Persona 5 Strikers – From Light and Dark
By Tayla Drago
Episode #22 - Ellen Guyver/Eiko Saitou
Before the story can go on, a strange flashback for only Akechi, Kaguya, and Picaro to see a lot of flashbacks of that might have something to do with the twin Persona sisters and both Hans and Ellen's too. So how does it involve Akechi too? It started out when Ellen and Hans were found abandoned and living together since their own parents left them behind on what looked like it happened from long ago.
Ellen: Mom...? Dad...? Where are you guys?
Hans: Ellen, they're never coming back again.
The sad truth is that Ellen is upset, for only Hans can keep her sister strong.
Ellen: But why, Brother?
Hans: Because adults have problems. But we still have each other. Still, I'm here for you. Your brother will always be here.
Ellen: Really? Thank you, Brother.
Hans: Anything to keep up living as a real family.
They were once alone on the streets to try to make a living in some old building, same with two more showing up after a murder took place to run away, the twin girls. Could they be what resembles the two Personas Picaro and Kaguya? Hmmm...Still unknown there, and another girl who left an abusive family with red hair. She was left unknown too.
Little Girl: We're all alike.
Twin Girl #1: Yes, and it's up to the five of us now to stick together to live a good life.
Twin Girl #2: Hell yes! Let's have a good life, ain't no crappy adults tell us what to do anymore!
Well for the twin girls might be them and the red hair one was just the only child, whoever she really is or was. They were happy living together as four sisters and one brother to have a good life. Sadly to steal from water, clothing, foods, and other things they needed to stay alive to make some money from stealing was the only way to survive for they were smart to come up with a plan and do it; never failed to do anything they set their mind to it.
Hans: To family we are forever.
Ellen, Little Girl, Twin Girl #1, and Twin Girl #2: To family!
Life was good for all five of them, well...not for long to have the years go by in a flash. For the little red-haired girl was slowly dying with some rare disease to slowly be dying and suffering a lot and no matter what they did to save her, they could get anything to save her life or have a cure for. From running away from adults a lot to see what was really happening to calling the cops about it, it was safe for the other kids to watch their friend die like this.
Little Girl: ….I'm sorry if I'm sick. Please don't worry about me.
From the looks of it, it sounded bad for her and the others to be crying.
Twin Girls #1 and #2: Don't go!
Ellen: We promise to be together forever! We're a family...! Brother, tell her!
Hans: ….Sadly, we can't afford any surgery for her or find a stronger medicine to use. She might be gone by tomorrow night.
All hope seems to be lost for them, until someone in white suits of three important people with the cops arrive in the old building to aid the children and offer them a deal too. With two older women, being hot and nerdy looking teenagers, and another was an old scientist in a long coat to cover his entire body but his eyes to be shown.
Odd Man: Well, well, five lonely children with no home. With one very sick.
Still, they don't like any help from any adults they didn't know about.
Twin Girl #2: Hey, adult! Get lost!
Odd Man: But with no home or money, your step-sister might not make it. We adults care for special children like yourselves. In fact, we wish to save this one. But...In return we would like for all four of you to come to a new home and be tested on.
Ellen: Tested on what? We're not your pet rats, old man!
Odd Man: We promise we care for children a lot, special ones. Like gifted, skilled, caring, and sad living types. We'll be better parents to you all. And the treatment is free.
With the other woman nodding a big yes there, the other children wanted to live a good life to get back on their dreams to have when they get older. So in order to save the red hair girl's life to live again, the older brother takes the deal to let the other sisters known that everything will work out now.
Hans: Fine, we'll do it. For a good home and a better life for all of us, just hold your promise to save our sister's life.
With him saying so, the others follow with their step-brother.
Ellen: Fine...For you, Brother, I will do anything.
Twin Girls #1 and #2: Us too! For our other sister's sake!
And so, they had a deal for the officer to aid them and the man told the rest on their way out to care for their younger step-sister to be carried out.
Odd Man: Good, good. Now while my friends aid your sister, you four will do wonderful on the tests you'll be given out. You brother and sister and you two girls will be great. Now let's get going.
Over the years, the four do a lot of different things in a lab for the girls to report to their boss on everything – skills of movement, thinking, special powers of some kind, and other things for the other girl to get better and do some easy tests for this one only. Many years went by for them to be in their late teens now; only for the entire building the people work at and the five children to live in one day burned down with nothing left but a few dead bodies and other work was destroyed. This was also during the time Akechi worked on a case with Zen a few years before the original game happened.
Akechi: Why...? Why did it have to happen?!
