?/?/? Velvet Room.

"Hmm? Wha...?" Akira said as he got up.

"Welcome back, My trickster." Lavenza said as she smiled an awakening Akira.

"Lavenza?" Akira said as he raised his eyebrow.

"Thats right. My master wants a word with you." Lavenza said.

"Thank you Lavenza, Welcome back." Igor said as Lavenza waited.

"Thank you Igor, What's happening?" Akira said as he sat down and looked around.

"It's a simple request." Igor said, Akira interrupted to want to where his friends are.

"Where's Hamuko? Or Minato? Or Yu?" Akira said looking around.

"They aren't asleep yet, I haven't called them, It's alright." Igor said as Akira sighed in relief.

"Okay, What's your request Igor?" Akira said as Igor nodded.

"I want to ask a simple question, How is the journey coming along with your friends?" Igor said as Akira was calm.

"It's going great. Some issues with friends a little but I got the hang of it." Akira said as Igor smiled.

"Thats excellent. You are reaching closer from the truth with your friends." Igor said, This was news to Akira.

"Reaching closer?" Akira said confusingly.

"Indeed, Once you find the source. You will revert everything to normal once again. Be brave on your journey, Continue onward to victory. Can you do it?" Igor explained his small promise. Akira smiled.

"Yes I can." Akira happily said.

"Marvelous. We will allow you to have this..." Igor said as he gave some blue key to Akira.

"A blue key?" Akira said as he studied it.

"It unlocks the Velvet Room, So you can fuse stronger personas!" Lavenza said as Akira held onto it.

"Great, Been a long time since I wanted to fuse personas, And anything else?" Akira happily said.

"It doesn't seem like I have any more favors." Lavenza said.

"Great, Our time here has ended. Don't be worried as you are still fast asleep. And find the meaning of your friends." Igor said as the train bell rang, The whistle blew.

"Find the meanings...? Wait Igor!" Akira said, But it was use.

"It's alright, We will surely meet again." Igor said as the dream ended.

11/3/2018 9:00 A.M.

"Find my friends meanings... I gotta ask them then." Akira said as he got up and started going crazy.

"Whats up Kurusu? You seem a little anxious." Morgana said as he looked at his leader.

"Igor again, He told me about my friends." Akira said.

"What about them?" Morgana said as he hopped off the bed.

"How did they get here? I want to find their meaning." Akira explained the truth.

"Hmm, Interesting." Morgana said, His bruise was still exposed.

"Can you help me out?" Akira said as Morgana nodded.

"Sure! I am curious how they are here also..." Morgana happily said as Akira got closer to him.

"Thanks Morgana. I promise to heal your wounds soon." Akira said as he scratched Morgana who became happy.

"Thanks, Pain killers would be more nice to have on me.." Morgana sighed as the pain was coming on more.

"It's okay, You mind if I let them come over here?" Akira said to Morgana, He didn't answer.

"Whatever... Hey, Do you think something might happen to me soon?" Morgana asked to his leader.

"What do you mean? The other world?" Akira questioned as Morgana kept going in circles.

"Yeah, The calling of me... It feels odd. But just call your friends, I'll find out about it soon." Morgana said as Akira started to message them.

"Alright, Our conversation will be on hold. In the meantime, Time to call my friends, I know the meetup location knowing where it'll be at..." Akira said as he began tapping letters.

1:43 P.M. Cafe Leblanc attic.

"Hey Kurusu. Were here, Did you find a target?" Hamuko said entering the attic, Akira was kinda quiet.

"No... not at all." Akira muttered, The I.T. also came to the attic.

"What is it then? Looking for possible ones?" Yu said as Akira was still quiet.

"Not that either." Akira said quietly.

"What is it then?" Naoto said as the leader of the phantom thieves asked his question.

"How did you manage to get here?" Akira asked his question, Nobody talked until Yukari giggled.

"Hahahah! Funny one Akira, No seriously. What is the real thing?" Yukari said, Akira repeated the question more seriously.

"How you got here. That's it." Akira said as he got up from his seat.

"Um, Akira...? What are you..?" Fuuka said being a little scared.

"I'm damn serious and I want to be honest, I want the truth! How did you manage to get into our timeline? You proclaimed to remember 2009 and you ended up here. What really is going on?" Akira said as everyone looked like they want to argue their case.

