"Yeah, that's right" said the shadow, raising his arms. "I am me now… I'm not you anymore, see?"

At the same time a huge shining light and a dark wave of energy overcame the entire building blinding Souji. Souji covered his eyes. When he could see again, Yosuke was knocked down on the floor and a giant monster had over taken a good portion of the room.

'Oh…hell…'

"I am a shadow…" began Yosuke's shadow, "The true self… I'll crush everything that bores me…"

"Starting with you!"

The shadow slammed itself on the ground shaking the floor as green waves of a vicious wind rapidly came toward Souji, ready to slam into him.

A huge crash followed as Teddie was slammed into the far wall behind Souji. The beast had to cover its eyes from the lightning barrier that had erupted in front of where Souji stood as an Izanagi coated in a fearsome mix of red and black manifested itself and floated lazily in front of the behemoth, stopping its attack easily with an electric barrier summoned from his free arm.

Bloody Izanagi readied itself to strike when advised to do so.

Souji was shocked. He hadn't expected it to work, he had decided to entrust the Persona he had bonded with since it was him. He didn't mind when it had said those comments, he had readily accepted it all. He knew his own flaws and he had known it was a part of him that was making the comments. To think it would sense his unease and fear and manifest itself in the outside to protect him? He had doubted it would work; he was new at this after all. Souji now realized that by fighting in this world with his Persona helping him, he could become stronger still.

He needed time to think about it later, he would decide how to juggle the new job he had acquired, time with Nanako, and school along with this.

The beast leapt up at Bloody Izanagi, Bloody Izanagi prepared itself and then slammed the blade of its sword at the base of the beast, throwing it like a ragdoll through the wall with one fierce and precise sword strike. The beast hollered in pain as it felt the after effects of the blow.

Souji having shaken off the momentary lapse in judgment cleared himself of his later concerns and paid attention to what was going on.

"Thank you." Said Souji to his Persona, "It was stupid of me to have let my mind wander with a big giant monster in front of me."

Bloody Izanagi merely nodded. Souji's Persona didn't let his eyes off the beast as it heaved itself to its standing position.

"Magatsu," spoke Souji, "We're leaving. We have nothing more to gain here for the investigation and despite the fact this would strengthen our battle prowess, we don't need an idiot dragging us down and making mistakes that we'll more than likely need to fix."

Bloody Izanagi merely nodded in acknowledgement and raised his sword in a defensive position so that Souji could safely leave without fear of the monster harming him. Souji smiled to himself. He was really happy his Persona understood his thoughts and feelings so well and was ready to help him. Souji felt very much indebted to Bloody Izanagi. Maybe it was stupid to feel indebted to your own manifestation but Souji understood that Bloody Izanagi was somewhat of a separate being as much as he was a part of Souji himself…it was hard to explain…

Souji knew, or at least thought he knew, that somebody bestowed this power to him, but he felt the outcome of whom he received had ultimately been to suit his personality down to a T. Therefore, Bloody Izanagi was both a being made solely for Souji and his own self. Souji himself had readily come to cherish his Persona and hoped for the best regarding their relationship. If Bloody Izanagi ever indicated he needed a favor then Souji was more than willing to help as best as possible.

"Wait!" a voice shouted from his right after he had turned to leave out the door. "Sensei! Wait! You-you can't just leave! That monster's going to hurt your friend!"

The annoying, ugly looking Barney midget ran in front of Souji blocking him from the portal.

"That's…that's not nice!" continued Teddie, panting from the whole excursion, "It's..it's wrong to do sensei! You have to stop it!"

Annoyed and not wanting to argue with the naïve Teddie bear, partly because he felt it was silly to even be speaking with it, Souji moved swiftly to Teddie's right and kicked him as hard and as far as he could toward the monster.

"YEEEEEEEOOOOWWWWWWCCCCHHHHH" Teddie screamed comically, as he slammed into the monsters head, knocking them both out temporarily.

Souji stared momentarily at the sheer ridiculousness of what he just witnessed. He then left through the portal.

"You fight it then." Souji's hollow voice resounded in the temporary quietness inside the area.

Bloody Izanagi shimmered for a few moments with a white glow and dissipated from the room, returning to card form in Souji's breast pocket. Souji was glad the stupid bear had absentmindedly left the TV portal to the human world open. After he had left, the screams of Yosuke and Teddie could be heard from the inside of the replica store.