The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan

"If you don't come back, I'm going to call someone else to go out and look for you."

As soon as Tang Ze entered the room, Conan's resentful voice rang out.

"You came back so late, and you didn't even notify me. Do you know what time it is..." Conan, with his arms folded, had already changed into light home clothes and sat on the head of his bed.

They ate and drank with their colleagues from Fei Li Law Firm. After returning to the hotel, they followed Kogoro Mori to Ritsuko Usui's room to play cards, and then Hoshi Saku entered the room...

After a series of actions, the police who suspected a vicious case detained them in the room to wait for the victim's test results. By the time Karasawa simply cleaned up the completely knocked-out Yamamura Soo and put him into his own vehicle, the time was approaching. It's midnight.

"Something delayed me. I'm sorry." Tangze, who got the things successfully, was in a good mood and still had a good attitude in the face of complaints. "It's not the first day you know my level. There is nothing to worry about my safety."

Karasawa, who enjoys multiple bonuses, already has a full understanding of the level of his own force value. It should be said that unless he provokes One Punch Man Kyogoku Makoto and is knocked out by the opponent with one punch, under normal circumstances, he can easily subdue him. Man does not exist at all.

"Really, it's hard to say..." Conan's mouth twitched a few times when he heard Tang Ze talking so shamelessly.

He understood the truth, and he had indeed witnessed Tang Ze's physical strength in various emergencies. However, Tang Ze's confident declaration would only make some unpleasant scenes flash before his eyes. .

For example, Tang Ze fell to the ground unconscious with Mao Lilan after being separated from the main force for a few minutes. For example, Tang Ze fell into the water alone when he went to search and was rescued by the police who rushed to the boat after hearing the inquiry. For example, he was just a little alone. After staying in the hotel for a few hours, Karasawa was hung in a waterfall when we met again...

This speech is really unconvincing.

It was difficult to express these complaints directly, so Conan said tactfully: "Xiaolan is worried that the detention and questioning by the police have caused pressure on you. Are you sure you are fine?"

"Of course it's no problem. I just walked a little far and it took me a while to circle back." Tang Ze shrugged easily, "After all, you know, I can't feel pressure just because I was surrounded by police. I was detained in the first place." Mine is not a police officer at all."

With Souji Okita as a genuine eyewitness, Karasawa's words are quite confident.

It's hard to say whether it was due to past life experiences, or maybe Karasawa subconsciously noticed the unreality of his memory. From the time he checked into Polo Cafe until now, he really has never resisted the police.

This has been personally tested by Zero Group and is guaranteed to be true.

Conan, who also heard Souji Okita explain the situation in detail on the day of the incident, understood what Karasawa meant.

Although Karasawa's memory is that he accidentally bumped into a drunk man who was committing inappropriate behavior towards women on the way to school. When he stepped forward to stop him, he had a physical conflict with the man and accidentally caused the man to be injured and was taken away by the police. However, the real situation is obviously related to His memory didn't match up.

"The power of the organization is so exaggerated that it completely changes your memory. This is still incredible to me." Conan, who thought he understood Karasawa's character well enough, held his chin and sighed, "It's unimaginable to be able to do this."

"Well... my memory has been tampered with. It's impossible for me to answer your question accurately now. However, I think if they do this, it may not be smooth." Tang Ze narrowed his eyes, "My memory is not that good. Easy to modify.”

What Karasawa refers to here is his strong enough mental will.

In his previous life, he was a professionally trained intelligence worker who withstood dozens of hours of torture. After crawling back from hell, he suffered a mental breakdown and reconstruction.

Even in the version where his memory has not been restored, Tang Ze is still a ruthless person with a clear self-awareness. In order not to reveal his parents' secrets, he simply blocked all his relevant memories and locked them tightly.

So much so that for a long time after arriving in Tokyo, Karasawa really thought of himself as a time traveler occupying the magpie's nest, and it took him a long time to confirm his identity.

One can imagine how difficult it was for the organization that tried to brainwash him because he was so indestructible at this level.

"That's right, you are a patient with hyperamnesia." Conan's understanding was in another direction, "It is more difficult than ordinary people to create a real memory for you."

The inability to forget any information is a headache for patients with hyperamnesia. Creating false memories for such people is as difficult as hyper-realistic oil painting.

Otherwise, if many ambiguities can be found through a little recall, the authenticity of this memory will easily be overturned.

"Yeah, more or less." Tangze nodded vaguely, without elaborating on this part. "Looking back carefully, as soon as I recall the experience of those two months, my emotions will be uncontrollable and then collapse. This matter is also very suspicious. .”

"Huh? Isn't it a common memory flashback?" Conan, who had never heard Tang Ze talk about this part, was slightly surprised.

Being caught in an emotional vortex in uncontrollable flashbacks is a symptom experienced by many patients with mental illness, and many patients with depression and bipolar disorder have similar experiences.

Many of Tang Ze's characteristics were consistent with those of the patients in his impression. Conan never thought of delving into this aspect. When he couldn't figure it out, he would attribute them to the direction of recovered autistic patients.

