Right after both Akira and Ryuji left for the restrooms, both Kanakubo-sensei and Ann felt thirsty and decided to get some drinks from the buffet table and also asked if Minato wanted some drinks too (which he politely declined), stood up and went to the buffet table while Minato stay at his seat.

"Hm, which drinks should I get? Decisions, decisions…" thought Kanakubo-sensei as he look over the different type of drinks on the table before he heard a familiar woman's voice that he wish and hope that he'll never hear again to no avail.

"Well, if it isn't the infamous unwanted son of the Fujiwara family, Kyosuke Fujiwara. Why is someone like you doing in a place like this?" said a fair-skinned, long black-haired, pale blue-eyed woman wearing a short sleeve white shirt with a black cardigan over it (with the sleeves roll up to the elbows), knee-length black skirt and black heels on her feet in a bossy tone of voice to Kanakubo-sensei.

"Nice to see you again and that mouth of yours is still as wicked and bossy as ever, Takara Ouchi of the Ouchi family." said Kanakubo-sensei coolly to the woman named Takara Ouchi without looking at her.

"Whatever. I'll asked you again, why is someone like you doing in a place like this? Wait, let me guess, you apologize and begged the Fujiwara family to take and accept you back as it's members?" said Takara bossily and mockingly to Kanakubo-sensei.

"Yeah right. I'd rather threw myself into a piranha infested pond than see myself apologizing and begging the Fujiwara family to take and accept me back into their midst. Is that all you wanted to say to me because if it is, it's a waste of our time so why don't you run along and leave me be and goodbye, Takara-san?" scoffed Kanakubo-sensei coldly and mockingly back to Takara before he dismissed her.

"Humph." said Takara as she narrowed her eyes at the way Kanakubo-sensei dismissed her before she turned and walked away from him.

"I've made up my mind. I think I'm gonna have a glass of bourbon to cheer myself up." thought Kanakubo-sensei as he poured himself a glass of bourbon from the buffet table before he bring his drink back to their table.

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Meanwhile, with Ann…

"I know I say that I'd get a drink for myself but I still can't help myself to getting just one more cake to feast on!" thought Ann slightly guiltily in her mind as she picked up and put a piece of belgian chocolate and vanilla cake on her plate before she felt someone suddenly bumping against her.

"Ah! My dress! How dare you bump into me and dirtied my dress! Do you have any idea how expensive this dress is, you clumsy girl?" wailed a haughty-looking woman wearing a short sleeve white silk dress (which had some cheese sauce staining her dress) in outraged anger at Ann.

"Excuse me? You're the one who bump into me and dirtied your dress yourself!" snapped Ann as she scowled in disbelief and anger at the haughty-looking woman.

"Now you had the audacity to talk back to me after you dirtied my dress! What an ungrateful girl you are!" snapped the woman as she glared at Ann.

"Humph. What an ungrateful girl she is indeed." said a haughty-looking man.

"Can't believe someone like her would do such a thing to that poor woman's dress…" said another haughty-looking woman.

"wonder if her parents had anything to do with how poor her upbringing and how rude her attitude is to others…" said another man's voice.

"It's possible…" said a third haughty-looking woman in agreement with the second man's voice.

"I really loathed and can't believe these thoughtless adults for accusing and assuming the worse of us teenagers without any proof at all!" thought Ann in silent anger in her mind at the gossiping adults around her.

"Actually, all of you are wrong and shouldn't have assumed and accused this young girl of doing what that woman blamed and accused her of doing. She's innocent and isn't the one who bump against and dirtied that woman's dress, that woman is the true clumsy culprit who bump against this young girl and the one who dirtied her own dress and decided to frame and placed her own mistake and blame on this young girl instead of on herself." said Naoto calmly and coldly to the woman and the adults standing around her before she approach and stand beside Ann.

"Huh? Who is she, why is she helping me and why does she look similar to Arisato-senpai?" thought Ann as she glance in confusion and slight relief at Naoto.

"What!? Who do you think you are for saying that I'm the one who did it instead of her?" snapped the woman as she glared at Naoto, who continue to glance calmly and coldly at the woman before she proceed to explain and reprimand the woman for her attitude and action to Ann (which make her smiled at Naoto for reprimanding the woman) until she's done in reprimanding the woman, follow Ann back to their table and both Ann and Kanakubo-sensei saw both Minato and Naoto gasped and had surprise looks on their faces when they see each other then they composed themselves and Minato invite Naoto to see and talk with them and she did.

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A few minutes later…

"Ughh, I'm stuffed…" groaned Morgana quietly after he, Akira and Ryuji left the restrooms, headed and stopped in front of the elevators.

"Yeah, you're not the only one." groaned Ryuji in agreement with Morgana.

"That's what'll happened to you and Sakamoto-kun when you two eat past what your stomachs can hold." said Akira in a light reprimanding tone of voice to Morgana.

"You're one to talk, Akira. You ate just as much as us too but not as much as that Arisato guy." retorted Morgana weakly to Akira.

"Yes, I did. But unlike you and him, I didn't eat past my stomach's limit like Arisato-senpai did." said Akira as he shrugged his shoulders.

