Persona 5 Royal: tmdrago Special Edition

By Tayla Drago

Episode #126 – The Traitor

Poor Keiko...It's good for the plan that Futaba did with the others to have Junko Sakurai/Witch/Queen Lilith to think she killed her for Shido and for Fallen One to capture Akechi...She's upset to do anything yet to be crying up in her room – thinking about on how they first met with each other, dating, falling in love, helping out one another to be born with powers, learning about each others, and to becoming Phantom Thieves together for they knew about the plan; but not the part where he was on to Junko Sakurai this whole time. Also using Fake Tsuba and Sith to do some spying and such, she did it all to lie and case some magic to trick their minds to knowing them, but it was all a fake. For Junko was tricky, doing illusions on other things, no real sister, no real name, has something to do with the strange children's book 'from Aika and Hitomi were working on', other than a Persona was real to be killed for it and from here it'll get much worse, the others needed Keiko Amamiya/Joker for this job. Only for Sae 'who's on their side now after hearing the entire story' and Sojiro are the only ones who can do it.

Sojiro: Keiko? It's us...We're coming up. We just want to talk to you.

They go up stairs to see Keiko to be crying on the bed.

Sae: Heart broken...

Sojiro: We have to make her snap out of it.

They can try or say something to her, anyone...?

Sae: Listen, Keiko...I wouldn't worry about Akechi-san. I'm sure he's alive and well-! I mean, of course he is! He is a smart guy after all to get ambushed out of nowhere, I'm sure he's hanging in there just for you to keep on fighting...Sorry, I'm not good with these things.

What she said there was an accident. With Sae trying to say the best she could for Keiko, it was all up to Sojiro to do the rest. To act like the father that Keiko never had to understanding her more and more, he sits on her bedside next to Keiko to pat her on the held to hugging her next as Sae listens in.

Sojiro: Hey, Keiko. Come on...Don't let this get to you so much, I know how you feel. You love Akechi, don't you? I get it. Listen...I never told you much on how I truly felt for Wakaba Isshiki. From the moment we first met, she had her boyfriend walk out on her after she just gave birth to Futaba to come in to her life as a new mother; I wanted to help out on the things she was working hard on to make something out of it as I found Wakaba to becoming friends, hang out a lot, and slowly to fall in love and liking her daughter a lot to get married to still keep her last name, but we did change Futaba's because of her to get out more for a better life. A hard girl she can be, but Wakaba tries to cheer her up to make up to her afterwards. Things gotten hard for Futaba after she lost her mother to be a suicide at first, but it really was murder...I did get upset when I heard the news for all the facts to be all true and Futaba to be a shut out from the world to make it up, all of this to still have each other. Now learning on who you two are and why you were both doing this, I understand everything now. I mean, look what you did to Niijima just for a friend who loves her sister so much. But listen, Keiko, the point that I wanted to say is this...Do you see things you know of Akechi that you have in this room? Look around you.

Seeing from the cute clothes that Keiko wears for Akechi to going out, the photo of them and the other friends of her in a group frame, the memories they shared, and the cute plushie of the penguin that Akechi gave to Keiko for her to give him a luck charm too, with the pieces to break for them to together into one like a heart shape. Sae then plays around with the little penguin of Keiko's to try to make her smile.

Sae: This is cute...You love Akechi-san a lot, do you? Just like Sojiro just said. Keiko, if you two are close in love to feeling out the emotions to have the same gift...and he did tell me about it a little, to really care about you so much. From this gift, there's a connection for you two and to still be connected in love, right? This could only be a sign.

Keiko: A sign...?

Sae: It can be anything. Your heart should let you know about Akechi's wealth being. If he was dead, you would've known about it already, am I right?

From holding the penguin and then feeling something for Keiko to sense, of Akechi trying to reach out for her.

Akechi: Keiko...My Princess...please stay strong for me...We'll meet again, just don't cry because of what happened to me...Please...

It was a little faint, but it was all really for Keiko could tell. It was Akechi calling out to her to see a glow from the pink type of gem to glow, to make her get up from the bed for it was all real.

Keiko: (Akechi-Cun...This feeling...it's very real...)

Having both Sae and Sojiro confused on what Keiko's thinking about now, they have to wait and see what happens next.

Sojiro: Keiko...?

Keiko: (I get it now...So that's how the two Shadows are using Akechi to get to the gems to make the pearl. So it's all game, they won't kill him...Still, I have to save him and stop Junko, Fallen One, and the real mastermind. And if that fake Ren Tsuba comes back again with Sith, we'll stop them for sure. Let them try too.) Akechi-Cun's alive...He's still alive! I can still save him!

This was great! Keiko felt better now, though worried until she can find and reach to Akechi to rescue him, everything was going to be fine.

Sae: He is? That's great! So will you feel fine to save Akechi-san?

Keiko: (There's a lot to hold on to...A lot more to save someone I truly love with my friends to help me out. Surprising to figure out that Junko as Queen Lilith is behind everything of the mental shutdowns and psychotic breakdowns. Everything else she acted well to almost fooled all of us, but I won't be fooled again to end this nightmare soon enough. Akechi-Cun, wait for me...I will be brave for you. I will save you to have the Phantom Thieves fight back this time. With them and members of Metropolis 12 by our side.)

A lesson to learn and tries to stay strong, Keiko knows on what she has to do first.

Sae: Looks like your mind is clear I see.

Keiko: It is, Sae. I'm going to contact my friends. We have a lot of explaining to you two.

Sojiro: Welcome back, Keiko.

Hugging her to bring Keiko smiling, she'll do what she can to help Akechi to still bring justice.

Keiko: Thanks. Mr. Sakura and Sae, thank you both. I can't wait to see the others today!

Welcome back Keiko/Joker, it's time for the Phantom Thieves to fight back. For Jackie to get the news to be jumping with joy, there was still hope left. Same with Jose too on his end.

Jose: Yeah! Mommy's okay! The Phantom Thieves can win!

All was good so far, huh? Hours later...It shows Sojiro just working hard at the cafe while watching the TV news about the Phantom Thieves.

Newscaster: [...Ever since the death of their teenage leader, the Phantom Thieves have fallen silent. However, the police intend on continuing this investigation until the case is fully solved.]

Just then...Sae comes back to the cafe to see how things went for Keiko to calm down now, and the rest of the team were already here.

Sae: I'm sorry I'm late. I had to finish a few things at work. Where are they?

Sojiro: Waiting upstairs. Go tell them to come on down. Keiko's fine to talk now on everything else. I'm gonna fetch her.

As Sae gets Morgana, Ryuji, Ann, Yusuke, Makoto, Futaba, and Haru join back downstairs first for they waited for Sojiro's return of Keiko to arrive in a few minutes. While Kiwa, Daisuke, Aika, and Hitomi told Keiko everything since they did text message and calling her, and then the others, it did happen as Kiwa thought out of his cousin was a fake to have Sith working with him; and them working with Lilith the most. So yeah, they'll help them out a lot and tell Kasumi everything to stay on guard too. Also, to find something else big with the Blood of Oath, but we'll get to that part later. And for the others to see how Sae was doing, she was going to be fine now since her heart was changed.

