Persona 5 Strikers – From Light and Dark
By Tayla Drago
Episode #64 - A Brotherly and Sister Family Love
Getting to a few things to talk about before we go on with the story, little at a time that is. With an army of Gegasites and Sentries trying to break into Cafe Leblanc where Sojiro and other people in Yongen-Jaya are in and hiding, this old man owner had a few tricks up his sleeves...spray on coffee all at them.
Sojiro: Yeah! Suck on some of my hose coffee holder, little freaks!
Doing so to get burned and fled away, this was Sojiro's chance with the others to lock all of their doors and windows.
Woman: Sakura-san!
Sojiro: Quickly! Get back to your homes, lock your doors, windows, and use anything to defend yourselves with! Go now!
Doing so right away and Sojiro draw them all away near the train station for now 'to be all emptied right now', allowing for Sojiro to get back home to do to lock up everything there and the cafe on his way out with less damages than it was outside.
Man: You heard the man, people, let's keep our guards up!
And they all do. Guns, something sharp, kitchen things, and even fire itself. A lot of Gegasites and Sentries were in the area to look for more humans elsewhere so they all have to stay behind. It was better than dying and/or getting capture. Without having their Desires taken to becoming mindless slaves either.
Sojiro: I did it! (Good, we should be fine. Still, I feel like I wanna do something than just sit my ass around...What would Keiko and Futaba do?)
Don't worry, you guys, he'll be fine now and others now all over Yongen-Jaya. Holding off for now until the Phantom Thieves can stop all of this mess.
Futaba: Sojiro!
This has Futaba worrying about Sojiro 'like a hidden feeling of her stepfather.
Morgana: Oracle?
Keiko: What's wrong?
Futaba: I don't know, but I feel like...Sojiro might be in grave danger, and yet he wanted us to keep going-!
A bit worried, the others were with her no matter what for Futaba to keep on aiding them. Keiko, Akechi, Morgana, Ryuji, Ann, Yusuke, Makoto, Haru, Sophia, Zen, Hans, Ellen, Kaguya, Picaro, Raiho, and Loki all get it.
Loki: This doctor and his mess up games has to end...!
With Raiho holding Futaba's hand to let her know that all is well.
Keiko: Don't worry, Oracle. Knowing Mr. Sakura, he'll pull through. I bet Sae, Akane, and the others we all know are doing the same thing right now.
Makoto: My sister can fight too you know. If anything, Boss will be fine.
Zen: Same with my daughter. I bet my boss is there right now.
A wishful thinking did come true.
Akechi: Oracle, Boss wants for you to keep on fighting. Otherwise, we wouldn't be the Phantom Thieves for nothing, right. We're all with you.
Futaba: ….Everyone, thanks.
This makes her feel a bit better now.
Keiko: You can still fight?
Futaba: Yes! More than anything now. Let's save the worlds, Sojiro, and everyone we work so hard on stopping this...curse out event!
Keiko: Right, let's have a look around the room then. (Mr. Sakura, just hang in there a little while longer please.)
Elsewhere – Kuon Ichinose does background on the whole Pandora's Box story, the real truth to cover on why Dr. Kano Guru was doing all of this in the first place, you know?
Ichinose: ….! Wait, this is...All the hidden data, I took it out of Sango's jacket, she knew something...All about the Shadow of Pandora's brother, there's more to this story. I have to learn more about it.
And knowing it she does, a lot to talk about next too. Believe me!
Tayla: Here's the other parts on what we've learned a lot of the Pandora's Box curse told by me in this chapter/episode for today the best way I can with some added parts in between too. I know I tell this a lot and such besides Sophia's Persona, but still.
Pandora's box is an artifact in Greek mythology connected with the myth of Pandora in Hesiod's Works and Days. Remember – she loved one guy, but her parents didn't allow and the man didn't find her attracted to his type of girl, but his best friend was to be rich, wealthy, and such to get married and leaving her broken hearted. As well as making something for Pandora herself and her little brother 'to be a caring boy' were both curious about Hesiod's creation.
Pandora: Hesiod, what have you been working on?
Hesiod: The best of all thing to have a vision to stored all thing into one simple box of strong magic, with a curse.
Pandora's Brother: A curse?
