Comic: Becoming a Phantom Thief to Steal Hearts

With a restless mood, Harry came to the place where he had made an appointment with Lucas.

"Harry, here!" Harry waved as Peter rushed into the store.

"You guys really like this coffee shop." Harry pulled out a chair and sat down, looking at Lucas, Peter, Gwen and Mindy at the table, and Hope standing on Lucas's shoulder. , was ignored by Harry. After all, no one would have thought that a bird could also be a Phantom Thief.

"So, are you all part of the Phantom Thieves?" he asked.

"That's right." Lucas answered in the affirmative.

"What exactly did you tell me that day..."

"It's a long story." Lucas said, "You should remember that I told you that we have a special ability to make people repent, an ability to enter people's inner world. We can discover the distortions in their hearts. Man, enter his inner world, steal his desires, and make him repent.”

"You mean...my father has become twisted?" Harry frowned.

"Unfortunately, yes." Lucas nodded, "And in previous operations, we discovered a worse situation. The Twisted Man had traces of tampering."

Harry suddenly realized, "This is why my father seems to be a different person as you said."

Lucas didn't refute Harry, but just glanced at Peter. He couldn't say whether that was Norman's true intention. After all, the death of Peter's parents was most likely related to him, and Norman had been distorted for too long.

"So, we want to repent of your father," Lucas said.

"...I have no objection." Harry lowered his head, his eyes blurred.

"Before that, I want to ask you a question. Do you know that your father's time is numbered?" Lucas asked.

Harry looked up sharply, "What? This... I've never heard of this!"

Lucas was a little surprised. Harry's surprise was not pretending, it just meant that Norman had been hiding it from Harry all these years.

"Did you really not understand the biological laboratory in your company?" Lucas asked complicatedly.

Harry shook his head with a pale face. He didn't think Lucas would make such a boring joke on this matter.

"My father has always been responsible for this...I have never explored it."

"You are too obedient." Mindy couldn't help but complain in a low voice.

"We have to explain to Harry that this thing is magical enough in itself." Even Lucas couldn't help but agree.

"I don't know...he..." Harry was completely confused.

Peter looked at Harry like this and said nothing, just patted him gently on the shoulder.

"Okay, I'll share the information I got with you..." Lucas talked about Osborn's past genetic disease issues, including what happened when Dr. Connors was forced to do so.

Harry was silent for a long time, and all the small problems that he had ignored before came to mind again. He was sure that the Osborne family had always been a single generation, and each generation was very short-lived, often dying in their forties or fifties.

Although he claimed to have encountered accidents to the outside world, why accidents often happened to Osborne? Now that I think about it, it was just to cover up the existence of genetic diseases so that the Osborne family would not be cut off.

"...Thank you for telling me this." Harry raised his head and twitched the corners of his mouth, trying to give his friends a smile, but the actual effect was not as good as a crying face.

"But, when you enter father's inner world, can you take me with you?" Harry said stubbornly, looking at Lucas's face.

Lucas was stunned, "I can understand your mood, but this is very dangerous."

Even Peter and Mindy, with their strong physical fitness and keen tactical awareness, would suffer in the hall, let alone Harry.

Norman is not Thompson, a bully who only shows off his power on campus and a madman who throws bombs into the crowd in public. The danger cannot be generalized.

"Danger?" Harry looked at Peter. He knew that Peter was Spider-Man. With Spider-Man's skills, would he feel dangerous?

However, to Harry's regret, Peter answered in the affirmative, "Yes, even I almost died sometimes."

Mindy also confirmed: "Ah, several times."

Wilson's palace is indeed very dangerous, and his shadow is also very treacherous. Under his training, the Phantom Thieves' experience has also been greatly increased, but they just don't know what kind of challenges Norman's palace will bring to everyone.

"I'm so sorry, Harry, we really can't take you with us."

In the beginning, the only members of the Phantom Thieves were Lucas, Peter, and Hope. Later, Gwen and Mindy all entered the palace due to various accidents, and then they had personality masks at the critical moment of life and death. This was too risky. There was no way Lucas was letting Harry take this risk.

Harry, who had confirmed the danger, could only acquiesce to Lucas's arrangement no matter how unwilling he was.

"Then, when you enter your father's inner world, I can always be by your side, right?" Harry retreated and settled for the next best thing.

"This...it's okay to look at it from a distance. If you get close, you will be affected."

"Then I'll watch from a distance," Harry said.

Lucas sighed, knowing that Harry would no longer back down, "Okay."

After agreeing on a date to officially start repenting of Norman, Lucas and Hope went home to make preparations.

"I don't understand." Hope stopped on the table and watched Lucas skillfully making small props.

Lucas is very understanding, and now he no longer needs to be around to guide him.

"Even if we convert Norman, he won't live long, right?"

"Actually... I have doubts about this." Lucas said.

"what?"

"You can't tell from Harry's performance today. He really didn't know that Norman was terminally ill. Even his son, who he got to know day and night, couldn't tell. That means Norman's condition is not very bad at all. situation," Lucas said.

"What's more..." He lowered his eyes, "Didn't Dr. Connors give me a broken equation?"

"You mean the equation actually comes in handy?" Hope asked in surprise.

"I don't know if you noticed the other day, Green Goblin." Lucas said the nickname everyone on the Internet gave to the instigator of the Halloween murders.

"When he was kicked off the aircraft by Peter that day, the height was not low at all. If a normal human fell from such a height, even if he was very lucky, he would not be able to get up immediately because of the pain, but The Green Goblin behaves like a normal person from behind."

