Chapter 4: RE-WROTE!

IV\A world inside the TV

Yu's POV:

We were going to Junes to help Chie in her choice of a new TV. I couldn't help but to think about how I almost got sucked inside mine, and about the strange voice I heard.

While the two were arguing about the prices, my eyes rested on a particularly large TV. As I was looking myself through the black screen, my hand extended without me noticing it…

Before I knew it, it touched it and the same thing as yesterday happened: my hand just got through it.

After a moment, Yosuke turned to ask my opinion on whatever he and Chie were arguing about, and the two of them saw it; they saw what was happening.

"The hell is this?! Tell me where's the trick?" a panicking Satonaka asked.

"It's not a trick. My hand really went through that screen."

"Wow! I wanna pee!" … Shit, Yosuke. Just Shit! I'm having my hand in another dimension and all you're thinking about is using the toilets?!

"Do you really think this is the time for this?"

Maybe I can make my head got through the TV too, so I would be able to see something. Ignoring my classmates' warnings, I did as I thought.

As soon as my head touched the TV, the space around my point of view became nothing but blank void. I stayed like this until I felt something pushing me completely inside and I began falling.

I landed on my ass, hardly. And it seems the thing that pushed me was Yosuke being pushed himself by Chie who landed here too. Talking about 'here', where are we? The place is all foggy, but I can distinguish some cameras, projectors and all kinds of tools that reminded of a studio… Is someone spying on us? And if so, who?

I got on my feet and turned to look at the others, they were still on the ground.

"Are you still alive or should I prepare your graves?" I asked them in this harsh way to get them back on their feet faster.

"I'm fine, I guess?"

"Same here."

Most to Chie's disagreement, I ordered them to fellow me to investigate the area. We randomly proceeded through this place until we reached stairs. We took them and reached a room, something like a bed room. Seeing the blood all over the place, the two pussies began to scream.

"Shut the hell up you cowards!" I yelled.

Finally, some silence. I could see, out of the blood and stuff, some posters that represented the same person each time, in a kimono. But, a part of it was shattered, the face's part… just great. And there were a chair and a rope; is someone about to commit suicide? Or already did?

"I saw this poster somewhere." Did Satonaka say something useful?

"And where exactly?" I questioned.

"I can't remember…" serves me right to get my hopes up.

"Sooo useful!"

"I can't… hold it… anymore!" Chie and I turned to see a panicking Yosuke who wanted to pee more than anything.

"You can't do it now!" Chie scolded.

"Urgh! Both of you get out of here!" We ignored his order and stayed here, embarrassing him.

"Shit! If my bladder bursts, it'll all be your fault."

"Yosuke…" I began

"What is it?"

"Shut up."

The two then took a look at the suicide tools; they finally noticed them. After we agreed, we returned to our starting point. We easily found our way back there and we began searching around for a way back home, when suddenly, we saw a silhouette in the distance: someone's coming!

We got ready to face whoever was approaching; the silhouette was kind of small, and round. It looked like a…. a bear? A blue bear? The hell's happening?!

The animal was wearing some weird red clothes and we could see behind him a zipper; maybe it was all just a costume!

"Hey!" he said "What are you guys?"

"No! What are you first?!" I demanded, making him cowering in fear, what a joke! After we questioned him some more, he told us to return from where we came, but especially, he mentioned that someone has been 'throwing' people in here. He didn't add anything else and made some TVs appear out of nowhere then, he pushed us inside them.

We landed back at Junes, exactly where we were before. We stood up and I noticed next to a TV, a poster; exactly the same as the ones in the weird room. The others saw it too.

"Hey," Chie spoke loudly "isn't Misuzu Hiiragi? And this poster isn't it the one we saw in the room?"

"They are the same indeed. It MUST have some kind of connection…" I noted.

"Brrrr! It's too much for my heart!" Hanamura complained.

"Yeah, I guess we're done for today." Satonaka approved "Bye." With that, Yosuke and her ran out of the store. They're scared already? Hmph… cowards. I returned home as fast as I could, it sure was rainy.

My uncle was already here, good thing for my cousin. He asked me if I knew Saki Konichi and I told him what I knew: I didn't see her at school today. He informed me that she disappeared and haven't been found yet.

My attention was once again attracted by the TV: it was the news time. The news report stated that Ms. Yamano has been staying at the Amagi inn; Yukiko's family's inn. As for the weather, there will be more fog tomorrow. I begin to think that the fog have something to do with this case… hahahah! Those silly thoughts of mine… I'm too tired to think right now, I'd better get some sleep.

