Conan: The Man Behind the Romance

Chapter 359: Death of Matsumoto Kiyonaga! Kaito wants to confess his love to Xiaolan!
If Matsumoto Kiyonaga were hypnotized to return to that state of murderous intent, would he gain the murderous intent again?

Is the curve of Matsumoto Kiyonaga's burst of murderous intent normal during that process?
Can it be easily perceived?

Yingsheng was quite curious about these questions.

After listening to his advice, Megure Juzo quickly took Conan away, and by the way, he also booked a single room for Matsumoto Kiyonaga in the Beika Psychiatric Hospital.

Always need to use it.

Xiaolan was the only one left in the monitoring room. She leaned back in the recliner and watched Yingsheng exercising on the monitor.

"It suddenly occurred to me that maybe Officer Megure had forgotten something?"

After a long while, Xiaolan finally spoke.

Yingsheng paused, "It seems so. Where is the magazine we agreed on? These guys really don't keep their word."

"Whatever you want to see, I'll buy it for you later."

"The hospital has an inspection, so you can't buy most of it yourself. Just call Officer Megure later." Yingsheng finished a set of Tai Chi and leaned against the soft wall. "I know the police have been watching the surveillance here. Everyone, isn't my performance today exemplary enough?"

No one answered.

Yingsheng curled his lips, "Lan, did you hear what they said?"

"It seems that they said that there is a problem with the surveillance camera in your room. It sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. They should come in to fix it." Xiaolan chuckled, "But considering that you are in the room, they dare not come in. They said that it can be used for now. Anyway, you didn't do anything suspicious."

"The soft bags are so bad, is the hospital short of funds? Can we donate?"

"The police are very tough. Even if we pay them, the hospital probably won't dare to relax." Xiaolan sighed, "I'm sorry, Ying, the police's plan has just started today. It will probably take some time for you to get out."

Yingsheng raised an eyebrow. "Did I do something that made you uneasy? I eat and sleep well here, and I think this environment is just right for recovering."

"because……"

Xiaolan hesitated, "You lay on the door for a long time today, looking at the corridor outside through the small window the whole time. The police said you couldn't hold on any longer. Officer Megure came over today and wanted to persuade you to speak up, but you behaved very normally, so he didn't say anything."

"…So you think I'm just forcing myself?"

Xiaolan sighed, "I hope not."

Yingsheng was quite speechless, wondering if he could find a way to replace the surveillance footage so that other people couldn't hear the sound, so that such misunderstanding would occur.

"Lan, I remember I told you that in the past, my consciousness was with Xuantian most of the time."

"Um...so?"

Yingsheng sat cross-legged on the ground, "Since I woke up, I have been running around, and I don't even have much time to sleep peacefully, let alone be in peace and tranquility with God.

The "On the Equality of Things" states:

Ziyou said: Can the body be made like a dead wood and the heart like dead ashes?
Zi Qi said: Now I have lost myself.

Lan, I am leaving too. "

After saying this, he closed his eyes and was silent.

Xiaolan was stunned, hesitated for a moment, and called out softly, but naturally got no response.

To be honest, she didn't quite understand what Yingsheng had just said, so she quickly took out her cell phone to search, but still didn't get much.

At this moment, Qing Liu Qian Su suddenly spoke in the headset:
“It means:

Ziyou asked: The body can certainly be as still as a dead wood, but how can the mind be as dead ashes?

Zi Qi replied: Today I have lost myself.

Don't worry, Miss Lan, it's just meditation. You can think of it as the idle state in the game. Ying just likes to be mysterious. "

"..."

Xiaolan didn't say anything, and sent an email to Qing Liu Qian Su: "Can you tell me about your relationship?"

Aoyagi Chisou said: "Without him there is no me, our paths are separate."

Her essence was created by Yingsheng's thoughts, and she could originally be considered to be one with Yingsheng, but after she had her own body, she naturally became separate from Yingsheng.

According to the past world, she was a conscious being born by copying part of another person's data and belonged to the category of demons and monsters.

And in this world, she is a real person.

When Xiaolan heard Qing Liu Qian Su's answer, she felt overwhelmed and sent an email in a bad mood: "You like to be mysterious too!"

After sending the message, he put away his phone and left the hospital.

Since Hotaru is AFK, there is no need to even call Inspector Megure for the magazine.

On the other side, in a speeding police car.

Conan searched the Internet for a long time and called Kudo Yusaku for advice. Finally, he understood what Yingsheng meant. Combined with what he said before, his consciousness was with Xuantian...

"hehe."

Conan rolled his eyes, "I thought he was sending some kind of secret message, but it turns out he's just seriously ill."

In the passenger seat, Megure Jusan looked up at the rearview mirror, "Conan, you've been acting so badly these days. Do you think you've been drugged?"

