"Yu-San?! Na-Nanako-Chan?!"

It was a silver-haired man in his early twenties. He's wearing a short-sleeved white collared shirt and brown pants. And next to him was a juvenile girl in primary school, she has brown hair and was wearing a red sleeveless dress.

Akira visited Inaba back in the summer of 2012. After the whole event of Midnight Stage, Misturu and the Shadow Operative went there and investigate the incident. And Akira just... begged Mitsuru to go with her and stayed at the Dojima resident during those few weeks.

Regardless, it's been four years since he met anyone from Inaba, other than hearing some news from Rise or Naoto.

"Um... so why are you're here?" After a few moments of thought, Akira asked while tilting his head."I know Inaba is just half an hour away from Tokyo..."

"Well, it's the golden week after all." Yu answered, sitting down on the couch. "And Nanako wants to come to Tokyo for a few days. "

"Yeah! Nanako wants to come here!" The little girl rushed to Akira and hugged him close, shouting with a muffled voice. "I missed you, Akira Nee-San!"

"Yeah, me too." The boy answered, caressing her head in the process. "You've grown a lot! Ready for middle school?"

"Not yet..."

"I get that." He smiled at Nanako's response, shifting his head to Yu. "Oh! I know somewhere with good curry! How about having our dinner tonight there?"

"Curry? Of course." Yu tilted his head, nodding in agreement.

After a few minutes of walks, the trio had reached the front door of Cafe Leblanc. Yu was observing the decoration of the cafe and Nanako was stroking her groaning stomach.

"I know the owner in here, maybe we can have a price cut for our curry," Akira stated, opening the door of Leblanc. "Let the guest enter first."

With a nod, Yu walked into the cafe while holding on to Nanako's hand. Sojiro saw the duo coming and greeted them like usual. "welcome to Leblanc... Akira?"

"Hey, boss." Akira greeted the owner with a slight smile, closing the door for him. "Let sit over there, shall we?" Seeing another nod from the other two, they sat on by the booth with Nanako in the middle, Yu at the right and Akira at the left.

"Three plates of curry, please." The boy ordered the meal all three of them, "As for drinks... Two coffee and a cup of water please."

"Coming right up." Without another word, Sojiro got to work and prepare their meals, offering the drink they ordered in the process.

"It feels very... retro." Yu looked around and turned to Akira. "It reminds me of Aiya, somehow."

"Maybe it's the comfy feeling in here." The boy answered, "How often will we got a small cafe or restaurant like Leblanc in Tokyo?"

"Actually, it's not that special or rare here." Sojiro suddenly said, placing the plates of curry in front of them. "Here, hope you enjoy."

Without a word, Nanako instantly snatched a bite. "This is delicious!" She exclaimed, taking another bite of the curry.

Yu smiled at Nanako's reaction and started eating his as well. "Wow... It's very good." He commented with wide eyes, before snatching another bite.

"Told ya." Akira could help but smirk at their response. "It's my go-to spot for dinner after all."

"I can see that." The silver-haired man replied, to focus on the taste of his curry. "It's a shame that only Nanako and I were here."

"Maybe you can bring them over in the future."

"Yeah, but I don't know if everyone can be here."

"Oh..." Akira frowned, remembered that Yu's friends are extremely busy on their things lately. "Naoto-San is busy on the mental shutdown case, right?"

Yu nodded in response. "Not only that, she just told me that her workload just increased from Kamoshida's confession and the 'Phantom Thief of Heart' stuff."

"Especially after Goro Akechi's appearance." Yu finished, frowning from the mention of Goro Akechi. "He is... weird and seems to be concealing something."

"Hmm... Maybe."

A silence fell between the three continued as they place their attention back to their meal in hand. Until the ring bell on top of the door rang again, signaling another arrival.

Akira jerked his head toward the door out of curiosity. It was Ren.

"Hey, Ren!" He greeted, waving his hand in the process.

