The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan

"... this guy Nakamichi Kazushi." Noah said quietly, "Why do you set fire to it?"

"Can't you control the scope of the flame burning?" Conan, who had been watching the plot for a while, was awakened by his exclamation, and turned his head to look at Noah curiously and inquiringly.

He has not forgotten that after Noah escaped, the developers of Sindora Company stated that the game could not be restarted.

Without Noah, even a large-scale multinational technology company would not be able to reproduce the technology of holographic games; there are only a few members of the Phantom Thieves here, and it didn’t take long to create a better game cabin after having Noah. More advanced holographic games.

Once this variable is controlled, doesn't it mean that the holographic game is actually developed and operated independently by Noah's Ark? At best, Sindora Company only made some connection peripherals and installed host servers and the like.

"It's possible to control it barely, but..." Noah frowned, thinking about how to fool this little dwarf with a good mind without exposing his cognitive world.

Everything in the palace is running on its own according to inherent laws. It is very simple to build it, but it requires extra strength to control it...

He can indeed combine the architecture and modeling in the palace to achieve a control effect similar to game management, but these all consume his energy, that is, storage.

After all, he saves trouble when modeling. His materials are sewn together with directly intercepted cognitive world information. It is not that simple to repair.

"Because this game is originally built on the original real engine, once it is successfully built, it does not need to take up Noah's computing power. Controlling the destruction effect consumes running space, not to mention particle effects such as flames." Tang Ze took over the conversation and threw out a bunch of terms easily, "We don't have the financial resources to organize it, so we can't provide Noah with more space for the time being. It would be great to be able to run in this scenario."

"Is that so?" Conan adjusted his glasses, not quite sure about accepting this explanation.

It sounds like that, but something is not quite right...

"Okay, Noah, don't limit the scope of the flames." Tang Ze patted Noah's hard head, "Let them burn it as they please, and restart the scene later."

It makes sense, just let them burn it as they please, and when the game is over, he will just return the entire London map to a new file.

Nodding, Noah completely gave up controlling the terrain, and the fire spread along the house. Soon, the fire ignited almost the entire block.

The flames soaring into the sky lit up half of the city of London. London was destined not to be peaceful tonight.

The exclaimed crowd screamed for water and ran towards the outside of the block among the burning buildings, a scene of apocalyptic chaos.

Among the fleeing crowd, the four people running against the flow of people toward Briony Mansion stood out.

"It seems that our client is indeed an arrogant and irritable Majesty." Holding his hat and running forward, the young Kudo took a breath, "Does it have to be on two legs? The carriage I called is still parked. It’s near the church.”

"It's all in such a mess. How can the carriage drive on the road?" Tang Ze, the young man following him, sighed, "I hope your majesty will still stay at the scene, otherwise we won't know where to go with such a huge loss." Pursued.”

"He must still be there." Pulling Yumi Horikoshi along, Leon, who was silent along the way, said, "His purpose was not to set the fire itself, but to destroy the photos. I'm not sure he achieved his goal. Will leave easily."

Noah, who knew how to edit, turned the camera and the scene switched to Kazushi Nakamichi.

Just as Leon had guessed, he did not move far away from the place where the fire started. Instead, he shouted to the sky a little madly: "Guys from the Phantom Thieves, come out, I did it, I already did it, I put those things It’s all ruined, isn’t it! I won, come out quickly and tell me I won!”

When he thought that he would be able to get rid of Yumi Horikoshi's entanglement soon, he still let out a hearty laugh while standing in the choking smoke.

No one responded to his frantic question. The only ones who heard his frantic reaction were the four people who rushed to the scene immediately.

"I told you, your client is a vicious idiot!" As soon as she heard what he said, Yumi Horikoshi realized that this was Kazushi Nakamichi himself, not some NPC set by the game. She almost immediately bowed He raised his back and shouted hysterically, "Look what he has done!"

"Shut up!" Stimulated by this familiar voice, Nakamichi Kazushi turned his head with blood-red eyes and pulled off the mask on his face, "I've had enough of you, Horikoshi Yumi, I've long ago Enough of you! Do you really think of yourself as a peerless beauty, the center of the world, and everyone must be you?"

"I didn't force you, Nakamichi Kazushi, I didn't force you!" Seeing the ferocious expression on this all-too-familiar face, Horikoshi Yumi's emotions began to collapse, "You were the one who deceived me first, it was you You went on a blind date without telling me!"

"That's because you don't agree to my proposal! I'm thirty-eight years old, I want a family, I want my children, what's the problem?!"

"Ha, then you went to find your boss's daughter? Then this is really good proof!"

"What does it matter? I am free to choose who I want!"

"You're a judgmental bastard, I just want a good explanation. Isn't this hard?!"

"So this is why you keep harassing my fiancée, trying to tell her about the two of us?!"

"You don't even dare to let her know the history of your relationship with me. You know exactly what you have deceived her! Who is the guilty one?"

"you this……"

"Turn down the volume." Tangze waved his hand and ordered Noah with some disgust.

