The Phantom Thief of Heart! But Conan.

"Also on Kurama Mountain?"

After searching for the message, Hattori Heiji frowned.

The last time they were attacked was at Kurama Temple on Kurama Mountain. Although Yulong Temple and Kurama Temple are not in the same direction, if they are both in this mountain...

"That might explain why the first three victims showed up in that place so late at night." Conan stroked his chin. "It wouldn't be difficult for the murderer to just tell them he found a clue and lead them to the mountain."

There were more questions that the two detectives could guess without discussing.

Why was the attacker so familiar with the forests of Mount Kurama and able to escape so quickly?

How did he target and find them and lock onto Hattori Heiji?

A basic logic is that people who want to hide something are unlikely to hide it in a place that they have no control over.

This Gyokuryuji Temple has some connection with Genji Hotaru.

"Should we go directly to Gyokuryuji Temple?" Hattori Heiji pondered as he looked at the stone tablet in front of him. "Kurama Mountain is very far away. It might not be safe if we go there alone..."

Everyone has guessed the connection between Gyokuryuji Temple and Genji Hotaru. If they go directly to his door, what's the difference between that and delivering food?

"But for now, we can't share this clue easily." Conan shook his head.

Who should I share it with? The murderer is between Xijo Taiga and Longyuan Monk. What's the difference between them telling others and directly telling the murderer the answer?

Tell the police? That's even more unreliable.

Unless Hattori Heiji calls his father now to surrender and sends a group of people over from Osaka, so that they can trust that the Kyoto police will cooperate with their actions, he would be overestimating himself and the Kyoto police.

"Phew, this is really a bit troublesome..."

The two were still thinking about a more appropriate strategy when Tang Ze, who was standing by, shrugged.

"I think we can go towards Kurama Mountain. We don't need to go directly to Gyokuryuji Temple first, so as not to attract attention. We can just treat it as the scene before we go to Kurama Temple to investigate. As for being attacked..."

Being attacked, isn't this what Hattori Heiji wants to do now?

We have been conducting sting operations for a long time. How can we succeed if we don’t provide a suitable ambush environment?

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Looking at the three people in front of him getting on the tram, Nishijo Taiga pushed his glasses, sneered, and turned into the street around the corner.

Watching them wandering around Kyoto for most of the time and finally preparing to go to Kurama-dera Temple, he felt a sense of pride and superiority in his heart.

Once they reach Mount Ama, they will reach their base camp. No matter what the situation was before, the situation will completely enter their own advantageous rhythm.

They have all been attacked in Kurama Temple, yet they are still so confident. Do they really believe that the police investigation can hinder the suspect's actions?

The so-called detectives are just a bunch of idiots who are slightly smart but completely clueless in other aspects. They are naive and ridiculous.

The same thing happened to those stupid policemen. Eight years have passed, and not only have they not found out their identities, they didn't even know the Medicine Buddha statue had been stolen a long time ago. How could they possibly find them?

I really don't know what the leader is afraid of. If only he could sell that thing sooner...

Thinking of this, Nishijo Taiga's face darkened.

He went into the rented garage, changed into his prepared clothes, and got on his motorcycle.

Unlike the tram which had to go around a long way, it would take him much less time to ride back to Kurama Mountain. He would definitely have enough time to intercept the three detectives before the little devils around them found anything.

By then, they will have a profound understanding of the true laws of this world...

With a smile on his face as if his plan was about to succeed, Nishijo Taiga, who was about to put the Noh mask on his face, suddenly noticed that a card floated out from the clothes he had changed.

What is this? Is it some paper I accidentally brought from the store?

For the bandits who had been acting cautiously for many years, this was definitely a mistake. Any behavior that might leave traces was extremely dangerous for their line of work, which made his face look a little unhappy.

He bent down and picked up the white piece of paper from the ground, only to find that it was a folded paper card with a postcard-sized card in the middle.

After taking a look at its color scheme, Nishijo Taiga's face changed drastically.

