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Alessio’s first plan was to find a place to hide, with the goal of surviving Arsene long enough to get off this ship and get his bearings. He was right now memorizing the location of everything on the ship, when he finished that he would “stumble upon” Arsene’s stolen goods and hand them to the guard.

At the moment Alessio was in the cafeteria, trying to will the food to be spontaneously available without him stealing anything else. That’s when he caught Arsene’s footsteps behind him and went rigid.

“Hi, remember me, strange, paranoid, amateur knife-fighter?” He said all in one breath.

Actually Alessio had all the training to be a child-assassin from one of the most feared occultic-guilds in Casumbra, but he was in the habit of making his fighting look clumsy so people would underestimate him.

“Take one step closer to me and I drop all of these out the window.” Alessio returned in an undertone, almost levelly, flicking one of the strange, expensive-looking clock-bracelets into view as he edged at a brisk walk to the said window.

He was hoping the threat would delay Arsene.

He was also hoping Arsene wouldn’t dare do anything around all these witnesses.

“Yeah, sure, throw it out the window just get rid of it somehow,” That was the last response Alessio expected. He slowly lowered the object in the question to examine it closely. Maybe he’d stumbled upon something he could actually use as leverage…? Arsene let out a nervous chuckle, glancing around.

“Uh, can I talk to you…”

“You already are.” Alessio said, following the robber’s anxious looks. Oh. Arsene made enemies…How could he use that to his advanta—Arsene grabbed his arm and tried to pull him back to the last room. Panic flashed through Alessio’s eyes at the sudden touch.

“Oh yeah, I know. I meant talk somewhere we could easily duck in cover or brace for impact or stay alive…” He wanted to get him away from witness. “And um, right now.”

Alessio switched personas to the totally helpless scared kid.

“Let me go! Please!” He jerked back while Arsene stared at him like he’d just turned into a purple draekon. And then started trying to shush him. But by then Alessio was bordering on hysteria, whether real or fake even he didn’t know. “Please just stay away—just stay away Arsene Lupin!”

He knew using the robber’s real name was probably the last trump card he could play, and by then everyone was staring at them. That’s when the room exploded in noise, the same noise at the building earlier. Before he could react gold and silver light flipped around them, evaporating anything that tried to get in. It looked like Mayra’s powers, except a different color.

Then they collapsed through the floor.

And Alessio was trapped alone with the robber.

In a split second Alessio grabbed Arsene by the collar and with one hand and darted the tip of his knife under his Adam’s apple with the other.

“What do you want with me?” Alessio demanded huskily.

“I just saved your life! You’re welco-!”

“Why?!”

 

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