The Japanese-style room they were in was a small space, and when this sharp high-frequency human voice reverberated in the space, it could create an effect comparable to that of a wet market, making his brain hurt.

Conan, who had already tightly covered his ears, breathed a sigh of relief, put down his hands and complained softly: "Did you also arrange their meeting? This kind of quarrel is really terrifying. I immediately felt what my parents said It's no big deal to bicker."

"That's why they are called resentful people. When you hate someone who you know well enough and who understands you well enough, the negative emotions caused will be very long-lasting." Tang Ze waved his hand and said unsurprisingly, "In a couple or a long-term relationship, Once such a quarrel breaks out between lovers, the longer they have known each other, the better the relationship, and the more intense the conflict that breaks out. Your parents' quarrels with the same temperament are really nothing."

"I still don't quite understand." Conan looked at the two people on the screen with confusion, arguing so much that they almost lost their minds. "Since the relationship has deteriorated to this extent, why doesn't Yumi Horikoshi choose to break up? Or why can't Kazushi Nakamichi and... His fiancée confesses that he once had a girlfriend whom he dated for more than ten years? In that case, taking photos will no longer be a means to threaten him."

A criminal police officer would be forced to choose the method of killing... It is really a strange relationship the more I think about it.

"The former is because of sunk costs. A person who is immersed in loss aversion will really be surprised by the stupid things he can do." Karasawa pointed at Yumi Horikoshi on the left side of the screen, and then pointed at Kazushi Nakamichi on the right side of the screen. , "If the latter is the case, it is more likely to be a chain reaction of lies. He told a lie from the beginning, trying to whitewash his conditions to make the woman more acceptable to his pursuit. But Kudo, you also know... "

Tangze turned his head and glanced meaningfully at Conan, whose expression suddenly froze, through the cloth on his eyes.

"Once a lie starts, it can only be completed with more lies...right?"

Conan, who was still in disbelief at Nakamichi Kazushi's stupid choice just now, was speechless by his question.

In the tea room outside, a sharp conflict broke out between two people. It was clearly a scene that seemed impactful enough, but everyone breathed a sigh of relief in unison, so that a neat exhalation sounded in the room.

"...I just think," realizing that her behavior was in sync with the others, Noriko Ayashiro looked back at a few people and scratched her cheeks with embarrassment, "if the two of them had a big fight like this, It does seem to be more presentable than just sitting there and pretending."

"You can be more direct." Yukio Ayashiro put his arm around his wife's shoulders in a funny way, "This way, it will be more like the characters of Yumi and Kazushi... How on earth can the two of them talk so well for more than ten years? It's really It’s unimaginable.”

"What else could it be because of Yumi's beauty?" Mouri Kogoro replied with confidence, "If Yumi had not been a social beauty back then, or if her figure and appearance were not well maintained and were out of shape, do you think Kazushi would still be there?" That's not the attitude. He deserves it because of his food and sex."

The quarrel broke out fiercely in the game, but outside the game, everyone felt much more relaxed.

Exposing the contradiction, and most importantly, exposing it to outsiders like them, will make the subsequent problems much easier.

They can persuade two people to separate completely, even if they use some coercive means to prevent the two people from continuing to have trouble. If they find the crux, the problem can be easily solved.

Just when the atmosphere was relaxed and harmonious, the sound of "bang" gunfire suddenly drew their attention back.

In the picture, Nakamichi Kazushi took out a gorgeous shotgun from nowhere, pointed it at Yumi Horikoshi ahead, and pulled the trigger.

Yumi Horikoshi, who was still wearing a torn wedding dress, lowered her head in disbelief and held down the waist and abdomen where she was hit by the gun. The bright red blood smeared along the white gauze.

Things happened very suddenly, and the two noisy people who couldn't get apart were almost leaning against each other. By the time Nakamichi Kazushi took out his gun, the detective and Leon who were two steps behind were already too late to rescue.

"You..." Horikoshi Yumi's high-pitched scream suddenly stopped. She desperately covered her abdomen where a hole had been opened. She was struck by severe pain and slid down tremblingly.

In order not to fall to the ground in embarrassment, her blood-stained hands tightly grasped the fur cloak on Nakamichi Kazushi. At first glance, it looked like a bride in white gauze falling into the arms of a man in a formal dress. , and also has an unexpected romantic beauty.

"You confident stupid woman, I knew you could only bring things with you." He grabbed Horikoshi Yumi's arm and decisively grabbed the paper hidden in her layered skirt and pulled it away. came out, "I won this game!"

This was the purpose of his quarrel with Yumi Horikoshi.

Although he was full of resentment towards this woman, and his emotions during the quarrel were not fake, he never forgot the purpose of his game.

Eileen's house has been burned down by him. Even if she could escape from the church, she would not have time to carry extra things.

However, the game never judged him as the winner, so the only place where a photo could be placed would be on her own.

He deliberately aroused Horikoshi Yumi's emotions, causing her to become more and more noisy and emotional, so that she came very close to him, so that he could get what he wanted at the same time.

