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The conversation she had with Ryuji while walking had been the same since the first time she met him at the stop; Kamoshida was a bastard who mistreated boys in Physical Education classes to make them strong when it comes to competing in championships with other schools, without caring about imposing physical punishment on students who do not follow the rules, in addition to harassing girls in a sadistic and lustful way ... it was no wonder of human perversity.
Time had yielded to both of them when they saw that the academy was still open; the doors of the entrance to the Shujin Academy were open, with the entrance hurried of the students who fled from the rain and took refuge inside; They spotted Kamoshida's car where he showed a false smile to those who were entering. Ann had entered, as had the red-haired girl he had seen on the train.
He ignored Kamoshida, except that Ryuji glared at him when they entered the interior, surrounded by students who were going to their respective classrooms.
Kawakami accompanied Ren to the 2-D classroom where Ann was incorporated (just like a wounded Yuuki Mishima), while Ryuji was in 2-E. I had also seen a
There were formal presentations of the typical self-introduction education to everyone else, catching gossip from the girls about seeing him handsome in glasses, while the boys saw him as a scholar or an athlete ... at least Kamoshida did not disclose the record. But it was only a matter of time before he did if he and Ryuji start investigating him to expose the abuse, which would not work at all.
The classes passed with total normality, correcting the response that he knew beforehand during the change of reality, receiving cheers from the students and responses from the teachers; Then came the Physical Education class where Kamoshida would greet him with balls when playing volleyball, and he was not intimidated by the ex-Olympian when he returned the gesture.
He was pleased to see Kamoshida's puzzled expression as he suppressed his failed attempts to make him look bad in front of everyone, and earned the track team's admiration for his agility and dexterity.
He knew that Kamoshida would keep an eye on him, but he ignored that threat, showing an expression of indifference and ignorance during the course of his stay at the academy, reading and studying in the library in his quiet and reserved exchange student disguise. , until he began to develop the plan to train the Phantom Thieves and awaken his new Persona that the Warp deities granted him.
Everything went according to plan at the end of classes; Ren correctly put the words into the app, allowing him and Ryuji to be sucked in when the Navigator was activated and teleported to the Palace.
Obviously the reaction Ryuji had taken was one of bewilderment and shock at seeing that everything had changed; the clouds, the sky, even the appearance of an imposing medieval castle where the Shujin Academy should have been was shocking enough for Ryuji's jaw. They entered the interior for the mere attraction of curiosity towards the unknown, observing with fascination the spacious room full of tiles, pillars with marbled details, golden chandeliers, cylindrical windows, a staircase adorned by a crimson carpet that ascended the stairs .. The perfect definition of what Kamoshida saw according to his own perfection: a powerful king who ruled his castle.
Shadows with knight appearances surrounded them when they saw them as intruders, pointing their halberds at them and taking defensive positions with raised shields. They beat them, carried them towards the depths of the castle where the smelly dungeons were; they were put in the cells and woke up at the last second when Shadow Kamoshida had visited them, looking superior, completely semi-naked, except for having his underwear, his cape and his crown on top of his fluffy hair.
The two Shadows held him against the wall, as he watched as Shadow Kamoshida hit Ryuji like a punching bag, bruising his face with the impact of his fists until he spat blood.
At that moment, when he saw with indifference that Ryuji received the beatings of the Shadow Being, something inside him had just awakened ... something new ... something dark.
"Hehehehe ... it seems my time has come, don't you think so, meister?"
That voice was not chivalrous and fair as Arsene was, but mocking and sickly, sadistic and evil.
"Everyone in this world believes they are superior in something. Everyone thinks they are special, but they are just simple cockroaches that walk among the corrupt rubbish of a rotten society"
Memories flooded her mind, memories of a life she hated, memories of an old self seeking justice, but she only got trash and toxic waste like abuse, finger pointing, rumors of being a monster, the real one. intention of his friends, the society in which he lived ... they all gave him the sword. His parents, his city, the people, his old school ... they all rejected him.
