"What was the relationship between the killer who used Cognitive Science to murder people and Tangze?"
That was how Tangze summarized Conan's question.
"Hypothetically, I mean, hypothetically..." Conan hurriedly waved his hands.
Although the other party had shown a willingness to lend a hand, Akechi Goro's position was far too delicate. Conan had no idea whether revealing his information to Joker would somehow shatter a fragile balance.
Until he had a clear grasp of the Phantom Thief Troupe's attitude, Conan would not recklessly disclose intelligence related to him.
What other relationship could there be? Naturally, it was a matter of moving something from the left hand to the right.
However, Tangze could also infer part of Conan's theory from his wording.
In Conan's understanding, Tangze himself was the result of the Tang Ze couple's research—the embodiment of the "power to make wishes come true."
In short, he was probably a wishing machine.
Combined with the questions Tangze had asked them, deliberately or otherwise, such as what dreams they had or whether they had any urgent wishes, Conan likely had another interpretation of where Akechi Goro's abilities came from.
"You think Tangze's power might allow other people to possess abilities like ours as well?" Saving Conan the trouble of explaining at length, Tangze raised a hand and pointed at himself.
Conan rubbed the coffee cup in his hands twice and slowly nodded. "So you did know about Tangze's power..."
Having experienced it firsthand, Conan had tested the boundaries of Tangze's abilities. Tangze had answered him with many theories that were hard to tell apart from deliberate mystification—or were simply so far beyond comprehension that they were difficult to understand.
At any rate, in Conan's understanding, what Tangze could accomplish did not actually depend on himself, but on the will of the