The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan.

"Is there already an ongoing wish..."

The idea proposed by Narumi Asai was a bit unexpected, but when you think about it, it seems that the idea of ​​surprise is a reasonable one.

The control of the wishing mechanism lies in Tang Ze's own hands, and others have little chance to test it. However, based on current experience, it is indeed not an ability that can be used at any time.

If Tang Ze had actually triggered similar conditions when he first came into contact with the Desire Stone, then no matter what wish he wanted to make now, it would probably be impossible for it to succeed.

"That's strange. If that's the case, doesn't Tang Ze realize it himself?" Matsuda Jinpei pondered, "Many of his plans are designed based on his own abilities. That doesn't make sense..."

Given his status, there should be no one in the world who understands the cognitive world and cognitive abilities better than Tang Ze.

"It's hard to say..." Zhu Fu Jingguang glanced towards Tang Ze.

After unloading the goods from the Phantom Thieves, Karasawa is now sitting on the tablecloth laid out by Professor Agasa, helping the children set up the barbecue utensils.

This type of barbecue grill used for camping is not a particularly dangerous type, but it is still unsafe to let a few elementary school students operate it. Naturally, the task of cooking fell on Tang Ze.

"It's a good thing you came along." Haibara Ai looked at the flying sparks and sighed with her chin supported.

Tang Ze placed the processed ingredients on a plate and took a moment to glance at his sister: "What do you mean?"

"If you don't come, I don't think Dr. Agasa can handle this." Huiyuan Ai shrugged, "It will become my task again."

Not only that, Tang Ze, who follows secretly behind him, will have the opportunity to eat and drink delicious food with the other members of the Phantom Thieves. When you think about it this way, you will feel that it is a loss.

"Are you still in charge of cooking at the doctor's house?"

"That's not the case. The doctor is already a grown man, and he didn't starve himself to death before I came. He just ate irregularly and unhealthily, and his cooking skills were average."

"You can ask your sister to secretly send some over to you. The excuse is ready. We're neighbors, so it's okay to make some extra food and give it as souvenirs."

"Occasionally it's fine, but you can't do this every day, right?" Huiyuan Ai was about to complain a few more words, but when she saw Conan coming over with a plate, she stopped talking and stood up, "I'll go see what the doctor is dawdling about."

As she turned and left, Haibara Ai shook her head secretly.

This group of comrades who were theoretically in the same trench, after exchanging so much information, miraculously returned to their original positions and entered the impossible triangle state again.

When any two of them discuss together, they can talk about topics related to the Phantom Thieves without restraint, but when three of them appear at the same time, the topic becomes difficult to discuss.

...After all, it's still Tang Ze's problem.

Although she could understand that many of Tang Ze's identities were difficult to explain to Conan, Tang Ze seemed to do it on purpose, always using some of his identities to throw some smoke bombs or clues to Conan.

If Haibara Ai were to evaluate this, she would say that this is just as annoying as the person who, upon hearing your major, immediately starts saying "let me test you."

Who is to blame for this situation?

I guess Conan took advantage of this opportunity to secretly go to Tang Ze. He must have some related questions and wanted to verify them from multiple sources...

After all, it seems that it is unfortunate for Kudo Shinichi, who can only be regarded as a first-class detective, to meet a riddler like Karasawa.

Good luck to you, Detective.

Behind her, Conan, who had successfully found a gap in the conversation, lived up to her expectations and took out something and placed it on the table.

"Is this the reason why you insisted on calling me over here today?" Tang Ze raised his eyebrows after glancing at the golden little gadget.

This is something that looks quite familiar to Tang Ze.

The golden killer whale is the one that Curacao left behind when he made a wish.

As a consumable, the Desire Stone will change into an appearance closely related to the wish after a successful wish is made, just like the golden cherry blossoms left by Toru Amuro. The Desire Stone formed by Curacao's wish looks like a golden killer whale.

Her wish is actually not complicated.