~The next day, in the morning~

When I got downstairs, Dojima-san rushed out saying that he had some business, something was up. On my way to school, there were gossips about an incident. The principal called us all for an assembly. And there, I understood what happened; Saki Konichi was found dead, and the circumstances of her death are similar to Mayumi Yamano's own. It's can't be just a coincidence.

Through more gossips, I learned that Konishi-senpai appeared again in the Midnight Channel last night, there was indeed rain. When I think about it, Yamano appeared too before dying, so I was right to think about a connection between the murder and the Midnight Channel. What if the Midnight Channel itself was connected to this world inside the TV, the blue bear said that someone has been throwing people inside this world… I gotta make sure of this and check it out, one more time.

When I met up with Chie and Yosuke, it seemed like the headphone guy got to the same theory as me and he wanted to return to the 'other world'.

"Are you crazy?!" shout Chie "Last time we barely got away from it and NOW you wanna go back there?!"

"But who knows? Maybe we'll find some important clues and, just maybe, we could finally catch the one who did this to senpai…"

"Yosuke…" it seemed like the green jacket wearing girl understood Yosuke a little more.

"Let's just see what we can do…" I suggested, causing Yosuke to switch from a dramatic mood to a happy one.

"Okay! See ya there!" with that, he ran to Junes with the speed of light.

When we joined him at there, he was holding a golf club and a rope.

"Idiot!" Chie yelled "We are here to stop you!"

"I can't just pretend that I have nothing to do with this, now can I? Plus, I prepared this rope so you stay here and once we're done there, you'll just have to get us out of—" this guy's definitely an imbecile.

"Are you an imbecile?!" I argued "This rope is way too short. Don't you remember how we fall last time?!"

"Yeah! I agree with him!" Chie said, totally seeing what I meant.

"If we want to come back, why don't we use the TVs the bear created last time?" I pointed.

And so, we entered. Chie, who didn't want to stay alone, came along. As we thought, we found ourselves at the same place as last time, except that the TVs were no more here nor the bear.

Oh! I talked too early. Here he comes and he sure looks angry for some reasons.

"It's your second time here! Grrrr, I knew you were the ones behind this. You're the ones who throw people here, right?"

"Shut up."

"Wait, when he says 'someone throwing people' is this someone the one who threw Konishi and Yamano?" the brunette girl asked us, completely ignoring the animal.

"Surely. He must be the one killing them." Yosuke accused.

"Hey! Do you know that you're doomed? There no way back from here to your world!" the bear menaced.

"And once we're done investigating this place, you're going to let us out, just like last time, got it?" I menaced him back.

"Grrrrrr! I'm the one investigating here. If you really are innocent, then prove it!" he demanded.

"I already told you to shut up!" I shout, clenching my fists and raising my voice against him.

"G-G-Getting mad won't solve a-a-anything." He replied, scared by my violent ways.

We somehow managed to explain our situation to that stupid bear. And he told us about things called 'Shadows'. Whatever it is, it seems dangerous. Yosuke lost patience and got the bear's head of… And the inside was empty! He took his head back and putted it on him.

"Okay, I'm going to believe that you aren't the culprits. But, promise me that you'll find the true one or else… I'm not letting you, guys, outta here. Please!" He began crying, this damn bear. The old man, Igor, told me about a misfortune and a mystery, could it be it? And the contract, could it be done if I promise to this bear?

"Looks like we've got no choice…" I said, causing my two comrades to glare at me, but I decided to ignore them.

"Thank you!"

"But hold on, I'm not working with a stranger, so introduce youself first!" I ordered.

"I'm Teddie." He said cheerfully.

I asked him if he had any track and it seems like he knows where Konishi-senpai was when she was 'thrown' here.

"Oh! And take this!" He gave us glasses and when we putted them on, we were able to see through the fog. Maybe this bear will be somehow useful after all.

"And by the way," he added "you'll have to defend yourselves, because I can't fight."

I didn't really cared about that, but the others couldn't buy it for a sec. Chie came closer to Teddie and gave him a little kick… which put him K.O; He really couldn't fight.

We helped him to get up and headed toward the place he indicated, slowly but surely. Who knows what awaits us there.

That should do it for the 4th chapter. Our heroes encountered a mysterious bear named Teddie in a world inside the TV, can they really trust him? Who is the culprit behind the murders in Inaba? Stay one for the next epic episode of Dragon ball-… Err I mean "Persona 4"!

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