The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan

"So, you ended up being a guest at Ms. Judy St. Timilion's house, and on her way home, you bumped into the kidnapper who kidnapped the child... uh, Miss Maori?"

Under the light of the port street lights, after struggling to read a long list of extremely difficult to pronounce katakana, the policeman raised his head and looked at the girl in front of him who was wrapped in a blanket and was lost in thought.

"Yes, yes!" Mao Lilan suddenly came back to her senses and responded, turning to look at Judy who was sitting on the other side receiving the transcript, hesitated for a moment, and nodded, "Yes."

"Because that child is the classmate of the child at home, so you noticed something was wrong, right?" The young policeman summed up the problem just now while writing furiously in the manual.

Due to the low population density in the port area, the frequent criminal cases were basically limited to small cases such as theft and theft. He was a little fresh and excited to have the opportunity to record serious cases.

If it were a search lesson, we should have recognized a few of them by now.

"What about the kidnapper? Do you have any clues about the kidnapper's whereabouts?" the young policeman then asked.

In criminal cases involving serious nature, even if it is an on-site follow-up, attention must be paid to the rigor of the transcripts, repeated questioning, and comparison of previous and later statements to ensure that the person being questioned has not concealed or deceived.

He faithfully implemented the theoretical knowledge he had learned and waited for Mao Lilan's answer.

"...I don't know." Not daring to be distracted and look at the other people present, Mao Lilan lowered his head, more like trying to convince himself than answering his question, "The kidnapper abandoned the car, blew up the gas tank and left."

The real kidnapper was the blond woman who disguised herself as a new doctor, and the one who detonated the vehicle was her accomplice.

As for where the other accomplice she called "Calvados" had gone... she didn't dare to ask, and Teacher Judy didn't take the initiative to tell her.

It has reached the point where the two sides are fighting with big guns. I am afraid the situation is more dangerous than the other.

Looking blankly at the blanket on her knees, Mao Lilan's thoughts continued to wander.

Yes, regarding the fact that no one should die in front of their eyes...it means something different to the police.

As the only profession on the island that can legally hold guns, the police are armed with guns to protect themselves and to suppress threats of force. If the situation is urgent, in order to protect the safety of the people and themselves, it is a right for them to shoot and kill prisoners. Complete your responsibilities.

Of course this is also killing, but...

She thought of the familiar police officers from the First Investigation Section, the Japanese police she encountered when Karasawa was involved in the accident, and even her father...

Taking up arms for justice and hurting criminals to protect others is the right thing to do, right?

So, after learning these things, lying to protect them is also the right thing to do, right?

Mao Lilan tightened the blanket around her body, and her chaotic heartbeat slowly returned to order.

Maybe this is what Tangze wants to tell her.

That night, in addition to hinting to her that Shinichi couldn't help himself, these were probably the things he wanted to say.

Is this the world Shinichi is facing?

She looked at the moonlight that was faintly shining on the gray concrete floor under her feet, and she couldn't help but be lost in thought again.

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"I don't like that place."

Sitting in Goro Akechi's car, smelling the new but unfamiliar car freshener, Belmode's voice was gentle and gentle.

As she said, everything was like a dream.

"But I can't leave, I can't do it. I am a person without roots. Everything has been a long-term planning since my birth."

He said that he wanted the other party to dream for him, but Belmode did not explain the meaning of this sentence, and it seemed like he was talking to himself from beginning to end.

"I can't escape. Starting from the root of the spirit. Crows are everywhere, they are God's eyes and ears, and I am just God's creation, a clay sculpture and a statue, a miracle and mercy, but I am not a human being. "

Even though her expression remained calm, her word order gradually began to fall into chaos. As she spoke, various metaphors took turns, making Tangze frown secretly while driving.

He had seen this symptom in other people.

...that poor Futo Kyosuke, who was so fooled by their debuffs and the devices he made that he couldn't even speak to others about his experience in the cognitive world.

He previously thought that after she disguised herself and entered the prison and met Fudo Kyosuke, she told Gin without thinking that Kumail had used her own methods to make Fudo Kyosuke insane, so even if Fudo Kyosuke fell into the hands of the police, There is still no threat to the organization. This cannot be regarded as Kumel's mistake. Most of it should be due to Belmode's care for the Plastic Alliance.

Now look at it, she might really be so convinced.

Because she is such a poor person who can't even control her brain.

Knowing what irrelevant content was coming out of his mouth, Belmod's expression was very calm.

She has long been used to it.

"On the surface, they regard me as a miracle and call me a saint, but I am just a creature that was abandoned casually, and I am just a crow. Do you understand what I am saying, Kumail?"

Tangze, who also drove the car calmly, didn't even move his expression.

Although I don’t know why she is so confident in him, I don’t really understand.

However, combined with the investigation results given by Team Zero and the chips that Toru Amuro extorted from Belmod, he could roughly imagine Belmod's situation.

So, this passage probably means...

"On the surface, you are that adult's child."

After turning the steering wheel and driving towards the highway, Tang Ze spoke very slowly. He had to always pay attention to Belmod's reaction and adjust the content of his words.

"But you were never regarded as his heir. Even he thought so."

