"Game?" Shinichi's question was idle, but with an edge of curiousity to it.

"Who said," Shinichi purred, "That I'd kill them?" He hadn't killed Chikage, had he? But there was certainly some punishment to be doled out for being someone the thief would go to over him. "You know there's much worse things I could do than that."

He stiffened further, one hand curling slowly into a tight fist to stop himself from attacking the child indiscriminately. "If you had, you wouldn't be here trying to elicit informaiton from me," he managed to say without much emotion to his voice, though a low growl threatened to spill through his words. Nobody threatened his thief. Nobody hurt Kaito except him.