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This chapter is gonna be a lot shorter than the other ones.
Akira Kurusu is interesting.
That much is for certain.
She felt extremely grateful when Sojiro came for her rescue once he found out how she's doing.
In return, she bugged his whole cafe.
Okay, that sounded so wrong.
She did it when she first came to his cafe (without his knowledge), and bugged the entire place when Sojiro went for groceries. It was scary but she did it for Sojiro's safety.
However, despite that, she just ended up closing on him like the rest of the world.
She did open up a little, like making phone calls and all that, but not to the point where she would open her door and face him directly.
It was all her fault.
After two years, she is still in her room.
Nothing changed.
Except something piqued her interest at the beginning of April.
Sojiro had taken in a teenage boy named Akira Kurusu.
He didn't tell her so much of the details but she decided to hack her way through it.
What she found was interesting.
The kid that Sojiro took in had a criminal record! But the contents of his case were strange. First of all, the identity of the victim was completely wiped clean with no traces. The second one was there was no motive for the so-called assault. So either the raven himself was falsely accused and this is a bullshit case or it really did happened and the police were just being really secretive of what happened.
It's when she found out there was totally something... off about that guy.
At first glance, he looked like someone who wouldn't kill a fly.
Empty and blank is the best she could describe his mannerisms.
Ever since he arrived in the attic, she kept a close watch on him to see if he does anything strange.
In fact, he did.
But it wasn't anything bad or illegal shit but what he did made her question his mental capacity.
He was talking to no one.
At first, she thought he was just voicing his thoughts out loud but when he said the name "Arsene" while staring into space, she is 99% positive that he has a screw loose.
All of that changed after he came back from his first day of school.
When he came back to the cafe, looking like he just got hit by a truck, he pulled out his laptop (Wait, isn't that the newest model!? She wanted that so bad!) and plugged in some earphones, which, unfortunately, resulted in her not being able to hear who he was talking to through chat.
However, she listened intently on his side of the conversation after hearing him say the name "Mitsuru".
Mitsuru...
Isn't that the name of the head of the Kirijo Group?
She was also her mother's friend.
The raven then said he had something to report to her and that's when her image of him being a quiet and meek student was shattered.
The things he talked about was absolutely interesting and baffling, sounding unreal. A Castle, Personas and Shadows? What the hell are those? But also an app that took them to a different reality?
Also, what shattered her image of him was the way he reported to her about it. He sounded so... serious. He looked like a different person especially without those glasses of his.
This story isn't finished.
On the second day, when the raven came back (looking even more exhausted than the day before), he did the same routine and did a continuation of his report.
That's when it hit her.
All this talk about a world that represents the human mind as well as cognitive beings is very similar to the contents of her mother's research.
Could they be related...?
There was another thing that was about that Shujin Academy that piqued her interest.
Maybe she could contact him.
Wait, no. She couldn't even talk to Sojiro directly! How could she...
...
She could use her alias.
But she'll need to gather more info before making her decision.
"Whoever you are... You're a freaking pervert for watching everything I do 24/7."
"Who the hell are you calling a pervert!?" She screamed.
In the next moment, the screen that was monitoring the attic became covered with static.
How the hell did he even notice that small-ass camera!?
I know that some of you might be wondering about the pairings. I'm thinking about AkiraXLavenza (since the latter is so cute!), though I might alter her appearance to be the same age as Futaba. Why? Because the FBI might arrest me.
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