The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan

"...Is it actually like this?" Suzuki Sonoko couldn't help being shocked after hearing Okita Souji's words, and looked in the direction of Karasawa in disbelief, "You look like Karasawa, but you don't have many friends in school? You guys? Are there many handsome guys in high school? This is too strict..."

"That's not true. In terms of popularity, my impression is that Karasawa is quite popular with girls. During Valentine's Day, the shoe cabinets and drawers will be burst with chocolate stuffing..." Okita Souji recalled, "But , it seems that apart from me, I really haven’t seen him have any close classmates.”

"Not one?"

"I don't have the impression that..."

With a "boom" sound, Karasawa dropped the drink heavily in front of Okita-san: "Stop talking nonsense Okita-kun, it's so noisy."

"Look, it looks like this." Okita Souji pointed at Karasawa's angry face, "We do have a good relationship, right? He doesn't have this attitude when talking to other people."

No, this is simply because I'm so annoyed that I can't help it...

Seeing Karasawa helplessly shaking his head and sitting back in his seat, Suzuki Sonoko's mouth twitched a few times as she felt that she had some experience with the way they got along.

"You transferred to another school quietly, but suddenly no one came to school. I asked the teacher but couldn't find any information. I tried every means to find your address, and then I found that your home turned into a fire ruin..." Okita Souji glanced at After looking at Tang Ze's expression, he sighed heavily, "I thought you had an accident."

"Are there any strange rumors in the school?" Tangze immediately understood what he meant and raised his eyebrows.

"Didn't you react very quickly?" Having become accustomed to Karasawa's speaking style of directly revealing the truth whenever he disagreed, Souji Okita curled his lips, "You didn't even leave an explanation, and you suddenly disappeared. The rumors must be There are quite a few.”

"Looking at your expression, they don't sound very nice." Tang Ze, who was not surprised, threw the sugar cube into the coffee and nodded calmly, "It's not surprising."

"But, is it too exaggerated to say that you were involved in a murder case, were imprisoned, or even died?" Okita Souji crossed his arms, not looking very happy.

"The fact that you went to my house to look for me will not have any positive effect. Seeing those ruins will only make their rumors more exaggerated." Tangze, who was familiar with the atmosphere of Quanxin High School, shrugged.

"Well..." Okita Souji's eyes drifted to the side, "They have started to put vases on your seat..."

"I knew it." Tang Ze responded calmly, lowering his head and minding stirring the coffee, "It's human nature."

"Hey, this is obviously because you didn't even leave your contact information for everyone, so I can't find you." At this point, Souji Okita raised his eyebrows, "Yes, I have been in the same class with you for two years. Year, you didn’t even give me an email address. You’ve only been in Tokyo a few months, how come they know everything? Damn it, this is unfair!”

Tangze put the coffee to his mouth and took a silent sip without answering his protest.

That's of course because it's useless to tell them your contact information. If something happens, it will only increase the trouble and make them included in the list of organizations for investigation.

The facts that had already happened confirmed that Tang Ze's idea was not unfounded.

His contact information at the time, as well as his social accounts, were taken away and destroyed by the organization. When he came to Tokyo, he used a completely blank new mobile phone number.

Kudo Shinichi and Hattori Heiji, each holding two drinks, walked back to the table. They both looked at Okita Souji for a while, then observed Karasawa's expression for a while, and exchanged glances with each other.

It feels like Okita Souji's statement is not false. The two of them really need to be familiar with each other. To people he didn't know at all, Tang Ze would always smile distantly and say a few honorifics. It was impossible for him to speak like this.

But what Karasawa said seems to be true. He didn't leave any chance for his former classmates to come into contact with his real life...

The two detectives, who felt somehow balanced, nodded with satisfaction and sat down again.

"Having said that, the real situation of Tangze is not much better than what your school classmates guessed, right?" Toyama and Ye Yiyi, who had been watching for a long time, said clearly, "The crime of injury is still a serious crime. This is not easy to deal with. Case."

Even though Tang Ze has protective observation, a kind of probation method that is lenient to minors, his life has been truly affected. This is an indisputable fact.

