The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan

"Hey, Heiji, hey!" He shouted several times but failed to stop the figure in front of him. Toyama and Ye wiped the rain from their faces and complained, "Where did you see someone? Really... "

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the muddy ground was about to be washed away into a swamp. One foot was deep and the other was shallow. Fortunately, before going out, Shimabukuro Kimie kindly provided them with rubber shoes that made it easier to walk in the rain. Otherwise, I am afraid that the entire knee below will be covered with mud and water.

In the pouring rain, the umbrella no longer provided any protection. She had no choice but to put on the jacket she had brought with her just in case to act as a raincoat, and continued to trek behind Hattori Heiji with difficulty.

"I feel that the person looks like Naoko Kuroe." After wiping away the rain that blocked his vision, Hattori Heiji, who could not find the figure in the heavy rain that affected his vision, stopped and explained, "Her hairstyle It’s very unique, I haven’t seen anyone like it on the island.”

He turned his head and glanced at Toyama Kazuye, who was wrapped in a black coat and was also wet. He said in a serious tone: "I suspect that the prisoner is deliberately connecting the victim with the Dugong Arrow."

"...What do you mean?" Yuan Shan and Ye patted their chests subconsciously.

She had kept her dugong arrow by her side ever since she got it. After visiting the goddess at the shrine and being threatened by the old lady that she would be punished by heaven if she took the arrow away, she felt even more at ease. The enemy put the arrow directly inside his coat without any hesitation.

It’s like seeing a curse or something that will happen if you don’t repost it. You all know the truth. People can’t be superstitious. When they encounter such unlucky things, they still want to repost them. It’s better to do less than to do more.

It has to be said that this wave of designs of Dugong Arrow really captures human nature, and it cannot be said that it is not vicious.

"Just after extracting the arrow, but before getting it, Hisumi Ebihara died. Don't you think it's too coincidental?" Hattori Heiji straightened his mouth. After arriving on the island, he came into contact with several people related to Kadori Saori. People flashed before his eyes, "The same is true for the missing client. Not long after she lost the arrow, she disappeared after leaving the island... She was so scared that she sent me a letter of trust, I don't I think she would really dare to leave the island alone.”

If he was afraid of the curse brought by the arrow, shouldn't Saori Monori continue to stay on the island, participate in the Dugong Festival, and try every means to get a new arrow?

Although her disappearance can be understood as the result of an emotional breakdown, there are still too many unreasonable things when taken into consideration.

Thinking of the news he got earlier at the shrine, about the fact that the drawing of arrows was not really a random draw, but Shimabukuro Yaqin alone decided what to write, this once again deepened his suspicion.

Whether it is the disappearance of Karasawa or the death of Hisumi Ebihara, they are all related to this woodland with complex terrain, which seems to be particularly easy to get lost. Many residents on the island said that they do not dare to enter and exit here casually, and will only open up some open areas. Good road location activity.

Shimabukuro Kimie is an exception who is easy to get in and out, and can easily identify the direction in the forest...

"So, follow me closely." Seeing the pale faces of Toyama and Ye, Hattori Heiji stretched out his hand, "Don't leave my sight."

No matter why they added He Ye to the list, if the murderer really tried to use the excuse of losing the damaged arrow to cover up the truth of the death, then He Ye might also become the target of the murderer.

Unexpectedly, after analyzing the case for a while, Toyama Kazuye heard such a turning point. He stared blankly at the palm stretched out in front of him. Large drops of rain hit the other person's palm and snaked down along the palm lines. This hand, which she was very familiar with, felt unspeakably strange.

"Okay..." She lowered her head and grabbed his hand, not daring to look at his face a second time.

Even the wet and cold rain could not extinguish the heat rising on her face. Yuanshan and Ye were afraid that if they didn't lower their heads quickly, their excessively flushed face would be exposed.

Because of this, she suddenly discovered that there was a red mark on the root of the tree at her feet.

"Heiji, look at this." She pointed at the mark that was washed away by the rain but became increasingly red. "What does this symbol mean? It looks like..."

