That's right folks! Another DJ-made fic! This must mean I'm a good writer since I've survived my last few!

DJP: Nope, just persistant…

DJP: Shut it! Anyway, once again, the characters in this fic are either from kilnorc's original Crew of the Axe story or from cannon One Piece. I do not own One Piece or Case Closed (you'll find some hints of that in there ) Enjoy the fic!

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Case One: The Katt burglar caper!

Ten youths stood outside a decent sized mansion, looking up at in awe. "WOW! This place is huge!" A young woman with fox ears exclaimed. (Dusty Wenata, Stealth Expert)

"We actually get to stay here?" A blonde woman gave a low whistle while she looked the mansion over. (Kirsty Chambers, Medical Expert)

"How'd you say we got this place again Axe?" A blonde man with an 'pissed at the world' look on his face patted a smaller brunette boy standing next to him. (Devon, Assistant Coordinator) The boy he was patting stayed silent and simply nodded to another man, emphasizing the question being posed. (Austin, Junior Investigator)

"Beats me, we needed a headquarters and this mysterious card appears in the mail." A black haired man with a rather large stone axe on his back looked down a t a small white business card. (Axe, Head Coordinator) He looked at the brightly embroidered letters and numbers on the card.

Every city needs heroes, give the criminals of this town something to fear and show them justice is not dead. Use these facilities well and make this city how I remember it.

1412 Titan Way, Tomahawk Manner

"What about that, dude?" An orange-haired man pointed to the bottom of the card Axe was holding. (Azu Baba, Intoxication Expert) "Is that a signature?"

Axe looked on the bottom rim of the card to what looked more like a quote than a name.

-There can always only be ONE TRUTH

"Nope, wonder what it means though, One Truth…" Axe mumbled to himself.

"Who cares? The point is we have a headquarters now. We're detectives, it's not our job to figure out mysterious circumstances." A brown-haired man carrying a sword smirked from in front of Axe, looking at the mansion still rather than the card. (DJ MacLeod, Chief Investigator)

"Baka, do you even know the meaning of the word detective?" A dark-haired woman glared at DJ. (Niri Zolaro, Weapons Expert/Treasurer)"Honk!" A small penguin at Niri's side also glared angrily at the boy, crossing his flippers. (Pingu, Zoology Expert)

"Of course I do Niri-chan, we… detect things… right?" DJ blinked stupidly.

"Let it go Niri, its no use having a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent." A tall, red-haired woman sighed and pushed the brim of her hat down as she walked forward into the mansion doors. (Chizuru, Archival Expert)

"I have arms! Right here, see?" DJ waved his hands in front of Chizuru's face.

A large, red, lobster-like man sighed as he stepped forward, following Chizuru and DJ. "Guess we can't 'detect' anything on an empty stomach, I'm going to go check out the kitchen." He walked off into the hall of the mansion. (Herman, Culinary Expert/Intoxication Assistant)

Axe looked around and whistled, the place seemed even bigger on the inside, while it wasn't huge, it was easily larger than a normal house. "Nice place… just can't help wondering how and why we got it and what do we do now…"

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A few days later, after the youths had unpacked and sent out their advertisements for the new "Axe-Head Detective Agency", they had finished everything they had needed to do, there was nothing left but to wait for a case to roll in.

"Niri?"

"Yeah?"

"I'm bored!"

"Then why are you bugging me!?" The weapons expert shouted to Dusty, both of whom were sitting on separate couches in the main living room of Tomahawk manner.

"Cuz…" The stealth expert whined. "It's been three days since we moved in here and still no sign of any work, who knew being a detective was so boring?" She kicked her feet as she lay facing upwards on the couch, staring at the ceiling.

"Go find something to do, you don't see Chizzy or Kirsty complaining." Niri resigned to polishing her guns to fight boredom while Pingu sorted ammunition.

"Kirsty's got her doctor books and who knows what Chizuru does up there all the time." The fox-girl sighed as she slowly slid off the couch and onto the floor. "Soooo booooored…"

"Go make DJ do some ridiculous stunt then, that's always funny." Niri sighed, putting down her guns and looking irritated.

