The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan.

Of course, Hamano Toshiya did not want to agree to Karasawa's proposal.

He quickly exchanged glances with Tanaka Takahisa, and it was obvious that they both felt uneasy about this sudden change. However, although Tang Ze was joking, his reasons were very sufficient.

When it comes to gatherings, even if it is with familiar classmates, colleagues, or even close family members, all kinds of incidents can break out because of some old grudges. They are just a group of friends who met on the Internet. To say that there are no conflicts between them is too much trust in human nature.

Didn’t you see that they even agreed to the party registration for the Shadow Mage?

The assigned tasks were only small matters, but if any one of them was asked to do it, it would easily lead to misunderstandings if the person chosen was someone with whom they had a bad relationship...

Hamano Toshiya fell into an awkward silence, wanting to refute but having no reason to. The others came to their senses and agreed with Tang Ze's statement, and the matter was settled.

"Well, OK, I'll write everyone's name." Tang Ze pulled out a pen from his commuter bag, uncapped it, and looked meaningfully at Hamano Toshiya who suggested playing tricks, "We are not your members, so we shouldn't be the acting chairman, right? Then I'll just write everyone's online names. As for the task, besides the acting chairman who is responsible for coordinating matters, what else is there?"

Hearing this, Hamano Toshiya instinctively said his original plan: "...choose an acting chairman, and then add a banquet director for the evening event. Finally, set up a punishment option and choose someone to be responsible for burning the boiler and preparing tonight's bath water."

"Hey, I haven't heard of this beforehand!" Kuroda Naoko raised her eyebrows, "Why is there a punishment option? Besides, I thought the assigned tasks would be something more specific..."

"Adding a punishment option is actually nothing, but what does the banquet director do?" Huang Yizhe touched his chin.

"After all, the chairman is not here. The biggest attraction of our show is gone. Someone has to prepare a beautiful finale tonight to make the atmosphere better, right?" Hamano Toshiya, who was well prepared, said calmly, "Just treat the penalty as part of the game. Since we have to try our luck, there should be lucky people and unlucky people, right?"

"In that case, there are too few punishment items." Tang Ze raised his eyebrows, picked up the pen and quickly wrote several lines. Before the people next to him came over to take a look, he deftly tore the paper and folded it into neat small squares.

"Hey, little brother, you can't take this opportunity to tease us." Feeling that something was wrong, Tanaka Takahisa's eyebrows jumped, and she barely controlled her expression. "Appropriate teasing can be used as a prize, but if it's too much, we won't let you control us."

"Don't worry, it won't go beyond the scope of Mr. Sukama's job." Tang Ze shrugged with a smile, "Now, I will give these slips of paper with the tasks to Ran, and the slips of paper with the names to Sonoko. There are five tasks in total. Draw five names and put them together with the tasks one by one..."

While he was speaking, Suzuki Sonoko had already taken out a piece of paper.

There are only 6 people actually present at the forum today. If there are five tasks, then we only need to eliminate one person who is not assigned a task, and the rest of the people will get their tasks.

After she finished drawing, she simply opened the note in her hand, unfolded it, and immediately laughed: "'Disciple of the Magician', it seems that I... Ahem, Mr. Amuro, can enjoy the show tonight!"

She showed the words on the note to others and made a scissors hand gesture happily.

At present, other people don’t quite know that she is actually the disciple of the magic user, but this does not prevent her from being in a good mood. After all, this kind of good luck rarely happens to her.

"You're lucky..." Tang Ze glanced at Toru Amuro, who was holding his chin with a thoughtful expression, and also looked at Conan, who was intact and showed no signs of illness.

In the original plot development, the reason why the real murderer was able to complete the plan so smoothly, in addition to the advance preparations, there was another important condition, that is, the perceptive detective boy braved the heavy snow to rescue his sweetheart and had a high fever. He had no chance to notice when the murderer was carrying out his plan. Moreover, Kuroba Kaito, who had a vague premonition of the murderer's purpose, lacked the nerve to commit murder, so everything happened by accident.

Now, after his disruption, the course of the story is bound to change drastically. Whether those who were given a bye are lucky or unlucky depends on what fate will do next.

He turned his gaze to Mao Lilan.

