Became the Academy Romantic Phantom Thief

Memories of the past

The witch doubted my eyes.

Why the hell are you here?

‘It must have been within the barrier…!’

The crystal ball held by the phantom thief now is not an ordinary gem.

A vehicle for her to use her powers. In other words, you can only use prophecy with that one.

That’s why I purposely hid it inside the barrier so that no one could find it.

It’s a barrier set up by a witch, not anyone else, so it’s normal if you don’t even feel uncomfortable unless you’re a magician of some skill.

In other words, he should have passed without even noticing the existence of the gloomy abandoned house.

If there was one thing she didn’t expect, it was that the goddess was looking after the phantom thief herself. Even in a state of loss of power, the witch was only a creature in the presence of God.

The phantom thief put in a crystal ball with a stinky smile.

“How is it? Do you think the jewels I brought are the most beautiful in Paris?”

“·················ogue.”

It’s a completely out-of-the-box situation.

The transaction that the witch originally proposed was to grant a favor instead of receiving gems.

In other words, in order to get their jewels back, the phantom thief had to move as he wanted.

Of course, there is also the option of using force to forcefully take it away.

If that were the case, they wouldn’t even have offered a deal in the first place.

However, the reason she hesitated was because it was a picture that had been completely made fun of by the opponent she had looked down on.

But what to do?

It was true that I couldn’t give up the crystal ball because of one’s pride, and that I was actually fooled by it.

The witch sighed and nodded her head.

“yes. I’ll admit it. Your skills are beyond my imagination.”

“haha. Thank you for such a compliment.”

“As promised, I will fulfill your request. Can you give me back my crystal ball?”

***

He gave back the crystal ball to the witch and ate it.

How strong would you be if you could absorb the power contained therein?

I can’t help it. Now it was just a picture cake.

It takes a long time to absorb as much power is contained. I had to go back to London before sunrise, so there was no way to do it right away.

What if you didn’t come back here and left for London with the crystal ball?

Then the future is obvious. The fact that the culprit is me will soon be revealed, and you will be immediately chased by the witch. No matter how strong he absorbed the power of the jewel, he still had a long way to go to defeat the witch.

There’s nothing good about getting along with the witch in the first place.

He stopped thinking about unnecessary things and handed the crystal ball to the witch.

As if to welcome the owner, as soon as it is held in her hand, it floats into the air and emits a bright light.

While I was admiring the flowing purple color, the witch said to me.

“Put your hand on the crystal ball. Then the marbles will show you the past that the phantom thief wants.”

It was such a convenient way. In the original story, I think I skimmed past it as if I had seen the past.

As she said, he placed his hand on the crystal ball.

I didn’t feel like anything had changed. I wondered if the past was played on marbles like a TV, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.

“Now close your eyes and imagine the past you want to see.”

I closed my eyes slowly.

and remembered The past I want to see is why Rachel met Siegfried that night and why she became involved with Drakhan.

Slowly, a purple ray of light began to flicker in the pitch-black field of vision.

Then, the space that I draw in my mind. At first, it looked like an abstract painting, but as time passed, lines and planes were added and elaborated, and eventually, it became a concrete space that was indistinguishable from reality.

“Here….”

A place that feels familiar.

I looked at the flickering street lights and noticed where I was.

It was the Garosu-gil that night.

On the way home after stealing pearls from the casino. The night he found Rachel and followed him and nearly killed Siegfried.

Then in front of me…

have.

Same posture, same clothes as that day.

Rachel leaning her back against the wall and waiting for someone.

Am I looking into the past now? Or is it back to the past?

It was so real that I was confused about what state I was in right now.

Then, a man appears with the sound of creaking shoes.

A dark red coat with dragon embroidery. It was the same outfit as the symbol of Drakhan.

At that time, I couldn’t immediately recognize who it was just by looking at the back, but now I can see the face from the front.

Eyes like ice, seemingly indifferent to everything in the world.

Siegfried was called the strongest Ice Wizard.

