Only one.

A/N: I want to ask who do you think should be the 'Emperor' Arcana? Arcana here is not just association with said title, but the personality that fit the meaning of the cards.

Just give me anyone that fit the catalog, but if possible I am looking for someone from a movie (like, seriously I have no Arcana from a single non-animated movie) or from a book/literature. But all in all, no more from video game plz. Villain is fine, actually villain would be very welcoming.

Please don't give me something that is 'too big' like DC, Marvel, or Star Wars. This story is already very big as it is.

They landed in another park on the other side of Tokyo. The arms that were holding him loosening and let him move again. He sprung around to meet an extremely large man with long dark blonde beard, mustache and hair wearing green yukata rope.

"Hello there young man," the Elder greeted. Minato did not reply, only starring the giant old man. "I can see you're still trying to make sense of what is going on." Minato instead shook his head. He could make sense of what's going which was why he didn't truth this man, not after three parties tried to snatch him away. "Ah, so it's just mistruth, not that I could blame you for what you went through back there," Hayato acknowledged then laughed heartily.

"Well let me start opening up then. My name is Hayato Furinji. I am the owner and one of the masters at a dojo called Ryozanpaku. I saw you fight last night, and, well, it's really hard not to be interested in you afterward," the man confessed. "So how about this? Come to my dojo and let me treated you to delicious dinner? How is that sound?"

Minato was about to politely decline, but his stomach beat him to it when it growled.

"I will take that as a yes!" the large man laughed and pat the bluenette on the back. "Come then, else the others will eat all our supper!" the hearty Elder led the way.

The boy knew if he tried to run now this monster of a man would just grab him and drag him away to his dojo. From the feast of flying, no, jump from one side of the city spanning over 2,180 kilometers to the other in a few minutes, Minato doubt he could win this man without using a Persona, a strong one too, which would give the man what he wanted anyway.

Seeing no alternatives, he followed Hayato to wherever he was leading.

"Ah, by the way, what's your name?" the old man asked.

"Minato," the boy answered reluctantly. The Elder then continued to lead the way.

After walking for awhile, they finally arrived at the dojo. The large wooden gate stranded between them and whatever inside. Minato tensed, whatever in there, he was ready for it. The Elder pushed open the large door with merely an index finger. Once they walked past the door frame, he closed the wooden gate.

The place was much bigger than Minato had expected. How many people were intended to be held here? A hundred? The decoration was traditional Japanese style with green grasses, a large pond, several stone lamps, bamboo clusters, granite path and so on and so forth.

The Elder led the boy into the main building and into the traditional wooden building with minimal decoration. Minato was forced to a halt when a woman popped out from the ceiling and came to face to face with him. The woman features were gorgeous, though he noted her eyebrows was oddly shaped, like lightning bolts. Her black hair was styled in a high ponytail which complemented light purple eyes.

She stared at him, remaining stoic, just like him. He looked up to see what the woman was hanging on, giving him the chance to see her slender yet curvaceous body. He traced up until he saw she hanged from the hole in the ceiling, using her legs as a hook. His eyes came back to face the woman, neither spoke anything.

"Hello," she started.

"Hello, sorry for interluding," the boy replied.

"Ah, Shigure-chan. This is Minato-kun, he came over for dinner. Minato-kun, this is Shigure Kosaya, the weapon master of the dojo, please make each other an acquaintance," Minato almost raised an eyebrow at the Elder for being so familiar with him even though he was not. Was he trying to win him over? "By the way, where is Ken-"

Hayato was cut off when a high pitch scream, almost like a girl scream, echoed from somewhere within a dojo. Seeing no sign of distress from the woman, who he was having an eye contact with, he ignored it.

A boy with spiky brown hair ran into the view, judging from his face and height, he was probably a year or two younger than him. He continued to run toward the bluenette.

"Oh, Ken-chan! There you are!" The Elder cheered and opened his arm, looking like he was going to embrace the running boy. The brunette only screamed further and skillfully dodge the large man to the side then he did the same with Shigure before ending up behind the stoic boy.

