The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan

"Well--"

"Mr. Hirata, Mr. Hirata!"

Mouri Kogoro, who paid special attention to Hirata and Akira's condition because of Mourilan's reminder, rushed up with a quick step and supported Hirata and Akira, who had difficulty breathing and turned red.

The scene of Kuroiwa Tatsuji and Kawashima Hideo clutching their throats in pain as if they were suffocating, and then falling down with black mud flowing from seven orifices, replayed in his mind.

Damn it, are we going to make the same mistake again?

"Hey, Miss Lingzi!"

Outside, the panicked shouts of Mumu Shisan and several other policemen were heard.

Kuroiwa Lingzi covered his mouth, his face also turned red, and he fell to the ground helplessly. Her fiancé Murasawa looked intact on Monday. He was hugging his girlfriend at a loss, calling her name and patting her back.

Mouri Kogoro and Megure Thirteen, who poked their heads out, looked at each other and both felt that something was wrong.

"Go out and take a look at the situation outside!" He helped Kuroiwa Lingzi, who was gasping for air and looking very painful, and Mumu Shisan shouted, "Check out the situation of other people on the island, and see if there are any accidents!"

At the same time, just as the two of them fell to their knees in pain, wailing and crying were repeated over and over again in the residences of the entire island. At least half of the islanders reacted to the performance of the two of them. The moment he showed signs of pain, similar symptoms also appeared.

At this dawn when the sun was rising, only the mournful cries could be heard from all over Yueying Island.

The flames of the community activity center soared into the sky more and more amidst the continuous wailing, and the billowing smoke and bright fire almost merged with the rising sun.

"Mr. Chengshi..." I don't understand why he opened his arms like a sacrifice in the sea of ​​​​fire, as if to welcome the engulfment of the flames. Mao Lilan still shouted his name, trying to Bring back his sanity.

Oblivious to the fact that his eyes had been dyed golden, Asai Narumi just glanced at the two people outside the window who were covered in mud smoke, and smiled.

What a warm feeling... was his father calling him?

Although he was not sure whether it was effective, Asai Narumi, who was vaguely aware that he was slowly grasping some power, slowly closed his eyes.

Let this fire be the baptism of the island's rebirth. This is the last thing he can do for it as a child of Moon Shadow Island.

When Conan lowered his hands feebly and Mao Lilan, who was hugging him, also fell to the ground, a black figure flew past them like lightning, heading towards the place where Conan fell out of the room without looking back. He rushed through the breach in the window.

Conan quickly turned his eyes, which were hurt by the fire, and saw a line that was redder and brighter than the flames. Surrounded by the flames, it drew a bright, bright red mark like the rising sun.

"It's the Phantom Thief Joker..." Although they had already known that the Phantom Thief of Hearts was nearby because of the emblem on the music score, Mao Lilan was still extremely surprised when they saw Joker appear and rush towards the fire.

Didn't she remember that the old policeman told them that no one else had landed on the island recently?

Joker!

Conan opened his eyes wide, and Asai Narumi's quite familiar line just now suddenly crossed his ears.

Could this be some code-like content? The joker who heard these words came in response to the call?

Thinking back to what happened at the holographic game conference not long ago, he seemed to really understand something.

Yes, Noah's Ark also said something similar at the beginning of everything, after all the children entered the play cabin...and then, hiss...

Unaware of what his detective classmates were planning for him outside, Karasawa, who was driving the fire escape, quickly passed through the hole made by Conan and jumped into the piano room where Asai Narumi was.

"Do you want to kill all those people as a reward for us?" Seeing with his own eyes the way Narumi Asai knew that the world was about to go on a killing spree, Karasawa asked this question in a determined tone. .

"Isn't this the reason why you came to me?" Looking at Karasawa with a pair of golden eyes, Asai Narumi spread his hands, "I also have abilities similar to yours, don't I? As early as two years ago, I killed the previous village chief out of unconscious rage. You want to eradicate those things, and I am the right person..."

