“Of course I will, Hakuba.” He grinned. “After all, this has to be one of the few times, if not the first time, KID has not appeared when he said he would.“
Now he’d have to do some misdirection. He would rather avoid breaking one of his detectives’ brains again (especially since he wasn’t there in-person) and not being sure of what happened himself would be interesting. “Well, detective, were you disappointed?"
It was nice, hearing his name spoken by Kaito, especially in confidence with the rather secret information that they were discussing.The question drew Hakuba out of that train of thought and he blinked.
"Disappointed? Of course. I always like watching you work. Though, admittedly, I really was mostly just worried.”
He wanted to go on, all about how he didn’t know what he’d do if he lost him, if something happened to him, etc, etc, so on, but Hakuba was fairly certain that it would be returned only with a ‘I’m invincible now’ and a ‘you worry too much,’ so he refrained.
“Sorry for all of the, ah, voicemails. I panicked.”