RWBY is owned by Rooster Teeth and Persona is owned by Atlus. Hey, been a while guys. College started back up so my free time is effectively sliced into pieces. Updates will be slower but i'll try to release it asap.

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"What was that all about?" Akane asked as she poked her head out from the edge of the door that Marina ran out from. "She was screaming about whatever Injustice."

"Good morning to you too, Akane," Minato cracked his neck before turning to face her. "Apparently she found my living conditions for the last 3 years to be unacceptable compared to her standard and thus your standard of living."

The red head raised an eyebrow. "You're going to have to elaborate on that I'm afraid. I mean I somewhat understand that we lived a lavish life style, but I believe I that I can live perfectly fine in other conditions just fine."

"No need, you basically summarized it." Minato waved it off before looking at her strangely. "What are you waiting for over there? There's plenty of seats at the table." He gestured to the gigantic granite top circular table, there was no real reason to not take a seat on the soft blue velvet cushions that the chairs provided.

"…Sure," She rather awkwardly accepted the invitation and took the seat next to Marina's former spot and wasn't quite sure how to continue the conversation. It wasn't a tense atmosphere but it certainly not a comfortable one but in the opinion of the Persona User, that was to be expected if a so-called sibling showed back up as if nothing happened in the time that passed.

Minato decided to break the silence which he enjoyed. "Hey… just out of curiosity, what have you've been doing the past few years I've been gone?"

"Oh! Um… I took some Violin classes and singing as well as worked on my prowess with a spear." She blinked, not expecting the sudden question but answered anyways. It appeared to have worked well enough as an ice breaker.

That caught Minato's interest, as an individual that experimented on how to use certain weapons and music, it was only natural that he would perk up on those topics. Besides swords, Minato had no real mastery over other weapon types, sure he was proficient enough with them to use in battle to give him the advantage, but he couldn't say that he was a master unless he equipped certain Personas that had a skill that transfer the experience over like Arms Master.

"Hmmm… tell me more… sister," Minato asked with genuine interest and tried to say sister without having a pause or delay seeing to him, the word sister hadn't been uttered in a regular basis for over a decade. His own sisters Minari who was most likely Marina's alternate counterpart and Hamuko who was simply Yuki's first cousin in this world had died in the car crash when the Dark Hour first came into existence. "If I remember right, you were fairly talented as a warrior, though I've gotten fairly proficient as well."

"Hoh?" The red head smirked upon that remark. "You certainly grown quite confident, good, you actually sound respectable now. A fine temperament over the passive nervous mess you were."

Yuki winced as imaginary daggers stabbed him in his nonexistent chest. That description hurt his counterpart far more than he expected even though there was a teeny tiny smidge of truth in it.

Akane's stomach growled loudly, it almost sounded as loud as a motorcycle's engine starting up. Her cheeks colored up as blood rushed up due to her embarrassment. Probably due to her upbringing, she was taught to hide that sort of thing but to be completely honest, Minato found it amusing than anything else. Her facial expression was also a treat to see due to it being somewhat of a rarity for Akane to display any sort of chink in her armor. At least that's how Yuki's memories had shown, which was a bit contradictory to the side that was shown to him Minato Arisato. It was a bit jarring to the Savior to see a prim and proper girl in his other self's memories and the girl currently in front of him.

Perhaps she missed her brother more than she openly stated, that made sense seeing Yuki and she were twins, fraternal they may be but still twins nonetheless.

"You just woken up, there's nothing wrong with being a bit hungry," Minato laughed softly at her expression as she turned her head to the side as her reddish coppery gold eyes refused to make eye contact with his icy silvery steel eyes. "Honesty is what I like in a woman above all else."

He had quite a bit of experience with women who don't truly say what their hearts mean, while he learned to decipher them in the end, he still would rather not deal with those girls. There had been multiple one-sided arguments in the past and they only gotten angrier when he revealed that he had his music player now Scroll on full volume the whole time.

Because of this, the Fool had learned how to lip read before simply resigning to the fact that he had to listen to them when they smacked his headphones off his ears. That's when he genuinely gets angered when they actually damaged his headphones and while he's not proud of it, he once made one of his ex-girlfriends so terrified that her skin became milk pale. It was rather embarrassing looking back at it but in his defense, that's what happens when he bottles up his anger and the fact that she smacked his headphones, a token of his old world and damaged it, something just snapped inside of him.

