Phantom Thief of Heart!but conan

Chapter 918 Our Hall Yingyou
"…I don't know him. Why are you asking me that all of a sudden?"

Her heart was in her throat, and Mizuno Rena knew that this was the ultimate test for her.

I can't show any flaws in front of Kumail. I have to control every expression and every word...

The confusion and smile on her face were so natural and real.

"I seem to have heard of this name. Is he a friend of a detective out there? What's the matter? Is this your new prey or something? Why are you asking me?"

"I don't know him..." Tang Ze dragged out his tone, "It's good that you don't know him."

After saying that, he seemed to have lost interest, casually let go of his hand on her dressing chair, stood up again, and returned to the gentle mask that belonged to Goro Akechi.

"But I think you can still get to know him, or at least pay attention to him." Tang Ze shrugged, as if he was just saying it casually, "A kind reminder from a colleague."

Otherwise, one day you might suddenly see your brother and I walking side by side on the street acting like brothers and be so scared that your character would collapse on the spot.

"Well, if there's nothing else, you'll still be needed to wrap up the show outside. Come on, great host."

This is what it means to drive away guests.

Amid his seemingly gentle teasing, Mizunashi Reina stood up hesitantly, straightened her back and walked out.
Obviously, Tang Ze's vague words caused her a lot of psychological pressure. After leaving Mizunashi Rena, she would be in a state of panic for a few days.

"What are you doing?" After Mizunashi Rena had completely walked out, Amuro Toru couldn't help but cough twice, "If you scare her like this, she will be even more afraid to reveal her feelings to you."

"I just want her to be alert enough." Under the knowing gaze of Amuro Toru, who said "You are playing tricks on me again", Tang Ze cleared his throat and sat down on the empty chair again, "I was not joking just now."

As he spoke, he tapped his phone and showed a photo.

This is a very standard ID photo. The person in the middle of the photo is wearing glasses, looking straight ahead, with a clear and frank smile.

After observing for a while, Toru Amuro easily came to the conclusion.

"They look about 50% alike, especially the eyes. Who is he to Mizunashi Rena?"

"Brother." Tang Ze put away the phone and pushed the makeup chair. He moved closer to the makeup mirror and readjusted the mask on his face. "He is her only relative. I think it would be hard for her not to value him, right?"

As he spoke, he was still pulling at the mask in front of the mirror. The handsome young face was slightly deformed under his fingers, as if something lurking under the skin was wriggling and growing with his words.

It looks like the final boss.

"...Then where did you get the photo?" Amuro Toru looked at him sideways, feeling that the role he was playing now had inexplicably become Vodka.

Tang Ze adjusted his mask, turned his head, and looked back innocently: "What does it have to do with me? It's not me who is provoking her. It's her brother who is so upset that he wants to provoke me, okay?"

Amuro Toru thought about the scene he just saw for a while, with a strange expression on his face: "Is that the uniform he's wearing, Teitan's school uniform?"

The school uniform of Teitan High School is a typical Japanese high school uniform, with a blue jacket and a green tie. It is not ugly, but it is definitely not good-looking either. In terms of high EQ, it is a qualified high school for further studies.

Because of this, Teitan's school uniform is not particularly recognizable. Without the brand name and school emblem, it is easy to wear the same clothes as others.

So it was not until Tang Ze said this that Toru Amuro suddenly realized the origin of this photo.

"Yeah, this is the admission information of the new transfer student." Tang Ze shrugged and said casually, "It's not that I want to keep an eye on him. You know, no matter which side it is, they keep a close eye on our second-year B group."

Judy has left, but Shuichi Akai is still in Shibuya. The Phantom Thieves' attention is naturally focused on Teitan, and the public security and police will also pay attention to Karasawa's movements.

On the organization's side, Kumail's most important task is still not the work assigned to him by the organization or Bourbon, but to play the role of Tang Ze Zhao, and he will be extra careful.

A new transfer student will definitely be noticed by all parties at the first moment.

