Hey guys Flipkicks here and today I bring you all is an update for "A Bleached Persona", thank you guys for checking out the story and what you all thought of the previous chapter.
Some new characters have been added to Ichigo's Social Link and there will be some Bleach characters getting involved in this story and some new characters from P5 Scramble and Royal. Which Bleach character would fit as part of Ichigo's Social Link?
0. Fool: Yu Narukami, Akira Kurusu
I. Magician: Yosuke Hanamura, Morgana, Junpei Iori
II. Priestess: Yukiko Amagi, Fuuka Yamagishi
III. Empress: Mitsuru Kirijo, Makoto Niijima
IV. Emperor: Kanji Tatsumi, Akihiko Sanada
V. Hierophant: Ryotato Dojima, Sojiro Sakura
VI. Lovers: Yukari Takeba, Rise Kujikawa, Orihime Inoue
VII. Chariot: Chie Satonaka, Ryuji Sakamoto
VIII. Justice: Nanako Dojima, Yuzu and Karin Kurosaki
IX. Hermit: Futaba Sakura, Futaba Sakura
X. Fortune: Naoto Shirogane, Ann Takamaki
XI. Strength: Koromaru, Tatsuki Arisawa
XII. Hanged Man: Yusuke Kitagawa
XIII. Death: Kira Yagami (Female Protagonist)
XIV. Temperance: Sadayo Kawakami
XV. Devil: Goro Akechi
XVI. Tower: Jessie Rasberry (New)
XVII. Star: Teddie
XVIII. Moon: Haru Okumura
XIX. Sun: Akane Hasegawa
XX. Judgment: Sae Niijima
XXI. Aeon: Aigis, Marie
XXII. Faith: Velvet Room Siblings
XXIII. The World.
Storming the Castle
Part 1
Shujin Academy/Castle
Everything around the group started to change and the once 'proud' school of Shujin Academy changes into a classic medieval castle. Yukari, Narukami, and Kira couldn't believe that the school did indeed change into the castle that Akira mentioned. Once they turned to Akira, they were all surprised to see him in a completely different outfit.
"What's with the getup?" Akihiko asks Akira.
"Oh, apparently the monster cat we met says that this is my rebellion will," Akira stated to one of his seniors, "Still learning about this too."
"Let's go find this 'monster cat'," Mitsuru stated to the others as they all began to walk towards the bridge.
"By the way, where's Junpei?" Yukari asks Mitsuru.
"I have him checking out this TV world Narukami mentioned along with Ikutsuki-san," Mitsuru answers her friend. "Kurusu-kun, this is the castle you and Sakamoto-kun were at yesterday?" Akira and Ryuji both nod their heads to her question.
"Still, to think that this is the castle of Kamoshida-sensei..." Yukari is still baffled that this belongs to the mind of one of their teachers.
"He's still a piece of shit asshole," Ryuji says in an irritated tone. "You guys should know how he is towards most of the male student body while being a creepy prev with the female body." They all begin to realize from their past interactions with Kamoshida that he is indeed a real creepy guy.
'Guess my hunch on him was right with that everyone's expression is, besides Narukami, Yagami, and Kurusu's.' Ichigo says to himself but as he begins to hear what everyone else's experience with him, Ichigo's outfit begins to change, instead of his student uniform, it changed into that of a phantom thief. his outfit consists of a black leather jacket with a hood, a high-necked waistcoat with gold accents, black jogger-style pants, brown-black winklepickers, and a pair of grey gloves. His mask once had a series of thick red stripes which covered almost the entire left half of his mask, there are now only two thick vertical black stripes, each on one half of the mask, which is interrupted by the widened eye-holes and the jaw.
"Yo dude!" Ryuji notices Ichigo's outfit and everyone was surprised to see him.
"So Kamoshida sees Kurosaki-senpai as a threat?" Akira cups his chin.
"I don't even know how I became a threat to him." Ichigo says as he lifts the hood and the mask, "Guess my appearance made him uneased."
"We'll discuss this later, let's go," Mitsuru stated to them as they were about to enter through the main door until they saw a creature of black and white.
"What are you guys doing here?" The little cat-looking creature asks them and recognizes both Ryuji and Akira. "Wait who're you guys?" The cat asks the group, "And you're all Persona-users?" The cat could sense that they all have Personas.
"And you must be the monster cat," Akihiko says as he cracks his knuckles, to which the cat shakes his head as he could tell that he was looking for a fight.