"It doesn't matter if it's anyone else. It's absolutely impossible for Karasawa-san. He wouldn't do such a thing." Souji Okita frowned and said seriously, "I never believe that Karasawa would commit a serious crime. Juvenile Delinquent.”

After confirming from Hattori Heiji that the person who entrusted him to come to the school to investigate was actually Karasawa, Souji Okita immediately asked Hattori Heiji to take him to Tokyo with him to meet Karasawa.

He never imagined that his classmates, who had lost contact for several months, would face such serious malice.

Especially when thinking about Tang Ze's habit of being indifferent to everything, it seemed as if Tang Ze could predict that his life would collapse at any time, so he didn't need to pay much attention to it.

The more Okita Souji recalled, the more clues he could find, and he couldn't help but think more about it.

"You're right, Karasawa can't be that kind of person." Mao Lilan and Suzuki Sonoko nodded in agreement.

"What was the breakthrough point in the case that you mentioned before? Have you finally identified the relevant persons in the case?" Seeing that the whole table had reached a consensus with the same hatred, Kudo Shinichi looked in the direction of Hattori Heiji.

"The biggest obstacle at present is still the issue of retrieving the files. Since this case has been declared closed, and because it involves juvenile crimes, the files are strictly confidential. It is still difficult to understand what evidence the other party used as the basis for the ruling. Heavy." After Hattori Heiji said this, he reached out and patted Souji Okita on the shoulder twice, "So, after hearing Okita's words, I finally found a possibility of a breakthrough."

"Karasawa encountered the case that falsely accused him of being an assault offender on his way out of school on November 2, right?" Souji Okita raised an eyebrow, "Then I might be able to find him. Relevant witnesses.”

"Are you talking about the witnesses who witnessed the crime scene?" Tang Ze was stunned, frowned and recalled for a moment, then pressed his temples, "But I remember that it was getting late at that time. On my way home, I remembered that because Because of the event, I didn’t prepare ingredients in advance, so I simply went to a shopping street to have dinner before going home. Then on the way home..."

"Impossible, Karasawa, if this case really happened, then it can't be like what you described." Souji Okita frowned deeply and retorted firmly, "Because I was the last person on November 2. People who have met you.”

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"Scotch whiskey?" After chewing on this unfamiliar code name, Ireland frowned and recalled it for a long time, then shook his head heavily, "I have heard of him, but I have hardly cooperated with him. I mainly followed Pisco in the past."

Ireland has known Kenzo Masayama since he was a teenager, and it is true that he has worked hard with him in the organization for many years. However, Kenzo Masayama died at the age of 71, and when the two of them met, they were already over fifty years old.

No matter how unclear the top management of the organization is, they won't leave young and powerful young people alone and let Kenzo Masayama go to the front line to do the tasks of the action team, right?

On the contrary, Ireland often handles similar dark jobs for Kenzo Masuyama, and his personal abilities are basically cultivated in these matters.

Therefore, it is not difficult to infer that he does not have many opportunities to cooperate with other members of the action team. His main activity area is also around Kenzo Masuyama, and his relationship with several young whiskeys who have been in the organization for five or six years is very ordinary.

"That's good, it seems like their actions won't hinder you." Appreciating the newly printed photo in his hand, Belmode kept a smile on his lips, "But I still give you a piece of advice, don't provoke Kumel recently. He and Bourbon may make big moves in the near future."

Ireland glanced sideways at the receiver of the phone and squinted his eyes.

Does this sentence mean that Bourbon will take any new actions, or does it mean that Kumail may have a new conflict with Bourbon?

This sounded like an opportunity that was beneficial to him, but Belmode warned him to stay away...

After analyzing it in his mind for a moment, Ireland straightened his mouth and said coldly: "Why, what new trouble did the two of them cause?"

She couldn't control whether the two of them would cause new troubles. Before the cool guy turned back into a child, Ireland couldn't let Ireland meet Kudo Shinichi who had returned to his original state.

