The Oblivion

by Jude Warble

Fugitives from their homes due to discrimination. Awakening to the rebellion inside their souls. Rising to fight their fates, alongside other heroes, in a world where Devils, Angels and several other mythological beings exist. It's up to them to carve their own path with their own hands, now with new friends and new family members. Main Pairing: Ren x Naruko x Futaba. Multi xover

2. The Greatest Sacrifice

Hey everyone. Long time no see.

And now, without further ado, i will leave with the story. As always, Stay Breezy!

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1 Hour later

"I can't believe that he is your their leader"

"Huh? And why is that?"

"Well, i don't mean to insult you, Shadow-san, but you look more like a punk to me. Also, your really short-tempered"

Rias clearly voiced out her opinion to the black haired teen, who just stared at her coldly.

It has been one hour ever since Rias was sent flying away and crashing into the room by Shadow, to which every Devil in the room was ready, and were about to brandish their powers at him, only for Naruko and Menma to step in the way and politely apologize, where Menma was working on Rias' wounds at the moment.

"Man, but you sure hit hard. What did she do?" Menma asked his friend.

"She just appeared right in front of a dead body, placed 8 pawn chess pieces inside him, and asked me who am i, so i just attacked her" Shadow answered bluntly, to which everyone in the room stared with blank and deadpan looks adorning their faces, which in turn made Shadow blink coldly.

"What?" He asked.

"You ain't giving any reason in your answer, dude" Junpei said sighing.

"I would really love an explanation to this" Mitsuru voiced out, clearly losing her patience.

"Mueller attacked me" Shadow said.

"Mueller?! For real?!" Jean asked in shock.

"That bastard! Did he just tail us to here?!" Naruko said in anger.

"Uh...Who's that Mueller?" Ryuji asked barging in between the three members of the Great 12.

"Long story short: He is a scientist-slash-disgusting rapist that creates beings that are capable of transforming into raping monsters and even living weapons" Menma voiced out.

"What the heck?!" Akihiko blurted in shock.

"That's totally disgusting! Who would ever do that?!" Ann yelled, clearly disgusted and angered.

"My father hired that guy to create beings for the CRA program in our former home village" Menma answered.

"CRA?" Yusuke asked.

"Clan Restoration Act. A program used for clans or rare bloodline limit users to increase their race and prevent it from extinction, but Konoha and its civilian council used this program to bring forth offsprings from other clans that are not on the brink of extinction to sell said offsprings to other villages for mere cash" Naruko answered, hugging her right arm with her left hand tightly, and if one could look closely, you can see her shiver tightly.

"I can clearly see why did you run away..." Yosuke said.

"But that's just horrible! Who would ever do something like that to their own son and daughter?! This is just madness!" Chie exclaimed in anger.

"Believe me...Being power hungry makes you an even worse person" Blue said.

"So, back to our topic. You guys just need residence, right? Then you will have to agree on my terms" Sona said.

"We agree alright" Menma said, having finished healing all of Rias' wounds.

"What terms?" Shadow asked in his cold monotone, causing others to shiver from his tone as if the temperature dropped heavily in the room, which forced Menma to rush and wrap one arm around Shadow's neck, whispering to him a summarized version of the speech that occurred between them, the Persona users and the Devils.

"I see. Well, we do need a place to stay, so i don't mind" Shadow said.

"Wow. That was quick. From first glance i thought that he would outright refuse" Rise exclaimed.

"Am i a fool to refuse such an offer? It's better than sleeping in alleys...Not that i ever sleep, though" Shadow replied, only for Rise to shiver at this, before snuggling behind Yu for protection.

"I see. Then it's settled" Sona said.

"Is that it? Wow. And here i thought we would say our whole story" Dragon said.

"Well, i would like to hear your entire story, but unfortunately, we are too late in night, so we can discuss all of this tomorrow morning after school. In that while, i will assign those of you who are in the borders of school age in the school" Sona said.

"Wait. What time is it?" Mitsuru asked.

"11:59. Why?" Saiji said and asked while looking at his watch.

"I see. It's time" Mitsuru said.

"Huh? What time?" Haru asked.

"You will see" Akihiko answered.

