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17 - [Text] Little known fact, pirates play hangman as a lesson to play smart or get hung

Hey Japan, if you're getting this... How about a game of hangman, okay?

And anyone else can play too, though I'll get you different puzzles.

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For anyone else, how's this for starters:

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[Wrinkling his nose.]

The more I hear more about people that are supposed to be the "good guys", the more I want to throw my lot in with the other side.

He's actually one of the ones I hate the least.

[That is not even a lie.]

[A little sigh.]

Sometimes I don't know if I even have the right kind of focus to hate people.

[Thinks it over.]

I hate Blackbeard. And Akainu.

[Shrugs.] That's assuming that word can cover the extent for which it's supposed to mean. Personally I think it can't, so on a different level are the other marines, whom I hold intense contempt and dislike of their stupidity for, but the inclination to hunt them down in dark alleys and break their necks isn't there.

[... Marco is not a nice guy. Do you get that impression Kaitou? Are you SURE you'd want to throw your lot in with him?]

[Meh. He hasn't done anything yet, and Kaito regularly associates with criminals so it's not that much of a change for him so far. Except for the whole flirting thing, maybe.]

...you should hate the guy who killed your father, shouldn't you?

Since he's a traitor and was once nearly a brother and called my old man "Pops" yeah, I've got reason to hate him.

[ooc: and once again I lament now having a single icon of Marco just totally full of seething dark hatred. /sigh]

... it's not the same, then.

[Not the same as his own situation. Snake still thinks that Kaito is his dad, after all. His expression flickers for a moment before turning casually sweet.]

Do you know what the term "Kaitou" means in Japan?

Ocean and a sake ladle.

[He's a pirate with an alcoholic father.]

[Laughing faintly.] Ha, maybe. But I meant with this Kanji.

[The video moves for a moment as he draws something out on a scrap of paper and hold it up to be seen:] 怪盗

Mysterious thief?

The most commonly accepted translation is Phantom Thief.

They're a dying breed, really. There's not too many people willing to dedicate their life to developing the skills. And if they do, there's usually something that they're after and once they've found it...

[A shrug.]

They're called Phantom Thieves because they're impossible to catch. Like a phantom. They're already gone before you even notice that they were even there.

But there's one back home who chooses to make a spectacle of his crimes. A show that everyone is invited to come watch. A show that he issues invitations to the police and to the public, like a little stamped ticket with the time and the place written in red ink. He chooses to steal things right in front of your eyes.

Yet for twenty years now, he's still being referred to as a phantom thief. Why do you think that is?

First off... [Retroactively locks Kaitou's last message to 30%. It'll be cake for Japan to break through, but that's the best Marco can manage. At least it probably won't be too easily seen by Heiji and Conan -- whom Marco (mistakenly perhaps) assumes Kaitou wouldn't want to overhear this.]

All right, so why does he do it? To show the police their ineptitude?

[Kaito does Marco one better and ups the lock. He's not... particularly protective of this secret, really. He won't outright admit to it, most likely, but he's not going to hide who he is, either.]

No. He likes the police. ... most of them, anyway.

Particularly the special force assigned to try and catch him. And the old man who always tracks down more outlandish and beautiful trinkets to tempt the thief with because he likes the challenge.

He leaves them gifts sometimes. Helped the police catch more than one murderer.

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Then I haven't the foggiest idea why. Though it sounds like something Ace would do -- he can be a little ridiculous and goes and rescues marines sometimes.

Well he wears all white. There's a clue.

You remember what I told you about color symbolism before, don't you?

A little. That it's death and mourning in Japan and innocence and purity in the U.S.?

That's right~

And?

[He tilts his head, considering.]

Kaitou KID has been known to the public for twenty years now. But there were eight years in the middle of all that where he was just... gone.

I got the part about carrying it on.

Was it his father you think that did it previously?

Hmmm~? You don't think it's the same guy?

No way.

Oh.

You mean like it's a ghost? Hm. Nope, don't buy it. But if that's his story I hope he has the kind of audience that does, eh?

His audience is very devoted. But there might be more than a few girls that would be very disappointed if he really were a ghost. [He's not bragging or anything. Just. Stating a fact.]

And do you want to know something else? He never keeps anything he steals.

Now see, if the guy was anything like me, he'd be doing that for his father's name.

What do you think it is?

Me? I wouldn't profess to know, I just enjoy a good show~

But then again, maybe the police are all too busy watching the wrong show.

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