The Defender: Kaitou Ace

"I wonder if someday, somewhere, I'll run into him. A comrade who shares my feelings. A person who understands the real me." --Minako, Volume 10

I now present form three, the protector of Sailor V: a personality masked, a man veiled in mystery who is as unpredictable as the fortunes he reads. Come to know Kaitou Ace, Minako's own Tuxedo Kamen.

In the very last portion of Codename wa Sailor V volume 9 titled Sailor V Verses Debrine, we find a tired V looking on as people regain energy and conciousness. She has just defeated Debrine, another minion of the Dark Agency. As mass confusion begins to awaken, candy and slips of paper with dieting information gently drift down from a nearby rooftop. Sailor V looks up, eyes wide, to see a tall man, his face masked, tossing out rainbow candies. Thus begins the mystery of our beloved hero...

It seems that no Venus shrine would be complete without a small page dedicated to Kaitou Ace, but this masked hero only appears twice in the series. His appearances are brief and leave confusion to the ones who witness his arrivals and disappearances.

At first glance, one might mistake him for Tuxedo Kamen of Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon. The two have much in common: a mission to protect the protagonist and a white mask.

The name 'Ace' is most likely derived from his one and only attack. Used in Sailor V volume 10, Ace yells out 'Delicious Four Card Slot' and a bunch of playing cards fly towards a target. He also gives people, namely Minako, love fortunes, which he uses cards to do.

It seems only natural that Kaitou Ace should be taken with Sailor V. To protect her like he does, one must think so. It is revealed in Sailor V volume 10 that he is deeply in love with her, which one can guess easily by the way he acts and how, as Saijou Ace he offers her things. Also in this last suspenseful moment he tells her a heartbreaking secret and reveals himself, her long-thought protector, as Sailor V's biggest threat.

They are enemies--no ifs, ands, or buts--and being enemies, the two must fight. Surprisingly, Ace is the one who deals the first blow. A skilled V dodges his attack and creams him with her Crescent Beam. As she tries to hold on to his dying form, he gives her a final love fortune: her love life henceforth will be hopeless. With a final word his beautiful form fades into nothingness.

© 2001-2008 Kotono. This shrine was created in whole by the webmistress and is not to be copied. It is part of the Silken Aurora and Paper Cranes collectives.