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Daiwa Roynet Hotel
Yokohama-Koen
Kiria and Futaba's Guestroom
10:55 PM
{Play Tokyo Mirage Sessions OST – Down Town}
Sakura Futaba sat on her bed while she was typing on her laptop. Her nightwear outfit consisted of a black shirt with "JLMK!" (Presumably "just let me know") over a white-and-black striped long sleeve shirt and the black short shorts. It's a good thing that she had packed her extra clothes and extra things (Including her laptop) in her bag before heading off to Uzume Lessons Studio.
The headsets girl took a sip of her drink while she was just about finished with cleaning up the Utaloid Software.
"Almost got it… Done! Finally!" Futaba said aloud.
The Orange haired girl shrugged, "Well to me, it felt like a long time." She laid down on her bed, leg's spread out, in relaxation and stared at the ceiling as she reaches for her cell-phone and started texting "Yoooo Tharja~! If you can hear me?"
"I can hear you just fine…"
"I've thought of something, the moment when I met you and Kiria-Sempai: How can you talk to others besides my Idol?"
"I could talk to anyone I please when that girl was around somebody."
"Oh cool, I always wondered about that. You know I was under the impression that you have to be a Persona User to talk to a Person's Mirage Partner," she smiled while texting.
"You dork. You didn't get the joke: I can't talk to any normal human, expected you kids… and, of course, the talking Cat-Doll, Barry, you're Mother figure Maiko and Tiki."
"I see…" Futaba taped on her phone's touchscreen to post a creative meme online. One of the things she's good at is posting memes on social media.
"So in retrospect, you could ditch her when she needs you to do Carnage Form? If I'm getting it wrong." The headsets girl narrowed her eyes while staring at the ceiling. Tharja chucked.
"Maybe. But for a faint nostalgic reason ever since Kiria and I link to become Partners, I never really consider it, plus Tiki would throw a fit at me."
"Nostalgic…? Interesting! So to sum it up: you're helping us, and Kiria, in hopes to uncover your lost memories?" Futaba looked at her replies to that meme she posted as well as favs and shares.
"Pretty much."
Futaba smiled, "Thank you for helping us."
Tharja responds with, "Whatever."
Futaba cheeked her watch and got up from her bed, and stretch. She walked to the bathroom door and knocked.
The headsets girl was surprised when her Idol got out of the bathroom after a ten-minute shower, her right hand held on to the white towel that wrapped around her smooth fair skinned body.
Futaba snapped out of her fantasy "Oh Kiria-San, did you just get done in there?"
"Yup. Did you need to use the bathroom?" Kiria ask.
"Me pfff… Nah. I just wanted to check up on you and possibly give you a back rub."
The sixteen-year-old raised her eyebrow, "A back rub?"
Futaba's eyes sparkled with excitement, "Yeah! So how about it?"
"I'll think about it." Kiria passed Futaba while she heads to her own bed.
Futaba's gazed followed her Idol with a pouting face, "Aww come on, I practice a lot on Mona-San and he thought I was pretty good at it. I won't be doing anything weird I promise."
Kiria sat down on her separate bed, and grab her mobile Phone to cheek her messages, "You did back rubs for Morgana?" The fifteen-year-old excitedly rushed up close, which startled the young Idol
"Yup! But I mostly learned massage-therapy from videos online."
Kiria's face was a little red as she put down her phone, "Wait! Is it even on the Maiko's list? I mean—have you finish with debugging that software?"
Futaba nodded excitement, she leaps to her bed to grab her laptop, and then she hops back down to Kiria's bed next to Kiria herself. Futaba turned on the screen and explained to her Idol about details regarding Project Utaloid software, including the tools she had to work with and add that she optimized the software and ironed out the additional bugs.
Kiria watched as her PA run a test via laptop screen with great interest.
"That's… pretty good. This would defiantly impress Maiko-San." Kiria smiled.
"I know," Futaba closed her laptop, "So about that back rub…?" her eyes sparkled once more as she clamps her hand together in a pleading look.
The young Idol frowned huffed, "Alright, I supposed it's only natural since we both work hard—but only a shoulder rub!" she warns, "A back rubs just rub me the wrong way; if you catch my drift?"
