The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan.

"It turned out to be because of this reason..."

Araki muttered to himself, his face showing frustration.

Although the main manager of the group is Xishanwu who is lying in the ICU, he can take the initiative to provide his own villa for netizens to use free of charge for gatherings. He even hired special helpers for this purpose and spent time preparing food and drinks. It is not difficult to see that Aramaki Yize, the veteran, also undertook certain group management work.

Now, Tanaka Takahisa has personally admitted that his murderous intention came from the discussion in the group, and the same was true for Harui Furuma's unexpected comeback. His mood is extremely complicated.

"I always feel that we should bear some responsibility for this." He shook his head, looking inexplicably depressed.

Having been active in this group for so many years, this online discussion group has become a part of his life. Now that such a serious conflict has occurred, he is in a very depressed mood.

This was not how he had envisioned the group developing.

"Okay, Mr. Huang, you still like to find faults with yourself." Kuroda Naoko, who had recovered, patted him on the back. "Although there are indeed many unpleasant things, nothing irreversible has really happened. Isn't this good?"

Chunjing Fengchuan, the former fraud boy, is the one who will never come back.

He, like the rest of them, was a friend they had known online for a long time.

She sighed in her heart and looked at Tanaka Takahisa who was surrounded by Hakuba Tan and Amuro Toru, but she didn't say the sad words out loud.

No wonder everyone assumed that the image of the fraud boy was more like an old man. When they saw Tanaka, they even sighed that she was so well disguised. It turned out that behind that name, there really was a kind old man...

"No one else in the group knows his true identity..." Suzuki Sonoko was stunned for a moment, feeling a little disappointed, "It turns out that I have spoken to such a famous magician..."

"No, didn't Mr. Doita know?" Tanaka Takahisa wiped the tears from her face and looked up. "I thought he had introduced himself to some of you. I found an email from him on my grandfather's computer. He was concerned about his health and worried about whether his performance would go wrong, but he still wished and encouraged him. Could it be that..."

"Ah, this, maybe it's because he's also a magician." Bai Matan raised his lips and suddenly shouted, "Watson!"

The eagle, which had disappeared since he left the building, heard his shout, let out a loud cry, and swooped down in the direction of the Doitake tree.

The eagle's sharp claws flew straight towards his face. In order to avoid its attack, Kuroba Kaito took two steps towards Hakuba's direction.

"Click——"

The next second, the crisp sound of handcuffs closing was heard.

The white horse tank who had been waiting there leisurely took out the handcuffs he had prepared long ago from his pocket, accurately handcuffed Doi Takeshu's wrists, and quickly handcuffed the other end to his own hand to ensure that the other party had no chance to dodge again.

"'Doi Takeshu', don't you think this name is a little hard to pronounce? 'Kaito Kidd'."

Seeing the honest face of Doi Takeshu in front of him with an expression of surprise, Bai Matan had a smug smile on his face.

Just as he said, before he came, he had already made a full understanding of the active members of this group, and of course he could not miss the expert temperament displayed between the lines by this guy with the online name "Red Herring".

This person is a very professional magician, not too old, and is the type who is very academic and has solid basic skills. This can also be felt from his online name.

Even though his attention had been slightly diverted by the smoke screens of Karasawa Akira and Amuro Toru, as long as a little attention was paid to the original group members of the party, Doi Takeki would be clearly exposed.

Originally, the only ones among the group of people attending the party who fit his profile of Kaito Kid were Toshiya Hamano and Takeki Doi. However, since Toshiya Hamano was a guy who would viciously mock magicians who died in magic shows, he had excluded himself from the list.

Kaito Kid is indeed arrogant, but this arrogance comes from his strong self-confidence and adventurous spirit, and is manifested in the form of a teasing of detectives and police. He will not express this emotion through low-level verbal arguments.

Then the answer is naturally very obvious.

"W-what?!" Suzuki Sonoko held her face in her hands, "Lord Kidd? The red herring is, Lord Kidd?!"

Her expression was excited and confused at times, her face flushed slightly for a moment, and finally she let out an excited cry.

"I told you my feeling was right! Red Herring, he's really a handsome guy!"

Kuroba Kaito, whose hands were still handcuffed, said: "..."

Didn't this girl claim to be her own fan? Is this your main point? Your idol was arrested in front of you!

