Tools For Last Robbery

Kazuto's grey dominant painted empty room was now a chatting place for three of his superhuman workers such as Ukitake, Fatal Swindler, and lastly a robotic girl who preferred sitting on the bumpy holographic chair. A thin-sakura pink metal skin woman with lime green eyes, a rectangular straw hat, a triangular face resembling a cat, and a neon-red cross mark that entirely covered her entire mouth.

The clothes she happily wore were a neon-violet kimono that shone like a star in the night sky with a large enlightened white petal motif on half of the left side and pairs of slender boots with the cat feet shape on the foot part. While her right wrist was tidily wrapped by a lambent-magenta bracelet.

The Robotic Catwoman pinned the curious glare at the engaging conversation of Ukitake and Fatal Swindler, especially the burly man raising an amazed eyes onto an interesting thing his new friend held. It was none other than a tomato-red disk that presented Shinjou's holographic projection on top of The Disk Man's hand.

"That disk reminds me of Kazuto's detection disabler spider, but this one is way cooler," Ukitake commented.

Afterward, Ukitake glanced at Fatal Swindler who loudly announced a gleeful giggle to the room. The Burly Man pinned the amazed eyes towards the metal belt hauling a variety of the disk's color.

"Damn, all the stories you told about your power before, it's very interesting." Ukitake happily mentioned.

"Of course, my cosmic power is limited by the wonderful images I had." Fatal Swindler exclaimed

Ukitake chuckled "Then why the heck you choose a disk for presenting your cosmic power? I meant you can just go with an energy blast or anything that is simpler than this."

"I needed a fighting style and throwing or creating side effect disks is the perfect one." Fatal Swindler gladfully answered. "That's all the answer."

Confounded glare colored Ukitake's whole face especially with his jaw widely dropped. He motionlessly watched as Fatal Swindler flipped the disk at a moment, raising the confusion furrow.

Whereas The Robotic Catwoman pressed the nailing eyes towards The Disk Man and it lightened up the mesmerizing sight. Observing both Fatal Swindler's slightly relaxing demeanor after he whistled, heated up the interest furrow within her.

"Very….unique… and…..yet…simple…explanation." The Robotic Catwoman attentively uttered."

"Of course Monami, Maliana." Fatal Swindler said, "Throwing disks has always been my favorite thing ever since I was a child."

Ukitake winced, "Yeah whatever."

The conversation with the main topic about Fatal Swindler life had met its end when their hearing captured the embarking sound of an automatic door opened in a slideway. They quickly steered the heedful stares to the left and met Shijou who was in the half-naked Oni Form or Thunder Fang alter ego entered the room with a firm gaze.

Fatal Swindler loosened the cheering grin as his own way of greeting Thunder Fang, the same guy he swiftly rescued for the payment mission. The Disk Man placed the active disk through his pocket pants and declared a welcoming chuckle.

Ukitake also extended the gladful grin for seeing Thunder Fang return from the prison, encouraged him to walk closer, and heaved his opened knuckle. While Maliana stood up from the comfy-holographic chair that vanished faster than the blink of an eye could reach as she headed towards her oni friend too.

"Hey Shinjou, how's the stealing plan and the enhancement armor?" Ukitake asked energetically, "Is it good for you?"

Thunder Fang smirked, "When it comes to curing my wife's heart disease, everything is good for me. As for the armor progress is fine for now"

"Wow, what a strong commitment. Mr.Shinjou." Ukitake remarked.

"He is a man who fully committed to his wife's safety after all." Fatal Swindler spoke cheerfully and declared a thrilling giggle, "Am I right, Shinjou?"

Steaming red face boiled through Thunder Fang's whole face and sheepishly rubbed his back to the conversation member. The Oni Guy shook his head before he let out a single sigh that blew away the embarrassment feeling away, releasing a gentle smirk.

"Yes, you're right." Thunder Fang spoke, "My wife is one of the main reasons I enjoyed living in this world."

Then, The Oni Guy nodded, "Also, thank you for saving me from Murushima prison and I owe you a debt."

"Don't think that too much, Monami." Fatal Swindler reminded, "I'm just a guy being hired by your boss."

Thunder Fang quickly steered his attention towards Maliana and freed a gladful smile onto her. The Robotic Catwoman gave a mesmerizing stare that let her wave the hand that was wrapped around by the bracelet.

"Good to see you Maliana." Thunder Fang kindly greeted, "I'm gladful that you are still keeping the bracelet I gave you."

"It's…quite…special…to…me." Maliana replied with a cheerful furrow and tilted her head to the right "That's…why….I…will….always….keep…it."

Thunder Fang giggled, "I understood."

Afterward, Thunder Fang took a chunk of breath through his throat before he smoothly exhaled and pressed his steady waist with his palms. Yearning smirked was opened by The Oni Guy as nostalgic memories clouded his entire mind in an instance.

A nostalgic feeling that he abandoned for a long time and one of them was the time his back was sewed by Maliana's shiny-blue thread after receiving a large crosscut. He remained to keep the thrilling grin even though he screamed in agony with the sewing process ongoing.

Then, the past memory blinked into the nothingness that transferred Thunder Fang into the present day. The Oni Guy darted the relaxing eyes towards Maliana who gave a joyful frown, especially as she was the same person that recovered him years ago when he was still a full-time member of Kazuto's organization.

