After Joker, Countess, Skull, Panther and Mona defeated shadow Kamoshida and he slowly shrunk from his large form back to his normal form while his large crown also shrunk back to normal, Skull then make his way toward the crown but before he could take it, shadow Kamoshida suddenly got up, rushed forward and grab hold of his crown before he turned and run away from them toward the open balcony.

"Ah!" said Skull, surprised.

"Why you! Stop running!" snapped Countess as she, Joker and her other teammates run after shadow Kamoshida and cornered him on the balcony.

"Nngh…" gulped shadow Kamoshida as he frantically looked and walked around the balcony for any other way to escape from Joker and her teammates and found none.

"What's wrong? Not running away? Why don't you run…? Aren't you a great athlete?" said Panther mockingly to shadow Kamoshida.

"It's always been like this… all those goddamn hyenas forcing their expectations on me…!" said shadow Kamoshida as he turned around and glared at them. "I'm doing this all for them! What's wrong about demanding a reward for that!?"

"Now you're making excuses…?" scoffed Skull as he shake his head in mock-pity at shadow Kamoshida. "We'll do something about that distorted heart of yours."

"That's right so prepare yourself, Kamoshida." said Countess in a cold and agreeing tone of voice to Skull.

"Hrrgh…" grunted shadow Kamoshida in nervousness and frustration.

"Scared? Right now, you're seeing the same view that Shiho did." said Panther as she briefly flipped her blonde hair before she take a few steps closer to shadow Kamoshida. "I'm sure she was scared too… except she had no choice but to jump… What will you do? Will you jump?… Or would you rather died here?" said Panther coldly to shadow Kamoshida as she stop walking, take off her mask, summoned forth Carmen before Carmen raised her hands to conjure 2 balls of flames on it (which make shadow Kamoshida took a step back in fear as he hold his crown close to him).

"Do you want to finish him off? It's your call, Panther." said Mona as he crossed his arms over his chest.

"Yeah, go ahead and do it, Panther. It's what he deserves after what he did to so many students in Shujin." said Countess.

"Countess!" said Joker as she scowled in disapproval at Countess telling Panther to finish shadow Kamoshida off.

"No, please wait! I beg you… just forgive meeee!" pleaded shadow Kamoshida.

"Shut up. I bet everyone told you the same. But you… you took everything from them!" snapped Panther as she glared hatefully at shadow Kamoshida before Carmen threw a fireball at shadow Kamoshida, who scream and covered himself from the incoming fireball but the fireball swerved at the last minute and struck the awning wall next to him, charring it while shadow Kamoshida briefly and fearfully glance at the charred wall before he glance at them and slowly got on his knees on the floor.

"I accept defeat… You want this? Take it." said shadow Kamoshida as he bowed in fear and defeat to them before he raised and threw the crown toward Joker, who reached out and caught it securely in her hands. "Go ahead and finish me off… You do that… and my real self will go down too…" added shadow Kamoshida to them (which make both Countess and Skull scratch their heads uncomfortably while Joker and Mona glance in cold silence at him). "You have that right since you've won…"

Panther let out a sharp exhale, clench her right hand into a fist as she kept on glaring hatefully at shadow Kamoshida before she raised her left hand, silently ordering Carmen to threw the other fireball in her hand toward shadow Kamoshida (which make Skull yell out in surprise to her) but like the previous fireball, it swerve and struck the floor next to shadow Kamoshida, leaving it charred as well before shadow Kamoshida slowly glance up at Panther with a surprise look on his face.

"If his mind shuts down, he can't admit his crimes." said Panther resolutely as her mask appear back on her face.

"You're kind, Lady Ann…" said Mona as he scratch his cheek a little.

"I've lost." said shadow Kamoshida in a despair tone of voice as he look down while tears glisten and fell from his eyes. "You're through when you lose… What am I- What am I supposed to do now…?" asked shadow Kamoshida hesitantly to them.

"Atone for each of your sins." replied Joker coldly to shadow Kamoshida.

