The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan

"Could this island be like Moon Shadow Island, uh..." Thinking of the strange dead people with black mud flowing from their seven orifices, and the music scores flying down like snowflakes, Conan's shell briefly stuck.

Moon Shadow Island will become a big job for the Phantom Thieves in the end, probably because it involves the black industry.

After searching the first lesson and Mouri Kogoro's subsequent statistics, except for some minor theft issues, most of them were related to the deceased persons who died at the hands of Asai Narumi.

Therefore, Joker will focus on Moon Shadow Island, sneak into and participate in the progress of the case, and the mental state of the message is very wrong. The real reason may be the ecology of the islanders.

Simply put, here comes the big life.

And now, joker seems to have entered a similar state again, doesn't that mean...

"If that were the case, the problem wouldn't be so difficult." Karasawa supported his head and sighed leisurely, "Detective-kun, do you think... selfishness and indifference are sins?"

Hearing the question he asked, Conan was stunned. He raised his head and paid careful attention to Joker's expression, but he could only see the red eyes reflected in the light from the edges of his sunglasses.

Calm and indifferent, like a bystander waiting for everything to happen.

Are you asking for his opinion or getting some answers from him? Or is it just a simple discussion and emotion.

If it's the former, then he may have to pay attention to what he says...

"I think it depends on the consequences of this person's actions." Conan observed Joker's face hidden under the mask and said cautiously, "However, it is true that this kind of personality is more likely to cause harm to others. "

"What kind of consequences can be called evil? Is it causing casualties and harming other people's lives, or is it causing losses and harming people's spirits or property?"

Tangze tilted his head and looked out the window towards the dusk sky, half telling riddles and half expressing serious emotions.

"If it really causes real harm, then everything can be considered clear-cut between love and hate. You can find a place to hate, and you can find a place to forgive. Unfortunately, reality is not such a simple thing. Those silences and onlookers are more like The endless sultry heat is suffocating, but you can barely breathe, it's painful, but it's not unbearable..."

As Conan listened, he felt something strange.

Joker's subsequent laments have gradually moved closer to evaluating a certain specific situation than simply discussing social phenomena. This prose-like lament seems to be lamenting for a specific person.

"Have you discovered the situation on this island?" Conan couldn't help but ask.

"Well, I feel it very intuitively." Tang Ze turned his head and said the truth, "Don't you smell that smell? You can't breathe, you can't float, it's like sinking into the deep sea with a storm..."

This was the scene that Tang Ze felt at a glance when he opened his third eye, and it was also the reason why they were sitting here.

Just like the state Noah felt when he landed on the island, there is a certain similarity between this place and Moon Shadow Island - referring to the barrier between reality and the cognitive world.

Originally, Karasawa regarded the impression space of Tsukikage Island that was eroded by Asai Narumi as a special case, and felt that it might be a phenomenon caused by a mask user who was born with powerful abilities and was under the influence of strong emotions.

Now, after Noah's analysis, Tang Ze's thoughts have been shaken.

This may not be a problem with the masker, but it may have something to do with the tearing of the impression space.

From this perspective, it does make sense. Since the impression space, or the cognitive world, itself is the spiritual world of human beings and a form of the collective subconscious, then an environment with a closed structure and solidified personnel, such as Moon Shadow Island and American Island, will give birth to small landforms with their own characteristics. , it’s not that it’s incomprehensible.

Just like the difference between P4 and P5, you can regard them as different worldview settings, but you can also regard P4 as a relatively closed village and town, a special environment, forming a unique area affected by rumors and public opinion...

However, no matter what the case is, how to explain these things is the part that researchers need to worry about.

Tangze is just worried about how to pass the level now.

As a numerically bad guy, he seems to be punished by the mechanism. The world seems to want to give him some strength.

Judging from the fact that he could choke to death even if he opened his third eye, they would have to prepare several sets of diving equipment before entering another world...

Tang Ze was thinking about ways to break the situation, and Conan, who was standing aside, became more and more confused.

What does it mean to feel it intuitively? Does it mean that the joker has found the key person, observed the other person's state, and empathized with him?

But no matter what he meant by this sentence, what is certain is that joker has indeed discovered many strange keys.

So Conan became more focused: "Who specifically are you referring to with these statements... If you can't tell me directly, can you give me some hints?"

If you don't want to tell him anything and just want to talk about riddles casually, there should be no need to bring him here directly, Conan thought.

Just make it clear on the phone or in an email. With the tracking abilities of these guys, it is very simple to avoid him. There is no need to bring him here specially.

"He's very motivated. It's good to be motivated." Karasawa looked at his expression for a while and laughed. "It doesn't hurt to tell you something. First of all, Kadori Saori is confirmed to be dead."

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"What about one hundred and eighty, two hundred years old? These people really like to exaggerate..."

The miko with her long hair tied up waved the royal coin in her hand twice, and her eyes swept over the unfamiliar faces of the people in front of her, with very helpless expressions.

