Persona 5: tmdrago version 2.0
By Tayla Drago
Episode #2 - Igor, Caroline, and Justine
Year 20xx
Day #1 – April 4/9th Saturday
With Keiko leaving the train station to arrive in Tokyo to find someone who would take care of her 'even after having one type of criminal record', to not look so bad for a person to be as shy, pretty, smart, and caring person from the looks of it. Trying to find a person name Sojiro Sakura who knows of her parents as a new person in the area to start off the rest of her school year in a different area until she was free to go back to her other school again. Walking around the streets of Yongen-Jaya - Backstreets to have some areas to not be so big to drive in, Keiko sees an apartment house to try to call out to this Sojiro person to move into her new home.
Keiko: (This must be the place...Sojiro Sakura is the man I need to find and this where he lives, in some weird area.)
She calls out to the man.
Keiko: Hello! Anybody home? Sojiro?
Keiko doesn't hear anyone to seeing the man to try ringing the door bell instead to still get nothing, for her not to give up searching for this man to have a look around the area some more. This girl was the type to know things to try something else out to put her mind into it as a caring a gifted type of woman she was.
Keiko: Ah... (I guess I should go somewhere else to find Sojiro. He said two places he goes from home and work.)
So she looks around the other areas some more to ask a delivery person to give Keiko some directions to where Sojiro works at...It was a coffee place called, Cafe Leblanc. Entering inside to see the man Keiko's looking for with two elderly costumers who were just enjoying their coffee together in a booth to be sitting down in. With them seeing and got a little sad about some strange accident happened to some of the people on a train on TV and Sojiro was solving a crossword puzzle on the newspaper to come across Keiko herself.
Keiko: (So he must be Sojiro Sakura.) Hello there, Mr. Sakura sir. It's me, Keiko Amamiya, the girl who was suppose to arrive here today.
Inside, the only customers are fixated on the television.
Tabloid Show Host: [A public transit bus was driven down on opposing lane with its customers still in it! The citizens can't live in peace if this keeps up.]
Elderly Man: How frightening.
Elderly Woman: What could be going on? Didn't something similar happen just the other day?
He stops doing the crossword puzzle to have a look at Keiko to feel a bit pushy in the way he talks to her with many reasons why.
Sojiro: Vertical is...the name of a shellfish used for farming pearls...
He stops to be seeing Keiko's arrival.
Keiko: Ah, hi...
Sojiro: ...Oh, right. They did say that was today.
Once the two elderly couples left to leave the money and say their goodbyes to Sojiro to like coming around and away from the streets from the accidents for Sojiro to show his feelings of a kinder person around his costumers.
Elderly Man: We'll be going now. The payment's on the table.
Sojiro: Thanks for coming.
Elderly Man: This place is in the back alley, so there's no worries of a car crashing in here.
Sojiro: A what now?
Elderly Man: There's been a string of those rampage accidents, you know. I just hope none of them happen around here.
Sojiro: It's none of my concern.
Elderly Man: Haha, we'll see you next time. Well, see you next time.
Elderly Woman. Stay safe in this place please.
Once they leave, it was him and Keiko left at the cafe place alone.
Sojiro: ...Four hours just to get a cup of joe. So, you're Keiko.
Keiko was kind to bow down to Sojiro to saying her thanks and such.
Keiko: Yes, its me, and you're Sojiro Sakura. Please to meet you and please take care of me.
He allows her kindness to still keep his eyes on her just in case.
Sojiro: ...Yeah, likewise. I'm Sojiro Sakura. You'll be in my custody over the next year. I was wondering what kind of unruly girl would show up, but you're the one, huh? Have you been told? A costumer of mine and your parents know each other and-Well, not that it matters...Follow me.
Sojiro then leaves Keiko upstairs of the place to show her a room she'll be sleeping in to have a bed room type of acetic.
Keiko: Yes, sir.
Sojiro: Here we go.
Going upstairs to see the room to look...Ah, well a bit dusty with her other things brought over from truck to unpack her things.
Keiko: Dusty...
This causes Keiko to cover he mouth and nose to hate the many dusts all over the place.
Sojiro: This is your room. Sorry about this place being a bit...dusty. I'll at least give you sheets for your bed.
