Go Inside and Have a Look

It turned out that Duanmu Ai had really guessed correctly this time.

It took Rumiere only a day and a half to bring Duanmu Ai good news—sure enough, the person within the government who had taken away the Cognitive Kexue research was Shido Masayoshi.

Not only that, she had also brought Duanmu Ai an unexpected discovery—Amamiya Ren had once been sentenced to residence surveillance elsewhere for assault, and the victim at the time had been this very Shido Masayoshi.

Well, what a coincidence.

In fact, after confirming this, Duanmu Ai could already make her move. Before that, however, she wanted to test her theory—yes, Duanmu Ai also planned to imitate the Phantom Thieves and enter her target's inner world to find their Soul Projection. She simply had no intention of brainwashing them like the Phantom Thieves did. Instead, she wanted to see if she could squeeze more information and data from these people's Soul Projections.

After all, this was the inner world of the soul. In other words, whatever the Soul Projection knew, the person themselves certainly knew as well. In the real world, if you wanted to investigate and interrogate someone, there would be all sorts of trouble. You might even alert the enemy.

But interrogating someone in the Mind World was another matter entirely. Even if she beat the Soul Projection in their inner world to a pulp, the real person outside probably wouldn't feel a thing.

That way, investigating people in the future would become much easier. She wouldn't need to investigate them in the real world at all. She could simply run into Warp Space, beat their mental projection half to death, and see if they still refused to confess.

Not to mention that since the psychological world was a personal space, no one else could