Spy Criminal Watch

Job Info

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Simon read the job over a few times, it seemed a fair bit well ridiculous really but on the other hand it could be pretty serious. So with steps full of swift and a head full of empty Simon set off for Oak Town from Magnolia Town. It wasn't much of a run with his God Leg magic and he was familiar with the route so the trip went over uneventfully and before much time had passed Simon reached Oak Town. He entered the city and walked through the streets looking for anyone who fit the description that the job had given. Having found a clock and realizing the time and remember what the job information had said he decided to head to the center of the city to see if he could find the target there.

Now Oak Town was particularly busy today with the flow of people higher then Simon had seen from the town before. He feared this might make it hard to follow the target once he was found but on the flip side of that it would be very much easier to keep himself hidden and prevent rising suspicions which would blow his 'cover'. As he walked Simon fantasized about fantastic spying adventures and great missions of espionage it was easy entertainment for a young mind like his. It also served to get him very excited about the mission and job to come and as he let his imagination run wild Simon found himself walking faster and looking about with great theatrics however he managed to check himself and resumed trying to walk about normally. Soon he reached the town square where hopefully he would find his target.

In all honest the man kind of stood out against the rest of the crowd and proved very easy to spot. Having located the man described by the job ad standing around the center of town like the client had described he would be so with his target in sight Simon pushed through the crowds of bustling people and sat himself on a bench next to a pair of old geezers going on about fruit prices or something to that effect. Simon then did his best to imitate a bored child idly gazing around to mask his vigilant gazing at his target. Now supposedly he should start walking off before too long so Simon waited and watched for any strange activity. For the most part he didn't seem to be doing too much, just standing around with a bucket in his hand showing a piece of paper in his other hand and saying words Simon could not hear to people who walked by him.

He kept on going like this for a short while Simon guessed he was trying to sell some sort of product that he was keeping the bucket but aside from that he had no idea what the man was doing. So Simon waited, and waited and waited for the target do anything that was even slightly sinister but he seemed quite bent on being very well behaved and law abiding. So the waiting resumed, Simon found it very hard to not get up and just run at the guy and start asking him questions but he knew he had to keep his composer and not do anything rash for the sake of the job.

Simon spent another 20 or so minutes watching the man and occasionally moving to a different bench or just standing up to walk around for a little bit to make himself seem less suspicious. He wasted a bit more time on this then he would have liked before deciding that it might be a good idea to go and see what was on the paper the target had been showing people. But as he stood up to go and try and pretend to innocently ask what the man was doing the target got his things together and started walking away into the crowds. Simon bit the inside of his mouth and cursed himself for hesitating and started off after the man not wanting to lose him.

Now Simon was not just going to blindly run after him, he had a system to go about following him. As he would walk he would try and run along with other groups of kids as they moved about as long as they were moving in the way he needed to go since they were his best cover he tried to use them whenever possible but they hardly ever went in one direction for too long and even less often was it the direction he needed to go so he had other tricks as well. He would follow around adults who weren't paying attention trying to pose as their child following them around, this usually worked pretty well but it was awkward when they caught on to him and he had to scurry away to find other cover.

He followed the man like this trying to stay close to him for an unknown period of time while carefully watching his movements. However as before he seemed to be hell bent on being a law abiding citizen and showed no signs of stopping his façade of innocence. This was turning out to be some rather boring spying to be honest Simon was expecting more action then this and a substantially more antagonistic target. He was actually silently wishing at this point that he would perform some kind of misdemeanor or cruel act to justify his spying because as it was it felt like a rude violation of the man’s privacy and just to prove he wasn't going anything wrong.

Simon’s anxiety and longing for justification for his actions got to such a high point that when the man leaned over to look at a stay puppy that was sitting around on the side of the street he had thought the man was going to kick the puppy for some reason. He felt really bad when the man started petting the puppy and gave it a bit of jerky from his inside pocket and kept walking, At this point it was getting really hard for Simon to just call it quits and flag the guy as innocent, but he kept up his pursuit regardless of how trivial he was feeling it was becoming. He had a job to do and he was sticking to it.

Shortly after attending to the puppy the black garbed man went into a nearby café, feeling it would be suspicious for him to just follow him straight in Simon decided to stop and loiter around the street outside for a few minutes running around like other nearby kids. So once he figured enough time had passed he went ahead and went inside the café. Once inside he located the man without any difficulty it was a small building and it wasn’t very crowded the man stuck out like a sore thumb despite being tucked away in a booth in the corner. So Simon sat himself at a table towards the middle of the café and focused his enhanced slayer hearing towards the man trying to hear what he was saying, which was nothing because he was sitting alone and apparently he didn’t like talking to himself.