And at that moment, the clock hit 12, and once it did, the atmosphere suddenly turned dark green, and what looked like pools of blood started to travel on the floor.

"Huh?! What the hell is that?!" Ryuji asked in shock.

"That's the Dark Hour" Ken answered.

"Arf! Arf!" Koromaru barked.

"Koromaru-san says: Be careful everyone. Shadow are on the way" Aigis said translating to the albino dog.

"Shadows? They can appear in the real world as well?" Akira asked.

"Let me explain it" Mitsuru said.

"Please do" Sona said.

"We all know about the day being composed of 24 hours, right? But actually, that was never the case. You see, everyday past midnight, an additional hour appears, and in this hour, all humans turn into coffins, and creatures called Shadows start to roam around to kill people who are not in coffins. That is the Dark Hour" Mitsuru explained.

"So how do you explain the fact that we didn't turn into coffins?" Sona asked in curiosity.

"There are some people who can function normally in the Dark Hour. Those people are the ones that either have the potential of unlocking their Persona, or have already unlocked it" Junpei continued the explanation.

"I see, and we Devils have the potential to unlock Personas?" Rias asked, speaking in the conversation for the first time, with interest and excitement apparent on her face.

"No. Absolutely not" Shadow was the one who answered, causing Rias to pout at this.

"But why?" She asked.

"It's because Personas can be unlocked to those within the realm of living, not those who are already souls in flesh, like Devils and Angels" Shadow answered.

"Your talkin' as if you have unlocked a Persona" Accel said.

"That's because i did" Shadow simply answered.

"For Re-?!" Ryuji couldn't finish his phrase as a sudden explosion occurred in the lower floor of the school.

"What in the world?!" Sona asked in shock.

"Those must be Shadows! We must move now!" Mitsuru exclaimed brandishing a gun-like tool that had the letters 'S.E.E.S' on it written in blue. She then motioned for the SEES members, causing them to nod before moving towards the lower floor of the school.

"We must move as well, guys!" Yu exclaimed to the Investigation Team, before all of them ran towards the lower floor as well.

"Uhh...Okay. Now what do we do?" Ryuji asked.

"Maybe we can imagine ourselves in our Phantom Thieves outfits?" Akira asked with his hand underneath his chin.

"Akira. Are you for real?" Ann asked with a deadpan look on her face.

"Maybe he's right. I mean, that is also the mind of an artist" Yusuke said before closing his eyes, imagining his Phantom Thief appearance, and in that instance, his form got surrounded by dark crimson miasma for an instant, before it faded the instant it appeared, revealing him in his Phantom Thief outfit, alongside his white fox mask. Akira then looked at Ann, who was awestruck with this, before speaking.

"You were saying?" He asked in a deadpan tone.

"Whatever" She said back rolling her eyes, before doing the same as Yusuke, and with everyone following suit.

"Okay. It seems that we still got our melee weapons and guns. Let's rock it there" Akira said before bolting out of the room, followed by the other Phantom Thieves.

"So, are we gonna move or what?" Menma asked the members of the Great 12.

"Sure" Shadow simply said, before his hand got surrounded by blue flames, with the kanji of 'Fool' appearing once again on his right palm, then he slammed it into his heart.

"Warble!"

Roaring out his Persona's name, Warble appeared behind Shadow in his full glory, casually spinning his scythe behind his back.

"Dude...This is cool..." Jean muttered out.

"Interesting indeed" Kokoro said calmly, adjusting her glasses while looking at Warble.

"I hope i'm not interrupting you guys, but we have enemies down there" Menma said.

"Right. Great 12: Charge!" Shadow ordered, causing all the members of the Great 12 to charge outside the council room. Shadow just stopped before reaching the door, and looked at Rias, Sona and the Peerages of the two female Devils.

"Aren't you coming?" Shadow asked.

"Oh! You were talking to us? Sorry...Yeah, we will come right behind you" Sona said, snapping out of the shock she had when she saw Shadow summoning Warble.

Shadow, on the other hand, didn't say a thing. He just stared at them with his cold, emotionless face for a couple of seconds, before exiting the room, leaving the group of Devils in shock at what they just saw.

