The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan

Seemingly choked by this sarcastic ridicule, while Kyogoku Makoto was brainstorming, Tang Ze, who had been arguing, fell into a brief silence.

After a few victorious laughs, Adachi Toru was still not satisfied, and took advantage of the victory to pursue: "Although your friend caused me to lose my job, by chance I got the opportunity to return to Tokyo. That's great, Tang Ze, but I actually hesitated whether I should return to Tokyo. It's not bad to stay in the countryside of Kyoto. What do you think?"

This sentence seemed to hurt Tang Ze all of a sudden. It was almost visible to the naked eye that the boy walking in front slightly arched his back and curled up.

"I, I don't mean that..."

After a few seconds of silence, Tang Ze struggled to reply, but because the voice was not loud, Kyogoku Makoto, who was a few steps away, couldn't hear it clearly.

He took two steps forward and was about to continue listening to the conversation between the two, but he saw the man in the black suit turned in a different direction and forcibly pulled Tang Ze around the street stalls and walked towards another fork road with few pedestrians.

After leaving the bustling crowd, he wanted to follow the two people, but the difficulty coefficient suddenly increased. It was very likely that he would be noticed by the two people in front, which made Kyogoku Makoto pause and hesitate.

At the moment he stopped, Adachi Toru, who had always been hooked on Tang Ze's shoulder, suddenly turned his head.

He pulled down his sunglasses, revealing his dark blue eyes, and his eyes were accurately locked on Kyogoku Makoto. He looked up and down at him with a thoughtful look, and then smiled kindly at the stunned Kyogoku Makoto.

Staring at Kyogoku Makoto, he was still talking to Tang Ze, with a gentle tone, as if he was really using his life experience to teach the young man earnestly.

"Don't be like this. Didn't we get along well before? As for why I went back to Tokyo... After going through so many things, don't you understand, Tang Zejun? If you want to live in peace in the world, it's better for people to stay out of other people's business."

Kyogoku Makoto frowned, clearly feeling the implication of his words, but he stopped following him.

Although he felt that the atmosphere between the two of them was very subtle, and he always felt that it might not be safe to let this boy named Tang Ze be taken away by the other party, but since he had been discovered, as a stranger, he had no position to follow him further.

Under Adachi Toru's seemingly gentle gaze, Kyogoku Makoto stood in place, watching the two disappear at the corner of the street in a nearly hostage-like manner, and couldn't help clenching his fists.

Damn, this feeling of knowing that something bad might happen, but being unable to do anything...

Take a deep breath, he turned around, quickened his pace, and headed towards the hotel.

His pace became faster and faster, and soon he was almost running.

He had no position to interfere in the grievances of a stranger, but the others who came with that boy definitely did!

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As soon as he turned the corner, Matsuda Jinpei's full-powered hermaphrodite state instantly collapsed.

His posture changed from carrying Tang Ze forward to half leaning on Tang Ze. He adjusted the sunglasses on his nose and sighed complainingly: "Oh, I'm so tired. These lines you designed are really embarrassing."

Matsuda Jinpei, who fully understood the character but had not yet found the feeling of acting, used the conversation ideas sorted out by Morobushi Keimitsu in the previous dialogue.

In short, Adachi Toru is a nihilist who speaks and acts with a kind of indifference that he has no expectations for the future.

But in order to survive in the world and to barely integrate into this identity and environment that he does not like, he will maintain basic social etiquette and deal with his current life with a negative attitude.

This is not a typical bad guy, but a typical bad guy, with alternative arrogance and madness in his bones. Let alone acting, it took Matsuda Jinpei a lot of effort to accept this logic.

"The acting is quite realistic." Tang Ze commented, "In fact, he could have been more reserved. If it was Adachi Toru, he wouldn't have been so sharp when speaking, but more like a corporate slave who was beaten down by life. However, there is nothing wrong with the lines today. It's not surprising that he would show a little arrogance in front of me, the 'victim' who was easily defeated by him."

Matsuda Jinpei pondered for a while and answered honestly: "I seem to understand it a little, but I don't seem to understand it."