Hesiod: Think of it! God has given me a gift. With this if anything evil were to be unleashed, we can use this here to seal it up. With it curse can release something so powerful and evil. Trust me, this will come in handy someday.
He reported that curiosity led her to open a container left in the care of her husband, thus releasing physical and emotional curses upon mankind. Later depictions of the story have been varied, while some literary and artistic treatments have focused more on the contents than on Pandora herself.
Pandora: This box is the key to do good and bad? What good would it do for me if I can't find true love?
Pandora's Brother: Sister...
The container mentioned in the original account was actually a large storage jar, but the word was later mistranslated. In modern times an idiom has grown from the story meaning "Any source of great and unexpected troubles", or alternatively "A present which seems valuable but which in reality is a curse". The war happened in Odin's world for him, Thor, Loki, and the other members fought off against a demon as Hesiod's luck came true to use the box; from the Gegasite Queen and her army were all very deadly – the one who caused it was Hesiod's best friend that Pandora loved but like power more Prometheus 'of his Shadow self and normal were completely losing his humanity even as a god. The item came in handy and the man loss it for Odin warned Zeus of the mess which was unleashed was bad enough.
Odin: What is the meaning of this, Zeus?!
Zeus: Sorry, but Prometheus thought-!
Odin: Thought of what? Of this man's recklessness to learn cause a demon to unleashing in other worlds for the box to seal it away? And what if it comes back again, then what? He'll destroy all worlds and she'll make more armies to have your kind killed.
Odin: We knew of the danger if it wasn't for Loki's warnings.
A lot to take it to let it all go, but without leaving a warning to all of humanity.
Zeus: Fine. Then someone has to be punished. Since Pandora was heart broken by the man she once loved, then I shall give her the task of keeping this item safe from ever getting unleashed. Even after death to go with her-!
Loki: Hey! Do that and add her child to live and others to use the powers for good! If the last member is alive, then it'll be that person or more than one to end the curse. Please allow it!
Did it sounded like a dare there?
Odin: Do so and I'll leave Loki to give the task out to her in return.
Zeus: I'll allow it. While I deal with Prometheus's on his greed, this will be cared out of the curse until a true source of the box's power can bring it to order. As well as six medallions to keep them safe and given to the right owner from the curse's powers and some good to be driven out. Then let it began!
So that's how it was done, and Loki's only goal by Odin's orders to do some good. According to Hesiod, when Prometheus stole fire from heaven during the big war that went down of the Gegasites ability to have, Zeus, the king of the gods, took vengeance by presenting Pandora to Prometheus' brother Epimetheus. From Prometheus imprisoned, he tricked Epimetheus to do something reckless. Instead of Pandora watching over the box, he had her open it.
Epimetheus: Do it, sister, open it to find true love.
Pandora: True love for me...
Pandora opened a jar left in her care containing sickness, death and many other unspecified evils which were then released into the world. Though she hastened to close the container, only one thing was left behind – usually translated as Hope, though it could also have the pessimistic meaning of "deceptive expectation".
Prometheus: She's mine now.
His real self dies to kill off Epimetheus for them to become one and soon to have the power with Pandora all to herself. The curse happen as Zeus said, but not from the traitor to do something bad to make things much worse.
Thor: Father, it's been done.
Odin: Do as I say, Loki! Get to work until the deed is done!
And off Loki goes to watch over Pandora for a long time, more like having real feelings for her once.
Loki: (She doesn't deserve a fate like this...)
Pandora: So I've been kicked out to be cursed forever with this box. For my family left to be saved, so be it. Goodbye, brother. I'm sorry for everything.
From this story has grown the idiom "to open a Pandora's box", meaning to do or start something that will cause many unforeseen problems. A modern, more colloquial equivalent is "to open a can of worms". The word translated as "box" was actually a large jar (pithos) in Greek. Pithoi were used for storage of wine, oil, grain or other provisions, or, ritually, as a container for a human body for burying, from which it was believed souls escaped and necessarily returned. Many scholars see a close analogy between Pandora herself, who was made from clay, and the clay jar which dispenses evils 'by her hands it did worked'. The mistranslation of pithos is usually attributed to the 16th-century humanist Erasmus who, in his Latin account of the story of Pandora, changed the Greek pithos to pyxis, meaning "box". The context in which the story appeared was Erasmus' collection of proverbs, the Adagia (1508), in illustration of the Latin saying Malo accepto stultus sapit (from experiencing trouble a fool is made wise). Over the centuries she traveled alone to have so much to keep one item in checked. In his version the box is opened by Epimetheus, whose name means 'Afterthought' – or as Hesiod comments, "he whom mistakes made wise". OF the original Six Medallion Kings 'even if there were female ones too'.
