The Phantom Thieves of New Game+
a collection of Persona 5 one-shots
Chapter Thirteen
"Don't Fear the Reaper"
"Joker, we should probably move on." he heard Mona say after they took down a shadow. He didn't reply as he simply walked up and took the paltry amount of yen the shadow dropped. He noticed that Mona was getting more and more afraid as time went on, as well as noticed that even Skull and Panther were starting to get antsy. He paid it no mind, knowing that even if he wasn't getting much from these battles with the cannon fodder, at least they were.
The sound of rattling chains finally drew his attention, followed the sound of Mona turning back into the Monamobile. He smirked, reaching up to switch his mask.
It had taken eight times through in order to prepare for this.
He had finally maxed out his Compendium.
"Uh...Joker, we should probably get out of here." Panther called after him. He turned to look at them as she opened the door of the Monamobile. Skull pushed her inside before turning to look at him as well.
"Dude, let's get out of here!"
"You guys can go and hide." he said, his smirk never leaving his face. "I got this."
"Joker, that's suicide!" Mona yelled through the stereo as the Reaper appeared.
"Don't worry." he said, pulling his knife and running up to it. "I got this."
"Akira!" Ann yelled, dropping his codename as he slashed the Reaper, getting its attention. He jumped back, feeling the strange ball of red yarn up his attacks. He never once dropped the smirk as he reached up and pulled off his mask.
"Satanael!" he yelled, unleashing his true power. The large persona, not near as large as it was when he first summoned it, appeared behind him dwarfing the already large Reaper. "Riot Gun!"
The silence that followed the loud explosion from the attack was louder than the explosion. Joker felt his smirk grow as the Reaper faded away into a black ooze, leaving behind another orb and a large sum of cash. He walked up to it brazenly as Satanael returned to his mask and kneeled down to pick them up.
"Dude...what the hell was that?" he heard Skull say behind him. He stood up after collecting what he needed and turned to face his fellow Phantom Thieves, enjoying the look on their faces.
"Joker..." Mona started, trailing off for a moment. "The was the strong Shadow that I warned you guys about."
"You beat it with one attack." Panther said, staring at him wide-eyed.
"Well, it wasn't as hard as Mona made it out to be." he said, shrugging slightly, the smirk never leaving his face. "Think we should find another one?"
"No!" the team yelled, causing him to chuckle.
(A/N: Pretending for a moment that you could somehow find a way to get Satanael to have Cripple on it to gain +50% Gun damage, plus using an accessory to cast an Auto-Tarujaku to increase your base Attack, and assuming Satanael is at lvl.99 with all stats maxed out, I still don't think you could one-shot the Reaper in the game. Nevertheless, nothing says "Don't fear the Reaper" more than being able to one-shot it.)