Although he was speechless, Kuroba Kaito's movements were not slow.

When Hakuba Tan put on a confident smile and was about to get closer to him and tear off the disguise on his face to confirm whether his guess was correct, Kuroba Kaito took the initiative to pull off his mask and the pullover that was stuffed with stuffing to disguise his body shape, and raised his hand in the direction of Hakuba Tan.

White pigeon feathers fluttered in the air as he moved, and the feather powder caught in the feathers made the white horse cough uncontrollably.

Watson was also frightened by this sudden situation and flew away a little. He grabbed two handfuls of pigeon feathers with his claws in vain and didn't know where to start next.

Tang Ze, who was standing by and watching: "..."

Kuroba Kaito, you didn't save the feathers of your pigeons just for this moment, did you? How dare you say that to me? How weak is your own desire for revenge?

No wonder this guy is running around in such thin clothes in the middle of winter. It turns out that there is a cotton lining under his clothes, and there is a down jacket inside the lining, so he is really not cold. He is quite pragmatic...

Tang Ze stood here speechless, but his fingertips did not stop moving.

He bent his fingers and pulled hard as if he had grabbed something out of thin air.

A bright red rope suddenly emerged from among countless pigeon feathers, hooked directly onto the third-floor terrace where Hamano Toshiya was hanging just now, and then began to shorten rapidly.

Kuroba Kaito, who was hung by the rope, took advantage of the force and flew up from the cotton wool, feathers and snowflakes. Like a light passenger pigeon, he jumped into the sky and landed on the roof of the villa.

Having taken off his disguise, he was now dressed in a cloak and a top hat. He straightened his hat, adjusted his suit, put his feet in a T-shape, stood there straight, and bowed to the crowd below, like a magician who had finished his performance.

"Crack, crack, crack..."

On the other side of the roof, in the open skylight, Conan jumped up and applauded him accordingly.

"It's really worthy of being a magician's gathering. What an amazing escape trick, Kidd." Conan didn't step out of the window rashly from a few meters away. He just looked at Kidd's fluttering cloak. "Strange movements, coming and going without a trace, 'Red Herring', it really lives up to its name, it's a headache..."

"I am just a guest at this party, and I have no intention of stealing the limelight from the host." Pressing down the brim of his hat, Kuroba Kaito smiled, "As for you... you have long been distracted by the magician's performance, 'Mr. Hound Misled by the Red Herring'."

As he explained before, the original meaning of red herring is a prop that the person being tracked uses to mislead the dog's sense of smell in order to avoid the dog's search. Later it was extended to mean a method of confusing vision and diverting attention.

What he means now is...

Kuroba Kaito turned around and looked at Tangze, who was standing below and looking up at him with his arms folded as if watching a show, and smiled slightly.

The real thief who is playing games with the detective is someone else...

"Goodbye, Detective. See you again before the end of the century strikes..."

Leaving these words behind, he jumped out, and the cloak behind him straightened again, transforming into a familiar hang glider, following the biting cold wind, and quickly disappeared from everyone's sight.

Bai Ma lowered his head and looked at the half of the handcuffs that were left on his wrist. He looked at the handcuff chain that had a neat break and frowned.

When he was in the villa, he was clearly careful not to let anyone get close to him. When did this guy cut off his handcuffs?

"How cunning." He shook his head, but he was not discouraged. He just put his fingers together to his lips and whistled, "Come back, Watson, and leave him alone."

When the eagle landed on his shoulder again, Hakuba turned around, spread his hands to the others who were watching him silently, and made a joke: "We can't always let the detectives and the police work together. The phantom thieves have to have their own allies, right?"

Toru Amuro raised his eyebrows, but out of comradeship, he restrained himself from looking sideways at Tang Ze.

The red rope that pulled away the Kaito Kidra on the flat ground at the last moment was also very distinctive. Joker had used it more than once in public. It was impossible for Hakuba Tan, who was so well-informed, to miss this.

Who knows what kind of chuunibyou things a bunch of young boys who like to show off can come up with when they get together...

In response, Tang Ze just looked at the half handcuffs on Bai Matan's hand that were handcuffed like a bracelet without comment, and said nothing.