Different versions of the container -
Nicolò dell'Abate, 1555 (The Light King of Loss Souls) had a twin sibling as well
Russian fountain, 1801 (The Earth King of Femme Fatable)
James Gillray political cartoon, 1809 (The Fire King of Attention)
Pandora by John Gibson, 1899 (The Water King of Perfection)
John William Waterhouse, 1896 (The Spirit King of Justice)
And for Hesiod was a bonus (The Shadow King of Hope)
Leaving Pandora as the owner of the box
Six Medallion Kings: Use these medallions of six kinds to keep the weapon safe to do good and bad with them both.
Pandora: I will. Thank you.
There were alternative accounts of jars or urns containing blessings and evils bestowed upon humanity in Greek myth, of which a very early account is related in Homer's Iliad:
"On the floor of Jove's palace there stand two urns, the one filled with evil gifts, and the other with good ones. He for whom Jove the lord of thunder mixes the gifts he sends, will meet now with good and now with evil fortune; but he to whom Jove sends none but evil gifts will be pointed at by the finger of scorn, the hand of famine will pursue him to the ends of the world, and he will go up and down the face of the earth, respected neither by gods nor men."
He was talking about having a beast made in anger after losin the woman he once love to take his life; but left a message to do thing that were all left out. In a major departure from Hesiod, the 6th-century BC Greek elegiac poet Theognis of Megara states that
"Hope is the only good god remaining among mankind;
the others have left and gone to Olympus.
Trust, a mighty god has gone, Restraint has gone from men,
and the Graces, my friend, have abandoned the earth.
Men's judicial oaths are no longer to be trusted, nor does anyone
revere the immortal gods; the race of pious men has perished and
men no longer recognize the rules of conduct or acts of piety."
Once you have one thing brought back from the dead, a curse is left out to do good, but Gegasite did the bad which got her punished. Giulio Bonasone's 16th century engraving of Epimetheus opening the fatal jar. The poem seems to hint at a myth in which the jar contained blessings rather than evils. It is confirmed in the new era by an Aesopic fable recorded by Babrius, in which the gods send the jar containing blessings to humans. Rather than a named female, it was a generic "foolish man" who opened the jar out of curiosity and let them escape. Once the lid was replaced, only hope remained, "promising that she will bestow on each of us the good things that have gone away." This aetiological version is numbered 312 in the Perry Index. Surprising, Loki did good to watch Pandora since, only...for the real danger to happen...
In the Renaissance, the story of the jar was revisited by two immensely influential writers, Andrea Alciato in his Emblemata (1534) and the Neo-Latin poet Gabriele Faerno in his collection of a hundred fables (Fabulum Centum, 1563).
Alciato only alluded to the story while depicting the goddess Hope seated on a jar in which, she declares, "I alone stayed behind at home when evils fluttered all around, as the revered muse of the old poet [Hesiod] has told you".
Faerno's short poem also addressed the origin of hope but in this case it is the remainder of the "universal blessings" (bona universa) that have escaped: "Of all good things that mortals lack,/Hope in the soul alone stays back."
But beware of the dead of someone to thought of love, only wanted power with another of a brother and sister love was more mess up.
Prometheus: Guess who...
Pandora: No...! No, stay back! You're not my brother! You're dead and you're-!
Prometheus: I can now love you and have more power!
An idea of the nature of the blessings lost is given in a Renaissance engraving by Giulio Bonasone, where the culprit is Pandora's husband, Epimetheus. He is shown holding the lid of a large storage jar from which female representations of the Roman virtues are flying up into the air. They are identified by their names in Latin: security (salus), harmony (concordia), fairness (aequitas), mercy (clementia), freedom (libertas), happiness (felicitas), peace (pax), worth (virtus) and joy (laetitia). Hope (spes) is delayed on the lip and holds aloft the flower that is her attribute. With danger of Loki was unable to save Pandora to get impregnate of Mia for a uncle and aunt to be a mother an father to their child.
