The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan

"Where did Asai Narimi go? Why are you asking this?"

"Oh, I saw someone who looked very similar to him near Tokyo. Since you invited him, you wouldn't have let him do whatever he wanted, right?"

"I've said it before, little detective, I have different ideas from you detectives. Phantom thieves always have their own ways."

Karazawa leaned against the window, put his phone against his ear, and changed his voice skillfully.

He knew that in the room on the other side of the wall, was Conan on the other end of his phone, so he changed his direction carefully when he spoke.

It has to be said that even though the identity of Asai Masashi was not a serious vest, it was a bit arrogant to change his name so openly.

Of course, Asai Narimi originally hoped that the detectives would feel familiar.

It would be best if this familiarity would make them suspicious of the reason why Yuga Kyosuke invited him, and then learn the original appearance of the incident thirty years ago in advance.

Just like on Tsukikage Island, he got involved in this family feud not only to investigate Yuga Kyosuke, but also to make public the evil intentions of the Shitara family.

Since they have come to the point where they have to pay for their crimes, Yuga Kyosuke must be very sorry if the truth about Shitara Danjiro's death cannot be made public.

Conan's expression sank slightly when he heard Joker's ambiguous evasive statement.

From the beginning, he had clearly heard from the other party that the Phantom Thieves care more about right and wrong and breaking the cycle of hatred than secular justice, so even if someone like Miyano Akemi is involved in the organization and is definitely not an innocent criminal, or even a murderer who crosses the line for revenge, as long as it meets his concept of "justice", he will not care much.

Just like the people who worked together to send the deceased to hell in the Orient Express Murder Case.

"So your answer is..."

"My answer is of course no comment. I can't sell you his information." Tang Ze tilted his head and rejected Conan's request.

Although the request was denied, Conan had heard the information he wanted from his answer.

Conan exhaled with a complicated expression.

"...So as expected, Asai Shimi has joined the Phantom Thieves. For no reason, you can't keep a secret for someone you only helped once, unless you think he is one of your own."

Joker likes to talk about the fact that he and the Phantom Thieves are one. It can be seen that he attaches great importance to the Phantom Thieves who regard him as a leader.

Due to the consistency of goals, mutual help and tacit understanding, Joker rarely really refuses his request. Only when Asai Shimi has been included in the category of objects that need protection by the other party, will the priority appear above Conan himself.

Tang Ze chuckled a few times and reached out to touch the window glass in front of him.

The winding vines of the creeper wrapped the window like a picture frame. Through it, the gloomy little boy on the balcony opposite seemed to be standing in an oil painting, in another world.

On this issue, they were indeed not on the same side.

"You can call him Lunar in the future." Tang Ze gave this code name, which is currently only circulated within the group, and laughed softly, "Why, the little detective is going to arrest the criminal who escaped from death?"

Conan was stunned and wanted to say something, but when he thought of the piano music in the sea of ​​fire, the words that came out of his mouth choked in his throat again.

Phantom thieves and detectives are common rivals in novels, and even Conan himself is not immune to this. Like the time of the dark stars, he was not interested in it when he knew it was just a preview of the theft of jewelry, but in the end he was almost instinctively attracted by the mysterious and mysterious methods and puzzles of Phantom Thief Kidd.

However, perhaps Joker is different from ordinary thieves. No one has ever been stolen by him. There were a few times when money was involved. The final facts proved that it was just Joker's means to fight against the evil and make them regret. He always ignored the fact that Joker is also a "criminal".

And compared with the thief who just enjoys the collection like Kaito Kid, he may be more deeply involved...

"Even if you want to, I won't let you get what you want." Without waiting for Conan to think of a result, Tang Ze directly asked and answered himself, "I can also tell me directly that as long as the people I rescued have enough ability, as long as they have the determination to give up their past identities and join us wholeheartedly, I will take them in and protect them... If you want to fight against darkness, standing in the light is not possible."

This is what Tang Ze has always believed, whether it is now or in the past.

If there is no support from those who stand in the dark, regardless of gains and losses, many confrontations will not be victorious at all. Tang Ze played such a role in the past, and now he still feels that he is good at this.

"If you still have questions, I can answer you further. From the perspective of modern justice, everyone in our group is guilty. We stole, robbed, killed, and set fires. We fought violence with violence and lynched evil. Many of us have killed people."

"... Including you?"

"Including me." Tang Ze gave an affirmative answer in a steady voice.

When acting as Kumail, he certainly needs to do the dirty work, which is why Shuichi Akai and Toru Amuro repeatedly confirmed whether he was ready.

In his previous life, Tang Ze never refused to face this fact.

"You can judge my behavior according to your thoughts. I don't deny it because it's all true. Don't trust me too much, Detective-kun. I hope you will always look at me and judge me mercilessly when I really cross the bottom line and walk into the abyss. The sword hanging over Damocles' head must be ready to fall at any time to prevent him from getting carried away."

Conan tightly grasped the railing in front of him, completely immersed in his thoughts, and didn't even know when the other party hung up the phone.

He listened to the busy tone coming from the headset, raised his head and looked at the sky.

The sparse clouds in the sky reflected the clear red light, and the orange-red sunset was like the embers after burning, illuminating the green walls wrapped in ivy with an old texture.

He felt that he was calmer than Joker had imagined, and even calmer than he had imagined.

He had imagined similar scenes in his mind, and even put himself in their roles, wondering if he would have other ways, and what he would choose when faced with Joker's extraordinary abilities.

The answer seemed to be yes.

Detectives can only solve puzzles, not everything. He had long understood this truth, so he would not be frustrated by Joker's frank appearance.

