(1st Person PoV: Tommy's)

There is a man by the fountain.

A humble man who plays that little acoustic guitar of his.

Trying to swoon the ladies (and men) and always getting rejected. And yet always rejecting those who try to swoon him.

The friendzoned and the friendzoner.

No one knows where he exactly came from.

Was he always there? Or was he just an ordinary person before he plays that guitar of his.

No one knows....

Except me, his dad, his mum and his twin brother.

Since I wasn't going to work today, might as well visit him.

I walked over to Town Square where the fountain of Boats was.

Right smack down in the middle of it.

The man was there but he had a crowd.

This normally didn't bother me as much but I had something to discuss with the man in private.

(Time skip)

"Finally! That took forever!" I complained as I walked up to him.

"Ah! How is my favorite younger brother doing?" The man asked.

"Wilbur, I'm your only younger brother. Techno is older than you by like two minutes," I said.

"The curse by two minutes! Anyway aren't you supposed to be at work right now?" Wilbur asked.

"Nope! My shift got cancelled. Something about that it's not safe to come to work or something. Not sure," I shrugged and sat next to him.

Wilbur strummed his guitar.

"Hmmm I see. Well I assume you're here for something that only I, Wilbur Soot Minecraft have," he said and I nodded.

"Well you come to the right place! I have something for you," Wilbur dug into his pocket and handed me something.

"Ugh...have you cleaned that jacket of yours. And I wonder why those customers of yours come and listen to you," I muttered.

"I'm flattered," he shrugged.

I looked at the piece of paper that Wilbur gave me.

(It took me a while to get this onto here. Take this crappy screenshot)

I read it over and in my head, tried to translate it.

I told Wilbur and he nodded.

"When?"

"In two days, late evening," Wilbur explained.

I gave it back to him.

"Oh and by the way, I heard from one of my customers that there's a team of police officers that are in charge of looking for Kaitō Raccoon. One of them is an old friend. Remember Schlatt?" He asked.

"Ohhhhhh...yeah I know....he also got knocked out when the robbery took place. As well as Charlie Slimecicle," I replied.

"Uh huh...they even have that young policeman who is around your age. Tubbo Underscore I believe," Wilbur said.

"Yeah I know," I nodded.

Wilbur hummed and reached over to seemingly dust off something off my shoulder but then he whispered in my ear, sounding dead serious.

"You better watch out, Tommy. I know your reasons on why you decided to don the persona and I support you all the way but this is dangerous. The team of police consists of Ted, Charlie, Schlatt and the Genius Kid Cop, Tubbo. Watch your back and keep your allies close. Consider yourself warned, little brother," he said.

I nodded to show that I understood.

I knew the risks on this! I knew it!

It was a long and hard decision to take but in the end, it'll be worth it. It has to be worth it! Else...or else... what would I do if it didn't?

Wilbur pulled away and grabbed his phone from his pocket.

"I got another customer to go to. Shall we get dinner together tonight? My treat," he smiled.

"Sure. It has been a while since we sat down and ate food together. Better not be that ramen place where you try, and fail miserably at, flirting with the red haired lady. What was her name? Sally?" I asked.

"Whaaaat? When have I done that?" Wilbur asked dramatically.

"Last week! And in front of my friend Eryn! He later texted me, saying that you're definitely NOT the person to go to when needing relationship advice!" I pointed out.

"......ok you may have a point there but it won't be the ramen place nor the place where you work at. I'm pretty sure I'm banned from that place," Wilbur said.

"Yeah. Jimmy said, and I quote, 'Please tell that brother of yours to take a darn shower! He smells like pot!' So yeah, take his advice," I explained.

"I'm banned because I smelled?" Wilbur asked.

"No. It was because of the fried ice cream incident," I replied.

"Ah f*cking come on! It wasn't even my fault! F*ck your boss for that!" Wilbur snapped.

"No, only his husband can," I said.

"..."

"Tommy... I will throw you into that polluted river and watch as you drown!" Wilbur snapped.

I flipped him off.

"Soooo how's Techno?" I asked, changing the subject before Wilbur starts swearing in French (isn't the first time that it happened).

"Tech? Oh he's doing better. I heard from him recently that his potato farm with Squid is a huge hit," Wilbur replied.

"Kind of crazy that they were rivals in potato farming and now they are co-workers," I said.

"A bit but hey he's happier and more relaxed," Wilbur shrugged.

"Does Squid know about...you know what?" I asked in a low voice.

Wilbur made a seesaw motion with his hand.

"Only about his voices and episodes. Not the uh...ahem...incident," he sounded sad as if he was remembering a terrible memory.

I felt immediately bad for bringing it up. That memory still hurts.