Loki: I'm too late...God dammit!
In Hesiodic scholarship, the interpretive crux has endured: Is the hope imprisoned within a jar full of evils to be considered a benefit for humanity, or a further curse?
A number of mythology textbooks echo the sentiments of M. L. West: "[Hope's retention in the jar] is comforting, and we are to be thankful for this antidote to our present ills."
Some scholars such as Mark Griffith, however, take the opposite view: "[Hope] seems to be a blessing withheld from men so that their life should be the more dreary and depressing."
The interpretation hangs on two related questions: First, how is elpis to be rendered, the Greek word usually translated as "hope"? Second, does the jar preserve elpis for men, or keep it away from men? Even though Loki watch on Pandora to give birth to Mia and place her somewhere safe in the 21st century around the 1970's or 1980's, all to take her life and the box with it; she even stabbed Prometheus to stay out of her life even after death.
Prometheus: Don't do it!
Pandora: I saved my baby from the likes of you! I want let you have Mia, me, or this curse...! I had a good life, but now...it's time to let go.
As with most ancient Greek words, elpis can be translated a number of ways. A number of scholars prefer the neutral translation of "expectation." Classical authors use the word elpis to mean "expectation of bad," as well as "expectation of good." Statistical analysis demonstrates that the latter sense appears five times more than the former in all of extant ancient Greek literature. Others hold the minority view that elpis should be rendered "expectation of evil" (vel sim). She cuts herself after stabbing Prometheus and dies with the box to be borrow safe, but not after he go something to do with it later on, with Loki reporting back, that's when Prometheus uses his last powers to go to one human man who loss it all – the real Kano Guru.
Tayla: I'm still telling the tale in between here.
The answer to the first question largely depends on the answer to the second one: should the jar be interpreted as a prison, or a pantry? The jar certainly serves as a prison for the evils that Pandora released – they only affect humanity once outside the jar. Some have argued that logic dictates, therefore, that the jar acts as a prison for elpis as well, withholding it from the human race. If elpis means expectant hope, then the myth's tone is pessimistic: All the evils in the world were scattered from Pandora's jar, while the one potentially mitigating force, hope, remains locked securely inside. A less pessimistic interpretation understands the myth to say: countless evils fled Pandora's jar and plague human existence; the hope that humanity might be able to master these evils remains imprisoned inside the jar. Life is not hopeless, but human beings are hopelessly human. Being the birth of Gegasite of the queen and her children to spread even after her king died off. With a name of Demiurge.
Demiurge: I need more power...Give me a vessel...
It is also argued that hope was simply one of the evils in the jar, the false kind of hope, and was no good for humanity, since, later in the poem, Hesiod writes that hope is empty (498) and no good (500) and makes humanity lazy by taking away their industriousness, making them prone to evil. The real Dr. Kano Guru was a researcher and a helper during the time, who went a bit overboard to do something before dying from a rare disease to be spreading to his body fast. He just left his wife for it along with Hans and Ellen right after their mother left for them to take off afterwards, unaware she died in a car crash when she got drunk 'but really to be Sango to lose he mind even after her mother died, father gone, and Kuon left'. Sad, huh?
Real Kano: No...I can't die like this yet. I need answers...I want to do good on others and find what I'm looking for...! Before I die! Before I die...!
In Human, All Too Human, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche argued that "Zeus did not want man to throw his life away, no matter how much the other evils might torment him, but rather to go on letting himself be tormented anew. To that end, he gives man hope. In truth, it is the most evil of evils because it prolongs man's torment." From then, Zeus and the other were killed by Prometheus's new powers he had left out as his old body finally gave in, but not his spirit to seek out Kano the last second back in the real world.
Prometheus: Ah, how sad. Looks like someone's losing their grip on life.
Real Kano: Huh? What are you...? Who are you? A ghost?
Prometheus: Not a ghost, but a friend. You want what I want too, we're a lot alike. I need to find someone and more power to save to those who are loss and alone More than one person maybe. But I need your help.
Real Kano: My help? But I'm dying soon. I don't have powers like you...whatever you really are.
Prometheus: Let me have your body to carry on your work for you. Sadly, you loss your wife to leave two kids behind to make friends with two more young girls, good. With them and my daughter, we can discover new things in the world and save them at once. Please...? Let me carry on for you and your spirit can rest on for all eternity.
