The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan

Kudo Shinichi, who walked out of the observation restaurant, also pressed his face which was completely red. For a moment, it was almost impossible to tell whether the effects of the medicine were taking effect again.

The way Xiaolan spoke just now replayed in his mind over and over again. He walked out of the restaurant door, walked faster and faster, and finally started running.

Ever since he became smaller, he seemed to have been cursed by fate, and it seemed that he had finally found favor with the goddess of luck, and the thread of fate had dropped its branches to him.

It was a night worth remembering, worthy of his celebration, his joy, his uncontrollable cheers.

But before that, he was going to see how the guy who had given him this miracle was doing.

Because of Mao Lilan's unexpected answer, only half of the 20 minutes mentioned by joker were used.

This is not bad. If Joker is really in trouble, an adult's body will definitely be more convenient to rescue him than a child's body.

Thinking like this, he pushed open the safety door.

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"...It's an astonishing scene."

"Oh, I just gave it a try, but I didn't expect this to actually happen."

"Stop talking nonsense and ask why you carry a syringe with you? You must have planned it for a long time."

"Well..."

After untying the scarf wrapped around Tang Ze's shoulders to make it easier for him to raise his arms, Haihara Ai took out the special needle with a stern face and put it on skillfully: "Stretch out your hand."

"Hey, it still hurts when a child's hand is pricked." Seeing the tiny needle sinking into the vein, Tang Ze blinked innocently and tried to get away with it, relying on the fact that he was still a child.

He prepared the needle correctly, but he forgot to consider the problem of small blood vessels after becoming a child.

Not to mention that in a child's body, it would be exponentially more difficult to draw blood from one's own arm.

Fortunately, Haibara Ai, who was worried about him and Kudo Shinichi after all, was on standby near the observation restaurant. Karasawa, who had confirmed Belmod's departure, quickly called for a wave of reinforcements.

"Had I known this was your plan, I would never have agreed to your plan in the first place." Haiyuan Ai, who was immune to Karasawa's cute attack, drew out a whole tube of blood mercilessly, "After all, the side effects are completely unknown. No one knows how much burden the sudden increase or decrease of the drug will have on the body."

In her opinion, as the developer of the drug, she had an obligation to fix the mess she had left, and the real testing of the drug should be on her.

However, she had promised Karasawa not to test the medicine on herself privately, and since her sister would keep an eye on her every day, she had no chance to try it secretly. As a result, she couldn't even grasp the time when Kudo would take the short-term antidote this time. Already...

Troublesome guy.

"Since the situation is good now." He obediently took the cotton ball handed over by Haibara Ai. Tang Ze, who had finally untied the cloth, got out of the pile of scarves and stretched his hands and feet twice, "Phew, a child's body, He’s not as weak as he thought.”

I thought that when he became seven or eight years old, even the Phantom Thief of Heart with a strengthened body would inevitably face decline in strength and physical strength, but Tangze took a closer look and found that he didn't even have a health bar. What a change.

It is indeed lacking in fine muscle control compared to the original, but if you concentrate, you can still exert 80% to 90% of your power.

Putting the syringe away in her bag, Haiyuan Ai paused when she heard this.

"...Are you saying that even with your current body, you can still exert the power of an adult?" She thought of something and her eyes widened slightly.

"Well, even if it is somewhat different from the complete state, this is definitely not the power of a seven or eight-year-old child, right?" Tang Ze said, reaching out to grab the iron rod of the handrail beside him, and slowly exerting force.

The metal railing slowly bent under Haiyuan Ai's shocked gaze.

After repeated training and strengthening, coupled with the improvement of physical fitness, Tang Ze has now steadily surpassed Mao Lilan's level in terms of strength alone, and it is easy to perform some physical wonders.

"So the conclusion is that you and Kudo were like this before you became children." After pushing back the railing that had been deformed by himself, Karasawa spread his hands easily.

Therefore, the main reason why Conan and Haibara Ai look so much like children is because they are two little squirrels.

Thinking about it, this can also be seen just by looking at Conan's completely unscientific running speed and physical strength, coupled with the recovery ability of the two of them after being injured.

The shocked Haibara Ai didn't care about Tang Ze's complaints about her lack of diligence at all. She held her head and fell into another kind of shock.

"...Using APTX to change one's youthful state cannot allow one to truly go back to the past. One cannot truly go back to the past!"

Raising her head suddenly, she looked at the 7-year-old version of Karasawa, who was in black clothes and white hair, and was still in the Phantom Thief state. She held his round face that was now full of baby fat, and a look of real joy appeared on his face.

"I understand! No wonder they want to study cognitive science."

No matter how hard you try to pile gold and jade on the outer shell of an already decayed soul, you cannot change its essence.

"That's why Belmod continues to undergo drug trials, and that's why she is a rotten golden apple. In other words, we only need to...!"

Tangze, who understood that his sister was agitated at the moment, struggled twice symbolically, but did not stop her from almost deforming his face.

Just as he was about to listen to her explain her new discovery in detail, Karasawa, who was scanning the small map with his eyes, interrupted her alertly.

"Shh, someone is coming."

