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"You're here early. It looks like the flight isn't delayed. I haven't even prepared lunch yet..."
Mary stared at her with eyes wide open in disbelief. After a while, she came to her senses, turned around and looked at the house number outside, then stared at the black rose in the room in disbelief.
"How did you get in?"
"Ms. Mary, you shouldn't ask this kind of question to a thief. It's a question of my ability." Black Rose looked at her seriously.
"This is my home!" Mary cried.
Good, she's getting angry again.
"I know this is your house, that's why I came in!" Black Rose replied just as loudly, and from her tone it sounded as if the one with the problem was Mary, not her.
And Shirakawa Kiyoshi silently pulled Mari in and closed the apartment door.
"It's fine if you're just trespassing! But why did you also search my kitchen?!"
"Because I want to make lunch for you! Did you eat anything in the morning?! Aren't you hungry now?!"
"I am a little hungry! But..."
"No buts! Eating is the most important thing right now! The meal is ready! Come and get a bowl!"
And so, the three of them sat down at the small dining table.
"How is it? It tastes good, right?" Picking up the chopsticks, Black Rose looked at the two of them and asked with a smile.
"Japanese food." Mary picked up some food with chopsticks and tasted it. She looked at her in confusion and asked, "Have you lived in Japan before?"
Baihe Qing who was standing beside her also raised his head and looked at her curiously.
Speaking of which, he and Mary really don't know the true identity of Black Rose now.
Although Black Rose now has the face of an East Asian woman, how should I put it? When she was in the Louvre before, her face didn't look like this...
This woman obviously had mastered some method of changing her appearance.
"Oh, this..."
Seeing that both of them were very curious about this, Black Rose put down her chopsticks, pointed at her face, and said with a smile:
"I almost forgot. Let me introduce myself. My real name is Mina Okino."
I saw someone in the comments section saying that Shirakawa Shizuka had deceived Shirakawa Kiyoshi about the matter of Miyano Akemi. What can I say? Why are all the book friends so curious? Why did Shirakawa Kiyoshi come to Shirakawa Shizuka to confirm whether Miyano Akemi was dead or not?
Chapter 419 The Legacy of the British Empire
"My real name is Mina Okino."
In London, in Mary's rented apartment, Black Rose put down her chopsticks, looked at Shirakawa Qing and Mary sitting opposite her, pointed at her face, and said:
"My current face is also real. Ah, of course, the face you saw in the Louvre must be fake. Don't think too much about it. I do know some very convenient disguise techniques."
Disguise?
It was the first time that Baihe Qing heard of such a thing.
"Does this kind of thing really exist, where one can completely change one's face into another one?" he asked curiously.
When she was at the Louvre, the staff member disguised as Black Rose still had the face of a European woman, which was completely different from her current face. Even Shirakawa Kiyoshi did not realize at the time that her face was a disguise.
"Of course it exists!"
Black Rose patted her chest and nodded vigorously.
"Before I became a Phantom Thief, I learned it from an old man in Japan. That old man was a magician, but his magic became very bad and not many people watched it. I was one of the few customers who would often watch his magic. Although it was also because he always performed near the roadside stall that I liked at that time...
Anyway, after a few visits, I became familiar with the old man. Maybe it was because I often went there to support him? Before the old man moved away, he taught me these disguise techniques..."
Black Rose spread her hands and spoke helplessly, as if the old man she mentioned forced her to learn the art of disguise.
"But to be honest, the disguise technique that this old man taught me is really powerful. I have also come into contact with other disguise techniques in the world in the past few years, but they are all far inferior to what the old man taught me... Of course, you are not allowed to have any ideas about me, okay?"
Looking at the two of them, especially at Mary who was suddenly moved, Black Rose raised her finger and said righteously:
"I promised that old man that no matter what the situation, I would never pass on his disguise skills to others."
"Yeah." Bai Heqing nodded and responded casually.
Black Rose's disguise technique is indeed magical, but he himself has no interest in it. After all, he is a policeman, and even if he learns it, he will not have much chance to use it, and it will not be of much use.
But Mary, the agents should be very interested in this kind of disguise, right?
"Tsk..." Mary curled her lips after Black Rose pointed out her thoughts, but didn't say anything else.
She was indeed thinking about whether there was any way to trade with Black Rose in exchange for her magical disguise technique.
"Okay, enough of the small talk, let's get back to the topic."
After briefly introducing herself, Black Rose clapped her hands, attracting the attention of both people.
"The doctor who performed the surgery on the freighter should have already told you about the 'transaction', right? What do you think?"
She naturally tied Shirakawa Kiyoshi and Mary together, thinking that the two would definitely act together.