"Hey, Akira." Ren greeted back, looking at the other two with a raised eyebrow. However, he promptly dismissed it and pursued his walk to the stairs to the attic before being stopped by the other boy again.

"Um..." Akira paused for a moment, shifting his head back and forth between his and the other two. "I should introduce you to my friends here."

"Yu-san, Nanako-Chan." He looked at Yu and Nanako, introducing Ren to them. "He is Ren Amamiya, one of my few friends in Shujin."

"Greeting." Ren awkwardly bowed to them, whispering to the other boy. "Why are they here?"

"Nanako-Chan wants to come to Tokyo for the golden week," Akira replied, also whispering. "And how can I resist someone as cute as Nanako-Chan?"

The fuzzy-haired boy glanced at Nanako, who was tilting her head at him with an innocent look and turned to the other boy. "I can see that. She's so cute..."

He coughed for a few times and extended his hand. "Hello, Nanako-Chan."

"Hello, Ren Nee-San!" Nanako took his hand and shook enthusiastically, making Ren's heart pulsed.

'She's too pure for this world!' he thought, spacing out as his brain couldn't handle the cuteness of Nanako. Until Morgana poked out his head and struck him.

"REN! You're spacing out!"

"Huh?!" The boy snapped out from his thought and realized he had been holding her hand for a few good long seconds, quickly sperate his hand from hers and apologize. "Sorry, Nanako-Chan..."

"It is OK, Ren Nee-San." The little girl noticed Morgana on his shoulder and swiftly transported him out of the bag. "Ahh! It's a cute cat!"

"N-No! Let go of me!" The feline resisted, making Yu wide-eyed as he is sure that he heard the cat talked. "I'm not a cat!"

Akira noted Yu's look and shook his head. We'll talk later' he mouthed silently.

"You're so cute, Mr. cat." Nanako said, pinching Morgana's face lightly, "Ren Nee-San, are you taking him to school every day?"

"Y-Yeah..." Ren awkwardly rubbed his neck, looking away from her to prevent dying from cuteness. "He insisted."

"Ren! Help me!" the cat shouted, but his resistance was gradually melting as the girl continued.

Time passes quickly as the peoples in the cafe enjoyed their time there. After Sojiro informed them that the cafe will be closed soon, the three said goodbye to Sojiro and Ren and went back to Akira's apartment.'

After the trio was back to the apartment, Yu quickly took Akira to aside and asked him about the whole stuff about Morgana. "Um...Akira, you heard that cat talking, right?"

"Yeah, it's been like this for a while." Akira nodded, "So, let's be honest."

"Yu-San, you have a Persona or been to another world, right?"

"You also have one... That's a surprise." Yu was visibly shocked at the boy's question, but he quickly regained composure. He nodded and started to explain his history with his journey. "Remember that murder case five years ago back in Inaba?"

"I remember that... Wait! No way!" Akira instantly realized what he meant and staring at him wide-eyed. "That case is linked to Persona another world?!"

"TV World to be precise." The silver-haired man replied. "Everyone you met back in Inaba... also have one as well."

"No way..."

"Um... I want to ask one thing, now that you admitted that you have a Persona of your own." Yu coughed for a bit and asked. "Can you own multiple Persona?"

"Me? No." Akira shook his head, pointing at himself. "But Ren can, I saw him using another Persona during the infiltration of Kamoshida's palace."

"So Ren is a wild card as well..." The older man pondered for a moment before talking again. "Can you tell me about your world? Is it related to the confession of that teacher in your school this morning?"

"About my world... I get there by this app." The boy took out his phone and showed him the navigation app. "It's basically a world in which a person's distorted desire is real."

"Like Kamoshida, he thought the school is his castle." Akira continued to explain, "So the school literally turned into a castle with him as the king."

"It's like those dungeons back in TV World..." Yu nodded at his word and murmured to himself. "OK, what about the 'Phantom Thief' business?"

