CHAPTER 01

Kenji and Chika has been in the Phantom Thieves since the Kamoshida's case. Both Kenji and his sister Chika met Ren, Ann, Ryuji and Morgana. Since then they were trying to get their names out- well not Kenji and Chika cause they didn't want to become famous because of their identity. Saving people is alright but trying to become famous is alright with the others but the Hisashi siblings think otherwise.

After a few days or weeks they met Yusuke who was ex- mentor of Ichiryusai Madarame. After finding out the true about what his mentor did. Yusuke awaken to his persona and join alongside the Phantom Thieves. After Madarame gotten a change of heart, Yusuke decided to move to the school dorms.

A mafia boss name, Junya Kaneshiro  was the next target to have a change of heart from the student council president of Shujin Academy, Makoto Niijima. When Makoto entered the Metaverse for the very first time with the Phantom Thieves accompany her by her side but in anger and disgusted by Kaneshiro she awakens to her persona and decided to join the Phantom Thieves.

The phantom thieves plan a heist to steal the heart of Alibaba or proper name Futuba Sakura. She had a deal with the Phantom Thieves to steal her heart to stop of group hacker call Medjed that threat to declare war against them but unlike the pervious palaces, it is not formed from corruption of any sort, but from Futuba's distorted self-destructive desires. After learning the truth of what happened to her mother, awaken to her persona, and then joined the Phantom Thieves.

After the argument that Ryuji and Morgana had caused. Morgana met Haru while walking somewhere which they ended up going to the palace which was own by Haru's father Kunikazu Okumura. As she was force to marry a guy name Sugimura against her will but that was stopped when Haru awaken to her persona and join the Phantom Thieves.

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Futuba: "Congrats on surviving midterms." Futuba said as you could see Chika sitting next to Haru and Ann while Kenji's sitting down on the chair next to the windows next to Ren and Ryuji. 

Ryuji: "I think I'm screwed for real this time. I couldn't concentrate at all..." Ryuji sighed not and they were gonna continue talking until they can hear a speech coming from outside.

???: "Gathering everyone's opinions and immediately acting upon them... In order to make that natural course of action a reality, I will-"

Chika: "Geez... second time in a row!" Chika sighed 

Ryuji: "Right!? It's so damn loud!"

Ann: "More importantly, what's this you want to talk about?"

Haru: "You said that something was on your mind before, but were you able to figure out what it was?"

Futuba: "The Medjed that I banned...Wasn't the real one."

Ryuji: "Huh? Aren't you the real one though?" Ryuji asked her but only end up silence for a few second and spoke again.

Futuba: "The guy who called himself Medjed after me isn't the one from the other day!" Futuba quietly yelled so she didn't disturb the people down stairs.

Yusuke: "What do you mean?"

Futuba: "The code written by that guy the other day is different from any of the past Medjed."

Ryuji: "And that means..."

Futuba: "A code is like your fingerprints. No matter how you try to disguise it, your own quirks appear in it. The one from the other day was all cut and pasted with no consistency. No skill at all."

Makoto: "But aren't there multiple people across the world that are part of Medjed? Couldn't it have been done by someone that joined recently?"

Futuba: "How do I put it? That code was so not done but anyone interested in cracking. At all. At the very least, there's no way it was an official Medjed member."

Yusuke: "so someone used the Medjed name to provoke the Phantom Thieves? For what purpose?"

Ann: "Could they have been doing it for fun? It was around the time our group started getting popular, so maybe they wanted in on the hype..."

Makoto: "What if it's the other way around? Perhaps they used the Medjed name to make the Phantom Thieves known..."

Ryuji: "What? That makes no sense."

Futuba: "I actually thought the same as Makoto. Know how I just said that code is like fingerprints? I found those same fingerprints somewhere completely different. The Phantom Aficionado Website. 

Ryuji: "For real?"

Futuba: "Before summer vacation, the access counter was made to be much higher than the actual number. Same with the rankings. Particularly the time when President Okumura was ranked number one."

Haru: "So then, the one who provoked the group and the one who tampered with the site are the same person?"

Makoto: "I think I'm starting to see the big picture. Both Medjed's provocation and the tampering of the website brought attention to us as a result. On top of that, our reason for targeting Okumura was influenced by the public and the rankings... The perfect timing, and the perfect target. If both of those had been set up..."

Kenji: ("So, we basically fell right to their trap from the very beginning- well not the very beginning, if it wasn't for Haru we would be stuck on trying to get that door to open.")

Yusuke: "There's no point in getting anxious over speculation. Regardless, we'll be falsely charged at this rate, and with murder. We must overcome this."