"Please mysterious stranger! Save me!" he pleaded.

'Mysterious stranger, huh? That was the first.'

"Oi Kenichi, we're not done yet!" half-angry, half-happy voice shouted. A large man, though not as large as Hayato, came into a view. His skin was tan with several scars. He wore a brown jacket with nothing underneath and blue jean.

"He's right, Ken-chan. You should come back...before we start to seriously chase you," another person followed. He was a short man with a mustache. He wore green traditional Chinese dress wore by martial artist and a bowler hat.

"Apa! Apa!" yet another one. This one was an extremely tone and large, dark tan man with bluish silver hair. He dressed in what Minato presumed to be a Muay Thai fighter outfit, or he presumed, he lacked knowledge on the subject.

The three were chasing the boy hiding behind him. His face remained unflinching even at the sight of three monstrous men stomping across the corridor. They came to a halt once they spotted a stranger was shielding the boy.

"Eh, Elder who's this guy," the one in jacket asked.

"Maybe he's a new disciple!" the Chinese man cheered.

"Apa! Another student!" the Muay Thai fighter joined in.

"Alright people calm down," the Elder interrupted. "I just invite Minato-kun here for a dinner, he isn't joining," the Elder gave an unsubtle wink. The others seemed to understand what he meant, even Minato.

The Elder introduced the Persona-user to each of the masters. The one in the jacket was Shio Sakaki, Karate master, the one in Chinese dress was Kensei Ma, Chinese Kenpo master, the Muay Thai fighter was Apachai Hopachai, the master of, obviously, Muay Thai, and lastly Kenichi Shirahama, the disciple.

"Well, I'm off to tell Miu to prepare extra food for today, please make yourself at home, Minato-kun," Hayato went away to do as he said.

As for Minato, he contained himself from grimace for being forcefully dragged here against his will. He found the best way to do so was to keep staring at the woman he had first made eyes contact with. The others seemed a bit unsure of how to process, they did not look like they wanted to interrupt the pair match. Finally, though, someone finally mustered up the courage.

"Uh, um, Minato-san," it was the boy who was hiding behind the bluenette who spoke. Both Minato and Shigure turned to face him. Their cold emotionless eyes stare right into his own, and into the soul too from the unfortunate teen perspective. The boy fainted.

"Ah! Kenichi fainted again!" Apachai yelled out loud in panic.

"And this time it was just from a stare…" Sakaki remarked, unamused.

"Well, consider the tension within their eyes…" Kensei trailed off, unwilling to finish because of the reason he wasn't sure of.

With that over, the two went back at it. The other masters just sat down to observe the match, at first reluctantly then tensely as the staring contest went on. Shigure eventually got down from the ceiling, her eyes didn't leave his.

"Dinner's ready!" a feminine voice shouted further into the dojo.

The other masters and Kenichi got up and were all ready to head to get their supper, but waited to see if the two staring pair would go with them. Minato got up, when he did so did Shigure. When the bluenette walked forward, the woman walked backward, without turning around, and continued to do so as they headed for dinner; mimicking his steps and distant from him like a mirror. What impressive was she didn't hit anything or anyone.

They all eventually arrived to meet with a table full of food. Everyone seated down happily, or at least almost everyone; no one could read what Minato and Shigure were thinking. The Elder took this opportunity to introduce Minato to two more people, Miu Furinji, Hayato's granddaughter, and Akisame Kōetsuji, the Jujutsu master of the dojo.

When the Elder finally declared 'let's eat', he broke away from staring with Shigure, which cause her to blink in surprise. He picked up his chopsticks and ready to get some of the food onto his plate.

Before the chopstick could reach the closest dish, however, several more chopsticks overwhelmed his and the plate was left empty within a few seconds. He looked to the others to see that the same processes were being repeated all over the table.

His hunger overcame his sense.

