Conan and Gin are both my brothers, what's wrong with meeting them once?

That evening, Kazuma Kudo opened the gifts.

Fino gave her a car ornament, made of pure gold.

Kiel presented him with an exquisitely crafted dagger, its hilt and scabbard inlaid with numerous diamonds and gemstones, clearly a meticulously prepared piece.

And Bourbon...

When Kudo Kazuma finally opened Amuro Tooru's gift box, his face immediately darkened.

You bastard Amuro!

Do you want to get scammed?

Amuro Tooru gave him a cat collar, a very ordinary cat collar, but if I had to say, it was rather cute...

This person has gone too far!

While others were making their own way to the patrons, he was only thinking about giving Jingguang the cat a "necklace," which was at least nominally a birthday gift for him, right?

What's worse is that Amuro Tooru left after delivering the gift, and now he has nowhere to confront him...

The next day, after choosing a sniper rifle from Chianti and Cohen, Kudo Kazuma drove home.

"Snapped!"

He threw the cat collar onto the coffee table.

Jingguang, who was studying the hamster with Narumi Rabbit, looked up curiously: "What is that?"

"That cat collar Amuro gave me!" Kudo Kazuma gritted his teeth. "Where does he live now? I'm going to find him and settle the score. What kind of birthday present is this?"

Jingguang Cat was taken aback: "What birthday present? Wasn't your birthday just a few days ago?"

"Yeah, there was an explosion at the Full Paradise press conference, and Tequila happened to be there making a deal with someone when he was killed in the explosion."

"Because of my conflict with Tequila, they all thought I did it, so they came to pay their respects under the guise of a birthday gift."

"As for Amuro, he's probably just following the crowd and doesn't want people to think he's different."

"But this thing is such a flimsy thing. Couldn't you at least give me a gift? I'll just give it to you directly—so are you going to wear it?"

Jingguang Cat: "..."

He completely ignored the cat collar and silently pushed the injured hamster next to him toward Kazuma Kudo: "We don't have any stray cats, will this work?"

What kind of cat collar?

He won't wear it!

Even though Zero gave it to him, he wouldn't wear it!

Ten minutes later, Jingguang, the cat wearing a cat collar, looked curiously at the somewhat dazed soul of Agave in the room...

"Danpo, what did you do to Agave? Why does its soul seem a bit off?"

The souls they had seen before, aside from dissipating after 48 hours, were essentially no different from their previous selves in terms of temperament, personality, or appearance. But this agave…

Kazuma Kudo tilted his head: "I don't know either, maybe he was stunned by the explosion?"

If he remembered correctly, the souls during the Shinkansen explosion also seemed somewhat dazed, but he hadn't paid attention to the explosions caused by Teiji Moriya last time—those souls didn't seem very lively either.

Was the explosion really that powerful?

But that's fine too. Before the puppet body is finished, the sentient soul won't listen to him—like Kagemitsu Neko, who's never home since Amuro Tooru came back.

It's good that the agave's soul is a bit dull, so it won't get lost after turning into a little hamster.

Kazuma Kudo stuffed the soul of the agave into the hamster's body, then poked it with his finger: "Agave? Do you remember who you are? Do you recognize me? Hey?"

The agave mouse seemed a little better now that it had a body. It looked up at Kudo Kazuma, its little body trembling several times, before finally managing to ask with difficulty, "Danpo, why are you... so big?"

Kazuma Kudo: "...Is it possible that you've shrunk?"

Tequila: "Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

Jingguang the cat curiously leaned closer: "Has it regained its senses?"

Suddenly, a cat's head, which seemed bigger than a double bed to Tequila, appeared in his field of vision. Tequila immediately jumped up: "What a big cat!"

"Since it wasn't explained beforehand, he probably didn't quite catch on..."

Another rabbit head, seemingly as big as a single bed, popped out. The agave hamster was utterly bewildered: "Why are there such big rabbits?"

With a "thump!", a huge mirror appeared in front of Agave. Seeing the little hamster inside, Agave was completely dumbfounded.

"You idiot, you didn't even know your key was switched. You got the bomb that someone used to kill Hideaki Nakajima, so you got blown up."

"That's how it is. I retrieved your soul from the explosion site. To prevent your soul from dissipating within 48 hours, I've put a hamster inside it for now."

Kazuma Kudo shrugged and placed the mirror beside him.

After a moment of silence, the agave rat suddenly bared its teeth at Kudo Kazuma: "You were the one who did the bombing, weren't you?"

Kazuma Kudo: "..."

"You didn't even bother to check on Hideaki Nakajima's connections beforehand, and now you have the nerve to blame others after you get bombed?"

As he spoke, he grabbed the agave hamster, stuffed it into a large, transparent plastic bottle, poked a few holes in the bottle with scissors, and tossed the bottle aside.

"Just stay here for a few more days, your body will recover soon anyway."

Compared to the puppet body that disguised Sherry's corpse last time, the requirements for a puppet body that can accommodate a soul are much higher. I also need to exchange some items from the system shop to put in it to ensure the safety of the soul.

So, this can't be solved with just 100 points! Just exchanging for this Puppet Heart costs 50 points... Sigh, there are so many other good things to do with 150 points, it's such a waste to spend them on Tequila...

Although this agave experiment was purely experimental, it was still a waste.

Listening to Kudo Kazuma's complaints, the system Tsuki-ko calmly explained.

[The puppet's body can certainly be solved with 100 points, but to house a soul, the puppet must maintain its vitality in all aspects. A puppet without a puppet heart is merely a moving wooden puppet; how can it safely house a soul?]

This is just a bundled sale...

Kudo Kazuma was speechless, but then he suddenly thought of something.

[So, if I could mold the puppet into my own likeness and then directly control it with the Puppet Heart—wouldn't that be equivalent to having another clone?]

After receiving a positive response from the system, Kudo Kazuma decided that he would definitely try it out later.

As for the puppet body made for Agave...

Kudo Kazuma picked up the clear plastic bottle containing the agave rat and pointed to the puppet body in front of him, which took two days and 150 points to build and looked quite like a younger version of Genta: "Come on, what do you think of this body? You're not allowed to say no!"

Agave Mouse: "..."

After a moment of silence, he turned to Kudo Kazuma with some difficulty: "Where did you find this human corpse? It's so fresh, you didn't just kill it, did you?"

He didn't know where Danpo's abilities came from, but if he could stuff his soul into a hamster's body, he could certainly stuff it into a human's body, right?

Kudo Kazuma's lips twitched. What kind of image did he have in the eyes of the organization?

Sensing the extreme tension in Tequila's expression, he impatiently pulled Tequila's soul out of the hamster's body: "Go inside!"

In less than half a minute, the puppet in front of them opened its eyes...