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Futaba got up and looked around her room, everything seems to be normal and she was ready to start a another day on her Computer to maybe play the new Featherman game or do some good as her new online Persona Alibaba, to get back at those hackers that took her original online personality Medjed, whatever she was going to she first got on her computer. She was actually feeling upbeat for once since the „Incident that shall not be named…”, but then the Voices started:

„Murderer! "     
„Creepy Child“      
„Get away from me“     
„Why don’t you Say something“     
no no no no, but when she felt like it couldn’t get any worse SHE stared to speak: „Futaba you where the Reason I died“     
„Futaba please you have to listen to me“     
„This is all your fault“     
„I am still here for you“     
„If oNlY yOu WerE nEVeR BorN“     

„ahhhhh “, Futaba screamed, by accident hitting a tab on her computer with the current TV Program which was „Good morning Japan “which was currently on its „hottest meets and greets “segment. „welcome back everyone it’s time to introduce to you this new up and coming Celebrity, the new Detective Prince Goro Akechi “Futaba snapped suddenly out of her panic attack and looked at her at her monitor as the sound of applause came from her speakers „What is this?“ She asked. „ah thank you for the kind introduction, but it’s really nothing special what I do. Afterall I am merely trying to keep the Law in order so that every-one in this country can feel safe. Though I wouldn’t mind a little more action on the force … “„huh?“
Futaba wonders aloud at what he means. „although my Presence alone can be very adventurous to some „the Audience, Hostess and Host laughs at the terrible Joke, meanwhile Futaba groaned at it. „alright enough of this cringe Fest“, Futaba said and was about to turn off the Tab, when Akechi started again: „although that’s not what you wanted to talk with me about.“

„ah quiet astute of you“, the male Host said „We wanted to talk with you about these Strange „Mental Breakdowns“ and „Mental Shutdowns“.“ Futaba had now stopped to Shut the Tab on her Computer and started listen as Akechi stared to talk about the Case, thought just in a Limited Capacity, Futaba hung on to every word he spoke and in the back off her mind something started to developed, an idea of sorts, maybe she wasn’t guilty of killing her Mother, maybe something that wasn‘t messed with her Mothers mental state. She didn’t know why she was thinking like that nor were all of these theories are coming from, but maybe she could ask this detective for help.     

Meanwhile deep within Futaba’s psyche in the Palace that her Shadow called home it looks into the reality of her other self, she had been watching her have another panic attack and see her hit that Tab on her Computer so when it happened she figured that it would be the perfect distraction for her other self, but then it turns into the perfect opportunity to maybe heal her hearth as well. Maybe this Detective can help her with her mother’s death and/or her messed up Heart. If there was any hope for Futaba Sakura it would be with this Goro Akechi, of that Futaba’s Shadow was certain.

She wasn’t sure why that was but there was so familiar about that she didn’t quite understand, yet she was fascinated by it. Well perhaps she meets his Shadow ones while in Mementos or something like that. Not that that mattered right now, because right now was the Time to form a plan to Contact him, it shouldn’t be to hard to come up with a plan Afterall she cracked tougher systems and even hacked it to a military main frame ones (witch no one can prove that it was her, besides it was just to wish them a merry Christmas, so all in good fun.), but that wasn’t the problem, the problem would be to convince this detective to help her at all.

But that shouldn’t be to hard if he is a celebrity digging up some embarrassing stuff from the past shouldn’t be to difficult, Afterall everyone had something that they didn’t want oth-ers to see that was what shadows stood for, and wouldn’t She, as a Shadow, know that best. Well look like this tomb wouldn’t be so suffocating for much longer, but Pharaoh Futaba would have to guide her other self into the right direction first, but again that should not be so hard considering „This should be interesting “, Pharaoh Futaba said to herself. As she knew that her host was just as intrigued as she was herself Afterall „I am thou and thou art I“

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„And that concludes our show tune in tomorrow for more interesting and spectacular toppings “, the hostess said as she said good to the viewers, but Futaba had only her eyes on Akechi who also gave a polite goodbye to the audience. Something had shifted in Futaba a to a certain extent she could fell it herself. She was almost as astonished and horrified by herself, she had just tuned into a talk-show and looked at a celebrity like some crazed Fan or Lovesick teen (ugh…ew),

but there was something about that detective that intrigued her and it wasn’t some romantic interested (of that she was 100 % certain) and it wasn’t also just because he seemed to act on cases where people mysteriously died or went insane, the way he talked and articled himself it felt familiar like he was also hiding some pain, something she knew very well.

So Futaba first decided to start digging into who Goro Akechi was. For the most part she got the ordinary answers like what his preferences are when it comes to Food, make-up, etc. (ugh boring) or other kind of fake/exaggerated celebrity gospel that really didn’t interest her at all, so it seemed she needed to pull out the „Big Guns “which meant going through very legally questionable stuff. After a little search she found that he used to be living in an Orphanage thought the details where very vague, the that burned in Futaba was why, so now it was Time to hack into the Police databank which was both easy and hard,

easy because like stated she could hack into any System but remaining undetected was the hard part. Well she will just make this quick, well it seemed like it was going well as she looked through the police record of one Goro Akechi, which added nothing of note she didn’t already know, „Srly how is he such a bland piece of Toast when it comes to his Public record, I mean it’s almost too squeaky clean but …“ ,

Futaba wondered for herself had her hunch just been a fluke. No it can’t be, maybe just look for his family name that should bring something to light, and so Futaba redoubled her efforts and continued onwards, there were quite a few Cases to search through with the name „Akechi“ but none of them seemed to fit the profile or others that hit a little too close of home with „that topic“ (Suicide), Futaba felt like on the verge of a another panic attack she could almost hear the voi-… no she was not going to give in now not when she was so close to something. So she took a deep breath and got back to the cases, „ugh, there are so many and i need to hurry before they notice me.“

Futaba exclaimed, but then she looked again and suddenly one of the cases shoot into her eye, it was a case from the Year 2006, about 8-9 years ago about a Hiromi Akechi, who committed Suicide in her Apartment in the evening of the day prior, her son was the one to find her body and call the police. Due to the fact that there was no known father or other known realities child-services placed the boy into an orphanage until his other family has been located…. That was all Futaba needed to read and somehow it all made sense, sure she was just working of a hunch, but it sounded to accurate to just be dismissed as a coincident after what seem like a while mediocre info at best, she finally had something tangible, so she made hast and downloaded the File and got out of the police network (hopefully before anyone could notice).

Well she had something on Akechi, so just like Her he was an orphan without a father (huh small world), she could sympathy with that, but she still needed to convince to help her, because from what she did read about Akechi and form what she could see he didn’t seem like the type to help a random Joe-Shmoe without just cause, well she could take care of that when she contact him (he he he) or hack into whatever was his main electronic device of choice was. Okay that might seem a bit cruel, after she just expressed her sympathy for him, but that was just the kind of girl she is, she rationalized in her mind justifying her future actions. Well about time she got in contact with the Detective, it was time for alibaba to get to work.

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Akechi was just exiting the TV-Station and making his way to the police station, after he finished discuss with the TV executives and the Media officer from the police department, what exhausting task but that was just what it takes to complete his plan just almost 2 years till election and he could for fill his plan but until then he would just have to play the nice, charismatic, beautiful and Handsome Detective prince Afterall this is all he has left after HE caused her death so there is no cost or price to get the one thing has left to gain (and maybe his approvable and praise, that he tells me he is proud of me).

But that was still all in the future so for now playing Detective and being a „puppeteering circus Monkey „for the public of Japan would have to suffice (besides he doesn’t mind the praise, the praise he deserved). Well those tasks are all just part of the job (and the deception), he can maybe do some extra bouldering in his spare time (to keep himself from thinking about everything). He’ll just talk about it with Sae later maybe, she’ll invite him for more than conveyor belt Sushi (finally), but first he needs to get to the police station.

„Hey, why are we anyways biding our time, when we could take it to the bastard right now and crush him, the wait is getting quiet boring. We should strike right now!“, Loki said with in his mind, this caused Robin Hood to chime in: „Well this is one thing we can agree on. We should bring him to Justice already, so that fiendish Villain can not to what he did to our mother to Her to any other fair Lady, so that we can be the very Heroes we always wanted to be. Tisha Tallyho! {<-battel cry} “

„oh, je as if I need the opinion of the „English Gentleman “, srly how about you take that large bow of and shove it up your ass, why don’t you. Ugh so Fucking annoying.“ „My Word! Why must you always be so rude, due you not have to be so rude is it not enough that we agree on something, but it’s always the same with you.“, Robin exclaims „Yeah and what are you going to do you old timed Wanker.“

Loki shouts back „oh you … you… you Norse Loser!“, Robin yells back, Loki looks just unimpressed and said, with a raised „eyebrow“: „Really is that the best you got?“ „oh how about you take that sword of your and you stick it where the sun don’t shine. Ah ah ah!“, Robin pushed back. „Psh… your pathetic, Laevateinn is not any kind of Sword, it was forged in the Fires of Helheim by the Fire Giant Surt and it will Light the World on Fire, when Ragnarök happens!“ „pah you want to settle this with a duel, you Selfish Norse God!“, Robin said with anger, Readying his Bow „I thought you would never ask, you pompous Englishman!“

Loki replied, getting off of Laevateinn and taking the pliers of the sword into his Hand. They Stared with hate at each other, but before they could attack, a scream rang out: „ENOUGH“, if Akechi was more tired of anything other the eccentric „Yes-Mann“ Personality or the hour long Detective work (the one that was for Show only, not the real one{when he got to do it}), than it was when his 2 Personas fought with each other [usually instigated by Loki].

The ¾ way to the Police station, just got turned into even more of a mental Headache for one Goro Akechi, because of them so if they wanted a piece of his mind, than he was going to give it to them: „ Do you not have anything better to do other than to be a nuisance to me, it’s been 2 years since I got you and all you do is constantly bicker with one other when I just want to plan ahead of our Victory over HIM, so you know exactly why we’re waiting, so keep to the plan, alright!“

„oh, my deepest apology, your absolutely right, as a fine Victorian Gentleman thief I should not have brought myself to the level of this barbaric beast“, Robin apologized, Loki on the other hand just „Rolled his Eyes“ and sitting up back on his Sword with crossed arms, then in a shrug said: „You’re the Boss.“ „Good.“

Akechi merely replied, getting out of the Alley where he decided to lecture his Personas, with was just a few more Meters away from the police station, so after finally getting here and getting to his desk, Sae Nijima his co-worker was already waiting for him she was currently busy with paper work relating to several different Case files when she notices him she said: “ah, finally you decide to show up and here I thought you would leave all these case file for me alone, to go of and enjoy the Celebrity perks of being the “new Detectiv prince”.”

The passive aggressive tone in her voice was apparent, well of to a great start in to evening work Akechi thought, before putting on his Celebrity typical smile and tone before saying: “forgive me Sae-San, but you know how difficult it is to be a worker of the Law enforcement and dealing with press and other news outlets, how about I make it up to you by staying late and helping you getting these files done.”

Sae quirks an eyebrow at that and asks: “Is that even allowed, for a 16-year-old such as yourself?” “no probably not.”, He says with a wink, “so if you want to slap the cuffs on me and arrest me for my misdemeanor, then please don’t keep me waiting. Afterall the walk to the holding cell isn’t far.” Sae just rolled her eyes at his cheeky behavior and sighed then said: “alright, but I’ll hold you to that word of your.” “but of course, I always hope to exceeded your expectation.”, Akechi says back without missing a beat.

And so, they got to work on they got to work on the case files, ones the sun stared to set Sae said: “Wow, I have to say (as much as it pains me) thanks for the help Akechi-kun, I can’t believe we got all these files done.” “it wasn’t an issue Sae-san, I was happy to be of assistance.”, He replied, Sae went on to say: “Now if we could solve the “Mental shutdown” Case as quickly as we to care of these cases” Akechi stiffens a little, before going quickly into a relaxed state at the mention of his handy work, then saying: “Yes, it would be quite nice if we could just solve crimes by appealing to the moral of criminals it would be quiet nice, however then there would be no need for the police or prosecutor like you and me.”

Sae chuckles a little at that than answers: “quite true I suppose, but anyways what do you think cause them?” if Akechi were anybody else and in any other situation he would have burst out laughing, but instead he settles for a short smirk on his face before going back to his polite smile before Sae could notice, he wondered what her reaction would be if she knew that she just asked the culprit of said crime the question, thought Loki could couldn’t help himself and actually burst out laughing before adding on: “Would love to see the expression on her Face if she knew it was us doing it!”

meanwhile Robin just remained indifferent to his cohorts reaction before settling on the word of: “it shan’t be nice to anger such a fine maiden as Lady Sae, so cees you insolent behavior!”, Loki stop laughing at that, before crossing his arms and with a “deadpan stare” replied: “urgh… you are such a killjoy you kiss ass.” Robin chooses to ignore the Insults this time, as to not cause problems for there other-self, Akechi meanwhile choose also to ignore his personas bickering instead choosing to answer: “as good of a detective as I am, I am not a neurologist as it seem that the targets seem deliberately planed, the method to how peoples mind get broken like that seem almost “other worldly” to me.” Chuckling a little at the other world part.

Sae just sighed again at that answer, because he was right there was nothing they could do in their position that didn’t sound like magic mumbo-jumbo. Sae than replied: “yes that would seem so, but thank you for indulging my inquiry” “oh no, I must thank you such inquiries are what working with you so special in the first place.”, Akechi replied, Sae looked at the clock before her eyes widen saying: “ah it’s this late already, hey would it be alright for you could get everything in order before leaving, I promised Makoto that be home early today, would that be alright?” “I don’t see problem with that.”

Akechi said, to which Sae replied: “Thank you Akechi-kun, I know we don’t always get along but I do appreciate your work.” With that she left and Akechi (who felt a little touched at the words) quickly gathered everything that needed to be put away, when everything was cleaned up Akechi was ready to leave himself, when a co-worker form the Server department came up to him and asked: “Ah Akechi-kun good that I found you, it looks like everyone else in your department left for today or is running a little late for the night shift and I wanted know if one of you accessed the old case files in the in the System?” “No, but why is that?”

Akechi asked him. “Well you see someone accessed our main Frame and went through our Database seem the where looking through Casefile and Downloaded, an old solved case about a … wait, who was it ah”, He pulled out a note “about a Hiromi Akechi. heh oh wow I just realized you both share the same surname ha ha.”,

Akechi stilled as the name of his mother drop like Nuclear blast to his face, bevor he dangerously narrowing his eyes at the officer in question who just keep on rambling, which Akechi paid no mind to as he checks him out to make sure whether he was one of Shido’s men or not. The worker seemed to be relatively new from the good look Akechi saw, he figured he could deal with this himself Shido had anyways no Mental shutdowns planned currently so if he acted smart about it he could, if it was a small induvial, kill them without much problems or publicity if he got there name or if the where big fish than he would justify it to Shido that they were an unseen threat that Akechi took care of before they could become a problem, he would buy that excuse, he always does. “Don’t worry”, Akechi interrupts the young officer “I’ll take care of this problem with no mention of it okay, just keep quiet about it okay.”

“oh really, but wouldn’t protocol say we need to report this?” he asks to witch Akechi Replies: “leave all that to me alright.” “okay, well thx man you really took worry of my back, if this means I won’t get in trouble than sure. You won’t have to worry about it.”, the young officer says, giving a two fingered salute while walking off. “Immature Moron”, Akechi says under his breath “well he isn’t my problem, well I’ll just deal with Hacker now.” If Shido learned of this data leak, it could jeopardies the entire plan Akechi worked towards. In that moment his Phone buzzed and Akechi took it out and checked who would message him here and now, he became even more confused when it was an unknown number, but Akechi figured this might help him get a lead on the Hacker. There was just the message -Good Evening Detective, I am Alibaba and I require your Help with solving a case under your jurisdiction-well, speak of the Devil, Akechi thinks.

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Live was sometimes a funny thing to Akechi one moment it liked to really to beat him down, than the next it liked to give him every whim he asked for the fact this almost happened in the span of 15 minutes, made him want to laugh for the third time on this day, well at least he could assume this Alibaba person was the hacker that hacked into the polices case file storage and get his mother’s to ask for his “help”,

but whatever they were planning he just needed there name and he could put an end to this minor setback. He’ll just play along for now, so he decided to play dumb first and texted back -who is this, please I have little time on my hand and don’t have time to be dealing with Fans who happen to get my number- he has to first see if the hacker in question bites in order to get them, into a false sense of secu-rity in order to get information out of them.

-this is no ordinary fan, I am Alibaba Hacker of Justice I help the people in need with my talents- came back as a replied, well that was at least a good sign that the hacker seemed to not back of so easily, but some more probing was needed -Well I don’t work with Vigilantes/Terrorist so, please refrain from messaging this number unless you want to have this number tracked and be arrested for cyber crimes and harassment- he wrote Afterall he needed to first gauge if the hacker was willing to deal with the possibly of arrest. -ha as if you could track me, if you don’t even have proper cyber security- well it seems they were confidant in their handiwork,

well alright fine he might as well play ball at least a little. -alright considering you don’t seem deterred by my proposition I might as well listen to what you have to say or I guess write. Ha ha- he might as well go into this as the “Detective Prince” in order to come off as more of a convinceable supporter. -Ugh keep your lame jokes to yourself and your lame TV audience *eyeroll-emoji*- well that was an interesting response, it seemed like they were not as easily swayed well not that that mattered much with how he was going to approaches it. -oh, I apologies, that my humor isn’t well suited for Hacker that bust into my phone for no reason that I can discern- well if they wanted to get Akechi’s attention they were going to get his full attention. -ugh how about you drop, “the overpolite act” and just talk to me like normal person, slry I can see your just putting on the act for your audience-

“oh there good” Robin said with in his mind, before Loki said: “psh, everyone with a more common sense the average person could make such an assumption!”, well the seamed to be able to read in between the lines, and tell past Robin Hood alluring public Image and going after him was to big of a threat to ignore so he keep venturing on. -alright I suppose I can try now how about you get to the point and don’t keep me waiting-Akechi started gather the last of his things and take his suitcase before making to leave, he would chat with the Hacker on the way to his Apartment, Sae would start asking Questions he could not afford being asked, if he looked like a wreck in the morn-ing. -you’re the one that is delaying the inevitable question- Futaba wrote in her chat win-dow, man this Detective was more of an enigma then he looked with how quickly he shifted in tone (in text, but still),

this was getting more and more exciting well if he wanted to play she would play hard alright, that’s when Akechi wrote back-and you’re the one wasting my time, so get to it- wow now he seems to begetting impatient, but it seamed almost normal for him to act like this, rather than just being an Idol after a long workday.-alright I’ll ask already I must know the truth behind the Death of Wakaba Isshiki- and just like that as soon as she saw her name again not only was her mood back in the dump but she could hear the voices again, but she had to hold strong and there was this tiny whisper in her ear to give her strength (“Stay Strong Futaba Isshiki, don’t avert your eyes from the path to the truth”),

she couldn’t exactly make out what the voice was saying but it sounded familiar and gave a warm pleasant felling, and suddenly she felt invigorated to continue the conversation. Meanwhile Akechi was staring at the screen of his Phone speechlessly he was supposed to help this hacker to figure out the truth behind his first public Mental shutdown victim. Well this was info he wanted, but he wasn’t expecting it to hit him in the face like a freight train full of bricks, well in for a penny in for a pound clearly this hacker had some ties to Ishiki’s past and he was going to find them but he’d “listen to them” -hello? You still there?- well he supposed was stuck internally debating for to long- Yes I just had to think about your Re-quest? Why would you need to concern yourself with a woman, that committed suicide?- he asked not only to get information, but he was starting to get genuinely curious himself.