No time to think of the reason, he needed to act if he wanted to get anything onto his plate. Judging from the master's speed with chopstick though, he would barely able to match them…unless…

The idea was absurd. Using Persona's body enchanting ability to improving a person's skills to help to get the food? He doubt any of them would help.

He was wrong.

One cheerful Persona from the Greek pantheon offered to help him.

He didn't need to be offered twice. He let the Messenger of Gods into his soul and mind to enchant his speed. Soon his hand that was holding chopsticks joined into the blurring lines above the table of the masters'.

"Oh, not bad, kid," Sakaki commented.

"You have potential," Kensei added.

He didn't listen. His priority was the food. Hermes laughing like a madman in his mind was also distracting.

While all this was going on, Kenichi was left with an empty plate. He really tried, he really did, but for this dinner, the masters were too serious about testing Minato speed they ignored Kenichi's level to keep up. And so he was left stunned, frail, mortified and worst of all: hungry. Yet heaven still had mercy on him.

A grilled saba fish appeared on the disciple's plate. Kenichi's brain was processing how, because it was definitely not one of his masters and Miu sat too far from him this time. When the disciple could not find an answer, he looked up to see who had committed this act of compression. He caught a glimpse of Minato looking at him for a split second.

Realizing what just happened, the grit in his eyes brightened. A big bright smile appeared on his face which directed at the bluenette. He quickly started munching down on his fish before any of the masters could steal it from him. What he didn't realize though was everyone, sans Minato who did the act, also saw it and they smiled at the boy kindness, and also increased their speed to compete with him.

Eventually, the food was all gone.

"Alright the first test is over," the Elder declared.

Minato knew this was no ordinary dinner session, but if this was just a test for a newcomer then he did not want to think what the disciple, Kenichi, must go through every day.

"You pass brilliantly, Minato-kun," the Elder continued. "As such, I think we should properly give you a supper without interruption which you deserve. So eat to your heart's content, Minato-kun. All our food is your."

The Elder had expected Minato to be close to full, not knowing he had high-metabolism, which allowed him to devour lots and lots of food. Minato wouldn't complain though, it was a nice way to get back at Hayato.

He looked at Miu who had prepared to go off to the kitchen to make him something more.

"I will have…"

xxxxx

"Grandpa…"

"H-hold on Miu, I didn't think he would…"

The Elder of Dojo was backing away from his approaching granddaughter whose killing intent had leaked into red aura surrounding her.

Maybe he overdid it. If he knew they were having a financial problem he wouldn't have eaten all of their food...just most of it. He still remembered their face when he finished their last bowl of rice: priceless.

"Ugh, now we have to work more to get money," Sakaki complained. Other masters were about to join him, but a sandal flew in their direction and forced them to dodge. The sandal pieced into the wall a few inches away from Kenichi, causing the boy to yelp in terror.

"People with no steady income have to right to complain…" the blonde said as the steam of anger leaked from her mouth.

"Ah, Miu is angry!" Apachi yelled in terror.

"S-scary," Shigure added, though remained stoic her body was shaking a bit.

The only one who did not seem to react was Akisame, his eyes were still on Minato. The boy paid it no mind.

Minato must admit the girl, Miu, reminded him a bit of Yukari for some reasons. Maybe it was because of her outward cheerfulness or ability to hit anyone without remorse? It didn't matter. They were in one of the training rooms, meaning the Elder would definitely ask him to spar with someone; his bet was Kenichi, poor guy.

He would like to go home as soon as he could, but with the situation escalated like this it would only prolong his stay. Maybe he could speed it up in some ways…

He came up with something. He stood up and moved toward the granddaughter and her grandfather.

"I am the one who ate them. I will take responsibility," he said to both of them.

They were a bit shock at this, but Elder was happier than shock.

"Oh! Minato-chan!" he cheered happily.

"But I can't do that you are a guest you shouldn't be tie responsible for this, besides" she paused as she frowned. "It was them who forced your hand," she said pointing at the masters who tried to act innocent. "I can't blame someone who was hungry and was denied food. You even give some to Kenichi even though you didn't get as much as you should."