"I'm sorry, Officer Megure, but do you think Inspector Matsumoto's behavior is normal?" Conan asked back.

"Do you know him well?"

"Although we haven't been together for a long time, I don't think he would be that kind of person."

"So do you know yourself, Conan?"

Megure Jusan said in a dull tone, "I can understand your desire to find out the mastermind behind this, but you are too impatient. And the most important point is, if you don't want to pretend to be a child, then don't pretend. If you want to pretend, then pretend better. Who are you pretending to be like this for? Are you kidding yourself?"

Conan was slightly stunned and tilted his head to look towards the driver's seat.

Chiba Kazunobu scratched his head. "I really wanted to pretend that I didn't notice it, but since you guys didn't seem to care about it, I couldn't help but ask Officer Megure out of curiosity. The result was..."

He honked the horn and said helplessly, "I will be your driver."

"…What about Firefly?" Conan asked.

"I think it's mysterious, but with Kaito Kid and Yusaku as witnesses, it's not certain. I just don't know if they were the ones who used your hair to verify the DNA." Megure Jusan sighed, "Conan, you will go to elementary school tomorrow, so get along well with the real kids.

Don't blame me for being too harsh, but honestly speaking, you are not as good as real kids in some ways.

When you go to school, don’t be proud of your actual age. Besides brains, you still have a lot to learn.”

Conan was silent for a while, "Got it."

After a while, the police car arrived at the Tokyo Police Hospital, and the hypnotist invited by the police also arrived.

Leon Lowe.

Once known as "Singapore's famous detective", he is a well-known expert in criminal behavior psychology. He retired from the police force two years ago and now runs a security company.

The main reason he came to Japan this time was to find a troublesome guy named "Mizuki Hotaru" at the request of certain people.

Secondly, the Singapore Karate Championship is about to be held, and he also plans to take a look at Kyogoku Makoto, who is considered by many to be the favorite to win the championship.

The champion of the karate tournament will receive a huge sapphire "The Fist of Blue Sapphire" as a prize. Leon really wants to get it, so he thought:

If Mr. Kyogoku is really powerful, then in order to avoid any mistakes in the plan, I'm sorry, I can only use some unpresentable means.

"Mr. Lyon, please come over here."

Megure Jusan walked over with his cane and shook hands with Leon.

Leon straightened his gray suit, and his neatly trimmed dark brown beard rose slightly. "It is my honor to assist the Japanese police in solving the case."

It just so happened that he also needed to find someone, so he did the police a favor first, which would make it easier to ask for help later.

It was just a piece of cake for him to hypnotize a bipolar patient.

The three of them quickly went to the ward where Kiyonaga Matsumoto was.

Matsumoto Kiyonaga only had some muscle strains and his knuckles were smashed through the flesh and hit the bones, but other than that, there was nothing serious.

But considering that hypnosis might make him return to his previous state, he was now tightly put in a set of restraints. Seeing the three people push the door in, Matsumoto Kiyonaga still had no expression on his face, and his eyelids were half drooped.

Only at this time, the scar on his left eye didn't seem so scary, and the whole person looked much gentler and harmless.

Megure Juzo went up to him and explained the situation, then left the ward and waited outside, leaving Leon to hypnotize Matsumoto Kiyonaga alone.

"Inspector Matsumoto, I need you to relax and cooperate with me. Can you do it?" Leon said with a smile.

"No one is more relaxed than I am right now," said Matsumoto Kiyonaga.

"That would be best."

Leon Law was not a charlatan, but a man of real talent and knowledge. Under his guidance, Matsumoto Kiyonaga, who was unusually calm at the moment, quickly got into the state.

My eyelids slowly closed and my mind continued to fall.

come down……

The calm consciousness wandered around in the body, and blurry images kept floating in front of the eyes.

Soft music started playing, and Matsumoto Kiyonaga looked back. Under the corridor in the colonel's room covered with wisteria, a black music box was slowly spinning.

Matsumoto Kiyonaga walked towards the music box and entered the screen of the old TV.

The noise caused by the poor signal made his face itchy. He reached out to scratch it, and the weather forecast map was torn crooked, revealing the endless starry sky behind him.

The female anchor continued to report, her voice intermittent, merging with the vibrations of the galaxy into an eerie voice somewhere between that of a man, woman, young or old, and a machine.

"You, why are you here?"

The indescribably grand heavenly sound instantly overwhelmed Matsumoto Kiyonaga's existence, and his body melted into the boundless universe.

All vision returned to darkness.

He saw everything.

The universe is redshifted, the gravity is infinite, even light cannot escape...

come down.

Keep falling.

Self-consciousness gradually dissipated and was then filled with infinite chaos, without any touch or pain.

The light of the stars shines above my head, that is...