Haru: You're...her sister, correct?

All was cleared for Sae knows the other story thanks to Makoto telling her sister the rest as well apologizing to Futaba a lot from her mistake.

Sae: Makoto told me everything. Futaba-chan...I'm sorry that I caused you so much trouble this past summer...

Futaba: Eh, it's ancient history now.

She forgives Sae to know the whole truth so far as everyone still couldn't believe it, from Akechi getting captured and Junko to be the traitor all this time.

Ryuji: But man, that goddamn journalist! I knew Akechi was a show off to almost had us all fooled, but we were wrong. I didn't think Junko would...Shit.

Opening the doo,r Sojiro brings Keiko for her to join back to the group and hang with the others.

Sojiro: Look who's here.

It's Keiko!

Keiko: Hi, everyone.

Morgana, Ryuji, Ann, Yusuke, Makoto, Futaba, and Haru: KEIKO!

They were all happy to see Keiko again to be getting hugs and such with joy. From Futaba, Makoto, and Ann hugging Keiko the most, Morgana rubbing his body against Keiko's to get patted, Haru holding her hands, Yusuke kissing Keiko's hand a little, and Ryuji...a bit silly for Ann and him to laugh about it afterwards for him to place his arm around her to smile.

Keiko: I guess you all missed me from the looks of it. (I miss all of you too.)

Ryuji: Hey, you beautiful son of a bitch! We miss ya!

Ann: How've you been, Keiko?

Keiko: I'm fine, Ann, but I felt like I could've died for being in the Metaverse for so long.

A long wait, but Keiko pulled through it somehow.

Ann: I think from being silly, you look and sound just fine.

Makoto: It's truly is a relief to see your face again, Keiko-Chan.

This has Ryuji laughing about this.

Ryuji: I bet that moron Junko didn't even know we tricked her yet! And yeah...About Akechi, didn't see it comin'. I'm sorry.

Keiko: Oh, that...Akechi-Cun is hanging in there, the two Shadows want us to come to them to get saving him, only for them to have the gems. Let's worry about them first then if Sith and Kiwa's fake cousin as Cthulhu comes back, we'll be ready.

A dirty trick to let it happened...Yeah, it's best to deal with the main bad guys than the lackeys.

Sojiro: Still, how'd you pull this off? Isn't Keiko considered to be dead?

There a lot to escape about this whole thing, a while lot to talk about.

Makoto: You weren't told anything? I heard my sister brought Keiko-Chan here though...

From that part before Keiko felt a bit better...

Sojiro: Yeah. She came over in a taxi, dumped her off after we had a long talk, and told me to keep Keiko safe. It was right after they announced she had "died" too. Almost gave me a heart attack.

Sae: I didn't have time to explain...After Keiko cried about Akechi-san getting captured, took us a bit for Sojiro and I to talk some sense into her to come through.

But it all worked out in the end.

Keiko: Sorry about that. Also, Kiwa and the others were told by us to seeing them later on so don't worry about it, we all need to keep a low profile for this point on.

Good to know from there as well. They've solved one thing, and the rest from Atsuko and her book comes next.

Ryuji: Hey, shouldn't we tell Boss what really happened?

Keiko: Tell them.

A lot for Sae to learn more, and Sojiro to see how this whole thing was planned out to fool Junko/Queen Lilith.

Makoto: We wanted to make our enemy believe the leader of the Phantom Thieves was dead.

This came to Sojiro surprise to hear that part out of nowhere.

Sojiro: What?

Makoto: What we did was make that enemy kill Keiko-Chan's fake in the Metaverse.

Sojiro: H-Hold on a sec! Enemy? Fake...? What're you talking about...?

Yusuke: The true culprit behind al these incidents set us up. Our goal here was to determine their identity.

A lot of work which had to be solved right away.

Sojiro: True culprit...? I see...So you guys were going up against someone else.

Sae: It was Junko Sakurai. Keiko, you knew beforehand that she was the traitor, didn't you?

Keiko: I did.

Clever for Keiko to feel out something to be very bad to know who was trouble to sense out.

Ann: Junko herself gave us the chance to strike back if Akechi didn't lend a hand to be on her tail the entire time. Because she made one fatal mistake.

Sae: Couldn't you just said from the beginning that Sakurai was the real culprit?

Right there wasn't the easiest part to do at first.

Makoto: That wasn't something we could simply bring up. We couldn't have you suspect Junko but Akechi-san, because he knows his way around to look like he would never notice a thing...He knew and yet he risked his own life just to save Keiko and he got caught for it. Beside neither you nor the other investigators would have believed something like that, would you?

Sae: ...True. You got me there, Makoto. So you thought Akechi might've been, but he isn't the killer? And Sakurai might be fake to not be her real self at all but this "Shadow" being? And from her journalist skills to be all but lies to get intel on the Phantom Thieves, even I wouldn't notice a thing from that girl one bit...In other words, you, Keiko, left her alone on purpose...That was a bold move.

As tricky as it was to plan the whole thing out, it did happen for them to keep it together to do it somehow for Keiko to still be alive. This has Sojiro left very confused.

Sojiro: God, I can't keep up with any of this stuff...Uhh, so what was the mistake Junko made? What did she do...?

For one of them...

Ann: She slipped up in regard to Morgana's voice.

Sojiro: You mean our cat?

Keiko: We have powers for us to hear Morgana talk. For he's not a cat, but something else to be in this form in the real world, and something else in the Metaverse and Mementos worlds.

A lot to take in there for Sae or Sojiro can't hear Morgana when he talks, but they can feel out something a little only from the bonds they've with Keiko so far.

Ann: Yes. Like Keiko just explained, Morgana can talk.

Sojiro: ….Sorry, was that supposed to be a joke?

It's all true, dude.

Haru: Oh! Our apologies. That's completely true.

Morgana: You're surprised?

They can only hear him meow but Morgana can talk for the others to understanding him.

Sae: Does that mean...he said something just now as well?

Ann: But you don't understand him, do you? That's how it was for all of us at first too.

A lot to get use to for something strange to be very real.

Futaba: When you're in the Metaverse, Morgana talks like a normal person. Once you hear that and your brain realizes he can actually talk, you start to understand him in reality...It's a change in cognition! Most likely!

Ann: And thanks to Junko's clumsy of a lame acting, we figured out something was up.

Keiko: Let us get back from where it all happened...

Going to a flash back on where Keiko and Akechi talk and before as Ann, Ryuji, and Morgana to talk about where to eat. Akechi wanted to go have some cake to eat with Keiko later on, as Junko heard of them saying something about pancakes...to hear Morgana talking for her to understand him to have powers like the rest of them did.

