Tokyo Trickster

"Okay," Wu Jianmiao was a little shaken. She asked while flipping through the book, "Is this magic?"

"Theoretically it's magic," Amamiya Ren picked up the contract with his fingers and pulled out a bright rose from the gap of just a few millimeters. He pinned the bouquet in the pocket of Takemiya's white coat, "If you want to call it magic, it's appropriate."

"I know this. I hid the flowers in advance..."

Amemiya Ren clapped her hands, and the rose instantly turned into Takemiya's signature pen in her pocket. The rose, with its thorns sharpened, lay quietly at her fingertips.

He leaned in and sniffed the flower, "Ms. Takemi, this is magic."

"......" The doctor was silent for a while. She shook the fiery red rose in her hand a few times and said, "Should I use this to sign the contract?"

"Of course," Amamiya Ren turned to the last page of the contract, "Come on."

Wu Jianmiao numbly poked the flower in her hand on the signature column, and she felt the familiarity of the pen tip touching the paper.

There was no rose in his hand, just the same pen with a little ink left.

The benefits say that the necessary R&D funds and drug testers will be provided.

She had no doubts about the funding. It was impossible for such a superpower organization to be short of money, right?

So... Takemiya asked, "When will the drug tester arrive?"

Amamiya Ren spread her hands, "Right in front of you."

"I am truly...truly honored and terrified," the doctor's eyelids trembled slightly.

"Come on," the Phantom Thief shook his head, "Don't worry about the side effects, I can handle it."

Wu Jianmiao looked at him deeply, then stood up and walked into the blackout curtain, opened a hidden small medicine cabinet, and took out a bottle of white compressed pills. The plastic bottle containing the medicine had no label or instructions.

"This is a drug that can quickly make people 'excited'. Its mode of action is not to overdraw, but to 'replenish'."

She introduced, "According to my estimation, possible side effects include nausea and nosebleeds, and in severe cases, vomiting and fainting."

Amamiya Ren took out a disposable plastic cup from somewhere, and he stretched out his hand to grasp and open the cup. There was the sound of splashing water, and the water dispenser beside him was making a gurgling sound, and the water level in the plastic cup rose rapidly.

Then he placed the second plastic cup, which was covered with water droplets, on the table and the truth came to light.

"How many at a time?"

"One pill, and it is not recommended to take multiple times within three hours," Wu Jian Miao said, "It may cause shock."

"I understand," Amamiya Ren swallowed a pill with water.

The postscript of the eagle's successor written by the world-weary Xinzhong is completed

Lie down on the bed, the doctor advised, "so you can feel it more easily."

If the equipment conditions were not too simple, she really wanted to stick some electrodes on Amamiya Ren to connect to the electrocardiogram and get a blood analyzer...

The thief was lying on the hospital bed, and he felt a ball of fire falling from his mouth into his stomach, and then his whole body was heating up.

Oh no, my stomach is on fire... The fire is so fierce, Dr. Takemi! It's about to burn my rectum!

Something is wrong! Amamiya Ren cried out that she had been tricked.

This is not about burning the rectum, it's about flames coming out of the rectum!

He jumped off the bed, rushed into the bathroom, locked the door, and disappeared.

075. Lavenda: I will take action this time

"You feel better?"

Takemiya Mio got a bowl of rice soup from the noodle shop next door and gave it to Amamiya Ren.

In her opinion, the body functions of the Phantom Thief are simply not like those of a human. He actually lies on the bed playing "Project sekai" (a Japanese pop music game) while suffering from a series of drug side effects such as "nausea, vomiting, vomiting, and headache"... The song he chose is "Six Trillion Years and One Night Z", Master difficulty level 35.

By the time the doctor pushed the door open and walked in, Amamiya Ren's hands, which had been leaving countless afterimages, had stopped moving, and "All Perfect" popped up on the screen.

There is no foreword or skills, just overwhelming strength that overflows the entire screen.

He rubbed his sore eyes, took the rice soup and drank it up, "If you had come later, I might have recovered."

"How convenient, esper. Is this also magic?"

“It’s magic.”

