The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan

"Eh?! FBI agent?!?!"

"Shh, keep your voice down, shh--" Judy, who was sitting on the hospital bed, quickly raised her fingers to stop the screaming girl from saying something even more outrageous.

"Oh..." Before Mao Lilan helped cover her mouth, Suzuki Sonoko lowered her voice, but there was still excitement in her voice, "But Teacher Judy is an FBI agent, which is super cool! So coming to Japan is a secret Are you investigating any case?"

Due to the influence of cool and handsome spy movies such as the 007 series, when it comes to intelligence organizations and special departments, the first thing that appears in many people's minds is definitely not the image of the military police such as the imperial eagle claws and life and death, but the skills. A strong, capable and handsome hero, Suzuki Sonoko's current reaction is not surprising.

"How is that possible..." Judy rolled her eyes and smiled, "There was a mistake in the last case I took over before coming to Japan, and I failed to arrest the prisoner. I was suspended because of this. I came to Japan to relax. I didn't Just kidding, I really like arcade games and have always wanted to come to Japan, so I decided to become an English teacher."

This sentence is to explain to people who don’t understand the organization, and it is not entirely a lie.

After assisting the exposed Shuichi Akai to leave Japan, their group discovered Thomas Sindora's connection with the organization and came to Japan again following his new work release event.

Thomas Sindora's multiple illegal activities were exposed as the Noah's Ark plan was revealed. Kenmura, who was gifted by Noah's Ark, arrived in the United States with evidence about what happened to Hiroki Sawada, a genius who died prematurely. The suffering is still rampant at this time.

But Thomas himself did mysteriously disappear in the embassy. They stayed in Japan because of this unexpected situation, and soon the news came that Belmode was gone.

It is not a lie to say that the criminal was not arrested because of poor investigation of the case.

"However, when this happened, my vacation was naturally canceled." Pointing to the hospital gown on her body, Judy shrugged, "I could have stayed for another half month, and I was also prepared to take a good trip. , now, after recovering from this injury, I will go back and report to the headquarters."

"Is it because of the case two nights ago?" Mao Lilan pursed her lips as she looked at the faintly visible bandage on the lower edge of Judy's clothes.

Although Teacher Judy was not really injured, she still came to the hospital and was hospitalized in order to cope with the accountability of her boss at the FBI and to prevent the guy pretending to be a new doctor from seeing the clues.

Well, although after Conan's explanation, she understood a little bit about the intricate network of relationships behind it, Mao Lilan's expression was still a little weird when she saw Judy pretending to be sick seriously.

Is this what it feels like to have to lie with someone? I hope Yuanzi doesn’t mind...

"That's right." Judy skillfully presented the prepared explanation, "Because I didn't see Conan as a kid, I wanted to meet him before leaving Tokyo, so I rushed to Dr. Agasa's house that night. As a result, I happened to see a stranger. I felt suspicious when I dragged Conan and the little girl into the car, so I quickly drove after them."

"Wow, he looks so awesome." Hearing her describe it like this, the police chase scene in which Judy frowned and turned the steering wheel quickly came to mind, and Suzuki Sonoko exclaimed.

"I chased him all the way to the pier, but I didn't expect that the other party had a gun. In desperation, I had to use the gun... I also want to thank my classmate Maori, who hid in the trunk and called the police, and rushed out to protect the children. I was injured in the shootout and couldn't move, and the children were almost taken away."

"Ah?" Suzuki Sonoko's expression froze for a moment as she listened with interest, "...Xiaolan, why are you in Teacher Judy's trunk?"

"Well, during the farewell party that day, I accidentally discovered a strange photo wall in Teacher Judy's bathroom. I wanted to go to Teacher Judy to ask about the situation that day. But the teacher was not at home, but I found the teacher's photo wall in front of the apartment. The car, and the trunk was unlocked. I, I didn’t think much, just..." Mao Lilan laughed twice awkwardly.

"I didn't think much about it..." Suzuki Sonoko looked at her friend's expression blankly for a while, "You are better."