"I am one... kinda." The boy frowned as he remembered the fact that his situation was complicated, and not a good one. "Ren is the leader of the real Phantom Thief, with his own teammates..."

"But I and Shiho are... another thief who helps them in the shadow?" Akira winced at the statement itself. "I'm not that sure, to be honest."

Yu sighed and looked at the ground for a moment, then turned his head back to Akira. "Let's forget about this and enjoy the golden week, OK?"

"My thought exactly."


[3rd May, Shibuya Underground Shopping Mall]

After a full night of rest, Akira texted Ann and Shiho to meet up at the Underground Mall. Taking Yu and Nanako as well.

"Akira! Here!" Ann, who was standing with Shiho on her side saw the blue headphone around his neck and shouted, waving her hand to capture his attention.

"Hey, Ann, Shiho!" The boy smiled and waved back, introducing Yu and Nanako to them. "This is Yu-San, and this is Nanako-Chan."

"Yu-San, Nanako-Chan, They are Ann and Shiho" Then he turned to the other duo and introduced Ann and Shiho to them. "They're my friends since middle school."

"Hi." Yu waved at them and smiled.

"Hi!" Nanako noticed the blonde hair of Ann, looking at her with a thoughtful look before asking again. "Um... Ann-san, I think I saw you with Rise-San in a magazine before!"

"Oh! You must be talking about my issue with her a few months ago." Ann waved her hand in front of her face, smiling shyly. "Risette was much better than me."

"Rise told me about you before." Yu suddenly said, causing the blonde to widen his eyes. "She said that you had the potential to do it."

"Huh?!" Even Shiho couldn't believe what the man just commented, "You know Risette personally?!" They shouted in unison.

"Yep. He knows her." Akira answered for him, crossing his arms in front of his chest. "Now let's go, shall we?"

The two girls nodded and started to take Nanako everywhere. They bought her various kinds of clothes with Yu and Akira following, paying and taking bags for them.

"Ugh..." The younger boy looked at the bags in his and Yu's hand and sighed. "I officially regret my decision to let them meet Nanako-Chan."

"At least Nanako was having fun." Yu smiled at the sight of Nanako having fun with Ann and Shiho. "Aside from the paying and the carrying part."

"That's the point, Yu-San."

"OK then..." The silver-haired men spotted the three girls coming back with another pile of bags. "Um... welcome back..." The duo shuttered, visibly sweatdropped at the sight of the bags.

Shiho saw the sweat on Akira's forehead and promptly took some of his bags. "Ann, I think we shouldn't let them take every bag and pay for us." She said.

"Huh?" Ann's eyes darted around Akira and Shiho for a moment before smirking devilishly, shifting her head to Nanako. "Nanako, you see that? That's the look of an old couple!"

"WHAT?!" Akira and Shiho shouted unanimously, blushing hard at the blonde's word. "NO! OBVIOUSLY!"

"Haha! You two just like O-Nee San and Yukiko-San before!" Nanako laughed at the duo's responses, pointing them in the process. "Aren't they?"

"Yeah, it's giving me nostalgia." Yu said, trying his best to hold his laughter.

"What?! You too?!"The boy's eyes darting between the three before turning back to Shiho, looking at her with an apologetic look. "I'm sorry about that... This is going to be a long while..."

"I can see that..." Shiho nodded and facepalmed herself.


[4th May, Arcade Building of Shibuya]

"Welcome to the Arcade Center!" After a day of buying clothes and carrying bags with Shiho and Ann, Akira brought the two cousins to the Arcade Center. "What do you want to play, Nanako-Chan?" He asked, leaning toward Nanako.

"Um..." Nanako looked around and after a few minutes of choosing, she pointed at the claw machine with Teddie as the logo. "I want to play that!" The little girl exclaimed, rushing toward the machine.

Yu and Akira smiled in unison and followed her. "Teddie plushie... He's really popular nowadays." The silver-haired man smiled and put in a 100-yen coin and turned to Nanako, encouraging her.

