A/N: Hello again! Thank you all for tuning in a reading, as always. So this chapter is more than twice the average length of most chapters. It's the big Kamoshida battle and is my first attempt to write out how the battles play out, not just the ending of one. If you like it, let me know! If you don't, also let me know! My original plan was to write every boss battle for sure but if they're well received than I can throw some more in, or if they're not I can work to improve them before the other boss battles get here. Have a pleasant weekend, and please enjoy this extra long chapter!
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*It's not a game, I'm not a robot AI challenging you…*
Akira steps boldly forward across the bridge towards Kamoshida's castle. With it being a day as monumental as today, he cannot help but to smile. The inner feeling of finally getting back at Kamoshida for all he's done will be worth it. He turns to look back at his trusted team of Phantom Thieves as it seemed they were called now. Ann stood closest to him, hand on one hip and flicking a twin tail off her opposite shoulder with a smirk across her face. Ryuji crouches down next to Morgana with his pipe slung over his shoulder, both having large smiles plastered on their faces.
"Hehehe, this is it," Akira says to them. "You ready?"
"YES!" three shouts reply to him.
"Let's go get that bastard," Akira says with a small wave of his hand as he begins to run towards the castle.
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The Thieves arrive at the throne room in record time, avoiding every shadow along the way and engaging in no fights so as not to draw attention. As Ryuji pushes open the door he stops for a moment in shock.
"What the hell's going on here? The door's just sitting unlocked, and there aren't any soldiers guarding the room…"
"The place is probably undermanned now that they all got assigned elsewhere," Morgana replies. "Either way, we win as long as we can steal the treasure! Let's keep going!"
The thieves sprint along the length of the room and up the stairs to the back room. They arrive once again at the treasure room doors as Ryuji rubs his hands together and pushes the door open. The room appears at first to be unchanged except for the large glowing and floating crown in the middle of the room.
"Aww yeeeeeaaaaaaah! The Treasure has appeared!" Morgana exclaims as he jumps up and down.
"Man, it's huge!" Ryuji gawks.
"What do you think?! It's just as I said! Now we can steal it!" Morgana says, continuing his jumping.
"This thing is kinda pissing me off," Ann says with obvious disgust in her voice. "Why's it so pretty…? Isn't this supposed to be Kamoshida's desires?"
"Let's figure that out later," Akira replies softly. "Skull help me carry this thing. It looks heavy."
"You got it boss man," Ryuji says stepping forward with Akira. The two boys grab either end of the crown. As soon as both have a grip on it, it stops floating and drops all its weight into their hands. "Oh FFFFfffff—" Ryuji says as his grip slips.
"Got it?" Akira asks. "Ok, let's get out of here. Panther lead the way with Mona."
"You know, this was a little easier than I thought it'd be. I figured there'd be some kind of trap or something," Ryuji says.
"His palace will disappear if we take this back, right?" Ann asks Morgana. "And Kamoshida will change too…"
"That should be the case," Morgana replies as he and Ann hold the doors open for Akira and Ryuji.
"Good, at this rate we'll be out of here in no time," Ryuji says.
"Skull quit saying things like that," Ann says. "Do you want to jinx us?"
"You believe… in jinxes?" Ryuji says between breaths.
"Don't you? After all this?" Ann replies with a gesture to their surroundings.
"Chat… later…" Akira says also between breaths.
"Here let me help," Ann says as she grabs a side of the crown. "Mona you lead."
The Thieves struggle with the crown as they slowly move down the stairs of the throne room. Ann assisting in carrying had sped up their process but only slightly. As they move around the throne and make their way halfway down the room, a voice rings out from the doorway.
"Go, go! Let's go! Ka-mo-shida!" it says. The thieves stop moving trying to see where the voice comes from when loud grunt rings out followed by a loud slap. Moments later the crown is struck by something and thrown from the hands of the Thieves as it clatters to the floor. All four turn to look at the source of the voices to find King Kamoshida and Shadow Ann standing together blocking their way out. In a single moment the two leap into the air and flip over the Thieves as they land gracefully on their feet, the crown lying on the floor between them.
King Kamoshida stretches his arm out to the crown causing it to float once again and glide toward him. As it glides closer and closer its size shrinks until its only a regular sized crown to be worn. Shadow Ann hugs King Kamoshida and turns to face the group as he speaks.
