The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan

"I have nothing to talk about. Let's talk about the topic just now."

Without going into detail about Bourbon's ugly behavior of bullying minors, Karasawa gave up as soon as he could, found a pavilion that was not easily observed under the cover of vines and flowers, and continued to talk about the topics he had not finished in the banquet hall. .

"So, is Cool Guy planning to use the antidote to temporarily restore his identity to solve the problem of others doubting him?" Belmod took off the gauze hat on his head, revealing a completely unfamiliar female face. .

Bellmode, who knew that she was being targeted by the FBI, would not casually come out to contact Goro Akechi and cause him trouble. As usual, she chose a false identity to attend the banquet today.

"That's pretty much it. For him, this is the most imminent crisis." Tangze followed Belmod's logic and let out a few self-deprecating laughs, "Some people use gunpowder to make fireworks; Bringing war with gunpowder...as if it were inherently despicable.”

Belmod patted the carved armrest and laughed as well.

Born into original sin, this is the foundation of their cooperation. She does not need a collaborator who is unclear about her own position.

Kumail is fine this way.

Then, you just need to confirm a few more details...

Belmod put away his smile and asked in a low and cold voice.

"Is the effect of the antidote stable?"

"In the only two subjects we had access to, it was apparently stable."

"How long will the effect last?"

"Three to five days, maybe a little longer, but not much longer."

"What does that drug look like?"

"Colorless and odorless, if you get closer and smell it, there is a slight smell of alcohol..." Slowly sensing Belmod's thoughts, Tangze thought for a while, chose a slightly aggressive strategy, and said bluntly, "It's like destiny. Final chapter, isn’t it?”

"Yeah, here's a good cure..."

Belmode lowered his gaze and put the adjusted hat back on to cover his expression.

Hidden behind the overlapping black gauze, she passed through the thin longitude and latitude lines, looked at the violet night sky outside the flower vines, and finally laughed unscrupulously.

The woman's joyful laughter attracted the attention of the guests in the garden. Following the sound, she saw Goro Akechi's smiling face, and then looked away clearly.

Facing the handsome and considerate young man, the laughter these ladies made seemed to be very reasonable.

"That's great, that's great." Belmode, who bent down with a smile, clapped softly, "You really picked a good rope for yourself, Shirley."

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"Belmod, maybe you will find a way to take me away during this period of time?" Haihara Ai's fingers on his knees suddenly tightened, and he grabbed the fabric of his pants like a spasm. " Then, do I..."

"Well, I told her about the temporary antidote."

Called back to her senses by the sudden chill on her face, Hui Yuan Ai raised her head and watched as Tang Ze smeared the colored cream in his hand on her face.

"This color is almost there." Nodding with satisfaction, Karasawa took the mask handed over by Shimabukuro Kimie and applied it, casually responding to Haibara Ai's question, "She confirmed Kudo's identity, and she actually guessed you. How to escape Gin’s sight, the reason why I have been standing still is mainly because of your current appearance.”

"...I understand." Hui Yuan Ai closed her eyes, "She is even more afraid of the advent of that medicine than I am."

After Tangze's explanation, Haibara Ai now understood a little bit of the woman's thoughts.

Although this did not change Belmod's cold and cruel nature, she was able to understand the other party's context a little bit.

In order not to involve Kudo Shinichi, in order to prevent the news of the existence of successful experimental subjects of Drug A from being exposed, Belmode took great pains.

She even created some noise around Mouri Kogoro, so she laid suspicion in order to attract the attention of all followers. If possible, she might kill herself and then use disguise to create a realistic "Shirley" "Death" record makes everything seem to have nothing to do with those magical drugs.

Thinking of this, she looked at the person sitting in front of her.

No wonder Karasawa could follow Belmod's ideas so quickly and use lies and words to quickly gain her recognition. Isn't this a superb pretender who has already relied on "Karasawa Akira's death" to hide the truth?

