The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan

"Okay, Akechi-kun is definitely no better than you two in terms of detective and reasoning abilities." Facing the two very depressed detectives, Tang Ze followed Mao, "If you only think about solving puzzles and discovering the truth, you are the first first class."

Tangze's compliment came from the bottom of his heart and was not meant to be polite at all.

Due to different mentalities and different sources of information, Akechi Goro's level of performance in the case is based on the combination of Karasawa's various cheats, the amount of super travel information, the judgment brought by Karasawa's own experience, etc. Kankan is a person who can get ahead.

Among them, Tang Ze's empirical judgment is sometimes not so easy to use - Ke Xue, the murderer, will not tell you the laws of the objective world.

Therefore, Tang Ze really admired these well-known detectives who had praised their IQ and reasoning level.

Of course, as a wise man, he should persecute as usual. Being too close to Kumail would not be a good thing for them.

Karasawa's comfort was still effective. The expressions of the two young detectives with strong self-esteem improved a lot. However, Hattori Heiji still curled his lips: "Generally when others praise someone like this, there will be a 'but'..."

"That's not what I mean. It can only be said that what he is good at happens to be the part that you are not good at." Tang Ze laughed and told the truth, "Being worldly, maintaining customer relationships, shaping your image, and maintaining public attention... He is running the character of 'Akechi Goro' with the core goal of creating a detective image that can arouse heated discussions. You just want to solve the case."

Whether it is the Akechi image created by Karasawa or the original Erwuzi, to put it bluntly, Akechi Goro became a detective just to better penetrate into the relevant system, which is a need for profit.

"What you said makes sense..." Hattori Heiji was stunned by the business philosophy expressed by Karasawa, the character planner. He recalled what happened earlier, and couldn't help but talk to him. Conan exchanged a look.

Akechi Goro is indeed quite skilled in these aspects.

When he returned to Nagato's house with the police escorting Nagato Mitsuomi and Nagato Hidetomi, whose cell phone had been detained for several hours, everyone who had already believed that Nagato Hidetomi had been killed because of Hinata Sachi's revelation It's confusing.

The scene after that was extremely chaotic.

Hinata Yuki and Nagato Hidetomi burst into tears, Nagato Nobuko found out that his dream was broken not long after he was proud, Nagato Douzan was overstimulated and passed away...

It was really a nerve-wracking scene to watch, but Akechi Goro walked up so calmly, first communicating with the main person in charge, Hattori Heizo, and then Nagato, another family member of the suspect who urgently needed an explanation. Kang Jiang......

It only took him more than half an hour to complete all the coordination work for a case as complicated as a ball of wool and a feud between a wealthy family.

And it was handled beautifully. To say professional PR is never an exaggeration.

The one who complained the most about Goro Akechi was his serious client Nobuko Nagato.

"I'm very sorry, Miss Nobuko. Although I did accept your commission, the more serious case came first. After weighing it, I chose the more correct method." He never mentioned how he provoked and arranged the whole scene. Goro Akechi just maintained a faint smile and gently faced Nobuko Nagato who asked the question, "Compared to these unfair means, you may consider..."

The next words he said were whispered into Nagato Nobuko's ear. In just a few words, the angry and accusatory look on the other person's face disappeared without a trace, and his expression suddenly cheered up.

"Speaking of this, what did he say to Nagato Nobuko..." Recalling this, Hattori Heiji began to think about it.

He has already figured out the entire case, including the Nagato family's somewhat ethical drama-style family relationship, and this is his only confusion.

Based on Hattori Heiji's understanding, it would be difficult for a woman like her to face strangers with her sarcastic side to be reasonable.

"Well, according to what you heard, Nagato Nobuko's biggest problem, rather than any family power struggle, is actually his own emotional setbacks, right?" Conan said this, and his thoughts couldn't help but diverge. Good direction.

Could it be something that could help her force her lover to divorce so that he could marry her, or some ulterior secret gossip about senior executives within the company...

It's not that he has a dark mind. Goro Akechi's behavior makes it difficult for people to think positively about him.

"Oh, I did find out about this." Karasawa betrayed easily, "He told Nagato Nobuko that she recognized the wrong person, and that the person who helped her out of the siege and confessed to her was not her current lover."

"Huh?" Conan and Hattori Heiji, who heard a huge amount of information from this short sentence, made shocking voices in unison.

"Well, it's not so much that she's plotting for the family's property as it is that she's jealous of her younger brothers and sisters, whose love is relatively smooth, especially Hinata Yuki." Karasawa shrugged, "After all, she also wants to 'marry' the rescuer Her hero."

