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As aerial walked to school she thought about how she got here 'I switched bodies with another me and no one seems to remember how it happened except me it's weird not to mention that when I got back I appeared in a place called mementos where I fought a weird shadow and gained my persona satan'
Shujin Academy had been suffering lately. between the Gym teacher Suguru Kamoshida and Misao Kobayakawa covering up the former's sexual crimes, things had only been going in bad directions for the school. But, there was a light of hope. Four brave young souls had been striking back from the shadows for the past two years. It was only a matter of time before they were going to strike, but... alas the Metaverse worked in strange ways. Meanwhile, a young man with frizzy black hair and fake glasses had taken the subway to Aoyama. The events that transpired next... would change everything
On the streets of Yongen-Jaya, a girl with silver hair and blue eyes steps out of an apartment, locking the door behind her. Shuffling through her bag, she pulls out her cherished headphones, placing them on her ears. Turning around, the girl sets towards her new school, Shujin Academy.
Meanwhile, a car approached a young blonde woman with twin tails, approaching the school, as it began to rain. on any other day, the young woman would be alone and be approached by the lecherous PE teacher. On this day, though...
on this day, the young woman was flanked by two others. One, a young man with dyed blonde hair. the other, a shorter black-haired young woman wearing a white turtleneck and a gray coat.
the car approached them and asked if they would like a ride...
'looks like kamoshida is here' aerial thought looking at the station
"Eff off, Kamoshida!" The faux blonde yelled.
'A loud blond great'
the teacher inside the car, Suguru Kamoshida, shook his head. The monkey was not someone to worry about, but he supposed he would track Ann Takamaki down another day. That is okay, they'll soon come to him.
the car drove off, leaving the kids in the rain
"Good job blondie" aerial said walking up
"God, that effin Kamoshida pisses me off!" The blonde kicked a rock. "He acts like he's the king of Shujin!"
"Please calm down, Ryuji-kun." The girl in the turtleneck says, shifting uncomfortably.
"Sorry, Shiho. He just acts like the school's his own personal castle." The now dubbed Ryuji grumbled.
Parameters confirmed. Accessing...
the world faded into red and black, before returning in full view.
"Ugh... I wanna go home." Ryuji whined.
the visages of Ryuji Sakamoto, Ann Takamaki, and Shiho Suzui weren't quite the same as before
now, Ryuji was dressed in a black jacket and pants, wearing yellow gloves and a red ascot, and bearing a mask appearing to be a skull. Ann Takamaki wasn't dressed in her hoodie and red leggings anymore, instead wearing a red leather catsuit, complete with a clip on tail, and a red cat mask over her eyes. Lastly, Shiho Suzui was dressed in a white bodysuit, with red and blue decals lining the sides. a white helmet adorned her head, with a red visor hiding her face from view.
they weren't Ryuji Sakamoto, Ann Takamaki, and Shiho Suzui here. now, they were Skull, Panther, and Trigger. the three human members of the Phantom Thieves, a band of students who aimed to change the world and steal the hearts of the distorted.
"Hm interesting" aerial said under her breath "seems like they have a persona" aerial not noticing she's also in her metaverse outfit even though the other three were
"Shit, did we activate the Nav on accident!?" Ryuji panicked, noticing his friends in their Phantom Thief attire.
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"Calm down, Skull. No one'll care if we miss the day. Kamoshida's caused enough problems." Shiho said, stretching her arms.
"Well done you just revealed your identities to someone" aerial said from behind them slow clapping
"What are you talking about?" the girl dressed in red asked the newcomer.
"Your identity as a persona user of course"
"Look, asshat, you better go home before you get yourself hurt!" Skull said, stomping his foot.
nearby, a young man stood in shock. who were these guys? what hot nonsense did he wander into?
"I know how to handle myself in the metaverse"
"Down, Skull." Shiho said, holding an arm out. "What do you want from us?"
"But Trigger-!" Skull said, getting cut off by Trigger's harsh glare.
"Oh just to know why you're here and what you plan to do my boss would yell at me if I forgot to report this kind of thing to her"
"And why should we tell you?" Trigger questioned further.