A parody show with a similar appearance to Kudo Shinichi, as a specious rumor, is easy to fool the students of Tedan High School and reporters with keen ears. It is extremely suspicious for the organization personnel who know the news of Kudo Shinichi's "death" Something happened.

She couldn't let anyone who wasn't sure of the details discover this problem.

"They have recently had a strong need to work together and oppose dissidents. How about it? After being criticized by Kumail once, have you suddenly become a lot busier?"

Belmode, the culprit who caused Ireland to be arrested, blew out a smoke ring and shook the pot lightly.

Well, although she had some slander to the higher-ups and asked them to restart the business assessment in Ireland, it was because he was so busy recently that he had no time to trouble Kumel...

But that’s exactly what Kumail asked for, isn’t it? What she said is not wrong either.

"He really did it." Ireland let out a deep breath.

Sure enough, following Kumail without any disguise before was still too aggressive.

We can't look down upon these perverted colleagues...

"Okay, I understand, I will pay attention to the trends." Ireland responded to her instructions in a deep voice, and then added, "I need your cooperation to organize the task there."

"What a pity. If you hadn't exposed your intentions in front of Kumail, maybe he would have been a better partner..." After a few words of hypocritical regret, Belmod raised the corner of his mouth, "After all, he is a Detective, it’s easier to get to the police than you are, isn’t it?”

"That's really disrespectful." He sneered. Feeling that the woman on the other side of the phone was starting to mock her again, Irish Whiskey hung up the phone.

"Well, you have such a bad temper." Listening to the long busy tone on the phone, Belmode chuckled twice and continued to look at the boys and girls standing in the crowd silently looking at each other in his hands.

Impatient people are no threat to her smart children.

Oh, Kumail, of course, smart kid.

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"According to you, Karasawa returned to his home normally on November 2?" After listening to Okita Souji's statement, Kudo Shinichi couldn't help but be surprised.

"Yes. My family and Karasawa's family are not on the same road, so although we will go home together after school, we will basically separate halfway." Okita Souji explained seriously.

"...You can't ask me to go home together. It's you who insisted on following me." Tangze emphasized, "I'm just going home normally."

Okita Souji ignored Karasawa's protest and continued: "On November 2, which was the last day that Karasawa appeared, he and I parted at the fork as usual, and then I discovered that I borrowed money from Karasawa in the afternoon. The textbooks he left were not returned to him, so he turned back and found his way to the door of Tangze’s house.”

"I was at home at the time?" Karasawa, who was too lazy to complain that it was not borrowed at all, but that Okita took it all for himself, asked back.

"Yes, you were at home at the time." Souji Okita nodded solemnly, "You opened the door and took out the things."

...I also refused my request to have dinner at your house, so I won’t talk about it.

"If what you said is correct, then something must have happened after I left. You never leave home without a reason."

"That's true." Tangze, who never took any risky actions because he was aware of the secret surveillance surrounding him in life, nodded.

Hattori Heiji, who had been listening for a long time with his chin raised, raised his head and asked, "Didn't Karasawa show any abnormal behavior at that time?"

"Abnormal behavior..." Souji Okita held his chin and tried to think back. After a while, he hesitated and said, "Well, does it count if it took too long to open the door? From the time I rang the doorbell and told him my purpose, It felt like more than ten minutes had passed by the time he came to open the door for me...but Tang Ze's house is very big, so I thought he had other things to do."

"No, it's impossible." Tang Ze, who realized the problem, also frowned tightly, "I don't have many China Unicom doorbell intercoms installed at home. So if you heard my answer... I should have been standing at the door at that time. ."

Even though there is only one door between us, it still takes more than ten minutes...

The detectives, whose minds were spinning rapidly, widened their eyes at the same time and gave each other a look.

In other words, Tangze must have been in something very wrong at that time. Maybe... the attacker was at Tangze's home at the time.

Then Karasawa's calm rejection of Okita Souji is likely to have another purpose.

——I don’t want Souji Okita to be exposed to threats.

