The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan

"Hey, are you the new guests this morning? There are actually very few new faces here... Madam, I'm actually not sure about this. She has lived abroad for more than 20 years. As you know, her family's qualifications are The older servants all died in the fire..."

"I don't know about this castle. In fact, the castle is now in the name of the dowager. Oh, about the death of the lady, there is a saying in the family that the nobles who lived here in the past were very particular about exchanging the lifespan of their heirs for themselves. life..."

After feeling how the servants in this castle spoke and behaved outside the sight of the master, there was no need to gather for discussion. Almost everyone in the Phantom Thieves dispersed in twos and threes in a tacit agreement. On the surface, they were thinking too much. Observing the huge chessboard on the castle lawn from an angle is actually asking the servants everywhere to understand the situation.

After getting along day and night for such a long time, the members of the Phantom Thieves have already understood each other's work style, and have developed several fixed partners in a tacit understanding. They can ask questions, process information, and integrate in a very targeted manner. It is too easy to communicate and build a good relationship with a group of helpers who are unprepared and live a boring and leisurely life in a castle in the suburbs all day long.

When it passed noon, Dr. Ali and the Young Detective Team, who had returned without success, approached in the round little Beetle. What they saw was a completely unexpected scene.

"I forgot to bring the most important tent when I went camping." Kojima Motoaki stepped out of the passenger seat and walked on the soft humus layer of the forest, still complaining, "Dr. The carelessness is beyond imagination.”

"I even got lost on the way back. I don't even know where I went." Yoshida Ayumi, who led Haibara Ai down, agreed, "If I hadn't discovered that there was a castle here, I wouldn't have known where to sleep at night. Where. Sleeping in the car?"

"It's all you guys. They've been chattering so much that I can't even think straight..." Dr. A Li patted his bald forehead, sighed, and resignedly led a group of naughty children toward the castle, exhorting. , "If you go in rashly in a while, if this is a private residence, it will cause unnecessary misunderstandings..."

He turned his head and looked through the huge iron gate at the front gate of the castle towards the main building at the back, and was surprised to see a very familiar face.

Ignoring the children who were eager to touch the door directly, he couldn't help but raise his voice and shouted to the person who was talking to the gardener: "Kangze, what a coincidence! Why are you here!"

It was not unexpected. It could even be said that Tang Ze, who had been waiting here for a long time, turned his head, smiled and waved to a few people, and asked knowingly: "Doctor, Conan, Xiao Ai, and a few classmates, why are you here? No. Did you say you were going to camp by the lake?”

The members of the Young Detective Team were naturally surprised to see him. Conan looked slightly surprised, but after thinking for a few seconds, he seemed to have barely digested this unexpected situation.

Only Haiyuan Ai passed through the gap between the fences, faced Tang Ze's smiling expression, raised his finger and tapped it in the air.

This guy knew so much about the doctor's situation and seemed to have the upper hand. She even suspected that they might have gone next door and stolen the doctor's tent from the car...

"Well..." Dr. Ali couldn't help but his eyes wandered, and he scratched his head in embarrassment, "Accidents, accidents, just small accidents... Well, are you here for fun? Then you can help me. Ask the owner here if he would mind if we stayed here for a while, or if he could give us a map to show us the way."

"What's going on?" Mamiya Mitsuru, who had a book in his hand and seemed to be looking for a suitable place to study in the garden, reacted quickly. He walked to the overly busy door and looked at the row of large boxes on the door. Little Douding looked hesitant, "Is today a special day? Why are there so many tourists passing by..."

Their castle is indeed inconvenient for external transportation, but after all, it is located in the middle of the forest. There are not many branches in the road that can pass vehicles. To say it is easy to identify is not an exaggeration. To say it is easy to get lost is an exaggeration.

What kind of fate must it be that two tour groups can be crammed into this remote building on the same day...

"Well, we were passing by here and found such a magnificent castle here. We couldn't help but come over and want to visit it." At this point, Dr. Ali was embarrassed to say that he had to find a place to stay because he was stupid, so he changed A nicer way to say it is, "I didn't expect I have any friends here."

"Oh? Do you know these children and old people?" Mamiya looked at Tang Ze in surprise, with a subtle expression, and glanced at the other people scattered in the courtyard with his peripheral vision.

Because of the huge chessboard on the lawn, the open space of the Mamiya family castle is cut open by sculptures, shrubs and other decorations, and the line of sight is not very wide, so it is difficult for people outside the door to see clearly the situation in other locations, but Mamiya standing on the stairs Man saw it very clearly.

It was said to be a reasoning research club at some university, but a large group of handsome men and women came down, as if they were going to take a magazine cover photo, as well as a bunch of old men and elementary school students outside...

There are really strange people today...

"Oh, I know him. The old man over there is an inventor with a doctorate degree, proficient in mechanical circuit design and development. As for those kids, they seem to be some kind of kids who call themselves the 'Junior Detective Team' and have been on the news. You know, we always have to pay attention to some relevant information..." Tang Ze curved his eyes and answered politely.

