Anime, but the Phantom Thieves of Heart

The reason why it is strange is that although it is already modern times, there are many candles lit inside the cave.

Although the weak light brought by these candles could not illuminate the entire cave, if you looked closely, you could see countless bright red magic circles drawn on the rock wall.

But at this moment, suddenly, the originally dim but stable candle light began to flicker, which undoubtedly made the already weird blood-colored magic circle look even more bizarre, and even some of the weirdos in black robes couldn't help but become agitated.

But at this moment, the man at the front of the crowd stood up.

"Quiet!!"

The sound, which was not too loud, turned into an echo thanks to the special structure of the cave and reverberated everywhere, but it also made everyone quiet down. Then they saw the other party turn around, raise his hands and speak again.

"The Witch-sama has given instructions! The 'Holy Child' is in Tokyo!"

Although he tried hard to control his emotions, the slightly trembling voice was like a bomb dropped among all the black-robed people present.

'boom! ! ’

In an instant, the crowd became chaotic, but the man standing at the front seemed to be oblivious to it. He murmured in a low voice that only he could hear.

"Witch-sama~! Are you finally willing to see me...?"

At the same time, in a church in Tokyo, a blonde girl was kneeling on one knee in front of the cross and praying. A priest who passed by the prayer room looked at her back with a kind expression but did not say much. After all, he was already accustomed to her prayers, day after day, year after year.

But at this moment, the other party suddenly opened her eyes with surprise and stared at the exquisite cross in front of her, as if she was confirming something. Unfortunately, no matter how she observed the cross in front of her, everything was normal, as if what she had heard before was just an illusion.

She lowered her head and pondered for a long time before finally making up her mind.

Looking at the blonde girl walking towards him, the priest standing outside the prayer room looked at her in surprise, because in his impression, she had never stopped praying in the middle of anything.

"Master Father..."

Facing the blond girl who looked embarrassed, the kind priest smiled at her.

"My child, is there anything that troubles you..."

Lan Ke's 'awakening' brought incredible changes to the 'cognitive world', and because of the connection between the 'cognitive world' and the 'material world', it also brought some changes to the material world.

Even a certain cat that had been taking a nap beside the rudder of the Velvet, located between the material and cognitive worlds, pricked up its ears, sat up abruptly, and quickly jumped to the window.

Looking at the waves rising outside the window, it looked up at the sky again.

Unlike the sky of the 'other world' which was oppressive due to the dark clouds, above the sea of ​​spirit was a brilliant sea of ​​stars dotted all over the sky.

But faced with this beautiful scenery, it not only frowned, but also muttered to itself unconsciously.

"The wind is blowing, it's time to set sail..."

I'm so tired, so alone

However, this gust of 'wind' was not very strong and soon calmed down. It no longer frowned but returned to its original position, silently staring at the door of the wheelhouse, as if waiting for something.

What Lan Ke did was like throwing a stone into a calm lake, causing countless waves.

The stone quickly fell to the bottom of the abyss, but it took some time for the waves to subside.

But he had no idea about all this and all he wanted at the moment was to go back early and have a good sleep.

Perhaps it was because his 'shadow' had disappeared, but Lan Ke's tense spirit unconsciously relaxed. Wearing the 'Phantom Thief Suit', Lan Ke seemed to have been drained of all his strength and sat down against the wall.

He didn't know if it was because his adrenaline was no longer being secreted, but his original excitement gradually subsided, and was replaced by a feeling of fatigue that continued to invade his spirit. At this moment, he felt as if he had been performing surgery in the operating room for a whole day and night, and his whole body seemed empty.

But he still had to cheer up.

Before, his mind was full of "survival" and he had no time to think about anything else, but now he can finally take advantage of the break to think carefully.

First of all, he agreed with his shadow's statement of "I am you". After all, if the other party was not his shadow, then there was no way to explain why the other party knew the darkest thoughts in his heart.

At the same time, he remembered something.

Although he had only played P5R, he also knew some related information about the previous games because of the game itself. For example, almost all the characters in P5R awakened their own "persona masks" because they no longer suppressed their emotions, but only Futaba Sakura awakened her own personality mask after communicating with her "shadow".

Later, according to his online search, he found out that this way of awakening the "personality mask" is more similar to the character in P4.

The process of character awakening in P4 is generally to enter "one's own palace", and after seeing one's own "shadow", recognize one's own "side that one does not want others to know", or it can be said that one awakens one's own "personality mask" after reaching a reconciliation with oneself.

