# E29 - Pursue Phantom Thief Marzipan!
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**[00:06] Sign**
Fairy Princess
**[00:06] Sign**
Minky Momo
**[01:36] Narrator**
Long, long ago...
**[01:38] Narrator**
In a "long, long ago" recent enough that
it could very well seem like tomorrow...
**[01:43] Narrator**
In a universe over there, in an Earth
over there, in a city over there,
**[01:47] Narrator**
there lived a girl.
**[01:50] Narrator**
She looked like a completely normal
girl of the kind you'd find anywhere.
**[01:54] Narrator**
The one difference was...
**[01:56] Narrator**
The girl could use magic to
transform into a grown-up!
**[02:00] Narrator**
They called her Minky Momo.
***SIGN*** Pursue Phantom Thief Marzipan!
**[02:06] Momo**
"Pursue Phantom Thief Marzipan!"
**[02:47] Mayor**
Thank you all for coming
to celebrate my birthday
**[02:53] Mayor**
in such grand fashion!
**[02:57] Mama**
The mayor's party is just grand, isn't it?
**[03:00] Momo**
Yeah, and what a feast!
***SIGN*** I almost feel out of place...
**[03:06] Wife**
Now, sent from the Certayne Royal
Family in the Middle-east,
**[03:12] Wife**
I'd like to show you all the Angel Vase!
**[03:15] Wife**
Bring it now!
**[03:17] Papa**
I came here to see the Angel Vase!
**[03:20] Momo**
What's the Angel Vase?
**[03:22] Papa**
Yes, it's a relic of the
Candle-Euphrates Civilization!
**[03:26] Papa**
Their queen sent it to the mayor's
wife as a token of their friendship!
**[03:32] Momo**
Wow. A token of friendship, huh?
**[03:35] Wife**
What's taking so long? Bring the vase!
**[03:37] Maid**
I'm so sorry, my lady!
**[03:40] Maid**
The vase is gone!
**[03:42] Wife**
What?!
**[03:49] Wife**
Wh-What is the meaning of this?!
**[03:59] Momo**
Eh? What's this?
**[04:02] Momo**
Let's see...
**[04:03] Momo**
"I've taken the Angel Vase.
Phantom Thief Marzipan."
**[04:06] Momo**
What in the world?
**[04:08] Wife**
Let me see that!
**[04:11] Wife**
Oh, this is terrible!
**[04:13] Wife**
Call the police at once!
**[04:15] Mayor**
Now, now! No need to make
such a big deal out of it...
**[04:19] Wife**
How can you say that, dear?
**[04:21] Wife**
That vase had my precious—
**[04:24] Wife**
E-Either way, that vase
is very important to me!
**[04:27] Wife**
We *must* find it before the day is out!
**[04:30] Wife**
But—
**[04:31] Wife**
No buts! That vase contains my—
**[04:38] Wife**
Call the police at once!
**[04:41] Mama**
No need to call the police.
**[04:44] Mama**
After more than a decade of
writing detective novels,
**[04:49] Mama**
I will solve this case!
**[04:52] Des**
No need for that.
**[04:55] Des**
I'll solve this case myself.
**[04:57] Des**
An amateur detective like you sniffing
around would just be a distraction.
**[05:02] Mama**
Oh?
**[05:03] Papa**
Who are you, then?
**[05:05] Des**
Me?
**[05:07] Des**
Inspector Destrade of the Western Police!
**[05:10] Des**
Police?
**[05:11] Des**
Inspector?
**[05:13] Des**
Mr. Mayor, isn't it lucky
that you invited me here?
**[05:17] Mayor**
Er... well,
**[05:19] Mayor**
I certainly didn't expect this to happen
when I sent out the invitations...
**[05:23] Mayor**
If I'd known, I wouldn't have...
**[05:25] Des**
What's that?
**[05:26] Mayor**
Oh, nothing!
**[05:28] Des**
Now, everyone not involved in this
case, please leave right away!
**[05:36] Des**
Go on. You two, get out as well!
**[05:39] Mama**
Oh, no! We're staying!
**[05:42] Papa**
Dear...
**[05:43] Momo**
I'll stay too, then!
