AN: Well, I've had a busy second week of work, whew! Thanks for the reviews! Any crossovers will mainly be skimmed through, unless I'm commenting on it because of it's ridiculous premise. The Kuroinu part is probably offensive, but then again the whole premise was silly with how dumb and easy the characters were. I just needed to point that out. On the SI's status, I would say he consider's himself a 'new being' with two sets of memories where he embraces both, he's at the stage where he's winging things and his backup plans are basically 'grab more power' to solve 'problem x' while having loads of fun. Besides, he's got Adachi, the guy that craves something that makes him feel alive, surely you didn't think he wouldn't be spontaneous about it. I mean, Passion/Lust Arcana... Back to Persona 4 now, and it's gonna stick that way with some occasional mentions of crossover stuff.
Chapter 10: Wandering About
Interlude: The Musings of a Wild Card transfer student
The first day Minako spent in Inaba had been great thus far. Aside from not managing to find anything unusual with the TV's in Inaba…
She had managed to talk to Margaret, Elizabeth's sister via phone call, she still wondered what's with Adachi's luck to find Margaret walking around Inaba the very same day she moved in. There wasn't much information we got to exchange other than some information about the Wild Card and talking about Elizabeth.
Yeah… she somehow got a fight scheduled in the future… these sister's really do think alike!
That call came at night and she had taken the call outside her home, Aigis was busy working on setting up some machinery in the store room and since she could find Margaret at the shopping district she could always introduce Aigis to Margaret later.
After the call that came from Adachi's phone had ended she continued to walk around the town.
The quietness of the town on occasion did beg for her to go through some introspection… which was something that she increasingly did not like to go through these days.
Why as that? She asked herself. Her Persona's have kept quiet on that topic, probably wanting her to come to that conclusion herself.
If she was honest then she will say that perhaps she did have an answer.
The answer… was that she didn't have a clear idea on what to do.
This was… a mystery. The whole 'killer' situation in Inaba, this was something that she never had to deal with before.
Well, that wasn't the complete truth. She and her brother had to deal with the Dark Hour ever since that fateful night, for years that had to grow up wandering in the extra hour in some measure of trepidation and fear. Admittedly it wasn't as scary for her brother since he didn't care much about things during those days, but it was really scary for her!
So that's one mystery that was quickly dispelled by SEES on her first few days.
But other than that she had always fought with a clear purpose the moment she had heard about the threat that the shadows had posed. Why was that? She asked herself in her moment of introspection as she walked along the Samegawa Flood Plain.
Ah, now that she thought about it… perhaps she wasn't as different to her brother as she thought. Perhaps she fought not because she cared about other's back then, but because she wanted to care.
That was an unsettling thought for her so she tried to take her mind of things.
Now, what was a good thing to think about? The mission? Meh, easy. Just stalk Yukiko Amagi, re-acquaint with each other and gather more info.
But she had always 'lived' for more than a mission, at least, that's what happened over time.
Hmmm- Making new friends at school, getting good grades, part-time work for some money…
She wasn't… particularly behind her studies, so that was okay. Work would come in time and making new friends at school should be a no-brainer.
And outside school- there's always Adachi-san.
The guy tries too hard to be this 'cool' cop and composed person too hard. If anything, she knew that he was a rather simple person who would rather have fun. It's very… Not-Japanese if she had to put a word to it.
Japanese people were conformists who always read the 'context' of the situation and valued 'normalcy' more than anything. Shintoism wasn't the country's religion, instead, 'Routine' was the God of the Japanese. Being a 'productive member of society' was probably the highest honour an ordinary citizen could aspire to… the more she thought about it the more she realised how stifling it was! The perpetually stagnant wages and long work hours were also a huge turn off. Oh, and the fact that work places will probably fire her the moment she got pregnant was also a huge minus for working in Japan! Well, not all companies, but many of them do… She supposed that she could just work with Mitsuru and things will be okay.
She remembered Adachi talking about his police responsibilities and how depressed he sounded while on the topic.
The office politics seem terrible, the pay seemed bad in light of his recent demotion and through some other readings she had dug up using the Kijiro Group's resources and asking Detective Kurosawa (Our favourite weapons dealer) she realised that it's unlikely that Adachi will get promoted again unless he has more 'influence'.
Now that she was in her third year of high school she had to start thinking about these things… sure she still had university to look forward to but it was all about saving the world back then.
