Hello everyone, I hope you are fine because I am fine. With the end of my exams I can update this story sonner so let's go for the reviews.
Felipe1402XZA: Technically, remember this is an AU so some things can be the same or others can be different.
Guest 1: YES! The director is alive!
Hekkasi: Hinako is part of the story and she will influence the story later. About vampiric needs she can drink blood as emergency energy, but do not have the need to, hell she even said that she hates the taste of blood. But I will use her special characteristics in my story.
Mr. Haziq: Ritsuka meets 2 people at the moment of chaldea before joining in this story, he may or may not meet more that I haven't decided yet. So wait and hope.
kerrowe: Actually is a good point, thanks for making me think more about it. Ritsuka going for the interrogation, magecraft, mmm… I'll just say that I will try to avoid bs without a proper explanation. Thanks for pointing out the little mistake, I will edit it. The fate side of the story is after the singularity F but before Orleans, still in the aftermath of the betrayal and repairing Chaldea. I plan to write Singularity F at some point.
Guest (I believe Mr. Haziq): I do not want to see the LB6 spoilers, I am playing the NA version and if I need to wait 2 year to read the story I will do it. But do not despair, this story will be a long story so maybe I can catch up with the events in the future.
Guest (Kazuma Kaneko): The road of the hero is plagued by hardships, even if the hero is someone normal he needs to learn to survive the challenge ahead. I will plan to show some dark themes, it won't be the persona-verse (a little different from the SMT-verse) and the nasuverse if they do not have that darkness.
So without much to add let's go for the chapter.
Enter the rabbit hole
Ritsuka POV
Cafe Leblanc
April 11, 2016
The day has come, my first day of classes at my probation. I woke up early to be on time because of the accident yesterday, all the schedules moved and I didn't need to give the school a motive to expel me
I go down and see that Sojiro was waiting for me with a cup of coffee and curry? "Well what are you waiting for? Go ahead and eat" Sojiro said after I looked like an idiot at the strange breakfast.
...I was speechless, the curry tasted so good! And the bitterness of the coffee helps with the general flavor "It's delicious! The only person I know who makes things this delicious is my dad. Thank you!" I said with a smile. Sojiro smiles as well "Ahh yeah your father, I met him and your mom some years ago. He likes my curry and we started to talk for hours about food the first time we met, then your mother came annoyed that your old man didn't come to the hotel they were staying at. I give her a cup of coffee as an apology to distract her husband and guess what, she loves it. We kept in contact as a little partnership, your dad helped me with some recipes and I told him about how to blend coffee for your mom. So that's the story about how I met your parents and the reason why I helped them with your situation." Sojiro said with a nostalgic smile.
"Woah, I never knew that story. My parents' job is about history so they have to travel a few times. So this happened when they traveled to Tokyo for a job." I said trying to remember the exact time this happened. Sojiro looks at me and sighs "Better let's get going to your school, don't you want to be late right?" He is right, I took my bag and went outside the shop, doing the little favor of changing the signal to open as Sojiro's request. Now let's go to school.
Olga POV
Olga's penthouse
...Why, why did that have to happen?! As I prepare a cup of tea I remembered what happened yesterday
Flashback
April 10
Apparently getting those devices is easier than I thought, you just need to go to a store and buy it, there easy. Of course I bought one of the expensive models that also looks more elegant.
I am now waiting in the underground to go to my penthouse. Suddenly a big noise was heard from the tunnel, a train at high speed passed in front of me, then a big crash was heard. Everyone was in panic, I was in a little panic myself, I have seen death in the past, but that was murder between magus. There was an accident where many people died for no reason, just bad luck.
My memories are a bit fuzzy after that, I remember an officer asking me if i am alright. I remember walking for a couple of hours, then following the instructions to activate the phone and then falling asleep on my bed.
Flashback end
Aoyama-Itchome
I sigh at the events, for a normal person would take days, even weeks to pass that. A couple of hours is enough for me to recover, doing something else helps me to distract me from my own worries. I walk out with my best clothes and at the same time try to not look out of place, they said I can go with this kind of clothes until they deliver the school uniform.
