Tokyo Trickster

Amamiya Ren didn't find any girls in the prison, probably they were all in the "harem" of the upper class. Kamoshida knew how to enjoy himself. Opening the book "Praise to the Noble and Great King Kamoshida", you can see that the so-called "harem" is a place full of vulgar and romantic atmosphere. Various buildings are shaped into female features as much as possible. The girls are exposed in clothes, or simply naked, showing their well-trained straight thighs, which are white and eye-catching. They surround the king and are attentive//fawning//, ambiguous//, what a magnificent scene.

Two thieves who didn't know each other decided to take a closer look at the king's harem...

Bypassing the guards, he moved along the ventilation duct towards the most central area of ​​the entire castle. Amamiya Ren pushed open the wind shield and jumped onto the stand with marble-carved guardrails. He climbed the guardrails with both hands in mid-air to slow down, and landed silently with his strong core strength. This is the main hall of the castle, and the place where Kamoshida enjoyed himself was in the tower above the main hall.

Morgana jumped down right after him. The good thing about cats is that they have paw pads so they land silently.

From here, you can clearly overlook the magnificent palace. Ban Gu, a writer in the Han Dynasty of China, mentioned in his "Ode to the Western Capital" that "the main hall is towering, with layers of structures high, overlooking the Weiyang Palace."

As a building for receiving guests and holding meetings, the main hall had to bear the dignity of a monarch, so it was naturally extravagant. On both sides of the long corridor covered with red woolen carpets were conference tables, and imposing-looking guards were stationed between them. A man wearing a crown and very abstract clothes walked slowly... He was wearing a quilt and only a pair of pink boxer briefs, revealing black velvety chest and leg hair. It was so abstract that even Amamiya Ren could hardly look directly at him.

This person is none other than Kamoshida, the king of this city of lust.

According to "Lavenda", this Kamoshida is not the real person, but a manifestation of his inner personality. He should be called "Shadow" Kamoshida.

Amemiya Ren knocked on the white bird mask that covered half of her face, and the covered flesh felt an inexplicable burning pain.

Morgana widened his cat eyes, jumped onto the railing and looked hard at the king below.

"I heard that a few thieves sneaked into my castle, and you losers haven't caught them yet..." Kamoshida looked very angry. He pointed at the guards around him, "Do you also want to go to the prison for physical training?!"

Everyone shuddered. The venue in reality corresponding to this main hall was the meeting hall of Shujin High School. And in the king's mind, the students or teachers who supported Kamoshida were just these guards.

Morgana silently retracted his head and said, "The king has begun to be wary of us. Let's stop here today. Those big guys look much more difficult to deal with than the guards outside."

"Hey. Are you listening?" Morgana didn't get a response, and poked Amamiya Ren behind him with his claws in dissatisfaction.

But he hit nothing.

Huh?! Morgana turned back suddenly, and found that Amamiya Ren had disappeared without a trace.

......

The new thief was running wildly in the corridor, his goal was very clear - to escape from the castle.

As soon as Kamoshida finished his first sentence, Amamiya Ren had already started to run away. He was not sure if he could play hide-and-seek in such a complicated terrain. The group of guards were refreshed from scratch just like the monsters in the game. If he was distracted for a moment, they might appear in his face.

Looking at the structural diagram copied into the small notebook, Amamiya Ren crawled into the drain of the underground storage room... Fortunately, no one was defecating here and the water was quite clean, so she could just treat it as swimming practice.

Huh, he wiped the water off his face, opened the manhole cover, and climbed up by grabbing the floor.

At this time, I took out the waterproof oilcloth bag and checked that the mobile phone and notebook inside were not wet, then I breathed a sigh of relief.

After many twists and turns, Amamiya Ren returned to the castle gate.

He looked at the ventilation duct without a cover. Well, he had to find Lavenda immediately.

The Velvet Room...

The thief walked towards the junction of the mind palace and reality, constantly imagining that what he was standing on was not the concrete floor of the alley next to the school but the table in the velvet room.

Soon, he stepped on a wooden table. In front of him was the familiar fence gate.

It's just that the direction is a bit wrong.

This time, Amamiya Ren was standing inside the cell and Joker was outside.

The cell was simply furnished with a bed, a table and a bench, and the clown was sitting opposite, dancing and laughing.

Two cute little silver-haired girls stood by the gate, wearing azure blue suit jackets, black leather skirts, knee-length white stockings and black square-toed leather shoes. They looked alert and wore black eye patches in opposite positions. They looked exactly like Lavenda. They looked like twin sisters... or triplets.

"Hey, prisoner," the girl on the left said viciously as the electric shock stick hit the gate. "Fraud, theft, and trespassing are serious crimes!"

The girl on the right said in a steady tone, "Death penalty."