"Wait a minute!" The cat wasn't looking for a fight, "You can relax there mister!"
"What's your name?" Mitsuru asks the cat.
"My name's Morgana and I help those two get out of here! Who're you guys? Morgana asks them.
"My name is Mitsuru Kirijo, I'm the field leader of SEES."
"SEES?"
"Long story short, we exterminate Shadows during the Dark Hour and now we find out there are two places of interest." The pipped Morgana's interest, "If you can help us understand this place and how it might be connected."
"There are two other places?" Morgana raises an eyebrow (sort of).
"There's a place in the TV and this Dark Hour that Kirijo-senpai mentioned." Narukami answers the cat, "That's where I unlocked my Persona Izanagi." His persona semi-manifests behind him.
"Interesting..." Morgana rubs his chin, "Well, we'll discuss it later but if you guys insist on being here, help me find this palaces treasure."
"Treasure?"
"It's what causing this place to exist. A distorted desire."
"So there is an item that caused Kamoshida-sensei to have this palace?" Mitsuru asks Morgana, who nods his head, "And because of this treasure or item that Kamoshida-sensei has warped his views."
"That's the idea." Morgana confirms Mitsuru's theory, "Some real-world item that Kamoshida has warped his views on the world around him, causing this distorted palace to form. Any idea what Kamoshida was or has?"
"Well, Kamoshida-sensei was a former Olympic athlete that won a gold medal." Akihiko started.
"And did that make him have distorted desire?" Yukari asks.
"Only one way to find out." Morgana pointed to the broken vent that was previously opened by them, "Let's explore this place to get a better understanding." He went into the vent and the rest started to follow the cat. One by one, each of them got out of the vent, and they all saw the grand hallway.
"Huh..." Are all the students who know Kamoshida.
"To think he has a grand hallway...what an ass." Ichigo snarked by seeing a statue and a large painting in the back of Kamoshida.
"The Shadows are coming!" Morgana senses them approaching, "Quick through that door." They follow the doorway that leads back to the prison area.
"So this was the prison you both were?" Yukari asks them both as they nod their heads.
"Yeah, that piece of crap locked us here." Ryuji responds, "We didn't even know we were in this place in the first place. We thought the school had changed and everyone was in some knight-themed costume but next thing we knew, we were here in these cells."
"What about you Morgana?" Yukari asks the cat, "How did you get locked up here?"
The cat places his paw on his chin, trying to remember how he got here, "Hmmm..." He rubs his chin, "Honestly...I don't know." That surprised everyone, "I don't remember how I got here. The last thing I recall was finding myself here and next thing I knew, I was locked up here by those guards."
"So you don't have memories?" Yu recalls meeting Teddie on the TV, wondering if these two are connected.
"Yeah, as I said, I found myself here," Morgana says as he leads the large group around the prison area.
"Seems that there aren't much of Shadows here." Kira looks around and there aren't many Shadows here.
"My guess it has to deal with Kamoshida's Shadow being somewhere else." Ryuji speaks up, "When Kamoshida was here, there was a crap ton of them." Ryuji looks at one of the cells and notices one of the faces, "Wait a minute..."
"What's up?" They turn to Ryuji.
"I know this guy!" Ryuji notices that each of these students that are locked up, "These guys are part of the Volleyball team!" He pointed to one of them cowering in the left corner, "That's Kaito Itadori, Class 2-D! And that guy is Natsu Hayabusa Class 2-C!" Each of the members would take a glance at the cell to see that Ryuji is right. Two of these students are part of the Volleyball team and are Kamoshida's main boys."
"So the rumors are true." Akihiko takes a glance and notices that each of them has bruises and bumps on their body, "To think Kamoshida would do something like this..."
"Wait you knew about it Sanda-senpai?!" Ryuji asks the white-haired 3rd year, "Why couldn't you get his ass fired?! Hell, you too Kirijo-senpai, why couldn't you get that perv fired and arrested!?"
Mitsuru walks up to the blonde-haired teen and gives him a cold stare, "Even with my group supporting Shujin, we only have a small amount of power compared to the actual large donor of the school. Kamoshida is on someone else's payroll and got their protection. If my family has that same power, we would have fired him once we gained enough evidence."
"What if we can find the truth here?" Narukami steps in, "If this is how he sees himself as the King of this Castle, there has to be some truths and evidence that we can use."