"I won't let anyone take this!" his voice rings out. "This proves that I am the king of this castle. It is the core of this world!"
"That rat bastard," Ann spits. She's looking at her shadow form as she hangs herself off Kamoshida's arm and every word. Twirling her finger on his chest and looking sultrily at him as she does so. "That's how he sees me isn't it?"
"YO! PERVERT!" Ryuji shouts. "Were you waiting to ambush us?!"
"I just made it easier to find you. I'll dispose of you myself. Right here, right now."
"Hey! That's our line you sexually harassing D-bag!" Ryuji shouts back.
"What a selfish misunderstanding…"
"How is it a misunderstanding?! You were doing things that you kept in secret from others!" Ann shouts.
"The people around me were the ones who kept it secret. Adults who want to share in my accomplishments, students who have the drive to become winners… They all willingly protect me so that we may all profit from it."
"Profit?!" Ryuji gasps.
"There are too many imbeciles who don't understand that! Including naïve brats like you and that girl that tried to kill herself!"
"True," Ann says. "She's a total idiot… letting you manipulate her, trying to commit suicide… And I'm even more of a dumbass for not realizing that! But no matter what kind of fool someone might be, THEY DON'T NEED YOUR PERMISSION TO LIVE THEIR LIVES!"
"Drop the attitude, you mediocre peasant. There's no wrong in using my gifts for my gain! I'm a cut above all other humans! You should consider yourself lucky I even wanted a piece of that ass of yours! Really, where was all this fight when you were stripping in my office in reality?!"
Akira looks over at Ann to see tears beginning to form in her eyes and an obvious shade of red darkens her cheeks below her mask from embarrassment. Her fists are clenched so hard it looks painful to Akira.
"You're a goddamn demon obsessed with your sick desires!" Ann shouts at King Kamoshida as a few tears fall.
King Kamoshida begins to chuckle as Shadow Ann giggles. King Kamoshida begins to laugh deeper and more menacingly as he begins growing in size.
"That's right. I'm not like you… I'm the demon who RULES THIS WORLD!" King Kamoshida shouts as he grabs Shadow Ann and his voice reverberates throughout the throne room. The Thieves watch in horror as the two shadows begin to turn a shade of deep red and black to dissolve into a puddle in front of them. What erupts from the puddle causes Ann to scream and Ryuji to nearly fall over.
A demonized form of Kamoshida rises from the puddle. Nearly two stories tall and with a grotesquely long tongue, the demon has vaguely pink skin and large horns shooting off its head wrapping around the back of its skull, engulfed by the thick oil black hair. The demon would be taller if it stood on its two legs but with four arms it seems content with sitting for the upcoming fight.
"I'M ALLOWED TO DO WHATEVER THE HELL I WANT!" 'Asmodeus' Kamoshida roars, rattling the stained-glass windows of the room.
"Let's finish this," Akira says to his Thieves. His friends.
"NNNGH… GRAAAAAAAAAAGH!" Kamoshida roars. "YOU GODDAMN, NO-GOOD, SHITTY BRATS! HAVEN'T YOU BEEN TAUGHT TO RESPECT YOUR ELDERS?! HUH?!"
"Look!" Morgana shouts, "He's wearing the treasure! If we can catch him off guard, we might be able to steal it! If we attack, we can await that opportunity and protect ourselves at the same time!"
"Persona!" Joker shouts, "Genbu, Mabufu!" The turtle-snake manifests behind Joker and blasts Kamoshida with large blasts of ice. Though it hits and seems to hurt, it doesn't appear to be weak to the element. "Find what he's weak to!" Joker commands.
Kamoshida roars in anger and rage as he lashes out with his tongue to swipe at the Thieves. Only Panther is able to dodge the attack as it hits the other three. She pulls out her submachine gun and cocks it, chambering the first round. With a shout she charges summoning Carmen behind her.
"Persona! Agi, Carmen!" Panther cries as she unloads the clip into Kamoshida's face. He roars again in pain as fire erupts beneath him. Panther discards her empty gun and removes her whip from her hip and lassos onto his arm. With a pull and a jump, she launches herself into the air with the intent of landing on the arm and attacking the face directly. Moments after her feet leave the ground, one of Asmodeus's arms swings out and swats her to the ground like a fly.
Panther crashes to the ground hard, with a sickening thud. "A-Agi!" she shouts as Carmen sends another blast of fire to hit Kamoshida.