"Anyway, when she sees Kudo who has returned to his original state, she will also discover this problem." Thinking of Tang Ze's support, Haibara Ai took a breath and calmed down a little, "She should be waiting for the academy now. When Matsuri arrives, I will confirm Kudo’s situation in person, and then I’ll be ready to take action.”

"With her suspicious personality, she won't simply accept my words, so she must wait until she meets the real Kudo." Karasawa said lightly as he moved the mask on his sister's face to confirm the size. "This is her only chance to bring back Miyano Shiho's body."

That's why Bellmode said Shirley found herself a noose.

She has never made a move against Haiyuan Ai. In addition to needing to distract the FBI and distract other people's attention from her, the main reason is because of Haiyuan Ai's current appearance.

If he takes a smaller Shirley back, then the next unlucky one will be Kudo Shinichi, not to mention that Belmode doesn't want the news that Drug A is nearly successful to spread back to the organization.

In that way, if one Shirley is killed, the next Shirley will emerge, which proves the correctness of this research line. An organization that falls into madness will only be desperate.

However, the emergence of temporary antidote is undoubtedly a new turning point.

As long as he captures Haibara Ai, forces her to take a temporary antidote and then kills her, then Belmode can successfully bring back Miyano Shiho's body, and all her worries will be solved.

"Furthermore, Shiho, if my memory is correct, APTX4869 was not developed so much by you as you took over your parents' research and continued to promote it." After correcting the details of the mask, Karasawa looked at Gray Yuan Ai's eyes were filled with tears, "So, its main ingredients are actually similar to 'Silver Bullet', right?"

Even though she knew that the people sitting in front of her were relatives who would always stand by her side to support her, Haihara Ai still lowered her head in a reflexive manner.

With the pure curiosity and innocence of a scientific researcher, she and her parents touched areas that should not be attempted and released wild beasts that should not be free.

This is a responsibility she can never shirk.

"...Yes, that's true." She replied softly, her voice as quiet as a gnat.

"Then there is nothing wrong." Instead of continuing to get to the bottom of it and explore the cruel consequences of their research as she imagined, Tangze just nodded calmly, "No wonder Belmod is smiling."

"Ah?" Haiyuan Ai, who didn't understand the causal relationship, raised his face blankly, and happened to meet Tang Ze's pressing hand.

The cold disguise mask covered her face, suppressing all the words she originally wanted to say.

"Do you think, now that silver bullets and Drug A have been released one after another, during the more than 20 years of research and development, the top management of the organization, including some wealthy businessmen and politicians who provided support behind the scenes, will they grow old? Will they die? ? Are there any of them who are impatient and want to try to extend their lifespan?"

"Eh?" Haihara Ai, whose thoughts were still wandering around how many people had been killed by the medicine he made, paused for a moment, stunned.

"Of course I will." Miyano Akemi, who walked in with the finished wig, snorted coldly and touched her sister's soft hair. "Regardless of the cost, regardless of other people's lives and lives, we have to spend countless financial and material resources to develop it. Go down, only the immortals can do this kind of thing."

For some people, the greatest pain is when the person dies and the money is not spent. This sentence is very true.

If this kind of people didn't feel the threat of death, if they weren't greedy for today's life, such a hugely expensive project that even requires human lives to fill it would not be possible.

"However, I have never seen any patients who actually use these two drugs..." Haibara Ai, who turned his head a few times and followed Tang Ze's thoughts, was in disbelief.

"It's impossible for them to leave medical records for something like this that can't be cleaned off if it gets stained." Patting the silly sister's head, Tang Ze said with pity, "If you think about it carefully, this is actually a logical problem."

If there really were no results at all and the organization was still throwing resources at it desperately, then he should suspect that the winery was not a criminal group, but a company used by the pharmaceutical complex to make money.

There are no results, no progress at all, and if the shareholders are still throwing money into it, then this is not doing scientific research, it is obviously doing finance.

According to Karasawa's suspicion, considering Karasuma Renye's very unscientific age, maybe even the boss himself is a user of this drug.

