"Pfft—"
After listening to the email Noah read aloud, Tangze, still sitting outside the café, failed to hold it together and choked on his soda.
"He was tactfully asking whether Joker was also a victim of the Organization's experiments? Is that explanation really that effective?"
"You can't blame him for overthinking it." Noah popped out of Tangze's phone, sticking his round cloth head out of the breast pocket and looking up speechlessly at the leader, who was still eating and drinking. "The way you put it was way too misleading. No matter how you listened to it, it sounded like you were implying that Akechi Goro was a Mask User created by the Organization. It was perfectly normal for them to think Joker was some kind of 'raw material.'"
Tangze shoved Noah's head farther into his pocket. "Just tell me, was I telling the truth or not?"
Although most of it had been nonsense, what Tangze said could not really be considered a lie.
Go ask Gin if you didn't believe him. Gin would have to say it was true!
Hoshikawa Teru had indeed undergone the relevant experiments; they just had not succeeded.
It was Tangze's unreasonable cheat-like powers, along with abilities that were his to begin with, doing the work. Mentioning the Organization was purely giving them too much credit.
As for Joker, if someone insisted he was related to the Organization, then there was indeed a little connection. After all, Tangze did have a little connection to the Organization.
Although Tangze did not know why Gin seemed so firmly convinced that the Organization deserved credit for Joker's appearance, since Gin believed it so strongly, Tangze decided to indulge him. He would not deprive the model worker of that tiny bit of emotional value.
"Conan has a pretty good