@oceansunk !!
It was harder avoiding detection than he thought, and frankly, Kaito was starting to get a little hungry from the effort. Usually, he wouldn’t steal for the sake of keeping the stolen goods - thievery was a KID thing that he tried to limit to jewels, and he couldn’t exactly return food if he ate it - but desperate times called for desperate measures, and he was sure that the popcorn shop wouldn’t mind if a pound or two of their caramel corn went missing.
However, just as he placed his hands against the window frame, searching for any kind of weakness that he could use to jimmy it open, a bright light shone on him and he froze. One, two seconds passed before he finally turned around, shocked and berating himself for getting lazy and not paying attention to his surroundings. His hands went up, away from the window as he spoke-
“I-It’s not what you think-!”
Although, considering the fact that it was probably very early in the morning and Kaito was breaking several laws just by being outside, he wasn’t sure what the other was actually thinking.
Actually, the other guy was also breaking several laws just by being outside. Huh.
“Wait- what are you doing out here?”
@inferiores !!
There were only so many hours in the day, and to Kaito’s dismay those hours were only being shortened by the idiotic law enforcement of the town. Nothing kept a criminal indoors, not even if that criminal wasn’t a mass murderer, and they should have realized it sooner.
That was why, one jimmied-open window and inflatable dummy later, Kaito was strolling down the streets well after curfew, taking care to keep to the shadows and avoid any cops- or civilians, for that matter, because some of them seemed just a little bit too eager to arrest a lonely straggler. What they didn’t realize - and he had, because he was a genius, thank you very much - was that tracking down a killer was much easier when you could think and act like a killer; namely, by yourself. And hell, with all the stores closed, Kaito had nothing better to do anyways. Heading outside and searching for clues was far better than staying indoors and moping around all night, anyways.
The only negative was that he was being a bit too cocky; while cops and angry mobs were easy to hear and see coming, other individuals like himself would have been harder, and so he let himself get lost in thought as he wandered, only listening for loud sirens and chitter chatter rather than footsteps or breathing.
“Now if I were a master criminal, where would I go?”
(As if he didn’t consider himself one already.)
tag drop; ships
o ya cause I’m a heckin mooron, hmu on discord any time at Kiril#4501
(I’m online, like, all the time unless I’m at work or asleep.)
@harxmaki !!
“You know, I thought this place was supposed to be…..happier.”
Koi was a land of love and pairings, or whatever the flyer had touted it as. And yet here Kaito was, halfway through his second hot chocolate, leafing through the news and not finding anything positive to report on. There were people dying, the police were cutting off his nightly activities, and the hot chocolate in the city cost him an arm, a leg and several points off of his dignity. And it didn’t even taste that good!
“Is anyone else’s style feeling sorely cramped, or is it just me?”
@kvndlies ??
“Oi oi, what are you looking at?”
It was nearing that time of night, when everybody was wandering out of the streets and towards their respective homes. Usually the streets would have been livelier with nightlife - or so Kaito assumed, considering he was still new to the streets of Koi - but the curfew was strict, and nobody wanted to pay fines, or be put under suspicion, just for going out for a few drinks.
That was probably why he was being looked at, or at least that was the assumption he was going on. He was just getting ready to go home, helmet already nestled against his birds nest mess of hair, when he had noticed the kid - really, he looked about the same age as Kaito, but Kaito wasn’t exactly keen on respecting strangers - staring at him. Shooting a deadpan look back, he scowled shortly after.
“Take a mugshot- it’ll last longer.”
[KID voice] look at this asshole-
or rather, look at this starter call!! now that he’s properly irritated and not thinking very warmly of his welcome to Koi, like for a starter from ya boi Kaito! Capping at lucky number seven (because YOLO, or something), but you won’t count towards the cap if you slide into my DMs on Tumblr or Discord to plot instead!
“Seriously, what’s the point of keeping a curfew? Aren’t people more in
danger if the killer knows exactly where to find them?”
Backwards logic, but he’s more irritated that he won’t be able to get away with sneaking out late at night as long as the curfew is in effect.
“Anyways, laws have never stopped criminals from breaking them.”
(He would know.)
TEST.
you say I’m a thief?
you must be kidding!
Wrong guy, I swear.
Maybe it was, uuuuuuh-
A figment of your imagination!
Why would I ever be KID?
(H-Huh? You never mentioned KID?)