"Persona!" Skull shouts as Captain Kidd is summoned behind him. "Tarukaja on Joker!" he shouts as light surrounds Joker. Joker feels his body and spirit fortify and swell with power.
"Berith, cleave!" Joker shouts as Genbu transforms into Berith and charges forth to stab its lance into Kamoshida's abdomen. Kamoshida dips his arm holding a fork into the large gold chalice in front of him. Stuck on the end of the fork in that hand is a bottom half of a girl which is raised and dropped into Kamoshida's mouth.
"ARGH! I NEED HEALING!" Kamoshida roars. "COME AT ME YOU PIECES OF SHIT. I AIN'T LETTING YOU SLEEP TONIGHT!"
"He's healing himself!" Skull shouts.
"Attack the cup then," Joker replies.
"Persona!" Morgana shouts summoning Zorro to join the fight. "Garu!" Wind blasts against the side of the chalice but only manages to cause it to rock back and forth.
"Panther! Skull! You two get his attention towards you! Mona and I will attack from this side against the cup!" Joker barks. Nods are given in acknowledgment of his order and the two continue their attack pairing up back to back.
As Joker and Mona get closer to the chalice, minions of Kamoshida's begin to pelt volleyballs at them at record speed. Joker and Mona dodge some and destroy others as they are propelled their way before arriving at the chalice directly below Kamoshida's tongue. Joker thrusts his knife into the side of the cup to find it bleeds shadowy liquid as though it were part of Kamoshida himself.
Mona swings his sword into one of the handles and slices it clean off eliciting a roar from Kamoshida as he grabs the two Thieves with his tongue and hurls them into Skull and Panther.
"Ugghhh…" Panther groans. "Did you destroy the cup?"
"Just… about…" Joker pants back.
"Well let's see if we can—" Skull begins before being pelted by 4 large volleyballs sent by Kamoshida's minions.
"Scatter!" Mona shouts as more volleyballs rain down around the group. Each thief takes cover behind their own pillar as volleyballs continue to rain down.
"Mona!" Joker shouts. "We need to get rid of the cup! Shoot!"
Mona nods and pulls out his slingshot, peeking around the corner of the pillar and lining up his shot. With a little more pull back on the sling, he releases sending a sizable metal ball towards the open hole in the side of the chalice. The shot hits true as Kamoshida roars out again in pain.
"Let's go Captain! ZIO!" Skull shouts as he steps out from behind his pillar. Lighting pierces through the air directly onto the chalice. The chalice glows white from the power hitting it and splinters and shatters.
"ACK! NO WAY… THIS WAS FROM WHEN I WON THE NATIONAL…"
"Surround him!" Joker shouts as he removes his pistol from his belt. The four thieves stand around the dazed Asmodeus Kamoshida, all pointing their weapons at him.
"This is a FUCKING hold up!" Panther screams.
"Let us leave… with the crown…" Joker pants. "And we'll leave you alone…"
Kamoshida stares wildly around the room as both eyes move independent of one another.
"I don't think he's going to listen to reason," Mona says.
"Then he'll have to listen to FORCE!" Skull shouts.
Joker nods as the four of them break out all their moves on the attack. Shots and whip cracks and pipe gongs ring out as the flurry of attacks batter Kamoshida from all sides. The attack causes Kamoshida to regain his sense of where he's at as his tongue lashes out again to miss all the Thieves but still causes them to retreat from the attack.
"YOU THINK YOU CAN GET AWAY WITH DOING SUCH A THING? DO YOU REALIZE WHO I AM?! I… AM KAMOSHIDA! DON'T YOU GET IT?!"
"So what?" Joker shoots back.
"HUH…?! LIKE I KEEP SAYING! I AM KAMOSHIDA! I'M THE KING!"
"You look down on everyone… but you're seriously lame right now," Skull says.
"Yeah! We came all this way to steal that. Will you just give it up and hand it over?" Panther says.
"SILENCE! I WON'T LET THE LIKES OF YOU HAVE THIS!"
"You still have the energy to say things like that?!" Mona replies.
"I'M THE KING. IF I'M NOT, THEN WHO IS?!" Kamoshida cries as he commands his minions to rain down more volley balls causing all 4 thieves to take cover behind the same pillar.
"We won't get anywhere with brute force…" Mona says.