"AN INTRUDER!" it seemed the young man had wandered close into the castle, not seeming to notice the three thieves
"Shit, could that be Mona!?" Skull yelled, taking off towards the castle.
Indeed, Mona was nowhere to be seen. He usually accompanied them in the Metaverse, and was normally not far from them
"Skull!" Trigger called out to the blonde. "Ugh, come on, Panther, we need to stop Numbskull from dying."
"Right, let's go Trigger." Panther said, running after Skull, with Trigger right behind her.
"Shit someone got caught well that's my cue to help out. Well then Satan you ready?" "of course I am"
Meanwhile, in the real world, the silver haired girl watched a group of 4 students disappear in thin air. Presuming she's imagining things, she looks down at her energy drink, then chugs it.
"YOU'LL BE LUCKY IF NO ONE SAW US DISAPPEAR" aerial yelled out to the group ahead of her
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As aerial tried to catch up to the group she tripped "SHIT"
Only to be caught by an electric yellow glove.
"Let's go." Skull said, pulling the stranger up, then running off.
"Thanks"
Soon, the quartet of teens came across an anthropomorphic cat.
"Kitty" aerial said mesmerized
"Mona, are you all right!?" Skull said, definitely not worried about the cat.
Mona was trapped behind a prison cell, "Skull? that you?"
"Get me outta here!"
"I got you, little buddy!" Skull said, finding the key and opening the cell.
"Thanks guys! What are you doing here, though?"
"this place... it's definitely not Mementos."
"Something about this place feels familiar though ive never been to this palace" aerial says to herself
"Mementos is the collective unconscious basically the palace of the general public this is a palace which forms when someone has incredibly distorted desires and I'm guessing this palace belongs to kamoshida"
"Kamoahida!? That bastard!!" Ryuji roared, kicking the crate next to him.
"Skull, calm yourself!" Mona chided. "Focus. If we're in a Palace, like I believe we are, then you know what we have to do."
"Yeah, sorry Mona."
"Mona was it? You give off this navigator like aura like you aren't fully a navigator but you have navigator abilities"
elsewhere, a young man woke up in a cell moments earlier. "Be glad your punishment has been decided. The crime is trespassing, and your sentence is death!" the aforementioned gym teacher had announced to another young man. It seemed, however, that an opportunity arrived, in the form of a blue butterfly. 'This is truly an unjust game... one where the odds are stacked against you. If my voice is reaching you, however, there is a path open to you..'
"What's wrong? is your resolve false? Death awaits you if you do nothing..."
another blue butterfly appeared in Trigger's vision. A sign? could it be?
"Guys, someone else is here." Trigger said, bouncing her leg.
"I swear if anyone I know is here I'm going to scream I'm already going to get yelled at by my boss for skipping school today"
"That doesn't matter right now, we need to save them!" Skull said, stomping his foot on the ground.
"This shit is literally my job calm down"
"Then stop acting so laid back about this shit! They could be in danger right now, and I'm not about to let someone die because we're too much of a coward to save them!!" Skull yelled, storming out of the safe room.
"Skull!" Panther called out for the boy.
"I fight shadows for a living and I can tell you these are all weak compared to my persona"
"Skull's right. Just because you do this kind of thing on a regular doesn't mean you should act all calm about it. They could be a regular person down there, meaning they're in more danger than we'd be in." Trigger said, distaste obvious in her voice. "Come on, you two. Mona, you think you can find Skull and our new person?"
"of course!"
Mona led the team out of the Safe Room. "Uh guys... I'm sensing... another Persona user...?"
"How strong?" Panther asked, looking at their mascot friend.
"New... but strong."
"Strong enough to take on Shadows alone?"
"Shit is he here? No couldn't be him, he's had his persona for years so who?" aerial said under her breath
"...they're inexperienced. They might run out of SP sooner than later."
"Shit. Let's go. Where are they, Mona?"
"Closer to the foyer! Skull's got the right idea, too!"
"Let's go!"
Mona bounded off in the direction of the foyer
"Will I have to use him" aerial said to herself
"Right!" Panther and Trigger said together.
The trio of Phantom Thieves take off, leaving the stranger behind them, worried about their friend and possible new friend.
