The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan.

Chapter 1042 The Meaning of Sacrifice

"...I really think you were alarmed. I really scared them."

Seeing the person opening the door and walking in, Tang Ze raised his eyebrows, seeming a little surprised.

Toru Amuro's eyes immediately locked onto Tang Ze's face, and his heart sank.

Others may not be so clear about it, but Toru Amuro, who had followed Tang Ze for a period of time due to a mission, knew very well Tang Ze's true perception ability.

Not to mention that he has sharp five senses and can definitely hear the noise outside the door as long as he concentrates. Tang Ze himself said that he has a special ability to sense some people he has met, so he can easily get rid of him and Lei who are following him when necessary.

Tang Ze was surprised by his arrival. Although he looked normal on the surface, he must have been distracted and was not observing his surroundings carefully.

"You are really scary like this." Amuro Toru said bluntly, "I really need to find a reliable psychologist for you."

He sent Tang Ze for an examination once, but during the psychological assessment, Tang Ze discovered that the psychologist of Team Zero at the time was a hidden member of the Tang Ze school, so the assessment naturally failed.

"Actually, there's no need for that." Tang Ze lowered his eyes again. "I know what my problem is. Psychological treatment won't help much. I can't tell anyone about my problems. If the patient doesn't cooperate, the psychologist can't do anything."

"Unless that psychologist is also the Phantom Thief of Heart, right?" Toru Amuro found a chair and sat down opposite Tang Ze and made a slight joke.

When the other party refuses to cooperate or even resists, the only way to touch and correct their mind is the Phantom Thief of Hearts.

"...You're right." Tang Ze curled his lips, "Maybe this is really the only way."

He could still laugh, and it seemed that his mood had indeed calmed down.

Toru Amuro changed to a more relaxed sitting position to avoid the following conversation seeming too formal.

"I can understand your situation to some extent. People who have too many secrets in their hearts find it difficult to talk to others, and can only regulate their emotions by themselves. This is why undercover agents need to undergo special assessments and take some related courses..."

This was also the part he hoped Tang Ze could complete last time, but it was hastily concluded due to an unexpected situation.

"...My expertise in this area may not be as strong as yours who has specialized in psychology, but I know that expressing it will be helpful. So, tell me about it? If you think I can be trusted."

This is a very frank and honest attitude, without any detours.

Perhaps it was because of his frankness and directness that Tang Ze's gaze moved away a little embarrassedly.

Can Toru Amuro be trusted? Of course he is.

But Tang Ze's emotions come from a deeper past that he cannot share with anyone, and a non-existent timeline. The only person he can discuss and confide in is probably Leon.

And Tang Ze is unable to face him for the time being.

"It was just a nightmare. I was a little upset. It seems inappropriate to discuss it so seriously..."

"We can still talk about it even if it's a dream." Noticing Karasawa's vague evasive attitude, Amuro Toru had no intention of giving up. "I heard that the kid from Osaka had a prophetic dream. He said he dreamed that you were attacked by Kiichiro Numabuchi and shot in Osaka..."

Tang Ze's fingers curled up as if in spasm.

This subtle change was keenly observed by Toru Amuro.

It seems that I may have hit the nail on the head.

Karasawa also had a "precognitive dream", which might even be the same as Hattori Heiji's dream, reflecting some possibilities that Karasawa was unwilling to face.

Just as Jing briefly described on the phone, he failed to save Miyano Akemi and broke up with Shirley completely...

"Tell me, as long as you take it seriously, no one will laugh at you for thinking too much. What did you dream about?" Amuro Toru's tone became more relaxed.

No matter what Tang Ze's secret is and in what form it stimulated him, if he said it was a dream, it might help Tang Ze reduce some of the concerns that need to be explained and directly express the source of the stimulation.

Tang Ze raised his head and looked at the smiling face of Amuro Toru in front of him.

Toru Amuro's problem was the fundamental reason why Karasawa could not control his emotions and fell directly back to reality from the Velvet Room.

