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    Thirteen-year-old Kanji runs away from home and ends up in Iwatodai. Set early on in P3 canon, after Minato and Junpei join SEES but before Ken does and before Shinji rejoins.

    I posted this fic with an alternate, canon-compliant ending back in November; I wrote this happier ending at the time and went back and forth on which one I liked better. I still think I like the angsty version slightly more, but for those of you (like me!) who have trouble dealing with sad endings, here's this.

    (Title from Level Up by Vienna Teng, who continues to write the best songs for fic titles of any artist alive.)

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