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✨ Articles of Phantom Thieves : Sick, Soup and Uncle!? (The Heroes of Ice and Flame)✨

Synopsis : After the events of last night and jumping into the freezing water, Emily unfortunatly becomes sick much to her dismay. But that won’t stop her from working hard-! Oh nvm DJ Peacock chased her off the document. Well at least she can-! Oh dang it, what has Joker done now?! And hold on an unexpected visit from her relative?! What’s happeneing?!?!?

NOTE : Hello everyone! Huhu here! It’s been..jeez it's been long! 💀 Sorry this took a long time to write, I just finished school and now I have all the time I have (for now). So this chapter is basically a filler one, not really including any plot to the original kaitou joker episode. Instead of Emily joining the fire thingy with the gang, I figured she should have the consequences of jumping into the ocean after the last chapter’s ending. This chapter just has some insight of stuff happening in Emily’s life without all the phantom thief stuff. I had so much fun writing it hehe

Let the story begin!

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“Achoo! Aw damn, I shouldn’t have jumped into the ocean like that...” Emily Oak sniffed, grabbing yet another tissue from her almost finished tissue box. It was the morning after the events of Mr Kaneri’s cruise and that unfortunate escape, the journalist was left sick. She was now regretting her decision of jumping into the ocean as an escape route. How did she manage to come out of the freezing ocean? It was all a blur and honestly felt like a dream, a very weird one that is.

Emily was supposed to be resting at the moment but that couldn’t stop her from working on her latest article. ‘The people must know!’ is one of her quotes. She focused on the screen as her fingers type on the keyboard quickly

Tick tick tick

“Everyone is going to love this!” She couldn’t help but grin to herself while typing her meeting with Kaitou Spade and Dark Eye.

Now recounting the memory, the phantom thief intrigues her. Especially since he revealed that he has a shared past with Joker. ‘Perhaps I can see him again one day..’ Emily mentally thought, wanting to ask as much answers as she could to him

A ding from her computer catches her attention. It was in the google doc chat. She curiously looked to see it was in her messages. It was none other than her good friend, DJ Peacock.

DJ PEACOCK : Emily I see you on the doc, go rest

Emily groaned and sighed before replying to the message.

EMILY : Remind me again why I let you view my doc, DJ?

DJ PEACOCK : Bc I’m the only other person you know that shares the same passion for phantom thieves like you, now go rest!!

Emily huffs and looks at her computer. The cursor made its way too close to save the document until the brown haired girl stopped. Nothing has never stopped her from writing, so why should she? DJ Peacock’s working in a building unlike her so he can’t constantly check up on her!

But before she could type anything a ding was heard from her phone. It was a series of angry emojis sent by DJ Peacock. Emily reluctantly sighs and turns off her computer to lay back on her couch. “I can’t believe I doubted him. He’s the same guy who managed to order pizza and beat me in Mario Kart..” she grumbles to no one in particular, just the void of her living room.

Well actually to one person, more like an animal. A small animal. The said animal fell on Emily’s face.

“Oof!” Emily yelled before gently grabbing the baby koala’s soft white fur and lifted it up from her face. “Willy! Don’t scare me like that” she scolded before flinching at his sad cute eyes staring at her. The journalist tried to keep a stern look before falling for his cute act like all the previous others. She cradled him and sighed.

How did she get a koala as her pet? Let’s just leave it as a story that will be told someday in the future. For now, Emily stayed there laying on her couch with Willy in her arms and felt..at peace. A peace she hasn’t felt for a while ever since her declaration of writing articles for phantom thieves. Perhaps it's for the best? A little shut eye wouldn’t hurt-

Not even five minutes had passed and her phone started ringing yet again. Emily frowned and sat up while setting Willy, who was sleeping, to the side gently. The ringing continued before she finally picked up the phone “Hello, Emily Oak speaking” she answered.

“Yo, I heard you were sick” a familiar voice rang out that Emily was surprised to hear on the other line. She blinked, she didn’t expect a certain phantom thief to call her about that. How did he even know she was sick? She couldn’t briefly remember telling him that.

Curious, she asked “Joker? How did you know about that?”. By now, the journalist was sitting upright on her couch with her legs crossed. She didn’t want to cause any disturbances to the sleeping baby koala besides her.

“A little birdie told me” he replied with a snicker that would annoy her but in her weakened state decided not to press on it. A runny nose is going to go worse with a phantom thief true to his name.

(Despite Joker’s words, it was actually Hachi told his master Emily might be sick noticing that she fell into the ocean last night but she doesn’t need to know that. Joker doesn’t want to tell her that though, he’d like to stay mysterious about it.)

“Aren’t you supposed to be on a heist at the moment?” Emily hummed as she recalled the recent announcement of his upcoming heist on ‘The Ice Sculpture Of Odin’ in the Valhalla Tower. DJ Peacock got excited over it and Inspector Oniyama asked if she was going to tag along with him like she always does but because of her sickness she declined.

“Yeah but don’t worry-“ Joker’s words were cut by a shout and a honk was heard on the other end of the call. It was so loud that Emily had to pull her phone away from her ear and Willy woke up from his sleep.

“ARE YOU DRIVING?!” She yelled in the call once realizing his current situation while Willy crawls away to climb the indoor pole the journalist bought . Emily was met with silence and then a small “..no..” from a voice that was clearly lying through his teeth.

This only fueled her worry and continued to yell, “ARE YOU ON THE PHONE AND DRIVING?!”

“Hey! It's fine! I’m paying attention to the road!” Joker brushed it off as if it was no big deal for someone like him.

Emily was definitely not going to believe that, especially when a third voice joined. It was none other than Hachi.

“WE ALMOST GOT HIT MR JOKER!!” He cried out, showcasing how scared he was in contrast to his mentor.

“AT LEAST WE DIDN’T!!” Joker defended, which only gained more arguments from Hachi. The only thing Emily could do was sigh and rub her temple at a headache coming from all of this. “You shouldn’t use your phone while driving, it's dangerous, Joker!” The brunette scolded through the phone. The said phantom thief just scoffed “I’m a phantom thief! My life is dangerous!”.

Emily couldn’t make a comeback when Hachi jumped in the conversation. She heard the phone being taken from the owner in a series of ‘Wait I forgot!’ ‘Hey! My phone!’ ‘Keep your eyes on the road Mr Joker!’. The journalist couldn’t help but smile at the banter between the two partners, finding it cute.

Hachi was now in possession of the phone and informed her “By the way Ms Emily, since you’re sick I made some soup for you. I hope you like chicken soup”. Her eyes brighten at the sound of the dish, knowing how perfect it will be in her current weak state.

“Thank you, Hachi. So will I be expecting you two later after the heist?” Emily asked as she looked around her living room, noting how she will have to get rid of all the used tissues laying around soon for her upcoming guests. However, the assistant changed her thoughts “No actually, the soup is being sent..” a few seconds and then Hachi’s voice came back “in a few minutes”.

“In a few- what?! Wait, what do you mean?”. On the other side of the line, Hachi was about to answer before the phone was snatched away from Joker who made some dramatic static noises.

“Kchh! Kchh! Uh oh, you're losing signal! Pshh! Oh my god Em! Kch!”

“Joker! Hey, stop that! What do you mean the soup is- and he’s gone.” Emily’s voice went into a deadpan at the end of her words as she looked at the screen of her phone. The call had now ended and she was met with the sight of Joker’s profile picture. She let out her- what was it hundredth?- sigh of the day before standing up from the couch to stretch her body.

“Knowing him, he’ll probably send the soup in the most totally normal way. So I might as well get ready for that” Emily stated before sneezing and grabbing a tissue to blow her nose. Where does it end up? Not in the overfilled trash can nearby. She looks over to see Willy sleeping on the pole and petted his soft white fur.

Ding!

She looked at the front door of her house and widened her eyes. “No way..the delivery was that quick? I should get more deliveries from Joker and Hachi next time..” she mumbled before walking to open the front door.

Emily didn’t know what she was expecting to see but it was anything but her Uncle Damien. The old man stood in front of her with his usual frown and narrowed bushy eyebrows, dressing in his dark maroon suit that compliments his combed back gray hair. This was the man who raised her, took her in when her parents couldn’t and what is the first thing he says?

“Why is your shirt backwards, Emily?”

The journalist quickly looked at her shirt and then looked back up at her uncle snickering at his joke. Emily shook her head and smiled as she stepped aside to let him in the household.

“You know other people would say ‘Hello’ or ‘How are you’.” the journalist only got a hand waved at her face by Damien, who was looking around the area. “Ok fine, Hello, how are you, and what happened here?” He stopped in front of the living room as his eyes darted to every tissue on the floor.

In an instant Emily quickly stood in front of her relative to block his view of the mess she made and let out an embarrassed chuckle “How about we talk in the dining room instead? I’ll make you some tea”. Despite her nice mannerism to the elderly, Damien just let out a scoff and shook his head “After I saw that? I would like you nowhere near my tea, thank you”.

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Her eyes observed as her uncle sipped his tea on the other side of the table and couldn’t help but wonder of his intentions of visiting. Not that him being here was a bad thing, no she cherished him as a father figure but to suddenly drop by with no prior heads up is a bit strange.

So in her nature as a human, she asked “So what brings you here? You never really gave me any headings of you coming here, uncle”. The old man puts his cup down and stares right back into his niece’s eyes and raises one of his bushy eyebrows at her question.

“Oh I was just in town..” it was now Emily’s turn to raise an eyebrow which made Damien sigh “why don’t you accept my offer, Emily?”

There it was. The thing that she was waiting for.

A few months ago, the brunette was given an opportunity to become an archeologist just like Damien. He thought the occupation would be perfect due to her love of traveling and finding new things. However every single time the topic would come out, Emily would decline it because of her already existing job and love for it. But her uncle was always so persistent.

She kept her mouth straight and looked down at the table, finding it much easier to focus on it.

“I already told you this, I’m a journalist and I don’t think being an archeologist would cut it for me.” She started.

“I know but you have to think about it, remember when you were little? How you said you were going to be just like her favourite uncle one day, wanting to discover the undiscovered. Oh I remember those..” Damien’s words trailer off as Emily couldn’t bear to listen to them. While it was true that she did want to be just like him but that was when she was practically a child! She can still travel the world, just interviewing people instead of finding lost ancient artifacts.

Anyway there was another reason why the journalist couldn't focus on Damien’s words.

And it was because of the Joker doll drone outside of her window waving and tapping on it. Around the doll was also a container which she presumed to be the chicken soup that Hachi made for her.

‘EH?!’ Emily thought eternally at the sight of it. She didn’t know what to imagine how she would get the soup while Hachi and Joker are busy but getting it via drone? Well that had officially come into her list of ‘crazy things I've seen’. She didn’t have any time to process to voice her confusion, her expression had already done it for her.