"The anger that you carry within you will be transformed into power when we find ourselves subject to this world before the true glory of Chaos. The Great Lords of the Warp will enjoy the poor souls ... they will all surrender the true horror that awaits them. And for proud of the gods for the power they have given us to see the Absolute Truth, we will offer them blood as a currency of payment"
The Ruinous Powers gave him a second chance to fulfill his goal against the world and against those he had considered "friends" or "companions", but it was his own ignorance that blinded him.
"... Well, do you accept the offer?"
"... I accept it" Ren replied with a firm and purposeful determination. A throbbing headache shook him, followed by a sense of pleasure and satisfaction as a surge of power enveloped him ... an aura of darkness and decay hung over the atmosphere of the cell, causing the Shadows and Ryuji himself to shudder. they were looking at spectators.
"I am you, you are me. You who are willing to fulfill the promise to destroy this world under the new opportunity given by the Great Lords will have to be fulfilled. Call my name and we will be able to carry out the will of Chaos! The gods want sacrifices in their names! The Great Lords demand blood as tribute!"
Ren's face exploded in glowing purple nebulous embers, representing the contract made by the Ruinous Powers. His domino mask had formed, and with a sadistic smile, he ripped it off with uncontrollable euphoria that excited him in a lustful way. The blood drained from them, but they were healed by the coals, eating away at him completely, transforming his student uniform into his old Phantom Thieve clothing.
"Come out, Mephistopheles!" the reborn Trickster of Chaos roared as he summoned his mighty new Persona, a demonic, deformed being from Arsene, covered in a blood-red suit with ruffles on his shoulders, a crimson cloak rippling in an invisible wind, two jet-draped wings attached. on her back and extravagant ornaments of gold and diamonds of all kinds in her lace. His face was intimidating and terrifying, with curved horns pointing forward and a monstrous, ghastly mask-like centerpiece, the jaws of which were like a hungry dragon, and intense dagger-shaped eyes blazing from intense infernal fire. .
"I am Mephistopheles, the trickster demon of the innocent and the victorious who will triumph over the powerful"
Shadow Kamoshida, scared and terrified, cried out in a fearful way for his knights to attack him, only to see how they were exterminated in just a blink, to which he had no choice but to flee.
"... What?!" Ryuji exclaimed, still stunned and petrified by what he just saw.
"This is not the time to ask questions!" Ren barked at him as he lifted him forcibly. "We have to run away before he brings reinforcements"
"... Y-Yes ... Come on!" Ryuji replied, emerging from stupor and concentrating on running through the huge cave transformed into a dungeon along with the transfer student and his monster who served as defenders and guides.
During the long journey, made up of extensive routes that took them to other cells and Shadows that were knocked down in the process, Ren found the cell where Morgana was trapped with his atropormorphic and cartoonish form, the cognitive being created by Igor to be his guide in handling the Metaverse, though he no longer remembered that after Yaldabaoth erased his memory and locked him up to die and be executed.
"What is that thing!" Ryuji said, scared.
"Aren't you soldiers from this place?" Morgana asked. "Get me out of here! There are the keys!" He gestured to the hanging key.
"We are trying to get out of this damn place!" Ryuji snapped at him angrily, shooting him a sharp look. "I mean, you obviously look like an enemy too."
"I'm locked!" begged the cat. "How am I going to do the enemy? Help me ...!"
"... I will" Ren cut him with depth.
"What?!" Ryuji exclaimed incredulously. "Are you crazy? We don't know if we can believe him if that thing is going to betray us. Besides, you have that power to summon that monster when you tore off your mask"
"Monster? Mask?" Morgana's eyes widened. "Wait a minute, did you invoke your Persona?"
Before Ryuji could demand the meaning of the word spoken in Spanish in a mysterious way and without the inescapable logic of his carvenicultural mind, Ren replied:
"... Yes" he said with cold and icy seriousness. "I just summoned him when Kamoshida was going to kill us in the cell. My clothes just changed during my awakening"
"... Impossible" Morgana commented, stunned.
The cell door opened when the lock was removed, and Morgana began to stretch, happy that she had longed for freedom.
"... I know you are very happy to be outside" Ren caught his attention, "but it would be better if he helped us to escape; another summoner could use us"
"True!" Morgana nodded, and gestured for them to follow him down the hall, leaving behind empty dungeons and water channels flowing through the tributary that separated them from other paths.