"My uncle and aunt's research started more than 20 years ago, when even Sister Mingmei was probably not born yet." Tang Ze started to analyze with his fingers, "And my parents' research started after I was 2 years old, that is, It was about 16 years ago. I got the attention of the organization, strictly speaking, it started after I recovered, which is 8 years ago."

Haihara Ai, who had gone through the timeline in his mind, took the initiative to take over the conversation: "You are right, if they don't have any successful cases, then there is no need to pay so much attention to cognitive learning!"

Seeing Haihara Ai round the corner, Tang Ze nodded approvingly.

People must ensure survival first, and then consider the quality of life. This is the logic.

For those old immortals, if they can't survive, what's the point of the resources that cognitive learning can help them grab?

In short, since the research on cognitive mysteries has been put on the agenda, it means that the prerequisite medical technology has been turned on.

"So, your antidote is really of great significance." Karasawa winked and made a funny expression, "Both you and Kudo accidentally ingested Drug A at a young age, and suddenly transformed into Children. Not those old immortals."

As Karasawa tested before, the shrinking effect of the A drug is a positive gain buff, not a debuff.

On the contrary, the temporary antidote made by Haihara Ai is the debuff.

To understand it from a game point of view, if Kudo Shinichi, who has turned back into an adult, can be dragged to the cognitive world to form a team to study, maybe after taking the antidote, his health bar will be low, but he will have a countdown. debuff, when the debuff expires, he will change back.

But the question is, what if the same drug effect works on those old people who should have died long ago and can no longer die?

It may only take a moment for them to return from the prime of life to a state of weakness. Their overwhelmed organs will destroy their inner systems in an instant.

To put it bluntly, if Kudo Shinichi and Miyano Shiho can change back to their seventeen or eighteen years old, if some old gangsters turn back into corpses, then they are really corpses...

Especially, considering Renya Karasuma's age, right?

"So I say, your research is destined to be of great significance." Tang Ze smoothed the gap in the mask on Hui Yuan Ai's face, and poked his sister's head with his finger, "That is not only the antidote to save you and the detective classmate, but also will It's the poison that gives them a fatal blow. If you must say it..."

He picked up the medicine box on the table and stuffed it into Haibara Ai's hand as a just-in-case emergency item. Tang Ze clicked on the small box and curled his eyes.

He made a gun gesture, put it on his temple, and raised it slightly.

""I think this is the real 'silver bullet' that can deliver a fatal blow to monsters and monsters. "

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It was already dinner time when he went to meet Belmode. Since he had never disguised such a young child, it took him a lot of time to return to the villa to help Haiyuan complete the disguise work.

Then there is the usual information compilation, the Phantom Thief CH tour, paying attention to the status of the group members, and checking the security of the stronghold...

By the time Karasawa finished his busy day's work, Polo Cafe had already closed, and it was almost time for the drunkards to find their own bars or izakayas and sleep on the streets.

Human civilization has fallen into a deep sleep, and the streets are silent late at night. Only the signboards of the stores in Mihua Commercial Street are still shining unwillingly.

For people who have adapted to urban life, this kind of quietness is a bit scary, and it is easy to worry that there is some evil hidden in the shadows that has faded away from the mask of civilization.

However, Karasawa, who had never experienced a few days of leisurely life since arriving in Tokyo, was very adaptable to this time period and even felt very peaceful.

Although the law and order of Rice Flowers is not good, at this time, even the criminals other than Gin are asleep, let alone the crispy gangsters, so there is nothing to worry about.

Therefore, when Karasawa walked to the door of Polo Cafe to get the key, he was really shocked to find that there was a person sitting at the door, and it was not Toru Amuro, the late emperor.

"Classmate Lan, what are you..." Tang Ze subconsciously raised his hand to make sure that he was still wearing his school uniform and would not reveal any strange identity information.

Mao Lilan, who was supporting his head with his hands and biting his head, suddenly raised his head. Before entering the alert state, he saw the face illuminated by the light sign and breathed a sigh of relief: "Tang Ze, you are finally back."