After walking a while, I reached the entrance of the underground. It will be an E rank luck if another accident happens again. It may be a thing for one day because the ride was as normal as one can imagine. I went outside when I looked at the scene in front of me.
Ritsuka and a blond rude student were talking about a professor? Why the blond need to use those kinds of words so much! I clean my throat a little to catch their attention "Good morning Fujimaru. Who is this rude acquaintance?" I ask the duo. The blond appears annoyed "Hey! Who the hell are you to talking down on me?!" He said, angry.
Ritsuka sighs "He is just a classmate I just met. We were talking about a teacher who is a pervert." He said in a neutral voice "And good morning to you Olga" He added with a little smile. The blond hooligan looked surprised. "You know this gaijin girl, cool." Ritsuka noods and proceeds to present me as a good servant. "Yeah this is Olga Marie Animusphere, an exchange student from England, we met yesterday." I nod with approbation, the blond just looks at me while being serious. "You could come from a fancy school outside but need to be careful with the pervy teach Kamoshida, he rules the school like it was his castle." He warns me, a nice touch but unnecessary.
Without advice a intense but short headache feels in my head. Weird, I don't feel any boundfield in the area and if one just activates then the effect would not disappear that fast. Anyways, by looking at the blond hooligan and Fujimaru expressions, they felt the same headache as me. The pair of commoners do not give it much thought and decide to rush to the school, I will follow them just to not taint the Animusphere image to be late.
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What in the name of root is happening here?! I was here yesterday and absolutely the school was not a castle! "What the hell? Did we take the wrong turn and end somewhere else?" The blond asks while looking at the door closer. "Here is the sign with the name of our school! Does the cultural club have a special assignment?" I sigh at the blond antics, seriously he can't see that there is no way for a simple artistic club to change the whole school between days, even months would not work. No, this only can be done by a powerful boundfield or...a reality marble.
Well it's better to go back, I do not know what kind of danger. I snap out of my thought as I see my two companions going inside. THOSE FOOLS, do they want to be killed?! I run after them...It's just because my new servant is there, I need someone who will follow my commands to do mundane things here, otherwise I would abandon them to their luck.
Inside the castle there's a big hall with an ugly man portrait on the wall. This place is wrong, I started to see some weird things that even in a boundfield shouldn't be, like the shifting of the place to the real school, or the strange splash feeling everytime I do a steep. My fears are getting worse with the idea that somehow we enter in a reality marble and have some dangerous things.
As the blonde hooligan still makes a scandal about our situation and Fujimaru tries to rationalize the situation the best he can, a knight with a mask on his face gets close to us, then a second, finally four of them surround us. At this point those commoners realise the danger of our situation.
One of the knights hit the hooligan with his shield knocking him out. Oh no I will never allow that kind of treatment to happen to me. I shot a Gandr curse to the closest knight, he got paralysided by the curse but that means the other knights would be more alert. Before I manage to do something else I feel a sharp pain behind my neck, everything goes black.
Chaldea
2020
Mash POV
"What?! Did you get knocked out by some soldiers?! How is that possible? I know you aren't a combat magus director but your eyes and situational awareness are one of the best recorded in Chaldea." I said surely. Olga Marie is now the director, but there was a time when Olga was part of the team A. Everyone was surprised, doctor Roman and Da Vinci included, because how someone who at the beginning has no conditions for being a master suddenly has a big compability in a later test. That ended when the first director died and Olga took the position, but she still went a couple of times to the simulator to keep the practise if Chaldea needed more masters, which now it needs them.
"That was a time before I learned more about actual combat Mash and still I am behind Daybit, Peperoncino and Beryl… and tied to HIM and Hinako in the aspect of situational awareness" Olga answered with emphasis on "him". I sigh at the tense relationship between the leader of team A, Kirchtaria Wodime, and the director, Doctor Roman said that it is not my problem and ignore it.
"You are still better than me Olga, give yourself more credit." Said Hinako while looking at Olga with a small smile. Olga turns towards Hinako and stops for a moment, then she smirks "If you said so miss master strategist" Hinako blushes at that and covers herself with her book. I manage to hear something like "she still remembers that..", but it must be an inside joke, it is written in the documents that Hinako is a master strategist so I don't understand.
