Phantom Thief of Heart!but conan

Chapter 926 Looking Back Suddenly
Xingchuan Hui kept turning his head and replied in a low voice: "I understand it a little bit."

"Understand what?" Miyano Akemi tilted her head in confusion, "About the experiment?"

"Yeah." Hoshikawa Teru's voice was very light, "Most of the organization's 'experimental subjects' are homeless people or the like found nearby, but occasionally there are, um, accidents like Kiichiro Numabuchi."

It took Miyano Akemi some time to realize who Hoshikawa Teru was referring to. She stroked her chin and pondered, "That means 'criminals who have been sentenced', right?"

Kiichiro Numabuchi joined a violent criminal group related to the organization because he played a "prank" with a former driving school classmate, which resulted in the death of the driving school coach. He was afraid that his crime would be discovered and dared not return home, so he used his special physique to become a stacker...

With all the unexpected things happening, this guy, who was like a frightened bird and was particularly afraid of taking responsibility, ended up becoming the murderer who caused a bigger mistake. Even though he escaped from the organization's control, he was still thrown into prison.

"Most of the time, we are not allowed to communicate with each other." Xingchuan Hui supported himself on the table, his thoughts slowly began to diverge, the gloomy feeling like a thorn in the bone slowly emerged with his dark words, "They will assign a special person in charge for each person undergoing the experiment during the laboratory stage. If you leave your original position without permission, the person in charge will be punished. In addition, some experiments require you to sit there, get injections, draw blood, and take medicine. You really don't spend much time in the laboratory. You have to take a lot of medicines. Some of them don't make you feel anything, but some are very uncomfortable..."

Miyano Akemi, who was very familiar with the scene he described, opened her mouth and said, "...After all, since my uncle and aunt took over the laboratory, the experiments required are basically clinical trials of drugs."

Xingchuan Hui nodded in agreement: "To be honest, if it weren't for the severe reaction after taking the medicine, staying in the laboratory would be quite relaxing. The food is not bad, and the bed is also good."

"Hoshikawa..." Miyano Akemi, who knew his upbringing well, reached out and patted his head gently.

"I'm actually very grateful to Tang Ze's parents. I'm telling the truth, not being polite." Hoshikawa Teru patted the back of Miyano Akemi's hand twice in a soothing manner. "I was very confused at the time. Why did the organization's laboratories provide such complete care and protection for the people undergoing experiments? You know, the organization's training grounds are not like this at all. What's more, most of the experimental subjects brought here are actually marginal groups that would not be noticed by anyone if they disappeared. There is no need to be so humanitarian."

What Hoshikawa Teru describes are the doubts about his true feelings in the past.

He went back and forth between Tunkou's home, the laboratory, and the organization's training ground. Except when he was on a mission, his life was very narrow. For him at that time, the clean, bright, warm laboratory with plenty of food was the best place among these places.

"After hearing what she said, I think I probably understand the reason." Xingchuan Hui sighed sincerely, "Although I have only seen them from a distance a few times, now that I think about it, they are really gentle and cruel people."

"Because you subjected many innocent people to experiments?" Miyano Akemi straightened his hair, which was tied up casually. "I'm sorry, although my uncle and aunt would definitely not want to do this..."

"No, because they found a lot of conscientious guys, like Mizunashi Rena, to take charge of those jobs." Hoshikawa Teru shook his head and said sympathetically, "These positions are very sensitive and critical. Once they enter the organization's experiments, unless they are sure that the other party is unaware of the real secrets, otherwise, these people will be like me, forced to accept control and illegally imprisoned. Find an undercover to select this kind of list, or even find more people with similar situations to be in charge of laboratory work..."

Miyano Akemi's fingertips paused.

"This is certainly a good thing for those who are innocently controlled by the organization, but for those who are responsible for this kind of work..." Xingchuan Hui looked in the direction of the surveillance equipment again.