Things were so simple, beat up shadows, Strega, rescue people, beat Nyx.
And then *blam*! Erebus! Turns out the very people we wanted to save were the ones calling out for destruction in the first place!
Just when she and her brother understood what it meant to 'live'… it was the 'world' that forced the both of them to 'sacrifice' their lives in the first place.
She shook her head and cleared those thoughts out of her mind.
She didn't like to think about that.
What else can she distract herself with… Ah, right! There's cabbage courtesy of the resident detective! She should probably cook something with it… oh, and clean the pots he left in the home she and Aigis were living in as well.
She went back home quickly so Aigis wouldn't worry too much.
Wednesday was rather normal, aside from finalising our transfer this Friday.
Turns out that Yasogami High would be holding their mid-terms next week… and me and Aigis won't be exempt.
She spent the whole day studying with Aigis, although Aigis was a cheating cheater with her super robo-memory! So unfair!
Aigis didn't share that opinion and told me to 'Git Gud!', a phrase she apparently learnt online.
Thursday was Children's Day, she remembered it because of a certain gift by the door. She reached for the card immediately and grinded her teeth as she read the message on it.
"HAPPY CHILDREN'S DAY! From your friendly neighbourhood detective, Tohru Adachi."
"You… complete… asshole." She recited as she quickly began typing her message after seeing the card on the gift box. Nineteen years old does not count as a child damn it!
"Minako, I think we should un-wrap the package before proceeding to send a response to the sender. I have already determined that the package is safe." Aigis said while shaking the box with her ear to it.
Aigis, I don't think that's the safest way to check if a box is dangerous.
She opened it and gasped as she saw the contents. A Pink Alligator plushie and a bird plushie, along with a storybook… the book that Akinari had written-
-She still had his notebook with all his writings! This was-
She began to tear up in gladness. Akinari managed to get his book published in the end, and to get toys based on it- it must have been popular.
It was times like these she wondered how and why the Detective somehow seemed to know her too well at times. Out of all the gifts he had to give it had to be this…
She was thankful, to know that Akinari would have his work published after his passing. And she was also thankful for a wonderful gift that allowed her to know that fact.
She wrote a quick thanks after calling him an asshole on her phone.
Minako also would read Akinari's story to Aigis as a bedtime story. Aigis would get the bird while she kept the Alligator.
It was a no brainer, the alligator was pink, that was all.
Friday's transfer was rather smooth. The third years didn't care all that much as they were busy going crazy over the finals. She and Aigis managed to catch Yukiko Amagi and her friends eating lunch on the room top.
They introduced themselves as transfer students from Iwatodai that took a break in their studies.
Yukiko Amagi was wayyyy prettier than Minako remembered, she mentioned that and they got along okay as she used their previous meeting as a topic to start with.
Chie Satonaka and Yosuke Hanamura were really fun. They argue with each other like an old married couple. Granted, a couple that loved to fight. The old married couple she knew back then weren't like that.
Yu Narukami … reminds her way too much of her brother. Except the guy is a little more expressive and overall 'cooler', somehow she got the feeling that he was literally full of swag. He says weird things on occasion with a straight face … that was really funny. Oh, and he got along with Aigis really well.
Most of lunch time consisted of them warning me and Aigis about how Morooka, or King Moron, was the biggest asshole in the school, along with some other information about school and the town.
If any one of them was a Wild Card she would go 'All-in' and put her money on Yu Narukami because if the facial twitches on occasion didn't give it away then his sheer adaptability at a social manner would be a strong point in his favour.
The rest of the day went by peacefully… until it was past midnight.
Sirens were heard as a police car was near the neighbourhood, that woke Aigis up first, who then woke her up.
She had quickly changed to see what had happened.
She briefly had panicked when she realised that it was Adachi's house that was broken into and that there were no signs of the Detective…
The assailant had broken the front door and the house looked trashed up, they were later shooed away from the crime scene.
Aigis would work with Mitsuru to get the information from the police, it's connections like these that are really useful at times like these.
She got the details later in the stormy afternoon on Saturday. There was definitely a fight within the house, blood that probably belonged to Adachi was found and the blood trail ended in front of a toppled television.
She wanted to dive in the TV world there and then, but she couldn't get in there if she hadn't even confirmed it existed. Perhaps only certain people can enter it… she followed Yu Narukami and the group she met yesterday discreetly. They seem to be talking about something urgently in the food court, Aigis joined her later but by then the both of them had to stalk the group into Junes.