Damien abruptly stopped his one sided conversation with his niece upon seeing her face and frowned “Emily? Are you listening to me?”. The said girl quickly changed her focus from the drone to her uncle. She needed to distract him because how can you explain to your relative that you have befriended a criminal and his assistant, who nicely made chicken soup?? The outcome of that question won”t be that conversation won’t be that surprising. So when Damien was about to turn around and see what had caught Emily’s attention, she stood up from her seat. Now his eyes were back on hers, still wearing the confused frown and narrowed his eyes.

“Now what has now what has gotten into you-“ “I just remembered! You haven’t seen Willy in a very long time! Have you seen him? Oh he’s grown so much!”

As she says this, Emily dragged the elder by the arm to see the baby koala in his room while continuing to blabber on and leaving no room for any responses. By the time they arrive at the room, the journalist made sure Damien was occupied with Willy before returning back to the dining room and opening the window to let the drone in.

It was cute, almost a replica doll of Joker with the tophat and outfit. She didn’t want to question how such a small thing could carry a whole bowl of soup, choosing only to see what the two small notes came along with it. The first note wrote :

”Dear Ms Emily

I noticed how you fell into the ocean last night! I figured you would be sick, so I cooked up chicken soup for you hehe

Get well soon and don’t forget to take breaks once in a while!

Sincerely, Hachi

p.s : Mr Joker also wrote a note..not sure what’s in it but just in case, he wishes for you to get well soon! (Even though he won’t admit it)”

Emily laughed softly when she finished reading, finding it sweet at the ninja's consideration towards her health. She appreciates that Joker has a caring assistant, comparing how he was like when he first met her and what he is now. It was honestly a very nice change. Speaking of Joker, the brunette looked and began to read the second of the two notes :

“Emily,

I bet you’re surprised huh? “What is this Joker?! What am I looking at!?” Is what you are probably thinking right now. Well if you REALLY want to know then I’ll tell you..”

The rest of the note was compiled with him introducing his newest invention ‘Mini-Joker’ which Emily read on with interest. The phantom thief's talent to invent such things is one of the things that she admires about him. The journalist continues to read the note until it reached the end :

”..Anyway Hachi is looking over my shoulder trying to see what I’m writing, I can’t believe him!…but I guess it's payback since I kinda did the same to him..

Hope you get well soon! You can’t stay sick forever!

-your favourite phantom thief (me) (shut up its not Spade)”

The last part of the note made Emily laugh out loud. So loud actually, Damien and Willy could hear it despite the distance. The old man only huffed and continued to pet the animal while saying “I don't think she shouldn’t fall into any oceans again if this keeps happening”. Willy replied with a small nod as he relaxed under his soft touch.

[The end]

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TA DAAA!! And that’s where this chapter of Articles of Phantom Thieves ends! It's not as long as the last one but I hope you liked reading it >:D Now we know that Emily doesn’t just live alone and isn’t an orphan, what else is there to her past? Perhaps some dark or nice secrets? Who knows! Oh wait I know..ok well is trying to know LORE IS HARD😔😔

I’m skipping the episode where it shows Joker’s backstory because that's his episode and I don’t know how Emily can be thrown in there. I can probably rewrite the first chapter of Articles of Phantom Thieves but thats for future HuHu to decide

The next chapter will be on ‘The Shadow Descends’ THAT'S RIGHT THE EPISODE WHERE EVERYONE'S FAVOURITE UMBRELLA WIELDER APPEARS. “I am the shadow of ur light” or whatever he says I forgor 🦹 Omg now I get to have an excuse to rewatch the episode.

Thank you for reading! I hope you liked it and have a nice day or night!

-Huhu

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Articles of Phantom Theives chapter 3 : Sick, Soup and Uncle?!

heh im cooking

And tired 😭

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Oak Archives

‘Oak Archives’ is a mini story prequel to ‘Articles of Phantom thieves’ that involves Emily’s parents and her uncle. To get things straight let me introduce you to our three main characters :

Elena Bruck

Little sister to Damien Bruck, married to her brother’s best friend, (Spencer Oak) and Mother of Emily Oak

Like mother like daughter, she is also a journalist

Spencer Oak

Damien’s best friend, Elena’s husband and Emily’s father

He works as an archivist (someone who preserve the original material and help people obtain it)

Damien Bruck

Elena’s big brother, Spencer’s best friend, Emily’s uncle and caretaker once her parents died

He works as a very well known archaeologist (someone who studies the buildings, graves, tools, and other objects of people who lived in the past.)

Unfortunately he doesn’t seem to be good at his job at the moment..

There we go, I think that's quite all you and me need to start the story. Now let us begin, in bullet points because I'm lazy!!!!

Weep woop Spencer was doing his thing looking through the archives

He found this cool file containing information about an ancient crown known as ‘The Blood Of Stars’

He didn’t get to finish reading what it was about so he just quickly took a picture of the map where it is located

Spencer thought this might be a great opportunity to cheer up his best pal, Damien, who is struggling with keeping his job secure

He goes to visit Damien like

“Bro check out this new treasure!” “Woah! Sick! That's so cool my dude, hey we should go find this together!” “Really? You want me to come with you?” “Of course!” “Yay!!”

And then after visiting Damien he goes back home to his wife and kid.

Emily was just a kid around this time, she just innocently loved fairy tales and funny cats to even care about her father’s suggestion to go out and find the crown

Elena thought the idea of looking for the crown was a brilliant idea! She was happy to find a way to cheer up her big brother.

So the next morning, Spencer is already walking down the stairs to the entrance, preparing to leave with his heavy backpack with him. Wait a minute, why is Elena here as well?

“Honey, where are you going?”

“Huh? What do you mean I’m coming with you?”

“Eh?! You are?! B-but then who’s gonna take care of Emily??”

“Don’t worry, I got a nice babysitter to look after her, her names Amy I think”

“Hmm a defenseless woman going on this trip though, seems a bit tedious-“

Elena whacks his head

“WHAT DO YOU MEAN DEFENSELESS?! Need I remind you who won first place in our high school’s long shot competition?”

“ACK- I was kidding! I was joking!”

Once Amy arrives and Elena informs her the ins and outs of babysitting her daughter, now it's time to pick up Damien from his place!

It was a hassle to do so though since when they arrived the archeologist was still asleep. But after some yapping (Elena did that) and some begging (Spencer did that), Damien finally awakens and is now preparing his stuff.

Now the adventure truly begins! The trio go on a roadtrip with Damien’s cool car!!

The road trip was HORRIBLE, apparently Damien’s AC wasn’t working so the windows had to be drawn, there was a concerning amount of traffic happening on the road, Spencer realized he left his favorite snack at home, Damien is convincing himself to go through this for the sake of his job and Elena is regretting her decision to go on this journey.

Everything was worth it though because in the end they arrived at their destination which is the entrance to a cave. A cave. Shall I repeat that? A cave. If I was a telepath but I’m not I can assume there is one thing these three are thinking in the moment

“Oh boy..”

First to go in is Damien, eager to find the treasure, next is Elena who is holding Spencer’s hand in assurance everything is going to be fine (how cute omg)

So they enter the cave. Like any other caves, it's dark, scary and cold. They even found some mice scurrying upon their path which Elena DID not like. As the trio venture forward, Spencer took note how much they had to crouch a lot because the ceiling kept getting lower and lower. His knees are suffering.

Damien seemed like the only one who didn’t complain, he just wanted to get the treasure. He didn’t really talk to the other two a lot, which is rude but Spencer and Elena didn’t want to press on it. This treasure might save his job after all.

After an hour of walking through the deep hole that's a cave they found ... .a dead end.

Damien wanted to blow up “Are you kidding me?! We came all this way..to a dead end?!”

Spencer was so close to fall down to his knees “I can’t believe it..the map was a fake! And I’m so tired..”

But Elena stared at the rock wall. She thought something was strange about it, like it shouldn’t even belong in a place like this. “Hm..Damien, you brought your pickaxe right?”

“Huh? Oh yeah, why?” He pulled out the pickaxe from his backpack. Elena took it in her hands and started mining the wall “Elena!”

Spencer’s eyes widened “H-honey, what are you doing?” “I have a funny feeling that there must be something on the other side of this wall..I mean we came all this way with the help of the map, why should a little wall stop us?”

That's right! They came this far, what's gonna stop them now? So they- er I mean it was more like Damien since he was the only one that has a pickaxe (also bc he said he wanted to do it) (The other two just support him)

So the wall is gone now, and on the other side..dun dun dun! A place full of gold and treasure!

“This is amazing!” “Wow! There's so much goods!” Damien’s ears blocked out any noise happening at the moment because he found what he wanted…”The Blood Of Stars”

There it was, sitting on a pedal stool, it looked almost to be in perfect condition for some reason..

Now all three pairs of eyes lay on the ancient crown. Damien made the first move until Spencer quickly stopped him.

“W-wait Damien this seems too easy..isn’t this the part where there would be a booby trap or something?”

Elena nodded “Yeah, I agree. What if a big stone sphere appeared from a secret passage and squished us?”

Damien chuckled, he shook his head “Guys, this isn’t the first time we have been in these situations. Besides those are only in movies”

He lifted the crown off the pedestal, silence fills the area for a second until the three of them let out a breathe they didn’t realize they were holding

Damien turned around to face the two “See? Everything’s fine-“

A scream was heard somewhere

“Yeah ok I think that's a sign to go”

So they leave the treasure-filled room, get out of that cave and drive back to civilization.

It's been a day since Spencer, Elena and Damien found “The Blood Of Stars”.

Originally Damien wanted to send in the ancient treasure but Spencer wanted to look at it a bit more. The archeologist shrugged, he didn't mind his best friend looking at the treasure. They found it together after all. He’ll just get it tomorrow.

He didn’t get it tomorrow

Or the day after that

Ok what the hell. Damien kept getting rejected. Spencer kept saying “no not yet” “you’ll get it tomorrow”.

Damien has had enough of this nonsense. So when he got declined to see his treasure, Damien finally spoke up

“Why don’t you want me to take the treasure?”

“Damien please-“

“No, Spencer. It's been a month. How much time do you need to look at that crown?”

“I-I have done some research. Do you remember the file where I found the information for “The Blood Of The Stars”? I reread it carefully and found out this treasure it dangerous”

“Is it now? Ok. Show me”

“I can’t…it's been stolen”

“Oh my god, what do you mean it's stolen?!”

“I’m saying that it's stolen! Gone!”

“Oh great so now you want me to believe that the treasure I found is apparently ‘bad’ for all I know you must be lying or something!”

“I’m not! Don’t you believe me?”

“Oh how can I? You don’t seem to believe me either!”

“Why are you so intact on this artifact anyway?”

“You- don’t you remember?! This is about MY job! This will get me back on track!”

“Get another treasure! This one is-“

“‘Dangerous’ ‘dangerous’ that's all you say! Why you little-“

A third voice joined the conversation.

