Conan: The Man Behind the Romance

Chapter 361 Tianshu is wise and clear, Inception!

"I can try, but I can't guarantee it. I wonder which prisoner the police are going to interrogate?" Leon asked.

"No, no, no, he's not a criminal, just... a patient. If you could help him and treat him, that would be great."

The person Megure Jusan was talking about was naturally Hotaru. After describing his general situation, he also showed Leon the surveillance footage in the mental hospital.

Leon's heart was moved at a glance.

Isn't this the person those pirates asked me to find? His name is Mizuki Hotaru, and it is said that he has a high bounty in the dark world.

Leon remained calm, "With his current trance-like state, I'm afraid he won't lie if I ask him questions."

Megure Jusan sighed, "Don't even mention asking questions. He doesn't respond to any sounds from the outside world. He only told the nurse when he had his first meal, and then he was given food every four hours. The rest of the time he was like a lost soul."

"This...is indeed a serious illness."

Leon frowned and said, "In this case, the hospital should intervene forcibly. Electric shock plus drug treatment must first alleviate his symptoms."

Megure Jusan scratched his head. "The police have made similar suggestions, but they were rejected by the hospital. They said that Brother Shuiyue is in a very good condition now, and his self-consciousness is actively healing himself. Interrupting him rashly will only cause harm."

Megure Juzo also knew that Xiaolan made a large donation to the Beika Psychiatric Hospital yesterday, and he thought that this was also the reason why the hospital relaxed its attitude towards Hotaru.

Otherwise, who would run to deliver steak to a patient in the middle of the night, twice!
"I don't know much about this. Since the hospital has such an attitude, maybe they have their own reasons." Leon touched his chin, "Officer Megure, you told me this now instead of waiting for him to wake up. Do you want me to hypnotize him in this state and interrogate him?"

Megure Jusan nodded. "His will is very strong. The police tortured him and used truth serum, but he still said nothing."

"hiss--!"

Leon took a deep breath, his pupils widened, and he quickly took a few steps away from Megure Jusan.

"Officer Megure, may I ask if the police have any key evidence to do this to him, but he has been refusing to admit it?"

"Well, as for the evidence... there is some, but..."

Leon interrupted: "Just tell me if you can convict him?"

Megure Jusan looked a little embarrassed and didn't say anything.

Leon asked again: "What is the basis for the police to determine that he committed a crime? What is the probability?"

Megure Jusan looked ashamed and continued to remain silent.

"This...this...this..."

Leon took a few steps back, his face horrified, “Mr. Officer, you are not going to tell me that you don’t have any evidence at all? The police arrested Mr. Shuiyue not out of reasonable suspicion, but out of complete conjecture and slander?!”

Megure Jusan quickly shook his head, "We definitely didn't arrest Brother Shuiyue, he is just in the hospital because of mental problems!"

"Oh my god, is this still a civilized society?"

Leon raised his hand to stop Megure Jusan from speaking. "I used to be a policeman, officer, you don't need to explain. Ask yourself, is the Japanese police's approach more civilized than that of the natives in the Malay Archipelago? When their elders convict people, they also have to find evidence."

Megure Jusan was silent for a while, "He is connected to many wanted criminals, and he is in a romantic relationship with one of them."

Leon was also silent for a while. "If Superintendent Matsumoto doesn't wake up, will the Japanese police hold me responsible?"

"Of course not, Mr. Lyon, you are only here to help out of justice. The police can't thank you enough."

"Thank you. I have other things to do. I'll take my leave now and contact you later."

Leon turned and left.

Although he is not a good person, compared with the inhumane behavior of the Japanese police...

He felt that he was more or less a civilized person.

It is already the 21st century and we don't know how many years it is now, but the Japanese police are still stuck in the feudal era of "punishing innocent people based on their connections". This is simply a low point in civilization!
It’s better for me to get away from there as soon as possible, otherwise I might be framed by the Japanese police for some unknown reason and thrown into a mental hospital.

Elevator, elevator, please go faster.

