Whose personality mask's power comes from the heroic spirit?

It seems to be a good topic to discuss whether there is a difference between letting Ultraman's human body kill an ordinary passerby and killing a kind passerby girl.

"The name seems to be... Mao Lilan?" The Shadow Mage gave a cunning smile.

……

"Really, Ran, where have you been? It's time for us to leave!" Standing at the entrance of the corridor, Kogoro Mouri shouted at the top of his voice with an impatient look on his face.

"Uncle Maori? What happened to Sister Ran?" Conan Edogawa, who had finally recovered from the excitement of 'seeing a COSER who looked so much like Sherlock Holmes', returned to the apartment and asked Kogoro Maori with some concern.

For some reason, he suddenly remembered the reminder Taiyi had given him before.

Anxiety instantly overwhelmed excitement.

"Ah, that guy Lan, he said he was going to the toilet, but he never came back." Kogoro Mouri hit the wall impatiently.

"Is there no one in the toilet?" Edogawa Conan's heart instantly rose when he heard this.

"I knocked on the door, but there was no response." Maori Kogoro replied with his teeth bared, "When I opened the door, there was no one inside."

"Then, where's the phone?" Edogawa Conan swallowed and asked nervously.

"Ah? It hasn't come to that yet." Kogoro Mouri blinked and looked at Conan Edogawa in confusion.

He felt that this kid was a bit extreme.

The apartment is so small, you should be able to hear me if you shout a few times, so why do you need to make a special phone call?

This is London, not Japan.

Edogawa Conan's face turned pale instantly. He took out his cell phone, found Mouri Ran's number and dialed it.

No one answered.

After that, no matter how many times Edogawa Conan called, no one answered.

Now even Kogoro Mori didn't dare to slack off.

I ran up and down the stairs several times, and even my voice of calling out sounded a bit tearful, but still no response.

There were only the confused looks of passers-by.

"Lost, lost contact? Xiaolan is missing!" Maori Kogoro shouted anxiously, "Scotland Yard! Go to Scotland Yard immediately and ask the police to send someone to find Xiaolan!"

"I have called the number of Scotland Yard." Edogawa Conan responded with a livid face, "but the other party rejected my request on the grounds that 'the time limit for losing contact is not enough to open a case'."

"Damn it!" Kogoro Mouri clenched his fist and smashed the stair railing hard.

"Uncle! Let's split up into two groups!" Edogawa Conan looked at Maori Kogoro solemnly and shouted, "The doctor and I will search the surrounding area a few more times! You go to Scotland Yard and take photos of the police immediately!"

"Okay, okay! Take action now!" At this time, Kogoro Mouri had lost his previous spirit and started to act according to Conan Edogawa's instructions.

"Doctor, please go and look for him first. I'll make a call." After Kogoro Mouri disappeared in Baker Street in a taxi, Conan Edogawa took out his cell phone with trembling hands, looked up and instructed Dr. Agasa.

"Okay!" Dr. Agasa didn't say anything and immediately trotted around, holding her big belly, looking for Ran Mouri.

……

"Ah? Ran Mouri is missing?" Taichi was checking in and taking photos under the Big Ben when he received a call from Conan Edogawa.

After all, when you come to London, how can you not check in at the 'Clock Tower'?

As a result, just after taking the photos, I received a call from Edogawa Conan.

"Don't worry, I'll find a friend... Are there surveillance cameras installed on Baker Street?" Taiyi asked.

"Yes! Because it is an important tourist attraction!" Edogawa Conan replied anxiously.

"Okay, then wait for my letter." Taiyi said and hung up the phone.

"Aix, please check all surveillance records around Baker Street within half an hour."

"Leave it to me." Axe was not polite and directly loaded the computing power into all the surveillance records around Baker Street.

"...In the tourist apartment on Baker Street, there was a surveillance camera in the corridor. It lost five seconds of recording just before Mao Lilan appeared." Axe responded within five seconds. "And all other surveillance cameras in the surrounding area showed no abnormalities."

"Teleportation?" Taiyi guessed it immediately. "Why did Shadow Mage invite me here and then kidnap Mao Lilan? Mao Lilan and I have no connection at all."

"Maybe he just had a brain storm? Or did he have some new plan?" Axe said he couldn't understand either.

"Anyway, let's go to Baker Street first and investigate on the scene to confirm whether it was done by the Shadow Wizard." Taichi edited a text message to Conan Edogawa to inform him of the results of the investigation while looking for the best route to Baker Street at the moment.

……

"...Five seconds." Edogawa Conan looked up at the camera that Taichi pointed to in the text message.

The angle is a bit off, so I can't capture any corner of the room. It would be better to say that the door just happens to be the viewing angle.

However, just before Maori Ran walked out of the room, she turned a corner and disappeared from Maori Kogoro's sight, and then she disappeared in the five seconds.

He will get angry with anyone who tells him that this is some conspiracy!

Who would go to so much trouble to kidnap a foreign tourist?

It must have been done by the mastermind who provoked Taiyi to come to London!

But why did that person kidnap Xiaolan?

Xiaolan has never had any intersection with the other party...the only person who has any intersection with her is herself!

Edogawa Conan was stunned for a moment, his expression instantly filled with panic and self-blame.

Could it be that I was really the one who caused Xiaolan to disappear?

Although there were some deviations in the process, Conan Edogawa's guess turned out to be correct.

Chapter 145: Mao Lilan = Jack the Ripper?

"Where...is this place?" Ran Mao Li, who was a little depressed, slowly opened her eyes and looked around the unfamiliar environment in a daze. "Why am I here? Didn't I...want to go to the bathroom before?"