“Enough!”

There stood a furious Elena at the entrance of Spencer’s office, looking at the two men. She has heard all of it, from start to finish. Honestly part of her was hoping the argument would not escalate to something big but apparently they were so loud Emily couldn’t even hear her favorite show on tv.

Damien’s eyes widened, he smiled a little hoping his little sister could persuade his husband on the decision “Elena! Can you PLEASE tell your husband-“

“He’s right, Damien”

“….what?”

“You heard me. Damian this treasure..isn’t like all the others. If it gets in the wrong hands, there would be trouble”

“So you’re saying I’m ‘the wrong hands’?”

“No-“

Damien scoffed “Wow, now I didn’t expect this from you. Seriously I can’t believe my own family doesn't seem to trust me” He stared at the two Oaks before walking out of the room.

Now he was angry and sad. What’s the best solution to calm yourself down? Taking a walk around town. It..seemed to work in a way, if any passerbys could ignore Damien’s glaring eyes.

‘I can’t believe those two..traitors! Don’t they want me to be successful?! Didn’t they want to get the treasure to help me?! How could they!’ By now he sat on a bench in a park.

In an attempt to clear his mind, Damien looks at the blue peaceful sky….hold on wait now someone’s blocking his view

He quickly turned his head at the figure..er more like figures since there were two people (one tall and one short) in standing front of him

“Can I help you-?”

“Hello there, Damein Buck. You seem to be quite stressed at the moment”

“Er..you know me?”

“Why of course! Who wouldn’t know such a cool archeologist like yourself?”

“O-oh thank you..but who are you?”

“You may call us your new friends”

The tall one sat down on the bench beside Damien. The shorter one does the same, on the other side.

“We thought you might need some help”

“Help?”

“Well, since we are such a big fan of your works and you seem a little stressed, maybe there's something we can do to..take that stress away”

“You can say it's like we can…’steal’ that stress away”

Damien didn’t know what he was thinking honestly. He didn’t know why he told these two strangers he just met to steal “The Blood Of Stars”. He didn’t know why he had a change of heart at the last minute. He didn’t know this whole thing would lead to…

A murdered family.

That's right, in the living room of the Oak residence lay the dead bodies of Spencer and Elena Oak. Emily’s body wasn’t there but she must have also suffered the same unfortunate fate.

Gosh..it was gruesome..what was more gruesome was Damien’s “friends” laughing the entire time.

“What have you done?!”

“What have I done? Why did I just make the job much easier?”

“You..you killed them! You killed my little sister! You killed my best friend!”

“They put up such a hard fight. But it's over now, where is the “The Blood Of Stars?”

“What? Wait, no I don’t know!”

Damien felt a sharp weapon against his throat

“Show us where is it”

Having no choice, it would either lead them to the treasure or end up like the Oaks. He leads them to where he thinks the treasure is. Thank gosh the “The Blood Of Stars” was there in Spencer’s safe. It's a good thing he knows the code..it was the day when they first met after all.

Then the memories Damein had that night became a blur. He got the treasure in his arms. He ran out of the house. He..lit a match..he burned the house.

To the ground

All evidence will be gone

Yes. And now that he has the artifact..he can still save his job right?

Oh who was he kidding! He did a crime! He did a horrible crime and caused death! Those two strangers aren’t even here anymore! He’s now alone! Alone-

A cry

Someone was crying

Someone was in the house still- omg it's Emily!

She’s still alive?! (I mean if she wasn’t then like um ‘Articles of phantom thieves wouldn’t be happening 🚶🏻‍♀️) (i pretty much imagine her sleeping the whole time) (ok sleepy oak) (haha)

Bla bla bla he calls the fire department. They come. Emily gets rescued. Damien now takes her in as his own.

The end? IM FINALLY DONE WITH THIS 🛹🛹🛹🛹 (skateboards away) you know what happens next…IT'S THE INTRODUCTION OF ‘ARTICLES OF PHANTOM THIEVES‼️‼️‼️ um also if you didn’t know who the two strangers are, its professor clover and lady doubt 😌🫵👐🏻

ALSOOO I MADE A DRAWING OF THE OAKS AND DAMIEN!!

When I type ‘💀💀😄’ instead of ‘😄😄😄’

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EXAMS ARE OVER IM BACK YIPPE YIPPE YIPPE

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RAHHHHHHH RAHHH KJ X READER READERS READ THIS RIGHT NOWWW 🗣️🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻‼️🙌🏻🗣️🗣️‼️‼️‼️‼️🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻

ITS SO CUTE

*in a DJ khaled voice* ANOTHER ONE

This idea is more simplier then the last one but its basically a kaitou joker x civillian and aspiring magician reader‼️ Like when he was stealing a treasure one time at a party, one of the guests there catches his eye and he wants to know more about them. He talks to them while digsuised as a waiter and AND get this

THE READER IS A MAGICIAN

Er well they are aspiring to be one

So they try to show Joker this cool new card trick they just learnt and joker’s heart just melts like “omg omg so their pretty AND does magic tricks??”

So after the party, reader is kinda bummed out when they realized that the cute waiter just suddenly disspeared after joker arrived but then when they finally get home, they find a note by this person named ‘KJ’

Its obvs by Joker and so the phantom theif just sometimes sends love notes or flowers to reader. Hachi notices it and goes “ohh who are you going to send these to, Mister Joker?” Joker is just flustered and embaressed.

AAAA please my crush on Joker is unreal 🚶🏻‍♀️

UGHGHFFB I DON'T KNOW HOA LONG IBE LEFT THIS IN THE DRAFTS IM SO SORRYY 😭😭

I'LL DO MY BEST TO SERVE 👍

Apologies if there any errors !!

Stole my heart !

Kaitou joker x aspiring magician ! Reader

( imma assume she/her )

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It was as any other night for the one and only Kaitou Joker and Hachi. Going on another heist to stealing a treasure at a party. What wasn't Joker's goal was to get his heart stolen~♡

At this particular party , stood a magician amongst the crowd. Well , an aspiring magician but , she's working on it !!! And at this particular party , Kaitou Joker stood amongst the crowd as a waiter. Though he couldn't help himself as curiosity got the better of him. He'd take glances , or even look at the tricks of the magician.

The magician had a cheerful smile and a beautiful voice. Not only that , beautiful face and well , Joker did find EVERYTHING about this magician absolutely perfect! From the way she did the tricks , to shuffling the cards. Oh he was definitely in love.

And of course , sooner or later the magician noticed that a certain some one was staring and looking at her. All she did was shoot a smile at him but can't help but think on how cute the waiter was. She soon walked up to the Joker and showed him a trick , which made a rose appear and she giving it to Joker.

—" a gift for an adorable waiter."

At an instant , he falls heads over heals like a highschool boy in love for this magician. He could feel himself overheat as he took the rose. The two accidentally brush fingers for a split second. He feels his heart pounding against his chest at like 16982382838 per millisecond. ( PLS I JUST RANDOMLY KEYBOARD SMASHED OK DONT THINK ITS SOMETHIGN ELSE )

Soon , the party had come to an end , Kaitou Joker managing to leave with his treasure. But he did leave a disappointed magician , who felt bummed out that he couldn't get the attractive waiter's number at least —!

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The dear magician returns to her home , to be greeted at the front door by a bouquet of flowers and a card at the side..

“ thank you , my sweet for the beautiful rose . I hope you love these in return. ”

— KJ .

As time went on , this was a repeated occurrence. It was unexpected , but a nice unexpected surprise ! The Phantom Thief would drop off flowers , gifts and other stuff.

And oh how he loved your genuine reaction as he watches you from a taller higher building .

“ you really do like her huh ?"

“ Maybe I do Hachi."

AAAAA IM SO SO SO SO SO SO X 92839283828328 SORRY THAT I DIDN'T UPLOAD THIS FASTER 😭😭

i hope you didn't starve much !! Hope you liked this :33

Reblogs are very much appreciated !

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Joker and Hachi seeing Emily again after a long time while on a heist :

The last pic is Inspector Oniyama and the others looking at Emily weirdly.

You guys Doctor Who is a really nice show

-Huhu

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…theres an issue with the upcoming chapter of Articles of Phantom Theives 😔

The thing is that I already have the storyline of the chapter all setted up pretty nicely in my opinion but I’m struggling on wether I should write it in a full story like in the Mermaid one or in bullet points

Its a matter between not lazy vs lazy

IDK WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK??

Should I write the next chapter in bullet points or in a full story??

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SILLY SHES SO SMALL AND CUTEEE AAAA

...have i ever showed yall my little gremlin?

anyways, i finally put my kj oc up on artfight, so here's all the art i did for her XD. i think she was my first oc??? or at least, the first oc i actually fleshed out

(yes, i drew that semi-realistic portrait of her. yes, it took 5 hours of my life. yes, i am also aware her eyes are black in that drawing for some reason. i gave up fixing it)

here's her artfight page if you wanna attack her 👀(pretty pls 🥺🥺draw my baby)

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And so she has done it, she finished the latest manga chapter and will now show her favourite parts (er well not all of them only a few bc she has limited storage-)

SPOILERS FOR KAITOU JOKER: ENCORE FOR THOSE WHO HAVENT READ IT YET‼️‼️‼️

Not Mr Kaneri exposing them on a live stream damm ok WAIT STOP THE COMMENTS SAYING “Hey, that weirdo millionare is doing pretty good!” Thats so funny what 😭

Do you ever what he called the stream? Like “Watch me finally FINALLY capture that damm theif and his assistant after taking all my treasures” or something like that probably.

The news company is punching the air right now because they got this information live from KANERI out of all people.

DJ Peacock and Emily (oc) making homemade pizzas at his place and then the stream comes up. He’s like “WHAT? WHAT???” while Emily just drops her tomatoe sauce with a “😧”

Holy crap Kaneri as a streamer. Just imagine that.

ANYWAY HEYYY ITS PANDA YAYAYYAYAYA MY BOY

Just like some streamers, he got arrested 😔. Not suprised though, he blew up a police property…while the police was there

And I know the comments arent seen that much BUT I CAN TELL BRO THEY ARE DISSING HIM 💀💀💀

HELP “His face is hu-“ HU WHAT?? I WANT TO KNOW I WANT TO KNOWWW

aw mans crying live as well 😭 his wife is probably holding the phone..

The cops couldn’t get Joker and Hachi but at least they got to arrest one criminal that night

Huzzah!

