Phantom Thief of Heart!but conan

Chapter 1088 Acceptance Process
"what is this?"

"It's kind of like a ritual?"

“Is this a ritual…?”

Looking at the thing covered by cloth in front of him, the corners of Fūya Rei's mouth twitched.

"Based on the situations in the previous few times, everyone speculated that the situations of the two of them should be similar." Zhu Fu Jingguang wiped his eyes after laughing for a while and reluctantly explained, "This is a laboratory after all, it's not good to make it too messy..."

Judging from the speculation in the previous examples, Ida Hang’s return will probably cause just as much noise.

Except for Zhu Fu Jingguang who died from gunshot wounds and came back relatively quietly, the two policemen who died in the explosion basically replayed the explosion scene. In addition, the explosion scenes of both people were in the sky. The movement of falling straight down in the explosion, even if Haibara Ai could understand that this was all symbolic and could not really affect the equipment, she still couldn't get over the basic laboratory rules in her heart.

This is a biological laboratory whose protection level has gradually approached P4 over time. If anything inside leaks out, it will cause big problems...

"Okay." Reluctantly accepting this, Furiya Rei looked around the laboratory again, "So, where is Tang Ze?"

According to his understanding, since Tang Ze himself has always been the one in charge of this matter, if Tang Ze does not come, this matter will probably be difficult to start.

"...Maybe he is making some preparations." Zhu Fu Jingguang looked in the direction of the laboratory entrance and said nothing.

According to his understanding, since this mechanism was essentially completed by Tang Ze's power, and now that it has reached the final stage, he is afraid that Tang Ze must make some preparations.

At this moment in the Velvet Room, Tang Ze was staring at the last few desire stones in his hand. As Leon waved the pen tip, they turned into golden powder and fell into the cup bit by bit.

His judgment was correct. The power of Pramya alone, even if only a part of it was absorbed through the attacks on the shadows and the temple, was almost as much as the total power of Erenica's entire team.

The criminal who could give rise to such horrific murderous intent and kill so many people is essentially a being with extremely intense desires and amazing motivation.

Pramya is a very valuable target, and she also has intelligence value. This is the fundamental reason why Tang Ze did not send her to death immediately.

"We also have to consider the lack of Yoji Motobashi's ecological niche, right?"

Watching the gold powder fall to the bottom of the cup, some tiny piles of sand finally accumulated in the empty glass cup. Tang Ze curled the corners of his mouth and chatted with Leon casually.

"You mean the hall that runs through the entire Shibuya?" Leon raised his eyebrows.

"Yes. This is all thanks to Pramiya's obsession with witnessing her own 'masterpiece'." Tang Ze looked at Leon putting down the menu and answered casually, "The details of her palace are even more comprehensive than Motobashi Yoji's."

Although Yoji Motobashi is also an experienced criminal, he is far inferior to Pramya in terms of experience and intelligence capabilities.

The modeling of his palaces is indeed detailed, but due to his limited knowledge of Shibuya itself, he is not able to enter every building and every room.

Pramiya is different. She is a professional who has studied Shibuya for three years and has put a lot of thought into it.

“That’s not bad.” Leon nodded in agreement, “She has indeed been taught a sufficient lesson.”

The burns were more serious than those suffered by Yoji Motobashi, and the destruction of her body functions would be more thorough.

Not to mention, Pramiya is a woman who is good at taking advantage of her appearance. She may not pay much attention to her appearance, but she knows that she is good-looking and is good at taking advantage of it.

Better appearance, better background, more professional knowledge and ability...

Therefore, becoming a burn patient would be a greater blow to her than to Yoji Motobashi.

"But, you still hope that I can change my mind for her, right?" Tang Ze changed the subject and moved his gaze from the cup to Leon's face. "For such a big target, you should be quite upset that her temple has been built in Shibuya, right?"

Leon finished writing what he was doing, glanced at Tang Ze's expression, and slowly tore off the paper on the writing board.