-That is non off your business- well that was an expected response, well it seems he found a weak-ness he could strike at as Akechi finally got home a sinister grin made his way onto his face before typing-then what should I help you with? By all accounts the case has been solved and there is nothing more to the case!-Futaba just looked at the message and suddenly she something hot curl in her stomach, it was an emotion she didn’t feel very often (anymore) “Anger”!

-you dare question me! I’d be very carful about your choice of words!- Yeah that will show him for daring to Label her mother’s Case as closed. -And what would you do, if I don’t stop?- oh he wanted to know he wanted to know, oh she’ll show him -Well if you won’t comply then this Case folder will find it's way onto the Internet *attached Link*-Now Akechi was starting to see Red too how dare this Hacker threaten his mothers already very dammed Reputation and not only that, this could be a threat to his plan, while it would be possible to claim that this record was unrelated to him, if someone remembered and would recognize him, then everything he had worked for to this point would be for nothing. “We need to find them, kill them, No Destroy them nay Annihilate them, for dare too threating (and our Family), but first let’s hurt their feelings for thinking there the boss of US!!!”

Loki screamed in his Mind and he was incline to agree. -and what’s there to care about a useless cognitive researcher, that jumped into the Road because she couldn’t handle the Stress from work!- oh now Futaba was absolutely lived at this point she wanted to punch him in his stupid model face but instead she just continued the Chat, but the problem of when you write something on impulse is that you tend to make mistakes. And so… -And what would you know about that! Mom was one of the best Cognitive Psience Researchers to this day everyone is just too stupid to see that! So stfu you phony Detective! - Akechi immediately focused on the insults an was already tipping -oh yeah and your just some lame brained coward, you stup – when he stopped and looked at the message again and read through it … “Mom?”, he ques-tioned out loud as he looked at the message again and again, deleting what he wanted to typ.

Meanwhile Futaba is laughing to herself thinking she really severed it to that detective brat, but as she calmed down and looked at her message again. She just felt the cold sweat start to collect on her forehead, as always her cyber-security is top notch but it is the human element that is the bane of her existent (well that and her Trauma of her mom’s death but we already covered that so Yeah…{btw not making fun of traumatized people}) she first just sat there frozen in shock for like 2-3 minutes and immediately then jumped into overdrive and quickly edited her message hoping the Detective didn’t notice the slip up. -And what would you know about that! Wakaba Isshiki was one of the best Cognitive Psisence Researchers to this day everyone is just too stupid to see that! So stfu you phony Detective!–

ugh and her she thought she served the Detective some retribution for his insolence and instead served herself on a silver pattern to this Police-Detective, keep it cool Futaba just play dumb if it comes up and everything will be alright. Akechi looked at the message, when sud-denly the text was edited to were instead of the word “mom” standing there it read “Wakaba Isshiki” instead clearly they were trying to cover there slip-up, “we got them right were we want them time to stri-.“, Loki started, when Robin interjected: “Wait we still don’t have a name first of all and if they are the child of Wakaba then we shouldn’t do this. Afterall we gave her our word!” Loki looked up at that and was about to argue back that Robin was spouting nonsense again, but then a memory buried deep within the subconscious of their other self seem to emerge again

–“Goro … it’s okay, just like you promise me, that my daughter will be alright!” said the Shadow of his metaverse mentor said, he looked at the ground and to the side still shaken from the conversation from 2 days ago, at black and green wall of the Cognitive Garden-research Center, behind the black mask with the Red tinted visor, left arm still out stretched holding the Gun with the supressor aiming down at her. He looked at her again and said: “I promise.” She told him some other things he currently didn’t remembered … and then she closed her Yellow glowing eyes and he pulled the trigger *bang* and then the shadow crum-pled in to the usual black smoke and a little black blood lay on the floor, when he was sure that the job was done he looked around (why did it feel like somebody was watching what he did). Well everything looked clear, time to leave –

as the memory subsided Akechi looked at his phone and reliesed something. Futaba Isshiki, he rembered back when he first got into the cognitive research program in order to get more dirt on Shido, when he was assigned to Isshikis workstation, how she would talk very eccentrics when talking about her research, but when she brought up her kid she would always talk with him on eye level (how she told him he’d make a great brother to Futaba and that he was like the son she never had), back then he was to busy to focus on his revenge that he only payed half a mind to the words back than (something he deep down regrets),

but he still remembers the Photo from her desk of black haired girl who was like 11 with Wakaba doing Featherman posses in the Living room of their, what he presumed, Apartment. Well this is interesting so the hacker was Futaba Is-shiki, but that didn’t answer the Question of why she wanted to contacted him or why she wanted to know about her mother’s death. As far as he knew she went on to live with her Familie (something he was very jealous about, having no biological Family that cares about him) and decide that she was safe enough there as per Isshiki wishes, and he even went on to convince Shido to leave Isshiki’s daughter alone, aleast from what he knows but he was busy with his plan so, that is all he knows so he can’t say much of anything about Futaba’s situation. So instead he will just ask.

-hey now that we both have had our little outburst, how about we ignore that all happened and you tell me actually why you want to know about Is-shiki’s death- as Futaba read the message she was still in a massively paranoid state, did he really not notice her slip up or was he just acting that way? Regardless she needed to play along and act like everything was okay, but to be fair she also was being a little rude to him and did blackmail him with his own Mother’s (still unconfirmed, but still very likey) Case. So, the least she could do is be honest back now -well I want to know what happened to her, I have been thinking about her death for almost 6 months now and I know what it says on the case, but something within my mind is nagging at me and telling me this is all BS and that there is more to this. That there is more to this! So pls Detective you’re the only one with the *legal* access to the right resources-

Akechi just sits down on the couch his small Apart-ment he has (thanks to Shido), and starts to think about the situation, could Futaba be aware of her shadow could it possibly given her context about Wakaba’s death? Well he could just ask it himself, but he didn’t know if she had a palace or if he’d find her in mementos, well he could try later now he’d just finish his conversation with her. And maybe also do some dig-ging into her current situation. -well how about, we make a Deal. I’ll help you with what you need to get the closure surrounding Isshiki’s case and in turn you Delete that file you stole out of the police archive-

he write to her, to which she replies -okay but I’ll keep the case until we wrap this situation up, can’t have you bail on me Detective 😉- ha he couldn’t hid the smirk that creped onto his face, he just like Isshiki-san, maybe he could just tell her to stay out of his way and forget all about this so that he could keep his word to Isshiki. -alright Deal- he replied back and suddenly the world seems to freeze and he heard a voice

I am thou, Thou art I
Thou hast acquired a new Vow

I shall be the Blade and Bow of Justice
That shall change your Fate from Ruin

With the Birth of the Fool Persona
You shall find the Path of Freedom that’ll
Safe you from the yoke of this twisted game

Fool Arcana Rank 1:

New Ability:
Third eye: you can now see hidden things, that can’t be normally seen

Navigational support: Chance to get buff on self or reveals enemy’s affinity, also chance of when entering a new Area to get a complete scan of it.

What was that this has never happened before or no he remembers a Quiet whisper, when he talked to Isshiki and Nijima but it was never this prominent and what are these new abili-ties, ugh he deals with this in the morning. -Great- his Phone chimed, oh looks like she just sends her message back, well it was already dark out so he has to post pone any further Info gathering to the next day. -yeah, and while I appreciate our chat and deal. I have a busy school/work day ahead of me and I am sure so do you. so, could we shelf this conversation till tomorrow.- he wrote -aw but now were starting to get along, beside it’s not like you can’t Learn the things at school at home-

-true, but that’s not the point I have a busy schedule ahead of me and don’t wane be responsible for you to get in trouble for being late to school-Futaba wanted to argue with Akechi a little more, but then a another Idea poped into her head at this point, grinning devilishly then writing -alright you right, I should just head to bed have a good night! 😊- she wrote before cutting the communication, not wanting him to get the last word in. Akechi looked at the last message before worries started to set in, not wo-ried for Futaba but rather what she had planned, he tried to message back but it only resulted in Error messages,

right now he was to tired to care so he just made himself bed ready, got into his pajamas and lied down on his bed, and despite everything and who normally was he found himself saying: “Good night Isshiki.” Before dosing of. Futaba meanwhile set up her alarm and also got bed ready, but she also found herself in the mood to say: “good night Akechi” before falling asleep.

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*Beep* *Beep* *Beep* The Alarm Futaba set at 4:30 AM went off, and she Got up to shut it off after doing that she was just about ready to hop back in her bed and continue getting more sleep, when she remembered why set that alarm and a sinister grin started to form on her face, so instead of getting back into bed she sneakily got to the Kitchen to look for something that she asked Sojiro to get her when she first arrived (well after all the break downs and what not else over her mother’s death, and when she was able to have a normal conversation. {but that besides the point and she went over it already}) and there it was a fresh Six pack of Energy Drinks, “ah sweet Gamer Juice come to me”

She said, before snagging the entire thing and got back up to her room and turned her PC on, and started to write on a Program to get into the Detectives Phone permanently and without anyone else noticing, but for now it would suffice to just be able to send him messages and Rework his Phone-alarms. “Let’s Give him a Rude Awaking, Mwehehe”, Futaba giggled as she cracked one of the Energy Drinks open and to a gulp of it to keep herself awake for what she got Planned.

Meanwhile Akechi was Peacefully dreaming about how he was going to tell HIM and get Ready to Kill him, having put a Gun to HIS face getting ready to pull the trigger and end it all, when all of the Sudden the Title theme of Featherman R started to blare in the Office through a Radio that suddenly appeared on HIS desk “What???”, Akechi said before waking up in his bed as his Phone continued to chime one of his favorite Songs, Akechi Got out of Bed and Shut off the Alarm for 5:00 AM,

half an hour before he usually got up but he didn’t have an alarm for 5:00, so how did it get on his Phone? -Good morning sleepyhead, did you get a good night’s rest 😉- came a message at that point, ah that explained the Alarm he supposed, Isshiki must have created it! Great as if he didn’t have enough things to juggle, now he needed to deal with a super nerd hacking into his phone at the odd hour of the day and rewrite his alarms,

he sighed before writing back -I should have expected this, after you so eagerly backed of yesterday- he sighed again, well at least this saved him the trouble of digging her Phone number out from some where for the Time being.

-Mwehehe, I am very resourceful and you need some way to contact me to keep me updated after all- huh the 2 of them real-ly seam to think alike, well Akechi supposed it just came from the fact they were both smart strategists (but something in the back of his mind nagged him that it was something different), well not that it mattered much right now he just have to get her a somewhat satisfying answer to her mother’s death and then she’d be out of his hair. Don’t get him wrong he was still not happy at all to have Isshiki’s daughter contact him at all, but he liked to considered himself as a man of his word and principle, unlike HIM .

“She going to be a constant Thorn in our Side, isn’t she?” Loki hissed, meanwhile Robin just looked wistfully and stated: “But she could also help us, dig up some dirt on Shido if we help her with her problem” Loki cocked his horn “eyes” at that and questioned: “oh do you intend on telling her, that we killed her mother, psz what’s next genius you want to tell Shido were his Son tell HIM that we want an apology for (our Mother) her?!?”

Robin shrunk a little at Loki’s accusatory tone, before stammering: “ N-No, that wasn’t my intention at all! ” before Robin look fiercer himself, and then brazenly stating: “ We need to handle this with care, she seems hurt over what happened with her Mother. And we know how that feels because, of what happened to our MOTHER!!!”

at that even Loki flinched and “looked” taken back and down trout. Akechi meanwhile was also receiving some whiplash from his Persona bickering as robin Hoods last word brought back a memory for Akechi, suddenly the room shifted back to the hallway of the apartment, were Little Goro used to be living with his Mother, he stood before his mother’s room eagerly hoping to wish her a good morning and give her a big hug to cheer her up after she been so down lately, when he suddenly hears a thud out of the room “Mom?”

Goro called in to the room, but no answer came. He was worried his mother had rolled out of bed and hit herself on the ground so he rushed into the room hoping to help her, but what he found left the 7-year-old speechless. He saw a stool flipped over and a pair feet dangling off of the ground, when He looked up he saw ( MOM'S ) her hanging there life-lessly … he must have screamed, but the next few even were just a blurred mess of neigh-bors scolding him, the police showing up to the house…

Akechi snarled and hissed at the memories no use thinking on the past, that was done and over with he won’t concern himself with ( his Mother’s ) Her death anymore ( even though he really should deal with it better ). He deals with Isshiki’s problem and then he would get back to the plan end of story he Mentally thought to get his Persona onto what was going to happen ones his dealing with her were over, to which Loki shifted back to his stern and smug grin agreeing to the proposition,

while Robin shifted to a thoughtful expression unsure whether to agree or disagree. Ugh, why did this happen now 2 years into his plan. No matter he’d deal with it just like everything else life, threw his way. He tipped -I figured you’d say that, but fine as long as you don’t disturb me in school or at work, I’ll let you keep messaging me, alright. - the response comes as he finishes getting out of his sleep wear and putting his clothes on. -No promises 😈-

he sighs again, clearly, he underestimated Isshiki’s Tenacity, when it came to this thought, It dose kind of remind him of him self when he wanted to know why (His Mother) SHE, did that to herself, so in some way he couldn’t blame her daughter for being so nosy considering he had been like that to, heh ironic he was at fault both for murdering his and Futaba’s mother, well he’d think about that revelation later, for now he needed to get ready for work and also see if he could find Wakaba’s file, maybe that’s enough to satisfy Futaba’s curiosity and leave him alone.

as soon as he got ready and packed his stuff, he got his suit case and put on his iconic student uniform and made his way to school. -I’d appreciate if you wouldn’t disturb me during my classes, it just makes everything more difficult- Akechi wrote as he got to the school premises, in turn he Just received a string of emojis with one being a smiling devil emoji with an ascii-art rifle pointing at an scared emoji, ha if she knew who was really capable of pointing a gun at someone she wouldn’t be laughing and joking like that,

but he’d let her have her fun it’s less problematic that way. As soon as he got to class, he politely greeted the Teacher and his fellow students who where all enamored by his charming act and he knew most of the girls and even some of the boys where swooning for him like he was the center of the universe. As he sat in class and half listened to his teachers words he pondered, if this wasn’t very useful for his plan he would find it incredibly disturb-ing and not just because it was creepy ( all be a very nice felling for the time being for the son of a prostitute and a Politian ) but it also proved that Shido was right again, cause he remembered him saying to him when they came up with the plan to have him act as the second coming Detective prince in order of having a better following and be able to get others to more easily, give them more options to get at Shido’s enemy’s,

he said: “most people are mere passengers on a boat, that listen to the captains orders when told to do so, the rest that refuse to listen are ether silenced by the masses or we “get rid of”, that is the truth about the general public you just tell them what they want to hear as long as the majority off people listen your always right and can basically do whatever you want as long as you, don’t drive away your most loyal supporters, my boy!”

he hated ( and liked ) it when Shido called him that and that as much as he hated to agree with him, he was right at the end of the day, whether that was good or bad was for him to decide. Well he would ad it to the on-going list of shit thing he would kill himself over after he dealt with ( His father ) Shido Him.

As he continued to think about how he was going to get out of this situation, his phone vibrated in his pants, god dammit he should have known that Ishikki wouldn’t hold herself to her word.-Hey so when are you going to tell me what happened to Ms. Isshiki- -I told you not to contact me in class- he replied back, making sure that he wouldn’t be caught by the teacher, well that would not be his biggest issue as he could claim that he is being briefed on an important police case and that why he was on his phone again they would just listen to that and fall for it.

But the more pressing issue he also now sees is that, if Shido decided to check his phone and sees these messages he is definitely in hot water and some uncomfortable questions are going to arise, but maybe he can work something out.

-but I am bored out of my mind here and I can’t concentrate on something else right now, so pls come on lets chat a little. I’ll do you a favor in return- ask and you shall receive, or think but no matter. -all right, but I’ll need that favor right away. Can you hide this chat in case someone other than me checks my phone that this chat is hidden, because I am a police detective you’d see why this is an issue-

-oh, don’t worry in case anyone where check your Phone my messages would auto delete anyway, this chat is running from my Server anyway so as long as I am not online this chat won’t show up for anyone else! Btw thx for getting rid of that Favor I.O.U *snicker emoji*- *sigh* he should have expected that she would wipe up a solution for that problem/ already have one in place, he should really stop to underestimate her, when it came to her abilities of tech related things. -alright what do you want to talk about- he tipped into chat -idk- well that was inviting, but before he could make a frustrated reply he receives a question -tell me a little about yourself, come on I wane know a little about the man behind the mask of the 2nd Detective prince-

ha now that is a hoot and a half, she wanted to know about the actual Goro Akechi, it was as if the Universe wanted to make a mockery of him. Oh, alright she could know a little about him -My Mother used to work as a street girl, then one day after a meeting with my “Sperm Donor” she wound up pregnant with me and raised me all alone, well after a few years around the time I was 8, a parentally she couldn’t handle the stress of raising such an unruly child as my self and you know the rest of the story-

Normally Futaba would have laughed at such a cliché sounding backstory, however after the lose of her mother she could relate quite a lot so she wrote back-I am sorry you had to go through that-ha, of course she pities’ him, but it matters not, ones he’d honored there deal he would anyways not see or hear from her again-

it doesn’t matter, I don’t really my mother for this. Sometimes life just becomes to much of a burden for some-one, even if it is because of there own children- he tipped back. Futaba felt suddenly over taken, by cold dread she could hear the voices start up again-Don’t sa- was all that she said bevor another panic attack over came her “please Futaba stay strong”. Akechi wonders meanwhile over the incomplete message he received, Futaba didn’t seem like the kind of person who just ended her sentences in the middle of writing. -???-

no reply to his message-you still there- again akechi receives no reply, he figures that maybe Futaba got bored of the conversation or whatever else it could be, so he put his Phone back into his pocket and paid attention to his teacher.

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Futaba meanwhile, was trying to calm herself down again as the Voices started, berating her. “No, come on your so close to getting answer to what happened we are not quitting now” a quiet voice started to whisper into her ear, she still didn’t quite understand what it said but it helped her get back to a sense of normality, but yes it should be said that she has come further so she should just focus herself, deep breath she could do this. Akechi was finishing his classes and was heading into his Lunch break, he got his school lunch and was heading towards a bench to sit down at when he hears from his side: “hey Akechi-kun, come sit with us!” A group of Students (3 girls, 2 boys) asked Akechi for his company.

He sighs inertly, but he has the reputation of as “Yes-Mann” to uphold so, while he does not usually join his class-mates/Fellow students, it seemed as though he should do it right now. “alright, but please don’t ask me any question about my cases as they are strictly confidential!” “hey, that’s okay, it’s just an honor to have such a celebrity to sit with us!” one of the males at the Table said, “aw, but I wanted to hear about your heroic deeds!” one of the girls said, “hey, hey, hey you can sit with me Akechi-kun” a another eccentric girl said, before adding in hushed whispers “_{love you so much}” “hey layoff of him” a more level headed girl said to the other two girls, before addressing Akechi himself and saying: “sorry, they are some of your biggest fans here, don’t let them harass you okay.” “oh no it’s fine I am quiet used to the constant fan attention.”

