Miku Hoshino soon woke up from his slumber.

But she didn't rush to open her eyes, which may also be some tips for a detective to counter-reconnaissance.

That is, when you fall into a coma, if you continue to pretend to be asleep, you may be able to find out some useful information.

Sensorily speaking, Hoshino Miku found himself lying on someone's bed, not the kind of bed for prisoners, but a girl's bed.

The mattress is very soft, and the sheets are full of the fragrance of that girl's shower gel.

While Miku Hoshino was using her sense of touch and smell to gather information, her hearing overheard a lot of informative conversations.

"Amamiya-san, I'm still against bringing her back to your house, it's really a dangerous act."

"But we can't leave Miss Hoshino on the side of the road like that, can we?"

The voice came from downstairs, and Hoshino Miku concentrated his hearing and could clearly hear the discussion below.

"Since you know that she is Hoshino Miku, the Heisei Detective Queen... Now that we've saved her, there's a good chance that our true identities will be revealed. ”

"But Miss Hoshino, isn't she transformed in the temple? Surely we are our companions? ”

"She has indeed achieved the same strength as us, but that doesn't mean she can be our companion! The worst case scenario is the handle of our true identity, and she can only listen to her call when she holds it in her hands! ”

"Don't think so badly, Miss Hoshino doesn't know our true identity yet, we can observe and choose whether to pull her into the gang or not..."

The chatter downstairs made Hoshino Miku roughly understand the current situation, and she pretended to wake up and knocked off the alarm clock on the bedside table with her elbow.

Rin Amamiya and Hyakkiin Chiyo, who were downstairs, heard this sound, and hurriedly ran upstairs to push open the door, looking at Mirai Hoshino, who was already sitting up on the bed at this time.

"Miss Hoshino... When I got home, I saw you fainting next to your detective agency, and I didn't know anyone over there... I had to take her home first. ”

Rin Amamiya walked in with a glass of hot milk and a bunch of baked snacks.

Hyakkiin Chiyo is still hiding outside the house and is reluctant to show his face, for fear that it will deepen Hoshino's suspicions about the future.

Pity...

"You're the Monster of the Heart, aren't you?" Hoshino Mirai said straight to the point.

This sentence was like a bullet, directly refuting Amamiya Rin, and even the hand holding her plate couldn't stop trembling, and a small half of the milk in the cup spilled.

"Star... Miss Hoshino... What are you talking about... I don't understand it at all. ”

Rin Amamiya still wanted to defend a sentence or two, but Hoshino Mirai directly stretched out his finger and pointed at Rin Amamiya and said...

"You're a rabbit, and the one standing outside the house is probably a crow, that is, Hyakkiin Chiyo-san, right?"

Hoshino Miku didn't want to guess their identities, and directly guessed the outfits they represented in the Monster Thieves group.

Hyakkiin Chiyo also walked out from behind the door, looking at it with a helpless and dissatisfied expression on her face... Rin Amamiya, who has been completely deflated.

"What about killer whales? Isn't he there? Hoshino asked again.

"He still has to work tonight, so he can't come." Rin Amamiya put the tray in his hand on the bedside table, wiped the milk off it with a handkerchief, and said tentatively, "That Miss Hoshino..."

"I'm willing to join your group of monster thieves, and call me Future..."Hoshino Mirai directly said what Amamiya Rin wanted to hear the most at this moment.

"Woo... That welcomes you to the future sauce. Rin Amamiya was so excited that she directly shook Hoshino's hands.

"But don't worry... I need to know what you did first... What's the trick of stealing hearts, that teacher at your school, Junji Kanei, is the first person you attacked, right? ”

Hoshino Mirai asked like this, and before Rin Amamiya could speak, Hyakkiin Chiyo interrupted her first.

"I'm sorry, but I'm not at the point where I trust you completely, so..."

Hoshino Miku, as if she had expected this elder and would definitely suspect her as a detective, took out her mobile phone in advance and called up the relevant evidence of her mother's crime, and then threw the mobile phone to Hyakkiin Chiyo.

Hyakkiin Chiyo, she accurately received the mobile phone thrown by Hoshino Miku.

"Those things on your phone... It's the evidence that you can put me to death if you spread it, and you can think about it after you read it... Why don't you accept me again? ”

“……”

Hyakkiin Chiyo gave Rin Amamiya a look, and Rin Amamiya had no choice but to get up and walk to President Chiyo's side to check the contents of her phone with her.

After the two of them finished watching it, Hyakkiin Chiyo could barely maintain calm, and Rin Amamiya was already holding Hoshino Mirai in bed, crying bitterly.

"After going to your mother's palace, I can probably guess some of your condition, but I didn't expect this to happen." Hyakkiin Chiyo said.

"Rather than pity me, let's discuss what to do next, I mean the next step for the identity of the same monster thief."

Hoshino Mirai also sat up from the bed, and Rin Amamiya moved a small table very spiritually... Let the second meeting of the thieves revolve around this little table.