The descriptions based on the fate deviation are basically the fate of these people's characters in the previous round. The more he analyzed it in depth, the more chilled Tang Ze felt in his heart.

He didn't know whether he and Toru Amuro met last week, and what happened when they met, but he guessed that the ending must have been very bad.

Otherwise, Toru Amuro's fate would not be described in that way.

At that time, Leon's description also included the sentence "You stretched out your hand", but at the same time, this description also included, "The magician with Arcana number 1, he is the beginning of your journey, your first friend, and your brightest mirror." This evaluation is more like a comment than a description.

The judgment of fate deviation will not be aimless. For a special character like Leon who will not participate in reality at all, there is no such content in fate deviation.

From this, Tang Ze quickly thought of the worst possibility...

"I dreamed that I killed you all. I also killed you, Mr. Furuya."

Tang Ze couldn't speak out these reasonings, so he could only raise his hands and cover his eyes.

Even more than that.

Such strange comments would only appear when Karasawa caused the death of Toru Amuro when he didn't even know him, but still got help and rescue from Rei Furuya.

Last time, Rei Furuya's ending must have been tragic.

"I am lucky now. I survived the organization's conspiracy, held on to the end, was arranged to come to Tokyo, and met you... Compared with those bad possibilities, everything now is a low-probability event. What if I didn't hold on? What if my parents couldn't withstand the pressure? What if the organization discovered the truth in advance for some reason..."

For example, the magic accident involving Toichi Kuroba.

After the explosion, Heiyu Daoyi was nowhere to be found, either alive or dead. Could it be that the place where he was performing was also an uninhabited island similar to the Blue Castle or variety shows, or a special place like American Island or Moon Shadow Island?

Under the stimulation of the X-alloy, the fragile world barrier might be directly damaged. If Tang Ze, who was close at hand at the time, became the chosen magic assistant, he would definitely not be able to avoid the possibility of direct contact with the cognitive world.

That might advance Tang Ze's awakening by 8 years, to a time when Tang Ze has no idea of ​​the situation and has no way to protect himself and his family.

Following this logic, we can predict what happened.

"...I will become a pawn of the organization. If they can record false memories on me, then they must have a way to further tamper with my personality. Even if I don't want to, my power will definitely become a sharp weapon for the organization."

Even if we don't imagine the development direction 8 years ago that deviated so much from what it is today, let's just talk about the conspiracy itself that took place in Kyoto.

If Tang Ze had not survived those two months of torture and testing, the organization would have had a full-status Joker.

Toru Amuro, Shuichi Akai, Reina Mizumu...

How can these undercover agents, who have stood out and become codenamed members because of their possession of the palace, escape the fate of being hunted by invisible killers?

I am the starting point of everything, I am the root of all these bad turns...

"I can investigate Mr. Furuya's friends in the police academy by myself, and they will easily discover your true identity. Is there anyone in the entire Zero Team who can escape my hunting? Even if I don't use those powers to kill you, I have enough killer qualities, and I will do better than Gin. Not only that, I can also get Mr. Morobushi's real name and implicate the innocent Officer Morobushi Gaoming..."

"Kangze, okay, Tangze." Amuro Toru stood up and moved closer, "Don't say anything for now."

Tang Ze's speech speed became faster and faster, and it was obvious that he was lost in emotion again.

Toru Amuro can tell which part is Tang Ze's real "nightmare" and which parts are the possibilities that Tang Ze can reason based on that nightmare.

Letting him confide the bad developments he dreamed of is not to make him keep thinking about the worst and then fall into an emotional breakdown.

Toru Amuro grabbed Tang Ze's hands that were covering his eyes and forehead, and pulled them away with a little force.

The blue eyes under his palm did not shed tears, but were dull and unfocused, as if staring at the horrible future he had described.

"Well, I have to admit first that your hypothesis is very likely to be true."

If Tang Ze had not survived until today, or if Tang Ze and his wife had been shaken by the organization's coercion and inducement, then these sensational descriptions might have come true.