"Wow just leave me behind" aerial said running to catch up to them
As the quartet begin to approach the foyer, they hear they blonde yelling.
"Well, we found Skull..." Panther muttered to herself.
"You son of a bitch!! What makes you think you can just treat the students like your slaves!?" The blonde's voice echoed through the hallway.
"Why does this feel so familiar" aerial said headache starting to appear
"PAH! A man-o-war cares not over the ones it stings; so why should I care about the ones who are nothing to me?"
"Trickster, it seems allies have arrived. We should take this time to escape."
"fight another day..."
"Hnng" aerial Grunted "why is this all so familiar this palace is so familiar"
"Shit my head" aerial groans "why does everything seem so familiar"
"How can you call yourself a teacher!!" Skull roared, his voice echoing like thunder. "CAPTAIN KIDD!!!"
The Buccaneer Persona spawned with azure fire at Ryuji's side. "Deal with him, Berith. I have better things to do." The robed king ran off, and a knight appeared in his place.
In that moment something in aerial snapped aerial screamed as all the memories of her journey came pouring back to her
"You bastard!! Stop running away from your problems!! Whoop 'em, Persona!" Skull commanded his Persona to strike the Berith with a Zio.
"I can tell he has a Persona so why... of course! The Metaverse!"
"At some point we need to enter the Metaverse, Sumi."
"The Metaverse?"
"A world parallel to this one, where creatures based on humanity's desires roam."
"You okay back there?" Akira asked the two behind, even if he was oblivious to one of them.
"Bread" aerial said randomly
"Heh good for her" aerial said looking at her phone
-=Metaverse=-
another day, another excursion into the Metaverse for the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, now with their newest members Akira and Aerial. "what is this place?" "Oh boy. Welcome to the Metaverse, Sumire."
"This place is weird... Wait, what am I wearing?!" Sumire freaked out upon seeing her leotard.
"So hi there Kasumi and sumire I'm from the future" aerial said
"I only kind of believe you."
"Are you... okay?" Sumire asked, looking at Aerial. "I think this girl is a little coo-coo..." She whispered to her sister in her mind.
"You probably think I'm crazy but I'm not and several medical professionals agree with me"
"Yeah well... hey if you're from the future, who do I evolve into?"
"Ella but you tend to stay with the name cendrillon as a codename"
Cendrillon froze, in mid air. "Sumire... I think she's telling the truth."
"How do you know?" Sumire asked, still skeptical.
"You know how Cendrillon is supposed to be the French variant of Cinderella?"
"Yeah."
" I can confirm she's telling the truth" satan said summoning himself "Satan you need to stop doing that I'm still not used to it"
"I can see Ella being formed in my mind, but her shape is still unknown to me"
"At any rate, welcome to the Metaverse. Hopefully now people can see me properly."
"Hopefully. I wonder the limits on your abilities..." Sumire said, muttering to herself, wandering off.
"I could already see you as I'm from the future and Kasumi tends to be a pain in the ass when we aren't on missions or fighting shadows yet your girlfriends love it"
"Anyways I'm going to go do something I might regret"
"Hey, Universe, who are ya talking to?" A familar voice called out.
"Hey skull just talking to some allies"
"As I told you before we are recruiting sumire and Kasumi yoshizawa aka violet and cendrillon"
"Uh I can introduce myself, miss. I don't even know who you are."
"Aerial alexander takeba at your service the resident time traveler apparently as this is the second time I've been yeeted through time"
"Uhh, there's only one other person there..." Skull said, looking confused.
"Kasumi yoshizawa is dead and is sumires persona cendrillon"
"Sumire, try summoning me!"
"I have an idea!"
"No, we see the ghost." Panther said, pointing directly at Kasumi.
"Pfft she's not a ghost she's a persona"
"Okay, so where's her user?" Joker asked, stepping forward.
"What do mean sumire is right here"
"Universe, no one's there." Trigger explained, motioning to where Aerial was pointing.
"Can you guys not see sumire?"
"Wait she might've wandered off"
"Shit, that ain't good!" Skull said.
"Let's go, Thieves. Mona, you mind?" Joker said, motioning towards the tracks.
