Conan: I'm Really Not the Manipulator

Hojo Tobiko crossed her arms across her chest and looked at his tears and snot with disgust.

Perhaps realizing that she had gone a little too far, she consoled him, "So what? There are plenty of opportunities for promotion as long as you work hard."

Baijiu gasped and glared at her with red eyes: "What on earth did you do?"

"I just modified your will."

It was rare for Hojo Toika to comfort someone. Seeing that he didn't appreciate it, she rolled her eyes and said, "I just want you to know that many things in this world are much more important than money, power, promotion, etc."

As she spoke, she opened her system panel.

The rabbit saw her ID clearly - Arrogance.

"I forgot to introduce it before. This is my skill, Mirror Flower and Water Moon."

"——I can change other people's wills by looking at them."

"With just a glance from me, I can make lazy 007 happy, turn beautiful lovers into stinking garbage in the eyes of those scumbags, and make people like you who only think about making progress give up everything for your peers." She glanced at him, "But I didn't expect you to be able to detect it. Is your desire for promotion that strong?"

"........."

In his memory, the rabbit could only empathize, not feel. But at this moment, he felt that the scorching summer sun was making him dizzy.

Modify the will of others.

This is an ability that is even more terrifying than reading memories or reading other people's inner thoughts.

Take Naruto as an example. Reading memories is something that ordinary intelligence personnel (such as Ino's father) can do, but Hojo Toika's ability to modify her will is the strongest illusion, Kotoamatsukami!

And she doesn't even have a CD, so she can use it anytime, anywhere, without any burden! She doesn't feel guilty about it at all! !

This news is important. Very important.

This was the first time that Rabbit felt sincerely grateful for having entered this memory.

If...if he and Aoyagi Akihiro didn't know about her skills and ran directly to Hojo Toika, then...

Rabbit felt a chill on his back. He looked at Baijiu, whose will had been modified and who "voluntarily" gave up the opportunity for promotion in order to save his two future colleagues.

The man with the ID "Jealous" seemed to be overly stimulated and suddenly stood there quietly. He looked at Hojo Toika and suddenly a flattering smile appeared on his face.

"I'm sorry, Yuanxiang, I was too harsh on you just now. I apologize!" He said, "Since you can modify other people's wills, can you, can you... help me deal with some interpersonal relationships in the Metropolitan Police Department?"

The rabbit was shocked again.

He subconsciously wanted to spit on such shameless licking behavior, but a chill spread from his brain to his limbs, making him unable to move.

From those memories, he saw that Baijiu was a very narrow-minded person, but also good at patience and disguise - if it weren't for his ability to empathize, he would hardly be able to tell that he was dissatisfied just by looking at his expression.

He didn't resist in the past because of her good family background; he doesn't resist now because of her skills.

A person with a strong sense of self-esteem has to bow his head or even kowtow again and again for the sake of benefits... What will happen when this dissatisfaction accumulates to the extreme and completely explodes?

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This is the first time I write about princess syndrome, and I hope I can write about the feeling that raises people’s blood pressure.

Chapter 29 Where is the undercover?

Docklands, Tower Apartments.

Rabbit sat on the sofa, and after he finished talking about this overly long memory, it was completely dark.

The night view outside the French window was quite beautiful, but he had no interest in appreciating it. He just wanted to finish his talk quickly and go to bed immediately. He didn't even want to eat. He couldn't eat anything now.

[When I exited the memory, Baijiu was still standing there in the same position as before. I stayed in his memory for at least several hours, but in reality, only a few seconds passed... I took advantage of his lack of reaction and hid in the shadows.]

[But before I could leave, there was a commotion outside, and police cars and ambulances arrived. I didn't dare to leave for the time being, and waited until those people left.]

[By the way, Baijiu's passive skill is that he can hear other people's thoughts. I don't know what the probability of that 'random' is, and whether he has discovered my existence...]

The first reason why he didn't come back immediately was the accident outside; and Baijiu's passive skill was the second reason.

Rabbit didn't know whether Baijiu had discovered him or would follow him to find them - after getting to know their character, he really didn't dare to let his guard down.

So he hid outside the mall until he saw the white dove leave with his own eyes, then he flew back to the window and waited in the bathroom for another half an hour.

Finally finishing his story, the rabbit leaned back against the sofa cushions.

He looked at Aoyagi Hikari, the teammate who had opened the system on his phone. The light from the screen cast a small shadow on his eyes, and he looked serious as he read the content.

