Sooo... it's been a literal month huh? Yeah sorry about that. It's just that I went through something that no one should have to go through... Writer's Block. I just couldn't think of anything to write about, and while I had written a bunch of stuff for chapter 2 before, I didn't think it was good enough and just scrapped it. Thankfully I decided to cross-post this on Ao3 and one commenter, "Brilliant_Battler", gave me the inspiration to continue writing for this. They even gave me an idea of what character to add to this fic, so special thanks to you, and also to everyone who gives my stories any attention! ...You can read the fic now.
"You!"
The person who stepped out from the door was none other than Hamuko Arisato.
"Uh, yeah it's me.", said Hamuko, who then put her hands on her hips. "Is there a problem with that?"
"Oh no it's just that we had to be all dramatic for the cliffhanger.", Ren reasoned, to which Hamuko nodded in understanding.
"So what's going on here?", she asked, making confident strides towards them despite the tension in the room.
"Well, I might have insulted his waifu-", Ren started, before he was slapped in the face.
"Hey! What was that for!", he whined, rubbing his stinging cheek, but Hamuko looked unsympathetic. "Listen Ren,you should know to never insult any one's waifu, whether they're an mainline protagonist or not. Do I make myself clear..."
"What are you my mom?"
Hamuko's face remained neutral, however she slowly reached for her evoker holster, making Ren's eyes widen in fear.
"Err, I mean, yes Arisato-san!", he forced out as he bowed.
Demi-Fiend yanked his arms away from Minato and Yu and addressed the newcomer. "Wow, you've finally made the smartass shut up. I'm impressed, miss... Uh, who are you supposed to be again?"
Hamuko smirked and hand out her hand, introducing herself. "Hamuko Arisato, nice to meet you!"
Hearing her name, Demi-Fiend thought it was familiar, and turned to Minato. "Hey Emo, isn't your last name Arisato?"
Minato groaned. "Yeah, that's because she's my... sister."
Demi-Fiend raised an eyebrow at him and started looking back and forth between them. "Uh, really? You two..."
"Look nothing alike?", he finished for him. "Yeah I don't get it either.", he said. Hamuko pouted at him.
"Aw, are you not happy to see your own sister, Minato-oniisan?"
"No, and don't call me that."
Ignoring him, she walked to Aigis, and spoke in a low voice. "Well, do you miss me Aigis?"
Blushing, Aigis refrained from looking away and answered. "O-of course, Hamuko-san..."
"I bet you wish I would've been here instead of Mr. 'still in his emo phase' here.", she said, gesturing to Minato. Aigis shook her head in denial, but Minato huffed. "It's not a phase Hamuko! This is the real me..."
Hamuko sat by Aigis and deadpanned. "Wow, said like a true emo."
Seeing everyone calm down, Nahobino finally got up and observed Hamuko. "Wow, she's like the cooler version of you!", Nahobino exclaimed, turning to Minato.
Minato scoffed. "No she isn't. The only difference between us is that she's a girl."
Yu glanced over at Hamuko and hummed. "No offense Minato but Nahobino's got a point, she's definitely cooler than you."
Minato's head snapped to Yu, stunned. "And how exactly is that?!"
Ren thought a little and snapped his fingers in realization. "Oh I know! You guys know that one meme where on Reddit where it's some virgin guy vs some chad guy?"
"You go on Reddit?"
"Whether I do or don't doesn't matter right now.", Ren hastily dismissed. Regaining his composure, he emphasized his point. "What I mean is that you act like the 'virgin' Minato Arisato and she's the 'chad' Hamuko Arisato, which makes her more cooler."
"How is she a chad? I have way more romance options than her."
"A wise man once said it's not about your number of girlfriends, it's what you do with them.", Yu stated, making Ren nod solemnly.
"Who said that?"
"Me, just now."
"And besides, do you see the effect she has on women?", Demi-Fiend snickered, pointing towards where Hamuko was. As Minato turned to look, his eyes bugged out.
"Ah, ah.", Aigis moaned, as Hamuko was massaging her neck. "Hah, Hamuko-san, we shouldn't be doing this here..."
Undeterred, Hamuko kept senseually touching Aigis' exposed neck. "Shush Aigis, just relax..."
Aigis blushed heavily at the hushed toned of Hamuko, and allowed herself to succumb to Hamuko touch, making Hamuko turn to wink at Minato, who stared at them starstruck. "That's her most sensitive spot." he whispered, which was the final straw for Demi-Fiend as he burst out laughing.