"All right… I will leave now and return to my real self…" said shadow Kamoshida as he slowly look up at them with a small, sad smile on his face while his body started to glow brightly. "I'll make certain that I-" added shadow Kamoshida before he vanished from their sights.

Soon after shadow Kamoshida vanished from their sights, Joker and her teammates suddenly felt and saw with shock looks on their faces as the entire castle around them began to rumble quite violently.

"Hey, just so you all know, we don't have time to waste. This place is about to collapse!" said Mona coolly to them.

"Wait, what!? Why didn't you tell us earlier!?" demanded Skull as he glared at Mona.

"I'm telling you all now." said Mona as he shrugged his shoulders.

"Let's run for it, everyone! Hurry!" yell Joker before she and her teammates turned and run like bats out of hell down the hallways of the crumbling castle while avoiding the ceiling and wall debris that fell around them.

"We're gonna die! We're gonna die!" yell Panther as she look behind her at the fallen debris of the ceiling and wall before she look forward, felt something landed onto her head and when she look up to see what is it, she saw that it's Mona (who's now in cat form). "Hey, what the!?" said Panther in surprise to Mona before Mona jumped from her head onto Skull and Countess's heads until he landed on Joker's shoulder.

"No fair, you jerk!" complained Skull as he glared at Mona standing on Joker's shoulder.

"Mona, you furry cheater!" thought Countess as she scowled in slight jealousy at Mona standing on Joker's shoulder.

"Mrooow!" said Mona as he look back at them with an innocent yet smug look on his face.

Countess, Panther and Skull kept on scowling at Mona as they kept on running down the hallway before Skull winced in pain and glance down at his right leg before he suddenly fell to the floor with a yelp (which make Joker, Mona, Countess and Panther stopped and glance at him with worry looks on their faces).

"Ryuji!" said both Countess and Panther worriedly to him.

"Heh… It's been a while, so I just tripped, is all!" said Skull reassuringly to them.

"Come on, let me help you up, Skull!" said Countess as she approach, grab hold of Skull's arm and helped lifted him up from the floor before they quickly resumed running down the hallway until they saw the exit in front of them, run through it and got transported out of Kamoshida's Palace.

XXXX

Inside the alleyway opposite the school…

Keiko, Mallory, Ryuji and Ann gasped, panted and leaned their bodies against the wall in exhaustion while Morgana sits nearby and glance silently up at them after they got out of Kamoshida's Palace.

"That sucked…" said Ann as she winced a little while taking several deep breaths.

"No kidding, we were almost goners in there… Are you guys alright?" asked Mallory as she glance concernly at them.

"Yeah, we're all fine and alive but exhausted, Maly." replied Keiko in a tired and reassuring tone of voice to Mallory while Ryuji pull out his phone to check the app before a surprise look appear on his face.

"Hey, guys! Look at the nav!" said Ryuji to them before they pull out their phones to look and saw that they can't go to Kamoshida's Palace anymore.

"The destination has been deleted." said the robotic female voice from the Metaverse Navigator.

"…It's true. We can't go there anymore." said Ann.

"What about the Treasure!?" said Morgana as he glance anxiously at Keiko, who take out a golden medal from inside her blazer pocket.

"What the…?" said Ryuji as he glance in confusion at the medal in Keiko's hand.

"…A medal? Wait, where'd the crown go?" asked Ann.

"What's goin' on…?" asked Ryuji as he crossed his arms over his chest.

"It means, that was the source of Kamoshida's desires. To him, this medal is worth as much as that crown we saw in the Palace." explained Morgana in a pensive tone of voice to them.

"I see. An Olympic medal, huh?" said Keiko with a small nod of her head.

"That would explain the absence of the crown." said Mallory as she nodded as well.

"So that perv kept clingin' to his past glory and couldn't let it go…" said Ryuji as he glance at the medal with an uncomfortable look on his face.

"But… this means that Kamoshida's heart might have change, right?" said Ann hesitantly.

"…Probably." said Morgana.

"Our expulsion's on the line here!" said Ryuji worriedly at Morgana.