A red and black card with a fluttering flame emblem, this is—

"The Phantom Thieves of Hearts—"

"Ha, it's finally here."

Hearing the long cry coming from the courtyard, several people resting in the room looked up at the same time.

If there is any advantage to Yulong Temple, it is probably that regardless of whether it is a safe zone or not, the difference in its decoration style inside and outside is not particularly large. In addition, this is after all the current "dojo" of Saijo Taiga, which houses almost all of his armed forces. Even if there are weak areas, they are very small, so it is not impossible to completely perceive the changes in the hall.

"He's really being too cautious, using such a complicated method to deliver a notice letter." Kenji Hagiwara stretched his joints and complained casually.

Although he had made preparations for this trip which would take a lot of time before coming in and planned to stay in the hall for a long time, he still felt bored to waste so much time staying in the lounge to prepare.

"Oh, he said it was to show respect to his 'comrades,'" Zhu Fujingguang patted his shoulder. "He said that this group of people were able to operate undetected for so many years, and finally died in internal strife, which shows that they were indeed steady and cautious in their work. So he decided to use a more classical method to show his respect."

Under normal circumstances, there is a very simple way to directly tell Nishijo Taiga that something has happened to you.

By using Noah's abilities, hijacking his electronic devices, such as a cell phone, computer, or more directly, a TV or electronic screen that he can see, and showing the preview letter, this man's struggle will be over.

However, Tang Ze chose the more traditional way of sending the letter, and directly stuffed it into his body, on the grounds of "trying to fit the style of the painting as much as possible."

In the morning, after finishing his meeting with them, Hattori Heiji met Tang Ze on his way back. It was not luck.

"That's good." Shimabukuro Kimie exhaled and stood up with some difficulty. "It would be best if it could be resolved quickly. This place is really troublesome."

She had been resting here for several hours, and her hands holding the two swords were still shaking slightly. It was obvious that the previous battle had caused great exhaustion to her.

Saijo Taikawa himself is a martial artist who is obsessed with establishing his own school. In Genji Hotaru, he has always played the role of a thug, responsible for responding to emergencies and handling conflicts when committing crimes.

Yulong Temple is both his base and his Taoist temple, where he teaches his disciples and educates his subordinates.

His real motivation can always be said to be for money, or for his ideals.

He wanted to find the Buddha statue, so he risked exposing his identity and contacted buyers himself to find a way to sell the statue, just to get the money to buy it.

If his old leader did not actually own the property rights of Yulong Temple, so that after his death, the place might be quickly reclaimed by the local people, he might not have gotten involved in the fight for the so-called heritage at all.

After all, in his proud heart, he is the backbone of Genji Hotaru. Without him, it doesn't make much difference whether the team exists or not. No matter who is the boss or whether he is allowed to be the boss or not, he has an upper hand.

To sum up, Nishijo Taiga is an arrogant, self-centered and stubborn person. However, the swordsmanship he has summarized through actual combat has a very high lethality, which makes the Shadow of the Palace show an almost crazy fighting will.

Combined with his style of not caring about the means to achieve his goals and even coating the wakizashi he prepared with poison, his temple is really high and hard.

Not only do they have to deal with numerous wooden stakes, various covered disciples and thugs, but for the sake of pure kendo, this group of shadows will also force a one-on-one duel. After locking onto one person, the damage that the rest of the people can inflict on him will be greatly reduced.

Under such a mechanism, back-row players like Miyano Akemi are greatly restricted. She has always been considered as a support and long-range player. Although she has practiced with the whip in her hand, the shadow of her kendo skills is still too exaggerated in a head-on confrontation.

In addition to the limitations of the venue, it is difficult for agile players like Hoshikawa Teru to play their cards right, while output methods like Asai Narumi, which require keeping a distance from others, are difficult to be effective.

——He’s not a real ADC, can he still go A?

This makes team members like Shimabukuro Kimie, whose weapons require real head-on combat, become the main output force, and they are forced to rush elite monsters in every room, which is very tiring.