After Tang Ze continued to explain to her the origin of the real Curacao and Curacao liquor, combined with the fact that Curacao had been schemed and deceived step by step by Rum, her unwillingness, anger and yearning finally gave birth to a force that was enough to drive her desire.

"I want to go and see it for myself."

Go and see with your own eyes what the real Curacao is like, that free, warm, bright island and a truly free ocean.

Tang Ze did this not to make a bucket list for others, but his main purpose was to find a bug so that his props could take effect.

As we all know, you cannot use props on targets that cannot be selected.

In the past, when Hoshikawa Teru had just started coop and was not yet a mask user, Tang Ze could only give him specific props when he was in the team list, and those that worked on mask users were invalid.

Similarly, in Tang Ze's subsequent experiments, the effectiveness mechanism of his props has been verified more than once.

Miyano Akemi was originally unable to use it, but after being tricked by Tang Ze into saying a spell, she was able to use it after entering the impression space.

Although Haga Kyosuke and Koshimizu Nanatsuki do not have coop, after proving the power of the mask user, they can also be added to the team list and used when they recognize the world side.

To sum up, at that time, Karasawa wanted to make the fake real and rescue Curacao from under Gin's nose. The safest plan was to replicate what happened to Miyano Akemi, so that the organization would stop all searches and pursuits for Curacao.

But time was limited at that time, there was no vacancy in Tangze's coop, and it was impossible for Curacao to speed through the Mask Awakening Tutorial in 2 hours.

In order to complete the design, Tang Ze came up with this idea.

When the identity of the other person becomes the client of the wish, that person can also be selected and marked.

With this trick, Tang Ze successfully completed the swap, not only improving his reputation on Gin's side, but also scaring Conan so much that his face turned pale. He killed two birds with one stone and made a huge profit.

However, after the wish was successfully made, the Desire Stone no longer had any substantial function. It mainly served as a decorative item for game achievements, so Curacao left it at the crime scene, and Tang Ze didn't bother to care about it.

It finally fell into Conan's hands and became indirect evidence to identify the murderer, which was unexpected.

"Well, I want to know, is this thing X-alloy?" Conan asked the question directly, his eyes always staying on Tang Ze's face.

Given how secretive Goro Akechi was, he guessed that if he directly asked Tang Ze how he became Kumail, he would most likely not get an answer.

Tang Ze must know the truth, but he will definitely not tell it.

At this moment, you can feel that Tang Ze and Haibara Ai are really related by blood. Once their mouths are closed, it is as difficult to pry open as a river clam.

So Conan didn't spend any effort on this aspect, he chose to turn the question back to the previous checkpoint.

That is the death of Curacao.

"Yes, it's X-alloy." Tang Ze, who had guessed three-quarters of Conan's script, nodded calmly, "Are you going to ask me about Curacao?"

After obtaining some candid information from Goro Akechi, the difficulty of identifying the person who attacked Curacao has been greatly reduced.

Conan could more or less understand what Tang Ze was doing at that time.

Next to him are the innocent children of the Junior Detective League and Professor Agasa, so it is even more impossible for Curacao to take back the information about Haibara Ai.

Even if what she said was true, she had already wanted to leave the organization and resist the control of her superiors. At that time, she was still the focus of the organization, and this information was likely to be leaked with her departure.

But for this very reason, it would not be appropriate to hand her over directly to the police.

Her hands must be dirty. Apart from her past criminal record, she had indeed broken into the police station and stolen intelligence.

If she is handed over to the police, her fate will probably be the same as other members of the organization who are about to be caught by the law: encounter an accident, sudden death, or even "commit suicide out of fear of punishment."

They wanted to help Curacao, but they couldn't completely forgive her for being an organized killer.

With this conflicted mentality, the best way Tang Ze could think of was to let a professional do it.

It is obvious who this professional is.

Given the familiarity between Karasawa and Akechi Goro, there is no doubt that Karasawa, who left with Curacao at the time, could think of someone to help Curacao.