"Teacher Matsumoto! Wake up! What are you doing! I'm Kudo Shinichi!"

Suddenly, Kuroba Kaito's shout was heard from Matsumoto Kiyonaga's ward.

Leon's body froze, and then he ran straight to the stairs without even waiting for the elevator.

Damn!

These guys are poisonous!
Megure Jusan ran to the stairs with his cane, "Mr. Leon, don't go, the elevator will be here soon!"

Leon didn't know how to answer. He took three steps at a time and disappeared in a flash.

Megure Juzo sighed, took out his cell phone and called his colleagues in the hospital.

Ten minutes later, Leon walked out of the elevator, straightened his gray suit which had many wrinkles inexplicably, and walked towards Megure Jusan who was waiting for him in the corridor with a smile.

“I’m Singaporean,” Lyon said.

Megure Jusan smiled innocently, "Singapore is indeed a beautiful city, but Tokyo's attractions are also very good. Since you are here, Mr. Lyon, you must take a good look around. You are so enthusiastic in helping the police, I am happy to be your guide."

"You are so polite. Just before I went to the bathroom, I seemed to hear some noise in the ward."

"There is indeed something wrong. Please come and see for yourself."

Leon pushed the door open and saw that Matsumoto Kiyonaga was still sleeping peacefully. Matsumoto Yuri, who had been trying to arouse his will to live, was now handcuffed to the head of another bed.

Yuri Matsumoto seemed oblivious to Leon's entry. She just kept looking across the bed with a resentful look in her eyes and kept talking in a low voice.

"Shinichi, why did you lie? You are my first love, how could I be wrong?"

Looking at Matsumoto Yuri who had wrinkled his white coat with her other hand, Kuroba Kaito felt a headache.

"Mr. Matsumoto, think about it carefully. You are 27 years old and I am 17. The ages don't match at all. How could I know you when you were a child?"

Matsumoto Yuri frowned, "It seems so, so..."

Kuroba Kaito let out a long sigh, "So I'm not your childhood sweetheart at all..."

"So you've become ten years younger, right?"

"........."

Matsumoto Yuri's eyes were full of surprise, as if she saw a fairy tale come true. "No wonder you looked so familiar to me when I was in middle school. It turns out that you turned into a child and grew up again. It's really enviable that you can return to your youth and become ten years younger in an instant."

Kuroba Kaito remained speechless.

Miss, your guess is correct. Kudo Shinichi has indeed become ten years younger, but he has only become younger recently, so he can't be your first love.

Unless he actually got smaller twice, he would be 27 years old this year.

Kuroba Kaito looked at Leon Law, who was standing at the door in a daze, as if he was looking at a monster.

"Mr. Leon, your hypnosis is too powerful. Please help Ms. Matsumoto to get rid of the hypnosis. If you want to continue, please reduce the intensity. I really can't accept a sudden kiss. She is my beloved teacher."

Matsumoto Yuri followed his line of sight and raised her eyebrows. "You are a hypnotist, and I am hypnotized by you now? How is this possible?"

Lyon suddenly felt a familiar sense of unease in his heart. He glanced at Matsumoto Kiyonaga lying on the hospital bed out of the corner of his eye and forced a smile.

"Who am I in your eyes?"

"How should I know who you are? I just saw you in the office, and then Officer Megure walked in. Maybe you are a policeman?" Matsumoto Yuri said uncertainly.

"Then why did you go to the office at that time?" Leon continued to ask.

"at this point……"

Matsumoto Yuri recalled for a moment, frowned and said: "I think I fainted in front of my father's bed, the police took me to the office to rest, and then called Shinichi to encourage me, so I was able to see him as soon as I woke up.

but……

This part of my memory is indeed a bit fuzzy. I previously thought it was because I was too sad. Could it be that I was actually hypnotized?
This……

This is incredible.”

After hearing what Matsumoto Yuri said, Kuroba Kaito and Megure Jusan at the door felt relieved. It was good that they realized that they were hypnotized.

When Leon, who really understood hypnosis, heard this, his heart skipped a beat.