"Okay, magic, what exactly is its effect?" Dr. Takemi expressed his scientific literacy as a researcher.

"Telling it out will reduce the mystery, and the reduced mystery will make the magic weaker. Maybe what you are seeing now is the last miracle." Amamiya Ren lied with his eyes open. Now is not the time to let Wu Jianmiao understand the impression space.

"Do you think I haven't seen "Fate/Zero"?" Wu Jian Miao sighed, "If you don't want to tell me, forget it."

"You just joined the organization, so you have to observe it for a while, right?" Amamiya Ren put on a sports jacket and changed her tone to a more intimate one. "Well, see you next time, Miss Takemi."

With the sound of chains entangled, a tarot card slowly emerged from the desk in the Velvet Room and fell on the cover of the first-grade biology textbook.

Major Arcana [Death]: Let go of the past, transcend limitations, embark on a new journey of the heart, and be reborn.

Lavenda pushed the door open and walked in, carefully putting away the Death God.

"I've gained a new bond," she smiled happily, "that's great."

"Hmm?" Lavenda was suddenly stunned.

I saw a brand new tarot card appearing on the history book nearby.

Major Arcana [Emperor]: Sense of responsibility, strong will and stable energy.

"Is that Mr. Kitagawa? Congratulations, congratulations..." The girl's face turned gloomy, and another memory across time made her emotions fluctuate violently.

That damn art student, who had been monopolizing Amamiya Ren in the Phantom Thieves all day, asking her to be his painting model... This guy doesn't know how to read the atmosphere at all. Obviously, the girls are fighting for the opportunity to date him, but...

Lavenda clenched her fists. She had finally won the lottery on Valentine's Day, but was robbed on the same day: Amamiya Ren followed that damn fox man and took a group of boys to play a baseball game.

But now everything is different.

The secretary took a deep breath.

In this timeline, she has no idea how she survived the sneak attack by the "false god". She couldn't find Igor, but Morgana was still born.

Fortunately, Lavenda was the first "partner" that Amamiya Ren met.

The contractor who was implementing the plan to plunder the "Joker" was not disturbed by the false god. He successfully integrated the "perfect clown" he created into the "Fool" card, instead of being forced to split his personality like in the original timeline, creating an extremely crazy mental palace that almost destroyed the entire Tokyo in the future.

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

Lavenda thought back to when Amamiya Ren entered the Velvet Room.

The first scene often reflects the inner thoughts of the contractor.

In the new velvet room, she saw a scene she had never seen before: countless dials of all sizes were turning mechanical axes in all directions, accompanied by a dense clicking sound like a rainstorm, and a dark key was floating in the light as mournful and brilliant as a rainstorm.

She had an instinct that she had to turn the key.

Because this will bring crucial help to Amamiya Ren.

Then, a personality mask that went against her cognition was born and collapsed in the Velvet Room.

Lavenda couldn't even understand the concept of this personality mask and the consciousness it carried.

With the Velvet Room as the axis, universes rotated and overlapped one after another, eventually becoming an "interesting" aggregate. Before Lavenda fell into it, she faintly heard someone laughing and talking. The millet-haired girl rode a rocket to break free from gravity and rushed into the deep galaxy.

From this moment on, Amamiya Ren's design, which was destined to fail due to various factors, was completely reversed:

The "false god" disappeared after the attack on the Velvet Room. Igor's whereabouts are unknown.

The Joker is dead. The Ace follows the Joker's chaos and creates his own Fool's Path.

And Lavenda accidentally found the original trajectory of this world in the turbulence of time.

There is no "Haruhi Suzumiya" there. Deep in the moon, a gate is built to isolate death. A pale soul is nailed in front of the gate like Jesus on the cross. He is the only lock that blocks the terror behind the door.

After experiencing countless spiritual palaces, the members of the Tokyo Phantom Thieves gradually transformed from being clumsy to mature. They defeated Yaldabaoth, who was playing with the world, and after a hearty victory, the opponent finally revealed the final foreshadowing before his death.

The "Joker" in which all fragmented consciousness is magnified and distorted.

