AN: Writing this is a lot harder than I thought when I had to cross check several wikia pages, walkthroughs and come up with a new skill progression for Magatsu Izanagi. Next chapter: Actual interactions with the cast, things start getting off the rails, transfer students...

April 18th Monday (Sunny)

"Shut up, Adachi." Ryotaro Dojima grunts in response to some inane chatter behind him as he reviews the files on the recent murders.

"Um, Dojima-san, Adachi-san is in the other room finishing up the report for the district chief after we got the final autopsy report." His fellow pencil pusher, aka. Policeman, informs him.

"Oh! Uh, sorry about that. Force of habit and all, I thought Adachi was goofing around as always." Dojima apologises quickly with a little embarrassment.

"Meh, we're used to it Dojima-san. I mean, come on. Adachi-san has been… um, strangely competent over the past three days. It's like there's this emptiness in my heart when-"

"So… why do you sound like you're making up poetry?" Dojima interrupts the co-worker that was getting to 'eloquent' for his taste.

"… right… good point. Good luck with the case, Dojima-san!"

As his co-worker leaves Dojima couldn't help but reflect about his sla-assistant's, recent behavioural change. Granted, he still had some goofy awkwardness… but everything else was different.

His suit was buttoned up, his shirt tucked in, posture straight, his tie was worn right and hell, his hair wasn't messy ever since the weekend started.

It was madness!

"Dojima-san! I cooked us some lunch for today. You know, with all the murders and all we would have been busy so I saved us some time by making us some Gyoza."

Gyoza, his favourite food.

Fuck this shit, he loves the new Adachi. Who cares if he suddenly developed things like 'consideration' and 'professionalism'! Totally not worth any suspicion at all!

I mean, he should be focusing on resolving the case of the missing Amagi Yukiko instead!

... Back to Adachi...

"Die motherfucker die motherfucker die! I don't need your prison! I don't need your pain!"

I sang/shouted as I fucking massacred shadows by the hordes while listening to the song by Dope.

"While I am not as enamoured with the composition of that song as you I cannot help but agree with how fitting the words are." Magatsu Izanagi comments while spamming Mazio on the hordes of pathetic shadows.

Regenerate 1 and Invigorate 1 was utter bullshit. Hell, I spent the whole Sunday night grinding. That was, what, essentially four TV world expeditions worth of grinding. 6 pm to 6am.

And with all the solo 'EXP' to boot… oh, and my sack was filled up like, three times over. That forced me to empty my 'loot' sack back home before continuing on my murderhobo adventures.

Shadows, the repressed feelings of the humans out in the real world given form. I mean, clearly, repressed feelings don't go away once you beaten them into submission, so I had plenty of shadows to grind on.

The only annoying thing is that almost all of them dropped only coins, granted, that unfortunate treasure hand which I shot in the back dropped 1000 yen bills, but that was an exception.

I'll have to find a non-suspicious way of depositing money one day…

In any case, I fucking slaughtered shadows from what would end up in Yukiko's castle and Kanji's bathhouse. Grabbed a few chests, shot to death a few treasure hands before they could run, got some chest keys and profited some more.

I earned 4000 yen (excluding Golden Shadows) on average per hour. This was total bullshit. I love it so much.

And Invigorate 1 was bullshit to the max, I mean, I don't need to fucking sleep with this skill.

I'll still sleep once every few days and all since sleep is important for memory retention and processing, but other than that I could pull all-nighters with this skill.

Regenerate 1? OP please never nerf! I lost my shirt and armour to the forces of darkness but this skill is legitimately making my body stronger after healing it.

No wonder Persona users hit so hard, aside from a Persona actively boosting your capabilities in the TV world… In any case, I got Magatsu Izanagi to level 18 in my first day.

After slaughtering shadows I got up, showered, ran to Junes to get ingredients, cooked lots of Gyoza, showered again and went to work. I remembered that Dojima's favourite food was Gyoza so I went ahead to earn some points from him.

I had to interview some random people on Amagi Yukiko since she had been kidnapped recently. Good guy Namatame doing his best!

But generally that was boring as hell… and pointless.

After work I made a quick trip to the shopping district with a car full of materials that I sold to Daidara. He was floored by the sheer amount of materials that I was willing to sell to him at cheap prices. I would probably be able to buy new items from him in the next few days.

So, that got me another 10,000 yen (all I asked for), add in over 50,000 yen (mostly in coins) from yesterday then I'm up 60,000 yen in one day even after food costs. That's just under a fifth of my monthly pay. Excellent, excellent… I rub my hands in offensively racist Jew fashion, granted, I'm not racist at all (I think).

Oh, but evening was the best, back to grinding, WHEE!

It was another satisfying day of me killing shadows, looting, running when the going gets tough, and more killing.

Sure it hurt like hell whenever I get hit or use my physical skills, but it's all worth this buffed up body I'm building up thanks to Regeneration.

I bet being healed by the 'Dia' series wouldn't give these kinds of benefits.

I can see it now, the clickbait. 'Healers hate this Persona users, find out why!'