Akechi said while sitting down at the table “still that shouldn’t be okay to just, be creep to you.” Said a more mild-mannered boy at the table, to which the first girls just embarrassingly blushed while looking down, while the more eccentric girl just pouted and whispers: “_{wasn’t being creepy}”, so Akechi ate lunch with the students and conversed some (to him meaningless) chatter, when one of the boys at the tabele seem to have gotten his phone out, because he got a message then said: “Ah, right I forgot, hey guys I got to go this afternoon we are going to go visit my cousin.” “oh, right you said last week, that you got the afternoon and the rest of the week off because of the funeral arrangements and because you wanted to support him through this tough time.”, the mild-mannered boy said “hey, don’t say it so loud”, the first boy shushed “sorry” the mild-mannered student said “Funeral? Tough time? What are you talking about?”, the diligent girl at the table questioned, the boy sighed than said: “well if you got to know, my cousin’s mother was in an unfortunate car accident and we as a Family wane make sure he is alright, he had extremely tough right now whit al that has happened, Police questioning and having being the only one to really witness at the time.

"So yeah that’s why” Akechi, who only was half listing was now all ears after hearing that, was that why Futaba contacted him because she hadn’t gotten the right closure with her mother’s death? Well he can somewhat understand himself, he wants to give his mother closure too, but that still doesn’t explain why she reached out to him specifically or what she hopes he will get her out of this. “mhh yes, _{very curious.}” He wondered half aloud “oh, thanks Akechi, that you’re being a good sport about this.” That statement shook Akechi out of his stupor and forced his attention back onto the group of students which all eyed him after presumably heard some of his statement ad must have assumed he was agreeing with the Boy, well he’d have to answer now: “ah, of course it is a good thing your providing your Family with the right support for them.” He said in his smooth detective prince voice, though it was all just false platitudes everyone still bought it. “hey Akechi, as a police detective do you know how long something like this will take?”

the boy asked him, to which he replied: “ It varies from investigation to investigation, though a good estimate, would be around maybe 2 weeks to a month.” This got even the diligent girl curious to ask: “you got any personal Story’s about that detective?” that Question kind of caught him of guard He started with “I…”, but was saved from coming up with more believable lies, by a chiming in his pants, his phone: “I need to take this could be from my co-workers at the station, excuse me please.”, after Akechi excused himself, he got his Phone out of his pocket, he was actually met with a message from Sae -Hey, Akechi can you come in after school?- well considering he was going to go anyway, but it was a useful excuse in case anyone from Shido’s intelligent department questioned what he was doing, if he was caught(Which would be highly unlikely, but better safe than sorry) while snooping through the Files, well I suppose having an Alibi incase it came up wasn’t to bad.

After a quick polite -of course, what I wouldn’t do for my favorite prosecutor. - to which he only got an -🙄-, Well good to see that Sae knows modern Methods of communicating. Than his Phone chimed again, this time it was Futaba. -hey maybe, you were right and I should call off this search- well that was an unexpected response and while Akechi should be happy that Ishikki decided to call of there deal, he for some reason wasn’t satisfied with this. He just assumed that he didn’t like to leave a debt unpaid or just his completive not wanting to win so easily, so he wrote back -don’t give up now, you said you wanted to uncover the truth behind Wakaba’s death, so don’t give up now. You won’t get that with that kind of attuited.

– after Futaba read that paragraph her spirit sored a little more and she felt her determination return to her. -huh and here I thought you’d be happy I’d back off- Akechi scoffed a little at that – oh believe me I hate losing more than anything, but what I also hate is wining without a real challenge, so keep up and don’t embarrasses me! – -😄👋😈🤜🦾- the string of emoji that followed he could only presume meant that she accepted the challenge of his, good he wouldn’t want to just be handed the win like that and besides there still was the police folder with his mother to think about, he smirked and head to his last class before he could go to the police station.

Loki and Robin were also for once in a long time in union about the decision as well, with Robin stating: “I think it is good, that we can help Futaba and keep our promise to Dr. Isshiki as well. Isn’t it?” “as much as I loath to admit it, but your right I would just hate having this story end so soon, plus it would just leave a sour taste in the mouth to not have our debt repaid. Plus, she is the first person in forever who might be able to keep up with us.” Loki chimed in. Robin raised an eyebrow at that statement, a replied with: “oh, do I believe my ears that we are in agreement with each other and your giving genuine praise to someone outside ourself?” to with Loki just scoffs and says: “Yeah, yeah. Don’t get to exited just because we agree with one a another doesn’t mean I like you all of the sudden, besides if we are going to have a rival then I want to crush them completely!” Loki clenches his fist, while cackling sinisterly. Robin just facepalms and heaves a sigh, while he shakes his head.

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As Akechi was finished his classes and made his way to the police station, Futaba found her-self in high spirits again, thanks to her new ally and the mysterious voice in her head, but he is right she should at least see this through if she already started to look and now was not the time to get cold feet and maybe this would finally heal her messed up heart. Akechi mean-while arrived at the Police station and was finding himself in high spirits, for a while in quite some time, no calls from Shido or bickering from his Personas. It was really nice to not have constant headaches, also because of his perfectionism, he thought as he was on his way to his and Sae work office. Once he arrived and open the door he was greeted by Sae and Sat down, Akechi imminently got to the point: “So, what was so important that you need me in?” “Well I wanted to asked, what was going on after I left you to clean up?”, Sae asked him “Oh nothing much, just one of the IT-guys told me they had an issue with the server and I told them I take care of it.”

he replied hoping that would be enough to satisfy Sae and her ques-tions, but she followed with: “Well I heard from the IT-department that someone got access to our digital-case folder and took one of the Cases and they said that Jun was looking to someone to report it to and ended up with you. What I am trying to ask how you want to handle this?” *Sigh*, he should have seen it coming it wasn’t going to be so simple, he simp-ly said: “it’s like I told him I got it under control, but I would appreciate if we could keep it under wraps, because it could make bad light on our department.” And could alert Shido and put everything in jeopardy, Sae look shocked at him: “but we have to repo- …”, Akechi raised his hand and made a shushing motion to which Sae halted her response “Just trust me”, he spoke calmly “*sigh*, fine I won’t tell, but you better make sure nothing comes of it. I mean we have been working together for almost a year and I suppose I can grant you that trust.”

She said to which he, gave one of his charismatic smiles and replied: “That’s good to hear, but speaking of me joining the force, could we discuss the first Mental Shutdown Case over?” “Why? Do you have some new development for it?”, she asked “not entirely just a hunch, so I would just like to go over the folder one more time, I have been thinking about it after these 6 Months and I would like to make sure about some details!”, he told his lie smoothly, then to be frank he never even got to look at Wakaba’s file, no one except Shido’s most loyalist men got to be involved and a few people of public security and of course the law men/women involved with the Case. Which included Sae, because when he was brought onto the Team he had lied through most of the beginning investigation on orders from Shido and was told to merely pass it of as a suicide attempt, it was only later after Shido requested more shutdown’s that the initial ruling became different for this particular Case, though there was never a public statement to rule over the initial assumption and none of her immediate family was informed so they most likely still believe it is suicide, but now her daugh-er wants the truth and has him more or less at gun-point, with her stealing his mother’s Case file, which in some way the irony wasn’t lost on him.

Well that is live sometimes, as he heads with Sae to the Case computer, to look at Wakaba’s Case for the first time and it wasn’t like he wanted before but he was much more focused on his plan and Shido didn’t allow him back then, so now would be the moment he could finally look into it, in all honestly, he’s forgotten about it, till Isshiki’s daughter wrote to him. So, he and Sae got to the Case file Archive and Sae logged herself into her profile and looked for Isshiki’s Case File she told him: “The Case is in the 15th row on the 5th level.” He nodded and moved to that Case-Container and got the folder out of the container, and brought it next to Sae, to which she replied: “I don’t know what your hoping to find in this old file, but I trust your instinct.” “we’ll see.”

he merely replied and so they looked through the folder, were Sae noticed nothing out of the ordinary, Akechi was shocked at what he read although he keeps his Poker face up around Sae, he didn’t need anymore interference from anyone else. But still it was horrifying to see how blatantly false the Case was written, Shido’s men must have worked over time to have censored this case so thoroughly and pay off co-workers testimonies, for starters it started with the statement that Wakaba behaved normally the weeks leading up to the inci-dent, which he knew was false Wakaba was stressed and very afraid four weeks before the planed hit she even went so far as to not even ask him Questions about his findings in me-mentos or even ask to come with him to study his personas but that lessened of the weeks and while she didn’t look happy by the end, she seem to have accepted her imminent death.

He was having a flashback to August 12 (2013), 2 days before he killed her Shadow he just came back form her Palace, which while he worded it a another exploration of her pique, was just preparation for her assassination, so he handed half of the loot he got out the pal-ace back to her as compensation and payment, he just curtly nodded and she nodded back, but she looked like she wanted to say something and was debating to tell him. He wasn’t interested in any small talk, right now he had to focus on his plans off making Shido Powerful and Popular, then take it all away. So, as he was about to leave and get ready before the big day, she asked a Question that shook him: “Are you going to kill me?” he turned around and looked at her in shook, hoping that she thought the shocked expression on his face was from the ludicrous suggestion and not from the fact she blatantly read his intentions.

At first he tried to deny the accusation pointed against him, trying to say: “Isshikki-san why would you ever thi-“ but she cut him of with a no bullshit-face, Because Wakaba Isshikki could read him like an open book some how she always knew what he was really thinking at the time, as she started: “God Fucking Dammit Akechi, do you think I am Stupid I know already that that Bastard-“ She cut herself of and started to laugh a humorless laugh, to which she restarted with: “Akechi we have now worked, together for 3 years now. I mean Shit you were basically an illegal test subject when we first meet, at the Age 15 and at first, I didn’t want you to go because you were only 2 years older than my daughter, but after you managed to Achieve results I started to care less with each success. Don’t get me started on the people I killed on my own accorded to achieve successes in my research, with each one just being a means to an end, I know what’s like to have so much blood on your hands and not have a care about it, I am no “innocent Angel” Akechi, I only cared about my close Friends and Family and even there I have people I’d like to cut out. The government always shoved those unpleasant side of my research under the rug, we have also killed many or left them seriously mentally damaged with the Metaverse and no one is going to care or even know it was happening, because they were homeless or just your “average Joe” that no one is going to miss. I condone all of this because I didn’t care. But I know that, my employers can see I have run out thinks to find and my usefulness has run out and I am to much of a danger to their operation and they can’t allow me to life so. They’re going to use you to kill me, fitting their going to use my own student to kill me, sounds about right. I taught you everything about “mental shutdowns”, “changes of heart” and “cognitive manipulation” and now your going to use it to kill me.”

She ended her monolog with another humorless laugh, one that is just a laugh of defeat and lowered her head. Akechi just stared unblinkingly, even Robin hood and Loki “looked” speechless, after a seconded Robin started:” wow uhm… she hit the nail on the head or something like that huh…”, to with Loki just looked stunned too, trying to formu-late a proper response: „how would … why would … Blast how could she figure us out!?!”, Akechi tried to collect himself and give his most genuine yes-man slime and said: “Wow Mrs. Isshiki it sounds like you have had a little to much coffee today or are you living a little to much inside. I hear sunlight helps with that and you tend to life inside much.” To which Wakaba just raised her head and leveled another unimpressed stare and looked a little angry: “You do realize that you star to talk formally, when you start lying, because I told you can call me by my first name and you did always so with a few minor exceptions like in front of our coworkers or WHEN YOU’RE LYING!”

Akechi dropped the smile and looked at her with is normal expression and then started with: “Alright, fine. Yes they asked me to kill you, what about it you going to report me to the authority’s, because I can move the kill to now and do it this instance. I have a big Plan ahead of me and I won’t let anyone get in my way!”, He got his phone out ready to do the deed. When Wakaba looked shocked and grab his arm with the phone, he was ready to fight her for the phone but she looked at him with a look that told him she wasn’t done so he lowered his phone back into his pocket and looked at her with an expecting face. To with she just breathed and started with: “woah, don’t get to hasty now. You know just as much as me that the guys in charge would just shove it under the rug. So, it be pointless for me to blow the whistle on anyone or anything going on here, they have the authorities in their Pocket and for those who aren’t they just wave a briefcase full of cash in front of their eyes to get their compliance. And those who don’t do either wind up being kill via Yakuza or another hitman connection. Like you.”

She said, in reference to some of their “Jobs/side experiments” he wanted to say something, but she stopped him again and started with: “ It’s okay, I am not going to be mad at you, I had this coming a long time ago and besides if I really tried to do something I would just put everyone I cared about in danger, including you and I do care about you, you are like a Son to me!” Akechi looked perplexed at those words, he did see Wakaba as a mother figure (though he would never admit that to anyone, not even himself) but he was unsure what he was suppose, Wakaba saw probably his confusion and looked a little sheepish before starting again:” what I want to say is that, I am okay with dying, part of me knew it was always going to end like this when I took this Job it’s a bit ironic that I would Engage in a Job that is Morally dubious and then wind up dead because of this. But”, She paused and moved over to her desk and Looked at a few of the Picture frames on the desk and then picks up 2 of the 5 that stood on her desk and then wandered back and gave him one of the frames, it showed Wakaba with a 10 year old girl with jet-black shoulder length hair doing Featherman poses, the girl and Wakaba are smiling ”Futaba” Wakaba picks up again as she strokes her thumb over the other picture frame

“My daughter, she has been feeling neglected as of late, we had a discussion about it just a few days ago and I promised her that we would go on a trip and hang out some more, but the reason why I negated her so long, was because I wanted to keep her safe that’s why I didn’t tell her about my work or didn’t talk about my work with her or let her any way near it. Because if I stopped brining the top dogs results, I didn’t fear what they’d do to me if I stopped giving result, but I feared what kind of complications would arise for Sojiro and Futaba. They know they can’t physical threaten me so they take it out on them, so that’s why I didn’t ever introduce you to her, not because I thought you wouldn’t get along with her but to protect all of you.” , Wakaba said as she looked reminiscently at the photo, then she looked at Akechi who still had a look of why are you telling me all of this, to which Wakaba just looked sheepish again: “Ah, and now I am rambling again, sorry didn’t mean to dump my lifestories on you but I felt like I might as well share my would be last words with my killer, but anyways what I want to say is that it feel shit to cut out the people you care about in your life and I felt bad about lying to my Family and Friends, so much so that I even told Sorjiro that I might die, when we hung out for a drink and it hurts that I had to lie to my own daughter, knowing I couldn’t keep it and now she going to have to life with the fact that her mother is about to die it’s really shit.”

She takes the photo frame she gave him and gives him the other before going to the desk and putting the frame away before picking up 2 new ones, on the Frame Akechi can see Futaba looking 7 years old grinning, with a big gap in her teeth, huge glasses and braces, her hair a normal length. “I heard she was not really popular at school and only made one friend because of a promise she made to me, Kana-Chan I believe Futaba said her name was, but she moved away for reasons I couldn’t figure out. I must be a terrible mother, if I can’t even take care of her properly.” She looked ready to cry, but this time Akechi spoke up: “don’t say that Wakaba-san, she probably knows your trying you best, I should know what’s it like to have a mother who tries her best just to wind up short.”

Wakaba looked up because of that and smiled, before coming over and handing him another picture frame, this one seems to be a photo of Futaba and Kana-Chan, as Wakaba called her, making stupid fac-es. “Did I ever tell you about Sojiro?”, Wakaba asked him, to which he replied with:” A bit, you said he was a very reliable man and good friend. I meet Mr. Sakura a few times he seems a little rough around the edges. But he is reliable for this job” “ah, trust me he’s like that with everyone at first, including me, but ones he warms up to you he would be nicer.”, Wakaba said, he just nodded and took her word for it, but wasn’t really interested in any of it. “I know you’re not really interested in making any friend otherwise you would not have picked this job.”, She said, Akechi looked stunned again how did she read him so well. But she said: “Cognitive Psiencence also requires a lot of psychology, so I learned how to read people and also how to be a therapist. Plus being Metaverse helps I suppose” she winked, he was speechless, she read all of that just by looking at him and the 3 years of work with each other. Okay maybe he could see it.

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“So why are you telling me this, are you trying to convince me to give up? Cause like I said, I won’t give up my goal.”, Akechi started, to which Wakaba just laughed again, though this time it was an actual laugh, before giving him the Last Photo, Which was her and Sakura they looked a little younger, She was grinning like a shark while Sakura looked a little embarrassed at the side, while they were standing in a Theme park. Then she said, as she put the Photos away: ”Shido is one of the main benefactors who sent you to kill me, isn’t he?” Akechi really tried his best to keep a poker face, but she could read him like an open book: ”I’ll take that as a yes, I always knew it would come to this again it is almost a little ironic.”
she pressed her thumb over the last picture it seemed to hidden behind the other frames before, and Akechi was now curious why did Wakaba seem to know so much about every-thing, so he wanted to aks, but: “you want to know why I know so much about Shido, right? Oh, you probably wanted to ask sorry I got ahead of myself, go ahead ask!”

he almost wanted to indicate for her to continue but knew that she probably expected the question: “Then tell me what is your history with Shido!” she raised her eyebrow and looked at him with a unimpressed expiration, he knew what that expiration meant he sighed and added a: “please” “see, I knew you had manners. Now than it all started back in my senior year of college”, Wakaba started and Akechi rolled his eyes, to which she added: “don’t worry I`ll give you the cliff notes, anyways back then I didn’t know yet what I wanted to do or what I was going to do with my life, so I started trying things out, that’s when I meet the two of them.”, she was smiling to herself, when she looked at Akechi and saw his raised eyebrow, to which she laughed: “sorry, couldn’t help myself play the pronoun-game. Anyways that’s how I meet Sojiro and Shido both passionate scholars like me and good friends, we seemed to hit it of instantly back then, Sojiro and Shido always said to me they weren’t friends, but “bitter rivals” but I could always tell the two of them weren’t really serious with there statement. Anyways because I was so intrigued by they’re dynamic I thought I’d major in psychology and after the incident in Port Island in 1999, was when I was really interested in this new Field and Shadows and all that, but anyways we were the closed of friends back then, we used to do everything together.” She got up and handed him the last picture frame and put the other one back, Akechi feel like he’s exited the metanav into a parallel earth because on the photo, Where Wakaba, Sojiro and … Shido all as Young Adults (and in the Case of Shido [and to lesser extent Sojiro] with a still full head of hair)

With smiles on there faces and Arms over each other’s shoulders in front of what seems to be the school they all visited. Akechi was perplexed never before had he seen (his Father) sperm donor, like this his look of his world view shattering seemed to be apparent, as Wakaba restarted with: “Oh don’t look so shocked Blackie, believe me I compared the Shido from back then to the one from the pre-sent, the difference is like night and day not comparable but I still see the characteristics about him that I liked about him and the ones I don’t, but yeah it is sad to see the person you ones admired and inspired you to be who you can be, be turned into a shadow of there for-mer self.” Wakaba brought out a little drum-kit stand from her desk and pressed a button on it and a “Badum-tsk” noise played to Which she burst out laughing and crying, Akechi looked at the Woman like she had gone mad, which she probably was if she was chatting away with her would be killer and still saw him as her son and protégé while also using his joke “code-name” that she dubbed for him.

After she calmed down she must have seen akechis face, who looked at her with a disbelieve that said you have lost your mind:” I haven’t lost my mind yet Ace, trust me I know I am going to die so at least let me go out on my own terms. But yeah he was the inspiration to why I am here and he’s going to be the reason why I’m going to “leave”, back than I was unsure like I said so in my scatter brain I was panicking what I should major in and he came to my aid and told me word’s I’ll never forget: “Sacrifice are inevitable on the path of reform” and there I realized that you most of the time need to sacrifice something in order to gain something in return, sometimes this can be time, money or other recourses, but also some times well … human lives. Of course, back than he probably didn’t mean it like that, but he was always aiming to be a politician and get into the diet, to reform Japan for the better, but he got corrupted along the way, like most good man he turned into the villain rather die a hero.”