"Well I better get going before my customer gets pissed at him. I'll see you tonight," Wilbur waved.

"Alright...Wil I'm...I'm sorry about bringing that up," I murmured.

He patted my head though and smiled.

"That's ok. We'll have to face it someday," Wilbur said.

I still felt really bad though.

He left and I went to the supermarket to see what I could buy from my list of to do's.

I need to restock on stuff.

Hmmm I see. I need to buy some more healthy stuff or else Phil will be on my case about not putting a healthy balance of healthy food and unhealthy food. All I know is that I got stop eating TV dinners and free burgers from my job all the time. I guess occasionally, I thought as I walked through.

"God they still haven't found that Phantom Thief?! What are the police doing?" Someone said in a loud voice.

"I know right! I knew we shouldn't have placed our trust in them!" Another agreed.

"Y'all are bozos! The thief literally only appeared once. If he had appeared other times before, then yeah. The police would be incompetent but this was taken by surprise," someone in a frog hat said.

"Shut up Boomer!" The other two people yelled.

"Whatever. L bozo!" Boomer walked away, making a L with his fingers.

I proceeded to sped walk away to get the stuff I need.

That was one conversation that I didn't want to be a part of.

The police aren't incompetent, especially the ones who were after me.

Yes, they let me get away but hey element of surprise can catch anyone off guard.

I think next time, they will be even more prepared. Especially that policeman who is around my age, Tubbo was his name?

Honestly, never knew that 18 year olds can be police officers that young already but hey, I guess there are geniuses out there.

I grabbed the food that I need and placed them in the shopping crate.

After I did that, I went up to the cashier to pay for it.

The woman began to slide it down and the machine made a 'beep' noises whenever the item got scanned.

"That'll be 25.30. Would you like a bag and your receipt as well?" The woman asked.

I glanced at her name tag. Graecie.

Yeah, she seemed like a Graecie to me.

"Sure," I shrugged.

She handed me my receipt and grabbed a bag to place my things in. She later handed it to me as I handed her the money.

"Have a nice day," Graecie said politely.

"Thanks, you too!" I waved and left.

She seemed nice, I thought as I walked all the way back to Sea Street.

I fiddled around with my wallet before taking out a whole wad of cash with a paper wrapped around it with the words 'Rent' on it.

I went over to where the rent lady collects it.

"Hey Tina. I'm paying my rent early. In case, I forget whenever the actual rent is due," I said and held it up.

Tina looked up from her magazine, set it down and held her hand out for the money.

I gave it to her and she looked through it.

One of her cats that was on the counter, yawned loudly at this.

"Ok...everything is on check. I'll tell Puffy that you paid rent early instead of the day after and you'll be fine," she said.

"Pog! Anyway whatcha reading?" I asked.

"Some article about the Phantom Thief. It says that the thief is ripping off Lupin and the Phantom Thieves of Hearts from Japan," Tina explained as she grabbed her magazine again.

I made a fist under the counter at this.

"Have it occurred to them...that Phantom Thieves are not a new thing in our culture," I said, trying not to sound mad.

"People will be negative, Tommy. Take a look on Twitter...actually don't. You'll see stuff that you don't want to see," Tina warned me.

"So uhh...do you believe in any of that cr-stuff that they're saying?" I asked and to my relief, she shook her head.

"I just read things," Tina explained.

"Ok...well I'll see you around," I waved goodbye and went up to my apartment.

I sat on the sofa that I found on online and took a deep sigh.

Ok I can't get pissed whenever someone brings something negative to say about my persona as Kaitō Raccoon. Or else, they're going to figure it out that it's me. Try to think about something else when that's brought out or just don't engaged on that sort of stuff. I'll take Tina's advice and avoid Twitter, I thought.

But what are they saying about me? Well about Kaitō Raccoon anyway.

But now it isn't the time to think on that.

I thought back to the paper that Wilbur gave me.

Two days...enough time for me to make a calling card but what should I say that it wouldn't be too obvious as to where I'm planning to go next. I got time to think, I thought.

And that necklace...

Where the hell did that bead go? And why replace it with a fake one?

According to Phil, the bead was replaced almost 16 years ago! So the real bead was intact when Lupin first stole it.

That's the bead that....the bead that...the bead...

"Damn it," I muttered.

Looks like I still got to pay a visit to TakenCorp sometime soon for answers.

And they better give it to me.

"...................my back is starting to hurt again," I murmured.

A/N: dropping lore bit by bit.

Gonna wait for the theories to roll in.

Yeah a bit of a shorter chapter this time. Just felt like a shorter one is necessary without adding in unnecessary filler in said chapter.

Cya in the next one -Flare

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