Shin Megami Tensei
Persona 3: RES
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Chapter VI: Operation Riga (Fuuka & Junpei's Story)
Dreamless Dorm…ticking clock
"Yahoo! Oh, the breeze sure does feel good in the south!" shouted Junpei as the two of them ran out of the hotel.
"Yeah, but it sure is hot here in Kyushu," said Fuuka, laptop in hand. The two of them had been dispatched to Kyushu as part of Operation Riga, a sub-operation of Operation Orpheus. So far, in the last seven days, Fuuka had only identified one person of interest to S.E.E.S., and that had turned out to be a false lead. Today, instead of spending the entire day inside as they usually did, Junpei proposed that they go to the beach, and Fuuka accomplish her work from there.
She agreed, but only after Junpei pressed the issue until it was actually sad to see him go on. The seaside resort was one of the finest hotels in the city, but it was also chosen because it had a broadcasting antenna on top of it which could amplify Fuuka's analyzing capabilities.
Junpei was wearing nothing but his blue swim trunks and Fuuka was wearing the same swimsuit she bought for the trip to Yakushima. To get to the beach required one to cross a heavily traveled highway, but once there, it was nothing but sand and surf and (in Junpei's opinion) semi-decent babes, ugly babes, and hot babes.
Once there, Junpei went to work finding all the beautiful women on the beach and hitting on them, while Fuuka merely laid out a towel and began searching Japan for anyone of interest on her laptop and with her persona.
"Hmm, I have a possible hit in sector 4-D. I should make a note of that…" Fuuka said aloud, while she could hear Junpei chasing random girls and the subsequent cries he would make as their boyfriends drew near. Fuuka smiled a bit, she had never really thought of herself as a real member of S.E.E.S. until quite recently. She always felt like an outsider; when they went off to battle, and she always stayed behind. She wanted to fight, but she had her place, and right now, this was her place.
She started feeling more comfortable around the other members of S.E.E.S. around graduation of last year. For what reasons, she didn't know why, but as she watched Junpei play on the beach, just above the brim of her laptop, she felt happy.
"Oh, another possible hit in sector 17-A. I have to mark that down!" she said, typing furiously into her laptop coordinates and data points for various variables. She thought about laughing to herself: here she was, on one of the nicest beaches she had been to, and she was still stuck doing work.
"Hey…this is weird, I'm getting a strange reading from sector 10-R, I'd better analyze it…whoa. That's really weird. I'd better send an e-mail to the other teams that I have an anomaly in the readings…but, wouldn't that be a successful infiltration of the populace? Yeah…"
She typed up an e-mail to Ken and Mitsuru's teams notifying them of the successful infiltration and location of a target. The hotel antenna nearby was acting as an extremely powerful "dish" from which she could analyze almost all of Japan. Looking at the clock on the computer, she began to work again, dividing her spirit energy on not only locating new targets, but also on the identification of the target in sector 10-R.
An hour passed by. She located three new targets: two in sector 0-Z and one in sector 1-Z. That was strange: all three were in the Iwatodai Area…that had to be some mistake.
She tried to delve deeper into the matter by identifying the sources of the spirit emissions, but to no avail. It was strange...they were all emitting spiritual energy, but none of them had the means to broadcast it.
If one thought of spirit emissions and spirit power, it would all be quite confusing unless they had read the latest edition of the S.E.E.S. Guidebook. However, it was actually quite simple.
All human beings had spiritual power, which manifested itself in the consciousness of the individual. Spirit power is easily detectable: through a person's behavior and personality, and their particular spirit power drove their ambitions and goals in life.
Spirit emissions, however, were different. Just as all humans possess spiritual power, all humans also emit that power around them through spiritual emission. The amount of spiritual emission is directly proportional to the amount of spirit power one has: in other words, the more spirit power you have, the more likely it is someone will detect it.
Human history is filled with hundreds of individuals who have possessed immense spirit power…
S.E.E.S. Guidebook – Fourth Edition
Detection of Spiritual Emission
Spiritual Emission is directly proportional to the amount of spirit power an individual holds. Spiritual emission is different from spirit power, however, in that; the more spirit emissions an individual possesses, the greater their effects on the world. A prime example of this would be the German dictator, Adolf Hitler.
For reasons yet unknown to the S.E.E.S. Library Team, Adolf Hitler, by age forty, had acquired an unnatural level of spiritual power. Consequently, his spiritual emissions were on par with those of several religious prophets throughout history. This vast amount of spiritual emission led members of ordinary society to label him as "charismatic" and "bold". However, our research concludes none of this.
Experiments conducted on the corpses of several deceased Nazis after the war had shown that their spiritual balance (refer to page 141), had been severely altered by their continued exposure to high levels of Hitler's spiritual emissions. It can be concluded that, upon our current research, only those who possess very large amounts of spirit power are able to produce noticeable quantities of spiritual emission. Even then, only those capable of broadcasting their emissions into the personalities of others have been able to change the world. However, our current research indicates that all known subjects throughout history, who have possessed considerable amounts of spirit emissions, have a 100 broadcast rate.
CONTINUE TO PAGE 147 TO LEARN ABOUT SAFEGUARDING YOUR MIND AGAINST SPIRITUAL BROADCASTS
If these people had large spirit emissions…and weren't broadcasting them? Were they hiding their energy? Or were they simply not aware of their power?
She thought about this even more, until...!
She was suddenly able to identify the presence in sector 10-R. Whatever it was, it was emitting an extremely large spirit register…almost as much as a persona user…no. It had to be a persona user. She immediately began typing in coordinates and filling in variables in her laptop, and it zeroed the location down to a small commercial district in Osaka, with the high possibility that it was a robotic persona user. It had to be Aigis. She sent out an alert to the other teams and called for Junpei to come over. When he got there, he seemed out of breath. Probably from getting chased around the beach by boyfriends who were angry at him for hitting on their women.
"Junpei, we need to get moving, now," she said, packing up her possession and closing up the laptop.
"Why's that, Fuuka?" he asked, sweat starting to trickle down his brow.
"I've just found Aigis. C'mon, Ken's team will be the first to arrive, so we have to meet with them ASAP!"
She rushed across the highway, dodging more than a few cars in an elegant fashion that reminded Junpei of Mitsuru, before Junpei had to run back to the hotel himself when he realized the full impact of the situation.
S.E.E.S. would converge on Osaka, and if they could locate Aigis, it would be all over for the L.O.S.T.