Hello, everyone! So, summer is almost over and I've been working hard to get ready for my first day of school. I hope some of you are on task for your future and really enjoyed your summer! Also, I'd like to know who your favorite pairings for Persona 4 were; they won't contribute to the story, I'm just curious how my readers and I think differently. Personally (pun very well intended), I'm more of a Yu/Yukiko person; They really are meant for each other, however I still think Chie's the best girl. The whole reason I wouldn't want Yu and Chie together is because of how perfect she is with Yosuke. Rise would probably be my least favorite girl since she goes out of her way to throw herself on Yu. She's just not right for him. For Persona 3, probably Fuuka or Mitsuru. I never seen Yukari as a dateable person because of how flirty she is. I mean, her social pretty good, but it doesn't match to anybody else's. Aigis is much better than she is since she was there with Minato at his last moments of life! Plus she acts kind of bitchy in the FES version where she starts a fight so she can bring him back. At least respect Minato's decision to die for your sorry ass! Anyways, here's Chapter 13.

Chapter 13

(Lunchtime)

April 10, 2021

Kyuti High, Classroom B-2

Johei shrank in his seat, his nose level to his desk. If he had any hope that the position would have made him anymore comfortable, it was soon demolished when he felt a cramp. Loki sighed, as if he had finally grown tired of seeing his partner making a fool of himself, and this was quite shocking for a person like him. Kazuhiko looked back at his friend pressed his palm on his face, Tyr being completely calm.

"Ugh, results are coming out soon." Johei said as he succeeded in sliding even lower until his entire body was under his desk.

Kazuhiko rolled his eyes as he saw his friend in such a state.

"Come on, Johei, it couldn't have been that hard, right? I mean, you said that you only had trouble with the math section because you didn't know the formula, so you must have gotten the other questions in all the other subjects correct."

Johei sighed again.

"Yeah, the other questions were a breeze, but when we got to the math section, the only thing I could think about was the look on that dude's face when he saw hung upside-down in the elevator!"

Kazuhiko stifled a laugh from his friend. The guest that Johei was speaking of had filed a report about what he saw. Luckily, the trio were able to get off the hook and were sent off with a warning. Still, it was kind of cruel of them. Kazuhiko shook his head.

"Well, Loki and I helped you out a little, so you should have been able to memorize that equation. Come on, if we're not going there to see your grades, then we're going to see mine." Kazuhiko said as he pulled on Johei's hair and dragged him out of the classroom.

"No! I'm begging you! Please don't make me go there! If Mika-senpai finds out what my grade is, she'll never forgive me!"

Kazuhiko ignored his friend's plea for help as he continued to pull Johei down the hall. Tyr was quite curious about why students were making a big deal of test scores.

"Kazuhiko, if I may ask so, why is everyone excited about these grades that they received?"

"Oh, the students' grades are posted for everyone to see in the hallways next to their names. They can see what they got and who got a better or worse score than they themselves did. As for being more popular, I guess it's because you're smarter than everyone else and they have somebody they can study with to do better." Kazuhiko explained.

Tyr nodded.

"I see. So the reason why Johei is perishing is because he doesn't want to see how other people look down on him?"

"It can't be that; Tons of people look down on him anyway."

"Dude, what the hell! You didn't have to say it that way!" Johei said.

Mikan walked towards them after she finished reading the scores.

"Hey, you two. Nice scores on the test, that goes for both of you." She said and passed them to make her way to the stairs.

Johei was dumbfounded.

"Wait, did she just say, 'both of you'?" He asked.

Johei pushed his way past a few students and saw his name.

Top ten Second Years

1. Shiita Nanahara, 50 of 50 correct

2. Yumi Amano, 50 of 50 correct

3. Noriko Shiba, 48 of 50 correct

4. Subito Kureo, 48 of 50 correct

5. Kazuhiko Sukima, 47 of 50 correct

6. Makoto Yui, 47 of 50 correct

7. Rika Ansetso, 47 of 50 correct

8. Johei Shiroka, 46 of 50 correct

9. Shinji Arabei, 45 of 50 correct

10. Momo Suguhara, 45 of 50 correct

"Oh… my… God…" Johei said.