Somehow, Akane's face turned even a deeper shade of red as she refused eye contact. "…Yes, I'm well aware of what you like in a woman. Though… isn't it a bit strange to talk about that with your sister. I would understand if you wanted my opinion or advice regarding how another woman thinks but isn't kind of early to have such a conversation? Though, I'm unfortunately not much help when it comes to relationship advice, I've never been in a relationship myself and only ever talked to the butlers and father besides the occasional ball or party."

"My preferences?"

"Marina told me all about your browser history a few years back when we had lunch together."

"…Fuck!" Yuki started hyperventilating despite the fact that he couldn't breath due to not having any sort of physical lungs. "She lied to me!"

"Say, the day is pretty nice, how about we go somewhere?" Minato ignored the loud racket in his own mind with his Personas laughing at his Counterpart and the weak rebuttals coming Yuki. Personas often takes the form of Gods, Demons and other legendary figures, the difference between Yuki and them were worlds apart, one of these days Yuki might annoy the wrong Persona and get a taste of what exactly that gap entails.

"I'm not much for going outside unless it's necessary," Her shoulders shrugged. "Leaving a place that has everything I desire for the uncertainty lurking outside is not what I call an ideal way to spend my time."

"And what do you consider an ideal way to spend your time?" Minato asked, it's not that he couldn't understand her reasoning, there were times where he just kept to himself and wanted to be left alone. That all changed because of the one year he spent in Iwatodai with the rest of his teammates from SEES and the rest of his social links. Because of them, he learned that there's plenty of opportunities that the Fool would otherwise miss.

"Watching RemTube Videos," She replied instantly without a hint of doubt or delay. "That or playing some RPGs."

It appears that his sister had turned into a NEET when his Counterpart was gone, the way she said it and the way her eyes glowed showed how serious she was. Strange, Marina based on Yuki's memories showed that Yuki and Marina were fairly adventurous based on the scene where they were watching one of Pyrrha's matches in Mistral during their vacation.

Then again, Akane was nowhere to be found in those memories so it may well be that she was always introverted individual. Though, she could certainly hold a conversation better than Ruby when he first met that red hooded younger girl.

"…That's it?"

"RemTube is life."


Ryoji in his true form easily dodged the metal rain of bullets from the 2 male humans using trees as cover. "Ha! Your aim is piss poor," The evolved Shadow taunted watching them reload their guns. "I know a blonde robot that aims better than that!"

Speaking of that loyal Android that inherited Minato's Wildcard abilities, Ryoji wondered where she was now. He knew more or less that

The damaged Shadow frowned or at least tried to as he lacked a physical mouth in his true form that resembled the Persona Thanatos as he saw the trees riddled with bullet holes in their trunks, making him a bit annoyed at the sight. It was a crime to see marred and scarred natural scenes of this magnitude of beauty.

"Fuck! Fuck! Fucking Hell!" The older male spat as he aimed his assault weapon and pulled the trigger. The trigger was pulled but no projectile was launched, it jammed. "Piece of shit, I'm never buying second hand used trash ever again." He was certainly regretting trying to skimp out on a quality weapon to save a bit of money. He wasn't a Huntsman, Hunter, or Officer so the need of a weapon until now never came out, a shame that he never gotten the lesson why weapons, custom ones at least were so expensive was because the fact that people wanted an item to be reliable, to be able to place their lives in the hands if the smith that makes their arms.

That was perhaps why most people tend to design and forge their own weapons, that trust or lack they're of will always nag at the back of the Huntsman's mind every time he drew his sword.

"…So, are we done or not?" Ryoji asked. He shrugged as both of them started sprinting towards him with their blades in hand ready to slash the former Death into teeny tiny cubed pieces of flesh. The black-haired Shadow sighed as he cracked his neck and readjusted his bright yellow scarf, waiting for them to reach his range.


"Finally!" Ruby exclaimed loudly startling the passengers of the public Bullhead around her and her older sister Yang. "I thought we'll never go shopping after you get into one of those moods Yang." The red hooded reaper pressed the palms of her hands and her face on the glass watching the vehicle ascend higher and higher into the sky, the sight still, to this day continued to amaze her. It reminded Ruby of how small the personal world that surrounded her was.

