Tokyo Trickster

Is this also Joker's plan?

Amamiya Ren closed his eyes and followed Lavenda's instructions to find his inner voice.

"What's wrong? Confused trickster. Are you looking for my existence?" It was a clear male voice.

"Of course, hurry up and come out." Yu Gong Lian was already impatient. As soon as he finished speaking, a pale blue flame immediately rose from his body.

"Really? What a terrifying determination. Then let's sign the contract!" The voice in my heart suddenly sounded like a drumbeat, and suddenly became thunder, which was deafening.

Suddenly, a strong wind blew around them, and one by one, the "Ramgiya lotuses" disappeared.

Until he saw the psychiatrist, he gave Amamiya Ren a last meaningful look before disappearing into the swirling wind.

Amamiya Ren suddenly covered his head. He felt as if his skull was opened and burned with a branding iron, which was a fatal pain. A huge amount of knowledge was forced into him. Various stealth methods, theft methods, and even fighting techniques were engraved in it and then integrated.

Cold sweat soaked his clothes, and the pale blue flame became more and more vigorous, burning his whole body in an instant.

The school uniform was burned in the flames, replaced by a black windbreaker, a gray collared shirt, and black trousers, with black riding boots and a pair of red gloves.

The newly bought glasses disappeared.

The half-face mask in the shape of a white bird was embedded in the flesh, and the area around the eye sockets was rendered black.

The young man, dressed like a medieval thief, knelt on the ground and finally recovered from the severe pain.

At some point, Amamiya Ren had already put both hands on the mask, tearing it off along with the skin and flesh. As blood spurted out, scarlet stained her cheeks, and then immediately faded into her eyes, lighting up a pair of dazzling red-gold pupils. The whole process did not bring any pain, only the power rising in her body brought a sense of pleasure.

"I am you, and you are me..." The voice said the shameful words of the contract, "My name is--"

"Arsen." Amamiya Lian stretched out her hand and touched the void.

A hand wrapped in red metal with devilish hooked fingers touched his.

A huge demon appeared. K was wearing a blood-red dress, a pitch-black top hat, and red, almost ink-black wings spread out behind him.

His name is Arsene Lupin, a chivalrous thief created by French writer Maurice, a French traitor and the originator of chivalrous thieves. Arsene Lupin is not only a detective as famous as Sherlock Holmes, but also a chivalrous thief with a sense of justice and compassion. He is smart, thoughtful, romantic, wealthy, and robs the rich to help the poor. Therefore, the poor people give him titles such as "chivalrous thief", "strange thief" and "strange thief gentleman". He is also admired by countless women at that time. He is proficient in the art of disguise and can transform into anyone at any time.

This is not a summoning of heroic spirits like in "Fate/zero".

Yasen is the abstract manifestation of Amamiya Ren's inner personality.

Compared to becoming a crazy clown who manipulates people's hearts.

He chose to become a thief who yearned for justice, wandering deep in the darkness and destroying the evils protected by the law.

Under the huge castle dome, it seemed as if a scale was quietly swinging.

Joker's low laugh echoed in the narrow cell.

No one knows...except the tenants here.

He looked at Lavenda, who was chained in the gate, and raised his hand to make a shushing gesture.

The Joker is outside the cell.

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The weather is dry: 013. Palace of Lust (3K)

After a brief moment of contemplation, Amamiya Ren decided to sneak into the palace. He was now dressed like an actor in a stage play, and his agility was like the reincarnation of Batman.

He captured the key word, "Batman", and started IT... While he was daydreaming, he had already found a ventilation duct on the city wall that seemed to have less rust. He opened the lid and crawled inside.

In his opinion, the fighting style of the so-called personality mask users is similar to the stand users in "JoJo's Bizarre Adventure". After all, the personality mask is also a kind of spiritual construct. Yasin's range is about D~C, so when spying on intelligence, he must be present.

World-weary penguin, dove

Amamiya Ren threw away the windshield in her hand, reached out to Lavenda who was standing below, and pulled her up.

He inherited all the knowledge and memories of the legendary thief "Arsene Lupin" from the memory space, and has acquired skills and combat techniques that are no less than those of an action movie agent. His physical fitness has also become as close to his character as possible with the personality mask. Although his body has not changed, a special power has been attached to it to assist him.

Lavenda looked like a middle school student. The "light bodies of girls" in novels were all bullshit. Even the lightest girl would weigh as much as several empty desks, not counting her skeleton.

Then Amamiya Ren lifted four desks with one hand, and she didn't feel any difficulty at all...