A nice thing for him to do for Keiko.
Keiko: Ah, um...Thank you...
He hears Keiko who was too shy to say something to Sojiro to hear her again to repeat it.
Sojiro: You look like you wanna say something.
Keiko: Oh! I just said thank you, Mr. Sakura! And this room...It's big.
Sojiro: It is what it is. It's on you to clean up the rest. I'll be leaving after I lock up each day. You'll be alone at night, but don't do anything stupid. I'll have no choice but to throw you out if you cause any trouble.
So it's settled...to say the least.
Keiko: Of course!
And then Sojiro tells Keiko that he knows some parts about the girl.
Sojiro: I got the gist of your situation. You protected some woman from a man forcing himself on her, he got injured, then sued you. Right? That's what you get for sticking your nose in a matter between two adults. You did injure him, yeah? ...And now that you've got a criminal record from it, you were expelled from your other high school. The courts order you to transfer and move out here, which your parents also approved. In other words, they got rid of you for being a pain in the ass. It's best you, Keiko, to not talk about anything unnecessary. I am in the restaurant business, you know. Behave yourself for the year. If nothing happens, your probation will be lifted.
Keiko has to get through the year for her probation to be lifted if she's good.
Keiko: A whole year, huh? I guess I have to make it through until its done.
Sojiro: That's how the law systems work now a days. Your sentence lasts until next Spring, right? That's why you're gonna be here for the coming year. Cause any problems, and you'll be sent straight to juvie. We'll be going to Shujin tomorrow.
Must be a place for Keiko to start off her new high school life.
Keiko: Shujin?
So he explains to Keiko next...
Sojiro: Shujin Academy – the school you'll be attending, young lady. We'll introduce ourselves properly to the staff there. There's rarely a place to accept someone like you, you know. What a waste of my Sunday...
Keiko: Okay then.
Next Sojiro points out the things for Keiko to unpack when she has the chance to do it.
Sojiro: Your "luggage" arrived earlier; I left them over there.
Once Sojiro left back down stairs for any costumers to arrive, Keiko has a look around her new room. From changing into her new clothes, unpacking some of her things to take out, to also seeing lots of dust which needed to be taken care of right away.
Keiko: Filthy... (Looks like I better tidy up the place before I get sick from the dust-like air all over the room.
She gets to work from dusting, mopping, brooming, throwing old trash out, leaving the window open for some fresh out for a bit, putting other things away, and making her new bed to be working all evening long until it turns to night time so fast without her knowing about it.
Keiko: Just like home... (And look how late it work out to get it all done in one day since I moved in, how time flies.)
Next, Sojiro comes back up stairs to check how Keiko was doing since earlier the past evening to do well cleaning up the place.
Sojiro: Not bad, Keiko, nice way to keep the place looking good. Try to clean it up once in a while. I'm going home so get some rest for tomorrow, don't stay up too late.
Keiko: Of course, Mr. Sakura.
Sojiro: Just one question...
Keiko: Yes?
He looks at Keiko to ask her something a bit off to never do what some teenagers do a lot now a days.
Sojiro: Keiko, answer me this question...You're not one of those women who does lots of sex with a lot of men, are you? Or drugs? Alcohol?
Keiko: Huh? No. No! I would never! Just because I have glasses, look smart and cute, with long silky hair, with good taste in clothing, that doesn't mean I'm a dirty school girl, or one of those pros-
He gets the point to make Keiko stop saying the rest. For Keiko to look sweet and innocent to defend herself to never cross the line; and a out of nowhere question to make her face turn completely red.
Sojiro: OK! I get it, sorry! You're not a prostitute. I was just asking. You're good. Sorry. I can tell you're clean on those type of things only.
Keiko: It's okay. (A question straight out of nowhere! I'm not a whore.)
This girl doesn't like to be called a whore. Sojiro then goes back downstairs to close shop and leave to return back home.
Sojiro: Good night then, Keiko.
And it was now bed time for Keiko to get settle in to lying down on her new clean bed to rethink about her past from the trial thing she went through to getting herself arrested in the first place.
Keiko: Arrest...Trial...Criminal record...Still, I couldn't just let it go...
She recalls the man she stopped to save a woman, for him to sue her, and then gets arrested by two officers.
