Phantom Thief of Heart!but conan

Chapter 443 Judging myself and gaining a new life

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 stone of desire is the crystallization of human desires and distortions, emotions and attachments. It is also a concrete embodiment of the 'power' of the cognitive world." Picking up the thin, ice crystal-like stone and looking it over, his golden eyes With the change of light and shadow, the pupils exude a metallic luster, and the tone of the speech has a rhythmic rhythm, "What is the twisted desire? It is what people pursue and yearn for in their hearts. It is what people yearn for. The point where it is affected, the distortion is born from it."

"You want to say that the power of desire is the power of dreams and pursuit?" Tang Ze raised his eyebrows when he heard some subtext, "Ah, that is to say, it can also be called 'will power', is that what it means? ?”

"That's right, it's the power of desire, so it's the power of desire and emotion, and it's a pure motivation to pursue ultimate happiness." As he spoke, Leon pinched it between his index finger and thumb, flexing his fingers hard, slender The crystal shattered on his fingertips in a second.

It was clearly a black crystal with a black shell, but after it shattered, it raised golden dust, giving it a special sense of magnificence.

The powder flew up under the cone lamp on the bar counter, forming a shining golden mist, which regularly fell into the empty glass in front of Tang Ze, forming a small pile of golden sand at the bottom of the goblet.

"That's all?" Tang Ze leaned closer to the cup and looked at the fingernail-sized speck of powder from all angles. Tang Ze clicked his tongue, "It's a bit picky."

"How much do you want from the desires of ordinary quality accumulated in the impression space?" Leon was not surprised by his question, but asked rhetorically.

"So you mean, I have to go to the temple to get some high-quality ones? How to use this thing, just make a wish, can you conjure something for me?" With a crisp sound, Tang Ze asked, "Can anything be changed?"

"Maybe you can't make a wish if you are the first emperor of Qin." Looking at Tang Ze who was staring at the cup thinking about it, Leon complained first, and then added, "I said it all, it is the product of wishes and emotions, not wishing from the heart. When you can’t mobilize your wishes and your emotions can’t keep up, you will definitely not get the desired result.”

"Such metaphysics, but also pay attention to a sincere heart, is it troublesome?" Tang Ze complained, but he directly pulled off the newly formed crystals on the brooch one by one, and moved them into the cup. Throw it down.

Leaving his fingers, these crystals shattered into new powder, 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.

"All in all, it's a kind of thing that can be exchanged for anything. I understand, event store tokens, right?" Senior player Tang Ze automatically and consciously performed the equivalent conversion, "And they don't show me the store list. That kind of thing. It’s like saying, you’re a blind box, you’re more black-hearted than Joseph, Leon, don’t you even announce the probabilities?”

Leon rolled his eyes, turned 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 spirit'."

"After asking for a long time, you are still telling me riddles." Sighing, Tang Ze shook his head, "Just tell me, this thing can be used for you, but I don't know what it can smoke, so it's over?"

Leon shook his head, noncommittal to Tang Ze's opinion, just said: "When you really use it, you will know it naturally. You should keep a little surprise for yourself when you play games, don't you? For people like you, props are also good. Whether it’s weapons, money or money, players who don’t care about customs clearance for a long time, those buds of secret treasures, the desire of the master of the palace, etc., are all overflow resources. It’s also good to give you a way to exchange overflow things for other rewards .”

"...Are you sure it's a sense of surprise, not shock? The more you talk, the more you feel at a loss." Tang Ze rolled his eyelids, and he always felt that he could see the meaning of the man's smile from Leon's face. Even if there are rewards, they are all mosquito legs, right?"

Feeling the reluctance to let go in Tang Ze's voice-over, Leon shrugged helplessly, then took down another wine glass and began to mix his cocktail for today: "Well, what I can tell you first is that it will pay off if you work harder. Wrong. If you can fill a cup, there will be a surprise."

With a snap of his fingers, Tang Ze converted it into the language of the game extremely quickly, and translated it smoothly: "Oh, I understand. Mosquito legs also have big guarantees. You must win when you go down the well, right?"

Not only have I learned the mosquito legs, but I have also learned the sharp weapons that force the liver and krypton. You can see the guaranteed prize pool. Isn't this forcing people to not give up until they hit the guarantee?

Tang Ze, who had played all kinds of games, was well versed in the intricacies of them, and looked at Leon with contempt.

When playing games, you have to be careful with the riddle copywriting, and watch out for numerical traps, he knows too well the pitfalls of the dog's plan.

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 we come, here we come, the plan of some people and dogs is really exposed.

The complaints in his heart returned to the complaints, and Tang Ze quickly confessed: "Okay, okay, I'll save it, can't I save it..."

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 still exists, 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."

Throughout the works of past dynasties, there are precedents for the rupture of community relations, and even if there is no rupture...in fact, there is no guarantee that your coop will live well.

Even if it’s the Muffin 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 community relations represents the real 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 in his hand that were unfolded like a fan.

Unlike the original P5 with fake Igor, his Tarot did not show the red face of the distorted P5 Tarot, but maintained a stable and peaceful blue form that the Tarot should have.

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

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

When Tang Ze moved his gaze up, as if he saw it on the system interface, the images, names, and comments written by Leon quietly appeared on the card.