HOLD THE PHONEEEE THE MOTHERFLIPPING AMAZING SPECTACULAR COOL AWSEOME PHOENIX IS BACK‼️‼️‼️🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻‼️‼️🙌🏻🙌🏻👏🏻👏🏻‼️🙌🏻🙌🏻👏🏻 (sorry im a fan)

How odd..he arrived on earth again by almost crashing into the road joker

AND YES AUTHOR

THERE IS SOMETHING STRANGE ABOUT HIM

WHAT THE HECK IS ON HIS CHEST

WHAT IS THAT TENTECLE THINGY WHATS IT CALLED

he’s probably getting controlled by it

Omg its like the fungus in resident evil yeahhhh (I don’t play the game I was game, I watch super horror bro)

Aw Hoshi is there too. Please dont tell me he’s controlled by that ugly tentecle thing too..☹️

SPARE THE GREEN SPACE CAT PLEASE

And that is a wrap! Can’t wait to read the rest when it releases, thank you @kaitoujokerscans for translating it in english, you do us all Kaitou Joker international fans a favor 🙂‍↕️🫶🏻 we apprecitate it

I wonder whats gonna happen in the next chapter? 🤫

-Huhu

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GOSH IM TWEAKING OMG OMG

I SHOULD BE STUDYING PEOPLE.

STOPPPPP

Encore Chapter 1 - The Return of the Shining Wings

Download here or read online here.

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AAA THANK YOU SO MUCH 🥹❤️🫶🏻 Don’t worry I have a bunch of ideas what Emily’s meeting with Shadow and Queen will be like I GOTCHA🫵‼️🫵

✨ Articles of Phantom Theives : The mermaid and the ship of fakes! ✨

NOTE : watching the actual episode of the anime is highly recommended Hello everyone! Huhu here! It's been a while huh? Well as I promised I have finished the chapter for this story! You are in a treat this time my friend, I have decided to write an actually full fledged story this time instead of writing bullet points. I’m going to be honest..this wasn’t easy. I had to constantly keep motivating myself and the amount of times I have went back and forth to looking at the episode is insane 💀 That being said, THIS IS A WARNING‼️ the end of this story might be lacking and I apologize for that. I’ll try to be better in the future! Hm..what else? Oh yes, Emily's outfit! Yes yes she is dressed up in knight armor (will be explained in the story) here I even drew it!!

Now without further adieu.. Let the story begin! Thank you for reading!!

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Don’t get me wrong, Emily Oak loves parties. She enjoys socializing with different people and most importantly the food.

So why is she wearing a fully covered knight costume in the middle of a party?

Well dear reader, let me explain. So it started when Emily and DJ peacock were discussing their latest report on Kaitou Joker when a little birdie told them that Joker has sent an advance notice to steal Mr Kaneri’s Mermaid Crystal during his luxury liner party! Obviously both of them were stoked about this news but before things can get even more better it was also hinted that the mysterious phantom thief Spade (who has yet to reveal his identity) was also going to be appearing!

DJ peacock was too busy jumping around in excitement already having ideas on covering the underground news and to notice Emily's shoulder’s slow slump when she realized who Joker and this spade is stealing from.

“Hm? Emily what’s wrong?” “Oh um.. well good news! I can go to the party without being accompanied by inspector oniyama and the others!” “That's wonderful! How did you manage to do that at a short notice?” “Ok so here's the surprising news..”

Emily had to shut her friend’s gaping mouth before any flies would fly into it when she revealed that Mr Kaneri is her uncle. In her defense, the rich man is her FAR FAR FARR UNCLE. She hardly sees him that much anyway but she has a great opportunity in her hands and she could get a peek of what kaitou spade looks like as well! All it took was one greeting (and a bit of persuasion) and Emily had the invitation in her hands, ready to go!

And that's how she got into this situation, a fully covered knight armor costume in her uncle’s cruise attending his costume party. It's not like she doesn’t want her uncle to find her (ok she does) but she only really came here to see what Joker has up his sleeve this time and see kaitou spade, not be forced to write an article about how wealthy her uncle is.

‘Now that I think about it..this armor is making me sweat..’ the brown hair girl thought to herself while looking at the multiple paintings of her uncle on the wall. It was amazing how Emily managed to get such armor like this on rent, truly it was a snatch ... .except it was hot and heavy to move in!

‘Maybe I need water..yeah water might do the trick!’ She made her way to the buffet table that had the most drool worthy food on it. It looked so good she almost bumped into a waiter that suspiciously looked familiar to her. Is it just her or has she seen those blue eyes and strange hairstyles before? Eh it's hard to see through the helmet anyway.

A few minutes pass, and the mermaid crystal is now revealed to the guests by Mr Kaneri’s assistant, kaneko. The beauty of the treasure shown on television could not compete with the real deal! It looks stunning and amazing, and- is that Joker?! Emily paused in the middle of feasting on the delicious custards to see LITERALLY KAITOU JOKER OUT IN THE OPEN COMING DOWN FROM THE CEILING?! She couldn’t believe it! Has Joker already planned to take the mermaid crystal this early? Or has he already done it? How?!

As if she heaviness of the armor Emily is wearing didn’t bother her anymore, she instantly brought out her pen and notepad (guests who were beside her was looking at her weirdly like ‘did this knight just pull out a pen and paper out of thin air?’) preparing to make a beeline towards the fight breaking out in stage between iInspector Oniyama and “Joker”. Until that beeline was cut short, now Emily stood a good feet away from the mess of her uncle who was actually wearing a joker costume, shouting at Inspector Oniyama and her crew of attacking him. To the Oniyama’s defense, the costume looked TOO much like Joker.

Emily sighed at this and turned around to go back to her previous spot at the food buffet. She could hear bits of conversation of Mr Kaneri and oniyama’s conversation but she isn’t one to eavesdrop so-

“By the way, have you seen my lovely niece Emily? She said that she’ll be here at my party tonight!” Mr Kaneri boasted about making Oniyama tilt his head. “Your niece? Emily?” “Yes! Emily Oak! The famous journalist that wrote articles about the rotten Joker! You see I’m planning on convincing her to write articles about ME instead, because I’m so rich and famous it would definitely indeed turn heads!”.

‘You know what I think it's a great idea to hide in the kitchen for a while’ her legs guided her quickly into the kitchen. Big mistake, she was faced with four heads turned towards her. Emily blinked at two out of the four familiar heads, grinning behind her helmet at the sight of them. She pointed at them.

“Hachi! Joker!”

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“WHO ARE YOU?!”

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“I didn’t realize it was you, Miss Emily!” Hachi exclaimed as Emily took off her helmet and smiled at the ninja boy “Sorry for making you panic back there in the kitchen, it's nice to see you again!”. She didn’t get to spend that much time with hachi the last time they met (that being he was literally helping Joker steal something) but she can just tell from his adorable face he is just sweet. Hachi looked at Joker who was staring at the other two with bis hands on his hips

“Hey so what's up with Joker-“

“I’ev heard lots of rumors..so you’re the big up and comer, Spade”

Emily’s eyes instantly darted to the two, the time has finally come! She is now in the presence of the one and only phantom thief Spade!

“King, you must be this Spade’s apprentice”

Wait what?

Emily slowly puts down the pen she didn’t even realize she was holding (must be muscle memory) confused. Joker just continued to talk, “Unlike you, I’m already on my own. And I have my own apprentice! This is Hachi, my number #1 apprentice”. “A pleasure to meet you!” said the apprentice.

The journalist couldn’t help but smile softly at the way Joker is proudly introducing Hachi. To think this was the same Joker she met in the past when he was still new to being a phantom thief is astonishing! Oh how the times have changed. He was even defending Hachi when this apparent “King'' made a remark of how small the ninja is. Oh how it warms her heart to see this.

“By the way, this is Emily Oak! My journalist friend”

Aw he’s introducing Emily as well?

“She writes articles about ME, very good ones in fact. That just adds weight to how much I have grown” Joker smirks as he crosses his arms together looking like an athlete showing off his medals.

‘I should have expected that..’ Emily waves her hands in front of her when King and his friend turned to look at her as she tries to explain more about herself “I don’t only write about Joker of course”The brown hair female failed to notice Joker’s side eye beside her “I am also interested in writing about other phantom thieves. That's actually one of the main reasons why I’m here, to interview phantom thief spade”

King and partner glanced at each other for a moment before looking back at the journalist. “That’s very nice of you, emily. We would love to be in your articles, it might even be more popular than Joker over here” King said with the last few words a bit louder , irking the tophat phantom thief. “Hey!” “J-just who are you to Mr Joker anyway?”

The next sentence that came out of the king's mouth was like a golden buzzer for our girl. It's not everyday she gets information about Joker’s childhood heck even his life when he’s not doing his phantom thief stuff even! She has always wondered what Joker’s childhood was like. To grow up, training to become a phantom thief must be tough right? Who was his mentor? Did he live in a secret isolated place like in those spy movies? Or a hideaway buried deep in nature where the only access to get food was hunting?

Well at least now she knows that he and King were training partners under the same master. Just wait till her article fans hear about this!

Emily was too busy thinking about what she’ll write in the upcoming article, she didn’t mind the current argument happening with king and joker. Er..something about ‘that summer’? Eh, the girl was too far in her thoughts to even listen unlike hachi who was dying of curiosity.

“Hey, what happened that summer?’ Please tell me!”

“Shut up! I’m not like I was back then! No matter what you people do, that crystal will be mine!”

In response to Joker’s claim, King just confidently crossed his arms ``We'll see about that, you don’t want to underestimate the skill of phantom thief spade. Let’s compete to see who can recover the Mermaid’s crystal first!”. The monologue was accompanied with his partner’s chuckle in the background (very nice add on might I say).

Emily’s brain was busy functioning this situation at the moment. ‘Two phantom thieves’ + ‘compete’ = SCORE STORY!!! For a moment she squealed, making everyone look at her for a second. Joker smiled to himself when he noticed Emily’s expression, it's one that he has seen many times before and assumed she was already loving the idea of this.

Not wanting to let her upcoming article be a disaster (and his pride won’t allow it), Joker returns King’s confidence with a smirk “I have no intention of losing to you two”. Hachi shared the same confidence, ready to be alongside Joker to win this challenge.

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“Wah, I’m so full..”

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The five of them looked to see inspector oniyama nearby with his partners. ‘Oh crap!’ Emily thought to herself, quickly putting on her armor helmet. She didn’t want to be caught by none other than the police with phantom thieves, especially inspector oniyama! He doesn’t even know she’s here to begin with! Besides if he does then Mr Kaneri will know..and then- She shivers at the thought of being in an endless bound conversation with her distant uncle where most of the time it's just him talking about himself.

“You’re so under arrest, Joker!!” Inspector Oniyama yelled out, dashing towards the phantom thief. Joker and Hachi both stand in their place, barely having any time to make a run for it until the king's partner swiftly moves in front of them facing the police. ‘Eh?’ Emily thinks, now that she is thinking about it she has never been introduced to King’s partner yet..

Luckily inspector oniyama also wanted to know who was the person standing in between him and Joker as well, “W-who are you?!”. King wasted no time in introducing that, his partner is Phantom thief spade. Emily gasped at the introduction, ‘This is perfect!’ She thought, ‘I can’t believe I’m going to see the phantom thief spade in action right in front of me!’

