The Phantom Thieves of Hearts Pt. 4

Chapter 43: One Stop That I Need To Make

Int. Pyramid – Continuous

After having defeated the Mot and the two Lamias, The Phantom Thieves, who aren't mice, are catching their breath. All of The Phantom Thieves, who aren't mice's, Personas have disappeared.

Akira Kurusu: That was good thinking to use your whip like that, Panther. That fight would have probably lasted a hell of a lot longer, if you hadn't used your whip to keep that bastard's arm out of the coffin.

Makoto Niijima: Also, it's nice that the other two Shadows that the coffin spawned disappeared, as well, once the coffin was defeated.

Goro Akechi: It must be because the coffin was the one, who summoned the other two Shadows. Also, I have to agree with Joker. That was great thinking on your end to use your whip in such a way, Panther. Although, I have to ask. Why did you choose a whip as a weapon?

Ann turns to face Akechi, annoyed by his question.

Ann Takamaki: Is there something wrong with using a whip as a weapon?

Akechi gulps, nervously.

Goro Akechi: N-not at all. Forget I even asked, haha.

Ann Takamaki: More importantly, we still have a bit of a problem here.

Ann turns her attention to The Phantom Thieves members, who are still mice, even after the Mot has been defeated.

Goro Akechi: Hm. You would think that they would have turned back to normal, after we defeated the coffin.

Makoto Niijima: Perhaps, they'll return to normal after a certain amount of time has passed?

Akira Kurusu: They could just be mice, forever. That's not a huge problem, I guess. We could just use them as distractions for the Shadows to make it easier for us to defeat the Shadows. Although, they'll probably slow us down a bit, considering their just mice.

Goro Akechi: Yes, but their small size might allow them to fit into tight spaces which could prove to be useful.

Akira Kurusu: Oh, that's a good point!

Ann Takamaki: Can you two take this seriously?

Akira sighs.

Akira Kurusu: Fine. I supposed we should find a way to return them back to—

Before Akira can finish his sentence, the members of The Phantom Thieves, who are mice, turn back into their regular forms. They all stare at Akira, angrily.

Ryuji Sakamoto: You were going to let us stay as mice and use us as fucking distractions?

Yusuke Kitagawa: How heartless, Joker. You should have realized that I would never be able to paint art, again, as a mouse.

Morgana: That's what you're upset about! Fuck you and your corny art! That frizzy-haired mother fucker was about to let me stay as a rat. I fucking hate rats...just as much as the streets do!

Akira Kurusu: First of all, you all were mice, not rats. Technically, there's a difference...I think. Plus, are you sure that the reason you hate mice isn't because you're a cat? Cats do hate mice, after all.

Morgana: Don't change the subject, you cheeky bastard!

Makoto sighs, realizing this conversation isn't going anywhere.

Makoto Niijima: Listen, I understand that you three are mad at Joker for what he said but giving him shit, right now, isn't helping us make further progress with this palace. Can you all just wait to give him shit until we return to the real world?

Morgana: Fine! I'll be the bigger man here...I am a human, after all!

Now that the group is finished with their pointless bickering, The Phantom Thieves continue to proceed through the pyramid, searching for the location of the palace's treasure.

Int. Tokyo Metropolitan Hiroo Hospital – Day

The date is, now, Monday, August 16th and Kawakami is standing inside of her hospital room, wearing her normal clothes, instead of a hospital gown. Kawakami sighs, sadly.

Sadayo Kawakami: It feels nice to be out of that hospital gown but I'm worried about how the students have been doing without me at the school. I hope that the substitute has been doing a good job teaching them and that they haven't fallen behind. Eh, even if they have, it doesn't matter. I'll catch them up because that's part of a teacher's job. Actually, I think it's about time I start focusing more on my job as a teacher...even...even if that means no longer having a second job. I'll never be able to make up for what happened to Takase but, at the very least, I can do everything that I can as a teacher that what happened to him doesn't happen to any more students.

Kawakami smiles to herself.

Sadayo Kawakami: Although, I am a little excited to see my cats, again. I really hope the apartment sitter that I hired is doing a good job taking care of them. I've really missed them. However, there's one stop that I need to make, on my way back to my apartment.

Kawakami makes sure she has all of her belongings, opens the hospital room's door and walks out of the hospital room. She shuts the hospital room door, behind her.

Author's Note:  Hello, thank you for reading this week's chapter!  Recently, I just finished re-reading/catching up on the manga, "Sakamoto Days", by Yuto Suzuki.  To my knowledge, this manga doesn't have an anime adaptation, yet and I'm really surprised by this.  This manga goes hard...like really fucking hard, especially in terms of the action scenes.  One thing that really impresses me about this manga is creative Suzuki is with the acton scenes; there's a lot of action in this manga but it never gets boring because it feels like Suzuki is focused on making all of the action scenes look and feel different from one another.  There's so many fights in the manga, where this creativity shows but I don't want to spoil any of them so I won't talk about them.  The characters, especially the side characters are really bad ass too and a lot of the side characters get plenty of chances to shine in this manga.  My favorite characters in the manga are probably Nagumo and Osaragi.  Another thing that's really good in this manga is the pacing.  I didn't feel like there was much down time or boring parts of this manga, at all.  The manga's story moves at a great pace and you never have to wait long until the next bad ass scene happens.  To be honest, one of my many flaws as a writer is that I suck at writing action scenes which makes me all the more impressed by how well Suzuki draws the action scenes in this manga.  I definitely think this manga deserves an anime adaptation, especially because I think it would be cool to see all of the cool fight/action scenes in motion.  The action scenes in this manga are easy to understand, as well, which is another big plus.  I highly recommend checking out, "Sakamoto Days", by Yuto Suzuki if you like mangas with a lot of action in them.  I hope that everyone, who reads this chapter, is having a great week, so far.  I will see you all, next week, for the next chapter!

The next chapter of, "The Phantom Thieves Of Hearts Pt. 4", will be released, next Wednesday, November 6th!

Also, here's the link to a Webtoon series that I am, currently, helping out with. I am not the main writer but I do help out with the writing process, a bit, so it would mean a lot if you could take the time to check out the series, to support the very talented people responsible for creating it! Link - https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/the-shadow-of-an-angel-tsoaa/list?title_no=931029