"Why are you onto us!? Are you really annoying us that hard!?" Chie said being slightly annoyed.

"I thought we trusted you! And your betraying us? Are you damn intense?" Mitsuru said, Minato finally broke the tension.

"ENOUGH! Shit, I guess I have nothing better to do..." Minato said as he began calming down.

"Minato?" Yu said looking at the SEES leader.

"Nii-San?!" Hamuko said looking at Minato.

"It's time how we got here before we met you." Minato said as they revealed what happened.

FLASHBACK, Tartarus 1/9/2009.

It was a full moon night, Tartarus is towering over the whole place as usual. Inside the place is the home of the shadows, Minato's footsteps were running with Yukari, Aigis and Koromaru inside a place, Mass destruction was playing in the background when a shadow appeared.

"Orpheus!" Minato said whipping out his Evoker and shooting himself with it, Revealing Orpheus.

"Athena!" Aigis said as she called out her Persona.

The two of them teamed up and wounded a shadow who fell down and was stunned.

"Here's out chance for an all out attack!" Yukari said as Minato agreed, Koromaru, Aigis, Yukari and Minato rushed in and brutally stabbed the shadows to death.

"Amazing Nii-San!" Hamuko said at Minato.

"How's your end Hamuko?" Minato said looking back at her.

"Pretty easy! These shadows seem lightly weaker. We are nearly at the top." Yukari said,

"That is indeed true, We got at least 38 more floors." Minato said as he looked up.

"We will be ready like Ryoji said, We will prevail!" Aigis said determinedly.

"Minato, You are indeed amazing." Fuuka's voice said as she navigated SEES.

"Thanks Fuuka." Minato said looking up.

"She is a very confident ever since our talk." Yukari said as both leaders nodded.

"Right, We better finish this." Aigis said as they heard a crumbling noise.

"Did you hear something?" Hamuko said as the rest of the members arrived.

"Huh!? What the!?" Fuuka said being confused as the rumbling stopped.

"Whats wrong? More shadows?" Akihiko said.

"Yay for fighting more." Junpei moaned knowing he didn't wanna do more.

"Don't be stupid. Come on." Yukari said as she wanted to move forward, Minato stopped her.

"Hold on Yukari, Fuuka. What is the problem?" Minato said, After some static. She finally spoke.

"Theres a black hole! Run as fast as you can!" Fuuka said as everyone became shocked.

"A WHAT!? A BLACK HOLE?" Ken said as Minato yelled at everyone, He ran up the stairs.

"Run!" Minato yelled, Everyone followed. The floor was swallowing up.

"Oh shit, Oh it's coming fast!" Minato said he kept running.

"The floor is disappearing fast!" Ken said as he took a peek back at floor was being swallowed up more.

"Keep going!" Mitsuru said as debris fell from the top of Tartarus.

"Watch out Leader!" Yukari said as Minato grabbed a pole, The pole bent awkwardly as he held on, The sucking became stronger. Minato started slipping.

"Whoaaah!" Minato said as suddenly let go, Being sucked inside. Hamuko was scared by this.

"NII-SAN!" Hamuko yelled, She jumped in after him! Everyone followed into the Black Hole.

"Your safe, Whats happening!?" Mitsuru said at Minato.

"I DON'T FUCKING KNOW! I DIDN'T CREATE THIS!" Minato said at Mitsuru.

"Look out!" Akihiko said as Minato avoided a clock arrow. They saw multiple clocks spinning forward as they kept going... 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and it reached the time of 2018.

8/30/2018, Shadow World

"Oof! Ow... Damnit, My back!" Minato said as he landed on his back upon the landing.

"Nii-San?" Hamuko said looking at Minato, Everyone was still here.

"Hamuko! Your okay!" Aigis said being happy.

"Yeah, Aigis? You here?" Ken said as he got up and grabbed his spear.

"Ngh... Yes..." Aigis said recovering from her fall.

"Were all okay." Akihiko grunted as he got up from the fall.

"Yeah, So far..." Junpei moaned from his pains.

"Where are we?" Minato said looking around.

"I don't know... This isn't tartarus however." Mitsuru said, She looked at her hands, They didn't grow. They were still at their age!