"I don't deny your idea." Ignoring the flames surrounding him, Karasawa slowly stepped across the burning floor and walked to Asai Narumi, "But like I said... we have to try our Method?"

"Isn't that what your method is?" Asai Chengmi tilted her head in confusion.

Using the cognitive world to efficiently detect intelligence and kill targets efficiently, the members of the Phantom Thieves had demonstrated this to him one by one. It was only after understanding all of this that he had a deep understanding of what he could do.

At least on this island, all those with evil intentions will turn into flames with him as he burns his own will...

"That's just one of the choices...Aso Minoru, aren't you curious why we found you and locked on you so quickly?" He once again used the tone of "Have you heard of Amway?" , Karasawa lowered his voice a little, not only to prevent Conan from hearing the whole content, but also to make the atmosphere a little more convincing, "Want to see with your own eyes, 'The Dark Side of Moon Shadow Island'?" Also, 'Mr. Gravekeeper of Moon Shadow Island'..."

After hearing a little bit of the implication from Karasawa's tone, Asai Narumi's eyes slowly widened a little.

Soon, he let out a self-deprecating laugh.

"What I said is indeed true...I, with my hands stained with blood, am just like them, a hopeless bastard."

"It's more complicated than you think." Tang Ze stretched out his hand towards him again, "The human heart is not immutable, and the human self is not always firm. Good people may not have inner demons, and bad people may not have inner struggles... …That is the world of cognition, and since it contains the evil of human nature, it also contains the good of human nature.”

Asai Narumi, who had followed him to the cognitive world several times, naturally understood the meaning of this action, and her eyes couldn't help but fall on his gloved palm.

"Joker!" Against the thick smoke blown by the wind to his face, Conan tried his best to see everything in the room clearly, and shouted the other person's name with all his strength, "Come out quickly, the house is going to collapse..."

"'Narimi Asai' has passed away in a flame of self-destruction. Are you interested in seeing your own world, a dead person?" After throwing out this sentence that had been foreshadowing for a long time, Karasawa Ignoring the gradually rolling down building structure, which was slowly burying the entire room, she still stood in the distance, waiting for his answer.

"Dead people." Asai Narumi repeated the word, "Dead people...what you said is correct."

He is already fearless of death, so what kind of truth can he not accept?

Once again, Asai Narumi held his hand.

Asai Narumi, whose clothes had been ignited by the flames, disappeared into the center of the fire together with the figure of the joker.

The next second, the community activity center that had been built for more than ten years collapsed completely with a roar, and fell with great force under the light of the fire.

"Mr. Chengshi! joker!" After witnessing this scene, Mao Lilan couldn't help but let out a cry of grief.

Conan, whose heart was also in his throat, swallowed, but thinking of Joker's past glorious deeds, he didn't think that this guy would really die in a fire.

The box C4 that almost destroyed the Shinkansen train theoretically caused far more damage than the flames and building debris...

Glancing at Mao Lilan's heartbroken look, Conan scratched his cheek, and the pain felt a little lessened.

As for how Asai Narumi should deal with it and how to characterize it... he was also very troubled.

On the one hand, reasoning from the perspective of motivation, the real murderer must be Asai Narumi.

But on the other hand, the method he used can only be said to be helpless if handled by the forensics department... Not to mention that among the three deceased, there was also Ken Nishimoto who committed suicide by jumping off a cliff.

Even if Asai Narumi frankly told him that he was the murderer, could the law really confirm this and make him pay the price? Conan wasn't so sure.

So, half out of genuine concern for his friend, half out of a vague suspicion, Conan wiped away the broken glass on his body and the black ash on his face, wiped it clean on his clothes, and secretly took out the His cell phone clicked.

【Are you OK? Did you rescue Asai Narumi?

Judging from your conversation, he was the murderer you came into contact with from the beginning... So you failed to stop him, was it really because you wanted to use him to get rid of these drug dealers?