Amamiya Ren took off her windbreaker and rolled up her sleeves, "What are you waiting for? Do it now."

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Dry weather: 015. Fool

"Then what are you waiting for? Execute my death sentence immediately."

Amamiya Ren patted the gate, urging them to act quickly.

After these words were spoken, the two little girls outside the door fell silent.

"It doesn't scare him at all," a very quiet voice said.

"Boss! We failed!" A very impatient voice.

The clown's hands that were dancing in the air suddenly fell behind his back. He kicked the bench away and stood up, shrugging his shoulders and pacing like a leader inspecting the area. "I didn't expect you to succeed."

He slowly approached Amamiya Ren, "We are reunited after a long time. Is there anything special you want to ask me?"

The thief knocked on the gate, and the lock unlocked. A key was inserted into it. "When will you die?"

"This doesn't quite fit in with the new persona you designed for yourself."

I have already abandoned that character setting. Amamiya Ren pulled out her own dagger from her sleeve and said, "Okay, let me put it another way."

Joker nodded and tilted his ear to listen attentively.

"When will you die?" Before he finished speaking, a black arc of light flashed with a clanging sound, and Amamiya Ren's dagger fell towards Joker's throat.

Then he couldn't move forward. Because the madman used his palm to block the dagger, and the blade pierced through the gap between his fingers and was stuck in the bones.

"Why, So, Serious?" Joker repeated word by word what he had said to Amamiya Ren a few days ago.

Even though his palm was pierced and the sharp dagger scraped against the bone, causing enough pain to shock one, he still had a playful smile on his face, making people want to tear his head off.

"It's really hard for you to be so busy until now, Joker," what is terrifying is that this sentence was not said by Amamiya Ren.

But...

The thief looked at the madman in front of him and fell silent.

An indescribable sense of absurdity came over me, making me think of some terrible speculations.

Amamiya Ren was silent for a long time. He suddenly let go of the dagger and took off the white bird mask on his face. "Do you think I can't tell the difference?"

Joker smiled and shook his head without saying a word.

Anxiety and confusion were burning like flames. The thief swung his fist at the clown's face, breaking his nose and blood flowing all over his face.

The clown was still laughing wildly.

Amamiya Ren pinned him to the ground and punched him again and again until her own hands in red gloves were covered in blood...

"Well, trickster," Joker grinned with a mouth full of broken teeth and blood, "Have you finished deceiving yourself now?"

Two little girls dressed like prison guards stood a little further away with lifeless eyes, like puppets.

The Phantom Thief pulled out a dagger and cut the Joker's throat, "I can't kill you."

He threw the bloodstained knife aside and grabbed the man's tie. "But you'd better tell me where Lavenda is."

"Don't change the subject, my friend. This is really important because you now look like... a serial murder suspect." Joker rubbed his neck, and the broken part there healed as before.

Amamiya Ren punched the clown in the face again, "I'll let you...ha..."

The thief suddenly covered his mouth, holding back the laughter that was about to come out. He curled up on the ground in pain, fighting against his instinct.

A voice told him that if he laughed like this, he would become another, completely unfamiliar self.

Joker unbuttoned the top of his suit, and his lining was filled with a strange, pale green mist. "I share my joy with you. I hope you like it."

"Just kidding, there is no laughing gas here as you imagine." He pulled up his clothes and the clouds of mist disappeared. "If possible, I would rather you call it..."

“Be happy every day.”

Amamiya Ren covered her mouth tightly to prevent herself from laughing out loud.

Joker danced around him, "Happy every day, happy every day... Oh, this is really exciting."

"Have you read comics?" He patted Amamiya Ren's shoulder as if talking to himself, "Humans will always temporarily forget their fears in laughter."

The messy green algae-colored short hair came into view, accompanied by the pungent smell of paint and blood. The clown's pale makeup was covered with blood, and he leaned over and stared at Amamiya Ren with his bloodshot eyes.

"This concept that is feared by countless people, they like to call it this?" Joker tilted his head and made a thoughtful expression. He seemed to really not be able to remember it, and hit his head hard with his hands.

"Oh, yes, it's called..."

Joker lay on the ground, leaned close to Amamiya Ren's ear, and whispered, "Joker virus."

"Hahahahahahahahahaha..." He suddenly burst into a sharp laugh, and was kicked over by Amamiya Ren who could no longer bear it.

The clown lay on the ground, laughing so hard that tears streamed down his face.

"Hahaha...hahaha, haha..." This laughter belongs to Amamiya Ren.

In the Velvet Room, two puppet-like girls stood still while two clowns laughed heart-wrenchingly.

Until a butterfly fluttered its wings and flew by, the space that was gradually twisted by desire collapsed in an instant. There was a faint sound of dense locks and chains. The protection measures that Lavenda had arranged at the bottom of the Velvet Room as a tenant were activated, which could forcibly deal with all the "abnormalities" that occurred here like the crushing module of antivirus software.