Kazuhiko clasped his hands together and said a silent prayer.

"Hey, dude what are you doing?" Johei asked.

"Praying to God. If he pulled off this miracle, he must be completely exhausted."

Johei's face scrunched into a frown.

"Come on! You know I studied for the test! At least give me some points for that- Mika-senpai, what are you doing?"

Johei saw Mikan walk back down the stairs with her hands full of candles and incest.

"I got this from the spiritual club. I remembered that some people prevented an apocalypse in an anime this way."

Johei hid his face in the closest wall away from his friends.

"I can't believe it… Even my closest friends don't trust me…"

(After School)

Rooftop

"So, what do we do now?" Johei asked.

The trio had sat on the roof with their respective Personas next to them.

"If what Hayabu- sorry, Daichi said is true, that Niflheim is really run by all these strong shadows, there isn't much that we can do."

Kazuhiko shook his head.

"We can still keep training and I can fuse more Personas. I can support you guys in fights and protect you all as well. Daichi has been in there before and lived on his own fighting shadows so he may have some intel on shadows we've never faced before."

Mikan followed him up.

"We don't have to trek in just Niflheim either, there are tons of shadow nests that are bound to have pretty strong shadows for us to train with."

"Yes, it seems that right now, we aren't prepared for the dangers of Niflheim just yet. That person that summoned their Persona said that they were the weakest of their group, and we couldn't touch him at all." Skadi said.

Memories of the cloaked figure reappeared in their heads. How he mocked them by not even trying to retaliate against them and ended up dropping the bomb on them that they had no chance at defeating him. Sure, he was a cocky person, but he was a cocky person who had an advantage in this fight. There wasn't a sliver of hope that they could take him down at their current state.

"There's no use groveling now" Kazuhiko said. "We just need to get stronger so we can overcome obstacles that come our way."

Johei's mood lifted.

"Yeah! If we train hard enough, we can do anything!"

"We're the only ones who can do this. The responsibility rests on our shoulders alone!" Mikan joined in.

"No matter how difficult it is, no matter who we stand against, no matter what the odds" Kazuhiko started.

"… I've got nothing guys…"

The roof was silent for sometime until everybody and their Personas, minus Kazuhiko, fellonto their face.

"Dude! You led us on and now you have no idea to rally troops?! Talk about a leader." Johei said after he got up.

Mikan looked very annoyed as well along with Skadi and even Loki. Kazuhiko laughed awkwardly as he scratched his shoulder.

"Yeah, sorry about that. But we should get going, we aren't getting any stronger just standing here, right?"

Mirror Dimension

"King Frost! Bufu!"

"Right away my royal subject!"

Ice formed on the haunted ink stone and cracked, causing it to fall on the ground.

"Alright!" Daichi said from the sidelines.

"Mikan! Cast a Mabufu!"

"You got it! Persona!" Mikan said as she broke her chains that formed on her wrists.

Skadi nocked several arrows on her bow and shot them at the remaining haunted ink stones causing them to be frozen in ice on contact and fall to the ground.

"Their incapacitated! Now's our chance!" Daichi said as he drew his rapier.

"Wait, let me take this one!" Johei said to Kazuhiko.

Kazuhiko nodded in his direction. Johei cackled manically.

"Here goes! Magaru!" Johei yelled as he broke off the chains on his arms.

Loki cast a large whirlwind at the toppled over enemies causing them to get caught inside, but Johei wasn't done.

"I payed a good amount of yen to make this. Let's see how it works!" He said as he lit a firecracker surrounded by needles and threw it inside the tornado.

Everyone ducked for cover as the explosion occurred and the needles cut through the shadows cleanly. When they looked at the debris, there were no traces of their foes except for several ink crystals. Yup, shadow drops tended to defy logic.

"Nice one, Johei!" Mikan said as she walked over to him.

"But…"

*SMACK*

"What did you use for that?! Do you realize that you could have gotten hurt when making it?! Where you wearing protective clothing? Did you acquire the components from legal areas?!"

Kazuhiko stiffled a laugh. Good old Mikan, always worrying about the least of their problems.

"Come on Mika-senpai." Joehi said as he rubbed his cheek. "You can get toothpaste, wart remover and sewing needles from anywhere."