"Oh, stop exaggerating Rubes." Yang shrugged. "It's not THAT bad." Though, she did have to take a bath after all the sweat her clothes accumulated from her rather… intense workout session and she loved long baths. There had been innumerable times when her father Taiyang Xiao Long, Uncle Qrow, and Ruby banged on the door claiming that it was an emergency but the hot water covering the weary body was not something that could be described with mere words alone. After Beacon and after she starts on her career as a Huntress, the first thing she's going to do is visit those famous hot springs that Mistral has.

"That fact that you had to place emphasis on THAT says otherwise," Ruby retorted without turning to face her older sister. If anything, Ruby Rose pressed her face deeper into the glass as if she's trying to fuse with it, the 15-year-old girl was thoroughly engrossed with the view of the clouds and the bright blue sky. "Say, you contacted Weiss and Blake, right?"

"Huh?" Yang was snapped out of her thoughts. "Oh yeah, they didn't have anything planned for the break anyways, so they accepted within the moment I sent the text." Yang chuckled, they might not say it but those 2 became attached to her and Rubes more than they expected. Looking back, Yang would have never expected Weiss to become friends with Ruby or Blake opening up at all.

The blonde to be completely honest, expected Team RWBY to go their separate ways after their 4 years together at the beginning with the exception of her and Rubes but that was due to them being siblings prior to the formation of the team. It was an unexpected but not unwelcomed surprise to have them warming up to each other.

"Maybe we should ask Team JNPR to hang out with us too," Ruby thought out loud. With Pyrrha back in Mistral for the break, Ruby had a hunch that Jaune, Ren and Nora had no real plans to do anything during the break, maybe Nora will in all her spontaneous acts will drag Ren into whatever her mind concocted as a 'fun' activity but other than that, she didn't expect them to be doing anything to warrant a decline to meet up.

"Already on it, sis," Yang dug into her back pocket and pulled out her Scroll, it was a little out dated but she wasn't exactly rolling in Lien to buy a newer model. And the older sister figure of Team RWBY spent most of her allowance on clothing and other cosmetic items. "Alright sent the text, waiting for a response."

"Hey Ren, Vomit Boy, Pancake Girl. Wanna hangout 2gether?" Sent at 12:33 pm

"Do I! Hell yes." Received from pancake girl at 12:34 pm

"Sure." Received from Vomit Boy at 12:34 pm

"But seriously can u stop calling me that name?" Received from Vomit Boy at 12:35 pm

"Nah, until you give me a better reason for another nickname, that's what u stuck as." Sent at 12:36 pm.

"Yeah, they comin sis," Yang tossed the Scroll in the air before casually catching it with a slight flick of her hand. "Still, since you want them to come, have you decided what you have planned out?"

"As a matter of fact, I DO have something planned." Ruby puffed out her chest in pride and placed her hands on her hips like she was one of those old superheroes from the comic she and Yang read as a child. It didn't help that her hood began to flow like a cape against the wind despite the fact that there was no gust or flow to be found within in the Bullhead.

Her tone and facial expression was screaming, Praise me! Praise me!

"I feel like I'm going to regret asking this but what do you have planned little sis?" Yang felt in her gut that it was too good to be true that Ruby had a good suggestion and her gut feelings were usually right, it had an 85 percent success rate.

"So… where we meeting up?" Received from Vomit Boy at 12:42 pm

"At the pier shops and we'll travel to the shopping district later," Sent at 12:43 pm

"K" Received from pancake girl at 12:43 pm.

"We're going to the weapon shop and see the pros in Action!" Ruby fist pumped the air at the mere thought of seeing the quality and the techniques of the smith with decades of experience, the thought of furthering her skills and make her baby Crescent Rose made her shiver from excitement.

"…Yeah, we're not doing that," Yang had to put her foot down on that. "Once again, my gut was right."

Yang felt bad at the shattered hopeless look on her sister's face but she remained firm. "No seriously, we're not doing that. That look won't change my mind Ruby." Maybe if they were alone, she might have succumbed to Ruby's puppy dog look and let her do what she wanted to do but they weren't alone.