They ran into a raised bridge that cut off their path, but Ren was quick to pull the jaw of a statue of Kamoshida next door. The bridge went down, and the three continued on their way. At the end they glimpsed a stone arch where it led them to another room, but this one was guarded by a Knight-shaped Shadow, which Ren killed without any mercy by invoking Mephistopheles who gave him a quick death.
Morgana was shocked and shocked by the Shadow's disgusting fate as he was "defeated" by the curly-haired boy's Persona before he could summon Zorro to the fight.
"Th-that's your Persona?"
Ren replied with a silent nod when the Persona vanished into smoke.
Morgana was confused by everything that was happening: first, she did not remember anything since she appeared in the cell, except for some knowledge of the Metaverse and the Palaces, and now these two teenagers appeared that one of them could invoke his own Persona, whose appearance It made me afraid to see him. He knew that Personas were manifestations of the psyche that represented the individual's inner personality, but that demonic-looking Persona made him feel uncomfortable, as if he could represent something dark, or wicked.
They followed a wide stone-paved path where the light from the streetlights gave dark, gothic contours to the ceiling and uninhabited cells as they continued to run. They ascended some steps until they came across a raised bridge where the stream of water ran. The walls were stony at every corner with the smell of wet stones that crowded the great dungeon. In both corners they detailed the athletics students, who were ill-treated and abused as garbage.
"There is no time" Morgana said seriously; "we have to keep running"
"Wait, damn it!" Ryuji called.
"What happens?" the cat replied. "We have to go now!"
"But ..." Ryuji began to question, "who are those guys?"
"Do you really think you have time to worry about other people right now?" The cognitive animal was detained. "Besides, they are ..."
"There!" the voice of a Shadow had cut him off; the bridge had dropped, and the Knight Shade took a fighting stance, "Stand still!"
Ren shot Morgana a glance.
"... make your move"
"Do you want me to do it?"
"... You can summon your Persona, right?" He shrugged nonchalantly. "Then there are no problems doing the honors of seeing it in action"
"Hmm ... huh ... if you say so" Morgana said, still shaking with the chill and cold. "Zorro!" he screamed, and his Persona made his appearance by discarding the Shadow with the dispatch of luminous traces.
"... Impressive" Ren congratulated with a neutral and icy spirit, taking a step forward. "Let's go ahead"
Morgana and Ryuji shared a look, puzzled by the boy's indifference, but did not comment when they followed in silence, whose presence made them feel insecure about being close to him.
All three had left the dungeons and entered a tiled corridor and ornately patterned walls, drawers, and potted pillars. Ryuji tried to open a door on his right side, but Ren motioned to another corridor that led to a closed room, devoid of any door, with the torches lighting the warp darkness.
"... Over there" Ren pointed to a ventilation duct.
"You have a good eye" Morgana added, congratulating him with a smile, and the only response she had from him was a silent nod. He climbed up on the drawers nimbly, and removed the grate with both hands with enormous force, placing it gently on the floor.
"This is the safe way" Ren spoke calmly. "Come on, Ryuji, it's time for us to leave this place"
"If you say so" Ryuji looked at Morgana. "What about you?"
"There is something I have to do here yet" the cat said sincerely and optimistically. "We have separate ways"
"... Okay" Ren agreed. "Good luck in your search"
"Huh" Morgana smiled at him, "you're very kind. Be careful too"
"... We will take it into account. Come on, Ryuji"
"Yes I'm going!" He took one last look at the cat again. "By the way, what is your name?"
"Morgana, and yours"
"Ryuji. Thanks for helping us."
Morgana watched them disappear inside the duct until everything was silent.
"Those two seem useful ..." he muttered to himself, taking a thoughtful gesture. "... especially curly hair, if my judgment is correct ... although, my instincts do not stop telling me that I have to be careful with him. Hmmm, I have the feeling that his cold attitude hides something"
The two had appeared in an alley when they were transported to reality. They left there, and entered the busy area of modern Shibuya society. They both walked down the avenue, while Ryuji kept stretching his arms.