There, the voice of Mizunashi Rena was still coming out steadily, and it was not difficult to hear that her speaking speed was unnaturally fast because of some traumatic memories.

"'They only asked me why I applied for this position. I had to answer them that it was a high-paying job and I was short of money... I don't know how he made that judgment, but... well, think about it carefully, the members in charge of various affairs in the laboratory at that time were indeed more or less suspicious...'"

Miyano Akemi, who had understood what he meant, lowered her eyes.

Whether it was Rena Mizunashi or other undercover agents who were exposed by the Karasawa couple, they were all assigned to similar positions.

There are some positions where as long as there is no moral bottom line, there will be no psychological pressure at all.

But because it concerns the lives of innocent people, and to some extent, it can even directly determine someone's life or death, they choose to hand it over to a more trustworthy person, that is, an undercover agent who has a particularly strong moral bottom line but is not easy to show, and can perfectly cover up their purpose...

This was indeed the best candidate they could find at the time, but it left a deep psychological trauma on undercover agents like Rena Mizunashi.

"There's no other way. Kindness is a kind of ability." Miyano Akemi whispered, "Only with such cold and sharp kindness can we have a chance to keep everyone alive in a place like this organization."

Xingchuan Hui lowered his head and just said "hmm" without giving any further response.

"Did it remind you of something bad? I'm sorry..."

Xingchuan Hui shook his head: "I recalled some, um, past memories. I am very grateful to them, because the time I spent in the laboratory under long-term observation was relatively easy and relaxing."

Miyano Akemi looked at the expression on his face, then turned around and looked at the other teammates who were gathered together and had not yet noticed this side. After thinking for a while, she asked another small question that she had been wondering about for a long time: "Speaking of which, 'Hoshikawa Teru' is the name you gave yourself. I have always been curious about why you came up with this name, is it..."

After confirming that Hoshikawa Teru's expression was relatively calm, Miyano Akemi asked quietly, "Have you ever heard of Zhao's name before?"

"...Honestly, I don't know. Although almost no one talked to me in the lab, I could hear some conversations when I was observing for a long time." Xingchuan Hui lowered his head, "If I have to say, one day, I was lying on the bed in the lab, looking at the ceiling, and suddenly I thought...Akira is a good name...Maybe it's true, I heard something but I didn't realize it myself."

Miyano Akemi sighed secretly.

She first made some random gestures with her hands behind her back, trying to hint to Noah, who didn't know where the cat was, to send a message to Tang Ze, then she gently bent down and gave a hug to Xingchuan Hui, who was thinking with his head down.

"Yeah, you gave yourself a great name, Akira."

Hoshikawa Teru, who was caught off guard by Miyano Akemi's hug, was stunned for a moment. When he smelled the fresh and clean scent on her body, which seemed like dew and soap, he slowly relaxed.

Then he raised his hand and gave me a gentle hug in a strange way.

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"...This is really unexpected." After listening to Rena Mizunashi's description, Shuichi Akai leaned back and pushed the lollipop in his mouth to the other side.

Seeing his almost subconscious action, Tang Ze couldn't help but briefly divert his attention from the topic they were discussing and narrowed his eyes.

Every time this happened, Tang Ze would have a strange feeling that he and Akai Shuichi really had some blood relationship.

Just like when Karasawa played a character, he would restore the set details at all costs and try not to leave any flaws. Since taking on the identity of Iwai Munehisa, Akai Shuichi has very faithfully restored almost all the details in the background setting.

For example, often holding a lollipop in your mouth to try to relieve your smoking cravings.

Whenever he met him, as long as Shuichi Akai was in disguise, he never smoked. His level of obsession with details was exactly the same as that of Karasawa.

Of course, Shuichi Akai had no idea what Tang Ze was sighing about.

He just glanced at Tang Ze who was staring at him blankly for some reason, and his thoughts diverged along the information given by Mizunashi Reina: "So, in this line of the laboratory, a large part of the staff personally selected by Tang Ze and his wife may be undercover."