A waiter a stringy man in his twenties approached Simon and presented him with a menu that he took with a nod and thanked him, glancing over he saw his target already had a menu and was looking it over. Simon knew he would have to buy something to avoid suspicion so he tried to locate something that he liked quickly so that he could keep his attention on the black-garbed man. So he happened to locate a Danish on the menu and assumed that since it was a Danish that it was good, and set the menu aside and resumed his innocent kid routine, waiting in silence for something to happen.

Simon waited in eager silence just waiting for his moment to catch the man performing some dastardly act to justify his spy raid. Because right now Simon felt he was violating the man's privacy for spying on an innocent dude. Fortunately before too long the waiter came around and gave Simon his danish which Simon was grateful to have, not only was it a fantastically amazing danish but it also solidified his incognito status. So with his magic danish enchanted with +100 deliciousness Simon continued his vigilant spying efforts. His target was just sitting over there eating oatmeal. The fiend.

Yeah not even Simon's imagination could make eating oatmeal a crime related to pick pocketing. It was a very hard sell. So Simon waited, and waited and waited, he had to intentionally slow his danish eating speed so that the man would finish his oatmeal and leave first. But just as Simon wanted to throw in the towel and go home, something sinister and strange happened. As the man paid the waiter and got up to leave, Simon saw with his slayer enhanced eye the money in the waiter's pocket vanished and who would have guessed that that very same money appeared in the hands of the man as he left the cafe. Simon's jaw dropped and he mouthed to himself "magic."

Simon paid the waiter, finished his danish and hurriedly followed the thief out of the cafe. It was a major relief that Simon's spying had been for a good reason and that lifted a major weight from his shoulders. But now he needed to stop this thief. He had to make a decision he needed to either take this guy in himself or find his lair and report it to the authorities, at this point finding his lair seemed for the best. It would mean getting back the money he stole and prevented Simon from having to fight a man with unknown magic abilities.

Sure Simon had seen him magically swipe that pocket change, but he had no idea if the guy was capable of more then that. As he continued his pursuit now that he knew what he was looking for Simon saw the man going to town with his magic pick pocketing. With just a wave of his fingers he could empty a purse and stuff his own pockets it made Simon sick. But he stayed true to his hunt and followed in silence while blending with the crowds. He couldn't wait to throw this guy behind bars.

As he pursued the man Simon felt the stakes get higher and higher as he went, he couldn't risk getting caught this late in the operation. As he was pretending to play hop scotch with a kid to stay close to his target Simon tripped and fell on the ground. Now Simon was normally very coordinated in his feet, thanks to his powerful god leg magic so tripping was a pretty rare occurrence for him. He pulled himself off the ground to see why he had tripped and when he looked he saw there was a brick in the rode missing where he had been standing.

Simon wanted to blame poor road care, but the brick wasn't damaged or roughly ripped out. It was cleanly removed as if someone had just walked over and pulled it right out of the cement, just right up and stole it like magic..... Simon looked up to try and locate his target but the mysterious thief mage was nowhere to be found. Simon couldn't believe it, he had been caught and not just that but the man had also escaped him. Caught and escaped from at the same time, well played magic thief dude.

In panic and rage Simon jumped to the roofs the thief wouldn't escape him if there was anything Simon could do about it. From the roofs Simon had a great view of the streets and from his recent spying endeavors and great memory he had committed the suspicious dude to memory. Simon searched for almost an hour without result. Running all over town searching every dead and back alley and using every birds eye view he could to try and find his target but it was all in vain. He was nowhere to be found. Then dumb luck saved Simon.

As he jumped down from the roofs readying to call it a day and to try and find him again tomorrow. Simon landed right in front of the man of the hour causing them to effectively crash into each other and both fall to the ground. They both jumped to their feet and at the same time both said "You!" With that the chase was on. Well it wasn't actually much of a chase, the thief tried to run but Simon was able to cover the distance between them with one God Leg enhanced jump and tackled him down hard.

Clean up was pretty easy. The guy apparently wasn't that good of a mage, swiping pocket change and the occasional brick was no problem for him but against a real mage like Simon his magic didn't get him anywhere. Not to mention he was physically weak and Simon had him pinned pretty easy with his God Leg ability. Still holding the thief down he would ask a citizen to find the local authorities which they quickly did. Magic council police showed up in just a few minutes, and with just a few minutes of questing they confirmed the thief was a wanted criminal.

Apparently he had been at the magic thief game for a long time and had accumulated a small fortune robbing people all over Fiore. There were countless reports of very mysterious unsolved pickpocket cases in Oak Town and Simon's spy report, the thief's magic and the money in his wallet all pointed to his guilt and was at least enough for the police to take him in for a proper investigation. Whatever the legal system did to him Simon didn't care he had caught his man, he reported back to the client claimed his reward and called it a day.

Mission Complete.