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In the school grounds

The 4 groups of fighters just arrived at the scene, only to see a huge group of Shadows in the form of humanoid creatures with lanky thin arms and light blue masks, as well as several colored ball-like creatures with elongated tongues and an army of Rippers. In the middle of them was a short man.

"Mueller!" Menma spat the name in anger and disgust.

"My my! If it isn't Menma-kun and Naruko-chan!" Mueller said with a twisted smile.

"So that's the fucker!" Kanji blurted out in disgust.

"I see that you have made a great collection of friends in a rather short time. How interesting" Mueller said.

"Mueller. Why did you come back?" Shadow asked.

"Well, Shadow-kun. Haven't i told you that i will return to capture you and your friends dead or alive? That aside, this power of yours seems really interesting. Not to mention the ability to summon the King of Grimoires to your side is indeed breathtaking" Mueller said.

"Back off, Mueller! Your not taking us anywhere!" Naruko roared out.

"Your one to talk, Ms. Failure. Your just born as an eyesore to your clans. That's why you and Menma were kicked out of your clans" Mueller said, causing Naruko's face to go pale, and for her body to shiver. At that time, Menma barged in as well.

"Cut the bullcrap! Mr. Yellow Flicker kicked us out because he thought that we were useless, and because he was power hungry! Just because we don't have Chakra doesn't mean that we aren't capable of being strong! Just how the hell do you think we became the Great 12?!" Menma shouted at the mad scientist.

"This doesn't change the fact that she is completely useless. Not to mention the fact that she has the Nine Tails inside her. That's why everyone sees here as a demon whore" Mueller said.

"You...!" Menma said gritting his teeth.

"A demon?" Everyone looked behind them to see the Devils have arrived at the scene, and with Rias being the one to speak.

"A long story" Jean added.

"It's because of the Nine Tails that the Chakra reserves of both you and your brother Menma-kun were roasted, and your ninja career was over before it even begun. You two were a disgrace. Your mother abandoned you. Your father kicked you out of the clan. It's because you two are useless. Useless. USELESS! UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS! KUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Mueller kept on laughing like a madman, throwing his head to the sky while cackling madly. All the while Naruko was shaking like a leaf, hugging herself tightly, before falling to her knees shortly afterwards.

"Naruko!" Menma exclaimed in worry for his sister.

"I'm...Useless..." She whispered.

"Naruko-san!"

"?!"

A shout from behind Naruko alerted her, making her look at who called for her, only for said person to be Akira, who stared at her firmly from behind his butterfly-shaped mask.

"Don't listen to this guy! There is no such thing as useless people! We all were born in this world for a purpose! We all have things that we are good at! Listen to your mind and heart, and don't listen to those who put you down!" Akira exclaimed, with Naruko staring at him with tears building in the corner of his eyes.

"Heck yeah! He's right! If you were really useless, then how in the world did you manage to survive and run away from bastards like him all the way here to Japan?!" Junpei blurted out, obviously angry at what the sick Mueller was spatting.

"As Akira said, your your own self. Just listening to this is like admitting it" Makoto said.

"Naruko-san. We may have met just now, but i can tell that your a good person, and good people like you are so powerful. So get up! Don't listen to this rubbish!" Yukari added her two cents.

In the middle of all of this, Naruko stared at the Persona users, as well as her friends and the Devils, who stared back at her. She just continued on staring for a couple of seconds, before using her right arm to wipe her tears in her long blue sleeve of her jacket, and then she glared at Mueller.

"...Yeah, your all right...Letting this piece of shit toy with me..." Naruko said standing up slowly to her feet.

"Say what you want, but your nothing but a-" Mueller was about to finish his speech, but Naruko managed to interrupt him.

"Shut up" She said firmly.

"What?!" Mueller asked in anger and shock.

"You say that i'm a useless whore, but it's the other way around. You and those who are like you are the real demons, Mueller" She said before taking a few steps forward.

"What?! Stay back!" Mueller yelled, before he saw Naruko pointing at him with her pointing finger, yelling one phrase at him.

"Stop looking down on me with that disgusting smile on your face!"