Knowing that Kaito Kidd is a slippery loach, the Hakuba detective who chose to use the handcuffs would definitely not carry the key with him to give the other party an opportunity to take advantage of him. Tang Ze dared to bet that according to the detectives' suspicion, the key might have been thrown away by the Hakuba detective or even swallowed into his stomach. In any case, it would be impossible to take it out.

You two look very handsome when you act cool, but you must be very embarrassed when you are squatting at home sawing off the handcuffs. Big brother, don't laugh at the second brother.

"Let's go, first take the victim we 'hardly' rescued inside." Tang Ze shrugged and reminded in time, "If we don't dig him out of the snow, the person we rescued will freeze to death."

Hamano was stabbed in the back by Tanaka Takahisa in a warm room. He was only wearing a thin sweater at the time. If he put it down any more, he would really freeze to death here.

As a lesson for talking nonsense, this should be enough, right?

I hope that Ara Yoshinori, a senior member of the group, can also fulfill his responsibilities and prevent such tragedies from happening again.

On this issue, he still felt that although Tanaka Takahisa's actions were extreme, her anger was understandable.

Cyber ​​violence is also violence, and verbal karma is also karma. It’s a pity that the guy who said those words lightly didn’t realize the weight of it…

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"call……"

Kenji Hagiwara, who was staring at the screen, let out a long breath. He heard two exhalations beside him and looked around.

Not surprisingly, he saw two of his classmates.

Before watching the broadcasted footage, it was obvious that they, like him, could not help but hold their breath to observe the situation at the scene. Only after confirming that Karasawa had dug Hamano Toshiya out intact and dragged him into the house, did they finally relax.

Hagiwara Kenji laughed awkwardly: "It turns out this guy is not dead. I just had a false alarm..."

Before, he saw Miyano Akemi and the others were so confident and resigned to the fact that he thought Tang Ze was really going to stand by and let this man die cleanly this time...

"What are you so nervous about?" Asai Chengmi picked up his tea with a smile, "Do you think Tang Ze will take his anger out on this person because of what happened to him? No, Tang Ze is calmer and stronger than you think."

"So, what he means by stopping us from taking action is...?" Matsuda Jinpei frowned.

"What he meant was that he thought it would be a good idea to let Tanaka Takahisa release her emotions and give her a chance to complain to these people, so that we don't have to force her to correct herself." Hoshikawa Teru put down the textbook in his hand and exhaled, "He sometimes does this. Hamano Toshiya's crime is not so serious, but he is indeed annoying, and he can't help but want to teach him a lesson."

As he spoke, he glanced at the three people sitting in front of the monitors nervously watching the live broadcast, and looked at the other teammates, who shrugged their shoulders to show their understanding.

After all, the situation of these three zombies pulled out from the other side of the world is different from theirs.

Some of them either had no attachment to the world, or their past ideas had been completely shattered by the act of revenge. They were reborn and needed a place to live and re-establish their connection with the world. Although they would not express their respect for Tang Ze, the leader who changed the trajectory of their lives, they all recognized him in their hearts.

But these three people have not experienced this process, and they are serious police officers with a mature world view. It is normal for them to have certain differences in their ideas.

Hoshikawa Teru and Miyano Akemi looked at each other secretly, then silently looked away.

Tang Ze himself knows this.

He once privately approached Tang Ze and asked him whether he wanted to use some means to eliminate possible discordant voices in the Phantom Thieves, whether they were gentle or fierce. He believed that as long as Tang Ze wanted to, there must be a way to make his voice the only one heard here.

No matter how much his appearance and habits have changed, deep down in his heart, Xingchuan Hui is still the death warrior who crawled out of the organization's small dark room. Not trusting others is a manifestation of his trust in the world.

Tang Ze has his own ideas about this.

"This is actually a good thing." Tang Ze said at the time, "'Gentlemen are harmonious but different, villains are the same but not harmonious.' All I need are like-minded teammates. As for the details, I'm not their parent. Why should I ask them to be exactly the same as me? And to be honest, aren't you scared if the whole team is full of affirmative bots? It's good to have some other people's voices to remind me. Using others as a mirror can help me understand my gains and losses. I think you're a bit too extreme."

"I just don't want to be evaluated like this by this guy..." After complaining quietly, Xingchuan Hui picked up his textbook again and stopped paying attention to the newcomers who were whispering to each other and reshaping their perception of the leader.

Tang Ze went back, but he still had to take exams...