World-weary

The desk lady cooperated well by grabbing the rusty vent and followed Amamiya Ren into the pipe. She didn't seem to mind being in such a dirty environment and didn't even show any strange expression.

Clang, clang, palms and knees knocked against the old and dilapidated pipes, which inevitably made some noises. The yellow-brown sewage mixed with rust dripped down and was casually patted away by Amamiya Lian. The two of them curled up and walked through the narrow space. Of course, Lavenda's overly petite body seemed relatively relaxed at this time.

"Um..." Lavenda suddenly poked the Trickster's back, "I heard a strange sound in this direction."

She extended her slender finger towards the far right end of the intricate branch of the ventilation duct, and her tone was as matter-of-fact as it should be, showing the manners that a tenant of the Velvet Room should have. As an assistant to the trickster, it seemed that she should indeed have such ability.

Amamiya Ren also believed it as a matter of course, because he had no reason to doubt Lavenda. After turning around with difficulty, they finally arrived at their destination.

He used his elbow to push against the corner of the exit, and then exerted force. With a sharp sound of metal deformation, the almost rusted windshield was knocked away.

This is a Victorian-style library. In the corridors that extend in all directions, a sharp and piercing sound suddenly sounded, and a young man in black fell from the ceiling.

Amamiya Ren rushed out of the pipe with a leap, and rolled to the ground in a graceful and almost gorgeous move. He looked around.

Five knights wrapped in heavy armor, holding broad swords and heavy shields, had been waiting for a long time. They looked at each other in bewilderment as they saw Amamiya Ren fall into their encirclement.

"What a stupid little thief."

"He just jumped in like that? He didn't even do any observation."

"Hahaha, His Majesty Kamoshida will definitely be very satisfied with the results of our work."

"..."

As the knights pressed forward, the young Stand user...the young Trickster immediately called out his own personality mask.

The crimson demon suddenly appeared, shaking its inky black wings. As feathers fell, Amamiya Ren, the contractor, rubbed her wrists.

He looked down upon the knights and whispered.

"Yasin, tear them up."

There was no verbal response, only the howling of the wind, and the tall, heavily armored knight was cut into countless pieces along with his thick armor.

The blood-spattering scene did not happen.

The flesh inside the armor dissolved into dark, shadowy gas, which danced wildly and dissipated.

Lavender's voice came from the ventilation duct at this time, "This is a product formed by the master of the hall based on his own cognition - cognitive existence, shadow."

"They are all made up by Kamoshida." Amamiya Ren concluded, "What about you? 'Lavenda'."

He looked at the hole in the ceiling. His partner had not shown up yet. "What are you now?"

"......" He was responded by a long silence.

Lavenda seemed to be trying not to laugh. "If you had inherited the knowledge of that thief, you would have discovered the truth right from the start."

"Should I call you Joker?"

"That's appropriate," she said. "I am Lavenda's personality mask. The sub-personality was born after I came into contact with the Joker, and it corresponds to the original body's timidity."

"It's really embarrassing for me that you were influenced by that lunatic."

"Feel sorry."

"..." Amamiya Lian clapped his hands, and Arsen, who had been ready for a long time, suddenly flapped his wings and flew into the air, tearing open the fragile ventilation duct, strangled "Lavenda" by the throat, and dragged her to the ground.

The phantom that was about to take shape around "Lavenda" collapsed and turned into black air currents and dissipated like those shadows.

Amamiya Ren mercilessly pulled out the dagger hanging from the inside of his coat. This dagger was the weapon used by the thief Arsene in the book "Arsene Lupin vs. Sherlock Holmes". Now it also appeared with the change of clothes. He put the sharp tip of the knife against her forehead, "You want to kill me."

His tone was firm.

And "Lavenda" also showed a bright and brilliant smile without disguising, and she responded crisply, "Yes."

Upon hearing this, Amamiya Ren stabbed the dagger without hesitation, cutting open the false body and watching it shatter into airflow, then she suddenly woke up.

What was I just...doing?

He was horrified that he had no psychological barriers whatsoever in killing the "human".

Was it because of Arsene Lupin's memory? No, that was the perfect chivalrous thief in the novel, and that kind of sunshine-like warm sense of justice could not turn him into a potential murderer.

"It's time to go," a voice said to Amamiya Ren, "This castle is full of guards like the ones just now. If they spot you, it will alert the king at the top."

Amamiya Ren clenched his fists to sober himself up a little. He looked in the direction where the sound came from... A black cat with a human-like shape was standing in the corner of the library, holding a thick copper-covered book in its hand... It was a terrifying and bizarre scene, but when he thought that he was in the spiritual world, he could understand it.