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[Persona OST: Awakening]

"My...You have kept me waiting for centuries, young lady"

Naruko gasped suddenly, her eyes shifting from violet to dark green with black irises in the center, before clutching her head with both hands in pain.

"Auugh!...Gah!" She gasped.

"Naruko!" Menma yelled for his sister, and was about to run to her side, only for Shadow and Akira to stop him by placing their arms in front of him, while at Naruko's pained form.

"Everyone in this world sees the woman as a disgrace...They see her as a weakling for no reason..."

"Is she...?" Morgana blurted out.

"I think so" Ryuji said.

"Letting it go was never the option...You already had the chance of repelling it...Yet, you left it behind...You restrained yourself from discovering the truth..."

"Gaaahhh!" Naruko yelled in agony, swaying her head around to ease the pain, but to no avail.

"You seek power, correct? Then let us form a pact...Since your already forgotten by those who were formerly your family, why not raise your fist and go wild...? The other you that exists within desires it thus..."

"AHHHHHH!" Naruko's screams got even louder.

"I'm Thou...Thou Art I..."

"She's awakening to this power as well...?" Mueller asked no one with cold sweat running down his face.

"Words are no longer useful...Only your fists will be your only way to talk to this rotten world...Brandish them...And Go Wild!"

After this phrase, Naruko lifted her foot off the ground, before slamming it into the ground so hard she created a crater the size of her foot. A small burst of blue flames appeared on Naruko's right hand, and the kanji of 'Chariot' appeared on her palm written in black. And without thinking, Naruko raised her arm to her side to full length, before slamming it into her heart. Blue strands of ethereal energy started to swirl around her form, before all of those strands entered her heart.

"RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Naruko roared before a massive pillar of blue energy erupted around her, piercing the skies and clouds.

"What?! She as well?!" Mueller asked in shock.

"This amount of power...! It's rather astonishing!" Sona blurted out, before the blue pillar disappeared gradually, to reveal Naruko, with her head and arms dangling from her form while panting heavily, and with a new figure behind her.

[Persona OST: Will Power]

It was a woman with pale white skin, around 3 times the height of Naruko, who had short blonde disheveled hair with two short cowlicks sticking out, and vicious eyes, with the right eye being crimson and the left eye being purple. Her outfit consisted of a plain, long-sleeved white shirt, a long, ripped purple skirt, long black stockings and black sandals.

And after a short while, Naruko yanked her head upwards, revealing her face with a wicked grin plastered on.

"Huh?! What the?!" Mueller gasped in shock, with Naruko looking at her palms.

"Right on time! Wassup, Persona?! Oh this rocks as hell!" Naruko exclaimed in excitement, only for the other Persona users and the Great 12, sans Shadow, to smirk at this.

"Yo...I'm ready...Ready to blast you away!" Naruko exclaimed cracking her knuckles.

"Bitch! Don't mock me!" Mueller yelled in anger, before some of his minions merged together in the form of a black goo, before the black goo bursted out, only to reveal a huge purple bull, who was around the size of both Warble and Naruko's Persona, exhaling out with fury in its eyes.

Naruko's response? She just pointed at the beast with her finger and her smirk ever plastered on her face, causing her Persona to brandish its nails that elongated in the form of claws on her hands.

"Crush them down! Arcueid!"

"DIE!" Mueller yelled before ordering the Shadows to attack the group of fighters.

"PERSONA!" Every Persona wielder exclaimed in unison. The SEES shot themselves in the head with their Evokers, The Investigation Team crushed their Arcana Cards, and the Phantom Thieves ripped their masks, summoning their Personas into life.

The Great 12, on the other hand, sans Naruko and Shadow, who already had their Personas, were another story.

