The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan

"Huh? Why there?" Although he was asking, Xingchuan Hui had already started to take steps in the direction Tangze pointed.

No matter why, just follow the instructions first.

Seeing the two of them taking steps without thinking before asking questions, Tangze smiled and his steps became a little more brisk.

"Isn't it because Kenzo Masama likes to compare himself to Caesar? The English name July comes from the Julian in Caesar's name. As long as the current master of the palace is really the image of Caesar, then there is a high probability that the location of the mechanism or passage will be there Around July.”

Miyano Akemi nodded repeatedly, looking at Karasawa looking around with great interest, and said jokingly: "It sounds very reasonable. I said, if you give yourself the identity of a high school detective, wouldn't it be? You’re really interested in reasoning, right? You have a lot of fun solving puzzles.”

"I'm not, I don't have it, don't talk nonsense." Tangze started by denying Sanlian, "I am, well, it's like playing a game. If the progress is stuck because of a puzzle, I will be very good at solving it. Motivation. As for those fancy cases, please spare me."

Hoshikawa Teru and Miyano Akemi exchanged a look, and then nodded randomly without refuting him.

Just when he was a detective, he was in a state of having fun with his eyes shining...

"This is it...huh?"

With the visual aid of his "third eye", Tang Ze easily identified the location of the mechanism from the low wall covered with bushes. He stretched out his hand to grab the buckle on the ground, and followed his instincts to open the trap door upwards. .

Then, he was surprised to find that with his exertion, the door seemed to be activated, and several bright red thorn patterns suddenly appeared. The tingling sensation on his fingertips made him instinctively let go of the door knocker.

"Hiss..." After shaking his hands twice, Tang Ze frowned, "What is this?"

"Huh?" Xingchuan Hui also squatted down and reached out to touch the door panel, but it was also bounced off by the lines on it. "Do you mean it can't be opened? It feels like it is electrified."

"Although there are indeed many areas in the hall that appear weird due to distortion, this one seems to be more than just distortion." Tangze tentatively pulled the door open again, and opened his hand again as if he was warned.

...Hey, he still doesn’t believe him.

I've been wary of the Phantom Thief for so long, when did I ever get frustrated?

Tang Ze rolled up his sleeves and grabbed the copper ring on the door. He ignored the needle-like pain in his palm and lifted it up with all his strength.

There was a creaking sound from the door leaf, which opened slightly, and then the red thorns on the door surged like water, and the slightly opened door was pulled back hard, pulling Tang Ze who was struggling with the door knocker almost to the point Fall down.

"What the hell is this? It's gurgling." Tangze reached out and touched it again, searching his mind for anything similar to the situation he was looking for.

Rather than being unable to open the door itself, it looked more like something had added a seal to the door.

Is it the mechanism of this palace? Should I look around for monsters to kill? Gem crystal worms or something?

"Joker, if you look at it from this point of view," Miyano Akemi, who was standing a step behind them, said, "these lines look a bit like a squiggle, 'K'."

Rather than Karasawa, who was stuck in game strategy thinking, Miyano Akemi observed more about the phenomenon itself.

Having had a little exposure to cognitive science and a little exposure to different worlds, she was more nervous than Tang Ze who was relaxed.

As soon as she saw these strange things, her associations came to her almost instinctively.

"'K'?" Tang Ze rolled up his sleeves and was about to give himself some attack ups before trying again. After hearing this, he turned around while still squatting on the ground.

Before he could take a closer look, his long scarf swung with his movements, and happened to hit the thorn pattern on the door panel that was as bright red as blood.

There was a crisp sound of glass breaking, and the scarf around Tang Ze's neck also shone with light.

The curved thorn patterns on the ground fell off and separated after the cracking sound, and re-formed into a shape similar to a keyhole. The scarf suddenly tightened and penetrated into the keyhole on the ground. A friction sound like the rotation of gears came from deep in the door panel.

The gorgeous thorn pattern seemed to be swallowed up by the light emitted by the scarf, cracked, shrunk, and finally disappeared into the shadow of the scarf.

Unexpectedly, Tang Ze was pulled by the scarf that moved without authorization and fell to the ground. It was also dragged towards the center of the door panel.

The tightened fabric made him quickly reach out and grab the scarf, freeing up enough space to breathe, lest he become the first Persona user in history to be strangled by his own props.

"Cough, cough..." Touching his throat, Tang Ze stood up again and pulled up his scarf in surprise.

The scarf, which had turned back into soft fabric, was rolled up snugly in his hand. There was no trace of the look that he had been preparing to kill just a moment ago.

"Are you okay?" Xingchuan Hui grabbed Tang Ze's arm, made sure there was nothing wrong with him, and began to cast worried eyes on the scarf around his neck.

"...Is this scarf left to you by your uncle?" Looking at this series of changes, Miyano Akemi was surprised.

"I don't know either. It has appeared on me automatically since my ability awakened... I only thought it was part of my special ability at first." Tangze told the truth.

He tried to pull the scarf fabric twice, and the bright red scarf was stretched and rolled into a ball by him without any temper, without showing any abnormality.

The same thing happened last time in the Impression Space. It was inexplicably longer, and it was also when I encountered the "K" mark.

Do Tangze and his wife really have such great powers?

He studied for a while with a weird expression, and when he couldn't get an answer, he could only put down his anti-bone scarf for the time being and look at the trap door on the ground.

Holding the door knocker again, this time the door was pulled up with one hand without any hindrance.

"Anyway, the door is open." Looking at the dark entrance below, Tang Ze laughed to himself, "Go down first and forget about this."

What should he do? This is the equipment that comes with the initial number, and he has no choice.

The props of Er Wu Zai are also Er Wu Zai, which makes sense if you think about it carefully.

Compared to Karasawa, who is good at self-examination, his two teammates are more worried, especially Miyano Akemi, who deeply understands the meaning of the mark.

"Could this be related to the organization, joker?" She held the gun in her hand tightly and looked at the dark hole below, "This is a palace for members of the organization, and there is such a place that must be passed through. It’s hard to imagine that this has nothing to do with the organization.”

"It must have something to do with them." Tang Ze's answer didn't even include a question. "It's hard for me to explain why, but in short, I know that people who have a certain concept of cognitive world, if they have strong willpower, maybe they can Control your own palace to some extent.”

Here, Karasawa is referring to the interest group related to Shido Justice in the original Persona 5.

In the game, except for Shido and Okumura, the two figures in their interest group, the cognitive existence in other people's palaces is just like the cognitive existence of Karasawa in the Furuya Rei Palace where Karasawa was beaten into black mud. , is a pure empty shell.

In other words, they are just an extension of the memory and imagination of the palace owner, so they are called cognitive dolls.

But in the palaces of these two people, there were situations where cognitive beings shattered the powerful shadows stuffed inside.

Although there is no explanation in the game, when discussing the relevant settings, most people tend to think that it is because their mastery of cognitive knowledge allows them to invisibly enhance the defense capabilities of their palaces, which they use for protection. A means to build one's own palace.

"Does Masuyama Kenzo also know about the knowledge of cognition and even guard against people who 'change their minds'?" Miyano Akemi instinctively frowned and denied, "It's hard to imagine."

"More or less, he should know something. After all, he is the veteran of the organization. But when it comes to defense, it does not necessarily have to do with him." Stopping his divergent thoughts, Tang Ze first looked at the passage below. , "Stop guessing here. The real answer will be known when you enter the palace. Let's go."