Haru: "But, we don't even know who we're up against..."

Ryuji: "Hey... you think we're fallin' into another trap, even at this very moment?"

Ren: "We don't know, yet..." 

Makoto: "Indeed, we don't. It'll be more dangerous jumping to conclusions and assuming we figured it out. Even if this is the actions of a meticulous enemy, we'll just have to get back at them. We need to find clues... no matter what."

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The Hisashi siblings was having eating their dinner while their parent was in their room but their mother name Sunobu walked to the kitchen where they are.

Sunobu: "Are you guys done with your homework?" They both while eating as soon Kenji finish eating he spoke up.

Kenji: "We both got it done in the school library and after school we had to discuss some stuff with our friends." He said while getting up to do his dishes. Sunobu walk over to him and rubs his head.

Sunobu: "It's good to see the both of you have friends after what happened to Mr. Kamoshida. I'm glad that you told me because I nor your father would not be silence for that." She said but after that her face turn to serious.

Sunobu: "I hope you two ain't being reckless in the metaverse..." She said as Kenji could hear Chika sigh.

Chika: "Mother, don't be like that we know what we're doing and plus the both of us are using the same persona so the others don't know that we could use multiple personas."

Sunobu: "Good. I wish you two didn't join the Phantom Thieves but I rather you two be happy, live your life and not following my footstep. While I'm gonna get back to my room get ready for bed. Don't stay up too late." Sunobu said kissing both Kenji and Chika on the cheek before walking back to her bedroom. Before any one of the sibling could say a word their phone made a notification sound as they unlock their phone to see a message in the group chat.

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[THE PHANTOM THIEVES GROUP CHAT]

Makoto: ["Things have become somewhat troublesome, everyone."]

Makoto: ["Just try to stay calm."]

Chika: ["Why do I have a feeling that this is going to get worse than before..."]

Makoto: ["Because it is, sis told me she's been entrusted with an important task regarding the Phantom Thieves."]

Futuba: ["That means..."]

Makoto: ["Yes... The SIU must surely be on the move at this point."]

Ren: ["That's bad."]

Ann: ["Wait, weren't they already investigating us thought?"] 

Makoto: ["The police were doing so in secret. This operation is on a much different scale."]

Ryuji: ["Hold on a sec. What's this SIU thing anyways?"]

Kenji: ["It's short for Special Investigations Units. They investigation of serious and specific crimes including murder, robbery, kidnapping, blackmail, and other stuff that I'm not going to mention."]

Futuba: ["The real insane part is, they haven't lost a case against a suspect in like fifty years."]

Futuba: ["If they come after you, you're screwed. They're the best investigation force in Japan."]

Haru: ["Are we going to be arrested...?"]

Chika: ["If we get found out then yeah."]

Yusuke: ["Hm, doesn't this countermeasure seem somewhat extreme?"]

Makoto: ["Right or wrong, I think we're just way too famous at this point."]

Makoto: ["As this is a country governed by law, this can't afford to ignore us for any longer."]

Haru: ["We may be the Phantom Thieves... but this is miserable..."]

Futuba: ["They probably have a pretty narrow suspect profile by now too."]

Ryuji: ["Hey, don't scare us like that."]

Futuba: ["It's OK though. They don't have any evidence."]

Makoto: ["Yes, I expect they're frantically searching for some as we speak."]

Kenji: ["If so, I still wouldn't get too comfortable. Yes, we're the Phantom Thieves but we're still students, for now we should focus on school and keeping your head low until it dies down..."]

Kenji: ["And it's only a matter of time so let's meet up as a group tomorrow after school at our hideout."]

Ren: ["Good idea."]

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Chika: "Man! Now we're targeted by the SIU now!? What a pain in the ass! I don't want to go to jail but the thing is what to do!" Chika lay down on the couch face first while moving her legs up and down.

Kenji: "I know how you feel but don't let it bother you too much." Chika turn around to her brother.

Chika: "How can you be so calm in a time like this this?" She calmly ask her brother and he silencing looked at the window.

Kenji: "I don't know... I just know that we'll be okay at the end... I'm gonna take a shower and head to be-"

Chika: "NOPE! I'LL TAKE IT FIRST!" Chika gets up and rushes to her room as Kenji just sighed and walk over to the couch then check his phone to see a message from Makoto that was sent a few minutes ago after the group chat.

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Makoto: ["How's your studies? I hope it's been fine. If you need help let me know immediately. Good night."]

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After reading that he didn't know if he wanted to text back or not so he just locked his phone and put it inside his pocket while getting ready to turn everything off in the living room and the kitchen.

He's not really focus on anything but this question... Does she like him too?


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