This chapter may feel like dragging on because I want to build up until the Magician Shadow battle. After that, Akira will or will not interact with P3 characters much. Also, there are minor details that some of you may ask:
Akira in Gekkoukan uniform is similar to how he looks in DLC outfit ingame. And no, he doesn't have his glasses.
He will form new bonds but as Community, not Confidant or Cooperation in JP. Igor still uses Social Link as a term but Community is exclusive to Akira.
~Chapter 4~
Minato and Akira were chatting about multiple topics, one of which was about the latter's phone.
"That one is a cutting edge model. You must be rich to have it." Minato said, jealousy evident in his tone. Akira laughed awkwardly as he gazed his touchscreen phone. Back in his timeline, it was a fairly cheap and old model, he got it merely for calling, sending messages and few other uses so he didn't care about the technologies much. But maybe in the past, it was indeed one of the most expensive.
"Um yeah, my err uncle got it for me last year." Another lie, Akira thought. They stayed until Minato got sleepy and went to bed first while Akira decided to read the materials from the school in advance, intending to memorize any new information in case he was caught sleeping in class, he could answer effortlessly like back in Shujin. The curriculum was by all means the same but hey, he could be lazy sometimes but he didn't get to the top of Shujin with laziness alone.
After spending two hours of reading, Akira's eyes were heavy. For the first time, he missed those annoying lines from Morgana.
"Fuaaaa –"
With a beat of heart, the sky turned green and the streets were filled with blood-like liquid.
'Hmm, I did promise Mitsuru-senpai. Well, let's get going.'
Akira brought his knife, pistol and the Evoker with him to lounge. As expected, the Kirijo heiress was already there. She seemed to be armed with an Evoker and a rapier, a red armband showing S.E.E.S on her left arm.
"Is he the member?" A new voice said
"Yes. Oh, I forgot to mention him. This is Akihiko Sanada, a senior and one of the founding members of SEES." Mitsuru gestured to the figure standing against the door. Akihiko gave Akira a 'what's up?' hand sight which Akira curtly nodded. "He will accompany us in testing your skills. Now, let's not waste more time. The Dark Hour won't last long. We need to go to Tartarus."
"Mitsuru, I think this isn't the good time to show him the Tower. I know some spots in the city that usually spawn Shadows. We can go to there." Akihiko suggested. The redhead pondered for a moment before nodding.
"Very well. Lead the way, Akihiko."
Luckily, not too far from the Dorm was a horse of Shadows so they didn't need to go the locations Akihiko was leading to. The boxer immediately engaged with a Maya with him uppercutting and then zapping the Shadow. Mitsuru incapacitated a Muttering Tiara with her rapier while freezing another. The seniors were too lost in their battle frenzy that they didn't notice Akira almost slaughtering the rest of the Shadows with his knife alone. Akihiko only stopped from beating a poor Hand to death when he heard the thunderous sound of Tyrant Pistol shredding a Beast-type Shadow to oblivion.
"*whistle* Cool gun there. I thought firearms usually don't work against Shadows?" He asked Mitsuru, who was lost in words as well. She felt a cold chill on her spine when seeing Akira coldly headshot'ed a half dead Shadow on the ground before throwing his knife into the mask of a Cowardly Maya.
"Come…" His eyes went eerie yellow as a mask appeared on his face. Akira grabbed it and then pulled. "Satanael!"
Blue flames burst out from his back and engulfed Joker completely, much to Mitsuru's bewilderment. But then from the flames, a gigantic black silhouette with 3 pairs of demonic wings, a matching halo and two golden long horns. It had a mask and most importantly, a long rifle on its right hand.
"One Shot KILL!"
Upon Akira's command, the Persona leveled its gun toward a Gigas and fired. The bullet at first seemed to only sink inside the Shadow but then the numerous edges burst out from the giant's inside and then reduced into a messy mass of ink. A Beast attempted to sneak up on him but unfortunately, the chain of its collar gave away its position as Satanael turned around and used the bayonet of its gun to skewer the Shadow. Seeing Mitsuru and Akihiko's awed looks. Akira smirked. He cocked up Tyrant Pistol and aimed at the remaining Shadows.
"Show time!" Akira shouted in perfect Engrish and pressed the trigger. Simultaneously, Satanael began unloading hellish bullets with its other self. The scene was so chaotic that not a single dust escaped from the carnage.
