Tangze: Someone's Stealing Our Business-Get Him!

"Did you fill in a wish on that website?" Recalling what Kazuha Toyama had mentioned before, Conan's brow slowly furrowed.

When that website had first come up, clearly no one had taken online wish-making seriously.

...After all, compared to the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, who constantly dominated news headlines and had an overwhelming presence, there had been no rumors of anyone actually fulfilling an ideal or realizing a wish through that website.

But what if there were no such rumors because the people whose wishes had come true were unable to make it public for one reason or another?

Kaizō Isoya lowered his head with a calm expression and glanced at the child. He did not resist telling the truth, explaining everything in detail. "Yes. I followed their instructions, waited until midnight, and then saw the page those people had mentioned. I figured there was no harm in trying, so I wrote down my wish for Kawabata to pay for what he had done."

"And then you received that bottle?" With the police and Mori Kogoro still nearby, Tangze chose a substitute term.

"...Yes." Kaizō Isoya let out a breath, but he still nodded and admitted it.

Conan's brow tightened further. "How exactly did you receive it? By courier package?"

"I don't know. Less than two days after I made the wish, it was placed outside my door. It was packed in an ordinary corrugated cardboard box with no shipping label. There was only a note inside explaining what it was..."

At this point, Kaizō Isoya shifted his weight uneasily.

Now that he had abandoned the crime, retracing his steps and laying out how he had made that choice, describing every detail of the process, still made him deeply uncomfortable.

Looking at the two children standing before him, he hesitated