"But I believe that even in this worst possible scenario, you will not fail in the end."

Tang Ze was stunned for a moment and slightly pulled himself out of his fantasy.

"I don't know what you saw, or what happened to you that you don't want to tell others, but the Tang Ze I know is a guy who never gives up."

Staring into Tang Ze's eyes, Amuro Toru put away the image of a gentle elder he had just presented.

As an elite investigator named Rei Furuya who has been undercover for many years, he spoke very seriously.

"You are the result of the research of the Tang Ze couple. They have lived under the control of the organization for so many years, but the organization has not been able to grasp their research. Could it be that after you are controlled by the organization, they can fully grasp that knowledge? How is that possible?"

It’s not that he looks down on the organization’s research capabilities, but that Tang Ze Ikawa is indeed a rare genius.

The impact of genius on academic research is truly astonishing.

Einstein is Einstein, Tesla is Tesla, and no matter how much money is spent, 1000 mediocre researchers cannot piece together a Nobel Prize.

It is really arrogant and presumptuous of the organization to want to erase all traces of Karasawa Ikawa and completely control this research in just a few years.

"On the contrary, the more they want to use your parents' research to control you, the more likely you will recover and break free. Don't forget that curing you is the starting point of their research."

Furukaya Rei raised his finger and pointed at Tang Ze's eyes.

Because of the close distance, even though they didn't touch each other, Tang Ze felt as if his eyeballs were stinging.

"After becoming an undercover agent, I have killed many people, including Jing. Even if Jing's suicide was his own choice, it cannot be denied that part of his consideration was to preserve me as a spark. This is of course painful. But ask yourself, if I were to play this role, I would be more worried about having no successors and that my death would be worthless than dying.

"You are right. Your guesses are all very reasonable. You might kill me, Lei, and many more people. You will indeed kill many people... but in the end, you will succeed. You will definitely be able to break free from the shackles of the organization and escape from that cage. By then, you will definitely be able to completely destroy the organization..."

Tang Ze now firmly believes that he will kill others. What he needs now is not comfort and persuasion. Even if you tell him that you will not kill others, it will be difficult for him to break free.

It is better to follow his logic and give him a definite answer.

A joker who falls into the control of an organization, once he escapes the constraints of the organization, will have advantages that Tang Ze does not have now.

He would understand the organization's weaknesses in this area better than anyone else, and could destroy the organization faster than defeating the undercover agents.

"And this is the future I want to see. It's the future I want to see even if I give up my life." Fūya Rei gave his answer in a firm tone, as if it were the final word. "Then my sacrifice is meaningful."

"...Mr. Fanggu..."

Looking into his eyes, Tang Ze's lips trembled a few times.

Did he succeed in the end?

Of course, he succeeded.

No matter which time.

It was painful to kill innocent people, it was painful to watch his contact being buried alive, and it was even more painful to be tortured himself, but did he succeed?

Of course.

Even though the price he paid was huge, and even ruined Tang Ze's own future, he still succeeded.

So, what about yourself last week?

Although it is impossible to foresee the future that has deviated too much from the possibility, the fact that Tang Ze can stand here and complete this miracle of a low-probability event has proved everything.

Successful, of course he succeeded.

Just like what he saw in that dream.

It is true that he was a stranger to Miyano Shiho, and he had indeed killed too many innocent people. He was filled with guilt, pain, and unwillingness, but he was able to walk in the sun and openly treat Miyano Shiho. The organization must have been weakened to a certain extent.

Stepping on the blood and bones of countless people, carrying numerous sins, he must have succeeded...

Is this the future the victims wanted to see?

Looking into Furiya Rei's eyes, Tang Ze felt that he had got the answer.

"Okay, don't use honorifics at a time like this, especially in this place. They're calling you leader now, but you're using honorifics to me. It sounds weird."

Furiha Rei smiled and raised his hand.

Tang Ze loosened his hands that had been clutching the bed sheet, slowly raised them up, and high-fived him.

"...Okay, Zero."