"We got one of the truths with these volleyball players are getting hurt but we're gonna need more proof." Kira added, "Let's continue on exp-"
"Who's there!?" They turn around to see a couple of Shadow Knights behind them, "Intruders!"
"Crap!" Ryuji shouted, "Thought we were in the clear?!"
"Guess not!" Kira takes out her Evoker and points it to the side of her head.
"Don't off your-"
"Persona!" Kira 'shoots' herself and her Persona, Orpheus, manifests behind her, and Ryuji's mouth hit the floor that she too has a Persona along with Morgana, who didn't think she has this one. "Agi!" With a flick of her fingers on her harp, Orpheus unleashed a fire-based attack on one of the shadows, setting it on fire.
"Izanagi!" Narukami crushes his tarot card and his Persona appears behind him, shocking again both Ryuji and Morgana in the process, "Zio!" His Persona gathers a small cluster of electricity in its left hand, tossing it into the shadows.
"Penthesilea!" Mitsuru uses her Evoker and 'shoots' herself at the side of her head and her Persona appears. "Execute them!" She points her Rapier at the remaining Shadows and her Persona freezes them all in their place.
"Holy crap dude!" Ryuji couldn't believe that they all have Personas like Akira.
"This is crazy!" Morgana couldn't believe it as well.
"Let's continue." Mitsuru commanded them, "Morgana if you be so kind to lead."
"Yes Ma'am!" Morgana saluted as he is afraid of the Empress. 'She's gorgeous as she is deadly!' He could tell that the way each of their Personas has all seen combat with Mitsuru's being the one that stands out the most but the one he's anticipating is Ichigo's Persona as he could feel that there's a monster in him.
"So these guys been getting abused by Kamoshida?" They turn around to see Ichigo looking through each cell.
"They have to be." Ryuji speaks up, "There's always rumors and some evidence that Kamoshida beats the living hell out of these guys through rigorous training sessions." They all get a closer look at each of these 'people' and could see that they're all bandaged up, bruised, and battered.
"So he's brutal on the Volleyball team? Any other information that we can try to find out?" Ichigo asks the group.
"That he's a pedophile." Again, Ryuji blurted out and everyone was surprised to hear, "Dudes been hitting on 1st years and 2nd-year students that catches his eye. Hell, I remember him trying to hit on you Kirijo-senpai." Akihiko and the others couldn't believe hearing that from Ryuji. "I'm sure you didn't take that likely."
"Of course, I didn't." Mitsuru spoke up, "My father had heard of this and luckily, Kamoshida hasn't come near me about that ever since."
Ichigo looks out the corner of his eye and sees a preying Shadow about to strike at them. He takes out his Evoker and points it to the right side of his head, "Get him." He whispers as he 'shots' himself, bringing out Tensa Zangetsu, and the Persona/Zanpakuto Spirit charges at the Shadow, spooking everyone as they all felt this intense pressure from it.
'What the hell?!' The users of the Fool's Arcana felt awe and shock to see Ichigo's Persona just cut and tear the Shadow into pieces.
{Die Intruder!} Ichigo turns around to see a Shadow coming behind him but he remained calm, cooled, and collective. He brings out his Zanpakuto and everyone besides the SEES operatives was in shock to see Ichigo wielding a large broadsword Zanpakuto. He slices the Shadow in half and his right-hand gathers his Reiatsu, pointing it at the nearly dead Shadow.
"Beat it!" He blasts the Shadow into smithereens and ends up leaving a giant hole in the wall. Everyone couldn't believe that Ichigo has this much power. "Oi Morgana, lead the way."
"Yes sir!" The cat leads the group away from the prison area as the Shadows are bound to check the area with the sudden blast in the castle. 'This guy is way too overpowered if he just awakened to his Persona. Just who is he?' Morgana begins to wonder about Ichigo. There's no way that a 3rd-year student can be this skilled and already knows how to wield a large sword with ease.
And that ends the chapter guys, things have been busy for me now so I haven't had much time to write down chapters.
One of two main things as to reasons is simple, my mental health took a hit on me and I started a new job position in the hospital as a Patient Transporter.
1. My mental health took a hit a couple of weeks ago and I'm suffering from Anxiety and Depression. Something private between me and this girl and things haven't been the same for me where I'm having some low self-esteem but not too drastic.
2. My new position at the hospital as a Patient transporter is new job hours from 7-3:30, 5 days a week.
I hope you guys like the chapter and as always, I'll talk to you all later.