Keiko: That day…I had to go home early...
So here we are, in Keiko's "Hometown Neighborhood." An altercation is audible in the distance. As she soon hear someone calling for help. It was then she remembers from that day on, when Keiko was walking back home from her school from doing something one late night...
Drunken Man: Just get in the car!
Woman: Stop it!
This has Keiko stop walking to go help out the woman instead to hear where her voice was coming from.
Keiko: (I can hear a man and a woman arguing in the distance...I think they're just up ahead...)
Keiko approaches at the scene of a drunken type of business type of man was dragging the woman into his car to rape her.
Woman: No!
Drunken Man: Don't give me that shit…
Keiko: (It looks like that drunk man is bothering that woman...)
Woman: Ow! P-Please, stop!
Keiko: I can't ignore this!
Moving up closer to do something about this mess and fast. Hearing voices of a woman getting grabbed by a drunk man for Keiko to pass by and sees this mess; as the cops were nearby driving for the man forces the woman to get into his car to tell Keiko to leave and she didn't, to know where the rest of the story goes from there afterwards.
Drunken Man: Tch...What a waste of time. You think you're worth causing me trouble? Huh?
Woman: I-I'll call the police!
Drunken Man: Heh, call them if you want! The police are my bitches. They're not gonna take you seriously.
Woman: No…Stop…!
Hearing a police car to be coming by...
Drunken Man: Someone called the cops, huh? Get in the car! Incompetent fools like you just need to shut their mouths and follow where I steer this country!
And then Keiko when she tries to help out the woman.
Keiko: Hey! Quit it!
Drunken Man: This ain't a show. Get lost, kid. See? This is all because you're so damn slow! Get in the car!
Still, Keiko had reasons why she did it to save someone, it was her thing to only get in to trouble because of it.
Keiko: (The mess up man hurt a woman to try to rape her and no one didn't do anything to help out. It was cruel. What I did was none of my business, that's true. But still, I couldn't just let it go...)
Coming back to the present time, for Keiko to get a ring tone from her cell phone to look at it. And what does she see? The logo eye symbol again to appear and didn't go away. Huh?
Keiko: Hm, it's the weird app that somehow ended up on my phone...The icon looks almost like an eye... (And I thought I deleted it...)
She gets it off of her phone again to start to feel tired.
Keiko: I feel sleepy...
And from there, Keiko falls fast asleep in her new bed to visit her new high school place before attended to it. Sleepy as she was, to soon wake up to be somewhere else that wasn't her new bedroom. Nope! Looking around to be a little dark, small, sees lots of chains, a toilet, wearing black and white stripes, and chains from her wrists too as it was all real and not a random dream.
Keiko: Huh? What...? What is this?
She was confused on how she got in to some other place while she was sleeping.
Keiko: Where am I? And these clothes...Why do I look like an escape prisoner but looking a bit sexier?!
Freaking out to think through this mess, Keiko stops to hear someone laughing on the other side to see...
?: *chuckle*
Two girls who are twins from same blue uniforms, same silver hairs to be hold up differently, and had eye patches on one side from the two as they stand next to Keiko's cell door to see what was going on. Trying to move a bit more to also be chained on her ankle to be slow to go anywhere else.
Keiko: (Twins? A prison cell? Chains? What's going on here...?)
She had to ask.
Keiko: Who's doing this to me? Who's there?
Keiko demands to know as she sees another person across from her with a desk and looked like a strange man with a weird grin and a long nose who knows of her, well...Keiko has a special gift she was born with to slowly be awakening.
?: Ms. Trickster...Welcome to my Velvet Room.
This is straight out of nowhere for someone to call Keiko by a weird nickname like "Trickster" or "Ms. Trickster" to not know who the strange man was talking about. And no matter what she tried to do, she couldn't get out of her jail cell.
Keiko: Excuse me? "Ms. Trickster?" But that's not who I am, I happen to have a name!
Like no one will listen to her, nor would the twins.
?: So you've come to, inmate.
?: The you in reality is currently fast asleep. You are only experiencing this as a dream.
From the calm one, to the tough one makes Keiko feel welcome to behaving in front of their master.
?: You're the presence of our Master! Stand up straight!