All of a sudden Kazuto entered the empty room with a welcoming extended arm towards the whole conversation members. Maliana valiantly bowed half of her metal body for paying deep respect to The Karura Masked Man.

Thunder Fang furrowed sorrowful eyes to his palm after taking a short peek at Kazuto's presence. Moreover, The Karura Masked Man headed towards his Oni friend's direction and declared a high pitch laugh.

"Hello…" Kazuto's jolly high-pitch voice entered the scene shortly and it was taken over by the deep stoic voice, "Thunder Fang, your armor and any other stealing equipment are already done, so you better follow me now to see it."

"Sure and thanks again, Kazuto." Thunder Fang reluctantly uttered and sighed.

Several minutes passed, Thunder Fang and Kazuto entered a pitch-black room as if there was no sign of a light bulb or lamp detected in their naked eyes. The gloomy darkness within the room blocked their clear vision, especially with them standing motionlessly.

Kazuto briskly clapped his metal hands before he let out a whistle that echoed through the whole room interior. All The Karura Masked Man's previous acts awakened a glowing yellow light on the sky-top par to shine away from the room's darkness in an instance.

The glowing light also revealed the interesting thing being kept hidden by the all-blue room especially with an object on the left side that mesmerized Thunder Fang's eyes. The object was none other than a coal-black armor vest levitated on the large, yet thin holographic blue palm similar to a person presenting exciting stuff.

The armor itself had a girthy golden metal artwork that lured Thunder Fang to move closer onto it. A metal artwork resembled a two-horned oni head with its jaw widely dropped in fiery thrills and shiny forest-green pearl latched on the forehead, raising eyebrows of enthusiasm to The Oni Guy.

"This armor is very cool." Thunder Fang mumbled.

Kazuto who steadily watched his old friend step closer to the black armor, jabbed the metal throat with his unyielding fist. A momentary time for sore coughing was declared and the sound was like a bell when his throat was cleared in an immediate second.

In an unfortunate time, deep despair put down Thunder Fang's excited eyebrows. Instead, a concerned frown replaced his entire expression especially on glaring at the hovering armor and trembled one of his fists.

"I designed this enhancement armor just in case Sparror was around." Kazuto announced with a deep tone, "I heard he hadn't appeared for the past two days, but it doesn't mean he has a chance to come."

"I see." Thunder Fang replied with a sorrowful tone, "How about the other superheroes in Neo Tokyo like Chemistra"

"She was still active in her duty, but don't worry your power is enough to beat her."

"Even without using the enhancement armor, you can still outwit her chemical tricks." Kazuto added, "Also you were the same guy who beat Sparror before. So handling those heroes will not be difficult."

Thunder Fang firmly raised his tightened, clenching fist that surged out violet electricity. Despairful look from The Oni Guy was erased in the blink of an eye and shifted into a stern expression he pinned towards the armor, freeing a jolly giggle.

"Hey, don't exaggerate my capability and strength." Thunder Fang uttered that was accompanied by a sheepish grin, "I only beat Sparror because at that time he was very inexperienced dealing the Superhero stuff."

"It's still impressive in my eyes." Kazuto replied. "Especially Sparror's power was literally made by a cosmic power."

Thunder Fang widened his brows in surprise, "Yeah..I kind of agreed with that. Anyway, why do you change the way you talk right now?"

"It's more suitable when I have a long conversation with someone else." Kazuto quickly answered.

"I see, I see."

Afterward, Thunder Fang steered his stern eyes onto the right side that also contained two interesting things inside this room. A dark-grey metal spider and a sky blue cube that was contained by a wood-brown square rear from up to down were tidily presented on the holographic palms.

At first, intrigued eyes wavered at Thunder Fang's face as he took a step closer to get a clearer look. Satisfied grin was declared by The Oni Guy for watching all his equipment were ready to use status.

"Thank you again for creating this equipment, Kazuto." Thunder Fang exclaimed excitedly, "I'm sure ready to stealing the replica of the…weird mask thingy inside Kaomaru Museum."

"And you're going to do it now?" Kazuto asked in an intrigued tone."

"Probably."

However, another sorrowful turn appeared with Thunder Fang furrowing his eyebrows as he glanced at three pieces of equipment for the success at initiating the upcoming crime activity. The Oni Guy peeked in bitter regret towards Kazuto who remained standing like a mannequin because there was no single motion detected.

Even the slight movement of either the metal fingers or head didn't appear within Thunder Fang's eyes. Hence, he forcefully steered the frightened stare onto the three equipment directions. He brooded the gloomy winced to his fist that omitted a shocking surge of dimming electricity from his wrist, realizing the time for him losing the power was coming.

"Shinjou, you most likely figured out another reason I built this armor," Kazuto remarked through his mind. "What a clever boy."

"That's why to be careful when you deal with somebody from the crime world, you get a risky consequence too," Kazuto added. "Also this will be your last day remembering me. Thanks to the public exposure and the high possibility of the police interrogating your wife, I might activate the memory-altering spell after your mission is done."

"So, let's hope you completed the mission. If not..I'm sorry and that's it, the end of your dearest wife's life."

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