The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan

In the afternoon, just before Karasawa was attacked, she was the only witness and the only one who was still awake.

So she had more time to slowly recall everything that happened in those short minutes or two.

As the saying goes, a wise man will always lose something, and a fool will always gain something. After dinner, after seeing the body of Teacher Sugiyama, she really figured out something very wrong.

Suzuki Sonoko is indeed a bit arrogant and will blurt out many issues without thinking and say some off-line things, but this does not mean that she is really stupid.

Someone seemed to have collapsed in the room. Although the villa was large, it was not so empty that no one could be called.

It was more intuitive and safer for the two of them to walk in together, check the situation of the fallen person, and shout for help.

What was discovered later coincided with her guess.

If Karasawa hadn't arrived by chance and sent her to ask for help from others, then the person who walked into the room unsuspectingly would have been her.

If her guess comes true and Teacher Yonehara is the murderer in this case, then she who walks into the room will replace Karasawa and become the innocent person who was attacked, and will also become her most favorable alibi.

The more he thought about it, the more Suzuki Sonoko could recall what was wrong. Thinking of what they saw after they opened the door again, he slowly came up with the most impossible guess.

Karasawa, who stayed with people all day long, could never be the murderer. So, who is the murderer?

"Another person died." Suzuki Sonoko said, unable to control the sobs in her throat, "It's Teacher Shimoda, he's also dead. Karasawa-kun, I..."

After saying a few words, Suzuki Sonoko, who didn't know how to express her complicated feelings, fell silent again.

What should she say? Should we ask Karasawa if he discovered the same thing? Should I tell him that I want to stop him, but I don’t know why?

So what kind of answer does she want to get? Does she want to hear the dry comfort of "you have done a good job", or does she want Tangze to show that he can't do anything and draw some limited comfort from it?

I didn’t expect that this rough girl would be so sharp this time...

Maybe it was because the person was her favorite teacher that she discovered it so quickly.

Sighing secretly in his heart, Tang Ze became more serious.

He intervened and replaced Suzuki Sonoko, who would have been injured, out of good intentions, but it would be bad for others to become autistic.

"...Did you also find out?" Karasawa sat up straight, looked at Suzuki Sonoko, and sighed, "When I arrived at the villa in the afternoon, I found out something from Teacher Nakamura about the man who committed suicide three years ago. of the dead child.”

"Is that related to Mr. Yonehara?" Suzuki Sonoko gritted her teeth and reluctantly asked.

"I have to say something relevant, because she is the child's class teacher. The child in the class 'committed suicide'. There are many unfavorable rumors about her among the students and the school. It is true." Tang Ze shook his head. , "Teacher Nakamura said that Teacher Yonehara seemed to know something inside, and he blamed himself very much for it... I then tested the voices of the other two people."

Tang Ze did not make things out of thin air. What he said was indeed information he got from several people.

For him who is fully five-dimensional, it is just some simple words and insinuations. Even if he does not use the power of golden fingers, this is a required course for intelligence officers.

"I think that child's death must not be as simple as suicide." Karasawa said with certainty, "As her class teacher, Teacher Mihara, who had the most contact with her, must have some vague idea of ​​who killed her. Speculation.”

"...That's why she said that." Without questioning why Karasawa could come up with such detailed investigation results in such a short period of time, Suzuki Sonoko suddenly realized and raised her hand to wipe her tear-stained face.

When she met Teacher Yonehara today, Suzuki Sonoko saw the long-lost, gentle and tolerant temperament on her face, like a mother who could confide all her worries to her.

Such a gentle teacher Yonehara, if she embarks on this road of no return, then there must be some reasons behind her thinking that she has to do this.

Of course, as the reasoning madman said, nothing can be a reason to kill... But she couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief when she heard the possible motives of Mihara Koko from Karasawa.

Teacher Yonehara, even if Teacher Yonehara committed an unforgivable sin, is still the teacher she has always loved and admired, Suzuki Sonoko believed this.

"What's that child's name?" After two seconds of silence, Suzuki Sonoko asked.

"Mochizuki Minako." Karasawa replied.

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"We are indeed all sorry about Minako." Under the very oppressive eyes of Toru Amuro and Shuichi Akai, Ryuichi Sakai couldn't resist and said truthfully, "But this is not our fault!"

"Is this how you defended yourself to the officials who came to inquire three years ago?" Sentonshi sneered disdainfully. "You are the consultant of the volleyball club she joins and the instructor who has frequent contact with her. You Do you want to say that I have no responsibility for her hanging in the volleyball club activity room?"

Sakai Ryuichi trembled, gritted his teeth, and lowered his head again.

"And you, Ms. Nakamura, you could have stopped her, no matter what the reason for her suicide." Seeing that he had stopped talking, Sentoshi turned his fire to the next person, "She is the health committee member, and you are responsible for I met the health teacher in their class, you are very familiar with her, right?"