Zen: Goro, from things like these things can't be helped. From what happened to my wife, all we can do is to try solving cases like these until we find something. It will happen sooner or later.
Not a pretty sight to see and yet it still haunts them both since then for a few years already.
Akechi: I didn't become a detective to let others suffer like this...!
And that's what the flashbacks of Akechi, Picaro, and Kaguya were having a lot to still be left mysterious and be shown to them from time to time. Loki and Keiko to feel everything out. Do Hans and Ellen know about this too...? Now back to the story. With Keiko/Joker, Akechi/Black Crow, Morgana/Mona, Ryuji/Skull, Ann/Panther, Yusuke/Fox, Makoto/Queen, Futaba/Oracle, Haru/Noir, Sophia/Sophie, Loki, Picaro, and Kaguya surround Ellen 'who might be the same kid like Hans was to both look completely different now', demand some answers. What were the twins' goals of EMMA, Jails, cores, Desires, Gegasites, a Metaverse take over, Pandora's Box weapon, Monarch, and such? This was still a lot to uncover besides making the bad sister talk, this was only the beginning.
Ellen: Ah, man...Three Personas, a cat, a robot, three guys, and five girls. A true Phantom Thief team my Brother and I need to look out for during our mission.
Loki: What have you done with my family, bitch?!
Slow it down there, Loki, like your words will faze with this one.
Akechi: Loki, please. Ellen, was it? It appears you are our enemy. That goes the same for your twin brother too from the night of the research?
From a few years ago where it all took place, and sadly Ellen doesn't know anything about it.
Ellen: Research? What are you talking about, boy? Pushy...And yet, you're kind of cute. Why fall for someone like the whore woman in black instead of me?
Not happening for any girl flirting with Akechi doesn't work on him at all.
Akechi: Ah, no thank you...!
Keiko: HEY! "Whore"?! I'm not a whore! And Black Crow is mine!
Ellen: You two in love?! Oh, poo. Well, my heart still belongs to my Brother.
The others didn't get what she meant at first.
Ryuji: Brotherly love...?
Futaba: Ah, if you've seen some Anime series. Like cousins, some brothers and sisters are sometimes more than family love if you know what I mean.
Sophia: In other words, she's in love with her brother.
Now they all get it to feel a bit gross out. So yeah, ew!
Ryuji: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!
Yusuke: How disturbing...!
Ann, Makoto, Haru, and Morgana: Disguising!
Tayla: Yeah, I so agree with them there from an Anime or in real life is still wrong!
Picaro: Hey! Loving a brother is so wrong! And lady, how can you not remember-?!
Kaguya: Picaro, wait!
Picaro: But, Kaguya!
No matter what anyone says – Akechi, Picaro, or Kaguya's words can't reach out to this one at all.
Kaguya: It seems what we're trying to remember still, she cannot recall anything from those years ago. It'll take time. It's up to us to learn more. Who we once were, Ellen, her brother Hans, the other little girl, and everything else. Right now, we're up to a slow start.
Yeah, it was for the best.
Loki: Sad to say it, but she's right. This sucks waiting around.
Akechi: Then I guess we have no choice but to stop the twins, their boss, and find Pandora's Box before they do.
If that answer can't be told right now, then something else to ask about might work.
Keiko: Tell us, Ellen! Why are you and your brother doing this? This EMMA app is making people into slaves and others to have their Desires die and mindless zombies in the real world.
Ellen: Grrr...! Joker, I'm starting to hate you more and more...! I can tell you a little. Brother and I want to change the world to make our own dreams come true and change a lot of things for a better tomorrow. Humans are monsters to make things worse, make someone better to change their lives than their old ones once were...Garbage! Mommy took us in to carry it out with the Gegasites to make a new world order with more energy to gather from all of them, from your world and here. Like playing house, only in real life. Finding the key that'll lead us to Pandora's Box is in full control to unlock a ruler to set our minds free. And...So and so to make new friends of our own. Brother wants girls to make a new world order with more family, but not when I'm around! I just want us to be a true family again with real friends of our own. Sorry, but that's all I know to live a life before that and change things around to try stopping all of you, losers.
Makoto: Not everything's perfect, Ellen! Having power and making others do things for you!
Ann: It only makes you a coward!
Making Ellen more angry, she puts on a fit like a little kid does to take her anger and jealousy for nothing.
Ellen: No! Shut up! Shut up! I'm not a coward and we need the energy to have the ultimate weapon! We will!
Picaro and Kaguya: Don't be foolish-!
Trying to attack Ellen, the twins move quickly...but she moves away in seconds from them to be very fast too.
Ellen: Too slow.
Picaro: Damn, she's fast!
