Only after ending the call with Tooru Amuro did Tangze finally relax. He accepted the drinks and snacks his teammates handed over.
They were still on the JR back to Tokyo. He couldn't exactly conspire with Tooru Amuro that loudly in front of Conan, so he had used the excuse of going to the dining car for food and slipped into the carriage where his teammates were.
It wouldn't look right if he returned empty-handed later.
"Your opinion of Rum is surprisingly high." Hirotsugu Morofushi, seated beside Tangze, looked rather surprised. "Didn't you used to think very little of him?"
Tangze had called him a powerful enemy. Hirotsugu had truly never seen Tangze use such a description for an enemy of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts.
"I still think very little of him." Tangze shrugged. "I mean his Palace. It might be pretty troublesome."
Considering that Rum himself was not especially formidable in combat, yet his desires could receive an extremely high evaluation, Tangze had reason to believe Rum's Palace would be the typical mid-boss-heavy type.
In other words, before reaching the final boss, they might have to defeat several smaller bosses to fulfill the conditions for clearing it.
Common forms included, but were not limited to, separately guarding the keys to different areas, holding critical items for solving puzzles within the Palace, or standing watch over important mechanisms and unavoidable routes...
The more orderly-evil these capitalists and high-ranking figures were, the more likely this was to happen. Okumura and Shido from the original work were both examples.
Just as their companies had clearly defined structures, their Palaces would display similar layers of hierarchy. They had to be conquered one level at a time, making them powerful in terms of mechanics.
What Tangze looked down on was Rum's conduct and