The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan

Sitting on the security door, Conan confirmed again and again: "Did you find any suspicious items in the hall?"

"Yes." After working for more than an hour, Mao Lilan, who was slightly tired, sat by the wall with a glass of warm water and looked at the people coming and going in the hall. "There are also people who have worried about similar problems, but we checked I tried it several times and found nothing strange.”

"Unowned packages, strange bags, objects hidden in obstacles..."

Judging from Moriya Teiji's tone at that time, why shouldn't it just be a bluff? Conan, who was in disbelief, couldn't help but start listing them one by one.

"Well, I didn't find it. If Professor Moritani planned to continue blasting, maybe he installed it in some hidden places, ventilation ducts and the like..." At this point, I remembered that Moritani Teiji's real target was Kudo Arata. 1. Mao Lilan squeezed the water cup in his hand and made an overwhelmed squeaking sound, "Don't talk about it for now, where are you now? What if Moritani Teiji makes arrangements for you?"

"I..." Conan's fingers sneakily touched the plastic pill box twice more, then he opened the lock of the pill box and finally said, "I'm at the safe passage. Just outside the outermost safety door. .”

"The passage was not affected by the explosion?"

"It was a little affected...but the structure is still stable now. It's quite safe under the stairs."

"Then you still don't think of a way to leave!" Mao Lilan raised her eyebrows, and her voice suddenly increased a lot, "You also know what the prisoner wants to do!"

The reason why Moritani Teiji targeted her was because she revealed her relationship with Kudo Shinichi.

If something really happened to Shinichi here because of her, wouldn't he be playing into the opponent's hands?

Mao Lilan, who now thinks she is safe and can handle the situation well, strongly disagrees with Kudo Shinichi's current decision.

"You were implicated by me, Xiaolan. The firemen and police who handled the accident have already arrived. How can I leave with peace of mind without confirming your safety." Conan refused reflexively.

Although he felt extremely guilty now, thinking that if the trapped people opened the safety door from the inside, he would not be able to explain his problem at all, and he felt short of breath... but he still sat firmly where he was and did not move.

In the face of a life-and-death crisis, whether Mao Lilan would be angry or not, whether he would be honest or not, and whether he would punch him into the wall or something like that, were all minor questions.

"But, if something happens to you because I'm here, I, then I..." Mao Lilan turned her head, looked at the metal door beside her, and gritted her teeth.

If her suspicions these days are not groundless, then the person standing behind this door now is not an adult at all, but a child with weak strength and unable to escape the crisis independently.

If Moritani Teiji had made follow-up arrangements, then when the secondary explosion occurred, it would be much more dangerous outside than inside.

Thinking of this, her worry turned into anger.

This anger was directed not only at Kudo Shinichi, who had something to hide for no apparent reason, and could not even give an explanation, but also at Moritani Teiji, who used her as a tool to threaten Shinichi without authorization.

"Leave now, leave here while you can, leave now! Go to the police, go to someone for help!" Driven by this anger, her voice was loud and clear, "Now, isn't the way you are now fundamentally different?" no way--"

It's obviously the birthday of the bastard on the other side of the phone in a few minutes.

She was dressed up beautifully today and came here with the courage to move forward. She wanted a clear answer and a happy ending.

As a result, the two people were now here, shouting at each other as if they were scolding each other through a door that could not be opened at all.

Separated by a thin distance, it seems like there is a sad barrier thousands of miles away. It seems that we will never be able to touch the real feeling of each other. This feeling...

Also, it feels terrible to be used as a bargaining chip, to be treated as a weakling who can be dealt with casually, to actually become the weakness of someone close to you!

Not to mention, the one who was threatened was not even willing to have a frank chat with her and tell her what difficulties she had!

Damn, really, damn it!

Sensing the words Mao Lilan was about to spit out next, Conan shrank his neck and pulled the phone slightly away, as if the voice coming from the receiver had real offensive power.

Xiaolan, could it be that she wanted to tell you, a primary school student, how to escape from the explosion ruins...

