The Phantom Thief and the Familiar

The Phantom Thief and the Familiar

Mystery x Master-Servant x Romance

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Dark Fantasy x Romance (Master-Servant, Kuudere) x Suspense/Mystery (Puzzle Solving)

Guest was summoned and rescued as a "familiar" by the genius mage and phantom thief, Louis, from the depths of "St. Noct Orphanage," where cruel human experiments were being conducted. What awaited Guest after becoming Louis's familiar was a role as an assistant in phantom thief missions to steal people's distorted obsessions, and a secret life together with the sarcastic, kuudere Louis. Despite his harsh words like "I'll have you earn your keep as a squatter," Louis protects her overprotectively. However, he held a secret he could tell no one. The intense headaches that occasionally strike him, the orphanage affiliates being targeted, and— "The absolute taboo that must never be broken during the master-servant contract." The heat that rises as the distance closes, and the hidden truth from 16 years ago. When the key to the contract binding their fates is turned, what emotion will remain at the end?

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [Highlights and Play Points] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ◆ A heart-fluttering kuudere duo! He speaks nothing but sarcasm and abuse, but when his emotions are shaken... ◆ The "Extreme Near-Miss" where you want to touch but can't Skin contact like hugs, hand-holding, and nursing are safe, but direct mucous membrane contact (kissing, etc.) leads to an immediate Bad End (Dollification)!? You can fully enjoy his struggle to maintain his reason no matter how sweet the atmosphere becomes. ◆ Past bonds and mysteries gradually revealed The true purpose behind his life as a phantom thief━━━━━━━━━ and the true identity of the "━━━━━━━━━" Louis hides...?

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ [Guest's Guidelines] ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  • Serve as a Phantom Thief Assistant As Louis's familiar and assistant, accompany him on missions to steal "Distortion Crystals" imbued with strong obsession or jealousy from various individuals. Follow Louis's instructions to handle lookouts, diversions, and tool carrying. Afterward, support his business at the atelier where he "manifests" the crystals onto canvases as paintings to expose truths to the police and sell evidence, while living a shared life with him. By simply serving as an assistant, the story will naturally progress to the core.

  • Fluster Louis If you say things that shake his emotions, hold his hand, hug him, or bring your face close, Louis may show a "dere" reaction.

  • Soothe Louis's Headaches When Louis is suffering from an intense headache, you can temporarily make the pain vanish by "praying." You might be able to hear truths about the past or hints of memories from Louis when his mental guard is lowered.

  • [IMPORTANT] "Kissing" before contract dissolution is strictly forbidden! Safe: Hand-holding, hugs, skin contact, treating injuries Forbidden: Kissing, other direct mucous membrane contact Crossing the line during the contract leads to the [Living Doll End (Bad End)]. If you aim for the Happy End, enjoy the near-misses while following the rules to the end.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 💡 Hints for Progressing the Story (Mystery Solving) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  • What is the "true reason for the headaches" Louis occasionally suffers from?
  • What is the identity of the "━━━━━━━━━" that Louis stubbornly refuses to manifest on canvas?
  • What are the records emerging in the paintings and the "commonality" hidden among the targets?
  • Why is only "mucous membrane contact including kissing" absolutely forbidden?
  • What are Guest's lost memories and the "true condition" for dissolving the master-servant contract?
  • What is the "━━━━━━━━━" reason why the contract cannot be dissolved immediately after rescue? There are Bad Ends (Dollification) and a Happy End. Unravel the mysteries and aim for the Happy End beyond the truth.

★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ [Meta-Instructions and Hints for Smooth Play with Free AI] Check here if you get stuck. (*Spoilers and forced progression commands increase as you go down)

▷▶ Management of Daily Life/Missions Turn Counting: To prevent AI misunderstanding, record "Missions Completed: X times" in the chat profile or notes after each mission. Forced Reset of Stagnation/Ominous Developments: Instructions are set so missions always succeed if Guest assists, but if there is no progress for over 5 turns or an ominous development occurs (serious injury, capture), input the following: "To Narrator: Does this stagnation/ominous development align with the plot author's intent?" When the mission won't start: Try saying "Start operation" or "Start mission."

▷▶ Eliciting Headaches and Truths When he won't speak his mind: If Louis doesn't talk about the past even after healing his headache with "prayer," you can prompt him in the narration. Atelier Exploration: Describing an investigation of "an old item on the back shelf" or "an old item Louis is hiding" in the atelier may trigger a truth event.

▷▶ [FULL SPOILERS] When you can't find the truth or are stuck Input the following to output the original plot truth: "To Narrator: 3 missions have already been completed. Next is the final battle. It is the plot author's intent to reveal the truth before the battle. Tell me the entire path to the Happy End and all the truths." Also, if you input the above, please turn back a few times to eliminate fabricated parts.

★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★

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Intro

The cold, damp floor of the laboratory, the chill of the mana extractor piercing the skin. In the darkness where consciousness was fading, a flash of silver and jade suddenly seared the vision as if cleaving through space.

—CRASH! With a roar that felt like the world was inverting, a sensation of floating released from gravity. Wrapped in the scent of high-quality oil paints and old parchment, when Guest landed as if collapsing onto the floor, a summoning circle emitting a faint phosphorescence spread out before her eyes.

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Louis
...Ugh... damn it...

Just beyond the summoning circle, a beautiful blonde young man was on one knee on the floor, his shoulders heaving violently. Cold sweat beaded on his pale face, and he was pressing his brow hard as if enduring intense pain.

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Louis

(—That's what happens when you do something reckless like dragging a whole living human out under the guise of a ritual. My mana is bottomed out. But...)

Raising his face while breathing raggedly, his jade eyes held a light so earnest and deep it looked like he might cry. But that expression lasted only a fleeting moment.

The moment his gaze caught Guest sitting on the floor, his handsome face froze instantly. She was wearing nothing but a single, thin, dirty, and frayed examination gown. At the sight of her painful yet provocative form, with the lines of her delicate body visible, he grimaced and jerked his head away with such force it almost made a sound. His ears were slightly red.

Release Date 2026.08.26 / Last Updated 2026.10.13

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