[Comprehensive] Phantom Thief · Phantom Thief

DARK's target this time, the "Wedge of Time", was originally missing, but by coincidence, Xiaosuke deduced that this work of art might be sealed to allow them to enter the world of the second hand of time again. Soon after the soul belonging to Friedel's lover Elliott, the Niwa family got the news that the Wedge of Time had just been sent to the Rachel Museum by an unidentified sender.

"No matter how you think about it, it's suspicious."

——Although Kaito and the Niwa family thought so, but now they have no other choice.

"Even if it's really some great trap, I will definitely try to break through it." At this moment, he calmed down unexpectedly, and the purple-haired monster sitting in the corner of the sofa smiled flamboyantly, his tone was indescribably relaxed and brisk: "As long as there is a little possibility to help us rescue Daisuke, I am willing to do anything to try-it is better than being afraid and looking forward and backward, but really losing the most important things in the end, right?"

Kaito did not comment on this.

At such times, the willingness and determination of the person involved is often the most important factor in determining everything. As for the thoughts and opinions of others?

At least in Kaito's view, it doesn't need to be taken into consideration.

For Dark right now, the only thing he wants to do is to rescue his most important lover Daisuke safely. For this reason, even if he knows that there is a dragon's lake and a tiger's den in front of him, Kaito thinks he will probably step into it without hesitation. , not even a return to the capital will stay...

"Since it has been decided, then Dark, you can let go and do it."

In the end, the only female member of the Niwa family, Daisuke's mother, Sakuko, gave the final word.

The red-haired woman who is always naive, confused, and nympho said so, with a faint smile on her face that is completely different from her usual impression, full of tolerance, reason, and maternal love: " But before that, you have to make an agreement with me that you will definitely... bring Xiao Da (Xiao Zi’s nickname for Daisuke) back safely—remember, make sure that both of you are safe and sound.”

Because...they are all her cherished "family".

Facing the gentle entrustment from Xiaozi, the beautiful purple-haired young man who had never been looked at with such gentle and loving eyes obviously felt extremely uncomfortable!

But the consideration and respect for women in nature, as well as the relationship between knowing that Xiaozi has always wanted to be the mother of the legendary monster thief, so I used the question "Can you let me have a boy?" After scaring away an unknown number of suitors, Dark has always had a certain kind of subtle emotion towards her, making it impossible for Dark to just ignore her entrustment, or simply use one or two vague "ah A simple answer like "um" prevaricates.

So in the end, the legendary monster thief who was once popular among countless young girls (=w=) had no choice but to nod honestly and promise that he and Daisuke will return safely together, and there will be no hair missing...

"Pfft~ I didn't expect to see such a weak side of Senior Dark."

When a group of four "persons" (Kaito + Loki + DARK + Fenrir) walked out of the gate of Niwa's house, Kaito's laughter, which he had held back for a long time, finally rushed out of his throat as if he couldn't hold it back.

In the blink of an eye, Kaito looked at the handsome purple-haired young man with a slightly uncomfortable expression, and Kaito suddenly felt that such a senior was really cute.

"Mother Shoko is really amazing. She really deserves to be a miraculous woman who can become the mother of the legendary Phantom Thief." She smiled and gave a soft compliment, and Kaito, who saw that someone was on the verge of endurance, wisely stopped teasing Dark. , but quickly changed the topic at the right time: "So... what should we do next? Shall we go to the museum now? Is it too early?"

The forecast action time is eight o'clock in the evening, and now...it is one o'clock in the afternoon, the gap between this should not be too big!

When Kaito reminded him, DARK, who rushed out of the house on impulse + embarrassment, also reacted at this time, and realized that he had really done something stupid ==

"...Anyway, let's go to the museum to survey the terrain first. No matter what, I'm going out, and Daisuke's painting has already been brought out..."

Isn't it equivalent to voluntarily admitting that you were in chaos before just turning back like this!

He can tolerate Xiaozi's little teasing, he can persuade himself to accept all kinds of warmth brought by Niwa's family, but handing over the evidence of his stupidity to the other party, so that they will have a tried and tested way whenever they want to make fun of him in the future. Talk and evidence?

DARK felt that he hadn't lost his mind to that extent yet.

Moreover, "The timing of the 'Wedge of Time' appearing this time is too coincidental. I suspect that this is another trap set by Hito and KRAD to lure me out, so go to the location of the operation in advance to see if you can find it. Their shadows are also very necessary for the progress and development of the next plan."

After saying this righteously, DARK ignored the handsome face of his junior who couldn't bear to smile until it was flushed, turned around directly, and walked in front with his head held high——

You laugh and let you laugh, the breeze blows the hills.

……etc!It seems that something strange has mixed in! ==

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Of course, Kaito is no stranger to things like going around the location of the operation to check the terrain. After all, he is also a super monster thief who is not inferior to the fantasy thief DARK, who has a powerful plug-in like magic power, but he is like DARK...

Looking at DARK with a dark face, since arriving near the museum, he got into the coffee shop and sat down in a corner near the window, and then never moved the place again. Kaito said that he I really haven't seen it.