"Fair enough!" The headsets girl chirped.
*RING* *RING* *RING*
Suddenly Futaba's world had crashed down when Kiria's phone ring, casing the hacker groan in annoyance.
Kiria stood up, pick up her phone and answered, "Hello? Oh—hey Maiko-San!" Futaba laid herself backward on Kiria's bed at irritation.
"Yea, Futaba is here with me," Kiria said on her phone while pacing back and forth. "No, I'm not!" Futaba called out.
The sixteen-year-old Idol rolled her eyes, at her friend's comment, she resumed to her phone call "Speaker mode? Okay, hold on… alright, you're on!"
"Oh, goodie! Anyway, how are you gals are faring? I hope I didn't come at a bad time." The woman CEO laughed.
"Actually, your timing is excellent," Futaba said sarcastically actually stared bitterly at the ceiling while she laid down on her back.
Kiria faces deapen at her PA before she continued, "We've completed the mission from Tiki. And I just got out of the shower after Futaba."
Futaba pointed to the ceiling, "I should proudly add that I was going to give her a touch therapy after she was done."
The young Idol stopped and turn around to face her PA, "Don't mean a shoulder rub?" Kiria narrowed her eyes at her.
"Oops, my bad! I meant back rub," Futaba giggled at her Idol while she turned over to her prone gypsy-like posed on the bed. Kiria looked weird out at her PA's cute expression that says 'take me I'm yours'.
"I'm pretty sure that's not what I meant." Kiria tiredly corrected.
"Well in my mind you said back rub," The hacker licked her lips, "I don't see the big deal where both girls anyway, and you probably hang out with a lot of girls back then. Would you rather have some guy, who's probably a pervert, do it for you? And let's not forget about the current climate." Futaba smiled.
Kiria rolled her eyes, not really comfortable in talking about her time at elementary school, at a young age, with her personal assistant. As for the current social climate; almost being killed by those 'zombie' men a while ago, made her a little bit cautious with her surroundings however those guys are just following Coco's orders and he is gone now. Still, Futaba and friends are probably the only ones that she can trust right now, "Well you made a fair point—"
Maiko giggled as well through the phone line, which Kiria facepalmed at remembering that she & Futaba are still on the line "Well it's good to know that you gals are having a fun time."
"Yea, we did have fun though, I did have to see Rise," Kiria said.
Kiria & Futaba had talked to Maiko via Phone speaker, they had informed their boss that they have completed the rescue mission and meet a new Mirage. When hearing about the new Mirage Maiko intently thought it would be Futaba, which Futaba herself denied. Kiria described the Mirage Ninian and Fae to be females and their appearances are humanlike, like Tiki.
Maiko took the information with great intrigue and congratulated on a job well done. Futaba took this opportunity, before she forgets, that she had completed her work with the Utaliod Software and explained her boss the details. Maiko was thrilled after hearing the news and said that 'once you get back to Fortuna I'm going to give one big hug' which to Futaba, grossly translated different meanings, bosom smothering.
"I'm glad you gals are doing well for yourselves as I got some news. As you gals know 'Shadow Whisper' has been a huge hit in the entertainment world and for Fortuna."
"That's good to know, so what about it?" Kiria asked.
"I got word from our new sponsors that you're going to performed live on stage, next week~!"
Both girls were surprised at the news, while Kiria kept her cool Futaba jumped out of the bed, star struck. They both knew it was only a matter of time but they did not think it would be so soon next week. Lucky Kiria had been preparing for this shortly after her song debuted.
"M-Maiko-San since I'm her Personal Assistant, can I tag along!?"
"Well, it's not up to me sweaty, but you can ask Kiria."
"OH, um, I'm pretty okay with her tagging along actually," Kiria said.
"OMG, OMG, OMG! She's actually singing in front of a live audience, and I'll be one of the first to watch her sing! This is totally VLOG worthy!" Futaba was in 100% fangirl mode.