"First, tell me what you mean by that 'inheritance'." Without accepting it rashly, Bai Heqing asked.
On the freighter, the doctor told them that the deal proposed by Black Rose was related to a batch of "inheritance", but the specific details were not explained.
"Yeah, that's right. Let me think about it. Where should I start..." Black Rose nodded slightly after hearing this. After thinking for a while, she said:
"Got it. Have you heard of Tone Eijiro?"
"Eijiro Tone?"
Baihe Qing had no impression of this name, but Mary beside him suddenly spoke:
"The famous nonfiction writer?"
"Oh! It seems Miss Mary knows?" Black Rose looked at her excitedly.
"I have some impression of him. I read some books written by him when I first came to the UK to study." Mary nodded and explained:
“It is said that this person was born in Japan. After he became an adult, he moved to Singapore with his parents and began his creative career there. However, fifteen years ago, he suddenly left Singapore and came to the UK, and bought a villa on an island from a nobleman.
Since then, Tone Eijiro has lived on that island and has never written another book..."
Mary explained these words specifically to Shirakawa Qing.
"Yes."
Black Rose nodded, and then added: "But just a month ago, Eijiro Tone passed away."
"Dead?" Mary was a little surprised.
Although Eijiro Tone was born in Japan, he grew up in an English environment, so the literary works he created when he was young were mainly in English.
Although he had not created anything for fifteen years, he was once a very famous literary writer in the UK. How could she have not seen any reports about the death of this literary master?
"Of course, the news of Tone Eijiro's death was deliberately concealed by his two sons. In other words, the death was kept secret. As for the reason..."
"Is this the 'legacy' you mentioned?" Bai Heqing, who had been quietly listening to the conversation between the two, suddenly asked.
"Yes, that's right. It's for the 'legacy' left by Tone Eijiro."
As Black Rose spoke, her expression suddenly became serious.
"According to my personal information, the most important reason why Tone Eijiro suddenly left Singapore fifteen years ago and stopped writing literature was because he got a treasure in Singapore at that time."
"Treasure? What treasure?" Mary looked at her puzzledly.
"I don't know the exact details, but according to some of Tone's former friends in Singapore, he himself referred to the treasure as... 'the legacy of the British Empire'."
"Humph……"
This made Mary laugh.
"The legacy of the empire? How dare he say that..."
"Well, I don't know whether this batch of treasures is worthy of being called the 'British Empire'. After all, I haven't seen it with my own eyes. However, after Tone Eijiro passed away, the heirs of this treasure designated in his will are very interesting..." Black Rose had a mysterious expression.
"Aren't they his two sons?" Bai Heqing asked.
"No."
Black Rose shook her head, then looked at the two of them, lowered her voice, and said mysteriously:
"In the suicide note left by Tone Eijiro, he excluded both of his sons from the list of heirs and instead selected three people who had nothing to do with him, indicating that he would divide the treasure equally among these three people..."
Chapter 420 Don’t Try to Get Rid of Me!
"People who value wealth will never share their wealth with unrelated people." In Mary's apartment, Bai Heqing said after listening to Black Rose's words.
"Yes, I think so too."
Black Rose nodded repeatedly, agreeing with what he said.
"The three heirs designated by Tone Eijiro definitely have some special relationship with him, but I don't know what the specific relationship is. After all, it depends on your investigation..." she said with a smile.
"Why do you know so much about these things?" Bai Heqing looked at her and suddenly asked.
According to Black Rose, the news of Eijiro Tone's death is being kept secret by his two sons. As an outsider who has nothing to do with the matter, why does Black Rose know it so clearly?
Even the contents of Eijiro Tone's suicide note were clearly known.
"It's very simple."
Facing Bai Heqing's doubts, Black Rose took out an invitation letter from her body and handed it to the two of them.
Bai Heqing just opened it and took a look, then handed it to Mary beside him.
No, I just can’t understand English.
"Because I was invited by Tone Eijiro's two sons to go to their family's villa on the island as a detective to investigate the whereabouts of Tone Eijiro's inheritance for them."
"You are also a detective?" Mary looked up at her in surprise when she heard that.
"Of course, as a phantom thief, it's normal for me to have multiple identities, right?" Black Rose replied as a matter of course.
"What do you mean by investigating the whereabouts of the inheritance? Could it be that the inheritance has disappeared?" Bai Heqing asked.
“I don’t know, but according to what Tone Eijiro’s two sons told me, their father’s inheritance must still be in that annex, but they can’t find it.
In order to find the inheritance, the two brothers first searched the villa by themselves. When they couldn't find it, they called the three heirs specified in their father's will, hoping to rely on them to find the inheritance, but they still couldn't find it...