flyawaythief:

“Pitting everyone against me just makes things more interesting. More ways that people can think up to play with me. More people who come after me. … More people who can stop me.“ A twitch of the mouth, but that same grin. “That magic certainly took to you, didn’t it?” How good does it feel~?”

A sigh. “If YOU were in pieces, wouldn’t you want to be brought back together? How its poor heart must be broken! Nobody so powerful, so benevolent, deserves that! Pandora will not stay heartbroken, no, not with us carrying out its orders… and then, maybe… and then it’ll LET ME GO–”

A buzz of pink through his body. That alternate was certainly fighting the influence as best he could. As much as he could. But it wasn’t enough – it was never enough.

“Yes, a keibu has a piece! But… it doesn’t want ANYTHING to do with us. It’s a bad shard and has to be destroyed! The keibu acts like a man possessed when he sees me, or any Kaitou Kid, and we don’t understand why or what his intentions are, or even if he knows what’s going on. But he wants ALL OF US dead.” A soft whine escaped him. “I don’t WANT you to die. Not all hosts are perfect!”

“The magic? Is that what the touch from earlier was?” Kid looked up, then off to the side, as though considering something, before just shrugging. “It’s… different. I could live without more of it though.”

Damned if he’d admit to it feeling good in any sense. Not going to let the other hear anything like that.

…And this thief’s turn to sigh now. Well, he hadn’t expected talking with the one trying to control to be easy either way…

“Also, I didn’t say you wanted me to die, I said you wouldn’t care if I did end up dying. Even if you don’t now, it’d just be a shame to have lost me if I did, in the end. After all, you don’t seem to be the most consistent anyway. Fitting, since you tend to be chaotic, though it doesn’t help you in the slightest. 

And by that, I mean you want to be whole, but you’re choosing to go against host wishes and society to do it. Which slows down any progress you want to make considerably. If you had any good intentions, or planned to make any progress, you’d have worked with us thieves and most other people to collect other pieces. Instead, you force them against morals and gain next to zero.

Creating enemies only makes things marginally more interesting. …And less likely to be able to act as much when you get to the point of just scaring people off. The more you incapacitate the ones who do, the less likely more will come back to fight as your little game wears on. Average, law-abiding, or just overall on the good side, people don’t hold out in confrontation. Those who are stubborn, or those used to actual danger, would. Which would be more of what you go up against as someone who’s on the more helpful side. Heck, make it a goal to challenge all criminals. That’d be more exciting than scaring and messing with police in horrific ways.

…But if I’m not convincing you, then fine. We’ll just continue to disagree. And that being the case, I’d really not want to fall under control of whatever piece of Pandora is in my world, so maybe death by evil Nakamori-keibu wouldn’t be as bad as it sounds. Not that I’d just roll over and not try to survive, no, I’d much rather live on the whole. But not as bad a fate, all said.”