A letter inexplicably appeared at the head of the bed of Kamoshida, who was originally under guard. Naturally, this incident surprised the police. They immediately sent people to conduct a thorough investigation. At the same time, Ai Li also retrieved the hospital's surveillance footage, which showed that since Kamoshida was sent to the ward, no one except the police had entered the room.
How that letter appeared... no one knows.
While the police were searching in a chaotic manner, Ellie looked at her phone for a long while, then narrowed her eyes and put the phone away.
"If everything is ok, I'll go back first."
"Okay, Miss Ellie."
"Oh, by the way, tell the director to notify me when you are going to hold a press conference after the interrogation."
"Oh, okay..."
The police acted quickly. Just three days later, they held a press conference and conveyed the details of the Kamoshida case to the social media, including testimonies from school victims, the methods used by Kamoshida as a sports consultant, the motives for the abuse, and so on.
The reporters present were very considerate and listened very carefully. After all, although for the police, such campus abuse cases can be closed quickly as long as there is solid evidence, for the media, the news has just become popular in society, so of course they have to make good use of every piece of information given by the police.
Throughout the entire press conference, Ai Li just sat there quietly, until the end of the conference, when a reporter raised his hand. Then she stood up and asked.
"I would like to ask, are the crimes committed by Kamoshida that the police have obtained confessions from him personally?"
"Of course he admitted it himself, and we asked the victim to come forward to confirm it just in case."
The police spokesman did not doubt it and quickly answered, but at this moment, the female reporter asked another question.
"So what do you think of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts?"
"…Sorry, what?"
Hearing the reporter's question, the police spokesperson seemed to doubt for a moment whether there was something wrong with his ears, and then he saw the female reporter took out a black envelope.
"It's like this. Just two days ago, we received a letter of warning from a group calling themselves the 'Phantom Thieves of Hearts'. In the letter, they said they would steal Kamoshida Taku's dirty desires and make him confess his crimes. We would like to ask the police, what do you think of this statement?"
"this……"
Faced with the female reporter's questions, the police spokesperson was obviously confused, but at this moment, Ai Li reached out and took the microphone.
"Let me answer this question."
Ellie's voice was not loud, but the moment she opened her mouth the originally noisy venue immediately became quiet. Ellie leaned back in her chair, holding the microphone in her hand, slightly squinting her eyes and staring at the camera in front of her.
"We also found this letter from Kamoshida, but if you ask me, this is just a pretty bad prank."
"mischief?"
"That's right."
Ellie nodded.
"The criminal will eventually confess all his crimes, and the police are not just eating and not working. We don't need the help of the Phantom Thieves to pry open the criminals' mouths. Evidence, witnesses, clues, these are far more important and clear than the criminals' testimony. Although I don't know who sent this letter, it seems to me that they just want to use this method to attract attention. After all, this case is currently attracting much attention at the social level. If they can become famous through this, it will definitely attract a lot of attention. By the way, I would also like to remind those so-called "Phantom Thieves of Hearts" that according to the provisions of the "Sanctuary Treaty", any testimony provided in the form of mental manipulation or cognitive change has no legal effect. I hope that next time you send a notice letter, you will check the code first."
After saying this, the corners of Ellie's mouth curled up slightly, revealing a cold smile. Then she put the microphone back, folded her arms, squinted her eyes and stared at the camera in front of her, as if she was despising and mocking those stupid existences.
“What a joke!!!”
At this moment, in a corner of the shopping street, a young man with short blond hair and a ruffian look was watching the picture playing on the TV in the window, angrily swung his fist and hit the wall hard.
"If you hadn't destroyed the castle that night, we would have made that guy confess everything a long time ago, right? Joker?"
As he spoke, the blond hooligan turned his head and looked at another boy who was silently staring at the TV beside him. He wore thick glasses and looked expressionless. Hearing the blond hooligan's complaint, he just looked at him silently without saying anything.
"But I think she's right. There was no need for us to take this action..."
At this moment, a fashionable girl with twin ponytails and fluffy curly hair who was following the boy with glasses also came out to dissuade him.