Wakaba took the photo back from him and trailed of:” I mean back then, when we grew more accustom to each other him and Sojiro used to fight for my affection trying to woo me, I used to entertain there advances back then and teased them with the others attempt resulting in them trying to one up each other, but I think I also caused our friendship to weather because of this without realizing and it all came to a head in 2000 when it happened, but I think there was no clear winner in the end in the competition and all I have left of that friendship is _Fu…” she trailed of, to which Akechi cleared his troat, Wakaba turned around and looked embarrassed, she lost herself in her past. Akechi just wondered what she was talking about but than again he wasn’t really caring to much. “that’s nice to hear Isshi-“ She leveled another unimpressed look at him, and he corrected himself “Wakaba-san but again what are you trying to tell me with all of this, are you really trying to convince me with reverse phycology into giving up, cause again it isn’t going to work. he said with crossed arms and then continued with:” If you think that turning your daughter into an orphan or showing me that Shido ones was good is going to stop my mission think again. He’s going to pay for what he’s done and that’s final not like you could understand. Now Good day!”

he prepared to leave again, but than she threw a bombshell at him, not a literal one but it may as well have been one:” He’s your Father, isn’t he!” he froze again, he looked at her and what to ask: “What- How-“ but she gave him a knowing smile: “I had a feeling the first time I saw you, but I wasn’t sure. Then I saw your Personas and I was certain, He’s your father. And you wane get Revenge because your mother, was a woman of lower status that, he could easily shove under the rug. I knew this all that, it’s the reason why I cut him out of my life. I caught wind of the situation of the fact that he’d gotten with a prostitute, no offence, and after that I gave him the choice either he’d make good of the damage he’d done or He’s no longer welcome in my life, well you can guess how he chose. Pity, but that is just life.” Akechi just still looked at speechless, Wakaba then just said:” What I mean to say is that that, while I am not happy at this situation. I know that as long as Sojiro, Futaba and you are safe, that I am okay with dying for all of you.” Akechi just looked speechless at the woman who just spilled her guts about everything, but all that was on his mind was one Question: “Why?” “Why am I telling you all of this, because this is where my journey ends, but yours is just beginning, so do me proud and show Shido what your made out of. And just please make sure my daughter is safe, okay?”, She asked him and he prom-ised: “I will!” “oh, good well I’ll guess I’ll see you tomorrow, I still have somethings to do before dying.” She grabed a few trinkets of Her desk and then left.

Back in the present Akechi finished reminiscing about that day. “so, did you find anything useful?”, Sae asked him, he curtly replied: “Yes, but I am going to need more prove to prove my theory. Could I keep the case-file for the time being?” Sae looked a little skeptical, but than he made her an over she wouldn’t refuse: “I’ll also take care of the clean up duties in the office for the time being.” Sae looked at him and then gave him a small smile:” Alright, deal.”

I am thou, Thou art I
Thou hast awaken a new Vow

I shall be the Blade and Bow of Justice
That shall change your Fate from Ruin

With the Birth of the Star Persona
You shall find the Path of Freedom that’ll
Safe you from the yoke of this twisted game

Star Arcana Rank 4:
New Ability:
Judgmental Negotiation:
Allows you to back shadow into a corner, and demand Items or money or ???? from them.
Judges decree:
Allows one to negotiate with weaker shadows and try to force their help.

There was that weird voice again this time more prominent, but he paid it no mind again, but he could test the abilities out later. “thank you.”, He said to Sae with another charismatic smile. “Okay, is that all?”, Sae asks, he nods his head, “good that would be all from my side as well, you are going to inform me if you have a breakthrough in the case, right?” “but of course, as if I would hog all the spot light”, he said with a grin, to with she snorted and said:” As if you don’t already.” They both laughed at that.” Well I will see you.”, she bowed her head a little and then sae left him alone in the in Archive and he got onto the computer. Time to keep his end of Futaba’s barging.

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Wakaba got home and greeted Futaba who seemed in more high spirits, due to her promise which just pained her all the more, but she stood resolute with her decision to protect her daughter. She made some instant noodles for Supper and ate with her daughter, for a cognitive researcher and someone who helped Sojiro come up with new recipes. You would think she would know how to cook, but nope she couldn’t even manage to make simple dishes like Pasta, because she would be very scater brained about the whole prosses. Embarrassing, but Sojiro always was the best cook of them both when it came to drinks and Food, well it is not like she had now the time to learn cooking you know with the whole being murder thing that was about to happen, but well that is just part of being a top-government researcher, who dabbled in dubious and morally grey fields. As she was looking up from her ramen, Futaba must have notice me looking down and asked:” Hey mom, are you having a rough time at work? You seem sad.” “oh don’t worry about it like I said it is just a little stressful the brasses in charge just moved my final dead line to the 14th and I have to get the work done by then.”

She said, god it sounded so innocent to her daughter but when you knew the context it was quite a grim thing to say “Mhm.”, Futaba merely hummed in agreement. “So, mom, can you finally tell me about dad! “Wakaba looked shocked, but tried her best to not look the part, they hadn’t had this conversation since Futaba was 6 years Old, where she took a simple, he’s away to get milk and got lost in the supermarket and Futaba accepted that answer. And now 6 years later she was asking the question again, well she couldn’t be sure whether it was His influence on cognition or Futaba natural curiosity getting the better of her again, so she asked:” why the question, I told you he’s gone and that’s that.” “Yeah, but I would like to know who he is, or do you wane just not tell me that I am your genetic clone grown in a Test-tube in a Lab full of “evil” Scientist.” Mother and daughter had a laugh at that small joke, before Futaba started again, more serious:” but seriously I would like to who he is, what he does and like that. And I already know it isn’t Sojiro, after some experimentation with that Science-kit you got me, I know you told me he isn’t, but I wanted to make sure.” Well she should have figured that her daughters’ resourcefulness was, what motivated her, well she wanted the truth so she would get a half-truth, Wakaba said:” there really is nothing to talk about him, your Father did some youthful mistake and I gave him the change to apologies or get out of our life’s and well you can guess how he choose.” “Oh, but what was that mistake and who is he?”

Futaba asked “listen, your father is a very different man from when I first meet him and I really think no, I know that you don’t wane get acquainted with him now.”, Waka-ba said with firmness in her voice, to which Futaba started talking about: “What is he some “evil” Politician or something like that. Or no he’s like Darth Vader and he needs to be brought back into the light by his children, oh does that mean I have a twin brother, and we need to save father from himself by showing love and compaction to him. Oh No wait that would mean you would be dead, and Dad would be controlled by someone actually Evil, and we would safely Japan from an Evil government organization trying to take power of the gov-.” “Futaba Isshiki”, Wakaba slammed her fist on the table and yelled, which was when Futaba grew quiet and started to shrink in on herself. Wakaba realizing, she oversteps, took a deep breath and then calmly spoke:” listen Futaba I know you want to meet your father and I know that innate curiosity, you got it from me, but trust me life is not like Films or Video games where you can just fix things with the power of love or friendship.”

Wakaba said, even though she knew that the metaverse made this another lie by technicality, regardless she continued: “but let me tell you there is a reason why I didn’t tell you about your father, I am not even sure if he know you are his daughter, but if he does know then let’s just say, he won’t take to kindly to it.” Futaba didn’t seem to believe it:” oh come on mom, I am sure it’s not so bad.” Wakaba wanted to laugh at that, statement oh, her sweet innocent girl, if she only knew but she’d have to go with another lie, but maybe She could help her keep her promise to her daughter, so she said:” alright, I will tell you when we go on the trip, deal?” “Yippy, thanks mom.” Futaba hugged her and then headed to her room with a “goodnight mom”. Wakaba headed to her room getting the audio recorder she had with her today in the lab, she played it it had the entire conversation, between her and Goro recorded.

She wasn’t planning on releasing it but in case She wouldn’t be able to safe her, at least she could leave something behind for all of them to remember her by, she trusted that Akechi that he would get it done. She also got the 5 other tapes she had made at different times throughout her time at the Lab, then she got a medium sized souvenir Robin hood and Loki figures, which she custom made with a 3-D Printer and a College who knew his way around designing of the photo she took with her special metaverse Camerer, Which she got from one of her Metaverse-benefactors. The stands where wide enough to fit the tapes, she was planning to gift Akechi tomorrow, then she made an incision in the into the stands of the figures and Put 2 tapes each with a note, as well as one USB drive into the stands of the figures and then sealing the stands shut, she than put both in a box with Akechi’s name on it.

The Last 2 tapes and the Last USB drive she put in another figuring’s Stand, this one being a butterfly, she had gotten from her other metaverse benefactor, after sealing the foot shut again, she put it in a Box with her daughter’s name on it, she would put it in her room tomorrow, as she was finishing her preparations, A blue butterfly entered her room, as it touched down on her Bed, Wakaba greeted her guest:” Good evening Lavenza, it is good to see you again.” But the as the butterfly transformed into the Women in question, Wakaba was shocked at the sight before her the women looking like a young girl, was looking exhausted, she was covered in grime and soot and she looked tired, Wakaba rushed over to her and kneeled beside her while putting a consoling hand on her shoulder:” Lavenza!?! What happened, did Yaldabaoth come already, is it all too late?!?”

she was panicking, Lavenza gave her a tired smile and started with:” It is good to see you too Dr. Isshiki.” Wakaba looked stunned, before the both of them burst out laughing, with Lavenza teetering off because she was so exhausted. "Yaldabaoth attacked us without warning, shadows have overrun the velvet room, and our master has been imprisoned. My sister Margaret managed to get away and is trying to contact our Sister Elizabeth and our brother Theodor to try and repel them, but I am not sure how much longer we can handle them.”, Lavenza explained, before Wakaba said:” I told you he wasn’t to be trusted, clearly that wager he made with you was just a ploy for him to catch you of guard.” “So it would seem, but I was anyways not trusting of his deal and antics, but my Master trusted in humanity and so took it in hopes that humans will rise up and go against his rule, we took the last of the hop humanity gave it a phys-ical form and hid it in mementos, hoping that he will be able to get away.”

Lavenza replied, to which Wakaba now consolingly but an arm around her and put her head into her side then asked:” So what exactly, did this bet contain?” “It was a wager that contained a game where my Master and Yaldabaoth each selected a champion, then pitted them against each other, one would represent the will to be chained down by their distorted desires or “Ruin” and the other would represent the free will of humanity or “The Trickster”.” “And Goro Akechi is the Champion of Yaldabaoth.”, Wakaba interrupted, looking inquisitively at Lavenza who looked shocked, but before she can ask or answer more, Wakaba continued:” And he is controlling Shido and the others of his “conspires” to get rid of me, because he caught me trying to investigating him so that I won’t disrupted his rigged game, right?” Lavenza looked perplexed as Wakaba finished her findings/theory to her, Lavenza asked:” how and when did you figure all of this out?” to which Wakaba replied:” I had my ways and deductive reasoning, you didn’t think Akechi learned all of his skills by himself, did you?”

Lavenza smiled a little at that and said:” you are incredible Mrs. Isshiki.” “Ah, shucks no need to butter me up, but as much as I Love to remines about old talks. We don’t have time for this there is something im-portant I need to ask of you. Can you safe me from this assassination?” Lavenza looked con-fused and asked:” you said, you were ready to die for all of this and now you want me to safe you?” “No, me entirely, No I want you to give me enough power just to safe my Soul, be-cause it seems to me that you all are going to need all the help you can get and I want to even the playing field in this rigged game and I want to help Akechi and I want to at least set Shido free from Yaldabaoth’s chains.” Lavenza looked more confused:” Why, would you want to help them they are Yaldabaoth’s players, it would be tacitly unwise to help our ene- “

“they are not our enemy’s, well not all of them or somewhat, you know what it doesn’t mat-ter what exactly they are. They are not willingly aiding his goals, yes, they want to achieve their own goals, but they are both being manipulated by a force they don’t realize that is controlling them, while I hate Shido for his choices and want to see him receive his rightful punishment. He still is an old friend and what is happening to him now I wouldn’t wish onto my worst enemy, if I had any. And Goro, he is just a kid who has-been dealt with a shit life in his hand, and he is also the half-brother to Futaba and like hell I am going to do the same thing as their father and abandon them. Would you abandon your sibling?” She said firmly and resolutely to Lavenza, who then nodded and realized that Wakaba was firm with her decision, so she said:” all right, I will see what I can do for your situation. I do appreciate your sacrifice for our cause, I have never meet someone so dedicated to their friends and Family, well aside from my sister Elizabeth. But before that let me at the very least then give you something.”

She got of the bed and turned to face Wakaba, then she got out of her pocket a Tarot-Card of the Fool, with the instruction:” give this to your daughter, I contains some of the Power the Trickster, will receive I should be able to help guide the other Wild-card without suspicion.” “I will, but does the card need to be on her all the time?”, Wakaba asked to which Lavenza replied:” ones she touches it, I will be able to transfer my powers and then I will be able to give it to the other Wildcard.” “All right.”, Wakaba said, Lavenza then turned her back to her and said:” I need to return now and get back into the fight, don’t worry I will make sure you will come back from your demise. But don’t tell them about the game yet, it could put them in danger.” “I know, stay safe Lavenza and make sure Igor is alright.”, after Wakaba said that Lavenza nodded and Transformed into a Butterfly again, before flying out of the Window. Wakaba than put the Tarot-Card into the box of her daugh-ter and then got ready for bed, as she laid in bed, she hoped her children would be able to forgive ones the truth comes out, but that’s what it means to be a Parent you protected your children from that for Which they are not ready yet.” Futaba… Sojiro … Akechi… I hope we will see each other again.” She mumbled before going to sleep.

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Akechi got onto the Case computer and got Wakaba’s file, then he wrote to Futaba,-I have the file, but I am not sure how to get it to you- he wrote-Oh that’s easy just insert your Phone into the computer- he was a bit skeptical at first, but figured that she would know what she was doing-Okay, but this better not come to haunt me-he wrote-NW IGT 👍- she replied back, he wasn’t sure if he should or shouldn’t be worried, but h shrugged to himself, got a USB Cable out and connected it with the computer, and in a minute was it searching through all files and found its target and copied it one to one.-Did you get it?- he wrote, Alibaba- he got a- 👍- back. But he had to know the truth-you got what you wanted, but to what end, what are you trying to achieve here Futaba- he wrote as bluntly as possible. Futaba was meanwhile looking at her desktop, with her mother’s police report there she was nervous would she find the answer she was looking for or would it all be meaningless, but than she saw Akechi’s next message and well this was to be expected, she knew she Fucked up when she let him provoke her.

She heaved a sigh then tipped -Idk if you figured it out or not but, I never got to figure out what really happened to my Mom to make her collapse and my own family treated me like the plague, Like I was the reason that she was dead, thought they only cared mostly because she was bringing in the most money into the Family, my Uncle treated me like a dog when life with him, but him and the rest of the family did not Cared or Loved her like I did- Akechi stared at the Post with a little shock, so that was what Shido did, he framed the daughter of Isshiki for the murder the Akechi committed and knowing himself what it feels like to be treated like a piece of dirt or dog with the foster care system it just added fuel to the fire, god if there were any more reasons to hate on his Sperm-donor(Father) than this was a just more rapidly growing Icicle that Akechi couldn’t wait to wedge through Shido eyeball or head. But before he can continue his murder fantasies, he sees Futaba sent another message-So that’s why I want get justice for my mom because un-like the rest of my family I don’t care just about the money, I want to prove my innocence and that she loved me. Otherwise, if it is truth that she hated me, I’ll just bury myself in this tomb I call home-

Tomb that is an odd way to describe ones house, his metaverse-senses were tingling, Loki piped up first:”are you thinking what I am thinking” he said while “looking” at Robin, with, a “look” that for first time in the 2 years that they were physically present in Akechi’s mind, worries. Robin nodded his head also with a look of concerned and replied:”she must have developed one, through our and Shido’s actions. we must help her at ones!” Akechi got out his phone and immediately opened the metaverse-navigator, then said: “Futaba Isshiki” to which the app replied: “Candidate found, please enter Distortion and Location” so it was truth, she had a Palace, cause otherwise it would just say that the target was found and mark it on his mementos map. Next, he said:” tomb” it replied:” Distortion identified.” Robin imminently said:”Yes, let us start thy journey, to safe this fair maiden from her unjust imprisonment!” to which Loki put a hand on his shoulder and told him:”woah, woah, woah, Prince charming are you not forgetting something!” “I don’t have time for your constant nagging, you incol-“ but before Robin could continue,

the App replied:” please now enter Location to confirm location” Robin than looked at little caught off guard, while Loki came towards him, tilted his head to the side and raised his higher half of his face in Robin’s so that his horn was right in Robins face, before saying in a quiet tone and slowly shaking his head:”You now see what I mean, when I insult you as an Impulsive knucklehead. We are still missing the Location, DUMMY!!!” pronouncing the last word loudly, Robin looked defeated but quickly picked himself up and looked Loki directly into his “eyes” (horns) then said:”alright, your right about that, but there’s got to be some clue as to how we can asserter her Location.” Loki than looked at him with a knowing grin, knowing he had won this debate of theirs, before putting Robin to his side, putting his arm over the shoulder and stretching his arm forward (think the buzz lightyear meme) and saying:”see yet again I am right and while I don’t know the Location which we need to name, I know just the man who can give us this info.” He got Laevateinn, which was circling behind his back, grabbed the pliers that held it and then showed it, onto a cognitive picture of a man,

then said:”Youji Isshiki, Wakaba’s brother, if anyone knows where she is it has got to be him and I intend to get that info with any means necessary!” he tighten his hands around Laevatinn and Looked with hatred towards Youji pictures, they had meet the man when he drunkenly one time entered the lab to ask for money from Wakaba. Akechi disliked the man immediately upon his showing up and griping Wakaba’s Arm, while he was just doing it for his Revenge he did not like the sight of a women assaulted by a drunken man, because it sometimes unfortunately happened while he was a child when some of his mother’s clients overstepped her boundary’s, back than he was powerless but now was different so, seeing that the man hadn’t noticed him he walked up to him and tightly griped his arm, thought the man looked at him unimpressed and then in a drunken stupor looked back at Wakaba and said:” Wow first, you ruin the Family honor by fathering a bastard child and now you pick some young kid to suck you off, so you can add pedophilia to the List of despicable crimes you commit in our Family name, ‘ey Sister!” Wakaba looked appalled by what the man said, and Akechi deicide he heard enough and before the man realized what was happening Akechi flipped him over with some of the martial arts that Wakaba taught him for defense in the metaverse,

than rolled himself off to the dazed man on the ground and gave him an Elbow to the nose, which broke with a nasty crunch as blood started to gush out, the man gave a cry of pain and held his nose. After Akechi got off the ground and dusted himself off, he gave Wakaba than a reaffirming stare to which she seemed to calm down, but the man got up and Looked fuming holding his nose and then angerly stated:” What The fuck, you think you can just do whatever you want kid I’ll report you to the auth-“ but he stopped as Akechi looked at him with a smug expretion, before asking:” what’s with the dumb look, kid?” “Well, I just find it interesting, that you think you can make threats or demands, when I am an employee and you most like snuck your way in here. So go ahead tell the police that you got beaten up by a kid in a government facility without permission, even if you were to lie about some parts I am sure Mrs. Isshiki, will vouch for my employment.” He looked at Wakaba who looked a little winded but pulled herself together and gave him a nod, then leveled a venomous glare at the man. The Man who looked very angry and trying to look intimidating, was now looking rather fearful, he backed a way into the with some lab equipment and some of the metaverse treasures they had accumulated for that day,

he noticed the jewel looking things and the greed in his eyes became apparent, he grabbed one of the microscopes on the Table and threw it, Akechi not wanting to get Wakaba in trouble, because of his plan he tells himself, catching it meanwhile the man takes as many of the valuable objects as he can and sprints out the door, Akechi wants to go after him but a hand on his shoul-der stops him, he turns around to see Wakaba shake her head before telling him:” Don’t bother, my brother is not the kind of man you want to argue with. After he gets what he wants he runs off, because he’s a coward.” “So that man really is your brother!?”, he asks in disbelieve, she replies:” yes unfortunately, he didn’t always behave like this he used to be an upstanding Guy and a great uncle to Futaba when she was a baby, but it seems I have a tendency to turn friends and family into enemies.” Akechi looked confused at Wakaba, not understanding what she meant. Back with Loki and Robin Hood as they finished the memory, Robin still looked like he wanted to say something and raised his arm, but before he had the chance Loki said:”and before you say anything about how violent or brash I am being, remember also what she said in regard to him?” Another memory surfaced, this one being rather short, Wakaba said:”trust me Akechi, there are times when I want to subject him to the things I do to some of the “patient” in here, but I don’t want cause any more problems, so as long as he doesn’t hurt Futaba. I will stay my hand.”

the Voice finished and Loki than said:”So you see, she said as long as Futaba wasn’t hurt that she would not hurt her brother and well I don’t need to say anymore, right?” Loki “looked” him up and down, Robin at first still looked conflicted, but than resolutely decided:”you know what, your right we need to vanquish this villain and bring justice to this fair maiden, thisha taliho!!!” Loki and Robin got ready arming themselves for the battle, before another voice interrupted:” Not to rain on your parade, but we are not doing that.”, both of them Looked shocked as Akechi said it to the 2 of them. He continued with:” we need him alive and as much as I want to stick him like a pig, I think we should leave that honor to her if she wants.”, Robin looked up and said:”that seem right.” As he nods in agreement, Loki still look shocked and asks:”but… but We still get to rough him up, right, right!?!” Akechi gave an impartial hum of I never planed on entirely sparing him, to which Loki started to celebrate and threw Laevatinn in the air and catching it repeatedly, Robin interjected tough:”What about Sakura? Shouldn’t we maybe ask him, I am sure he would know about Futabas where abouts.” Loki stopped what he was doing and asked:”and what would he know, besides Wakaba wanted to keep him out of this so what are the odds of him being Involed with this.”