He was the character that caused the entire Phantom Thieves to fail miserably. He was at the top of the last palace of the mind, lazy and greedy, jealous and irritable, lustful and gluttonous, absolutely arrogant and vain.

He is "Amamiya Ren".

He made seven secret treasures and 21 desire stones, stood on the top of the distorted Tokyo Tower in the image space, and fought a life-and-death battle with the real Amamiya Ren and Narukami Yuu who mastered the personality mask of the [World].

No one knows the outcome of the battle. The whole of Tokyo is immersed in a purgatory-like sea of ​​fire. The "Joker Virus" has made all the residents "free". There is laughter everywhere, and all the bad qualities of mankind are released in the chaos.

Subsequent fragments of memory slowly faded and disappeared as time passed to return to normal.

That terrible world line will never come again. In this brand new beginning, Lavenda is the only one at the starting line!

The contestant Lavenda, who was once late, took the lead before all the future members of the Phantom Thieves!

She smirked, then her smile faded.

Lavenda looked at the [Emperor] and [Chariot] in front of her and couldn't laugh.

The girls in the Phantom Thieves all hated that group of boys because they could always easily take away most of Amamiya Ren's time.

The girls need to work hard to compete and negotiate in various aspects to make each other "willingly" accept their "date invitation" to Amamiya Ren at the chosen time.

For a date, you may have to prepare for a month in advance.

But it doesn't matter. The boys next door can often kidnap Amamiya Ren with just one word "get on the account" and drag her into the abyss of video games or various sports.

It's great that they didn't go to war with each other... So why didn't the Phantom Thieves disband by their senior year?!

Lavenda waved her fist at the air. This time, I will come back like lightning, take back everything, and defeat everything—

Kitagawa Vsuke, Sakamoto Ryuji, Araragi Koyomi...just wait for me!

She felt so heartbroken when she thought about how the "Valentine's Day date" she had worked so hard to get was ruined by these boys.

We must speed up the "plan to turn Amamiya Ren into a useless person" and turn him into a "useless person" who cannot live without us.

Let Amemiya Ren think of her when she eats, plays games, drinks water, or even goes to the toilet or sleeps.

This is absolute competitiveness!

Lavenda thought smugly.

Meanwhile...

Amamiya Ren is exchanging views on Japanese painting with Kitagawa Vsuke, whom he met by chance on the street.

His extensive and wide reading has given him a rich reserve of knowledge.

Not to mention discussing with art students, even if Ryuji Sakamoto immediately asked him to play baseball, he could analyze and explain all kinds of gossip and popular moves on the field in a logical manner.

After just a few words, Kitagawa actually felt like he had found a close friend.

Amamiya Ren easily extracted all kinds of information about Madarame Ikryusai from him.

In that shabby house, there was a room where old paintings were kept. The door was always locked and no one was allowed to approach.

The Phantom Thief has a new idea for his second plan to infiltrate Madarame Ichiryusai's mind palace.

(PS: Save your time, the second week of Lavenda's passionate fight against all the rivals of the Phantom Thieves will begin soon)

076. Money is art

"The latest work of the great painter Madarame - "Bleeding Reeds"."

"Hey, have you heard?"

"what?"

"It's Madarame-sensei's new work!"

"Oh! Of course! I heard that you used a completely different painting style. It's amazing that you are still actively learning new techniques and styles at such an old age."

"Yes, the brisk lines are very spiritual, and the scene of a bare-chested warrior holding a sword and walking slowly into the sunset is also very artistic."

"It is said that a wealthy man has offered 48 million for Yi Zhanyou's painting."

"He's so amazing! I wish I could be his disciple!"

"Haha, Misato-chan is talking in your sleep again? Master Madarame looks down on us marginal art students."

"Well, come to think of it, it seems that Mr. Madarame rarely accepts apprentices. He takes care of many young people who love painting in the name of various charity projects."

“Is that so…”

Amemiya Ren stood in the gallery wearing large square sunglasses, looking up at the painting with a red and black background.

The sword-wielding samurai protagonist is based on him.

Kitagawa Vsuke spent countless days and nights carving, but in the end, the name "Madarame Ikryusai" was signed at the end.