Ryuji: We talk to Junko along with Akechi at the school field trip, she was actin' like she just realized Morgana could talk. But we already saw her drop a mega hit about it way earlier.

A flash back on what happened, remember...?

Morgana: Ooh, I know a place! I wanna go to that huge pancake-looking place we passed on the way here!

This is where Junko comes around next for the next part...

Junko: Huh? Was I mistaken or what? I thought I heard something about delicious pancakes...My bad...I did it again! Crap!

Yes, you see...? A huge mistake there for Junko to say and get away from it 'almost'. End of flashback again to tell them more about their plan and how they knew about Junko as Queen Lilith's a traitor.

Ryuji: Mona was the only one who was talkin' about pancakes...That meant Junko'd already been in the Metaverse by then! She did say she just got those powers to work alone to save her sister, but it was all a lyin' bullshit.

Ann: And since she was lying to us about that, we assumed she had a hidden motive behind contacting us.

From the group text message was another way to get through Junko's phone more besides the number of her contact information 'thanks to Futaba's help'.

Morgana: It seemed odd upon further thought. Her reaction to my pancake comment was an honest one, after all.

Keiko: We got very lucky. Her clumsiness for a high school journalist almost got the better of us, almost...

But wait, there was more on how they found out about Junko to be acting weird.

Morgana: She did approach us when we found ourselves in the worst trouble yet.

Haru: That why we asked Futaba-chan to wiretap her phone. Well, Akechi-chan did aid us to look like Futaba was playing with his phone and then getting closer to Junko-chan's when she was taking some selfies from his phone to place a bug on hers.

Another flashback - showing of everyone of the Phantom Thief members about to go into Sae' Palace, for Futaba to be checking out Akechi's new cell phone.

Futaba: I pretended to be interested in checking the phone out, but I was actually planting my app near Junko's phone. Akechi knew about this plan to go along with the whole thing, giving me the sign to do the rest as Morgana takes her notebook pad to lose on the ground for him to give it back to her. I needed to place the bug on and take a couple of pictures. My heart was pounding while I was doing it though.

She seems to enjoy doing it more than getting the job done 'sometimes'.

Yusuke: Even a hyper journalist could never have imagined a program being installed so quickly. Futaba's quirky nature proved to be a great help.

Futaba: That was just an act! After a few days of listening, this confirmed her betrayal.

Playing the voice recording again of Junko talking to Shido about her plan.

Junko: [...Then, I'll guide the police into her Palace and have them catch the Phantom Thieves in the act. That would be the only way to arrest them, given their methods. I'll deal with them after that. Let me see...We could say she stole the guard's gun and committed suicide during her imprisonment...How about that? Public security questioning will occur on the first day...and with that room, my task will be simple.]

It was all recorded for Futaba to get it all thanks to Akechi to find Junko's suspicious to get the entire thing down for her.

Keiko: (Thank you for believing in us, Akechi-Cun. We'll get the rest taken care of until we can save you.)

Sojiro: Is this for real...?

More was playing on the rest of the parts next...

Junko: [Yes, the guard will be one of ours. We'll have to eliminate him after to destroy the evidence though...]

It was there when Sae comes back to warn the man to get away from the area in time when Futaba as Alibaba told her about it to trust no one.

Sae: So, they planned to get rid of that guard from the beginning...

Listening in some more...

Junko: [Well then, I will make the arrangements the day after the arrest...And thus, the dangerous criminal responsible for the mass mental shutdowns shall end her own life. When she does, you will become a great hero who saved Japan from evil. As will I, of course. The girl who uncovered the truth of the Phantom Thieves to make a big journalist cover. As for Goro Akechi who might get in my way? Already covered. Leave it to me.]

And that was it.

Sae: I knew she was acting strangely, but to think she was this far gone...Akechi-san knew all along to find it hard for this Sakurai to be real.

Haru: She's no journalist...Junko is the perpetrator behind the mental shutdown crimes.

But that's not all, the mastermind being Shido himself for the two Shadows to help out from the likes of this madman.

Makoto: On top of that, there's someone else commanding Junko...Someone with great authority...so great that they can order an assassination in a police station. That's why we had to make a move before they did.

A close call for all of them to pull it off somehow, now Sojiro gets the whole thing.

Sojiro: I see...

Keiko: The next part was how we plan out from the place for me to replace a cognition part for Junko to think it was really me.

The second was to see how it all worked out...

Makoto: We baited Junko into Sis's Palace, making her dispose of our leader's fake but think she killed Keiko-Chan. From Akechi-san explaining about his suspicious about Junko when she wanted to join us at Okumura's Palace to make up a story to fool us all; and without his detective skills, we would've put all of the pieces together.

Sae: Can you elaborate on that in more detail? What exactly happened in my cognitive world?

From changing her heart from Sae's Shadow self to help them see in the Phantom Thieves' innocents was one of them to be real, the other was to heal her to not have her Palace get destroyed at all.

Haru: We're sorry for using you without your permission. Your Palace had all the conditions we needed...

Sae: What conditions?

Here comes the next part to talk about next...

Makoto: First, we required a place inside the cognitive world that was the same as in reality.

From the beginning when Keiko and Ryuji first met to walk into from the real world and into the Metaverse from Suguru's Palace. Ah, good times a while back, huh?

Ryuji: That place's based on the real world, after all. Anywhere that's not warped looks just like normal.

Ann: That's what nobody but the person who uses the Nav even realizes they're in the Metaverse.

Ryuji: Back with Kamoshida, we came in from the station without even noticin'...

Keiko: Oh, yeah...Kamoshida...We didn't know about it back then, but it was something else. (That's one person I'm glad who was stopped to go to prison in the end.)

A lot to learn all about it to get use to it afterwards.

Ryuji: You totally can't tell the difference if there ain't any distortions around.

Some people get it, while others don't to be lucky to be picked go into another world for Igor to choose but Junko to be the real enemy.

Yusuke: We had already investigated Niijima-san's Palace when Ms. Makoto brought this suggestion to us.

Morgana: I was seriously impressed by that suggestion. To be honest, I didn't quite understand it, but I went along with it.

A scary one too, almost...

Keiko: And it was a great idea.

Morgana: You're right, Madame Keiko. It's good we have her heading up our operations.

This made Yusuke happy to like Makoto a lot more, and for her to be blushing just by looking at him as well.

Yusuke: Ms. Makoto is normally so calm as well...but once her mind is set, she gets oddly impulsive. What an amazing woman she is.

Makoto: I did have a bit of trouble knowing a lot on how Junko does things than I once did with a little rivalry of being the smartest with Akechi once. Well, not anymore with him. From Keiko-Chan to really feel someone out to trust in him more, soon I began to trust in that man over time. Bit I just couldn't contain myself anymore once you became a target, Sis. The reason I joined the Phantom Thieves was to heal your heart, after all.