"Is that so." After hearing the job introduction, Mamiya Mitsuru immediately stood in awe, "Okay, everyone can come and stay for a night. I haven't seen children for many years, and it's rare for the castle to be so lively."

"Great!"

The members of the Junior Detective Team cheered carefreely, and the unlucky gardener adjusted his hat and resigned himself to getting the key to open the door again.

Huiyuan Ai, who had roughly guessed that there was a problem here, moved to Tang Ze in small steps and kicked his heels inconspicuously.

He said yesterday that he came out with the people in the group. He stood in front of Kudo without any disguise...

She knew that Kudo was fooled by Tang Ze's fake identity trick, but was it really okay to not disguise at all? That guy has been staring at this place.

Tang Ze raised his hand and made a gesture of checking the time, gently touched Huiyuan Ai's shoulder, and signaled her to be patient.

He had already made the assumption of "encountering by chance", so how could he really not make any preparations.

"Brother Tang Ze?" Sure enough, within two seconds, Conan, with a suspicious face, came closer and pulled his trouser leg, half in doubt and half on guard, "Why are you here? Sister Xiaolan said yesterday that you have an inspection meeting to attend..."

Tang Ze looked around, and Dr. Agasa led a few children to scatter, curiously touching the chess statue. The three of them standing in the middle were not very conspicuous.

So he bent down, and cast a shadow over Conan's body oppressively, looking down at his face from top to bottom with his back to the light, and the red light in his eyes lit up in the shadow.

"Guess?" Tang Ze bent his eyes and showed a smile that was no different from usual after the red light blinked in his eyes.

Conan, who had good eyesight, could not miss such a close-up change, and his expression was horrified: "Hey..."

He wanted to shout out the word joker as soon as he opened his mouth, but he looked at the children who were screaming excitedly with hesitation, and changed his tongue and called out: "Amemiya, you are... Don't cause trouble for Tang Ze, he has an important meeting today, and he should be at the Metropolitan Police Department now, and it is impossible for him to leave the Tokyo city..."

While speaking, he also quickly glanced at Huiyuan Ai standing on the other side. Seeing that the other party's face had a flat reaction, he guessed that she might have recognized that something was wrong with "Tang Ze" at a glance just now outside the door, and the gesture just now was to express that he saw through this.

"Isn't this just right? It's better to prove that I'm not here. There's no way, handsome guys who are too recognizable will be turned away." Straightening up again, Tang Ze shrugged his shoulders and threw the blame away lightly, "Anyway, these kids don't know us, it doesn't matter."

What a joke, he doesn't even go to school in person, does he have to go to the meeting during the protection observation stage in person?

His nominal review officer is now Yuya Kazami. As long as he doesn't carry an RPG to bomb the Metropolitan Police Department, generally speaking, there will be no problems with his protection observation.

If there are any problems, it's the problem of the Zero Group, not his problem, so of course Tang Ze has the final say on how to arrange it.

"Hey, don't talk like this with Tang Ze's voice..." Conan was shocked by the gorgeous and narcissistic voice of Tang Ze in Joker's tone. The corners of his mouth twitched and he wanted to continue to refute. After thinking for a few seconds, he found that it was true.

If I am not mistaken, the current members of the Phantom Thieves, except for Joker himself, Kitagawa Yusuke, the boy who calls himself Hoshikawa Teru, and Miyano Akemi who was rescued without anyone noticing, should be Asai Narimi, Shimabukuro Kimie, and Noah's Ark, who he witnessed being taken away by the Phantom Thieves one after another.

Oh, and the cloaked black-haired man who was brought by him to defuse the bomb last time, whose identity is even more suspicious, wearing sunglasses and performing high-risk operations in the dark, and the former police officer of the First Investigation Division Matsuda Jinpei who is highly suspected to have been determined dead...

The cases of these people were mainly participated by Maori Kogoro, and they had no intersection with the carefree children of the Junior Detective Team. Even if their real names were told directly, the children would not react.

As for Tang Ze himself, whose account was suddenly hacked, he was under the eyes of the police all day today, so the matter here has nothing to do with him.

Seeing the expression on Conan's face that he had convinced himself again, and hearing his protest, Huiyuan Ai silently pressed her forehead and was speechless.

No, this is his real voice and speaking style.

She didn't need to worry about this problem. Kudo was the one who misunderstood and over-beautified Karasawa...

While the three of them were talking, the gardener Katsuo Tabata, who was acting as a guide again, had once again patiently introduced the origin of the chess garden, led the guests into the hall, and introduced the family members of the Mamiya family.

"...The old master is a historian who has always liked to study buildings such as castles. It was because of his request that he and the old lady moved here to live." Katsuo Tabata raised his head and introduced the largest oil painting with emotion, "The old master Sadaki who married into the family got along well with him, but the lady didn't agree. She often said to the old master Sadaki..."

"'Dad is just an intellectual who likes to make sense'. Right?"