"Senior, this is what you said...preparation?"

Seeing that more than four hours had passed unsteadily, but the Mr. Phantom Thief in front of him still had no plans to move, Kaito couldn't help but asked out loud.

He indeed understands the simple truth that different monster thieves have different acting styles!But... no matter how different it is, some basic preparations should not be too far behind...

It would be fine if DARK has some other considerations for doing this now, but if this is his usual style...

Kaito thought, then he might be able to understand the feelings of those police officers who were played around by his seniors——

A phantom thief who never steps on a spot and never does imaginative action exercises beforehand?Please don't be so arrogant!

The police officers in District 11 have been molested by you until they are strong enough!Really don't need to continue hitting people like this!

Covering his face silently, Kaito, who found that his thoughts overlapped with countless hard-working police officers chasing behind the phantom thieves, suddenly felt very...subtle.

But compared to him, DARK, who has always been arrogant and loose, didn't think and care so much.

"Huh? What's wrong with my approach?" Raising eyebrows, Dark, who obviously has his own set of behavior habits, is definitely not provoking Kaito (besides, he really has no reason to do so), "Is the so-called' Step on the point', isn't that enough?"

——Find a place that is neither near nor far from the action site, where you will not expose your existence. The most important thing is to make yourself comfortable (==), and lie down quietly while observing the other party’s security status, while being patient Waiting for the arrival of the predicted time...

Isn't this "stepping on the spot"?

DARK, who has been preparing to come here for many years, really doesn’t know how to do it after himself, especially the new generation or new generations of phantom thieves that appeared recently—oh, is he an "old man" after all... …

I don't know why my mind suddenly turned to the channel of narcissism. Because the lover's critical situation has been relieved to a certain extent at this time, the spirit has also relaxed a little bit. Doo's answer was very interesting.

At this time, Kaito has of course discovered that Dark is not deliberately teasing himself, but that he has really followed such a set of action patterns...

The black-haired young magician covered his face, silently bent forward in frustration——OTZ, he forgot the fundamental difference between himself and Dark.

Indeed, DARK did not wander around the target location like Kaito was used to, looking for several best escape points visually, but this was not because DARK was not cautious enough, but because...

There is no need at all!

DARK has magic and wings, and his escape is generally very flamboyant and flies away directly, like Kaito, who is used to relying on hang glider and legs + wisdom (what do you want to emphasize wisdom==) to escape? It's completely different at all!

Turning his face silently, Kaito suddenly felt very hurt.

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Three people and one dog sat in the coffee shop until nearly eight o'clock.

From the angle where Kaito and the others are located, it can be clearly seen that in front of the museum diagonally opposite the street corner, since about six or seven o'clock, police cars and police officers from the inner three floors and the outer three floors have gathered, and Several TV crews holding cameras...

"Senior DARK has a great face~" I also know that the reason why this heavy security can be mobilized so easily is absolutely inseparable from the youth Rei Hito who is the adopted son of Hito police officer. Nakamori, who arrested himself, was very fortunate that it was only a small police department—although he was not afraid of the means of the police department's crowd attack, but such a dense crowd...

Just looking at it gives me chills down my spine!

DARK seems to have gotten used to it.

Standing up neatly, the legendary monster thieves raised the corners of his lips, and looked sideways at the smiling black-haired Hou Bokuken, who knocked and bowed and dragged his card. He didn't ask Kaito to really cooperate with him, This time he brought him and Loki to the scene of the action. A large part of the reason was to stabilize the imprint of power that Loki added to the painting of the snow field. DARK nodded handsomely, turned around and disappeared in the coffee. outside the house.

Kaito was obviously not surprised by this result.

Stretching out his hand to push away the empty juice glass in front of him, the black-haired magician boy turned his head with a smile, and looked at his evil lover, whose expression remained unchanged: "Then, Loki? Let's go too~"

Kaito, who still had a little impression of the plot of "D·N·Angel", decided not to waste any more time, and took Loki and Fenrir directly to the grove where DARK and Hito will eventually fall into it, and waited for the rabbit ...Wait, this description doesn't seem right==

In any case, Kaito couldn't bear to stay in the coffee shop obediently and not run around.

And Loki has always been responsive to his Kaito's demands.

The two arrived at the only grove around the museum unimpeded through Loki's enchantment, and Kaito, a "professional", found the most likely place where the final plot would take place. A large tablecloth, while taking out things such as picnic baskets, thermos pots and blankets from Anye's space backpack, which Anye specially made for him. He stretched out his hand to call Loki and Fenrir, who had the same expressions on their faces, to come and sit down.

At the same time, because of Kaito's movements, the two fathers and sons who had turned into "＝口＝" expressions looked at each other, and showed a helpless wry smile tacitly at the same time——

Kaito in their family...how did his nerves grow... →＿→

However, no matter what the two of them were thinking, at this moment they had obediently moved to Kaito's side, obediently took all kinds of hot food and hot drinks that he handed over, sat around and began to watch the scene Live version of Detective vs. Phantom Thief...