Kaguya: We're no match against her!
Ellen: Well, Joker, I got enough information on you guys. So I'm off until we meet again, I will have you all destroyed. And the leader died by my hands for seducing my Brother.
Keiko: I don't know what you're talking about, but you can forget it! Your brother's not my type!
Ellen: Even so, he loves you more for me to save him...! So watch it, bitch! Until then...good-bye.
Blowing a kiss and disappearing in seconds to hear her annoying laugh. Ellen was powerful for the Phantom Thieves to watch for. With the data gathered, she returns to wait for further instructions again for later on. Weird jealousy there for someone so delusional, huh? But the task the twins were doing was real.
Yusuke: Two new enemies, their boss, and their goal to carry about. We best be on our toes against the Guyver twins if they ever show up again.
Akechi: Brother and sister in love, I think I'll be sick after this.
One was puking in the corner already.
Loki: Don't remind me!
Keiko: (Ellen and Hans Guyver. Changing for their own world to be better and good? Why?) Look, let's get the last proof of Natsume's core and worry about the twin thing later...Minus the romance of grossness. Up we go.
Akechi: Joker's right, we should finish up here first.
The last Keeper they run up to and get the core itself to be...a Gaudy Fountain Pen. Wow, pens like those with a golden dragon on it are really cool.
Morgana: Okay, that's three pieces of proof.
Yusuke: Seems this last one is a fountain pen. Fitting for a writer, I suppose.
Not as someone who's too full of himself like Natsume was.
Ryuji: So now we can get into the Overlord's castle, right?
Yusuke: If we're following the novel, then yes.
Sophia: We're finally going to storm the castle.
For what they've been through so far, they'll be ready for the second one to go down next.
Ryuji: ...Hmph. 'Bout damn time. The Phantom Thieves are comin' for you, asshole.
Akechi: For more to learn about, I'll take my chances. Ellen herself and her affections towards her own brother still haunts me.
But he'll get to it and Zen's help too for sure. As for going to the castle next, not right now. Resting time and getting some of the things are first.
Makoto: Hold on. Maybe we should head back for now? If we're going to charge into enemy territory, we should probably make sure we're prepared.
Ann: Good idea...I'm all sorts of tired after that last fight.
Perverted old man as the Fearsome Four warrior hitting on Ann and Ellen, I don't blame her.
Keiko: As a member was a sicko.
Haru: Ahahaha...Sorry, Panther.
Morgana: Hmm...It might not be a bad idea to fall back and regroup. What's the plan, Joker?
And the decision to do was what...?
Keiko: Let's head back for now. I think for me all of you guys must be starving now.
Akechi: Good idea, we should recharge before we can continue.
Futaba: That's right! We gotta be at top of our game before a big operation. That's Phantom Thieves 101.
Makoto: That settles it, then. Let's make our way back.
Time to leave for now, as the same goes for the other three Personas.
Loki: As always, keep me posted.
Kaguya and Picaro: We'll be back.
Off they go and the Phantom Thieves return back to the real world again, while back in the main Jail itself where Natsume as the Overlord himself of his Shadow self gets the news that all of his Fearsome Four members got killed in battle. And his get up look was too much to wear or to look at. His whole base is so Castlevania type of look.
Natsume Shadow: So the Fearsome Four were defeated...?
Man in Black: Yes...Seems they were felled by a new group of heroes calling themselves the "phantom Thieves."
Natsume Shadow: The Phantom Thieves? You mean the ones everyone won't stop talking about? You don't think...I mean, do they truly believe they're going to change my heart? Heh...Eheheheh...Ahahahaha! They mean to topple the Overlord himself? Fools! They're destined to fail, just like all who came before them! This world is under my absolute control! No one is going to take it from me! No matter who's brave enough to try...Only the twins are able too, but the thieves and friends won't last for long.
Annoying as ever of the real one and Shadow self, so annoying. Now back in the real world during night time...From resting up a little 'to not go to sleep yet', eating, drinking, getting more weapons, armors, accessories, and items too. Then Keiko with Morgana and Sophia finishing up from shopping in different stores to shopping online for cell phones too, Futaba text messages Keiko on something big.
Keiko: Hey, it's Futaba...
[Futaba: Heyo, Big Sis! Got a sec? Found something interesting. I'll let the others know! Swing by the hideout when you're free.]
Just as soon as Keiko finishes shopping from Sophia's help and the other places in Sapporo, Sendai first. Lots of food stalls to check out, with some food to try out as well, with some having the Big Bang Burger place too; and now with all of that taken care of to finally head back to the mobile home to talk to everyone else. What was on Futaba's mind right now? It's a bit different than doing the requests one in my story – just so you guys know that. Other than Akechi still thinking about Ellen in the flashbacks he's been seeing lately, there was a lot to discover along the road.
