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Tomorrow is the day for "maintenance", and Rei Furuya looked down at the message in his hand.

The "instructions" given by Silvani emphasized weekly "maintenance". In addition, when he received the task from the BOSS to "spread the situation of Grappa to shake the situation", the other party also mentioned that he would report in the near future. In short, he needs to meet the BOSS and Silvani, these two disgusting things, at the same time tomorrow.

What bad luck.

As Furutani Rei thought about this, he leaned against the car with his tired body after a day of work. After resting for a while, he knocked on the car window.

There was no movement, and the people inside could not be seen through the anti-penetration film on the car windows.

With some guesses in mind, Fūya Rei sighed and opened the car door. As expected, he saw Grappa sleeping soundly in the back seat. He curled up into a ball and barely managed to squeeze himself into the seat. He looked quite pitiful.

The blond man stared for a moment, then resigned himself to sitting in the driver's seat and slowly drove the car towards the safe house where he was currently staying.

"Wake up first and go back to sleep."

After stopping the car, seeing that the other party still showed no sign of waking up, Furiya Rei could only open the back door, reach in and pat the other party's cheek, while sighing that the other party's sleep quality was so good.

Or is it because he has not had any rest in the laboratory for a long time?

Suddenly, Fūya Rei's fingertips froze as he was severely hurt by his own thoughts. He then thought that since the other party wanted to sleep, it would not be a bad idea for him to carry him up. However, just as he was about to reach out and pull the man down, the white-haired man opened his eyes.

As if frightened, the pair of silver eyes widened slightly and met Furiya Rei's gaze, but the body instinctively shrank back. Furiya Rei's eyes darkened when he noticed this.

Then, as if realizing the current situation, the white-haired man withdrew his gaze guiltily, and then nodded obediently, as if responding to Furiya Rei's previous suggestion to go back to the room and sleep.

"Grappa?"

Furuya Rei called out in confusion, and the other party nodded again. His face seemed to have regained its composure, and he got out of the car very obediently and followed the blond man closely, as if in automatic following mode, until they entered Furuya Rei's safe house and stopped in the middle of the living room.

While signaling the other party to sit down with his eyes, Furiya Rei skillfully opened the refrigerator and took out the ingredients. After all, it was just a temporary safe house, and most of the products were quick-frozen and long-lasting. In just ten minutes, a bowl of rice and two or three side dishes were served on the table.

"Wash your hands before eating."

Looking at the white-haired man who was sitting on the sofa and seemed to be in standby mode, Rei Furuya whispered that Silvani's experiment had caused Grappa to react more easily to such simple and clear words, but this time there seemed to be a delay.

The man on the sofa continued to stare blankly, and then he suddenly stood up as if he had repaired the signal receiver and walked towards the bathroom.

A few minutes later, the white-haired man returned to the living room, apparently having washed his hands. After receiving a signal from Furutani Rei, he began to eat.

Eating... This more formal word is Rei Furuya's intuitive feeling. In the previous few times when he ate, except for the cocktail that time when he showed that he liked it, after that, when he took him to various restaurants, he just looked like he was swallowing food, just like now, chewing mechanically and swallowing. He could realize that he had some interest at first, but this interest lasted too short, and every time he ate, he showed that numb feeling of just following orders.

It seems a little different...

Looking at the white-haired man in front of him who suddenly stopped eating, Furugaya Rei cast a puzzled look at him.

"Don't want to eat?"

After the two looked at each other for a moment, Furiya Rei asked, and then for the first time he saw a feeling of wanting to say something but not being able to in the eyes of the white-haired man.

However, he finally lowered his head again and finished his food in silence.

At night, Fūya Rei, who had already adapted to each other's sleeping habits, skillfully opened the closet door and stuffed a panda stuffed doll in it. This was a suggestion from Morobushi Kagemitsu.

The white-haired man also naturally went in and hugged the doll without saying whether he liked it or not. As the cabinet door closed, Furutani Rei observed for a moment before he collected his thoughts and prepared to rest.

The person in the cabinet rubbed the panda's head, but clenched his fists tightly with a resentful look on his face.

Good news: I finally got to eat the meal cooked by Touzi.

The bad news: He couldn't taste it at all.

———

The next day came quickly. The white-haired man, who was still a little dazed from sleep, was pulled out of the cabinet by Furukaya Zero early and a piece of clothing was put on him.

It was not the casual clothes that Furuya Rei had prepared for the two of them when they were on missions these days, but the top full of drawstrings that Grappa had worn after he came out of Silvani's laboratory.

Breakfast was a simple sandwich, which the white-haired man swallowed without much interest, then sat in a chair and waited for the other party's next move.

Furukaya Rei looked at the man sitting on the chair in front of him, then stood up and walked towards him. As he got closer, his light-colored eyes reflected his own image more and more clearly, as well as the bitter smile on his face.

He stopped at a distance of only a palm's width from the other person, slowly squatted down, then raised his hand and gently grasped the strap under the left shoulder of the clothes. He paused for a moment, and then used his other hand to pull the strap under the right shoulder to the middle.

“Click—”

There was a crisp sound of the buckle closing, and the two straps easily locked the upper part of the arm, making it impossible to raise these arms that could easily take away life.

Afterwards, the hands were crossed in front of the chest, the wrists and arms were fixed together, and the elbows were wrapped around the waist. The crisp sounds of buckles closing echoed in the room one after another, and all the space for arm movement was restricted to the smallest range.

Even the black belt, which was the same color as the shirt, was unusually eye-catching after being embellished with silver metal buckles and fastened its owner like a prisoner. However, after raising his head, the culprit who completed the whole process did not show any doubt or confusion in his light-colored eyes.