"Agreed," Joker replies as he hands out Dr. Takemi's medicine. "We'll need a plan." Joker peeks his head out to get a look at their surroundings. "Ok, I've got something. See that pillar over there? If someone climbs that and gets to the top, they might be able to jump off and knock that crown off his head."
"That's a good idea, Joker," Mona says. "That crown is likely what's giving him so much power and strength right now. Who do you want to go? Panther, to keep her safe and out of the fight?"
"No, he hasn't taken his eyes off her all battle. I've got a feeling he'll follow his eye candy wherever she is. Mona, you climb up there, Skull hits a little harder than you do, and I'd rather have him down in the thick of it with me."
"Understood," Mona agrees. "Get him distracted and not focusing on me and I'll see what I can do." With that, Mona runs along the edge of the room from pillar to pillar as the three Shujin students emerge from their pillar to face down Kamoshida again.
"Alright, watch his attacks," Joker instructs. "He's strong and we don't seem to have anything he's weak to elementally. We don't have many more meds so try not to get hit and don't sacrifice your own energy too much just to do damage. We just need to distract him for now."
"HOW DARE YOU KEEP DEFYING ME… LOOKS LIKE I GOTTA BRING OUT THE BIG GUNS! SLAVES! BRING OVER YOU-KNOW-WHAT!" Kamoshida shouts as his chained slaves break free and run towards the stairs behind the throne. "TIME FOR MY KILLSHOT FROM WHEN I WAS ACTIVE AND ROCKING IT!"
"Scatter!" Joker shouts. "Protect yourselves!"
As Joker shouts it to the team, Asmodeus Kamoshida stands up on his legs and leaps into the air. The slaves on the upper balcony launch a monstrous volleyball into the air which Kamoshida spikes. Directly at Panther.
Time slows as Joker sees the ball hurling in her direction as she stands like a deer in headlights. Panther moves to get out of the way but its too late and the ball hits her, pummeling her into the ground. A massive shockwave and explosion erupt from the site of impact. As the smoke settles, Joker sees Panther lying on the ground, cracks in the tile creating a spiderweb away from her. Jokers heart stop momentarily until he sees her trying to stand on her own, but much too weak to do so.
"DIA, PIXIE!" he shouts. Panther is surrounded in a twirling light and she manages to stand as Joker arrives next to her to help. He throws one of her arms over his shoulder as she leans on him for the support.
"Andras!" he shouts, "Bufu!"
The humanoid owl stands behind Joker and blasts ice against Kamoshida's face causing him to fall back to a sitting position. Joker glances over to see Skull running to join him and Panther. A cursory glance towards a pillar behind Kamoshida shows that Mona is nearly in position to make his jump if they can distract Kamoshida a little bit longer.
"NOW LISTEN UP. THIS SCHOOL EXISTS BECAUSE I'M AROUND. YOU'RE THE ONLY ONES WHO DON'T RESPECT ME, YOU KNOW!"
"D-Dance, Carmen!" Panther shouts as she grips Joker's jacket with her free hand for more support. Fire erupts around Kamoshida's head to blind him for Skull's lightning to make contact with his four arms. As the flames die out, Kamoshida looks around turning his head to find something.
"IS THER ONE LESS OF YOU?! I KNEW IT! THEY'RE MISSING! WHERE'D THEY GO?!"
"NOW MONA!" Joker shouts.
"Oh, it's already check and mate," Mona says as he leaps from the balcony and flings his body into the crown on Kamoshida's head. The thunk sound indicating the hit had taken place was closely followed by Mona and the crown falling on opposite sides of Kamoshida as they hit the ground and rolled.
"NOOOO! MY… MY… precious…"
"Mona?!" Panther says.
"I'm… I'm ok…" Mona struggles. "Get… get him…"
"One last time…" Joker says as he unholsters his pistol again and motions for the others to follow him. They break into a charging run and leap into the air performing another all-out-attack against Asmodeus Kamoshida. Without the crown Kamoshida just sits there, making no effort to defend himself against the attacks being laid into him. After a minute of continuous attack, Kamoshida spilling black shadowy liquid all over the floor, he finally crumples forward, and collapses.
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The Phantom Thieves stand together as Morgana stands with them, leaning against Ryuji's leg for support. Akira looks at his friends and knows that while the battle was short, it was the hardest one they've fought to date. Ryuji's nose was bleeding, Morgana had a few cuts on his face and body, Ann continued to lean against him for support to simply stand, and he could feel somewhere on his lower back that he was going to be bruised heavily for today.
