Comic: Becoming a Phantom Thief to Steal Hearts

There were no accidents on the way to school today, and Lucas arrived at school on time.

When going to the bathroom during recess, Lucas saw Thompson walking straight towards Gwen, who was also coming out for air.

"Hey, Gwen, there's a party going on at my house, do you want to come?" Thompson said to Gwen with a smile.

"Please call me Stacey." Gwen's attitude was very cold, "And I still have to practice for the upcoming competition."

"Well... although the game is important, there is no need to work so hard." Thompson said, "You didn't mean that you haven't been feeling well recently. I also asked you to relax because I wanted you to relax."

"No need." Gwen said lightly, "For me, the championship is more important."

Gwen's attitude made Thompson's expression stiffen, and he realized that if the topic was not changed, the conversation would probably not go on.

"Ah, by the way, you'd better pay attention to that transfer student. He seems to have caused some trouble in Gotham before he transferred to us." Thompson lowered his voice, "You know, he committed trouble in Gotham. people..."

"Thank you for the reminder." Gwen's expression remained unchanged, "I'm going back to the classroom first."

After saying that, she turned around and returned to Class B. Thompson looked at her back, and the smile suddenly faded from her face, "Hey..."

Lucas quietly turned and left.

He said why people at the same school kept him at a distance. It turned out that Thompson had been spreading rumors about him behind his back. However, if he still planned to rely on this to suppress himself, he was still thinking too much.

Lucas was never afraid of cold violence. He wished that everyone would ignore him, so that he could do his own thing quietly, completely skipping the social aspect.

Yes, social fear is like this.

Not long after he walked out of school, Peter hesitantly said, "Lucas, what happened in the garden yesterday... even though I told myself it was a dream, I still couldn't accept it. I... couldn't pretend it didn't exist. Especially with that bastard Thompson."

He stopped and looked at Lucas, "No matter what, I want to know what's going on in that place, but only you can discuss this matter together."

Looking at Peter's increasingly determined expression, Lucas sighed, "Well, what do you want to do?"

Although he had basically deduced what was going on in that place, Peter did not have a persona after all. If he entered the palace rashly, Lucas was worried that something would happen to him. After all, he had mastered the persona not long ago, and he was worried that he would not be able to protect himself. Good Peter.

Lucas was not going to give Peter any hints. If he could find the clues on his own, then he would let him participate as a test.

"Thank you for being with me, Lucas." Peter, who didn't know Lucas' little thoughts, was filled with gratitude.

"Well... since we want to confirm, how about walking the same route yesterday again?" Peter said, "We don't need to participate in club activities anyway. Anyway, remember to tell me if you see similar buildings."

Wrong direction. Lucas followed Peter.

"If there is such a big garden, you can find it right away." Peter said naggingly, "By the way, when did that kind of building exist?"

He stopped and said, "We were walking along this road at this place and then encountered the garden, right?"

"Seems to be?"

"...Don't be like this, I don't even have confidence anymore." Peter said speechlessly, "Then, let's go."

He walked through the alley and, as expected, returned to the school gate.

"Ah?" Peter stared blankly at the school gate and said with some disappointment, "Is it really a school? There is nothing strange, and there is no place like a garden... We must have gone the wrong way, shall we try it again? "

Lucas looked dead-eye, "Are you going to continue?"

"Okay, I won't make a mistake next time." Peter was confident, "Let's go."

Lucas looked at his back and sighed.

If you look for it like this, you will never find it in your life, so just think of it as exercise.

Peter, who stood at the school gate again, lowered his head in frustration, "Really? Could it be that the garden is smaller than I thought? No, yesterday's tiredness was not fake. I really ran so much." Road, but..."

"What do you have in mind?" He looked at Lucas.

Lucas was silent for a while and said, "Do you really care about that garden? We almost died there yesterday. Do you still want to go there even if you take such a risk?"

Peter was confused by Lucas' sudden words, but he quickly reacted, "Because there is no way to turn a blind eye, there are so many people imprisoned there, not to mention that I also care about Thompson." , I deliberately wandered around in front of him today, and although his attitude was not good, he was definitely not going to kill me in that garden."

Peter…

Although Peter said that we are very similar, in terms of sense of justice, I seem to be completely inferior to him.

Lucas thought this and felt that his previous idea of ​​testing was a bit naive, so he reminded: "Why don't you use your mobile phone to check?"

"I've already tried..." Peter was mid-sentence when his eyes suddenly widened, "By the way, mobile phone!"

He reacted.

"At that time, did you say something about ending the navigation on your phone?" Peter looked at Lucas, "Can you lend me your phone to look at?"

"Okay." Lucas unlocked his phone and handed it to Peter. He just wanted to verify whether ordinary people except himself could see the other world navigation APP.

"What is this eyeball? It's a bit scary." Peter complained.

Can you see it?

Lucas remained calm, "It's a piece of software that can't be deleted no matter how you delete it."

"Is there still such a thing? Do you need me to help you..." Peter clicked on the software, "Wait! This is it! Let me take a look... the history record... there it is!"

This is fate... Lucas sighed in his heart, he would not admit that he secretly reminded him.

"Try it." Peter clicked on the historical record.

[Start navigation. ]

"Successful!" Peter waved his hand excitedly, "Okay, where should we go next?"

For a moment, I felt a palpitation in my heart, and the scene in reality began to distort, especially the school in front of me. It changed its appearance in just a few seconds, and a garden replaced the original school.

"This is... yesterday's garden!"

At the same time, Lucas also appeared in a black trench coat, and a blue-black mask appeared on his face.

He touched the mask on his face, thoughtfully.

"Here we are again, that is to say... yesterday was also true..." Peter turned to look at Lucas and was startled, "...Um, wow!! You are dressed like this...!! "

"So handsome!" Peter's eyes were bright, "By the way, you have become like this before, right?"