“Evil glance!” A bright light shines from Spade’s single eye (the one thing that stood out from his bandaged head (weird choice design but…still cool)) blinding inspector oniyama, momo and ginko. Just like that, three officers were down on the floor asleep once the light faded away. Emily looked at the three unconscious figures in wonder at what just happened beside Joker “Woah..” “T-that was so cool!”. Spade looked back at Joker, “Now you owe me one”. The spiky haired phantom thief gritted his teeth “I didn’t ask for you to do that!”.

The journalist on the other hand, hummed behind her helmet, “Thank you for that, Spade and King!”. Joker whipped his head to look at her “Don’t compliment the competition!!”. Spade smirked and winked, “No problem, Emily. Well, we’ll be taking that treasure. See you then”. He and spade ran off ignoring Joker’s constant yells of not letting his childhood friend steal the treasure he’s targeting. Hachi looks on in determination and notices emily walking away to where the part was. “Hm? Emily, you’re going too?” Asked the phantom thief apprentice. The girl smiled sheepishly, admitting that she’ll be heading inside to where king and spade are “I don’t want to miss spade and king steal the mermaid crystal..” “How do you know they’ll steal the mermaid, we’ll do it first!” Joker huffed as he crossed his arms, hachi mirrored his movements. Emily chuckled, “You better do it fast then, goodluck you too!” She gave a thumbs up which was returned with smirks and smiles before running to the party leaving the other two behind.

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Once Emily entered the party room, she tried her best to find Spade and King. No really, she did! Like literally looking up and down, the kitchen, the toilet, everywhere! Seriously what kind of training did he and joker do in the past that involved both of them being able to hide so perfectly well?!

She sighed to herself, the journalist was hoping to meet them for a quick second along for a little mini interview but it seemed like that wasn't going to happen. She glances at the bag behind her, there was another reason why she wanted to see them again..

She found a tranquilizer gun.

In fact she found it on her way to the party on the floor. ‘Is it theirs?’ She wonders, ‘or is it..someone else's?!’ The thought of someone in the party with a tranquilizer gone got her sweating…it even makes her sweat bullets because now she has the gun in her bag.

‘If anyone were to see me with this..’ Emily internally panicked at the thought of someone catching her with the tranquilizer gun. She didn’t want to go to jail yet!!

Fortunately the thoughts slowly go away as Kaneko and Mr Kaneri go up on stage to announce the winners of the- eh? There was a costume contest? Emily surely didn’t know that, but the prize must be amazing then if it came from a rich man like Mr Kaneri!

“The winner indeed will receive a year’s supply of Mr. Cookie!” Mr Kaneri announces as the projector behind him projects an image of his cookie brand. Emily sweatdropped ‘why did I even bother..?’, for once she assumed her distant uncle would give out an expensive prize, she wonders who the winner of the competition is.

Before the winner is revealed though, the doors to the entrance of the room opens and Spade stands there chuckling “kukukuku”.

Emily gasps, holding her hands in front of her helmet at the sight (the guests who beside her looked at her weirdly yet again). It's the big moment of the show! Spade is now going to steal the mermaid treasure. ‘But wait..where’s King?’

“Evil glance!” Light yet again appears from Spade’s glowing eye blinding everyone, including Emily this time. However instead of sleeping like what happened with inspector Oniyama and his partners, the girl didn’t feel herself growing unconscious. Once the light faded, Emily along with multiple other guests blinked in confusion. Obviously the guests are wondering what just happened but Emily was the most confused out of them. ‘Huh?? Why aren't I unconcious? Isn’t that supposed to happen?’ Emily thought to herself, as she takes a look at Spade who is unmoving from his spot. Looking more closely, Spade was indeed not looking too good. In fact he seemed like he was panicking.

‘WHAT IS HE DOING?! IS THIS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN???’ She looked in worry feeling bad for the phantom thief. This was supposed to be the moment where he and King (again where is he) steal the mermaid crystal..and it went totally wrong! How is she supposed to make this sound amazing but also truthful in her article? ‘Phantom thief Spade fails to steal the Mermaid Crystal’? Oh dear..

As if anything else could get worse, Inspector Oniyama along with Ginko and Momo bursted in immediately capturing Spade by dog piling! Great now Emily might as well write ‘Phantom thief Spade fails to steal the Mermaid Crystal AND gets dog piled by police’ as the title of her article!

There could only be one thing to do now.

That's right.

Visit the caged Spade alone.

You would think security would be tight but for some reason, Emily has no problems sneaking in to check up on the caged phantom thief behind bars. She still had to take precautions though so she kept her helmet on. There wasn’t even anybody else in the room, just her and Spade. The journalist made her way in front of Spade with the only thing separating the two was the bars holding the phantom thief in. “Spade,” Spade looked up to see a knight in front of him. For a second he thought it was just some random party guest that wandered into the room but soon realized it was the girl he met on the ship’s dock once Emily lifted up her helmet to reveal her face

“M-miss Emily? What are you doing here?” Spade said out loud, curious on why she decided to come visit a literal criminal. The girl replied with a hum “Since you’re basically arrested now and most likely to be going to jail as soon as this ship gets onto land, I want to spend these last moments of interviewing” she frowned at the last words. Emily felt disappointed a bit to see such a phantom thief like spade get caught like this but..it's not she could do anything about that. Spade’s body paused at the brown haired girl’s words, ‘This girl..wants to interview me? Even though I’m-‘

“Ok first things first I need to ask you about something” Emily reached to take something out of her bag. Spade titled his head wondering what it might be.

He expected many things but no once did the thought of a tranquilizer gun being an option.

Emily may not see it, but Spade was shocked to see the gun in her hands. I mean how did the journalist get her hands on it?! Did it fell off when-

“I just want to make sure this is yours and King’s…because I really hope it is since the idea of someone else on the ship with a gun like this wouldn’t ease my worries” Emily nervously chuckled and turned the tranquilizer gun to fidget with it. “Actually now that I think about it, this is my first time holding a gun” “Miss Emily please be careful on holding that” Spade warned the person on the other side of the bars, the last thing he wants at the moment is something to go wrong. She assures the phantom thief, while holding on to the gun loosely “Its fine I got this-“

“So this is the so-called phantom thief Spade!” A third familiar voice in the room called out behind her.

“AAAH!!”

Bam! Out of panic, Emily accidently shot a nearby crate with the tranquilizer gun and quickly put the knight helmet on her head. ‘Oh shoot! It's..’, she turned around to see a shocked Mr Kaneri clutching his Mr Teddy in his hands as if his life depended on it. ‘Oh no!!’ the journalist mentally cried out, quickly putting the tranquilizer gun in her backpack. She didn’t mean too, really! You all saw that! She doesn’t quite like her distant uncle but not so much to shoot him! Her eyes shifted towards the guard behind Mr Kaneri staring at her through his glasses.

‘Its over.’ Emily has accepted her fate, freezing on her spot. This is the end. She was caught talking to a literal criminal, almost shot someone and a guard was there to witness all of it. “Y-you-! You tried to shoot me! Guard! Arrest him! He indeed needs to be locked up with that thief as well!” Mr Kaneri pointed straight at Emily, who was only accepting her fate more when she realized her uncle doesn’t even recognize her. Great so she’ll be going to jail by her own distant uncle.

This is the end of Emily Oak’s life..

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The guard made no move to arrest Emily however instead he knocked Mr Kaneri out. No seriously, the journalist was now looking down at her unconscious uncle as the guard was tying him up. “What..” Emily gaped, not understanding what is happening right now. What was she feeling? Shocked? Confused? The poor girl could feel herself shaking a bit. After successfully tying up the rich man, the guard stood up to face Emily with a smile. She gasped when she recognized who the guard was.

“You're an interesting one, Emily. I didn’t even realize my tranquilizer gun was missing until the last minute” King let out a chuckle while making his way to let Spade out of the cage. He patted his partner’s arm as an act of comfort before looking back at her with a curious look, “Are you sure you’re not secretly a phantom thief?” Emily quickly shook her head at the question, “Me? No way, I just happened to find the gun on the floor as I was walking to the party. You guys must have dropped it” Besides, I don't think I can handle the intense life of being a phantom thief again, she mentally added. .

“So what are you going to do now?” “Continue our mission to steal the mermaid crystal of course! Don’t tell me you thought we’ll just let Joker and his apprentice take it from us.” “Ahaha of course not, I wish you luck for you two!”

King and Spade leave the room after bidding their goodbyes to Emily. Now it was just her and Mr Kaneri’s slumped, tied up unconscious body on the floor. He was even snoring- is he dreaming of something?! Emily shakes her head and smiles, ‘I've seen what Spade and King had done..perhaps it's now Joker and Hachi’s turn!’ She grins and makes her way to the party room.

The phrase ‘The show must go on’ fitted perfectly for what was going to happen next in my opinion. Despite just capturing a phantom thief, someone must have thought it was a good idea for the party to still continue, not that Emily minded she was interested in how things will turn out. Especially since she hasn't seen Joker make any moves to get the treasure yet. Speaking of the devil, as soon as the girl was wondering where her friend was, the lights turned off and there Joker was, standing on the stage with a confident stance.

‘There he is! Oh and since everyone knows that Mr Kaneri is dressing up as Joker no one is batting an eye’ Emily mentally noted how smart this trick was, it was just as easy as taking a candy from a baby. Joker seemed to not even hide his victory smirk as he approached where Kaneko and the mermaid crystal is. However he didn’t get to even touch the treasure. Somebody stopped him and that someone is none other then..Inspector Oniyama.

“So under arrest!”, he and a few other officers cornered Joker on the stage. The phantom thief was surrounded the only thing left to do was the inspector making sure this was the real deal or just Mr Kaneri (He secretly hoped it was the later).

“You’re a fool, indeed!”

It was the latter.

Emily was starting to get a headache, so that wasn’t Joker but her distant uncle? Wait but that doesn’t make any sense, she saw the old rich man asleep a few minutes ago… and what do you mean he won the costume contest?! She stared in confusion as Mr Kaneri cackled on stage, embracing the fact that he became the winner of his OWN contest.

But what’s that..?

Another Mr Kaneri appears on stage?! Commotion arrupts from everyone, this has turned into a mess!. ‘What..is happening??!!’ Emily looks back and forth at the two Mr Kaneris from her position in the crowd. Instantly, being the one and only japanese police inspector that is determined to catch his target criminal, inspector oniyama and his subordinates jump on stage to set the record straight on who is who.

In the end though, the mystery was solved when one Mr Kaneri realized the other Mr Kaneri was King. This caused both of them to take off their disguise and can you guess what happened next? Yeah, you’re right, they both got captured and taken to the cage Spade once was.

Ok let's be honest here, this whole story Emily Oak has witnessed so many twists and turns. She wasn’t even surprised to be asked to help distribute curry laced with whatever was in the tranquilizer by Hachi and Spade. You can say she was already tired and wanted to get over this. The journalist began pushing the trolley from the kitchen to the party room when she heard the little ninja beside her sigh.