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2016
Ritsuka POV
My head. What happened? Let's remember what mom taught me and start recalling my last memories. Let's see I cover from the rain at the outside of a shop, I met this pretty blond girl that looks like an American, then the girl went with a guy that gave me a bad feeling, this blond hair boy come and start bickering with me about the teacher of our school, then the foreign student came and after an awkward moment we decide to stop wasting time and go to school. Here things become weirder and we found ourselves in front of a castle where our school is supposed to be, then some weird knights surrounded us and started to attack us, finally before I passed out I saw Olga doing magic?
I opened my eyes and I realized that I am inside a prison cell, again. I look around and see the blonde boy and Olga passed out in the cell with me. I get up and start looking around the cell, it's like those antique dungeons in RPG or medieval europe, the metal cell door looks solid, so no way to escape then.
A sound behind me alerts me that one of my classmates is waking up. I turn around and see the blond boy waking up "Uhg my head, what the hell just happened…" He looks around "Effing great, that was not a dream did it?" I simply nod with my head. "I wish all of this was a dream too." I do not like this, why the obsession to lock me in a cell fate?!
"Could you stop talking? My head is killing me and I need some coffee!" Says Olga also waking up, but in a state that looks more like a zombie than a living person, and I thought just mom looks like that in the mornings. Olga stares at the cell door for a couple of seconds and then proceeds to curse in another language, german or russian I think.
"Why did you decide to investigate this place in the first place?! Don't imagine that something could be here to harm you?!" Olga outrages at us for this situation "Hey! I didn't know this would be the hell of dangerous. Besides you stayed silent before we entered this mess, princess!" The blonde replies to Olga. On the other hand I was feeling very awkward because of the discussion between the two.
"Umm guys, I know we could avoid this situation but fighting each other won't take us anywhere. So why don't we calm down and start thinking about what to do next." I said to my two companions.
The tense moment appears to go down and we just stay silent for a minute. "Ryuji Sakamoto" said Ryuji a little quietly, both Olga and I looked at him as he started talking. "My ma told me to introduce myself if someone introduces to me" Ryuji finished the sentence with a little smile on his face.
"My name is Ritsuka Fujimaru, I guess because we were a little late I didn't introduce myself after I introduced Olga" I said with a chuckle while my hand scratched the back of my neck. Ryuji smiles a little with my awkward introduction, but Olga remains serious. I told them about my findings in the cell and about how we can't escape right now, Ryuji cursed under his breath and Olga started to analyze the situation.
Suddenly a scream was heard outside of the cell. I was pale...we needed to escape. Ryuji runs to the door and starts shaking it. "Come here and help me! We need to get out of this place" I silently agreed and helped him to take down the door. After a couple of seconds of trying Olga's voice was heard "Move out of the door." "Hey better help us prin-" Ryuji was saying as we turned to Olga, who has a dark light coming from her finger...So she can really do magic.
"I said MOVE!" She said in an authoritative voice. I moved out of the way while dragging Ryuji with me. She points her hand at the door handle and the thing shoots from her fingertip to her target and blast it. The door now has a hole where the handle was, it was open.
"...This is for real?" Ryuji said as he pushed the door open, then he turned to Olga. "What the hell did you just do?!" Olga huffed and muttered something about peasants as she walked outside the door. "Hey Ryuji I am surprised as you do, but better get out of here first and then question the break of the physics laws after" I told my companion as I walked outside too. Ryuji follows just behind me.
The outside looks as bad as the inside, many prison cells at the side of a big hallway that has a canal flowing at the center. We ran for a while as we heard the muted screams of other prisoners filled the air as well as some metal steps in the distance. We avoided the guards the best we could, but then we came to a deathend.
"That's great, they are catching us and we can't go back. Do you have some abracadabra that can get us out" Ryuji said to Olga, and those weren't the best words. "Abracadabra! How dare you call my magecraft in such a vulgar way, If we aren't in this situation you would be in pain because of my craft." She said with anger flowing in her veins. "Calm down guys, fighting won't get us out." I said, trying to calm the pair.