"I did that yesterday, besides, I don't know where DJ-kun is, you're the only one I could find." She whimpered.

"Lucky me…" The dark-haired woman mumbled to herself.

"WHOOOOOOOOOOOOT!" A red and black blur came through the halls, kitchen and into the living room where Dusty and Niri were. DJ grinned broadly, holding up a detailed piece of paper. "Kirsty-chan, Chizzy-chan!" he called the girls down sweetly. "YO BASTARDS!" He roared for the men in a much more gruff tone. "WE HAVE A CASE!"

The others rushed down to the living room quickly from their various locations in the house. "What? Gimme that." Axe snatched the paper from the investigator and read aloud. "The Mikan Bank requests the services of the Axe-Head Detective Agency immediately to investigate the mysterious robberies of its vaults." The coordinator finished reading the short note. "Well… humbled beginnings I guess." He sighed. "Where the hell is Mikan bank?"

"Oh! Oh! I know! I know!" DJ raised his hand, jumping excitedly. "That's the bank Nami-san owns!"

"Nami-san?" Devon raised an eyebrow.

"The vision of beauty whom is second only to Dusty-chan!" DJ shouted, flailing his arms with an expression of love on his face. "Let's go! Let's go! Let's go!" He took off in a blur before anyone else could say a word.

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The group of ten and a penguin arrived shortly after at Mikan Bank, one of the most trusted banks in all of Fushigi city. It was a short walk since Tomahawk manner was on the outskirts of the city. "Wow… this place is nice, must not be having too much money troubles." Kirsty looked around the outside of the bank before all of the detectives went inside.

A blonde-haired man with his hair covering his left eye and a smoking cigarette in his mouth, greeted the group as they walked in. "Oh Mellorine! Welcome lovely ladies!" He smiled warmly. "And bastards who happen to be with the lovely ladies." He muttered as an afterthought.

"Sanji-kun!" an angry-looking orange-haired woman stepped out of the bank offices, glaring at the bank assistant, apparently named Sanji. "How many times have I told you not to smoke in the bank!?" She slapped the cigarette out of his mouth and stepped on it as it hit the ground.

"Sorry Nami-san…" Sanji looked down like a disciplined puppy.

"Nami-san!" DJ leapt from his crowd of friends joyfully and ran over to the bank owner. "We came to help you! Someone's been robbing your bank?"

The orange-haired beauty smirked softly and gestured to the vaults. "Follow me, I'll show you." The group of detectives, the bank owner and the assistant all walked over to the large iron vaults that held all of the bank's money. "These vaults have the top of the line tripwire technology, seastone lining, and auto-lock mechanisms. Your job as detectives is to find not only who, but how they broke into the vaults so that we can improve our security." Nami nodded as she spoke, activating the security system for the vaults.

"Wow… top-notch stuff here." Axe looked around at the many mechanisms of lasers, tripwires and locks that separated any would-be thief from its treasure.

"And you hired us because you heard about how good we are?" Dusty grinned broadly.

"No, we hadn't heard anything about you guys, we hired you because you're cheap. A new group in town can't afford to charge that much." Nami said simply.

"Nami-san doesn't like to spend a lot of money." Sanji chuckled nervously. "She hates to spend any actually."

"Hmmm… that sounds familiar for some reason…" Azu rubbed his chin as he looked to Niri, who simply glared daggers back at him.

"Yes, but the one crime I can never forgive is someone stealing MY money!" Nami clenched her fists. "Please help find who's responsible." She turned back to the detectives, voice turning sweet rather quickly.

"Hai Nami-san!" DJ grinned broadly. "I'll put everyone right on it!" He squealed.

"Since when is he leader?" Herman whispered to Chizuru, who chuckled softly.

"Alright, we'll figure it out, as long as we get paid." Niri grinned wryly.

"First thing's first, anything you can tell us about who would want to rob this place? Any personal vendettas or clues you found on the scene?" Chizuru asked, looking around the vaults carefully.

"We did find this." Sanji held up a card and a plastic bag. The card said 'Snatched by the Katt Burglar' with a picture of a paw print on it and the bag contained what appeared to be cat hair.