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

One name after another flashed across the eyes, closing Tarot together, Tang Ze closed his eyes, then opened them again, and looked at Leon at the bar with a very serious expression.

No matter what the result is, if he loses these partners during his journey, this is absolutely unacceptable to him now.

The feelings that have been paid, the fetters that have been formed, are all real things.

Watching Tang Ze's expression at the moment, carefully watching the expression on his face inch by inch, Leon first restrained the casual smile on his face, and then hooked the corners of his mouth again.

It revealed the commercial smile that Tang Ze had seen when they first met.

"You're a little panicked." With such a blunt statement, Leon's voice also lost the casual peace brought about by familiarity and gags, and returned to the quiet, mystical voice that he used every time he said the contract lines. With a breathy magnetic voice, "You pretend not to care that much, but you yourself have actually cared about 'fate' for a long time, right?"

Tang Ze, who was stung, narrowed his eyes, but he didn't 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 identity as a "judgement", Tang Ze always believed that this riddle man must know a lot of things he didn't know.

Therefore, when he had such doubts, the first person he thought of to test and ask was also Leon.

Not disappointing him, Leon continued on.

"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..."

With a steady and slow speaking speed, Leon narrated, analyzing Tang Ze's thoughts.

"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 looking at the unrecognizable world that has been modified by you, you will have the fear of not knowing how to move forward. You fear that the day when you can no longer predict the 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 afraid."

This long paragraph of words was deleted without too many subjective judgments. Leon seemed to be expressing what Tang Ze thought he understood in a straightforward manner. His tone of speech was calm and clear. As if just trying to express the fact that I see right through your mind.

However, the pair of golden eyes under the brim of the blue hat bent a little more, looking at Tang Ze with a slight sense of mockery and sarcasm.

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

Leon's statement may be a bit exaggerated to his small emotions, but this passage generally...

That's right.

"I'm really a little scared."

Tang Ze didn't look away, staring into Leon's eyes as if he was struggling.

"I am afraid that I haven't changed anything, and I am afraid that I have changed too much. I am afraid that those people I tried my best to save, and those regrets I want to restore will eventually return to the established track. I All my efforts will be in vain... But if I really change so much, the uncontrollable future and unpredictable changes will only interrupt my perfect plan 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 corners 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.

What about Xing Chuanhui?Where is Akemi Miyano?What about Naruto Asai?

These people whose original destiny will no longer exist, haven't their destiny been deflected, have they failed?
Just treat it as if the time has not yet come... What about after that?
Will there be Destiny Offset 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 hidden worry would surface from time to time, capturing Tang Ze's mind for a short time, echoing in his ears like some discordant chords.

"Your worry, I can understand, trickster." Leon put out his name again, and patted Tang Ze on the shoulder in a rare way, "How far can the future built with lies last? ? It is human nature to have such doubts.”

"Oh, there is usually a turning point behind such words." Tang Ze raised an eyebrow after adjusting his emotions, "You have to say it next, but...?"

"Yeah, but." Leon squinted his eyes after losing the tone of the worldly expert just now, "But, it's all at this point, so I don't care about the impact I have caused. Isn't it too late, my guest?"

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

"You have already stretched out 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 It's not just a cold coop character..." Can't tell whether it's emotion or teasing, Leon's smile widens, "It's already too late, trickster."

Tang Ze's eyes slowly widened as he read some schadenfreude in his smile.

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

Leon, who had completely recovered to his usual state, finally laughed out loud.

"A player will care about rewards, mission progress, and maybe characters and plots... But a player will promote the development of the story smoothly for himself, worry about gains and losses, and have scruples, so that facing the world who knows him best Is the assistant in the velvet room in the velvet room habitually using his speech skills to test the possible ending?"

Tang Ze moved his lips, wanting to refute, but he, who has always been the best at managing expressions, now has an extremely stiff expression on his face, and can hardly mobilize any muscle feedback.

"Admit it, my guest." Leon moved out the cup containing Jinsha in front of Tang Ze, and Leon pushed it into the brightest position under the cone lamp, picked up the tablecloth on the bar counter, and wiped it to make it shine The outer wall of the wall flicked a little like Tang Ze did just now, "You are still Tangze. Everything in your previous life has shaped who you are today, but you are now Karasawa as well."

"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 whose expression management failed, Leon laughed a few times, "The trickster who can't even fool himself, It's embarrassing and interesting to watch. It's so interesting, this guest."

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

Tang Ze raised his head, and saw that on the ceiling of the bar, among the Klein blue dotted with rings, something cracked soundlessly. Red and black debris, accompanied by this all-too-familiar sound effect, were scattered one after another. fall.

[rank up! Rank3]

[coop——fate offset 1st]

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

You want to shout, you want to be crazy, you want to change it all.

Thy voice is heard, wretched man, blessed by good fortune.

So, travelers who know the dawn star and the North Pole, walk into the huge world confidently, carry your luggage, carry your confidence and wealth, and your journey finally starts.

However, please note——

Human cognition is composed of memories. Humans see themselves from others, see the future from the past, harvest their own from gifts, and develop new self from the old.

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

Are you really, or who you think you are, yourself?
Destiny is the end of choices, the wheels leave ruts, not fall into them.

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

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