Mashima Kazusa drove Hoshino Mirai directly to... the door of Hoshimi Detective Agency.
This detective agency is located in a building near Sensoji Temple in Tokyo.
Of course, Hoshimi Detective Agency cannot afford to buy an entire building, so the 20th to 25th floors of this building are the offices of Hoshimi Detective Agency.
"The navigation ends here? Do you really just want me to go back to the office?"
Hoshino Mirai looked at the different world navigation APP on her phone, and it was already over when she reached the downstairs of this building.
This inevitably made Mirai Hoshino a little disappointed. She thought that this APP that could not be deleted was some powerful hacker who wanted to help her point out the way forward, so she installed it on her phone.
But now why does Hoshino Mirai feel that this hacker does not want to help her, but simply wants to play with her?
But Hoshino Mirai didn't complain too much. This time when she returned to Hoshimi Detective Agency, she originally wanted to talk about this matter with several other seniors in the agency.
When Mirai Hoshino pressed the elevator to the 20th floor, she finally discovered something unusual about the surrounding environment... that is, the elevator was not rising but falling!
This building does have a parking lot on the first and second floors below ground level, but the elevator was falling crazily...it didn't stop completely until it reached the 1,995th floor below.
What's going on? Is it someone's prank? But what happened to that rapid falling feeling just now?
"Niugui?"
"The truth behind the movie...Mother, are you talking about the cases you planned?"
By the way, he ignored Hoshino Mirai's struggling and threatening sounds, and tied her directly to the stage of the cinema... Then Hoshino Mirai found that he was completely tied to a wooden cross.
"Mom, the cases you planned are not movies! The people you paid to kill... they were all innocent! And you did this just to be famous... to help you make money!"
But at this moment, a huge shadow suddenly jumped in front of Hoshino Mirai.
But suddenly the lights in the auditorium came on, and Mirai Hoshino discovered that there was a very familiar figure sitting in the center of the auditorium, her mother Takako Hoshino.
They were a group of two-meter-tall figures in black suits. Although their faces were covered by masks... there were signs of dark liquid flowing under the suits, which proved that these guys were not human!
'Instead of doing this, it would be better to start a fire and burn the whole city to ashes!'
"What you end up with is not only ruined reputation, but also ridicule and slander from all directions! This is far more painful than death!"
"Yes... so what?" Mirai Hoshino roared loudly to his mother, "At least this way I can still live like a human being! A guy who can survive by hurting innocent people and knocking on the heads of ordinary people to suck out their marrow! In
In my eyes, they are worse than pigs and dogs!”
When Hoshino Mirai heard this, the strength in her hands was so strong that she could completely break free of the ropes that bound her...
But when she saw the group of people clearly, she was stunned.
The decoration of the cinema reflects the style of a Las Vegas casino.
After Hoshino Mirai threw his persona high into the sky, the persona instantly transformed into a female figure wearing jet black glyphed armor.
And the cow ghost roared and rushed towards her... But at that moment, a black shadow fell from the sky and hit the cow ghost hard on the head.
Awakening the Persona consumes a lot of physical strength. When Mirai Hoshino noticed this, she could no longer stand up at all.
Hoshino Mirai said as he raised the chainsaw and hit the shadows in the audience directly. The rotating saw blade rotated at high speed and directly chopped a shadow into debris.
"Declare the existence of truth to the world! Joan of Arc!"
Just when Hoshino Mirai was about to shout the next sentence, her head suddenly felt a sharp pain, and a voice echoed in her mind...
'I am you and you are me. Even if we face all kinds of slander, we will still not give in!'
"Do you decide to live in this hell for the rest of your life?"
"etc…"
Just when Hoshino Mirai was about to go all out and scold his mother, the pyre placed under her was suddenly ignited.
"Protect the director's wife!"
"This is really sad, Future! Once you tell the truth to the audience, the audience will be like now... and treat you like a witch and put you on the stake to be roasted!"
One is wearing a hunter's hat and a shawl evening gown, and the mask looks like a rabbit, while the other is wearing a black feather shawl and a medieval bird's beak mask...
"What lady? Who are you?" Hoshino Mirai saw someone approaching and immediately took a stance ready to fight.
At that time, Hoshino Mirai just regarded it as a joke after Hyakkiin Ikuyo drank too much, but...
The shadow first let out a low cry, and then its entire body shape completely deformed, turning into a giant monster with the body of a bull beast and a spider in the blink of an eye.
Hoshino Mirai cautiously walked out of the elevator. When she looked back, she found that the elevator had completely disappeared.
