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Sly's Sumo-Sized Steal- Part 1

Added 2024-09-07 21:55:12 +0000 UTC

This month, Sly has his eyes on a sacred Japanese icon, but to get to it, he's going to have to pass as a sumo wrestler in his biggest disguise yet. Enjoy!

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Sly Cooper massaged his forehead. "So, let me get this straight…" he muttered. "We're aiming to steal the icon of Yokozuna Koemon."

"Correct," Bentley nodded.

"Which is currently in the tomb of an ancient Japanese emperor."

Again, the turtle nodded. "Uh-huh."

"So we know exactly where it is, and we're not just going for infiltration because…?" the raccoon spread his hands questioningly.

"Oh, well there's a curse on the icon," Bentley explained. "Placed there by a tribe of Kenku."

"A curse?" Sly asked incredulously. "You, you're worried about curses, Bentley?"

The turtle adjusted his spectacles. "Sly, need I remind you that in the past few years, you've fought a giant robot owl brought back from the dead, as well as an honest-to-goodness voodoo witch, and your own skillset comes from an ancient, near-mythical text that your family has guarded for the past five thousand years. Cursed treasure, at this point, would hardly be surprising."

"Yeah, but…" Sly apprehensively held up his disguise; a comparatively enormous blue sumo wrestler's mawashi. "You want me to purposefully put on weight, to pass as a sumo wrestler?"

"As far as I can tell, only a sumo champion can handle the icon. So if you want to just leave that icon be and find a different job, be my guest Sly, but otherwise…" Bentley shrugged, glancing meaningfully at the mawashi.

The raccoon groaned. "We're never going to hear the end of it from Murray on this one…"

"Given that you'll need to weigh twice as much as him by the end of this, probably not."