Hattori Heiji and Conan probably guessed how many bloody stories there were in the middle: "..."

The two people looked at each other again, and while looking at each other, they both felt the same emotion from the other's gaze.

"When a detective accepts a commission, the key is to satisfy the client. As for the content of the commission, it is necessary to strictly abide by it..." Before leaving Nagato's house, Akechi Goro smiled toothily in the face of their doubts, "This is called customer service. .”

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"That guy Akechi has gone back to Tokyo, right?"

Tangze, who was eating breakfast, made a move and slowly put down the milk in his hand: "That's right, he doesn't need to inform me of his schedule... Why do you ask?"

As Karasawa spoke, he observed Hattori Heiji's expression and was secretly alert.

What's wrong? Did he stay with Hoshikawa Teru during this operation, making people suspect that Karasawa and Akechi have another connection?

"Oh, just go back." Hearing this, Hattori Heiji immediately breathed a sigh of relief, then cleared his throat, leaned a little closer, and whispered, "Your application for leaving Tokyo...if you change the destination of your trip, If so, do I need to prepare anything else?"

"This..." Tang Ze, who didn't pay much attention to the application form, recalled it for a moment and said, "Probably, but it's not necessary. The application form didn't specify it specifically."

He didn't leave Tokyo often, so when he needed it, he could just ask Yuya Kazami to give him a seal.

In order to reduce his own workload, Feng Jian Yuya decisively prepared a batch of documents with vague wording and vague scope that could be used at any time, so that Karasawa could use them on his own.

"Why are you asking me to go somewhere else to play?" Tangze raised his eyebrows and picked up the slit of the milk bag again, "So leisurely? Isn't the famous detective very busy?"

"Ha, I'm not a detective like Uncle Mouri. I mainly help the police when cases happen. Occasionally, I help people find cats and dogs. What's there to do?" Hattori Heiji asked. Putting the baseball cap on his head, he explained helplessly, and finally protested, "Was that guy Kudo much busier than me before he became smaller?"

"How do I know? I hadn't transferred to another school at that time. But judging from the description of Mr. Lan, his absence from school due to the case was so bad that even the teachers didn't bother to ask, so he had doubts when he used the reason for the case to suspend school. There are not many people there." Tang Ze spread his hands, completely disagreeing with his self-evaluation.

Regarding the cases solved by this group of young detectives, what remains fresh in Karasawa’s memory is the case of Nanatsuki Koshimizu.

Because a variety show was fabricated and brought together a number of famous detectives. During the self-introduction stage, everyone enthusiastically introduced themselves to each other. The result is that according to incomplete statistics, the four detectives have solved 300-500 cases per person, which is not a big deal. One kick of Edogawa Conan.

In other words, just the five detectives present that day had over 2,000 cases... Detective White Horse has not yet reported the number of cases he was involved in in the UK.

Those are a bunch of high school students, it’s obvious...

"If you say that..." Recalling his attendance situation, Hattori Heiji immediately lost his position and laughed twice, and quickly changed the subject, "Hey, I really want to ask you to go somewhere else. You have enough time to apply. Do you want to stay in Osaka for a few more days?”

"You want me to go to Osaka?" Karasawa tilted his head and glanced over his shoulder at the other end of the corridor.

Well... Kogoro Mouri, Conan, Ran Mouri, and even Heizo Hattori...

It seems that there is indeed no shortage of any.

"Yeah, isn't this just right? I guess my dad will invite that uncle soon." He laughed twice, knowing that his turn was a bit sudden. Hattori Heiji adjusted the angle of the hat on his head, "Well, because of this Something unexpected happened, so I asked my dad to come over as requested by Kudo, but the case he was actually investigating was not over yet."

Osaka is not close to Yokohama. If he hadn't exaggerated the problems of the Nagato family and then tried his best to demand it, Hattori Heizo might not have been willing to take the lead.

However, such a big situation was beyond his expectation. Fortunately, the ending was good.

"That's right." Tang Ze nodded, "So you are here to bring in reinforcements because the case is too difficult?"

Karasawa knew how to stimulate people, and he made Hattori Heiji jump with one sentence: "Don't talk nonsense! I just think the opportunity is right, and I just want to invite you to come and play."

"Really? Aren't you trying to compete with Kudo?" Tang Ze said with a teasing smile on his face, but he still said this deliberately.

"...You are making fun of me." Hattori Heiji, who realized later that he was amused, stared for a moment, then turned to look at Conan, who was standing in front of Nagato Hidetomi with a bright smile, and then turned his head to look at it again. Tang Ze also had a smile on his face.