It should be said that Conan used this theory to digest the fluctuations in behavior and emotions that Karasawa occasionally exposed.

This is also one of the reasons why Tang Ze's vest is so reliable - the detective's brainstorming ability is really too developed.

"Of course not. If a patient with hyperamnesia had flashbacks, I should be locked up in a mental hospital and banging my head against the wall." Tang Ze shook his head. There were too many emotions that he could use for flashbacks. "I subjectively I think this may be the result of them finding it too difficult to 'write' my memory, and they could only repeat it many times to deepen the relevant impression."

The organization's estimate of Karasawa would not be much better than that of Fuudo Kyosuke.

When Tangze was caught and put on the machine, the relevant people in the organization must have been paralyzed when faced with his unimaginable personality stability.

They can't kill it directly, and they can't just put it back and expose its existence. It seems that they really have only this stupid way left.

If the handwriting cannot be seen clearly and the color is too light, then keep tracing along the handwriting until it penetrates into the wood and is deeply engraved in it.

Write it over and over again until the memory is deep enough, just like the memory state of a patient with hyperamnesia.

"As for the real situation, I can't find even a shred of memory. It may be that the 'sector' in charge of my memory during this period has been completely destroyed by this violent method."

Karasawa calmly said a description that sounded painful, which made Conan instinctively feel a little tingling on his scalp.

Hiss, he knew that what Tang Ze was talking about was a metaphor, but he still felt an indescribable phantom pain.

"...Speaking of this issue," Conan abruptly changed the subject in order to alleviate this feeling and prevent the topic from becoming too heavy. "The results of my investigation have basically come out."

"As you mentioned before, what clues did you find about my case?" Knowing that he was changing the subject, Tang Ze raised his eyebrows with interest after hearing the information he threw out, but he still accepted his words calmly. .

After multiple inspections, the information that can be determined so far is that the case involving Tang Ze is an unjust, false, and wrongful conviction that is completely, or perhaps does not exist at all.

The reason for his disappearance at the beginning was false. He was not detained by the police but taken away by the organization. There was even a fire in his home, which may have been an attempt to cover up this fact;

The conditions under which the case occurred were false. Okita Souji, a heavyweight witness, had already provided a sideways account of Karasawa's true whereabouts on the day of the incident, confirming that the heroic act of righteousness in his memory was simply impossible;

The investigation and trial of the case were also false. The last time Kudo Shinichi showed up, Hattori Heiji, who came to Tokyo to meet with Ito's lawyer, was actually aware of the existence of interest groups behind him that interfered with judicial justice, and tried to use it to As a starting point, find evidence that can confirm the doubts in Tangze's case and start a retrial of the case.

All of the above is the information that Hattori Heiji worked hard to find out after accepting Karasawa's entrustment.

Considering that the other party has a blind eye on the specific situation of the organization, being able to investigate to this extent from the outside is already a reflection of the strength of Ke Xue's detectives.

——He is strong-willed, hard-working, and has a profound background.

But now, the person sitting in front of him was a detective with a tougher head, a tougher life, and an equally powerful background.

Of course, even if he was unable to participate in field investigations due to his status, his days were not without success.

To put it bluntly, Easy Chair Detective began to develop its own differentiated track.

"I can't be like Hattori and go to Kyoto to help you investigate the situation in detail. I can only try my best to use my own advantages." After temporarily returning to Kudo Shinichi's state, he told Karasawa at the time , "I think your case needs to be investigated from the root cause. It didn't actually happen independently, it was the aftermath of the murder of your parents."

Unlike Hattori Heiji who was immersed in investigating the details, Kudo Shinichi's solution was to investigate forward.

Tang Ze will be persecuted by the organization, lose his normal life, and be separated from his parents. These are all connected reactions, and the root cause is the research of Tang Ze and his wife.

Therefore, the direction of his investigation is the people and cases that have interests related to the mysterious researchers, Mr. and Mrs. Karasawa.

This was consistent with his eagerness to restore his identity and break away from the haze of the organization. He devoted himself wholeheartedly to it. Almost every time he returned to the house in 2-chome, he would bury himself in the files, turning over the cases until he felt dizzy.

With the help of Kudo Yusaku, he really found a lot of clues.

"The situation of your family is the same as that of Haiyuan and his family, so I always feel that investigating the events before and after the important turning point in the fate of you people will be of great significance." As the opening remarks, Conan first explained that he would notice this The reason for the message.

After learning that Tangze and Haibara's mothers were sisters and researching the connection, he summarized several major turning points in their family.

First of all, seventeen years ago, Miyano and his wife died due to unknown reasons, claiming that they died in a laboratory accident. The following year, because Tang Zezhao was diagnosed with high-functioning autism, the Tangsawa couple began their own research.

Then eight years ago, Karasawa's autism was completely cured, and Karasawa and his wife entered high-level careers in the organization. Karasawa separated from his parents and began living alone in Kyoto.

Finally, two months before Karasawa came to Tokyo, Karasawa and his wife also died suddenly. They were wrongly convicted, sentenced, and transferred to Tokyo. Karasawa's fate began to completely change.