"...It's okay." Lucas was silent for a few seconds. In his dream, his clothes were even more eye-catching than this windbreaker. After all, they were performance clothes.

"Hey!" the boy's voice sounded.

"What's the fuss about?" Hope said dissatisfiedly as she stretched out her little head.

"you……"

"There was a sudden commotion in the shadows. I thought it might be you, so I came here to take a look." Hope flapped her little wings and flew down, landing lightly on Lucas's shoulders.

...a little heavy. Lucas calmly raised his slightly slumped shoulder.

"You managed to escape from here with great difficulty, but you actually broke in again." Hope shook his head, his dark eyes revealing some incomprehension.

"Is this...school?" Peter asked.

"Yes."

"This is obviously a garden!" Peter opened his eyes wide.

"This garden is indeed a school." Hope said solemnly, "However, that is only for the owner of this garden."

"The owner of the garden..." Peter bit his lower lip, "It must be Thompson."

"It seems to be called that." Hope nodded, "This is the school he sees with the eyes of his twisted heart."

"Twisted... heart?" Lucas frowned.

Peter scratched his head, "Isn't this a bit abstract?"

"Ah ah ah ah ah!!!"

A scream came from the garden.

"That is?!"

"It's a captured slave," Hope said calmly.

"real or fake?!"

"Yesterday, I saw people besides us being arrested," Lucas said.

"It's probably Thompson's order. This is nothing unusual. This kind of thing happens every day." Hope explained, "Not to mention that I let you escape yesterday. You must have lost a lot of temper."

Peter clenched his fists, "He actually..."

"I can see there's some grudge." Hope smoothed out her feathers.

"Um...Hope, you know where those locked up people are, right?" Peter looked at him.

"Do you want me to take you there?" Hope jumped on Lucas' shoulder, "Yes, you can, but this guy has to come too."

Lucas sighed, "Okay."

"Then it's decided." Hope flapped her wings and flew forward, "Follow me."

When they arrived at a familiar place, both of them fell silent.

"Isn't this the same dog hole from last time!"

"It's not a dog hole! It's a sneak entrance! A sneak entrance!" Hope said dissatisfied, "I don't care. Is it possible that you can still fight so many shadows head-on? What's the foundation of Phantom Thieves if you can't enter head-on?"

"Phantom Thief?" Lucas tilted his head.

"Well... I will teach you well." Hope flew to the top of the high wall, "Let's go! I'll wait for you on the other side."

"Um... I'm sorry..." Peter said sheepishly, "I got you involved, but!" His eyes were filled with anger, "I can never forgive that bastard Thompson for his wanton behavior!"

"Thank you for being with me, I will remember this kindness." Peter said to Lucas with a smile.

Looking at Peter's sincere eyes, Lucas was a little dull. He had never received any kindness. Tim was his rare friend, but at this moment, Peter also had a different weight in his heart.

Lucas lowered his head and smiled, "In this matter, I have been unable to stay out of it for a long time, or in other words, I have caused you trouble."

It was precisely because Peter was close to him that he entered the palace with him. Lucas knew this very well. Eagle had been targeting him from the beginning.

What's more, Thompson also started to target himself.

Entering the garden again, looking at the colorful flowers and the gray sky around him, Peter sighed: "There is sunshine, but it feels a bit gloomy for no reason."

Hope seemed to like Lucas's shoulder very much. He stopped on it and said, "Listen, do you have to follow my instructions?"

The furry body rubbed against the face, a little itchy.

"Can't you fly?" Lucas complained.

"Flying is also tiring, right?" Hope said confidently.

Arriving in front of a fountain with a large golden Thompson statue in the center, the scene in front of me was distorted for a moment, and a normal campus scene flashed by.

"School……"

"So didn't I say, this is your school." Hope said, "We don't have time to chat for a long time. It's not surprising if there are shadows coming here anytime. Okay, let's go."

Hope took them around the patrol route of the gardeners and came to a greenhouse. Several people squatted down by the flower bed and looked at the gardener at the entrance of the greenhouse from a distance.

"There are indeed guards..." Hope said helplessly, "From here on, I'm afraid there will be no way to avoid fighting."

"Huh? Are you going to use that one?" Peter made a gesture of tearing off his mask.

"Yes, it seems that I need to teach you some basics of fighting first, so remember them well." Hope said.

"In principle, try to make a sneak attack at any time and attack from behind the enemy as much as possible. The enemies in the hall are basically dominated by distortion, and you must peel off the symbolic mask! If you can succeed, no matter what kind of The enemy will freeze in an instant, so that they can attack first."

"Oh, you have to attack from behind, right? I remember." Peter said enthusiastically.

"Well... you should just stay here and be obedient." Hope shook his head, "After all, you can't use the persona."

"That's right." Peter lowered his head in frustration.

Lucas and Hope stared closely at the guard gardener's movements. The moment he turned around, they rushed forward, grabbed his mask and ripped it off fiercely.

There was a sticky sound, and the Gardener's appearance expanded, revealing its true face underneath. As Hope said, it fell into a rigid state and was full of flaws. Lucas and Hope easily solved it. it.

After waving to Peter who was hiding, they entered the greenhouse together.

"How...how could..." Peter's eyes widened.

The flowers in the greenhouse are bright and dazzling, but the transparent flower pots filled with water where their roots are located are actually human bodies.

Lucas's eyes also widened. There were many flower pots in the greenhouse, so many people...

Suddenly, his eyes sharpened and he whispered: "There are footsteps approaching, and there are quite a lot of them."

"Tsk, it would be terrible to be discovered now." Hope flew to a small room deep in the greenhouse, "Let's go into the room first to avoid the wind."