"AhHhaaahhahahaHa!", he guffawed, holding his sides desperately. Still laughing, he turned to Minato and pointed at him. "YOU, hahah, YOU'RE GETTING CUCKED BY, hhehhHAHA, YOUR OWN FUCKING SISTER!", he shouted, half laughing, before he knelt and started pounding on the floor, unable to stop laughing.
Minato glared angrily at Hamuko and stomped over to Aigis. "Okay I think that's enough.", he ground out as he snatched Hamuko's arm away from Aigis, snapping her out of her trance. He folded his arms at Hamuko. "Look, Hamuko, Aigis is my girlfriend, not yours."
With an unamused expression, she started counting up with her fingers until she reached 7. "So your 7th girlfriend?"
"Oh, uh..."
"Yeah that's what I thought."
"Well you can have multiple romance options too!"
"And unlike you, I decided to only have one...", she drawled out, wrapping an arm around Aigis shoulder. "Aigis.", She finished.
"Woah, Ms. Steal yo' girl is going IN!.", Yu commented, making Demi-Fiend go through another round of laughter.
Just as they were going to continue arguing the door slowly started opening before a girl peeked out from behind it. She then walked forward, observing them.
Everyone stared at the little girl for a few seconds before Nahobino stepped up to ask what was on everyone's mind.
"Um, who are you?"
The girl smiled and struck a pose, "I'm Mirai Kaname! Nice to meet you all!"
Even after her introduction, only crickets were heard. Seeing as no one knew what to say, Yu attempted to use his 'detective' abilities, and analyzed the new occupant of the room. "Hmm, are you a... Pokemon trainer?", he asked, making Mirai raise her eyebrow in confusion. Before she could object to this assumption though, a chorus of agreements rang throughout the room.
"Yeah she does look like a Pokemon character..."
"Hm, she's kinda short for a Pokemon trainer though..."
"Well you're not that tall Minato, so you're not the best one to judge."
"Shut up Naoki."
Amidst the chattering, Nahobino walked forward and peered down at Mirai. "Uh why would Nintendo send you here?", he asked before his eyes widened in growing panic. "Unless... Nintendo sent you here to sue us!"
Immediately everyone quieted down and looked to Nahobino. "Why exactly would they do that Nahobino-san?", Aigis inquired, prompting Nahobino to explain himself.
"Think about it! Why else would Nintendo even look in our direction if not to sue us!". He then started backing away from Mirai all paranoid-like. "And we all know that Nintendo is so out of touch with modern technology that they'd send a little girl belonging to their best selling series to hand deliver a lawsuit! One of us must had made terrorist threat against them on social media or something!"
Immediately everyone looked over Demi-Fiend, like they were expecting him to admit something, to which Demi-Fiend took offense at.
"What the fuck are you guys looking at me for?!"
"Er, listen Naoki", Minato reluctantly started. "You can be very... violent when it comes to defending or offending something or someone, like earlier with Ren, and the whole Pixie fiasco with Elizabeth."
Demi-Fiend scoffed. "So what? It wasn't that big a deal I only almost killed you guys.", he dismissed nonchalantly, before pointing his finger at Ren once more. "Besides, if anyone's to blame it has to be Mr. smartass and his damn fanboys. They probably annoyed Nintendo enough with their stupid port begging that they wanna bankrupt ATLUS so they can stop hearing all of that bullshit and whining."
Ren glared fiercely at Demi-Fiend, deciding to actually stand up and walk over to him. "Okay, I've had enough of your shit Kashima! If you want to fight, then I'll give you a fight!", he said, already moving his hand to tear off a mask that was slowly forming around his eyes.
"Well come then!", he shouted as he got into a fighting position. Hamuko grumbled in annoyance and got her evoker ready to summon Thanatos.
"Shut up!", Mirai yelled, finally having had enough of their bickering. "Stop talking or I'll tell my daddy on you!"
Demi-Fiend turned to her and frowned. "Look kid, I honestly don't care, I finally get to put this Smartass in his place, and nobody's gonna stop me. Also I bet I could beat the shit out of your dad."
Mirai glared and puffed out his cheeks in a pout. "Nuh uh!"
Demi-Fiend met the glare equally. "Yeah huh!"
"Nuh uh!"
"Yeah huh!"
"Nuh uh!"