A hoarse voice came from the side, and everyone turned their eyes.

A wheelchair, carrying an old man who was hunched over and seemed to have been completely deformed, slowly approached.

"Madam, why did you come out?" Tabata Katsuo looked at him in surprise, and quickly took off his hat and saluted.

He may gossip behind people's backs, but he still has the right attitude when facing the boss who pays his salary.

Madam Masuo seemed to not hear his voice at all, and continued to talk to herself: "The master also knows about this matter, and he doesn't take it as an offense, but has always been very happy! The most important thing is that the child has his own life."

"I'm sorry to remind you of sad things..." Tabata Katsuo lowered his head.

"How could that be? I've already gotten used to the days when he's not around. Just like changing banknotes all the time, I wasn't used to it at first, but after a while, it just became like that." Mamiya Masuyo sighed in a hoarse and ambiguous voice, seemingly calmly, "Time is just that kind of thing. No matter how many joys, sorrows, anger, and happiness you have, they will all disappear."

When she finished her sigh, as if she were an old man who had seen through the world, Dr. Agasa nodded in agreement, and several children also showed respectful expressions.

Only Conan lowered his eyes, looked at her legs covered by a blanket, and touched his chin.

No matter how you look at it, this rough and loose skin, the face with spots, and the curled-up figure are undoubtedly an old man in poor health, like a candle in the wind.

But why does an old man who has been relying on a wheelchair for a long time have no signs of deformation in his legs and feet...

It is difficult to observe clearly through the thick cloth, and after saying this, Mamiya Masuyo grabbed the wheelchair with her dry fingers, adjusted the direction, and did not let him continue to observe.

"It is my son-in-law's scientist friend, so stay." Mamiya Masuyo nodded slowly, "You must work hard on the puzzle left by the old man. My daughter, hasn't she come back yet? Didn't she say she would come to celebrate my birthday today?"

"Ah, Madam, Madam..."

"Okay, I know, this girl never listens. Let her come to my room as soon as she comes back. She is late on such an important day and must come to apologize to me."

After saying this, she pushed the wheelchair and left in the direction she just came from.

"Sorry, sorry, Madam didn't mean it." Katsuo Tabata watched her walk away and immediately apologized to Dr. Agasa, "Madam has been like this since the fire, for many years. The doctor said it might be some Alzheimer's disease, cognitive confusion or something..."

"Oh, maybe it was stimulated by the death of her daughter..." Dr. Agasa nodded in understanding and sighed twice.

Conan was thinking about the "puzzle" in the courtyard. Just as he was about to pass by these lyrical parts and ask directly if there was a room where he could see the puzzle directly, he heard "Karaze" standing aside sneer.

He immediately turned his head and his attention was suddenly withdrawn from the puzzle: "What's wrong, what's wrong?"

Compared to solving puzzles, the fact that the Phantom Thief of Heart appeared now made him more nervous. After all, wherever the Phantom Thieves appeared, something would happen.

He hesitated a little at Shitara's house because he didn't investigate the situation clearly, and Shitara Renki was the only one left in Shitara's house who died overnight.

There are not many people left in the Mamiya family, so if possible, it is better to stop causing trouble for them.

Tang Ze glanced at him and felt from his overly solemn expression that this naughty kid might be slandering him in his heart, and immediately raised the question: "Don't you think it's strange? Let such an old person with limited mobility come and go alone at home. If she can only travel by wheelchair, then she can't even go to the bathroom."

Conan looked thoughtfully at the staircase connecting the first and second floors on both sides of the huge oil painting facing the entrance hall, and nodded slowly.

He had just seen two people fall to death in the hall with this design two days ago. If he said that an old lady who looked seventy or eighty years old would not get into trouble here, he himself would not believe it.

This castle looks magnificent, and the Rococo-style interior can also be called magnificent, but its oldness is genuine. Let alone retirement, even a normal young person living here would feel inconvenienced.

An old man with Alzheimer's disease, whose legs and feet are not smooth, obviously has no lack of servants at home, how come there is not even a dedicated caregiver?

"Look there again." Tang Ze supported Conan's little shoulder and turned him to the corridor on the side of the first floor, "Look over there, at the end of the corridor, isn't there a window? Don't you think it's very strange? This corridor does not connect to any room, but it is supposed to be the west side of the garden outside. Why not open a door or window to make it play a normal traffic function?"

This is exactly the direction that Mamiya Masuyo left.

According to what she just said, her room is nearby.

Conan touched his chin and frowned slowly.

"There is something wrong with the layout of this castle..." Conan narrowed his eyes in his mind, comparing the shape of the building observed from the outside with the structure he can see now.

It is not strange that this kind of castle that was once used by nobles has some secret cellars, dungeons or storage rooms, but if it is just a few more rooms, it doesn't seem to be completely right.

Tang Ze raised his eyes and looked at the landscape painting hanging at the end of the corridor, and his eyes narrowed again.

He probably found the "special world entrance" of this strange place.