Amuro Toru stroked his chin thoughtfully: "So what you mean is that you want Kiel to notice this information and be more careful?"

"What I mean is..." Tang Ze stood up and said in a particularly villainous tone, "Tell her to be careful with her words and actions, and not fall in a strange place before she understands my intentions. I'm not interested in playing battle royale with Gin."

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"Oh - this is the new detective who joined Akechi's office..."

Hearing the exaggerated exclamation of Suzuki Sonoko beside him, Tang Ze distractedly raised his head from the mobile phone screen, turned around and saw the picture on her mobile phone.

It was nothing else but a special program that was successfully broadcasted after being streamlined by Rena Mizunashi, Karasawa, Toru Amuro and Nichimi TV, and in a completely misleading way.

In the picture, Nanatsuki Koshimizu, who is wearing sunglasses and headphones and sitting in a chair in a trance, has not changed into the JK school uniform yet and still maintains a neutral outfit. Although the soft outline of a feminine can be seen on her face, that kind of heroic spirit does make her look youthful.

"Indeed, but this is a girl." Mao Lilan also took a few glances and said curiously, "Sonoko, what are you calling?"

"She's a girl, but she's very cool, isn't she?" Suzuki Sonoko held up her phone and cupped her face. "As expected of Akechi's new colleague, she has a unique temperament."

"I don't understand the cause and effect of your words..." Conan, who was following them, twitched his mouth.

"After all, if Akechi-kun's target audience is just a beauty, it would be a bit too stereotypical. But an intellectual and heroic girl can also have a lot of female fans... Forget it, they are really a group of people who don't understand romance and beauty at all." Suzuki Sonoko shook her head.

Knowing what the whole variety show was about, Ran Maori looked at Conan helplessly.

This is not a question of beauty...

If there hadn't been wise intervention and the Phantom Thieves' rescue, according to Conan's judgment, Nanatsuki Koshimizu's determination for revenge would have far exceeded her sense of justice as a detective.

Only Tang Ze responded with two sentences: "I've seen this program too. Didn't someone say that there's a script or something, and the whole program is just a plan to launch a new screen idol detective..."

As they had expected, once the show was aired, public opinion moved in the other direction.

Originally, if this wasn’t a variety show, the news that Tokatsu Junya, as a detective, was suspected of causing many wrongful convictions due to his lack of professional skills would have more or less damaged the image of high school detectives, not to mention how much of a blow it would have been to the industry. Compared to adults, high school students as detectives have implicit labels such as “high IQ”, “high-profile image”, and “excellent elite”. People who can claim to be like this are easily favored by the public and the media.

After all, there are so many adults with rich work experience in the market. If a student can make a name for himself, it means that he must be better, more outstanding, and smarter than adults to be qualified for the role of a detective.

What held back Junya Tokatsu was relying on was precisely this preconceived perception of the public.

What is unfair is that he did not add much glory to the image of the high school detective, but it was inevitable that his image would collapse and his innocent colleagues would be implicated.

However, when this incident was fully recorded on camera, edited and rendered, and packaged into a sophisticated TV program for release to the public, everyone's attention would easily be drawn to other popular detectives appearing on the show, as well as the first appearance of Nanatsuki Koshimizu who joined the Amuro Agency, and the focus would suddenly shift.

"But the case on Shikoku Island did happen," Suzuki Sonoko corrected. "There are follow-up reports. The local police have changed the direction of the investigation after receiving a report from the program team..."

"Not only Shikoku Island, almost all cases related to Junya Tokitsu have been reinvestigated." Mao Lilan said seriously, "It's not a script. At least, the invitation Shinichi received is real and reliable."

As she spoke, she blinked quickly at Tang Ze, trying to show that her words were true and credible.

"Oh, so this program is true." Tang Ze made a surprised expression, "That is to say, after Akechi learned the truth of the case from Miss Koshimizu, he contacted the TV station and other detectives to cooperate with him to uncover the essence of the case. Is that true?"

"Uh..." After going through her inner logic, Mao Lilan, who was about to agree, got stuck.

