"My real name is Okino Mina."
In London, in the apartment Mary rented, Black Rose put down her chopsticks, looked at Shirakawa Kiyoshi and Mary sitting opposite, pointed at her face, and said:
"The face I have now is also real. Ah, of course, the face you saw at the Louvre must be fake. Don't think too much, I do know some very convenient disguise techniques."
Disguise?
This was the first time Bai Heqing heard such a thing.
"A disguise technique that can completely change one's face into another one. Does such a thing really exist?" He asked curiously.
When she was at the Louvre, the staff member Black Rose disguised had the face of a European woman, which was completely different from her current face. Even Shirakawa Kiyoshi didn't realize that her face was disguised at the time.
"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. The old man was a magician, but his magic became very bad. No one saw it. I was one of the few people who often went to see him do magic. customer, although it was also because he always performed near the roadside stall I liked...
Anyway, just like this, I became familiar with the old man. Maybe it’s because I often go there to support him, right? Later, before the old man moved away, he gave me these techniques of disguise..."
Black Rose spread her hands as she spoke, and her tone was very helpless, as if the disguise technique was forced by the old man in her mouth to learn it.
"But one thing to say, the disguise technique this old man taught me is really powerful. I have also come across other disguise techniques in the world in the past few years, but they are all far behind what the old man taught me... Of course , you are not allowed to have any ideas about me?"
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 circumstances, I would never spread his disguise skills to anyone else."
"Yeah." Bai Heqing nodded and responded casually.
Black Rose's disguise technique is indeed miraculous, but he himself has no interest in it. After all, he is a policeman. Even if he learns it, he has little chance to use it and it will not be of much use.
On the other hand, Mary, the agents should be very interested in this kind of disguise, right?
"Tsk..." After the black rose revealed her thoughts, Mary curled her lips but didn't say anything else.
She was really thinking just now, if there was any way to trade with Black Rose in exchange for the magical disguise skill in her hand.
"Okay, enough gossip, let's get back to the topic."
After briefly introducing herself, Black Rose clapped her hands, attracting their attention.
"The doctor who performed the surgery on the freighter should have told you about the 'transaction', right? I wonder what you two think?"
She naturally bound Bai Heqing and Mary together, thinking that the two would definitely act together.
"Tell me first what you mean by the 'heritage'." Bai Heqing asked first without accepting it hastily.
On that freighter, the doctor told the two of them that the transaction proposed by Black Rose was related to a batch of "heritage", but the specific details were not explained.
"Well, that's right, let me think about it, where should I start..." Black Rose nodded slightly when he heard this, thought for a moment, and then said:
"Yes, have you heard of Eijiro Tone?"
"Eijiro Tone?"
Bai Heqing had no impression of this name, but Mary beside him suddenly said:
"That famous documentary writer?"
"Oh! It seems that Miss Mary knows?" Black Rose looked at her excitedly.
"I have some impression. I read some books written by this person when I first came to England to study." Nodding, Mary explained:
"This man is said to have been born in Japan. When he became an adult, he moved to Singapore with his parents, where he began his creative career. However, fifteen years ago, he suddenly left Singapore and came to the UK. He also became a nobleman. I bought a villa on the island.
Since then, Eijiro Tone has been living on that island and has never written a book again..."
These words were specially explained to Bai Heqing by Mary.
"That's right."
Black Rose nodded, and then added: "But just a month ago, Eijiro Tone passed away."
"Dead?" Mary was a little surprised when she heard this.
Although Eijiro Tone was born in Japan, he grew up in an English-speaking environment, so the literary works he created when he was young were mainly in English.
Although he had not written any more for fifteen years, as a very famous literary writer in the UK, she had not even seen any relevant reports about the death of such a literary figure?
"Of course, the news of Eijiro Tone's death was deliberately concealed by his two sons, that is, the funeral was not announced secretly. As for the reason..."
"Is this the 'legacy' you mentioned?" Bai Heqing, who was quietly listening to the conversation between the two, suddenly asked.
"Well, that's right, it's for the 'legacy' left by Eijiro Tone."
Black Rose said, her expression suddenly became serious.
"According to the information I personally received, the most important reason why Eijiro Tone suddenly left Singapore fifteen years ago and stopped doing any literary writing since then was because he obtained a batch of treasures in Singapore at that time."
"Treasure? What treasure?" Mary looked at her doubtfully.
"I don't know the specific details, but according to some of Eijiro Tone's former friends in Singapore, he himself called this treasure...'the heritage of the British Empire.'"
"snort……"
This immediately made Mary laugh.
"The legacy of the empire? He really dares to say..."
"Well, I don't know whether these treasures are qualified to be called the 'British Empire'. After all, I haven't seen it with my own eyes. However, after Eijiro Tone passed away, the heirs of these treasures designated in his suicide note, But it's 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 Eijiro Tone, he excluded his two sons from being the heirs, and instead selected three people who had nothing to do with him, indicating that he wanted to divide the treasures equally among them. Three people..."
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(End of chapter)