All this of the sister type of caring love of a relationship in the family.

Sae: My own achievements were all that mattered to me...I was desperate. I wasn't myself at all. I'm sorry I couldn't see that.

Good to have Sae on their side now to understand everything without Keiko telling her the whole thing.

Makoto: That goes for the both of us.

Haru: We heard from Mako-chan that you were going to do the integration, Niijima-san.

Sae: And regarding its location...I take it you used the data from my laptop?

That makes perfect sense to get everything else down for Makoto to get for Futaba to do the rest.

Makoto: I'm sorry.

Well, because of that part...Makoto only copies Sae's laptop to get some information they really needed.

Sae: Go on.

Talking about how they switch from the real Keiko and the other copied one from the interrogation room. From Keiko clothes to her Joker looks, and having another copied table to switch around from one world to another.

Makoto: There were two things we were able to confirm while we were checking the Metaverse. First, our clothes didn't change when we were in the interrogation room. Second, the scenery and details outside of the Palace proper were the same as in the real world.

Ann: Once we heard that from Makoto, we secretly went to check it out without Junko knowing. Akechi already knew to keep us posted to do the rest of the work, to have Junko go with him at the police station a lot.

Next – was to talk about on how they switched from the real Keiko's and her cognitive self.

Makoto: There was also one more thing we absolutely needed to make it work...A perfect cognitive replica of Keiko-Chan in the Metaverse's interrogation room.

Yusuke: Since Ms. Keiko had yet to be caught though, there obviously wouldn't be anyone in that room.

Then part – was the cops coming into the casino place to show up...

Makoto: Once we saw the casino guests and police officers, we were convinced this would work. They looked no different from actual living people.

Ryuji: After that, we just had to work our way into the Palace like usual while keepin' Junko in the dark. We had to think Akechi was up to no good just to try to fool her the most and for him to not be aware from all this. Pretty clever, huh?

Back at the Sae' Shadow Casino Palace from fighting her, with the group to get to the next part to happen on the rest to lead up to this point.

Makoto: Everything went as planned up until we defeated Sis's Shadow...But for Akechi-san to get capture...Again, we will save him, Keiko-Chan, we will make it happen next. I promise...The rest we planned out to go along with it. However, it was then that we were met with a terrifying, unexpected police ambush and to Akechi's capture by our enemies. As a result, even though we managed to grab the Treasure, we couldn't get it out of the Metaverse...Except that was all an act. We had prepared an empty briefcase beforehand and merely acted like we were taking the Treasure. This was because we knew the police would be coming for us.

Ann: We made sure before the operation that the police would be waiting to ambush us. And just as excepted, she totally took the bait.

A gusty type of move for Keiko and the others to go through all of this and Akechi to allow for them to carry it out, and they did it to have everything go so well and for their friend to save next. To never steal or never have taken Sae's Treasure to begin with to keep it and her Palace. A well proof plan it was alright.

Makoto: Keiko-Chan getting captured the police went exactly how we planned it.

Keiko: Again, we pulled it off to be a very risky move almost.

It was to hope for the best to help out Akechi, he knew of the plan to get caught in seconds from Fallen One to be waiting for him.

Sae: And I had been interrogating Keiko with no knowledge of this. But how did you lure Sakurai into this...cognitive world's integration room?

Futaba: All I needed were the coordinates. Hehehe...

From Futaba acting like Alibaba to tell Sae on what she had to do by going into the Metaverse for a few minutes to grab Keiko out and escape.

Keiko: That's right. (It seem like Futaba used this laptop to remotely access the Metaverse...Asking her about it now would drag the conversation on too long...I should talk to Sae about it later.)

Then what happened...? To the point of Junko/Queen Lilith shot the fake Keiko and the real self was alive and well.

Yusuke: Junko disposed of the fake in the Palace, and left thinking she had been victorious. It must have been truly hilarious for Ms. Keiko who sat idly in the real world's integration room. Surely she was acting quite cocky by herself in that quiet chamber.

Keiko: I did get bored a little while I had to wait.

Sae: So that's why you gave me your phone, Keiko...I only took it because of what you told me.

Seems like it, but hey...it did work out.

Yusuke: It's a shame I didn't have the opportunity to see that for myself.

Keiko: See? That's the thing. I couldn't see it either.

But how did Sae get in and out in time to pull Keiko out of there? It was hard to explain the whole thing in words unless you know what you're really doing.

Sae: All I could do was try to handle all the messages that started coming to me on her phone. Huh...So in other words, I've been to the Metaverse, albeit for a brief moment.

Seems like she did pull it off after all.

Yusuke: In our experience, there is little danger when someone enters their own Palace for so short a time.

Haru: That's the other reason we had Keiko-Chan give it to you. We needed you to listen to Alibaba, deceive the guard, and ultimately aid in her escape. By having you head back to the integration room, we could return you to the real world as well.

Futaba: I mean, I had to think of some was to keep you from running into Junko's mid assassination.

She was very pleased on how they all pulled this whole thing off.

Sae: ...Astounding. I hadn't the slightest idea that such a grand operation was taking place with me.

Ann: I'm so glad Keiko was able to persuade you during the integration. Even though we knew Junko's plan and Akechi really wanted to save her more to try something besides Queen Lilith and Fallen One might've got one wicked idea in mind to even trick the members of Metropolis 12 members' of their minds to be lie to, we were pretty worried about that part.

Makoto: True.

Now the next part's a little trickery to explain for Sojiro to understand the rest on what's he's been hearing so far. From sort of changing Sae's heart 'but some of it' to see the truth for herself up to this point, they needed her to help them out once the battle was done...to be part of the plan you can say.

Sojiro: Why's that?

Makoto: Without Sis on our side, Futaba's plan and subsequent breakout would have never been possible. That persuasion was easily our greatest gamble. We couldn't consult Sis beforehand. It was absolutely the make-or-break moment of the entire plan.

Sae: Still, I'm surprised you would convince me in such a short time. Were you confident you could do it?

Somewhere along the line, yes.

Keiko: I was. It was something else for all of us to make sure it will all worked out.

Sae: I see...Either way, I can't believe you went for such a risky idea...

But this idea all worked out well in the end to prove that Junko's a fake and a traitor to try to hurt the Phantom Thieves and Metropolis 12.

Makoto: If we could just tell you the true culprit's plan, I knew you'd realize the bigger picture...Realize that Keiko-Chan was telling the truth, and that there was a greater evil to pursue.

Yusuke: As a result, we emerged victorious.

Victory for them to be very lucky to win at it all.

Sae: Then the reason you kept this a secret from me was so you could catch the true culprit, correct?

Makoto: Yes. Plus, you had lost control of yourself at the time...

They needed to help Makoto change her sister's heart the best they could.

Sae: This is stunning...All I can really do is laugh.

That's something to laugh about there, just a little.

Sojiro: I've kinda figured out that you guys made Junko kill a fake...But what did you do about the body?