Loki than went back to his celebrating, While Robin just shrugged and reluctantly agreed. Akechi seems in a good mood, and Says:” Youji Isshiki” into the metaverse navigator, which replied.” candidate found. Wane begin navigation?” Akechi thought about it than decided against it, as he saw Futaba send him another message -hey thx for listing to my story, I feel a lot better now. – Akechi looked down at his phone than timed – I can understand what it is like to feel abandon from one’s mother, so consider it a sing of good will. Just don’t hack into any more systems. - the reply was swift -No promises😈, Detective. Well maybe we will meet again. Till then. - -Watch it or I might just find you in real life- he wrote -psh as if- she end it there Akechi meanwhile felt something else again.

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This time there wasn't a long voice dialog, but he still felt like he had gained more power, also was the voice now just making pun on him, did this have to do with the fact that he was active on Reddit, ugh he didn’t have time for this. He changed to the metaverse navigator and tipped in mementos; he put everything back where it belonged put a note on Sae desk saying he had a school project that need to be finished and then activated the Nav. In an instant the World shifted, then he was in the Cognitive police station, it would be easier to travel to the underground, through better travel methods, as he looked down at his still normal Detective uniform, he walked to the window and looked through the streets, cognitions of thousands of normal People.

“Robin Hood” he called, and Robin appeared behind him “think you can make the shoot?”, he asked, Robin laughed: “can Car’s drive?” Akechi rolled his eyes at his childish side, as Robin fixed a Rope to one of his Arrows, he aimed down the line and… Shoot. In a crashing display the Panorama Window shattered Glas rained down the floor and to the sidewalk, though Akechi didn’t worry as it wouldn’t affect reality. At least without many peo-ple in the public, that is something he learned in his time with Wakaba. The Arrow traveled high than *thunk* it hit it’s mark, the Rope tighten itself and Akechi took his Suit Case, wiped some of the glass that was still on his coat and then, put the suit case on the rope, looked at Robin one more time, who said:” off you go.”, before sliding all the way to the entrance of mementos. He knew if he just believed, this would work that it works because of cognition. And he made himself ready for what lay ahead.

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Akechi reached the underground, with his zipline at record speed, as he neared the entrance, he took his suitcase off the Rope and rolled himself of on the ground landing in a crouch as the Rope dematerialized. He got up dusted himself off for the second time that day. As he entered the underground and his Prince-attire manifested, he saw a familiar Car with a bunch of Boxes and other equipment staked on top, as he moved around it, he saw a familiar eggshell haircut, he was look at one of those flower orbs of his before turning it into one of his drinks and drinking it. He then notices Akechi and says:” Hi Mr. Black and White” Akechi heaved another sigh as he greeted Jose with:” Hi” Jose giggled at him and told him:” you know you should try being, less grumpy and angry, maybe than you would feel better about yourself. Or is that part of these human customs?” Akechi, was currently not in the mood to deal with the ball of sunshine know as Jose, he appeared shortly after Wakaba’s death and said he wanted to learn about humans,

Akechi at first tried to ignore him and so on but after a little while he grew tired of the constant Questions and Tirade, Jose would lead him on so he decided to answer some of his Questions and in return he would only do so in the beginning of Mementos so he could do his missions in peace and before you ask yes Akechi tried to fight him (because that's how Akechi likes to deal with Annoying thing in his live) and while he definitely could hold his own against Jose, he was still beaten because he could only do so much with Robin Hood and Loki even with both him and Jose acting 2 on the field and then was also the problem with his Magical and physical engery. Jose wasn’t mad about the fight and even thanked Akechi saying he found a good learning opportunity, for his studies on humans, which was when Akechi still a little baffled decided to propose the deal. “No, it’s not, however I don’t have time for any Questions at this time I need to get to somewhere quick.”, Akechi said replied “where do you need to go mister?”

“I need get to Adyeshach quickly, there is someone there that I need to Question for information.” He went to the Bike, that he bought for mementos missions, he stanched it at the upper platform of mementos so that he always had an easy way to travel in mementos, Jose interjected:” That is quite far. Are you sure you will make that trip by yourself? Oh, how about you come with me I can get you there safely!” Akechi held himself still, crouched next to his second bike, for the first time he considered Jose help. Afterall if he traveled by bike, he would still have to through a lot of shadows and that would cost a lot of his Stamina and spiritual power and most likely Youji would not hand him the info he wanted without a fight. He was weighing the pros and cons, then decided with a little wound to his pride that it would be better to travel with Jose and said:” Fine!!! But you better don’t pepper me with questions, alright.” Akechi stepped away for the bike and got next to Jose’s car.

Jose than said:” oh don’t worry mister, I don’t plan to do that. But I even have a surprise for you that you might like, just hope on the back of the truck and we can get started.” “But there isn’t any space with all your equipment.”, Akechi says, but Jose merely gets a navy-blue bag with star-, moon- and sun shapes on it, then says:” don’t worry just put all of it in the bag!” Akechi eyed the bag with skepticism, it wasn’t any bigger than a duffel bag, so he wondered how it all would fit, but he didn’t argue and started to put all the camping-stuff and other memorabilia that Jose collected, he but more and more into the bag but it never seemed full. When the back of Jose’s Car was empty, except for Akechi’s suitcase and the bag was full, Akechi was a little shocked Wakaba had studied the phenomenon of “Hammer space” as she called it after the term used in Video Games, when Character can carry objects that are larger or heavier than they should be able to.

But he had never seen it like this, so he just asks:” how!?!” “Oh, this is because of a phenomenon known as “Hammer Space” where people can carry more when they should be able to, you did study this with you with you metaverse-partner, didn’t you? So, you should know about it, right?” Akechi froze, he knew that he was talking about Wakaba, because she was the only other person that came with him here, but he never mentioned her to Jose, so he asks:” how do you know about her!?!” Jose simply puts a finger on his check and says:” two butterflies told me about that, but I wasn’t supposed to say anymore of this yet. So maybe I can tell you more later.” He smiled innocently as he throws the bag that Akechi had given him back into the passenger seat, Akechi who is completely at his wits end, just shakes his Head and gets on the back of the car as Jose gets into the Driver seat and says:” Hold on, this is going to be a bumpy start!” as he jumps it into drive and jumps down the escalator-shaft.

Down on the train Tracks he stops than turns to Akechi saying:” So about the surprise I mentioned.” He opened the bag again then got out a machine, that looked like a baseball pitching launcher but with a bigger and wider barrel, he threw it in front of Akechi, it magically bolted itself to the Vehicle. Inside the holding container were what Akechi recognized as Jose’s magic Fireworks. “So, after our little training section I figured that just throwing my fireworks, is a little inefficient to deal with some of the Shadows in direct Combat, and while they usually ignore my presence, I figured I need something to defended passenger in case I am transporting them, so Ta-Da the Fireworks launcher Mark. II.” He smiled proudly. “What happened to the first iteration?”, Akechi asks, Jose starts to smile sheepishly at the question:” Well let’s just say I went through a lot of tests to get to this model, but don’t worry I test this one, it works perfectly, why don’t you test it Mister. The Left button on the aiming Handel firers” Akechi looked at the machine, than saw some shadows ahead of them and decided to aim it, with the double Handel than pressed the left button to fire, one of Jose’s fireworks came out of the barrel and hit the Shadow in an fire ex-plosion, killing most weak shadows of this floor and leaving some that resisted fire severely wounded.

“Again!”, Jose calls and Akech aims another firework this one hits another group of shadows that wanted to see what caused the chaos and commotion, this Firework exploded in a electric wild flash killing the Wounded Shadows and knocking some of the new arrivals down. Akechi actual gave an impressed whistle and nodded his head, this was an actually welcome surprise” you know for a little ankle biter, you sure are someone I can’t say has problems with coming up with special solution for special problems.”, Akechi says “why thank you Mister Black and White!”, Jose replies. So, they drive of, and Akechi is really getting a kick out of Launching the endless barrage of Fireworks. Then suddenly on the Path of Kaitul half way through to Akzeriyyuth, A bunch of strong Shadows seem to have enough of the mischief that the Car drivers are causing and set up an ambush, Jose stop’s the Car in front of the suddenly appearing shadows, stopping it sideways as behind them more shadows

“ uh oh looks like they caught up with us, but there got to be something we can do… wait I got an idea.” Jose opened his bag and dove head first right in, meanwhile Akechi got his two guns ready that he Luckily got out of his suit Case and put into his belt before driving of and asked Jose:” What are you doing, don’t leave me here!?!” while he would be able to handle those shadow, he didn’t want to waste his energy on them. “Don’t worry Mister, I just need-ed to get something. Take Cover!!!” Jose quickly pocked his upper body out of the Bag and then threw one of his fireworks, Akechi just in time managed to Guard, something that not only greatly reduced damage but made the person immune to status effects as Tested with Wakaba, but damage wasn’t an issue with this firework as It just created a blinding light, that confusion on most of the shadows. “Here take this.”, Jose says handing him an extremely Long Bandana with 無限 kanjis and an ∞ infinity-Symbol over it, “what am I supposed to do with this?!?”, Akechi asked “Just put on please. And trust me.” Jose jumped back out of the Bag as Akechi put on the Bandana greenish-black which reached right down to the white calves of his prince-outfit (and didn’t really match with the outfit),

he than ready his Guns, while Jose put his hand on the stick shift and put the car in drive and let the engine howl, he asked Akechi as he put his Safety goggles on: „Ready?” Akechi Looked around himself seeing himself just being surrounded by Fear and dead shadows, giving a sickening grin and saying:” Ready!” As some of the Shadows recovered from the confusion and other charged ready to attack, Jose started to punch the Gas and drifted through some of the shadows causing heavy damage to their numbers and killing weaker ones, as Akechi Opened fire with a barrage of blue and Red Lasers from the back of the car, killing some of the survivors of Jose’s drifting. Then quickly changed to the firework-launcher and giving some elemental barrages with his shooting. It was a little weird to Akechi, it was as if the world darkened around him and he could Just aim so easier like everything around him was playing in slow-motion. Jose then droves through some of the shadows, then doing a 180-degree turn. Then saying:” Mister, hit the Red button on the firework-launcher!” Akechi who was still a little confused to what happened, looked at Jose than nodded hit the red button on the launcher under the control-Handel. Suddenly 4 big Fireworks strapped onto rockets pop out over the barrel of the launcher. “Now hit the right button.” Jose says. Akechi than hits the right button of the lever and the fireworks launch and shot into the celling and suddenly a bunch of rubble and Star Rain down on the Shadows squashing them or being killed by the firework stars raining down.

After everything seem to settle, there was this a big dust cloud covering the area “Good job Mister.”, Jose says nodding his head in approval Akechi who still need to get a hang of himself said:” well that fascinating, you used your special Fireworks and made a way to circumvent their time to Activate, clever!” he says, while nodding, but then he perked up than put his hand on his mask and looked behind him with his weird vision that he had “ what is it mister?”, Jose ask “Step on it!”, Akechi says without much more explanation “wha-“ but Jose got interrupted “do it”, Akechi yells and suddenly Jose saw what Akechi was talking about. As the smoke lifted ther were still several shadows there ready to hunt them down, Jose didn’t argue and did a drift and started, to drive down the escalators, Akechi than ready his guns before realizing that he probably emptied his reserves as he low-ers his guns, Jose asks:” what are you waiting for mister?” “I already emptied my clips.”

Akechi says, before Jose interjects:” No, you got infinite Ammo right now.” “What?”, Akechi questions “the Bandana, it gives you infinite Ammo, just remember to lower your Gun and then pick it back up again to have your Clip refilled!” Akechi pick his Guns up again an fired with his golden side arm and fired a blue bolt and then fired a shot with his black side arm that he used as an extra to the real gun he had and a Red bolt came out that hit one of the perusing shadows, they drove like this for two floors with Akechi shooting at the shadow with his pistole and the firework cannon, when he notice with his special vision a Cyan spot on the Wall up ahead. “Drive through there.”, he didn’t know exactly why he suggested this to Jose, but anything to get out of this chase-sequence “through the Wall mister?” Jose asks “Just do it” He replied, Jose speed up and with a Jump they crashed through the Wall. As the smoke of rubble cleared, Akechi found himself dusting himself of for the third time this day as they looked around in the on cliff that the drove into “Wow, this is amazing. I didn’t know there where hidden spots like this in mementos.” Jose says with excitement in his voice “would you quite down or do you want to alert the shadows!!!” whisper yelled at Jose, to wish he just turned to Akechi and said:” oh down worry Mister it seems like the shadows can’t enter these narrow openings.”

Akechi perplexed looked over his shoulder towards the large gaping Hole that Jose left with his Car and indeed most of the shadow where already gone and only some stragglers trying and falling to enter, he looked around and then saw on the Wall that one of the starrier blanked that Jose yours to camp was hanging of the Wall with one of the Camping spikes nailing it there. “Or maybe it has to do with your weird star-based stuff that the shadows don’t seem to like.” Jose than notice the blanked and realizes that his bag next to him was still open from when they franticly drove off, then said:” yeah but this does give me an idea!” and he jumps into his bag again, Akechi just shaking his head. Jose comes out of his bag again and throws a stand with a star and stamp filed with ink,kid was stronger than he looked. “If there are secrete enclaves like this in mementos than I can use these stands to keep shadows away and set up a fun search game while I am at it. If I ever meet more people like you, I can maybe play with them!”

Jose said with a smile. Akechi than said something he hated to genuinely say, but the kid earned it:” Thank you, by the way for the Bandana.” But then followed his praise up with the question, “but how did you make it and where did you get the idea from?” “oh, that well mementoes is a place based on cognition and the butterfly’s, told me I could make certain thing with the help of cognition alone, while one of the two told me about thing like “Video games” I believe she called it and this Bandana being an item in a game called “Metal Gear Solid” I think and said it would give infinite ammo. Its designee originated from the 2nd game. At least that is what she told me” Akechi stood there stupefied, for a few moments while Jose proudly talked about the Bandanas making. Then after collecting himself, Akechi took hold of Jose’s Jacked pick him up and started to shake him and yelled at him, while pointing at the bandana:” you based this on A VIDEO GAME!!!” he shook him some more, before putting him eye with him, flashes of his Dark Armor could be seen. Jose merely replied:” Well it worked, didn’t it, Mister? Also, your black costume is showing again.” Akechi took a deep breath trying to collect himself, then put Jose down pinched the bridge of his nose, his mask flaring in blue flames where his fin-gers met the Mask he was wearing. “But how!?!” Akechi asks in a calmer but still agitated state “well it seems to work on the principles of cognition, a lot of people seem to believe that things they can do in video games can be done in reality, so even if that is not the case, the believe in that thought is what manifests this believe! And because you believed in me it worked for you too!”, Jose explains Akechi was speechless, was that how Wakaba was some-times able to keep up with him even without a Persona, simply because she believed she could. Hmm it was something to keep in mind.

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Akechi than brock out of his thought, it didn’t matter right now what Cognition had on a persons power, he had a goal, and he would complete it. “Well, enough chit chat, we still have a goal to reach onward.” Akechi says before hoping on the back of Jose’s truck, Jose replies:” but of course Mister, just hang on a sec.” Jose than quickly gather his Camping blanked and starched it back into his Bag then as he was about to enter his Car. Akechi held the bandanna neatly folded up to him saying:” and take this as well I don’t want rely on video game hum-bug to win my fights.” Jose looked at it, then took it saying: “I will keep it safe for later then” Akechi rolled his eyes, he doubted he would rely on such a gimmick.

They drove off, this time without any more mayor interruption. As they reached Adyeshach and the specific Portal, that lead to Isshiki’s shadow “he’s in there I can sense him!” Loki says, Akechi than got his Briefcase of Jose’s car, then opened it and removed the inner Cushing lining and got out his Swords which were encased in back side of the foam of the Suit case as well as were his guns were usually stored, the Silver handle and scabbard with circling lines over the Handel and sheath as he then unsheathed it and swung a few times to get back in the practice of things, before then getting on one knee and properly sheathing it again, he then looked at the foamy backside again and looked at the golden Handel sheeted in a white scabbard with the middle having a golden ring around the sheath and on it where some rings as decoration. Should he take his second sword with him, he decides he might need it and so decide to take it with him. He then changed to his Black Armor; in a blue burst of flames, he was in another costume. “I am going in!”

he says “alright do you want some help mis- ““Alone.” Jose want-ed to offer some help when Akechi stated his intention. Akechi then turned around and saw Jose a little distraught and it was getting to him, ugh as if now was the right time to get sen-timental. He sighs and says:” look I thank you for your help and it was nice to get a ride down here, but this is my objective, and I wane do it alone.” “Alright Mister…” Jose still sounds a little hung up, ugh fine something else “how about this, I’ll make you a deal you help me in mementos some more and in turn I will answer some of your questions in turn.” Jose perked up at that and said:” really Mister!” “Yes really”, he replies, with less enthusiasm “okay.” Jose stretched his Arm out and Akechi took it reluctantly.