Something is wrong!
Generally speaking, once the hypnotized person realizes that he is in a "hypnotized" state, the hypnotic state should be terminated by himself and he will wake up!

It's like a dream.

If one day, you become a CEO, marry a beautiful, rich woman, and at the last second before reaching the peak of your life, you feel that life is too smooth and there is not a single difficulty, so you ask yourself: "Is this a dream?"

Suddenly there was a loud bang and the world shattered.

When you wake up from the dream, you cry.

Leon asked Matsumoto Yuri these two questions, actually trying to remove the hypnosis, but...

Matsumoto Yuri looked at Kuroba Kaito, her eyes filled with sadness, and she sighed softly.

“Is this just hypnosis? In other words, my first love is really that bastard Takasugi Toshihiko?” She took a deep breath and looked at Leon. “Although I don’t want to believe this, if this is reality, please remove the hypnosis for me.”

Matsumoto Yuri's eyes were firm. "Will I retain this memory after I wake up? If I do, then I won't need hypnosis anymore. I am confident that I won't be as weak in front of my father as before! He has protected me for so many years, now it's my turn to protect him!"

"it is good!"

Megure Jusan excitedly pounded his hand, "When Inspector Matsumoto wakes up and sees you like this, Miss Lily, he will definitely be very pleased!"

Kuroba Kaito also nodded continuously, "Ms. Matsumoto is finally cheerful again. Yesterday he was just too shocked."

Conan said that Mr. Matsumoto was fierce, but if you change it to another word, he would naturally be cheerful.

Matsumoto Yuri smiled bitterly and shook her head, "I did behave very badly yesterday and caused my father to be like this. Fortunately, Shinichi... no, fortunately, Kudo-san, you saved me, so that I would not die so weakly without the chance to make amends."

Kuroba Kaito was completely relieved and turned to look at Leon. Matsumoto Yuri and Megure Jusan also looked at him and said in unison.

"Mr. Leon, please remove the hypnosis."

Leon Law shuddered all over, took a step forward with a forced smile, and felt a big bloody word appearing on his head.

Dangerous!
Leon took a deep breath, trying his best to suppress the complexity in his mind and stop having random thoughts, while constantly hypnotizing himself.

I can do it, I can do it, I definitely can do it...

Thinking back to the feeling of being helped by God before, I just need to do it again, no problem!
Leon took out a small silver spinning top from his pocket and moved a chair to place it in front of Matsumoto Yuri.

"When the top stops, you wake up, okay?"

Matsumoto Yuri's eyes lit up and she nodded quickly, "Inception, I've seen it, it turns out that movie is not completely fictional, it actually has a real prototype?"

Leon thought to himself: Actually, I bought the spinning top after watching the movie.

He smiled and snapped his fingers.

The top fell onto the chair and kept spinning.

Yuri Matsumoto looked at the gyroscope intently, watching its smooth silver surface reflecting the cold light from the ceiling. Countless shining lines turned into a curtain of light, reflecting her green eyes and the silver gyroscope in her eyes.

Nested layer by layer, it's like some kind of beacon.

After a while, the beacon lost power, drew a silver curve on the red leather of the chair, and stopped at the edge of the seat. Matsumoto Yuri slowly closed her eyes, raised her head, and frowned, as if she was carefully understanding something.

Kuroba Kaito and Megure Jusan breathed a sigh of relief and gave Leon a thumbs up at the same time.

"Mr. Lyon is really amazing."

"You are definitely a master of hypnosis."

A layer of cold sweat had already appeared on Leon's forehead. Seeing that Matsumoto Yuri had not opened her eyes for a long time, his tense heartstrings finally relaxed a little. He thought to himself: Am I really talented in hypnosis?
"wrong."

"!!!"

Leon's heart tightened again, and he saw Matsumoto Yuri, who had just spoken, opened her eyes and looked at him with a frown.

"Inspector Megure, have you been deceived? Are you sure that Mr. Leon is a hypnotist?"

"hiss--!!!"