The girl instantly took the control stick and started handling the claw, trying her best to get a Teddie plushie with the other two encouraging her in the back. However, she kept failing and failing for a dozen tries, Yu sweatdropped at the sight of his wallet emptying gradually. "Akira... we're going broke if this keeps happening..." he whispered to him.

"Nanako-Chan, I think we should play another game..."Seeing Nanako kept failing, Akira decided to step out and suggested. But upon recognizing the face of her pouting, the boy softened and decided to play for her. "Nevermind, I'll win for you, Nanako-Chan!"

"I'll get it with the first try!" He exclaimed with a smirk, started to control the claw, straight for the Teddie plushie. "Let's finish this-"

Akira pressed the button to lower the claw to grab the prices. However, the claw missed. Then again, and again, and again...

After about ten unsuccessful attempts, the boy slumped to the ground in defeat. "N-No way... How could I lose..."

"Ugh... Akira, I think we should play another game..." Yu sweatdropped at the slumped form of him, "Nanako, we can't continue anymore..."

"..." Nanako looked down, still want to get the plushie. However, after a few moments of choosing, she decided to compromise. "Ok... Let's play another game..."

Yu nodded and turned to Akira with a concerned face. "Akira, let's go..."

"OK..." He was going following the cousins to another game. However, the voice of Ryuji suddenly rang out loud, capturing his attention.

"Ichijou! I can't believe you're here!"

The boy bobbed his head and spotted Ryuji coming to the trio with a grin on his face. "It's been a long while!" The blonde boy exclaimed, still grinning.

Akira nodded and stared at him for a moment before suddenly putting both of his hands on his shoulder. "Sakamoto, I have a request for you..." He said with a look of determination.

"Can you get that plushie for us?"

"Huh?" Ryuji was very confused at Akira's request, but seeing the cousins near him, he nodded and took the control of the claw machine for them. "I can't grantee that I'll win this, but I'll try."

The other boy turned to Nanako and nodded with a smile. Yu looked at him hesitantly for a moment before sighing too. Ryuji casually controlled the control stick and get the Teddie plushie in one go, somehow.

"...How did you do it." Akira shuttered, sweatdropping at the plushie in Ryuji's hand. "How can you win this in one go!"

"It's easy, you know." The blonde boy answered, raising an eyebrow at him. "By the way, who is that cute little girl? Your cousins?"

"They're just my friends."

"OK." Ryuji nodded, looking at the two cousins before suddenly suggested to play together. "Hey! I came here having a fun time after all, how about that we play together!"

"What?!" The other boy exclaimed. Even though he denied it at first, but he compromised in the end. "Fine..."

He turned to the two cousins and officially introduces him to them. "Um... This is Ryuji Sakamoto, another friend from Shujin."

"Hi." Ryuji awkwardly rubbed the back of his neck and greeted them. "I'm Ryuji, nice to meet you!"

The two cousins quickly became familiar with him, and the four enjoyed a good time afterward.


[5th of May, Shibuya station]

Today is the day of the official celebration of successfully stealing the heart of Kamoshida. And by the money of the gold medal they got from the palace, they were enough to pay for five people.

Once Ren finally arrived at the Shibuya station, he saw the other two Phantom Thieves waiting for him in the entrance, dressed in their casual outfit.

"Hey, Ren!" Ann noticed the fuzzy-haired boy and called out, gesturing him over. "OK, now there's only Akira and Shiho left."

"Man, they're even later than me." Ryuji sighed, taking out his phone and ready to call Akira. However, the duo they're talking about arrived, panting heavily in unison.

"S-Sorry about that..." Akira, who was dressed in his casual outfit, said between panting. "Yu-San and Nanako-Chan went back to Inaba today, so I went to the station with them..."

The trio nodded in understanding at Akira's reason before shifting their head to Shiho. "Um... Shiho, then why are you late too?"