Maybe Ren and Blake wouldn't be too vocal with their displeasure and maybe if Minato was the one dealing with Ruby, he would have shrugged, said whatever and went along with whatever she wanted to do but Weiss would loudly protest, Nora would get bored and would whine loudly and Jaune would have mildly voice his boredom.

Ruby might have gotten a lot better at socializing with people, but she was not quite there yet in regard to be able to hold a conversation regarding matters outside school, weapons, and personal hobbies and likes.

Still, coming to Beacon had done nothing but improve Ruby and herself in ways that their old academy Signal was never able to do. It just proved the levels between the two were leagues apart.

"Why not," Ruby crossed her arms and had spoken with a childish whine. "It's my Passion!"

"Listen Rubes," Yang said shaking her head in negative. "That's what YOU like but think about it, there's going to be 5 other people besides us and do you think they would like to watch some oily dude hammering a piece of scrap metal?"

"Scrap metal? It depend-" Ruby was about to go into her geek explanation mode, but Yang cut her off.

"…Okay, let me rephrase it a bit," Yang moved her left arm like she was shooing away a fly. "…Do you think… let's say Weiss would go inside a scalding hot workshop, sweat like a pig in there and not throw a fit?"

Ruby paused a bit before shaking her head. She could just imagine how that white-haired heiress was going to react, the youngest member of Team RWBY liked to think that it was because they were the bestest besties that she could understand Weiss' nature like the back of her hand.

"…No,"

"Listen Rubes," Yang placed a hand on her sister's shoulder. "Life's full of compromise, it's just how it is."

"Compromise?" Ruby looked at Yang with disbelieving judging eyes narrowed into thin slits. "But don't you just punch anyone that you don't agree with? I mean, you're banned from several clubs the last time I remember."

"…Who told you that?" Yang's attempt at giving Rubes a piece of sage advice backfired, the Blonde's mouth was opened in the middle of retorting, but no sound came out, there was no words to describe the fact that Ruby managed such a comeback that there was no defense forming in the back of her mind like she usually does.

"I heard dad complaining to Uncle Qrow one day about the bills."


"Ha!" Ryoji laughed out loud scaring the 2 human males. "Missed! You missed, where were you even aiming at?" He taunted making a mocking bring it gesture with his left hand. If he had a face in his Shadow form, he would certainly have a toothy smirk aimed at them.

The older male in around his mid thirties swung his scimitar at the giant but slim torso of Ryoji for it to be casually deflected by the black hilted slim bone white katana like sword that just manifested into Ryoji's gloved hands. The Shadow learned that trick from Minato when they were still connected, and he could almost taste the day when they return to one singular existence once more.

"Come on! You can do better than that, the humans that I look up to can do much better than that," Ryoji shook his head after tilting it to dodge a bullet engulfed in electricity. He sighed, perhaps he was demanding too much out of humans, SEES were an outlier among their kind, having the will and courage to challenge an existence as absolute as Nyx without submitting. If the rest of Humanity were like that, then Nyx wouldn't have had a reason to wake up again. Deep within his heart, Ryoji knew this but he had hoped that the humans of this world called Remnant would have more remarkable people like SEES in a higher ratio than Earth.

"Why can't I hit you!" The older male screamed in rage and in fearful denial. He had killed a few Grimm before, granted it was more luck than anything else and it was a Beowolf, the weakest Grimm out there but still… this Grimm was nothing he ever heard of before. "What kind of Grimm floats on 2 legs, what Grimm talks, what Grimm uses a damn SWORD!" He yelled out all of his confusion and everything that contradicted the truths of the world as he knew it to the monstrosity that was emitting such a thick coating of dreadful energy.

"It's because I'm a Grimm? You should really get your brains and eyes checked old man," Ryoji shrugged as the legs of the man shook uncontrollably which caused the man to fall into a puddle of mud, staining his already dirty jeans.

"W-what are you?" He breathed heavily wanting to push his legs and thus gain some distance between him and THAT thing, but his legs didn't move, like his body lost the will to resist such an absurdly superior being. "Just what the hell are you?" He whispered almost not believing his own eyes.

