After realizing the possibility of this matter, Conan quickly jumped off the chair, ran to Mizuide Yoko, and asked her home address in a child's tone, pretending to be casual.

He no longer has the energy to avoid Hinata Hajime, and it can even be said that he has given up hope.

Although he didn't know how Hinata Hajime figured it out, he did realize that he was not a child. Thinking about it, he had been discovered before. After being surprised, Conan accepted it quite easily. As long as he was not discovered by the people of the Black Organization...

After asking for the address, Conan Edogawa ran out, leaving only the words "I'm going to find a friend". Mouri Ran wanted to stop him, but thinking of the woman next to her who was trying to calm herself down, she finally did not chase after him.

"Conan is such a jerk, he always likes to run around everywhere." Xiaolan complained in a low voice.

Hinata Hajime put the coffee cup back to its original place. He gestured to Amuro Toru who had packed up his things, indicating that he was leaving. Amuro Toru welcomed him with a standard waiter's smile, saying "come back next time."

Walking out of the cafe, Hinata Hajime put one hand in his coat pocket and tugged at the tie around his neck with the other hand.

[Although I didn't feel a strong aura of despair, there was something wrong with that person.] Hinata Sou said: [The strong perfume was not only hiding the smell of blood, but it might also be covering up the faint aura of despair on his body. His temperament changed drastically, which is indeed consistent with the fragment of despair.]

[The existence of the Despair Fragments in this world is somewhat different from that in the previous world. 】

[Yes.] Hinata Sou sighed, [Such a weak breath makes me wonder if the fragments of despair have been broken into countless pieces.]

That would be terrible if that were the case.

However, even so, they cannot give up. Only the fragments of hope can save their world. The fragments of hope before did restore the sanity of those hopeless remnants, which is much more efficient than them capturing the hopeless remnants and stuffing them into the new world program one by one.

Hinata Hajime raised his head, his expression firm, and his light green left eye turned red.

【Let’s find the fragments of despair together. 】

【Boring.】 Kamizuru closed his eyes, 【Whatever you want.】

Hinata Hajime did not go directly to Mizuide Taro's house. The moment Hinata Hajime's eyes turned into heterochromatic pupils, his analytical ability was constantly judging the direction in which Mizuide Taro left. Hinata Hajime calmly turned at every road. The reason why Mizuide Yoko talked to Mizuide Taro in that cafe was because their home was very close to the cafe.

Moreover, that cafe was the place where they had their first date, so Mizuide Yoko hoped that the love between them would be awakened there.

However, she was mocked by Mizuide Taro and asked for a divorce.

Standing at the door of the Mizude family, Hinata Hajime took a look inside. The door of the Mizude family was ajar, so he couldn't see what was going on inside from here.

Just when Hinata Hajime was about to push open the door, Edogawa Conan ran out from inside with a unhappy look on his face.

"Don't go in!"

"Something happened inside."

"Yeah." Edogawa Conan frowned and said, "I'm late. Mizuide Taro died in there."

Hinata Hajime lowered his head and looked at Edogawa Conan. When he saw Hinata Hajime's eyes, Edogawa Conan was obviously stunned for a moment. There was a little surprise in his eyes, and his gaze was always fixed on Hinata Hajime's eyes. Unlike the last time, because the distance was very close, Edogawa Conan suddenly found that he could not find any trace of Hinata Hajime wearing colored contact lenses.

Even the most seamless contact lenses cannot fit the eyes perfectly and will leave traces.

Hinata Hajime's heterochromatic eyes are almost indistinguishable from a pair of ordinary eyes.

What's wrong with this person?

"I'll go in and take a look."

"Wait a minute!" Conan Edogawa stopped him, "It's a mess inside. It's better not to destroy the scene before the police come. And even if we don't destroy the scene, it will be completely difficult to explain if we leave one or two fingerprints."

Hinata Hajime looked at Edogawa Conan, who nodded, "Did you call the police?"

"It has been reported."

"Then you can come up with an excuse."

"Excuse?" Conan Edogawa was stunned.

Hinata Sou nodded, "Yes, I want to find an excuse for why a little kid like you came here and found a dead body."

Edogawa Conan: ...

"Brother Hinata." Conan Edogawa started to act like a child, "I happened to pass by here on my way to see a friend, and suddenly I heard screams coming from inside. I didn't dare to go in, so I remembered that Uncle Maori taught me to find the police if something happened, so I called the police. I definitely didn't go in!"

