The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan

"Three, two, one——"

Karasawa followed the instructions and slowly opened his eyes. He stared at the painting behind his desk for a while, and then slowly turned his gaze in the direction of Kihara River.

Under the slightly nervous gaze of the other party, Tang Ze blinked and sat up as if nothing had happened.

"Has your hypnotherapy ended?" Tang Ze rubbed his neck and smiled, "I feel like I have definitely relaxed a little."

Isn't it? It's a beautiful thing to have fun without spending any money. It's definitely relaxing.

"Well, it's over. Karasawa-kun, you are surprisingly the type who is very receptive to psychological suggestions. The effect is better than I expected." Kihara Kawazai carefully looked at Karasawa's expression and responded with a gentle and tolerant smile. meaning.

His expression was soft and his tone was gentle, as if he was really discussing Tang Ze's treatment plan, but Tang Ze vaguely heard something between the words.

——Since you are the child of Ichikawa Karasawa and possess his most critical research results, is it really reasonable for your secret to be revealed so easily? Or is this disguise also a protection designed by Ichikawa Karasawa in advance? Part of the mechanism?

Karasawa raised his hand, rubbed his temples, and looked distressed: "Really? I don't know. Maybe it's because I came to Tokyo. I always feel that in the past few months, I have been in much worse shape than before. "

In the ears of people who don't know Tangze's situation, this sentence means that Tangze is not adaptable to the change of urban life, but in the ears of those who are familiar with it, it has another meaning.

Especially those who know the dirty tricks behind Tang Zezhao's arrest.

Kiharachuan nodded thoughtfully and wrote something else on a new page of notes.

Even if he couldn't see clearly what he wrote, Tang Ze had already anticipated his thoughts.

As expected, his next sentence directly asked about the relevant part of the case: "Well, so you didn't receive any psychological counseling when you were detained for the case, and also after the trial?"

This means he suspects that Tangze's original psychological defense has been attacked.

What Occlumency is, it’s really the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, right?

Tangze, who was complaining in his heart, still showed an impeccable performance on the surface. He pretended to be in a state of vague recollection. After a moment, he shook his head hesitantly.

"No, probably. I don't remember a similar situation."

The expression he chose was very vague. Compared with the definite denial, this time there were many more doubts that he seemed to be unable to figure out.

This performance actually dispelled Kiharachuan's concerns. He nodded and picked up the pen again.

"That means there was a problem with your original treatment process. I will complain to the relevant departments. They delayed your treatment and caused your mental state to deteriorate after arriving in Tokyo. This is very derelict." There was no answer to Karasawa's confusion. He attributed this with finality.

Tang Ze lowered his head and said nothing.

Kiharachuan was deliberately diverting his attention, not wanting him to recall his experience during the arrest stage.

This person knew what might have happened in those two months, and was trying to avoid Karasawa's doubts about his memory.

"Okay, it's getting late, and the club activities are about to end." Looking up at the time, Kiharagawa sorted out the information on his knees and stood up to signal the end, "Although this treatment is not in-depth. , but I think it’s really effective for you. Come here today, go to bed early at night, and try to maintain a regular schedule. If there are any changes, you can contact me at any time.”

"Okay, please."

Conan, who had been holding the doorknob tightly for a while, let out a breath, let go of the handle that was almost heated by himself, and quickly jumped behind the corner to avoid Kiharagawa noticing him.

His earbuds responded with a rustling sound, as if the bug was rubbing against some surface.

Then there was Karasawa's voice thanking Kiharagawa again and bidding farewell, which was clearer and closer than the previous voices.

This in disguise confirmed Conan's guess. Tangze discovered the bug that Xiaolan had put on him and knew that he was observing the treatment, so he accepted the treatment plan with unknown safety factor without hesitation.

Not only that, he even took care of the cleanup work for Conan.

Xiaolan probably put the bug on the folder she gave to Kiharagawa, or near her desk. She didn't know how Karasawa took it away naturally.

Soon, with the sound of the door opening and closing, Tangze, who walked out of the consultation room, looked around and looked towards the direction where Conan was hiding with a clear purpose.

