Vill-V on the other end of the communicator imdiately understood upon seeing the familiar environnt of Twilight Street, especially after seeing that familiar hardware store, she showed a smile:
“How nice, it’s still open.”
“Very nostalgic?”
“Mm, when I was still in Twilight Town, Uncle Smailo often took care of . The Expert’s initial engineering enlightennt actually ca from him.”
Although Twilight Street had a harsh environnt and treacherous people, there were also extrely few purely simple types, which was Vill-V’s only fond mory of this terrible place.
“Didn’t you consider coming back to see him later?”
“No, I don’t really like this town, and if I ca back, it would easily cause trouble for him.”
As she spoke, Vill-V seed sowhat helpless.
The things she had done ant she couldn’t stay in one place for too long. Even just making contact with people would bring trouble to others, after all — Vill-V was wanted by multiple countries.
Especially in this area where Twilight Town was located, the bounty was quite high, and there was money for reporting.
The residents of Twilight Town, living in difficult conditions, wouldn’t mind taking that reward money.
Although she wasn’t afraid of being caught, she was afraid that she’d be fine but Uncle Smailo would be bothered, which would really make her feel terrible.
“Then you can consider coming back to see him later.”
“I have that thought.”
Although she quite disliked this place, and the country where Twilight Street was located didn’t have customs like returning to one’s roots like Shenzhou, it was still her birthplace after all. After leaving the old tis behind, she had co to miss this rotten place sowhat.
The uncle sitting in front of the hardware store noticed Jiang Qiao’s situation. After glimpsing Vill-V’s face on the projection communicator, he seed surprised:
“Are you… Vill-V?”
“Let chat with him for a bit.”
“Alright, then I’ll step away temporarily. You two take your ti chatting.”
“What’s wrong?”
In Vill-V’s confusion, the pink-haired girl looked at her lower back where there should have been a crystal flower as decoration and revealed a gentle smile:
“Mm~ I need to go find sothing that was lost.”
…
— Pardofelis, a native resident of Twilight Town. As a wandering child, for a long ti Pardofelis lived a life where she couldn’t fill her stomach, so from childhood she had dreams of being able to eat her fill and take afternoon naps. Until one day, following a black cat, she learned the technique of theft, and finally ended that life of not knowing where her next al would co from.
However, although she stole, Pardofelis had principles. She never stole from poor people like herself, only targeting rich people in Twilight Town’s wealthy areas and outsiders. Moreover, each ti she stole, she only kept enough money for her own als, donating everything else to the poor.
This behavior made her quite famous among the lower-class people, even earning her the reputation of a ‘righteous thief.’
And today, Pardofelis had discovered an obviously wealthy target.
A pink-haired girl from outside who was clearly rich and very cute.
Should she really target such a cute girl?
Pardofelis was rarely hesitant.
Although she also targeted outsiders, she would pick her targets.
This pink-haired sister looked like a really good person.
But after a mont, her rumbling stomach made her decision.
The process was unexpectedly smooth.
That pink-haired sister had absolutely no sense of caution at all.
People like this were very easy to be targeted in Twilight Street.
Thinking this way, Pardofelis felt that with her lesson, that outsider with no sense of caution would definitely learn to be more careful.
As for this crystal flower, consider it tuition!
“Got rich~ Got rich~ Hehehehehe”
Taking off her worn hood, the chestnut-haired girl’s heterochromatic eyes like a Persian cat’s showed excitent and exhilaration.
Although Pardofelis had stolen many things before, including gold, silver, and jewelry.
But such a beautiful crystal flower was the first ti she’d seen one.
Even though she didn’t know the market price of crystals, her intuition told the cat that if she could sell this thing, even if she only kept al money and donated the rest to poor people as usual, she could help many people.
But…
Should she really donate this gain?
Looking at the crystal flower, Pardofelis fell into conflict.
If she swallowed all the inco from selling this thing, she probably wouldn’t need to work for the rest of her life.
She wouldn’t need to live this life of being on edge every day just to fill her stomach — it was fine before, but recently the cat had beco sowhat afraid.
Because she frequently stole from those rich people, those rich people had already united to put a bounty on her. Because of this, she had almost been caught and shot dead recently.
Fortunately, a coin she always carried saved her life.
The crystal flower reflected those heterochromatic eyes, and the chestnut-haired girl bit her lip tightly.
For so reason, there seed to be a voice in her heart constantly tempting her — What are you hesitating about? This is sothing you stole yourself. So what if you don’t donate it?
As long as you keep it, you won’t have to live this kind of life anymore. You can not only live a life of eating your fill and taking afternoon naps every day, but you can even live better.
Don’t you want to live better?
Everyone else in Twilight Street is like this. What’s wrong with you doing the sa?
No one will know about your business.
You’re just a thief anyway!
Countless voices of herself echoed in her brain. Listening to these voices, Pardofelis was incredibly tempted, but also felt…
…so noisy.
Inexplicably, a distant, vague mory surged up.
It was when she was very young, begging for food at Twilight Street’s train station.
She seed to have t a little girl, she had deceived her… but that person not only didn’t bla her, she even…
It was because of that person that Pardofelis didn’t sink into this ‘hell’ like other Twilight Street residents.
Even as a thief, she maintained a line she wouldn’t cross.
But why did she do all this?
Perhaps it was for peace of mind.
Or perhaps, simply because she didn’t want to disappoint that person whose face she couldn’t even rember.
So.
— This was fine.
Her conflicted heart gradually found peace.
The girl nad Pardofelis unconsciously showed a slight smile.
What she wanted was simply to eat her fill and take afternoon naps, that simple.
As for more than that, those weren’t her pursuits.
As for this crystal flower.
It looked so expensive — perhaps for its owner, it had a different aning.
Recalling that pink figure, Pardofelis made her decision.
She planned to return this crystal flower!
At this mont.
So kind of shackle in her heart seed to shatter, and she heard a sweet voice full of praise:
“Well done, Pardofelis♪”
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