anyway now that KIDCo have become an iconic duo and KIDShin and KaiShin have both sort of met & strongly affected each other without knowing it was them (shinichi being the mysterious magician of light who almost caught KID & Kaito having enough raw animal magentism to fluster Shinichi) –
gosho pleaaaase let Kuroba Kaito meet Edogawa Conan at the most random crime scene ever and become an iconic duo pleaseee we need the shenanigans
! Goofy high school magician at some event or meetup with Aoko. And he sees that Cone is coincidentally also there and is like "ah. Time to exit stage left before he senses my prsence with his detective nose" but before he can convince aoko to leave with him ? KYAAAAAAAAAAA its a dead body! Also the victim was a magician and the Cone is alrd securing the crime scene! Panik! Eventually they team up to solve the murder (kaito with much reluctance and urging from aoko bc magic related murder)
And the insufferable duo potential of both of them is actually greater than with heishin bc heiji and conan can actually balance each other out meanwhile kaito and conan just continue escalating the clownery and leave no survivors.
Cone initially just finds him vaguely familiar until he affectionately calls him meitantei in that one specific tone of voice and Cone's head swivels 360° like an owl and zeroes in on him and kaito frantically slaps a hand over his mouth and drags him out of the room. They return after much blackmailing each other w promises of mutually assured destruction and are now besties (heiji sneezes and feels a chill go down his spine, immediately starts packing bags and booking tickets to go to tokyo)
I would have forgiven the cousin reveal if kuroba kaito and conan got to meet properly but noooo we leave important reveals for end credits smh
