**[05:45] Des**
Do as you like.
**[05:49] Des**
All right, then, ma'am.
**[05:51] Des**
When was the last time you
saw the Angel Vase here?
**[05:53] Mayor**
It wasn't supposed to be like this!
**[05:59] Mayor**
All right. So the Angel Vase was
definitely in this room last night?
**[06:03] Wife**
Yes, I personally put the—
**[06:06] Wife**
I mean, I saw it with my own eyes!
**[06:10] Wife**
Please, you must recover the
Angel Vase before the day is out!
**[06:15] Maid**
Excuse me!
**[06:16] Maid**
I think I saw the thief!
**[06:19] Des**
What was that?!
**[06:20] Maid**
The truth is...
**[06:22] Maid**
I got up early this morning and
opened the curtains in my room...
**[06:26] Maid**
I saw a suspicious figure
running through the backyard!
**[06:34] Des**
That does sound like the culprit!
**[06:36] Des**
Well? What happened then?
**[06:40] Maid**
Well... I'd only just woken
up, so I wasn't at my best...
**[06:46] Des**
The culprit must have gone out
the back gate into the city.
**[06:50] Des**
All right, let's get investigating!
**[06:54] Mama**
Let's get started too!
**[06:57] Papa**
R-Right...
**[06:58] Mama**
We're leaving, Momo!
**[07:00] Momo**
Right!
**[07:29] Mama**
We walked all around town and
didn't find a single lead.
**[07:34] Mama**
What do we do now?
**[07:37] Papa**
We've only just started investigating!
Don't get too depressed.
***SIGN*** Your mother seems pretty down about this...
**[07:45] Chamo**
If she can't solve the case,
**[07:47] Chamo**
it might smash her pride into
bits and pieces and shards!
**[07:52] Lupi**
But we don't have any leads at all!
**[07:58] Momo**
Okay, time to really help
with the investigation!
**[08:04] Lupi**
But what are you going to do?!
**[08:07] Momo**
Just you watch, watch, watch!
**[08:12] Momo**
Parariru Parariru Doririnpa!
**[08:15] Momo**
Tiaran Tianan Maririnpa!
**[08:18] Momo**
Become a police detective with a Minky touch!
**[08:47] Momo**
And that's how we investigate
fair and square.
**[08:50] Chamo**
I see!
**[08:51] Lupi**
That's our Momo!
***SIGN*** You think it'll be that easy?
**[08:54] Momo**
When you meet a challenge,
you should take it!
**[08:57] Lupi**
That's all well and good, but
where are you going to go?
**[09:00] Momo**
The key to an investigation
is the scene of the crime.
**[09:03] Momo**
We'll start there!
**[09:05] Momo**
Let's go, animal friends!
**[09:06] All**
Yeah!
**[09:09] Papa**
I know! Let's grab a nice meal somewhere!
**[09:13] Papa**
We'll feel better with
some food in our bellies.
**[09:16] Papa**
Right, Momo?
**[09:17] Papa**
Eh?
**[09:20] Papa**
Momo?
**[09:27] Des**
Oh, no! I feel like a fool!
**[09:30] Des**
I can't find a single clue!
**[09:34] Des**
Eh? A suspicious figure running
around town at this hour...
**[09:42] Mayor**
What? An international police
detective came all the way out here?
**[09:47] Momo**
That's right?
**[09:49] Mayor**
And those three animals...
**[09:51] Momo**
Th-The three animals are a
police dog, a police bird...
**[09:55] Momo**
and a police monkey.
**[10:00] Momo**
Anyway, they're my precious assistants!
**[10:04] Mayor**
I see!
**[10:05] Mayor**
Modern police are quite clever, aren't they?
**[10:09] Mayor**
But they do look a bit familiar...
**[10:12] Momo**
I'm sure it's just your imagination!
**[10:14] Des**
Hold it right there!
**[10:16] Des**
I haven't heard about a police
detective coming here.
**[10:18] Des**
If you're a police detective, show your ID!
**[10:22] Momo**
ID?
**[10:25] Des**
I knew it. You're a fake!
**[10:27] Momo**
N-Not good.
**[10:28] Des**
I think *you're* Phantom Thief Marzipan!
