Disclaimer: I don't own P3P.
Author's Note: Just a very short drabble I found hiding away in my Persona folder.
The Butcher Knife
"Minato-kun," comes Yukari's deceptively calm voice, "Why are carrying around an oversized butcher's knife?"
The boy in question blinks at her before turning his gaze to the weapon clutched in his hands. "…It's an axe," he says after a moment's pause, as if his answer is the most obvious thing in the world. Yukari and Junpei exchange and uncertain glance; Ken subtly begins to inch away.
"That's not an axe," Junpei whispers furiously to his teammates as another Shadow falls to the mighty swish of their Leader's weapon. "That's a murder weapon!" The light of the hallway takes this time to fall onto the edges of the blade and the rusted blood there; the capped boy gulps and pushes Ken in front of him.
Minato spares a brief moment to wonder on the strange quietness of his teammates before sticking his axe into the torso of a Shadow; the blood on the edge of it is really a nice touch, he decides.
"Murder weapon," Junpei continues to mutter behind him, eyeballing his classmate with a wary look. "Murder weapon... Right in our school... The hell, man..."
Yukari promptly ignores him for the sake of her sanity. Ken whimpers and begins to wonder if he should stay back a grade.
Minato spends the rest of the night wondering how such a thing ended up in Tartarus in the first place.