A distortion between space and time occurred, leaving five similar souls to arrive at a place other than their destined destination. The place was spacious and its interior reminded them of a bar. Curiously, there were five vacant stools reserved for them. It was as if the owner of the bar already expected the five of them to come here.
A correspondent thoughts suddenly come to the mind of the visitors. Whatever this place is, it is certainly not the Velvet Room they used to know and visited all along their journeys. The absence of the room's usual attendant proved so, the long-nosed Igor and his assistants were nowhere to be found.
Instead, the room is occupied by an unknown gold-eyed girl about their age. She was wearing the outfit of a waitress and greeted her visitors with a warm smile. Her appearance alerted some of the visitors who probably mistook her for a shadow.
"Master Philemon gathered you here to take a break from saving the world. Please take a seat and introduce yourselves."
The first person who sat down was a teenager with black hairs, brown eyes, and a piercing on his left ears. He wears the St. Hermelin uniform without alterations.
"The name is Naoya Todo, I fight an organization called SEBEC."
The others started following his example when they saw it's safe to sit there and introduced themselves the way Naoya introduced himself.
"My name is Tatsuya Suou, I fight Nazis."
"Minato Arisato is my name, I fight shadows."
"Yu Narukami, I solve crimes. I also fight shadows like Minato."
The person who would introduce himself next to the Narukami fellow nearly winced at the latter's choice of occupation. Given his stone cold rather stoic posing and demeanor, he must be related to a cop or is already one.
"It's Akira Kurusu, I steal people's heart."
Alright, that might be not the most correct things to say as an introduction but what else should he say? All he did say was a brief summary of whatever he did for a living. Breaking into a palace inside people's heart and steal the treasure lying there doesn't sound right. It would even give his predecessor persona user a bad first impression about their newest member.
"You sure do look like a playboy. How many girls have you dated?"
Said the blue haired one, Minato if he remembered correctly. The one who looked like an emo with that hairstyle and headset. Is blue even his natural hair color?
"Several, including my teacher." He was expecting the other person to raise an eyebrow or something else along the line, what he got was the look of approval from the boy instead.
"I see. Have you dated a robot before?"
From there on, the conversation turned into love advice for people who wanted to have a better chance of wooing a maiden of any kind with the older protagonists joining to share their experiences. It was weird to see them like those, ones chosen to save the world from utter destruction by beings beyond human comprehension.
But in the end, they are all still teenagers, right? No one really knows why it always took a teenager to save the world one way or another. Things started to went downhill when a certain Narukami proposed to play the king's game together with his newly-found companions.
It seems like they are all going to stuck here until further notice. Probably until their dancing skills were needed by the world in order to save it from a greater evil. Why is the world always acting like a damsel in distress again?