"...Mermaid's Tomb?" Hattori Heiji crouched down and squinted for a while to distinguish the crooked handwriting, and soon found a deeply imprinted haircut underneath.

Is this a beacon left by someone?

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"Boom——"

Rolling thunder surged in the dark clouds, and Shimabukuro Kimie was awakened from his thoughts. He blinked and retracted his gaze that had always been cast toward the back mountain.

With the suggestions from the Phantom Thieves and her own inspection, there should be nothing wrong with the mechanism she had arranged, so she should be more confident.

Telling herself this, she took a deep breath, arranged her black suit, and walked out of the room.

She doesn't need to do anything more, her revenge is about to come to an end.

And the final end of her preparations will come soon.

After Shimabukuro Kimeya "dies", she will play the role of Shimabukuro Yakoto wholeheartedly, and faithfully carry out the Shimabukuro family's mission, which is also a sad mission.

When she really gets old, the miserable shackles of the Shimabukuro family will also come to an end.

The goddess who lived to be 200 years old must have done enough for this island, right?

But why did the confusion and depression in her heart not diminish at all?

Feeling lost, Shimabukuro Kimie looked at the waterfall under the eaves and was stunned for a while. Then he suddenly remembered something and took out a small bag from his pocket.

This is what Asai Narumi left behind after communicating with her on how to arrange the death of Naoko Kuroe.

"What is this, a life-saving method in an emergency?" Shimabukuro Kime, who took the small bag and found out that there was a note inside, was dumbfounded. She was a little confused about why the collaborator handed this over at this time. significance.

This was an attempt to conceal her true identity. It was not a written test. What could a small piece of paper influence?

"If you feel confused, confused, and undecided, just open it and take a look." Knocking the fox mask on his face, Asai Shigeyuki looked at her with crooked eyes, smiling, with an inexplicable feeling of nostalgia and nostalgia in his expression. Clearly, "Just think of it as a little reward."

"Remuneration. For you or for me?" Shimabukuro Kimie, who didn't quite understand what he meant, tilted her head.

She didn't understand what these Phantom Thieves guys wanted from her, and what benefits they could get from this deal - after all, no matter how you looked at it, it was just her getting assistance unilaterally, and they seemed to be unable to get anything.

But Asai Chengmi insisted that this was not a well-intentioned public welfare act, but just——

"Everyone gets what they need." Asai answered before turning around and swaying his flaming haori before disappearing, "So it is both what you need and what we need. Open it when it's time to open it, don't hesitate."

Lowering his head again and looking at the small cloth bag, Shimabukuro Kimie bit his lips and hesitantly untied the tight opening.

After killing Shou Mei, she took out the bag and put it away again many times, and it became a little fluffy when she touched it. It was almost time.

She took out the thin note and unfolded it. After seeing clearly the Qiu Jin handwriting on it, her heart suddenly shrank and her pupils dilated slightly.

What does it mean……

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"It seems, it's over there." Toyama Kazuha wiped the rain off his face again, looked at the direction pointed by the last mark, grabbed the branch beside him, and climbed to the top of the hillside with Hattori Heiji.

At the end of the first mark, they found the second mark indicating the direction, and followed the mark all the way to find this hillside.

The forest in the heavy rain was more dangerous than imagined. No matter how careful they were, they fell twice in the humus layer where they could not see the situation below, and their progress was slower than expected.

Panting, Hattori Heiji climbed onto a high branch and climbed over the slope using his hands and feet while still thinking about the marks he had just seen.

As an island with a water system connected to the ocean, the people on the island should have more experience in preparing for disasters such as typhoons than just heavy rain.

What considerations did the person who made the mark have in choosing paint that is so strong and will not be eroded by rain?

Thinking about these thoughts, when he stood upright again and looked at the road below, he saw a stumbling figure running down the slippery muddy ground, rolling and crawling.

"Miss Kuroe!" After seeing the distinctive ear-length short hair, Hattori Heiji started calling her name loudly without even thinking about it, "Don't go there, it's dangerous!"

In a flash of lightning, he saw the wooden sign "There is a cliff ahead" broken on one side, and saw the rainwater that had formed a stream flowing on the slope in front, and he only had time to shout out.