If you think about it this way, Lan Ke's luck is actually pretty good. He has a more mature mind, and there are no other people watching. When faced with what the other party said, he did not directly deny it, and naturally did not stimulate the "shadow" to go berserk.

But at the same time, the way in which his 'persona' was awakened due to psychological trauma helped him remember many things.

At that time, he already had the advantage and actually faced two choices.

One is to take the opportunity to eliminate his "dark side". He believes that he has never done anything regretful in his life, and perhaps he will become more pure. Relying on his ability derived from the "Phantom Thief", he may really become a "saint" in religious stories.

But in the end he gave up. Apart from the uncertainty involved in doing so, he also had his own "desires".

I like playing games, and occasionally I want to slack off. When I see a cute girl, I can't help but take a few more glances...

He doesn't want to become a machine that loses its humanity and takes "correctness" as the only criterion. What's the meaning of living like this?

Perhaps it was Lan Ke's frankness that made his "shadow" finally choose to give up and become one with Lan Ke.

After all, his birth was the result of Lan Ke's excessive suppression and restraint of his emotions. When he really accepted all this, there was no meaning for his existence.

Although I figured out a lot of things, my doubts did not decrease, but instead increased.

For example, why did I encounter my own 'shadow' when I first entered the 'Impression Space'?

Coupled with the confident look of his 'assistant' last night, Lan Ke suspected that all this was related to the other party.

But these can only be confirmed when we meet each other again.

I took out my phone and, as expected, the originally empty list of "Personality Masks" now had two more names.

One of them is naturally Pixie who helped him at the critical moment, and the other is his own unique personality mask - Raum.

Lan Ke, who was unfamiliar with the name, took out his mobile phone to check the information, but as expected, there was no signal at all.

He had to go back to the 'toilet' on the previous floor and use 'different-dimensional navigation' to temporarily leave the 'impression space'.

In front of him was the familiar toilet. Wearing a 'Phantom Thief Suit', he sat on the toilet lid and glanced at the intact door lock in front of him before he breathed a sigh of relief. Then he took out his mobile phone and started searching.

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He soon found out who 'Raum' was.

The other party came from a famous "group" - the Seventy-two Demons of Solomon.

Compared to the famous ones above, the 40th ranked 'Raum' is not that famous. He is a count and commands 30 legions. He often appears in the form of a 'crow' and can also transform into a human form. He can manipulate space to freely travel through the treasury to steal treasures, and can predict the future.

First of all, the description of traveling through space and treasure houses can be connected to Lan Ke's use of "different world navigation". In addition, "predicting the future" can also be connected from a certain perspective. After all, although it is a mixed world, since there are characters from various works, he can also know their "future" to a certain extent.

As for the styling?

Looking at his black and white clothes on the phone, his first reaction was "a pigeon landed in a pile of coal."

White pigeons are often associated with medical workers, and now his attempt to "steal desires to treat patients' distorted mental illnesses" seems to be related to "blackening himself."

"Thinking about it this way, Raum is quite compatible with me..."

But after sighing for a while, he encountered another problem——What should he do with his "Phantom Thief Suit"?

Although he had to admit that this steampunk-style thief costume appealed to his aesthetic taste, it was impossible for him to wear it home, right?

Almost at the same time when he had this thought, the 'Phantom Thief Suit' on his body gradually began to fade away, until it finally turned into countless points of light and disappeared into the air. In its place was the tattered sportswear stained with sewage.

"Can the Phantom Thief Suit automatically disappear or be put on?"

Lan Ke instantly remembered the "one-click dress-up" function that was almost everywhere in various games, but then his expression became extremely horrified.

After all, there is a very clear explanation about the 'Phantom Thief Suit' in the game. It is a protective suit created by the 'Phantom Thief' to fight against the 'Palace Self-Protection Mechanism'. Theoretically, it is impossible for a 'Phantom Thief Suit' to appear in the real world.

This involves the difference between the 'material world' and the 'cognitive world'!

One of the BADENDS in the game is the protagonist who chooses to be a lackey of the "false god". The "cognitive world" and the "material world" overlap, which allows him to "transform" in the real world.

If he can "transform" in the real world, doesn't that mean that this world has entered "BADEND"?

At this time, Lan Ke didn't care about too much. He packed his tattered sportswear in a plastic bag, changed into his school uniform, and prepared to "go home."

At this moment, he had a lot of questions to ask his assistant.

Why does the 'shadow' that belongs to me appear?

Is the 'false god' still at the bottom of the 'Impression Space (subway station)'?

However, when he was changing his clothes, he discovered something that surprised him. Not only the wound on his right hand, but the wound on his waist had also disappeared.

