Kon'nichiwa! Sapphire Nightshade here! And as the story progresses, I run out of time to find out a main point in TPTR (The Phantom Thief Race). For those who know what Doctor Who is, I was listening to Doctor Who songs (mainly Chameleon Circuit) while typing this out on the computer. Plus, I'm planning on my next crossover to be a Doctor Who/Phineas and Ferb one. I already started it, I just need to recover the document and come up with the storyline.

So, I guess it's time for the next chapter!

Chapter 12:

Takito and Rain managed to go with the flow of the crowd toward the newcomers, which was actually harder than going against as they couldn't see the people coming up behind them. But they finally reached them and helped them get through the crowd until they saw an alleyway with hardly any people. They all immediately went into the empty alley and relaxed.

"That was . . . harder . . . then I . . . expected," Daisuke gasped. Satoshi agreed, nodding his head.

"Yeah, you have to get used to it," Nakamura-san replied. "Don't try going with the crowd yet. It's hard in its own way."

Then Sakura-san collapsed onto the ground. Daisuke ran to her, calling, "Sakura-san!"

"This was the . . . first time I transformed," she said, out of breath, "Then right away I . . . had to do something this tiring . . . I'm . . . I'm out of energy. I'm . . . going to . . . be right back." Then Sakura-san closed her eyes, glowed softly, matching everything else, and shrunk back into her glass diamond form.

Daisuke took the "Deceiver's Fortune" and put it in his jacket pocket. Then he looked at Kirigama-san and Nakamura-san to see their surprised faces. However, the surprise quickly vanished.

I guess that's what happens when you visit multiple worlds, Daisuke thought, You're ready to accept anything.

"So where did you find Dark?" Daisuke asked.

"Well," Takito answered, "I didn't expect there to be a festivel today, so it'll take a lot longer than I originally thought. Maybe an hour or so, since you guys haven't had much practice going through the crowds. No offense," he added.

There was silence and Daisuke looked around himself at the height of the buildings. It shouldn't be too high, he thought. But just in case, he noted the drainage pipe coming down the side of a building. He backed up for as long a running start he could get.

Satoshi was the only one not amazed when Daisuke took off, jumped high enough to grab onto the edge of the roof (the running start wasn't long enough for him to completely clear it), and scramble over the top with slight difficulty.

"Whoa, how did you do that?!" Takito said, excited.

Daisuke guessed that despite being able to accept anything, they could still be surprised. "Training since birth," he answered. Then he looked around to see if there was anything he could use to help the others up. He saw a pink rope and a blue plank. I wonder why those are up here? He thought to himself.

Then he tossed one end of the rope down and tied the other to a silver hook coming up out of the roof.

Satoshi was the first to climb up. Then Kirigama-san and Nakamura-san followed. Daisuke asked about the rope, plank and hook – he had seen them on every roof – and Kirigama-san replied, "This place floods easily, so almost every time there's a hard rain, the people have to climb up here. And the plank is so they can cross from roof to roof in case anyone needs help."

"It's a good thing, too," Nakamura-san added as she set the plank across the roof they were on and another roof, "This will be much faster than going through the streets."

Nakamura-san was right. As they moved across the roofs with Daisuke putting the planks back and then jumping over, they were able to get to the place in about ten minutes.

Kirigama-san stopped them and pointed to a glowing food stand below them. "That's where we saw them," he said. "But the food stand wasn't there at the time."

Daisuke hopped down and stood behind the young man running the food stand, so he wouldn't get swept off with the crowd. The other three followed him, using the rope.

"Now how are we going to get that back up there?" Nakamura-san asked, talking about the rope.

But Daisuke wasn't paying attention. He was trying to get in contact with Dark as they usually talked to each other: through thoughts. And now he was hoping against hope that Dark would hear him.

Dark? He asked. Dark, are you there? Can you hear me? Dar-?

Daisuke? A familiar voice interrupted.

So, who do you think it is that replied to Daisuke? It says "a familiar voice", but that means it could be anyone, right? Right? Well, I'll leave you to figure it out until two more days (remember that there's a Case Closed perspective chapter tomorrow?). I should really find out that reason . . . the time is running out before the characters find out . . . Sayonara for now!