The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan

The keyword "jewel" successfully captured Kuroba Kaito's full attention.

He suddenly sat up straight from his somewhat lazy sitting position, staring intently at the small opaque box on the table, and then raised his eyes to take a closer look at the expression on Tang Ze's face.

"Last time, I wanted to ask you when I saw them mention it." Without reaching out to touch the box directly, he asked first, "How did you know that I was looking for a special gem? of?"

In addition to this question, Kuroba Kaito actually has many other similar questions, and he has wanted to ask them for a long time.

About how he knew his true identity, whether he knew his father, and how the person "Tang Zezhao" became a "joker".

Although he inherited the mantle of Kuroba Toichi and continued to act as Kaito Kid, but as to the truth about his father's disappearance and the few words he left behind, someone was "hunting" for them, Kuroba Kaito has been I didn't find out much about it, I just knew that like him, there were more than one organizations targeting special gems and X alloys.

In the darkness, beneath the surface of calm and comfortable daily life, some hidden forces were chasing the same thing. Such a fact would occasionally send chills down his spine.

Therefore, after the joker revealed the identity of "Black Feather", he was on guard for a long time because he couldn't tell whether the opponent was friend or foe.

However, the behavior of the Phantom Thief of Heart is really not like those people...

Tang Ze dragged the coffee at his hand to the middle, stirred it slowly, and thought about where he should start.

Just like Karasawa told Noah before, he believes that Kuroba Kaito, who has a relatively special status, is rare. He has not joined the Phantom Thieves, but he does not have to shy away from telling him his true identity.

Especially after it was discovered that he had collected X-alloy, it was almost certain that the Kuroba family had some connection with Cognitive Hexue.

But how much does Kidd know now, about the so-called "magic"...

"I think I'm not the first person you've ever met who knows about 'X Alloy', but it's strange that you seem to have never heard of the word cognitive science." Tang Ze pinched the handle of the quilt and said, He brought the coffee to his lips and covered his lips, "Are you looking for 'Pandora'?"

Kuroba Kaito immediately moved away from observing the small box, his eyes glaringly meeting Karasawa's blue eyes above the rim of the cup.

"Where did you hear this word?" Seemingly realizing that the conversation was reaching a critical point, Kuroba Kaito clasped his hands and also covered his mouth, "Can you tell me? This is important to me. It’s important to say.”

"Actually, he didn't take the initiative to tell me... because we haven't seen each other for many years." Tang Ze took a sip of hot coffee, swallowed the next words into his throat, and whispered vaguely, "This word is My father, Karasawa Ikawa mentioned it.”

To be more precise, this is what Haihara Ai told Tang Ze, which will connect them, and it is also the relationship between Tang Ze's possession of super travel information.

As a theory that is not yet systematic, there are too many Riddler concepts in Cognitive Hexology. In addition, with Karasawa Ikawa's speaking style, Haibara Ai is not sure whether it is something that actually exists. , or some metaphor or something...

But anyway, since Tang Ze asked about the X-alloy that made up the brooch, she told her exact words.

"You are actually the second-generation Kaitou Kid. Your predecessor should be the father you mentioned, Kuroba Toichi, who died in an accident 8 years ago." Karasawa blinked and was suffocated by the heat of the coffee. With blurry eyes, he recounted one by one, "Coincidentally, I recovered from autism 8 years ago. It was also because of this that my parents' research attracted covetousness and attention. Since then, they have been They were imprisoned and we rarely saw each other again until they were killed a few months ago..."

Although he had investigated Karasawa's situation, Kuroba Kaito, who had never heard this paragraph before, was stunned.

He knew that Tang Ze and his wife had passed away, but the fact that Tang Ze's parents might be related to his missing father was beyond his expectation.

Tang Ze did not have much emotional fluctuations because of this description. He just closed his eyes and continued: "My brooch was the material my parents were looking for specifically to treat me. He explained it to others like this Special - 'It brings light, it awakens Pandora...so we call it, akira'."

After Karasawa said this, he paused for a moment, considered a lot of information for a moment, looked at Kuroba Kaito's exceptionally bright eyes, and said the next words.

"What that organization is researching is something that may subvert human civilization and turn society upside down. They are pursuing 'infinity'. Infinite life, unlimited resources, unlimited power... They want to become immortal gods."

Yes, this is the answer that Karasawa synthesized from a lot of information and verified and thought through people who had more or less contact with organizational and cognitive learning such as Ai Haibara, Akemi Miyano, and Shuichi Akai.

It is also the true intersection of the Miyano family and the Karasawa family, the science of science and the science of Hexology.

--"unlimited".

If the Miyano family's biological research has expanded the upper limit of human beings and given people the possibility of touching infinite time, then the Karasawa family's cognitive histology has expanded the upper limit of energy that humans can obtain and given them They have an illusion of "infinite energy".

"Aren't you very curious, how did I become a joker? Cognitive Hexology is a kind of power that uses the mind to reverse reality, create something out of nothing, and make your wishes come true. In short, it is almost magic Supernatural concept. Just like what you are looking for, Pandora.”