"This is the first successful example for me too." said Morgana weakly to Ryuji. "However, there's no doubt that this has affected Kamoshida's personality quite a lot. The entire Palace disappeared, after all." added Morgana to them.

"Ugh, I feel all antsy! Ain't there a way to check now?" said Ryuji frustratedly to them.

"Just be patient, Ryuji-kun. We'll know soon enough." said Keiko calmly to Ryuji.

"Right…" said Ann gloomily to them.

"Come on, why the gloomy faces? Be happy or at least by calm like Madame Keiko and Miss Mallory! We completed this with great success, you know." said Morgana as he scowled at both Ryuji and Ann for being anxious and gloomy.

"We just don't know if everything's OK yet…" said Ryuji concernly to Morgana.

"I'm pretty sure it'll be fine. Remember how Kamoshida's shadow said that he's returning to his self in reality?" Morgana reminded them. "Suguru Kamoshida was a scum. Still… he did seem to regain his conscience somewhat at the end."

"It would seemed so, Morgana." said Keiko as she nodded to Morgana.

"There are definitely those who have been saved thanks to what you all have done." said Morgana as he smiled at them.

"Yeah…" said both Mallory and Ann in agreement with Morgana.

"Anyways, I guess we gotta wait." said Ryuji as he crossed his arms again. "It all boils down to what's gonna happen to Kamoshida… or if we're getting expelled for real…"

"Yeah. For now, let's all go home and be patient about it." said Keiko.

"…Right. C'mon, let's go home." said Ryuji before he, Keiko (who picked Morgana up and put him in her bag), Mallory and Ann walked out of the alleyway and toward the subway station before they got into the train and head home.

XXXX

A few minutes later, inside Leblanc…

Once both Keiko and Mallory came back into Leblanc, greeted Sojiro then went up to their room, both Keiko and Mallory felt their phones vibrating and they pull their phones out to read the messages from their friends.

AT: Thanks. I finally got to avenge Shiho because of you guys… I'm pretty sure there was no way I'd have been able to do anything on my own. So seriously, thank you. I own you so much.

KA: That's not true, Ann-san. You don't have to thank me, you, Maly, Ryuji-kun and Morgana helped out too.

AT: You think? I'm glad to hear that… Anyway, that cognitive world we went into was pretty crazy, huh?

MC: Yeah, no kidding.

AT: What a mysterious place. I can't believe that we actually stole someone's heart… Speaking of mysterious, there's also the matter of Morgana's transformation.

KA: Yeah, I know what you mean. He somehow change back into a normal cat form when we were escaping from the castle before it crumbles and disappear.

"You and Lady Ann are quite sharp ladies, Madame Keiko! I'm impressed." said Morgana proudly to Keiko. "Basically, the Treasure changes the shape of things. Once that's gone, that power no longer works. Though the real reason I change quickly back then was because I'm so incredibly skilled! How's that? Isn't that amazing!?" Morgana said and explain smugly to Keiko.

"Yeah, you're an amazing one, Morgana." said Keiko as she ruffled and scratch the back of his ears (which make him purred a little and make Mallory had a deadpan look on her face at him) before she resumed messaging Ann.

KA: He said he's amazing, Ann-san.

MC: More like a show-off to me, Keiko.

KA: Maly, don't be like that to him.

MC:… Whatever, Keiko.

AT: Oh yeah, I forgot Morgana is reading these messages too. I think I feel a little better talking to you. Thanks. We still haven't seen any results, but it feels like a weight's been lifted off my shoulders. I hope you don't mind talking to me too much and you don't have to keep calling me Ann-san. You can call me Ann.

KA: Alright then, Ann. And you can call me Keiko.

AT: Sure, Keiko. Well, see you and Caelum tomorrow.

KA: Yeah, we'll see you tomorrow, Ann.

After both Keiko and Mallory's done in messaging Ann, they put their bags and phones on the table, leave to take their baths, put on their pajamas before she, Mallory and Morgana fell asleep on their futons.