"Here," he says to Ann as he fishes them out of his pocket. "They're the last we got but take these." He hands her the last bottle of Dr. Takemi's medicine. Ann takes the bottle and downs the contents, making her feel instantaneously better, but still terrible overall. Akira glances at the crown sitting on the floor next to the body of Asmodeus Kamoshida and sees it hasn't regrown to its original large size.
"Did… did we… kill him?" Ryuji asks.
"I don't… think so," Morgana replies. "Give it… a second."
As soon as Morgana says that however, King Kamoshida bursts out of the body of Asmodeus Kamoshida as it crumples to dust. King Kamoshida runs towards the crown and snatches it and begins to run directly towards an open door leading to an outer balcony of the castle. The Thieves give chase and stand behind him, so his options are to jump or fight them again.
King Kamoshida looks around frantically to see where else he can go to avoid dealing with them but settles on his predicament being set in stone.
"What's wrong? You're not running away I hope," Ann says. "Because if you ran, I'm sure we'd have to chase you. But since your such a great athlete, that might make us just have to shoot to get you to stop since obviously we'd never catch the great athlete Suguru Kamoshida!"
"It's always been like this… all those goddamn hyenas forcing their expectations on me…! I'M DOING THIS ALL FOR THEM! W-what's wrong about demanding a reward for that…"
"So now you're making excuses…?" Ryuji asks. "We'll do something about that distorted heart of yours."
"Hrrgh… NO! No, no, no…"
"Scared?" Ann asks as Kamoshida looks over the edge of the balcony he's making his stand on. "Right now, you're seeing the same view that Shiho did. I'm sure she was scared too," Ann says as she gingerly walks towards Kamoshida holding her side. "Except she had no choice but to jump… What will you do? Will you jump? Or would you rather die here?" Carmen manifests behind Ann as she finishes the statement. Flames erupt from both of Carmen's hands as she prepares to fire.
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Ann was hurting. Physically and emotionally though at the moment there were both so strong she couldn't tell the difference. She gazed into the eyes of King Kamoshida as he held his crown and looked at Carmen with evident fear in his eyes.
"Do you want to finish him off?" Morgana asks. "It's your call."
"NO! P-please! Wait! I beg you… please forgive meeee!" King Kamoshida pleads.
"SHUT! UP! I bet everyone told you the same. But you! YOU TOOK EVERYTHING FROM THEM!" Ann screams at him. The pain in her side was growing with each shout she sent towards Kamoshida, but it was worth it. This is what she'd been waiting for. She reached out her arm and Carmen fired a bolt of fire towards King Kamoshida and impacted next to his head. The impact caused splinters of wood to go flying in all directions.
"I-I-I accept defeat…" Kamoshida says as he falls to his knees. "You want this? Take it," he says as he tosses the crown to Akira. Akira catches it with a single hand and turns to look at Ann. The cards were dealt and now was the time to play what they had.
"G-go ahead and finish me off…" Kamoshida says as he hangs his head. "You do that, and my real self will go down too… You have that right, since you won."
Ann feels anger coursing through her body so much she can't even hold her arms steady through the shaking. With a scream she extends an arm towards Kamoshida and Carmen sends another firebolt hurtling toward him. But at the last second Ann adjusts her arm and sends the ball of fire to impact the ground just to the side of Kamoshida as Ryuji and Akira both shout in surprise at her attempt to kill him.
Ann mentally dismisses Carmen and feels the mask reform on her face. As she stares daggers at Kamoshida she explains.
"If his mind shuts down, he can't admit his crimes."
"You're kind, Lady Ann…" Morgana says.
"No, I'm not," Ann replies. "I can't think of a fate worse than the one he'll have to live in reality."
"I've lost…" Kamoshida mutters. "You're through when you lose… What… What am I supposed to do now…?"
"Atone," Akira says. Ann was glad he answered for her; she doesn't know if she could've found the words right now.
"Alright," Kamoshida says as he raises his head to look at them. Fresh tears roll down his face as he does so. "I will leave now and return to my real self…" Kamoshida begins to glow as the crown once did and starts becoming opaque. "I'll make certain that I –" he says as he disappears.