"Yeah huh!"
"D-demi-Fiend-san, please stop arguing with the Pokemon girl, you're gonna make the lawsuit worse!", squeaked out Nahobino as he hid out from behind the couch. This however only made her turn her glare onto him instead.
"eep!"
"Grr, and besides, I'm not even from Pokemon, I'm from Devil Children."
Demi-Fiend put his hands up. "And you know what that's great... but I think anyone here knows what the fuck that is."
"Hmph! It's an game on the GameBoy Color where you explore different regions while recruiting fun and happy creatures!"
"So basically Pokemon."
"Err, I mean... Shut up! I'll tell my daddy to destroy you if you keep on making fun of me!"
Ren rolled his eyes. "And who is this all powerful dad of yours?"
Mirai smirked. "Lucifer."
Everyone looked at each other horrified, and looked to Demi-Fiend to see his reaction. He didn't move for a second, before he let out a gasp in realization. "*GASP!*"
Mirai looked smug. "Yeah, that's right, I have-"
"I have a sister!"
At that everyone looked at each other in confusion. "Uh, what are you talking about.", Minato asked.
"Pssh, don't you remember Emo? I said we're the opposite of each other. You're the Messiah, and I'm the Anti-Christ, which makes me Lucifer's son, and if she's Lucifer's daughter, she's obviously my sister." He turned back to Mirai. "You know I always wanted a sister. Now I can show you how to be a real Shin Megami Tensei Protagonist", he smirked.
Mirai was about to refute him when Ren perked up and manifested his mask. "Hey, apparently one of my personas want to talk to you guys.", he said before ripped the mask off, summoning his persona.
"Lucifer!", he yelled as he was summoned, maintaining his grim expression. However Demi-Fiend only responded with, "Oh, hey old man."
Quickly losing his composure, he glared at Demi-Fiend. "Grr, stop calling me that!"
"But Dad!-"
"And stop calling me that!"
"But you are my dad."
"I'm not your dad!"
"Dad."
"No!"
"Daddy!", he whined. Mirai looked at him with an incredulous look on her face. "How can you talk to daddy like that! He demands respect!", she reprimanded him, only Demi-Fiend to start patting her hand.
"Oh Sister... Sweet, naive, innocent little sister", he said slowly in a dramatic voice. "If their's one thing you thing should learn about your older brother is that I don't have a lot of respect for people, let alone figures of authority."
"Unfortunately...", Lucifer growled.
"Also how come you didn't tell me I have a sister! Is she the favorite or something!?"
Lucifer scoffed. "No... In all honesty I just did a Zeus and started... meeting people on earth. She was kinda of an accid-"
"Woah, woah, woah!", Yu yelled, his big brother instincts making him cover Mirai's ears. "Can you like, not talk about this in front of her!?"
"Yeah what the fuck Dad! I thought you were better than this!"
Lucifer ran and hand through his hair and groaned. "You know I wish I just didn't interfere in that damn conception. I wouldn't have to deal with you then."
Demi-Fiend gasped, almost looking hurt, before he gained a fire in his eyes and sent Lucifer a fierce glare. "Grr, fuck you! You know this is why I chose the Freedom ending!"
Lucifer snorted. "As if I care, dealing with you is more trouble than it's worth."
Demi-Fiend only growled and started charging up an Magma Axis
"Oh so you think you can deal with me? I'll have you know that I was holding back during our little bought in the True Demon ending."
Demi-Fiend smirked. "Well so was I asshole!"
Ren looked frantically back and forth between them. "Wait wait if you hurt him I get hurt wait kashima sto- ahhhhhhhh!"
Minato looked unfazed as he saw Ren getting smacked around, and headed towards the door. "C'mon Aigis, we're leaving."
Hamuko smirked as she wrapped an arm around Aigis' waist. "I agree Aigis, let's go.", she said to Aigis who meekly nodded and walked to the door. Seeing them leave, Yu and Nahobino trailed along behind them.
Minato just rolled his eyes and looked to Demi-Fiend and waved goodbye at him, saying, "Well, see you Naoki.", but he didn't give any response besides uppercutting Lucifer, making Ren groan painfully.
'I don't care', he concluded, walking through door as Mirai looked in astonishment as Ren got his ass beat.
And done! I hope you enjoyed the chapter! If you want to have a say in what protagonist is included next in the third chapter of "The ATLUS Room", then go to the link in the review I posted to vote on it!