"Why are you still up so late?" Tang Ze raised his head and looked at the already dark Maori Detective Agency. "Is there something going on? Did you quarrel with Uncle Maori?"

When he spoke, he still felt a little guilty.

Karasawa's own work schedule is completely contrary to that of an ordinary high school student. People who really regard him as a simple student will easily detect problems from his high-intensity work state.

Not to mention, Mao Lilan was obviously here to block him.

After quickly reviewing the recent situation and confirming that he had nothing to offend Mao Lilan, Tang Ze straightened his back again: "Is it okay not to rest so late? Tomorrow is the school festival, and you just came home from the hospital today."

"I just slept in the hospital for too long, so I couldn't sleep and had some insomnia." Mao Lilan shrugged.

Seeing that she had made up her mind about what she wanted to talk about, Tang Ze thought for a while and pointed to the closed door of the cafe: "Okay, do you want to come in and sit down while I heat some milk for you?"

"No, I..." After hesitating for a moment, Mao Lilan looked at the hanging moon and stood up, "Okay, please, Tang Ze."

After walking through the door, he went to the attic to pack his clothes and bags, took Noah's doll off the bag and stuffed it into his pocket. Tangze looked at himself in the floor-to-ceiling mirror for a moment, then took a breath and walked downstairs to give Mao Lilan Prepare hot drinks.

The reason why Tangze cares so much about manners is not because he has been a star detective for a long time and has the burden of being an idol. The main reason is that he has vaguely guessed the purpose of Mao Lilan's visit.

Tangze feels that he has been quite peaceful recently, and has not caused any troubles that require friends to enlighten him in the middle of the night. So what else could be the reason for Mao Lilan to find him?

Sure enough, after taking the hot taro milk from him, Mao Lilan rubbed the cup for a while and finally broke the silence.

"Tang Ze, I want to ask you a question. I hope you will answer me very seriously."

Straightening her back, she looked directly at Tang Ze's face through the warm yellow light of the bar, trying hard to strengthen her momentum, with a serious look on her face.

"Who is Conan? Do you really not know his identity?"

Did you discover that there was a problem with his identity very early, so you had close contacts and close relationship with a primary school student? Obviously you are not like this at all to other Conan classmates. Obviously when you faced me and Sonoko, Occasionally, he would show a wide and gentle look like looking at a child;

Is it because you know the inside story that you mention my relationship status with Shinichi from time to time, as if I can't face this relationship if my mood doesn't change.

Are you, are you...

With him, he was cheating on me.

Mao Lilan's lips trembled slightly.

After receiving these emotions from those bright, even pleading eyes, Karasawa, holding a cup of hot tea, hesitated briefly.

On the issue of Conan's identity, he did not completely agree with Conan's approach of not even informing the Maori family of the danger, but in terms of the overall position, he could fully understand Conan's choice.

At the time when he made the decision, Conan didn't know what kind of opponent he was going to face, or when he would be able to return to his original state. He almost instinctively chose the environment he had lived in for more than ten years, and chose the environment he did not want to abandon. relation……

After breaking it down and analyzing it carefully, we can tell that he was wrong and ill-considered, but in Tang Ze's eyes, for an eighteen-year-old child, the decision itself represented a great courage to make a choice.

Not everyone can make decisions independently and bear all the consequences.

But from the perspective of a rational person after the fact, anyone can be Zhuge Liang.

Therefore, in terms of actual actions, Tang Ze never had any intention of stealing Conan's vest from Mao Lilan. Instead, he chose to use various means to help him cover up several times.

This is not something he should decide for others. He respects Kudo Shinichi's choice.

But it is undeniable that Mao Lilan is also his friend, and she has done a lot for herself. As a friend, she has never failed to live up to Tang Ze's expectations.

Deception is deception, and white lies are deception.

Looking at Mao Lilan whose face was mixed with hope and begging, Tangze knew that his next words would probably determine the direction of many things.

He took a deep breath.

"Have you ever heard of undercover, Mr. Lan?"