How could you lie down in someone else's trunk and wait for someone without thinking too much?

Judy also looked sideways at her.

At that time, she was debugging the communication channel on the roadside outside the apartment. She didn't even notice that there was an extra person in the trunk as she went back and forth.

Should we say that Mao Lilan has good hiding skills, or should we say that she is lucky...

"I don't know how to explain this." Mao Lilan scratched her cheek, "But it's great that Teacher Judy is not a bad person."

At that time, Mao Lilan, who was full of random thoughts, thought that this time she was going to play the role of stalking the boss behind the scenes and exposing his true identity. Without thinking, she chose a hidden location to hide.

Well, judging from the final result, she really played a similar role...

Thinking about this, Mao Lilan looked at Judy and couldn't help complaining: "You can't blame me completely. The teacher hid so many photos of everyone so secretly. Apart from a few of us, there were also photos of Tang Ze and others, and Those black and red marks... almost looked like a killer investigating the target, I was scared to death."

In particular, it also includes photos of Karasawa and Akechi looking so exaggerated, with their names and titles written in black, and some marks drawn with red lipstick...

If the lighting in the bathroom at Judy's house was a little darker, it would be perfectly fine to pan directly to the thriller.

The smile on Judy's face froze for two seconds, and it took some effort to return to its natural state.

That dead boy Karasawa...!

"No, I just posted some photos of my friends. Some of them were given to me by them themselves, especially Tang Ze..." When she mentioned Tang Ze's name, Judy rubbed her back groove twice unconsciously. Teeth, "He saw my photo board and said that I liked the look of handsome guys, so he posted all the photos of the handsome guys he knew on it!"

There were also those dark and weird annotations, which were also written by that boy Karasawa, and he even used up one of her eyebrow pencils and one of her lipsticks!

Can you say hello when you are playing with other people’s cosmetics?

She was here to investigate Belmode, not Karasawa and Akai Shuichi, who knew the situation thoroughly. Why did she collect so many photos!

Well, she admitted that it was her selfish intention to take a few more photos.

"...It sounds like something he would say." Suzuki Sonoko held her forehead, "Can't you post the photo outside? It's really easy to misunderstand."

"I did post it in the living room at first, but the Japanese friends I saw had strange expressions. After much deliberation, I had no place to put it, so I had to hide it." Judy, who had already made up the picture impeccably, responded with ease.

"Ah, that's it..." Lingmu Sonoko's lips moved. Thinking of Mao Lilan's description just now, she felt embarrassed to continue.

This is obviously a misunderstanding caused by Teacher Judy's decorative aesthetic. Anyone who sees this weird and suspicious decorative style in their own photos should be afraid of encountering a stalker, right?

It was completely clear from the face of the upright Sonoko Suzuki that she hesitated to speak, and Judy's fists on the quilt clenched again.

This damn boy Karasawa...!

"So, were all the photos related to Tang Ze given to you by him?" Mao Lilan, who hesitated for a long time whether to ask about the photo, bit her lower lip when she heard this.

She could understand the other photos. It was normal for Judy, who came to Japan to track down cross-dressing international criminals, to need to investigate suspicious people.

Only, that photo of Karasawa and Goro Akechi...

It was a somewhat strange photo. The photographer was obviously not at the shooting scene. The photo showed an open laptop screen.

To be precise, this photo should be taken by the photographer looking at a photo or screen being played on an electronic device. It is more like secretly filming some kind of evidence.

It was this thought-provoking photo that made Mao Lilan dare not get too close to Tangze for two days, for fear that the thing behind the photo would be more terrifying than she imagined.

"...Ah, you saw that photo, right? That one, of Karasawa and Akechi-kun?" Seeing her hesitant look, Judy raised an eyebrow, "That one, of Karasawa and Akechi-kun?" Akechi-kun was helping me take a video of the small theater that I was going to use in class. Karasawa wanted to take the video for me to confirm. He looked through it for a long time and said that he could only find this photo of Akechi-kun, so he asked me to make do with it. , if you want someone else, go cut the newspaper yourself."