The whole process went smoothly, just like a dangerous game that both parties agreed to. The person who gave the trust acquiesced to all the actions of the other party and allowed the other party to imprison him.

The blond man noticed this and hid his thoughts under a calm expression. He put his coat on the man and then walked him to the car, motioning him to get in the passenger seat.

The car drove to an agreed location. Along the way, neither party spoke a word. Only Fūya Rei looked in the direction of the white-haired man from time to time, and his brows wrinkled slightly when his eyes passed over the belt.

"Almost there," he suddenly said, as if referring to the time it would take to reach the destination.

"Soon, Noel,"

Fūya Rei looked ahead, seemingly not noticing the slightly widened eyes of the white-haired man. The car slowed down slowly, and he said softly, "Trust us."

The destination was a remote road with no buildings nearby. A long van parked in the middle of the road was unusually conspicuous.

"You didn't even invite me to visit your laboratory, Silvani."

Furutani Rei rolled down the car window, and someone got out of the van. It was Silvani.

The changes in the organization during this period did not seem to affect him. Even though Bourbon's position in the organization was second only to the BOSS, Silvani and the research institute he managed were still directly under the BOSS. He looked at the two men in black suits who got out of the car right after Silvani.

The numb expressions made them look like the servants in the boss's courtyard, but they were probably brainwashed by Silvani again. And there were more than two of them, there were also others in the car.

Furiya Rei secretly estimated that after Silvani asked him to come to this place, he realized that Silvani was extremely wary of him. Or was it because he secretly defected to the Public Security Bureau and even packed up the research institute, so he didn't dare to let outsiders get close?

"Is the weapon useful, Bourbon?" Silvani simply ignored the other party's words. Instead, he seemed to be in a good mood and asked with a smile on his face. His eyes were looking at Grappa who was sitting obediently in the passenger seat. Seeing the other party's upper body locked up, he thought to himself that Bourbon was not so stupid as to be ridiculous.

"Not bad," Furuya Rei replied nonchalantly, "very obedient."

"That's good," Silvani nodded, and the man in a suit beside him immediately walked to the passenger seat and opened the door.

"Grappa, come here." Silvani said, and the white-haired man sitting in the passenger seat walked towards Silvani very obediently. Furukaya Ling, who was still in the car, frowned and sneered:

"But it seems that he listens to you more." Looking at Noel standing next to Silvani, he said sarcastically: "If you give him a hint, it should be easy for him to stab me in the middle of the night, right?"

"So I reminded you to lock up your weapon at night," Silvanis said without any guilt. Instead, she said sarcastically, "It seems that you followed my instructions seriously. Obviously, your own safety is more important, isn't it?"

The two men had a brief confrontation without either side giving in, until Silvani thought of something and said "Get in" to the white-haired man. The man in the black suit immediately cooperated by opening the back door of the van and pushing the man in. Then, Noel lost consciousness.

———

At nine o'clock in the evening, a small meeting was taking place in the conference room of the Police Department.

Wearing a police uniform, Date Kou looked at the mission in his hands. As they expected, the mission related to Silvani fell on their side, and the assisting members included Morobushi Kagemitsu, who was still organizing undercover agents on the surface, and some members belonging to the Public Security Bureau. The person in charge of this small operation was a police captain, who should be a direct descendant of a senior official.

Having already grasped the general situation, Ida Kou looked at the man sitting in front of him and couldn't help but sigh, the art of disguise is really magical.

Under the gentle expression of Morofu Kagemitsu, Kuroba Kuaidou's heart froze like a stone.

Ever since I suddenly received a call from the young detective the day before yesterday, things have inexplicably turned out the way they are now.

As the phantom thief Kidd, who is famous as the magician in the moonlight, when he heard the voice of the little detective on his mobile phone, he was completely furious. It was one thing for him to have figured out the little detective's true identity, and it was another thing for the little detective to have figured out his true identity. When he was about to use his acting skills acquired over the years to act as if he knew nothing, he heard the other party rattling off his name, address, zoo, his early dead father, and his broken home, which almost turned out to be a revealing story.

So they made an appointment to meet yesterday, and were forced to sign a series of unequal treaties, help disguise themselves, and then pretend to be someone else to participate in an event. It doesn't sound difficult.

But he didn't say that this activity was a confidential meeting within the police force!

Who on earth is the outlaw? Kuroba Kaito is now questioning his entire life and feels that this world is too complicated. He can only curse a certain detective in his heart and sit in front of the policemen while trying to keep a poker face.

The more he listened, the more he felt devastated.

Kudo Shinichi, you TM trust me too much! Can I listen to these things? Do I have the qualifications?! The good guys are fighting against the black organization, making secret deals, and protecting a guy who looks like a scumbag. Aren’t you afraid that I will report these to the media?

However, everyone is here now, and the uncle beside him who obviously knows his identity gives him threatening looks from time to time. What can he do? He can't just reveal that he is the thief Kidd, because that would be self-destruction and would ruin his future.

Of course, he didn't know that in the farewell letter that Noel left for Conan, there were several lines of information about the Phantom Thief Kid, which completely revealed the whole story, even including the fact that the Phantom Thief Kid was afraid of fish, which sounded like only someone who was very familiar with the story would know. He also lamented that he was helpless for not being able to go to the scene.

The young detective was not at all dissatisfied with the fact that a letter clearly written by Noel contained a few precious lines describing Kidd who had intruded into the letter. He asked the other party to disguise himself as Morobushi Jingguang in a friendly manner because the internal meeting of the police was mechanically detected and it was impossible to bring in a voice changer. In this case, Kidd who could disguise his voice would be more suitable.

"The operation will begin tomorrow night, and we need to explain some details now." The policeman presiding over the meeting put down the documents in his hand one by one, which also meant that this meeting was far from over.