**[10:32] Mayor**
Oh, no...
**[10:33] Mayor**
She can't be Marzipan!
**[10:35] Momo**
What's that?
**[10:36] Mayor**
Oh, nothing!
**[10:38] Des**
Quit jabbering on!
**[10:40] Des**
Everyone knows the culprit always
returns to the scene of the crime!
**[10:44] Des**
I've been waiting for you to
show yourself all this time.
**[10:49] Des**
You're under arrest!
**[10:50] Momo**
Stop it! You got it all wrong!
**[10:52] Momo**
You got it wrong!
**[10:53] Chamo**
Not good!
**[10:54] Chamo**
Momo!
**[10:56] Chamo**
That hurts! That hurts!
***SIGN*** Momo, we'd better make tracks!
**[11:05] Momo**
Yeah, make tracks!
**[11:08] Momo**
Excuse me!
**[11:09] Des**
You're not getting away!
**[11:13] Mayor**
Thank goodness.
**[11:15] Mayor**
Thank goodness she wasn't really
from the international police!
**[11:18] Wife**
Dear!
**[11:20] Wife**
What was all that noise?
**[11:22] Mayor**
Oh, nothing!
**[11:31] King**
It's a mystery! A case!
**[11:33] King**
Let's call in a hard-boiled detective!
**[11:36] Queen**
But who in the world stole the Angel's Vase?
**[11:40] King**
Who else?
**[11:41] King**
It was Phantom Thief Marzipan!
**[11:43] Queen**
You think so?
**[11:45] Queen**
I feel like it can't be quite that simple...
**[11:49] King**
That is quite a case!
**[11:51] sign**
Fairy Princess
**[11:51] sign**
Minky Momo
**[11:55] sign**
Fairy Princess
**[11:55] sign**
Minky Momo
**[11:57] sign**
Fairy Princess
**[11:57] sign**
Minky Momo
**[11:59] Des**
Get back here!
**[12:02] Momo**
*What's with this guy!*
***SIGN*** He's so persistent!
**[12:08] Des**
Get back here, you!
**[12:10] Des**
Get back here!
**[12:18] Des**
Eh?
**[12:22] Des**
Hang on... those animals look familiar.
**[12:26] Des**
Never mind. For now, I must pursue Marzipan!
**[12:37] Momo**
That was close!
**[12:38] Chamo**
But the police detective plan was a big flop!
**[12:41] Momo**
Yeah. I've learned my lesson.
**[12:44] Momo**
So, what next?!
***SIGN*** I thought the mayor acted very suspiciously when you said
***SIGN*** you were from the international police!
**[12:52] Chamo**
He did!
**[12:53] Chamo**
He's kinda been acting weird this whole time!
**[12:56] Lupi**
His wife has, too!
**[12:59] Lupi**
She starts to say one
thing, then stops herself!
***SIGN*** It feels like they're both hiding something!
**[13:06] Momo**
Okay! We investigate that next, then!
**[13:09] Momo**
How?
**[13:11] Momo**
Like this!
**[13:14] Momo**
Become a phantom thief with a Minky touch!
**[13:25] Momo**
Well, my friends?!
**[13:27] Lupi**
Wait, are you gonna sneak
into the mayor's house?!
**[13:30] Momo**
Of course I am!
**[13:31] Momo**
Now, let us away!
**[13:33] Trio**
W-Wait for us!
**[13:38] King**
That's bad! Momo's become a thief!
**[13:41] Queen**
Now, now. Calm down, darling.
**[13:43] Queen**
She hasn't stolen anything yet.
**[13:46] Queen**
But I do worry... Stealing is the
gateway to lying, as they say.
**[13:51] King**
Did you get that backwards?
**[13:53] Queen**
It's true either way.
**[14:00] Momo**
A phantom thief really should be beautiful!
**[14:02] Chamo**
But surely we don't need to run across roofs!
***SIGN*** Yeah!
**[14:10] Mama**
Momo and the animals went missing.
**[14:13] Mama**
I still can't find Phantom Thief Marzipan...
**[14:19] Mama**
Could that be Phantom Thief Marzipan?!
**[14:22] Mama**
I finally found you!
