Akira promptly fell face first into the provided bed. He was exhausted as hell, from dealing with boring lectures all day, to students very obviously avoiding them in the hallways, to a few members of S.E.E.S. vanishing including Minato, to then having to track them down in the absolutely massive maze that was Gekkoukan High. They still had a few days of the trip left, so despite how much he wanted to stay up while Yu and Minato messed around, he resorted to just forcing himself to sleep.

Ryuji eventually joined him, briefly waking the thief to get him to move the 'eff over, you're taking up the whole damned bed. Akira didn't want to move but did anyway, letting Ryuji curl around his back and wrap him in a warmth that always made his heart skip a beat. He wasn't sure what he had been dreaming about before, but when his boyfriend held him like that, only dreams of light and happiness flooded his head.

And even through this haze of love, he was still a light sleeper.

Akira knew what guns sound like. He used one in fact, so even the soft sounds of the metal clinking against itself was enough to wake him. He blinked his heavy eyes open, first noticing how Ryuji had turned over, the two thieves pressing their backs together. The second thing he noticed was Minato perched in the windowsill, a gun pointed to his head.

Akira was still half asleep when he scrambled up, even so he was completely silent in doing this. He ran for Minato, desire to get him to stop powering through his tired limbs. There was a sharp bang, Akira watching through his outstretched fingers as Minato's head snapped to the side and those gray eyes glazed over. Instead of blood spinning from his skull, soft blue lights sparkled around him.

"I missed you." Minato's voice was soft, addressing something that Akira couldn't see. Or, was something there? He squinted, blinking sleep out of his eyes before activating the third eye. And there it was.

The figure was blue, but that's just how Akira saw things with the third eye. It had dark, slicked back hair and a rather thick scarf. The long legs swung from the windowsill, as if just shooting the breeze next to Minato. The two locked eyes, and after a moment the figure realized that Akira could see him. The mouth moved, but Akira could barely hear what it was saying.

"Wait, you can see him?"

Minato was slack jawed, his eyes shifting from Akira to the figure, and it was then that Akira realized that he should have used the third eye way before tonight. While Ryuji and the other thieves were a bright blue color and had their arcana above their heads, Minato was the same color of his eyes. A deep stormy gray that curled around his body like fog. And the arcana above his head kept changing too, flickering between the different ones even as he sat still. Akira glanced over at Yu, only to find the same gray color and ever changing arcana.

"Who is he?" Akira looked back at Minato, the blue figure hopping up to greet him. Now that they were close, he could hear what the figure was saying.

"Sorry about this, Minato just wanted to talk to me." The voice was remarkably similar to Minato's, just a lighter pitch and tone. "I'm Mochizuki Ryoji. I'd offer to shake your hand, but I'm not really here. In fact, I have to ask, how can you see me?"

Akira's hands were trembling. He was burning up with questions, but couldn't find his voice to speak them. Instead, he glanced at Minato before answering. "I have this thing called the third eye. I can see things that others can't." Minato narrowed his eyes.

"So that's how you can see him." He sighed and tucked his Evoker away. "When I summon him like this, only I can touch him, though it's a little...weird. Because it's like I'm talking to myself." Minato huffed, and Ryoji vanished with a sigh. "So now you know my secret, and I know yours."

"And so do I." Yu was up now, looking more than a bit peeved that he was awake. "Akira, I thought you were a thief. Don't you know how to be quieter?" The silver haired boy sat at the edge of his bed and yawned. "So we all have powers outside of normal Persona business. I guess that's what being a wild card is about."

Akira leaned against the wall. It was strange. Three wild cards with powers outside of their normal Personas were all transferred to the same school. They were set at each other's throats in an attempt to kill them, but overcame it. Whoever was doing this had their plans ruined big time. "I know we're supposed to be relaxing on this trip, taking a break from this whole thing, but I can't help thinking about it."

"A lot of the things I've been reading have pointed to a god called Apophis." Yu fidgeted with his hands as he spoke. "The symbol on the windows looks a lot like the ones in the books, and the whole Chaos Realm thing points to him as well." He spoke quietly, trying to not wake Yosuke or Ryuji.

Akira nodded along, tugging at his bangs. "It fits, doesn't it? I had been thinking Python, but I think Apophis fits better." Minato's eyes glazed over for a moment, before he shook his head and came back.

"Ryoji said that Apophis would do something like that. The god himself is ancient, even older than Death and with a thirst for power that topples whole worlds." Minato popped the snap open on his holster. "God of evil and chaos." He chuckled softly. "What an adversary."

"It isn't like we haven't defeated gods before." Yu's eyes were dangerous, the gleam in those stone cold eyes sent a shiver down Akira's spine.

"We just have to do it again."