The method he used...really has nothing to do with you? 】

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"It's quite sharp." After hearing the news relayed by Noah, Karasawa, who dragged Asai Narumi, who briefly lost consciousness due to lack of oxygen, and flew forward, commented in a relaxed tone, "As expected, I'll just say it. , since he has probably understood through me that there is a kind of power in the world that makes all wishes come true, he will definitely connect these unexplained supernatural deaths with us."

"Is this okay, leader?" He kicked away a zombie-like cognitive doll that rushed towards him. Noah used the force to fly into the air and floated again. "This is indeed what we did. That’s right, right?”

"Don't talk nonsense, I didn't do it." Walking through the Yueying Island where the atmosphere was very subdued, Tangze jumped on the roof and continued his running movements, with a series of dirty words coming out of his mouth. "Ask yourself Cheng Shi, who did this? He made his own decisions and took action. We are just a toll collector. It makes no sense for you to arrest someone who sells kitchen knives when he stabbed someone to death with a kitchen knife."

Noah glanced at Tang Ze with a strange look.

Are you sure? Although Asai Naomi had originally made a killing plan, it was temporarily changed into what it is today, and killing everyone so efficiently in one night would be inappropriate to say that you had no contribution, right?

"Okay, no kidding." Tang Ze, who finished this paragraph, became a little more serious, "Cheng Shi's own power can indeed achieve this effect... The reason why it didn't work for the three of them before is not because Cheng Shi I really don’t want to, but the three of them have a palace..."

"Oh, that's it..." Noah suddenly realized.

As the master of the palace linked to the memory space, Kameyama Village Chief, who died of a heart attack two years ago, was actually killed by the power awakened by Asai Narumi.

However, the impression space and the palace are independent spaces from each other. There is probably only one case like Asai Narumi's integration with the public palace during awakening.

It is easy for him to kill other shadows, but for these three leaders who have slipped into his palace, from the perspective of understanding the world, Shadow Asai is really helpless.

After trying to understand this logic, Noah completely understood Tang Ze's sophistry and rolled his eyes.

It's really white, the kind where the data flow in the eyes has disappeared.

"So, as long as he goes through other people's and Asai Narumi's self-reports, he will immediately be convinced that these are all done by the 'awakened Asai Narumi'?" Noah clicked his tongue twice, "While assisting others in blood revenge, Shifting the blame so cleanly... As expected of you."

The leader is still the leader, and even his skills are so outstanding.

"Just think I'm being sophistical." Tang Ze laughed twice, and his voice was full of confidence. "Whether you kill people or not, superheroes are all superheroes. However, I won't completely put these things into perspective. Shake it off."

Because...this is indeed the effect that his power can achieve.

Tang Ze believed that he was a good person for the time being, and he also believed that he would not be able to commit acts of wanton killing out of a moment of righteous indignation... But, who knows?

People will change, and people's cognition will change little by little.

Holding too much information will make him often use a condescending perspective to judge and appraise the status and nature of others. In the final analysis, it is still based on personal subjective opinions and the perspective of judging others.

Who can guarantee that his subjectivity will maintain such a simple concept of justice and a universal sense of morality throughout his life?

His initial declaration of war against Conan was not a joke.

Absolute freedom will lead to slippage, and absolute self will lead to blindness.

He needs a Sword of Damocles hanging above his head. When he really deviates from the bottom line and endangers what he is supposed to protect, it will fall heavily.

so……

"Reply him for me." After picking up Asai Narumi and crossing the passage of the Fox Window, Karasawa said to Noah, "Just say, 'You can think so. I can only tell you that this is all due to his own selfishness. Will, I never induced him to make any choice, on the contrary, I was the referee waiting for him to make a decision...'"

[…Don’t you always think that if my power is out of control, it will bring irreparable consequences?

Now you see what the consequences are.

As I said, being able to be destroyed after turning into a monster is also a kind of heroic romance.