"Nya-turally!" Mona said, leaning into his presumed felinity
"I just got too many teddie flashbacks from that pun still not as bad as the bear puns though" Aerial said
"Who the hell is Teddie?" Ryuji asked, climbing into the Mona-Mobile.
" a friendly shadow who literally grew a human body to make friends with humans he also has a persona theres also karamaru who is a dog with a persona"
"Huh." Skull gave up trying to understand it.
"A dog... with a Persona?"
"SUMI!!" Kasumi called out for her sister
"Huh?" The team hears a faint voice from the halls.
"I mean Mona exists so you shouldn't be too weirded out by it"
"Sumire! Where are you?"
"I'm with yo- Wait... Where am I!?" Sumire starts panicking as soon as she notices that she's not with her sister anymore.
"I'm coming, stay there!"
"Where is she?" Joker asked, leaning over the back of the seat.
Kasumi shifted into her Persona's form, arming her body with crystalline armor. her short blue dress with gold metal framing becoming armor plated, and she began hovering off the ground. "Follow me!!"
"Right." Joker said, slamming on the gas to follow after Kasumi.
"Wait, Joker, let's thINK ABOUT THIIIIIIIIIIIS!!!" Skull started to say as the Mona-Mobile zoomed down the hallway.
"This is awesome!!" Trigger said, helmet off her head, hanging out the window.
"JOKER, ARE YOU CRAZY!!??" Panther screamed at the driver.
Kasumi oddly was able to keep up with the Monamobile on foot
down the hallway, she caught a glint in the corner of her eye. "Over there!"
"Hold on, gays." Joker said, putting more pressure on the gas, before yanking on the wheel, drifting around the corner and down the hallway.
"Sumire! are you okay?!?"
"This is why we no longer let Joker drive In the future"
"I'm okay, sis." sumire said, looking a little shaken.
"Shut up, I'm good at it." Joker said.
"Are you hurt, Sumire?" a crawling sound was heard
"Once we got queen on the team she took over driving because she's actually able to drive without breaking several traffic laws"\
"oh fuck..." Kasumi was a Persona, but because her awakening was so much different than the others her awakening was incomplete
meaning she had no access to her powers aside from her passive abilities
at least... not yet.
"I unfortunately can't step in because it could break the timeline"
"Sumire... are you willing to stare death in the face... and come out the other end?"
azure fire lined a circle around Sumire's feet, seemingly ready to erupt.
"Yes... Let's do this... Cendrillon." Sumire looked up, gold replacing her usual red irises.
"Full awakening time"
"Then I don't need to say anything else, do I? While our dream to reach the top may be shattered... we are still together forever. I am thou... thou art I..." "Let's fight by each other's side, until the very end."
"Yes! Let's do this. Together!"
azure fire exploded around Sumire and Kasumi as they embraced. Kasumi's sapphire armor shined. Sumire's outfit changed to a white leotard with a blue cape with white lining, black heels and stockings, red opera gloves reaching her shoulders, and a chain wrapped around her hips with a thin sword at her side. Oddly, Sumire didn't have a mask like the others. She didn't really need one, as her Persona was always at her side, perpetually summoned.
"You look great, Sumire... shall we?"
"Let's." Sumire nodded, drawing her blade.
on the back of Sumire's cape was a crest shaped like a violet
it shined as the two of them rushed at the Shadows
"I never got to see this"
"Help me, Cendrillon!" Sumire said, pointing to a Shadow.
"On it! Kouha!"
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a blessed beam shined upon the shadow
"I love the bless attack aesthetic" aerial said
"Take this!" Sumire pulled her rifle out, blasting 3 shots into the other shadows.
the Shadows fell to Sumire's blasts
"Sumire I say this as a taken woman. You are hot Kasumi is too"
"I'll never be weak again. I refuse. But, with Kasumi by my side..." Sumire said, holstering her rifle, "I won't have to worry."
"skull you are also hot"
"In fact everyone here is hot"
'Uh, thanks?" Skull responded, not quite sure how to respond to it.
"In the van, please, ladies." Joker called from the front seat.
"Right!" Sumire said, climbing in.
"Uhh, you coming, squirt?" Skull called out to the newly awakened Persona.
"I can follow along."