"Is this the case?" Mao Lilan tilted his head uncertainly.

It doesn't sound very reliable.

But forget it, now that Shinichi has started investigating, her random thoughts may only disrupt his train of thought.

"So, Teacher Judy, didn't you cut it out in the newspaper? You can look for it on SNS. Many of Akechi-kun's fans will post his street photos..."

"No need!" Before Suzuki Sonoko enthusiastically shared her collection of handsome boys, Judy interrupted with a raised voice, "I told you, I'm really not collecting handsome boys!"

Of course she knew what it was. It was a video that Tang Ze shot to fake his own death.

So why do you have to put such misleading things in her photos? Tang Ze, this damn boy!

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"Ah sneeze——"

"...You should change your mask." Seeing Tang Ze sneezing again, Haihara Ai couldn't help but move to the side, "This is the third time."

"Okay." After rubbing the itchy tip of his nose twice, Tangze put down the mask in his hand and took a new one from the place where the hygiene products were placed. "I don't know who is talking about me again right now. , annoying.”

"Are you sure you don't have a cold or allergies?" Haiyuan Ai glanced at the door of his laboratory and wrinkled his nose strangely, "Are you sure you don't have any reaction to cognitive interference?"

Behind this door is the laboratory she set up in the Phantom Thieves' stronghold. Ever since the egg's reaction became more and more severe, she has not stepped foot here for several days, for fear that the action of opening and closing the door will leak cognitive fluctuations. Alarm the organization.

Now that Belmode had been defeated and the 2-chome had been carefully cleaned up by Karasawa, it was relatively safe. Only then did she accept Karasawa's proposal and come over to take a look at the situation.

"Definitely not." Tang Ze said, glancing at the upper right corner of his interface.

He didn't want to come to the laboratory to play with nothing. After putting the eggs in, Haiyuan Ai raised the environmental requirements of the laboratory to a higher level. When entering the door, he had to wear gloves and a mask as he did now.

Mainly, after calculating the time, Zhu Fu Jingguang should have come out of his shell today. He urgently brought people to watch the excitement. No, he was witnessing the miracle, so he didn't care about these details.

After observing his condition for a while, Haibara Ai nodded doubtfully and typed in the password to enter the door: "Okay, please tell me if you feel any discomfort."

"So, why do we even have to come?" Hoshikawa Hui, who was standing in line behind them, struggled to put on a second layer of medical gloves on his hands and complained softly, "Today's schedule is so tight, I am exhausted from running."

In order to prevent Kumel from showing any signs of being related to Belmod's plan, Teru Hoshikawa had to use the identity of Goro Akechi to make his presence felt in every corner of Tokyo for the past two days, pretending that he was also the Internet celebrity detective Diligent today. Open day.

After running back to the stronghold, he just wanted to find a place to lie down and recover blood, but he really didn't want to move.

"We have worked hard for this day for so long, why don't we come and see the results for ourselves?" Tangze said in a tone of knowingly asking.

"You are very confident in your prediction." Asai Naomi put on her white coat and gloves. She even felt a little friendly and in a good mood.

"There is no need to predict this at all. You will know it when you see it." The leader, Hui Yuan Ai, waited for the door lock to open and shrugged.

As soon as they walked in the door, they understood what Hui Yuan Ai meant.

"It's true that you can tell at a glance." Looking at the egg that had turned into ice cracks in front of him, Asai Cheng said sincerely.

"It has been cracked for several days. The cracks are now covering the entire eggshell. It must be fast." Haiyuan Ai crossed his arms, "...I am also very curious about how far a miracle can go."

Tang Ze found a stool for himself, and while facing Haiyuan Ai's death gaze, he took out a few cups of coffee from the toolbar: "Okay, let's sit down and wait. I don't know how long it will take."

"Don't drink coffee in the lab! Put your mask on!"

"It's okay, let's just take a look. Wasn't it okay if someone was cooking in the laboratory before?"

