I don't own Persona 3 and 5, they belong to ATLUS. I only own my OC characters, Kyosuke Kanakubo and Hanzo Okumura.
Somewhere in the realm of the end of the world…
"Don't worry, dear Minato. For I've finally found a way to freed and replaced you from your duty as the "Great Seal" in sealing away Nyx, the Greek Goddess of Night and preventing her from meeting and bringing forth "The Fall" with her husband, Erebus, the Greek God of Darkness and gave you the second chance to truly live your life in the world of the living." thought Elizabeth as she glance up at the large and floating golden double doors that had the stone statue of her cherish guest in a crucified position in the center of the door before she closed her eyes in deep concentration and raised her hand out in front of her.
A bright sphere of golden and silver light (which is the power of all of his bonds with his friends and acquaintances in Tatsumi Port Island plus a chunk of Elizabeth's power) started to appear and gather in Elizabeth's hand before it shot straight forward and struck the stone statue, causing it to crack then break apart and freed the slumbering soul of Minato confined within before his soul fell and Elizabeth quickly rushed forward and grabbed hold of his soul while the sphere that struck the stone statue started to mend the statue up until it's intact and without opening the door and woke Nyx up. After Elizabeth succeeded in freeing Minato's soul from his duty, she holds Minato's soul securely in her hands before she quickly disappeared, went back to the Velvet Room (which is an exact replica of Minato's old dorm room) to return and restore Minato's soul back into his body before she click her fingers to conjured up a chair, sat down and decided to wake Minato up from his long slumber.
"Please wake up, Minato-san." said Elizabeth calmly to Minato, which make him started stirring, take some deep shaky breaths, slowly opened his silver-coloured eyes and look around the room he's in before he glance at Elizabeth. "Hello and nice to see you alive, dear Minato." said Elizabeth as she smiled softly at Minato.
"Yeah, nice to see you again, Elizabeth- hold on a second. How long has it been and why am I here in the Velvet Room… No, if I'm here then that means the Seal is-!" said Minato in a worry then strained tone of voice to Elizabeth about the Great Seal.
"You don't have to worry about that, Minato-san. It's been a few years since you passed away and the Seal remained as intact as ever because I've managed to find a way to use all of the strong bonds that you have formed and establish with your friends plus a chunk of my power to freed and replaced you as the Seal." said Elizabeth calmly to Minato (who sighed in relief after he heard what Elizabeth just told him).
"I see." said Minato as he slowly nodded his head at what Elizabeth just told him while he misses the bonds that he had with the members of SEES and others in Gekkoukan High. "So now that you've freed me from being the Seal, what're my choices?" asked Minato.
"Well, now that I've freed you from your "Great Seal" duty and even though both Nyx and Erebus are no longer threats to the world, a new and cunning threat has showed up and has somehow invaded and overtaken the Velvet Room that you used to come and asked either Master Igor or me to do Persona Fusion and others for you so that you'll gained newer, powerful Personas and weapons, sealed Master Igor away somewhere that I can't find or enter and has even taken, brainwash and split my younger sister Lavenza up into 2 different strangers named Caroline and Justine so that this new threat can used them for his rigged game for the 2 new Wild Cards users, Minato-san." replied Elizabeth sadly to Minato.
"Say what? How can that be and who's this new threat that's capable of doing such cruel things to you, your sister and Igor and also that's why you freed me from being the Seal? To help whoever the 2 new Wild Cards users are against the new threat?" said Minato in shock and disbelief at what Elizabeth just told him.
"That's right, Minato-san. So I asked, will you accept the task of helping the 2 new Wild Cards users overcome the rigged game planned and set up by the new threat, freed Lavenza and Master Igor from the control and confinement of the new threat?" said Elizabeth as she nodded at Minato.
"I see… In that case, I guess I'll accept the task and is that all or is there anything else that I should know about before I take my leave, Elizabeth?" asked Minato.
"Yes, there are some things that you need to know about, Minato-san. Before you leave this room and embark on your new journey to helped out the 2 new Wild Cards users, try to formed and establish new bonds with them and others to take the place of the ones I used to take your place as the Seal while living the life that you never have and also, most of the Personas that you've are no longer with you except for Orpheus, Thanatos and Messiah. You can summon and used Orpheus easily but please refrain from summoning and using Thanatos and Messiah because they're too strong for you to used until your level is high enough to used them." replied Elizabeth in a warning tone of voice to Minato.
"I see. Very well then and will I see you again, Elizabeth?" said Minato as he slowly nodded to Elizabeth.
"Unfortunately not. You've already fulfilled the contract of my master years ago so there's no need for us to meet again. This will be the only time we'll meet and talk but know that I'll be watching over you from afar and wish you the best of luck with your new task, Minato-san. Farewell." said Elizabeth as she smiled sadly and gently at Minato.
"I see, that's too bad. Alright then, I think I'm ready and farewell to you too, Elizabeth." said Minato as he bade farewell to Elizabeth before he closed his eyes and fell into unconsciousness.
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The sudden jostle of the train speeding down the railway toward Shibuya inside the city of Tokyo startled and jerked Minato Arisato (who's wearing a long sleeve grey jacket with a long black trousers and grey sneakers on his legs and with a silver-coloured earphone around his neck that connects to an MP3 player tucked in his trousers left pocket) up from his slumber before he slowly take a look at the interior of the train around him, saw that it's filled with various students and adults standing or sitting in the train with him then he noticed a tiny, glowing blue butterfly flew past him and flew toward a short wavy black-haired, spectacled grey-eyed guy wearing a school uniform with a bag on his lap sitting opposite him, landed on the top of the guy's head before it disappear into thin air.