The castle around them begins to rumble and shake. Ann looks around to see what could be causing it.
"Hey, just so you know," Morgana says to the group. "We don't have much time to waste. This place is about to collapse." Chandeliers in the throne room begin to fall from the ceiling and crashing into the ground sending glass and crystals scattering. Large explosion like sounds are coming from elsewhere in the castle as other parts of the structure seem to give out and fail.
"RUN!" Akira shouts. The Phantom Thieves muster the last of their energy to escape and take off following Ryuji as he pulls ahead of the rest of them. Pieces of ceiling and walls crumble around the them and more than once the Thieves find themselves only narrowly avoiding large boulders of stone crashing through the ceiling from somewhere higher in the castle.
"Oh my god! Oh my god! We're gonna die! We're so gonna die!" Ann shouts and she dodges another falling chunk of rock. Fear and adrenaline have taken over for the physical pain she's feeling from the battle and all she can think about is getting out of here alive.
"Gah!" Ryuji grunts as he falls to the ground.
"RYUJI!" Ann shouts. She stops running and hurries to his side followed closely by Akira.
"It's my knee…" he groans as he holds his right knee. Ann remembers that was the knee Kamoshida had hurt so many years ago when Ryuji had punched him. Akira grabs one of Ryuji's arms and hoists him to his feet and puts his arm around his shoulder.
"Ann! Help me," he orders as she grabs Ryuji's other arm and puts it around her shoulder. The Thieves walk as briskly as they can with Ryuji hobbling along between them as they hear the hallway collapsing behind them.
Seemingly miraculously they make it out of the castle and across the drawbridge as the ground shakes from the collapse of the entire building.
"Glad that wall collapsed," Ryuji says as they pass back into reality. "We might not have made it with that shortcut it made."
"Yes," Morgana pants behind them, now back to his cat form. "It was… very… convenient…"
"That… sucked…" Ann says as she leans against the wall and slumps to the hot ground of the alley. Ryuji is lowered to the ground next to her by Akira as he pulls out his phone.
"Hey, look at the nav!" Ryuji says showing them his screen.
Destination deleted…
"So, it's true…" Ann says. "We really can't go there anymore…"
"Hey…" Morgana pants, still unable to stand on all fours. "What about… the treasure?"
"Akira reaches into his back pocket and pulls out a shiny gold Olympic medal.
"What the…" Ryuji says looking up at it. "That's not a crown."
"What's going on…" Ann says with worry in her voice. "Did we not get it?"
"No, we got it," Morgana explains. "That crown was the shadow version of what drives Kamoshida's desires. So, the reality form of it, is this medal it seems."
"So that perv kept clinging to his past glory and couldn't let it go…" Ryuji says in understanding.
"But this still means Kamoshida's heart might have changed right?" Ann asks.
"Probably," Morgana replies as he finally stands to his feet.
"Our expulsions on the line here!" Ryuji shouts.
"We always knew this was a long shot," Akira says. "Now we have to wait and see if it worked."
"Right, and there's no doubt this has effected Kamoshida's personality by quite a lot. The palace is gone after all," Morgana says.
"So, there's no way to check now?" Ryuji asks.
"We'll know soon enough…" Akira replies as he slips his glasses back on his face.
"We'll just have to wait and see Kamoshida's next move…" Ann sighs.
"C'mon, why the gloomy faces?" Morgana says. "Be happy! We completed this with great success, you know."
"Something like that," Ryuji says as he gingerly massages his knee. "We don't know if everything's OK yet."
"I'm pretty sure it'll be fine," Morgana chirps. "Remember how Kamoshida's shadow said that he's returning to his self in reality? Suguru Kamoshida was a scum."
"Is," Ann adds.
"Is a scum. Still… He did seem to regain his conscience somewhat at the end."
"It seemed so. Doesn't excuse what he did though," Akira replies.
"Agreed. There are definitely those who have been saved thanks to what you've done."
"Yeah," Ann says with a smile as she tilts her head back to look at the orange sky.
"Guess we gotta wait," Ryuji says looking at Akira. "Find out if we're getting expelled or not…" Akira nods in agreement.
"C'mon, lets go get some ramen or something. I think I owe you guys an explanation for the multiple personas power," Akira says with a slight smile.
"You know how you can do it?" Ann asks in astonishment.
"I think so. C'mon I'll tell you all over dinner."