Nakamura Minori bit her lip and also looked away.

"Oh, of course I can't forget you, Teacher Yonehara." Atsushi Mori looked at the last person, "You were her class teacher. At the time of the incident, everyone thought you were unshirkable responsible for her death, and you suffered a lot for it. It’s a criticism, isn’t it? That’s why the murderer chose to start with you.”

Yonehara Koko pursed her lips and stared at the twisted body of Shimoda Kohei without answering.

"Hmph, it looks like things won't end here." After completing a round of attacks, Sentonshi looked a little satisfied, took out a cigarette from the cigarette case on his chest, and lit it leisurely.

Then, he was taken away again by Akai Shuichi on the side.

"Don't pollute the scene, otherwise even if you are a reporter, you will still have to go to court to respond." Giving him a contemptuous look, Toru Amuro turned to the other people present, "Anyway, the others have been staying in the living room on the first floor and have not left. Passing each other's sight, the three of you are the ones who have the chance to step onto the second floor, right?"

"There is only one staircase going up and down on the second floor. After the incident, no one came down from the second floor. This kid named Conan can prove this... huh?" Akai Shuichi pointed out Conan as a witness. Turning around, he found that the primary school student who had entered and exited the scene had disappeared.

He looked around and soon spotted the shadow of half a primary school student on the window sill at the end of the corridor.

It's really only half, the other half has already stepped out.

"Hey! This is very dangerous!" Before Conan completely jumped out of the window, Akai Hide quickly grabbed the hood of his sweater and dragged him back from the window. "Even if this is only the second floor, you can't directly Jump down!"

He learned something about this child's uniqueness from Tangze's vague words, and through the investigation of Belmode, he vaguely sensed his identity...

But this does not hinder the fact that he is only a first-grade primary school student now!

It is normal for such a young child to break his arms and legs if he falls from such a height.

"Well, there's something there!" Conan fumbled twice in his hand and struggled to no avail, so he could only point to the window he pushed open. "There's something floating outside. I want to go down and take a look... …”

"Let me take a look." Putting the elementary school student in his hand on the ground, Akai Shuichi leaned forward and took a look. With his outstanding eyesight, he immediately saw what Conan was pointing to. "There is indeed something..."

"I'm going to take a look outside." Toru Amuro, who also walked over, glanced at Iwai Munehisa who had his upper body stretched out, resisted the inexplicable urge to just throw him out of the window, turned around and strode downstairs. Go.

In addition to finding out what they were referring to, he also had to go to Tangze to settle the score.

After roughly understanding the ins and outs of the case, Toru Amuro clenched his fists.

No wonder this kid Tang Ze pretended to be faint!

Why was he being attacked? He was afraid that he was put down on purpose because the attacker was Mr. Mihara.

Among them, only Tang Ze himself knows how much role the organization's surveillance played, and how much was out of sympathy for the murderer and simply slept away.

After careful calculation, this may not be the first time for Tang Ze.

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"This is the first time that I came to a conclusion on my own when I encountered a murder case. I didn't need to wait for the detective or the police to answer my questions...but it was because of this reason." Suzuki Sonoko hugged her knees and curled up. He looked a little fragile, "Why? Why didn't the bad guys get the punishment they deserve, but the good guys went to the point of no return and made the most extreme choice."

Whether she is a detective or a criminal police officer, maybe she is almost desensitized because she has been exposed to it too much.

It's just those things that are generally inseparable from grudges, entanglements of interests, and the backside of some human nature is undoubtedly revealed in the cases...

Therefore, she has never been interested in these murder cases. As soon as she thinks about the information that may be behind the case, she will even resist thinking about it deeply, and she will feel a sense of fear of being wrapped up in negative energy.

However, many things don’t really exist unless they pretend to be invisible.

When you are in it, especially when the murderer becomes someone you know and love, you will have to make a difficult and painful choice...

"Because justice has not been implemented." Karasawa's voice was calm and steady, with a unique sense of rhythm. "Since coming to Tokyo, I have been exposed to many cases. Some of them are indeed a moment of righteous indignation. The situation has developed into an uncontrollable situation, but there are also examples like Mr. Yonehara.

"If the truth about Minako's death could have been discovered three years ago, or if her relatives and friends were willing to cling to this matter instead of accepting the school's solution...then things would have had another outcome."

Although part of it was to comfort Suzuki Sonoko, Karasawa's emotion was indeed from the heart.

As a spoiler with preconceived opinions and judgments, Tang Ze is more sympathetic to the murderer in many cases.

For example, he brought back Sayama Akiko who was supposed to kill Ewara Tokio, and Asai Narumi who was simply pulled into the Phantom Thieves by him...

In Tang Ze's view, the fact that they would develop to such an extreme level is a shortcoming of the judicial system.

Justice that could not find a way out, in another form, irrevocably caused the dam to burst. This was the beginning of the tragedy. The cause had already been determined, and it could not be changed by a few words now.