Menma summoned two short swords, one was white and the other was black with red spider web design on the blade, with a yin-yang design on the guards of each sword, and started to dance beautifully around while slashing at the Shadows with tremendous agility. Jean was simply standing with a small smile on his face, and dozens of golden gates around him floating in the sky, where each gate sported several weapons, including, but not excluding swords, chains, axes, halberds, spears, tridents, spiked clubs, buster swords, and even more, with each weapon being launched by a mere gesture from Jean's hand at speeds that not even the Devils could perceive with their enhanced senses at the Shadows. Accelerator was just slamming the ground with his hands, causing several chunks of rubble to rip themselves from the ground and fly towards the Shadows, slamming into them so hard they explode, and even create balls of very hot and concentrated plasma and send its rays towards the Shadows, evaporating them into nothingness. Kokoro was just standing in the middle, staring at the Shadows that were approaching her hungrily in lust, and her response was just taking off her glass with her eyes closed, before snapping them open, and grinning manically, before the Shadows started to have multiple gashes and wounds all around their bodies, causing the creatures to screech in pain, before vanishing away from the excessive amounts of pain. Dragon was punching and kicking wildly at the Shadows, with none of the Shadows being able to make a single scratch on neither her body nor even her clothes for some reason, and at occasions, she would breathe blue fire from her mouth, incinerating those who came in her sight, and even release blue energy beams from her mouth as well, wiping away the Shadows out of existence. Blue was creating water out of nothing to either cause it to freeze around the Shadows to shatter them, or to cause it to boil, scorching the Shadows alive with what looked to be some sort of Pseudo-fire. Misogi was just summoning several oversized screws from the ground to impale the Shadows around him, and even wield them in his hands as makeshift spears. Shiki was using a knife to slash swiftly at the Shadows, and for some reason, wherever she slashes, the Shadows die instantly, even if she made a little cut on them. Lucy was just standing with her monotone expression ever plastered on her face, and each time a Shadow appears in front of her, they get shredded into pieces by some sort of invisible telekinetic aura that emerges from her. And finally, Tamamo was wielding several talismans in her hands, with each talisman she throws having a special effect, like one that releases a fire ball, one that releases an ice spear, one that releases a gust of wind, one that releases bolts of electricity, and one that releases explosions, with a mirror floating around her to deflect whatever attacks the Shadows may throw and reflect said attacks right back at them.

At the same time, Shadow and Naruko were fighting the purple bull Mueller summoned.

"Arcueid! Ziodyne!" Naruko commanded, causing Arcueid to raise one arm to the sky, before a lightning bolt fell from the sky onto the bull, causing it to roar in pain. Shadow followed by commanding Warble to hit the bull with the blunt side of his scythe, sending it skidding back a little. The bull roared in anger, before charging head on towards Warble and Arcueid, to which the two Personas reacted by catching one horn each of the bull, halting its charge attack, before yanking it upwards above their heads, and throwing it to the sky.

"Warble! Eigeon!" Shadow roared, before Warble pointed its scythe at the airborne bull, before the skulls of the scythe shot a blast of dark red energy at the bull. When the attack connected, the bull roared in pain while witnessing its body corroding. Naruko then commanded Arcueid to grab the bull by the head, before flying with it down to the ground, slamming it so hard to create a huge crater, causing it whine weakly.

"Arcueid! Vajra Blast!" Naruko roared, causing Arcueid to generate a huge ball 2 times her size in her hands and hoist it above her head, before throwing it at the bull. The moment it connected, a massive explosion occurred, creating a mushroom cloud that engulfed the whole school grounds. Once the smokescreen faded, the bull was nowhere to be found, and in its place was a crater that was more larger than the one that was created when Naruko's Persona slammed the bull into the ground.

"What?!" Mueller roared in shock, anger and fear mixed together in one.

"It's time to end this!" Naruko yelled.

"BITCH!" Mueller swore loudly.

"Warble! Garudyne!" Shadow exclaimed, making Warble spin his scythe in a helicopter-like fashion in front of his enemies, causing a huge gust of wind to blow away all of the Shadows around Mueller, sending them flying to the sky.

"Arcueid! Agnyastra!" Naruko exclaimed, before Arcueid raised her arms to the sky, causing the clouds of the night to split apart, before several comets started to rain down on the Shadows, hitting and incinerating every single one of them in a short time, muffling their screams with the sounds of explosions upon contact.

"Whoa! This is amazing!" Morgana said with wide eyes.

"Nice! Get 'em girl!" Ann exclaimed with a smirk.