The three of them are students of Gekkoukan Academy, and are also members of the so-called "Phantom Thieves of Hearts". A few days ago, due to a certain opportunity, the three of them entered the mysterious space of desire, and there they confronted another Kamoshida. During the confrontation, the three of them also awakened the ability of Persona.
After that, the three of them thought of many ways to defeat Kamoshida. At the same time, under the leadership of a black cat, the three of them gradually mastered the skills to deal with the shadow monsters in the space of desire.
In fact, just three days ago, the three of them planned to make Kamoshida their first target, and for this purpose they even sneaked into Kamoshida's castle of desire several times.
As it turned out, man proposes, God disposes. They had originally made complete preparations, just waiting to send a warning letter to create a loophole in the other party's desire space, and then sneak into it to steal the treasure deep in the other party's heart, so that the person in the real world could turn over a new leaf and confess his guilt. However, Ai Li suddenly rushed out and sent Kamo Shida to the hospital without saying a word.
Because of this, the Phantom Thieves' first activity was almost aborted, and the three of them also had disagreements on this issue.
The twin-tailed girl, Takamaki An, thinks that since Kamoshida has been arrested and there is solid evidence, there is no need for the Phantom Thieves to go out.
But the bad boy Sakamoto Ryuji didn't think so. He felt that the police would definitely not be able to track down all of Kamoshida's crimes. Moreover, they had been preparing for so long, and now they just gave up? Who could be willing to do that?
So in the end, the three of them decided to act according to the original plan. Ryuji Sakamoto sent a notice letter to the media and Kamoshida, and then the three of them sneaked to the castle of desire deep in Kamoshida's heart.
What they didn't expect was that before they could get in, Kamoshida's Castle of Desire was demolished on the spot by Ellie, and King Kamoshida himself was shot in the head by Ellie. Not only were the three of them almost killed in the explosion, they were also scared out of their wits by Ellie's volley of bullets and almost couldn't come back.
It is also because of this that Ryuji Sakamoto has a lot of opinions about Ai Li.
"What's so great about that? She's just a little girl, and yet she's so arrogant! Wait until our next Phantom Thief activity is successful, and then we'll see what she says!!"
"You'd better not do that."
At this moment, Gao Juanxing also hurriedly tried to dissuade him.
"You don't know her name, but you must have heard of the title of Silver Witch. She is a magic attacker on Genshin Island who is as famous as the Space Witch! And her nickname 'Silver Witch' comes from her ruthless killing of her enemies. You also saw it yesterday. She almost beat us to death!"
"Then shall we do nothing?"
Hearing his companions' dissuasion, Ryuji Sakamoto became even more excited. He clenched his fists and yelled.
"We finally awakened our powers and formed the Phantom Thieves. Are we going to stop just because of a scare from this little girl?"
Sakamoto Ryuji stared at the white-haired girl on TV unhappily, gritting his teeth and glaring, looking like he wanted to eat her alive. They were fighting for justice, but this little girl was actually talking nonsense here, saying that they were just joining in the fun and showing off? How could this be tolerated?
“No, this…”
“Ahem.”
Just as the two were arguing, the door of the store opened, and the boss walked out, glaring at them with dissatisfaction. Under the boss's gaze, the three of them hurriedly stopped arguing and left quietly.
"Really? Didn't I tell you not to speak loudly outside? What if someone hears it?"
"You're so long-winded. I didn't mean it..."
The three of them walked farther and farther away, and just after they left, two petite figures popped their heads out from behind a vending machine not far away.
"Sister Xia Yin, you heard it, didn't you?"
"Yeah, I heard it very clearly."
Xia Yin nodded and stared at the backs of the three students not far away, while Jie Tong next to her had shining eyes.
"I never thought that our luck would be so good. That Phantom Thieves Group must be the one that Big Sister mentioned before!"
"Hmm... Miss Airi did say that. She said that the criminals are eager to show off, so they are likely to take this opportunity to show off. Now it seems that those three people are members of the Phantom Thieves."
"So what should we do? Should we just go up and catch them directly?"
"This isn't very good... Anyway..."
As she spoke, Xia Yin took out her cell phone.
"It would be better if I call Miss Ellie first to inform her."