Futaba: Hey, guys, sorry to bring up business when we're all tired and stuff.
Akechi: It's nothing, Futaba. I just reported back to Master on what we did today, he got everything down. So, tell us what you found out.
For Keiko to see what Akechi was thinking about, she holds that part off for now.
Keiko: Anything you can give us, Futaba, it's okay. It must be important.
Haru: Oh, no, you're fine like Keiko-Chan just said. I think we're all feeling a lot better now that we've eaten. So what did you find out?
Yusuke: Have you learned something about Natsume?
Something a bit different to have the Jails from before to be there still, with some pests to be dealt with.
Futaba: Nope, not Natsume. This is about Alice.
Ann: Alice?
Keiko: Wasn't she already stopped?
Futaba: I was looking into this even after we changed her heart back in Shibuya...And she's fine now, this is something else. But it looks like some of her fans never reverted back to normal. It makes the Gegasites even stronger to take over the people's Shadows again.
Yeah, not good. So some aren't fine to love Alice work or others while Gegasites gather together to do the same thing with Jail's ruler of a Monarch.
Morgana: How can that be? I thought we released all of the Desires she stole...Those Gegasites are still swarming around.
Ryuji: Yeah, we-We saw 'em all go back to their owners and not becomin' those gross goddamn bugs, right?
Futaba: We did, but...Some people still get set off if you criticize Alice even just a little...Even from one Gegasite can control a few people if not a lot more. There's reports of people getting threatened and even attacked...Seriously messed up.
How it's going on still, I think Akechi figures it out first.
Akechi: I think the Gegasites are like ants. Once a queen is killed for her male armies to lead them, they are on their own to try to stay strong. The more mindless victims they take control and take their Desires, the better chance a new queen of theirs will be born soon.
Keiko: You're explaining Gegasites compared to ants, Akechi? And yet...you might be onto something about them. Like a swarm to never leave anyone alone.
For other fans of Alice to make some ant hills type to keep on growing if nothing is done right away.
Akechi: And it's not just back at Alice's Jail, maybe Natsume later on...And who knows on the other ones we might come across with next.
Yusuke: Their obsession with Alice hasn't dissipated?
Futaba: I'm thinking maybe some Desires haven't returned to their owners. I think our Ace Detective might be onto something once again.
Some have, just a little are stuck.
Morgana: So it's possible they haven't returned?
Makoto: There's a lot we still don't understand about the Jails, so we can't exactly rule that out...
Keiko: Let's not forget how they're connected to Loki too.
Makoto: And Ellen and her brother connected to this whole mess. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that the Shibuya Jail didn't disappear.
Lots of Gegasites take them out and their Shadow forms to save the leftovers of people's Desires. No slaves, no energies stolen, and them getting killed.
Morgana: Hmm, that is concerning...
Keiko: We should look into it then. We need more information. Not just for Loki, the twins, and the rest of us. Even Sophia.
It was best to look around there sometimes and train as well.
Morgana: Good point, Madame Keiko. But the question is - how do we do that?
I think someone has an idea, being Sophia to say something next.
Sophia: [Why not just visit the Jail?]
Morgana: As much as I'd love to do that, we can't just leave here and go back.
Nope, not to travel to only go to the Jail with the EMMA app only of the Metaverse can be allowed.
Sophia: [There's no need to go back. I meant you should visit the Shibuya Jail from here.]
Ann: Huh? What do you mean?
Sophia: [Ever since we left the Shibuya Jail, I've wondered if we might be able to get back inside. Hoping to find out, I put in the keyword earlier. Sure enough, I was given access to the Shibuya Jail. I couldn't do the same with the Sendai Jail, however, so it may have something to do with the fact that the Jail no longer has its Monarch. It works somewhat like a backdoor function, I think.]
Still functional to take care of others they left out to deal with, so they can go to other Jails they've finished with at any time.
Akechi: A weak point of leftovers wandering around to try to plan their task...So I was right.
Makoto: So we can also enter even though we're nowhere near the same place in the real world? We certainly couldn't do that with the Palaces.
Far different than the Palaces were from a year or two ago.
Keiko: I guess with Jails are way different this time.
Morgana: Just the idea of a Metaverse existing without an owner is a first for us. I guess our experience with the Palaces can only help us so much here...
Ryuji: Dude, this is pretty sweet, though, ain't it? We can basically warp to Shibuya now, right?
Not the area, but the Jails of it only.