"Dude, what was all that happened?" he commented, exhausted and tired. "You know, we were almost killed in that castle ... It wasn't a dream, was it?"
"... I felt it real" Ren said calmly, "but I feel lost from what just happened. We were teleported to another reality"
"Hehehe!" Ryuji laughed humorously. "In that you are correct. That is something out of fiction, although what we saw seemed real. All of Shunjin had become a castle with Kamoshida as its king. What was it that made us teleport?"
"... I really don't know" Ren shook his head, lying and feeling satisfied with what he did, not caring that his first friend in Shibuya was going to die. "Everything seemed to distort so suddenly ... like a headache"
"Tch" Ryuji scoffed. "Like the mental shutdowns that are happening in the city ... too uninteresting in what happened. Anyway, whether it was a dream or not, I must thank you for saving Kamoshida's life."
"... There is no reason" Ren said with false affection.
"But that Kamoshida we saw there was different from the real one that smiled at us when entering the academy" Ryuji's tone turned sour. "Did I tell you a lot about what it really is"
"... A lot" Ren replied. "Even the Kamoshida in that kingly outfit makes me say that we saw his true personality when he was going to execute us; a dark counterpart to his ego."
"And the castle was representing Shujin, that damn bastard" growled the blond boy. "No one tells him anything because he is an Olympic medalist who has taken the volleyball team to the nationals. The way we saw that Kamoshida as king made me really crazy about it. I wonder if we can go back to that castle again"
'Of course, there is no problem with that,' the Trickster of Chaos thought sadly. 'It wouldn't hurt to kill some Shadows to get rid and see Kamoshida kicked'
"We better relax a little bit of what just happened," Ren spoke to him, relaxed. "Let's exchange numbers to stay in touch if there's a chance to get in."
"You're right! I like that idea!"
They both exchanged numbers as they went their separate ways.
Ren had appeared in the Velvet Room in his prisoner outfit after going to bed at eight o'clock at night. He got up from his bed before Caroline could say anything in her commanding voice.
"Hmm, I see that you have awakened your powers" Yaldabaoth spoke to him through his marionet, "... although in a ... curious way"
Ren knew what he meant.
"Please, I want you to invoke your Persona"
He sharpened his senses, and Mephistopheles materialized outside the room. The twins were frightened by the macabre appearance, while the gestalt scrutinized him with analytical curiosity.
"Interesting ... manifestation of your soul, something very strange and curious coming that represents your rebellious spirit"
Mephistopheles bowed.
"Your compliments allude me, Herr Igor"
"Heh!" The Gestalt laughed out loud in his usual husky voice. "A wonderful mode of presentation coming from a Persona. Tell me, what is your name, if you are so kind to identify yourself?"
"Mephistopheles" formally introduced the Persona.
"Mephistopheles ... hmmm" the gestalt focused his gaze on Ren with a critical eye and a raised eyebrow. "Sometimes, the Personas tend to manifest themselves in different ways, but coming from a demon who is represented as a trickster who tempts poor souls in disgrace, in addition to being characterized by having a cold, rational mind and a high level of logic. Young, do you have hatred inside you?"
Ren cocked his head, confused, playing innocent paper.
"... Hate? Why do you say it, Mister Igor? I feel very excellent right now"
"Hmp, that doesn't explain the meaning of your Persona" he pointed at Mephistopheles. "I know that you are going through a process of accepting what you have just done since that fateful moment when you were incriminated, but you cannot see the world as your enemy. I am helping you to get ahead with your rehabilitation and begin to heal that your wound that does not close. I chose you because you had a potential, a potential that was worth taking out of your interior while society is going through a serious calamity that will destroy them if it is not stopped. You must leave that grudge that you carry and begin to turn the page. I'm doing it for your own good"
Ren suppressed a feeling of anger that he would not explode in front of the gestalt and the twins. He could not lie that Yaldabaoth had an excellent deduction in analyzing his Persona ... after all, he was a god who possessed a clay puppet who knew about the human behavior given to him by Philemon, the embodiment of hope.
The twins remained silent without saying a word or interfering in the conversation.