"I have never seen anything like that before! This power is absurd!" Rias muttered in shock and disbelief, with the other Devils watching with shock apparent in their eyes.

Mueller just watched with shock and disbelief as the Shadows and his minions were completely dominated by the Persona users.

"This is...Unbelievable..." He could only whisper in his shock.

"It's time for the grand finale!" Naruko exclaimed, before Arcueid appeared beside her.

"Arcueid!..."

Naruko called for her Persona, causing her Persona to spread her arms to the sides. Suddenly, Mueller felt as if the world got bigger around him. He then narrowed his eyes, only to see that he was in what looked like a digital transparent cube, right in between Arcueid's palms.

"Marble Phantasm!"

Once Naruko roared out her attack, Arcueid's claws grew even more, her teeth became jagged and her eyes became even more demonic. She then raised her right arm, brandishing her claw above her head, before swiftly bringing it down at Mueller's dwarfed form, causing the digital cube to disappear instantly, and for Mueller to blow to pieces as the world's perception returned to normal, showing that Mueller exploded to a pile of blood, gore and brains, with nothing left of him except his ankles and small shoes.

After this attack, Arcueid suddenly disappeared, returning into the depths of Naruko's soul. Naruko stood still in front of what remained of Mueller, before she slowly started to fall on her side to the ground.

"Naruko-san!" Akira was the first one to react, and managed to catch Naruko before she fell on the floor with one arm. He looked at her, only to find that she was unconscious.

"Naruko!" Menma yelled in worry, going to his sister's side.

"Don't worry. That's what happens when you unlock your Persona for the first time. It's natural. All she needs is rest" Morgana said walking towards Akira and Menma.

"Hey! What's this?!"

"?!"

Junpei's voice alerted everyone, making them look in front of them, only to see something rather gruesome.

Flesh and blood started to gather around Mueller's ankles, slowly reforming into red raw flesh in the shape of a human being, then the skin started to encase the flesh, before Mueller was whole once again.

"What in the world?!" Ryuji exclaimed in shock.

"Amazing powers of recovery..." Mitsuru muttered.

"Hah! You honestly think i didn't take counter measurements for cases like these?! A scientist always has to be ready every time, you know!" Mueller said with a disgusting smirk on his face.

"Your no scientist! Your just a piece of walking shit!" Ann spat her words as if they were venom.

"My my. What a rude miss we have here. But i think that playtime is over for now. I have grown interested in the power of Persona, and it seems that it will be fruitful in the future. Just mark my words: I will take you all with me. Dead or Alive" Mueller said before a Ripper erupted from the ground, and used one of its tentacles to hoist Mueller on its head, before jumping high into the air, disappearing within the night sky.

Everyone just remained silent, until...

"Oh! Everything is returning to normal! The Dark Hour is over!"

Ken's exclamation snapped everyone into reality, witnessing the sky reverting to normal and the blood on the ground was gone.

"Hey! Everyone! We're still in our Phantom Thieves attire!" Haru said in shock, causing the Phantom Thieves to look at their outfits, only to realize that Haru was right.

"Wha-?! Is that Dark Hour thing is over?!" Ryuji asked in shock.

"I think this means that we can use our powers in the real world as well" Makoto said.

"Oh! Sweet!" Junpei said smirking.

"There's no such thing as 'Sweet' in this..." Chidori said calmly. They all then suddenly heard a cough from behind, only to see that it was Sona, who coughed in her hand to gain their attention.

"Aside from the bizarre stuff and absurd display of power that we Devils have witnessed right now, i think you guys can all go to your rooms in the dorm room. As for our newcomers, i will have the members of my Peerage deliver your school uniforms to your rooms, only for those of you who is still in school age. I will have my Peerage members lead you to your rooms in the school dorms" Sona said, before ushering to her Peerage to escort all the members of the Great 12 to their places in the dorms, with Akira being escorted by Saiji while holding an unconscious Naruko in his arms.

"I think we should rest for now" Menma said stretching his arm to the air, causing a bone in it to pop.

"Yup. Couldn't agree more" Junpei said yawning.

"I hope no one is hurt" Fuuka said.

"Causalities are 0%. Everything seems to be fine" Aigis said.