Sophia: [No. It's not as if you could leave the Jail and appear in the real–world Shibuya. You can only visit the Jail from here. Leaving will simply take you back to where you first entered.]
Checking the EMMA app of the entry...
Keiko: She's right, we can go from the Jail parts of the Metaverse only.
Yusuke: I suppose things wouldn't be that convenient.
Haru: This is still better than nothing, though. Thanks for looking into that, Sophia.
Ann: Yeah, that's super helpful!
Akechi: Our little AI has done it once again.
This made Sophia happy again.
Sophia: [I've made myself useful.]
Keiko: That's the spirit, Sophia. Nowhere to go now but up.
Sophia: [I will continue to do my best.]
It was best to stop the Gegasites of the Shadows of themselves too and freeing other Desires. The more training they do too, the better while finding some answers along the way. Even for Sophia's sake besides Loki, Kaguya, and Picaro.
Futaba: All right, how 'bout we check out the Shibuya Jail later on, then?
Akechi: From our enemies and aiding the other Personas...And Loki too, I say we take this chance.
Makoto: No objections here and Akechi-san's right. As for the Sendai Jail, let's meet up at the hideout once we're ready. We'll leave the timing to you, Keiko-Chan.
Might as well give it a try, right? For Loki and twin Person girls to learn about this too with Lava aiding them and the Phantom Thieves as well. So from any area to go back to the Jails they've been too to stop Gegasites and saving more of people's Desires to not become Gegasite slaves, it might help out a lot. Back to the Shibuya Jail in the Metaverse they go for the twin sisters and find nothing to fight off Gegasites and Shadows being controlled by one while finding their answers about the event with Ellen and Hans, anything they can find out.
Kaguya: Soon, Picaro, we'll learn everything we can to remember who we once were.
Picaro: ...Yeah, you're right. As you always are, Kaguya. Let's kick more ass and find our answers.
Good thing they can travel anywhere like both Loki and Sophia can too. Sophia herself with the other Phantom Thieves sees lots of Jack 'O Lantern armies to try stopping the Phantom Thieves. It's time for a team up element attack from each of them; once they're down for the count to leave Loki to kill off the Gegasites.
Keiko: Everyone! Do the formation attack now! Double Daggers of Darkness!
Remember, their attacks of the first is on one, the second is on all the enemies, and the third when the others are upgraded to use on the stronger bad guys.
Akechi: Double Edge Sword Take-down!
Morgana: Blaze of Rage!
Ryuji: Lightning Flash Attack!
Ann: Flame Shooter!
Yusuke: Frozen Waves!
Makoto: Viper Sting!
Haru: Petals of Doom!
With the Gegasites fleeing, Futaba traps up the leftovers but the freed Shadows make their escape right away.
Futaba: Oh, no you don't! Web Cage!
Then Loki finishes the rest of them off but one for Sophia to stomp on to.
Loki: Sorry, but I have a mission to complete. My people, I can rest in peace soon, you freaks are causing a mess, and...I WANT NOTHING MORE THAN TO KILL EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU!
Using his berserker mode to shoot, shoot down, and move in so fast did the trick and the last one to make it talk 'while also saving others' Desires to look like blue-like Gems once the Gegasites stop taking control to once being pink ones. Weird...
Gegasite: Ouch...!
Sophia: SP Piercer! Don't move. We want to ask you some questions. I'm playing a good cop.
Loki: And me the bad one...!
From being pinned down and threatening the Gegasite by sword point, it was time to get some answers with Akechi staying with Loki while the others free the other people of their Desires.
Ryuji: The hell was that all about?
Haru: More importantly, isn't this...?
The gem of that people's other Desires to be saved and set free.
Keiko: The Desires? It was pink when it was affected by the Gegasites, and back to normal as blue.
Yusuke: ...It seems there was a Desire left here, just as Oracle had mentioned. And Joker's right, like the Eternal Pearl gets when it's used for good or bad.
Ryuji: Yeah, but why was it left behind?
Who's to say why the Gegasites are still roaming around the leftover Jails like this first one is.
Keiko: For once, known of us has no idea...At least for the time being.
Morgana: This is just a theory...But that Gegasite who was controlling that Shadow said that Desire was his. I'm thinking it didn't return to its original owner because he had his mitts on it...Controlling a stronger Shadow just to look like a king. How low can these Gegasites go?
I know, it's so messy. Soon the Desire goes away within a flash.
Ann: Hey, where'd it go...?!
Futaba: And since we took him down and stopped the Gegasites, the Desire was finally released.
Haru: Then, would that mean the Alice fan who was still acting strange or more are back to normal?