He gently placed his fingers on his waist and pressed, then breathed a sigh of relief.

According to his experience, although there is pain when pressing, there is no problem with the internal organs, and the rest is probably 'phantom pain'.

But there's nothing we can do about it. After all, no matter who gets stabbed twice in the kidney, it's likely to be like this, right?

After wiping off the remaining water stains on his body and hair with a napkin, Lan Ke, wearing his school uniform, walked out of the public restroom. Everything seemed to be the same as when he came in.

But only he knew that he had become completely different...

Chapter 12 The Secret of the Velvet

On the other side, when Lan Ke cautiously returned to the "Kujo family" in Beika Town, something embarrassing happened to him.

When he calmed down and opened the door, he saw an empty house. When he pushed open the door of the restaurant, he saw a note and a flyer.

It was clearly written on the note that the other party didn't know what time he would be home tonight, so he told him that if he was hungry he could just call and order food. He often ordered from the restaurant in the advertisement, so he could just put it on the bill.

Lan Ke scratched his head in annoyance about this. After all, even if the other party acted like he didn't care about the money, he could just order whatever he wanted.

But no matter how good the other party was to him, he was still a boarding student, so he finally chose the cheapest 'hamburger set meal'. However, when he was about to hang up the phone, he asked the other party to send him an extra portion of sushi.

Although he doesn't like sushi very much, this dish wasn't ordered for him anyway.

After hanging up the phone, Lan Ke quickly moved the flyer aside. Even though he knew that Jotaro Kujo should come from a well-off family, the prices of the food made him grimace. The prices were several times more expensive than those in ordinary stores. Considering the price gap between the two countries, the price of ordering a takeout was even enough for him to have a luxurious buffet.

Although the price was high, the service was very good. He didn't have to wait for long before the steaming hot dinner was delivered. Looking at the disappearing red taillights of the Mazda, Lan Ke sighed that the money was not wasted while he started to eat with relish.

Perhaps it was because he had just awakened his 'Personality', but he devoured the 'Hamburger Set Meal' in no time. He even felt a little hungry, but perhaps because most of his blood was concentrated in his stomach to help digest the food, he was already exhausted and simply returned to the attic to rest.

It was not known whether it was because his mind was filled with thoughts of entering the Velvet Room, or simply because he was exhausted physically and mentally from the fighting during the day. Even though Raum had healed his body, the mental exhaustion still caused him to fall into a deep sleep.

There was the whistling sea breeze in his ears and the surging waves in his eyes. It was obvious that Lan Ke had arrived on his "Velvet".

This time he pushed open the room at the bow with ease.

As expected, his 'assistant' in a sailor shirt was lying next to the rudder.

The other party, who was kicking his hands, was reading the 'Complete Book of Masks' with great interest, and it was obvious that he was admiring his personality mask.

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However, when it heard the sound of the door lock turning, its originally soft ears instantly perked up, but when it saw Lan Ke, its originally tense body relaxed again.

"It's you, Captain! You're really early today!"

In response to his assistant's greeting, Lan Ke sat next to the helm very skillfully and then looked at his assistant without saying a word. It was obvious that he hoped that the other party could understand what he meant.

However, I don't know whether it's because of poor tacit understanding or the other party simply doesn't want to say it. Even facing Lan Ke's stare, the other party didn't care. He just arched his body and stretched, then yawned and curled up into a "ball", as if he would rest until Lan Ke spoke.

This made Lan Ke quite helpless, but he didn't want to waste time so he just spoke.

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"What on earth was that 'shadow' just now? Why did I encounter 'my shadow' in the 'Impression Space'?"

Lan Ke was not surprised that he had a "shadow". After all, he was very self-aware. His only surprise was that he met the other person in a place where he shouldn't have met the other person.

Faced with Lan Ke's question, the other party just spread his hands.

"I don't know~"

Looking at the innocent expression on his assistant's face, Lan Ke couldn't hold it in any longer.

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"You do not know?"

"Captain, why do you think I would know? I can't even leave the Velvet, how could I possibly know what's going on outside?"

"Then how did you know I would meet my 'shadow'?"

Facing Lan Ke’s puzzled face, the cat lying beside the rudder was instead full of surprise, as if saying—when did I say that?

Facing Maomao's gaze, Lan Ke finally realized that what the other party meant was "he himself will awaken his personality mask." As for when and where, the other party did not mention a word.

After all this time, it turns out that he was fighting a battle of wits and courage with the air?

Looking at Lan Ke who looked depressed, the other party walked to the table with an elegant cat step, and then with an elegant little jump, landed directly on his thighs.