**[14:26] Papa**
Dear!
**[14:27] Papa**
Are you all right?
**[14:28] Des**
Excuse me. I'm sorry about that...
**[14:45] Momo**
Hey, is that...
**[14:51] Chamo**
It's the mayor!
**[14:53] Lupi**
What's he up to?
**[15:27] Momo**
Mind telling me what you're up to?
**[15:30] Momo**
Wh-Who are you?!
**[15:32] Momo**
I am Phantom Thief...
**[15:33] Momo**
er... Peachpie!
**[15:36] Mayor**
Phantom Thief Peachpie?!
**[15:38] Momo**
If my eyes do not deceive me, that
appears to be the stolen vase!
**[15:43] Mayor**
Oh, dear! This is just...
**[15:45] Momo**
Mr. Mayor... You're the real Phantom
Thief Marzipan, aren't you?!
**[15:52] Momo**
Go on, tell me the story.
**[15:54] Momo**
Why make up a phantom thief
and cause all this trouble?
**[15:58] Momo**
Tell me, or I'll turn you in!
**[16:03] Mayor**
Very well. I'll talk.
**[16:10] Momo**
Oh, the vase is cracked!
**[16:12] Mayor**
That's right. I cracked
it in my carelessness!
**[16:18] Mayor**
I woke up early this morning and
was practicing my golf swing...
**[16:25] Mayor**
when suddenly...
**[16:30] Mayor**
I was forced to hide the vase
in the storage room out back.
**[16:38] Mayor**
I knew that if my wife learned I'd broken
the Angel Vase, she'd really make me pay.
**[16:45] Momo**
She is a little scary, huh?
**[16:47] Mayor**
No, she was a kind woman
when we were first married!
**[16:52] Mayor**
That was all over twenty years ago...
**[16:57] Mayor**
We went on our honeymoon and saw a
pair of cufflinks I really liked...
**[17:04] Mayor**
But at the time, I was just
an aspiring reporter,
**[17:08] Mayor**
and I certainly couldn't afford them.
**[17:12] (Flashback) Wife**
Here, darling.
**[17:14] (Flashback) Wife**
I begged the salesperson and
they let me have just one!
**[17:18] Mayor**
She spent all her savings to buy it for me!
**[17:25] Mayor**
This is that cufflink!
**[17:28] Momo**
It's beautiful!
**[17:30] Mayor**
But nowadays...
**[17:33] Mayor**
Today's my birthday, but she didn't
even wish me a happy birthday!
**[17:38] Mayor**
She just went on and on about her vase!
**[17:40] Mayor**
I suppose age really does change a woman...
**[17:46] Momo**
I don't fully get it, but
I feel kind of bad for him.
***SIGN*** But your mother and the inspector are still searching for Phantom Thief Marzipan!
***SIGN*** We've got to clear things up.
**[18:00] Momo**
Okay, let's get it done!
**[18:05] Des**
You're sure Phantom Thief
Marzipan came this way?
**[18:08] Mama**
Great Detective Mama's
deductions are never wrong!
**[18:11] Des**
That's just your gut feeling, right?
**[18:12] Mama**
It's deductions! Deductions!
**[18:16] Mama**
That's...
**[18:19] Momo**
I have the Angel's Vase!
**[18:21] Momo**
If you want it back, come and get it from me!
**[18:26] Mama**
You won't get away!
**[18:27] Des**
I've got you this time!
**[18:31] Papa**
Where do they get all that energy?
**[18:41] Papa**
Wait, you!
**[18:46] Mayor**
I've got you now, Phantom Thief Marzipan!
**[18:50] Momo**
I know we rehearsed this, but...
**[18:51] Lupi**
His acting's kind of lousy.
**[18:53] Chamo**
Yeah.
**[18:54] Mayor**
Phantom Thief Marzipan! You won't escape!
**[18:57] Wife**
Please return the Angel's Vase!
**[19:00] Momo**
Just how we rehearsed it, right?
**[19:02] Momo**
Ah, you force my hand!
**[19:06] Momo**
Take that!
**[19:10] Des**
This is horrible!
**[19:18] Mama**
Oh, no!
**[19:19] Des**
She got away!