Everything developed too coincidentally.

As a partner, Lavenda was replaced, and the main body was missing. After going deep into the maze through the pipe and getting rid of the guard, a guy who showed obvious kindness to me immediately appeared. It seemed that all the itineraries so far had been deliberately arranged. There was an invisible person hiding in a corner outside of observation who planned all this.

When did it start?

This morning? Last night? Or even earlier... He didn't dare to think any further.

"Hey!" The cat saw that Amamiya Ren had not responded yet, and his face showed urgency. "What are you still standing here for? The guards will be here soon!"

Amamiya Ren looked at it for a long time, "Who are you?"

"Tsk, my name is Morgana," the humanoid cat urged him, "I'm here to investigate this temple, what about you?"

I (わがはい)? This relatively old and formal first-person pronoun is rarely used by people to refer to themselves. Amamiya Ren widened his eyes. It is common in literary works, such as Natsume Soseki's "I am a cat".

"Amamiya Ren. I have the same goal as you."

The young thief waved his hand to dismiss Arsene, looked around the library, and then pushed the door open without staying any longer.

Morgana followed him out.

The corridor outside the library was magnificent, with colorful oil paintings hanging between the gilded wall lamps. The contents of the paintings were all of Kamoshida wearing a crown.

This was really amazing. Amamiya Ren suddenly slowed down his pace. He leaned against the shadow of the building and slowly crouched down on the side of a sofa. The cat that came from nowhere simply jumped in without making any sound.

I watched quietly as a team of guards walked past me and headed for the library. They then emerged from the darkness.

"You said...you are here to investigate this palace?" Amamiya Ren walked in the empty corridor and suddenly asked Morgana beside him.

"Of course, we have been wandering here for a long time."

"Let's exchange our findings. I've been here for quite some time." The trickster began to ask questions naturally. His agile skills made the lie more convincing.

Morgana did not doubt it too much. He took out the copper-covered book he had brought along with him and said, "This is the book I found that contains important information about this palace."

Amamiya Ren took a quick look. Wow, the copper cover contained yellowed parchment, and the cover, which was in the style of medieval European binding, was actually written in Japanese. It was called "Praise to the Honorable and Great King Kamoshida."

Open the first page, the table of contents is very short:

First, the king ordered the construction of a castle.

Second, the king ordered the training of new soldiers.

Third, the king ordered the recruitment of beautiful women.

Fourth, the king appointed Takamaki An and Suzui Shiho as his consorts.

Fifth, the king, his concubines, and many maids indulged themselves in pleasure in the harem, day and night.

Finally, praise the noble and great King Kamoshida. His glory shines on the world, his stature blocks out the sun, and his sword and mirror are held by our subjects.

What a lustful city. Amamiya Ren returned the book to Morgana. He was curious about what Kamoshida's harem looked like.

Nothing else, just curious.

It's all puberty's fault.

Unconsciously, he had forgotten the confusion and reflection he had felt about his strange behavior not long ago.

I seem to have forgotten something very important.

Soon, Amamiya Ren completely forgot about all this. He only remembered that he had to investigate the maze and then return to the Velvet Room to look for Lavenda.

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014. You are like a toilet plunger

How to describe Kamoshida's palace?

Without mentioning the heavily guarded tower.

The architectural layout here shows a strong sense of absurdity. Classicism, Romanesque, Gothic, and even deconstructivism, a variety of architectural styles from different eras are mixed here, as if the person who created this palace did not have an excellent knowledge background, he just stuffed everything he saw and heard in his life into the vast space of impressions.

With their excellent agility, Amamiya Ren and Morgana ran all over Kamoshida's castle, except for the throne room at the top. They had already drawn a structural diagram of the entire underground area.

During the process, he was not discovered by any guards, and he repeatedly used the strategies of "trick! sneak attack!" to resolve many unexpected incidents without any danger.

There are countless cells of different sizes built underground where the moat flows. Boys wearing high school uniforms are imprisoned in them, undergoing the "training tasks" assigned by the king. Behind some fences are students lying on the ground exhausted, covered with wounds; behind some fences are spacious gymnasiums, where students are suspended in the air, with machines constantly firing volleyballs at them, making a dull bang, and the volleyballs bounce back to the wall; or on treadmills, where students must run as hard as they can, with long blood-stained cones behind them, and they will be pierced in the waist and abdomen if they are physically exhausted. The young prisoners will not die, and any injuries will be healed in the process, and then there will be a new round of "physical training".