Comic: Becoming a Phantom Thief to Steal Hearts

“As for a place with few people, the rooftop is more suitable.

Hope, with messy feathers, got out of Lucas' coat pocket, "You! How dare you be so rough to me!"

"Because it was weird when you stopped on my shoulder." Lucas said plausibly, "It was almost like a pirate."

"I'm not a parrot!"

"Okay, okay." Peter couldn't help but said, looking at Hope with burning eyes, "You said you know how to deal with Thompson, right?"

"It's very simple, just do it from the garden side."

"What do you mean?"

"That garden is the school in Thompson's heart." Hope explained. "Although what happens in the garden will not be noticed by him, it symbolizes the depth of his heart. Therefore, if the garden disappears, it will naturally have an impact on him. "

"What will happen?" Lucas asked.

"That garden...that is to say, the palace is distortion and desire. If it disappears..."

"Will twisted desires disappear?" Lucas followed Hope's words.

"Yes! You are indeed very talented." Hope gave Lucas an appreciative look.

"Is it true? Does that mean Thompson will become a good person?" Peter opened his eyes wide and said in disbelief, "Will this make him change?"

"To eliminate the palace, to put it bluntly, we need to make him repent." Hope said, "However, even if the twisted desires disappear, the crimes he committed will not disappear, so Thompson should be unable to bear it and confess his crimes. .”

"Awesome! You can actually do such a thing!" Peter couldn't help but sigh.

"And as long as the temple disappears, he will forget what we did there." Hope said proudly, "So there will be no trace left, and Thompson can repent."

"This method..." Hope thought thoughtfully. He couldn't help but think of the super villains who harmed his hometown. "Will it work for everyone?"

"You have to be someone from the palace, or..." Hope shook his head, "Forget it, I'll tell you about that place later."

"Then what? Then what?" Peter approached Hope with bright eyes, "How can we make that place disappear?"

"Steal the secret treasure of the palace."

"...Steal?" Peter hesitated.

"We'll wait until you decide what to do next." Hope gave up, "After all, it's my secret strategy. If you decide to help me, I can tell you, how about it?"

"The method of finding the missing football club member doesn't seem to be working. Why don't we try Hope's method?" Peter said to Lucas.

Lucas pondered for a moment, "It's worth a try."

Mainly because he is now full of curiosity about that magical inner world. Lucas really wants to know how Hope can make Thompson repent and what the so-called secret treasure is.

"...Very good." Hope narrowed her eyes happily when she heard that the two finally agreed.

"Ah, by the way, there is something else I need to tell you first." Hope added, "After the palace is eliminated, the twisted desires will inevitably disappear, but desires are necessary for survival, such as Want to eat, want to sleep, want to fall in love...etc."

Lucas blinked, "You mean... we can only attack distorted desires. If the desires of normal life are affected, will it cause problems for Thompson in reality?"

"That's right! If not just twisted desires, but all desires disappear, then he will be the same as a useless person." Hope said sternly, "If no one protects you, you will even die, so..."

"You said... you will die?" Peter couldn't help but ask.

"Listen to me first!"

"Sorry, sorry." Peter apologized first, but he was still a little uneasy, "If...I mean if, we didn't handle it well and something happened to Thompson, wouldn't it be all our fault... "

Although Peter hates Thompson, he doesn't hate him to the point of death. The price of a human life is too heavy.

"You should be at least aware, right?" Hope asked.

"Lucas, what do you think?" Peter looked at Lucas.

Lucas looked at Hope, "Go on."

"Huh?" Lucas's understatement really made Peter a little confused.

"What? It's still so troublesome at this point. Anyway, people in the real world don't know what happens in the world over there." Hope said, "And just trust yourself a little bit."

"That's not the reason!"

Peter, who had been well protected by his uncles, aunts, and friends since childhood, always had one concern.

"If you just do whatever you want without anyone knowing, what's the difference between that and being a bad guy?"

"But there's no other way to deal with Thompson, right?" Hope asked.

Seeing that Peter was still very confused, Hope didn't push him, "Forget it...I'll come back next time. Let's make a decision before then."

After saying that, he flapped his wings and flew away.

"Sorry Lucas, I... messed up." Peter said disappointedly.

"Didn't Hope say give him time to think about it? Think about it slowly." Lucas shook his head. The person Thompson targeted most seriously was Peter. Since the person involved felt that he still needed time to think about it, of course he respected it.

"Thank you, Lucas." Peter said a little lowly, "Today... I will go back alone and let me think about it."

"Yeah." Lucas watched Peter lower his head and leave alone. Now he really needs time to think alone.

Since the two of them lived too close together, Lucas waited for the wind to blow on the rooftop for a while before planning to go home.

As he walked downstairs, Lucas heard a familiar voice.

Gwen leaned against the wall and said to the person on the other side of the phone in an irritated tone: "Can this be enough? This is not what we agreed at the beginning!"

Maybe it was what the person on the phone said. She opened her eyes wide, "...Wait, Peter's matter has nothing to do with this, right?!"

After hanging up the phone, Gwen couldn't control her emotions and punched the wall, "Damn it!"

That look was exactly the same as Peter's annoyed look.

Sure enough... thinking this, Lucas took a step forward.

His footsteps alarmed Gwen. She immediately raised her face and looked at Lucas, showing a hint of surprise, but then she immediately hid her emotions.

"Could it be that...you heard everything?"

Lucas nodded, "Yes, I heard it all."

"Your personal habits are too bad?" Gwen frowned, but soon realized that this was a public place, and it was normal for others to hear her.