"This is what detectives are about, Sonoko-san." Karasawa reached out and patted Suzuki Sonoko's slumped shoulder, "Although the tragedy has happened and cannot be undone, solving the mystery of the case is only the aftermath... But 'making things right after it has been done' has not been done. It's too late. It's the most important thing not to let this kind of shortcomings continue to circulate."

"Yes, if there could have been a detective three years ago, like that reasoning madman, he could stand up and solve everything..." Suzuki Sonoko breathed out regretfully, turned around, and glanced at Karasawa in surprise, "Should you He must be that guy's lobbyist or something, damn, what you said makes me admire Kudo a little bit, he is obviously just a childish ghost who can't move when he encounters a puzzle."

"If you say that, Kudo-kun won't be convinced." Seeing her regain her energy, Karasawa smiled, "There is a reason why detectives are so popular, right?"

"They are popular, isn't it because the police can't solve these problems?" Suzuki Sonoko laughed, her expression finally getting rid of the gloom, "Thank you, I'm much better."

"It's not all to comfort you. This is indeed my idea." Shaking his head, Tangze said that he was not making it up just to say nice things.

"Anyway, you are right." Suzuki Sonoko tilted her head, her expression became more serious, "Then, what can I do for them?"

"them?"

"Well, people like Mr. Yonehara...what can I do for them?" Suzuki Sonoko asked seriously, "I suddenly understand the thoughts of the Phantom Thieves of the Heart. Maybe they have experienced many similar scenes. ...I don’t like reasoning either, and I can’t be a detective or anything like that, but I sincerely hope that the teacher doesn’t have to take such a path.”

"...It's already good that you can have such an idea." Karasawa smiled, "And I guarantee that what you can do may be more powerful than the detectives and the Phantom Thieves of the Heart. .”

"Ah?" Suzuki Sonoko, who had received such high praise, was stunned and couldn't react, "Isn't it too exaggerated?"

"Whether it's a detective or the Phantom Thief of the Heart, after all, they are just individuals and a small number of groups. But Sonoko, you are the daughter of the Suzuki family. You will become the captain of tens of thousands of people in the future. The resources you can mobilize are beyond your control. Imagine.”

Tang Ze looked at her seriously, without any hint of joking.

"As long as you can still remember your current mood and keep this heart in mind, you will definitely be able to do a lot.

“Sponsor relevant departments to establish investigation teams for backlogged and important cases, establish victim assistance funds, or provide legal aid to civilians...

"This is not something that can be achieved through one's own efforts, but with your words, maybe it can be done."

Suzuki Sonoko was stunned for a while by his series of nouns and long speech, and it took a while for Suzuki Sonoko to come back to her senses and stare blankly at Karasawa's non-joking expression: "What you said seems to be very feasible... "

"I'm not kidding. Your sister has married and changed her surname, and you are now almost the only heir to the Suzuki family." Karasawa spread his hands.

"It's amazing... As expected of you, Karasawa." Suzuki Sonoko turned around and looked at the flames in the fireplace again. The soft flames reflected in her eyes, like a pair of bright sparks, "Okay! It's decided, I I have to give it a try, try the method you mentioned, there are other ways, I will go back and ask dad...I will definitely be able to do something for them, right?"

The moment a smile broke out on her face, a familiar voice rang in Tangze's ears.

"I am you...you are me..."

"You are here to gain a new contract."

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【cooperation Suzuki Sonoko】

[Arcana: Star rank1]

[As an eldest lady who seems to lack self-thinking and whose only brain circuits are reserved for friends and love, Suzuki Sonoko seems to always be able to confirm that sentence——

Whatever a person gains, he loses something, just like she gained a lot of money, so she lost her worries.

However, after the teasing, when you really come into contact with her and become familiar with her, you will find that her indomitable hope and confidence are a passionate wind and a blazing fire, something that everyone wants to cherish and sincere friends. 】

[Acquired ability "A Thousand Gold Surplus" (the amount of money obtained in all scenarios increases)]

Tang Ze, who had a relatively calm expression at first, couldn't help but tighten his grip on the blanket when he heard the last part, and his expression suddenly became vivid.

ah? All scenes?

In other words, there is a bonus not only when playing shadows, but also when destroying organization gold coins? !

Is there such a good thing? ! This is so awesome!

What is this called? This is the real thing, "As long as you are my friend, you will live a life of prosperity and wealth, and have no worries about food and clothing"!

Before Tang Ze, whose expression instantly brightened, could say anything, a black hand (physical meaning) stretched out from behind and grabbed Tang Ze's collar.

"Have you had a great time discussing it, kids?" Toru Amuro came over with a smile, "I seem to have heard someone say something about the meaning of detective? If you can understand it, that's great. Mr. Detective needs a helper now, please be kind. A high school student wouldn’t say no, right?”