Kuroba Kaito and Megure Jusan gasped at the same time and looked at each other with disbelief in their eyes.

"Teacher Matsumoto, don't you remember anything about what happened before?" Kuroba Kaito asked anxiously.

"After thinking about it just now, I am more and more sure that I just fainted in front of my father's bed and then woke up in the office. There was no such thing as hypnosis." Matsumoto Yuri looked at Kuroba Kaito, "Shinichi, are you sure you are not acting with me now?"

"!!!"

Megure Jusan quickly stepped forward and held Leon's shoulder. "Mr. Leon, what's going on? Can you explain it?"

Leon looked back stiffly and said blankly: "Has the gyroscope stopped spinning?"

Megure Jusan looked down and said, "Of course I stopped."

"Then it's over."

"what?"

"He wants to say that we have fallen into a deep dream and can't wake up." Matsumoto Yuri picked up the small silver spinning top and spun it again. After it stopped again, she shook her head and said, "Officer Megure, if this is a prank, please stop it. It's gone too far."

Megure Jusan's scalp tingled, and a kind of extremely deep fear surged out from his soul and drilled madly into his bones!

He grabbed Leon's collar and gritted his teeth, "What the hell did you do!"

Leon was speechless, "I didn't do anything! How would I know what's going on now!"

"There is definitely something wrong with you! You..."

"Wait a moment!"

Matsumoto Yuri interrupted Megure Jusan and pointed at Matsumoto Kiyonaga next to him, "Let's talk outside."

She shook the handcuffs on her hands. "Please remove this one for me too. Did you think I became a different person just now? You are overreacting. I am still me. I have never changed."

"Gulu——"

Megure Jusan swallowed his saliva and thought, the fact that you can say this already completely falls into the realm of a supernatural story!

"Don't worry, I'm not violent, and Shinichi is very skilled. With him around, you don't have to worry about me running away." Matsumoto Yuri nodded her head, "Or rather, I'm the one who wants to understand the situation the most. I'm really confused right now."

Twenty minutes later, in the office where Leon had hypnotized Yuri Matsumoto.

After two medical staff and Chiba Kazunobu testified, Matsumoto Yuri was generally convinced that she had been hypnotized.

But this only made her even more confused, "Mr. Leon, you hypnotized me so easily, but you can't unhypothesize it?"

Leon sat on the sofa next to the desk, his right index finger trembling slightly, and he inexplicably wanted to smoke a cigarette.

As for the fact that I didn’t smoke before, it’s totally unimportant.

“I still hold the same view.”

Leon kept tapping his fingers on the armrest. "My hypnosis only played a minor auxiliary role. The people who really hypnotized Miss Lily and your father were actually you. Unless you voluntarily choose this result, no one can change your consciousness."

Matsumoto Yuri frowned, "Is there such a thing?"

Megure Jusan also looked suspicious, "Mr. Leon, you are not trying to shirk responsibility?"

"..."

As a civilized man, Leon must say that the Japanese police are a piece of shit!
Leon smiled and said, "My hypnosis skills are only half-baked, and it is impossible to reach this level. And as I said before, I don't know the Matsumoto family and have no grudges against them. Why would I do such a thing?"

Leon pointed to his temple and said, "The human brain is amazing. It happens all the time. Because a memory is too painful, the brain deletes it on its own initiative. Miss Lily is probably like this now. She subconsciously expects such a reality."

Leon looked at Kuroba Kaito, "She expected that her real first love was her savior, the middle school student she once bullied and teased, Mr. Kudo; and she didn't want to believe that the man was Takasugi Toshihiko who once wanted to kill her.

So, that’s what happened.”

The three people in the room were silent after hearing this. After an unknown amount of time, Kuroba Kaito finally spoke:
"Conan."

Megure Juzo knew what he meant. When Conan was in kindergarten, he also lost a part of his memory because of the painful experience he had.

After Kudo Yusaku came back, he originally planned to take Conan to the kindergarten where he attended the past to see if he could make him remember everything.