It was at this time that his attention finally caught the faint sound of sobbing in the ruins. He couldn't help but look up and saw the corner of his clothes exposed in the collapsed cement block above the stairs.

Is this someone being trapped underneath? !

"Wait a minute, it seems like..." The desire to save people suddenly came up, and he instinctively wanted to interrupt Mao Lilan. He stood up, wanted to get closer to check the situation, and shouted towards the phone. One sentence.

"Shinichi! Don't...!" Feeling that her childhood sweetheart wanted to avoid her problems again, Mao Lilan's almond-shaped eyes widened.

"Deep-boom-"

On the other end of the phone, and on the outside of the metal door beside her, came the ominous voice she least wanted to hear.

"Shinichi, Shinichi—!"

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"boom--"

"Hiss, it hurts..."

"Ah, Mingmei, you are holding down my hair——"

"Sorry Junhui, I'll get up right away...ah!"

"You guys, I'm going to be crushed to death..."

The first one fell, and he originally wanted to get out of the way quickly, but he saw his teammates falling one after another from mid-air like goddesses scattering flowers. Tang Ze, who reflexively took the hand, made a sound like a gossamer.

"Uh, my waist, hiss..." Asai Narumi, who was a little tilted due to the wind resistance of Haori and hit the obstacle with his waist, also let out a sigh.

"Why did it fall on the construction site..." Xingchuan Hui, who was almost poked through by the scaffolding, struggled a few times to avoid being hung on the wall.

"I can't help it. The secret treasure room is in the very center of the central axis... Nishitama City has no plans to use Moritani Teiji, but many buildings are indeed being renovated..." Helping Shimabukuro Kimie get up, Miyano Akemi Tang Ze, who was about to be crushed by the two of them, pulled out from the ground, "Are you okay, Azhao?"

Just as Tang Ze was about to say something, a sharp cat meowed from far away. Just as he raised his head, a powerful and heavy cat hit him in the face.

"puff--"

"Karasawa, Karasawa - fainted -"

Asai Shimizu, who barely climbed down from the steel bar, held on to the wall and stood up straight: "Who told him to bring the cat in to the palace with nothing to do..."

"By the way, what exactly is the secret treasure?" Shimabukuro Kime, who confirmed that Karasawa was still alive, couldn't help but asked curiously.

Miyano Akemi heard this and looked at Karasawa's hand, which was holding the secret treasure tightly: "Let me take a look... Well, as expected, it's the Newcomer Award trophy."

"Let's think of a way to get down first. This is a super high-rise building that has not yet been completed. The elevator must be closed for construction at this point."

"Thankfully it's a super high-rise building, otherwise if we fell from such a tall colossus, except for Tangze, we would all be killed."

"Is this the building in Nishitama City that is about to be completed? The tallest twin-tower skyscraper in Japan."

"Ah, it's here. Have we climbed so high in the palace?"

"It's because Moritani Teiji's shadow is too high..."

Tang Ze finally recovered from his dizziness and held the cat in his hand: "..."

What is this called? Should Moriya Teiji and this broken building really have a fateful conflict? it's fate.

"Ah, it's 12 o'clock." Naomi Asai, who was checking whether the phone was intact after falling, noticed the time at a glance, "We are quite on time."

"Is it 12 o'clock yet?" Tang Ze raised his head, walked through the top of the building that had not yet been sealed, and saw the bright moon rising in the sky, "That's just right. The birthday gift I gave to someone should be in place, right?"

Hoshikawa Teru, who quickly realized who Karasawa was referring to, paused while trying to pull himself off the wall, and couldn't help but ask: "Wait a minute, the gift you are talking about, is it... "

"Yes, what else does he have there now? Of course it's a bomb." Tang Ze replied instantly.

"ha?"

"Oh, there is a high probability that he is acting out a love scene across the door from his classmate Lan. I blew the door open for them, isn't that a good thing? I have accurately estimated the impact. It will only blow up the door, and no one will be hurt. You’re welcome.”