"Did you ask Goro Akechi to come over at that time?" Conan couldn't help but curl his lips when thinking of the other person's face.

"Yes. You know her background. If we leave it to Mingzhi, he will handle it much better than us." Tang Ze nodded.

That’s indeed the case, and it’s not a lie, right?

Conan lowered his voice a little after touching the golden killer whale on the table.

"But, in the end, she still..."

He said it a little dejectedly, but he was secretly expecting Tang Ze to refute his statement.

Knowing that it was Kumail who did it and knowing that Kumail was not actually loyal to the organization gave people completely different feelings.

Perhaps, in the parts that Conan has not touched, those unsolved cases where the murderer cannot be found, there may be the work of Goro Akechi, but for now, in all the cases committed by "Kumair" that happened in front of Conan, no real deceased person appeared.

Even in Osaka, when they followed the police to find Kiichiro Numabuchi, although everyone present was shot and although Kiichiro Numabuchi uttered a very scary "greeting" at the time, judging from the result, he was unharmed.

Thinking about it the other way around, Kiichiro Numabuchi's words "Kumair sends his regards" might not be a malicious declaration or provocation, but rather a warning to him not to investigate further.

In other words, it's really a greeting.

It was just that the person who said hello was a wanted criminal who looked mentally unstable, skinny and sloppy, which made the scene scary. Goro Akechi didn't mean it.

...What is he thinking about?

Shaking his head, Conan threw away the inexplicable idea of ​​defending Mingzhi from his mind, and returned his gaze to Tang Ze's face.

No matter what, even though Tang Ze did not choose to be honest about some things and concealed many things, there is one thing that Conan has never questioned.

Tang Ze is his friend, and he is also Tang Ze's first friend in his 18 years of life.

Tang Ze is a good man and would not hurt his friends.

Therefore, if Tang Ze lied about this matter, the result might be...

"She's still alive." Tang Ze didn't keep the question in suspense and answered directly.

"!" Conan raised his head, "Are you sure?"

"...She must still be alive." Tang Ze nodded again. "Although I didn't get to see her, she told me in person that she wanted to go to Curacao to see what the real Curacao Sea Aquarium looks like."

That's right, thanks for the invitation. I just got off the plane and I'm in the Netherlands...

"Oh, I see..." Holding the little killer whale in his hand, Conan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He is a detective, and a detective who has experienced many murders and even often witnesses people die in front of his eyes.

But he could not get used to or accept the fact that a living person who was alive and kicking just a moment ago was killed in front of him, no matter how many times it happened.

As long as he is still alive, then everything he saw that night may have been part of Goro Akechi's trick.

"Her appearance is so unique that even with dyed hair and colored contact lenses, she'd still be easily noticed in Japan. If she goes abroad and finds areas where the organization's control is weak, maybe she can live a normal life..."

Tang Ze tried to comfort Conan in a persuasive manner.

Noah, who was lying on his phone, cast a look of contempt at Tang Ze.

At first glance, it seems as if Curacao really went into seclusion abroad as he said. Combined with the fact that Curacao and Tang Ze had contact, it seems like he is describing Curacao's current situation.

But if you listen carefully to the language expressions and tense relationships used by Tang Ze, you can see that Tang Ze has always been saying "maybe" and "possibly", that is, it is a hypothesis.

Since it's just a hypothesis, then anything you say is fine and everything is reasonable, isn't it?

"You have a point." Conan put on a happy smile on his face, just like the naughty kids who had eaten meat next to him. "I hope she can get better."

By leaving Japan, hiding his identity and unable to contact the organization, the issues concerning APTX and Haibara Ai, as well as Curacao's own safety, were all resolved. This is a win-win solution at this stage.

Tang Ze smiled and said, "Yeah. She probably wants to live a simple life."

What a pity, it's not dull at all.

Because Tang Ze threw her abroad, traveling was just a casual thing, and the real goal was much bigger than that.

She went to find Binga's whereabouts for Tangze.