"Hmmm, most likely a Zoan Devil Fruit user, a neko neko no mi model if I had my guess…" Devon rubbed his chin thoughtfully while looking at the bag and card.

"Alright, Chizuru, first you run up the records of every person known to have a neko neko no mi model Devil Fruit. That should give us a list of suspects to go on. Next, we'll run a test on the strength of the vault security system to see how powerful the person who broke in here would have to be." Axe nodded as he sent out orders.

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"Alright Dusty, try it again." Devon sighed as he watched the fox girl try to outmaneuver the tripwire traps of the vault, only to fail and be captured in a net that appeared from the ground.

"Damnit! Whoever did this must be a king of stealth and fast as hell…" Dusty complained as she was helped out of the net.

"Hmmm… well then let's try speed over maneuverability then." Axe smirked. "Soru!" He sped through the vaults, only to be caught up by another trap, which raised a locked wall in front of the detective. "Damn, and with these seastone lined vaults, no one would be able to use Devil Fruit abilities to get in. If it's not Devil Fruits, Rokushiki, or stealth, then what is it?" Axe pounded his hands on the wall.

"No clue, this is a real stumper, we'll just have to wait for Chizzy to get back with those records." Herman sighed. "In the meantime, why not have some lunch? Sanji owns the Mellorine restaurant next door." He pointed through the wall to the building direction.

"Lunch!? YAY!" Dusty ran off to the building next door, trying to see if she could get a free meal out of Sanji.

"He owns the next door restaurant and is an assistant here?" Kirsty blinked. "That's pretty suspicious, maybe we should add him to our suspect list…" she spoke softly.

"Speaking of whipped guys, where's Speedy?" Devon looked around, seeing that DJ was nowhere in sight.

"He left a while ago, said he was going to get the cat hair from the scene checked out. There wasn't enough to tell what kind of cat it was just by looking at it, so he'd have to find someone incredibly good with identifying those things in order to tell anything." Niri sighed.

As the rest of the group began to head over to the Mellorine diner next door, Chizuru rushed through the door, carrying three pieces of paper. She handed all three reports to Axe. "These are all the neko neko no mi model users I could in the city. I suggest we tail them and see what we can find." The record keeper nodded softly.

Axe looked over the three pieces of paper, seeing two females and one male depicted on them. I bet you're still keeping a low profile Aniki, even so I doubt it would be you, these three people are our best bet. "Alright folks, get Dusty to tell Sanji to have our lunch to go, we have some suspects to stake out…"

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"Suspect one… Katt the pole fighter. She ate the neko neko no mi, Model: Tiger." Niri whispered from her place in the bushes. Her, Pingu and Dusty had been assigned to stake out the first suspect in the park where she usually came to do… cat things.

The weapons expert watched as a tiger-looking female walked out from behind "her tree" "I wouldn't put it past a shady character like her to steal from Mikan bank." Niri muttered. "Now remember Dusty… the most important thing is to stay down and stay… Dusty?" The dark-haired woman looked to her side to see the fox girl was no longer with her.

"You did it!" Came a shout from where Niri saw Katt earlier, the sharpshooter looked in horror as the kitsune girl stood right in front of the tiger woman, pointing at her in plain sight. "That's our stealth expert…" Niri sweatdropped, "Subtle as a flying mallet…"

"Excuse me?" Katt glared at Dusty, her eyebrow twitching at the accusation. "Did what, you snippy little fox?"

"You rubber the Mikan bank! The robber's card said the KATT burglar, your name's Katt, therefore you did it!" Dusty shouted. "Niri, where the hell'd you go!? I got the suspect!" The fox girl shouted over to the bushes where Niri was.

Niri and Pingu nearly facefaulted as they heard this. "Not only does she expose herself, she gets us caught too…" The weapons expert sighed as she stepped out of the bushes. "Please ma'am, we just want you to come with us so we can see what you know about the Mikan bank robbery."

"Nya, why should I?" Katt stuck her tongue out at the new arrival.

"Because if you do…"

BONK!

"What the hell Dusty!?"