“What’s wrong Hachi?” She asks wondering why Hachi was sighing. “Its just..I really want to know why Mr Joker seems to have a bad history with dipping sauce! But he won’t tell me one bit of it.” he crossed his arms, seemingly annoyed he can’t know. Emily chuckles and assures him, “Its ok, Hachi. It must be an embarressing past if he doesn’t want to tell you what it is. Everyone has their secrets after all.” The asisstant hummed, taking her words before realizing something, “Hey Miss Emily, why aren’t you with them?” “Them?” “Yeah Inspector Oniyama and the others, normally when there is a event where me and Mister Joker attend you always stick with the police force.” The brown hair girl titled her head as she continued to push the trolley with the curry pot at his question. Emily was considering on telling him the reason why she got invited to the party…but then the thought of the ninja telling his master that Mr Kaneri is her distant unlce. It would open so much opperunities, oppertunites that will lead to trouble.

“Everyone has their secrets, Hachi”

“What?”

Emily continued to push forwards, quickening her pace.

“MISS EMILY??”

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“I am the true phantom thief spade!”

“What?!”

After putting everyone to sleep with the curry, the trio managed to save the two phantom thieves and are now standing at the dock of the ship just like what happened last time. For some explanation, Joker managed to snag the mermaid cyrstal before Spade and King could. Now this is the part where emily would write down what happened, and smile with a “I guess joker won again, I can’t wait to tell my readers!” UNTIL..

It was revealed that King was actually Spade the entire time?! And the “spade” was actually King’s assistant, Dark Eye?! This is the last plot twist the journalist could handle, she is going to lose it if it weren't for Spade giving a dramatic departure as he steals the treasure away from Joker in his airship….do all phantom thieves have airships?

The journalist continued to look at the distant blip flying away. So she has a story, she just expected it to go like this. Emily chuckles as she thinks to herself ‘This was a fun night..’

Joker and Hachi stop their current bickering (yet again it was Hachi asking about the summer dipping sauce and Joker refusing to tell anything about it) to stare at the girl. The spiky hair thief decided to speak first, “What are you laughing about?” “I was just thinking how fun this whole night was..I can’t believe I got to meet Phantom thief Spade. He sure is an interesting fellow”.

Joker huffed and crossed his arms “Don’t compliment the competition!”. “Yeah! And don’t worry we’ll win next time!” Hachi added with a determined smile shared with his master.

“I can’t wait-“

“JOKER!!!” “Give me back my treasure, indeed!!”

Uh oh

The three of them turn to see a very awake Mr Kaneri and Inspector Oniyama running towards them at full speed. Emily quickly puts on her knight helmet to shield her identity as Joker and Hachi…jump off the ship into the ocean?! She quickly looks down by the railing as she sees the two of them in the ocean. ‘What an exit..’

“Ah! Inspector! That was the knight that almost shot me earlier, indeed!”

Emily did a sharp turn to face her distant uncle, “WHAT?!” No way..is her uncle really going to make the police arrest her?!

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Well I guess she has to exit as well

SPLASH!

[The end]

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WOWEEE so there we have it folks! You have reached the end of the story! Damm that took long! So this is the chapter where Emily meets Spade for the first time, I quite think they will have a nice friendship with one another. Maybe he’ll spill embaressing secrets about Joker to her a bit and Joker will be like “I DID NOT DO THAT” but like yk he did. What’s that? The ending seems to be lacking? Well I warned you! I’m like running a race, I start strong, end tired and begging my friend to give me my water bottle. I tried my best either way though, I guess this is about 4000 words? This will be a rare case..I don’t think I’ll ever be doing something like this again..

Thank you for reading! I hope you liked it and have a nice day or night‼️ ✨

-Huhu

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✨ Articles of Phantom Theives : The mermaid and the ship of fakes! ✨

NOTE : watching the actual episode of the anime is highly recommended Hello everyone! Huhu here! It's been a while huh? Well as I promised I have finished the chapter for this story! You are in a treat this time my friend, I have decided to write an actually full fledged story this time instead of writing bullet points. I’m going to be honest..this wasn’t easy. I had to constantly keep motivating myself and the amount of times I have went back and forth to looking at the episode is insane 💀 That being said, THIS IS A WARNING‼️ the end of this story might be lacking and I apologize for that. I’ll try to be better in the future! Hm..what else? Oh yes, Emily's outfit! Yes yes she is dressed up in knight armor (will be explained in the story) here I even drew it!!

Now without further adieu.. Let the story begin! Thank you for reading!!

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Don’t get me wrong, Emily Oak loves parties. She enjoys socializing with different people and most importantly the food.

So why is she wearing a fully covered knight costume in the middle of a party?

Well dear reader, let me explain. So it started when Emily and DJ peacock were discussing their latest report on Kaitou Joker when a little birdie told them that Joker has sent an advance notice to steal Mr Kaneri’s Mermaid Crystal during his luxury liner party! Obviously both of them were stoked about this news but before things can get even more better it was also hinted that the mysterious phantom thief Spade (who has yet to reveal his identity) was also going to be appearing!

DJ peacock was too busy jumping around in excitement already having ideas on covering the underground news and to notice Emily's shoulder’s slow slump when she realized who Joker and this spade is stealing from.

“Hm? Emily what’s wrong?” “Oh um.. well good news! I can go to the party without being accompanied by inspector oniyama and the others!” “That's wonderful! How did you manage to do that at a short notice?” “Ok so here's the surprising news..”

Emily had to shut her friend’s gaping mouth before any flies would fly into it when she revealed that Mr Kaneri is her uncle. In her defense, the rich man is her FAR FAR FARR UNCLE. She hardly sees him that much anyway but she has a great opportunity in her hands and she could get a peek of what kaitou spade looks like as well! All it took was one greeting (and a bit of persuasion) and Emily had the invitation in her hands, ready to go!

And that's how she got into this situation, a fully covered knight armor costume in her uncle’s cruise attending his costume party. It's not like she doesn’t want her uncle to find her (ok she does) but she only really came here to see what Joker has up his sleeve this time and see kaitou spade, not be forced to write an article about how wealthy her uncle is.

‘Now that I think about it..this armor is making me sweat..’ the brown hair girl thought to herself while looking at the multiple paintings of her uncle on the wall. It was amazing how Emily managed to get such armor like this on rent, truly it was a snatch ... .except it was hot and heavy to move in!

‘Maybe I need water..yeah water might do the trick!’ She made her way to the buffet table that had the most drool worthy food on it. It looked so good she almost bumped into a waiter that suspiciously looked familiar to her. Is it just her or has she seen those blue eyes and strange hairstyles before? Eh it's hard to see through the helmet anyway.

A few minutes pass, and the mermaid crystal is now revealed to the guests by Mr Kaneri’s assistant, kaneko. The beauty of the treasure shown on television could not compete with the real deal! It looks stunning and amazing, and- is that Joker?! Emily paused in the middle of feasting on the delicious custards to see LITERALLY KAITOU JOKER OUT IN THE OPEN COMING DOWN FROM THE CEILING?! She couldn’t believe it! Has Joker already planned to take the mermaid crystal this early? Or has he already done it? How?!

As if she heaviness of the armor Emily is wearing didn’t bother her anymore, she instantly brought out her pen and notepad (guests who were beside her was looking at her weirdly like ‘did this knight just pull out a pen and paper out of thin air?’) preparing to make a beeline towards the fight breaking out in stage between iInspector Oniyama and “Joker”. Until that beeline was cut short, now Emily stood a good feet away from the mess of her uncle who was actually wearing a joker costume, shouting at Inspector Oniyama and her crew of attacking him. To the Oniyama’s defense, the costume looked TOO much like Joker.

Emily sighed at this and turned around to go back to her previous spot at the food buffet. She could hear bits of conversation of Mr Kaneri and oniyama’s conversation but she isn’t one to eavesdrop so-

“By the way, have you seen my lovely niece Emily? She said that she’ll be here at my party tonight!” Mr Kaneri boasted about making Oniyama tilt his head. “Your niece? Emily?” “Yes! Emily Oak! The famous journalist that wrote articles about the rotten Joker! You see I’m planning on convincing her to write articles about ME instead, because I’m so rich and famous it would definitely indeed turn heads!”.

‘You know what I think it's a great idea to hide in the kitchen for a while’ her legs guided her quickly into the kitchen. Big mistake, she was faced with four heads turned towards her. Emily blinked at two out of the four familiar heads, grinning behind her helmet at the sight of them. She pointed at them.

“Hachi! Joker!”

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“WHO ARE YOU?!”

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“I didn’t realize it was you, Miss Emily!” Hachi exclaimed as Emily took off her helmet and smiled at the ninja boy “Sorry for making you panic back there in the kitchen, it's nice to see you again!”. She didn’t get to spend that much time with hachi the last time they met (that being he was literally helping Joker steal something) but she can just tell from his adorable face he is just sweet. Hachi looked at Joker who was staring at the other two with bis hands on his hips

“Hey so what's up with Joker-“

“I’ev heard lots of rumors..so you’re the big up and comer, Spade”

Emily’s eyes instantly darted to the two, the time has finally come! She is now in the presence of the one and only phantom thief Spade!

“King, you must be this Spade’s apprentice”

Wait what?

Emily slowly puts down the pen she didn’t even realize she was holding (must be muscle memory) confused. Joker just continued to talk, “Unlike you, I’m already on my own. And I have my own apprentice! This is Hachi, my number #1 apprentice”. “A pleasure to meet you!” said the apprentice.

The journalist couldn’t help but smile softly at the way Joker is proudly introducing Hachi. To think this was the same Joker she met in the past when he was still new to being a phantom thief is astonishing! Oh how the times have changed. He was even defending Hachi when this apparent “King'' made a remark of how small the ninja is. Oh how it warms her heart to see this.

“By the way, this is Emily Oak! My journalist friend”

Aw he’s introducing Emily as well?

“She writes articles about ME, very good ones in fact. That just adds weight to how much I have grown” Joker smirks as he crosses his arms together looking like an athlete showing off his medals.

‘I should have expected that..’ Emily waves her hands in front of her when King and his friend turned to look at her as she tries to explain more about herself “I don’t only write about Joker of course”The brown hair female failed to notice Joker’s side eye beside her “I am also interested in writing about other phantom thieves. That's actually one of the main reasons why I’m here, to interview phantom thief spade”

King and partner glanced at each other for a moment before looking back at the journalist. “That’s very nice of you, emily. We would love to be in your articles, it might even be more popular than Joker over here” King said with the last few words a bit louder , irking the tophat phantom thief. “Hey!” “J-just who are you to Mr Joker anyway?”