When you feel you've really reached that point, don't hesitate, Detective. Trust your own judgment. 】

After reading the end of the email, Conan closed his eyes and wrapped himself in the blanket.

The exhaustion of not being able to sleep well all night, coupled with the powerlessness of watching people fall into the sea of ​​​​fire in front of him, plus the news conveyed by this email, weighed heavily on his heart, making him feel even heavier.

Narumi Asai is also a person with similar powers to Joker... This is why the Phantom Thieves are trying to contact him.

Through the mouths of Maori Kogoro and other horrified island residents, he learned that many people, especially the daughters of Hirata and Kuroiwa village chiefs, had almost followed in the footsteps of the deceased. He quickly realized that Asai had opened his hands at that time. What does Chengshi want to do.

He wants to kill all the people he thinks are full of sin. He wants to use an extreme cleaning method to make the island clean.

No wonder, Joker wanted to use that reason to persuade Asai Narumi, telling him that human nature is complicated and cannot be generalized to everyone... It's just a short step away from turning this island into a Shura ghostland.

Seeing Narumi Asai in the sea of ​​fire, as if he had stepped into an altar, waiting for death, he almost seemed to have seen the end of the joker, after he fell into the abyss...

What should we do? How can we prevent him from going to such a dead end? And am I really qualified to be the judge who wields a knife against monsters?

If Joker reaches this point, there will be no more rescuers to rescue him from self-destruction and prevent him from using his power to destroy everything to the extreme.

"Conan, are you feeling better?" Mao Lilan looked at the clear sky outside the window with a particularly gloomy mood. She turned her head, looked at Conan who was in a daze, and said aloud, "I told them that we saw the Phantom Thief Joker, but the islanders are convinced "We are the only three tourists who have visited the island recently. They don't really trust our statement."

With the exposure of Asai Narumi's identity, his self-immolation in the fire has been recognized by everyone.

However, the other adults had no intention of accepting the idea that he might be able to save people, or that the thief Joker might have hooked him up if he failed to save them.

After all, appearing abruptly and disappearing into the fire sounds too magical...

"How's it going? Have you got any results?" Seeing the forensic doctors who had finished their work walk out of the room where the bodies were placed, Mouri Kogoro at the other end of the corridor immediately turned his head, "Is it some new type of compound poison? I haven't seen it before. Something like symptoms.”

Having already learned about the drug trade chain on the island, he is not afraid to speculate on the situation on the island with the greatest malice.

He saw the poppy production area under Conan's guidance. With this model of taking care of everything from the production side, no one would believe that there was no part related to chemical synthesis on the island. The police have already taken people to search several workshops on the island, and I believe the results will be available soon.

For a place that is proficient in chemical engineering, who knows if it will come up with any new poisons?

"Our judgment is that there are no signs of poisoning, Mr. Maori." Without taking off his mask, the male forensic doctor who came with the team said dullly, "There are many signs on the two deceased people that can prove that they died of acute acute respiratory syndrome. Heart failure and other organ failure due to ischemia, and neither of them had a history of heart disease... Although it is indeed very bizarre, we cannot attribute it to poisoning. No similar signs have been detected."

"What?!" Mouri Kogoro shouted in a high tone.

The next second, a cry louder than his voice came from outside the door.

"I want to surrender, I want to surrender!" A man, still wearing home clothes, came in crying with the support of his wife, "I'm sorry, I'm guilty, gentlemen police, I'm guilty...I, I assisted Hirata and others have transported drugs, and because they knew the contents, I also charged a very high fee..."

Now, the rhythm has entered a familiar state.

Conan, who was still thinking about a hundred ways for the Phantom Thief of Black Heart to die and destroy the world before his death: "..."

It's back, the familiar smell is back...

Go to bed early, I have a splitting headache!

I will write more during the day tomorrow

I thought I could write about Asai Narumi’s awakening today… I’ll definitely do it tomorrow!