Was she...thinking he was really hungry? And that was why he ate all their food? He looked into her eyes, all he could see was sincerity behind her eyes. He almost smiled, almost.

'Bless her heart,' he thought.

Now he really felt bad for what he just did. Still, he intended to advance with his original intention, it would help fix this issue anyways.

"Then let me put it this way. If you invite a guest and they steal all your properties right before your eyes yet remained polite through it all would you still consider him a guest?" the sudden question seemed to surprise Miu.

She opened her mouth to answer, but nothing came. She closed it then opened it again, yet nothing. None of the masters said anything either.

"How can I repay you?" Minato asked firmly.

"How about you spar-" the Elder was cut off.

"Grandpa…" Miu killing intend surged up again. Her grandfather backed away. Her dark aura vanished in an instant as she turned back to Minato, "Well I would ask you to pay, but since you're a high schooler like us, I wouldn't want to put the burden on your family."

"I already graduated. I live alone so you don't have to be worrying about me."

"Still…" she thought long and hard. "How about this. If you help maintain the dojo for about…" she took out a calculator out of nowhere and did her math, "six months I will consider your debt paid. How does that sound?"

"What if I wanted to pay upfront instead?"

Miu went back to her calculator, "That would be about 4 million yen." [1]

Minato sighed. It was a no-brainer of which choice he would choose. Abused your right and it would get back to get you. Now he had less time to work odd jobs and even less at finding a stable one. He wouldn't walk away from this either. With another sigh, he accepted his fate.

"Very well, I will take care of the dojo as you had asked."

She smiled at him. Minato could feel an aura of jealousy coming from Kenichi. He paid it no mind.

"Thank you, Minato-san," she thanked and held his hand. For a short moment, he saw a split image of Aigis in her. His eyes widened but they quickly regressed as she let go of his hand. "Please come by tomorrow evening. I will teach you what to do," Minato nodded.

"Well! Now that that was over how about you spar with-" Hayato was cut off again when Miu let out her killing intent. "Just joking, just joking. You must be tired now, Minato-kun. I will see you out," the Elder walked away.

Minato lightly bowed to the others as a goodbye and followed the Elder. The masters waited in silence until Elder came back.

"So what are you people make of him?" the Elder asked the others.

"He looks a bit scrawny, but then again so did Kenichi when he started; no offense," Sakaki commented.

"N-none taken," the boy replied.

"He has potential, he's kind and despite the thin look he actually has some muscle, more than Ken-chan when he started even; no offense," Kensei added.

"None taken, shishou," Kenichi replied while Miu and Apachi nodded in agreement on the 'kind' part of the description.

"However," Akisame interrupted. "That was something about him that was off. During the dinner, I felt his Ki change when he started competing for food, like his own mix with something else. Then there were his eyes," Akisame paused, seemed like he couldn't find the proper word. "It's empty, yet…fill with a will. These two things rarely go together," he finished.

The Elder stroked his beard, pondering in his colleague's word. He realized one didn't voice her opinion yet

"Shigure-chan what about you? What's your take on him?" The Elder gestured at the weapon master.

She was silent, more than she normally was. "Too much like dad," her starting phase taken the others aback especially Akisami who knew of him. "Empty, yet strong will. Indifferent, yet caring. Doesn't act, unless necessary. Doesn't judge…merely accept." The others did not reply to her analysis and let their thought warder at how the boy was really like. "Also…" this caught their attention back.

Shigure did not continue immediately, she shifted uncomfortably and a blush appeared on her face.

"He's handsome."

"WHAT!?"

xxxxx

[1] 10,000 yen is equal to 88 US dollar when this chapter was written. So 4 million yen wouldn't be as much as you expect. It's still a lot, mind you, just not as high as 4 million dollars.

[2] 'Shisou' means teacher in Japanese, but not in the same sense as a classroom teacher. Since we are talking about this, I will try to keep everything in English, but I will still use specific word and honorific in Japanese-written-English.