After a while, Akako tuned in her finer witch senses, just out of curiosity. She found something. It wasn't clear, but there was definitely power around the boy, but not of his own. Fellow witches or wizards didn't show in another's mirror. No, this force was something else.
Powerful, but not threatening Akako decided to drop the whole thing since it wasn't dangerous. However, even though she decided not to, the next thing she knew she was looking through his family files. With the knowledge she had currently she instantly drew up a conclusion when studying his parents: his father was the original Kaitou Kid. The fading kind face stared up at her from the stolen file. Fading, but familiar.
'Could it be…?' she shook her head and put away the file. 'If he was…then Kaito would be…' she summoned up her broom and flew out the open window. 'There's no way…' Her breath faltered. There was a way.
Akako faintly smiled as she walked on, recalling the memory. All that research, all that thinking. The one, small fact that, completely unbelievable, turned out to be the truth. Kuroba Toichi had been a wizard. So powerful was he, that even after death, he watches over his son in spirit form. Her magic assaults were always foiled by small indiscreet spells, nature's magic, but she knew it was just a dead man. She chuckled at the thought. How believable was that?
The door to her home creaked open and her servant hobbled up to her. Taking her coat he uttered the usual compliment of the day, "Miss Akako, this house had dimmed without your beauty." Sighing she waved off the words. But then the servant spoke up again, a different tone to his voice. "Mistress, there is something you need to attend to soon."