Sae: The police never even checked it.

Sojiro: Huh...?

Sae: They had a corner working to ensure Keiko's death was reported as a suicide. That corner didn't take one look at the scene, and just passed along a falsified death certificate.

It was all true to hide things to be the truth as if it was nothing.

Sojiro: ...The bad guys have that much influence.

Makoto: Murder in a police station would be reckless otherwise. We also know of a possible conspirator.

Sae: Thanks to Futaba-chan's messages ad the guard's demeanor, I eventually came to understand...And since the higher-ups at the police knew nothing of this, they were thrown into disarray. As a result, Keiko's suicide during imprisonment was reported on the news, just as Junko planned.

A hard thing on what happened next, it all pulled off afterwards.

Ann: And with that confusion, she was able to escape with Niijima-san's help.

Sae: I made sure nobody would check the morgue for her body, and thanks to that, nobody knows Keiko had survived.

Either that or some of the people to be working with Junko and Shido didn't try hard enough to act all normal-like.

Makoto: Thinking back to the interrogation though...I can't believe what they did to Keiko-Chan. The callous use of violence and even drugs is utterly abnormal. Is she had lost consciousness and hadn't been able to tell Sis about the phone, she would've died...I'm...truly glad you made it back safe, Keiko-Chan. I really am.

Keiko: I know, but it was a breeze in the end.

Yeah, and what the other cops did to Keiko was wrong to never do to other bad guys from torching them.

Sae: How tough are you, Keiko...?

Ann: It still freaked me out when I saw the suicide the on the news though.

Still scary of Keiko to look like she was killed, it almost threw off her friends to know of the plan to still have them very worried.

Haru: We made sure to live normal lives while she was being interrogated to avoid drawing any suspicion. Even with that, I couldn't help but worry about her in my heart...

Ryuji: Well, I knew right away that our plan worked out.

Yusuke: I wanted to believe...but considering what we were up against...

Morgana: Ryuji's a bit on the dense and carefree side.

This has Ryuji get mad and fights with Morgana 'again'.

Ryuji: Can it, cat!

Good old times, to have the two fight and to still be friends.

Ann: I had to be patient and avoid this place until things settled down. I finally feel relieved...

Yusuke: We knew Ms. Keiko was alive, but...it was difficult to not worry until we could confirm it in person.

Playing along to being careful, only to all work out later 'on which it did'.

Sae: Now that I think about it, my interrogation was just a formality for the head commander. What a joke letting me interrogate someone who was meant to die. They just wanted to avoid backlash...Very well. From here forward, I will do my utmost to assist you...You, Keiko, have saved me, after all.

Another friend and alley of the Phantom Thieves to be a prosecutor lawyer like Sae Niijima.

Keiko: Thanks, Sae.

Ann: That's reassuring to hear.

She's not the only one, same with Sojiro too who wishes to help out as well.

Sojiro: I'll do whatever I can to help too. Just let me know.

Keiko: And thank you, Mr. Sakura. You guys are all wonderful to have as my friends.

Sojiro: Nah, it's nothing, Keiko, you're a good person with a pure heart. I'm glad I've learn all about you. Let's take a break for now though. This old brain is pooped. Oh, and feel free to use the first floor when you guys want to get together to talk. You'll need a hideout where you can be safe. Just say the word and I'll close shop early.

Amazing how someone like Sojiro will do anything for Keiko and the others to help out a lot, to even close the Cafe Leblanc a bit early to protect the Phantom Thieves.

Ann: Are you sure?

Sojiro: This fine young lady can't leave. Plus, you won't make much progress is people can hear you from downstairs. It's not like this place is the liveliest joint in town. It won't be a huge loss for me.

For him to do something like this, was a very nice thing to do.

Keiko: You're the best, Mr. Sakura, we will.

As he gets something to make for everyone to eat and drink, there was a lot to wait for until Keiko can go out a lot more in public again.

Yusuke: Let us accept his offer. What a great man...

Keiko: He is...

Futaba: Hehehe.

That Sojiro Sakura is a good person deep down and always will be. Meanwhile, in Shido's office as he was looking through the files of report of the leader of the Phantom Thieves' suicide of Keiko's name to be on there to catch his attention.

Shido: Keiko Amamiya...That sounds familiar...

Knocking on the door was Junko to talk to Shido alone in private.

Junko: It's me, Junko.

Shido: Enter.

She does for her to act like her teenage self for it to be Queen Lilith, as Akechi comes into the room too with magic...oh, wait...it had to be Fallen One in Akechi's body?! Oh, no! He may sound and look a lot like him, but it was mix with the real enemy to sound wicked.

Fallen One: What do you two think? Not bad looking, huh? I finally got him.

Shido: I wish you've use the door like Lilith did.

Fallen One: Sorry, I'm just having some fun.

From there, Junko sees Shido working on the paper work of Keiko's fake death for her and Fallen One to notice.

Junko: It's all fun and games for us, but we still got a one more gem to get and the other Phantom Thieves will be good as gone and their little comrades too. Just play as this Akechi guy for a bit.

He knows the whole thing to not be so happy on what Junko/Queen Lilith just did to his Keiko 'or so he thought'.

Fallen One: Still, why did you have to kill her?! Come on, we had a deal!

Almost getting into a fight for Junko act calm from Fallen One's anger, Shido stops him from causing trouble in his office.

Shido: Calm down, you. She's done well to get some of the parts done for me so I need to have Lilith on my side. And you just need to watch on the other Phantom Thieves to destroy them later, taking control of Goro Akechi's body is the only way.

Because of Shido being right, Fallen One leaves Queen Lilith alone to stick to the plan.

Junko: Just calm down, will you? Like Shido said.

Fallen One: Whatever...I need to ask like a young ace detective for the public to love me, and more from her...

Junko: Sometimes you need to lighten up, you damn jerk. And as for the the Director of the SIU has been dealt with for people will think he died from a stroke.

For having one end to another to work along to not have SIU Director to be killed like it was nothing, to be used.

Shido: He did what I needed for him to do is all and nothing more. But he did get us to arrest on of the Phantom Thieves, coming up with other forging evidences was all worth it. I'll find a replacement later after the election.

Fallen One: Fine...I guess I'll play my part at least.

A deal's a deal for each of them to get away with anything.

Junko: Either way, the two of us are heroes now from detective and journalist thanks to the Phantom Thieves to framing them. It fooled everyone. Love it!

Shido: And with them out of the way to fool with them until their end, my election will be a complete success thanks to the two of you. Not bad...

This is no laughing matter! For Lilith whispers something to Fallen One about something.

Junko: Listen, you idiot...Even if Keiko might be dead, you can still have her. I just did you a huge favor. This stays between us. All I want is my true love and the gems. So let Shido have his until soon enough, I can have the pearl. You can have Goro's body and your lover if you just play along. Can I trust you to keep quiet?