"That's an easy question to answer friend," Ryoji said in a happy tone that did not fit the situation. When he became the Harbinger of Nyx or rather when he became aware his status of being her Harbinger, Ryoji was filled with despair and emotionally drained. Now that he was free from such a destiny and such an obligation, he returned to the same perverted happy self that got along swimmingly to the Magician Arcana Persona User Junpei Iori.

Though it would be more accurate to say that his personality was Minato's before the fusion between the two in the fateful night of the Dark Hour's origin. Even his 'human' form was based on Minato's body, Ryoji had gotten a spark of humanity and Minato became more like Death due to that merger. "I'm Deat-" The black-haired teen was cut off as a rain of elemental bullets was unloaded against his chest, exploding into a mix of ice, fire, electricity, gravity and energy fusing to create some even more powerful explosion which obliterated the nearby trees that were at least 300 feet in the air into splinters and scrap wood.

The dust cloud obscured the area where the monstrosity was standing or rather floating, but nothing could have survived that, each bullet was more than powerful enough to kill an Ursa Grimm in full armor and the younger male shot at least 45 rounds into the torso of the monster. He panted as he dropped the gun onto the ground and clumsily sat down moments after with a loud audible thump. "He's dead as fuck… fuck yeah." He fist-pumped the air and caught his breath and regulated his heartbeat. "You alright man?"

"He's not an opponent us mere humans can fight," The first male said with no discernable emotion. "Us humans, we're pieces of shit compared to that thing."

As soon as he said that, the dust cloud lightened up and settled enough to show the large figure no worse for wear, it was as if it was invulnerable. An immortal monster that can't die, a monster durable to shrug such fire power is unreal, it went against any and all of their beliefs.

"Awww, thanks for the compliment old man," Ryoji said. "But seriously though, I'm not going to kill you. I just need some directions to Bacon Academy." He spoke in a non-threatning tone and floated back down to the ground. A dark cocoon of deathly energy surrounded him and broke apart after he reverted back into his 'human' form.

"The looks on your faces are priceless by the way." Ryoji showed them his lady killing smirk filled with confidence which he later taught Minato to use. The shock on their faces was too hilarious not to laugh at despite the fact that he wished to have a somewhat serious conversation with them, idiotic as they are, they were still the first humans and thus first intelligent life that Ryoji had encountered on this planet called Remnant. "Name's Ryoji Mochizuki and my goal in this life is to there for him. That is all."

"So, let me get this straight," The man named Virid looked at Ryoji's 'human' form as the Shadow leaned on a tree eating an apple which he blasted out of the tree with a slash of darkness made from a flick of his wrist. "You're Death."

"Yup!"

"A Death from another dimension, from another planet." Virid continued with a less frightened expression but still on guard despite the fact that if such a powerful entity wanted him and his younger roommate dead, then he would have already been dead. Still, he could barely believe the shit that was dribbling out of that monster's mouth. "Bullshit." The younger male spat as he aimed his gun at Ryoji who seemed to be as calm as ever and happily biting into the apple.

"Do You know? That Gods of Death love apples?" The Shadow asked looking at the one aiming his weapon at him. "That's an anime reference, I personally find apples to be tasty however."

"Listen here you damn abomination," The younger male's hand was shaking out of fear and the pressure they were exerting on the firearm. "Aliens don't EXIST, and You're not Death. Gods don't exist."

Ryoji snorted and raised an eyebrow, an expression that screamed "Oh Really?" was evident on his face. "First off, I'm not a god and secondly, you do realize I'm in realm of power that you can't even begin to comprehend right?" He played with his scarf amused at the rather extreme reactions of the humans, though he didn't really blame them, he was in his true form after all and turning back into his human form right in front of them was probably not the smartest idea to have but it was hardly an issue.

The ability to alter memories wasn't outside the realm of his possibilities and was a simple enough task to wipe their minds of the encounter after he gotten what he wanted from them.

"That's ENOUGH," Virid yelled at his dumb idiotic roommate. "Coming to this forest was your idea as well, stop making our lives harder for us!" He looked at Ryoji and bowed his head, it stung his pride, but it was a price that he was willing to pay for a chance to keep on living. It was clear to him just who was the supreme being was. "I ask you Lord Death, what would you have us do for your, so you would spare our lives?"

"…Like I said earlier, I wanted to go to Bacon Academy. Guide me there and I'll ignore the fact that you guys tried to kill me and call it even." Ryoji responded with a bit of seriousness due to the fact that this will lead him one step closer to reuniting with Minato.

