"It's rare to have such a relaxing time..."
"Where did that sentiment come from?"
"Huh, isn't it true? Ever since I joined, I feel like I've never had a vacation at all... Honestly, I wasn't this exhausted even when I was a cop."
"Hah, that's the hardship of illegal work for you."
"Hey, hey..." Hirotsugu Morofushi, carrying out the grill and preparing to set up the canopy, twitched at the corner of his mouth as he listened to their conversation. "Don't stand somewhere with such a nice view and say such terrifying things..."
There were children not far away, and among them was someone who looked like an elementary school student but was actually a detective. It was even less appropriate for them to overhear this.
"What does it matter?" Kenji Hagiwara turned around and cheerfully took the ingredients from his hands. "The kids have their own things to deal with. They don't have time to pay attention to us."
They called themselves something as embarrassingly dramatic as the "Phantom Thieves of Hearts," but from top to bottom, excluding Ai Haibara from the purely research-oriented division, there were only two and a half actual minors.
In other words, the Phantom Thief Troupe's gathering was entirely adult team-building. The kids were unlikely to be interested.
"Our lives before this really were hectic." Matsuda Jinpei sat in a folded-out camping chair with a cigarette between his lips, speaking lazily. "Now that our matters have finally reached a stopping point, we should relax for a while."
"You can't put it like that." As he arranged the gas canisters, Hirotsugu Morofushi said, "The intensity was so high mainly because of Tangze, not Zero."
"That's true." Kenji Hagiwara, resting his chin on his hand, complained, "After I woke up, I was groggily following everyone around