"She really cares about you guys, doesn't she?" Daichi whispered to Kazuhiko. Kazuhiko nodded.

"Yeah, it's like she's our mother and our upper classmate at the same time. Sometimes, I forget that we're just a year apart in age. Sometimes, I feel like I'm the upperclassmen. She really is a mystery."

Kazuhiko broke Mikan and Johei from their argument and led them further into the corridor of the shadow nest with Daichi holding the back with his rapier.

"So, how many more of those needle bombs do you have?" Kazuhiko asked Johei.

"Well, I have about two more. Took me long enough to get the ratio of toothpaste to wart remover correctly. Even longer to make the canisters and the fusing correctly."

Mikan took an interest.

"Surely, you couldn't have found out how to do this online, right?" She asked. Johei nodded.

"Yeah, but I did learn about it in Chemistry. You should know that it's one of the subjects I do best in."

Kazuhiko remembered. Johei only ever took an interest in Chemistry during school, even when he was a child. It was all to push his skills as a prankster further. When the teacher showed the class a trick with baking soda and vinegar, Johei came back the next day with plastic bottles filled with vinegar and bags of baking soda just so he could pull pranks during recess. Thankfully, the teacher knew what was going to happen and confiscated them.

"Well, looks like it really helps us out now. Nice to see that your talent is going to good use." Kazuhiko said.

Johei flashed a smile to his friend.

"Well, if you guys are interested for our cause, I can show you how so we can make more in less time!"

Loki clapped for Johei.

"Finally! Something respectable about him!"

"Shut your mouth!" Johei yelled at Loki.

"As much as this is ironic, I'm siding with Loki on this. You haven't shown much of your skills up to now." Skadi said.

"Well, you know the old saying. 'Better late than never'" Mikan pitched in.

Johei sighed as he made his way closer to the front next to Kazuhiko.

"So, we're just going to keep training for the rest of the day?" Johei asked as he nested his hands behind his head.

Kazuhiko shook his head.

"Not just that, but I was planning on making a map of this place. It doesn't look that big from the outside, but there's also an underground part of it as well. Plus, the nest towards the top looks like it's made of new material that was just laid down."

Kazuhiko pointed towards the walls which seemed to be more held intact than the walls they had seen on the previous floors.

"I think that it has something to do with the shadows. Daichi, do you know anything about this?" He asked their shadow friend.

Daichi scratched his chin.

"Well, it could be that the shadows are growing more concentrated. If this place has more shadows being made, then it would make sense that they need more room for themselves. We need to get rid of this nest's producer, but that would be another problem altogether…"

Daichi's voice trailed off when he looked ahead of himself. He quickly took cover while shouting to the group.

"Guys! Scatter! We've got an Alpha Shadow on our hands!"

Kazuhiko ran and ducked behind a large pillar while unsheathing his sword. Johei and Mikan took cover behind another pillar on the opposite side of the hallway with their weapons drawn.

"Alright, Mika-senpai cover us!" Kazuhiko yelled.

Mikan nodded as she broke her chains.

"Skewer!"

Skadi appeared with her bow drawn and pointed directly at the Alpha. She let loose the arrow and it stuck in the shadow's side.

"It's a Fenris underling! Physical attacks won't be enough to take it down!" Daichi yelled from behind the corner they turned earlier.

Mikan continued to launch arrows from her bow with pinpoint accuracy to avert the shadow's attention while Johei and Kazuhiko barraged it with a flurry of fire and lightning spells.

"Garula!"

"Zionga!"

The attacks only seemed to be brushed off by the shadow and it began to get more annoyed by the second.

"It has repel skills! Get [ast it's thick skin and attack it with physical hits."

Kazuhiko took the hint and different chains began to form on his wrists.

"Alright, Slime. Rakunda!"

"BLEEUUUGH!"

"Did you really have to take him in?" Tyr asked.

"Do you know any buff or debuff skills?" Kazuhiko asked.

"… good point."

The Fenris underling started to feel weaker as it moved. Mikan's arrows started to get deeper into it's skin.

"Johei! We'll need something big to finish of this guy!" Daichi yelled out as he made several stabs to the shadow's knees."

