A/N: Happy New Years, people! I hope you all have a good year filled with some happiness, excitement, and of course, good food – because food is everything~! 3 This chapter was rushed within the last hour of 2014 because I'm a nerd who wanted chapter 60 to be the first chapter in 2015, so…yeah. Enjoy this crappy chapter and stuff! Happy holidays and New Years and I wish you all the best for the New Year! o^^o

Chapter Fifty Nine; Transmogrification Arc

"So, I was right," I smirked down at the shrunken detective. By now, Green Suit had been taken away by the police. Conan and Heiji had merely snooped around the house for a couple more hours and had found their evidence and culprit without much difficulty. I had been a minor assistant, leaving to go wash out the pot that had been filled with gasoline for Green Suit's suicide plan while they talked about heavy stuff I couldn't really bother to get into at the moment. I was still trying to comprehend my own life at the moment – I mean, last night had basically blown a hole in all of my logic. Freakin' Koizumi's…

Conan gave me a rather dry look, unimpressed with my completely 'no-shame' routine in getting money. I mean, hey, betting on who the murderer is has to be the weirdest thing to bet on, but I was going to take what I got. Just because someone was going to jail over didn't mean anything. With a roll of his eyes, he gave me a look. "I don't have the money now, so I'll pay you back later."

My eyes narrowed suspiciously at him for a moment before I gave him a shit-eating grin. I crouched to be eye level with him and ruffled his hair playfully. "M'kay, I'll take your word for it~!" I hummed, "But warning, I take interest!"

I glanced over to the clock in the corner of the room again, cursing at the late time. "Anyway, I gotta go. See you~!" I patted Heiji and Kogoro's shoulder on the way out after giving Conan a quick one-armed hug, saluted Megure-keibu and Takagi-keiji as I exited the large mansion, and then I was gone.

ooOOoo

"So…that's what happened." I explained to Akako. She was standing next to her desk, fingers absently playing with the faded yellow edges of the pages inside the old Grimoire on her desk. With Akako's supervision, I had taken off the pendant/seal thing that Osamu had given me for a brief moment and within those few moments of 'open eyes', I had been able to read the strange markings and words written in the magical text. It had been odd but fascinating, but Akako had threatened to lock me in one of her dungeons if I didn't put the pendant back on after five minutes.

"I see…," She hummed thoughtfully. Her red eyes were narrowed and her mouth was twisted a bit in displeasure. "You let your false creation manipulate your body." She scoffed and she made it sound so lame of me (this kid is a witch? She doesn't even know how to control her own creation), "Really, you're more thick than I thought you were."

"Hey, I take offense to that," I laughed. "Besides, all of this will clear up soon enough. I've been thinking, if magic can be fused into me, it should be able to be fused out of me. All the magical items I've been researching have to have come from somewhere, right? They were made, and someone had to place magic into them to make them, well, magical. If I can somehow manage to place all my magic into one certain stone, I should be able to reverse the effects of what Spider did to me, right?" It was a theory I had come up with after having a restless night, killing time searching through the various gem magazines I had hoarded.

The red-haired witch gave a cackle that made my hair stand on end, smirking at me as she closed her grimoire and took a delicate seat on her chair. "Only two full days as a suppressed youkai and your thoughts are already evolving to the state of what you instinctively know is possible." Her smile was predatory, as if she'd just found something delicious to snack on. One of her hands flipped through her hair absently, "I wonder if it would be like that with other mortals, or if you're just a rare case – you are my sister, after all."

"Hahaha…I wonder…," I mumbled, unnerved by her stare that seemed to glow with the candlelight around us. Her demon-butler stood off to the side of the room, blending into the shadows and making me even more unnerved than I usually would've been. Pouting to myself, I turned my attention back to the magazine in my hands, legs propped up on the handle of the couch as I laid on it. One gem in particular had caught my eyes when they had been 'open', a gem said to have the powers of transcending space and time. The lore was revolved around a couple who lived in different timelines who came in contact with the gem, met, and used it to communicate until they were both executed under the accusation of witchcraft.

I grinned sharply to myself, sitting up and making my way to a nearby desk in Akako's vast library, pulling out a my pair of gloves and grabbing the thick paper I always used for heist notes out. The black sharpie marked the white easily in the distinct creepy cursive of Jester.

On the day of love and cheer, two shadows shall appear to steal something you cherished dear. One may be black, or they may be white – only time will tell on this Lover's night.

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"So, I found a new target for us~!" I crowed, happily pulling out a crumpled magazine paper from my pocket. Hat pulled low over my eyes and my voice a bit huskier than usual, I sat as Jester in front of KID. We were in a cozy coffee shop just off the shopping district in Ekoda, somewhere I had suggested since I didn't feel like paying for travelling fees to places like Harujuku. KID look at the paper in interest as I flattened it out with gloved hands. It was still a bit cold out despite it being February and it was the perfect excuse to not get my fingerprints everywhere.

"The Azurite Rose, owned by entrepreneur Takayoshi-san, hm?" KID hummed, a small smirk curling at his lips.

"Yep~! He keeps the thing in a vault in his mansion's basement." I grinned widely. "Though, considering it's us, it won't be that hard to get in!"

-This chapter was short because of the rush, but Happy New Years and the next chapter will be longer, promise! ^^ I'll reply to review privately this time around, thank you for all your reviews~!