With nothing left in his life 'or so he thought', Kano takes the deal and sole his soul from the real fallen god.
Real Kano: Yes...yes...save my children and yours. I want my work to do well with your help. Put me out of my misery then and do my job, please!
They then shake on it.
Prometheus: All right, it's deal. And thank you for this new body too, sucker.
Killing Kano's soul quick and painless, Prometheus was now reborn as the new and meaner Dr. Kano Guru himself. An objection to the "hope is good/the jar is a prison" interpretation counters that, if the jar is full of evils, then what is expectant hope – a blessing – doing among them? This objection leads some to render elpis as the expectation of evil, which would make the myth's tone somewhat optimistic: although mankind is troubled by all the evils in the world, at least it is spared the continual expectation of evil, which would make life unbearable. The optimistic reading of the myth is expressed by M. L. West. Elpis takes the more common meaning of expectant hope. And while the jar served as a prison for the evils that escaped, it thereafter serves as a residence for Hope.
Dr. Guru: I'm back...
West explains, "It would be absurd to represent either the presence of ills by their confinement in a jar or the presence of hope by its escape from one." Hope is thus preserved as a benefit for humans. And there had Odin mad to think Loki let an enemy escape, but he too was played on him to get blamed for nothing 'this is how he turned his back on his kind when Lilith and Yaldabaoth found him to join'.
Odin: Loki! You let Prometheus escape to keep the curse going with Pandora dead! How could you?!
Loki: What? But I was played, really! I thought she killed him!
Odin: Silence! I had enough, because of this, Zeus was killed because of him, and it's all your fault!
Not good news to hear at all.
Loki: Then I'll find him-!
Odin: I said silence! Now you leave me with no choice...You are hear by banned from this home side of the Metaverse only forever! Begone with you.
Thor: Good by, brother.
Leaving in heartbreak and in anger, he had no choice is when Persona 5 happened afterwards.
Loki: (Pandora...) Grr...! They'll all pay for this!
And that's what happened to Loki, unaware of Guru to do something else to Thor, Odin, and the others a few years later, capture and use for energy by force. Neither Alciato nor Faerno had named who was responsible for opening the jar beyond saying it was a "mortal". During the Renaissance it is the name of Epimetheus that is mentioned as often as not, as in the engraving by Bonasone noticed above and the mention of Pandora's partner in a rondeau that Isaac de Benserade took it on himself to insert into his light-hearted version of the Metamorphoses (1676) - although Ovid had not in fact written about it himself.
Pandora seated with her husband Epimetheus, who has just opened her jar of curses; an etching by Sébastien Le Clerc (1676)
"In a jar an odious treasure is
Shut by the gods' wish:
A gift that's not everyday,
The owner's Pandora alone;
And her eyes, this in hand,
Command the best in the land
As she flits near and far;
Prettiness can't stay
Shut in a jar.
Someone took her eye, he took
A look at what pleased her so
And out came the grief and woe
We won't ever be rid of,
For heaven had hidden
That in the jar."
The etching by Sébastien Le Clerc that accompanied the poem in the book shows Pandora and Epimetheus seated on either side of a jar from which clouds of smoke emerge, carrying up the escaping evils. The lid of the jar is quite plainly in Epimetheus' hand. Paolo Farinati, an earlier Venetian artist, was also responsible for a print which laid the blame on Epimetheus, depicting him as lifting the lid from the jar that Pandora is holding. Out of it boils a cloud which carries up a man and a dragon; between them they support a scroll reading "sero nimirum sapere caepit" (finding out too late), in reference to the meaning of Epimetheus' name in Greek .
Tayla: Break on that part for a bit, back in the real world – Sae, Miyako, and Akane made it inside a building to be working with power on and out running the Sentries and Gegasite with all of the securities active to keep all the bad guys out. Doors, windows, and vents just in the next of time.
Miyako: Please keep them out for now...
Sae: It'll be strong enough, now we just need a computer.
Miyako: I got one right here.
The main control room in the office so far, that was good to have a few more things left to be added.
Sae: A connection hacking to another one connected.
Akane: I can do a live streaming thing on my end to be a big fan of the Phantom Thieves.
Miyako: Are you sure?
