Daichi: This chapter is different, in that it will not focus on Satoko. Rather, it will focus on the other changes in the plot.

Verity: We only own Satoko, and to a similar extent, Meiko.

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It wasn't quite Dark Hour, but there weren't many people out and about that night either way. She moved swiftly, muttering under her breath.

"Honestly, did you have to forget to find me food?" The boy she was following shrugged.

"Look, it's difficult to find something and sneak it to you every night."

"I will literally eat anything made of plant material that you actually consider food." The small serpentine creature tried to glare, but failed.

"Sorry. Tell you what, I'll go back there, find the nearest open shop, and get you an apple or something."

"You better include a drink."

"That... I might actually have to get here." He searched his pockets. "And... no yen. Do you think I'd be allowed to get a berry shake to go? Or are you willing to wait until tomorrow?"

"Tomorrow's good. Just none of that coffee stuff. Not unless you add a lot of sugar. Actually, I'd be fine if you dumped some sugar and cream into hot milk, that would be great."

The boy checked his watch. "I don't actually think I can go tonight, though. As it is, there is no way, we're getting to the dorm by midnight. Come on, Meiko, I can leave from there. Not sure what'll be open at this hour, though." The small creature shrugged and climbed onto his shoulder.

"If anything attacks tonight, you can handle it. I'll just enjoy the show."

"But I thought we were friends!"

"The best. But not when I'm hungry."

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"There's a new girl. Besides me, I mean."

"Oh? That doesn't sound like it should happen."

"I know. I brought the matter to the Velvet Room, but Igor was cryptic as always."

"Right. So, you doing the whole big vocabulary thing this time?"

"They're buying into it, so, yeah. It's not that hard. Trying it out's how I met the new girl. Might as well try something new, right?" She shrugged. "And it works, so, why not?"

"Because it's dumb?"

"...I guess it is a bit stupid. Not like that'll stop me from doing it with the others, though." She leaned back. "I have to take advantage of being ahead somehow, and the words I picked up while studying are a great way of doing that. It keeps me sane, at any rate."

"Can Wild Cards be sane?" She slouched down, hiding her face.

"You aren't helping." Laughter sounded in her head. "You aren't helping either, Sandy." She groaned. "I'm not sure how much more of this I can take. I want... I just want to stop doing this." She felt a hand on her shoulder. "Thanks."

He didn't say anything.

"Oh, well." She sat up and shook her head. "Maybe six-hundred eighty-five and forty-three are our lucky numbers."

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The Velvet Room. A place between dream and reality, mind and matter. A place that existed outside time. A place whose residents had grown very, very bored.

Which was probably why Elizabeth had turned it into a nightclub. Theodore helped. Margaret just sat in the corner, while Igor tried not to let his annoyance show.

It wasn't easy. Which was why, when Minako went through the door that night, she picked up on it immediately.

Wisely, she didn't say anything. She just dumped some money on the table, picked her Personas, and left a note.

Theo, Liz, sorry, but I am not putting up with this anymore. If you want to go to the human world, fine, but you've been around long enough to know better than to pull the stunts you two did last time. If you want to mess with someone, bug your sister, alright?

Minako

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School and work. That was her life right now. It was so tiring, she generally collapsed in bed when she got the chance. She envied the other students. They didn't lose out on months of studying at a time due to a job... even if it was a fun job.

Still, she wouldn't be back at school for a while, which meant studying on the job. The young girl looked to her textbooks and everything she'd need for a while.

This was going to be a long trip.

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Gekkoukan Middle School was full of rumors. Some seemed ridiculous, like the thought of a young idol attending school there, to the slightly more plausible, like certain teachers having drug problems.

Souji paid no attention to the rumor mill. He just did his school work, and that was it. He didn't really talk to anybody.

There was something strange about her, something more than what she had told him. He could sense it. He just felt that there wasn't any real reason to dig any deeper. A lot of it could be in his head. The crash that he heard when she revealed the Aura Sphere to him definitely had been. It wasn't like she was the only strange one. His ability to experience the Dark Hour definitely said something about him, at it was not that he was perfectly normal.

It was a new experience for him, meeting someone that so desperately wished to become his friend, but it was a welcome change, even if every other morning she wouldn't shut up about the previous night's adventures.

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The Fool has infinite possibilities. Sometimes these possibilities change. The world doesn't always turn out this way. But, this time, it did, and the associated Fools were grateful for it.

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Daichi: Some of the focus characters go without names, but at least one unnamed featured character is possible to guess. All of them but the Snivy are canon to P3 and P4, though. Just a few new experiences, is all.