// Companion(s) Equipped! //

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{In Mysta's Point of View}

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As a detective with a keen sense of smell, Mysta had been sniffing a trail and sticking to the scent. Knowing this fact, you quickly block him away from the direction where Alban was running .

Mysta quickly grabs both of your wrists in one hand and pins you down against the nearest wall.

"You have been following me...- I've already knew since the beginning that you've been hiding something....

Or someone from me."

"?!"

Mysta lifts your chin as he intensifies his solemn expression, looking at you deep into your eyes as if attempting to intimidate you through hypnotization.

"You think I'm foolish enough to buy everything you've said? Of course, everything you've told me was all true, however, there's some missing things you've left out....

I already started suspecting since the time you said you were in the convenience store to buy a newspaper, when in the first place you said before that you haven't read the latest news yet- as if you didn't even dare to read what you bought at all..."

"...?!"

You just got caught red-handed...

Now you feel like lying in order to protect Alban at this point-

"Yes... I'm the phantom thief this all time- good job for capturing me, Mr. detec-"

Mysta let out an amused, yet short chuckle from your quick but fake confession.

"As much as how hot and tempting you make it sound like, you're not the person I'm actually looking for-" He roasts you with the same husk in his voice.

"....?"

"I know you weren't alone... You're with someone who's scent has dark chocolate on it-" His temporary grin disappears as it's now replaced with a serious frown. "I could smell that dark chocolate scent somewhere from the bar where we first met..."

You are left speechless...

You've just underestimated a fox.

"I have no option, but to do this....-" Mysta starts with the unfazed look.

He then holds your pretty face into his unoccupied gloved hand before roughly pulling it into a dance of lips.... You gently gasp from the shock before trying to not melt into the affectionate, distracting kiss. However, you eventually fall for it, whimpering for breath. But the detective seems to have other plans with you. The peck turns into a very long kiss....

*CLICK CLICK*

Mysta pulls away from the heated kiss softly, he licks his lips before giving you one last look...

The fox have just handcuffed your wrists into a metal bar-

"M-Mysta..."

"I'm sorry... But I must do my job. I'll come back- Once I catch that bastard who's trying to steal your heart from me..."

And with that, he turns his back to continue following the trail... in search for the real phantom thief.

"MYSTA!"

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"STOP RIGHT THERE!!!"

Luca is seen raising a handbag and waving at nowhere - while there's a man collapsed on the ground, wounded by punches and hit marks. He then spots the detective running towards him from behind.

Filled with confusion and slight panic, he runs away to get farther from him.

And he just keeps running-

"Hey! I said stop, you're not getting away!"

Dead end. That's the end of the road for Luca.

"Ah... sh*t, a dead end...." The blonde mafia curses under his breath.

"I FINALLY GOT YOU, THIEF, NOW STOP RIGHT THERE!!!" Mysta yells as he points a judging finger at Luca-

Luca becomes silent.

"Turn around, slowly...."

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"Hello? Helloooooo? Are you even listening to me?"

Suddenly, Mysta gets shaken and pushed away by a mysterious force into a dark hole-

"WHAT THE F- WOA- WAHHH AHHHHHHHHHH!!!"

And there, he sees a light at the end of the tunnel.

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{Wanna see how Luca ended up holding someone else's bag? I think you already know, but here's the short flashback anyway-}

{In Luca's Point of View}

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"RUNNING IS SO POOOOOG!!!"

The blonde mafia boss' voice roars as he runs off out of the amusement park with a big grin... It seems he have a lot of fun in there.

If you were there, you could hear a quiet swear of Vox as he realizes he just lost Luca from the crowd from the other side-

"Guys! That was so fun! We should do it again some time- guys...?"

"Milord? Treasure?" Luca just realized he's now alone with no sign of his two good friends. Looking around cluelessly as he calls out.

"Huh- so this is why Vox warned me not to overdose with sugar-" Luca comments, he scratches his chin in thought.( like the himbo he is-)

'Oh well- I guess I have to go back to the headquarters by myself...-' Luca adds. So he does as he just said, he start walking and humming around the jazz music he have been listened to lately.

Until he spots a man with a hat beating up a certain cat boy from afar-

"M-Meow! Save me!"

"Wait- HEY!!!" Luca calls out.

The man with the hat looks back at Luca with a skeptical glare.

*PUNCH! BAM! PANG!*

And that's when the man with the hat collapses on the ground, unconscious from Luca's beatings.