"Hey, Loki, want to test our luck?" Johei asked.

"Your luck sucks, considering what happened to you." Loki replied.

"Shut up! I got top ten on the test so let's just get it rolling! Sucker Punch!"

Johei broke the cuff of the chains and Loki flew forward with his arm outstretched. He began to pick up speed as the distance between him and the shadow shrank.

"Holy crap, this actually might work!" Loki thought as he picked up even more speed.

At this rate, the shadow would most likely go flying through the wall, but…

The shadow simply side-stepped out of the way making Loki punch the pillar.

"Goddammit Johei! You and your horrible luck!" Loki said as he pulled his fist out of the pillar.

Johei rolled his eyes.

"I wasn't aiming for the shadow, dumbass."

Loki looked confused, then looked at the pillar.

"Oh, so the pillar is our enemy now? If that's the case then let's beat the crap out of it!"

Johei rolled his eyes again and ran for cover as did everyone else. This made Loki look a bit worried.

"Uh, guys? What's going on?"

Loki noticed a large shadow forming in front of him. (No, not the monster one, the regular one that everyone has) He turned around to notice the pillar he had punched had started to tilt.

"Oh… Kudos man." Loki said before he stepped out of the way of the falling pillar.

The Fenris underling noticed it's situation too late and ended up getting flattened by the pillar.

*CRASH*

The shadow melted into the signature red and black goo and dispersed into the ground leaving a few claws and yen bills. Kazuhiko went towards them and picked them up.

"This looks like it could be worth a good amount of yen. But where can I sell it?" He said to himself.

Daichi walked up behind him and handed him a bag that was filled with other shadow drops.

"Well, I'll just hold onto them for now."

Shoving the claws into the bag and stuffing the bills into his pocket, the team took a few minutes to rest. Johei downing a soda while Mikan retrieved some arrows. Daichi sat back and cleaned his rapier while Kazuhiko made a few adjustments to his map.

"So, we took a turn over there… We just opened that room over here… More shadows tend to gather here…" He mumbled to himself as erased some parts.

"Hey, you missed a spot here." Daichi said, who pointed at a part of the floor that Kazuhiko didn't mark.

Kazuhiko nodded assuringly to Daichi. Daichi sighed and took a seat next to him. Kazuhiko sensed something was wrong with his shadow friend and decided to try to help.

"Something wrong?" He asked.

Daichi sighed again.

"Yeah. I mean, I know that I'm helping you guys and all with the intel, but there's only so many shadows I've faced before."

Before meeting Kazuhiko, Daichi said that he was all alone to fend for himself. Without the power of a Persona, there surely would have been times when he had to retreat.

"I'm good with my rapier, but at times when we fight strong shadows, I can barely do anything. I'll just be dead weight to you guys."

Kazuhiko looked back to Daichi. He couldn't deny the facts; Daichi was helpful in fights for providing weaknesses, but when they got to the higher floors, he seemed to know less and less about the shadows that they faced. He was fast as well as physically strong, but his rapier didn't compare to the attacks that their Personas could dish out. Before Kazuhiko could do anything to console him,

"Hey, guys. Come on! We don't have all day!" Johei said as he got back to his feet with Mikan right behind him.

Daichi sighed as he got up as well.

"Well, I'll talk to you about it later."

Kazuhiko was still sitting down as he watched Daichi join his other frineds with a worried look. He wasn't the only one to worry about the shadow.

"Kazuhiko, do you think he has something planned that will harm him?" Tyr asked.

Kazuhiko shrugged.

"Right now, I'm not sure. Should be best to keep an eye on him." He said as he put away his map.

Half an hour later…

"Tentarofoo!" Johei yelled while Loki cast a shower of powder from his hand.

Immediately, the shadows they were facing were panicked. One or two of them fled but one was unaffected, in fact, it seemed pissed.

"HHRRAAUGH!" It cried, calling more shadows to the vicinity.

A false idol and two fallen angels appeared at it's aid; All of them making their first move. The current shadow that they were fighting, a lustful spirit, was seemingly growing stronger while they felt themselves were growing weaker.

"They're debuffing us! Prepare for an attack!"

The lustful spirit extended it's palms to the ceiling and cast a Mazio sending everyone back, Johei being knocked down.