"ha?!"

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Braving the smoke and dust from the explosion, Mao Lilan ignored the obstruction of the people around him, struggled to open the metal door that was damaged by the explosion, and rushed into the fire.

"Shinichi, Shinichi—cough, cough cough—"

Her vision was completely obscured by the billowing smoke, and she could not clearly see the situation in front of her. She could only instinctively call the other person's name, and groped with difficulty in the narrow stairwell full of obstacles.

Broken cement blocks, exposed steel bars, more lightweight building materials, and tarpaulins used to store debris...

She felt these objects one by one in her palm, and the next moment, she suddenly touched something warm.

The liquid was warm and viscous, combined with a body temperature that was slightly cooler than the palm of her hand...

Blood, blood!

"Xinyi, Xinyi!" Panic suddenly crept into her heart. Mao Lilan did not dare to directly grab the things she touched for fear of causing secondary trauma to the people she touched. "Someone is injured, where is the first aid kit? !”

"Miss, calm down!" The people in the hall behind her slowed her down a few steps, finally found Mao Lilan's position, came over and tried to lift her up from the ground, "There is still fire here, be careful!"

"It's a child, it's a child..." Mao Lilan's lips trembled, and the tears had washed away the black ash on her face, leaving a tear trail, "Save him, save Conan..."

Sure enough, things turned out just as she guessed...!

But she absolutely does not want to learn the truth this way!

No matter who he is, whether it is Conan or Shinichi, she hopes that he will be fine and nothing will happen to him...

Tears completely blurred her vision. Mao Lilan grabbed the hand of the person holding her back and cried incoherently: "Didn't I say that the fire brigade people are here? Save this child, there is a lot of blood... If a blood transfusion is needed, I have the same blood type as him, I can go to the hospital with him..."

"...Sister Xiaolan?"

Interrupted by this confused voice, Mao Lilan, who was crying and crying, was stunned and looked ahead blankly.

The smoke and dust that affected the vision slowly dissipated, and the view in the stairwell became clear.

Conan, who was equally ashen-faced, was standing there, holding a little boy whose leg was pressed down by a heavy object in his hand, and a big gash was opened on his arm, and he was also staring back blankly.

"...Huh?"*2

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"Pfft——"

"If you laugh again, you will cut your hands..." Conan, who was sitting cross-legged on the hospital bed, gritted his teeth as he looked at the apple peel, which made his hands shake and become strangely shaped as Karasawa laughed.

"Pfft, I'm sorry, but..." Tangze handed the apple, which had a wavy shape on its surface with a fruit knife, to the child on the hospital bed.

"Don't laugh, I'm really worried, okay..." Looking at the ditched apple in his hand that had been dug up by the unprofessional peeler, Conan took a hard bite and chewed it twice.

In order to avoid laughing too much, Tang Ze stabbed himself in the leg with a knife. Tang Ze calmly sheathed the fruit knife first and placed it on the bedside of the hospital bed before he began a brief summary.

"So, you rushed to the safe passage last night, and when you were on the phone with her, you found that there seemed to be a child trapped in the stairwell."

"yes……"

"Then when you went up to check, the safety door cracked due to the explosion."

"right……"

"Then when Ran reached out and touched an injured child, she thought it was you who had been blown down. She cried and called you Shinichi and then Conan, saying she wanted to give you a blood transfusion... She really found out who you were. "

"Why……"

"Pfft - hahaha -" Tang Ze, who couldn't hold himself any longer, patted his thigh and laughed.

"Tangze!" The angry fake primary school student smashed the bed angrily.

"I usually don't laugh at times like this. Unless, unless I can't help it..." Karasawa, who was leaning on the bedside table, pinched the bridge of his nose twice, "You are just unlucky!"

To be honest, although the last round of frankness was indeed Tang Ze's doing, he still didn't expect such a program effect.

The scene that Karasawa originally expected would be that Conan found out that he was about to be exposed and ran away, or that because he was worried about the other party, he withstood the embarrassment of his death and stayed where he was and said something like "Brother Shinichi just went out." nonsense...