This "resurrection progress" is essentially a task list that Leon handwrote to Tang Ze. It is actually more specific than Tang Ze's so-called vague requirements of "collecting information, collecting desire stones".

There are many detailed rules according to the current progress requirements.

For example, key information that needs to be understood, interpersonal relationships that need to be confirmed, cognitive situations that need to be changed, etc.

The reason why Tang Ze only told others two vague requirements was, firstly, that it was a bit shocking to tell others about such requirements, and secondly, Tang Ze could complete most of them by himself.

Now that they have all been achieved, it is naturally the stage of final acceptance.

Tang Ze took the paper and looked at the items on it.

"Rather than saying 'what I have to do', it's more like an instruction manual on the prerequisites for resurrection." Tang Ze commented, "I'm afraid the connection between you and 'me' is much deeper than what you told me."

This sentence sounded like a question, but Leon, who understood Tang Ze's subtext, just smiled, bowed slightly, and put on an attitude of "listening attentively".

Tang Ze picked up the pen on the table and signed his name on the first blank line.

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"You asked me how I felt? Well, actually, I didn't feel anything." Accompanying Furuya Rei as if he was cutting a ribbon, Zhu Fushimi lifted the cloth covering the egg a little. Looking at the increasing number of cracks on the eggshell, he replied, "I felt as if I just closed my eyes on the rooftop one second, and the next second, I was lying in a strange place."

"I was actually shocked." Hoshikawa Teru, who was sitting on the other side of the table, whispered.

"I can't be blamed for this, right?" Zhu Fu Jingguang didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "You know, my identity is too sensitive. Compared to dying, I'm more afraid that my death will cause unnecessary losses."

Due to some strange mistakes, his identity is really fatal.

Finding out that he was an undercover police officer would be a small matter. If his family members were implicated, or even the organization followed his life trajectory and discovered clues about Furuya Rei...

"Then I'd rather die more completely."

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"The reason why the order of resurrection is what it is now is, on the one hand, it is arranged according to the order of Furuya Rei's own regrets and wishes, and on the other hand, it is also related to the difficulty of resurrection. The easiest one is Morobushi Kagemitsu first."

"I don't deny it." Leon nodded. "He was an undercover agent, and his identity needed to be kept strictly confidential. Even after his death, his relatives were not notified clearly. There are actually very few people who have a clear understanding that 'Zhu Fushi Jingguang is dead.'"

The fewer people know about it, the easier it is to shake it.

"As long as most people are willing to believe that he is still alive, this perception will be easier to turn into reality." Tang Ze also nodded, agreeing with Leon's statement, "Plus, the only two people who witnessed his death were Furuya Rei and Akai Shuichi, which makes everything even easier. Combined with Furuya Rei's own strong regret, the process becomes even simpler."

As he spoke, his eyes moved to the next name. ————

"As for me, well, I looked at the records later and it seems that I was knocked unconscious." Matsuda Jinpei rubbed his neck.
"How do you feel?"

"Well, it was probably stronger than Master Jing's. After all, I really felt the explosion and the flames, and even the intense feeling of weightlessness that followed..."

“And it landed here the next second?”

"Yeah." Recalling the first time he woke up, Matsuda Jinpei couldn't help but complain, "The lab bench really isn't a good resurrection spot. It's really too hard."

Huibara Ai, who was concentrating on adjusting the instrument in her hand, turned her head and glanced at him silently.

"I know, I know, you're worried about negative effects and you want to study this phenomenon. I understand." Matsuda Jinpei raised his hand in surrender, "But, seriously, you can prepare a cushion."

"So isn't this prepared for your next one?" Haibara Ai was unmoved.

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"The difficulty of Jinpei Matsuda and Kenji Hagiwara is that too many people witnessed and knew about their deaths. They were bomb disposal police who died at the scene. Their colleagues and even reporters who heard the news recorded the moment of their death. This news even spread widely along with their achievements."