Both girls confused to talk to their boss on the phone speaker, about other stuff they been in Yokohama with Barry and made mention about the new Mirage allies and their comrades that went with them at the Idolaspear. Futaba lamely asked that Barry had plans in visiting the Premier of Movie starring a short blond haired actress, Maiko replied, "It sure sounds like Barry…"
"Yeah, he's currently in the hot tub," Futaba rolled her eyes and smiled, "But who cares KIRIA Live, for the world!"
"Well, I couldn't agree more. Which reminds me; how was your dance training with Barry?"
"Hmm, let see," Futaba counted a number of things she done in her first training session with her fingers, "It was okay but to me, it was pretty passive, he had me mimic the things on the dance video, Barry taught me how the strike an Anime pose and um… that about it! Oh, there's this Star Gazer techniques, that Barry wanted me to learn, I initially had trouble with but I nailed it!"
"Wonderful news~ my dear Futaba-Chan growing up to be a star like Kiria."
"Well..."
"Aww still not sure about becoming an Idol I see~"
Futaba's face flushed red, "I-I'll do anything for Kiria-Sempai and maybe this whole Idol thing wouldn't be all that embarrassing for me." She twiddled her fingers.
"Something I can relate to…" Kiria muttered, she had hope that she doesn't have to wear a cutesy costume for the job but so far Maiko hasn't done anything to make her uncomfortable.
Maiko laughed, "No worries, dear! When the time comes I wouldn't make you do anything embarrassing, you're my special little girl after all! But I'll have to make some arrangements that I believe would suit your appearance and Persona, no pun intended! BUT it you not so sure about things then you can always ask me for input, dearly."
"Well that's some great news," Futaba laughed heartily, "I-It's not like I don't want to become an Idol of fashion and dancing I… just," her face was red like a tomato, "can't sing."
"Oh, dear. Is that all?"
"Yeeeaaa other than that I'm modernly okay on what you want me to wear for the media both, excluding a mascot dog costume…"
"Well that's all fine and dandy then~ you're truly growing up really fast! If there's any problem you can always ask me and I'll see what I can do, just wanted to make you feel happy."
Futaba had no way of responding to that, "Um, thank you Maiko-San."
Kiria and Futaba had finished up their chat with their boss before saying goodbyes. Kiria took a big sigh after talking to their boss.
"Alright, now I'm going to put on my clothes for the night," Kiria said.
"I believe that your friend wanted to do massage on your back first?"
The young Idol's eyes widen, "T-Tharja!"
"That's right, there's no backing out on it now!" Futaba grin, "You're going to need all the support you get before your big show!"
"Whelp you heard her, hop to it," Tharja chuckled.
"I'm not going near the end of it aren't I?" Kiria asked tiredly,
"Don't worry though I'll be sure to walk her through it," Her Mirage Partner chucked once more.
"Alright fine, back rub it is." She said sitting back down on her bed.
"Coming right up!" In truth, Futaba wanted to find a good enough excused to touch her Idol's fair glowing skin and bragged about it in her Secret Diary. A desire that is to consider to be too taboo for a normal teenaged school girl but then again she does not have a standard personality nor go to school.
The sixteen-year-old Kiria would have to admit after their rescue mission Futaba must have been taking notes of her aching muscles when they chatting with Rise, and the two Humanlike Mirage Fae and Ninian. Perhaps she's pushing herself a little too hard during that demon battle and Futaba just wanted to make sure that she's well-taking care of.
The girl's thoughts were interrupted when Futaba's phone ring.
"AAHH! You got to be kidding me!?" The hacker thought, she rushed to her phone, which she laid it on her own bed, to see Makoto calling her.
"That she-devil! I got to take this I'm so sorry!"
"No problem take your time," Kiria smiled as she turned on the T.V with a remote. Futaba spent two minutes of chatting with her friend on the phone about how's her and Kiria have been fairing.
"Okay it was Makoto that called me; she just wants to check up on us, and that she's going to call us again during the morning, of course…"
"Well what are we going to do?" the young Idol smiled, "Well I'm ready when you are."
The hacker blinked, "Oh right, the therapy! First I want to come to your hair first, I forgot to mention that!"
"Well, you did say to Mako-Chan that you were going to do that anyway," Kiria laughed.
"Yeah," Futaba laughed as well, as she dug into her bag for her come brush, "Your hair is pretty damped so I rather want to brush it and after that, I'll start massaging your shoulders."