The case twenty years ago came to light, and Hidetomi Nagato, who was depressed, finally revealed the secret. After experiencing life and death, Hinata Yuki now cherishes this relationship very much.

Nagato Mitsuo's crime of plotting to seize family property and embezzling public funds has been confirmed, and his marriage to Nagato Yasue is about to come to an end. The scene of his confession has also spread rapidly on the Internet with Akechi Goro's glorious image in front of the camera.

Even if this crime doesn't keep him in jail for long, family members like Hinata Yuki who are so angry, full of pain and murderous intent, will not forget him so easily.

Although a large part of the credit at the end of the incident was attributed to Akechi, Kudo's purpose of coming here was achieved in the end.

Now everyone is immersed in the joy of having a happy ending, and his worries and uneasiness are somewhat disturbing.

After hesitating for a moment, he said slowly: "Because I have a feeling that is difficult to express clearly. Life is impermanent. Even if everything goes as usual today, who knows what will happen tomorrow?"

"Huh?" Seeing them muttering together, Conan, who was leaning to the side out of curiosity, heard such a sentence and couldn't help but be startled, "What does this mean?"

"Hey! You scared me." He was startled by the sudden sound beside his legs. Hattori Heiji looked down and saw Conan's confused face, and rolled his eyes, "It's nothing, just a strange feeling."

"You don't look like someone who can think about such philosophical issues..." Tang Ze tilted his head and looked him up and down, secretly confirming the general facts of the case.

"Mainly, I had a strange dream." Hattori Heiji touched the baseball cap he wore backwards, "Isn't it a bit superstitious?"

"Dream, what kind of dream?" Conan was stunned, and suddenly remembered the weird dream he had in Izu a long time ago.

The bright moon hung high in the sky, the cracked night sky, the man falling from the sky...

This seemingly inexplicable and illogical picture seems to contain a strange foreshadowing.

Tokio Ehara, the organizer of Izu Mysterious Tour, mysteriously disappeared, and the attacker who threw him away and the Night Baron virus were also left unsolved. In the end of the whole case, they traced Noah's Ark, and indeed discovered and stopped the organization's attack. conspiracy.

However, at certain moments, fragments of this dream would flash back in his mind, as if something accompanied the dream and was parasitic in the depths of his consciousness.

At this moment, when he heard Hattori Heiji mention the key word strange dream, he recalled that scene almost instantly.

Hattori Heiji turned around, leaned against the wall, raised his head and recalled: "I dreamed that you were chasing someone, running in the dark. Just when you were about to arrest the murderer, suddenly, the other person pulled out his backhand. knife."

Hearing his description, Conan, who was still a little serious at first, twitched his lips: "Then, it won't be something bloody, like 'the detective died heroically in the pursuit of justice' or something like that."

No matter what cliché plots are written by detective novel writers these days, they won’t sell, right?

"Even if it's a dream, this is too cliché..." Hattori Heiji teased a few words, and his expression became gloomy again, "Then, just when the tip of the knife was about to stab you, someone in the darkness opened fire at the murderer. One shot and the murderer screamed and fell down."

"Have you been rescued? It's even worse." The corners of Conan's mouth twitched even more.

And according to this description, among the people he knew, there seemed to be only one person who was armed with a gun and would shoot without hesitation...

He would definitely not be convinced if he was saved by that kind of guy.

"No, he shot and killed the murderer, then turned the gun and shot you, and then killed Uncle Maori who followed closely..." To his surprise, Hattori Heiji gave him the details. I expected a completely different answer, "It seems it's not just you, the gunshots kept ringing, and I kept seeing people falling to the ground..."

"Then what?" After hearing his description, Tang Ze also became serious.

In the original plot, this conversation would have occurred when Conan and others arrived in Osaka.

And in the second half of the case, his dream came true.

However, if the version he said were to be fulfilled, it would be too...

"Then I felt like I had been shot, and I woke up after that." Hattori Heiji breathed out and held the brim of his hat with a depressed expression, "What a strange dream."

A gunman from the dark killed everyone present indiscriminately. This sounds like some strange terrorist attack fantasy.

But because the dream involved several familiar faces, Hattori Heiji couldn't help but feel uneasy. As soon as he opened his eyes, he received a call from Kudo, asking him to help contact the Nagato family...

Without hesitating for long, he coercedly called his father, contacted Nagato Dozo as quickly as possible, and then ran over himself.

"You dreamed of a shooting in the dark and felt uneasy, so you had to invite us to Osaka?" Conan shook his head and asked with clear logic, "Then in order for your dream not to come true, shouldn't you? Stay far away and don't bump into us, so it won't be easy to come true, right?"

"...Eh?" Hattori Heiji, who had never thought about this direction at all, had a dull expression for two seconds.