Seems like it with more to stop from time to time.
Futaba: Might as well check. Maybe I can find a post about it online.
Makoto: True. Let's head back to the hideout for now.
But before that, the interrogation time.
Akechi: Gegasite type of bugs, how disturbing you all are. Now...Start talking. And Loki, keep your distance. I'll do this for you and for the others.
Sophia: Including me too.
Loki: Fine. But you better start talking.
Gegasite: No! Please don't hurt me!
Then start talking or else...
Akechi: Then we do this the easy way or the hard way. Why are you doing this to Loki and his family? Why work for the strange twins? And what's Sophia's creation for?
Gegasite: I can't! If I do, they'll kill me!
Akechi: Are you talking about the twins Hans and Ellen Guyver?
Oops, someone spilled the beans to mention the twins of "they" loud and clear.
Gegasite: No, wait-!
Firing a warning shot, Loki wasn't being a fool to getting serious now.
Loki: Answer the question!
Akechi: Loki!
Slow down! Once this Gegasite talks, it begins to tell an important story on how Pandora's Box on why and what the deal with all the Gegasites came from.
Gegasite: Wait! I'll talk, just save me please...! I surrender quietly, as long as those twins don't find me...! We were born to take over human Desires. Some have an thing to love someone's work to make a better ruler on one end since the app on their devices was made; without taking the humans' Desires in their world, turning their Shadow selves into slaves for us to control, and gather energy the more Desires we gather. It's all to find and use Pandora's Box. We were made to create chaos from within the item...Long ago, Pandora herself was the most beautiful woman in all of Rome, Italy. One day the Roman Gods mess with her to open the forbidden item to unleashing us; we were once outcast Shadows of the Metaverse to lead from one world into the next one to enter, we were all sealed and stopped by the members of Personas and the Velvet Room to be hidden away forever; which led to Pandora herself into a curse of eternal living with a curse to carry the box forever of an outcast from her home. She traveled all over the world for centuries under different names in her lifetime as the world involved more and more. Sadly, with us sealed away and the item was found to be hidden away in the Metaverse somewhere...no one has seen Pandora herself as if...She just disappeared. Killed? Kidnapped? Became a god herself...? Who knows! And centuries later on this day, someone freed us to cause more trouble the way we used to, some who had no choice! With the twins showing up and demanded to cause more chaos to someone as the Monarch King of their Jails to gather slaves and Desires for more energy of the weapon to be recovered. I don't know why the twins who were once humans were causing this mess, but I do know this...their mastermind is far worse who caused the mess for a very long time. It needs to be stopped! Please help us, we want to be free.
Somehow telling the truth, they still needed to know a few more things...and yet someone was spying on them all.
Sophia: Who's the real mastermind? Do you know?
Gegasite: If anyone can save the twins and the other two Persona sisters, it's you guys. For the real mastermind to find the key who knows of Pandora Box location and created us was-!
Just then something comes flying in really fast...! Bang! From it to avoid the Phantom Thieves, Loki, Picaro, and Kaguya from the item but the one Gegasite to get hit and blows up in a few seconds to die right in front of them. Ew, not a good sight to see, huh?
Keiko: Hey!
Akechi: It's dead?!
Trying to see where the shot came from, the person was already gone. One of the twins, or someone else working for them?
Loki: No! Who did it?! After we were so close to learning more!
Sophia: There was someone here to murder and then makes its escape. The Gegasite has sadly passed on.
She double checked to make sure of it too.
Morgana: No way...! An assassin?!
Futaba: Probably...! Ah, man...! It was so fast, I couldn't pick up where it came from, or who did it.
Makoto: Is anybody hurt?!
Nope, they were still alive and kicking still.
Ryuji, Ann, Yusuke, and Haru: We're OK!
Sophia: We're still all accountable.
Loki: And we just wait until this killer comes at us again?! Grr...Such a waste of my time!
Still, they have no choice right now. Loki had to wait for a little while longer to get some information so far. With a slap in the face did the trick for Loki didn't care at all other than to snap out of it a little.
Picaro: Calm down, dumb ass! We got something today, right...? The story of Pandora's Box must be true.
Kaguya: Then maybe it might be related to us and those twins, correct?
Picaro: Maybe...I don't know. Learning history isn't my best subject.
Hearing that part, they were once teenagers from back then if it really is Kaguya and Picaro of the twin girls back then and the eldest in the group of the smart five kids.
Kaguya: It's okay. You see, Loki? We'll get there. Something did happen to force these creatures to cause trouble by using your kind for more power, the main power of them all. But we'll find out more.