"You've seen me trail your car, right?"
"Fair enough." He chuckled, closing the door.
"Alright, strap in, kids." Joker grinned, before slamming his foot on the gas petal...
Just to go at a steady, even speed.
"Joker, if you ever effin do that again, I will ban you from life." Ryuji said, almost punching his best friend, before realizing that said friend was driving.
"Also Joker I'm asexual"
-=Real World=-
-=LeBlanc Coffee & Curry, Yongen-Jaya=-
"Right, so what did we learn, guys?"
"That I'm a great driver?" Akira asked from behind the counter, stirring some curry.
Mona sighed "No, although that is questionable at best, Akira-kun."
"Apparently there are different kinds of Awakenings out there."
"I'm going to do something I got permission to do that might affect the future in a good way so I'm about to do it also that I'm not crazy and only one medical professional says otherwise and I know of four ways to awaken"
Sumire was nearby, enjoying a plate of curry, while Kasumi sat nearby
"Aerial, have you considered that changing the future is kind of a terrible idea?"
"Still on about this future bullshit?" Ryuji asked, exasperated.
"I have been given express permission from a God and the two people involved"
"No, she's on to something. I just worry that something would go horribly wrong. If she's from the future like she says- wait, a God?"
"Yeah, what she said." Shiho said, sipping her coffee.
"What I wanna know is how and why we can see you now." Mona asked. "You were all but hidden from even my sight before we entered the Metaverse, Cendrillon."
"I think a lot of that has to do with how I awakened in the first place. Our awakening was very different. For instance, it doesn't involve a Shadow."
" I know a few gods I'm talking about the mother of shadows though and no she can't make shadows stop attacking us it doesn't work like that" Aerial said
"Yep, that's it, I'm taking a nap." Ryuji said, standing up and walking to the stairs
"The fact I work with my mom, my dad and my step-dad is nice"
Aerial it's probably not the best time to tell us more about the future." Mona explained. "Otherwise what would we accomplish?"
"There are some things we have to find out on our own."Actually speaking of which. We don't live that far away from Boss' house, and we haven't seen his daughter come out of the house in a few years at least."
the Boss in question, one Sojiro Sakura, raised an eyebrow at the strange ghost-like girl. As far as he knew, he didn't know any ghosts that lived next door.
"Futaba is going to be fine i know I can say that much about the future ive been told that I can tell you guys people's status in the future by nyx the God I was talking about
"Aerial, you're rambling."
"That happens sometimes" Aerial said
Sojiro sighed. As if his life didn't get any crazier besides weird ghosts.
"it's annoying that's what it is" satan said summoning himself again
"I should probably stop talking now though I'll be right back"
"So anyone catch all that?""No." Akira said behind the counter, slowly pouring some coffee.
-=LeBlanc, Yongen-Jaya=-
"So this is LeBlanc, huh?" A silver haired girl said outloud, the bell ringing to announce her arrival.
the proprietor, one Sojiro Sakura, had been on the other side of the counter, cleaning coffee mugs. "What can I get you?" he asked
"What do you recommend recommend?" She asked, sitting at the bar.
"Oh I think you'll be surprised. I'd probably start with a simple black coffee, probably use Robusta beans since those tend to be stronger."
"and not to brag, but the curry here is a family recipe."
"I'll take that, please." She said, pulling her wallet out.
one brewing of coffee later...
Sipping the coffee, the girl's eyes widen. This was the best coffee she's ever tasted. Quickly downing the rest of it, she pulls out 2,000 yen, placing it on the counter.
"That was amazing, sir."
"Well I'm glad you liked it."
"What's your name, kid?"
"Yuki. Charlie Yuki." She bowed.
Sojiro rubbed his beard. "huh... I remember someone came in the other day, young girl, she mentioned she once knew a Japanese woman named Charlie. I thought, that's weird, who names their kid Charlie in this country"
"I don't know." Charlie grimaced.
-=That Night...=-
Akira woke up to an empty prison. no cell door, no Igor, not even the twins that would fuse Personas. It was strange how no one was in the Velvet Room, as Igor once said it was. At least that was what he thought had happened, instead a blue butterfly fluttered within his sights.