"... I will take that advice seriously, Mr. Igor" the Trickster of Chaos obediently told him. "I promise that my negative emotions will not interfere with my rehabilitation"
"You are polite and kind, I can see that in you, boy" the gestalt looked back at the summoned Persona. "You can go"
Mephistopheles said goodbye with an elegant and mocking air as he disappeared into a dark blue smoke.
"Well ..." the gestalte began to say, "since you are learning, it is time for you to know about the gift I gave you when you arrived in the city. The Metaverse Navigator allows you to teleport to the background, a pocket universe , created by the flow of distorted thoughts between the apathy and the uncertainty that mortal beings live. I gave it to you as a means to train you as a thief"
"The Metaverse Navigator is a gift from our master; you'd better use it carefully, prisoner," Caroline spoke seriously.
"Give yourself up to your training so you can become a good thief," Justine spoke gently.
"With this application, it will allow you to enter the Palaces and learn more about the hidden counterparts of individuals," said Gestalt. "I want him to grow as the best thief during your rehab. Make sure that hatred of yours disappears."
The bells rang out.
"... I better go now," Ren replied harshly, as he leaned back in his bed and saw how reality was distorted.
The routine was mass; He woke up, dressed, had lunch, and listened to people's complaints about the mental shutdowns that Akecho caused, which made him disinterested in hearing them and pretended not to listen. He got off the train and went straight to Shujin in good time; On the bright side, he did not hear any rumors or gossip of his criminal charges, implying that Kamoshida did not spread it, much to his relief.
The looks he had received from the students was of total indifference, he had even seen Haru and Makoto pass him by with total normality, without remembering the boy who transformed them into members of the Phantom Thieves, but that would be seen later when soon touch the moment.
After having finished his Social Sciences class with Professor Ushimaru, and tinkering with the correct answer as he had previously done in his original old timeline, Ren had seen Kamoshida and Ann in the hallway chatting, listening to hidden.
"You go home?" the degenerate ex-Olympian had said with a gentle, fake smile. "Things have gotten pretty dangerous lately with all those accidents"
"Sorry" Ann's voice was tired and insecure, victim of the coach's lassive and sexual harassment, "I have a photo shoot today. It's for the summer special, so I can't afford to miss"
"Hey, well ... as a model you must be slim and stupendous" Kamoshida advised taking a wise pose, "but don't force your little body to the bone. You mentioned you were not feeling well, right? Anything about appendicitis?"
That was a lie; Ann escaped abuse by feigning ailments as a means of escape from the former Olympian's activity to feel safe, unaware that her actions would cause Shiho to be vulnerable as a sex toy, something Ann would not allow her only friend to do. happy in this corrupt academy was abused again. Kamoshida had seen her in a fashion magazine, which had marked her as his new victim to feel comfortable, and that was why Ann prostituted herself so that Shiho would not suffer any more ... without knowing that Yaldabaoth had everything planned on the rooftop.
A suicide that did not deserve to cry or feel sorry for the poor victim of sexual abuse; That was in the past when Ren believed in justice, but she did not deserve to continue remembering something that was not worth anything.
"Yes, I still plan to go to the hospital" Ann continued lying, "but I feel too tired ... sorry for worrying"
"You must be alone too" Kamoshida understood. "I feel bad for keeping your best friend in practice so often; so I asked you to come out first."
Ren couldn't bear to listen to stupid nonsense anymore; He walked down the stairs with an individualistic attitude, walked down the hall full of students, classrooms, and trophy ledges to the exit; When he was about to go to the station, Ryuji caught his attention half a meter away.
"I wanted to talk about that castle we had yesterday" he said. "I tried to tell myself that it was just a dream ... but I can't do it. I can't pretend nothing happened. It's all related to that Kamoshida, after all. I want to find out what's going on with that place. It doesn't matter how. And you know, you're the only person I can trust with these things. So, you sign up?"
Being in the Palace would help clear his mind by killing some Shadows, it would feel good to let go of all the pressure to replay the same dramas from scratch. A moment of relaxation wouldn't be too bad to ease the frustration of the stinking human society in which he lived.
"... Of course yes" Ren said with a smile at his corners as a cordial gesture. "Where do we start?"