"Toilet? Wait..." Mao Lilan was stunned. She raised her hand in confusion and stared blankly at the dagger in her hand. "Who am I?"

The more she thought about it, the more dizzy her head felt, and even her memory began to be shrouded in a fog.

The man with a mustache and the elite woman in a tight skirt, the two figures began to blur and gradually disappeared in the fog.

"Dad? Mom?"

"Who?"

Then there was a young man in uniform with sharp eyes.

Mao Lilan only felt her heart suddenly accelerate.

"New...new?"

The other person's name gradually became blurred. I felt it on the tip of my tongue, but I couldn't call it out. The other person's figure also began to gradually disappear from my memory.

"Who are you?"

"I am... my name is... Mao..."

"Your name is Jack the Ripper." A slightly gloomy voice suddenly interrupted Mao Lilan's efforts to recall.

"Jack the Ripper...?" Ran Mouri, who had been hypnotized and instilled with false memories to cover up her real memories, slowly raised her head.

Those bright eyes have lost their brilliance now.

The angular hairstyle on the forehead gradually softened and fell down.

The bangs just cover part of the eyes.

"Yes, you were the nightmare of this city more than a hundred years ago."

"Jack the Ripper... brought terror and murder."

The gloomy voice became clearer and clearer, and Mao Lilan, who had lost her rationality and self-awareness, was gradually controlled by that voice.

"Panic...killing..." Muttering words that she had never uttered before, Mao Lilan slowly stood up while holding the wall beside her.

The eyes that had lost their luster also glowed with a cold light.

"When the fog covers the city of London, that's when you, Jack the Ripper, emerge to kill."

While using hypnosis to brainwash Mao Lilan, Shadow Master was trying to stuff some things into her body that ordinary humans shouldn't have. He was feeling very happy now.

Although no one knows what this girl has experienced in the past, the memory modules in her brain have been damaged, and her mind has always been in a state of panic.

This directly led to the Shadow Mage being able to hypnotize and brainwash Mouri Ran without any effort at all.

Plus, the girl has a well-trained body.

Overall, Shadow Mage is very satisfied with this material.

I am even more satisfied with how smoothly this operation went.

"It would be even better if it was someone close to the human body of X." After recalling the experiences of those Ultraman he knew, Shadow Mage shook his head with some regret.

But if he really were asked to do so, he really wouldn't dare.

After all, Ultraman's idealistic approach was too outrageous, and he was worried that doing so would cause X to turn evil... or explode.

Otherwise, wouldn't it be better to just go after those humans in the Phantom Thieves of Hearts?

These are precedents that our predecessors have set at the cost of their lives.

Even the trick of pretending to be an assistant member of Ultraman's human body has been used by predecessors.

However, he simply pretended that the human body had not awakened one of its powers, and with the help of his ally Yaldabaoth, it seemed that the human body should not be able to detect the truth.

That should be the case!

The Shadow Mage himself doesn't have much confidence.

After all, Axel, the newbie, was somewhat too cautious after his first appearance.

Although his caution was no match for the strength of his allies, his true identity as a human was eventually exposed.

But even so, the human body's back-up plans continued one after another.

As a result, he was forced to fight several times before he could fully attack, but the opponent luckily ended the fight early.

For example, the monster he kept in the impression space and cultivated in the palace.

Unfortunately, it was still in the embryonic stage and hadn't even emerged from its cocoon when it was discovered by Ultraman by coincidence, who then caught up with it and killed it.

That person is the main member he plans to use in the future monster battle.

"Give me some strength, human girl." After adding the last two characteristics of 'violent' and 'bloodthirsty' to Mao Lilan, the shadow mage murmured with a little excitement, "Whether I can join Ultraman's human body power system depends on you."

……

When Taichi arrived, Edogawa Conan had been sitting in the corner like a fool for a while.

Professor Agasa next to him looked at him worriedly while continuing to call Mouri Ran's cell phone.

When he saw Taiyi, he was stunned for a moment, then blinked in confusion.

He didn't know how he met this strange boy again in London.

Taichi glanced at the dazed Edogawa Conan and didn't pay much attention to him. He just walked down the stairs to the corridor upstairs.

[“There is residual energy from the Shadow Mage.” Aix reminded in the mental meeting, “It seems that the Shadow Mage was responsible for the kidnapping.”]

"Is there any way to track this remnant?" Taiyi asked pretentiously, tapping the Bluetooth headset on his ear.

[“I can’t do that. The remnant is too thin. If I interfere with it a little, it will dissipate immediately.” Aix replied, “Although I don’t know what the Shadow Mage did in those five seconds, based on the amount of remnant left, I’m afraid he was here for less than a second.”

"That guy's precise control of his energy has reached a new level."]

"Then there's nothing we can do." Taiyi frowned, "Carry out a thorough check of all surveillance cameras in London to find any traces that Mao Lilan might have left."

Taichi didn't expect to be able to catch the Shadow Mage.

That guy's hiding skills are quite strong.

But Mao Lilan will not just sit there and wait for death.

Even if she was tied up in some dark and deserted corner, under the influence of Kudo Shinichi, the girl should have learned to leave some traces of herself so that her "detective father" could find her.

Now Taichi hopes that Mao Lilan can leave traces in an area that can be monitored by the "surveillance cameras".

[“I have now included all surveillance in the UK into the control area.” Axelson paused, then added, “But no one can guarantee that there will be any clues. After all, we don’t know the girl named Mao Lilan, and we may not be able to detect what traces she will leave.”]

"In that case..." Taichi turned his head to look at Edogawa Conan, who was slumped in the corner of the first floor, "We can only hope that the high school detective can notice the marks that his childhood sweetheart might have left."