The next sentence that came out of the king's mouth was like a golden buzzer for our girl. It's not everyday she gets information about Joker’s childhood heck even his life when he’s not doing his phantom thief stuff even! She has always wondered what Joker’s childhood was like. To grow up, training to become a phantom thief must be tough right? Who was his mentor? Did he live in a secret isolated place like in those spy movies? Or a hideaway buried deep in nature where the only access to get food was hunting?

Well at least now she knows that he and King were training partners under the same master. Just wait till her article fans hear about this!

Emily was too busy thinking about what she’ll write in the upcoming article, she didn’t mind the current argument happening with king and joker. Er..something about ‘that summer’? Eh, the girl was too far in her thoughts to even listen unlike hachi who was dying of curiosity.

“Hey, what happened that summer?’ Please tell me!”

“Shut up! I’m not like I was back then! No matter what you people do, that crystal will be mine!”

In response to Joker’s claim, King just confidently crossed his arms ``We'll see about that, you don’t want to underestimate the skill of phantom thief spade. Let’s compete to see who can recover the Mermaid’s crystal first!”. The monologue was accompanied with his partner’s chuckle in the background (very nice add on might I say).

Emily’s brain was busy functioning this situation at the moment. ‘Two phantom thieves’ + ‘compete’ = SCORE STORY!!! For a moment she squealed, making everyone look at her for a second. Joker smiled to himself when he noticed Emily’s expression, it's one that he has seen many times before and assumed she was already loving the idea of this.

Not wanting to let her upcoming article be a disaster (and his pride won’t allow it), Joker returns King’s confidence with a smirk “I have no intention of losing to you two”. Hachi shared the same confidence, ready to be alongside Joker to win this challenge.

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“Wah, I’m so full..”

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The five of them looked to see inspector oniyama nearby with his partners. ‘Oh crap!’ Emily thought to herself, quickly putting on her armor helmet. She didn’t want to be caught by none other than the police with phantom thieves, especially inspector oniyama! He doesn’t even know she’s here to begin with! Besides if he does then Mr Kaneri will know..and then- She shivers at the thought of being in an endless bound conversation with her distant uncle where most of the time it's just him talking about himself.

“You’re so under arrest, Joker!!” Inspector Oniyama yelled out, dashing towards the phantom thief. Joker and Hachi both stand in their place, barely having any time to make a run for it until the king's partner swiftly moves in front of them facing the police. ‘Eh?’ Emily thinks, now that she is thinking about it she has never been introduced to King’s partner yet..

Luckily inspector oniyama also wanted to know who was the person standing in between him and Joker as well, “W-who are you?!”. King wasted no time in introducing that, his partner is Phantom thief spade. Emily gasped at the introduction, ‘This is perfect!’ She thought, ‘I can’t believe I’m going to see the phantom thief spade in action right in front of me!’

“Evil glance!” A bright light shines from Spade’s single eye (the one thing that stood out from his bandaged head (weird choice design but…still cool)) blinding inspector oniyama, momo and ginko. Just like that, three officers were down on the floor asleep once the light faded away. Emily looked at the three unconscious figures in wonder at what just happened beside Joker “Woah..” “T-that was so cool!”. Spade looked back at Joker, “Now you owe me one”. The spiky haired phantom thief gritted his teeth “I didn’t ask for you to do that!”.

The journalist on the other hand, hummed behind her helmet, “Thank you for that, Spade and King!”. Joker whipped his head to look at her “Don’t compliment the competition!!”. Spade smirked and winked, “No problem, Emily. Well, we’ll be taking that treasure. See you then”. He and spade ran off ignoring Joker’s constant yells of not letting his childhood friend steal the treasure he’s targeting. Hachi looks on in determination and notices emily walking away to where the part was. “Hm? Emily, you’re going too?” Asked the phantom thief apprentice. The girl smiled sheepishly, admitting that she’ll be heading inside to where king and spade are “I don’t want to miss spade and king steal the mermaid crystal..” “How do you know they’ll steal the mermaid, we’ll do it first!” Joker huffed as he crossed his arms, hachi mirrored his movements. Emily chuckled, “You better do it fast then, goodluck you too!” She gave a thumbs up which was returned with smirks and smiles before running to the party leaving the other two behind.

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Once Emily entered the party room, she tried her best to find Spade and King. No really, she did! Like literally looking up and down, the kitchen, the toilet, everywhere! Seriously what kind of training did he and joker do in the past that involved both of them being able to hide so perfectly well?!

She sighed to herself, the journalist was hoping to meet them for a quick second along for a little mini interview but it seemed like that wasn't going to happen. She glances at the bag behind her, there was another reason why she wanted to see them again..

She found a tranquilizer gun.

In fact she found it on her way to the party on the floor. ‘Is it theirs?’ She wonders, ‘or is it..someone else's?!’ The thought of someone in the party with a tranquilizer gone got her sweating…it even makes her sweat bullets because now she has the gun in her bag.

‘If anyone were to see me with this..’ Emily internally panicked at the thought of someone catching her with the tranquilizer gun. She didn’t want to go to jail yet!!

Fortunately the thoughts slowly go away as Kaneko and Mr Kaneri go up on stage to announce the winners of the- eh? There was a costume contest? Emily surely didn’t know that, but the prize must be amazing then if it came from a rich man like Mr Kaneri!

“The winner indeed will receive a year’s supply of Mr. Cookie!” Mr Kaneri announces as the projector behind him projects an image of his cookie brand. Emily sweatdropped ‘why did I even bother..?’, for once she assumed her distant uncle would give out an expensive prize, she wonders who the winner of the competition is.

Before the winner is revealed though, the doors to the entrance of the room opens and Spade stands there chuckling “kukukuku”.

Emily gasps, holding her hands in front of her helmet at the sight (the guests who beside her looked at her weirdly yet again). It's the big moment of the show! Spade is now going to steal the mermaid treasure. ‘But wait..where’s King?’

“Evil glance!” Light yet again appears from Spade’s glowing eye blinding everyone, including Emily this time. However instead of sleeping like what happened with inspector Oniyama and his partners, the girl didn’t feel herself growing unconscious. Once the light faded, Emily along with multiple other guests blinked in confusion. Obviously the guests are wondering what just happened but Emily was the most confused out of them. ‘Huh?? Why aren't I unconcious? Isn’t that supposed to happen?’ Emily thought to herself, as she takes a look at Spade who is unmoving from his spot. Looking more closely, Spade was indeed not looking too good. In fact he seemed like he was panicking.

‘WHAT IS HE DOING?! IS THIS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN???’ She looked in worry feeling bad for the phantom thief. This was supposed to be the moment where he and King (again where is he) steal the mermaid crystal..and it went totally wrong! How is she supposed to make this sound amazing but also truthful in her article? ‘Phantom thief Spade fails to steal the Mermaid Crystal’? Oh dear..

As if anything else could get worse, Inspector Oniyama along with Ginko and Momo bursted in immediately capturing Spade by dog piling! Great now Emily might as well write ‘Phantom thief Spade fails to steal the Mermaid Crystal AND gets dog piled by police’ as the title of her article!

There could only be one thing to do now.

That's right.

Visit the caged Spade alone.

You would think security would be tight but for some reason, Emily has no problems sneaking in to check up on the caged phantom thief behind bars. She still had to take precautions though so she kept her helmet on. There wasn’t even anybody else in the room, just her and Spade. The journalist made her way in front of Spade with the only thing separating the two was the bars holding the phantom thief in. “Spade,” Spade looked up to see a knight in front of him. For a second he thought it was just some random party guest that wandered into the room but soon realized it was the girl he met on the ship’s dock once Emily lifted up her helmet to reveal her face

“M-miss Emily? What are you doing here?” Spade said out loud, curious on why she decided to come visit a literal criminal. The girl replied with a hum “Since you’re basically arrested now and most likely to be going to jail as soon as this ship gets onto land, I want to spend these last moments of interviewing” she frowned at the last words. Emily felt disappointed a bit to see such a phantom thief like spade get caught like this but..it's not she could do anything about that. Spade’s body paused at the brown haired girl’s words, ‘This girl..wants to interview me? Even though I’m-‘

“Ok first things first I need to ask you about something” Emily reached to take something out of her bag. Spade titled his head wondering what it might be.

He expected many things but no once did the thought of a tranquilizer gun being an option.

Emily may not see it, but Spade was shocked to see the gun in her hands. I mean how did the journalist get her hands on it?! Did it fell off when-

“I just want to make sure this is yours and King’s…because I really hope it is since the idea of someone else on the ship with a gun like this wouldn’t ease my worries” Emily nervously chuckled and turned the tranquilizer gun to fidget with it. “Actually now that I think about it, this is my first time holding a gun” “Miss Emily please be careful on holding that” Spade warned the person on the other side of the bars, the last thing he wants at the moment is something to go wrong. She assures the phantom thief, while holding on to the gun loosely “Its fine I got this-“

“So this is the so-called phantom thief Spade!” A third familiar voice in the room called out behind her.

“AAAH!!”

Bam! Out of panic, Emily accidently shot a nearby crate with the tranquilizer gun and quickly put the knight helmet on her head. ‘Oh shoot! It's..’, she turned around to see a shocked Mr Kaneri clutching his Mr Teddy in his hands as if his life depended on it. ‘Oh no!!’ the journalist mentally cried out, quickly putting the tranquilizer gun in her backpack. She didn’t mean too, really! You all saw that! She doesn’t quite like her distant uncle but not so much to shoot him! Her eyes shifted towards the guard behind Mr Kaneri staring at her through his glasses.

‘Its over.’ Emily has accepted her fate, freezing on her spot. This is the end. She was caught talking to a literal criminal, almost shot someone and a guard was there to witness all of it. “Y-you-! You tried to shoot me! Guard! Arrest him! He indeed needs to be locked up with that thief as well!” Mr Kaneri pointed straight at Emily, who was only accepting her fate more when she realized her uncle doesn’t even recognize her. Great so she’ll be going to jail by her own distant uncle.

This is the end of Emily Oak’s life..

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The guard made no move to arrest Emily however instead he knocked Mr Kaneri out. No seriously, the journalist was now looking down at her unconscious uncle as the guard was tying him up. “What..” Emily gaped, not understanding what is happening right now. What was she feeling? Shocked? Confused? The poor girl could feel herself shaking a bit. After successfully tying up the rich man, the guard stood up to face Emily with a smile. She gasped when she recognized who the guard was.

“You're an interesting one, Emily. I didn’t even realize my tranquilizer gun was missing until the last minute” King let out a chuckle while making his way to let Spade out of the cage. He patted his partner’s arm as an act of comfort before looking back at her with a curious look, “Are you sure you’re not secretly a phantom thief?” Emily quickly shook her head at the question, “Me? No way, I just happened to find the gun on the floor as I was walking to the party. You guys must have dropped it” Besides, I don't think I can handle the intense life of being a phantom thief again, she mentally added. .