"But correspondingly, dying in an explosion also has its own advantages."

"Well, that means no one will witness the entire process of death up close. In other words, 'no body seen'...hiss, I'm beginning to think our discussion is getting a bit hellish, Leon."

"You know hell, so why don't you just stop dillydally? Sign it quickly."

Tang Ze wrote down his name twice without hesitation, and glanced at the condition on the paper: "shake the clear knowledge that the person is dead."

"Now that I think about it, I told Jinpei Matsuda that I didn't mind them contacting their old friends and relatives, but I actually used that to shake their perception that Hagiwara Kenji was doomed... It was pretty despicable."

"Really? I thought you would call it a win-win situation."

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"That can't be called a cushion..." Hagiwara Kenji, who originally didn't want to join the battle, couldn't help but interrupt, "I fell and it hurt a lot too. It's just that you didn't have time to stay in Tokyo at the time, and you were worried that if I woke up suddenly, I wouldn't be able to handle the situation, right?"

"There are reasons for this." Huihara Ai did not deny, "But I think the more important reason is that I am afraid that Matsuda-kun will be in a bad mood or have some concerns because he has no chance to hatch the eggs."

"Hey, hey, I'm still listening, Miss Shiho..."

"I admit that I don't like having outsiders walking in and out of my lab every day."

"Tang Ze is obviously more diligent than me..."

"He is not an amateur." Huiyuan Ai corrected seriously, "He has rich experience."

"Pfft-cough-cough-cough..."

Having heard Tang Ze's joke more than once about his experience as an experiment subject and his main position in the laboratory being a test subject, Xingchuan Hui couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of water and started to cough.

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"Now, only the last one remains."

Leon watched Tang Ze move the pen tip to the last blank space. He did not urge him, but asked meaningfully: "You took extra time to talk to me about this today. Did you discover something, guest?"

Sitting down and chatting with Leon is something Tangze does every day.

Although Tangze has greatly optimized his sleep in fact, out of the most basic respect for the rules of drug use, unless there are special circumstances and he has to stay up all night, Tangze will still ensure a basic sleep time every day.

Chatting with Leon is not only a way for him to organize his own thoughts, but also a way to relieve stress.

In this world, there is no one else except Leon who can fully understand Tang Ze's existence and understand his many weird words.

But before going through the process today, he came to him and talked so much. It must be that Tang Ze had some ideas, half asking, half testing.

"I have indeed discovered something." Staring at the last signature, Tang Ze blinked his eyes, "In short, they are really not cognitive dolls, but real, living people, right?"

"Of course. I should have answered this question a long time ago, guest. Don't worry, you didn't do anything you shouldn't do. The boundary between life and death is indeed taboo, but you, as you said yourself, are here to create miracles."

Tang Ze nodded, said nothing more, and signed his last name.

As he wrote the last stroke of the Chinese character, the cup that Leon had placed on the corner of the table made a slight shattering sound.

Its glass was intact, but many cracks quickly appeared on the surface, like a broken mirror, reflecting many things in an instant.

The bright red color, the moon, the clock... the eyes...

Tang Ze stared at it, watching the cracks appear and disappear. He observed the whole process before standing up from the bar.

Knowing that this was the purpose of his trip, Leon did not stop him. He just bowed again and watched Tang Ze walk to the door.

"Well, so this is actually some kind of ability similar to Maruki." Grabbing the door handle of the bar, Tang Ze said without looking back, "I think I understand. Thank you Leon."

"squeak--"

There was a grinding noise, like the sound of a rusty door being opened or closed, or the sound of brake pads rubbing against the road.

Before the people around could react, the huge egg shattered into pieces in an instant, just as they had expected.

"boom--"

"Snapped!"

As soon as he opened the door, he saw such a chaotic scene. Tang Ze couldn't help but feel gratified for his foresight.

"I knew that putting a cloth there was the right choice... otherwise this lab would be destroyed..."

(End of this chapter)