The above content comes from Karasawa's interpretation of the riddle, and the following part is the conclusion of Toru Amuro's investigation.

This is also the bargaining chip he can use to blackmail Belmode.

"You are the child he created for himself using biological means, right?"

"Have you found Bourbon's investigation information?" Belmod raised his eyebrows.

Isn't that right? After all, he gave the direction of the investigation. It would be unkind not to share the results with his collaborator.

Saying this in his heart, Tang Ze shook his head: "I vaguely found some clues. I didn't hear everything from him. You just said that I can see some extra 'things'."

Misleading Bellmode's guess and making her interpret Karasawa's super-travel information as a sequelae caused by the experiment is a very important prerequisite in Karasawa's script.

This will further deepen Belmode's trust in him, recognize that they have exactly the same position, and will also lay the foundation for new scams in the future.

When it comes to acting, Tang Ze is really serious.

After laughing softly twice, Belmode raised his chin and changed the question.

"How old do you think I am?"

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"...My parents, as well as Tang Ze's parents, are conducting very dangerous cutting-edge research." Standing in front of Mao Lilan, Haihara Ai explained softly, "Almost all of them were killed. "

"How could this happen?" Mao Lilan fell to the ground in shock. "Tangze told me before that his parents died in a laboratory accident..."

"Yes, that's what they say to the outside world." Haihara Ai nodded calmly, "We can't find any other evidence."

"The deaths of Mr. Ichikawa Karasawa and Ms. Leona Karasawa were very sudden." Standing up straight, Judy pulled out a damaged blood bag from the clothes on her abdomen - she had been prepared, and of course she would not be killed by Bell again. Mod said, "While they were imprisoned, they relied on Xiuyi to establish contact with us. The two of them can be regarded as our informants."

"Two months before Karasawa came to Tokyo, they suddenly lost contact. A few days later, news of his death came. Therefore, I rushed to Tokyo to try to protect Karasawa's safety." I skipped my undercover status and subsequent exposure. Akai Shuichi explained calmly the series of chain reactions caused.

"Two months ago, so was the case involving Tang Ze also part of the persecution?!" Mao Lilan opened her eyes in shock.

"Yes." Hui Yuan Ai nodded.

"So, so, you and Conan are in similar situations...?" Mao Lilan, who finally connected everything, pointed tremblingly at Haihara Ai's face that looked a bit like Tang Ze.

"I am indeed Tang Ze's sister...but I am already 18 years old." Haiyuan Ai pursed her lips and turned her head away.

"Oh my God, so..." Mao Lilan held her own face and fell into self-conscious shock, "In order to investigate Kara Ze's case, Shinichi became like this?"

"Uh..." He couldn't help but get stuck. Hui Yuan Ai peeked at Tang Ze, who was standing not far away without saying a word, leaning on a sniper rifle, and reluctantly nodded, "D-Probably..."

Tang Ze, who always blames others, rarely takes the blame: "..."

"But, in this case, since that photo is the result of Teacher Judy's investigation, then the abuse that Karasawa said in those two months was done by Akechi-kun?!" Self-consciously, he has connected all the logic. Mao Lilan couldn't control her voice, "Is that what that photo is about?!"

Damn it, then why did Karasawa repeatedly say that Goro Akechi was his friend...

Could it be that some kind of Stockholm was born out of bullying and abuse?

Oh my god, why is this... No wonder Karasawa insisted that he had no other friends before arriving in Tokyo...

"This, this..." Judy glanced sideways at Karasawa, who was doing nothing to scare the children, "Well, we are still investigating. You can be appropriately wary of Goro Akechi."

Akechi Goro's identity doesn't have much interaction with them. Keeping distance from this identity can indeed effectively reduce the organization's attention on these children...right?

Damn, it was Tang Ze's own trick, and he would have to bear the consequences himself.

Tangze, who directed and acted in the entire play, was very calm.

We have indeed reached such a stage of the plot, and then it is almost time for Bermod to discover the second half of his script.

I hope she really pays as much attention to Angel as she said, otherwise no one will take the next part, right?

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"The first recorded test-tube baby was born in 1978, and Belmod's real age is much older than that... So, you may understand what I mean."

"I can probably understand. She is a product of artificial fertilization similar to in vitro fertilization created by the boss? The technology at that time was very immature, let alone surviving to this day. It is a miracle that she survives."

"Yes, her lifespan should be extremely short. This is the purpose of that person."

"Let them do whatever it takes to survive?"

"Yes, they are all useless defective products anyway. It is enough to be able to test drugs for him. We guess that that person may have some kind of fertility defect, or may not be able to reproduce naturally due to physical reasons. When we arrived at Belmode , what’s more, it’s impossible for her to have the ability to have children.”

"A humanoid guinea pig that exists purely for experiments. It sounds really pathetic."

"And she has been manipulated too much. She is a puppet created on strings. That's why the people in the organization will trust her so much, and the boss will indulge her so much. She doesn't have the ability to resist at all."

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"So, no matter how outrageous you have done, all it takes is a light command, and you will become a docile lamb again." Tang Ze simply concluded after finishing his memories, "You don't even have the ability to dream. .”