'What's the matter even if you are regarded as a witch! What's the matter even if you are sent to the stake and tortured...'
The ignited flame began to burn rapidly along the firewood pile, and Hoshino Mirai could feel the scorching temperature burning his skin.
Hoshino Mirai also grabbed the persona that appeared on his face and used all his strength to tear it off along with his flesh and blood.
"We really should have a good talk about mother." Mirai Hoshino slowly approached his old mother with a rotating saw blade still stained with black blood.
When Hoshino Mirai was in a state of panic, the elevator door finally opened... However, the scenery that appeared in front of Hoshino Mirai made her freeze in place for two or three seconds.
When Hoshino Mirai wanted to stand up and continue chasing her mother, she found that her whole body had no strength and her consciousness began to gradually blur.
'But looking at this country, we see pigs and dogs everywhere, and sycophants everywhere. This place...has long since become as filthy as a pigsty.'
"Apologise...what are you apologizing for?" Hoshino Mirai had already realized that something was wrong with the mother in front of her.
Hoshino Mirai recognized the origin of this monster at a glance, but the moment he recognized it, the bull ghost also swung its sharp claws and slashed at Hoshino Mirai.
"Mirai, it's great that you are willing to come back in time. It's too late to admit your mistakes and correct them now. Come on... Mirai will quickly apologize to the audience." Shadow Takako Hoshino stood up and said to his daughter.
'As you said, those who rely on oppressing the people to survive are worse than pigs.'
Hoshino Mirai remembered that Ikuyo Hyakkiin once reminded him that miracles and magic might exist in this world.
"What...is this place? The underground parking lot of the building, or outside the building?"
She subconsciously raised her weapon to block it, but Niu Gui's sharp claws knocked her whole body away and hit her hard on the stage behind her.
She seemed to be completely trapped in this Las Vegas-like movie theater space.
"Although I don't know what's going on now, what kind of power is this..."
The Persona Jeanne d'Arc behind her also swung her sword and slashed out a black flame that split from the middle to form two walls of fire, directly blocking the path of Shadow Takako Hoshino.
'Roar... The princess entangled in the puppet strings, use this burning fire of truth! Burn all the falsehoods in this world!'
"But all I know now... is to smash this place into chaos! Mother, take care... this is the only time in your daughter's life! You will arrange a performance on the stage!"
"Of course you can't tell the audience the behind-the-scenes truth about the movie you performed in, and you have to promise the audience that you will never...never want to leak the truth." Shadow Takako Hoshino said.
The front part of this strange weapon began to rotate at high speed like a chainsaw, and the sound of the friction between the sharp teeth was indescribably harsh and weird.
The view outside the elevator door is neither a parking lot nor a hidden underground facility, but... an extremely luxurious and magnificent cinema under the starry sky!
"Mother?" Hoshino Mirai has never seen his mother wearing such a fancy dress.
"We found the eldest lady! Bring her to the director's wife quickly!"
This group of shadows did not harm Hoshino Mirai, and tied her up directly...
Apart from the supernatural events, Mirai Hoshino really doesn’t understand what is going on in the environment he is currently in!
But at this moment, Takako Hoshino was wearing a resplendent evening dress, and her face was heavily made up with gold powder. She looked extremely extravagant.
Hoshino Mirai understood quickly. She quickly realized what her mother was implying, and then she was successfully angered by her mother's unreasonableness.
Supernatural event?
Who? Hoshino Mirai found that she didn't even have the strength to speak, but the second before she fell into coma, she still saw three figures in strange costumes...
A sledgehammer-like weapon also appeared in Hoshino Mirai's hand. It shouldn't be said to be a sledgehammer, but a rotating saw blade!
"Hey...what is this place? Who are you?" Mirai Hoshino shouted to the shadows in the audience.
Hoshino Mirai pressed the button to start the circular chainsaw with her thumb. At this moment, her entire body was changed into a Phantom Thief costume with a jet black shawl.
While Hoshino Mirai's cognitive perspective was slightly shocked by the Phantom Thief, the shadow inhabiting this movie theater also discovered her.
There is also a character with bandages wrapped around his fists and hands, wearing a top hat and a shabby cloak, and a mask with black and white stripes like a killer whale.
At the end there seems to be...an owl?
At this moment, no matter how much Hoshino Mirai didn't want to believe it in her heart, she had to associate the true identities of these three people and the owl with the miracle that Ye Shuan expected...or rather, the fairy tale.
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That means the 'Phantom Thieves of the Heart' are real.