Note: so this convo was supposed to be in the previous update, but I didn't have the time to add it, so it got delayed to the next update.
Warnings: I Actually Have Nothing To Say In Here.
Disclaimer: Don't own P5.
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"When were you planning to tell me that you had the app and awakened a Persona?" Goro started, arms crossed, brow furrowed and lips pressed together into a thin line, "Or were you even planning to tell me about it at all if I hadn't caught you?"
"Well." Akira fiddled with a curl of his hair, "Kinda like that? I wasn't going to tell you outright about that, but I wasn't planning on keeping it a secret." Goro quirked an unimpressed eyebrow and Akira shrugged, "What? Am I supposed to tell you everything I know? Where would the fun be in you chasing after me then?"
Goro sighed and shook his head, "That is a completely different thing. Any other things you neglected to mention to me because you were waiting for me to bring up first? Like, say, how you acquired a Persona?"
"Well about that…" Akira started, eyeing Goro cautiously, "I may or may not have had a Palace?"
Goro allowed his arms to fall to his sides and sent Akira a Look; Akira smiled awkwardly.
"See that Look? The other you in my Palace gave me that same Look when he saw me."
"The other me?" Goro's eyes widened, "You had a cognitive version of me in your Palace?" Goro looked miffed, "That's. Um. Ah." Goro mentally floundered as he tried to figure out how he was supposed to respond to that before he decided to put it aside to think on it later and move onto a different topic, "Where was your Palace anyway? Or what was it centered around?"
Akira shrugged, "It covered the entirety of Tokyo, as far as I figured it worked, anyway."
"Tokyo?" Goro frowned thoughtfully, hand drifting to his chin in a thinking pose, "It makes sense given your probation."
Akira grimaced, "Yeah, I figured. It was centered around the Diet Building." Goro's head snapped towards Akira.
"The Diet Building? But why?"
"Well gee, Tantei-san," Akira said dryly, "I don't know, who else could be connected to the Diet Building?"
"Ah, Shido." Goro covered his reddening face with his hands, "Never mind that hiccup. But still, why would your place of distortion be linked to Shido?"
Akira's face darkened, and Goro dropped that line of questioning.
"How did you awaken to your Persona, then?"
Akira's expression shifted into wry amusement, "I mentioned that it involved a screaming match, didn't I? My Shadow Self was less than pleased with me and made it known, we might have bickered, and then I might have awakened Arsene right after it was done."
Goro snorted.
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End