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"Squeak - ah -"

The safety entrance door, which has been closed all year round and is rarely used, is obviously not carefully maintained. Kudo Shinichi's eardrums trembled when he heard it as he pushed the door hard.

He thus failed to catch the last traces of his interlocutors' words.

After his eyes adjusted to the much darker environment, Kudo Shinichi couldn't help but be stunned.

A child in blue clothes was holding the face of a white-haired little boy with both hands, standing in the corridor.

The little boy with white hair and black clothes, looking at his clothes, is obviously the joker himself. The messy cloth scattered on the ground seems to explain his missing scarf.

——Joker actually turned into a child for him.

Even a time-limited change is shocking enough.

The other one, Haiyuan, was obviously disguised as Conan. He was probably worried that the effect of his medicine would expire soon, so he came here to check the situation.

He understood the truth, but in this scene, it looked like Conan was bullying the little joker. He didn't know what to say after pushing the door open and breaking the scene.

"... Haibara, you..." Turning his head and looking at Haibara Ai who was pinching someone else's face, Kudo Shinichi hesitated for a moment and said carefully, "You can't be..."

Are you the kind of weird sister who likes children very much? Loli control shotacon type.

If you think about it carefully, Haibara is really at home in school, and he likes to be close to Ayumi.

Hiss, so you will participate in the research and development of APTX4869, is it because...

"What rude things are you thinking about!" Feeling the strange gaze on Kudo Shinichi's face, Haibara Ai quickly let go of his hand and turned to glare at the guy who broke in. "I just found him. Let’s make sure it’s not just some boring kid playing cosplay…”

"Pfft..." Tang Ze, who was criticized for being murdered again, couldn't hold back and let out a sneer.

"You still have the nerve to laugh, please explain what the situation is now!"

"Haiyuan, you clenched your fists and stamped your feet like a little girl like me. It looks really weird..."

"Shut up, too!"

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"So, the current situation is that Miss Mao Lilan knows, but not completely. She is not going to force you to explain everything. And joker used some special means to transfer the A drug in you for twenty minutes. ,Yeah?"

Karasawa gave up saving his scarf and sat directly on the messy pile of wool. He raised his hand and added in a childish voice: "This ability not only works on Kudo, but if you are interested, I can also let you I’m temporarily changing back for a while, Miss Miyano.”

"...I'm not interested in being excruciatingly painful once." Turning his head with a stern face, Haiyuan Ai took off his glasses, "I basically understand the situation, and I will take the time to study it later. But, you Time is still running out, Kudo. I'll go change my clothes and give them to you."

"Oh, okay, thank you..."

Watching Haibara Ai walk to the bathroom with her schoolbag in her arms, Kudo Shinichi turned back and looked at the young version of Joker, not knowing where to start.

"When you look like this, your clothes suit you surprisingly well." When he had nothing to say, he first commented on the joker's appearance at the moment.

Compared to the elegant and casual Kaitou Kid who wears a full white suit, Joker's Kaito thief outfit is actually a bit strange to him.

Even if you can't see the other person's face, based on his height, voice, and other aspects, it's not difficult to tell that the joker is probably a young man in his 20s.

It is normal for a 20-year-old man like Kidd to wear a suit. Shorts that go over the knees and stockings are a bit subtle and weird, not to mention a scarf that is completely out of season with the clothes on his lower body.

If he hadn't known that Joker's phantom thief state was probably a manifestation of some of his abilities, he would have questioned his strange aesthetics.

To put it simply, you are really a bit too two-dimensional.jpg

But after becoming a child, joker's clothes have become much more pleasing to the eye, like gothic children's clothes with a slightly exaggerated style.

That's right, he actually doesn't know the specific origin of joker. Maybe he awakened his power when he was seven or eight years old, which caused his personal "image" to be fixed at this age, and he could only be forced to wear children's clothes for the rest of his life?

"I think the thoughts in your mind must be impolite." Tangze raised his eyebrows and shrugged, "But it seems that my kindness is indeed a bit unnecessary. Your prince is more discerning than you and I thought. , even without the glass slippers, you can still recognize the dusty Cinderella at a glance."

...It’s over, it’s more appropriate for joker to talk about fairy tales like this, which is inexplicable.

Kudo Shinichi suppressed the smile at the corner of his mouth and thanked him again seriously: "Whether Xiaolan needs to listen to my confession is one thing, but whether I should tell her or not is what I should do. I still want to thank you for your help. .”

"You have grown up, great detective." Joker tilted his head, a smile appeared on the lower half of his face, revealing two small tiger teeth, "But instead of thanking me, you might as well thank Miss Lan. It was you who helped. You yourselves, I’m just exerting a little bit of my power on your behalf.”

Oops, that's more appropriate.

Could it be that Joker has really been watching out for the Phantom Thief since he was in elementary school? This is really...

Kudo Shinichi, whose thoughts were completely distracted, coughed twice and turned his head: "Well, anyway, thank you, Kaitou-kun. If there is anything you need my help with in the future..."

"If you have to help, then please trust yourself more." Feeling his heartbeat starting to accelerate again, Tang Ze rolled his eyes and understood that the time had entered the countdown, "I am just a butterfly flapping my wings. Without you, I can't express myself Inner recognition and change, my efforts will have no effect.”