Is this what the person who wrote the mark wanted to achieve? Let Kuroe Naoko roll down the hillside without noticing and fall straight down...

Kuroe Naoko, who had already arrived at the bottom of the ramp, seemed to have heard his shout. She tried to turn her head in the direction of the sound, trying to control the speed of her feet while looking for the person who spoke. However, unexpectedly, It came suddenly at this time.

As Naoko Kuroe stepped on something under her feet, there was a "pop" and a faint sound of a mechanism being activated.

A stone in a net bag fell from the treetops on the side.

As it pulled, the rope group above quickly tightened, and a rope was pulled up from the dead branches and leaves on the ground. The grass rope circled at high speed, like a dancing whip, and strangled it hard from the front. Caught around Kuroe Naoko's neck.

The next second, Kuroe Naoko's whole body was lifted up by the rope. The branches of the tree were used as the rope buckle of the pulley, and her throat was directly locked, and she was hung in the air.

This sudden acceleration, coupled with the gravity brought by the weight itself, almost instantly, Kuroe Naoko, whose spine was broken, stopped struggling, and her hands and feet fell down weakly, swinging up and down with the bounce of the branches.

The rainwater accumulated in the sporadic leaves on the tree crown bent with the force of the bending, and poured down on the hanging body below. Combined with the already heavy rain, it formed a waterfall-like water curtain.

Kuroe Naoko, dressed in a raincoat, is just like Karasawa hanging in the waterfall yesterday, like a mermaid stranded in the water.

Just in front of her toes, a dark and rough tombstone stood there.

The guy who wrote the mark was not lying. This was the unnamed tomb that was considered the Tomb of the Mermaid.

Naoko Kuroe was strangled to death just one step ahead of the destination she wanted to reach. She hung there with her eyes open, her head hanging low and tilted at an unnatural angle, as if she was repenting toward the grave.

"Ah -" In just a few seconds, Yuan Shan and Ye screamed uncontrollably when they saw a living person die in front of them.

Hattori Heiji, who witnessed the process of the trap taking effect, was also gasping for air. Looking at the shaking body in front of him, his body, which was already cold and numb in the rain, felt an unprecedented chill.

This was obviously not an indiscriminate attack. Without a very good understanding of Kuroe Naoko's height, it would have been impossible to accurately design a knot that could accurately lock the pharynx.

No matter who set up this mechanism, this was an assassination with a very clear purpose.

The two people stared at this scene blankly. Before they could recover, after a dull but shocking thunder, the number of raindrops hitting them suddenly increased again. The rain pouring down from the sky was not so much raining. , it would be better to say that there is a hole in the water source above, and it is pouring down crazily.

"Heiji, be careful!" Toyama and Ye turned their heads, their expressions changed drastically, but they only had time to squeeze the hand holding Hattori Heiji's hand.

A rolling torrent mixed with branches, leaves and soil surged down from behind, and suddenly swept the two people who were standing there holding on to the tree trunk down the hillside.

Wrapped in the huge power, Hattori Heiji reflexively grasped the palms of Toyama and Ye Xibai, and at the same time stretched out his hand, trying hard to grasp the fulcrum that could support the two people.

Ahead, there is a cliff ahead...!

The two people rolled awkwardly in the muddy water. Even though Hattori Heiji tried hard to stop them from sliding down, they were still pushed by the ruthless flood and passed over Naoko Kuroe's shaking body. They were alone and looked particularly special. The fragile grave head was pushed and fell from the top of the rock wall.

"ah--"

"He Ye!"

At the moment of falling, Hattori Heiji narrowly and dangerously grabbed a piece of dead wood growing out of the slope of the cliff. One hand held on to the mountains and leaves, and the other hand used all his strength, regardless of the fact that his fingertips were being cut. The pain of scratching made me cling to the branches of the dead wood.

The dark brown flash flood poured down from their heads towards the trees below, and the two of them happened to hang under the end of the cliff, narrowly avoiding the direct erosion of the flood, hanging on the mud-colored Behind the waterfall.