**[19:23] Des**
Now they'll all think Phantom Thief
Marzipan broke the Angel's Vase.
***SIGN*** Makes sense!
***SIGN*** Smart thinking, Momo!
**[19:31] Momo**
It wasn't that great... was it?
**[19:34] Wife**
Oh, what will I do?
**[19:37] Mayor**
Let's offer our apologies to the
queen who sent us the Angel Vase.
**[19:43] Mayor**
All right?
**[19:44] Wife**
There it is!
**[19:47] Wife**
Here, darling.
**[19:48] Wife**
Ma'am, is that...
**[19:52] Mayor**
Th-This is...
**[19:54] Mayor**
The other cufflink!
**[19:56] Mayor**
You remembered?
**[19:59] Wife**
I searched for so long and finally found it!
**[20:04] Wife**
I wanted to surprise you.
**[20:07] Wife**
So last night, I hid it in
the Angel's Vase, but...
**[20:17] Mayor**
I see! So that's what it was about!
**[20:19] Mayor**
Oh, thank you...
**[20:21] Mayor**
But the Angel's Vase...
**[20:26] Wife**
I'm sure it's my punishment for
being so hard on you all the time.
**[20:30] Wife**
Phantom Thief Marzipan came
to tell me that, I'm sure.
**[20:36] Wife**
Darling, I know I'm not much,
**[20:39] Wife**
but can we get along like
we did so long ago?
**[20:42] Mayor**
I-I'm the one who should apologize.
**[20:45] Wife**
Happy birthday, darling!
**[20:50] Des**
What in the world is going on?
**[20:52] Papa**
Dear!
**[20:54] Papa**
Are you all right, dear?
**[20:56] Papa**
And what happened to Phantom Thief Marzipan?
**[20:58] Mama**
It all worked out.
**[21:01] Mama**
No phantom thief could ever steal their love!
**[21:14] King**
La-dee-da!
**[21:14] King**
Celebrate, contemplate, that
vase is in a broken state!
**[21:18] King**
Those peas in a pod will
soy-tainly find a happy ending!
**[21:21] King**
I'm so glad!
**[21:22] Queen**
Darling?
**[21:23] King**
You called, dear?
**[21:25] Queen**
About the birthday present I gave
you the year we were married...
**[21:30] Queen**
I was wondering if you still have it.
**[21:34] King**
Oh, my stomach is killing me!
**[21:36] King**
Oh, I'm dizzy! I have to go now!
**[21:40] Queen**
Oh, dear...
**[21:51] Mama**
Hey, dear.
**[21:53] Mama**
Do you remember me giving you a fountain pen
**[21:56] Mama**
for your birthday before we were married?
**[21:58] Mama**
You said you'd write me until
it wore down to a nib...
**[22:03] Mama**
Do you remember that?
**[22:04] Papa**
Oh... I'm not entirely sure... perhaps...
**[22:09] Papa**
Oh, but of course I still have it!
**[22:12] Mama**
Really?
**[22:13] Papa**
Don't say that, dear!
**[22:15] Papa**
Of course I still have it,
of course... somewhere...
***SIGN*** He totally lost it.
**[22:22] Chamo**
Totally.
**[22:23] Lupi**
Yeah. Men are hopeless, aren't they?
**[22:26] Momo**
Always treasure the gifts you're given, okay?
***SIGN*** Next Episode Preview
**[24:12] Momo**
"Not this, not that, not the other thing!"
**[24:13] Momo**
The short-tempered witch that
shouts all the time is back!
**[24:16] Momo**
Next time on *Fairy Princess Minky Momo*:
**[24:18] Momo**
"I Wanna Be a Witch!"
**[24:19] Momo**
A witch who can*not* use magic is like
a Minky Momo who can*not* grow up!
**[24:23] Momo**
Not this, not that, not nothing at all!
**[24:24] Momo**
Which means you'd better *not* watch next week!
**[24:26] Momo**
What?! No way!
**[24:27] Momo**
This is *not* a real preview at all!
**[24:29] Momo**
I guess you've *not* got
a choice but to watch...
**[24:32] Momo**
*Not* bad, huh?
***SIGN*** I Wanna Be a Witch