Closing his eyes, Belmod couldn't help but feel sleepy due to pain and exhaustion, and just curled up the corners of his mouth.

Of course, without the ability to dream, it was extremely difficult for her to even fall asleep.

Such days have passed for so long that I can't even remember where they started.

How much of this was a side effect of the drug, and how much was her deficient genes protesting in this cage-like body, she couldn't tell.

She only knew that if those taboo studies had not begun and would yield no results, a life as miserable as hers would not exist at all.

She hated them so much, hated everything about it, and of course she hated herself who was born here.

Hate this pain, hate this lack of freedom.

When the kite is flown into the sky and you see the free flying bird, you will only resent them. Why should they let an artificial object give the illusion of flying?

Unfortunately, kites can't dream.

"Just drop me off on the roadside, take away the storage contents on my mobile phone and cool guy's device and destroy them. Dream for me, I think, have a good sleep."

The moment of respite tonight is just a nap, a peaceful corner.

Leaning on the seat, Belmod's consciousness began to blur again.

Give me a good night's sleep.

It became a silver bullet that pierced my heart, making me close my eyes and never have to open them again.

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"Kudo Shinichi? Who is that?" Gin, who parked his car by the bridge, said with a cold expression, "I've never heard of it."

"That's right, the kid that big brother poisoned with the organization's new drug seems to be a detective..." Vodka, who was hiding in the corner, whispered to the other end of the phone.

"I never remember the faces and names of people who have been killed." Lighting a cigarette for himself, Gin replied calmly, "Then, what are you going to say? Are you going to say that he is dead?" Are people coming to your door again? You're going to the Halloween dance, not really going to be a ghost, vodka."

"It seems, that's not the case..." He glanced in the direction of the door, thinking of the dark-skinned young detective he had just seen, Vodka hesitated.

"Why are you wearing makeup like Kudo again?" Suzuki Sonoko sighed, "Is this the second time?"

Fortunately, she still thinks that this handsome and athletic guy is very attractive. He dresses up like a mystery maniac all day long and speaks in such a similar tone that it doesn't interest anyone at all, okay?

"Sorry, sorry, didn't I just receive the invitation? I was thinking that I was exposed so quickly last time, so I have to be well prepared this time. How about, I deceived you, right?" Hattori Heiji opened the door with a smile. Joking, "After all, if he hasn't come out yet, he might really be dead like the rumors say."

"If Xiaoran comes today, I will definitely kick your hand off." Mouri Kogoro said angrily after Hattori Heiji used the telescopic mechanism to demonstrate the detachable palm.

Don't make it sound like he has any special acting hobbies, okay?

There was no other way. Kudo and Karasawa came to him for help, saying that it was to complete the plan, and there were probably other members of the organization on the ship, such as Kumel who arrogantly signed the letter secretly...

Even now, who can say that there are no members of the organization on board?

"When it comes to disguise or makeup, well, if you've never seen the person in person, is it difficult to do it exactly the same?" Vodka held it in for a long time and finally asked.

What else to say? He was shocked when he saw Kudo Shinichi show up. When he finally found a hidden location to make the call, the other party took off his hood and announced that it was a fake.

What else can he do? All the calls to his eldest brother have been made...

"Don't ask stupid questions. Is Karasaki alive? Kumail only saw his photo, and his disguise is already perfect." Gin snorted and didn't want to listen anymore.

Well... If you have to say it, brother, it was the first time I met Kumail, and he was a little bit different from the one in the photo.

Vodka, who did not dare to admit that his eldest brother might be face blind, scratched his face in embarrassment and scratched a hand of paint.

In order to make the zombie image with make-up as realistic as possible, he added two holes on the face. Now that he suddenly touches it, it feels disgusting.

"Okay, since Belmod has committed a murder on the ship, the police are expected to arrive soon. You should hurry up and get off the ship before you are discovered. If the locator on your body appears in a place it shouldn't be, you will be the next target. Already." Gin, too lazy to talk nonsense with the other party, hung up the phone.

Even the code name was heard by ordinary people outside the organization. This alone was enough for the organization to be dissatisfied with Belmode's action this time.

This woman can finally get away, even if it's temporarily.

"...this gentleman?"

As soon as the phone was hung up, before Vodka could relax, a voice suddenly came from behind him, making him turn around suddenly in fright.

The bartender wearing a skull mask was standing in front of the bathroom door. The pale mask was very realistic, and the eyes of the mask even fluoresced slightly, making Vodka shiver.

"Are you okay? Do you need any help? The ship will return to port soon. According to the police's requirements, we will start to evacuate the guests and register their names." It was scary, but the bartender's voice was polite and seemed to really remind him. look.

It was a completely standard service tone. It seemed that he didn't hear anything, so Vodka breathed a sigh of relief.

"Okay, I understand. I'm going out right now."

"Okay, thank you for your cooperation."

Watching Vodka leave the cabin in a hurry, the skull-masked bartender waited until he was gone before pressing the intercom on his chest.

Toru Amuro's voice came out from under the mask.

"Well, Vodka is carrying a locator, so we can't try our luck tonight. Let's stop the team first."