The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan.

"Is it my imagination? After Moritani Teiji's incident, the Phantom Thieves' activity frequency seems to have decreased?"

Tangze, who was eating, first swallowed the food in his mouth steadily to prevent himself from choking on the violent words from the other side. Then he raised his head and silently looked at the primary school student sitting across the table.

"Is there any special reason? Or is the activity in the past period itself a special reason?" The fake primary school student sitting across from him with his arms folded had no intention of letting go of the topic. He stared at him, waiting for him. answer.

"Are you curious about the Phantom Thieves?" Karasawa tilted his head and looked Conan up and down. The meat pie in his mouth did not hinder his clear enunciation. "You often look at me secretly, so I noticed it." .”

In addition to the vest that Karasawa cannot actively pick up, oh, there are also the true appearance of cognitive-related abilities, the real identities of his other teammates, and the connection with Kidd... Karasawa thinks he is a member of the Phantom Thieves I'm pretty honest with Conan.

...Okay, if you count carefully, there are indeed quite a few people who are hiding things from him.

But here we are, the character of the Phantom Thieves in Conan's mouth has been raised from ordinary hot-blooded comic book vigilantes to the level of the Salvation Committee. Karasawa can't ruin it for himself, right?

In short, Tang Ze felt that he was quite unjust about Conan's conjecture.

Especially if you ask him to explain in detail why he does what he does, he really can't.

The Phantom Thieves were born out of Karasawa's own bad taste. If there were no plot references from the original work here, he might have used another form to realize the structure of his power.

Facing Conan's investigation, Tangze felt as helpless as the original author of the reading comprehension question.

Don't ask me, I don't know either...

"Of course I'm curious." Conan shrugged and said frankly, "Your abilities are so strange and your actions are high-profile. It seems that you are involved in a deep secret. As a detective, it is reasonable to want to understand all this."

Joker is a guy who talks in a roundabout way and likes to use all kinds of rhetoric to modify his expressions into clouds and fog to hide the information in his words. In short, he is a Riddler.

Regarding the content related to the Phantom Thieves, even if Joker recognized Conan's analytical skills, when he proposed various conclusions based on various aspects of intelligence, he would give scoring opinions, but he would basically not answer directly on other specific matters.

So even if Conan (thinks he) has analyzed the purpose of the Phantom Thieves' actions and understood the root cause of their opposition to the organization, he still can't help but try to find out everything about the Phantom Thieves.

There was a huge mystery there, and it was almost a detective's instinct to try to figure out how they worked, to figure out the fundamental logic behind their actions.

Joker is not easy to fool, but his teammates, such as Kitagawa Yusuke, seem to be easier to trick.

"You should ask the group leader about those questions." Tang Ze, who continued to eat, replied casually, "He is busy with those things, and I don't know much."

Well, it seems like a rejection, but in fact this kind of shirk can also reflect many problems.

Conan carefully observed Kitagawa Yusuke who was seriously showing off his rice, and silently evaluated it in his heart.

There is a significant difference between Kitagawa Yusuke and the members of the Phantom Thieves that he came into contact with in the past. That is, what he first came into contact with was Kitagawa Yusuke's superficial identity in society.

Joker likes to talk about some mysterious and mysterious things, but it is not difficult to find from his acting style that the Phantom Thieves have an obvious rule, which is to completely obscure the members while maintaining a high profile and popularity. identity of.

Although as an insider of the Phantom Thieves, he has come into contact with many members of the Phantom Thieves, but as a group that occupies newspaper pages all day long, the only image that is truly displayed to the world is Joker.

Considering the Phantom Thieves as masked vigilantes, this choice is actually a bit abnormal.

Looking at Kitagawa Yusuke's behavior and attitude, Conan thought for a moment and boldly made a guess: "So the reason why you joined the Phantom Thieves is because you also have his ability?"

"What kind of ability?" Tangze, who felt that Conan was starting to write strange things in his mind again, raised his head helplessly.

"That's it. It's like that." Conan raised his hand and waved it back and forth over his eyes.

It is true that he has not been exposed to the working situation of the Phantom Thieves, but when Joker appeared and came to the rescue a few days ago, he watched as Joker suddenly changed his clothes and had eye patches on his eyes.

That was not a problem that could be explained by quick disguise or magic. Even though he was in a painful state of unconsciousness because he was about to transform back into a child's body, he was still very confident in his observation skills.

The Phantom Thief of the Heart cannot be regarded as an ordinary person. This is a concept that Conan has made clear.

"Well, that's about right." Feeling that Conan had interpreted something very strange without authorization, Tangze nodded awkwardly and continued stuffing meatloaf into his mouth.

He actually didn't deliberately create the character of Kitagawa Yusuke not having enough to eat this time, but Toru Amuro caught him staying up until early in the morning, followed by busy work, and his brain had been spinning for too long, and he was indeed starving.

As for the detective's guessing game, you can guess as much as you like. The detective's mind has already reached an area that he can't control at all.

"You said before that you had a conflict with your former teacher, who was also your adoptive father, because he plagiarized a student's work. Now the other person has been imprisoned for some reasons. Is this related to the Phantom Thieves?"

"Ah."

"Sure enough, identifying members with suitable qualifications when completing the operation should be your main method to attract new members and expand the size of the team."

"Yes."

"So, the reason why you approached me as an ordinary person is because you have not abandoned your ordinary social identity and are still a high school student? It seems that those invitation words from joker are not absolute..."

"what?"

"No wonder those missing 'murderers' were targeted by the joker. It seems you are still quite short of people."

"..."

After struggling to show off the dinner promised by the other party, Tang Ze walked out of the restaurant with a heartbroken look on his face.

I have to draw a portrait, use my identity as the Phantom Thieves to help the detective, and have to listen to your over-interpretation in front of me. It's not easy to eat your meal.

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"...He really doesn't know much, so you'd better stop trying to trick Yusuke." Sighing sadly, Karasawa said helplessly, "If you have any questions, can't you just ask me directly?"

"I asked you, but you're not willing to tell the truth." Standing in front of the window of the office, Conan looked down at the bustling night scene of Mihua Shopping Street and said directly, "That time you made me smaller two days ago, what on earth was it? The principle, you are completely unwilling to tell me."

Having said this, he touched the small plastic box deep in his pocket, glanced at Mao Lilan who was humming a song and cleaning the table with the corner of his eye, and smacked his lips.

Now, Xiaolan has a deep understanding of his identity issue and has given him a certain degree of understanding.

This is certainly a good thing, but awkwardness can still be awkward.