"I know that Y-you want to devour our souls but please RECONSIDER!" Virid pleaded but paused when he registered Ryoji's words and looked at his roommate who was just as confused and caused his fear and rage to simmer back down in place of perplexity. "Bacon Academy? You mean Beacon Academy, right?"

Ryoji made a hmmm sound. "Beacon, Bacon… who the hell cares? All you have to do is guide me there." And then he'll erase their memories, having the info of a monster who could take the form of a human was not something Ryoji would wish to be leaked.

"…You're not going there to eat the souls of the student's there are you? Not that I mind since it's not my soul but still," Virid scratched the back of his head. "Most of the students are on vacation right now so… it might not be enough to fill up Lord Death."

"What… eat their souls? What, Nooo!" Ryoji placed his hands up in the gesture to them to pause a moment. "I just want to meet someone I knew before is all." Even if he could have eaten someone's soul, there's no way Ryoji Mochizuki would do that even if it's theoretically possible. As someone who loved life, as Minato's friend, it was against his very nature to do something that heinous, even if he was designed to fulfill that function, he would never do that period.

"That it?" The Younger man asked, finally placing down his gun and stopped pointing at Ryoji. Not that it really mattered anyway since as a Greater Shadow, he couldn't be harmed by mere elemental attacks unless the individual had a Persona or a power that rivals that in terms of higher spirituality.

Virid and his Roommate looked at each other again as if to gauge Ryoji's truthfulness through each other. "You're being completely serious aren't you Lord Death?"

"That's what I've been trying to tell you the entire time," Ryoji sighed at the wasted time he used on these idiots. "Seriously, how much more do I have to say it before you guys believe me? Though, that leads to another question."

"…What is it?" Virid mustered what little courage he had and answered the scarf wearing teen.

"Why on Earth were you in this forest? It was literally crawling with them Creature of Grimm creatures."

"Because my foolish roommate over there thought it was a smart idea to gather some Red Sap to make money." Vidir managed to reply casually to the entity of Death as if he was just waiting to rant about his partner's dumb thoughts despite the fact that he was scared almost to the point of soiling his own pants. If that truly happened, Vidir wouldn't have been ashamed. In his opinion, the idea of Death itself was the entity that managed to make himself wet himself was understandable, if it was just a Beowolf then it was arguable that it was embarrassing.

"Red Sap?" Ryoji tilted his head in confusion. The Greater Shadow could more or less figure it out by context but still, it sounded more important and had more weight to it. The fact that the word sap was used and the fact that they were in a forest, surrounded by trees, Ryoji knew precisely what was happening or rather what was happening before the Death entity showed up that is.

"Huh, you honestly don't know?" Virid looked at Ryoji like he was a particularly slow child which irritated him. The man realized his tone and expression might have been offensive and immediately started to plead for his life without even a regard for his pride. "Please Lord Death, this foolish one didn't mean to offend you. Please spare this one's life."

Ryoji looked at him as if he had grown another head. Though, not that he could have seen the Death's expression seeing how he bowed down so lowly that his lips practically touched the dirt covered ground. This insincere fealty was starting to annoy Ryoji, though it was partially his fault going in his true form which would have terrified any living being but to be fair, he was operating under the impression that more Grimm were going to attack him, and it was far more beneficial to be in true form than not.

There were far more options for him in regards to that form, he could tear them in half, burn them and many more forms of inflicting death upon them. "Why Red sap?" He could care less what Red sap was but was more interested why it was so highly prized to the point that these 2 mortals were willing to themselves at risk to obtain it.

"You really have no idea why do you?"

"If I did then I wouldn't have asked you," Ryoji replied as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. He flipped a yen coin and caught it in one hand, and he burnt the apple core stem with a weak fire based magic skill in the other. "Alien from another dimension planet, Remamber?"

The 2 humans did, they looked at each other with disbelieving looks apparent in their faces, almost like they wished they were dreaming. This wasn't something that could be easily accepted but Ryoji was going to erase their memories after this, so it wasn't as if it really mattered.

Ryoji paused with that trail of thought, he was so so stupid, the Death face-palmed his own face so hard that the tree behind him snapped in half from the shock wave of his slap alone.