Testing it out, it seems to be running fine, but it's not strong enough yet.
Akane: I'm in. Still have WIFI working.
Sae: The problem is, we can't hack to the Tokyo Radio Tower, it security tight.
Miyako: Great...And for once, we need one right away to speak through all over the areas of this mess to be spreading out other than here. The three of us aren't enough.
Akane: I wish Dad and Big Brother were here...!
All hope was lost, well almost...Sae might have someone in mind to have a phone number of, and sees the name on her cell phone.
Sae: (What if...) Wait, I might have an idea.
Trying to make this call while the other two waited.
Akane: But Ms. Niijima-!
Miyako: Wait, I think she's got this one. (I would arrest her for aiding a hacker, if this wasn't an emergency right now. But I will allow it.)
Whatever happens next, it will happen somehow, trust me. Now back to talk about a bit more of the past...
Tayla: So we've learned about Loki's real past and what happened, and Pandora's true one in this version to have more details left to talk about with some leftovers...
An Allegory of Les Sciences qui Éclairent l'esprit de l'homme (The Sciences that Illuminate the Human Spirit, 1557), an etching ascribed to Marco Angelo del Moro. Another Venetian print, ascribed to Marco Angelo del Moro (active 1565 – 1586), is much more enigmatic. Usually titled "Pandora's Box, or The Sciences that Illuminate the Human Spirit", it portrays a woman in antique dress opening an ornate coffer from which spill books, manuscripts, snakes and bats. By Pandora's side is a woman carrying a burning brand, while a horned figure flees in the opposite direction. Above is a curved vault painted with signs of the zodiac to which the sun-god Apollo is pointing, while opposite him another figure falls through the stars. Commentators ascribe different meanings to these symbols as contradictory as the contents of the chest. In one reading, the hand Pandora holds up to her face makes her the figure of Ignorance. Alternatively her eyes are protected because she is dazzled and the snakes crawling from the chest are ancient symbols of wisdom. Apollo, seated above, points to Aquarius, the zodiacal sign of January/February, which marks the "Ascent of the Sun" from the trough of winter. The falling figure opposite him may be identified either as Lucifer or as night fleeing before the dawn; in either case, the darkness of ignorance is about to be dispelled. The question remains whether the box thus opened will in the end be recognised as a blessing; whether the ambiguous nature of knowledge is either to help or to hurt. Like for Mia was ill for Guru to find her and make her sick; this is when Hans, Ellen, Aika, and Hitomi became family to care for her, but with no luck to getting healed until she died at the labs as Guru poisoned her even more.
Hans: No, Mia...
Ellen: Why is she dying?
Aika: No, dammit!
Hitomi: This is so sad...
Mia: No...I'm fine. It's my time, I'm like my Mommy...You four have done so much for me to live god lives like this, it's okay. We had each other, so please live on for me.
It was hard to let go then.
Aika: Don't go out like this, Mia!
Hans: We need you!
Mia: There's nothing for me to get healed...
It was hard to let go, must've been the curse too which cause the poison on Mia to grow further. In later centuries the emphasis in art has generally been on the person of Pandora. With few exceptions, the box has appeared merely as her attribute. René Magritte's street scene of 1951, however, one of the few modern paintings to carry the title "Pandora's Box", is as enigmatic as were the Renaissance allegorical prints. That's when Shuzo and Guru came around 'without any of the kids or Shuzo knowing of Guru was a fake'.
Shuzo: Hey, the kids.
Dr. Guru: Ah, this is very sad...A little sister is not going to make it. Related siblings or not, we can't let this happen.
Hitomi: Excuse me, but who are you two?
Worried at first, Guru's words got to them besides Shuzo's real feelings during the time.
Shuzo: Don't be afraid, my lab partner and I are here to help you all.
Dr. Guru: Right, right. We're on your side. You all are with no families or homes. I can give you a home and cure Mia, but you must do something for me in return.
Hans: And why should we go with strangers we just met?
Aika: Leave us alone!
Trying to trick them all which did work.
Dr. Guru: It's not only free, but it has things to care for you kids with full treatment. Saving you all and discovering something better to have your sister live much longer.
Shuzo: Kano, go easy on them. He is right though, please believe in us.
And coming to a final decision together...
Ellen: Fine, if it'll save Mia's life...! They we'll do it.
