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[b][u]La Mansión de Cervántes - Library[/u][/b]

“A newer villain? With that much confidence? Hmm, it’s possible,” Marcus mused, tilting his head back and stroking his chin. “You tend to find new criminals have an air of cocky arrogance with them, but that man was… slightly different. He looked experienced, didn’t he? So strange.”

Marcus lifted up his cup again, and took a sip as his eyes travelled between his friends, each of them pondering this strange masked thief and asking themselves what information they had about him, or what they could learn. There was disappointingly little.

"Did you deal with something similar in Fenaru?" Xandra asked, lifting Marcus’ eyes away from the papers and back to the young woman with a smile. He leaned back, remembering the misadventure.

“Yes, we did. It was our second adventure together, wasn’t it?” Marcus smiled towards Syed and Moira. “We had a problem with a kidnapping spree occurring throughout the town. A couple of thieves were… stealing cats.”

Xandra’s brow perked up as she heard Marcus speak. She, alike Moira and Syed and a lot of other Guilders had plenty of experience with missions where they had to rescue lost cats, but stolen ones was something a bit different. Why on Ddaear would anyone steal cats?

“So you had cat thieves… stealing cats.” Xandra said, blinking. 

“They were also cats,” Said Moira.

“Huh?”

“The thieves.”

“Wait, the thieves were cats?” 

“It was an unusual incident,” Marcus chuckled. “It was a pair of nekomimis stealing the cats, believing they were freeing their brethren from the shackles of human oppression. It’s sad, but… a lot of the nekomimi race has been incredibly and unfairly persecuted. You don’t meet too many of them anymore for that reason. The odd one here or there, like Nikki, but most prefer to stay away from us. It’s understandable.” 

Xandra, like anybody else, knew about the nekomimi race, and their penchant for transforming between human forms and felines. She tried to picture the absurdity of cat cat thieves thieving cats… and was left chuckling. 

“Unfortunately they managed to get away…” Marcus said with a weary frown. “But the Masked Phantom? Him, we’ll catch.”