"Next time, pick on someone of your own size! Mwuahahaha!" Luca exclaimed, smirking at the collapsed figure. He then notices the absence of the victim.

"Huh? Where'd he go?" Luca questions, he looks behind him to see the boy running away from the scene. He then looks down to see a bag that is now abandoned. "He'd left his bag!"

Luca grabs the bag and raises it up in the air to wave around at the boy that was running away.

"Sorry, nya! Gotta go-"

"Hey! Kid! You left this-!" Luca exclaims, but then he was cut off by a voice from behind.

"Stop running!" The fox fiercely starts to run after the innocent mafia boss.

"Sh*t... I think I know him- he's the detective everyone has been talking about here...!" Luca internally thinks as he finds Mysta. He finally breaks his silence, but chuckles in amusement.

"Me? A thief? Heh! I'm not- I'm Lu-" Before Luca even finishes his sentence, he turns back to see the detective being sucked into some strange black hole.

"WHAT THE F- WOA- WAHHH AHHHHHHHHHH!!!" Mysta screams until his voice was then silenced as the hole now disappears.

"HUH??? WHAT??? WHAT JUST HAPPENED???" Luca stares at the empty spot with disbelief-

The time traveling machine is acting up- but not as well-planned???

Right when he was thinking about the machine, another black hole appears in front of him for his dismay-

"Wait- WAIT- NO, AAAAAAAAAHHH"

And he then disappears-

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{Alban's Point of View}

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Alban is merely passing by in the streets until he sees a shiny handbag a man in a hat was holding-

He tries to follow along the man's path and sneakily get his hands in it, but the target's owner was clever enough to catch him.

The man starts to punch him repeatedly in the face as Alban gets cornered- the thief resists the entire time, until he spots a man with a white fedora-

This is his chance to play as the victim-

"M-Meow! Save me!"

"Wait- HEY!!!" Luca calls out.

The man with the hat looks back at Luca with a skeptical glare.

*PUNCH! BAM! PANG!*

And that's when the man with the hat collapses on the ground, unconscious from Luca's beatings.

"Next time, pick on someone of your own size! Mwuahahaha!" Alban could hear the blonde stranger exclaimed, smirking at the collapsed figure. The thief took the distracted savior as his chance to run away unidentified-

Luca then notices the absence of the victim.

"Huh? Where'd he go?" Luca questions, he looks behind him to see the boy running away from the scene. He then looks down to see a bag that is now abandoned. "He'd left his bag!"

Luca grabs the bag and raises it up in the air to wave around at the boy that was running away.

"Sorry, nya! Gotta go-" Alban apologizes the savior, forgetting about the shiny bag as he starts making his identity as his first priority for now-

Little did he realize, he ran into an open hole on the street road. He fell in it.

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{Back to you}

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"Y/N!"

You weakly look up to see who was calling you out, it was Vox.

"V-Vox,,, quick! Alban is in danger..." You sob quietly as Vox tries to comfort you as possible as he tries to get you out of the handcuffs.

"I know... I was trying to keep track of Luca- until I saw him and Alban (who happened to pass by, running somewhere else-) disappeared along with fox detective Rias out of the sudden-"

"...What?"

"The three got sucked into 3 different black holes... Similar to the one I got sucked in which brought me back here-"

Vox briefly explains as he, out of frustration of not knowing how to unlock such modern items by hand, quickly takes out one of his hidden hair pins from his hair and starts to use it according to the trick Luca taught him for opening locks before-

*CLINK*

"It seems Luca's lessons did pay off..." Vox muttered with some tiny disbelief, he would have sounded more surprised if he wasn't in such stressing situation.

"Come on, we have to get out of here-"

"Ah- okay...-" At this moment is when you don't have any time to process what Vox just told you, Vox tracking Luca, Vox sees Alban running away from something, Vox sees Luca getting chased by Mysta and disappeared out of thin air by a black hole along with the detective and Alban-

But before you can even think more about the situation, that's when a black hole appears in front of you and Vox-

"Sh*t-!!!" Vox frustratedly curses, knowing it's too late to run away from it now- He quickly clinges on a metal bar with his hand before trying to hold yours-

You tried to grip tightly on Vox's hand...

But a force made you pull away, making you fall into the hole-

Vox widens his eyes by the sight of you falling- so he spontaneously jumps into the hole as well to reach for you...

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"Hello....?" A soft honeyed voice can be heard, but is slightly muffled as your head keeps spinning.