From seeing that even Keiko was alive 'which she is', they can still win to stopping the rest of the Phantom Thieves with their team work and help Shido to win as Junko/Queen Lilith used SIU Director until the very end.

Fallen One: Wait...You mean...?

Junko: It'll be fine. Just act like this guy and then you'll have your gift, while I soon get mine. Fair is fair.

Fallen One: Very well. Still, I have to act like a high schooler and a pop-idol detective while we wait for a bit...But I'll make my move.

Junko: I thought so. Good boy.

Those two are mess up to have their own goals to aid Shido to be a lot alike is all for him, Junko/Queen Lilith, and Fallen One. Back at Leblanc for Keiko, Morgana, Ryuji, Ann, Yusuke, Makoto, Futaba, Haru, Sae, and Sojiro to be taking a break; to also be hearing about the news to be shown on TV about the latest update about Shido to try running the type of election he was planning on.

Newscaster: [And now to our next story, the snap election for the House of Representatives. Discussion is swirling around potential nominees as the deadline for candidacy announcement nears. Candidates will announce on the 23rd of this month, while voting will be hold on the 18th of next.]

That's why some people hate these things for some people to vote for as some liars and others to be nothing but trouble, only to find some good ones.

Ryuji: Elections, huh? Don't matter to us. It's not like we can vote in 'em yet anyways.

Makoto: Why don't we resume our conversation?

Now it was time to get back to the topic at hand of the team being back together, and trying to find out on what they have to do next...

Ryuji: Well, the Phantom Thieves're back together! We can finally take it to Junko, save Akechi, and the bastard backin' him!

Here's the thing about the mastermind we already know of but not for them yet...

Sojiro: Have you figured out who's behind all this?

Keiko: I believe we do, Mr. Sakura. Isn't that right, everyone?

Futaba: Junko accidentally let that slip after the murder. She said, "Shido-san".

Hearing Shido's name might sound familiar to everyone else, even Keiko the most.

Keiko: Shido... (That name again...!)

Ryuji: Shido...Feels like I've heard that somewhere.

Yusuke: He is unmistakably a man of power if he has such strong connections to the police.

That's where the name strike at Sojiro to somehow remember Shido's name from somewhere.

Sojiro: Shido...Could it be Masayoshi Shido?

Sounds serious here...

Ann: ...Who?

Makoto: I believe he's a politician...Remember, Ryuji? You said his speech was too loud.

From them seeing him once to remember something about Shido.

Ryuji: For real?!

Sae: It's certainly possible that Shido is the mastermind...

It would make perfect sense too, from Shido to be elected somehow to have everything different to be the mastermind with questions asked. Leave it to Sae to be a lawyer to figure this whole thing out.

Yusuke: Huh...?

Haru: Do you have some kind of evidence?

I guess she does know about it from the newspapers to be talking about Shido a lot lately.

Sae: Nothing material. However, the are various conditions which align with tat possibility. First, he would profit from damage done to the current administration by the psychotic breakdowns. He's maintained a negative stance toward the Phantom Thieves and has gained tremendous popularity. On top of that, he'll most likely become the next prime minister if he wins this upcoming election.

Then it's a very bad thing...

Ann: No...

Keiko: Then that must be his reasons.

Yusuke: Did he set us up with that election in mind?

Sae: If he is behind all this, that would be in stark opposition to his honest, public image.

People like that in real life are nothing but trouble.

Makoto: So his current position and popularity is just him benefiting from the mental collapses...

Shido will be the next target to go after...

Haru: We'll make him have a change of heart, no matter what it takes.

Futaba: Mom...

Sojiro: Shido, huh...?

They know what's on Sojiro's mind to be hearing Shido's name...

Yusuke: What is the matter?

What Sojiro says next for everyone else is a real shocker.

Sojiro: I had a feeling he was wrapped up in all this. Just based on the connections I had from my previous job...I think the one who crushed Wakaba's research and confiscated her materials was probably Shido since she made Metropolis 12 group and save the survivors from the Midnight Strike. From the moment Wakaba died...I had a hunch he was involved. But there wasn't anything I could do, so I chose to protect Futaba and went into hiding.

That would make perfect sense, for this was news to Futaba to not learn about this until now.

Futaba: Why didn't you say that sooner?!

Sojiro: You guys would've definitely gone after him if I had. He would've just killed all of you, no doubt. That's what he usually does to people who gets in his way.

Sae: Originally, I was looking into the mental shutdown cases. It was then that I accidentally stumbled upon government research regarding the psychotic breakdowns. So, I tracked down the whereabouts of that research data and met with the associated parties. Boss was one of those parties. I would never had imagined all of this was connected...The mental shutdowns, psychotic breakdowns, Shido, Metropolis 12, the Midnight Strike murder event, and even the Phantom Thieves' actions...

And a lot more why Junko/Queen Lilith's doing all of this to learn more about who Fallen One really is.

Sojiro: Way back then, Shido kept saying he was going to be prime minister one day. Nobody believed him though...

Ann: What's going to happen to this country if Shido becomes prime minister? What about the world...?

Keiko: It'll be bad.

A lot worse if they don't change Shido's heart by stealing his Treasure in the Metaverse of his own Palace.

Yusuke: The issue is simpler than that. This is nothing more than yet another selfish about trying to impose his will on the public.

Ryuji: We gotta expose that rotten bastard!

Morgana: Yeah, we'll do it like always!

Next up was to check of one from the Nav of theirs.

Haru: Then let's check the Nav!

Doing so on each of their cell phones to see what they can look up on Shido himself, and to find his Palace in the Metaverse.

Ryuji: Masayoshi Shido, the guy runnin' for prime minister...

Keiko: Let's see what happens next...

Navigation Voice: [Results have been found.]

They got it hit!

Ryuji: Got it hit! Well...duh. It ain't a surprise he has one.

Yusuke: Where would the location be?

Ann: ...What kind of things go through a politician's head?

A lot of things. Fame, money, lots of attention, made up stories for some of them, and so on...

Futaba: I always think of dirty money and shady actions.

Ryuji: What does he do? And where? We don't got a clue about this guy's life.

Makoto: His Palace must be somewhere that politicians frequent. Any ideas, Keiko-Chan?

Yeah, what does she think on what Shido does a lot more? They just have to figure this whole thing out.

Keiko: Something of a Diet building they have? You know, from the two other ones running against each other.

And from Keiko saying it, that's where they got a hit on the Nav phone.

Navigation Voice: [Candidate found.]

Ryuji: We got a hit!

Yusuke: How arrogant must he be to see himself as the ruler of the Diet Building?

Ryuji: Our next target's a big-shot politician Masayoshi Shido. We're gonna do this, right?

Oh yeah, he needs to go down—big time!

Keiko: (I know him from somewhere...I just know it!) We're doing this. He needs to be stopped.

Ryuji: Hell yeah! And nobody's against it?