Since the focus of the TV station's editing was no longer on the "detective showdown" but on the thrilling scene of anti-counterfeiting, the video footage was re-edited and reassembled in another form, which was also far from the actual situation.

The program production team cleverly used their post-match acceptance speeches as background music, and edited them behind some reasoning and personal close-ups, making it seem as if everyone more or less knew that Tokatsu Junya was up to something.

In order to increase the credibility of this performance, Karasawa also specially asked Nanatsuki Koshimizu to shoot some staged shots. The general idea is how the two people found the program crew, completed the preliminary investigation, and planned it. It is not very detailed, but it was edited into the main film as some supplements and interludes.

This tactic successfully deflected a lot of attacks from every detective participating in the show. No one thought that there was anything wrong with their behavior of "isolating" Tokitsu Junya, but it also blurred the real cause and effect from another perspective and concealed Koshimizu Nanatsuki's true purpose.

"...Anyway, that's what happened." Conan said dryly with his hands in his pockets, "Anyway, Tokatsu Junya did cause a lot of trouble, and Miss Koshimizu did come here to correct his mistakes."

As for more things...then everything is self-explanatory...

"Conan performed very well too." Ran Mouri patted his head.

"Ah, yes, many comments say that you, an elementary school student, are much better than Tokitsu Junya." Suzuki Sonoko also nodded.

"I don't think you're praising me." Conan showed a dead fish look of rejection.

Who isn't better than that guy?
"Also, it's a bit of a shame that Nanatsuki Koshimizu isn't a high school student." Suzuki Sonoko shifted her focus back to the phone screen. Looking at the close-up in the picture, she sighed, "It's not impossible for a college student detective to be like this..."

"Goro Akechi isn't a high school student either." Conan looked at her sideways.

"They are of different nature..." Suzuki Sonoko waved her hand disdainfully, too lazy to discuss the subtle aesthetic differences with the little brat.

Mao Lilan listened to their conversation, recalled the discussion on the Internet, and said slowly: "Well, but, he is not a high school detective, but he appeared as a high school detective. It seems that this is the main direction of Mr. Amuro's agency now..."

"Huh? What kind of tongue twister is this? Can this be used as a selling point?" Conan's eyelids jumped.

"It's really an interesting misunderstanding..."

As they were talking, they arrived at the traffic light intersection.

This is where the four people need to go their separate ways - Conan needs to turn around and go to Teitan Elementary School, while the three of them will go to Teitan High School.

Conan waved his hand habitually, tightened the bag on his back, turned around and raised his feet, and was about to leave when he was pushed back by a great force.

On the other side of the corner, a person who was running very fast for some unknown reason collided head-on with Conan.

Although the man was not strong, Conan, who was not as tall as the man, obviously could not knock him down.

"Wow--"

"Ah ah--"

"Be careful, Conan—"

Seeing that the small Conan was about to be knocked to the side of the road, Mao Lilan immediately bent down to rescue him. On the other side, Tang Ze reflexively reached out his hand to grab the person who rushed over inexplicably.

Soon, several people collided with each other and fell on the street corner.

"Hiss, it hurts--" Even with the cushioning of Mouri Ran, Conan still fell down. He reflexively grabbed his glasses and stared at the uninvited guest who bumped into him.

Suzuki Sonoko, who was forced to bump into him, felt a hand stroking up her shoes. She widened her eyes and slapped the other person on the arm without thinking.

"Where are you touching?!"

"S-sorry!" The boy who was groping around shouted even louder than her, "I didn't mean to do that. Where are my glasses..."

"I told you not to touch me!"

"It wasn't intentional, it wasn't intentional - ah -"

"Where did this reckless guy come from..." Mao Lilan also took a while to react, held her dizzy head, and sighed.

After steadying Mao Lilan, Tang Ze lowered his head and looked down at the confused boy. He looked at the iconic cat eyes on his face and smiled.

Here it comes, Rena Mizunoshi, are you scared?

(End of this chapter)