"Slept over." She quickly answered, also panting heavily.

Sighing, Ann led the group and went to the Hotel, talking excitedly about eating and what their favorites were in the meanwhile.

After a few minutes of walks, they arrived at the Wilton Hotel and promptly confirmed the booking. Without another word, the group went to the buffet area and started to eat.

"Five-Star hotel is no joke..." Akira said in awe, touching the couch he was sitting on. "Now I know why Shiho wants to be here for ages..."

Shiho smiled at Akira's word, but the call from her stomach disturbed her. "...I think we should get some food."

"Obviously!" Ryuji exclaimed, standing up from the couch and going to the trays with food, Ann and Shiho followed soon after.

"So good!" Ryuji moaned in bliss, enjoying those different kinds of meats on his plates.

Their table was filled with meat, pies, and cakes. Most meats were brought back by Ryuji and those dissert are brought by Shiho and Ann.

Akira observed the beef steak on his plates. Taking his knife and fork, he cut through the beef steak easily. He took a piece of the steak into his mouth and felt the taste of it ."Not that bad..." He murmured, making Shiho looked at him with a puzzled look.

"Akira, what do you mean by 'Not that bad'?" She asked, tilting her head in the process.

"Well, it's not as good as I remembered, but still good nevertheless." He replied, earning a few wide eyes from the three Phantom Thieves.

"Dude! You've been here?!"

"How could I not know that, Akira?!"

"Um... That's unexpected."

Akira awkwardly laughed at the trio's reaction, rubbing his neck. "Mitsuru-San took me here once, but that was a few years ago."

"Dude, you're so lucky!" Ryuji can't help but amazed by him.

"Not that really..." The other boy smiled shyly. "It's been years since I've been to here, so whatever."

Morgana poked his head out and whispered to Ren. "Ren, can you give me some sashimi?"

"Oh, here." Ren noticed the cat beside him and fed him the sashimi with a pair of chopsticks. "You like it, Morgana?"

"Yes!" The cat exclaimed, chowing down the sashimi. "No wonder Lady Ann chose this place...!"

"Of course it's good. This is a famous hotel after all." Ann said, grinning delightedly before returning to a slightly frustrated look. "Oh yeah, I heard that the police were coming to interview some people at school."

"Kamoshida is a former Olympic Champion after all..." Shiho sighed, looking down at the cake in front of her. "Our school will be shrouded in rumors for a while."

"That's troublesome." Morgana remarked with a frown, still not aware that both Akira and Shiho could hear him.

"It's a huge scandal and Shujin will be on the spotlight for a while." Akira said, pretending he didn't hear Morgana. "Especially with the rumors about Ren and Sakamoto blackmailing him."

Ryuji tsk'ed, taking another bite of his pork with a frown. "Ichijou, you don't believe in those rumors, right?" He asked, looking directly at him and Shiho.

"No." The two answered in unison, shaking their heads in the process. "You two are not that kind of person, I'm sure about that." Akira followed, taking another bite at the beef.

"Me too." Shiho nodded in agreement.

"At least we have each other to trust..." Ren smiled at the two's responses. "Now Kamoshida was gone, I can physically feel the atmosphere be more positive now."

"Yeah! Now everyone're pumped up! I keep hearin' stuff like 'The Phantom Thieves really stole his heart!'" Ryuji grinned excitedly, taking out his phone. "I think most people don't believe it, but some of them actually seem grateful. Look at this."

"The Phantom Aficionado Website..?" Ann read out loud, staring at the website in Ryuji's phone with wide-eye. "The Phantom Thieves did help a lot of people..." She murmured, pretending she wasn't one of the thieves.

The other three also looked at the website on his phone, reading the comments out loud.

'Well done, Phantom Thieves.'

'Now I can keep going too.'

'Thank you for giving us hope.'

'Thank you for saving me...'