As if he noticed the gaze, Qing Liu Bingguang turned his head to look at the rabbit, his expression became gentle again, and he stood up and said, "You have worked so hard today... Are you hungry now? I will go prepare dinner."

He seemed to have a lot more to ask.

Rabbit understood his teammate's feelings. If the two of them were in the same position, he would definitely pull the other person aside and ask him questions, but at this moment he was really exhausted both physically and mentally.

He recounted those memories in detail, even how Hojo Toika chased stars before the time travel and how Bai Jiu found a new girlfriend after the time travel. All these details were written down, which completely consumed all his remaining energy.

Rabbit waved his hands tiredly and subconsciously wanted to answer, but then remembered that he couldn't speak and could only reply in the system group chat.

[No, I want to take a rest...]

He didn't even want to type more words.

He was really tired.

"……Thanks a lot."

Seeing that he was like this, Qing Liu Bingguang did not force him and reached out to help him up: "I will help you go to rest."

……

it is finally over.

That was the only thing on the bunny's mind as he lay in bed.

As he watched those memories, forced to empathize again and again, he wondered why it hadn't ended yet. But now that it was really over, he was...

He actually gained a lot from this trip.

He learned about the loophole of the protection halo (it was ineffective against the characters in the original novel), the IDs and skills of the other two players (two active and one passive), as well as their personalities and their relationship before they crossed over.

It should have been a cause for celebration to have such a big harvest just a few days after the game started, but the rabbit just couldn't be happy.

Because this contact was so far different from what he expected.

Although he was extremely tired physically and mentally, Rabbit just didn't feel sleepy at all. There was something blocked in his heart, and he had no way to vent it.

Rabbit turned his head and looked at the bedside table. There was a sandwich there, which was put down silently by Aoyagi Binguang when he came in just now.

He felt heavy in his heart, and a little...guilty for hiding it from his teammates.

In fact, he did not reveal all his memories. Hojo Toika's self-destruction ability was only the second to last scene, and he did not tell Aoyagi Akimitsu about the last memory.

——The last scene is in the bookstore.

……

"Such a stupid person can actually be an undercover agent. Only a water plant full of traitors can accommodate her, right?"

After applying lipstick, Hojo Tobiko pursed her lips.

"Don't underestimate the group..."

"No, even if it's the water plant, it's hard for her to stay there. Trash like Tequila Calvados who only appeared in one episode and then disappeared had code names, but she doesn't have one... It would be better for her to be caught by the police earlier and help ZERO and Jingguang. Maybe she can get more information this way."

As she spoke, she laughed out loud, then she looked at Bai Jiujiu and asked casually -

"By the way, where is she undercover?"

Bai Jiu, who was from the same hometown as Tu Zi before the time travel and became a Japanese policeman who swore an oath to Sakura after the time travel, did not speak.

The rabbit felt that he was guilty.

——It was a feeling of guilt that was even stronger than when I watched Kenji Hagiwara die.

……

The pain that I had suppressed with great difficulty burst out again when I recalled this memory.

The rabbit felt uncomfortable in his throat, but no matter how he struggled, he could not make any sound.

In human form, he is even worse than in rabbit form. He can’t shout, let alone cry.

He raised his hand and touched his neck tremblingly, just like when he first entered the memory.

This time, there was nothing above his neck. Having lost his memory, he not only lost the ability to speak again, but also lost his head, turning back into that terrifying and weird headless man.

This time, the rabbit's pain was mixed with anger and grievance.

why?

A strong feeling of unwillingness enveloped his heart, and he whimpered, but no sound came out.

Why those two guys... why two guys like that can have normal bodies, have normal lives, and can stand in the sun and breathe freely.

——And he has become like this, not even daring to appear in front of other people openly?

The rabbit had not forgotten what happened when he first arrived at the apartment. He was happy about his comfortable new residence until he saw himself in the mirror.

The mirror reflected his appearance more clearly than the transparent window. Looking at the headless man in the mirror wearing a lab coat and a cloud of black mist floating around his neck, Rabbit knew that it was himself, but he had only one thought in his mind at that time:

monster! !

"........."

Rabbit tried hard to calm down. He raised his hand to touch the ring, and a system pop-up window and a three-headed demon appeared in front of him.

Having lost the ability to speak, he could only write one stroke at a time on the pop-up window to ask questions to his demons.

[Are all players' camps random? ]

[Not all, five people are randomly assigned. ]

The three-headed demon held up a sign.

【There are two exceptions.】

Chapter 30: Be the mastermind from today?

After sending the rabbit back to his room and giving him a sandwich, Aoyagi Akiko went to the kitchen and began preparing his dinner for the night.