Rachel, feeling popular at the approaching footsteps, lifted her head.

“You came first.”

The other person’s blunt greeting.

At first glance, it seemed certain that they had known each other before.

What kind of connection do you have? Why did two people who had never been connected in the original story meet at such an ambitious time?

“·················ogue.”

“Hmm. Aren’t you even saying hello? It’s not like that, though.”

“I’ll go right away.”

“Are you ready?”

“···yes.”

I promise. The more I listened to their conversation, the more my doubts grew.

Either way, it wasn’t a friendly atmosphere.

It seemed that Rachel, who was usually so fierce, had become a completely different person.

At the end of those short words, the two of them go somewhere together.

They seemed to be walking side by side, but subtly Siegfried’s steps were more advanced. It seemed that he was guiding the way.

There was no further conversation between the two.

Only the silence that is so heavy that it freezes is endless.

Then Siegfried suddenly stopped walking and muttered in a low voice.

“The garbage was twisted.”

“yes?”

Then a scene I was familiar with unfolded.

I barely managed to escape from a near-death crisis.

“for a moment···!”

Rachel’s urgent call to call me like that.

But after ignoring that voice and completely disappearing from my sight, the past that I had never seen continued unfolding.

Siegfried, who had barely recovered his sight, exhaled life from his blood-red eyes.

“That damn garbage…!”

Just imagining what it would have been like if I had been caught at that time gives me goosebumps.

Watching the anger from the side, Rachel gets scared.

No matter how energetic and hot-blooded he may be, a student who has not reached adulthood in the end. On the other hand, the man next to him was one of the worst villains who did not hesitate to commit terrible evils.

“hey.”

“···yes.”

“That guy. are you the one you know I think you just tried to call me.”

An atmosphere that makes me nervous even though I know it’s already happened in the past.

After a moment’s hesitation, she answered.

“no. I don’t know.”

“okay? If you lie, you die. You really don’t know?”

“yes. I was just curious as to why they were chasing us, so I tried to summon them.”

Siegfried scratched his forehead and pondered something for a moment.

“That’s it. I thought I was going to chase him down and kill him, but there was no need for that. Let’s go back.”

“···yes. All right.”

After that, the two walk away again.

They stopped in a deep valley in the forest outside the city.

‘here is···.’

A place that feels familiar.

I’ve never actually seen it, but I immediately remembered it because it appeared quite often in the original.

This was Drakhan’s hideout and a kind of laboratory.

I didn’t know that Rachel would come all the way here, so my doubts deepened.

Even if I say that I can do it here, there is actually only one…

As I watched the place where the two of them entered, my anxiety only grew.

This dark cave was the laboratory.

A terrible laboratory created by an organization called Drakhan to make their dreams come true.

They had only one goal.

Just making a dragon.

“Do you remember how the ceremony was conducted?”

“yes. I memorized everything.”

“great. From now on, once a week, you will come here to perform the ceremony.”

Siegfried said with a smile on his lips.

“When this ritual is over, you will be a dragon.”

Drakhan will do anything to make dragons.

Even if it was an action that would annihilate the entire human race.

And Rachel seemed to have been chosen as a sacrifice for the ceremony.

It was so obvious what kind of pain and trials awaited him in the process of becoming a dragon.

“…why the hell?”

What I still don’t understand after seeing all this is why Rachel made this choice.

At least in the scenes so far, there was no forced pressure on her.

Regardless of how the relationship scales tilted, Rachel apparently moved and responded by herself.

You have to go back to the past.

The starting point of Rachel’s first affair with Drakhan.

For what reason did they join in their absurd plan?

The world was dyed purple again.

The past shown by the witch of prophecy began to change.

A crystal ball that goes back even further.

A space starting from the same abstract lines as before.

It is about the time when the increasingly sophisticated world becomes indistinguishable from reality.

A very familiar space and background.

why.

I will take the smile of the sun tomorrow night.

– Phantom Thief Raven

“Hey, the phantom thief freezes to death.”