"Hold on, Were still at our age...?" Junpei said looking at himself.

"Of course, Why wouldn't we..?" Yukari said being sarcastic.

"What the fu... What is this?" Akihiko said as Mitsuru pointed at a small group.

"Look, Over there!" Mitsuru said, The people looked like Thieves in weird clothing talking to each other.

"Thats some weird clothing they got. Are they heading to a costume show?" Junpei joked as Aigis scanned them.

"No... They got some power inside them." Aigis said as she scanned their data.

"Power? Wait, Are they... Persona users!?" Hamuko said being surprised.

"Thats impossible! I thought we were the only ones." Ken said as they felt a wave of energy of some sort.

"Huh!? What the!?" Yukari said as they were being dragged back into something that looks like real life.

"Are you Gekkoukan high students?" A gekkoukan boy said looking at the group, He noticed this by their logo.

"Yes... Why?" Mitsuru said as the boy rushed by.

"Your late! Students know you shouldn't be here at Tatsumi Port Island! The new school for Shujin and Yasogami are in Tokyo!" The boy ran off to the monorail.

"Tokyo!?" Minato said being shocked as they arrived at Tokyo, They saw their new school.

END OF FLASHBACK.

"Thats damn intense." Ryuji said surprisingly.

"Wow, That is a crazy story to remember." Makoto said also being shocked.

"Yeah, Now were here today and it feels pretty weird what the future looks like.

"So let me get this shit straight. You were doin your thing when some hole in this Tartarus thing opens up and you got sucked into the future? Straight into our timeline with no aging? Yeah right, As if I believe a bullshit story like that!" Ryuji said as he didn't believe the story one bit.

"But we can't deny what happened Sakamoto." Ann said to her friend.

"Yeah, It feels so groggy that we don't age..." Mitsuru said holding her head a little.

"Damn, Thats amazing how it's almost ten years." Hamuko said looking at her own hands.

"Well, I would want to stay around here. Cause we are friends after all." Minato smiled at Akira, He smiled also on their friendship.

"Hmm, Okay Minato... If you insist that way." Morgana said being still sleepy.

"What about you Narukami? How did you get here?" Akira said looking at Yu.

"Damnit. Now it's my turn to explain? Alright, Here's our story." Yu said as the flashback for him began.

FLASHBACK, TV World 2011.

Yu and his friends were looking around through the dungeon. They were still being careful with Reach out to the truth playing in the background when a Shadow appeared.

"Izanagi!" Yu called out as he crushed his tarot card, Revealing Izanagi. He used Zionga on the shadow which knocked it back.

"Sukuna-Hikona!" Naoto said as she used Megido that knocked it down.

"Tomoe!" Chie said as she used Black spot on it, She defeated the shadow.

"Senpai your awesome! You show us why your our leader!" Rise said happily as she cheered for her friends.

"Thanks rise, You too." Yu said as they continued.

"Man, Why is she always onto him?" Yukiko murmured to herself as Naoto came over also.

"I want to know also..." Naoto said feeling confused. They then heard a rumbling noise, They looked around to not see anything.

"Whats the rumble noise!?" Teddie said, Naoto saw the TV nearby and pointed to it.

"Get to the exit! Hurry!" Naoto said as they ran, The cracks caught up to the I.T fast, There was barely hope.

"It's coming! Were not gonna make it!" Youske said as the black hole formed, It sucked up almost everything, Yu was clinging onto a wall.

"Hold on Yu!" Youske said at his partner.

"Hang in there Senpai!" Rise said as Yu was slipping.

"I... Can't! It's strong!" Yu said as it began to crack.

"Don't let go Yu-kun!" Chie said, The cracks began to form bigger.

"Oh crap...! It's gonna break!" Teddie said as he noticed all the cracks.

"Senpai! Im coming!" Naoto said as she began to aid Yu, Yu suddenly had a plan.

"Im gonna let go, Follow me inside!" Yu said, Everyone was confused.

"Are you crazy dude!? Your gonna get sucked to death!" Youske protested, Yu shook his head.

"Will I die though?" Yu asked, Everyone was scared at his question, His life was on the line.

"Senpai no..! You will!" Rise said, Yu stopped her.