"That's a good reason, if none of your friends live in this direction."

Conan Edogawa sighed, "I see. We can go in and take a look before the police come. Be careful not to touch anything inside."

Conan Edogawa made this judgment not because he felt threatened. If he wanted to, he could still find an excuse. He just thought of his previous thoughts, that Hinata Hajime's observation ability was enough to make him an excellent detective.

He still wanted to test Hinata Hajime.

In the heterochromatic eye state, Hinata Hajime will be greatly influenced by Kamijou Izuru. His emotions will be weakened due to the suppression of his talents, but his rationality will increase, and he can find more clues even without activating his analytical ability.

As soon as he walked to the door, Hinata Hajime smelled a faint smell of blood. The smell of blood mixed with the smell of cheap perfume seemed particularly unpleasant.

Hinata Hajime, who had a keen sense of smell, couldn't help but frown. He pressed the back of his hand against his nose, then reached out and pushed open the door. The moment he opened the door, Hinata Hajime understood why Edogawa Conan didn't let him in at first, because the room was too messy.

There were cluttered things everywhere, all the boxes of things had been turned out, and the bowls in the kitchen had been smashed to pieces. Under the clutter, Mizuide Taro was lying on the ground with a kitchen knife stuck in his back. Blood was oozing through his ill-fitting haute couture suit and spreading on the floor.

The details were imprinted into Hinata Hajime's eyes bit by bit, and his mind was analyzing what had happened before step by step.

After having a disagreement with his wife in the cafe, Mizuide Taro returned home, but the moment he opened the door, he found that the house was full of clutter. He ran in panic, and was too nervous to even close the door. There was an important thing he wanted to confirm whether it was stolen, so he ran straight to the front, but ignored the thief who was still at home.

The thief was hiding in the kitchen. He saw Mizuide Taro running over, so he decided to kill Mizuide Taro from behind with a knife in the kitchen. Then he stole the important thing, and finally piled miscellaneous items on Mizuide Taro's body before leaving.

So...

Hinata Hajime walked forward and looked into the room in front of Mizuide Taro's body. Soon he saw a strange box with a groove in it, and the things in the groove had been taken away.

"So it was a burglary?" Edogawa Conan obviously also found this thing, "but no money or other valuables were taken away."

"The other party is not here to look for money, but for something specific. Killing Mizuide Taro is just a convenience." Hinata Hajime walked out of here and then went into the study room which had been turned upside down the most. Even the bookshelves in the study were knocked over, as if to determine whether there was a secret passage under the bookshelves.

What kind of important thing could have enabled this thief to do such a thing?

Hinata Sou lowered his head and frowned slightly. Among a pile of black folders, he seemed to see a colorful page.

He reached out and pulled out the flyer, then saw a promotional poster.

"The Wishing Stone Game has begun! Do you have a wish that you want to fulfill? Do you have a dream that you want to achieve? Or do you have a hard time? All of these can be fulfilled!"

"As long as you participate in the Wishing Stone game and win, then everything you wish for will come true."

"This seems to be a promotional poster for the game center." Edogawa Conan looked at the poster, "But there's no address?"

Hinata Hajime glanced outside, then pulled Edogawa Conan out.

"Hey? What's wrong?"

“The police are coming.”

"But it's only been less than ten minutes. The police station is not that close. It's absolutely impossible to get here in ten minutes."

Hinata Hajime ignored Edogawa Conan's question. He directly pulled Edogawa Conan out of the house. Not long after they walked out of the door, the sound of police cars was getting closer and closer. Edogawa Conan looked at Hinata Hajime in surprise, and found that he had been looking at the poster in his hand.

Both his red and green eyes were filled with indifference, and even his hands, which were holding the poster, had wrinkled the edges due to squeezing the poster too hard.

"Hinata-nii-san?"

"I'm fine." Hinata Sou stood up. "I'll tell the police that I'm going to find some materials here. If you think it's fun, follow me. Then we heard screams when we walked here, and then we called the police."

"The same voice was enough to instantly make our relationship better."

Conan Edogawa watched the police stop at the door. They ignored them for the time being and looked at the open door. After one of the policemen pushed the door open, their eyes widened instantly and they immediately shouted for support. The first two policemen who arrived were maintaining the scene.

Then he looked at Hinata Hajime, who was still looking at the poster.

"Did you discover something? Is this wishing stone game important?"