Tangze said, reaching out his hand and covering the small box in the center of the table.

His hand was relaxed and open, and his fingers were closed on the box without making any movement. However, in the next moment, the box disappeared out of thin air.

As a top magician, Kuroba Kaito was very sure that it was definitely not a magic trick.

Many details flashed quickly in my mind, and the cards in my hand that were quietly replaced disappeared in an instant, without any visual capture of the poker...

"...Eternal life. That's how they describe Pandora in those people's mouths. It is a gem that can make people live forever, and people are attracted to it. My father was targeted by them precisely because he came into contact with this secret. Go up." Kuroba Kaito looked at the plastic box that reappeared in its place, and slowly understood what Karasawa meant, "Are you guessing that our parents crossed paths at some point in the past?"

"Maybe it's more than just that." Karasawa rolled his eyes and glanced sideways at the large "Maori Detective Agency" poster on the glass window upstairs.

If the organization's drug A research really has anything to do with Pandora...

Then if you say that Kuroba Thieves dug something out of the Holy Grail and became unconscious, Karasawa wouldn't be surprised at all.

Kuroba Kaito followed his gaze and pursed his lips. He didn't know if he and Karasawa were thinking about the same thing. He slowly turned his gaze back and let out a light tut.

"Oh, I suddenly felt that I really paid too much to find my careless father." Kuroba Kaito, who knew who Karasawa was hinting at, sighed deeply, "I'm just an ordinary phantom thief. Is it really good to be involved in these right and wrongs?"

"I can't help it. It's too late to regret now. Just like I couldn't get out of it because of my parents, you have been dragged into the water a long time ago." Tang Ze shook his head and gestured to the box on the table. , "This is the most likely gem that I can find that is close to that Pandora. If you have a way to identify it, then leave it to you."

This time, Kuroba Kaito didn't hesitate anymore, grabbed the plastic box and opened it.

In the box, lie two gray-black translucent gems.

Kuroba Kaito, who has handled many precious jewelry, discovered its specialness immediately.

This is a gem with a very strange shape, a bit like crystal, but there is no light refracted by the crystal structure. The sunlight passing through it seems to be refracted by a prism, forming a rainbow-colored shadow in distinct layers.

This coated it with a layer of strange distorted light and shadow, like a handful of colorful halos floating around it.

This is definitely not an effect caused by artificial cutting, but more like a special structure naturally generated in gemstones...

If you ask Tang Ze, then Tang Ze will directly say that when he opened his third eye and saw the palace secret treasures and those X alloys, the colored light he saw was exactly like this.

Isn't it reasonable? The Desire Stone and the Secret Treasure should be similar to each other, probably.

"It's interesting." Kuroba Kaito put back the rhombus-shaped crystal that was one knuckle long, and put away the box without saying anything. "Then I will take this thing away and study it. If it is real, If it has anything to do with Pandora, I will tell you."

Tangze spread his hands casually: "It's said to be a gift for you. It's up to you to do with it what you want."

"Thank you." Kuroba Kaito smiled and leaned back relaxedly, breaking away from the serious atmosphere just now. "I can't believe that you actually inherited your parents' business. Interestingly, the child of the Kaito has become a Phantom thief."

...Why do these words sound strangely familiar?

Tangze drew his neck back and immediately drew a clear line: "Don't talk nonsense. Your parents are Phantom Thieves, but my parents are not. They are serious scientists."

"A serious scientist?" Kuroba Kaito imitated Karasawa's action of covering the box just now, and flexed his fingers, "A serious magician, maybe."

"Well, that sounds like it." Tangze thought about the broken Holy Grails scattered all over the floor, and felt that what he said was reasonable.

Karasawa has figured out a lot about this strange stitched worldview, but there are still some unsolved mysteries that urgently await his continued investigation.

One of them is the fragment of the Holy Grail that inexplicably collapsed on the ground.

The Holy Grail, regardless of whether it has cards or not, can consume several sets of tens of thousands of proverbs, it is all serious. Can it be the secret treasure of human collective subconsciousness that can be broken just by saying it?

So what's under the subway now, the false god sitting there eating black mud for the Holy Grail?

If this is not a P5 world view, tell him that his parents fought in the Holy Grail War, and he will believe it.

"If you put it this way...it's understandable that I'm a Kaitou. Why did you become a Kaitou?" Kuroba Kaito looked at Karasawa with difficulty in speaking. His face, which had not lost its baby fat, really didn't look like anything. He was suffering from a deep chuunibyou, so he said in confusion.

"Because it's cool to dress up like this." Tangze replied without blinking, "Just steal the sin or something, right? Don't you think this is much more handsome than any superhero?"

"Is it for this reason, you..." Kuroba Kaito's expression became even weirder.

"What are you doing? Didn't you become a Phantom Thief just to be handsome? If not for the sake of being handsome, why are you wearing a white suit so late at night?" Tangze, whose aesthetics was questioned, asked with his eyes widened.