Hmm… is it strange that I don't seem to get hungry in this world? Or thirsty? Well, that explains why the victims can survive days of being stuck here.

I guess I'll take a break tomorrow since I made some good progress.

Magatsu Izanagi (Hanged Man)

Level: 25

Strength - 19
Magic - 17
Endurance - 22
Agility - 22
Luck - 7

Physical: -
Fire: -
Ice: -
Electricity: -
Air: -
Light: -
Darkness: -

Move list: Regenerate 2, Invigorate 2, Cruel Attack, Mazio, Zionga, Tarukaja, Rakukaja, Sukukaja

Man, this is bullshit. I bet this is what every Kirito wannabe would want as a build. I mean, look at this Solo build nonsense!

"Considering how my wife looks like I think that being 'Solo' is not as terrible as you might think."

"You do know that running away from her caused her to develop the whole 'truth' complex and all." I remarked.

"You do realise that despite having memories that match my counterpart, I am, ultimately a facet of your psyche."

"If you're trying to say I'm shallow then it's nothing new. To be fair, I believe everyone has both evil and good, selfishness and selflessness, so on and so forth. Hence, having one trait be dominant over the other doesn't really do much in categorising people when everyone simply has a difference balance of traits. Besides, ultimately I'm a decent guy."

"And yet here you are, gaining power for yourself while keeping the advantage of foreknowledge."

"Different ways of doing this I suppose. And besides, it's not like I haven't considered doing that. It's just not a priority right now."

"A balanced answer, yet one that is still empty in purpose."

Those words reminded me that in a way I was still fulfilling the 'emptiness' role that Izanami had designated me, or rather, Adachi for.

Granted, he has a point since I'm doing this for both selfish and selfless reasons… I mean, planning to go around to eventually killing gods for the greater good is both selfless (I'm looking at you YHWH) and selfish (since it involves my personal safety and freedom).

To be fair, I thought about it and in the end I'm probably doing it since its 'fun'. And generally, not boring… huh, that is so Adachi.

Not like I blame him since he never had friends as his parents forced him to study every waking moment of his life. This made him envious and resentful at everyone which he rationalises as other people being immature among other insults.

I earned more money today, I suppose I will have to bring the loot to different banks to get cash in a less suspicious manner.

April 19th Tuesday (Clear/Cloudy)

Yukiko still isn't rescued yet.

Sigh, I sure hope this Yu Narukami is competent. From what I'm hearing from Dojima it seems that while he's polite and all, he seems to be in a bad mood from his parents sending him to live here and all. Once again, uprooting him from his school and making long-time friends a unattainable dream for him.

I hope that turns around soon. You know, social link, social link, go!

"Hey Dojima-san, what's this about your nephew swinging weapons around at Junes?" I asked with amusement.

"Don't remind me Adachi."

"Huh. Sure thing! Oh, before I forget. Could you give these to Nanako-chan for me?"

"Eh? These are… vegetable seeds?"

"I thought that Nanako-chan could ask that nephew of yours to help out with gardening, you know, as a bonding activity."

"That's… not a bad idea at all Adachi. Heh… thanks…"

Good, good… Yu better get those Nanako Social Link points!

After work I drove to Daidara's place and got myself a Bastard Sword. That costed me 14000 yen and was made from the Powered Iron I got from the Autonomic Basalts.

I worked out at home with a few hundred sets of push-ups, sit-ups, and some sword swings out in the garden. I set my alarm and slept for the first time in three days.

April 20th Wednesday (Cloudy)

Nothing noteworthy happened. Although with my run in the TV world I managed to level up to 35 along with earning a total of 250,000 yen (after costs). I think I'll drive to Okina Town tomorrow night to exchange for some notes.

I ate a bit cheaply today, you know, lots of Cabbage. It was actually quite good, although I won't be doing that all the time since I need the protein to build up muscles.

I must be doing something right since I wasn't just looked at dismissively by people.

Wait a minute! Wasn't I supposed to be incompetent? Ugh, stupid diligence trait!

Just wait and see! I'll quit this dead end job… eventually!

Hmmm…. I have an idea!

"This is humiliating."

"Chill out bro! This is genius!"

"I can't believe that a Persona such as myself is being used as transport… of all things."

Yes, I called Magatsu Izanagi and I am currently standing on him with the Gainax Pose activated! Better yet, I'm doing this as he flies around the TV world.

Yeah, materialising Persona's cost SP but just having them move around costs less and more importantly, my Invigorate 2 is more than enough to cover the cost.

"You know… this is the perfect time for a song."

"Oh Yomi! Don't you dare-"

"I can show you the world! Shining, shimmering-"

"I should have stuck with my wife."

Magatsu Izanagi (Hanged Man)

Level: 29

Strength - 22
Magic - 20
Endurance - 25
Agility - 25
Luck - 7

Physical: -
Fire: -
Ice: -
Electricity: -
Air: -
Light: -
Darkness: -

Move list: Regenerate 2, Invigorate 2, Cruel Attack, Mazionga, Zionga, Tarukaja, Rakukaja, Sukukaja

Yen: 30,000,000 (Bank) + 267,400 (Coins)