"I think we should try to go back the way we went yesterday" Ryuji commented. "Meanwhile, you're walking to the station, right?"
Ren nodded silently.
"Then let's go together. Let me know if you notice any other strange buildings on the way"
'Oh sure I will, my dear friend,' the Trickster of Chaos said to himself maliciously. 'I'll be watching as you experience true suffering'
Having left Shujin, the duo had reached the area where they were mysteriously teleported in an hour.
"If such a big castle really exists," Ryuji commented, "I'm sure we'll find it right away. Although, when did they build something like this?" He looked around: people walked the streets normally, buildings were still the same tall with modern finishes, stores were full of consumers, the sky was the same shade of light from sunlight and embroidered by clouds white. "We went this way, right?"
"... Yes" Ren stated.
"Hmp" the vulgar blonde growled. "It has to be around here ... Very well, now we will return to the academy. Let me know if you recognize anything"
They walked back towards, as Shujin began to empty himself of students and teachers, perfect for initiating the Navigator's activation when he depressed it and all of reality distorted into a purple blur with red spirals with black edges. The Shujin Academy had returned to the distorted version that Kamoshida viewed as the king in the castle.
Ryuji kept amazed and made comments about what he was seeing was really and not a dream. They were approached towards the huge closed front door, wondering how they would enter, and to their surprise, Morgana had leaned out of a corner, whispering about the visit, to which Ren had asked first instead of Ryuji asking.
"... We came to further explore the castle"
Morgana looked at the two of them with a contradictory expression.
"Are they crazy?!" he said without raising his voice. "Their presences have all the Shadows in the castle begun to mobilize by capturing their energy signatures. And to think that you would return to the entrance when you were barely able to escape"
"... You can at least explain to us why the school looks like this" Ren pointed out.
"That is due to the distorted vision that the individual captures in his mind and visualizes it according to his own perspective in the deepest part of his mind" Morgana explained with professional pride. "The ruler of this castle, Kamoshida, is the one who keeps him standing, but only his copy of the original, his Shadow, the one that almost killed them in the cell"
"... I understand" Ren agreed, thanking for something he already knew in his old timeline. "... Somewhat confusing at first, but it contributes a lot to the unknown of what Shujin looks like"
Muffled screams echoed outside until it echoed like ghostly wails.
"What was that?!" Ryuji asked, scared.
"They must be the slaves who are prisoners in the dungeons" said the cat with simplicity, and Ren understood that these were cognitions, illusions created by the mind of Kamoshida by reflecting on the athletes he trained in the real world as his toys to torture them for mere macabre pleasure.
The screams of agony began to rise, which made Ryuji nervous, upsetting him, making him more nervous than he was. Ryuji commented on the others he had seen escaping from the dungeons.
"Most likely on Kamoshida's orders," Morgana said seriously. "It is nothing out of the ordinary. Here they are every day like this. What difference does it make? The two of you escaped yesterday, which he has lost his nerve a little"
"It son of bitch!" Ryuji blurted out, heading closed doors sideways and kicked him with a crash. "Did you hear me, Kamoshida?!"
"By doing that he won't open it, you know ..." Morgana commented, and put on a compression face. "It seems to be your reasons though"
Before Ryuji started to misspell the cat's name, Ren got ahead of him first:
"... We need you to guide us to the dungeons"
Morgana looked at him in puzzlement.
"Why do you want me to do it?"
"... To further map the dungeon areas and to know how Kamoshida visualizes him from his perspective as king. I can help by invoking my Persona, remember?"
"Just seeing your clothes and that determination of yours makes me say that you guys don't plan to back down, right?"
Ren silently nodded
"Okay ... I'll guide you" Morgana said after letting out a groan in defeat and proceeding to guide the two teenagers.
The events that followed later unfolded according to their old timeline: they entered the dungeon areas where copies of the athletes were tortured in each chamber with medieval instruments of torture, making Ryuji understand that everything I saw they were just copies of the originals; They left the dungeons and proceeded to leave, only to find Shadow Kamoshida passing through with seven Knight Shadows in the hall.