Lucas sighed, "I can only say that Dr. Parker is indeed a genius scientist. The equations they developed have appeared in many different mutation directions. The most successful one is Peter. It has no side effects and has been greatly improved." His physical fitness, as for others, both Dr. Connors and Norman seem to have strange symptoms..."

At this point, Lucas was silent for a few seconds, "Maybe we can only find out what's going on in the hall."

The next day, all members of the Phantom Thieves gathered under the Osborn Tower.

"What's the key word for Norman?"

"I have investigated it." Lucas raised his glasses, "Osborne Building is a factory."

"factory?"

"Well, surprisingly ordinary."

"Yeah, Wilson was the whole of New York that time."

Lucas shook his head, "We can't let down our guard. Underestimating the enemy is a taboo."

"Keyword... Is this a necessary step to enter the inner world?" Harry asked softly while everyone was discussing.

"Yes, we are about to enter the palace, so Harry, please stay away first." Lucas said.

"Okay." Harry backed away little by little, but his eyes never left the group.

Seeing Harry gradually retreating to a safe distance, Lucas picked up his phone and clicked on the Different World APP.

"Action."

"Oh!"

After the familiar distortion, what appeared in front of everyone was a normal urban scene. At the same time, the Phantom Thieves costumes immediately appeared on Peter and Gwen.

"Actually...were directly regarded as enemies?!" Gwen said with a confused face, "Why the two of us?"

"...Maybe it's because of my parents." Peter's face was solemn under the mask.

"Damn it, does that bastard look down on me?" Mindy said unhappily.

"It's not a good thing to be alerted." Hope said speechlessly, "It will take a lot of effort."

"Compared to this, this place is very strange." Lucas looked at the surrounding environment. The people coming and going were very normal, and there was no smell of shadow on them.

If it weren't for the fact that the clothes on Peter and Gwen had actually changed, Lucas would have almost thought he was in reality.

"And the Osborne Tower is gone."

In front of them, where the Osborne Building was originally located was an empty space with nothing.

"This is a completely unexpected situation." Hope said with emotion.

"Any ideas, Hawk?" Lucas asked.

"Look at these buildings and passers-by, they are just like ordinary people, which means that Norman's spirit is basically normal and not too distorted," Hope said.

"Assaulting my parents and throwing bombs at the crowd doesn't mean it's too serious." Peter gritted his teeth.

"This can only be due to his nature, but Norman's understanding of the world is relatively normal." Hope said, "The problem is not here, the problem is where the Osborne Building, as a palace, is now."

"Let's ask each other first." Lucas suggested. "These passers-by look quite normal. Maybe we can communicate. We can meet here again later."

"But, does it matter if Cobweb and I are like this?" Gwen pointed to her Phantom Thief costume in annoyance, which looked like a performance costume. Peter's costume could be said to be unconventional on the street, but she just wore a Cos costume to go shopping. In reality The absolute return rate is 100%.

"It doesn't matter, you have to believe that New York is a tolerant city." Lucas said seriously, "No one will be surprised even if half of the buttocks is exposed."

"...This isn't funny, Self."

"No kidding, Swan." Lucas said, "Just wait for us here."

"When you are in danger, just shout my code name and I will be there right away." Peter said.

Gwen rolled her eyes at him, "This is a different world, and I have the ability to fight."

Several people dispersed and went to collect information.

Lucas saw a familiar figure, sitting slovenly against the wall, like a homeless man seen everywhere in New York.

"What's wrong, Self? Do you know someone?" Hope asked.

"Well, he was a colleague of mine when I was an intern at Osborne Group." Lucas said as he approached the man.

"Hey, James, why are you here?" Lucas asked, looking at the researcher who had gossiped about Norman with him.

"Ah...it's you, Easton." James raised his head drunkenly.

"How did you become like this?" Lucas asked with a frown.

During his time in the Osborne Group, James had always given him the impression of being optimistic and cheerful, and he was also very enthusiastic. Otherwise, he would not have taken the initiative to approach Lucas, a person who would only stay in the Osborne Group for a short time. I also chatted with him about various company gossips.

In short, Lucas had never seen him look so depressed.

"Why...why are you still so optimistic after being thrown from that city in the sky?" James looked at Lucas in confusion.

"City in the Sky?" Lucas was stunned.

"Yes, aren't we all thrown down by the Sky City?!" James' expression suddenly became excited, "How do you endure living with these dirty mortals on the ground! Don't you want to return to the Sky City? On the city?!"

Looking at James's red eyes, Lucas could only follow his words for the time being: "Of course I also want to return to the Sky City, but people still have to continue living, right?"

"No, no, no no no!" James covered his head, "I can't bear it..."

Seeing that James could no longer communicate, Lucas had no choice but to stay away from him.

"He's completely different from reality," Lucas said.

"Of course." Hope sighed, "I take back what I said before."

"Ok?"

"Norman's mental state is relatively normal."

"People who own palaces usually don't go anywhere." Lucas was quite mentally prepared, "I'm just a little surprised that Norman is actually the same as he appears."

"Huh?" Now Hope was confused.

"Hypocritical on the outside." Lucas looked at the streets with people coming and going. The people here seemed normal on the outside, but if you look closely, you can see that the expressions on their faces were very dull, and their eyes were clear and unworldly.

James' words have completely exposed Norman's psychology. The Osborne Tower is a city in the sky, and the New York citizens below it are regarded as fools by him.

"Now I basically understand. Let's go back and meet up." He said.