I am thou, Thou art I
Thou hast acquired a new Vow
I shall be the Blade and Bow of Justice
That shall change your Fate from Ruin
With the Birth of the Councilor Persona
You shall find the Path of Freedom that’ll
Safe you from the yoke of this twisted game
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Helpful presents: Jose will now be able to make accessories for you.
There was that Voice again and what did it mean Jose could now make accessories for him; ugh this was all just a waste of time. “Are you happy now.” “Yes Mister!” “Alright then wait for me here.”, they finish their dialog and Akechi heads into the portal.
Jose looks on when to butterfly fly towards him one blue but in a weak silver tone and the other in a greenish tone they landed on Jose’s shoulder, “oh hiya misses.” Jose greeted, the butterfly communicated with him “I just established a confidante with him.” The greenish butterfly than said something to him “he didn’t seem to like the bandana suggested to me.”, Jose said as the butterfly tilted of his feelers to the side “don’t worry he didn’t hurt me.” The green butterfly seems to accept that answer “don’t worry I will keep an eye on him and make sure he realizes the holy grails influence.” The blue butterfly seemed to still not like the the idee and stated:” are you sure this is the right way, I am not sure I can safe him from his role as ruin.”

The greenish looked the blue silver one, conveying what it wanted to. “All right I will try my best, but if this fails all hope might be lost!” “don’t worry miss I believe that he will pull through.”, Jose interjected. The butterfly’s than flew off Jose’s shoulder hov-ered over him before flying away again. Akechi meanwhile stepped through the Gate way to Youji Isshiki’s Shadow, just standing there, Akechi stood with both his Swords both at his waist, there just out of range of the Shadow to see “Alright what is the plan?”, Robin asked “I say we beat the shit out of him and get the info Immediately!”, Loki replied, Robin looked over at Loki and said:”Wouldn’t it be better, to first try and talk about this we could save our strength and resources for Futaba’s palace.” Akechi meanwhile mulled over the suggestions and was actually considering Robin’s suggestions because he rather deal with Futaba than her greedy Uncle,

alright we will first try to negotiate and see if we can just get answers and leave he thinks and with that he makes his way to Isshiki, Loki being a little insulted but he just turned his head instead of arguing. “Need more money… but I can get more from him… she nothing more than a way for more money… need to win big!" Akechi could hear the shadow mumbling to himself “Hey!”, He shouts to the shadow who turns his head to Akechi, Loki and his Black armor should protect him from being recognized. “Who are you?”, Isshiki’s shadow looked at him and took in his appearance and instead of being scared he just looked unimpressed at Akechi and then says: “oh… your one of my sister’s test subjects, aren’t you? What do you want!” Akechi wants to kill him on the spot with that attitude, but instead he calmly said:” I require information’s about your niece and her current location.” The shadow first blinked then started to smile and then said:”Do you know? Well, that info is going to Cost you, you know. Cause my sisters life insurance is almost used up”

At that Akechi took Out his Red sword, pointed it at Isshiki’s neck and said:” Or I could just choose not to kill you, and you give me that info.” Youji started to Laugh at that and said:”come on try it then. See how it works out!” Akechi sick of the man and not willing to pay him, aim his sword for his abdomen and stab his sword there only instead of piercing into the shadows stomach the Blade breaks of with only 1/3 of the blade remaining, Isshiki laughs and Transforms into a Girimekhala shit he is repelling physical attacks and he just tricked Akechi into attacking him and already destroying one of his swords. The large Elephant blew a mighty noise through his trunk and laughed: ”ha ha ha, did you really think that toothpick could hurt me, I said you’ll pay for that info and now you will pay for it, with your Life!” the shadow raised his sword ready to strike Akechi, he rolled out of the way as the sword came down ready to cleave him in half, splitting the floor of Mementos instead.

“Well looks like this escalated quickly.”, Robin says to Loki, who looks a little winded being the Persona in the front currently “oh shut it as if we were actually going to do any of the demands he requested!”, Loki says breathlessly, Robin raised an eyebrow and then said: “touché. Well now was not the time to start an argument over trivial bullshit. So, let us simply focus on battle for now.” Robin said with a smirk on his face and extending a hand to his fellow Persona, Loki looked at his hand, then up at Robin and back at his hand before smirking himself and saying: “And here thought you did like swearing you pompous Brit.” Robin replied, while helping Loki up: “well I can make exemptions, you Norse Devil. But let’s focus on Battle.” Akechi meanwhile also gathered himself and summoned Loki with a “Megidola” Command the white and blue purplish light appeared above the shadow and hit its target, Youji let out a shrike at the magical hit, but gathered himself saying:”Do you really think this is enough to stop me, but here a taste of your own medicine!” and with that the Shadow cast a Megidola of his own and Akechi took it with the brunt of force, he grunted: “tsk… do you think you can hurt me.”

Akechi was still well of having enough health to take away from the blow but this couldn’t stand up, if this continued. Akechi began by trying to flank the large elephant, by running behind him and summoning Robin hood and with a ”kouha” the light flashed the elephant and while it didn’t knock it down, because it seemed that his Girimekhala was different from the normal variety, Youji still took increased Damage from his flank attack, he then ran again around the shadow summoned Robin again and hit him with another “kouha”, bringing the elephants hp to about ¾ of the way. But as he tried the trick again, he was stopped by a sword that staggered him and then he was wacked, into the wall behind him, the breath was knocked out of his lungs as he hit the Ground a pouch came off of him, whit it and a small canister coming out of it. Akechi was dazed meanwhile, struggling to orientate himself while his head was spinning, he heard the shadow taunt: “oh you think that this hit and run, strategy was going to work. Well it was fun while it lasted, but I think it is time to end this!” the Girimekhala raised his sword ready to end it, but Akechi collected himself and saw the canister in front of him and grabbed it and looked at the label on it he could only make out the word “freeze spray” but that was all he needed to know, the Shadow didn’t seem to notice that he grabbed the can, it than asked: “any Last words?”

to which Akechi replied: “yeah, Go Fuck yourself!!!” and with that he threw the canister at, before taking his Golden Blaster and shooting it. The can exploded in an ice explosion, in an instant the shadow got covered in an icy casing “wait what… what is happing.” The shadow asked shocked, Akechi realizes that this is his opportunity. He puts his Blaster away and takes the leftover of his red Sawber and takes his lightsaber out of its sheet and charges at the frozen elephant and starts with a precision cut on its leg followed by a kick to the side of its belly with his greave shoes, he then stabbed the belly a few times with his broken sword before yanking himself to the eye of the Girimekhala and Summoning Robin and ordering “Assault Dive” which Robin delivered, shotting directly at the eye, the elephant was stunned and dazed on the ground, Akechi collected himself, than his eyes fell onto the pouch on the floor he picked it up, it was silver in color and seem to be partly open, he yanked the sipper all the way open, inside where a bunch of vials and canister that were filled with status effects and magic damage items, well convenient.

Akechi than got out one of the Life stones in his inventory and used it restoring some of the Damage that was done to him. Isshiki seems to snap out of his daze, shook his head and said: “why you little, it’s time for you to die!!!” the Elephant gave an angry noise out of his trunk and charged. Akechi smirked at that picked up another one of the freeze-sprays, screwed the cap of it in a way that it would detonate then turned around throwing the can in his hand into the air catching it, while walking away from the charging elephant before turning around and throwing it into the face of the shadow freezing it ones again solid. Ones this happened, he proceeded to take another two cans, rigged one of them to explode before, starting to slash at the frozen target throwing the rigged can behind him, before sending the elephant flying with a double greave Kick onto the can which blew up just in time, “Loki” he called to which his complain appeared and placed his sword on the ground,

on which Akechi got on, his metal boot heating up and then being thrown into the air, higher than Girimekhala than got his pistols out and unloaded onto the elephant, before throwing the other can onto his body calling for Loki again, to which the Persona threw out Laevathinn and hit the can and then the Elephant, which seemed to only have ¼ of his HP left, Akechi than raised his lightsaber to the Downed elephants neck while Robin and Loki surrounded him from the sides. “So, you still want, to say it is time for me to die” Akechi says with Deadly smirk over his face, as his face is covered by the blue flames by what would normally be his mask. “Ow… uh wait let’s talk about this.” The elephant on the ground says, Akechi just replies: “then tell me where Futaba Isshiki is and you won’t have to die!” he presses his gun right next to the eye of the elephant “Alright… Alright, she is with my sisters old fling Sojiro Sakura in Yongen Jaya.” Loki and Robin looked up, at that Robin looked at Loki with a deadpan stare and just stated: “so much for him having nothing to do with this huh!?”

Loki trying to hide his shame looked away from Robins look and said: “oh just shut up.” Akechi meanwhile said: “good! was that so hard now?” He said it with a sadistic smile plastered on his face. “So, are we going to kill him?", Loki asked. No Akechi said in his mind “why not?” Loki asked angerly disappointed Because we can’t have Shido catch any Wind of this, and someone related to Wakaba having a mental shutdown could definitely tip him of and… “and what?” Loki asks confused and it should be Futaba’s decision and with that he called both his Personas back and addressed Youji one last time “Now if you of pulling a stupid stunt like that again, then I will not hesitate to end you. Understood.”, he says gravely. Youji who turned back to his regular Shadow form nodded like his live dependent on it.

Akechi then let him go and proceed to go back to the Portal before stopping and picking up the rest of his broken blade and then he notices something on the ground that looks like a miniature wooden skull. He was intrigued, whatever it was it felt like it had sealed power in it. he was greeted by Jose with a “Good job Mister!” when he left the portal, Akechi just nodes and get onto the back of the Car before than asking: “how did you sneak on of your Pouches onto me?” “Oh, good I had hoped that you find it to help you in battle.” Jose says, before continuing: “I am sure these items will help you deal with shadows more efficiently.” “What makes you sure I want to keep them?”, Akechi askes back, just to keep to his usual MO of being a bit of ass to work with, though with less of a bite because he knows how useful items like this can be. “Come now Mister you know how useful such supply are, right?” Akechi doesn’t reply to which Jose just says: “See so just keep that one!” Akechi sighs he knows he can’t really say anything that wouldn’t make him look suicidal at this point, so he just stands on the back of Jose’s Car as they begin the drive back. He will discuss this later with Jose.

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As the two of them drove back to the entrance of mementos, Akechi was just sitting on the back of Jose’s car looking a little annoyed, which was normally nothing out of the ordinary but he held the broken Saw Saber while looking at the rest of the blade, how was he going to get his blade fixed and get his pride back from being tricked like that, it was that what really got him down. As they reached the entrance of Mementos, Jose held right on the upper Plat-form and turned around saying: “and we’re back Mister now that wasn’t so ba-“ Jose stops when he sees Akechi in a grumpy mood “did something happen, for you to be so grumpy again?” Akechi acknowledging Jose merely by slightly moving his head in Jose’s direction, while still keeping to himself. Jose sensing that there is something wrong walks over to the black masked Persona user and his eye’s fell immediately on the broken blade, oh so that is what he is upset about he thought “are you angry about the fact your weapon got broken?”

to which Akechi again only grumbled angerly, then decided to say: “ well yes, I don’t know any places where I could fix it and ordering online is always such a hassle and I can’t buy imitations weapons, without raising eyes on me. And my employer doesn’t like it if the de-tective prince was interested in fake weapons.” Jose looked at Akechi conflicted then says: “I am sorry to hear that Mister, I wish I could help but unfortunately weapon repairs and modi-fication are not really my expertise, I could make you a new one if you had a special weapon that I could than combine with a Persona to create a special weapon, speaking of which what is that you have their Mister?” Jose pointed to the skull that lay next to Akechi, who was a little perplexed and clueless, about what Jose was talking about snapped out of it and looked at the thing then said: “ oh, this I found it near the defeated shadow I don’t really know what it is but I felt a power inside of it so I took it with me to figure it out.” “can I have it?”
Jose asks “why do you know what it is?”

Akechi asks back, to which Jose replies: “ well this is the bud of a Will seed, you know how shadows in here only drop a bud of a treasure because they don’t have a palace, well the bud of the Will seed is basically the origin growth of a palace, depending on the color and number of will seed “fruit’s” presents you can determine how far along the growth of a palace is. This one looks still relatively young and fresh so it would take, quite some time or some very strong mental influence for the palace to sprout.” Akechi looked surprised at that, Wakaba always wanted a way to measure the age of a palace, and they had seen will seeds before but couldn’t figure out, what they were and what purpose they served. “So, what your saying is that this thing is like the rings inside a tree.” Jose looked at Akechi and then nodded: “from my understanding, yes. That should be the case. And …” “and what?”, Akechi asks when Jose stops, Jose then says: “and I can turn them into accessories, just give me a minute.” Jose takes the bud will seed with him and get back into the Car and then jumps back into his cosmic bag and Akechi here’s a few tools, hammering, grinding and picking sounds can be heard then “and Done!” Jose exclaims as he peak’s out of his bag, the skull now looked more silver with a red, blue and green striped core in its mouth Jose then continued: “this will seed should now give you “high counter”.”

Akechi takes the accessories from Jose’s hands and looks at it, before nodding his head this will serve nicely as some help he thinks, Jose than pokes at Akechi’s arm and says: “oh and come back to me when you dispel the distortion from the owner, because it still hasn’t reached its full potential.” Akechi looks at Jose and then asks: “In what way? Change of heart or mental shutdown?” Jose still being in the bag, holding onto the rim looked at Akechi and said: “both works, as long as the distortion is gone. Although I prefer the former.” Akechi merely nodded Jose, although having a taste for chaos and destruction, preferred to be peaceful if he could be. That didn’t matter for now Akechi now needed to get to Yongen-Jaya and find Futaba’s palace, but he wanted to give Jose at least some thanks for his help today so he said: “do you remember, when you when you tried to convince me to get those flower-orbs that you want.” Jose looked intrigued at that “Yes? What about them.” Then he gasps, „Don’t tell me Mister, have you changed your mind on my previous offer.”

Akechi nodded then says: “today you have proved to me that, you can be very helpful, if need be, so if you can provide some help for me, I will try to get as many flowers as possible.” Jose eyes spar-kle as he excitedly flips out of the bag, landing in front of Akechi. “Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!”, Jose says happily. Akechi with an amused smirk on his face says: “alright, don’t get to exited. Now do we have a deal.” Akechi extends his hand to Jose, who now calmed down nodded and then shuck Akechi’s hand. Akechi heard than the mysterious voice again.

Rank UP!!! Counilor Rank 2:
Flowery Goods: Jose will now sell you items in exchange for Flowers

Ugh he was getting sick and tired of the constant, voice telling him over these things, thought it did sound familiar, but … no that couldn’t be she is dead, argh he must just be imagining things. “well, it is nice to bond with one another and I hope you can find someone who can repair that sword of yours, but I have something I still need to do so I have to say goodbye for now.”, Jose says and Akechi nodes and takes his stuff of Jose’s Car, as he drives off Akechi leaves mementos. As Jose gets down a level, he stops as he sees some hooded figures in brown cloaks in front of him, boy as he couldn’t waste any time with any others distraction when he has to report back his creator, he armed himself with a firework and starts to say: “stay back or it’s going to get really ugly!” one of the three hooded steps forward and shrugs his arms and asks: “What, can’t you chat with an old friend?” Jose, recognizing who the figure now was lowered his firework and says: “Mister Professor!?! Sorry, I didn’t recognize you.”

“Oh, that is alright, Jose you know I can handle myself in good fight.” The robed man said. Jose then asks: “well what are you doing here?” the man said: “well I just wanted to know, how is it going. How is it going with Akechi?” Jose looks up at that: “oh it’s going very good so far, but whether he is able to ward of the Yaldabaoth’s influence it’s too early to tell, that’s what you wanted to know right.” Jose says to the man, who is flashing a smirk form on his face: “you are learning rather quick, how to read certain people.” “Well, I was created by “people” like you Mister, so I am more accustomed to them.” Jose replies “ I suppose so, anyways don’t worry me and my boys will help you and our college’s help you keep an eye on Akechi.” the man says, Jose giggles a little at that and says: “ are you being this vague on purpose, just for suspense?” the man looks a little insulted at and puts his hands at his side and says: “ well excuse me for trying to make an engaging narrative, this isn’t as easy as it looks!” the green butterfly comes back at that and puts itself on the robe man’s shoulder, it puts one of its feelers in front of its face, the man looks at the butterfly and says: “ don’t laugh about me doctor, this is serious!”

at the man’s outburst, Jose and the other 2 robed men started to laugh at the man’s plight, the person in question slumped his shoulder, put his hand in his face and sighed, one of the robed men then said: “ Man Boss, you seem to suck at this!” the other said, in a German accent and giggling still: “ Vell, you could certainly do better Boss ja, ja.” The robed man looks at the two of them before saying: “shut it, 53!” it the first and a: “Can it, 65!” to the second, then he sighed again and says to Jose: “well as you can see all of my friends and coworkers are giving me a hard time, but I will keep my eye on Akechi.” “So, when are you going to introduce yourself, to them?”, Jose asks the man waves his hand at Jose’s question, then says: “after he has helped Futaba, if nothing out of the ordinary happens. Besides he is already meeting one of the later helpers that I send his way. But now I don’t want to keep you from meeting with Philemon. So, have good day and we will see each other”

“but of course Mister Professor.”, Jose says before than driving off. The man then put’s a hand on his shoulder for the butterfly to get on and says to the butterfly when it’s in front of his face: “Don’t worry Doctor, I promised to help you, and I will.” He then lets the Butterfly fly off to where it came from, then turned to his still giggling Compatriots and firmly addressed them with: “AND you two get back to WORK!!!” to which they stood straight and gave a response of: “yes Boss!” with some annoyed expiration the first robed man addressed as “53”, as they also moved on.

Meanwhile back with Akechi, it comes back into reality behind the train sta-tion. He still has his lightsaber at his waist and his broken sword, both blade and hilt, in his hand, he should have put them away before but forgot to do it after everything. Oh well no one was around so he could just do it, now as he was about to get on his knee, to put away the swords into his suitcase. When he heard a girl voice saying: “sorry, sorry I am late… Coming through.” And just as he got up to check what was going on *BANG* someone collided with him, Akechi dazed was trying to collect himself, as he did he saw a girl with light brown hair, the ends of which were curled up into wave-like shape’s, she was wearing a light purple winter coat with black buttons and brown shoes.

In front of the girl lay a pinkish Barret, she looked dazed as well form the collision, she opened her brown eyes and then said: “Ugh … what happ- “she stopped mid-sentence as she saw Akechi in front of her, then got up and immediately bowed apologetically before Akechi and said: “I am so sorry!” Akechi who got up and was dusting himself for the umpteen time that day, just gave her one of his char-ismatic smiles and say in his detective prince voice: “Not to worry, I shouldn’t have been standing out into the opening like that.” She frowns and looks confused then says: “but you weren’t standing out in the open.” As she looked around the back of the station, there weren’t any people to be seen, aside from some street musicians and homeless people in the distance. “Well, what I mean is that I shouldn’t be standing out in the middle of the street like that.” The girl looked like she wanted to correct him again but choose not to, then she said: “but I should apologize again, it was rude of me to bump into you like that. I was just in a rush to my housekeeping classes.”