"It's embarrassing to say that he even felt uncomfortable eating the food for two days!"

"That's just because it tastes too bad."

"Hey..." Asai Naomi clenched her fists after being dissed in front of her, "I can still cook, but I'm just not very good at cooking, right?"

"Hey, forget it, Chengshi. Some money can be earned for others."

"Why Mingmei, you also..."

"Okay, let's sit down and drink together." He pushed the irritated Haibara Ai into her seat, and Tang Ze also handed her a cup of coffee, "When he really shows up, if there is no problem with my magic, There’s still a lot of work to do next.”

Whether it is explaining the situation to Zhu Fu Jingguang or arranging his identity and whereabouts, there is still a lot to communicate with him.

as well as……

A clear face of an old friend flashed through his mind. Tang Ze used the cover of the cup to lower the corners of his mouth and make a cold expression.

Zhu Fu Jingguang's exposure is most likely a problem within the police, right?

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"Speaking of the murderer..." Seeing that the topic of the two little girls had changed from their photo habits to how the murderer would arrange the photo board, Judy interrupted their conversation speechlessly, "Recently, there have been serial murders in Mihua Town. Well, you two should also pay attention to safety. Don't go alone on the way back."

"Ah, that's it..." Suzuki Sonoko nodded in response. Just as they were about to discuss the case, there was a sound on the ward door behind them.

"It seems like someone else is coming." Mao Lilan whispered.

"Then we won't disturb you and let's take our leave first." Suzuki Sonoko quickly stopped talking.

"Pay attention to your health and get well soon, Teacher Judy!"

"I'll see you again in two days and have a good rest!"

The two girls waved to Judy energetically, turned around, and passed by the tall man who walked into the room.

Suzuki Sonoko glanced at the white man with wrinkles at the corners of his eyes, who looked like a professor or scholar, and muttered in his mind.

Yes, Teacher Judy is American, so it seems that she may be a relative? Or, colleagues?

As for colleagues, are they also FBI? He looks quite polite, but I really can’t tell...

The man standing in the center of the ward turned his head slightly. After confirming that the two people leaving had closed the door again, they took a few steps away before turning to look at Judy.

"How are you, Judy?"

"No vital injuries, no damage to the organs, nothing serious." Judy smiled at him, "Mr. James."

This James Blake is indeed the FBI, and a higher-ranking officer.

If six years of undercover experience hadn't given Shuichi Akai enough voice in the FBI, their entire team might have become James' subordinates.

James is the commander in their department who is mainly responsible for matters related to the organization. This time it involves Belmod's situation, so it is natural for him to come to Japan.

After pressing Hattori's bandage, Judy's eyes flickered slightly.

He is also one of the people who cannot explain Tangze's identity.

To be precise, in order to protect the Miyano family and Karasawa Akira, Shuichi Akai shared all the information related to them to his teammates. To the FBI's knowledge, the identity of another informant who lurked into the organization was not clear.

Therefore, after discussing with Akai Shuichi, she decided to fake it and pretend that she was indeed injured and hospitalized to hide the traces of Karasawa in this operation.

"Have the Japanese police accepted our argument?" Judy was thinking about some of the concerns she had communicated before, but she didn't show any signs of it on her face.

Akai Shuichi's situation is here, and communication and aftermath matters are not suitable for him to do.

Therefore, before the plan began, Shuichi Akai contacted the FBI to explain the situation of a possible head-on conflict, and James boarded a flight to Japan that day.

"Ah, more or less. After the kidnapper kidnapped the child, there was internal strife. He was caught by a passing vacation agent and finally escaped. They basically accepted this theory." James nodded, "They used guns without communicating with the Japanese police. The problem is, I owe them a favor."

"Sorry for causing you trouble..."

"It's okay. Although the operation to capture Belmod was unsuccessful, you have gained nothing during your time in Japan, right? Although this is a situation that your team is responsible for, since I am here on behalf of the higher-ups, I can make you May I meet those two children?"