"Don't be sorry, ojou-sama. If it helped save your life, then I cannot disagree with the results." KID would disagree with the method used to ensure his help, but that issue was something he was going to take up with Kudo. He did not appreciate being blackmailed and still believed that the miniature detective owed him.

Their debts were even now? Hmph. Not likely.

"Secrets, intrigue and plots. This world is not much different then our own, is it?" KID's voice was somewhat musing, somewhat whimsical. He understood where she was coming from after all, he too had a 'they'. He had no doubt that if Snake and his cronies finally realized that Toichi Kuroba was truly dead, then they would set their sights on the next most obvious candidate for Kaitou KID - his son. KID knew beyond a doubt that his mother could take care of herself, Chikage was still the Phantom Lady after all, retired she might be, but that didn't keep him from worrying about Jii-chan, or about Nakamori-keibu, his classmates, hell, even Hakuba and Akako. And Aoko... Aoko hated KID with a passion, had no idea he was her best friend and if he, even inadvertently, did something that could cause her unimagined harm, it would devastate him. And he knew it.

"Did it work?"