The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan

Pushing the wine glass in his hand to Tang Ze, Leon took the crystal handed over by Tang Ze in a calm and unhurried tone.

"The desire stone is the crystallization of human desires and distortions, emotions and persistence. It is also a concrete manifestation of the 'power' of understanding the world." He pinched the sharp ice crystal-like stone and looked through it. His golden eyes His eyes exuded a metallic luster as the light and shadow changed, and his tone of voice had a rhythmic rhythm, "What exactly is twisted desire? It is what people pursue and yearn for, and they yearn for it to the point of even their own thoughts. It’s affected to the point where the distortion is born.”

"You want to say that the power of desire is the power of dreams and pursuits?" Tang Ze, who heard some subtext, raised his eyebrows, "Ah, that is to say, you can also call it 'will power', is that what you mean? ?”

"Yes, it is the power of desire. Therefore, it is the power of wishes and emotions. It is a pure driving force for the pursuit of ultimate happiness." As he spoke, Leon pinched it between his index finger and thumb, flexed his fingers hard, and slenderly The crystal shattered on his fingertips in the next second.

It was obviously a black crystal with a shell, but after it shattered, it raised golden dust, giving it a special and gorgeous feeling.

The powder flew into a shimmering golden mist under the tapered lamp on the bar, and fell regularly into the empty cup in front of Karasawa, forming a small pile of golden sand at the bottom of the goblet.

"That's it?" Tangze leaned closer to the cup and looked at the tiny bit of powder the size of a fingernail from all angles. Tangze clicked his tongue, "It's a bit biting."

"How much more ordinary quality desire accumulated in the impression space do you want?" Regarding his question, Leon was not surprised and asked instead.

"So you mean, I need to go to more palaces to get some high-quality ones? How do I use this thing? Just make a wish. Can you conjure something for me?" He flicked the transparent wall of the goblet and knocked on it. With a clear sound, Tang Ze asked, "Can anything be changed?"

"It's probably not okay to wish that you are Qin Shihuang." Looking at Tang Ze who was staring at the cup thoughtfully, Leon complained first, and then added, "As I said, it is the product of wishes and emotions, not a sincere wish. When you can’t mobilize your desires and your emotions can’t keep up, you definitely won’t get the results you want.”

"With such metaphysics, you have to pay attention to sincerity and spirituality. Isn't it troublesome?" Tang Ze complained, but he directly pulled off the newly formed crystals on the brooch one by one, and poured them into the cup. Throw it down.

Leaving his fingers, these crystals broke into new powder and gathered around the first pile of gold powder, making the pile slightly larger.

The golden sand that expanded twice finally showed a bit of brightness, and the golden shadow was reflected in the transparent cup wall.

But compared to the empty cup, this small piece of stuff is still so pitiful.

"In short, it's something that can be exchanged for anything you want. I understand, it's an event store token, right?" Senior player Karasawa automatically and consciously performed the equivalent conversion, "And he didn't show me the store list. That kind of thing. It’s like saying that yours is a completely blind box. It’s more evil than Joseph. Leon, don’t you even disclose the probability?”

Leon rolled his eyes, turning a deaf ear to his condemnation, and just replied: "This is different from the concept in the games I have played. Did you also say, 'Sincerity leads to spiritual success'."

"After asking for a long time, you are still telling me riddles." He sighed, Tang Ze shook his head, "Just tell me, this thing can be used for you, but you don't know what it can smoke, isn't that the end of it?"

Leon shook his head and did not comment on Tangze's opinion. He just said: "When you actually use it, you will naturally know it. When playing games, you have to keep a little sense of surprise for the first time, right? For someone like you, props are also good. , weapons or money, those who have passed the level have long been indifferent, those secret treasure buds, the desire of the palace master, etc. are all overflow resources. It is also good to give you a way to exchange the overflow for other rewards. .”

"...Are you sure it's a sense of surprise, not fright? The more you talk, the more you feel at a loss." Tang Ze rolled his eyelids, feeling that he could see a bit of the man's smile on Leon's face, "Generally, the overflow part is given to The rewards, even if there are any, are just mosquito legs, right?"

Sensing the reluctance to give up in Karasawa's voiceover, Leon shrugged helplessly, then took down another wine glass and began to mix his cocktail today: "Well, what I can tell you first is that working harder to save a little won't help. Wrong. If you can fill a cup, there will be a surprise."

With a snap of his fingers, Tang Ze converted into the game language very quickly and translated smoothly: "Oh, I understand, mosquito legs also have a big guarantee, you have to go down the well, right?"

Not only have I learned the mosquito legs, but I have also learned a weapon that can be used to kill people, and I can see the guaranteed prize pool. Isn’t this forcing people to not give up until they reach the guaranteed price?

Tangze, who had played various games, knew the ropes well and looked at Leon with disdain.

