Tangze, Tokyo's King of Connections

"This time, the Twin Tower Skyscraper really raked it in." After settling the new white egg in place, Tangze patted its warm shell and sighed. "The last time we saved up this many Desire Stones, it took everyone a lot of work."

Once was practice, twice was mastery. With Hirotsugu Morofushi's case as precedent, Tangze could now estimate mission progress with great accuracy. Before the operation had even begun, he had guessed that the Twin Tower Skyscraper's Palace and Shadows would be enough to quickly fill the second progress bar.

Just as he had expected, all of Matsuda Jinpei's mission progress bars had filled successfully, entering the intelligence-gathering stage.

That was precisely why he had been so eager to fool Vermouth into sensibly withdrawing from 2-chome.

According to Ai Haibara's measurements, the closer these eggs came to hatching, the stronger the fluctuations they emitted. Tangze had no desire whatsoever to draw the Organization's attention over this.

If he didn't take out the new white egg now, how long was he supposed to keep it sitting in his bar?

Fortunately, everything had gone smoothly. Vermouth had successfully delivered a deeply moved rank up, then sensibly scrambled off to clean up after Irish's next assignment.

She now viewed this house as Kumeru's territory. Having already figured out its depths, she had no reason to keep approaching it—and was even more afraid of provoking Kumeru's displeasure.

Everyone in the Black Organization and Red Faction who might take notice of 2-chome had already made its ownership clear. For a long time to come, the Phantom Thief Troupe's base could be guaranteed secrecy.

So Tangze wasted no time in taking out the new egg.

"It doesn't seem much different from the last egg?" Asai Narumi walked over and gave the jade-like egg a touch as