"Yes, generally speaking, once you want to break the prophecy, the prophecy will happen. If you just don't come to us, won't it trigger the group destruction?" Tang Ze nodded with deep understanding.

The three high school students looked at each other with wonderful expressions on their faces.

"Three young detectives, I haven't formally thanked you yet. I heard from Hidetomi that your efforts are no less than Akechi-kun." Hinata Sachi walked over and interrupted the slightly retarded conversation between the three of them. , "I'm sorry, President Dao San has been a little bit cold to you because of his excitement."

The surprise that his son was still alive, coupled with the sadness of accurately hearing the news of the death of his first love through Akechi Goro's mouth, made the third elder Nagato burst into tears. He held Akechi Goro and cried for a long time, and he had no time to care about other people.

Hinata Sachi, who has already recognized himself as a member of Nagato's family, took the initiative to take on the responsibility of entertaining guests and greeted them politely before they left.

"No matter what, without Akechi helping to tie things up, Nagato Mitsuyo's problem wouldn't be that easy to solve." Hattori Heiji quickly said modestly.

"Uh, yes, we just did some minor work." Conan, who discovered that he was also included in her title of "three detectives", waved his hands quickly.

Hinata Sachi accepted their two words of humility with a smile, and looked at the last person with a smile.

"You're exaggerating. I'm not a detective." Tang Ze shrugged and smiled meaningfully.

Looking at Karasawa's face, Hinata Sachi's eyes flickered slightly.

She didn't tell anyone about the warning letter.

After the chaotic scene, she made a special trip to see Karasawa for testing. However, she received the reply "Oh, really, I've been following Akechi-kun to decorate the theater."

She wasn't sure if this was an excuse for Karasawa not to reveal his identity or if it was true. The Phantom Thieves of the Heart seemed to be good at disguising their identities and being elusive...

Is that the real Karasawa, or has someone borrowed his identity to talk to him?

"Thank you." In the end, Hinata Sachi didn't say anything, but bowed deeply, "I heard from Mr. Hattori that you are going to Osaka next, so I wish you all a safe journey and a happy journey."

"Where, where..."

After another round of pleasantries without embarrassment, Hinata Sachi watched them meet up with Mouri Kogoro and others. He turned his head and glanced at Nagato Hideomi who was standing on the steps waiting for her.

Her lover is back and her enemy is captured.

Hidetomi untied the knot in his heart and was finally willing to undergo surgery to repair the horrific scars on his face. He seemed to be willing to reconnect with society...

Everything is moving in a good direction, and that's enough.

Hinata Sachi walked in with a smile, but suddenly caught a flash of bright red from the corner of his eye.

It was a black box with a neat cross tied with a red ribbon, like a red and black plaid pattern. It was quietly placed on the low table where the vase was placed.

Hinata Yuki, who was immediately reminded of the color, paused for a moment before reaching out and picking it up and opening it.

In the box, there is a brand new pen pinned to the bright red velvet.

The moist lacquer surface, smooth pen barrel, and the gold pen without a trace of scratches lie quietly surrounded by red cloth, giving it a sense of grace and luxury.

A pen she knew all too well.

Hinata Sachi lowered his head in shock and glanced at the old pen he had put in his pocket.

When she grew up, she didn't want to destroy her parents' only relic, so she tried to find the exact same pen, but she couldn't find any information.

Last night, after Nagato Douzan clarified her doubts, she also figured out the reason. This was a gift that President Dosan gave to her mother back then. It was a custom-made pen, one of a kind, the only one in the world.

So this, this is...

She pulled the pen out tremblingly, causing the velvet to relax, revealing the photo underneath.

Those were three photos, and the pictures were all a little yellowish. They didn't look like the original photos, but like someone had scanned the photos and copied them.

The first picture shows the young Nagato Hidetomi holding the thin Hinata Yuki in his arms, staggering out of the charred door step by step.

The second picture is a family portrait. A gentle and beautiful woman is nestled next to a tall man with a bookish look on his face, with a little girl in his arms - it is Hinata Yuki when he was a child.

last one……

Hinata Sachi shook her hands and pulled it out.

This is a scenario that would never happen in reality.

Nagato Hidetomi, whose face was intact, was wearing a suit and hugging Hinata Yuki, who was wearing a wedding dress. Their parents stood beside the newlyweds, creating a warm and happy scene.

Hinata Yuki's eyes flashed with tears, and he couldn't help but look at the box in his hand again.

"The fleeting dream of a butterfly is given as a small gift to those who are on their way to happiness.

Thank you for your loyal silence.

——Not well-known. "