Nope, they were all in it to bring down a real criminal, save Akechi, get one more gem, two more False Gods to be stopped, learn more of the book – Blood of Oath, and show the whole world that the Phantom Thieves do fight for justice.

Ann: Of course.

Yusuke: He will be a worthy opponent.

Haru: Let's win this, together!

Futaba: Time for revenge!

Morgana: Then it's unanimous!

The Phantom Thieves are back in action!

Ryuji: All we gotta do now is figure out what he thinks that Diet Building place is.

For Sae and Sojiro to see what the Nav app looks like on how they get in and out of the real world and Metaverse, and also Mementos.

Sae: So, that's the app that allowed me to enter the Metaverse.

Sojiro: An old fart like me can't wrap his head around all this stuff...

Makoto: We'll have to deal with this before election day, December 18th. That means we need it done by the 17th.

They have to do it the day before the main event itself.

Yusuke: It's best we hurry before they discover there's no body in the morgue.

Ann: Should we start tomorrow then? We can meet at the Diet Building after school.

They can go to school, but Keiko can't right now. So this might be a little bit of a problem.

Keiko: But I can't go out...

Ryuji: That reminds me, what're you gonna do about school, Keiko? You can't show up if you're supposed to be dead?

Well, one part has been covered up for Kawa to cover for Keiko's sake. What a good friend/teacher she is.

Ann: Ms. Kawakami said she went back home for "family reasons."

Sojiro: That's what I told the school.

Keiko: I'll take that story for the time being. (Thanks, Ms. Kawakami.)

So, Keiko has to act dead until everything gets fixed.

Ryuji: Don't let 'em find out you're alive then, all right, Keiko? This whole thing'd be for nothin'!

Sojiro: What do you mean?

Makoto: This operation had another purpose outside of escaping Junko's clutches. Shido tried to place all the blame on the Phantom Thieves and deceive the public at the same time. He has ruined countless lives, and even made Junko Sakurai, a student, assist him with assassinations. A mere change of heart is too lenient a sentence for such an abominable criminal.

A lot to plan to do things right while Keiko stays in hiding for a while.

Haru: We'll be making use of the police statement that the leader that the leader of the Phantom Thieves committed suicide. Our leader who is presumed dead will come out of hiding to deliver the grand statement. Keiko-Chan will say she has escaped prison, not committed suicide, and was in fact almost killed by a criminal.

A very good plan there to do at the last minute to catch Shido off guard for the others to see how much a bad criminal he really is.

Futaba: Everyone's gonna flip. I told Jackie the whole detail already. This is a Persona of a Jackie Frost type we call it who has been helping us out lately. Along with Aika, Hitomi, Kiwa, and Daisuke to be the only Metropolis 12 members on our side. The real good guys who my Mom helped out.

It's all true, she did. And showing a avatar for Jackie to be waving to Sae and Sojiro to have a trusted friend on the team.

Sae: Amazing...

Sojiro: A small Persona has been helping all of you? So strange. And you guys thought through all this stuff too?

A lot to be planning from beginning to the very end.

Ryuji: We're intellectuals, y'know!

Sae: That's why you needed such a daring trick as getting captured an appearing to be killed. What frightening teenagers...

Makoto: But the true battle has only just began. We won the first round, but we must stay on our toes.

From them winning the battle, but the war is far from over just yet. They all must be ready to do anything to give it their all.

Ryuji: Yeah, this ain't the time to be celebratin'.

Yusuke: These people tried to trap and kill us. There is no end to their inhuman, conniving nature. We will need to be prepared for whatever may come our way.

Keiko: And we'll all be ready for it too.

And it was from the Phantom Thieves will do their best to win – Keiko, Morgana, Ryuji, Ann, Yusuke, Makoto, Futaba, Haru, Sojiro, and Sae...Oh, same Jose and Jackie as well. Double for Hitomi, Aika, Daisuke, and Kiwa to aid the team. Oh, yes! With them stopping Shido, the two other Shadows, and saving Akechi, but what about Queen Lilith on why she was doing all of this to be really Queen Lilith was next...

Haru: There's one thing on my mind...How will we expose Junko from the liar she truly is?

Coming up with something...for two Niijima sisters might have something in mind.

Sae: Makoto, are you thinking what I'm thinking...?

Makoto: I am, Sis. Everyone, I think we thought of an idea to talk about before we show Junko of the faker for the whole world to see with their own eyes from her illusions.

Whatever it was, it has to be a good, but more on that later on...Back at Shido's office for him to still be talking to Fallen One and Queen Lilith 'after they talked to keep to themselves only' with other things that must be done next of their next plan.

Shido: If you're two are done talking, do whatever you want. That leader, keep her showing and destroy the rest permanently. Still, I've made it this far to win real soon and it's all thanks to you two. About two in a half years we've meant to make it this far. From trickery and illusion making from these Shadow being to have the same goal like I do...From Wakaba's groupies to trick them was priceless. And this boy, Goro Akechi, how sad...Trying to catch me for years to almost did the unthinkable, but I was one step ahead of this young man, only for him to fail.

Fallen One: And those who tried to mess with you, only to fall from an accident of mysterious deaths. Too bad, so sad. I only did was make a copy of the Queen to do the rest from puppet magic from some good trickster type of moves on my own.

Junko: And those who try to mess with you to prove you're trouble, we did you a favor...You're welcome...


Showing off Junko's true form of Queen Lilith has finally come – for her to be the same height with long red hair flowing, covering her four eyes with her skin of some orange thing all over her body of it being light blue skin,, sharp teeth, bigger breasts, huge wings on her back, long boots, and some sharp nails.

Tayla: Persona # 128 – Lilith

Lilith was originally a storm demon known as "Lilitu" in ancient Mesopotamian myth around 3000 BC and she was thought to have been the cause of disease, illness, and death. She later appears as a nocturnal demon in Jewish lore.

In Judaism, Lilith was the first wife of Adam, however she was cast out of the garden of Eden for her sinful ways. In this tale, she was the first to eat of the fruit of knowledge and wanted to be either equal to or greater than Adam. After she left the garden of Eden, she attempted to create her own garden and became the consort of many different demons, including the fallen angel Samael, and bore many succubi known as the Lilim. Meanwhile Adam grew lonely, and beseeched God to forgive Lilith and return her to Eden. God told Lilith that if she did not return, he would punish her by taking away her children. She refused, her children were taken, and since that day she has become a demoness at war with the sons and daughters of Adam, targeting children in specific.


Another version of the story as told in the "Midrash Abkier," is that after Cain's homicide brings death to the world, Adam separates from Eve and fasts for 130 years. When the demoness Lilith (also known as Pizna) saw his beauty, she instantly desired him, and took him by force by using his own sin against him. She bore him many demonic spirits known to be a plague to mankind.

Fallen One: About time you went back to your original form.

