Conan: I'm Really Not the Manipulator

Aoyagi Binkou's body suddenly stiffened.

But it happened very quickly, perhaps just a brief second, and then he continued speaking.

"On the second day, the girl who had argued with her stole a whole bottle of sulfuric acid from the chemistry lab..."

"—During dinner that evening, it splashed directly onto the face of her father who was sitting opposite her."

"........."

The rabbit was dumbfounded again.

If listening to what Hojo Touka said in his memory only made his blood pressure rise; but now what Aoyagi Binkou said made him feel as if someone suddenly threw him into ice water, and he felt creepy in an instant.

[…Did you use that skill that changes your will?] He asked stupidly.

"I guess so. Otherwise, normal children would not hurt their parents like this."

Aoyagi Binkou's tone was flat and no emotion could be heard.

"In Detective Kyoko, there are many plots that support blood for blood and revenge. Now it seems that this is her own worldview."

"If someone provokes her, she will not show any leniency, but will retaliate against the other person in a very extreme way. It just so happens that she has this ability now. To some extent..."

Aoyagi Binkou took something out of his pocket.

It was a hair tie, with a familiar emerald green color dangling from it. He tied up his hair that was scattered on his shoulders as usual, and then finished the rest of his words.

"Pride and jealousy, what a perfect match."

Chapter 36 The Difference Between Black and Black

There was silence at the table.

Aoyagi Binkou tied up his hair with the hair rope sent back from his skill clone, and at the same time sorted out the extra memories in his mind.

This is where his skill comes in most conveniently, as one person can split the troops into two groups.

Because the skill was ineffective against rabbits, Aoyagi Akiko could only let his clone disguise himself and go to meet Gin (even the electronic leg cuffs were transferred there), and the real body stayed in the tower. Fortunately, the memory and feeling were transmitted back intact, making him feel as if he had been there in person.

After the skill clone drank the wine, Qing Liu Bingguang felt the taste of silver bullets in his mouth. He drank some water, picked up the knife and fork again, and looked at the rabbit again.

Unlike his teammates who were once again frightened by what Hojo Toika had done, Aoyagi Akiko himself was actually in a good mood.

He was originally thinking about how to persuade Rabbit to check Hojo Toika's passive skills so as not to waste his chances, but he didn't expect that he would do so on his own initiative.

As early as when Rabbit revealed his skills in the ward, Aoyagi Binguang discovered the rules of the system's answers. When players listen to others speak out their skills, the number of times they ask questions will not be inexplicably consumed.

Now I have to add one more thing - Rabbit learned the three skills directly by reading Baijiu’s memory yesterday, and he can check them again in the evening. Using the skills to obtain information will not consume the times.

As for Hojo Ibara...

Her passive skill was amplification, which was not as difficult as he had thought, and there was a way to defend against it in normal state. Based on the activation conditions and the fragments described by the rabbit, Aoyagi Akiko had a few guesses, and the next step was to find a way to confirm them.

In a good mood, Aoyagi Binguang put a piece of pancake on his plate, took the grilled meat from the skewer and put it on the plate, then looked at the rabbit again.

"Would you like a few more pieces of beef in the soup? I've been stewing it all afternoon."

The rabbit was in a semi-autistic state, did not type, and nodded slightly.

Aoyagi Binguang added a few pieces of beef to his meal and ate the grilled meat wrapped in pancakes as his main dish. While eating, he thought that the meat had been grilled for a little too long this time and he had to pay attention to controlling the time next time.

The rabbit was small in size and had a small appetite. He quickly finished the food on his plate. Aoyagi Binguang asked, "Do you want more?"

The rabbit shook his head: [No, I'm full. ]

His ears twitched, and he half pressed down on the system pop-up window. Suddenly, he raised his head towards Qing Liu Bingguang, and a pair of black eyes looked at him.

Aoyagi Binkou saw that Rabbit had something to say, and waited patiently for him to speak.

What is your current willpower?

Aoyagi Binkou didn't expect Rabbit to ask this. He opened the [Character] interface and took a look at the values ​​on it.

"100."

Since this value was first established, it has always been 100 and has never decreased or increased.

After answering, Aoyagi Binkou realized why Rabbit asked this.

"Your willpower is down?"

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Willpower.

Before the game starts, the system says that players can quit the game early - when willpower drops to 20, the system will ask whether to quit; when it drops below 10, the system will force the player to quit.

When the rabbit first came in, his willpower was 78, the next morning it was 81, and now...

[My willpower has now dropped to 63. ]

This is one of the reasons why the rabbit didn't sleep well last night.

If it drops to 20, he will have a chance to quit the game early. It would be a good thing to end it early, but Rabbit feels that the system that brought them into this game will not let them go so easily.

Especially since the system said that these players were selected because their lives were in danger, and their bodies in reality were in a vegetative state.

One is [life-threatening danger], the other is [willpower]... When these two words are linked together, it always gives people a bad feeling.

Hearing Rabbit say the number, Aoyagi Binguang put down the cutlery in his hand and raised his hand to touch his head.

"It seems that the psychological pressure caused by the incident involving those two players is greater than I thought."

