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The booth in the corner, shrouded deep in shadow, is living up to its name again.
Here at the Jazz Jin one can find a delightful atmosphere, delightful drinks, delightful music—a delight all-around, barring one exception for anyone unfortunate enough to notice it: the kissing booth.
“Teenagers,” Goro says derisively.
“And how old are you?”
Fuck off, Goro grumbles to himself. To Ren, he says: “Old enough at least to be above that sort of disgraceful display, thank you very much.”
“Mm,” Ren hums, absently swirling his straw around his finger. “So have you ever kissed anyone?”
Goro chokes on his drink.
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03 Dec 2025
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"Don't," says Akechi. His voice shakes. He wraps his arms around his middle like he's bleeding out from his core. "Go away. Don't bother with me, there's no point, I'm dead, I... fuck." He laughs, but even Ren, the curator of all things Goro Akechi, has never heard him make such a sound; despair has always taken him differently, wild and keening, barely leashed.
For a moment, Ren is back in the engine room, with Akechi crumpled on the cold floor before him, defeated and alone. Instinct screams a warning in the back of his head.
Under the effects of despair, Akechi lets slip a secret he would have preferred to take back to the grave. It's a kick in the teeth—no, it's worse, it's so much worse—but Ren can deal with it. He can deal with anything. He has to.
He wishes his friends would stop asking if he's okay.
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03 Dec 2025
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"I don't have a girlfriend. I said I had someone in mind. That's not the same thing."
"Oh my god. So there are no hot, single friends," Ryuji laments.
The way he deflates is, admittedly, hilarious, but if Akira laughs he thinks Ryuji might actually kill him, so he settles for coughing into his elbow to cover his smile. Ann gently taps Ryuji on the head with her iced tea bottle.
"This isn't about you, Ryuji. We all know you're going to die a virgin." Then, she turns to Akira, all business. "Hey, ignore him, tell me who it is. Lunch is almost over."
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21 Nov 2025
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"Tomorrow is broken. Tomorrow is nowhere."
A year has passed since the Phantom Thieves struck down a god and saved Tokyo from a terrible fate. But when people all over the globe begin to suffer from "Paranoia Syndrome," mysterious seizures which leave them contorted and unconscious, Akira Kurusu finds himself in the Velvet Room once more, demanding answers for the affliction. His investigation leads him to the Dead Sea, the rotted remnants of the cognitive world, where all things go to be forgotten - including someone the Thieves had thought to be long gone.
Meanwhile, Akira's comatose body is found in the waking world, and his terrified friends suspect the worst. Akira's confidants struggle to learn the truth behind Paranoia Syndrome, while he and Goro Akechi approach a fated confrontation in the decaying shell of the cognitive Tokyo. As the sickness continues to spread, the Phantom Thieves must reunite and destroy the evil festering beneath the Dead Sea's waters, before its malignant influence unravels civilization forever.
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20 Nov 2025
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“Hey,” he whispers as he starts to hurriedly fish a shirt out of his clothing box. “Akechi is staying over.”
“What?!” Morgana says, leaping upwards on the couch. “Are you serious?! Why?!”
Akira realizes that any answer he can supply doesn’t seem as strong as it did when he told it to himself several minutes ago.
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18 Nov 2025