Junko: More like a...normal state type of form to keep my looks good, I don't like using it a lot to cover it when I was around them. How else was I able to fool with the Phantom Thieves to gain their trust. What a bunch of suckers.

Shido: It was there you two came to me to have special powers. One to find this boy who's been chasing me around to become whole again, and you young lady to fool the public's eyes as a journalist to be a very good actor. The whole cognition thing to learn about was all worth it. If it I didn't, then I would've gone insane.

And thanks to them, they've hid all the scandals they could to get away from it all.

Fallen One: Well, this boy won't be troubling you anymore, good sir.

Shido: And Lilith, who's this lover of yours?

A lot to leave out still for Junko/Queen Lilith to stay quiet about the rest.

Junko: Just a dear man who's been mistaken on the things he never meant to do, I want to change this world to become a brand new from no more violence when I have the Eternal Pearl in my hands. Just hold on to that last gem for me.

The last and seventh gem, the Seventh Pink Brightful Gem for Shido to borrow to be the sixth False God of power.

Shido: I won't. I'll give it back to you once I crush my real enemies real soon. I only need to have your powers while unplugged the entire research to stay hidden. I'm glad I did, you two know what must be done, correct? I don't care what happens, just make sure the Phantom Thieves are soon to be dealt with.

Fallen One: From the same goals with for all three of us to make change, we can make a difference for the humans to slowly understanding us in the future.

Junko: Like Wakaba Isshiki? Oh, please...I wish I didn't have to murder her if she just stayed put, but nope. Things have to be kept a secret. And making the dumb group, I got a random guy's dead skin to have my partner Cthulhu and Cait Sith to spy for us to get paid for, and that's it, to be my little backup to throw our enemies off.

So Junko was the one who murder Wakaba, the families of the victim from the Midnight Strike and for knowing of the danger too late to get out of.

Shido: All of this to lead us up to this point.

Junko: Hey now, I made the SIU Director talk about giving us the rest of the details before he could double cross us...just in case, didn't want to take any chances if he did. Kill his Shadow and then see the real him drop dead.

These guys are so mess up!

Fallen One: Got to hide the truth...It's no wonder why Akechi here wants you dead for a reason for killing his mother...Oops, did I say that out loud? My bad. *chuckle*

And that's not funny to be laughing at something so mess up!

Shido: This country's changing for me to make it better, by my own rules and power. Anyone who stands in my way, will die by my hands...without anyone else noticing a thing. I can do what I want to get away with it all. I will lead this country to it's arrivals of a brand new one.

Junko: I agree.

Fallen One: And the correct way to use the Metaverse too. Not bad, Shido.

Junko: And for the rivals to make them look like suspects on the crimes of killing others, will throw the law off guard to never know it was our doing.

They can get away from it with everything with no evidences to be left behind at all.

Shido: Without you two, my clean image would never go out to the public to know the things I can do so much. Phantom Thieves to almost ruined me, they're nothing more than children once I looked into it. All I needed to do was to lay the blame on them...

Fallen One: It was one of the finest performance the Queen has ever pulled off from your guidance, Shido good sir. And those other weak Shadows, let them live their weak lies, we got what we need already.

Shido: If they think of their popularity could push me back...I don't think so. I had to make it look like they've killed a few people and then the game starts to be played by my own rules, that's how I know I'll win this. From the scandals to be hidden knowing it was all my doing, just as I planned. The time has finally come...Just a little bit more, and I will take the seat of prime minister. Little by little, they'll love me and one by one, the others will fall.

A wicked plan for someone like Shido to make it big to get what he wants and never lose, or else he'll murder someone for it with Queen Lilith and Fallen One helping him out.

Junko: A powerful country that can compete with the world, I like it. And then we'll make a change for me to be with him again.

Shido: I know a few strings to pull to get the job done. That is my duty as the chosen one. When I become prime minister, I'll grant any wish you two want. You both name it, and I'll do it.

A deal's a deal for the three to make sure it does happen some how. I've pay those other lackeys with money to keep quiet and spare them, and you two were something to have by my side.

Fallen One: Mine is to be known for others to be using this body, as the boy sleeps on and I take over his life. (And to finally have Keiko for myself.)

Junko: And for me to act like a journalist, I got to let the other humans know for them to like my work and then the world to change so much. We'll lay low for a bit to study on school things while also plotting for it bit, so call us when we're needed again and we'll be here.

Shido: A lot to plan to act like teenagers to hide from the public...do keep at it.

They leave for Fallen One 'as Akechi in his body' to say this...

Fallen One: I'm thinking about getting the things I want on my own.

And for Junko/Queen Lilith to go back into her human form again to leave to also be saying this as well...

Junko: …And I'm thinking about my own future.

So mess up...Hours later to be night time for Keiko to be thinking about the plan in her room for Morgana to still keep her company.

Keiko: Man, what a day...

Morgana: You said it, Madame Keiko. I guess you won't be going to school for a while.

Keiko: Guess not, I have to wait...

A lot more waiting for this entire plan to work out and such and to expose Junko as well on who she really is in a while, don't worry - for it will happen.

Morgana: Don't worry about it. This'll be a breeze compared to what we've had to face so far. And we'll have all the time to come up with the rest of the plans together! To be perfectly honest, I don't really care what happens to Shido one way or the other. But when I consider the fact that he's your enemy, I naturally think he's my enemy as well. I'm going to stay with you until the very end, we will save Akechi.

This makes Keiko feel a lot better to have friends, other family, her Akechi, and Morgana on her side to hug her little sidekick friend.

Keiko: Thank you, Morgana, I know. I have to be brave for Akechi-Cun's sake. I know we'll save him...We'll stop Fallen One, Shido, and Junko aka Queen Lilith. All of us as the Team Phantom of the Phantom Thief of Hearts. Besides Metropolis 12 too, but their part of our team now than some name they came up with.

Morgana: Welcome. Hey...Please don't hug me for too long.

Later on, Sojiro and Futaba check on Keiko on how she was holding up now with Morgana helping her out.

Sojiro: Looks like things've finally settle down. Life's gonna get real busy for you, Keiko, startin' tomorrow, right? Get some rest.

Futaba: Night, Big Sis. Mona.

Once the two went back home, it was time for Keiko and Morgana to also be getting some sleep at long last.

Morgana: The Chief's right. Let's hit the hay.

With Sojiro not saying about Keiko's fake death for Sae to help her out on, she was fine there; as well as Morgana to say that the plan worked out very well for Junko to see the Keiko's cognitive one in the Metaverse, and how Futaba hacked through Junko's phone for Akechi to help her out to see the real her and to aid Sae was brilliantly done. Scary and yet amazing there. And now Keiko and Morgana get some sleep for everything has to be done to save a life and stop the very bad people, as well as stopping Junko on what they have in mind next.

Keiko: Night, Morgana. Mr. Sakura. Futaba. (Good night, Akechi-Cun, sweet dreams. Hang in there for me, for all of us. I'll be there for you soon.)