"Crap, Johei's down guys!" Daichi yelled as he unsheathed his rapier.

As much as everyone wanted to help Johei, they already had their own problems. The shadows all by themselves would have been easy to take down, but they followed their attacks one after the other leaving no room for any actions. Daichi seemed to be the one suffering the most.

"Get back!" He yelled as he tried for a thrust but the fallen angel simply dodged the attack and sent him flying back with it's ruined wings.

His back hit the wall and he lost his grip on his weapon; The shadow was closing in on him. Daichi looked back up at his assailant with a scared look in his eyes. The fallen angel prepared for an attack.

"Bash" He thought.

"Never knew I'd go out with an attack that weak."

He closed his eyes and waited for impact, but then…

"C… Caugh!"

Daichi didn't feel anything yet he felt the presence of the attack connect with something. What was it? He opened his eyes and saw Johei on the ground knocked out. Being his Persona, Loki was out of the fight as well, not being able to move once Johei lost consciousness.

"Johei!" Kazuhiko yelled as he tried to reach his friend but was blocked off by the other fallen angel.

Mikan was stuck in the same predicament, resorting to swinging the bow in her hands due to how close the false idol was to her. The lustful prince looked on as if taunting him, but the day had more surprises for him. Right behind the lustful prince was a hooded and cloaked figure.

"You know that you're just a burden to everyone. No skills, no help, no Persona; how do they possibly put up with you in their group?" It said.

Daichi couldn't place his finger on it, but he had heard that voice before. He cringed at the pain that those words held for him along with their truth. He thought of going out quietly in that fight once he was attacked but he had to ruin things by making one of them take the hit for him.

"All you bring to others is pain and despair. To think that I lied to you about your origins."

Daichi finally recognized the voice now. His old mentor.

"Sh-Shiroe…"

The figure clapped mockingly to Daichi's sudden realization.

"Yes, I am. But did you not take in what I just said? About your origins?"

"You told me I was a shadow, a being made to harm reflections, nothing more. That I fed on the reflection of a little boy named Daichi Amasawa!"

The figure sighed, as if he was dissappointed in Daichi.

"You are so naive young one." He said,

"You really bought my story, didn't you? Well, what if I told you, I lied?"

Kazuhiko caught wind of the conversation.

Oh no he thought, I've gotta stop this before he breaks down!

"Daichi! No matter what you do, you're still our friend! Nothing can change that!"

But his words didn't reach Daichi. His attention was already Shiroe's.

"What if I told you that you weren't meant to kill Reflections, rather, you weren't a shadow?" Shiroe continued.

Daichi shook his head.

"No, I was a shadow. That's the only way I would have been able to kill them."

Shiroe grinned from under his hood.

"Quit making excuses for yourself! You didn't just kill them, you murdered them! Not as a shadow, but as a human!"

That last remark made Daichi shut down. He just kneeled there with disbelief, eyes open and his hands to his hand, telling himself that it wasn't possible. Shiroe laughed for several seconds until he became dissatisfied.

"That's enough fun. Finish him off." Shiroe said to the fallen angel.

"This isn't true… This isn't true… This isn't true…" Daichi said, unaware of the fallen angel charging up for a finishing blow.

"Shut up"

Daichi was pulled back to reality and looked at his fallen comrade.

"J-Johei?"

Johei coughed as he was on the ground.

"You talked to Kaz, right? About how you felt helpless?"

Daichi nodded.

"I am helpless. I can't do anything to help you guys. I can't fight with my rapier, I don't know any weaknesses, I don't even have a Perso-"

"Bullshit. You do you idiot. He did say you were human, right?"

The realization dawned upon him. Yes, he was human.

"So what if you killed people, so what if you helped them? What matters is what you do now. To repay those mistakes you made in the past. I don't give a shit about what you did before; I just care what you do now!"

And that snapped in Daichi's mind.

The fallen angel had buffed itself up with Tarukaja and prepared for it's bash attack until…

"Persona"

Daichi stood up and shown that he had shackles on his neck, hands and feet. He grunted as he pulled on the chains until they cracked. A persona flashed slightly; it showed a majestic black crow with white eyes on his right side.