Hans: But we're all in it together!
Holding hands and holding Mia to all get through all of it. From Shuzo to make a mistake to still care, Guru had them all right where he wants them.
Dr. Guru: Medic! Let's take this ill child to get treated right away. Now for you three young ladies and one gentleman come with me. A new home and lots of work to be done. Let's get going to change this world for a better tomorrow in the future.
Mia: What's happening...?
Unaware of her father was back, Mia didn't warn them before Aika and Hitomi were killed to becoming Personas and the Guyver Twins to awaken to their special Persona-Users skills.
Hitomi: I hope it's safe.
Aika: As long as the other are fine, then I'll take it.
Then you all know the rest of the project and such. With the lab destroyed for Akechi and Zen to solve it, and Loki too as a ghost before he was brought back to life, Odin knew to kick out Loki; he was saving his life for the curse to lift. Yeah, that all makes sense now. In the first half of the 18th-century, three French plays were produced with the title "Pandora's Box" (La Boîte – or Boëte – de Pandore). In each of these, the main interest is in the social and human effects of the evils released from the box and in only one of them does Pandora figure as a character. The 1721 play by Alain René Lesage appeared as part of the longer La Fausse Foire. It was a one-act prose drama of 24 scenes in the commedia dell'arte style. At its opening, Mercury has been sent in the guise of Harlequin to check whether the box given by Jupiter to the animated statue Pandora has been opened. He proceeds to stir up disruption in her formerly happy village, unleashing ambition, competition, greed, envy, jealousy, hatred, injustice, treachery and ill-health. Amid the social breakdown, Pierrot falls out with the bride he was about to marry at the start of the play and she becomes engaged instead to a social upstart. And how did Shuzo died when his Desire was taken to saving the Guyvers only...?
Shuzo: It was you...! You use them for power of Pandora to unleash true evil and killed Mia for it! Your own daughter!
Dr. Guru: Nope, she was once "his" daughter...With those two dead as Personas now and those two born with powers of their own, I can still use these four...And you, say hi to Mia for me, Shuzo.
Shuzo: ….! So it's true...You're really-!
From a stabbing sound, the fake Guru kills off Shuzo for god b stabbing him, that's why Akechi felt them out to half be related to Aika and Hitomi, with a special bonding with Hans and Ellen too. A sad end for Shuzo there, huh? The play by Philippe Poisson (1682-1743) was a one-act verse comedy first produced in 1729. There Mercury visits the realm of Pluto to interview the ills shortly to be unleashed on mankind. The characters Old Age, Migraine, Destitution, Hatred, Envy, Paralysis, Quinsy, Fever and Transport (emotional instability) report their effects to him. They are preceded by Love, who argues that he deserves to figure among them as a bringer of social disruption. The later play of 1743 was written by Pierre Brumoy and subtitled "curiosity punished" (la curiosité punie). The three-act satirical verse comedy is set in the home of Epimetheus and the six children recently created by Prometheus. Mercury comes on a visit, bringing the fatal box with him. In it are the evils soon to subvert the innocence of the new creations. Firstly seven flatterers: the Genius of Honours, of Pleasures, Riches, Gaming (pack of cards in hand), Taste, Fashion (dressed as Harlequin) and False Knowledge. These are followed by seven bringers of evil: envy, remorse, avarice, poverty, scorn, ignorance and inconstancy. The corrupted children are rejected by Prometheus but Hope arrives at the end to bring a reconciliation.
It is evident from these plays that, in France at least, blame had shifted from Pandora to the trickster god who contrives and enjoys mankind's subversion. Although physical ills are among the plagues that visit humanity, greater emphasis is given to the disruptive passions which destroy the possibility of harmonious living.
Tayla: Almost done here. Back at the Tree of Knowledge thing, with Guru and Sango kept on watching the Phantom Thieves racing towards the top of EMMA's location a bit further.
Dr. Guru: Hmmm...My Gegasite King of my true form and your Persona the Gegasite Queen's inner self out of EMMA's original form, we still need more to stopping these kids...Well, monsters and an adult too. But how? I can't let them ruin my resurrection of Pandora's life back to all worlds to go to waste. Hey, woman, start talking. Plans now!
Like she didn't have no choice for them to have both their goals completed.