She soon saw her underclassmen entering the large television in a Junes section that was devoid of people one by one. As the last person entered the TV, she raced and reached out to follow them, only to stopped by Aigis who grabbed her just as she managed to touch the screen with her fingers, which went through it, slightly.
Aigis apologised as they had drew some attention from a nearby staff from their observation activities so going into the TV world then and there would have caused undue suspicions since the Junes staff was walking towards them.
She then realised that she had forgotten to buy a large television (they only had the small one that was already in the home) so she couldn't just try to chase after them from home, ah well, time to call Mitsuru for some money-
-Which suddenly became a less urgent request when she watched the news on Sunday morning where a Detective Tohru Adachi was found by the manager of Junes earlier.
Turns out that Adachi was without upper clothing, looked like he was punched and kicked a lot, slightly burnt and somehow without memory of what had happened, or at least, that was what the news reported.
Oh, and he's currently in a local hospital.
She quickly grabbed Aigis to visit him, before stopping at Junes to buy him some cabbage- he probably likes them and she supposed it's a cheap get better soon gift that she could get on such short notice.
It was a good thing that the interrogations and questions were already dealt with, oh, and apparently Adachi complained about too much security so there weren't any police officers guarding him.
In any case, he was in good shape and was allowed short visits.
Meanwhile… the detective in question was…
"Alright then, let's see here… oh, there's Nicholas becoming sergeant of Sandford and now we're back again to a few hours before that…" I mumble to myself as I noted my capabilities.
A few experiments later showed that I could view worlds I visited before so long as I'm not in that respective world. Heck, I just watched the ending of Hot Fuzz a few times before going back a couple of weeks and appearing before the ending.
Also, it would seem that I can choose to revisit the world in a time period where I don't exist and if the time period is set to the future of my most recent existence.
Long story short, I can only reappear in the future, but I can view a different universe whenever I want and at any point in time.
Oh, when I 'view' a world I experience it as if I was floating/standing in a designated location (which is movable), so no full clairvoyance of all futures for me. But still, 'viewing' a world comes with a Google Search function where I can find anyone or anything I want, so that's a huge plus.
I tried aiming for a world with 'ESP' just to test out the difference between the barrier of mind and matter. The Hot Fuzz universe has a high barrier where I could only use 10% of my Persona's power.
At first I thought of going to Kamachi's Toaru Majustsu verses but then I remembered that everyone there is OP shit and I would rather not risk it yet.
So I tried a lower level world with psychics, the Zettai Karen Children universe.
To be honest I preferred the Darker and Edgier spin off focused on the main 'villain', Hyoubu Kyousuke, international terrorist and one of the most powerful psychics in that world.
He's a fucking badass and super cool as well!
The moment I arrived was the exact moment where I developed a terrible headache which somehow caused the area around me being distorted with fields of gravity.
It was okay after that, aside from the police starting to shoot at me, yelling things in another language.
I wasn't terrified because I had Repel Physical as a trait of Kaleidoscope Izanagi, but I did 'reach' out with my hand at the bullets by reflex, and that somehow made the bullets freeze in the air.
I ignored that for the moment and pretended to know what the fuck I was doing.
After speed blitzing the trigger happy cops while lecturing them about being so trigger happy I realised that I was in some vaguely Middle-Eastern country with martial law applied.
Or at least, that's the impression I get since they have fucking tanks out on the streets.
Hmm? More gunmen… I can't understand what they're saying, although they did say something about an ECM- whatever that is. Oh, yeah, that's their esper suppression device!
I swap to Saturnus, and felt a pressure in my mind weaken, or rather, shifted and changed.
Hmm? I aim the power at their guns and twisted my fist, as if tearing it.
True enough, steel bent and the guns were rendered inoperable, but it was somehow- weaker than using Kaleidoscope Izanagi, even though it felt more 'right' than before.
I hear more screaming, and as I turn I saw men being splattered and blown up as they shot a gas canister that somehow appeared right in front of them.
And then the tanks started shooting at me- I swapped to Kaleidoscope Izanagi and-
Had my vision blocked by a man, or kid, wearing a black uniform standing in front of me. The silver haired man tanked the tank shells with an invisible shield as if it was nothing, and turned towards me.