Hinata Hajime looked at Edogawa Conan with a hint of coldness in his eyes, "Do you know what the Wishing Stone Game is?"

“I haven’t heard of that.”

"This wishing stone is set up in a relatively unpopular game. In fact, many of the rules of this game are backed by history. The wishing stone game is actually very simple. Just as it is advertised here, as long as the final winner holds the wishing stone, the game is considered won and the winner can realize one wish."

Conan Edogawa nodded, "This is a very normal game, right?"

"What's abnormal is its background." Hinata Hajime put the poster aside. "This game was born in a world with a very obvious gap between the rich and the poor. In that game world, the difference between the powerful and the common people is huge. The evil powers created this game to amuse themselves."

"They will gather a group of civilians, give them a crystal stone, and name it the Wishing Stone. The people who are gathered can use any means, and the person who finally gets the Wishing Stone will have a wish fulfilled."

Edogawa Conan's eyes widened, "What?!"

"Yes, you are right. This is the game described on the promotional page. Mizuide Taro should be one of the participants. He probably won a fortune in this game." Hinata Hajime looked up at the sky. "It's just that he was killed by another participant in this game."

"But this is modern society! It's basically impossible for such power to exist. Even the underworld wouldn't play tricks on people like this. Why would such a game exist?"

Hinata Sou smiled and said, "You are wrong."

"Eh?" Edogawa Conan was stunned, "What did I do wrong?"

"It's not that there won't be games like this in modern society, it's just a form." Hinata Hajime sighed helplessly, "It's just a form that makes people kill each other out of despair. It's the same even if it's any other game."

"Its purpose is simply to make people despair."

Conan Edogawa tilted his head strangely, "Despair?"

"Of course, compared to this matter, I am more concerned about how many people actually participate in this game." Hinata Sou murmured softly, "What if there are too many people participating?"

In the previous world, Hinata Hajime had never thought of such a thing. The Fragment of Despair was not the host of a certain person, but was hosted in a certain game field and was divided into countless pieces. Everyone who participated in the game would become the host of the Fragment of Despair.

[I almost never thought that the Despair Fragment would do this, not absorbing despair through one Despair host, but binding countless Despair hosts.] Hinata Hajime sat quietly on the ground. He lowered his head and could see his reflection. In the spiritual world, he was sitting on a huge mirror, just like the mirror in his dream.

[It's normal to give hope to one person, but how to give hope to a group of people? The reason why we are here to collect fragments of hope is because there are too many hopeless remnants, and we can't cram them all into the new world program to update in a short time. ]

Kamukura Izuru stood behind him, his long black hair hanging down. He looked at Hinata Hajime and said, "Now that it has happened, there is no point in complaining."

[Of course, I've always known this, but I was just thinking: It's not that simple. ]

Hinata Hajime's voice was filled with sighs, "If you weren't here, I would have given up at the beginning."

You won't.

【Um?】

[You won't give up.] Kamukura Izuru lowered his head, and when Hinata Hajime was stunned, he reached out from behind and covered Hinata Hajime's eyes.

Hinata Hajime was a little confused, but he didn't ask or struggle. He could feel Kamijou Izuru's cool hands covering around his eyes, and his long black hair hanging down, making slight contact with his skin. Because the distance was too close, Hinata Hajime could even smell the scent of Kamijou Izuru.

Of course, it was no different from the way he smelled.

"You once lent me your heart, letting me know what it feels like to have feelings. This time, I'll lend you my mind. In this case, feelings will only be a burden." Kamukura Izuru's voice echoed in Hinata Hajime's ears, "But don't forget who you are. No, you have to remember who you used to be."

"You in the new world program." Kamukura Izuru's voice was very soft, almost without a breath.

"You used to be someone that even Junko Enoshima couldn't change."

Hinata Hajime's heart skipped a beat. He opened his eyes, and his right eye slowly turned red.

【Thank you, Izuru. 】

【We are one person, no matter in the past or in the future, this is a fact that will not change. 】

"Hinata...brother?" Edogawa Conan almost jumped up.

Because he watched with his own eyes as Hinata Hajime's right eye suddenly changed from green to red, without any sign or preparation. He saw Hinata Hajime suddenly cover his chest, as if he was shocked by something, and his eyes, which were staring blankly at the air, suddenly returned to their original state and changed color.

What the hell?

Huh? Aren’t they cosmetic contact lenses?

No, no, why can some people's eyes change color? This is not scientific!