"Well, after all, the news mentioned didn't mention the specific age. Everyone on the island said they didn't know..." Hattori Heiji, who was standing in the shrine, said while looking around the small shrine. .

It's half new but not old. The house is very clean, fallen leaves are swept in the corners, and the building surrounded by trees has a rare sense of tranquility.

The incense does not seem to be very prosperous, but it is probably due to the coming and going of tourists. It is not particularly deserted, and it seems to be enough to sustain life.

"Ha, those guys..." Shimabukuro Kime shook her head vigorously and said loudly, "I was born on June 24, the second year of Meiji. My grandma is exactly one hundred and forty years old this year!"

Karasawa, who was standing at the end of the crowd and looking around, suddenly turned his head in the direction of Shimabukuro Kime after hearing this.

Appeared, finally appeared, a line that clearly marked the time!

The second year of Meiji is 1869, which means that in terms of setting, they are now around 2009.

Although it is very clear that Ke Xue's world is basically Miss Conch's world view, as time goes back, it is still in the same year, and with the element of stitching, there must be many differences from the 2009 in Tang Ze's impression. He still smiled with satisfaction.

Touched, really touched, he can finally write the year on his calendar.

"These things are clearly written in the household registration information. On a small island like ours, there is a 'village chronicle'." Kimi Shimabukuro said distressedly after tapping the palm of his hand twice with the rod of the coin. "Maybe we have lived longer, but it's really not that exaggerated. Really, in order to attract tourists, everyone likes to make our family mysterious..."

No, one hundred and forty years old cannot be called longevity at all...

The corners of Conan's mouth twitched, and he popped his head out from Mao Lilan's legs. He carefully observed Shimabukuro Kimie's expression, and then looked at the room behind her with the door closed tightly.

"So, you haven't eaten mermaid meat before?" Mouri Kogoro asked curiously.

"Mermaids don't exist in this world, right? Isn't this definitely a lie?" Shimabukuro Kimie covered her mouth and said bluntly.

Unexpectedly, unlike the nagging islanders who love to talk to mermaids no matter what, Shimabukuro Kimie would directly address these issues and reject the biggest selling point of the Dugong Festival without hesitation. Hattori Heiji opened his eyes. Big eyes.

"Well, when other tourists come, will you tell them directly like this?" He said, lowering his head in confusion and looking at his dress.

Except for asking about Saori Kadori's situation along the way, there is not much difference between them and other tourists on the island, so their identity as detectives should not be revealed.

"Of course, there's nothing wrong with this. Our family worships the shrine here, and it would be extremely disrespectful to distort our beliefs randomly." Shimabukuro Kime glanced at the tourists who were walking up the stairs in groups of two and a half, feeling a headache. He patted his forehead and said, "But for those who didn't take it seriously in the first place, they just came to ask for good luck. But for those who believed deeply, the more I said this, the more they believed it was true. …”

"People do only believe what they want to believe." Hattori Heiji, who understood her embarrassing situation very well, nodded. Thinking of the letter, he asked, "So, is Kadori Saori also the one who believes it? ?Since you grew up together, she should know the truth very well, right."

"She did treat those things as a joke in the past, but starting a few years ago, she became a little..." Shimabukuro Kime was embarrassed to choose the words for a while, unable to find a euphemism, so she simply shook her head and gave up. " Anyway, there really won’t be any so-called serious consequences if you lose the arrow or something. She’s just scaring herself.”

"Dugong arrows were given by your grandmother to people attending the festival?" Mouri Kogoro had not completely let go of the legendary question, "Since mermaid meat does not exist, why do you name that kind of arrow like that? "

When he was directed to the shrine to ask the shrine maiden about the whereabouts of Saori Monori, Kogoro Mouri stared at the strange guardian ema for a long time. He was always worried that what he saw after climbing up the mountain was not a shrine dedicated to mermaids. What.

Considering the strange style of those products, the mermaid style should also be...

Kogoro Mouri, whose thoughts had completely strayed into the Cthulhu style, was still not completely reassured even after he came to the shrine and found that everything was normal here.

This kind of fanatical repeater atmosphere can be considered to be flattery caused by commercialization, or it is completely reasonable to say that it is a strange cult belief.

"Because that kind of arrow was not called that in the first place." Shimabukuro Kime raised her finger and explained seriously, "My deceased mother explained to me that it was originally called the 'Forbidden Arrow', and it is a The amulet that can ward off evil spirits represents the power to defeat evil. But because my grandmother was famous for her long life, people on the island began to make far-fetched ideas, using words with homophones, and started calling it 'Dugong Arrow'."

"Hey, your mother..." Mao Lilan looked at the small shrine in front of her, but it was several hundred square meters, and she couldn't help being surprised.

According to this statement, the Shimabukuro family has very limited manpower to manage this place. The pretty and pleasant young girl standing in front of her may actually be burdened with a heavy workload.

After all, cleaning and taking care of the shrine is one of the duties of a shrine maiden.