…..
Akira continued his slaughter for the good 10 minutes until he felt his SP pool rapidly decreasing. He lowered his gun as he searched his pocket for a Snuff Soul or Soul Food for good measure but soon realized that he didn't bring his bag along, which contained all of his healing items and while Satanel had Victory Cry, it only activated once the enemies were completely gone. For a side note, Akira noticed the lack of his costume and the fact that his gun felt so…real?
Hmm, these need to be investigated further. Trickster, do you feel it? That you can summon me without using the Mask? It seems that under specific circumstances, you can call forth us Personas with your willpower.
'This, also needs to be looked into.'
Indeed. There is one thing I can confirm, that you are using your SP as bullets for the gun, however small the requirement is. That explains the lack of Cognition in the space.
'Really?' Akira exclaimed in his head. Wanting to test, he fired once more into the air. Satanel promptly disappeared after that.
Mitsuru was impressed with the performance and Akihiko was eager to get Akira as his sparring partner due to his prowess. They insisted that he be their field leader, Mitsuru especially doubled her efforts of persuading him.
'Now this is hard. Why must every Student Council Presidents make things difficult for me?' Akira thought with a sigh. Being a very good actor, he steeled his face and made it clear that he preferred operating alone. Looking at the Kirijo Heiress's dejected face, he briefly reminisced about the unanswered reply to Makoto's feelings. Almost all of his female confidants went head over heels in love with him, except Futaba whom he had made it clear that she was only a sister to him, out of respect for Sojiro and well, his own morality.
Stop. That experience from the girl known as Noir was more than enough.
Ah yes, he would never forget about Haru, whom he had to date out of guilt after seeing her taking his rejection not too well. Said girl then gave him and Satanael quite a beating after learning about Makoto. Damn cute, psycho girl with huge ass axe and grenade launcher.
"….rusu? Kurusu!"
"E-Err what senpai?"
"The Dark Hour is already over. Let's go back to the dormitory." Akihiko said before heading back with Mitsuru. Akira soon followed.
Next day was a normal yet boring day to Akira. Aside from interrupting a bully scene involving a junior and two second years and helping Junpei escape Yukari's wrath, everything was just too boring. Looked like he had to seek the Velvet Room later this day.
Akira, Minato and Junpei were going home together again when they saw Akihiko surrounded fan girls. The goatee made remarks about the senior being lucky and popular and the bluenette merely shrugged.
"It's not my time to shine yet. I will surely get a girlfriend by the end of this year, just you wait!" Junpei swore to God. The fizzy haired teen chuckled; somehow it reminded him of Ryuji and, in some degrees, Mishima. When they walked into the Paulownia Mall, Akira excused himself from the duo and headed to the back alley. There rested two glowing doors; one blue and the other light red. Taking his newly acquired Key, he unlocked the latter and then entered.
"Ah welcome back, Akira-kun." Lavenza was the first one to greet him. Behind her, Igor nodded kindly from his table. The current Master of Velvet Room stated that there were many Persona Users that could summon their other selves with willpower before so his case was not new. In fact, the more potent his will was, the more odds it could be to call out Persona in the real world. Nice, one problem solved. Next.
"I feel like we are having a massive time paradox here." Akira said, explaining. Igor seemed to understand the situation beforehand as he sat there with the most serious expression he had ever had.
"Due to the state of this pocket timeline, something like that is bound to happen. However, we didn't anticipate the possibility that only your soul got transferred. In worst case scenario, your original body in 2016 will still be incinerated and you have to possess other people in order to exist."
Akira sighed in frustration; all of this was Mahakala's fault. Lavenza quickly went to his side to comfort him. He smiled at her concern before taking a deep breath to calm down but that could not hide the weary look on his face.
"However, I shall discuss with Master Philemon about further investigation. Perhaps both your soul and body got transported and by pure coincidence that you look like this Ichirou Shirogane. I cannot speak anything more but to ask you to patiently wait for our result. Can you do that?"
Akira nodded tiredly. He then stood up.
"Sorry Igor, Lavenza, I have to leave now. Too many things in my head now."
"We understand. Take a rest now, my friend." Igor said and Akira's vision turned black.
That's for now. As the Akira Kurusu in this story is the original timeline Joker so when this story reaches Royal, he will either exist as a separate entity or fuse with the Royal Joker.
