The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan

"Hmph, that's really interesting..." Standing in the community activity center with his arms folded, looking at the three cartoon windows in front of him, Tang Ze made two nasal noises and showed a somewhat gloomy smile.

"What's wrong?" The other three people who were observing the environment were all stunned.

In this activity center, some islanders are lined up in front of each of the three windows. Each window has a pattern painted on it, plus a name.

"It looks like they are running for the village chief?" Miyano Akemi guessed, "The one with the crown pattern in the middle, 'Kuroiwa Tatsuji', should this be the original village chief?"

"This pattern is relatively straightforward, it is directly in the shape of a coin." Hoshikawa Teru pointed to the one in front of him, "This should be a wealthy businessman or something, 'Kawashima Hideo'."

"Then the 'Shimizu Masato' who painted a leaf is an environmentalist?" Noah speculated vaguely, "This kind of thing is generally more popular with the locals, right? Island residents are generally closed-minded and conservative. Some? There are more people who promote planting and fishing."

"Yes, of course it's okay for you to understand it this way." Tang Ze scanned the three names one by one and laughed coldly, "But what if I tell you, these three people are all involved in As a drug dealer in the transportation chain, how would you understand these three patterns?"

"...Huh?" Hoshikawa Teru and Miyano Akemi were both dumbfounded, looking at the three windows with a hint of horror.

The implication of Karasawa's words is very obvious. He is saying that the islanders on this island are well aware of this industry, so they are not only choosing the village chief to lead the island from the management aspect, but also choosing the next one. Industry talker...

"Is it so exaggerated?" Miyano Akemi murmured to herself as her throat became dry and uncontrollable, "What on earth is going on in this world?"

"It should be said that this kind of agglomeration is the normal state of this kind of industry." Tang Zepi lowered his lips with a smile, "They are all people who have been involved in it for a long time. You can guess the huge profits of this kind of industry." Why are you willing to live on such a relatively backward island? There are always some reasons."

The other three people looked at the long queue of islanders in front of them and threw their ballots into the ballot box, and they couldn't help but be speechless for a moment.

"No wonder, an independent impression space will be generated here." Xingchuan Hui also commented with difficulty, "This is really, beyond imagination."

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"The three candidates are all at the activity center. If you go there, you might even meet them." After introducing the situation to the three in a friendly manner, Asai Narimi showed a smile, "It just so happened that today, two of the former village chiefs On the anniversary of his death, they will have a memorial event there."

"...Second death anniversary." Glancing at the envelope in his hand, Mouri Kogoro felt that the thing in his hand was getting hotter.

He is here to solve the case, but the more he talks about it, the more it sounds like an urban legend...

"What a strange island." After bidding farewell to the rarely friendly and amiable female doctor, the three of them followed the path she directed towards the activity center. Mao Lilan shrank her shoulders, "Is it because the interpersonal relationships on the island are relatively simple? Why is this happening? Are you using public space to do things?”

"The letter from this dead man is also very strange." He took out the letter in the envelope again and read it carefully. Mouri Kogoro also frowned, "If it is the 'second anniversary', then the former village chief also died on the same day. On a full moon night?"

"It's definitely impossible for a dead person to write to you, uncle. This is probably Keiji Aso's friend or something. He thinks there is something fishy about his death, so he asked you to investigate, right?" Conan guessed using his brain, "After all, everything is fine. , it’s really weird to suddenly self-immolate or something..."

“Down with the current village chief’s atrocities!”

"No more land occupation is allowed!"

"Give me a clean fishing ground!"

"Oppose to the modification of ships! Oppose to the expansion of piers!"

As they gradually approached the direction of the community activity center, the shouts of the islanders holding various signs in their hands reached their ears more clearly.

"The election for village chief is quite lively." Mouri Kogoro, with his hands in his pockets, clicked his tongue irritably, "Are all the residents of this island so concerned about the candidate for village chief?"

"Because it is really related to their interests..." Mao Lilan looked at the bright and dazzling cards in their hands, and couldn't help but frown.

From various angles, it’s a bit of a deformed environment.

Could it be that this is the characteristic of an isolated island? After all, in a place like this, folk customs, legends, and conservative and autistic culture are inevitable...

Conan thought uncertainly.

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"It's really in line with my stereotype of a closed island." Tang Ze crossed his arms over his chest, looked at the strange gate in front of him, and commented sharply, "It's very interesting."

"What is this?" Xingchuan Hui asked after frowning for a while and observing these items of unknown material, "It finally has the flavor of impression space."

They have simply walked around the island. As Karasawa said, this place is completely like a map designed by a business simulation game. The islanders live at a slow pace, have traditional lifestyles, simple interpersonal relationships, are conservative, gentle and friendly. Nothing has anything to do with the Moon Shadow Island they want to investigate.

At this moment, they stood in front of the only slightly higher hill on the island, and finally discovered some scenes that fit the twisted concept.

On the hill just ahead, a structure made of twisted vermilion columns stood there quietly.

The red color is a bit like the red color of the common torii gates, and the columns also have a bit of a torii gate feel, but they are just intertwined and twisted, and the shape cannot be distinguished for a while.

But behind these red pillars, there are not the hills and woods that should appear there, but a dark and deep passage with no bottom that can be seen, and no one knows where it is going.

"There are ten." Akemi Miyano said after observing for a while, "There are also some overlapping ones...so do you want us to identify which entrance to enter from?"

"That must be in the middle." Tang Ze pointed to the opening in the center, "If it's shaped like this... have you ever heard of the 'Fox Window'?"

As he spoke, Tangze started to demonstrate in a decent manner.

He first put the middle and ring fingers of both hands together and touched them with his thumbs, making a "fox" gesture. Then he turned his left hand outwards and his right hand inwards, then straightened his middle and ring fingers, and clasped them with his thumbs.

"Look," Tang Ze maintained this gesture and raised his hands flatly, "Are they exactly the same?"

"Is this the content of some weird legend again?" Miyano Akemi compared the state of Karasawa's hands and the structure of the pillar in front, and nodded affirmatively, "That's indeed what it looks like. Does this gesture have any meaning? "

"Well... through the window formed by this finger, humans can see through the true identities of various monsters and monsters." Tangze said, raising his hand in front of his eyes, looking through the gap formed by crossing his hands, and looking at the red pillar in front of him. , "It seems that the truth is about to be revealed before our eyes. Let's go and see the true face of this island together."