"Huh, how surprisingly easy. To think that I'd meet one of them here already and here I thought that I'd have to start searching high and low in Shibuya for the 2 new Wild Cards users. Now only left the other one." thought Minato dryly in his mind before he closed his eyes, let out a small sigh and leaned back in his seat before he heard the strange conversation between 2 female students standing to his left near the train door.
"What? Are you for real? A mental shutdown?" asked the first girl in disbelief to the second girl.
"It's the truth." replied the second girl with a nod of her head.
"But to a person though? That's gotta be a joke. You really love all that occult stuff, don't you?" said the first girl to the second girl before they began chuckling to each other about the mental shutdown thing.
"Hm, a mental shutdown, huh? Sounds similar to the "Apathy Syndrome" case caused by Shadows which my friends and I try our best fight and defeat a few years ago. Come to think of it, I wonder how are all of them now, especially my twin sister, Minako. When I've free time, I'll be sure to give them a call. Hope that they haven't change their numbers and won't be too surprise to know that I'm free from being the Seal and came back to live thanks to Elizabeth." thought Minato slightly sadly to himself before he noticed a black duffel bag plus a white manila folder lying on top of the bag next to him and he take and opened the manila folder and saw that it contains his name, picture, paper files about him transferring from his previous school to another until he reached the final file saying that he'll be living with a prosecutor named Sae Niijima and her younger sister Makoto in an apartment building and entering Shujin Academy for his third and final year of high school.
"Most of the files in here about me are correct and I'll be living with a prosecutor named Sae Niijima and her younger sister, Makoto, huh? Lucky me, thanks a lot, Elizabeth." thought Minato as he let out a small, sarcastic sigh at Elizabeth, closed and put the folder about him back into the duffel bag next to him before the train eventually reached and came to a stop inside the Shibuya station and the train doors opened for him, the wavy black-haired student guy sitting opposite him and the other passengers. Minato then grabbed the duffel bag, stood up and walked out of the train with the guy and the other passengers, walked up the stairs out of the station and into the station square where he and the guy saw the large group of people walking or hanging out together in different corners of the station square around them both with cool and indifferent looks on their faces.
As both Minato and the guy make their way down the street away from the square, Minato noticed with a curious look on his face that the guy had stopped and is trying to repeatedly tapped at something on his phone to get rid of it with a frown look on his face and he turned and approach the guy.
"Is there something wrong with your phone?" Minato asked the guy, which make him stopped tapping his phone and glance suspiciously at him.
"What's it to you, stranger?" said the guy quite rudely to Minato (who raised an eyebrow at his rudeness).
"Excuse me, all I did was ask if there's something wrong with your phone. There's no need for you to be rude about it." said Minato coldly to the guy.
"…Fine, you're right and I'm sorry for being rude to you. It's just that after what I've gone through…" said the guy apologetically to Minato before he trailed off into silence, not wanting to tell Minato about it.
"I'm guessing that what he'd gone through must be bad enough that he doesn't wish to tell me about it until he wants to talk about it." thought Minato correctly in his mind before the guy showed him the mysterious yet creepy looking red and black icon that looks like an eye with star inside which expanded and covered almost the bottom half of his phone screen. "Woah. What kind of creepy-looking app is that? I've never seen it before." asked Minato as he glance at the app with a confused look on his face as well.
"I don't know. It just suddenly appears on my phone for no reason and now I can't seem to get rid of it somehow." replied the guy concernly to Minato.
"Is that so? Sounds even more creepy now." said Minato.
The next second, the people and the vehicles around both Minato and the guy started to slow down then came to a silent stop as time stand still, which make the guy gasped and glance at the sudden abnormality of the situation around him with surprise, confusion and unease on his face while Minato glance calmly around him.
The guy then noticed bright blue flames mysteriously appear in the middle of the road before the flames turned into the figure of a man with wings behind him then bright orange flames appear and burned within the blue flames and formed into what appear to be slitted-eyes and a wide, wicked smile before it disappear to reveal another face that make the guy gasped again and widened his eyes in shock and fear. He saw his own face with his eyes bright yellow in colour instead of gray and smiling a wide, wicked smile on his face while Minato winced and hold the left side of his head with his hand when he felt the familiar stirring of one of his strong personas briefly awaken from within him.
The next second, time resumed and the people and vehicles around Minato and the guy continue to walked and drive on down the street and road as if nothing had happened while the dark blue flames bearing the form of the winged man, the bright orange flames and his different-looking face that the guy just saw burning in the middle of the road vanished without a trace while the strong persona inside Minato went back to sleep.
"Whatever it is I just saw must have been my imagination." thought the guy with a shrug of his shoulders before he glance down at his phone, saw that the icon had reverted back to it's miniature size before he tapped the icon with his finger to move it down to the trashcan icon at the bottom of his phone and watched as it shrunk and fall into the trashcan icon and out of his sight before he put his phone back in his pocket and turned to glance at Minato. "So, where are you going now, stranger?" asked the guy.
"Oh, just going to an apartment building to stay with a prosecutor and her younger sister. And what about you?" Minato answer the guy's question before he asked him another question.
"Me? I'll be living with some guy named Sojiro Sakura." replied the guy.
"I see. Well, see you then." said Minato.
"Yeah sure. See you." said the guy before they turned and walked away in different direction toward the places that they'll be staying in for the year.