Ren and Morgana fought against the Shadows that were arriving in flock that came to the confrontation with the help of their two Personas. Ryuji had joined the fight after having awakened his Persona, Captain Kidd, upon seeing the situation in which his two companions were, asking for strength to help them.
The fight had dragged on with the appearance of more Shadows to the game and the cognitive copy of Ann with scant clothes that made her slim and curvy pale skin body look that made Morgana and Ryuji blush like fools.
They escaped from the Palace and agreed on how to defeat him, while in the real world they would follow as if nothing had happened ... although Ryuji had thought about recovering information from Kamoshida about the abuses he was committing in Physical Education classes, to which Ren refused to help him, since he did not want his criminal record to be revealed to the entire school and to be the target of accusations as it had been in his old timeline.
Ryuji complained about it, and Ren proceeded to tell him the truth of his experiences as an incriminated person, which silenced him and promised never to involve him in the search for information when they were eating at the restaurant that invited him.
Having spent his days as a normal teenager, answering questions and writing down the dictates that the teachers told the students, Ren had relaxed moments like never before in his life when he had arrived at Shujin; everything had been the same without any misunderstanding ... except for the information provided by Mishima about the abuses that were censored by director Kobayakawa so as not to discredit the name of the Shujin Academy by rebelling it before Ryuji, and Ann's refusal not to be never his submissive having listened to her on the way to Leblanc, which had a terrible consequence on his actions.
On the following day, Ren witnessed how Shiho threw himself from the balcony, failing to bear the sexual abuse she had suffered when she was summoned to the Kamoshida office by a beaten Yuuki Mishima. Ren knew that it was Yaldaboath who manipulated Shiho's suicide as a method to see him react and become a vigilante against the corrupt system, although that did not matter at all to see how a partner of his died, since she was only an insignificant equation , as were his friends and Akechi.
After Shiho's near suicide, they both decided to enter Kamoshida castle accompanied by Morgana. When they entered the Palace dressed in their Phantom Thieve robes, Ann had secretly followed them. Ryuji pulled her away so that she would not interfere with her work, although she only served to have a Shadow capture her and awaken her Personae later on being executed.
Ann did not stop complaining about her tight crimson latex outfit that exposed her round neckline, something that Ren did not stop looking for the influence of a teenager who took photos in fashion magazines where their bodies were shown in revealing clothes, whether from swimsuits or glamorous dresses that detailed her figures ... Ann Takamaki was a radical feminist who was ignorant of her profession and a damn bitch at the same time.
Even Morgana did not stop idolizing her figure of being "a unique beauty in the world" for her Nordic-origin philaan features ... that idiot was the cat who was blinded by his self-centeredness of glimpsing beautiful girls where he looked; Even idol singer Rise Kujikawa was beautiful, as were Mitsuru Kirijo of the Kirijo Group, archer Yukari Takeba and journalist Maya Amano when she was young ... those women of beautiful beauty, as well as many others who surpassed Ann ... how he would make sure to take Morgana his precious lover before his eyes.
With Ann joining her codename Panther to the group, the Kamoshida reformation had begun.
The four Phantom Thieve had gathered in the salt of the throne where Shadow Kamoshida had manifested after having read the notes left by Ryuji around the school, prompting him to appear.
During the beginning of the battle, Ren had him won with Mephistopheles as a powerful Persona, dodging the attacks that the monstrous form of Kamoshida self-proclaiming as Asmodeus launched at him in seething anger. When he and his three companions attacked him, Asmodeus was healed by a cognitive copy of Shiho in rabbit attire, somewhat proactive that Ryuji, Morgana, and Ann felt uncomfortable and upset by the sight Kamoshida was seeing.
In the old timeline, Ren fell unconscious and summoned a new Persona to defeat the enemy, but in this reality, he had defeated Mephistopheles by his side, throwing the Shadowed Being a powerful and powerful purple dark energy that defeated him in a second when he made contact and a huge explosion shook the throne room.
Shadow Kamoshida's speech had been the same:
"... the user Persona with the black mask"
It was a warning that Akechi was walking among the Palaces as a supervisor under Shido's orders so that everything goes according to plan, but with the reform that they did, the existence of the Phantom Thieves would come from word of mouth to the media from all over the country and the world. Shido and entourage demominated as "the Conspiracy" would observe them all the time: they would attack with everything, the mental closures, the deaths of innocent people ... they would do what was necessary to discredit them, make society come upon them, and that will would wait.