He smirked as he stared at me with his pale green eyes, "You're far away from home, aren't you my fellow esper?" He asked before waving his right hand to the side, teleporting a tank on top of another tank, and allowed it to drop on the other tank.
They exploded into flames-
Somehow I felt very little emotion in just seeing soldiers slaughtered right in front of me… I blame Adachi.
"Yeah, well, I just got my powers so I've been playing around with teleportation and telekinesis. Then poof, this small town cop ended up in some Middle Eastern country and- hold that thought!" I say while stopping to test my limits to crush a tank behind me with telekinesis.
It was surprisingly easy to do so, and I got the feeling my power was tied to my Persona's stats and Arcana somehow.
"-that's better. Oh, and then inspiration struck and I remembered countries like these have strict anti-esper laws so I was like, fuck them! These assholes makes the world a shitty place so, meh! Stuff happened." I shrug as I finished explaining.
Hyoubu Kyousuke uproariously laughed at my explanation before settling on a confident smirk.
"Well said. Welcome to the fight against these 'normals'! Major Hyoubu Kyosuke, leader of P.A.N.D.R.A." He said while offering a hand.
"Detective Tohru Adachi, pleased to meet a world famous badass freedom fighter." I say as I shook his hand.
"Hmm? A detective? I don't think I recruited one before. How does a prison break sound as an initiation test?" He questions with a knowing smirk.
"I'll have you know I'm a professional at GTFO out of places." I say while smirking all the way.
"Is that so? Well, you're still a newbie and all so I'll show you the ropes with teleportation. The thing is if you want to be teleported along you'll have to ignore the spatial distortions that aren't harmful."
"Wait wha-"
I was promptly teleported with some minor resistance to an ice cream stall, where the esper grabbed two popsicles and teleported us to the top of a spire, or a mosque of some sort.
"Here, let's see if we get a winning one." He said while handling me a popsicle
I look at him incredulously, before accepting and enjoying the blueberry popsicle.
Three helicopters were circling around us…
"Damn. Not a winner." He says as he finished the popsicle, and telekinetically flung the popsicle stick at the helicopter which FUCKING BROKE THE HELICOPTER SCREEN.
He snapped his fingers which crushed THREE helicopter propellers, allowing them to crash into the ground.
"I can't read the language so I don't know if I won or not." I say casually.
He grabs the stick out of my hand and looks at it.
"Nope, this is trash too." He then flicks it towards a soldier down below, crushing the man's skull with the telekinetically enhanced stick.
Fuck that was hard core!
He then teleports us to right in front of a surviving soldier who was struggling to get up.
"What's wrong? Hurry up and capture us. But I, Hyoubu Kyosuke, and my associate-" He gestures to me.
"-Detective Tohru Adachi-" I say, and allow him to continue.
"-Invoke our rights under international esper rights laws to remain silent. As well as the right to wear a school uniform." He finishes as he smirks before glancing at me.
I return the smirk and gestured for a selfie, which the Major generously agreed without a word as he took a photo amid massive carnage of clearly anti-esper forces. Huh, I better go teleport this phone in a safe place, I rather not let it be confiscated. Well, multiverse time travelling is a really good way to solve that problem! Or any problem…
'Thou art I… And I am thou…
Thou hast established a new bond…
It brings thee closer to thy Fate…
Thou shalt be blessed when creating Personas of the Emperor Arcana…'
"Oh, I almost forgot!" The Major and also my current employer in this world said to me while fishing for something in his pockets.
He took out a key chain that looked like a mini-him, in other words, chibi Major Kyoubu Kyousuke.
"All new members get this as a commemoration gift." He said.
It was so adorable.
"How do I sign up?" I quickly decided that this would beat my police job any day!
A few hours later…
We chatted a bit on the helicopter that took the both of us to the esper prison called Deadlock.
I let things happen according to canon to a point I supposed.
I had to let Andy Hinomiya, that world government spy, lash out at the asshole prison warden who punched Hyoubu.
"Don't be so arrogant! You piece of esper livestock! You can't use those powers you're so proud of in hear." The asshole said.
To be fair, he did call the guy trash… but then again, the prison wardens and that general dude running the prison are illegally experimenting on espers, taking their cells and brains to make some hideous monster.
Yeah, these guys get no sympathy for me.
"Care to test that?" My boss said to the prison warden who he had earlier stopped from naming themselves since he didn't care about their names.
After threatening them, the guards started to point their guns at my boss, who I immediately got in front of.