"Yes, there is a possibility." Mizunashi Rena nodded. "I did take a lot of medicine after I started working, and I also took a lot of truth serum. I also underwent two examinations, but I don't know if they did anything. I didn't feel any pressure during this process."

Due to the special nature of her position, Rena Mizunashi had undergone a full cognitive examination at the instruction of the Karasawa couple long before her authority was further enhanced and she joined the action team. Therefore, when the organization mistakenly believed that she was kidnapped and tortured by Ethan Hondou, almost no one had any concerns about her loyalty. Just a few months later, she became Kiel.

"Hmm..." Akai Shuichi tilted his head and thought for a while, then nodded slowly, "Indeed, I took a lot of medicine after I went in, but I didn't feel anything."

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Tang Ze, who was sitting on the side watching the two undercover agents exchange their experiences, looked at his expression.

"After being in there for more than a month, I don't know what my uncle and aunt did, but soon, I was selected from the laboratory and taken to the training ground to start training." Akai Shuichi recalled to himself, "No wonder my review process was so short."

"Oh, yes, you are a special case." Mizuno Rena broke free from those dark memories, raised her head, and looked at Akai Shuichi's expression with some strangeness, "I have heard that you are not a person recruited from those organizations, you, you seem to be..."

"Hmm? Yes, my promotion path is indeed special." Akai Hide nodded, his expression calm, "Because I have some connections with the Tangze couple, they probably recognized me quickly and helped me enter the laboratory. I didn't stay in the laboratory for long before I was selected."

"Oh, I did hear that there were experimental subjects..." Mizunashi Rena swallowed the rest of the words, "You will still have to return to the laboratory frequently for regular checkups, right? I think I have seen you in the laboratory in Tokyo..."

Considering that Rena Mizunashi was still at the scene, Tang Ze didn't want to give his cousin too much face, and he finally held back the words that were about to blurt out, but he had already complained in his heart.

Can that be the same?

Mizunashi Reina took medicine as a pre-job training to prepare for her employment. You took medicine because the position you entered was responsible for taking medicine...

He pressed the corner of his mouth with his fist and was about to say something when he suddenly felt the phone next to him vibrate twice.

Because he knew that this was someone else's base, and although Noah was definitely keeping full surveillance, and whether he turned on his phone or not would not prevent the message from being fully transmitted to the group, out of respect for their profession and to thank them for their long-term firepower support to the Phantom Thieves, Tang Ze would usually turn off the messages on his phone to avoid interfering with their equipment.

At this time, if you can still send messages, it means that you have passed Noah's screening, which is a very important situation.

Tang Ze pressed the pocket where his cell phone was placed, thought about it, and felt that something might have happened with the Phantom Thieves.

He was about to stand up and say that he needed to leave for a while when a familiar sound of shattering was suddenly heard.

【rank up! Rank 3]

[coop——Destiny Shift 1st]

[You walk into a brand new world, everything is so strange and familiar.

Familiar names, familiar environment, familiar people and things...

Naturally, arrogance comes to you, and you have almost no doubt that you, who know everything, are destined to change everything.

However, certain forces that are destined to be small and unnoticed, certain voices as tiny as dust, are destined to quietly disappear in the dusty time amidst the huge and dazzling arrogance.

Looking back suddenly, the tiny light that passed by is destined to be like a missed moonlit night, and will never enter your sight again.

Until you see the reflection in the water, until the moon that does not exist in this world falls into your palm as you reach out to the water.

You finally realize that everything you see and get is a reflection.

This is the moonlight that awakens you, but it is also the light that comes from you. This is the silent greeting from the time that has disappeared, and the countless greetings that have been forgotten and ignored by you.

This is the intersection between you and the moon - when you look back suddenly, you will know the new life. 】

Tang Ze raised his head suddenly.

(End of this chapter)