Mao Lilan looked to the left and right, tentatively grabbed one each, and opened them at the same time.

"Oh, 'The Ventriloquist of Taciturn', the mission is, 'clean up the dishes tonight'."

"Uh, let me wash the dishes..." Huang Yi was stunned for a moment, a little bit amused, and soon he breathed a sigh of relief, "There is actually a semi-automatic dishwasher in the villa."

"A mission is a mission. We won't deliberately make things difficult for people just because we need to add penalties." Tang Ze laughed. "It won't exceed Mr. Sukama Kiyohiro's job scope, right?"

Mao Lilan was relieved to see that the person she chose accepted the task she selected and did not show any dissatisfaction. She quickly chose the next option: "'Phantom', the task is, 'to be everyone's performance assistant at the banquet'."

"Huh? Wait a minute..." Kuroda Naoko adjusted her glasses, "Isn't it certain that everyone's performances will require assistants? And if that's the case, then what about my performance..."

The magician's assistant, as the person who needs to cooperate with the magician's performance and stands closest to the magician, must have some understanding of the performance process and real techniques of magic.

Playing the role of everyone's assistant, she needs to remember the performance information given by everyone. Although it is indeed busy, it also means that she has the opportunity to learn the truth about everyone's magic techniques. For magic lovers, it is actually a good position.

It's a little bad, but also a little good. It's something that has both advantages and disadvantages, unbiased, so she complained a few words but her tone was not very resistant.

"If you need an assistant for your performance, why don't you pick one of us to help you? Don't worry, we will keep it a secret." Tang Ze responded to her protest calmly, and at the same time his eyes drifted towards Tanaka Takahisa.

Tanaka Takahisa didn't notice his gaze, and Tangze guessed that she must be sweating now.

To the chosen person, this mission is only a part of the game, but to the murderer, it means the existence of a person who may have to keep in touch and communicate with everyone, and move back and forth throughout the building. The difficulty of setting up a complex mechanism without leaving any trace and then retracting it without attracting attention increases exponentially.

Mao Lilan, who was completely clueless, continued to reach for the next note: "'Banquet Minister', um, 'Red Herring'. Does this mean that we are going to prepare a grand finale as we said before?"

Since there were no detailed instructions written down this time, she raised her head and looked at Tang Ze who was arranging the tasks.

"Yes, this position is undoubtedly the big star tonight, so this must be a reward, right?" Tang Ze looked at Kuroba Kaito.

Kuroba Kaito glanced at the grinning Karasawa and said slowly, "That's no problem. I've practiced acting before. But classmate, your name is Karasawa, right? I hope you can be my assistant. Ms. Kuroda is a woman, and I'm afraid my performance may cause unnecessary misunderstandings."

According to his understanding of Tang Ze, this guy Tang Ze basically acts with a strong purpose. He suddenly interferes with the game and even arranges tasks without authorization. With just a few words, he seems to be controlling the whole situation. Doing this means that this game has a major impact on his plan, or the events that may happen here.

How could he believe that Tang Ze hadn't done anything wrong?

If he doesn't retaliate a little and fight back, he wouldn't be Kaito Kidd.

"No problem, no problem." Tang Ze agreed readily, without any fear.

Revenge is revenge, he doesn't believe that Kuroba Kaito can make any request that will embarrass him. As everyone knows, as long as I am not embarrassed, others will be embarrassed, and when it comes to the level of resistance to embarrassment, the Onion Man is not afraid.

Hamano Toshiya shrugged.

This is actually not much different from the list he had prepared in advance. If it was carried out according to the original plan, it would have been a successful performance even without an insider. It's a pity that he didn't get the opportunity to show off his "mind-reading skills".

Tanaka Takahisa's eyebrows were almost tied into a knot.

"Well, next is 'The Disappearance of Tiffany'." After taking out the next one, Mouri Ran looked at the task note, hesitated for a moment, and glanced at Hamano Toshiya.

"What's wrong? Is my mission very difficult?" Hamano Toshi didn't care and even winked, which he thought was handsome. "Little sister, speak boldly. No matter how difficult the mission is, it is fate's arrangement. I won't blame you."

He thought that the other party's expression was because the little sister had a good impression of him, so she was only worried when his mission was announced. He was still secretly complacent when Mao Lilan had already hummed and read out the contents of the note.