"Like your father." Tang Ze said bluntly.

Feeling that Tang Ze was a bit rude, but unwillingly finding that he had found an idea in an instant, Matsuda Jinpei said: "..."

"Okay, what happened?" Looking at Matsuda Jinpei's choked look, Tang Ze suppressed the smile on his lips and asked seriously, "Didn't you say we would meet in the afternoon? Why did you rush to see me just after noon?"

And it was Matsuda Jinpei who was cramming for the exam and forced him to take him away directly under an unskilled vest.

If it was just a small problem, they would definitely choose to let Noah come to inform him and let it go.

"Oh, it's the driver, uh, his name is Asai-kun." Matsuda Jinpei shook his head and threw out the image of Asai Chengmi, who was dressed like a city beauty, from his mind, and said seriously, "He said that he felt that the 'atmosphere' nearby was not right."

"Atmosphere? What atmosphere?" Tang Ze frowned.

Will come to him to save the situation, then this description must be inseparable from the cognitive world.

"The atmosphere over there." Matsuda Jinpei nodded at his sunglasses, "I also felt it a little bit. It's really a bit weird. Do you want to take a look for yourself?"

Tang Ze opened his "third eye" as he was told, and a different vision appeared in his field of vision.

There was no bright prompt color in front of him, but the fine and dense red mist surged up all of a sudden, causing Tang Ze to dodge backwards.

"We feel something is not right, maybe it has something to do with the serial murder case you mentioned before you set off." Matsuda Jinpei pulled Tang Ze who was shrinking back, "Ms. Shimabukuro Kimie said that this might be a kind of... killing intention? Anyway, the world over there must have changed a little."

Tang Ze, who had never seen this scene, but had experienced two outrageous island owners, nodded thoughtfully.

"She should be right. That guy must have killed more than one or two people."

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"Karaze! Are you okay?"

After helping Matsuda Jinpei to adjust his disguise and discussing Adachi Toru's situation and the murderer's profile, it was more than an hour later that Karazawa returned to the Kawara Hotel.

As soon as he walked in, Suzuki Sonoko and Mao Lilan, who were pacing anxiously in the lobby, immediately rushed over, grabbed his arms one by one, and turned him around, as if to confirm that he was indeed intact.

"If it weren't for the kindness of the hotel guy, I wouldn't have known that you and him didn't seem to be very happy after leaving." Suzuki Sonoko put her hands on her waist and said dissatisfiedly, "If you didn't want to be alone with him, you should have found an excuse to refuse. We are definitely on your side!"

"What can I do..." Karazawa asked back in a confused manner, and at the same time cast an inquiring look in the direction of Kyogoku Makoto.

The dark-skinned boy, whose upper half of his face was blurred by thick glasses, was wiping the table at the front desk. Feeling Tang Ze's gaze, he pushed his glasses calmly.

This was a bit beyond Tang Ze's expectations.

According to his understanding, Kyogoku Makoto was indeed a resolute and upright person, but looking at the few scenes where he appeared, he could be considered a love-brained person.

He did fight against evil and had a sense of justice, but most of his actions were for Suzuki Sonoko.

It's not that he is not righteous and enthusiastic, but his world is indeed quite pure and narrow, and can't accommodate anything other than his goal.

As a man who appeared around Suzuki Sonoko, it was not surprising for Tang Ze to be targeted and followed by Kyogoku Makoto, but he was still quite surprised that Kyogoku Makoto went directly to Suzuki Sonoko just because he witnessed a scene where he seemed to be threatened, overstepping his shy thoughts.

Sure enough, people can't be generalized with simple labels.

"But, you and that policeman don't seem to get along very well." Mao Lilan was still worried, and couldn't help but glance at Conan who was approaching quickly.

In her eyes, who didn't know that Conan's shrinkage was because she approached him, it was the shady case of Tang Ze that caused Kudo Shinichi to become like this.

Now a strange policeman who seemed to know Tang Ze suddenly ran out, it was hard for her not to think too much in that direction.

Conan obviously thought so too.