“So what are you going to do now?” “Continue our mission to steal the mermaid crystal of course! Don’t tell me you thought we’ll just let Joker and his apprentice take it from us.” “Ahaha of course not, I wish you luck for you two!”

King and Spade leave the room after bidding their goodbyes to Emily. Now it was just her and Mr Kaneri’s slumped, tied up unconscious body on the floor. He was even snoring- is he dreaming of something?! Emily shakes her head and smiles, ‘I've seen what Spade and King had done..perhaps it's now Joker and Hachi’s turn!’ She grins and makes her way to the party room.

The phrase ‘The show must go on’ fitted perfectly for what was going to happen next in my opinion. Despite just capturing a phantom thief, someone must have thought it was a good idea for the party to still continue, not that Emily minded she was interested in how things will turn out. Especially since she hasn't seen Joker make any moves to get the treasure yet. Speaking of the devil, as soon as the girl was wondering where her friend was, the lights turned off and there Joker was, standing on the stage with a confident stance.

‘There he is! Oh and since everyone knows that Mr Kaneri is dressing up as Joker no one is batting an eye’ Emily mentally noted how smart this trick was, it was just as easy as taking a candy from a baby. Joker seemed to not even hide his victory smirk as he approached where Kaneko and the mermaid crystal is. However he didn’t get to even touch the treasure. Somebody stopped him and that someone is none other then..Inspector Oniyama.

“So under arrest!”, he and a few other officers cornered Joker on the stage. The phantom thief was surrounded the only thing left to do was the inspector making sure this was the real deal or just Mr Kaneri (He secretly hoped it was the later).

“You’re a fool, indeed!”

It was the latter.

Emily was starting to get a headache, so that wasn’t Joker but her distant uncle? Wait but that doesn’t make any sense, she saw the old rich man asleep a few minutes ago… and what do you mean he won the costume contest?! She stared in confusion as Mr Kaneri cackled on stage, embracing the fact that he became the winner of his OWN contest.

But what’s that..?

Another Mr Kaneri appears on stage?! Commotion arrupts from everyone, this has turned into a mess!. ‘What..is happening??!!’ Emily looks back and forth at the two Mr Kaneris from her position in the crowd. Instantly, being the one and only japanese police inspector that is determined to catch his target criminal, inspector oniyama and his subordinates jump on stage to set the record straight on who is who.

In the end though, the mystery was solved when one Mr Kaneri realized the other Mr Kaneri was King. This caused both of them to take off their disguise and can you guess what happened next? Yeah, you’re right, they both got captured and taken to the cage Spade once was.

Ok let's be honest here, this whole story Emily Oak has witnessed so many twists and turns. She wasn’t even surprised to be asked to help distribute curry laced with whatever was in the tranquilizer by Hachi and Spade. You can say she was already tired and wanted to get over this. The journalist began pushing the trolley from the kitchen to the party room when she heard the little ninja beside her sigh.

“What’s wrong Hachi?” She asks wondering why Hachi was sighing. “Its just..I really want to know why Mr Joker seems to have a bad history with dipping sauce! But he won’t tell me one bit of it.” he crossed his arms, seemingly annoyed he can’t know. Emily chuckles and assures him, “Its ok, Hachi. It must be an embarressing past if he doesn’t want to tell you what it is. Everyone has their secrets after all.” The asisstant hummed, taking her words before realizing something, “Hey Miss Emily, why aren’t you with them?” “Them?” “Yeah Inspector Oniyama and the others, normally when there is a event where me and Mister Joker attend you always stick with the police force.” The brown hair girl titled her head as she continued to push the trolley with the curry pot at his question. Emily was considering on telling him the reason why she got invited to the party…but then the thought of the ninja telling his master that Mr Kaneri is her distant unlce. It would open so much opperunities, oppertunites that will lead to trouble.

“Everyone has their secrets, Hachi”

“What?”

Emily continued to push forwards, quickening her pace.

“MISS EMILY??”

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“I am the true phantom thief spade!”

“What?!”

After putting everyone to sleep with the curry, the trio managed to save the two phantom thieves and are now standing at the dock of the ship just like what happened last time. For some explanation, Joker managed to snag the mermaid cyrstal before Spade and King could. Now this is the part where emily would write down what happened, and smile with a “I guess joker won again, I can’t wait to tell my readers!” UNTIL..

It was revealed that King was actually Spade the entire time?! And the “spade” was actually King’s assistant, Dark Eye?! This is the last plot twist the journalist could handle, she is going to lose it if it weren't for Spade giving a dramatic departure as he steals the treasure away from Joker in his airship….do all phantom thieves have airships?

The journalist continued to look at the distant blip flying away. So she has a story, she just expected it to go like this. Emily chuckles as she thinks to herself ‘This was a fun night..’

Joker and Hachi stop their current bickering (yet again it was Hachi asking about the summer dipping sauce and Joker refusing to tell anything about it) to stare at the girl. The spiky hair thief decided to speak first, “What are you laughing about?” “I was just thinking how fun this whole night was..I can’t believe I got to meet Phantom thief Spade. He sure is an interesting fellow”.

Joker huffed and crossed his arms “Don’t compliment the competition!”. “Yeah! And don’t worry we’ll win next time!” Hachi added with a determined smile shared with his master.

“I can’t wait-“

“JOKER!!!” “Give me back my treasure, indeed!!”

Uh oh

The three of them turn to see a very awake Mr Kaneri and Inspector Oniyama running towards them at full speed. Emily quickly puts on her knight helmet to shield her identity as Joker and Hachi…jump off the ship into the ocean?! She quickly looks down by the railing as she sees the two of them in the ocean. ‘What an exit..’

“Ah! Inspector! That was the knight that almost shot me earlier, indeed!”

Emily did a sharp turn to face her distant uncle, “WHAT?!” No way..is her uncle really going to make the police arrest her?!

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Well I guess she has to exit as well

SPLASH!

[The end]

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WOWEEE so there we have it folks! You have reached the end of the story! Damm that took long! So this is the chapter where Emily meets Spade for the first time, I quite think they will have a nice friendship with one another. Maybe he’ll spill embaressing secrets about Joker to her a bit and Joker will be like “I DID NOT DO THAT” but like yk he did. What’s that? The ending seems to be lacking? Well I warned you! I’m like running a race, I start strong, end tired and begging my friend to give me my water bottle. I tried my best either way though, I guess this is about 4000 words? This will be a rare case..I don’t think I’ll ever be doing something like this again..

Thank you for reading! I hope you liked it and have a nice day or night‼️ ✨

-Huhu

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Its done 😉 make sure to look out for it soon!

- Huhu

COMING SOON‼️‼️

Its been like months since I did the last one where emily was debuted in the anime SOMEONE.. motivated me into writing again so make sure to get a look out for this

-Huhu

[rotnow]

Hey guys, ok I havent made finished the ‘mermaid and ship of fakes’ but I SWEAR IM ALMOST DONE

Instead I am here to introduce my future plans for my ‘Articles of Phantom theives’

Ok first things first lets lay out a timeline for this. Please take note this is not official, will be edited later in the future probably.

1. The Oak archives

- A story of Emily’s parents up until their eventual demise. Yes thats right, Emily is an orphan 😞 don’t worry she lives with her uncle now so its all handy dandy

2. Emily meeting joker for the first time and deciding to write articles about phantom theives

-AAA yesss now you know this 🫵 this story is basically my first kaitou joker post in this account is it not? Ah yes with my part two of that onw as well! My babies..I was really happy about making those.

Here is part one!

And this is part 2!

3. Adventures with a phantom theif

-OH YEAHH I AM EXICTED FOR THIS ok so basically, since Joker is a new phantom theif in this time he might need some help in his heists (but you’ll never hear the word help from his mouth, boy cant admit it) and he thinks he should do Emily a favor since she writes articles for him..he decides he’ll take in emily as his assistant, TEMPORARILY.

-Emily, obviously tweaking in exictement is all like “REALLY? REALLY? ARE YOU SURE??” and Joker’s like “Yeah YEAH now accept it before I take it back!!” “YAYYYY”

-look fellas I even made a lil doodle of Joker and Emily on their way to their first heist together <:DD

(My silles <:)))) ) (pls ignore the fact that it looks like emily is about to beat tf out of joker, its her makeshift weapon)

-ok so this is a saga, three chapters, based on the manga. It won’t last lokg of course because in the end emily has to stop being joker’s assistant due some unfortunate reason…but you know that that means…

3. Emily’s debut in the Kaitou Joker anime!

- There we go! Now thats a familar title isn’t it? This is where the original kj plot comes it LETS GOOO HACHI SPADE DARK EYE QUEEN ROKO SILVER HEART THE GANGS ALL HEREEE‼️‼️

- I have already did the first part which involves emily’s appearence in episode two “paris the 100 year old safe” go check that out‼️‼️

Now we are all settled! (I think) I hope this makes sense honestly. Thank you for everyone who follows me, it makes me really happy that some people out there is interested in my oc and share the same interest of kaitou joker like me. ❤️👐🏻🫶🏻 I hope you guys are doing well, until again! Goodbyee!!

-Huhu

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COMING SOON‼️‼️

Its been like months since I did the last one where emily was debuted in the anime SOMEONE.. motivated me into writing again so make sure to get a look out for this

-Huhu

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IM CRYING OM

LOOK AT THIS BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF ART @the-psychotic-blueberry MADE 😭😭😭 PLS THEY ARE SO COOL PLEASW CHECK THEIR ACCOUNT AND THEIR KJ OCS

Emily’s side eye when people want to capture kaitous, like she knows its a good thing but if phantom theives are gone she’ll have to go back into making articles of…viridian 🚶🏻‍♀️

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RANDOM FACTS ABOUT MY KJ OC #2

- She loves cats despite being allergic to them.

- She likes to eat ramen especially late at night to keep her awake for writing her articles

- Speaking of keeping her awake, she also drinks coffee but doesn’t tend to always drink it due to its bitterness

- Emily keeps in touch with panta and teru ever since their meet up at the airplane. She thinks they are adorable and are like little brothers to her

- Due to her job to write articles about Joker and the other phantom theived she always meets up with inspector oniyama and his crew. Inspector Oniyama was at first annoyed of Emily but when she mentioned that Oniyama will also be included in the articles he was like :D “ok”

- Emily works alongside with DJ peacock. He broadcasts the news while she writes or types the news.

- She can cook but is she better then Hachi? No one can surpass the king’s skills! Whenever she visits the sky joker, Emily and hachi cook and learn from each other (ok but its more like emily is learning from hachi) while joker is there like 🧍🏻

- WOAH OWAH OWAH THE SHUFFLE SISTERS?? YOU MEAN THE SHUFFLE SISTERS?? I mean who called hate them? Emily always listens to their latest songs. She’s a fan of them but it isn’t really much shown unlike hachi. Her bias is Ai but she wonders why Dark Eye is looking at her like that when she confessed that