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There is, in a hallway, a small child. He looks to be about seven years old. He looks to be a Kaito. He also looks rather confused and lost and startled.

He isn't going to introduce himself as Kuroba Kaito though, and he isn't going to be performing any magic tricks for you.

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"Then how can you let her think that?!"

"'Cause I don't want her dead."

"Because of the Black Organization?!"

"Yeah."

"Do you really have so little faith in Aoko?!"

"Maybe I just want to keep her safe."

Calm, Poker Face.

"Bakaito!" Aoko snapped angrily, glaring at him. "Aoko would rather be in danger than to think you're dead!"

"And I'd rather she think I was dead than for her to actually be dead."

"So you really don't trust her?"

"You're not that good of an actress."

There's not even annoyance in his tone, just calm distance.

"There's not a lot of acting involved. The worry for you will be enough it won't be hard to make it a little worse to seem in mourning."

"I don't want her involved at all."

"Baka! She's your best friend!" Aoko snapped. "She's supposed to try and help you when things are bad!"

Sorry Aoko, you're not breaking this Poker Face. "She's safer if she doesn't know about it."

"Yeah, my Kaito thought that too. Now I'm almost eight hundred."

"It's an entirely different situation."

"Can you be so sure about that?"

"Yeah."

"Aoko thinks you died in a terrorist attack, right?"

"Aoko thinks I'm dead, and the Organization doesn't realise I was KID. They know KID's still alive though."

Aoko sighed and shook her head. "Think, baka. If Aoko thinks someone is behind your death, she'll want to know the truth. There's still a chance she'll chase Kid like I did and get in trouble too. In fact, she might be more likely too if she doesn't try to find out who killed you to distract herself."

"It was a terrorist attack, totally indiscriminate. I've only been able to pull off one heist since this happened, an emergency appearance because someone sent out a note in my name. Just enough to let the world know KID's still alive."

"It doesn't matter if it was indiscriminate. There's a person to blame," Aoko said. "And that still doesn't keep Aoko from possibly getting involved."

"It's all been taken care of. There's no way she'll get involved."

"How have you done that?"