"I originally planned to kill you with a gun." He said maliciously towards Yumi Horikoshi with a sense of revenge, "So I... huh?"

Turning his head to see the stack of things in his hand, he couldn't help but be startled.

There were indeed several hard and slippery objects that looked like photos sandwiched between the papers, but when they were shaken open, they were several price tags written on them, used to mark the sale and rental prices of wedding dresses.

It was only then that the trembling Horikoshi Yumi showed an equally happy smile.

She pushed the thing that her "husband" gave her in her hand without reservation into the chest of the man who was close at hand. The ears attached to his chest heard clearly the pain screams from the other man, regardless of her waist and abdomen. There was a burst of laughter from the wound on the wound.

Nakamichi Kazushi pushed the woman in his arms away, but the sharp short blade had already pierced his chest deeply. He could only let out a painful gasp and fell to the ground in embarrassment.

Horikoshi Yumi, who was pushed aside by him, laughed mockingly and looked at the three NPCs who had been standing there as if they didn't know how to respond since they started arguing.

"It's true that I won't leave things to others for safekeeping...but this is a game, you idiot." Trying her best to speak, Horikoshi Yumi grabbed the letter that fell from Nakamichi Kazushi's hand and held it tightly in her hand. , "When I was changing my wedding dress, I asked Norton to change these things...I won. In the end, I won, Hezhi! Hahaha! Ahem..."

Leon, who was dressed in formal attire, slowly took out the photos from his front and held them in his hands until this moment.

In the photo, there are two people in kimonos hugging each other under the cherry blossom tree. Their young faces are filled with unmistakable happy smiles.

"As long as the photo is well preserved, I win, right?" Looking at Kazushi Nakamichi, who was more outgoing and less incoming than herself, Yumi Horikoshi murmured in a low voice, her hands covered with silk gloves, working hard He stretched out in the direction of Leon with all his strength, "Norton, give me the thing..."

Looking at Horikoshi Yumi who fell on the ground with a pair of clear golden eyes for a moment, Leon had the same gentle smile on his face.

Then he turned around and handed the photo in his hand to the detective who looked at this ethical tragedy in surprise.

"You, you...!" Horikoshi Yumi's expression froze, and her already blurry vision became even more dizzy.

"I don't know how to deal with these things, Mr. Holmes." Leon, who sold the people without hesitation, showed no signs of uneasiness on his face, his smile remained the same, and he spoke his logic step by step, "I deeply feel that this is not the case." It should be used as a bargaining chip to threaten other people's marriages. No matter what the purpose is, it is not appropriate to harm others with malicious intent. But I also think that it is equally unethical to hide this kind of thing from the Princess of Navia who is about to get married. I I don’t know how to deal with it, so I might as well leave it to you to decide.”

The young Kudo was stunned for a moment. After confirming that the expression on Leon's face was very serious, he took the stack of photos with a strange expression.

Although what he said was reasonable, it was inappropriate to say it in front of his newlywed wife who had committed suicide with her old lover...

She looked like she had only one breath left, but now she looked like she was going to die completely from anger.

After handing over the photo, Leon Shiran walked to Horikoshi Yumi, squatted down, gently hugged the bloody woman, wiped her cheek, and said calmly: "I was played with my emotions until the end. How does it feel to find out for a moment that the trust you have given has not been reciprocated, Ms. Yumi Horikoshi?"

The game screen is gradually rising with Noah's control. In the camera, only London can be seen burning in flames, and Yumi Horikoshi, dressed in white gauze covering the ground, is half-carried by Leon.

Therefore, Leon's words will naturally not fall into the ears of the spectators. The only ones who can hear it are Yumi Horikoshi, who is now trying to widen his eyes and look at the somewhat horrifying Yumi.

"You, you are... you are pretending to be human..." Horikoshi Yumi, who had gradually lost the power to speak, squeezed out a sentence through her teeth with difficulty.

In the eyes of the NPC in the game, she was all Irene Adler. This person started calling her Yumi Horikoshi, and the meaning of that was naturally self-evident.

"Of course." Leon narrowed his eyes, still smiling like a businessman. Under the light of the fire, there was an inappropriately gentle smile with a weird and inhuman feeling, "Regard the Phantom Thief of the Heart as satisfying your desires. Tools, you underestimated us, madam. You are a pair of equally matched opponents. If the situation had not reached such an embarrassing situation today, you should have been considered a perfect match. What a pity. In this game, you two are losers. These photos of yours will be left to us to handle. Good night and have sweet dreams."

After saying that, he gently covered Horikoshi Yumi's eyes with his black-gloved hands, as if he wanted to give her a final farewell.

Before her vision completely darkened, Horikoshi Yumi could only vaguely see the stack of paper tightly clutched in her hand.

It was Irene Adler, and the message she had left for Holmes was originally intended to be placed where the photos were stored, but Norton used it as a means of concealment and hid it in the overskirt of her wedding dress.

"...I love a better man than he, and this man loves me. A king can do whatever he wants, without worrying about what the people he has wronged will hinder him. I save This photo is to protect myself, this is a weapon that will protect me from any means..."