work done by the housekeeper in advance, so he had prepared in advance to be able to disguise himself as this person's work. In just over a second, he had completely disguised himself into this person's appearance.

Placing the man in the smoke outside the elevator door, Kidd the Monster Thief disguised himself as the staff member and stood back in the elevator.

Thankfully, there were no officers among them, and if anyone with combat experience would have known that the smoke was made by himself, he had expected them to be in the elevator.

If Kidd the Monster Thief were to face this scene himself, he would have judged that he was at an intelligence disadvantage and the other party was at an intelligence advantage. The first action he will take is to feel the elevator door and walk out, and then rush in one direction at random - this will not let himself know where the other party is, but he will not know where he is, so that his intelligence disadvantage will be negated.

With a sigh of these "rookies" and a sigh of his own escape, the thief Kidd closed the elevator door and pressed the floor button of the elevator.

"Why did the elevator door close?" Jiroji Suzuki asked, as if sensing something was wrong.

"I don't know!" Kidd pretended to be Mori Kogoro's voice and said - Mori Kogoro was clearly still sober and not yet confident in his spirit.

"Huh?" Maori Kogoro was really a little confused, obviously he didn't react, and he obviously didn't say what he said just now.

"Forget it, let's go down first, the monster thief Kidd must be prepared on it, let's mobilize enough people before going up!" Jiroyoshi Suzuki said.

Thank you for giving me a way to live, merciful old man.

Kidd the Strange Thief was so glad.