As Soji stepped off the train, he took a quick look back at the past he had just left behind. The murders that had occured, the discovery of the other world, the fight with Izanami, and the power he had obtained and used, as well as the faces of all of his friends, the times they had shared togehter, their smiles, everything flashed through his mind, and he smiled in nostalgia.
"Soji Seta?" Soji snapped out of his quick daydream. Expecting to see his parents, his gazed instead came across a teenager wearing a huge brown overcoat and glasses, looking at him expectedly. Confused a little, since he knew he did not know the teen, Soji nodded.
"Oh good, i found you." The teen sighed with relief. "I was hoping not to wander around this station for half the afternoon looking for you. That would have been quite the pain in my ass." The young man suddenly extended an arm and grabbed Soji's hand. "Follow me, I don't have much time to explain." The kid started walking away, trying to drag soji along with him, but soji easily shook the guy off, and took a step back in alarm.
The kid sighed. "Look, we really are in a hurry. Don't worry about your folks, they've been told a good cover story. However, i need you to come with me right now." The teen lowered his voice. "It's about your recent...'awakening' lets say." The kid raised his eyebrows expectantly at Soji. Nodding firmly, Soji decided to trust the kid and followed him to a black car. Soji spotted the Kirijo groups logo on the side of the car as he stepped into the back seat with the kid.
"My name is Kwondo Kae by the way." The teen smiled at Soji. "We'll both be seniors this year, so just call me Kae." The boy tapped the driver on the shoulder. "We should go now." he said to the driver.
"I don't go anywhere without direct orders from Mitsuru Kirijo. When she calls and tells me it's time to go, then i'll go." The driver said angrily to Kae, and kae sat back and shrugged. "Oh well. I guess they still don't fully believe me." Kae suddenly looked over at Soji. "Oh, I'm sorry! You have no idea about why we're in a kirijo group car or how i know about what's happened to you." Soji nodded again. "Well don't worry, that'll all be explained." Kae said smiling.
A few minutes past, and then the driver's cell phone rang. He picked it up, nodded, and hung up. Starting the car, the driver ordered the two to fasten their seatbelts and drove out of the parking lot. "We're going to one of the Kirijo's business homes. Thats were you'll meet the people you have to meet." Kae said unexpectedly. Soji looked at him funny. "Let me give you some background that you may not know." Kae cleared his throat. "Around three years ago, the world almost ended." Soji's eyes widened in surprise. "Yes, i was shocked the first time i heard it too. However, just like how you and your friend's recently saved the world, the world was saved back then by a group of high schoolers as well." Kae continued. "They too could summon persona's, and so fight against the shadows, just like you. At the end, the nine persona users confronted a being called Nyx, who for lack of a better term, was death itself. They managed to win, and the world was safe. Sounds a lot like recent events for you, doesn't it?"
Soji sat back and stared at nothing for a few moments. He had just finished saving the world, and yet it seemed like he and his friends had simply repeated the past. Kae simply shook his head. "Don't think long on it, we have a bigger problem on our hands." Soji looked at Kae in surprise. "No, it's nothing as complicated as the destruction of mankind or anything like that." Kae tapped the driver on the shoulder. "I'm going to show him, so don't be scared and drive us off the road." The driver nodded, and turned his rear-view mirror away. Soji looked at Kae in alarm as a sudden black ooze with a huge mouth came from the back of Kae and floated a few inches from him. It wasn't huge, and didn't make very much noise, but Soji knew what it was instantly. "That's right, this is my persona." Kae fixed Soji with a hard stare. "I found i could summon this about the time the fog started coming into your town. As you are well aware, you and your friends could only summon your personas in the shadow's world, and three years ago, the team that saved the world then could only summon their persona's during the dark hour, an hour hidden from almost everyone else, where tartarus, the tower that was created for the coming of Nyx, would emerge, and the shadows would apear from. As you can see, it is neither the dark hour, nor are we in the world of shadows, yet here we see a persona." The blob smiled evily at Soji before going back inside Kae. "Clearly, you can see the issue the world is now facing." Kae said sadly, and Soji could only nod in agreement.
"We're here." The driver said suddenly, and the car stopped outside a huge office building, where two men in suits rushed over to open the doors. Kae looked at Soji and smiled. "Well, ya ready to meet the people who saved your life three years ago?"