Phantom Thief of Heart!but conan

Chapter 228 "K"

"Huh? Why is it there?" Although Xing Chuanhui was asking, his feet had already started to move towards the direction Tang Ze pointed at.

Regardless of the reason, it is right to follow suit first.

Seeing that the two of them raised their steps before asking questions without thinking, Tang Ze smiled, and his steps became a little lighter.

"Because Kenzo Masuyama likes to compare himself to Caesar? The English word for July comes from Julius in Caesar's name. As long as the current owner of the palace is really the image of Caesar, there is a high probability that the location of the mechanism or passage is in the Around July."

Miyano Akemi nodded again and again, seeing Tang Ze looking left and right looking for something, very interested, and said jokingly: "Sounds very reasonable. I said, you set yourself up as a high school student detective, wouldn't it be You're interested in reasoning, right? Solving puzzles is fun."

"I'm not, I'm not, don't talk nonsense." Tang Ze denied Sanlian at the beginning, "This is, um, it's like playing a game, because a puzzle is stuck, I will be very good at solving it Motivation. As for the bells and whistles, spare me."

Xing Chuanhui and Miyano Akemi exchanged a look, then nodded indiscriminately, and did not refute him.

When he was a detective, the state of his eyes shining when he watched the fun...

"It's here...huh?"

Relying on the visual aid of the "third eye", Tang Ze easily discerned the position of the mechanism from the bushy low wall, stretched out his hand to grab the buckle on the ground, and prepared to pull up the trapdoor on the ground according to his intuition .

Then, he was surprised to find that with his force, the door seemed to be activated, and several bright red thorn lines suddenly appeared, and the tingling of his fingertips made him instinctively loosen the door knocker.

"Hiss..." After shaking his hands twice, Tang Ze frowned, "What is this?"

"Huh?" Xing Chuanhui also squatted down, reached out to touch the door panel, and was also bounced off by the pattern on the top, "Do you mean it can't be opened? It feels like it's electrified."

"Although there are indeed many areas in the hall that look weird and weird because of the distortion, this one seems to be more than just distortion." Tang Ze tried to pull the door again, and opened his hand again as if warned.

... Hey, he still doesn't believe him.

I've been wary of the Phantom Thief for so long, when did I ever eat it?

Tang Ze rolled up his cuffs, firmly grabbed the copper ring on the door, ignored the pain like a pinprick in his palm, and lifted it up with all his strength.

There was a creaking sound from the door leaf, and a crack was opened slightly, and then the red thorns on the door surged like flowing, pulling back the slightly opened door heavily, dragging Tang Ze, who was struggling with the door knocker, almost to death. Fall down.

"What the hell is this? It's gurgling." Stretching out his hand and touching it again, Tang Ze searched his mind for all the similar things in his mind.

Compared to the fact that the door itself cannot be opened, it looks more like something has put a seal on the door.

Is it the mechanism of this temple?Shouldn't I be looking around for any monsters to kill?Gem crystal worms or something?

"Joker, from my point of view." Akemi Miyano said aloud, standing a step behind them, "These lines are a bit like a curlicue, 'K'."

Compared with Tang Ze, who was caught in the game strategy thinking, Miyano Akemi observed more of the phenomenon itself.

She had a little contact with cognitive science and different worlds, so she was more nervous than Tang Ze, who was relaxed.

Seeing these strange things, her associations almost instinctively popped up.

"'K'?" Tang Ze rolled up his sleeves and was about to stick some attack ups on himself and try again. Hearing this, he kept his squatting position and turned around.

Without waiting for him to observe carefully, his long scarf trailed and swung along with his movements, just touching the thorn pattern on the door panel with a blood-like bright red luster.

There was a crisp sound of glass breaking, and the scarf around Tang Ze's neck also shone with light.

The curved thorn patterns on the ground fell off and separated after the crackling sound, and re-formed into a shape similar to a keyhole.The scarf tightened suddenly, and got into the keyhole on the ground, and there was a friction sound like gears turning and biting from the depths of the door.

The gorgeous thorn patterns seemed to be swallowed by the light from the scarf, chapped, gathered, and finally disappeared in the shadow of the scarf.

Caught off guard, Tang Ze was pulled to the ground by the scarf that had moved without authorization, and dragged a section towards the center of the door panel.

The tightened cloth made him reach out and grab the scarf quickly, loosening enough space for breathing, lest he become the first Personalyst ever to be strangled by his own props.

"Cough, cough cough..." Touching his throat, Tang Ze stood up again, grabbing the scarf uncertainly.

The scarf that had turned back into soft cloth was wrapped in his hands obediently, and he didn't look like he was about to kill the master just a moment ago.

"Are you okay?" Xing Chuanhui grabbed Tang Ze's arm, made sure that there was nothing wrong with him, and began to look worriedly at the scarf around his neck.

"...Is this scarf left to you by Uncle and the others?" Seeing the series of changes, Miyano Akemi was puzzled.

"I don't know either, since the awakening of my ability, it has automatically appeared on me... I only thought it was part of my special ability at first." Tang Ze said honestly.

He tried to pull the scarf fabric twice, and the bright red scarf was stretched and crumpled by him without temper, without showing any abnormality.

It was the same last time in Impression Space, it was inexplicably longer, and it was also when I encountered the "K" mark.

Tang Ze and his wife, are they really so powerful?

After studying for a while with a weird expression, he could only temporarily put down his rebellious scarf and looked at the trapdoor on the ground without getting an answer.

Holding the door knocker again, this time the door was pulled up with one hand without hindrance.

"Anyway, the door is open." Looking at the dark entrance below, Tang Ze laughed at himself, "Go down first, don't worry about it."

So what to do, this is the initial number's own equipment, and he can't choose it.

Erwuzi's props are also Erwuzi, which makes sense after thinking about it.

Compared with Tang Ze, who was good at self-resolution, his two teammates were more worried, especially Akemi Miyano, who deeply understood the meaning of symbols.

"Will this be related to the organization, joker?" She held the gun tightly in her hand, looking down at the dark hole, "This is a palace for the members of the organization, and in the place that must pass through, there is such a It is hard to imagine that this has nothing to do with the organization."

"It must have something to do with them." Tang Ze answered without even a single question, "It's hard for me to explain why, but in short, I know that people who have a certain understanding of the world, if they have strong willpower, maybe they can To some extent control your own temple."

Here, Tang Ze refers to the interest group related to Shitong Justice in the original Persona 5.

In the game, apart from Shidou and Okumura, the two characters in their interest groups, the cognitive existence in other people's palaces is just like the cognitive Tang Ze in the Fugu Zero Palace who was beaten into black mud by Tang Ze , is pure empty shell.

It is equivalent to saying that they are just extensions of the hall master's memory and imagination, that's why they are called cognitive puppets.

But in the halls of these two, there have been situations where the cognitive existence has been shattered and a powerful shadow is stuffed inside.

Although there is no explanation in the game, when discussing the relevant settings, most people tend to think that it is because of their mastery of cognitive science that they have invisibly enhanced the defense capabilities of their temples, which is what they use to protect A means of own palace.

"Kenzo Masuyama, is he also aware of the science of cognition, and would even be on guard against someone who 'changes his mind'?" Akemi Miyano frowned instinctively, denying, "It's hard to imagine."

"More or less, he should know something. After all, he is the veteran of the organization. But when it comes to precautions, it doesn't necessarily have to do with him." Tang Ze stopped his thoughts and looked down at the passage below , "Don't guess here, the real answer will be found in the palace. Let's go."

(End of this chapter)