When playing games, be careful with riddle writing and be wary of numerical traps. He knows very well the deceptions of dog planning.

Leon stopped turning around to get the wine bottle and gave Tangze a rude look: "Since there are so many opinions, you just have to say whether you want it or not."

Here it comes, here it comes, the true face of some human and dog planning is really exposed.

He was complaining in his heart, but Tang Ze quickly said with a look of fear on his face: "Okay, okay, I'll save it, can't I save it..."

There is no way, this broken game looks like a game and plays like a game, but as Leon said in the past, no matter how much everything looks like a game, it is still real and his new life.

Thinking of this problem, Tang Ze had new questions.

"My Death coop has reached 3." Summoning his blue tarot cards and holding them in his hands like playing poker, Karasawa pulled out the Death card, flipped it over and showed it, "What is 'Fate Shift 1st '? Let me tell you, this is P5, and this is not the previous game where there was a lot of bitterness and hatred, and we don't want to engage in the breakdown of social relations."

Looking at the works of the past, there are precedents for the breakdown of social relations, and even if there is no breakdown... there is no guarantee that your co-op will live well.

Even if it’s the waffle man or Toru Adachi, they are opposite to the protagonist in terms of relationship and stance, and they deserve to be praised, but they can still achieve resonance and mutual recognition...

Therefore, in the P series, the breakdown of social relations represents the true severing of ties.

If there is such a possibility, whether it is estrangement, going against the grain, or a more extreme situation, he has not yet reached the full limit, the story has not finished yet, the co-op people are simply gone, etc...

Tang Ze lowered his head and glanced at the tarot cards spread out like a fan in his hand.

Unlike the original P5 with the fake Igor, his Tarot does not show the distorted red card face of the P5 Tarot, but maintains the stable and peaceful blue form that the Tarot should have originally.

For example, in the picture of the Grim Reaper he took out, in front of the plain blue gate, a white skull was placed there - not to mention, combined with the TV version of the cutscenes, it looks quite right.

But these Wade Tarot cards, which had various abstract meanings, now all had their own names in his eyes.

When Karasawa moved his eyes upward, it was as if he saw it in the system interface. The character's image, name, and comments written by Leon quietly appeared on the card surface.

Edogawa Conan, Mori Ran, Amuro Toru, Hattori Heiji, Miyano Akemi, Hoshikawa Teru...

Names flashed across his eyes, and he closed the Tarot. Tang Ze closed his eyes, then opened them again, looking at Leon at the bar with a particularly serious expression.

No matter what the outcome is, if he loses these companions during his journey, this is something he absolutely cannot accept now.

The feelings that have been paid and the bonds that have been created are all real things.

Watching Tang Ze's expression at this moment, carefully examining the expression on his face inch by inch, Leon first suppressed the casual smile on his face, and then raised the corners of his mouth again.

He showed the business smile that Tang Ze had seen when they first met.

"You're a little panicked." With this statement, Leon's voice also lost the casual calmness brought by familiarity and gags, and returned to the quiet and mystical tone he had every time he read out the contract lines. Breath's magnetic voice said, "You pretend not to care that much, but you have actually cared about 'fate' for a long time."

Tang Ze, who was a little stung, narrowed his eyes, but did not look away after all.

The word destiny is something that Leon would mention from time to time.

This was the case when they first met. Combined with his status as "Judge", Tangze always believed that the Riddler must know a lot of things that he didn't know.

Therefore, when he had such doubts, the first person he thought of testing and asking was Leon.

He was not disappointed, so Leon continued.

"You have been struggling with whether you should change those things and whether you should do so many things. You are afraid that you will flap the wings of a butterfly and trigger a powerful storm in the long run..."

Using a steady and slow speaking speed, Leon analyzed Tangze's thoughts as if talking eloquently.

"Sometimes you hate the established things, the plots and stories you have seen, and you will feel that it is also a way to change the plots that you hate according to your own wishes, or use the parts that suit your needs. The struggle for the destiny of freedom.

"But there are also many times when you look at the world that has been changed beyond recognition by you, and you will have the fear of not knowing how to move forward. You are afraid that the day when you can no longer predict opportunities and predict the future will eventually come.

"You are hesitating, you are worried, you are afraid that without the ability to predict, you will not be able to protect everything in the face of unprepared emergencies, you will not be able to maintain everything now...

"You're scared."

This long paragraph of words was deleted without much subjective emotion. Leon seemed to be speaking out what he understood to be Tangze's thoughts in a straightforward manner, speaking in a calm and clear tone. As if just to express the fact that I see through your mind.

However, the golden eyes under the brim of the blue hat were curved again, looking at Tang Ze steadily with a hint of teasing and ridicule.

Staring at such a pair of mocking eyes, Tang Ze took a deep breath.

Leon's statement may be a bit exaggerated, but overall this passage...

That's right.

"I'm actually a little scared."