She pursed her lips and looked away, "...I'm sorry."

"I didn't mean to hear that."

"So... how much did you hear?" Gwen asked.

"Since you mentioned Peter."

"So..." Gwen lowered her eyes and said hastily, "It's nothing, it's nothing..."

She turned and ran away.

Eh? There was no way he could ignore the conversation just now, not to mention the relationship between him and Peter, so he couldn't just ignore it.

He followed Gwen all the way.

I don’t know if obtaining the Persona has improved his physical fitness. He didn’t feel very tired until Gwen ran far away and stopped.

"Don't follow me...I told you to leave me alone!" Gwen gasped and glared at Lucas.

"I can't leave you alone." Lucas raised his glasses and said calmly.

"Why..." Gwen bit her lower lip, "I don't have to worry about you."

"Perhaps the person I'd rather come is Peter?" Lucas said.

"You!" Gwen's face suddenly turned red.

"I just want to talk to you."

"What on earth are you doing? This is incomprehensible."

Although she said this, for Peter's sake, Gwen still had a little trust in Lucas. The two found a coffee shop outside the school and sat down at the very back.

"I have nothing to say to you." Gwen said coldly.

She was not familiar with Lucas in the first place, and even had a slight prejudice against him because of his strange messages. If it weren't for Peter, Gwen would not be sitting here.

"It's just a little dispute..." She lowered her eyes.

Lucas had already made a guess, "Is it Thompson?"

"Didn't you hear everything?" Gwen said with some annoyance.

Gwen stirred the coffee in front of her, "Since you are Peter's friend, you should almost understand the matter."

"There are many rumors that you are with him." Lucas asked tentatively.

Gwen's movements paused.

"What a joke! I don't like that kind of scum!" Gwen gritted her teeth.

"He just called me and asked me to go to his house for a party. That kind of party... you know what happened if you think about it." Gwen tightened the napkin in her hand, "As long as I refuse, he will ask me again." I attacked Peter! I..."

"Sure enough..." Lucas sighed, feeling like he had eaten a big bite of dog food.

It's not Peter's one-sided crush at all, but a two-way love affair! These two people care deeply about each other and protect each other silently.

"But, that bastard Thompson has gone too far lately. I...I don't want to endure it anymore!"

"Then, there's no need to be patient," Lucas said.

"Huh?" Gwen, who was originally very excited, was stunned.

Lucas' words made Gwen calm down slightly, and her smart mind started to work again. She looked at Lucas, "You mean...do you have a way to deal with Thompson?"

But as soon as she finished speaking, she shook her head helplessly, "How is that possible... Easton, your family doesn't look like a powerful family, so how can you deal with Thompson. The ugly words are ahead, put a sack on him and beat him up. It can’t solve the problem.”

"You're overthinking..." Gwen's thoughts left Lucas speechless. He changed the subject and said, "By the way, your father is obviously a policeman. Why were you threatened by Thompson?"

"I told you that the police can't handle this matter, let alone... not to mention..." Gwen clenched the coffee in her hand, "My father has been very busy recently, and I... forget it! Why do I have to tell you this? What's wrong! I haven't even said a few words to you..."

"Maybe that's why you said it." Lucas said calmly.

"Maybe..." Gwen smiled reluctantly, "...you are such a weirdo. Everyone obviously ignores me, but you...are completely different from the rumors."

"Thanks for the compliment."

"What do you mean?" Gwen showed a real smile this time, "I just accidentally felt that the rumors were a bit too exaggerated."

Talking about this, Lucas was also very helpless, "Not everyone in Gotham is really a criminal. Obviously everyone lives a very hard life. They are all ordinary people. There is no difference."

This is something that is very difficult to correct. As the saying goes, good things don’t go out, and bad things spread thousands of miles. The reputation of Gotham’s group of psychopaths is so great that it has led to a bad impression of Gotham by outsiders. If it is really like what is posted on the Internet Exaggeration, the living environment is so bad, how can Gotham still be a big city with a permanent population of 8 million? All the people have fled a long time ago, okay, most people are normal.

"Yeah... I have experienced the horror of rumors." Gwen nodded, "You don't have any friends except Peter. You always feel a little lonely and have no place to stay. Maybe it's because you are like me. , that’s why I said these things.”

She sighed, looking a little sad, "In fact, I didn't help Peter at all... In fact, I caused this disaster for him. It would be great if Thompson's memories of having thoughts about me could be deleted... …”

As soon as she finished speaking, Gwen shook her head, "What I thought was too beautiful, how could such a thing happen?"

Lucas blinked, "Maybe it will happen."

"Can you please stop answering so seriously?" Gwen complained.

She held her cheek, "However, I feel much better. I understand why Peter is your friend. His taste is still as good as ever."

"I'm going back." Gwen picked up the coffee cup and stood up. "Don't tell anyone what happened just now, including Peter. I'll think of a solution at Thompson's place... Goodbye, thank you."

After returning home, news came quickly from Peter.

[Parker: What do you think of what Hope said?

Parker: Regardless of whether it is to eliminate desire or steal desire...

Parker: If it wasn't done right, Thompson would have died.

Parker: I'm really unhappy with that guy...

Parker: But there's no need to kill him. ]

There is nothing wrong with what Peter said. Compared with what happened to Lucas, Thompson did not want Peter's life. But in this case, he did not deserve death.

[Lucas: That's too much.

Parker: That's right.

Parker: Just think I'm chickening out, I really don't want to kill anyone...

Parker: How about we think of another way?

Lucas: ...Okay. ]