Even so, the rain that was still getting heavier and heavier did not make the situation any better.

The branches he held on to were rough and rugged. Fortunately, they were able to provide enough friction under such slippery conditions.

As for the other hand that was holding Toyama Kazuha, due to the wet rain, even if Hattori Heiji tried his best to grasp it, he could feel that the other hand was sliding down a little bit, and sooner or later he would break away from his hand.

On the cliff top above, flash floods may trigger landslides at any time, making it impossible to use as an exit.

And below, the nearest tree to them was more than twenty meters away by visual inspection. If they fell down like this, it would be impossible for them to survive.

Hattori Heiji gritted his teeth and tried his best to support himself, feeling an unspeakable despair.

There is no way from heaven to earth, and no matter how you look at it, it seems that you can't find a way out this time.

Do you want to find a way to adjust the position and posture of the fall, and try to find a landing point that can increase the chance of survival...

But before that, it seems that we should try to let Heye climb up a little, at least hug her, so that we can have a chance to cushion the opponent's landing and improve Heye's chances of survival...

Hattori Heiji was thinking hard about the plan, while Toyama Kazuha below raised his head blankly, looking at Hattori Heiji's dirty face covered with mud and water, but it seemed that traces of tears could be seen in the rain on his face. .

How sad, yet so determined...

"Let go, if you do this, the branches will soon be unable to hold up..." Feeling the weightless feeling under their feet, Yuan Shan and Ye said tremblingly while trying to overcome their fear.

"I'm thinking of a way, don't let go, don't think wildly!"

"Even if I don't let go, if the rain is so heavy, you won't be able to catch me in a few minutes..."

"Shut up! I can do it, don't underestimate people!"

"But if the branch breaks..."

"Then let's fall together!"

Against the rain and the falling muddy water above, Toyama Kazuha tried his best to open his eyes, looked at Hattori Heiji's face, and soon thought of the arrow hidden in his arms that he cherished, the first time in his life. Thanks for the first time to the sharpness of the dugong arrows, which originally caused a lot of trouble for her to store.

If its meaning is to prolong a person's life in a certain sense... then this moment is the time for it to play its role.

Having made up his mind, Yuan Shan and Ye raised his hand with difficulty, groped for the arrow from his collar, and pulled it out in his hand.

"What are you doing!" Despite the influence of the rain, Hattori Heiji wanted to observe clearly below. He noticed the movements of Toyama Kazuha, and the strength of his hand became stronger, "Don't move!"

But when I think of this kind of thing when I should least give up, this fool...!

To reduce one's burden, if Pingji's physical strength is sufficient, he might try to lower the height of the fall along the rock wall, or find a way to find other fulcrums and climb back up.

In short, no matter what, there will always be more ways for one person to survive than for two people.

Take my share and live well, Heiji...

Toyama and Ye raised the sharp arrows in their hands.

Hattori Heiji watched her movements with helpless eyes. He could no longer feel whether tears were pouring out of his eyes or whether rain was flowing into his eyes. He could only feel that his vision was blurred.

He Ye, this idiot... even if he dies, he won't...!

"I'm sorry to disturb the separation between you two." A deep voice suddenly sounded above their heads, "I would like to ask, do you need a helping hand?"

How could there be anyone else in this place at this time?

Before the stunned Hattori Heiji could react, a red string, like a snake, deftly reached down from above, wrapped twice around his waist, and then extended downwards, wrapping around Toyama Kazuha's waist. waist.

By the way, he climbed out a little further and trapped the arrows in Yuan Shan and Ye's hands.

Hattori Heiji opened his mouth slightly and raised his head blankly.

A white head poked out from above, with red eyes flashing brightly.

"Forget it, because it scared the victim and caused him to lose his grip and fall, it wouldn't look good." Tang Ze, who was finally able to open his third eye, continued with a smile in his voice. , "No kidding anymore. Hurry up, you two!"

He knew that jumping off a cliff and hanging outside, playing like you let go without beating me to death, and I won't let go until we die together, etc., was a shounen manga series, and no matter how the plot changed, you had to taste it.

Happy New Year everyone!