"What's happening? Where's Igor? The twins?" Akira said, before realizing his hand were no longer bound. "Where are my cuffs?" He asked, rubbing his wrists.
"This is not how things should be..." A lighter voice declared.
"Trickster... quickly. Exit your cell."
"Okay, ominous voice... Uh, not sure if I should listen to a random voice, but my gut tells me to listen, sooo..." Akira said, stepping outside his cell.
The prison around him began to flash, then fade away. Before long, it became something new. The room around him seemed like it was straight out of the 1920s. A bar was set up on one end, while a piano was installed on the wall adjacent to the bar. Tables, chairs, and stools lined the rest of the room; with a large door with a slit on the other end, opposite the bar. This wasn't the Velvet Prison anymore, but a Velvet Speakeasy. "So this is the state of your heart? I am quite impressed. It's quite deceptively fancy."
"What is this place..?" Akira stared in awe.The butterfly took shape in the form of a teenaged girl, one with wavy blonde hair and wearing a blue school uniform, black tights, and blue Mary janes. "I am Saki. My partner, Lavenza, has successfully led you to me. She is comprised of the twins you presumably met in the past."
"The good news is that she has escaped, retaining her powers and fleeing from the False Igor, but the bad news is she can no longer be your Attendant. Rather, she has found her way to the real world... she has entrusted your Compendium to me in her stead."
"Oookay... This got weird fast. Uh, Saki, was it?"
"Yes.
"Trickster, I am at your service."
"Mhmm... Okay, so can we do some fusion? I'd like to fuse Jack-o-Lantern and Pixie, please." Akira said, preparing for the Personas to be forcibly ripped from his mind and slaughtered before his very eyes.
"Of course." Saki walked over to the bar. The spirits representing pixie and Jack-o-Lantern flew into two beverage bottles, then in a movement best described as a dance, Saki mixed the two souls together, with the resulting mixture finished and flourishing with a bright flash. The soul that came out was... "I'm Incubus! Now that you've got me in your mask, you'll never sleep again!"
The spirit representing Incubus turned into a fluid, which coalesced into a mask
"Wait, what? W-Where's the guillotines? W-W-Where's the all the gore and Persona blood?" Akira let out a breath he didn't know he was holding.
"Let's just say that the False Igor had the wrong idea. In a past life I grew up around a family distillery, and I had hoped to start my own bar."
"So, that's not how the fusions go?" Akira winced.
"Not for you, Trickster. Usually people use cards, but you're a showman at heart aren't you?"
"And yet you're more at home with a hole in the wall like this."
"I did do ballet..." Akira chuckled.
"Well. Ever hear of Konishi liquors? You're from Inaba, no?"
"Yeah. Country bumpkin, through and through." Akira smirked.
"Heh. You and I will get along just fine. In my past life, I was also an Inaba native."
"And yeah, I've heard of Konishi Liquors. One of the few stores that Junes haven't shut down." Akira smiled softly.
Saki smiled. "That's... good to hear."
"Yeah. It was nice meeting you, Saki Konishi. Hanamura-san still misses you. He's found a nice woman, but he still prays at the shrine for you." Akira said, holding a hand out.
"...You tell him I said hi. Who knows? I may run into him in the future."
Saki shook his hand
"Last call, i'm afraid. We'll definitely meet again."
"Oh before I forget, take this, too."
Saki gave Akira a key, with a small jewel inlay in its head, bearing the Velvet Room's logo. "When you became our Trickster, you signed the contract. This key will allow you to re-enter at any time. Don't lose it, Kurusu."
"Next time, it'll be of your own free will."
"Man, I was hoping to get one more fusion done. Eh, I'll come back before our infiltration tomorrow." Akira said, taking the key from Saki. "You've been a gracious host, Saki-san." Akira gave his best Joker smirk, flourishing a bow.
"You flatter me. Take care of Lavenza. She's precious to all of us."
"Now, scram."
"Of course." Akira turned and left.
-=Shujin Academy, Early Morning=-
"Hey. We goin into the Palace today?" Ryuji walked up to Akira.
"It's the plan." Akira said, glasses concealing his eyes as Morgana appears from his a bag.
"Hey, Mona." Shiho appears, rubbing the feline's head.