"Hey! Cut that out. Come on, he's just a kid." Andy Hinomiya protested as he tried to 'protect' my boss.
And with that, the white-haired terrorist slash freedom fighter interest was piqued, and went ahead to chat with him. After pissing off the prison warden by walking and shoving past him as if he was trash…
I went ahead and tossed him way up into the sky before the warden tried to assert his pitiful authority on his soon to be esper overlords! (Actually we'll probably just kill him…)
Yeah, your pesky ECM's only block esper powers (to an extent) not Persona powers Bitches!
He went splat right after that. Or he would have if the leader of P.A.N.D.R.A. did not save his life via telekinesis.
"Oh? You saved the piece of trash that punched you?"
"I did no such thing. I just thought it would be funnier if he had to live the next few days with the fear falling." The white haired esper said while smirking, he didn't make any mention with my demonstration of super strength under the ECM.
"You're so going to kill him later, aren't you?" I whisper to him.
"Maybe…" He says cheerfully before narrowing his eyes at Andy Hinomiya, the red haired Japanese man.
Just to scare them a bit more, the criminal boss also launched the helicopter at the prison with telekinesis. Only to be stopped by the guards raising the ECM to it's maximum output, yeah, the helicopter still crashed and exploded, but still it's the threat that counts!
We were then taken to solitary confinement, or rather, after breaking a few arms I managed to convince them to 'escort' us to solitary confinement.
It's much better when they're polite! Oh, and Andy's joining us in solitary confinement to.
Still, I would be way too bored in solitary confinement. So, I decided to go somewhere to entertain myself first, hence, putting this plot on hold.
One universe jump later… and a few hours later…
I dump the red dragon which I punched and killed with one supersonic punch in front of the merchant guild in the capital city of this 'Cuntry'.
Yeah, that's spelled right.
I ended up in Kuroinu, yeah, that H-game.
It's post Volt's ascension and the transformation of the land into a country of service!
Hence, 'Cuntry', since all women had to serve men as sex toys.
While I was initially repulsed by the concepts I had to give Volt (not Guts!) credit where it's due…
The citizens were actually… happier.
Well, aside from the women, but even then living standards in general were way better than before according to the locals.
The 'Goddess' that was reborn into a high elf, Celestine, along with the other rulers who happened to be female were apparently incompetent rulers in general… and nowadays famine, hunger, and unemployment was a thing of the past... somehow, hell if I know how Volt runs his 'Cuntry'.
I think it was either Claudia… or Alicia… can't remember which blonde slut it was that actually surrendered when some female nuns were captured. Yeah, what the fuck was that going to do? Save them? Ahahaha!
Oh my gods were those bitches dumb as fuck! Bitches and Whores!
Heck! It was a common tale and a daily joke to the common man in this world!
But I digress, basically, after Volt had pooled the resources of the defectors from nobles he had them … replaced with more agreeable people. There was way less political backstabbing because satisfaction was so high among everyone (mainly men) since they had free sex every day.
Sure you had to pay a bit for bitches on the upper end, but other than that no one had the right to withhold their women from each other.
There was a bit of issues with people raping each other's wives, sisters, daughters, mothers, etc… at the start. But it's been years and everyone's gotten over it. Hooray!
Still, as a Japanese person I was big on cleanliness so If I wanted first dibs on women, it would have to be in the morning when a slut wasn't filled with the fluids of other men, and I needed to pay extra.
And since I was a foreign 'merchant' I needed to pay extra taxes for citizenship and all it's benefits. Oh, and my high standards demanded that I at least fucked a 'princess' for my first time.
I also didn't want to fuck up so I paid for some 'pro-tips' on how to properly … well, have sex.
Yeah, Volt occasionally gives public lessons and demonstrations. Oh, he licenses people to teach the proper way to 'make those pieces of meat crave your dick'.
To be honest, I was seriously offended by the mix of decadence and blissful nature of the populace throughout the entire day…
The world is running smoothly, but it's honestly fucked up!
No pun intended.
In any case, Prim, the pink haired princes- I mean, former princess, was going to be public property tomorrow.
I had to pay five gold coins for first dibs, I also paid some more silver coins so that I can use her for a full 30 minutes.
Sigh, who knew public utilities in the medieval era were so expensive!
