:🍥: ➢ 𝙰 𝙱𝚕𝚞𝚎 𝚃𝚛𝚞𝚝𝚑 (𝚂𝚊𝚒𝚘𝚞𝚖𝚊 𝚘𝚗𝚎-𝚜𝚑𝚘𝚝𝚜)

Chocolate

(Phantom Thief AU)

Kokichi jumped over the railing and instantly grabbed his hand onto the ladder that was dropped down by DICE in their helicopter, right before the detective could get a hold of the supreme leader, Shuichi let out a breath, instantly wishing that he could've at least started working on his cardio, that way it would be easier for him to catch the thief. But alas, Shuichi was unable to catch the thief yet again, continuing their ongoing game of cat and mouse. Kokichi let out a snicker at the detective who was taking in a breather, Kokichi grabbed a megaphone a member handed to him as he called out "Good luck next time Mr. Detective!" before reaching into his shirt pocket and throwing down a purple rose in which Shuichi caught the delicacy.

It was something signature of the phantom thief since he would usually graffiti all over in the places where he did his petty crimes, but Shuichi could never understand why the thief changed his trademark into a simple flower that he would drop after every place he visited. Of course Shuichi was unable to identify the thief considering he had a mask covering most of his top half of his face and the tophat covered his ecstatic hair, giving only Shuichi the clue that the other had purple hair that gave no fucks about gravity. Of course he can't take DNA tests on the rose since the boy with purple-locks wears white gloves that go with his entire outfit so traces of his fingerprints aren't present.

"Shuichi! Were you able to catch him!" exclaimed Kaede, his assistant who helps him out in his chase after the thief. But when she looked up to see a helicopter with the signature DICE logo flying away she let out a small oh before letting out a sigh. "Well maybe next time." mumbled Kaede as she played with her messy tie with Shuichi nodding. He honestly is in debt to Kaede considering his best friend gave up on her job as a pianist to join Shuichi and his ongoing quest to become the best detective in the world. The blonde friend noticed how Shuichi was examining the purple rose that was in his hand, playing with each petal that was connected to the steam.

Kaede smiled and said "You're quite fond of him." Shuichi sputtered at that comment,flustering a bit and Kaede rolled her eyes. "C'mon isn't it quite obvious?" asked Kaede and Shuichi looked at her, but didn't answer that question. Was he really fond of that purple haired male? Maybe, but it was kind of stupid and ironic that Shuichi has never seen the phantom thief's face before and only sees him on the nights that he starts his petty crimes. "We'll talk about this later." said Shuichi before heading towards the stairs with Kaede following suit.

Shuichi's head was now wandering to other things though. For the last few days the thief hasn't been stealing any treasures like usual considering on February 8th Shuichi had assumed that the thief would want to go after one of Angie's prized pieces the Mona Junko, but instead while waiting at the area for the phantom thief to arrive, there had been a call from the local Walmart that a very shifty, short, and suspicious male wearing a top hat with checkered patterns and a cape had started a store riot, and by the time Shuichi had arrived, the Walmart had no more items left aside from a rose placed at the self-register with a taunting note from the phantom thief directed towards none other than Shuichi Saihara.

"I hope you find my surprise pretty sweet and valuable Mr. Detective"

With a little doodle of a self portrait of himself putting up the peace sign. Quite taunting to say the very least, though Shuichi made a mental note of the sweet considering it seems to stand out of the other words in the little piece of paper. Another robbery was on February 10 in which Shuichi received another note from the phantom thief, having robbed the Hanamura Diner, but it was questionable how he hadn't stolen any dollars from them but instead a mixing bowl out of all things.

"Wanted to mix things up for you Mr.Detective ;)"

And damn it that winky face was pretty fucking obvious that there was something going on. It was now February 11th, with Shuichi being called in and being told that the phantom thief had attacked the Walmart a SECOND time, poor workers they had just stocked up as well, even though the phantom thief hadn't created another riot within the walls of the Walmart, he had created chaos another way by having some of his members roll out into the store in cleaning carts before throwing plastic bags at the terrified customers and yelling "SAVE THE TURTLES!" Poor customers, they just wanted to buy some milk but now are scarred for life.

Shuichi noticed how there was a bit of dust on the floor and put his finger over it before liking it off. The taste of cocoa powder came through him and Shuichi looked at the dust suspiciously. "Uh, are you alright Shuichi?" asked Kaede, running up the Shuichi and the detective said "He robbed some cocoa powder." Kaede nodded before saying "Don't you think that there's something up?" Shuichi then put his finger on his chin before nodding. "Yeah, it seems like he's making chocolate, considering from the recent crimes he has committed, he has been aiming for ingredients for chocolate." said Shuichi.