All he could do seemed to be to follow his own principles and deal with and face this world with many injustices according to the methods he believed in. Facing Joker's confession, his thoughts did not waver.

Not only because of the justice he believed in, but also because this was the role Joker needed. An assistant standing on a different standpoint, a friend who would not step into the darkness.

Thinking of this, Conan went through the list of people rescued by the Phantom Thieves that he had witnessed in his mind.

Asai Narimi, Miyano Akemi, Shimabukuro Kimie, and even Noah's Ark...

The faces of these people passed by one by one, and Conan clenched the railing tightly, and couldn't help but think of a possibility.

When anyone does things, it is inevitable that there will be path dependence. In a place like the Phantom Thieves, where everyone has the same voice, Joker is even more unlikely to choose people he doesn't agree with as his companions.

So, why did Joker choose such a route? Could it be that he became what he is now, and he also took a similar path, avenging and even killing his enemies, so he can't return to ordinary life?

Joker's enemies, the organization, Karasawa who has received much attention from him, and himself...

Karasawa, who easily said that the detective next door was autistic, was in a relaxed mood.

He stretched, walked out of the room, and walked towards the annex.

The Shitara family is not very famous, but there are many rules. Only Choichiro's family lives in the main building, and even Genzaburo's room is in the annex. It's even more so for nephews like Yuga Kyosuke who changed their names to foreign surnames.

Asai Narimi was walking around the annex with him, or rather, preparing for the plan to start cleaning up from Genzoro tomorrow.

"Actually, I don't think it's a good idea to light a fire." Asai Narimi shook his head after listening to his general idea, "The vegetation in this house is too dense, there is no buffer zone to separate the fire, and it is difficult for the fire alarm to put out the fire in time."

At this point, he observed the expression of Yuga Kyosuke again and added: "I don't mean to oppose your revenge, and I don't think there is anything wrong with setting their house on fire, but this doesn't seem to meet your requirements."

In this regard, Asai Narimi felt that he had a say. ,

Yuga Kyosuke was thoughtful and nodded slowly.

The house of the Shitara family is really too big for the population of their family. Big means it may get out of control.

Yuga Kyosuke didn't want to kill indiscriminately. He wanted to avenge his father and hoped that they could suffer in unspeakable fear, rather than setting all the wealth of this family on fire.

He just wanted revenge. If possible, he still wanted to keep as much of the Shitara family's wealth as possible and hand it over to Shitara Renxi, his niece whom he admired very much, so as to put an end to the pedantic and dirty history of the Shitara family.

"Do you think there is a better way?" Yuga Kyosuke, who was very obedient, humbly advised.

As long as the order of revenge was correct and there would be no discordant sound, he had no obsession with other aspects.

Asai Narimi raised his eyebrows and said with a final word: "I think that since two people have fallen to their deaths and your father died in the same way, it is better to carry it out thoroughly. Even if it requires a fire, it is the last thing."

Flame is the end and the beginning. Burning everything in the past in the flame and entering a new stage is a good symbol.

"Yes, on this issue, I suggest you listen to Narimi-kun. It works."

Asai Narimi didn't even need to distinguish the source of the sound to know who the guy who could say such black humor was.

He turned his head with a smile: "Why are you here? Aren't you busy with those detectives?"

"What's there to be busy about? I know the answers to the puzzles. There's no need." Tang Ze waved his hand and stood in front of Yuga Kyosuke again.

This was not the first time he and Yuga Kyosuke met, but it was the first time he talked to him in his own identity.

Haga Kyousuke looked at the boy with white hair and red eyes and was briefly surprised.

The Phantom Thieves of Hearts is indeed mysterious, but not all members are hiding behind the scenes. Some have appeared in public, and that is the Phantom Thief in front of him who calls himself Joker.

After communicating with Asai Narimi, Haga Kyousuke, who was slightly sure that they were not ordinary people, looked at him cautiously for a while, and had a hunch that the other party should not appear here for no reason.

"Let me introduce you, this is our leader, Joker, you should have heard of his name." Asai Narimi made a gesture, "I asked him to come here to confirm whether the plan I just proposed is feasible. Letting people fall to death may be used to deal with people in poor mental state. Mr. Genzaburo is young and strong, and it is not realistic to ask him to do it according to the designed plan."

In the second half of the words, Asai Narimi did not explain to Haga Kyousuke, who had not seen the real thief.

The only person in their group who has the ability to directly act on themselves by relying on various abnormal influences is the almighty Tang Ze himself. At this moment, they need someone to help them execute the order, so it is definitely convenient to dispatch Tang Ze.

Tang Ze said that this is because the other people in the group are more upright, and only the two of them like to play dirty. Asai Chengmi said that it was nonsense, but if you think about it carefully, there are indeed some commonalities between them.

They are all people who rely on disguises, use faces that are completely different from the past, deceive their enemies and step by step towards the end of revenge. They will choose similar paths, which shows that they are indeed the same type of people.

"I think the plan designed by Cheng Shi is still feasible." Tang Ze took over the conversation and pointed in the direction of the upper floor, "Gensaburo lives high up, doesn't he?"

"You mean, do some preparations in advance?" Asai Cheng Shi touched his chin, "In fact, the plan you designed for me was also quite good. Unfortunately, Kyosuke's father doesn't have any representative songs."

"Don't worry about your "Moonlight". Compared to this, Mr. Yuga, do you have old photos of your father?"

Hyosuke Yuga, who was stunned by what he heard, came back to his senses and nodded in response: "Of course there are, but most of them are in Yuga's house. If you want to find it now, I remember that there are old family photos in the collection room of the main building."

"Yes, that's much more convenient. Let me be more straightforward." Tang Ze turned to him, and a faint golden light flashed in his red eyes, "Do you look like your father?"