That startled the 2 mortals to the point that they almost screamed and soiled their pants but miraculously managed not to do so in order to not piss off or disgust the physical incarnation of the concept of Death itself. They really wished that this was just a terrible dream but knowing their own luck, terrible luck that was only surpassed by a certain Misfortune Semblance User that could turn into a bird, it was most likely reality.

Ryoji really was stupid, if he could already manipulate their minds with his magic, then he could simply just hypnotize them to do what he wants. He felt a little dirty for twisting their minds and wills but that, in his opinion was a small price to pay to see him again, the one he could honestly call his best and truest friend.

He turned his attention to the 2 human males again with his eyes looking directly at them glowing pink. It was a charm skill but if it works it works, the black-haired teen almost smiled when they had gained an blank look in their eyes.


Ryoji stepped out of the forest and into civilization after days of wandering that beautiful red painted landscape. He released the 2 out of his charm skill, that sounded wrong to him on sheer principle, perhaps he should rename charm to brainwash… yes, that sounded much better seeing how he was an individual who preferred women.

A sudden sharp but familiar pain shot through his body, quickly controlling the urge to wince, Ryoji ran to the nearest alley and collapsed on an oil drum cylinder that was half-way rusted frim neglect and the exposure of the element. Gripping the side of the metal container, the metal gave way from the sheer pressure of his fingers and caved inward as if it was an empty soda can to humans. His body flickered like an old light bulb or a candle that was on the verge of extinguish.

Once the pain started to fade away, Ryoji breathed out heavily and dusted off his clothing despite the fact that he doesn't need too. Like his current 'body', his clothing was made out of pure energy forced to take on a physical form. While, cutting it close, Ryoji had managed to reach the city which Minato supposedly lived in. while the transportation was a bit off, Ryoji couldn't really blame Elizabeth despite being annoyed with her, it can't be helped if the coordinates were imprecise, she was in another world after all.

His goal was to find Minato who should be in Bacon or Beacon Academy but if those 2 males back in the Forever Falls could be trusted then the students of said academy should be on their break, taking that into consideration, he needed some way to get some sort of communication device and contact the Persona User and to convince him into cutting his vacation sooner rather than later.

A communication device, money and information preferably, Elizabeth did give him a very basic run down of this world Remnant, but it wasn't enough. Like the whole Red Sap conversation, he had with the 2 mortals in the forest, he didn't know enough to keep a conversation going on what should be considered common sense on Remnant. The black-haired teen suddenly felt a bit of pity towards Minato, no doubt, it must have been lonely to live in this world and trying to adapt to it all alone. Trying to fit into a world that he ultimately doesn't belong to, there were no words in the dictionary or slang that could convey that suffocating sense of isolation, Ryoji's fist clenched at the mere thought of it, it trembled from the pressure and intense emotion.


"…Hello?" Minato said as he answered his Scroll. "I didn't expect a call from you Yang."

"Hey Blue," Yang replied back though her tone suggested that she wasn't relaxed as her regular self. Something was bothering her.

"Is something wrong? You seem quite tense… it's most unlike you."

The blonde audibly sighed as she tried to collect her thoughts. "Say, you don't have a brother, do you?"

"No," Minato shook his head in negative despite the fact that Yang couldn't see such a motion. "I though Ruby and Weiss already told you about my background. You should already know I have 2 sisters as siblings and nothing more."

"Thought so," Yang clicked her tongue. "Some black-haired guy with a yellow scarf claimed you were related and was looking for you."

"Black haired teen?" Minato almost dropped his phone from shock, he took some heavy breaths to control the strong almost overwhelming emotions going through his psyche. This was a coincidence, it had to be, there's no way that it could be HIM of all people. There was a higher chance that Minato would encounter Aigis or the reincarnations of the other SEES members that Him.

"Yeah why?" Yang was worried for her friend, she never heard him sound so…. Weak before. The blonde almost wanted to believe that it was another person than Minato Arisato, the person that she was never able to even win against.

"…What's his name?" Minato asked a bit shakily. There was hope in his gut that the blue haired Persona User honestly wish that it wasn't there at all. There's no telling how disapointed he'd feel if that hope was shattered.

"Ryoji Mochizuki."