"She was resisting arrest, you saw it." The fox girl grabbed Katt by the scruff of the neck after knocking her unconscious with one of her scythe-like weapons. "Come on, let's bring her back to the manner." Dusty grabbed Katt's tail and hefted it over her shoulder, beginning to drag her all the way back to Tomahawk manner.

"I swear, I'll never understand how that thing you call a mind works Kit…" Niri sighed as she and Pingu begrudgingly followed her.

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"Sus-hic-pect two… Rob -hic- Lucci…" Azu muttered to himself as he and Kirsty tailed a dark-haired man with a very somber look on his face in suspenders, through the main streets of the city. Azu dodged between trash cans, ducked behind street signs and anything to avoid being seen following the man. Kirsty however, took a more casual approach and simply walked quite a ways behind him.

"This guy has the neko neko no mi, Model: Leopard. His name literally means 'to steal the light' I wonder what else he's stealing…" Kirsty nodded, remembering what she read in the file. "Suspect has just exited the pet store, he bought bird food." She whispered to herself, making a mental note. "He is now heading north on fourth street…"

CHIRPCHIRPCHIRP!

Both Azu and Kirsty nearly jumped out of their skin at the loud chirping sound that pierced the air. People around them stopped and looked for a second before continuing on their way. Lucci however, seemed unaffected. Azu looked to his partner from his place behind a mailbox, mouthing that they should keep following him.

"I know you people are back there, what do you want from me?" Came a voice from behind the two that gave them another near-heart attack. As the two turned around, they saw a white bird in a green coat, wearing a black tie. "A –hic- bird?" Azu questioned as the bird flew past them and onto Lucci's shoulder.

"Ventriloquism?" Kirsty observed while looking from the bird to Lucci. "What do you want from me?" The bird repeated.

"Heh, so it's true, you really that good…" A voice called down softly before Axe jumped down from a small building. "I was tracking you from those rooftops for blocks, my own teammates didn't even know I was there and you caught me." The coordinator smirked.

"I'll ask one more time, what do you want from me?" The bird said again, moving his wings like hands while Lucci kept his cold-looking eyes on Axe.

"There was a robbery at Mikan bank, we just want you to come to our house with us and answer some questions." Axe responded. "I'm sure you've done nothing wrong so you have nothing to fear." He smirked.

The bird made a sighing sound. "Fine, I'll go, this better not be a waste of my time though, I have a job to do, and I do so love my work." The bird and Lucci began following Axe, who had a wry smirk on his face.

"Don't we all Rob, don't we all…"

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"Hmmm… so you think I robbed the Mikan bank? Why would I do something like that?" A girl with black cat ears on top of her head swung her legs back and forth while sitting in a chair at the local ice cream shop.

"We're not sure, you don't look like the kind of person who would rob a bank, of course you don't look like the kind of person who would have the nickname Oni of the Sea either, Aro." Devon gave a cold look to the innocent-looking girl as he, Austing and Herman sat in chairs in front of her.

"Can we please do this elsewhere? This cold is creeping me out…" Herman's teeth chattered as he rubbed up and down his forearms. "I'm not built for this kind of place, ice cream is meant to be cold and I'm meant to be warm."

"You're never happy with the weather, are you?" Devon raised an eyebrow to the culinary expert. "It's always too hot or too cold." He sighed. "Would you like to come continue the investigation at our mansion, Aro?" Devon stuck out an offering hand, leaning against the back of his chair.

"Sure…" Aro nodded, still licking on the Popsicle she had come in here to get. "Not sure what you're expecting to find though. I've done nothing wrong." She bounced up out of her seat and prepared to follow the boys.

Austin sighed and gave the cat-girl a look.

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DJ tapped his foot impatiently as he waited. "Are the results ready yet, Kagura-sama?" He asked as he looked over various files he asked Chizuru to dig up on everyone involved in the case.

"Almost DJ, these things take time…" The dark-skinned, blonde-haired woman standing nearby looked at the bag of hair carefully with several of her scientific instruments.

"I need to know which Devil Fruit that hair came from to confirm my suspicions." The speedy swordsman muttered. "And everyone knows you're the best Devil Fruit scientist out there."