"Arf! Arf!" Koromaru barked happily.

"Hehehe...It seems that Koro-chan is happy about it" Yukiko said smiling.

"Okay. Time to head for the dorms" Mitsuru said before casting her gaze at Shadow, then at Akira, who was holding Naruko in his hands. Both males looked at her in silence, before Mitsuru broke the short ice.

"I will really need to speak to all of you tomorrow. We have lots of things to discuss, so for that, please take as much rest as possible" Mitsuru said, making Akira nod and for Shadow to merely blink coldly at her, before everyone made their way to the school dorms, being led by Sona's Peerage.

The only one who was not moving was Shadow, who suddenly stood in his place, before a voice started to echo inside his head.

"I Am Thou...Thou Art I...Thou hast turned a vow into a blood oath..."

"It shall be the oath that breaketh the yoke of thy heart..."

"Thou hast awakened to the ultimate secret of the Chariot...Granting thee infinite power..."

"Thou shalt be bestowed with using Asterius, the ultimate form of the Chariot Arcana..."

The voice died down, and Shadow felt like something formed beside Warble inside his heart, taking the shape of a huge armored minotaur with fire and chains dancing around it.

Seeing the image of the minotaur inside his head, Shadow remembered what Igor had said regarding his powers.

"What's special about your powers is the fact that, unlike other Persona users, who can summon only one Persona, you have the ability to summon infinite Personas from your disposal. This power is called the Wild Card. It is like the number zero...Empty, yet holding infinite potential within"

Shadow closed his eyes for a brief while, before opening them slowly. He then kept on walking behind his friends, towards the dorms.

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The next day

"Ngh...Ugh..."

Naruko grunted at the rays of the sun waking her up from her sleep. She snuggled her face into something soft to block the sun rays from her face.

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Wait.

Something soft?

Yanking her head up immediately, Naruko looked at what she was holding, only to find that it was a white soft pillow that she was hugging all the time. She then looked around, only to see herself in a beautiful room with the window right beside the soft bed she was sleeping on. On her side was Menma, sleeping while sitting on a chair with his hands crossed. Naruko smiled softly at her brother's sleeping form. She gently trailed her finger on his whisker marks that were on his cheeks, only for Menma to purr cutely in his sleep, to which she giggled at this. She then saw the door to her room opening slowly, which made her tense up, only to relax shortly after upon witnessing that it was Dragon wearing the standard female Kuoh school uniform.

"Oh! Good morning, Naruko-chan! How are you doing?" Dragon asked with a smile on her face. Naruko just rolled her shoulders and arms to flex them, only to gasp in surprise.

"Wow! I feel a lot better than ever! I have never felt like this before!" Naruko exclaimed.

"I think that's the result of you unlocking your Persona" Dragon answered.

"Oh! Persona! Now that you mention it, i remember skewering Mueller to his ankles. Tell me, is he dead?" Naruko asked.

"Uhh...No. He somehow regenerated from your attack at him, and fled" Dragon answered in a solemn tone.

"What? Oh, god. And here i thought i got him..." Naruko said pouting a little.

"C'mon, silly head. Time for the first day at school. Also, wake Menma-kun up" Dragon said, before giving Naruko her school uniform, then she headed towards the door.

"Wait, Dragon-chan" Naruko said causing the woman in question to stop and look at the blonde.

"Who carried me to that room?" Naruko asked, causing Dragon to giggle lightly.

"Huh? Why are you laughing?" Naruko asked in confusion.

"It's that prince charming in black clothes. The one that you were drooling while starring at him. I think his name is Akira Kurusu-kun" Dragon said, causing Naruko to blush instantly and for steam to literally erupt from her ears.

"Hehehehe...Your rocking it, girl! A few steps and he will be yours~" Dragon said teasing her friend, before exiting her room.

After a few minutes, Naruko managed to regain her composure, before waking her brother up, to which he had to exit her room, and quickly changed to her school uniform, before heading to school.

---

At Kuoh Academy

"Everyone, I would like to present new students here" The teacher said ushering to Naruko, Menma, Kokoro, Accel, Lucy, Dragon, Shiki, Misogi, and Tamamo, to which all the males were starring wide-eyed at the females, and some females of the class were blushing at the sight of the males.