Fast forwarding to here, Tang Ze really didn't hold back.

As expected of a theatrical version, the whole thing is exciting.

Conan rolled his eyes as he held his head, a suspect already appearing in his mind.

He and Mao Lilan looked at each other and froze for a long time before being taken out of the building by the rescue team that arrived. Although there was only a slight scratch, he was packed and carried to the hospital for examination.

After that, he finally learned the full story of what happened that night from multiple angles.

The Phantom Thieves of the Heart, who were able to detect Moritani Teiji in advance, did not sit back and watch a major explosion endangering public safety.

Judging from the situation at the scene and the testimony of Teiji Moritani himself, most of the bombs that really caused danger were disposed of in a timely manner.

Except for the wave of bombs that exploded shortly after they sent out the warning letter, the rest were cleared. In other words, when he rushed to the scene in a hurry, the members of the Phantom Thieves were probably busy solving the problem in the building.

Because of this, he was even more sure that the bomb that happened to blow open the safety door was definitely intentional.

Joker! If you say that this happened without him, you won’t even believe Conan to death, okay?

However, the email he sent for accountability was blocked by the other party with the excuse "I opened the door to facilitate the escape of trapped citizens."

This is really, this is really...!

"Well, anyway, the conclusion is that you are about to be exposed now." Tangze, who had laughed enough, finally controlled his expression. While wiping the tears from the corners of his eyes, he asked more seriously, "Then what are you doing now? What are you going to do? Have a showdown with her?"

"I, too, don't know anymore..." Conan fell back without any strength. Conan bounced twice in the pillow and murmured, "It seems inappropriate to continue to deceive her, but if I tell her directly..."

Although the scene was indeed very stiff, although when he recalled the dull expression on Mao Lilan's crying face, he was so embarrassed that he dug his toes tightly.

But, now that I think about it carefully, now seems to be the most suitable time.

At this point, except for the pressure from the organization, Mao Lilan has guessed most of the truth. Having a good talk with her and clarifying the truth may be the best opportunity.

However, when it came to the final step, he was both shaken and timid.

Facing the darkness and the threat of criminals, he has great courage, but when facing tears and the hopeful eyes of those who care about him, weakness quietly arises...

"Okay, it is estimated that Mr. Lan will have to be hospitalized for two days of observation. You still have time. Think about it slowly." Tang Ze watched him staring at the ceiling of the ward in a daze, and reached out to pat his shoulder, "My personal words , I have felt from the beginning that relationships based on deception are really very fragile. But this is just my idea. You also have many concerns of your own, so it is for reference only. Don't be too stressed, kid."

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"Are you saying you don't agree with my confession, Huiyuan?"

"I just hope you don't spread the word about the organization's existence everywhere. Their tentacles are everywhere, which will bring danger to the Maori family. If you can handle this problem, I don't have to have any objections... Hey, I know what you are. I can count them all on one hand, Kudo."

"Hattori, why are you smiling all the time..."

"I can't help it, pfft, it's really, really funny! But, Kudo, you haven't been exposed until now. This is already surprising, okay?"

"Mom, I'm asking you a question seriously! Even if I confess, I won't leave Japan with you?!"

"Oh, what you said is so hurtful, Shinichi. The child is getting more and more rebellious as he grows up...Then what are you going to do? Do you want to ask the Kuroba family's children to help you again?"

"I……"

"Ding dong——"

The door slowly opened, and Tang Ze looked at the short child standing in front of the door and grinned.

"I was just wondering when you would come over. How was it? Did you have an unforgettable birthday, Detective-kun?"

This guy really did it on purpose!

After clenching his fist silently for a while, Conan controlled the twitching of the corners of his mouth and adjusted his breathing.

"I have a few questions to ask you." With a straight face, Conan closed the door behind him and said straight to the point, "First of all, Kitagawa Yusuke, is he a member of the Phantom Thieves?"