"They did save all of us, right?" Akira said, seeing everyone nodded at his words. "Whoever are those Phantom Thieves, they have a good heart... I can sense that."

"If not them... I think I would be stuck in rumors for the rest of my school life..." Shiho followed, also smiling.

Ren smiled too, not only knowing that peoples are grateful to their work, but they also saved their friends too. He looked at Ryuji and Ann, they're smiling too.

"...Hey!" After a moment, Akira suddenly remembered the time limit of their buffets and stood up instantly. "We have an hour of the time limit, right?"

"!" Shiho realized that they had wasted some time talking to each other, looking at Ann wit ha horrified look. "Ann, we have how much time left?"

"Just fifty minutes left!" Ann exclaimed, glancing at the clock while panicking.

"I'm not gonna finish all the beef dishes at this pace!" Ryuji exclaimed, rubbing his head in frustration.

"I'll eat with you!" Akira replied, taking one of the plates in front of him. "With two of us, we can finish this!"

"I need to eat my way through the entire dessert menu...!" Ann declared, also panicking.

"Ann, count me in!" Shiho shouted, taking some of her plates. "We can do this together!"

"Shiho... You're a lifesaver!"

Ren and Morgana sweatdropped at the scene in front of them, "There are fifty minutes left... they don't need to be that nervous about not able to finish this..." Ren murmured, a drop of sweat dripping along his cheek.

"Akira, Ren! I'll get food for the three of us!" Before the other two boys could say anything, Ryuji rushed off to the food servers. "Look after my stuff!"

"Shiho and I are going to get some more dessert, look after our stuff too!" With that said, the two girls rushed off to the dessert area. Leaving only Akira and Ren in the couches, with Morgana poking his head out in the bag.

"There's a lot of food here already..." Ren commented, looking at the number of plates on the table.

"Well... Typical Ann and Ryuji." Akira commented, shrugging his shoulder. "This is their first buffet in Wilton after all-"

His comment was interrupted as the trio came back with an inhuman amount of food in their hands. Somehow able to bring back with only a plate to carry them.

"Ren, Ichijou." Ryuji said, putting a few plates in front of them. "It's for you two!"

"Just call me Akira, bro." Akira sweatdropped at the food he brought back, it's all meat. "Also, only meat?! Seriously?!"

Meantime, Ann didn't know where should start first. "Shiho, where should I start?" She asked, looking at the black-haired girl.

"All about the cake..." Ren facepalmed, sighing in the process.

"Someone was going to throw up. I'm sure about that." Akira added, swallowing in fear. " Let's hope that I'm wrong..."

"So happy…" Ann said in a sing-song tone, smiling in joy as she digs into the blueberry cake.

"This is the best day of my life..." Shiho added, also smiling in joy.

Making sure no one saw him, Akira secretly took out his phone and took a photo of Shiho's expression of joy. 'This is going to be my new wallpaper.' He thought, smiling vaguely.

"Hey. Calories." Ryuji jokingly teased, looking at the number of cakes in front of Ann and Shiho.

"Shut up!" The blonde girl retorted back, glaring at him. "This is our only chance to eat something like this!"

"Now I've tasted the famous Wilton Hotel cake buffet..." Shiho said, looking at the cakes with a hint of sadness. "Nothing will be as good as the beauty of Wilton!"

"Nah, I think Kirijo's better." Akira jokingly said, making the two girls glaring at him.

"Just let us experience this gift from heaven!" The blonde girl retorted, turning her head back to the cakes. "Shiho, you're OK?"

"Of course!" The black-haired girl nodded determinately, eating another piece of strawberry cake. "There are only twenty minutes left! We need to be fast!"

"Huh?!" She glanced at the clock on the wall with wide eyes, then hastily eating another cake, and another, another, another...

Ren, who was only looking at others with a look of concern, saw a well-dressed woman giving all of them a dirty look. "Tsk, how did children like this end up in here? I prefer my meals to remain hooligan-free."