But after observing Conan several times, Kudo Yusaku felt that Conan was still not mentally mature enough. Even if he recalled the past now, he would only suffer in vain, so he put it aside for the time being.

Thinking of this, Megure Jusan nodded and said, "It is true that I cannot rule out the possibility you mentioned, but I still need to verify your hypnotic ability, okay?"

Leon felt relieved, "Of course."

His hypnosis skills were average to begin with, and now he was determined to act worse on purpose. He thought: by then, his hypnosis would have no effect, and the police's suspicion would be dispelled. Then he would run as far away as possible. The Japanese police were really weird.

Megure Jusan called Chiba Kazunobu, who was guarding outside, in and asked him to find a criminal who was currently receiving treatment in the police hospital for the experiment.

Chiba Kazunobu felt that Inspector Megure's idea was very dangerous, but after scratching his head, he turned around and went out to do as he was told.

It's just hypnosis, what can happen?

Five minutes later, Chiba Kazunobu brought back a fat, bald man. Megure Jusan had an impression of him. He was the drug dealer on Tsukikage Island, Kuroiwa Tatsuji.

"Inspector, he suffers from diabetes and is being treated here. Today's court session has been postponed to the day after tomorrow," said Chiba Kazunobu.

Megure Jusan nodded and looked at Leon, "Hypnotize him to control his diet and work hard to lose weight, can you do it?"

After the conversation just now, although he felt that Leon's hypnosis would not be too powerful, it was naturally impossible for him to hypnotize him into doing anything dangerous.

Prisoners also have human rights.

Leon felt that Megure Jusan was giving him a chance, so he nodded quickly, "I'll do my best."

He had never heard of any senior being successful in losing weight through hypnosis, and he believed that he, a half-baked person, would be no exception.

Kuroiwa Tatsuji was originally very nervous when he was called over alone, but when he heard about this matter, he immediately expressed that he would cooperate 100%.

So Megure Juzo and the others retreated to the corner of the room and watched quietly as Leon hypnotized Kuroiwa Tatsuji.

Theoretically they should go out, but after what happened before, they naturally didn't dare to be completely at ease.

"Relax, Mr. Kuroiwa." Leon said softly.

As a result, Kuroiwa Tatsuji's consciousness gradually fell into emptiness.

The feeling of being helped by God resurfaced, and Leon's heart sank, and his movements suddenly stiffened.

But under the stare of Megure Jusan and others, he could only continue the hypnosis.

At the same time, in order to weaken the hypnotic effect, some words were deliberately made extremely sharp, such as "Don't you feel guilty about being so fat?", in order to stimulate the rebellious psychology in Kuroiwa Tatsuji's subconscious mind.

When Kuroba Kaito heard these words, he raised an eyebrow but said nothing, thinking that this was Leon's unique skill.

After a while, the hypnosis ended.

Leon snapped his fingers lightly, and Kuroiwa Tatsuji woke up slowly, his eyes full of confusion.

Lyon felt a little relieved...

“Wuwuwuwuwuwu——” Kuroiwa Tatsuji saw his belly and suddenly covered his face and cried, “I’m so sorry for being so fat. How can I have the face to live in this world. Aso, I was sorry for what I did back then. I’m coming down to find you now!”

After saying that, he rushed directly to the window.

Leon stood there in a daze, not moving at all.

Kuroba Kaito ran over quickly and pulled down Kuroiwa Tatsuji, who had difficulty climbing through the window, and looked straight at Leon.

"You don't seem to be a half-baked person."

Megure Jusan also had a dangerous look in his eyes, "Mr. Leon, do you have anything else to say about the current situation of Matsumoto and his daughter?"

pat-

Leon's knees weakened and he fell to the ground.

why?

……

[Special judgment for hidden possession, success]

[Current killing intent in the target: 4 points]

[Yang Sha judgment value reduced: 4 points]

【Leon Law applies for permission】

【Approved by Tianshu】

[Love -0.3, Use Skill: Delusion]

[Killing Intent -5, Use Skill: Hidden, Target: Leon Law]

[Current killing intent in the target: 9 points]