"Karma, you can rest for a while." Miyano Akemi raised her fan helplessly, using the mask to replenish her energy and relieve her fatigue. "Ark said the leader is almost ready to move. Once they weaken my combat power and physical strength outside, the problem here will naturally be solved."

Nishijo Taiga's confidence comes from his own fighting ability and from his carefully trained subordinates and thugs.

If they were defeated head-on or challenged by a single individual, then even if they didn't continue to fight hard, this guy's heart of Taoism would be shattered, and he would naturally become much more vulnerable.

Conceit is always a double-edged sword, especially for someone like him who has become arrogant and completely disregards the lives of others.

When something that one is proud of is destroyed by others, it is equivalent to denying all his achievements and self, which means that his inner palace will naturally collapse.

This is also one of the experiences everyone summarized after defeating Ito Suehiko in the Hall of Fame.

This kind of proud person is sometimes inexplicably sensitive. He may be more fragile than many emotionally hurt guys and collapse at the first blow.

"I'm fine. I'll get ready..."

Taking a deep breath, as if she had made some kind of decision, Shimabukuro Kimie pulled out a test tube from her arms.

She uncorked the bottle, tried to convince herself to forget where the contents came from, and drank it all in one gulp.

She didn't need to explain anything extra. Just by looking at the half of her face exposed under the mask and the way she was grinning while drinking, one could guess what was in the test tube.

"Hiss..." Touching his arm, Matsuda Jinpei turned his head. "Honestly, illusion, you should urge that young lady to stop dwelling on the elixir of immortality and take care of the development requests here first. If she keeps drinking like this, what everyone needs first won't be the medicine she developed, but her psychological counseling."

Of course, Tang Ze also explained to them the principle of the medicine. To put it bluntly, he is very special in the Phantom Thief state.

This state itself is the "role" played by these mask-wearers in the cognitive world. It is an abstract image that is strongly related to the person but by no means identical to him or her.

Because of this, the Phantom Thief also possesses some shadow-like properties. When placed in his Joker state, he will appear to be in a superhuman state after using the power of the mask.

That blood is not real blood, but a conceptual "life value". The reason why only Tang Ze's can be used is because his mask itself is too supermodel. He has one in his left hand and one in his right hand. He can change them whenever he wants. It is inexhaustible. There is no reason to leave such a renewable resource alone and not make good use of it.

Everyone understands the principle, but no matter how much you put it, this is also drinking Tang Ze's blood...

It's so weird. It's really weird.

"That's not something I can decide..." Miyano Akemi smiled helplessly. "When it comes to research like this, you know, Shiho herself might not be the final word on what direction it will go. Besides, the difficulty of this matter doesn't lie in that..."

Is it Shiho who is really not cooperating? It is obviously Karasawa who is really not cooperating!

Not to mention changing the raw materials, he even made some hellish remarks like "It's really hard to swallow, why not try making it into blood tofu?", which can only hinder the progress of research and development in this area.

Although she didn't know how Tang Ze influenced Shiho's development progress, she could vaguely feel that Tang Ze's say in Shiho's inspiration and development direction in this regard was definitely much greater than it seemed.

Could it be that Karasawa was leveraging some unknown mask-wielding ability of his to influence Shiho's development? Could such an outrageous cognitive ability truly increase inspiration and enlightenment? Really?

If my uncle and aunt were still alive, and Tang Ze were to cause trouble again, wouldn't it be...

I don't want to think about those unnecessary things. Anyway, since the mine that is the resource material is not cooperating with me now, this is the only way for now.

"Alright, we're almost there." After looking at his watch for a long time, Teru Hoshikawa got up. "I think Nishijo Taiga has reached the area near Yulong Temple. Let's go."

Even if I just lie here and wait for Tang Ze to take action, I have to get rid of the monster first, right?

"It's time to go." Zhu Fujingguang stood up, holding the gun in his hand. "This is not an easy battle. After all, we all know how he sees us, don't we?"

Not only is he a warrior with a name in history, but he is also the second-in-command of Hotaru Genji, and he has an unyielding will.

"Come on, Benkei!"