Mona mewled happily
elsewhere... Mitsuru Kirijo arrived on school campus with a briefcase filled with paperwork. The eccentric CEO and richest woman in Japan came here inconspicuously, this time not riding in the limo but instead a Honda motorcycle. She went alone into the place, undetected by the people at large, though there were a few people who recognized her on sight, the motorcycle helmet she wore was enough to hide her identity from most everyone on the street. Having took off the helmet and replaced it with a pair of sunglasses, she walked into Shujiin with a mission. Inform the principal of Shujin, one Koichi Kobayakawa, that his services were no longer needed. She had closed the deal just yesterday. Shujin was now hers, and there would be things to do to change this school.
nearby was a young man with long blue hair, covering his right eye, and dressed in a black suit, white shirt and black tie, contrasting Mitsuru's black suit, white shirt and red tie. or rather, young in the sense that he was 25 years old.
this was Makoto Yuki. Hving cut his teeth at Keio Girls' Academy for two years, managing that school and its rather eccentric group of students, when Mitsuru called him he left the school on good terms to perhaps shake up Shujin Academy. He had heard of the reputation Shujin had amongst its peers, but more than that he heard of Suguru Kamoshida, and he did not like what he heard.
As Mitsuru and Makoto were ushered into the principal's office, they soon crossed paths with a certain group...
"Kirijo-san, don't look now, but I think our cover's blown."
nearby, a boyish voice said "Who's that guy? he looks like..."
"Not you, Sumire. you need to go to class, or Chouno will get worried again."
"But Kasumi!" Sumire argued
"No, Sumire. I'll be here in the meantime, I'll tell you all about-"
"Excuse me. I couldn't help but notice you were talking to your Persona."
it was the man with the blue hair.
"Wait... Sumire? As in Sumire Yoshizawa?"
the man pointed to where Kasumi floated. "and that would make you..."
"Kasumi Yoshizawa. It's a long story, but how do you know us?"
"Oh dang I haven't heard from you two in years. You were toddlers last time I saw you."
"I'm sorry... Who are you?" Sumire asked.
Makoto was crestfallen. "Makoto Yuki. My sister and her girlfriend lived with you for a while when you were... eh... maybe two or three?"
"I was with them."
"God damn you grew big. Your sister's a Persona now, even; that must be a story in itself."
"Oh right! I remember now! You, Kotone, and... Aigis, was it? the one with blonde hair?""
Makoto nodded.
"I always kinda wondered, what even was Aigis anyway?"
Mitsuru took this time to chime in, "a 7th Generation Anti-Shadow Suppression Weapon, created by the Kirijo Group. She works for me, though her true loyalties lie with the Yuki family."
Aerial saw the group and walked over "so what's happening over here"
Mitsuru raised an eyebrow with the newcomer. this was one of her subordinates, Aerial Takeba, but she looked... different. She had a different countenance to her.
"What's that look for?" aerial asked watching her tone to not be suspicious
"Nothing." Mitsuru shook her head. It wasn't nothing, but Mitsuru wasn't about to make a scene now. not when she was about to make a scene in three minutes
"Yuki. Let's go see us an egg." Mitsuru concluded "Sure thing. Talk to you kids later." Makoto bid them goodbye for now, as the two of them made their way to the faculty office.
"Jeez I can't believe Makoto is going to be my step dad in the future"
"Anyone mention you're really weird, Aerial-senpai?"
"...Did she just call Principal Kobayakawa an egg?" Sumire asked, humor in her eyes.
"Mitsuru isn't wrong and yes I'm constantly told that I'm weird" Aerial said
Morgana was silent. He knew something was up
but...then, of all people, Kasumi lit up. "Wait. Guys, that was Mitsuru Kirijo! What is she doing here...?"
A loud ring is heard the halls of Shujin.
"Oh, shit! I'm late for class!!" Sumire darts down the hallway.
"I'm not going to tell you guys I'm not letting y'all know that" Aerial said
"Told you so!"
Kasumi rushed after her sister, remaining by her side.
"As much as I want to skip class I know Mitsuru will yell at me if I do and I'll have extra work plus I want to fix my atrocious attendance that I had"