"The glasses boy is right, fighting is not fitting in this situation." Said a childish voice at our side. We looked at the strangest thing we ever saw for multiple reasons. One saw a weird phantasm species that has no record. Other was curious about this creature and the last one just saw a cartoonish cat. "A phantasm" "Interesting and cute…" "MONSTER CAT!"
The cat thingy gets annoyed, "I am not a cat. I am a human, I just have this form" The thing says for itself. "Ugg there is not time for this, you need to get out of here, I need to get out of this cell too. So let's make a deal, if you free me, I'll show you the exit of this place. What do you say?" The cat/human said to us. Ryuji and Olga do not look so sure to trust in it.
Before we can say a word for it the bridge goes down and a group of guards escorting a person are at the other side. That person looks like the one that drove the car that the blond girl gets in, just this one is wearing a cape and a crown and...is almost nude. "Well well what we got here, the bandit Sakamoto, the delinquent and a foreign beauty. What a combination" Says the man that has a smug smile on his face. "Is that you Kamoshida?" Ask Ryuji, apparently knowing the man in front of us. He just stared at Ryuji a little "Sakamoto, who would guess you can run like the coward you are...and I thought you learnt the lesson before" Says the man while taking a glance at Ryuji´s leg.
"The sentence for entering my castle without my permission is death...But not to you sweetie" He said the last part looking at Olga who took a step back and pointed at him with her finger. "You absolute trash, do not dare to look at me with those filthy eyes of you" She said as she shot a magic blast at him. Sadly the guard moves in front of Kamoshida and takes the magic bullet with the shield, then he charges at Olga and punches her in the stomach, dropping her down.
Kamoshida scowls at her attack "Useless girl, i don't care about your hocus pocus, i only care if you open your legs to me and serve me" He finished with an evil smile.
Ryuji decided to not stay still and tackled the guard into a wall. "Take that you asshole! You better keep your hands out of her." Said Ryuji defending Olga. The knights react and one of them hits Ryuji with the shield, he falls to the floor. Another knight punched me in the face and pinned me into the wall.
Kamoshida gets close to Ryuji while taking a sword from one of his knights. "You know Sakamoto you would be alive if you learnt your lesson and kneel to me, but you still look at me with those eyes. Now let me close them for the last time" He said as he started to raise the sword.
"I don't wanna die, please someone help me!" Says Ryuji in a low but desperate voice. My world gets black as I hear those words. Dad always told us that it is good to help others and Mom said that we need to be careful with who and how we help others. I remember that night when i help that woman, where all my troubles began, I asked the question if I should leave them alone, to follow my life, getting home, eating dad's food, talking about history with mom and competing with Akane again...But that's means that woman...No it was the right choice. I couldn't look at myself in the mirror if i did that and that woman won't have to suffer that thing.
Then I heard a voice inside my mind while looking at a blue butterfly "This is truly an unjust game… Your chances of winning are almost none. But if my voice is reaching you, there may yet be a possibility open to you…" The gentle voice is over and then an elegant but an aggressive voice says "What's the matter? Are you simply going to watch? Are you trying to think in a way to your own salvation and forksaking them?" What is the voice trying to do? "Death and a fate worse than death awaits them. You already know that your previous decision wasn't a mistake, but what will you do to save them?" What will I do? I will do everything to save them! "Very well then... I have heard your resolve." Said the voice as I feel the worst pain in my life, the combination of a massive headache and my body feels like a hot iron rod is burning inside. I scream as the voice continues "Vow to me. I am thou, thou art I… Thou who art willing to perform all sacrilegious acts for thine your own justice! Call upon my name and release thy rage!" I scream with all the pain, but it stops, it feels better... "Show the strength of thy will to ascertain all on thine own, though thou be chained to hell itself!" No matter what I'll have to do, I will save them.
The world returned to normal to me and I saw Kamoshida with the sword above his head ready to cut Ryuji "Enough!" I said with a loud voice. Kamoshida turns toward me with an angry expression. "What was that? I guess you wanna die early to not see your friend die..hehehe I will grant your wish. Guards!" The guard that was pinning me smashed his shield in my face and made me drop my glasses. Another guard came and helped the first guard to pinning me into the wall to allow this "king" to execute me...Not this time.
