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It was Lupin's third theft in as many weeks. After his conversation with Sunshine he'd gone off and gotten himself properly drunk, just to get a third perspective on the matter, and then struck out twice with two increasingly annoyed women and gone home alone.

The question was never 'is Zenigata worth it'. Obviously, Zenigata was great, but Zenigata was not the treasure he was trying to hunt down here. The question was 'is trying to get a relationship with Zenigata that's more than occasional drinking buddies and sworn rivals worth it'. Was it worth it to disrupt the status quo, and would the treasure he got by disrupting it be worth the loss?

Klaus had, unfortunately, been incredibly unforthcoming about whether the sex was any good and Sunshine hadn't had as much perspective on romancing him as he'd hoped. (Boy, he'd read that one totally wrong.) He'd poked Fujiko about it a little but she'd assumed he was jealous and played up Zenigata's prowess and romantic charms just to needle him, only to find him storming out on her.

The next week, a diamond quietly went missing in Sweden. After that, a gold-plated vintage car in Australia vanished from a mob boss's personal collection. It wasn't quite the same without Pops but it also wasn't boring...losing Pops as a rival wouldn't shatter what made theft worth it. He'd had to convince himself of that before he could escalate to the next step.

(Of course he hadn't bugged the apartment. That would just be rude. But he had hidden a camera next to the door, just so he could see when Pops started residing in it again.)

Threaded | Flat

Roppongi turned out to be an adventure. Three locations, three thefts, three failures-- but despite it all, Zenigata couldn't even be mad. He was doing what he was supposed to -- chasing the thief, trying to catch the thief, and failing to do so. (This was not intentional; they did at least foil the theft of the Renoir, but the Mori gem exhibit and items from the 1900 World Fair vanished too.

Evem though museum thefts were his least favorite and the ones he worked hardest to prevent, one out of three felt like something of a win, so he took what he could get, and went with it. He'd go home, have a nice cup of something alcoholic, and take what he could as a victory.

When he came back to his shiny new condo, Zenigata brought groceries to the place. He'd inspected it on his first visit before he left for France at the new years, and now a month later, he was back inside it. A few things had been added -- personal touches (he refused to just live in a sterile empty space -- he got enough of that with hotel rooms) and so some things had migrated here. Art on the walls, knick knacks...

And he swept for bugs previously, so he took a shower, got into a cozy robe and his shorts, and settled at the high class kotatsu in front of the television with a beer to watch the news.