"Flattery won't make this process go any faster DJ-kun…" Kagura muttered as she backed up and looked at the hair, righting something down. "Almost… there! It's done!" She handed DJ the piece of paper with her findings on it.

The Investigator's eyes went wide as he saw what was on the paper. "Oh my God…" He headed for the door. "Thanks Kagura-sama, gotta run!"

"You're…" She blinked as he was out the door before she could finish. "… Welcome…"

The brunette swordsman sped down the darkening streets as the sun went down, giving everything an orange glow before night fell and everything became black.

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Axe grinned as he paced the front of the parlor room of Tomahawk manner. He looked throughout the room, Nami, Sanji, the three suspects, and all of his agency minus DJ were gathered there. "Ladies, Gentlemen and everything in between. I have gathered you all here in the accusing parlor so that you may watch as I unravel this mystery step by step!" The captain gave a broad smirk as he looked around the room to the confused faces of everyone involved. He pulled out a piece of paper with his deduction on it and unfolded it. "You see, the robber can only be one person, and that person is…!"

SLAM!

The door flew off its hinges and hit Axe in the face, because of the stone captain's fortitude it only served as a small annoyance. A gust of wind blew past everyone as DJ appeared in the doorway. "Wait!" the speedy swordsman shouted.

"Drama Queen…" Devon muttered.

"Ignoring that…" DJ sighed and held up the piece of paper he got from Kagura. "I have new evidence that proves undoubtedly who the robber is." He glanced at everyone in the room. "The Katt burglar is…" He raised a finger in the air dramatically to point to the perpetrator.

"JUST GET ON WITH IT!" Every member of the detective agency shouted.

"Cat Burglar…Nami-san!" He brought his finger down, pointing to the orange-haired bank owner.

"HUH!?" Everyone in the room fell over.

"Oi! Bastard! How dare you accuse Nami-san of stealing her own money!" Sanji glared daggers at the young detective.

DJ chuckled and closed his eyes. "There can always only be ONE TRUTH! That's just it Sanji, it's not HER money, even if she thinks it is. The money belongs to the people who trust that bank for her savings, that was my first clue. Remember?"

-flashback-

"Yes, but the one crime I can never forgive is someone stealing MY money!" Nami clenched her fists.

-end flashback-

"The second clue came when I when I realized the truth about the bag of hair. If the criminal truly had a neko neko no mi model Devil Fruit, then they would have been instantly stopped by the seastone fault. The bag was PLANTED there so that we would THINK it was a Devil Fruit user, while the true culprit was the one who was right under our noses!"

"Just because she COULD'VE done it, doesn't mean she did." Niri commented.

"I was getting to that, in fact, Nami-san is one of the ONLY people in the world who could've possibly done it." DJ smirked again. "You see, only she has the key to disable the security system on the vaults, not even Sanji has such a privilege. I'm aware that neither Dusty-chan's stealth, not Axe's Rokushiki techniques could get through the vault, meaning that rules out Lucci and Katt. The few people in the world who would have the power to get into the vault would surely be putting it to more profitable applications."

Nami growled. "How dare you make such wild and unfounded accusations! You have no proof!" She clenched both fists and marched towards the bold investigator. "How do you know it wasn't one of these three? They could have found a way to get around the Kairoseki! You can't be sure that fur wasn't thiers!"

"That's just it, that was the final piece of evidence that made me sure it couldn't possibly be anyone else besides you." He held up the bag of hair and the piece of paper from Kagura. "This test from a top Devil Fruit researcher confirms that this is not Devil Fruit hair at all! You see, the average person doesn't know that there is a very small difference between the fur of a Zoan user and the fur of the actual animal. This fur is ordinary animal fur! In fact, this fur is from a species of cat that is extinct and can only come from a very expensive fur coat, one of less than a dozen in the world!"

Nami gasped as Sanji looked on in horror. "Nami-san has many fur coats like that…"

"Exactly! My suspicions were enough to warrant a search, Inspector, bring it in!" DJ grinned broadly with his eyes closed.

A man with white hair in an unbuttoned coat, his chest showing underneath it and smoking two cigars, walked in, holding the coat in question. "I stopped by inspector Smokey's office and informed him what was going on, that's why I was late." He smirked again.