From the strange man was their master the two girls were preferring to.
Keiko: Master? You?
?: Welcome. I am delighted to make your acquaintances, my dear. This place exists between dream and reality, mind and matter. It is a room for only those who are bounded by a "contract" may enter.
Since when did this mess happened to Keiko?
Keiko: Contract? But I don't remember making any contract!
Then the man introduces himself to Keiko as Igor.
Igor: I am Igor, the master of this place. Remember it well, Keiko Amamiya, oh, yes. I know all about your real name. Not just a strong and caring girl who helps out others, but you are also born with a special gift you don't know of yet...I summoned you to speak of important matters. It involves your life as well.
And he wants for someone like Keiko to help out a strange being like Igor to drag a teenage girl into this mess?
Keiko: Important matters? (I know it sounds serious, but what does this have to do with me? I don't have any type of super powers.)
For Keiko to say that part, Igor explains the rest to her.
Igor: Still, this is a surprise...To summon a human like yourself with powers, a very special ones. The state of this room reflects the state of your own heart. To think a prison would appear as such. You truly are a "prison" of fate.
This catches Keiko's surprise to be put in this mess to not get out of now.
Keiko: Huh?
Igor: In the near future, there is no mistake that ruin awaits you.
Keiko: Ruin?
From ruin was more than a building type of place.
Igor: I speak of the end to everything. However, there is a means to oppose such a fate. You must be "rehabilitated". Rehabilitated toward freedom...That is your only means to avoid ruin...Do you have the resolve to challenge the distortion of the world?
A contract for Keiko to rehabilitate herself to work for someone like Igor won't be an easy task to take on.
Keiko: Wait, what? (What am I, some type of super hero?)
But wait, there's more for Igor to tell her the rest.
Igor: Allow me to obverse the path of your rehabilitation.
He also introduces Keiko to the twin girls.
Keiko: And the twins?
Igor: Ah, pardon me for not introducing the others. To your right, is Caroline; to your left, Justine. They serve as wardens here. And servant girls to...aid you on special needed things. Unless I can help out instead, just say the word.
Now Igor was being a bit freaky to joke around with Keiko to say 'no thank you' to him.
Keiko: Ah, no thank you! (Pervert.) I think these girls will be fine. But why dress me up like this?
Igor: I think it suits you quite well.
He smirks for Keiko to keep her chest covers at all times to not look at her like a creep. Next Caroline speaks up to Keiko.
Caroline: Hmph, try to struggle as hard as you like.
And then Justine talks to Keiko next.
Justine: The duty of wardens is to protect inmates. We are also your collaborates. That is, if you remain obedient.
Igor: I shall explain the roles of these two at another occasion.
He tells the two girls to stand down to step aside for their master to speak up.
Keiko: Justine and Caroline will watch over me...I'll take them.
And now, on to business.
Igor: Now then, it seems the night is waning...it is almost time. Take your time to slowly come to understanding this place, Ms. Trickster. You don't mind if I call you by that little nickname, right? And my girls to call you by "inmate" in a nice way?
Like Keiko has any other choice for the time being.
Keiko: As long its not "honey", then yes.
Igor: Good, good...Now I will put out for the next time we may talk to each other again, you're doing this for me since you didn't say no, you will also get one wish from me to you once your rehabilitation's over. More on the next part later, I promise. We will surely meet again, eventually...For now, get some beauty rest, Ms. Trickster.
What did Igor met if Keiko did something for him think over until they met again in person, what would the special wish be? From a strange item he lets Keiko keep...? For him to snap his fingers, the alarm goes off for Keiko to hear it all over the room.
Keiko: (A wish to give me anything I want if I do this...) Now what's happening?
Caroline: Time's up. Now hurry up and go back to sleep.
And just like that, Keiko won't forget from her dream to feel real in a different world she was in to go back to sleep afterwards. So if she took the job on for Igor for both Caroline and Justine to aid her to rehabilitate to a deal she never made until tonight, and what of the strange wish she wanted to hear if Keiko does the job? Weird...For the next day to start set up for high school will be something else to also be hearing news about people getting killed out of nowhere to still be going on once the sun rises on a brand new day on a Sunday in the month of April during the early Spring time of the season.