The North Star of the sky.

With a peaceful smile on his face, Matsumoto Kiyonaga slowly walked into the mild night.

The border finally arrived.

……

……

Leon Law felt something was wrong.

It is actually very common for the hypnotized subject to fall asleep in the middle of the hypnosis. Even an expert like him cannot avoid it. He just needs to wait until the target wakes up and then try again.

And because of the trust established through the previous deep sleep, the success rate of the second hypnosis is often very high.

However, it is a bit strange that the hypnotized target can sleep for more than twenty hours without waking up.

It was already 1pm on Monday.

Leon Law looked at Megure Jusan who was staring at him with a somewhat stiff expression. He glanced at the Green Submariner in his hand from time to time and cursed inwardly that the efficiency of Japanese hospitals was so low.

At four o'clock yesterday afternoon, after Matsumoto Kiyonaga fell asleep, Leon tiptoed out and told Megure Jusan about this matter. He was actually quite proud of it.

Matsumoto Kiyonaga originally had a look of world-weariness on his face, but now he had a smile on his face, and his mental condition had obviously improved a lot.

Megure Juzo and other police officers and medical staff were also surprised to see Matsumoto Kiyonaga's appearance. They praised Leon repeatedly and said that he lived up to his reputation.

However, this morning, Matsumoto Kiyonaga still hadn't woken up, and everyone became worried.

When they found that they couldn't wake him up even with force, everyone looked at Leon Law with a somewhat dangerous look.

"Inspector, the PET-CT (positron emission tomography) results are out."

After an agonizing wait, Chiba Kazunobu's voice finally came from the door.

Leon hurried over, snatched the report from his hand, quickly turned to the conclusion page, then let out a long breath and handed the report to Megure Jusan.

"His brain function is normal, his cognitive level is normal, and an evoked potential assessment was performed before. The integrity of the sensory pathways in Matsumoto's brain can also be guaranteed. In summary, he is fine. Judging from the EEG, he just fell asleep."

Megure Jusan also finished reading the report's conclusions, his eyes twitching, "Fell asleep? Whose family member fell asleep and couldn't be woken up even with electric shocks!"

Leon sighed softly, "The world is so big that there are all kinds of strange things. Inspector Matsumoto is probably having a sweet dream right now, and it's his own consciousness that is resisting waking up."

"what?!"

Megure Jusan frowned, "He has no will to live, he gave up and woke up on his own, isn't that a vegetable? Mr. Lyon, what did you say to Inspector Matsumoto?"

Leon shook his head quickly. “You have all heard my treatment recording. I didn’t say anything.”

As a professional, Lyon is well aware of the difficulty of some patients, as well as various factors such as being in a compromising situation and having something against someone. He has the habit of secretly recording people when he provides them with psychological counseling.

At this moment, he was extremely grateful for his habit, otherwise his situation would obviously be even more difficult.

But Megure Juzo obviously didn't believe it, "What if you told Superintendent Matsumoto something in private?"

Leon: "..."

Damn, are Japanese police so shameless?

Although I am indeed not a good person, I will definitely sue you for accusing me of such false charges!
"Officer Megure."

Leon smiled and said, "First of all, I have no motivation to do such unnecessary things; secondly, the police also need to rely on evidence when speaking; thirdly, isn't the most important thing now to wake up Superintendent Matsumoto? He has no will to live, but we can help him find it.

Don't forget, he has a daughter."

Megure Juzo sighed and felt that this was the only way now, so he quickly asked Chiba and Shin to go to the Beika Central Hospital to pick up Matsumoto Yuri.

However, when Matsumoto Yuri learned that her father had become a vegetable, she barely called out a few words to Matsumoto Kiyonaga at the bedside, and tears fell from her eyes, so Leon quickly stopped her.

"That won't do, Inspector Megure. Once Inspector Matsumoto senses the sadness of the outside world, I'm afraid he will be even less willing to wake up."

"Alas, you don't know what happened yesterday. Even if Miss Lily smiles now, it will only be a forced smile."

Megure Juzo sighed again. Yesterday morning, the Matsumoto family was so happy.

How did it become like this in the blink of an eye?

Leon frowned and asked, "What about Inspector Matsumoto's wife?"

"He has been dead for ten years."

"This……"

"Eh!"

Megure Juzo suddenly thought of a good idea and immediately called Kuroba Kaito to explain the current situation to him.

"Brother Kudo, now only you can cheer up Miss Lily and save the Matsumoto family!"

On the playground of Teitan High School.

Nine hundred and ninety-nine pink roses arranged in a heart shape.

Kuroba Kaito took a deep breath, "Please call me back in an hour. I only have one person in my heart right now."

Megure Jusan was stunned and asked, "Who?"

"Xiaolan!"

(End of this chapter)