"Sorry Rise, But it's something I need to do!" Yu said as he left go, He was sucked up by the Black hole.

"Senpai! NOOO!" Rise said as Naoto dove after him

"After him!" Naoto said as everyone went after him, They avoided clock arrows and saw the time go forward, All the from 2012 to 2018.

9/1/2018, Shadow World

"Argh, What on earth..." Teddie said being groggy on waking up, Youske was quiet and scared.

"What the hell? WHERE ARE WE!?" Youske shouted so loudly.

"Calm your ass man." Kanji said calmly, Youske yelled at him.

"NO! EVERYTHING LOOKS DIFFERENT STUPID!" Youske yelled angrily.

"Youske!" Yu said as Youske calmed down.

"Sorry, Anyways... Now what do we do?" Youske said as nobody thought hard.

"We might have to search, Best to be one so we can fight together." Chie said as everyone took off their glasses.

"Hold on a moment! Something isn't right!" Naoto said suprisingly, Nobody knew what was wrong with her.

"What can it be Nao-chan?" Teddie said, They felt some sort of weird wave.

"Huh?" Rise said as they arrived what it looks to be like Inaba.

"What the!? Everything looks like Inaba? Were we just dragged out of that world?" Rise said as they noticed a little bit of smoke burning.

"Is that? Smoke?! But it's so up close!" Yukiko noticed.

"Oh no! A Fire! We gotta save whatever is burning!" Chie said as the group ran to the scene and were surpised to what they witnessed. It was their school of Yasogami High burning down! The firefighters were desperate on battling the blaze!

"Our school! It's crumbling!" Kanji said looking at the flames burning rapidly.

"Why are you kids here? It's dangerous!" The firefighter explained, They couldn't do anything but watch.

"No..."

"Aren't you all Yasogami high students?"

"Yes. Why?"

"Better move, The flame is hot after Faulty wiring!"

"Faulty wiring!? What did it catch?"

"Uh, The cafeteria stoves that causes a small explosion?"

"WHAT!?" Everyone said as they ended the flashback that they witnesses seeing their school burned down.

END OF FLASHBACK.

"So yours was different from SEES. You were battling shadows when you come into our timeline to see your school get burned down by faulty wiring and were forced to move here, That's more scary that I imagined in my damn brain." Ryuji said making more insults.

"But it's true! We saw our school burn! And it wasn't a dumb prank!" Chie said trying to trust their friends.

"I got notifications on it due to faulty wiring. That is how you transferred here." Makoto said as she looked through her old messages.

"Hearing your old school burning down makes me worried." Haru said caring for her friends.

"I just wanted to know your backstories on how you all got here." Akira said as he talked his day with them.

"Not to waste our day?" Yukari said as she asked Akira the odd question. He didn't speak."

"Well? Can you answer it?" Mitsuru said, Akira just started being quitely odd as he made gestures.

"It's just for the better of it, I don't know. Shut up." Akira said as he pulled out his phone, Then he put it away.

"Akira, This better not be some interrogation." Naoto said looking at the leader of the phantom thieves.

"I want the truth okay? That's all I want to know." Akira said.

"But, Something else crossed my mind. You said something about a "black hole" did you remember who created it?" Haru asked the group, After some looks. There was some silence as nobody gave an answer.

"No, It just happened from one to a million in a heartbeat. It sucked up everything including us." Mitsuru said feeling calm.

"Oh, I'm sorry our leader suddenly went all in on you. I just wanted to know why you got here." Ann said as they nodded.

"I need to relax my brain." Naoto said as she felt down.

"Same here, All that backstory was giving me a headache." Yu said.

"Well sorry. I didn't know you guys got here." Akira said trying to play cool suddenly.

"Bye Akira, And I hate you from that." Minato snorted from that.

"Love you too." Akira joked, Minato gave him an angry glare.

"Not funny asshole." Minato snapped at him, Akira just chuckled.

"Alright, Bye you both. I hope we find some clues tomorrow." Yu said as he left the Cafe.

"And I hope nothing bad happens when we get hit hard." Haru said.

"Alright. Bye for reals." Akira said as everyone left the cafe, The phantom thieves had their day with some food as they got better to know about everyone's backstory.

END OF CHAPTER 32