"No, Personas"

The chains cracked again and this time, it showed an elegant white crow with black eyes on his left side.

"Get ready you bastards. PERSONAS!"

Daichi broke off his chains and a blinding flash appeared behind him, stunning everyone. As the smoke cleared, to giant crows appeared behind him; one made of ebony and with pieces of ivory for it's eyes while the other was it's exact opposite: ivory for the body and ebony for the eyes.

"Are you ready for battle my brother, Hugin?" The black crow asked.

"Absolutely my brother, Munin." The white crow replied.

"Let's do this! Hama!" Daichi yelled.

Hugin covered itself with it's wings and then cast them out wards creating a blinding light upon the attacking fallen angel. The light was so intense that the fallen angel dissipated in one shot. Mikan and Kazuhiko looked impressed.

"Well, then" Kazuhiko said after regaining his posture.

"Ready to feel helpful?"

Daichi formed a cruel yet reassuring smile.

"You bet your ass I am" He replied.

Daichi broke his chains once again.

"Sukukaja!"

Kazuhiko instantly felt lighter and was able to keep up with his opponent now that the effects of the debuffs were gone. He took down the fallen angel with ease as did Mikan with the false idol. After finishing it off, Mikan rushed to the fallen Johei.

"I'll get him back up, go help Kazuhiko."

Daichi nodded and ran to the front leaving Mikan to help Johei regain consciousness. Kazuhiko was holding the fort but still had some trouble.

"I'll hold him steady. You deal the blow." Kazuhiko said as he changed his Persona to High Pixie.

"Sukunda!" He yelled.

"Kneel before my power!" High Pixie yelled as it pointed it's sword to the sky.

The lustful spirit seemed to get slower, giving Daichi enough time lock onto it.

"Mudo!"

Munin imitated Hugin's attack although, this time, a darkness covered the lustful spirit until you could have sworn that the room had no lights on. As soon as the void got lighter, the remains of the lustful spirit dispersed leaving Shrioe as the only remaining adversary.

"Very well done. I think you have exceeded my expectations. For now, I shall continue to watch you progress."

And with that, Shiroe dropped a smoke bomb and disappeared without a trace. Kazuhiko felt exhausted and fell onto his back as did Daichi. Mikan was able to get Johei to sit up straight and forced him to down a bottle of medicine.

"Ugh, that's disgusting." Johei said after he finished the contents of the bottle.

Mikan looked satisfied and put the bottle away while she sat down as well, clearly exhausted. Johei stiffled a laugh and pretty soon, everybody was struggling in a fit of giggles.

"Well, shit. We did it." Johei exclaimed after he was able to regain control of his laughter.

Daichi nodded, although he still looked troubled. Kazuhiko noticed this and got his attention.

"Still something bugging you?" He asked.

Daichi turned to him.

"Not really the same things that was before, but how I'm human, and how I ended up here."

Kazuhiko sat back and let out a deep breath.

"Well, whatever it is, we're going to help you find it. That, I can promise you."

Daichi smiled at his friend and nodded.

"Yeah. Thanks."

Hey guys! Hope you liked this chapter! As always, please review this chapter and share your opinions on what happened. Did you like how Daichi's Personas awakened? I'll let you know that Daichi is not a Wild card user just because he has two Personas. They are meant to clash between his life believing he was a shadow and his life now that he realizes he is a human. Hugin and Munin are actually the crows of Odin, although they are both regular looking crows. They fit Daichi's earlier known alias of Hayabusa and I couldn't decide one over the other. My original plan was to make one of them his first Persona and the other his evolved Persona, but I couldn't find out very much about them. Anyways, we'll have two new characters coming up in the next chapter so hang tight you guys!

Mikan Echihiro: Hi! I'm Mikan Echihiro from Persona: One Last Promise fanfiction by dangstaboy!

Ann Takamaki: And I'm Ann Takamaki from Persona 5!

Mikan: So, nice to meet you! It's nice to see another strong female character in a Persona game.

Ann: (blushes) Well, I wouldn't say very strong, but I am pretty helpful in boss fights.

Mikan: My Persona is Skadi, the Norse god of Ice and Skiing.