Tang Ze did not move his eyes away, staring into Leon's eyes as if he was showing off his strength.

"I'm afraid that I haven't changed anything, but I'm also afraid that I've changed too much. I'm afraid that the people I tried my best to save and the regrets I wanted to save will eventually return to the established track. I All my efforts will be in vain... But if I really change that much, the uncontrollable future and unpredictable changes will only interrupt my plans that I think are perfect again and again."

"You are afraid of losing control. You are always afraid of losing control. You think your strength is to use all your reaction capabilities within a controllable range to complete the original planned goals." Lyon said directly, "You think your advantage is, It’s the control that extra information gives you. But that may not be the case in the future.”

Tang Ze twitched the corner of his mouth, without a smile on his face, and admitted frankly: "Yes, you are right."

When he saw the words "Destiny Deflection 1st", he felt a lot of relief in his heart. He felt that he had done nothing wrong, but he couldn't help but have more doubts.

Where is Xingchuan Hui? Where is Miyano Akemi? Where is Asai Narumi?

These people whose original destiny will no longer exist, haven't their destiny been deflected, have they failed?

Just pretend that the time hasn't come yet... What happens after that?

Will there be a Destiny Shift 2nd? 3rd? 4th?

Like the eye of a storm, pulling everyone around him into his own wishful thinking and following his footsteps, is this really a good thing?

If the future is completely separated from what he knows and takes an unimagined path, can he really still control these things?

This implicit worry would surface from time to time, briefly capturing Tang Ze's mind, reverberating in his ears like some discordant chords.

"I can understand your worries, Trickster." Using this name again, Leon reached out and patted Tang Ze on the shoulder in a rare moment, "How far can a future built with lies be sustained? ? It’s only natural for people to have such doubts.”

"Oh, there is usually a twist at the end of such words." Tangze raised an eyebrow after adjusting his emotions, "What are you going to say next, but...?"

"Yes, but." Leon squinted his eyes as his worldly expert tone faded away, "But now that everything has come to this point, it's too late to worry about the impact that you have caused, isn't it too late, guest?"

"Huh?" Tang Ze's raised eyebrows were suppressed by himself, "What do you mean?"

"You have already extended your hand, the first time you couldn't bear it, the first time you had scruples, the first time you regarded your Tarots as your partners, and Not just a cold co-op character..." He couldn't tell whether it was with emotion or teasing, Leon's smile widened, "It's already too late, trickster."

There was a hint of schadenfreude in his smile, and Tang Ze's eyes slowly widened.

"You don't really think of yourself as a time-traveled player, do you? You can lie to your buddies, but don't lie to yourself."

Leon, who had completely returned to his usual state, finally laughed completely.

"A player will care about rewards, task progress, and maybe the characters and plot... But a player will worry about gains and losses and have scruples in order to smoothly promote the development of the story for himself, so that he will face the best person in the world who knows him. The assistant in the velvet room still has to habitually come up with words to explore possible endings?"

Tangze moved his lips, wanting to retort, but he, who was always best at managing expressions, had an extremely stiff expression on his face at the moment, and could hardly mobilize any muscle feedback.

"Admit it, this guest." Taking out the cup filled with gold sand in front of Karasawa, Leon pushed it to the brightest position under the tapered lamp, picked up the tablecloth on the bar, and wiped it until it was shiny. The outer wall of Tangze's body moved like Tangze did just now, "You are still Tangze. Everything in your previous life has shaped you today, but now you are also Karasawa."

"I..." Tangze wanted to refute again, but failed to come up with a suitable line again, and choked again.

"Hahaha, it's so strange to see such an expression on your face." Seeing Tang Ze who failed to manage his expression, Leon laughed several times, "A deceiver who can't even deceive himself, It’s really embarrassing and interesting to watch. It’s so interesting, this guest.”

As his words fell to the ground, a crisp cracking sound sounded.

Karasawa raised his head and saw that on the ceiling of the bar, among the rings of Klein blue, something was silently shattering. Red and black debris, accompanied by this all-too-familiar sound effect, were flying to the ground. fall.

【rank up! Rank3]

[coop——Destiny Shift 1st]

[You have traveled through the abyss of confusion, you have passed through the fog of the unknown, you have fallen into the quagmire where you cannot move...

You want to scream, you want to go crazy, you want to change everything.

Your voice is heard, and the unfortunate are blessed with mercy.

Therefore, travelers who know the morning star and the North Pole can walk confidently into the vast world. Carrying a suitcase, confidence and wealth, your journey finally sets off.

However, please note——

Human cognition is composed of memories. People see themselves from others, glimpse the future from the past, gain their own from gifts, and create a new self from the old.

Everything is like the ship of Theseus. Once it sets sail, it is difficult to return.

Are you really who you think you are?

Destiny is the end point of choice. The wheels leave ruts instead of falling into the ruts.

This is your intersection with judgment - judging yourself and being reborn. 】

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