After confirming that Kiharagawa had no intention of leaving the room and following him, Conan stuck his head out, took the initiative to greet Karasawa, and walked out of Kiharagawa's office out of sight with him.

"Next time you need to put something like this on, you can tell me directly." Tang Ze handed the small sticker in his hand back to Conan, "Classmate Lan is already working hard, but it's still quite eye-catching."

With the blessing of Dr. A Li's black technology, Conan's eavesdropping equipment has been upgraded to a very small micro-device, less than one centimeter in size without stickers.

Mao Lilan, who had no such experience, hesitated again and again, and chose to use a handbook sticker to combine it with the organized documents and use it as a page mark, using pink flowers to stick to the edge of the paper.

There was nothing wrong with the form, but after all, it was not in line with her past habit of organizing files. Worried that Kiharagawa would think something was wrong after thinking about it, Karasawa took the opportunity to take the personal belongings and dragged the little flower away.

Conan squeezed the eavesdropping device in his hand and observed Tang Ze's expression for a while.

Now that Karasawa knew that he had listened to Kiharagawa's hypnosis, he didn't have to worry about making innuendoes and could directly ask.

"Do you still have any memories from before? Did Dr. Kihara really hypnotize you?"

Conan had no way of judging whether Karasawa lied during the entire treatment based on his voice and language alone, but judging from the dialogue, Kiharagawa had a way to tell.

Therefore, if Karasawa really cannot remember what he revealed to Kiharagawa under hypnosis, he did not see specific actions in that key process and cannot know what happened, so he can only rely on guessing and reasoning.

Tangze took the initiative to take away the bug and told Conan that he found him eavesdropping, just to get him to ask this question.

"Of course." Karasawa blinked his eyelids twice and patted Conan's head comfortingly, "I am Karasawa Ikawa's son. He underestimates me and my father too much."

Conan was relieved at first, then asked again: "So did his hypnosis work?"

"It worked." Karasawa looked at Conan's expression and replied affirmatively, "I was indeed hypnotized."

This is the truth. The debuff has not been completely cleared yet and is still counting down.

Although Karasawa was not actually affected by hypnosis and used some cunning words to evade Kiharagawa's lie detector test, he did not want to cause any misjudgment to Conan and make the other party mistakenly think that Kiharagawa was an ordinary person with no threat. .

Karasawa was not affected, just because he is Karasawa and the strongest mask user. Even if that kind of hypnosis has many activation conditions and is not arbitrary mental control, Kiharagawa's lethality to ordinary people must be huge.

Conan must be wary of this person.

Entering this information and recollecting everything he just heard, Conan quickly glanced at Karasawa's side face, and couldn't help but recall the words that the excited Kiharagawa had repeated again and again when he muttered to himself.

"The end of cognitive learning..." Conan, who had witnessed this kind of power more than once, looked tense. He couldn't help but reach out and grab Tangze's wrist, wanting to pull him down for a closer inspection.

Karasawa, did he do the kind of power that joker showed him in front of Kiharagawa? In what way and at what cost?

"Yes, the end of cognitive learning." Tang Ze looked down at Conan and smiled, repeating the question he had asked him in the past, "What are your wishes, Conan?"

Feeling the huge amount of information from this short sentence, Conan's round eyes widened even wider, looking like an emoticon, which made Tangze a little bit unable to help laughing.

This is not the first time he has explicitly hinted at this. It seems that because Conan has always assumed that he is in a position of being persecuted, he rarely thinks in that direction.

However, he has laid the foundation for his character, and it is time for Conan to realize that he is really not an ordinary person.

"Are you thirsty? Do you want something to drink?" Tang Ze's voice changed and he suddenly asked an unrelated question.

"Huh?" Conan, who didn't understand why the topic jumped so quickly, was stunned for a moment, but still responded instinctively, "I'm a little thirsty."

"Okay, then, how about coffee? You always prefer coffee." Tangze asked again in a casual manner.

"Well, of course..."

Before Conan could figure out why the topic jumped so much, he felt Tang Ze, who was holding his wrist, turn his palm over and grab his hand with his backhand, which was not even half as big as Tang Ze.