Qing Liu Bingguang looked into the rabbit's eyes and sighed softly, "...Even if the players in other camps are like this, do you still want to switch camps?"

The rabbit avoided his gaze, lowered his head, and fell silent.

He was not surprised that Aoyagi Binkou could see that he wanted to leave the Black camp. He had expressed this intention on the first day they met.

After seeing the previous few scenes of memory and knowing the personalities of Hojo Toika and Hakubato over the past few months, Rabbit did hesitate, worried about the questionable moral standards of the players in other camps.

However, this time he found out that it wasn't just them, there was also another red player.

Although he didn't know her name or ID, he knew that the player was an undercover agent who had infiltrated the organization. She was a good person who unfortunately fell into a trap in order to help save others.

Good people shouldn't be pointed at guns, and he didn't want to stand by and watch when the other two players had bad intentions towards her and might target her again. Even though he was weak, he wanted to help them.

especially……

Rabbit once again thought of the suffocating silence of Baijiu for several months, and felt heavy somewhere in his heart.

——Especially...she might be an undercover agent in her own country.

The rabbit felt that Aoyagi Binguang was looking at him. He did not rush him and waited patiently for his answer.

But he didn't say it.

Rabbit thought that he should not tell the real reason to Aoyagi Akimitsu, who was obviously a foreigner, no matter how friendly he looked.

"…If you want to switch sides, you can try other methods."

Aoyagi Binkou seemed not to notice the strange silence and gave his advice: "You don't have to look for other players. You can try to contact the red characters in the original work, such as Kudo Shinichi."

Hearing his words, the rabbit was confused.

[Now Kudo Shinichi has not become a child, and he stays in Beika Town, unlike when he turned into Conan and ran around Japan. You are a teacher in a school in Minato Ward, how can you get in touch with him? ]

And what form can I take to meet him? A human form without a head, or a rabbit form?

...I will definitely be regarded as a monster, right?

Aoyagi Akimichi smiled and said, "In fact, today, in addition to checking the news about Hojo Toika, I was also preparing for class. After all, school starts tomorrow... The school sent me the student's information and told me that the school has an exchange student program."

"Minato Middle School and Teitan Junior High School select one student from each grade every year to study at the other school for one semester. This year's exchange student candidate for the second grade of Teitan Junior High School is Kudo Shinichi."

"Although I applied for the music teacher position in the International Department, the second-grade teacher is not in good health and sometimes needs someone else to substitute for her, so..."

Aoyagi Binguang met Rabbit's surprised gaze.

"We have every opportunity to get to know him."

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After dinner, Rabbit, who was in a slightly better mood, was responsible for cleaning the table, putting the dirty dishes and chopsticks into the dishwasher, and then sat on the sofa with Aoyagi Akimitsu to watch TV.

There was news on TV, and there were several consecutive reports about cases that happened in Mihua.

Aoyagi Akimichi was not surprised by this. Back when he was in the United States, he heard from Gin, who was transferred to Japan, that the security in Beihua was good, and if used well, it could reasonably cover up the traces of some organizations.

After watching for about half an hour, the rabbit suddenly touched him: [I want to take a bath, do you have bath salts? ]

The past few days, the rabbits have been taking showers instead of using a bathtub. Qing Liu Bingguang stood up and said, "Yes, I'll go fill the water for you now. You can go back to your room to get your clothes."

The rabbit is still wearing yesterday's clothes. Although there is no unpleasant sweat smell, it is still quite unhygienic.

Just as Aoyagi Binmitsu was about to leave, Rabbit stopped him again.

[…I tossed and turned in bed yesterday in this dirty outfit, and the sheets are all messed up. Can you get me a new pair? I’ll change them after I take a shower.]

When sorting out the spare parts, it was Aoyagi Akiko who did it all by himself, so Rabbit didn't know where to put them.

"it is good."

Aoyagi Binguang didn't offer to help change and went to the bathroom first.

……

When Aoyagi Binguang prepared the bath water, took the clean sheets and entered the rabbit's room, the rabbit just came out with pajamas.

"The water is ready, and the bath salts are on the shelf next to it." Qing Liu Binguang reminded, "There are also two kinds of aromatherapy oil and shower gel, you can put them if you want."

The rabbit in human form nodded its neck and left the bedroom.

After the rabbit left, Aoyagi Binkou finally turned his eyes to the bed.

The sheets had been neatly made when he'd brought the sandwiches last night, but now they were in disarray.

Part of it was pulled down, revealing the mattress underneath. The corners were twisted into a ball and not loosened, as if someone had held it tightly in their hands. There were obvious scratches from fingernails on it.

The fact that a mark could be left on such a piece of fabric was enough to show how angry and painful the person was. However, during the conversation just now, Rabbit did not reveal a single thing.

Aoyagi Akimitsu once heard from staff in the tissue laboratory that rabbits are one of the animals that can best tolerate pain in biology.

——Because the vocal cords are underdeveloped, even if one breaks a bone, even if one's internal organs are damaged, even if all kinds of pain accumulate to the extreme, it is difficult to shout out loud and one can only endure the pain silently.