I got 20 gold coins and 300 silver coins for the full dragon corpse. I decided to keep the gold coins to sell in other worlds. I spent the rest of the silver on registration, lodging, food, a blow job and some magic tomes.
I used Saturnus to quickly learn some basic magic, which was mainly intent and runic based.
It was bloody easy to learn, at some point I started wondering why my Persona's were so silent these days.
It turns out that Kaleidoscope Izanagi's colourful coat was a portal to viewing other dimensions for the other Persona's in my sea of souls.
So basically every one of my Persona's was TV addicts and couldn't stop watching 'reality' shows all this time!
Well, at least it kept them quiet…
Let's see hear, sex related magics, fireball, barriers… yup, all done with that.
I also practiced my ESP powers. It would seem that only some ESP comes naturally depending on the Persona, Titania, as queen of the Fae was specialised in tangible illusions and hypnotism. Surt (which I got from Shuffle time again) was for pyro kinesis, obviously. Saturnus, precognition and limited time manipulation. And many others…
But after practicing those types of psychic powers I could then use it with Kaleidoscope Izanagi, with more power but a bit more difficulty, well, a lot of difficulty for the illusion power. It's probably the Fool Arcana that allows me to use everything but at a 'lower' power than a specialised Persona.
This would be so useful in police work! I can't wait to get back to work and be a more efficient Detective!
I can't believe I actually thought about that with a straight face.
Don't get me wrong. Inaba… will be my home for a very long time. I like it, it's peaceful. Dojima, Nanako, Yu, Minako… they're all there right now and home is where the heart is.
That said, police work is crap and I need income for a high standard of living! Oh, and I need more powers to keep myself safe and save the world from the occasional deity trying to 'save', enslave or destroy humanity.
Those kinds of things must happen a lot if you consider the fact that Igor must have had many other guests before…
Ah, that's depressing, I should think back to how I should return to work.
Since I kidnapped myself I shouldn't just walk back in as if nothing has happened.
I will probably inflict some injuries on myself before using my psychic powers or my Persona abilities. But then again, I don't want to set a precedence of the 'killer's' victims being beaten up. So I guess I'll settle with ending up near naked, some pyro kinetic burns and acting exhausted will get me through this.
… I think I can get through with police work if I come back to this 'Cuntry' once a day to fuck my problems away.
The location for the public distribution was at a park in the capital city. There was a small crowd there early in the morning and I went to the front as my name was called by some guy. The man later signalled for some huge green orc to bring the slut in.
Part of me reasoned that I should not be doing this, but then I logically thought about it and came to the conclusion that for some odd reason everything is somehow fine and I wouldn't want to cause chaos by killing the leadership.
I was distracted from that train of thought as the green orc carried and dropped a pink haired female with large breasts onto the ground. She wasn't wearing anything other than a black animal collar with the words 'Prim' on it, her blue eyes looked up to me lustfully as she crawled towards me and began to took off my pants. Her large E-cup breasts swaying as she did so, taking away all my excuses as the sex-crazed slut started to suck my dick.
Just as she should! Wait, that sounded more sexist than it should have!
Maybe in the future I can do something about this, but right now, I'm going to enjoy myself!
May 7 Sunday (Rainy)
That was easier than I thought. Smack myself around, burn myself a little then choose the right moment to pop in and then swap out with a weaker Persona. Can't let myself regenerate right in front of someone can I?
Yosuke's father quickly called the police and I basically parroted whatever Yukiko said with some changes to context when Dojima questioned me this morning. Oh, and he brought Yu as well, who had wanted to visit.
And no doubt ask me questions. Yu stayed longer and we chatted.
As he asked about what had happened and mentioned how Teddie couldn't smell me, I off handedly said I winded up in another world and got caught up in some gunfights, esper liberation wars and somehow ended up having sex with a princess.
All true… to an extent. Well, what? I wasn't going to explicitly lie to him, I just needed to give him something. I mentioned that I had no control over what had happened and couldn't remember anything about the guy that broke into my house, except that it was a tall guy.
And the world jumping thing? I just said that it somehow happened and I didn't questioned it, I told him that I got some of the injuries in some adventures and had no idea how exactly I got back home.
Completely true, to an extent... I didn't know specifics on how the Kaleidoscope worked, and I didn't know much about my own ability. I managed to convince him that it was some weird Midnight Channel thing, I think…
The Star Social Link levelled up after that.
He left soon after. Oh, and then the next visitor came with cabbage.