What was Karasawa's mood at that time as he stared at Souji Okita who unexpectedly appeared in front of his door and personally rejected the only possibility of being rescued?

The detectives who thought of this all looked at Okita Souji, who had not yet reacted to the situation, and did not say this inference.

It would be too cruel to let Okita know that he may have missed the opportunity to save Karasawa.

"Sure enough." Tang Ze calmly picked up the coffee cup and took a sip silently. "All my memories of that period are not worthy of trust."

"Tangze..." Understanding the huge shadow behind this incident, the other people at the table looked at him with some uneasiness.

For a patient who cannot learn to forget, it is difficult for them to imagine what it means to deny the correctness of his memory, but they also understand that this is not as simple as a frivolous memory error.

But Karasawa is obviously not someone who will stick to these emotional issues.

"Those people tampered with my memory, so much so that even the memory of that day was fictitious. There must be a reason." Under the warm light of the cafe, Tang Ze's blue eyes shone like sparkling waves. "That means I must have seen something that day, something that they urgently needed for me to forget."

Hidden in the darkness, the devil's tail is finally caught by him!

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"I have to go back to school tomorrow. Your school has a school festival today and will be very busy tomorrow. I won't disturb you anymore."

Standing on the side of the road, waiting for a taxi to pick him up and rush to the airport, Okita Souji put on his peaked cap again.

I have to say that today's incident still gave him some inspiration. For example, in Tokyo, if you don't hide your appearance, you may cause some strange misunderstandings or something.

"so……"

Okita Souji turned around and looked at Tangze's current expression, hesitating to speak.

Tangze, who had always been excellent at reading air, looked at his hesitant expression and sighed silently.

This was one of the reasons why he didn't want to get too close to Okita Souji.

His situation is so delicate that it should not affect any ordinary person. However, Okita Souji seems to never be restricted by his words. He becomes more and more courageous with every frustration, as if he cannot feel his overt and covert alienation.

Tang Ze is really the worst at dealing with this kind of person.

"Cell phone, take it out."

"Eh?" Souji Okita, who had not spoken yet, was stunned.

"Don't you want the contact information? You don't need to remember it on your phone. Do you want to memorize it yourself?" Tang Ze raised his eyebrows.

"Oh, oh! Okay!" Okita Souji was surprised for a moment and smiled brightly.

After successfully exchanging mobile phone numbers and emails, Okita Souji turned off his mobile phone with a smile, and made a "yeah" gesture to Karasawa: "I just said, we must be friends, right?"

"Really, I lost to you." After shaking his head, Tang Ze said smoothly, "Don't talk nonsense about what we talked about today when you go back. Before the evidence is officially fixed, it will cause unnecessary trouble if others know about it. of."

"I understand!" Making a zipper gesture on his lips, Souji Okita blinked, "I always keep my friends' secrets secret, you know."

Tang Ze laughed, raised his hand and patted his back: "Are you so tight-lipped? If I didn't ask you, everyone would have known what you said."

"I just don't understand you. It's a good thing to act bravely. I should have promoted it for you!" Souji Okita crossed his arms and retorted unconvincingly, "In short, as long as it is useful, don't Be polite to me. If the case really starts to be retried, I will appear in court to testify, help you find more evidence, even if it is to help you get a joint letter from the whole school... I will work hard."

"...I really lost to you."

"There's nothing I can do. I owe you my life!" Okita Souji laughed and patted Karasawa on the shoulder twice, "Come on, don't give up your efforts!"

He also knows that chasing after someone for no reason, as if they won't give up until they become friends, is actually a very borderless thing, and he doesn't really have no emotional intelligence to the extent that he can't feel Tang Ze's deep rejection and alienation.

But at the moment when he was about to be hit head-on by a speeding vehicle, Karasawa threw away his bag and books, jumped at him desperately, and knocked him away. Under the influence of adrenaline, Karasawa was in slow motion. Generally, every detail can be seen so clearly.

Including the anxiety and concern that couldn't be faked on Tang Ze's face.

So he said that whoever is the juvenile delinquent, Tang Ze, is absolutely, absolutely, impossible...!