Akechi locked confused at that, the girl looked to be the same age as him, so about fifteen, he bent down and picked up the Barret and gave it to the girl, who looked confused before touching her head with her gloved hand realizing that her headpiece was gone she accepted it back with a small “thanks” Akechi than asked: “house-keeping classes? Are you trying to become a maid or something like that?” the girl smiled a little at that, giggling a little at the proposition saying: “You wouldn’t be the first to assume.” Before shifting to a bit more of a glum tone holding more tightly onto the Barret still in her hands, saying: “But No, my father is sending me of to become a good housewife, so that I can take good care of my future husband and take care of the kids later.” The girl bluntly stated, and Akechi look a little stunted, while he heard of women who studied to become proper housewife, usually they choose this of their own not at the behest of others. He didn’t give a shit about, the troubles of others but just like with Futaba there where exceptions and the tight-lipped expression of the reminded him of his mother, when she had trouble with some harsh customer and was just trying his best to please them.

so he asked: “you don’t look to happy about the methods of your father. Why don’t you tell him that you wane do something different?” the girl looked shocked at that and quickly says: “What?!? Of course, I am happy, I just want to make my father happy and meet his expectation and I know he might seem a little extreme to some, but I am doing this, because my father cares about me and wants me to have a good future.” She finishes with a smile that didn’t quite reach her ears, Akechi finding thing’s a little hard to believe raised one of his eyebrows and asked: “And who are you, if it is not to rude to ask?” the girl looked, a little more normal at that question and say: “of course, it is a little rude not to introduce myself. My name is Haru.” Akechi looked a little more perplexed and asked: “Haru…, don’t you have a last name?” the girl clutching her Barret again tight, looking a little more uncomfortable said: “just Haru is fine, that is all I have to say about it!” she says finely.

Robin and Loki both looked at each other with disbelieve, Robin saying: “this girl either is in Hard denial or is just delusional. She says one thing, but her body says another thing.” Loki whistled at that and says to Robin: “wow I didn’t know you were into the shy and submissive girls, you wane ask her out on a date?” Robin hood just made a face, that said this is really not the time for this, but instead of backing down he said: “and what makes you so sure she is my type, why don’t you ask her out on a date and find out?” Loki just frowned at that and said: “I don’t have time to ask out a girl, we have more important plans.” Robin with his arms crossed and a half smirk on his face just shook his head then said: “but that is not important. Cleary there is something wrong and we should ask.”

Akechi intended to ask about the problem like Robin suggested and wanted to ask her more. But Haru seems to realize that her way of talking only made the boy more suspicious. So, she asked more confidently: “but what is the Detective Prince Goro Akechi doing, here with some plastic sword here anyway.” Akechi realizing that she was changing the subject, decided to comply after all what were the odds of him seeing her again and he need to make sure that she wouldn’t tweet about the swords so he said: “well in my free time I am doing some LARPing, by myself and well as you can see one of my Weapons broke during some scene so I am going to find some place to fix it.” Haru looked up at that and said: “Oh, I know just the place for that. You should try “Untouchable” the shop caries different soft air guns and different plastic Weapons that look very realistic.” Haru looked a little nostalgic then started to say: “I used to hang out in the back ally there when I was 13 to get away from father after my mother died, the owner saw me and took me in. I used to gush over the models there and play with them, even sneak a few smokes with him.”

She smiled as she recounted the memories, then realized that Akechi was next to her, while and said with shaky firmest: “But I am a good girl now and focus on my future, so that is all in the past.” Akechi wanted to voice his skepticism again, but figured that there wasn’t much of a point, so instead he said: “sound like you had quite a wild past, how about you keep a secret about my hobby, and I keep a secret about yours.” The girl looked surprised, then nodded her head and said: “alright, I can do that.” Akechi then went to leave with a “have a good day” but then he heard a “hey” and turned around Haru still holding her Barret, then said: “thank you for listing to me, I feel a little better because of it. But yes, have a good day.” She then put her Barret on and rushed off to the station. Huh what a strange girl Akechi thought, then thought about the store she mentioned maybe it could have helped

he got down and collected the sword which fell off of him and then stored them in his suitcase then turned around and saw a large gray coat near a bench, with a bowl hat next to it. Who would leave this just here Akechi thought, he looked around but saw no one this could belong to, well he needed to keep a low profile so for now he would take it. So, he quickly puts the large Coat over himself and puts the bowl hat on, good no one would recognize him like this. In the distant there was, there was another man with a hood looking out of the bushes, seeing Akechi put on the Coat and hat, the man in the hood than speaks into a walkie-talkie saying: “Boss, this is 381 the Crow has taken the jewel, I repeat the Crow has taken the jewel.” The Walkie-Talkie then responded: “good work, now just keep your distance and keep watch, shouldn’t be too hard right.” “You can trust me and my stealth-ability’s, Boss.” The man said into the walkie-talkie, which then replied: “good, go on then!” with that the conversation ended and the man, turned himself invisible by hitting a button on the Watch-like device on his wrist and then followed Akechi to …

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Untouchable, as Akechi reached the back alley where it was located and looked at the build-ing, it looked a little shade and ran down, but maybe that’s what the owner wanted. Akechi walked up to the building, behind the glass door he saw the owner arguing with some men Akechi headed inside when he noticed that the men where some plane clothed Police officers, one in a black suit the other beige, he heard: “we know you got some contraband in here!” one of the two said, the owner meanwhile just smiled and ask: “do you two have even a warrant for this search?” Akechi was looking at the two officer, the world seem to slow and shift, was he able to use this third in the real world too, huh convenient he thought, then look with his ability if these two were part of Shido ring, but from the look of things they weren’t, good he thought this will make things simpler, the men now noticed the walking trenchcoated boy in the door way and one of the officer ask in a very ruff tone: “And who are you? one of the henchmen of this gangster?”

Akechi needs these 2 knuckleheads gone, then said: “No, but you two are being reassigned to a new Case.” The men looked confused at the words. Akechi then took of the hat before continuing with: “I was assigned to the Case of investigating, this store and you two are being send onto patrol.” The two officers looked a little confused, then one officer asked: “and who authorized this?” “I was briefed, on the case considering that the Mental shutdown Case is currently on hold till further details arise, so I figured I could help out with some of the lesser cases so here.” Akechi lied bold faced and in a very serious tone to the 2 officers, one of the officers then looked at the other then said: “well orders are orders.” “But … “the man in the beige suit started, then the one in the black suit whispered: “Besides, we don’t have a warrant.”

The other nodded and then said: “alright, we trust you to take care of this detective Akechi.” “Detective brat!” the beige suited one whispered, Akechi shuck his head ignoring the scorn of the two, then he turned to the owner, who looked a little perplexed before than giving a little smirk, then said: “the detective Prince himself, not only gracing, my store but also getting the cops of my ass. To what do I own the honor.” Akechi first decide to work his usual princely face and said: “well I heard you could, help me with something I require help with and …” but the man cut him off and said: “okay no, I sometimes was forced to watch some of your interview and as someone, who has expe-rience of talking out of my ass and sweet talking certain fellows, just talk like a normal person and drop the bullshit.” Akechi was surprised by that reaction, but clearly if there was anything towards the “gangster” allegation then he may as well be a little more serious. “Alright, I have something that require an expert in model weapons.” The owner seems to like the more serious tone say: “now that sounds more like a negotiable tone, now what can I do for you?” “well,” Akechi started, got his suitcase on the counter opened it and quickly got his broken segregated Blade out of it and put on the counter and then asked: “this Blade, I would want it fixed.”

Akechi looks sternly at the man than asks: “Can you do that.” The man looked at Akechi, then asked: “how did you even break, this thing?” Akechi who had enough shit for today just answered: “None of your dame Businesses!” the owner blinked at that an-swer before, putting a hand on his military Cap with the yellow Earmuffs and starts to laugh, then say: “man if I knew there, was this much of a punk behind your polite exterior maybe I wouldn’t have clicked of off them. Okay kid, how about we make a deal, in the back.” He took the blade and led Akechi into the back of the store and got himself on a folding chair, put the blade on the workbench and then got onto the chair as he pointed to a stool in the corner, but Akechi instead just leaned on the Wall. The man just waved his hand and then started with: “alright, I don’t know what a Police detective would need to have a plastic blade like this fixed but like you said, it is none of my dame business. So why don’t we do some real talk, what you heard from your colleges is truth to some extend about me being a “gangster” and let’s just say have been involved with some unsavory business and I suppose that is now catching up to me. Well to make a long story short, I could use a man on the inside to warn me on incoming police searches and in turn I will repair your sword for free and maybe show you some Technik’s you can use to accentuate your sword play, I have some training in the field. How about it?”

the man gets up and stretches his hand out towards Akechi, who stands straight now looking at the hand being presented to him and asks, in a nonchalant tone: “what, no bringing goods to some of your “gangster” or some other illegal activities are expected of me? I have dealt with Yakuzas before and usually some kind of exchange is made.” The owner looks up at that, then laughs it off: “No, you punk, if I sent you to one of my contacts, you’d just scare them off, I’ll wait for someone else to be my errand boy. But if you could keep me looking clean for the feeds that’ll be enough and I’ll throw in my “special menu” of weaponry, for a fair price.” Akechi looks at the Hand off the owner, then thinks about the alternative of getting it repaired somewhere else. But that would take too long and maybe he could find something worthwhile in this “special menu”. So, Akechi takes the hand of the man and says: “Alright deal.” Then he hears the voice again, sounding early like her…

I am thou, Thou art I
Thou hast acquired a new Vow

I shall be the Blade and Bow of Justice
That shall change your Fate from Ruin

With the Birth of the Sun Persona
You shall find the Path of Freedom that’ll
Safe you from the yoke of this twisted game

Sun Arcana Rank 1:

New Ability:

Remember the basics: you can now use skill with your Weapons and perform combos.

Special Menu: you can now modify weapons with special effects and stat upgrades.

Why does he keep hearing her now, is his guilt catching up with him. No Isshiki is dead, and she won’t be back. “Good to hear, by the way since we are in a partnership now is suppose I should introduce myself, since you didn’t seem to know my name, I am Munehisa Iwai but just call me Iwai and before you try and start getting polit with me no “sir” Bullshit all right punk.” The man named Iwai snaped him out of his stupor. He then continued: “since the re-pairs are going to take a while.” He pause got up and opened one of the closets in the back and looked through it then got a identical looking red blade with a sheave out and gave it to Akechi and said: “here take this one, not many of my customers like serrated blades but I have a couple in the bag, for special customers like you.” Akechi looked at the blade and inspected the quality, then nodded his head in acceptance of the blade. Iwai then said: “good now get out of here you punk, it’s late I’ll have your blade ready in 3 days.”

Akechi looked out to see the sun was already setting then said with mock anger: “alright, but you better don’t fuck it up old man!” Iwai laughed again and said another time “punk” as Akechi, having stashed away the blade, left the store. The man “381” was still watching the scene invisibly, then talking into the walkie Talkie asking: “should I still follow him, Boss?” the reply came swift with a nonchalant: “No, let the night shift handle this. Just report back home and give your report notes or meet us up in mementos.” 381 replied with a “understood” then left, for the station to go to mementos better meet up with the boss before leaving he thought, going to the station then going visible again, lifting the sleave of his brown cloak and pushing a few buttons on the wristband computer underneath shifting into the metaverse. Akechi meanwhile arrived back home, he put his suitcase away, then got ready for bed and thought how to act next in the situation, considering that Futaba was most likely in Yongen-Jaya he should probably check out the area. Well, he can see that tomorrow.

And with that thought he went to bed and went to sleep. The next morning which was a Sunday Akechi got ready, dressing himself in a more hiding Winter coat, that would hide himself and headed for Yongen-Jaya, as he was in Shibuya his phone was ringing, he half expected Futaba to send him a meme or Sae to remind him of a meeting, but it was an unknown number so either a person that happened to get his number or more likely it was Shido, he pick up: “yes, Hello?” the other end replied with a: “oh, good that your keeping your word of always being availa-ble.” Akechi got into a corner near his daily Bakery stand and made sure no one saw him, then said: “but of course sir, I aim to please. Is there something the matter?” he was dis-gusted at the honeyed voice he talked through on the phone, to the man that was the bane of his existence, but he would patiently wait for his opportunity to strike. “No, but I suppose wanted to let you know that you did a good work with your last job.” Shido said to which Akechi replied: “Oh it is all in a day’s work, sir!” to which Shido said: “Although I did hear about something, about a data leak in the police and you running around Shibuya and I won-der what it is about.” Shit Akechi thought, before saying: “don’t worry sir I am already on this problem as we speak, that is why I was going about Shibuya and like. I was just on my way to investigating a lead.”

Shido scoffed over the other side of the phone, before saying: “just make sure this doesn’t negatively affect my campaign for next year!” “Nothing to worry about Sir, it’s not like anyone knows about your connection with the police force and with the SIU director backing and keeping our connections hidden, we should be fine.” Akechi swiftly replied to which Shido said: “alright, I will tell you if I have anymore Orders for you, keep in touch.” “Yes, Sir” and with that Akechi ended the call, good he thinks that went well hopeful-ly Shido doesn’t realize what he is actually doing hopefully. And with that last thought he went to Yongen, he looked around the area and took note of everything there, which wasn’t much. He first saw a supermarket and a cinema down the way from the station, but he heads the other way and saw a Café called “Leblanc” “huh, that sounds familiar” he wonders half aloud but he continues down the street to see a bath house, which awoke a both pleasant and unpleasant sensation from his mind, do to having associates bath houses as both a place of relaxation and his mother accepting clients, into their house to do thing he doesn’t want to think about, he shutters a little behind his thick scarf and winter hat he wears. To others it should just look like him shivering at the cold January air, not that it mattered,

he goes further down the way but the path only seems to lead back to the station so he turns back and goes down the other way and goes along to the supermarket and cinema, he sees the en-trance for a batting cage when he hears a: “… how many times do I have to tell you, to stop taking on patients of me, is it not bad enough what you have done.” He hears a man say, then hears another voice behind him: “Ugh, l do not have to explain myself to you. I am just practicing my medicine here, just leave me to my field, didn’t you get already what you wanted.” This voice sounded female, as he turned around, he saw a man who was wearing a brown business suit and woman the women had a dark blue hair, had a lab coat on under-neath it she wore a black dress with a red belt. The man was clutching her arm harshly dragging her away from the building, Akechi felt again the burn anger inside him, with Loki saying: “I think we show this asshole, some manners!” Robin interjected with: “while I agree with your assessment, we shouldn’t do anything rash!”

Loki looked at Robin and then begrudgingly sighed before nodding agreeingly. As the man wanted to drag the woman away, suddenly he felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned around and saw what looked like a kid just holding him back, at this the man irritated said: “what do you want brat, I don’t have time to deal with being your babysitter. Now get lost before I call the cops on you for dis-turbing my conversation with my college!” Akechi just inside of himself then said, in a clam and mild tone: “that would be unnecessary.” The man looked confused and raised one of his eyebrows, Akechi then took of the scarf and hat he was wearing to hide his identity and the man changed from red anger to a small shock, the man then tried to use the situation and say: “ Detective Akechi, I didn’t know you were in these parts!?! You see I was just having a dispute with my college here, she has been stealing from me, and I was just holding her in place till the police showed up to take her in, but now that you are here, I am sure you can take her in.” Akechi looked at the man’s desperate attempt at getting out of an assault charge, but just wanting this slimeball away from this woman said: “alright, I will handle the situation from here, but I need you Mister…” “Oyamada. Shoichi Oyamada.”

“Mr. Oyamada, I need you to leave to conduct my Integration, of the person in question. If anything, does come up you will be Informed.” Oyamada looked like he wanted to argue, but a stern look from Akechi dashed any change of that and with that the man in the brown suit let go of the women’s wrist and made of in a hurried rush. Akechi turns to the shocked Women still clutching her held wrist, she looks at him then asks: “you don’t seriously believe him, when he said that I stole from him, because he was just complaining again that some of his clients came to my clinic.” Akechi just said to the women: “well I do have another investigation on-going in the area, but I suppose I can make time for that ‘interrogation’! is there somewhere we can talk in private?” “My clinic is right in front of you.” The women says Akechi motions for her to lead the way, to which the women leads the way and goes into the clinic then goes into one of the office’s she sits down on an office chair and gestures for Akechi to sit, he sits down on the doctor’s bed and then ask: “may I first of all ask for your name Miss.” The women looked at him with her legs crossed, then smirked a little and said: “Tae Takemi. And I have to say, I didn’t expect THE Goro Akechi come to my rescue.” “Well, I am more than a people pleaser, after all it is my Job to protect the people of Tokyo!” Akechi said in his detec-tive prince voice, Takemi just rolled her eyes then asked: “No, but seriously, why did you put yourself between, Me and my old college?”

Akechi thought about the fact that that he only Safed her because he had to think about his mother again but then choose to say: “it is just because it is my job. Don’t think about it as thought, it was my Job to help and that’s about it.” Takemi looked at the boy with a little skepticism, but felt like that he would just lock up more if she pressed it, but she also became an idea so instead she shifted her face to some-thing more neutral and then said: “alright, hey how about I give you a free examination for the little rescue?” Akechi looked at her a little suspicious at that but thought about it. Well, he did need to be in top form if he wanted to go into Futaba’s palace so and it was quite a while after his last check up at a doctor, so he said: “fine.” Takemi smiled at that it has been quite a while since she had seen such a fine specimen of a teenager, maybe this could help her restart the research into Miwa’s condition and get her closer to a cure, she then said: “alright, then please take of you Jacket and shirt.”

Akechi did as she told, putting his Jacket on the coat hanger on the door and putting his clothes on the stool, Takemi then proceeded to take a stethoscope and give Akechi a full examination, as finished her physical examina-tion she got a small measuring cup from the back with a dark green liquid, Akechi who in that moment was putting his shirt back on, then notice the cup and eyed it suspiciously and asked: “and what is that?” Takemi just said: “it’s a bit of a muscle relaxer, with some green tea hence the green color, would you like to try some?” “And why should I trust you on this?” Akechi asks back, Robin and Loki eyed each other also skeptical, with Robin saying: “well that statement seem somewhat fishy.” Loki looked at Robin and said: “I feel like you wane say “but”.” To which Robin said: “but we could also use some supplies and maybe this is just what we need.”

Loki wanted to argue but they had only a few supplies left after their last few metaverse trips for Shido and getting their hands on medicine was already hard as it gets so they didn’t really have a choice. And so, Akechi said: “Yes, I have been feeling rather sore.” He finished with a fake smile, she handed him the glass, he swirled it around a little as she looked at him expectingly and then *Gulp* he finishes in one swig, at first, he feels fine and looks at Takemi and says: “I don’t really feel different, are you sure those were muscle relaxants?” Takemi looked astonished, saying: “Wow, it should take effect now you seem to ha-“but she didn’t get to finish that sentence because at that moment Akechi collapsed onto the Bed.

(everything goes dark, and you die) (oh… wait wrong game… sorry)

as Akechi awoke to a white sealing, he felt very groggy as he came to he touched his head he looked around and saw Takemi with a clipboard in handwriting down notes as she noticed he had awaken saying: “Oh, your finally awake. I thought you be out for longer but then again, the dose of the medicine I gave you was only quite small.” Akechi who was still quite in a different state of mind angerly stated: “WHAT… did you do to me.” Takemi looked a little shocked at the sudden harsh verbal lashing, before putting the clipboard down and smiling to herself, before saying: “Damm and here I thought that you could only be a polite ass-kisser, only joking of course. I kind of figured there was more to your TV appearances. Anyways, you are feeling good?”

