Team Confidence

### Members

Makoto Edamura, Abigail Jones, Cynthia Moore, Kudo, Shi-won Kim, a few unnamed men

### Goal

Con people who use their power to hurt and abuse people

## Timeline

### Founded

Before the series

**Team Confidence** is a group of con-artists who con people who use their money and power to hurt and abuse people.

## Members

### Laurent Thierry

**Laurent** most commonly acts as a planner for the team, often even being the one to pick the target. Due to being the main planner, he acts as a leader to the team, guiding its members to the goals of the con. When he's not planner he's acting, he normally plays the role of someone charming but who is on the wrong side of the law, much like his normal personality.

### Makoto Edamura

**Makoto** is the second most common planner, often going rogue from the others plans in favor of his own, which tend to be more forced on helping the other members of the team out or the kind people the team has met during the con. When he's not doing behind the scenes work, he'll play roles in the team's schemes. He has played many different roles and is good at learning new skills quickly for cons.

### Abigail Jones

**"Abbie"** mainly does acting for cons, often roles that don't need too much acting and more action though she is able to act like a charming innocent. One of her better skills is her ability to keep up with action and intense situations, being able to fight well along with learning skills like flying a plane.

### Cynthia Moore

**Cynthia** mainly acts within the cons, most of the time as a honeypot for male targets, but can play other roles though almost always playing a higher-class woman, like a rich woman, art museum guide, or law enforcement. The only time we've seen her come up with the details of the con was when it was very personal to her.

### Kudo

**Kudo** isn't a core member of the team but still often becomes a part of plans, normally playing smaller roles that make the lies/con as a whole more believable. He also was used as a part of getting Makoto to join.

### Shi-won Kim

**Shi-Won** initially doesn't appear to be a core member of the team, but still often becomes a part of plans, normally playing smaller roles that make the lies/con as a whole more believable. She also was used as a part of getting Makoto to join. It is later revealed that she is a founding member of the team, who joined their ranks before even Laurent.

### Seiji Ozaki

**Seiji**, nicknamed "The Magician" (as in *The Wizard of Oz*) for his expertise in crafting intricate plans, Oz is a founding member of the team who has been inactive for a few years throughout most of the series, as he is infiltrating the Chinese Mafia for a long-term plan to enact revenge on them. He is also Makoto's father and played a big part in getting his son to join the team, albeit from behind the scenes. Oz plays a large role in the team's final con in Case 4.

### Dorothy

**Dorothy** was a founding member of Team Confidence and would act as the team's leader before Laurent. In fact, she is the reason he joined in the first place. She lost her life when one of the team's plans backfired many years ago, which made the other founding members deadset in enacting revenge against her killers, even if it took them several years, sparing no expense.

### Other Unnamed Members

The team also has several unnamed men and women working for them, usually in minor roles when their plans need a large crowd. Most of them seem to be working with Team Confidence for a long while.

## History

### Background

Team Confidence was founded by Dorothy, Seiji Ozaki and Shi-won Kim, with the goal of conning wealthy and influential people who abuse their power in some form out of their money. The three operated by themselves for a while, until one of their plans was unexpectedly intruded by one of their target's victims, Laurent Thierry. Laurent was a brilliant child prodigy whose mother was conned out of all of their family's money by the man, which in turn made Laurent turn to a life of crime in the streets of Paris during his youth. One day, after he was thrown out of a casino and beaten after getting caught cheating, Laurent met his mother's swindler on the street by chance, walking alongside Dorothy, who was posing as his new girlfriend. Overtaken by grief, he decided to assassinate the man, and failed.

Thinking quick on her feet, Dorothy decided to use Laurent's actions for the team's favor, pretending to have been stabbed by Laurent instead of the man. She would later introduce Laurent to Seiji and Kim, explaining who they were and what they did, before asking Laurent to join them, which he accepted. The four would then continue to con wealthy people they deemed deserving, building a great sense of trust between the members. Eventually, Dorothy and Laurent developed a romantic relationship.

After years of swindling rich and corrupt people out of their money, Laurent started having doubts about the Team's actions. He feared that they could not keep doing this forever, and asked Dorothy to disband the team, in order for the two of them to start a life together as they already had more money than they could ever spend and he felt they should quit while they were ahead. She reluctanctly agreed, as did Seiji and Kim, but the three of them managed to convince Laurent to pull off a final con, on a much larger scale than before, as a send-off.

The group decides to con a group of human traffickers connected not only to the Yakuza, but also the Chinese Mafia. Dorothy poses as an African princess that the traffickers could sell into slavery for an absurdly high price, and the plan seems to work fine, until the Mafia discovers that Dorothy is a fake, as the real princess of the country she is posing as makes international news, proving to be fine back home. This leads to Dorothy being shot and presumably killed by the Mafia, as well as Seiji being arrested on human trafficking charges, which devastated his wife and son back in Japan.

Dorothy's death left the other members of the team filled with grief, and they promised that they would one day avenge her death by stealing all of her killer's money and ruining their "careers". While Seiji served his sentence, Laurent and Kim would start a new Team Confidence, in order to slowly recruit allies and raise money for this final plan over the years. Their plan was for Seiji to once again infiltrate the Mafia, in order to gain their trust, which now was easier since he served time for the organization, in order to get close to the higher-ups. He sucessfully did so, rising the ranks as an interpreter between the Chinese and Japanese factions of the Mafia.