Ann: My Persona is Carmen, a femme fatale. She doesn't quite fit in with everybody else though…

Mikan: Really? Why not?

Ann: Well, you see, all the other Personas are of thieves or beings that are seen to do bad things for the greater good like Arsene who was a gentleman thief who only stole from people who were worse than himself or Robin Hood who stole from the rich and gave to the poor.

Mikan: Well, my arcana is the Empress. I've got a good chance to end up dating the protagonist!

Ann: … I… I'm the lovers arcana…

Mikan: Aw, don't be sad. Just because Rise and Yukari aren't that drawn towards by the protagonist doesn't mean that you won't have a good chance. It's not bad being a part of the Lovers arcana.

Ann: You know what? Yeah! You're right! I bet Akira-san will like me too!

Mikan: I use a bow that used to belong to my brother.

Ann: I just use a whip that I happen to have after awakening my Persona.

Mikan: Wait, so you just magically got a weapon once you got Carmen?

Ann: Yup.

Mikan: Oh… (how does that work?)

Rise Kujikawa: Hey! What do you mean I'm not drawn towards the protagonist?

Yukari Takeba: Yeah! What's that supposed to mean?

Ann: Who are you?

Rise: I'm Risette! Fabulous artist and stunning back-up of the investigation team in Persona 4!

Yukari: Yukari Takeba, one of the main social links of the Persona 3 games.

Rise: Now what do you mean that we aren't attractive to the main character?

Mikan: Well, you saw the Author's note at the top of this chapter right?

Rise and Yukari: What?!

(Rise and Yukari run to the top of the page)

Ann: So, yeah. I'm part of the Phantom Thieves, a group that explores the Metaverse while stealing the hearts of dirty criminals!

Mikan: Wait, so you get criminals to fall in love with you?

Ann: Oh God no! We just steal their evil intentions so they confess their crimes to the public.

Mikan: Oh, okay. I'm part of a group of high schoolersthat discover a world in the Mirror that has something to do with the recent suicides.

Ann: Wow! That sounds so cool!

Mikan: Not as cool as being stylish Phantom Thieves! So, what's your back story?

Ann: I was… forced to sleep with one of my teachers so my friend could stay on the volleyball team.

Mikan: No way! I was forced to sleep with my teacher or else he would have killed my grandparents. That is, I almost did before my brother stopped him and died…

Ann: Really? Wow we have so much in common despite being different arcanas!

Rise: I can't believe it! He doesn't think I'm right for Yu-kun?!

Yukari: I'm too flirty?! He'd rather be with Mtsuru or Fuuka?! He even thinks that Aigis is better than me?!

Meanwhile in the real world…

Dangstaboy: Okay, I'm finally done! The fourth wall is finally fixed and I can get back to my work!

(Rise and Yukari slam through the wall)

Dangstaboy: No… all my hard work…

Rise: Hey! Who are you to say that I'm not right for Yu-kun?

Yukari: And what do you mean that my social link is no match for everyone else's

Dangstaboy: Just what it means. Rise, you couldn't have possibly not seen how you hugged Yu after he rescued you. Plus your first question to him when he invited inside his room was "Where are the goods?".

Rise: Well, I was just trying to loosen up the tension!

Dangstaboy: And Yukari, you honestly thought Minato was an intruder when you first saw him. Also with his decision to die, you didn't respect it because you had this idea that you loved him so much that you didn't care what happened as long as you could have him for yourself!

Yukari: But I ended up stopping that and realizing my own fault!

Dangstaboy: Whatever the excuses, I just feel like you two aren't deserving of dating the Protagonist. I didn't even find Ann that interesting for a date option.

Ann: WHAT?!

Rise: Oh, that's it. You just have something against the Lover's arcana, don't you?

Dangstaboy: What? No! I just find the other characters better love interests. Yukiko for Persona 4, Mitsuru or Fuuka for Persona 3 and Makoto for Persona 5.

Yukari: Say whatever you want. They'll just sound like excuses to us…

Ann: Let's beat this asshole to the ground.

Rise: Naoto did say that she could make a killing look like an accident…

Dansgtaboy: Whoa! Hey! Hold on! Time-out! Stop! HEEEEEELLLLPPPP!

I've gotta find something stronger for that fourth wall.