The next moment, the cold canned coffee appeared directly in the palms of their hands.

This was the first time that Karasawa didn't try to use his commuting bag as a cover, and took something out of the toolbar in front of Conan.

Instinctively grabbing the can of coffee, Conan looked at the can, which looked like it had just been taken out of the refrigerator, before condensation condensed on the outer wall. He opened and closed his mouth several times silently.

Many fragments flashed through his mind.

Karasawa's commuter bag was like a treasure chest. Karasawa suddenly pulled out a large can of drink from his sleeve. Karasawa smiled and said that he was also a magician, and suddenly a poker appeared in his hand...

"you you--"

Pointing at himself, Karasawa dropped the bomb lightly.

"The power of your heart to make your wishes come true."

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"It's not good for you to lie to your children like this."

After the members of the Phantom Thieves sitting around the restaurant listened to the leader's important speech about deceiving the innocent detective, Miyano Akemi couldn't help but shake her head.

Counting carefully on your fingers, when it comes to disguises, this little detective who appears to be Edogawa Conan but is actually Kudo Shinichi is the one who was deceived the most by Karasawa.

Other friends who are not closely related to Karasawa's core operations, such as the Mori family, Suzuki Sonoko, and others, only know Karasawa and Joker as two identities, and at most they include Kitagawa Yusuke. Even if they are also unaware, they will be deceived to the end. limited.

As for Conan, Conan knows every one of Karasawa's vests. Even Joker's daily identity is a custom-made special vest, but he has not even had a chance to see through his identity until now.

Even the injustice organization somehow knows that Akechi Goro/Kumel is equal to the current Karasawa Akira, and Conan is not even as good as the organization.

"I'm not lying." Karasawa raised his eyebrows and showed the golden cherry blossom with three petals. "Just tell me whether I can make my wish come true!"

Karasawa needs to reveal to Kiharagawa and Conan that he has special abilities, but he cannot show his offensive power, otherwise it will conflict with his image of being chased away by the organization.

Therefore, he focused on showing only the part of himself that did not have the ability to attack, but that could make people imagine.

That is the wishing machine that makes your wishes come true.

Although the act of "conjuring objects" is misleading, and Karasawa's ability to fulfill other people's wishes is not a manifestation of this, Karasawa is indeed not deceptive in nature.

If the desire stone fell from his body, was rubbed out by his velvet assistant, and relies on him to accept other people's wishes and activate them, how can it not be considered as a wish coming true?

"But the fact that you can pull things out of thin air shouldn't be in the same direction as your ability to fulfill wishes, right?" Asai Narumi, who had seen Karasawa pull out a big gun with his bare hands, shrank back, "Look back, if Conan-kun really thinks you are Magician, where can you conjure things out of thin air?"

Karasawa's power is closer to "storing things in an invisible space". It is impossible to conjure things that do not exist out of thin air.

If someone makes a wish and he doesn't have something in his hand, this ability will naturally "fail", so how can he continue to pull it off?

"I didn't say that he made a wish for that thing." Karasawa spread his hands, his face full of innocence, "Whether it's him or Kiharagawa, I didn't tell any lies."

He just asked Conan if he wanted coffee, and he didn't say where he got the coffee. How could it be considered a lie?

As for the misunderstanding that occurred after Conan contacted the context, that is not something he needs to consider.

"As for not being able to get it out next time, I am the wishing machine myself, and the right to interpret the rules of the game belongs to the copyright owner." Tang Ze was completely like a dog planner.

"Next time Detective-kun asks you to transform him into something you don't have in your hands, and you can't do it, how do you explain it?" Shimabukuro Kimie opened his eyes wide, "Are you saying you don't have enough strength?"

"A sincere heart leads to wisdom." Tang Ze said bluntly without blushing, "If you can't change it, it means you are not sincere. I suggest you reflect on yourself."

Matsuda Jinpei, who had already fully experienced this guy's behavior style, still had difficulty resisting the urge to cover his face, sighed deeply.

With Tang Ze's ability to talk to people and tell lies to ghosts, even if there is any emergency, Tang Ze should be able to fool it...