Around these time points, he filtered out several noteworthy events from the vast amount of information.

"Have you ever heard of the death of the genius chess player Haneda Koji?" Conan said solemnly, "This case happened to happen seventeen years ago, the year when Haibara's parents died."

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"Didi——"

After two beeps, the card reader on the door turned from red to green, and the door was unlocked and opened.

It wasn't until he entered the entrance hall and closed the door behind him that Saku Hashi took off the hood covering his face, revealing a face full of fatigue due to physical and mental exhaustion.

Being the target of the Phantom Thieves of Heart is not an easy thing.

Although those terrible suffocation sensations and dizzy spells didn't really hurt him, and after he recovered, he even felt an inexplicable sense of physical and mental relaxation. But sitting in the interrogation room of the police station, facing the cold white Despite the bright lights and the expressionless police officers, the pressure almost overwhelmed him.

As a lawyer who often handles criminal cases, Saku Hashi is very familiar with the police - at least that's what he thought in the past.

In some boring fantasies, he would occasionally stand in the defendant's position, imagining that if he was the one who committed the crime, how would he handle the situation more perfectly under the same circumstances, how would he face the police's words, etc. .

He had thought about it a lot, and he had also thought about it a lot when making the plan, but he never expected that when he actually sat in that position, the first pressure he felt was the torture of his own conscience.

Although he fully confessed his criminal plan, although the attention of the Phantom Thieves of the Heart fully demonstrated his criminal intention...

But other than that, after all, Sakubo Hashi had really not done anything. The police released him directly after completing the records and criticism and education.

Detention, for what reason? Will spitting too much black mud pollute the hotel floor?

Not to mention the guys who have theoretically been reformed by the Phantom Thieves. Now, let alone a moral model, the bottom line is already much higher than the average in this world, and the risk is greatly reduced.

In this way, late at night, he left the police station and returned to the hotel where he was staying.

Hoshi Saku felt the cold touch of the door behind him and stared at the spotlights in the hallway, dazed.

Ui Bing is an unpleasant guy. After working with her for a long time and gradually understanding her nature, everyone will think so.

However, at this point, the fact that he actually tried to kill such a colleague who looked up but did not look down at him already illustrates his failure as a lawyer.

In the final analysis, it was because he was hesitant and unable and did not dare to confront Ritsuko Usui in court that he reached this point.

Losing to Ritsuko Usui is unacceptable. Even if he wins by chance, unless he bites the bullet and leaves his current law firm, the narrow-minded Ritsuko Usui will not make it easy for him in his working life from now on.

Many concerns, mixed with his complicated emotions and positions, finally made him make such a terrible decision.

This goes against his principles as a legal person.

He himself, who looked down on Ritsuko Usui, had already succumbed to reality.

After leaning against the door in a daze for a while, he raised his feet in a daze and walked towards the window.

The pliers originally intended to be used to cut off the door chain were lying quietly on his bed. The dark surface reflected the cold light, and the heavy metal texture made a dent in the soft white quilt underneath.

It was placed there like a gap in the abyss, a black hole, silently proving the evil thoughts that should not have occurred in his mind.

Sighing, Sakubo picked it up listlessly, placed it back in the empty slot of the tool box, and fell down to where it originally lay.

As soon as he lay down, he felt some strange sensations.

The sound of paper being crushed and deformed came through the fluffy quilt.

Saku Hashi was stunned, sat up straight again, and lifted the quilt covering the bed.

A stack of manuscripts was placed on the smooth sheets of the hotel. The black and white writing on the paper was very eye-catching.

On the first page of the paper, a small card was pinned to the upper left corner.

Looking at the familiar bright red card back, Saku Hashi shook his head instinctively twice, looked around the empty room, and then reached out and took it down.

Turning to the front, there is an equally familiar card surface.

Everything was similar to the poker he saw earlier today, except that the prominent vermilion on this card was replaced by off-white.

Well, considering that bridge does not use big and small kings, with this small king, 54 playing cards are complete.

Staring at the fateful card for a moment, Sakubo pursed his lips and picked up the neatly bound stack of papers.

Just flipping through it, Saku Hoshi, who had been troubled by this matter for many days, immediately understood what these were.

This is information about the case that Ritsuko Usui is handling, paired with detailed testing data and charts.

Saku Hoshi flipped through it quickly for a moment, and slowly realized the origin of this thing, and his fingertips trembled slightly.

Only after he had tried to fight against Ritsuko Usui could he understand how valuable this information was!

He quickly turned the document to the last page, where a few lines of free handwriting were written on the blank back cover.

"After much thought, today's treatment is a bit unfair to you. Increasing the punishment for personal purposes is against our principles.

To compensate, I have compiled here the content I collected recently.

Lawyers should use lawyers' methods to go to the appropriate battlefield and fight to achieve a result.

I hope this information can help you, and I wish you good luck in martial arts.

ps. To be honest, you have already mustered up the courage to pick up the butcher's knife, so why don't you try to defeat her head-on?

You have no good intentions, joker. "