Today's world has undergone many changes, deviating more and more from the plot he is familiar with.

Is this Karasawa's power? of course.

But he is more willing to believe that the people he selected to assist them already have enough excellent qualities. He may have influenced them, but he has not fundamentally changed their personality.

He is just a butterfly that stirs up the breeze, attracted by the gorgeous spring, and becomes a part of it.

This is the scenery he likes, these people are also the friends he likes.

What does it mean to trust yourself more?

Feeling the familiar pain coming over him, Kudo Shinichi's vision was a little blurry and he was unable to ask any more questions in detail.

Perhaps due to the forcible influence of joker's intervention, this change occurred very quickly, making him unable to distract himself from paying attention to the other party's subsequent words.

But this time, when he lost his strength and fell to the ground, Kudo Shinichi felt much more peaceful.

Even if the shadows of APTX and the organization are like tarsal maggots, entangled in him and refusing to disappear, he now has his own lights.

It's not enough to light up the entire dark night, but it can dispel the cold and fear for him.

Let him wait until dawn.

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"Sister Xiaolan..."

"Conan, you're here." Handing the menu to the waiter waiting behind him, Mao Lilan looked at the little boy who came to the table and smiled at him, "You haven't eaten yet, are you hungry? I'll give you something new." Ordered some food.”

As she spoke, she pushed the frosted cake on the table in the opposite direction, signaling the other party to eat the dessert that had been neglected for a long time.

"I like this cake very much. It's delicious. Your brother Shinichi is not lucky enough to eat it, so you should eat it for him."

Conan, who was still a little hesitant about how to talk to Mao Lilan, scratched his head, looked at the girl across the table for a while, and then slowly climbed onto the chair.

The seat that was just right for him, who was a large man, had to use both hands and feet to climb up.

As he climbed, Conan sighed secretly.

Eating with the girl you like turns into a warm family meal scene...

He understood the truth, but it was still difficult to hold back even if he thought about it carefully.

"Um, if you want to pay the bill, here's the credit card..." Pulling out the card belonging to Kudo Yusaku from his pocket, Conan put it on the edge of the table, debating whether to be shameless and say, "Brother Shinichi left it." .

Mao Lilan's previous words meant to maintain a tacit state of understanding, pretending that nothing happened, and letting him still stay at her house normally as Conan.

But when he thought that Mao Lilan had seen through his identity problem, and he still had to pretend that he was two different people, he felt his scalp numb with embarrassment.

As a detective who has never been a serious Onion Man, he is still relatively thin-skinned.

"It's what your brother Shinichi left, right? Leave it here." Mao Lilan nodded calmly and took the initiative to take over the conversation, "I don't feel guilty about using it. A certain reasoning madman can't be found if he runs away. , I’m obviously here to treat you to dinner. I ordered grilled lamb chops for you, if it’s not enough, we’ll add some more.”

Mao Lilan, who has been doing some mental construction for several days, now feels a little more enlightened.

Rather than the identity of Conan and Shinichi, what she cares more about is the safety of the other party, as well as the deception and concealment of her.

No matter how perfect a lie was, it was still a lie. This was why she felt so angry at first that she couldn't restrain herself from going downstairs to block Tang Ze.

After figuring this out, and with Kudo Shinichi's proactive and frank actions, the obstacles in her mind have now been basically overcome.

Some force majeure is force majeure because it is not subject to personal will.

And all she can do is really try her best to pretend that nothing happened and prevent others from doubting Conan's identity.

...Speaking of which, isn't this guy's acting a bit too perfunctory? Would an ordinary first-grade primary school student have such a precocious mental state that he would not only remain calm when seeing a corpse, but would even be able to approach it and smell whether it was caused by cyanide?

The deception was so perfunctory, which was one of the reasons why she was unhappy.

The hateful guy encountered so many dangers without permission, and yet to this day, he still looks like he is completely careless about his own life...

"Well, isn't it a bit..." Conan shrank his neck.

"What, do you think it's expensive?" Mao Lilan raised her eyelids and looked at him silently.

"No, no..." Conan waved his hands repeatedly, feeling that Xiaolan, who had seen through the truth, seemed to be more difficult to deal with than before.

Raising her eyebrows, Mao Lilan picked up a piece of fruit, bit it, and said to herself: "Recall carefully, I seem to have taken you to take a bath because you were young, let you sleep on my bed, and even sat with you in my arms. Buses and stuff... Well, now that I think about it..."

Conan immediately began to sweat profusely: "..."

"Sure enough, no matter how you think about it, I still feel a little angry when I think about a guy who likes to leave without saying goodbye."

"Sister Xiaolan..."

"Waiter, give me the menu again. Add two more ice cream dishes."

"Would you like to try this ice cream platter, ma'am? It's very popular. There was a table of customers today who ordered four portions of this ice cream alone."

"Looks good...let's have two."

"Sister Xiaolan, isn't it good to eat so much ice cream so late..."

"Oh, that's right. It's not good for children to eat so much. It's okay, just watch me eat."

"Sister Xiaolan!"