"Inspector SMOKER." The white-haired man growled with a pissed-off look on his face as he held the coat up to the fur DJ was holding.

"You see, it matches perfectly, you got careless Nami-san." DJ sighed, ignoring the annoyed inspector. "It's always the beautiful ladies."

"Wait, why would Nami order an investigation on a crime she committed herself?" Aro blinked, confused at all this.

"She had to send someone in or else it would seem suspicious." DJ continued. "She was careless and gravely underestimated us, thinking that a new detective agency wouldn't have the connections to figure out the hair piece, it didn't matter which person we chose, as long as she had a scapegoat to turn in for the robberies." He looked to the three former suspects.

"So she planned for us to take the rap for her…" Katt snarled at a continually more sheepish looking Nami.

"But why Nami-san?" Sanji whimpered, his heart seeming to break before their eyes. "Why steal from the vaults? You were making plenty of money off of the interest of the bank loans."

"Follow the money, follow the money, follow the money." DJ sighed, holding up another piece of paper. "Chizzy-chan gave me the records of everyone involved, including Nami-san, she was diagnosed with kleptomania by a psychiatrist, however this theory was dismissed when another expert cleared her, most likely paid off. Someone with a disease like that cannot be trusted to be that close to money without stealing it." DJ closed his eyes once more. "I think that's all, take her away Inspector Smokey…"

"Not so fast!" Nami reached behind her back. "Fine, I did it! But if you don't let me leave, you'll feel the wrath of my Clima… Tact?" She blinked as her weapon wasn't where she had left it.

"HONK!" Pingu held up her large pole weapon, grinning broadly.

"Great work Pingu!" Niri cheered.

Devon blinked. "When did he…"

"I try not to question these things." Kirsty sighed as Smoker cuffed Nami and began to take her away.

"DJ-kun, you can let me off with a warning, right?" Nami spoke sweetly while rubbing DJ's cheek.

An expression of love immediately appeared on DJ's face. "Hai Nami-san! We can let her go, right guys?"

"HELL NO!" Came a resounding shout from everyone else.

"I would've gotten away with it too! If it weren't for those meddling adults! And their stupid penguin!" Nami shouted as she was taken away by Smoker.

"For some reason, that sounds really cliched." DJ sighed as the group began to relax as their first case came to a close and the moon hung high in the sky over Tomahawk manner.

"Is that who you were thinking was the burglar, Axe?" Niri blinked as she looked towards the coordinator.

"Axe looked down to his unfolded piece of paper with his accusation on it that clearly read "Aro" "Uhhh… of course it was…" he chuckled nervously and crumpled up the paper and tossed the paper into the fireplace.

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The next day, a loud cheer came through the mansion as Dusty slammed the newspaper on the kitchen table. "Whootness! We're a hit!" She opened the newspaper to page three and pointed to a surprisingly small article about how the Axe-Head Detective Agency had solved the case of the Katt burglar.

"Well, humble beginnings, right Axe?" Azu chuckled. "I've heard worse excuses to drink!" He raised his clay jug and took a long swig. The rest of the group read the article to find out the final outcome.

The owner of Mikan bank, Clerk Nami was convicted and sentenced to prison, however was released that same day on the high bail by an anonymous donor who referred to himself only as "Mr. Prince" She has now begun seeking new employment.

Axe mused for a second. Hmmm… there's still a lot on my mind, not the least of which is the identity of the person who gave us this house and why. "Oh well, that can wait! Let's party!" The captain shouted as a cheer erupted throughout the manner.

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(Hope it was good, it's my first detective fic and I wanted it to be good, there was a lot of facts in there, hope I didn't miss anything, thanks for reading! Please Review!)

Next time on Crew of the Axe: One Truth!

Dusty: Whoot! Another case, we're on fire!

Devon: Kidnapping huh? Guess we're moving up the crime list.

Axe: Less talking, more crime solving!

Niri: I have a bad feeling about this…

Kidnapping at the Goat Mansion!

Kirsty: Is that a… goat head!?

Next Axe-Head Hint! (A clue to help you solve the next case) Kid's Card (Joker)