01/08/2025
Title: “Kaitou Kid: Phantom of the Last Sky”
Prologue: The Sky is Falling
In the darkness of space, an object moved—vast, silent, and ancient. A rogue asteroid, the size of Tokyo, spiraled toward Earth. Global scientists watched in mounting horror. With only 15 days left until impact, governments united in secrecy, scrambling for a solution.
But as the world’s leaders panicked, one man already knew.
Chapter One: Phantom Warning
High above the neon streets of Tokyo, a white-clad figure perched on a rooftop. Kaitou Kid, the elusive thief, the magician of the moonlit skyline. To the public, he was a legend. To the law, a criminal. To himself—he was justice without the law’s leash.
Kid had intercepted a secret communication two weeks prior, hidden within a microchip embedded in a diamond he "liberated." A NASA-Aegis file: “OBJECT: 14C—IMPACT: 08.15.25—FATALITY ESTIMATE: 99.6%.”
The governments had no plan. Only negotiations over who to save first.
Kid smiled grimly. “Looks like the world needs a criminal to do what heroes won’t.”
Chapter Two: Heist of the Century
With the help of his mysterious assistant, Konosuke Jii, and some tech stolen from defense contractors, Kaitou Kid devised the greatest heist in history—not of jewels, but of human survival.
Step one: Steal the Aegis-7 Laser Platform, a classified orbital weapon built for space warfare but never tested.
Step two: Hijack the Cosmic Harpoon, a deep-space mining ship abandoned in Earth's orbit.
Step three: Outfly, outwit, and outlast the world’s defense systems while modifying the weapon to detonate the asteroid from within.
It was impossible. Dangerous. Insane.
It was perfect.
Chapter Three: Shadows and Smoke
Interpol’s Inspector Nakamori, always one step behind Kaitou Kid, began noticing strange patterns. Satellite launches, surveillance blackouts, and vanishing tech shipments. As pieces aligned, he realized the horrifying truth:
“Kid’s planning something… bigger than a heist.”
He launched a manhunt—but secretly. If the world found out about the asteroid, chaos would erupt.
Meanwhile, Kid had already infiltrated the launch site in Kazakhstan disguised as a Russian physicist. The countdown had begun.
Chapter Four: Ghost in the Sky
On August 12th, the world’s skies shimmered. People saw a white glider soaring higher than any plane, lit by the setting sun.
Kaitou Kid had launched himself aboard the Cosmic Harpoon, with a makeshift crew of hackers, rogue astronauts, and one AI prototype stolen from CERN.
Inside the asteroid, using the Aegis-7 laser, he drilled into its molten heart. The laser overloaded. Meltdown imminent.
Escape impossible.
But the detonation would split the asteroid into pieces small enough to burn in the atmosphere.
Chapter Five: A Phantom’s End?
On August 15th, just after midnight, the sky erupted in fire. People screamed—then gasped—as fragments burned harmlessly, lighting the heavens like fireworks.
The world was saved.
But Kaitou Kid... was gone.
No parachute. No transmission. No trace.
A week later, Nakamori received an envelope.
Inside: A joker card, burned at the edges. On the back: “Tell them it was luck. Let the hero wear a suit, not a cape. I’ll take the night.”
Epilogue: The Man Behind the Moon
Years passed. Urban legends grew.
Some say Kid still walks the rooftops, stealing from corrupt tycoons and vanishing into the mist.
Others believe he died a thief, reborn a savior.
But every August 15th, at exactly midnight, a white card appears on Nakamori’s desk.
And etched on the card’s corner:
“A real magician never reveals how the trick ends.”
THE END
(Or is it?)