"Write a 2k word review for each show tonight."

"...Ah?" Hamano Toshiya's expression suddenly froze. "Didn't you say that it doesn't exceed the scope of the assistant's job?"

While his face was filled with shock, the people around him who knew his normal speaking style couldn't help but start laughing.

The disappeared Tani, aka Hamano Toshiya, is a well-known troll in this group. He has a very bad mouth. Plus, he can be considered half an insider in the industry. When he comments on other people's magic, he is very knowledgeable. It is no exaggeration to say that he is a keyboard warrior.

Asking him to write a complimenting essay for others, especially for a group of amateurs, and each essay must be 2 words, is almost the same as asking him to die.

Tang Ze spread his hands innocently: "It's indeed not the job of an assistant, but this is the job of the chairman, right? When chatting before dinner, Mr. Ara Yoshinori mentioned that you should publish the records and thoughts of this event on SNS after the party. This was originally the responsibility of the absent chairman, the escaped king. Now that the other party is not here, he is racking his brains to figure out how to solve this problem. Why, didn't you say that we need to elect an acting chairman?"

"I..." Hamano Toshiya looked at Tang Ze's innocent expression, then looked at the thin piece of paper pinched in Mao Li Ran's slender fingers, and could only hold back his anger in his heart.

The mission was so specific and precise that it felt like it was targeting him.

But neither Tang Ze nor Mao Li Ran are members of the group, and they actually don’t know his status on the Internet. Not to mention that the people who wrote the tasks and drew the lots were really randomly selected at will, and there was no trace of targeting him at all.

"...I'll write it." Under the gazes of so many people, Hamano Toshiya could only grit his teeth and agree, "I'll write it after I get back, is that okay?"

"Are you trying to run away? I say, Tiffany, this really lacks your spirit." Kuroda Naoko raised her chin and spoke in a joking tone, obviously enjoying watching the fun.

Anyway, it wasn't written by her. Seeing that Hamano Toshi, who speaks like a mean girl, also has to write a soft article for everyone, she almost applauded the two kids who wrote the assignments and drew lots.

Maybe this is God's punishment for being too talkative, I deserve it.

"I, of course I will finish it..." Hamano Toshiya gritted his teeth and tried to straighten his chest and head, "I admit defeat, of course I will."

Naoko Kuroda, who had never won an online argument, turned around with a proud look and looked at Takahisa Tanaka: "That leaves only one. Let's light the boiler and prepare the bath water, right?"

"No problem." Tanaka Takahisa relaxed her breath a little and curled her lips slightly, "Tiffany said she would accept the loss..."

Over there, with only two slips of paper left in her hand, Mao Lilan had already opened them for the sake of finishing the whole thing, and then muttered in confusion: "'Prepare the bath water and finish your performance', uh, um, 'Shadow Mage'?"

“What…!” Tanaka Takahisa’s face suddenly changed.

Everyone first looked at the paper in Mao Lilan's hand, and then looked at Tang Ze who was responsible for writing the content.

Their eyes were mostly filled with confusion, except for Tanaka Takahisa, who had a look of shock and was still trembling uncontrollably, as if he was feeling unprecedented fear at these words.

After taking in their reactions, Tang Ze casually took the note from Mao Lilan's hand: "Ah, isn't the last person a shadow mage? Sorry, sorry, I'm not one of you, so I don't remember it very clearly. I heard you guys keep talking about shadow mage, shadow mage... In that case, please change it."

He picked up the pen again, drew a line through the Shadow Mage's name, and then wrote "Fraud Boy" above it.

I don’t know if it was intentional, but the two lines he drew were extremely neat and completely parallel to the text, while the words “Fraudulent Boy” were exactly the same length as “Shadow Mage”.

This doesn't look like correcting an error at all, but rather like adding extra notes to the Shadow Mage.

Tanaka Takahisa, who felt her heart skipping a beat, said: "..."

The task was indeed randomly drawn by the girl, but the name was not. The name was written down word by word by this guy.

He said that he didn't remember his online name, but now he wrote the words "Fraud Boy" without hesitation. However, the reason he provided was indeed reasonable, and he, a freeloader who had nothing to do with the party, had no reason to target her...

Did this person do this on purpose?!