Sango: We still have the Reaper. If we have him and a few other Personas of our own, and then...
This has the madman smirking.
Dr. Guru: Aha! Good thinking! Use the Reaper and then have each of them stop him while the leftovers stop our own creative Personas. Separate them each away from EMMA and then...death to them all! This has to work then.
Sango: Then operation Death and Friends is a go?
Dr. Guru: I say...let the show begin! Haha! Let's do it in the name of our goals and my true love...
Tayla: For the final part to say next...
Two poems in English dealing with Pandora's opening of the box are in the form of monologues, although Frank Sayers preferred the term monodrama for his recitation with lyrical interludes, written in 1790. In this Pandora is descending from Heaven after being endowed with gifts by the gods and therefore feels empowered to open the casket she carries, releasing strife, care, pride, hatred and despair. Only the voice of Hope is left to comfort her at the end. In the poem by Samuel Phelps Leland (1839-1910), Pandora has already arrived in the household of Epimetheus and feels equally confident that she is privileged to satisfy her curiosity, but with a worse result. Shutting the lid too early, she thus "let loose all curses on mankind/ Without a hope to mitigate their pain". This is the dilemma expressed in the sonnet that Dante Gabriel Rossetti wrote to accompany his oil painting of 1869–71. The gifts with which Pandora has been endowed and that made her desirable are ultimately subverted, "the good things turned to ill…Nor canst thou know/ If Hope still pent there be alive or dead." In his painting Rossetti underlines the point as a fiery halo streams upward from the opening casket on which is inscribed the motto NESCITUR IGNESCITUR (unknown it burns). So what did Odin say to have Zeus's help for Loki to live on from this mess?
Thor: Father, he's gone. Do it.
Odin: Yes. Have this spell from one end to another to have one to learn so much. With one part, to another...Have one to change and then death take toll and brought back if the curse is unleashed again!
I guess that explains that part, huh? Odin and Thor did and still do trust in Loki's actions then. While the speakers of the verse monologues are characters hurt by their own simplicity, Rossetti's painting of the red-robed Pandora, with her expressive gaze and elongated hands about the jeweled casket, is a more ambiguous figure. So too is the girl in Lawrence Alma-Tadema's watercolor of Pandora (see above), as the comments of some of its interpreters indicate. Sideways against a seascape, red-haired and naked, she gazes down at the urn lifted towards her "with a look of animal curiosity", according to one contemporary reviewer, or else "lost in contemplation of some treasure from the deep" according to another account. A molded sphinx on the unopened lid of the urn is turned in her direction. In the iconography of the time, such a figure is usually associated with the femme fatale, but in this case, the crown of hyacinths about her head identifies Pandora as an innocent Greek maiden. Nevertheless, the presence of the sphinx at which she gazes with such curiosity suggests a personality on the cusp, on the verge of gaining some harmful knowledge that will henceforth negate her uncomplicated qualities. The name of Pandora already tells her future.
Tayla: And finally, that's our story. I guess Kuon learned a lot now, to do something about it next. Back with the Phantom Thieves making their way around the Halls of Contracts.
Haru: What kind of room is this one?
Yusuke: A bad feelings one.
Ryuji: Freaky as shit to me.
Ann: Don't say that...!
Still, they need to keep their guards up for Raiho keeps his guard up at all times.
Loki: Chickening out already? But we just got here.
Picaro: As if!
Kaguya: No turning back now.
I think this is what Loki wanted to hear from someone to say something.
Hans: Quitting now? No, after all the walking we did.
Ellen: Why stop there. We still got a long ways to go. Well, almost.
Morgana: That's more like it!
Sophia: EMMA's up ahead in the next room. Just travel some more.
Zen: Seriously? I hope something good will come out for all of this.
Akechi: We'll be okay, let's keep going. I'm ready for anything.
I think all of them were.
Makoto: Same here, we're fighting for everyone.
Futaba: And to those we all know and love!
Keiko: Then we got to keep going. Come on! (Kuon. Akane. Mr. Sakura. Lava. Sae. Everyone...Please stay strong.)
With lots to come around next in the next room 'and before it', I hope you guys liked the full story on what really happened and made up too. In the next chapter/episode, the plan of Guru and Sango's happens of one battle after another way before the fight against EMMA. The curse must be stopped!