“That’s!!!...” Akechi angerly begun, before he notices that he did indeed feel a lot lighter and relaxed, Takemi giggled to herself: “It seem the medicine worked, good. Listen before you go mouthing about how I drugged a cop how about I make you a deal, you help me get started at working at my home special drugs and you get free treatment and easy Access to medicine at a fair price. And I know this might seem a little quick to the punch, but I think we can discuss the rest of the details later.” Akech looked at the doctor and thought about it and had to admit he could take this to his advantage, so he said: “Deal!” and he gave Takemi’s his hand which she shook, and he heard (Wakaba’s) her voice again.

I am thou, Thou art I
Thou hast acquired a new Vow

I shall be the Blade and Bow of Justice
That shall change your Fate from Ruin

With the Birth of the Moon Persona
You shall find the Path of Freedom that’ll
Safe you from the yoke of this twisted game

Moon Arcana Rank 1:

New Ability:

Medicine cabinet: Allows the purchase of Medicine in Takemi’s clinic

Concoctive Mix: Allows Takemi to brew special Medicines for extra buffs

With that Akechi resumed the conversation with: “under one condition.” “Sure, my little hamster.” Takemi replied with Akechi didn’t quite catch that last part and continued with: “you give me a little bag with some of your medicine.” Takemi then threw him a bag into his lap, to which Akechi looked surprised. Takemi then said: “I figured you want something like that, so I already made a little sample size for you, but don’t expect the best form these there still in an experimental phase.” Akechi looked at the medicine in the bag, before stuff-ing it into his coat pockets then she gave him a slip of paper and said: “Here is my number in case you need it, just don’t send it to your crazy fans, I don’t need them here.” Akechi merely nodded at that, then put the note away with the rest of his stuff and then got ready to leave. As he went to exit the clinic he asked: “Also, what did you call me?!?” Takemi got a grin at that and said: “well I need a little test animal and now I got it, unless you wane be my little test bunny!” she starts to giggle at that, Akechi not wanting to deal with this conversation just rolled his eyes and said: “yeah, sure.” With a sarcastic undertone and left the clinic and got onto the street ready to continue his investigation.

Chapter Text

Meanwhile in Mementos sitting on the platform 2 hooded men sat at the platform, they were talking with each other the first started with: “vell, 53 it would seem that everything is going to plan, ja ja. And before you say it ja, I know that doesn’t mean much. But still it is great that we got our feet of the ground.” The other man, 53 just said: “Yeah, 65 but just like with the Titel “Naked and unloved” in Metal gear rising, just because it is the technically, not hard. Doesn’t change the fact that it’s a pain in the ass to have to reset your entire save file just to get it.” To that 65 nodded his head and said: “vell, I suppose that is truth, but you now how Videogames are sometimes there just a pain in the ass, ja ja.” To which 53, just shucked his head and said: “yeah. But can you stop with the German accent, seriously just talk like the rest of us you can put on the antics in front of our comrades later.” At that 65 sighed and said: “fine, do you find it better this way.” This time speaking in a normal way without an accent.

To which 53 replied: “there we go much better.” Then a third figure came up the escalator and said: “are you done, having your teatime you 2 knuckleheads?” as the figure finished, 53 and 65 turned to their Boss and 53 said: “Teatime, we didn’t even have a beer Boss, we were just keeping a lookout like you told use to and aside from a few shadows that we used for target practice, there was nothing going on. I mean boss why are we even here if we aren’t even allowed to have some fun?” the hooded man, just scoff and says:

“If you don’t like it you can join Uzi on Copper-9, their would also be the option the you travel to Paris and look if there is an Akuma that you can help Ladybug & chat noir with or I am sure Darth Vader wouldn’t mind you helping him with some Jedi hunt or if that doesn’t suit your fancy you could hang out with Helltaker, I am sure if anything Judgment is sure to give you a fight worth your while. 53 you know how to make a Portal to an Alternate Universe so if you don’t like it here, then you can just go I am not keeping you prison here which you should already know by now. Or if that dosen’t suit your fancy I am sure our friends in S.E.E.S. or the Investigation team would love to give you some work with them."

53 chuckled at that saying: “yeah sure Boss, but can we seriously take these stupid brown Robes, we aren’t the fucking Wanderer out of Diablo. And don’t say we are doing this to conceal our Identity from Akechi, Yaldabaoth or anyone else, the only Reason we are doing this is for the Reader so why not get the introduction over with!!!”

the man sighed and says: “Did you have to give the game away, well if we’re going to do this might as well do it in style.” And with that the man threw of the brown Robes to reveal a man in A Lab Coat with A green shir that had the text “Of course I talk to myself, sometimes I need an expert’s opinion!” written on it, he wore blue jeans with brown shoes, He had brown eyes wore glasses and had brown hair which was wildly scattered on his head, I continued with: “Yes, hello dear Readers we are doing this and before all of you Go “oh god he is doing an self-insert character of himself and is breaking the forth wall” ba ba bap just sit tight and relax I guarantee you it will not be so bad. So first of All, I am the man you know as “The 1001 Professor”, and first of all I would like to thank everyone who read this far, thank you for your continued support, but please just call me Professor. Anyway so yeah as you can probably read from the title of this chapter I wane give Introduction to myself and give a demonstration to myself and your probably think well why is he doing it in chapter 14 of this Story and to that I say, well originally I wanted not to do this, but then decided to say Fuck it and just go for it but don’t worry I am not the main character of this Story, no that honor still belong to Akechi & Futaba, but I wanted to have a few interactions later, that wouldn’t fit with Akechi so yeah that’s were I come in as wise-cracking Metacommentary-Guy plus I want to be a bit a bridge between the Velvet room cast and the other characters, also it gives me the excuse to talk and use other Fandoms to spice up a part of the story, IF run a little low on Ideas. BUT this isn’t a multi-fandom story. The core of the story Is going to be about the Persona-cast so don’t worry I won’t spoil that, most of the chapters will still revolve around the Persona characters alone, think of other character merely as cameo-appearances. So yeah, that is the explanation I wanted to take away from the start… hm what else did I want to talk about…?”

I scratch my chin trying to remember what I wanted to say, before 65 interrupts with: “well, we would take more thoughts into consideration if we got actual feedback to our story, but that is just a side note anyways as for 381 you heard about, yes he is also a part of our group and yes we will explain all of that later, but …” suddenly there are a lot of shadows spawning 53 then says: “ well it seems Faye doesn’t like us doling around, huh … well Boss why don’t you give them a demonstration of why they shouldn’t mess with us.”

The first Shadow gets closer to the Professor and gets ready to attack, the Professor looks unimpressed and yawns, before the shadow smashes the spot where he stood, It gave a satisfied noise from itself and wanted to turn to the other intruders when suddenly Applause was heard from its shoulder, it looked over to its side and saw the Professor just sitting on its shoulder clapping saying: “wow you really showed him huh, he was a real jerk, anyway so you going to move on to the others.” The shadow then hit itself onto the shoulder, it stubbled back trying to catch its balance the Professor however was already gone again, he than appeared in front of the shadow and pulled a Shotgun from his back and holds it in front of him and saying: “alright, lets get more serious. Sing them a good Song, Elizabeth. Hahahaha!!!”

he starts laughing a little crazy, then charges at the shadow and give him a face full of pellets, the shadow collapse into smaller shadows all of which are wounded, I then take out some of my combat knifes, then charge at the smaller shadows slashing and kicking at them in fashionable Combos, getting a few shots in with Elizabeth (my shotgun) and finishing them off with an X-slash the shadows disperse into mist and only some of their blood remains on the floor. I then look at the other shadows and say to them, pointing the knife at them: “come now, no need to be shy.” I then gesture with the knife and my hands for them to get closer saying in a low voice: “who’s next?!?”

one of the shadows seem to fall for my challenge charging at me, the shadow in-tend on striking the intruder gets ready to deal a blow with all his might, he was just standing there menacingly, as if anticipating the attack the shadow doesn’t falter how ever and deals a devastating punch to the Professor, who is send flying by the force and falls limps on the floor, the shadows look on have they finally dealt with this intruder and could they move on to the others when they heard a crackling sound of electricity next to the dealing the blow and a voice saying: “uh, wow you really showed that Guy not to mess with you Ey big guy?”

the Professor was leaning on the shadow leg, throwing what looked like a golden Pocket watch into the air and catching it, the shadow surprised by the sudden reappearance of it’s believed Dead target got ready to deal a second blow, the professor catches the watch like object in his hand puts it away and then counters the blow with his Arm by parrying, then throwing a Katana with a red Sach out of his sleave catching it in midair and very fast slicing it and sheathing it creating a torrent of cuts and slices, destroying the arm of the shadow.

The professor then clipped the Katana to his belt, getting a Lollipop out of his Lab coat quickly unwrapping it giving it a few licks before taking it out of its mouth then pointing it at the shadow saying: “foolishness, such foolishness.” Before putting the Lollipop back into his mouth and quickdraw sprinting through the Shadow coming out with the Katana drawn in front of him, before standing up straight spinning the Katana in his Hand and sheathing it, the shadow falls apart in pieces, the Professor then Looks at 53 and 65 and says them: “You wanted some Action, so come now Join the fun.”

53 and 65 looked at each other and then threw of there Cloaks revealing men looking very similar to the Professor, with 53 having his lab coat sleeves pulled up revealing some scars on his arm and a Scar over his right eye and 65 having his hair in very high position and having electric sparks pass through it he was also wearing a backpack with a red cross and a peculiar hose attached to it, he then pulls the lever of the devise and a red beam attaches itself to 53 as he pulls out a silver and a black Handgun and saying: “Alright, hey you ugly motherfuckers say hello Ebony & Ivory.”

He then looks at the guns and says: “alright ladies, make them bleed!” he then addresses 65 with: “and doc, don’t just leave all the kills to me.” 65 scoffs and says: “as if I would, might I remind you that in our last battle that I beat you soundly.” 53 replies to that: “yeah, but we’re still even.” He then addresses the Professor: “Yo Boss, can you give some good battle music.” The Professor looks over, then presses on his sleaves bringing his wristband computer and Fiddle with the settings on it before putting on “Devils never Cry (DMC 3)” than asking: “good enough?”

53 shrugs and says: “well, I was expecting a Doom track, but this works too. Let’s Rock!!!” 53 got ready to charge into Battle when I interrupted: “how about we spice this Challenge, whoever defeats/kills more shadows wins you 2 against me.” 53 and 65 look at me then at them self and say: “your on!” before we raise our hands to form a Magical Barricade and divided the Shadows into 2 groups and we charged into Battle. I then say: “fear the Power of the Yamato.”

Before proceeding to proceed to preform different Combos on the Shadows cutting them to pieces before pulling a Broadsword with Twin Skulls from my back and two Blue gemstones being affixed in the eyes and then dual wilding it with the Katana Meanwhile 53 and 65 Proceed to decimate there shadows with 53 preforming different combos with E & I and a Rocket launcher and 65 using a bone saw and a crossbow, as well as an SMG and a Shotgun. When the first wave was dealt with and more shadows spawn, I concentrate my Powers, and my Yamato and Rebellion proceeded to glow and break apart before resifting into greaves and Gauntlets on my Hands and feet.

I then proceeded to beat the living hell out of the shadows, when only a few of them remain I then said: “well it seems, you have managed to brave my onslaught. Allow me to reward your resilience!” I then turned the Grives and Gauntlets, back into Yamato and Rebellion. Before putting my hands on my face and saying: “come to me, Doctor Who!” with a Flash from my glasses the Persona appears, appearing as a blue old British telephone booth know as the T.A.R.D.I.S. with its door standing open and an Arm hanging out of the door, I then call: “well let’s start simple, Megidolaon!” with an Arm movement of the Persona, the purplish blue white Orb annihilated some of the shadows, 53 who was still juggling shadows in the air with his fire arms looked over and said: “pff, showoff.”

65 also took notice and put some of his fire arms away for to saw like weapons with syringes in the middle saying: “ugh, at this rate I won’t get the übercharge ready, hang 53 I’ll double these übersaw these weaklings!!!” and 65 charges in slicing shadows into ribbons with the twin weapons. 53 then decided to switch Tactics as well and took out a high frequency Blade and decided to also slice the shadows into mincemeat. I look over at my boys and smile, they really are the stuff, weöö got the stuff I made them out off.

I then turn back to my side of the field only to see doctor Who in front on me and I jump a little falling on my ass and say: “what was that, ugh if you got something withy to say just get it over with already!” the telephone box turns itself before me that the arm is in front of me then snaps its finger and Rebellion fly’s of the ground and into the Hand, which hold the Blade to my neck and I raise my head a little not to get cut, not that it would matter. I than here a scoff come from the telephone box, as the doors open as A mirror image of myself exits with a dark-blue Aura and Yellow eyes, his hair is more wildly strun about.

Behind him is a more fearful looking version of myself, also with a blue Aura and yellow eyes, burt hiding behind the other half of itself. As my shadow continues to press my Rebellion to my neck, he uses his other hand to dismiss the empty telephone both then he says: “What is this Boss, you already got your introduction and now you expect US to just be ignored. Tsk tsk tsk, now this won’t do!” he then throws Rebellion into the air catching the Lollipop I have in my mouth, which I doge with a quick down-Trick and them catch the Lollipop in my hand before putting it back in my mouth looking annoyed, before he than hold the tip of the blade and say: “Take care of our brothers and sisters, we will handle the narration for now.” He chuckles and his other half chimes in: “t-t-that’s right Boss, i-i-it’s our turn for an in-troduction.”

as I take Rebellion from him and pick up Yamato from the ground, I look at my shadow self *sigh* and say: “alright, just don’t muck it up.” Making a V with my fingers and pointing it from my eyes to theirs, before continuing the battle against the Shadows. “Well with that taken Care of. Hello Idiots of the Internet reading this masterpiece of a Fan-fic…”

before our other self says: “hey if you’re going to do an introduction at least don’t in-sult our viewer base/readers and don’t oversell our skills!” I just scoff and say: “alright, then Hello ladies and gentlemen who love to read about their, favorite Series because they got nothing better to do in their live.” My other self just rolls his eyes and goes back to fighting with my brethren and sisters as I continue: “well as you might, be able to read I am a Shadow. That is if you haven’t been living under a Rock and have never played a Persona game or in general have nothing to do with Shin Megami Tensei, Now the hardcore Nerds under you will probably say something like um actually you can’t predict your own shadow so this whole character is nonsense and um actually as seen in the Answer of Personas 3 Fes, In Mitsuru flashback it is shown guns are ineffective on Shadows so this whole fight scene is nonsense and to that first off all I say Fuck the Bullshit rules we are doing this Shit our own way”

he gives to middle fingers to the screen and then continues: “and second of all we are Gods and can shape reality however we see fit!!! Haha-ha.” My shadow self laughs maniacally, before I jump in and clarify: “Yes, but we have some rules on how we can apply it, so it has its limitations, most of which I explain later. And before you ask yes because I am a God so is my shadow.”

I scoff at my other self and says: “yeah, well that is still a lot of power to hold so it counts.” He rolls his eye again, before going back again I then continue: “anyways, so yeah, we are Dimensional Time traveler, that basically keep the peace in the Multiverse and basically watch over universe or in other terms we are interdimensional stalkers as a Job. As Boss would say it isn’t something he is proud of but he going to do it well or as well as he can, now then If you excuse me my fearful compatriot will take over from here because I want a piece of the action pie! Oh, and more on that later, but this chapter is already getting long so yeah”

He runs of leaving me behind, as I stand up strait my hands nervously clasp together, I continue: “H-H-Hello, everybody I will fill out some other details my more prominent self, forgot to mention. A-a-as we are now, we aren’t separate shadow we are just one, but each represent a part of Boss that he then to hide a little. I-I-I represent the Professor outward shyness and fear of new things, and h-h-he represents Boss no filter outwardness, wait I probably should have said that no we should have our a-a-actions speak for themselves Damit. W-W-Well, since we are on the topic I might as well say, our Persona from Doctor Who st-ems from the fact that, that just as there are many different doctors, the Professor sees himself as many different iterations of himself and t-t-that is being repre-sented. That is all we wanted to say.” As I look around, I see all the shadows that have been dealt with by my compatriots and I see my other half talk to our other self, I then nervously make my way over there and go behind him again.

As my shadow and I finish counting bodies, I turn the music off and suddenly hear the noise of chains rattling and I know what it means, there I see it the Moster born or maybe just first seen 15 years ago, the thing that scares every low-level persona user like no other “The Reaper”. I step in front of the thing that is just blood thorn Ribbons held together, by shear visceral hate for humans and I say: “well well well, if it isn’t the thing born of off Nyx’s last stary thought before she became the moon. I would suggest you work for me seeing as I am the only other current Grim-Reaper around but seeing as you ran to Izanami during the 2011/2012 Midnight Channel debacle, I presume you now want to work for Yaldabaoth now, huh.”

He narrowed his eye at me than says: “Me not want to talk. Me just want to deal with you Peskey Humans.” I look mock offended, as if I didn’t see that answer coming and say: “woah pal just because I am still part human you want to try and kill me again, who Rude didn’t your mommy not teach you manners. Besides the score is like what 100-0 or in other word “how many times do we have to teach you this lesson old Man!””

but instead of receiving a Reply he just fires at me with his long Revolvers and tries to hit me with his magic. My boys and shadows move out of the way and nod at me to tell me that I can handle this guy myself and their right. So, I proceed to charge at him with my swords and slice and cut away at his health bar until it reaches half at that point I taunt: “is that all?”

I receive the answer in form of a bullet that I doge but hits my lollipop and it lands from my mouth on the tracks and the sugar shatters, I then angerly Look at the Reaper and say: “you shouldn’t have done that!!!” I levitate of the Ground and raise my Hands and fry the Reaper with lightning from my fingertips, seeing as he was shocked from that (ha) I than use my telekinesis to Ripp his Revolvers form his hands and grasp them and transform the handles into Sickel blades and use them to cut his health even lower as he gets into critical Health, 53 yells out: “Finish him!”

I oblige and get back on the ground and Point Rebellion at him saying: “you shall die!” before Preforming a deep-Stinger through his midsection I then turn Around and use Yamato to slice his head of his Shoulders and then throw Yamato to send it flying with the dull end of the handle, after I catch and sheath it I use a Rope spear to impale where his mouth would be to end it. “who’s next?” I ask as 53 and 65 lean at my side and cross their arms. My shadow looks on and says: “The Professor wins. Flawless Victory. Fatality!” we all then collectively laugh as the remains of the Reaper disappear. “Well, this was a long chapter.” I say as 53 comments: “yeah but a kick ass Introduction, hehe!!!” “I would agree.” My shadow as his other part nodes from behind him. “Well then let’s head back home, for now. Also these will look nice with the others” I say as I open a Portal with a wrist motion as I take the long Revolvers and turn them Back to normal, the blue gate way opens to what looks like a warehouse, but it’s just the storage compartment of my house, I see another one of my Boys chilling on some boxes reading a comic I say to him: “oh yeah, 656.”

He looks up at me after putting the comic away “it’s your turn to look after Akechi.” I finish as 656 salutes me and heads out of the portal and to the entrance of Mementos, I then address 53 and 65 as they want to enter the portal: “can you tell 948 to try and find Margrett. Lavenza told us to look for her.” 65 says: “we can do that Boss, but what about Elizabeth.” I say: “I will handle that. I think I already know where she is.” 53 and 65 both nod as they head into the Portal I then turn to my shad-ow and ask: “you wane come in.” he shakes his Head and says: “No, for now I will head back into our Palace, but either way I am just a thought away from you Boss.” And with that he vanishes into thin air, back into my mental landscape. With that I head into the Portal way goodbye to the Readers and close it behind me.