"Is that a question of being handsome? That's the basic trick of a magician. It's just because it's night, it's easier to attract attention, and it's easier to perform some tricks in the dark... Forget it, I tell you no. Got it." Rolling his eyes, Kuroba Kaito decisively gave up discussing issues such as visual deception, focus, and blank space with Karasawa.

"A simple and crude magician." He concluded.

"The flashy Riddler." Tangze was not to be outdone.

After staring at each other for a moment, they both turned their heads at the same time.

"I'm so full that I have nothing to do when discussing Phantom Thieves with you gangsters." Standing up from the table, Kuroba Kaito took out the sunglasses pinned to his collar and put them on his eyes again, "Is there nothing else? ? If I have nothing else to do, I’m leaving.”

If you stay with these guys who don't understand aesthetics for a long time, you'll be pissed off sooner or later, so it's better to take the best option.

"Then do it yourself, I won't give it away." Tang Ze, whose aesthetics was seriously questioned, also snorted and picked up his book again, "If you find anything, just tell me or Noah in the line."

Kuroba Kaito, who was about to leave, glanced at him sideways again.

Same thing about over-reliance on technology.

Please, if you rely on video editing or other technological means to perform magic, you will be looked down upon in the industry, right?

However, when it comes to this...

"That scarf of yours." Kuroba Kaito pulled down his sunglasses and gestured around his neck, "What on earth is that thing? Is it a special prop you made, or is it also the product of that Hexue? "

He described the magical effect of the joker scarf to Terai Kinosuke, and asked him to consult the friend who made props for him. The answer he got was that he had never made anything similar, and he had never seen materials that could achieve similar effects. He also said that if there were samples, it would be best to send them over for study. They sounded amazing.

Kuroba Kaito, who was unable to restore similar props, was a little reluctant because he was outclassed. After a while, thinking about it now, maybe it wasn't his fault.

"I won't tell you." Tang Ze flipped through the book coldly, "Just take your time and guess."

"Forget it if you don't tell me." I didn't really want to know.

Kuroba Kaito, who adjusted his sunglasses again, turned around and walked in the other direction.

"Oh, by the way, let me remind you." Karasawa lowered his book a little and said quickly while Kuroba Kaito was just raising his leg, "It's best that you don't run around with Kudo's identity recently. Someone is watching you. Fuck him."

No matter what Kudo Shinichi's situation is or what he encounters, once he shows up, Team Zero will definitely look at him like a shark that smells blood and persevere in grabbing him.

Having been operating on multiple fronts for so long, and having to organize things, find monster thieves, and take care of other identities, Jiang Guliu and the people in Zero's group are probably holding back their evil fire and have no place to spread it.

If he showed up using his identity, he would really be chased to the sky and to the ground.

Well, although this hole seems to have been dug by himself... But didn't he still remember to remind his allies? It was interesting enough.

Um? Didn't he tell him before that if he used Kudo Shinichi's identity for activities, it would be best to cover it up afterwards, lest anyone discover Kudo Shinichi's whereabouts and attract the attention of the organization.

Because of this instruction, Kuroba Kaito occasionally needs an identity to escape or sneak into the exhibition. When he borrows this easy-to-wear vest, he always remembers to hide his traces so as not to be exposed.

Why do you need to give special instructions? It's weird...

Turning his head and glancing, Kuroba Kaito didn't answer, but just raised his hand to show that he heard.

Forget it, no matter what idea he has, Tang Ze said so, then just agree to it first, and if there is any problem, he will investigate it himself.

Watching Kuroba Kaito's tightly wrapped figure walk away, Karasawa looked down at the dense collection of documents in his hands for a while, patted his forehead, and closed his eyes to rest.

Forget it, after such an interruption, I don’t really want to continue chewing on these things.

Mudd, who can pity him who has never written a serious paper in his two lives!

He graduated from a police academy in his previous life. The police academy he attended was not a vocational training model like Japan. He really graduated from a police academy!

Although the life experience in the few years after graduation is indeed rich, the richness refers to the level of excitement, not the professional resume.

He never thought that he would be able to hold a lot of biological journals and read them like stars in the future.

You really can’t relax in any subject...

Sighing and drinking up the coffee in his hand, Karasawa put the book on the table and prepared to go into the store to tidy up before calling Conan, Hattori Heiji and the others over for lunch.

As soon as he lifted his steps, thinking of the extra instructions he had just given to Kuroba Kaito, Karasawa raised his head and took a look at the door of Polo Cafe.

By the way, since we mentioned the zero group...

Karasawa's toes changed direction and turned to the street on the other side of the shop.

When he was sitting in the store reading a book, when he got bored, he would go out to the convenience store or go upstairs to relax. People in the store would not be surprised by his sudden departure.

So Karasawa turned around without any scruples and walked into the alley next to the coffee shop.

Navigation to another world started.

[...The destination, the cinema has been locked. 】

[Navigation starts. 】

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