The woman's friend sneered and leaned to her. "Come, let us go."

Ren bit his lips at the woman's word. 'Adults...' He thought bitterly.

After fifteen minutes of hard work and pure determination, the Persona users finally won the battle against the food, Including the cat.

"We did it..." Akira groaned, pinching his nose bridge. "Horray..."

"No one threw up, somehow..." Ren slumped into his seat, feeling his belt's size shrinks. "that's a win for me."

"Y-yeah…" Ryuji shuttered, focusing on his breathing. "This is a victory...for all of us…"

"Power of bonds!" Shiho unironically exclaimed, pumping her fist into the air. "It's all because of our power of bonds!"

"That was tough..." Ren murmured.

"This is worse than Aiya's rainy day challenge..." Akira commented.

However, Ann was still smiling and doing fine, somehow. "Good job, you guys. How about one last dish to cleanse your palates?" She said cheerfully, ignoring the looks of others. "I recommend the seasonal tart! The grapefruit has both alluring sweetness and tangy sourness!"

"Stop...I don't wanna hear about sour stuff…" Ryuji growled, clenching his stomach in pain. "This isn't good...I gotta go to the bathroom..."

Morgana nodded, pleading weakly to Ren. "M-Me too...Please...carry me gently…"

A rich couple dressed in different kinds of luxurious brands passed by their table, looking at them with a disgusted look. "My, look at that table…" The woman whispered to her partner.

The man beside her hmphed. "They must not normally have the opportunity to each such exquisite food."

The Persona users frowned in unison at the couple's word.

"I can only imagine what their parents must be like." The woman laughed, then walking away with her partner.

Once the couple was gone, Ryuji glared at their direction angrily. "What was that?!... Urp." He burped, covering his mouth. "We don't have time for that...C'mon, let's go…"

"Yeah..." Ren got up from his couch and gently shouldered his bag, then left for the bathroom with Ryuji and Morgana.

"I'll get my one last dish..." Ann murmured and left for her last dish, leaving Akira and Shiho alone.

Once the Phantom Thieves were gone for now, Akira instantly turned towards Shiho. "Um...Shiho, actually..." He paused for a brief moment. "I'm considering we should continue our other-world business."

"About the palace and stuff... you're already set on this, right?" Shiho replied, raising an eyebrow.

He nodded in response. "It's just... If you don't want to continue, I'll do this myself..."

"Now you've said this, how can I refuse?" Shiho shook her head, smiling slightly. "I'll go with you."

"It's going to be a tough journey... Are you sure about that?"

"...I can't run away from myself or anything anymore..." Shiho looked down a the table, a determined look in her eyes. "I'll go with you. I'm sure about that."

"Shiho..." He murmured, smiling vaguely.

"The Phantom duo was formed, I guess."

"Phantom duo? that's lame." The girl laughed for a bit at his words. "We should come up with a better name."

"Then what suggestion you have?" Akira asked, leaning toward the table. "I got none."

"Ugh...Actually..." Shiho pondered for a moment before shaking her head. "No, I don't have one..."

"Then, the Phantom Duo was set..." The boy interrupted himself before finish his sentences. "...How about 'Le Fool'?"

"'Le Fool'? Why?"

"It just popped up in my head." He explained, "I love Tarot Card, remember?"

"Yeah, I remember that." Shiho laughed for a bit. "Aki-Chan~"

"Please don't call me that." Akira deadpanned, glared at her for a brief moment.

"Fine..." Shiho sighed, pouting jokingly. "But since I don't have any more suggestions, I'll agree with yours."

"Well... The Phantom Duo 'Le Fool' was formed, I guess."


And with that, chapter nine of P5: Another Thief concludes! thank you for reading!

The Phantom Duo(for now) was formed(Anticlimatly)! The net chapter will focus on the Forming of the Phantom Thieves and Prison of Sloth: Memento!

I hope you would enjoy this story so far, reviews are welcome!