"That policeman seems to be very familiar with you, Tang Ze brother." Conan prepared himself mentally, and then began to ask in a naive tone under Mao Lilan's gaze, "Is he a friend I knew before?"

"...It's a policeman I met when I was in Kyoto." Tang Ze sorted out his words and said ambiguously, "Because of the case, well, that case, I had some contact with it."

Suzuki Sonoko and Mao Lilan didn't have any special reactions, but Conan became alert all of a sudden.

The case of Tang Ze was a complete frame-up, but because the person who did it spared no expense, spent a lot of manpower and material resources on this case, and even tampered with the memory of the victim Tang Ze, the whole case was like a ball of wool with no thread.

Even with the assistance of Hattori Heiji, even with the help of many forces, unless Tang Ze completely gave up his identity and started a new life in another place, otherwise this stigma that affected his life would be firmly attached to him and accompany him for the rest of his life.

The other party created a false case of injustice by illegal means. They wanted to overturn it, but they could only use legal means to confront it head-on. It was very unfair, but this was the current situation.

Hattori Heiji tried his best to dig up a few people involved in the case, but this guy suddenly appeared by himself, and his target was locked on Tang Ze as soon as he appeared.

If Adachi Toru was related to that case, his identity would be very suspicious.

"Don't be like this, I'm fine." Tang Ze showed an open-minded smile, "As for Mr. Adachi... it's normal for him to have a grudge against me. It's not his fault, probably."

"Hmm?" Suzuki Sonoko nasalized in confusion, "Is he a police officer related to your case? But you are the one who was wronged, why would he have a grudge against you?"

"Because Kudo-kun and Hattori-kun are trying to overturn my case, he was implicated, so he was punished, completely lost his public office, and was dismissed from the police force." Tang Ze blinked and threw out the prepared script setting in an orderly manner, "There's nothing I can do about it, who made me arrested by him?"

"Huh?!"

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"Is it because you didn't let him notice me at noon because that person is related to the organization?"

Conan, who was holding the fairy wand forced by Mao Lilan and shaking the star light casually, saw Tang Ze sitting aside looking very relaxed and suddenly asked.

At this moment, the fireworks show had begun. After the emotion passed, Suzuki Sonoko, who still wanted to catch handsome guys, could not help but drag Mao Lilan to visit the stalls.

So Conan, who might have been a nuisance, was given to Karasawa, who was also a nuisance, and was placed on the viewing lawn as a left-behind child.

Because of this, he finally had the opportunity to carefully question this new person who suddenly appeared.

Logically, there didn't seem to be much of a problem with the appearance of this former police officer. It was his own freedom to go to Izu to relax after losing his job, but deep down, he always felt that it was no coincidence that this person met Karasawa. .

If his and Hattori's reasoning is correct, this is another police figure suspected of being related to the organization...

They have been infiltrated by the organization to this point, can these policemen really still want us?

"...I have no evidence, but I do suspect so." Karasawa, who was well prepared, nodded, "He was the policeman who arrested me. That's what my memory tells me. But you have also heard about Okita. To put it bluntly, I was probably directly controlled by the organization that day.”

Conan nodded, feeling that Tangze's statement was consistent with his own thinking.

Okita Souji, who was very affectionate and had a good relationship with Karasawa, and was probably one of the few close friends he had in the past eighteen years, had no need to lie on this issue, so the most likely reason was Karasawa's memory. Something went wrong, and what Souji Okita saw was the truth of that day.

But if this is the case, Toru Adachi, the arrester in Karasawa's memory, appears in front of him so naturally according to the image and identity in Karasawa's memory, as if he really arrested Karasawa. The problem It's huge.

"More than that," Karasawa added jealously before Matsuda Jinpei had a chance to make his official appearance. "In my memory, he was the one who mainly inflicted violence on me."

Not entirely a lie.

The policeman who was dug out by Hattori Heiji and captured by Toru Amuro was indeed this image in Karasawa's memory.

So, is it okay to hand over the responsibility to Toru Adachi who will replace him?

"Sneeze——" Not far away, Jinpei Matsuda, who was spreading a picnic cloth outside the RV with the members of the Phantom Thieves, sneezed hard.