The world-weary smile is like a big skirt, just like an umbrella and ride on it.

In the alley outside of Shujin High School, Amamiya Ren, who had changed back into his school uniform, leaned against the wall, his face pale. He caught the fallen schoolbag, and thinking of the accident he had just experienced, he couldn't help but sweat.

The thief felt a cool sensation in his palm.

He spread out his right hand, where a unique Tarot card was lying, The Fool. This was the only Major Arcana without a number, numbered as the non-existent 0 or 22. It was the beginning of all Tarot cards, and also represented the end of Tarot cards, representing infinite possibilities.

The printed image on the front of the tarot card is not a miniature oil painting of a divination tool, but a clown laughing wildly in the flames.

Amamiya Lian recognized that this guy was "himself".

Joker......

He looked embarrassed and subconsciously tried to smile... Wait, I don't think I want to laugh that much.

This is a good thing. Amamiya Ren stuffed the tarot cards in her hand into the compartment of her schoolbag and walked quickly out of the alley.

When he touched the tarot card, he could feel the presence of the clown, and the chaos and madness that was about to tear himself and the world apart at any time.

on the contrary......

Am I normal?

Amamiya Ren kept thinking until the light in front of her was blocked.

"Amamiya-san, do you want to be late?" The voice was deliberately loud.

He looked up silently, and sure enough, it was Taku Kamoshida.

"I'm terribly sorry, Mr. Kamoshida," Amamiya Ren used a little trick commonly used in light and shadow magic to make him look frustrated and pleading naturally.

(PS: Now the Joker is included in the card. As the craziest and most chaotic personality, it is considered a super strong Fool card.)

(The protagonist has always been Amamiya Ren, there is no situation where the clown takes over the main role. Most of the strange feelings you see are foreshadowings I set up specifically, and they will be slowly revealed in the later plots. Please give me a little patience~)

Dry weather: 016. Yellow hair and yellow hair

"Attend class."

"stand up."

Teachers and students bow to each other. What a harmonious scene.

World-weary

Amamiya Ren sat in a corner, took out his notebook and wrote quickly on it: "There are the same number of nights and days in a year, and they last the same length of time. Even a happy life has its dark touches. Without the balance of 'sorrow', the word 'pleasure' loses its meaning. Patiently and calmly accepting the changes in the world is the best way to deal with things. - Carl Jung."

Ever since Joker used his body to beat up the worst group of delinquents in the school on the rooftop, no one dared to bully him. The desks filled with graffiti and obscene words were cleaned by the scarred delinquents overnight.

Senior Miyata still didn't come to school today, probably because Joker had selectively exposed his and his parents' privacy on the Internet. Now his reputation in the school has changed from "a capable man under Mr. Kamoshida, the designated sunny and cheerful big boy in the third grade" to "a scheming man who plays two girls at the same time and tries to cheat money and sex." When the girls heard this, they had to spit "bad!" regardless of whether they believed it or not... Sorry, sorry, sorry, I have to say it three times because it is important. Joker, please don't confuse Amamiya Ren with your behavior.

The sky outside the window was gray, and it felt like a heavy rain was coming, but in fact not a drop of rain came out. Perhaps it was because of urinary stones.

After several days of hard work, Amamiya Ren felt physically and mentally exhausted. He lay on the table yawning, watching the trainee biology teacher reading the syllabus in front of the podium. It was rare that he felt that going to school was so pleasant.

Solve Kamoshida's maze quickly and start your vacation. Even for the contractors of the Velvet Room, commonly known as "civilian special police wandering in the spiritual world", it is necessary to combine work and rest.

He thought that as long as he destroyed the maze of the lustful king, the real Kamoshida would lose his twisted desires... and become a normal person?

Without Kamoshida, Amamiya Ren has plenty of ways to live like an ordinary high school student. He has to study hard, how can he get into a good university if he hangs out with such a bug-like teacher every day!

Perhaps the syllabus was too boring, and Amamiya Ren, who was a super introvert, quickly lost consciousness. As a student, his instinct made him hold up his neck and refused to lower his noble head, but fatigue pulled his head down fiercely, and the next moment he raised it up again, nodding frequently as if he was amazed and encouraged by the teaching level of the intern teacher.

If the intern teacher hadn't been wearing glasses, he might have really thought so.

When Amamiya Ren opened her eyes again and stopped nodding, he could see the podium clearly. Well, a new teacher appeared when he opened and closed his eyes.

Who is this Mediterranean? He stared at the teacher's shiny scalp.

"New student Amamiya, please answer this question." The whole class happened to be silent, and the math teacher met Amamiya Ren's gaze. "The five centers of a triangle are clearly written in the textbook. Please recite it for everyone."