Kiria nodded to her PA as she was fumbling for her hairbrush.
…
{Switch to F-Zero GX OST – Sand Ocean}
Meanwhile somewhere in the Metaverse
Unkown Dance-party Battle Arena
"Don't let them escape!" The two Mirage Paladin charge at the two humans.
Yashiro and Mirai avoided the charge attack from the Paladin Horse Mirage, both of them are in their Carnage Form uniform.
Mirai, the former Japanese Military officer, rushed towards the Hostile Mirage. The said Hotile did the same but it wasn't quick enough to attack the human adult female as she leaped into the air. Miriai raised her sword/katana in the air then she slashed her weapon sidewise, creating an energy wave that targeted the Mirage and neutralized the hostile in a matter of secants.
Yashiro was busy dealing with this other Mirage Paladin, avoiding the Mirage Paladin mad bull charge until it got annoyed and tried to use a fireball attack. Yashiro blocked the attack with is a sword and bounce it back to the Paladin.
The fourteen-year-old boy scoffed at their inability to put up a decent fight, it seems like every time he and Navarre had fought these things they become weaker.
{Switch to The 3rd Birthday OST - Insanity of the Enrage}
"Not bad. But can you survive the onslaught of Ayaha's Defile Golems!?" the male voice shouted through the mic.
The two Mirage Masters looked up to see two Large Mirage Golems descended from the air, from a dark portal. Miria and Yashiro took note of their Grima insignia on their purple metallic chest; the Golems seem to be a dark variant of the standard Mirage Golem, their round helmets have bull-like horns, skull-like shoulder guards on their right side, wielding a long large clever.
The eyes in their helmets flashed red as they attacked the pair but Yashiro and Mirai dogged their sword swing attacks without breaking a sweat, for now.
A man wearing a street puck outfit with a rock & Roll rainbow mullet and sunglasses watch the fight above his lookout with a hint of uncertainty.
"God dang it, man! How are they doing this, I shouldn't be surprised but come on, those are Ayaha's strongest grunts! What a bunch of slowpokes." Otto said nervously.
"Why hello there, did you miss me~?"
Otto's blood turned cold, he turned around to see that women Moza, the leader of the Mirage Mercenaries foot collided with his face. He spun over, like a top, until he fell on the control panel, and his sunglasses fell on the floor.
The vixen Moza watch with glee in her eyes and bloodlust as she watched him struggle to get up, she still wore that pink strapless nightdress. The tan hired woman moved in closed to grab Otto by the neck and lifted him up with one hand, "I got to hand it to you," she spoke with a hint of venom in her tone, "You were clever in springing up that trap did on us too bad you failed."
"W-wait, you don't have to do this, I can be useful!" the man struggled. Moza cute yet dark demeanor tilted her head slightly.
"I have to go all this trouble by visiting my old friend in order to know the location of your whereabouts and she's sweet-natured apart from my own. You being a former Idol photographer. Now then… who's set you up for this?"
"I-I can't tell you, or he'll kill me!" Moza tightens her grip.
"What makes you think I want?" She said.
"ACK! Okay, okay, I'll tell you, it's the Opera of Chaos!" Moza rolled her eyes at this.
"Well it's no secret that you've have been a member but I want to know—"Moza trailed off when she saw the man's eye's turned white.
Mirage Master Mirai and Yashiro finished off the one remaining Grima Golem with one sword strike. The said Golem fell to its knees and collapsed on the group, the monster then burned into nothing.
{Stop to The 3rd Birthday OST - Insanity of the Enrage}
Yashiro sighed in relief after the battle as his battle uniform changed back to his black suit and tie, "Well… that was fun."
The black-haired woman's uniform change back to her casual wears: a white tank-top, military pants, and boots. She had her jacket wrap around her waist.
"I fought better demons then them," Mirai dismissed, she then hared a sound of broken glass for above and looked up to see a body of a man plummeting to the ground.
Yashiro saw the broken form of a stranger with a stunned look.
