Phantom Thief of Heart in Conan

"Oh, don't worry! I will definitely do my best to assist the police in handling the case!" Mouri Kogoro patted his chest, blindly confident in himself as always.

Seeing that his old friend was as unreliable as ever, Officer Megure had no choice but to shake his head. Nakamori Ginzo on the side didn't know the origin of Mouri Kogoro. He just felt that the man in front of him looked carefree, something to say.

The annoying energy that doesn’t come out.

"Officer Megure, who is this?" Nakamori Ginzo asked Officer Megure beside him, who quickly introduced him:

"This is the first discoverer of this incident, Mr. Mouri Kogoro. He and I were both policemen in the Investigation Division a long time ago. Later, due to some things, Mr. Mouri chose to resign and opened a shop in Mihua Town.

Detective agency. Despite his appearance, he is actually a somewhat famous detective!"

Officer Megure didn't mention much about Mouri Kogoro's unreliable side, but introduced some of his more positive performances to Nakamori Ginzo. However, Nakamori Ginzo, who had temporarily dispelled his doubts, still felt that he and Moori Kogoro were not very close.

After a few brief greetings, he fell silent again.

At this time, the three Metropolitan Police Department chiefs had taken their seats one after another, and the policemen from the Investigation Section 1 and 2 also quickly fell silent. Mouri Kogoro finally became serious, looking a little like a former criminal police officer.

"Thank you for your hard work, everyone has gathered here to participate in this special meeting. This meeting is mainly aimed at a special prisoner who claims to be the 'Phantom Thief' who has appeared in recent days. Due to the special cases and modus operandi of the prisoner involved, the police are alerting

The department decided that the Investigation Section 1 and 2 will jointly investigate the case." As the police chief, Toshiro Odagiri was the first to speak without hesitation. At the age of fifty-six, he still looks young and does not show any general leadership.

Although he looks rich and handsome, he still retains the fierce temperament he had as a front-line criminal policeman.

As soon as he heard the officer speak, Mouri Kogoro straightened his back a little more. Before Mouri Kogoro resigned, he, like Officer Megure, was under the jurisdiction of Chief Odagiri. To this day, Mouri

Kogoro could still recall how serious and terrifying his old boss was, so that when he was no longer a detective, he would still subconsciously tighten his body when facing Toshiro Odagiri, not daring to slack off at all.

Next, the ferocious man on Odagiri Toshiro's left took the floor. He was Matsumoto Kiyonaga, the management officer of the Investigation Section 1, and the direct superior of Officer Megure.

"The Phantom Thief incident was initially investigated by our Investigation Section 1. The entire incident has now involved three cases, including a drug-trading case of a vile nature. Megure, let me tell you about it to my colleagues.

Specific facts of the case!”

"Yes!" Officer Megure stood up quickly. Although the relevant documents of this case had been distributed to everyone present, as the first police officer to investigate the Phantom Thief case, Officer Megure still had the need to speak.

He briefly talked about the specific circumstances of the three "victims" Fujie Akiyoshi, Tsugawa Hidechi, and Ikeda Chikako, and showed the preliminary investigation results of the first search section over the past few days. During the process, Mouri Kogoro also came in timely

To add to this, perhaps because his old boss was present, he finally didn't make any fool of himself today.

"The above is the full picture of this incident. Judging from the existing information, the purpose of Phantom Thief's actions is to satisfy his own sense of justice, and to reform the 'victims' who have committed crimes through a method similar to brainwashing.

"Officer Megure concluded at the end of his speech, "In the three crimes committed, the Phantom Thief did not cause any casualties or property losses, but we do not rule out the possibility that the victims will suffer from some kind of sequelae due to the actions of the Phantom Thief."

"Excuse me, are there only three victims now?" a policeman asked.

"Strictly speaking, there are only three victims who have received notice letters so far." Officer Megure opened the file he had prepared and displayed a photo of a woman contained in it in the conference room.

"Miss Yuko Ikezawa may also be a victim of Phantom Thief. Like Fujie Akiyoshi, the target of the first notice letter, she once harassed Miss Okino Yoko. Before Fujie Akiyi received the notice letter,

One day, she suddenly changed her mind and apologized to the victim Okino Yoko in person. Therefore, we suspect that she is also one of the targets of Phantom Thief. However, since no warning letter was found from her, we are not completely sure about this idea at present.

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"Officer Megure, regarding the Phantom Thief's modus operandi, has the investigation of the First Search Section yielded any results?" Ginzo Nakamori asked a question, "According to your description, the victims of the Phantom Thief have sincerely reformed, and have sincerely reformed.

There was no sign of being forced. How did Phantom Thief brainwash them?"

"I'm sorry that I can't answer this point." Officer Megure shook his head, "The Phantom Thief's modus operandi is still a mystery, and we haven't even been able to figure out the way he sent the warning letter."

"Perhaps, like Kidd, Phantom Thief is also a master of disguise and voice change? He disguises himself as someone else to fish in troubled waters and commit crimes?" Nakamori Ginzo based on his many years of experience fighting with Kidd, the Phantom Thief.

I came up with such a conjecture, but this unexpectedly attracted a rebuttal from Kogoro Mori:

"The Phantom Thief probably did not use disguise to commit crimes. The three notice letters discovered so far were all posted in advance, and most of them were posted when no one was around. Based on the psychology of the prisoner

If so, if Phantom Thief had superb disguise skills, he would more likely choose to send out the warning letter in a mixed situation with a large number of people, right?"

"Besides, my daughter happened to witness the repentance process of one of the victims, Miss Chikako Ikeda, last Saturday. According to her description, Chikako Ikeda suddenly changed her ways after a period of silence. After repenting,

Within an hour, no one had any physical contact with her!"

"Besides the victim, the other people present are also very lightly suspected, unlike the Phantom Thief. So can we speculate that the Phantom Thief will not go to the crime scene at all, and does not even need to have any connection with the target.

touch?"

"Of course, compared to this too bizarre reasoning, I prefer to believe in another possibility, that is, the Phantom Thief can control the time for the victim to repent, or that the Phantom Thief's modus operandi has a certain delay. Maybe, in

Before the notice letter was sent out, he had already completed the brainwashing of the victim! In this way, he naturally did not need to go to the crime scene."