Haibara Ai remembered that the person who had played "Professor Moriarty" once said that if they successfully cleared the game, one "wish that conformed to the laws of nature" would be granted.
In that case, once they cleared it, asking Anonymous about her sister should count as something that conformed to those laws.
As Haibara Ai pressed the button expectantly.
In a residential area over a thousand meters away, several landline phones rang at once.
The high school students who had been trying to leave froze. After hesitating for a moment, they temporarily gave up their confrontation with their parents and ran to answer the phones.
At the same time, at school.
Several people who had been playing mahjong suddenly stopped moving.
Dressed in all sorts of costumes, they turned to look at the ringing telephone beside them.
Jiang Xia's gaze swept over the phone before he lowered his head to look at his thoroughly unremarkable hand. He decisively shoved his tiles down with a clatter and said steadily, "All right, time to work."
Matsuda Jinpei, seated to his right, glanced down and realized that the tile Jiang Xia had been about to discard was exactly the one he needed. "..."
Ignoring the Ghosts' resentful stares, Jiang Xia pushed his tiles into the pile, then gathered up the Killing Intent Chips stacked before him and stored them in his Mark Space.
"..." Killing Intent could actually be stored in the Consciousness Space. Jiang Xia was quite pleasantly surprised.
—He felt that his plan to harvest Killing Intent in the "game" had once again become far more likely to succeed.
The only problem was that the liquor types and Undercover Agents were nowhere near as easy to fool as high school students, nor would they deliver themselves to his