Lyn appeared beside her human partner Mirai with a stunned look: Mirage appeared to be humanoid female with waist length dark green hair tied to a ponytail, her eyes are covered in a pale white metal visior plating with light green trimmings, and she wore a blue Asian inspired dress that reveals her legs, forearm armor matches the color of her white pale skin. Lyn's figure seems to have a figure that rivals Camilla.
Moza descended down to meet with her group, she coughed in one hand to get their full attention.
"Wh-what happen?" Mirage Lyn spoke up.
Moza gave an apologetic smile, "I'm so sorry, but I had to. He was turning into one of Grima's little puppets."
Yashiro raised a brow, "Who's Grima?" he inquired
Moza shrugged, "Beats me, he was chanting 'Long Live, Grima' must have been some God I keep hearing about."
"Grima…" Lyn said thinking out loud, "That name sounded familiar, I don't know why that is?" Mirai looked at her Mirage Partner with interest.
"You okay Lyn?" Mirai asked. Lyn looked at her partner and nodded, "I'm fine, just a little bit nostalgic."
Mirai looked back at Moza, "So all and all, it was some 'God' that set us up?" Moza nodded.
"Yes and this Ayaha, whoever she is..."
"Ayaha," Yashiro spoke as he pondered this caught both Mirai and Moza's attention, "Humph! You know about this person, kid?" Mirai inquired.
"My Father was with a young actress that goes by that name but it could just be anyone."
"True, true," Moza agreed to her former master. Her nanny position for Yashiro had been expired due to her being an alcoholic by the federal. It disappoints her but it lest she can still be with Yashiro and her comrades. Moza had also planned to open up a successful dinner restaurants at Tokyo, that way earn lots of cash and maybe Maiko and her two adorable young ladies could swing for a visit.
"Hmmm~ We can all stay and ponder but unfortunately we can't afford to stay here any longer, this is a trap house after all," Moza said.
"Yea let's get out of here," Mirai looked at the dead man and slightly shivered, "I've been in the war before and I don't want to be any wear near dead corps!" She and Lyn walked away followed by Yashiro and Moza.
After the trio was gone, the Shadows moved in on the dead man corps.
A/N: I've mention in the last chapter about what goes up in this chapter however unfortunately I decided to end the chapter here (But Futaba will meet Tiki in person!), this I think will serve as a prologue to the next ARC called 'The Blood Hurricane'. The sence with Kiria and Futaba in their Hotel room is meant to add some humor and to PROBABLY add some Kiria x Futaba fluff.
Main Characters:
Kiria Kurono (age 16)
Futaba Sakura
Akria Kurusu (P5 Hero)
Ann Takamiki
Yusuke Kitagawa
Makoto Niijima
Haru Okumura
Ryuji Sakamoto
Morgana
Major Side Characters:
Tsubasa Oribe (age 12)
Sojiro Sakura
Barry Goodman
Maiko Shimazaki
Yashiro Tsurugi (age 14)
Caroline and Justine
Martha Yumizuru (age 17)
Eleonora Yumizuru (age 11)
Moza Yuzu
Sae Niijima
Kamui Soto (age 16)
Goro Akechi
Tiki
Cameo Characters:
Rise Kujikawa
Kanami Mashita
Support/Allies Mirage Characters based on Fire Emblem:
Tharja
Draug
Tiki
Fae
Ninian
Navarre
Camilla
Friendly Mirage Characters:
Directer (Dark Shaman)
India Jewels (Casper)
DJ Willie (Casper)
Catherine (Zhu Sister)
Internet Troll (Troll)
Rachel (Zhu Sister)
Mr. Pickles! (Nicklewise)
King aka M-DEUS (Top-Hat Casper)
Villain Mirage Characters base on Fire Emblem
Pheros
Aversa
Gharnef
Michalis
Grima
Empress Veronica (Mention)
Notable Not-So Friendly Mirage Characters/enemy's:
Catherine (Zhu Sister)
The Blob Army
Defile Golems
Mirage Risen
Red and Blue Phantoms
Defile Knights
Defile Ironclad Myrmidon
Defile Stray Sheep
Spiral-Drill-Beak (Drafted)
This Story Main Antagonist:
Ayaha Oribe (Possessed by Aversa & Grima. Her Persona: Beelzebub, he's appears as a thrown.)
Grima