Some kind of power awakens inside me and makes Kamoshida and the guards stop their actions. My face feels heavy, as I bring my hands to touch it I discover that it is a mask. "Take your mask off" said the voice. I pull the mask out of my face, and it hurts like hell, like taking off some of my own skin, but I don't feel bad...I feel great. As I take off the mask the power inside me is released, a blue fire covers me as something gets out from me. It takes a second but after that I feel like a new man, that I can take on the world. I looked at me and saw that my clothes had changed. I have a black elegant coat with a pair of red gloves in my hands. Behind me the figure from yesterday is fully present now, a red suit with a top hat, but most important are his demonic face and balck wings.
Unknown to me at the moment, another person has a similar experience.
Olga POV
I woke up feeling the cold floor, I guess I fainted from the blow. I hear the hooligan protecting me? A peasant protecting a mage, Am I really that useless? ...Useless, that is the word that all the people use to me... especially father…Has someone ever told me a word of praise? A simple 'thank you' or 'good job'? Did my existence really matter at the end? That man would kill me or just rape me in the end…
A voice was heard, it was calm but passionate. "Did the opinion of the other people really matter to you princess?" Does it really matter? A magus reputation is everything, especially for a future lord...Wait no... Even being a lord won't give me the praise I need, the Clock Tower is a nest of snakes after all. What other people think about me doesn't really matter. "Then what really matters to you? The opinion of the one you admire?"...Yes father is an excellent magus. I want to impress him. "But what did your father do to you to gain your admiration?"...Nothing...My father didn't say a good word to me ever, and when he got an apprentice it was Kirchtaria! "That right. Your father doesn't love you. To find true praises you need to praise yourself first. The fools can talk anything about your work, but if you keep working you will shut their mouth with your work alone." Yes...YES. Who cares about what the others think, I will shine on my own and as the stars in the sky.
"Very well princess, then hear my words and you will shine in the darkest night" After those words one of the worst headaches i ever feel pass though my head and soul. "I am thou, thou art I." My magic circuits activate themselves and I don't know what kind of magecraft is this, or is even magecraft at all. "Thou that have been outshine by others stars, yet your light will guide others to their destinies." I scream a little with the pain of both the headache and my magic circuits. "Do things that your peers find absurd and mad, and make them shine in the shadow of your light!" Yes...father will see, Kirchtaria will see, everyone will see who outshines them. "Burn with the passion of a star, outshine everything in the cosmos. And then people will praise thou. Stars, Cosmos, Gods, Animus, Antrum, Unverse, Anima, Animusphere." I accepted those words. I know who this mysterious voice is now.
The world returns to what it was and I get up, nobody paying attention to me because they were focusing on the peasant, a big mistake. The voice is heard one more time "Take out your mask and call my name." I move a hand to my face and I feel something on it, a mask. I take it and try to take it off with all of my strength. I feel as the skin of my face gets off too but I don't care. When I take off the mask I feel a surge of power coming from me. Is kinda similar to prana, but a little different at the same time. I also feel my circuits getting activated again without a trigger. But what I feel the most is the power and confidence to win against my enemies.
I looked down to myself and I saw that I was wearing a blue dress with stars motifs. The dress appears to be formal, but also is ready for battle, like those rebel princesses from adventure stories.
The only one who really knew at the time what was happening was the strange creature inside the cell.
Author Notes:
Woo, that was a long chapter. And yeah I know about the cliffhanger but i wanna to take time to do a proper battle in the next chapter. Also I changed the actions in the OG persona 5 story to give it a flexibility to deal with the things in the nasuverse and to make me work in a personal project, not just a copy and mix from 2 fictionals media.
I did kinda rush a little at the end so maybe I will give a read later and edit a little of the mistakes I made.
About Olga's persona...you will see it in the next chapter, but you can guess and gives some ideas, I am sure about that persona at 95% so I dunno maybe you can make me change my mind.
As all the chapters I will accept any review of the chapter and try to be a better writer.
Ciao.