"First of all, celebrate the success of the second Monster Thief Meeting! Everyone applauded and snapped! ”

Rin Amamiya has done a very good job as an atmosphere group, under the influence of Rin Amamiya's super high affinity.

Between Hoshino Mirai and Hyakkiin Chiyo, two girls with extremely strong personalities, that coldness was instantly dissolved a lot.

After that, Hyakkiin Chiyo shared it with Hoshino Miku... All the information and all the experiences they had since they became thieves.

Hoshino Miku is sorting out this huge amount of information, such as the temple formed by distorted desires, the personality mask, the stealing of the heart and repentance, and the acceptance of the spirit body.

She asked one of the most crucial questions for the young group of monster thieves.

"Who do you decide to choose for your next goal?"

"Next Goal ......"

Rin Amamiya also knew that the next target would definitely be Hoshino's future mother, and in terms of Hoshino's future mother's temple strength, it was only a matter of time before they succeeded in getting Hoshino Takako to repent.

Then it is important who the next target of the Monster of the Heart Thieves is going to choose.

"Oh yes! The next candidate is him! Former head of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, Akihisa Takao. ”

Rin Amamiya was actually prepared, took out a notebook, put it on the table, opened it, and found the page that recorded Takao Akihisa.

There is a photo of Akihisa Takao on it, as well as various crimes committed by Rin Amamiya, etc.

Judging from these detailed intelligence records alone, Rin Amamiya is not just playing a monster thief game, but is really trying to make herself a thief.

"Even if you steal the heart of Takao Akihisa... It probably doesn't work much. Hoshino Miku, however, expressed a different opinion on Rin Amamiya's follow-up.

"It doesn't work much... However, according to my investigation, although he was the former director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, most of the functional departments of the entire Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department now listen to him. Rin Amamiya said.

"What you're talking about is only the most superficial part of Tokyo's power circles, and Takao Akihisa is only the 'representative' who has been pushed out."

Hoshino Mirai tried to make Rin Amamiya, the head of the group, take a long-term view, or... Her fantasies of monster thieves could have been overthought of a little more!

"The ability of the monster thief of the heart, in my opinion, can achieve the feat of 'stealing the country', stealing the distorted desires of others without being discovered by anyone, this ability is enough to make all the powerful people hidden behind the scenes in this country repent!"

Hoshino Miku's words made Rin Amamiya, a civilian girl, feel shocked when she heard it, she originally thought that the goal of the director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department was ambitious enough, but Hoshino Miku said this... She instantly felt that her horizons had broadened a lot.

"But our time and energy are limited, and the shadows in the temple are not easy to deal with."

Hoshino Mirai said as he clicked on Akihisa Takao's photo with his hand.

"So our next target shouldn't be to choose this guy, but to find the support behind the scenes of Akihisa Takao, who promoted this kind of scum to the position of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, and who gave such scum the opportunity to make mistakes again and again! We must find the source of this rotten power! ”

"It's the future sauce!" Rin Amamiya kept clapping his little hands beside him, and the admiration in his eyes was about to burst into starry eyes.

"It's nothing, it's just a different perspective on the case." Hoshino Miku shyly brushed the hair on his forehead and said, "The key is how to find the source of power behind Akihisa Takao... That's what we need to look into. ”

"About this."

Chiyo, who had been drinking tea and watching the play next to him, finally spoke at this time.

"I probably know."

"Sure enough, someone from the Hundred Ghost Courtyard must know some inside information..."

Hoshino Miku snapped his fingers, and just when he was about to say that he had guessed correctly, the gloomy expression on Chiyo's face in Hyakkiin made Hoshino Mirai realize that his attitude was a little inappropriate.

"Hmm... I'm sorry, I remember that Chiyo-san, you and Ikuyo-senpai seem to have been separated from the family for a long time. Hoshino Mirai hurriedly apologized, and as she spoke, she also served her refreshments to Hyakkiin Chiyo.

"Just call me Chiyo, after all, everyone will be companions after all."

Hyakkiin Chiyo didn't care too much, Hoshino Miku is the kind of girl who doesn't know much about the 'reading air' type, which leads to Hoshino Miku himself definitely not having many friends at school.

But Hyakkiin Chiyo likes to associate with this type of girl, and she is tired enough to play with her scheming alone, and she doesn't want to play against herself alone.

"Although my sister and I have left our family, we still have to go to the annual meeting convened by our family every year... Akihisa Takao, the head of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, will definitely attend the annual meeting of the Hyakkiin family. ”

"And although Takao Akihisa has always been a submissive gesture at the annual meeting of the Hyakkiin family, there is one person he respects so much that he can't wait to be a footpad when he goes down the stairs."

Hyakkiin Chiyo said that she wrote a name on Rin Amamiya's 'Goal of Repentance Notebook' that neither Hoshino Mirai nor Rin Amamiya had ever heard of.

Katsuharu Tokugawa.

(End of chapter)