"Let's get down to business." Matsuda Jinpei, who didn't want to continue this topic, brought the focus back, "Do you think the palace of Kiharagawa has a direction? What are the specifics?"

Kiharagawa is probably related to the organization. As we all know, people in the organization are defensive against attacks on the cognitive world level. This is a difficult point.

Regardless of the organization, he is also the first target they have come into contact with who may have special cognitive abilities. Whether this will cause changes in the palace and whether it will increase the difficulty of the strategy are all issues worth considering.

This is a goal that requires careful analysis and cannot be taken lightly.

"First of all, this guy's obsession must be related to my father. There is no doubt about it." Karasawa shook his fingers, not bothering to elaborate on this imitation monster who almost dressed himself up as another Karasawa Ikawa, and directly concluded. , "What is more difficult to determine is actually how he considered my father."

worship? Admire? Sought after?

resentment? dissatisfied? envy?

It is difficult to know what kind of interactions there were between Karasawa Ichikawa and Kiharakawa. Now, facing this almost pathological imitator, all Karasawa can do is observe his true thoughts and attitudes through his words and deeds.

Today's hypnotherapy treatment allowed Tangze to confirm part of it.

So he has said that it is still uncertain who is the one who is really seen through.

"Many of his expressions were quite distorted and even somewhat contradictory. He probably had a lot of negative emotions towards my father. He made it clear that even if my father had passed away, he still wanted to win the competition and stand at a higher level. position. But it doesn’t seem entirely accurate to describe his relationship with my father as a competitor.”

Tangze turned the pen in his hand and slowly wrote a few keywords on the paper.

"I think he doesn't have completely negative emotions towards my father. He used to admire my father, and this should not be false. It is an objective fact that he has become my father's shadow. If he really hates me, then How could you be willing to see yourself in the mirror every morning and look like your enemy?”

"That sounds like it's closer to jealousy? Maybe he wants to be recognized in all aspects, even to completely devour Karasawa Ikawa's life and replace it." Shimabukuro Kimie, who had been attacked by similar emotions, frowned , such a guess.

"Love breeds hatred, probably." Tangze clicked the paper in his hand, "It should be noted that he actually had the opportunity to leave my father's influence and not be shrouded in the shadow. It was him He took the initiative to change his plans, followed my father, and changed his life goals again and again.”

"Maybe it's more complicated emotions." Miyano Akemi looked at the photos on the table and looked at the familiar face of Kiharagawa, and sighed sincerely, "My uncle is a genius, and his thinking is beyond the reach of ordinary people. All his thoughts and actions are unconstrained, and his thinking will not take into account how rough and difficult it is for him to walk on it, and as difficult as climbing to the sky."

Miyano Akemi, who had truly experienced this feeling, raised her head and looked at Karasawa.

Now, she occasionally has this feeling, and feels ashamed that she may not be able to share the worries of the leader.

"It is very difficult to catch up with him, not to mention ordinary people. Even if you are a genius, if you are not one in a million, just standing behind him is enough to consume all your abilities."

Facing her complicated eyes, Tang Ze responded with a comforting smile.

This is not actually a follower's problem. Tang Ze Ikawa, if his style of doing things has always been the way Tang Ze remembers, then he has never been a qualified leader.

He is walking ahead of everyone and never looks back. He is an arrogant genius. He is not suitable to lead any team. It is normal for Mu Yuanchuan to have a mental breakdown following him.

"So I said, I may have a general direction. After all, such a genius, but because of some ordinary people's mundane troubles, such as family, such as children, easily abandoned the crown within reach, changed the direction and plan of his career..." Shaking his head, Tang Ze's tone was a little sympathetic, "Kiharakawa, probably driven crazy by this gap."

A genius with far higher talent than himself, who can reach the crown that others can never reach in their lifetime as long as he stands on tiptoe, and who is a lone genius who never has any troubles because of academic problems, but because of some trivial things, he fell into the mortal world and casually abandoned the excellent talent that no one can match...

It's not surprising that Kiharakawa, who was convinced by him and even regarded him as his life goal, broke down.

Tang Ze wrote two words on the paper half with pity and half with irony.

"Mirror image".