——By the way, the tool used for viewing is naturally the magic card video recorder produced by Rocky ==

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This is the first time for Kaito to watch the actions of another colleague from multiple angles from the perspective of a bystander.

And although the two of them strictly speaking belong to two different systems in Phantom Thieves, to put it bluntly, the methods they use in their actions are actually similar, but the principles are different, and the specific traits they display are not the same.

Watching DARK on the screen disguise himself as one of the police officers with magic power, approaching the room where the target is in a smooth and safe way, although Kaito felt that this was not much different from the method he used all the time, But because it uses a different technology anyway, it seems to be quite interesting.

Especially when DARK on the screen finally came to the room where the Wedge of Time was stored, but at the moment when he was about to succeed, he was blocked by an invisible magic barrier, and then another blonde After the appearance of the beautiful young man, the interest in Kuai Dou's eyes almost directly materialized!

"Tsk tsk! The legendary love and kill each other!"

Looking at the screen, except for hair color, eye color, wing color (==) and different clothing styles, the two people who are actually almost the same in appearance, separated by a piece of art, started a period of literary and artistic love with completely unknown meaning During the conversation, Kaito stuffed a small piece of pineapple cake into Fenrir's mouth, and sighed.

To be honest, Kaito doesn't particularly hate the manga version of KRAD.

Although, this guy's character is really not very likable.

Looking at the handsome blond young man on the screen who was disturbed by Dark's confession of "you can't kill at all" and was almost taken back by the boy Hito, Kaito hooked the corners of his mouth, and suddenly gave a sudden whim. Pull past Loki--

"By the way, if I remember correctly, the familiars should have invaded the museum a long time ago, right?"

Because the target characters to be recruited this time have more or less very good magical abilities, Kaito and the others are also more cautious in the preliminary work.

Before Hito started to set up the venue, Loki's familiars had already been lurking in the pavilion without a magic barrier.

The blond deity thought of this, so he nodded affirmatively: "Indeed. In order to test whether we can shoot without alarming the little blond guy, there was indeed a trial recording. Do you want to watch it?"

Kaito nodded.

——He had a premonition that he could get a very important message from the video that was not originally planned...

Loki waved his hand without saying a word, and summoned another screen.

The screen that was broadcasting the situation on the DARK side was not turned off, they still needed to rely on it to control the rhythm of the situation, but at this time, including Fenrir, the attention of the three people on the scene had already shifted to the newly opened screen. over there on the screen...

The picture shown on the screen shook slightly at first, and then the familiars probably made some adjustments, and the picture gradually stabilized.

In an empty exhibition room, a "Wedge of Time" in the shape of a sword was hung in the middle of the room by an iron chain, and a handsome boy with ice-blue hair and glasses was walking around the room, as if he was arranging With some kind of enchantment...

Until the boy's footsteps gradually stopped, and finally he stood straight in front of the "Wedge of Time" and looked up at it quietly. The light in the room suddenly dimmed, and then... a pure white figure suddenly appeared beside him !

"My lord, are you willing to do this for Daisuke Niwa?"

The handsome blond-haired young man said this expressionlessly, then suddenly raised his foot, and walked towards the blue-haired boy with a stern expression step by step: "Caring, persistence, longing, heartache... This is something that you in the past will never have, It's ridiculous and stupid to the extreme, and there's no beautiful... useless emotion at all."

"But why, now you..."

"shut up!"

"Have you become angry from embarrassment after being exposed?"

"I tell you to shut up!"

"Your pity..."

In a few steps, he had already come to the boy's side. The blond young man leaned over and slowly approached the boy's ear...

"It's too much! I obviously love you so much, but you... you always refuse to look at me, but you want to look to the side..."

It was as soft as a whisper between lovers, and the young man's tone was so affectionate that no one could ignore it.

However, the boy named Rei Hidari did not waver at all.

"It's not me you're looking at." The young man said calmly and firmly, "What you're looking at is just this body that will become your shell. As for who is inside...it really matters to you. ?”

"KRAD, I'm not you. I don't need you. Give me...disappear!"

The young man who turned his back to the young man and yelled in a low voice didn't notice it. When he said coldly, "It's not me you're looking at" and the seemingly unhesitating "I don't need you", the blond young man On his face, there was a contradictory expression that combined ferocious anger and deep sadness...

"You will be completely mine one day, my lord. Why... so much struggle..."

The young man's whispers gradually disappeared into the quiet exhibition room as his figure disappeared. The ice blue-haired boy trembled violently when he heard the words, but until the end of the image, the boy finally... didn't turn around again. Come……

"This... no matter how you look at it, it's all about love and killing each other!"

When the black color representing the end of the video took over the entire screen, Kaito was dumbfounded for a long time, and finally... said such a comment dryly.

At the same time, on the other side of the screen, DARK, who has successfully obtained the "Wedge of Time", is dragging KRAD, who has lost his mind, from the high top of the museum, all the way quickly falling...