The virtue of the powerful is patience, and Ren would be patient if everything took its course, like a ghost that passed among mortals.
"... The beginning of the Phantom Thieves of Heart is only the beginning of your destiny as our herald" Tzeentch had congratulated him. "We have seen how you have progressed in your new awakening as the Trickster of Chaos along with your new Persona, we are proud of your determination"
"Your fight against the Shadows and against that demonic form of that dark counterpart is the ferocity of a fierce and brave warrior," Khorne said approvingly. "I hope to see more of that spirit in you when it comes to fighting powerful enemies. Keep it up, and I will give you a strength that will put all the weak knees before you. Soon blood will flow among those who oppose the powerful."
"... I can even give you some blessings and advice for women to fall before you" Slaanesh purred.
"... I will also give you the gift so that you can invoke plagues and become immune to diseases" Nurgle pointed out.
Ren made a show of bowing.
"... I will make you guys proud. I will use the app to make you stronger in my spare time. I promise I will."
"Of course you will, our beloved herald" the Architect of Destiny's tune was attractive and distorted. "Everything you have seen in your old timeline will repeat itself; Yaldabaoth's followers will attack with his assassin and his influence on the earth plane. He almost discovers your inner darkness by analyzing your Persona, be more careful and keep a Innocent facade when you see him again in the Velvet Room. Earn the trust of your friends so that you become stronger and cunning. Use them as mere toys and then throw them away"
"... I will, master"
"... One more thing," added Tzeentch. "I want you to keep an eye on the two penitents who just entered the stage; that red-haired girl you met on the train is one, the other is about to arrive at your school as a psychological assistant ... a user of Persona to be more precise"
Ren swallowed hard, and his memory had delved into that scene where the redhead gently grabbed the old woman's seat, but a man had grabbed him and then pretended to sleep. Does that mean that girl was a petenciero? That he took into account for the next time if he saw her in the hallways of Shujin.
As for the second, he was intrigued; A Persona user as a school psychologist? Was he a subject of Yaldabaoth to spy on him? It could be a great possibility, since Yaldabaoth was nicknamed for being the God of Control, manipulating the facts as if he were the jedo-christian god.
It would not be a piece in his games of that cognitive deity, he had the right to do with his life what he wants.
"Make sure you keep an eye on them," said Tzeentch. "Those two are meant to change the course of this scenario. Earn the trust of those two."
Ren replied that he would, and felt everything around him distort.
Kobayakawa had gathered all the students and all the teachers in the school amphitheater regarding the events that had passed a week since the Kamoshida reform and the existence of the Phantom Thives that wandered through the media. After the revelation of the abuses perpetrated, (and the subsequent meeting of Yusuke Kitagawa in the subway where Ren naturally took the painter's work as normal, in which Yusuke respected and treated him well) Ren knew that this was the moment where the Personae user would appear.
"Due to the various problems that we have been through after the confession of Kamoshida for a week and the receptivity that our institution has been criticized," proclaimed Kobayawaka on the microphone, standing on the platform and keeping a fixed gaze on everyone gathered. "I have obtained an alternative so that you can have good health despite the mistreatment you have suffered. He introduced you to his new student advisor who will be joining us part time. You can come, Mr. Maruki"
A young man with glasses and unkempt short brown hair had appeared on the stage stage, enhancing the appearance of a teenager in his adult stage. He wore a blue suit with a blue plaid tie along with a white coat; his pants were light khaki supported by a black belt and brown sandals without socks. In his chest pocket of his suit he had a yellow pen and an ID tied to a red strap.
The new school counselor made a clumsy effort to see if the microphone worked.
"Greetings to all" he introduced himself with a cordial and friendly smile, "I am Takuto Maruki, your new school counselor and psychologist. I hope we can get along with everything and help you with your personal problems"
And so gentlemen is where Royal's plot begins with Takuto Maruki and Kasumi Yoshizawa's introductions to calamity.
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