Yeah, Loki's kind could be alive still and held hostage for the main source of power in some other Jail in the area. So that was one thing solved and Pandora Box's history to also learn about too.
Keiko: They're right. Loki, just relax. We made a deal to aid each other, remember?
Loki: Heh...I suppose for now. I would never argue with you, Keiko. For his sake besides my own.
And with that, they saw a warning to be on their feet for now on.
Akechi: That was my line, Loki. And thanks.
Loki: Just shut up and take it already.
Akechi: I say we head back for now and try to gather anything else up the more we can find.
And with that, the Phantom Thieves head back for now while Sophia goes back into Keiko's cell phone, leaving the other three Personas to do more research on what they can still gather up.
Picaro and Kaguya: Right.
I think Loki will be fine now to make a grave for this one 'that was nice of him to do'. And for the assassin, Hans Guyver's doing for his skills was using any items to shoot a perfect shot with, like Ellen has to use dark magic for her toys and random objects for her brother to use for shooting without missing his target. Spying on the Phantom Thieves again? Back in the real world to regroup and read about online requests on others getting their Desires back 'with Alice upset fans to be less now'...It was time to call it a night.
Futaba: Okay, I'll keep everyone posted as much as I can get.
Keiko: Please do, Futaba.
Morgana: Tomorrow's our final siege on Natsume's castle. We need to be good and ready for whatever he may throw at us. We'll get back to the other part later with the twins and Futaba's help.
Akechi: Then let's get some sleep. Good night, everyone.
Yeah, resting would be good and bathing too. The girls get some sleep, same with the guys, Sophia on charge mode, while both Akechi and Keiko cuddle in the same motel room to be spending a few more days there until the deed has been done. By stopping Natsume and his Shadow from this Jail mess. More infiltration to do tomorrow for the Birdcage to stop another Warden and then...the Calling Card to him will be next.
8 – August/3rd/Thursday (Sendai)
A new day to be ready to go back to Natsume Shadow's Jail, with a few more things to get and how was everyone else doing this morning...From Haru getting some food to try cooking for everyone...
Haru: This looks good, or this one, or maybe these kinds...
She'll get the right ones to use. And Makoto with some drinks from the vending machines.
Makoto: Hmm...This one's new. But it's not too fattening, is it?
Not all of them are, that goes the same thing with Ann picking out some sweets of her own kind.
Ann: Chocolate covered bananas...Mmmm! So good!
I guess she likes it, the Zunda Mochi Shop was the place to get the sweets at Sendai. Seeing more for Futaba, Yusuke, and Ryuji to see the Masamune Date's statue to be not covered in Natsume's posters this time.
Yusuke: Ah, seeing this work always puts a smile on my face.
Ryuji: We know, you love it. And I hafta admit, it still looks kick ass.
Futaba: If only this area had a Sengoku Basara gaming festival instead. Now that would be really cool.
That would be cool. The rest for Morgana walking around to follow Keiko and Akechi 'with Sophia on her cell phone to see the other parts of the tour during their engagement date, for a little while to be going out.
Morgana: Check it out, Sophia. Try naming the areas you see around you right now. Go ahead, any whatever you like.
Sophia: [What are the things in Sapporo, Sendai? Hmmm...A sweet treat stand, a shrine, a luck shrine, items to buy stands, a bookstore, other food stands, a Big Bang Burgers, other clothes stores, the Masamune Date statue...]
She was made to be humanity's companion alright and a know-it-all.
Morgana: Ah...OK, you got me. You do everything.
Sophia: [I am programmed to help any human, even the Phantom Thieves.]
Same Sophia as always during this event, huh? With Keiko and Akechi having something to drink and eat together while sitting down for a nice view of the area they were parked at.
Keiko: So much to learn about our new enemies, huh Akechi? Ah, Akechi-Cun...? (Ever since we met with Ellen Guyver, he was sensing the same dream he's been having lately even before this trip started.)
A lot of the flashbacks I talked about from this chapter/episode on what was going down 'so far' was still on Akechi's mind to see a lot. For Zen and Keiko to learn about, as well as Kaguya, Picaro, and Loki too.
Akechi: Huh? Oh, sorry Princess. It's about Ellen Guyver. We have to be careful with her and her brother who killed the witness Gegasite.
Keiko: So you know who shot it? Ellen's brother?
Akechi: Twin brother. Something tells me he has the power to make anything small into a bullet when he touches, aims, and fires in a far distance. Like Ellen has to make any toys of hers into dark magic weapons, these two could be related in the case Master and I are trying to solve from the dream I've been having. They, another girl, and the twin girls who might be Kaguya and Picaro.