"Ah, my mother and my father had an accident when they went to sea five years ago and could not come back. My grandparents also disappeared while going to sea. So, now only my grandma and me, my great-granddaughter, are left to depend on each other. ." Shimabukuro Kime nodded and said calmly.

Yuan Shan and Ye shrank their necks, somewhat understanding why some people believed in the mermaid legend.

This sounds completely like someone who actually ate mermaid flesh or something, resulting in some kind of curse that will lead to revenge from mermaids as soon as they go to sea...

"Don't worry, everyone, this has nothing to do with mermaids or anything." Shimabukuro Kime, who noticed her reaction, didn't even move his eyebrows, as if he was used to it, "We who live on the island must frequently rely on boats to enter and exit the island. , an accident occurred during hundreds of voyages, so we can only say that we are not lucky. I lived in Tokyo for a few years when I was in school, and I often traveled by boat, so there was no problem. "

"Sorry, I didn't mean that..." Realizing that their reaction might be unpleasant, Yuan Shan and Ye hurriedly apologized.

"It's okay. It's normal to have this kind of association. You belong to the part that can communicate, so you are already good." Shimabukuro June folded his hands in front of him and smiled tolerantly.

Hattori Heiji helped Toyama Kazuha, and looked up and down at Shimabukuro Kimie, who was wearing a miko uniform, and couldn't help but feel a little sad.

This miko lady seems to have dealt with so many similar problems and endless questioning that she doesn't mind recounting some pain over and over again...

It's not easy.

Obviously, the developed tourism industry on the small island does not bring all business opportunities to the local residents.

At least judging from this shrine maiden, she has been through a lot of troubles.

"You want to inquire about Saori, well, I think she may have stayed on the island and not come back." Seeing that they had no new questions, Shimabukuro Kime took the initiative to tell what he learned, "She is because She lost the arrow and fell into an extreme panic. She came to hope that my grandma and I would find a solution for her. No matter how I explained it, she firmly believed that she would be cursed for it. Maybe I am also responsible for this. "

"Didn't you explain to her the origin of arrows and the problem of mermaids?" Thinking of the letter with the scrawled handwriting, Hattori Heiji felt that her statement was quite credible, but he still asked.

"I explained it to her and even told her the truth about the so-called curse... Since the island attracted many tourists due to reports three years ago, in order to avoid damage to the arrows, or the person who got the arrows really believed It can bring immortality, so much so that it will anger us if it cannot do it. We have always said to the outside world that if you lose the arrow or doubt its power, the power will not be effective, and it will also anger the mermaid and bring disaster...

"These are all lies, just some cunning ways to avoid trouble. Not worth mentioning."

Shimabukuro Kimie said, closing her eyes gently.

"Jun Hui, you are so stupid. The reason why you think so is because you don't actually believe in the power of the goddess, right?" A slightly sharp voice suddenly sounded.

"Kotobuki, why are you like this..." Shimabukuro Kimie looked at the speaker and showed a wry smile.

"She has eaten mermaid meat. She has really eaten mermaid meat. As a descendant of the goddess, how can you question this power?" Ebihara Hisumi argued.

"Sumi, I've said it many times, there's no need to be so courted...forget it." Looking at the other party's stubborn look, Shimabukuro Kimi relaxed again, "No one wants that more than me. real."

Conan quickly looked at Shimabukuro Kimie's expression, and then at Ebihara Hisumi, whose eyes were wide with a mixture of eagerness and longing on her face, and he made a quick assessment in his mind.

Since Joker told him that even if Saori Kadori was not harmed by others, her abnormality must be related to the truth of this so-called mermaid legend, then these people who are directly related to her and the legend seem to be worthy of following up.

Catching the obsession on the face of his former friend standing in front of him, Shimabukuro Kimie couldn't help but reveal a trace of sadness, and then quickly restrained it in the blink of an eye.

Yes, some trivial tricks deceive the people who should least be deceived.

How great would it be if everything were true? What a happy thing that is.

The dream of immortality, the rumors of mermaids, the power to defeat evil, and...

The miracle of immortality.

Mother……

"?" The moment Shimabukuro Kimie lowered his head to adjust his emotions, Karasawa, who felt a faint vibration, almost immediately turned his gaze towards her.

A sharp, high-frequency sound that may have exceeded the frequency range that human ears can hear, like a scream, screamed through his ears at an extremely fast speed.

The wind on the island, which was already carrying the moisture and smell of sea water, suddenly became a little stronger at this moment. It was like a faint sound, like the roar of rolling waves, hitting people's ears. Together with the setting sun that had already set in the west, it seemed that it was suddenly blown away. A layer of blue water mist shrouded the body, and the light shining on the body weakened a little.

It was a common phenomenon that the island was falling into slumber before nightfall, but Karasawa frowned when he noticed the change.

The barrier between reality and the cognitive world seemed to be weakened again at the moment when her mind fluctuated.