"Can you two bicker later? Anyway, what floor where that restaurant is again?" asked Ryuji as he glance at the elevator while several adults appear and waited for the elevator behind them too.

"We came up to get here, so it has to be on the lower floor, right?" replied Morgana to Akira (who nodded to him) before Ryuji pressed the down button of the elevator and they waited for the elevator to come, unaware that the adults standing behind them had quickly move aside to let some dark brown suited men and a bald-headed, black suited distinguished man wearing amber-coloured glasses on his face walked past them and one of the dark brown suited men rudely pushed both them aside.

"Gah!" gasped both Morgana and Ryuji in surprise.

"What the!? Are you two alright?" asked Akira concernly to both Morgana and Ryuji.

"Yeah, I'm fine, Akira." said Morgana gratefully to Akira.

"So am I." said Ryuji gratefully to Akira before he glared at the brown-suited men that rudely pushed them aside.

"So? Is there any updates about the cases?" asked the bald-headed distinguished man as he glance coldly at one of his subordinates.

"N-Not yet, sir…" replied the subordinate apologetically to him.

"Excuse me, but why are you so involved with the, sir? It's not something you should be concerned with…" said another subordinate.

"I don't care about your opinions, you incompetent buffoon! When I say pick up the pace, you do it!" snapped the distinguished man as he turned to glared at the subordinate who speak out.

"Excuse me! You're all cutting in line!" snapped Ryuji angrily at them.

"…What do you want?" said another subordinate as he turned to glared at Ryuji.

"Oh, I'm sorry. Are we supposed to stand aside while you guys need the elevator?" sneered Ryuji as he glared back at the subordinate.

"We're in a hurry, boy." sneered the subordinate.

"You all are in a hurry, so what? Come earlier next time then! All we wanted is an apology!" snapped Ryuji even more angrily to them.

"It seems the customer base has changed since I was here last. Have they started a day care?" said the distinguished man uncaringly to them.

"What was that?" said Ryuji as he glance and narrowed his eyes at the distinguished man.

"Sir, we don't have time for this." said the subordinate as he ignored Ryuji and glance back at the distinguished man.

"I know." said the distinguished man to the subordinate just as the elevator door opened with a ding sound. Ryuji took a step forward but the one of the subordinates turned and rudely pushed him away.

"Hey!" yell Akira as he glared at the subordinate that rudely pushed Ryuji away.

"Don't bother with them! And shut your mouth and mind your own business next time, boy." said the distinguished man coldly to Akira (who suddenly felt that his voice sounds familiar before his head started throbbing a little with images that flashed swiftly through his head and he shake his head a little) before he and his subordinates went into the elevator and the door closed up.

"Tch, adults these days. They weren't even hiding the fact that they look down on us." said Ryuji as he glared at the closed door of the elevator.

"Calm down and shouldn't we head back down?" said Morgana coolly to them.

"Yeah, I know, Morgana. But that man and his subordinates are just beyond rough and rude to us!" replied Ryuji angrily to Morgana as he pressed the down button of the elevator again.

"Don't lose your temper over this." said Morgana sympathetically to Ryuji.

"But even so…!" said Ryuji as he turned and glance frustratedly at Morgana.

"That man's voice…" thought Akira to himself as he think back to the bad time when he got incriminated by the drunken, bald-headed man for helping the woman. "His voice sounded almost like the one from back then…"

"Hey, what's wrong, Kurusu?" asked Ryuji concernly to Akira.

"It's nothing, Sakamoto-kun." replied Akira reassuringly to Ryuji.

"Are you sure? Because you don't look fine to me." said Ryuji.

"Must be because of the food he just ate." said Morgana.

"Really, Kurusu?" asked Ryuji sceptically to him.

"Yeah, must be, Sakamoto-kun." replied Akira as he nodded to Ryuji.

"…If you say so, Kurusu. Ugh, adults these days…" said Ryuji just as the elevator door opened again and he, Akira, Morgana and the other adults went into the elevator.

When Akira, Morgana and Ryuji got back to their table where Minato, Ann and Kanakubo-sensei (and were surprise to see Naoto sitting with them) is in the buffet room, they instantly complain about their own bad encounter with other rude adults in different floors before Ryuji began asking and talking to Morgana about whether anyone have Palaces due to strong, distorted desires and Morgana answer yes. Ryuji then told them that he wanted to continue the Phantom Thieves business to help more people, make them believe that the Phantom Thieves do exist and thanked them for it.

Akira, Morgana, Ann, Minato and Kanakubo-sensei glance at each other while pondering about Ryuji's words and they unanimously agreed with him to continue the Phantom Thieves business for the sake of helping people and changing the hearts of corrupted adults before Morgana, Minato, Ann, Ryuji and Kanakubo-sensei nominated Akira as their leader, which surprises him and he think about it before he agreed with them and their Phantom Thieves business is officially formed while Naoto watched them in silence before she tell them to not go overboard and that she'll turned a blind eye to what they did as her condition when they all agreed before she bade farewell to Minato, stood up and left their table.