Well, he was starting to put the pieces together little at a time.
Keiko: Those two are connected to the past the twin Guyvers are?! No way...!
Akechi: They are. Born after they each lost their families to live together, the one red hair girl was slowly dying from a rare disease. The four were upset for two women and the man in a strange coat took them in to study and save their step-sister. But by the time both Master and I arrived at an old research building...The four were found dead but the fifth child. All the work was gone and the people working there just left.
Keiko: Then they were murder and took the ill one with them. They were being treated like lab rats! How could they do such an awful thing? But what do they have to do with finding Pandora's Box and the holder of it with the Six Medallion Kings? None of this is making any sense at all.
Upsetting as it all sounds, this only leaves for Akechi, Zen, and the Phantom Thieves to try solving.
Akechi: That's what I really like to know no matter what it'll lead us. I won't give up.
Keiko: And what about the little girl who was sick?
Akechi: ….Sadly, I don't know who she is right now. I got a lot to do by solving this case. Sorry.
Hugging each other to know they still have a long way to go.
Keiko: Hey, Akechi...it's okay, we'll find our answers. Together. With each other and our friends. We even need to aid Sophia too.
Akechi: Yes, Keiko, you're right. I have you and my friends. We'll solve this mystery together. EMMA, Sophia, the twins, and the mastermind. All of it. Princess, I don't know what I do without your help or in my life.
Keiko: And the same here for changing me so much. To have friends, a new life, and to be married real soon, my Akechi-Cun...
To be hugging, kissing, and making out for a bit...only for Akechi to sneakily touch Keiko's breasts to play around with for a bit.
Akechi: My, my, yours is still getting soft and bigger every day.
Keiko: Akechi...! Not in public!
Akechi: But you do like it...
This has Morgana keep an eye on their love to be nice, and Akechi to be sweet to his fiance.
Morgana: Stop it, Akechi!
Almost clawing Akechi in order to make him stop, but this only made Akechi laugh from his silliness.
Sophia: [Their love is special.]
Morgana: But not on other things to do but in private!
Akechi: Hey, I'm only playing, Morgana. Easy on the claws please. Now we should be heading back to return to Natsume's Jail.
It was time to head back.
Keiko: Right, let's get going. (Even if Akechi does do silly things when we're in love, it means the world to each other. As well as what's to come next.)
About to head back for these four, this has someone else shopping for Ellen as Eiko to be shopping again to get a quick report back from the responded to their Mommy as their boss; since she couldn't speak for the strange man from the flashback of the twins and the other mysterious woman to do all the work for her. These two are more than researchers of the five kids.
Ellen: (Mommy!) This is Ellen Guyver, what is it?
For now, he'll be known as the "Hooded Man" until we know who he really is and his mysterious woman later on.
Hooded Man: Ah, the young Ellen Guyver, good morning. My partner and I are just reporting back to your mother on the process of finding the holder and Pandora's Box for her. How's the search going?
Ellen: (Like you'll know other than Brother and me, god! He's so impatient sometimes!) We have a problem with the humans who are in our way with powers, they're known as the Phantom Thieves. A real big hit in Japan.
I guess the twins don't like them but to trust in their mother boss better who treats them well.
Hooded Man: Phantom Thieves...Huh? What does she mean, Mistress?
And the woman in the lab coat will be called "Mistress" who doesn't speak but makes signs of what she tries to say.
Ellen: I'm only reporting back like you told us to do for Mommy's sake.
Hood Man: Yes, you are. I can count on you two siblings...It's my Mistress who can be so slow sometimes. Bad, Mistress!
He hurts a lot to take it in and like it, now that's messed up.
Ellen: (Dammit, I really hate these two...!) Look, we will keep searching and report back when we get something on Pandora's Box. I promise. Brother told me to study them and nothing else unless we need to take serious measures.
Hood Man: Very well, carry on then. Mother said you both are doing great as always. Even the Gegasite traitor had to be put down for doing a big no-no of course. So give your brother our thanks and Mother too. Until we talk again, take care.
Ellen: Yes, over and out for now. (Shit! I swear, some men but my Brother...They're all sick!)
Grabbing hold of a Natsume poster to rip it apart but others in the real world didn't care but to love his work still, she was really mad. As Hans heard everything on his end for the Mistress and Hooded Man to work for Mother, he too was on to them like his sister was. Smart twins. For those two working for this "Mother or Mommy boss" might have had something to do with the Gegasite creation while also keeping the secret hidden. More to come next time, already I don't like the other two researchers.
Hooded Man: The Phantom Thieves...I like to see the data on their skills and such for myself...