"My name is Naruko Izayoi. Nice to meet you!"

"Name's Menma Uzumaki. Please take care of me!"

"Kokoro Mitsume. Pleasure is mine..."

"Accelerator. You can call me Accel"

"Lucy Diclonius"

"Dragon! I have no surname!"

"Shiki Ryougi..."

"Misogi Kumagawa! Nice to meet you all!"

"Tamamo-no-Mae! I look forward getting along with you all!"

The nine students of the Great 12 introduced themselves to the class. They then saw Akira, Ann, Yu, Yosuke, Chie, Yukiko, Junpei, Chidori and Yukari smiling at them. The teacher then ushered to the newcomers to sit down at their desks. Naruko sat between Ann and Chie, where Ann was sitting in front of Akira. Menma sat between Junpei and Yosuke, where Yosuke sat in front of Yu, and Junpei sat beside Chidori, who sat beside Yukiko. Kokoro and Accel sat beside Chidori and Yukari, and the rest sat behind them beside each other.

---

2 Hours later, After class

"Never thought that school was boring like that" Naruko said resting her cheek on her hand with a bored look on her face.

"Well, you have to pull through, sis" Menma said chuckling.

"Well, we haven't introduced ourselves. The others are in other classes, so i think we should introduce ourselves" Ann said.

"I will start. Name's Chie Satonaka! Nice to meet' cha!" Chie said cheerfully.

"Yukiko Amagi" Yukiko said with a calm smile on her face.

"Yukari Takeba. I look forward to getting along with you guys!" Yukari said smiling.

"Ann Takamaki. Pleasure's mine" Ann said smiling.

"Chidori Yoshino..." Chidori introduced herself with a monotone voice.

"Yosuke Hanamura! I'm your man here!" Yosuke said flashing a toothy grin.

"Junpei Iori! The ace detective of the generation!" Junpei said smirking.

"Yu Narukami. Nice to meet you" Yu said with a calm smile and a calm tone in his voice.

"Akira Kurusu. I hope we all get along" Akira said smiling calmly.

Naruko, on the other hand, was looking at Akira with wide eyes and a small line of drool running down her lips. Menma noticed this and followed his sister's line of sight, before sweatdropping.

"Uh...Sis..." Menma tried to speak.

"Akira..." Naruko called, ignoring her brother, and gaining Akira's attention.

"Yes, Izayoi-san?" Akira asked politely.

"Please call me Naruko...And...Can i call you Aki Aki...?" Naruko asked.

"...Eh?" Akira could only raise an eyebrow in confusion.

---

After school, in the Occult Research Club

The 4 group of fighters were currently present inside the room of the Occult Research Club, where Rias, Sona and their Peerages, including Issei Hyoudou himself, who Rias resurrected as her Pawn the last night, were currently sitting in.

"Whoa! Prez! Who are those people?! And what are they doing here?!" Issei asked in excitement, focusing his sight on the girl's breasts, especially Naruko's and Dragon's, who happened to be the largest ones in the group.

"They are rather valuable guests, Issei" Rias answered.

"We're not your stuff, ya know" Accel said scratching his head.

"Okay, since everyone's here-" Sona was about to commence her speech, but was cut off by Naruko.

"Wait a minute. Where's Shadow?" She asked.

"Come to think of it, i haven't seen him since yesterday's night" Jean said.

"He told me that`he will be seeing something" Menma said.

"Well, i think we can start it without him, then we will fill him with it later when he returns" Kokoro said.

"Huh? Are you sure? Your not worried about him?" Junpei asked in confusion.

"Heh. Heck no. That's Shadow we're talking about. He is our leader, and we trust him blindly. Don't worry about it" Jean said smiling.

"Okay. Let's commence. From what i have heard, you guys can use entities called Personas, not to mention other supernatural abilities. Am i right?" Sona asked.

"Yup" Menma was the one to answer.

"And as for the group that had recently arrived to the school, you guys are the same, right?" Sona asked.

"Well, why don't we explain it more?" Kokoro asked.

"What do you mean?" Rias asked.

"We're humans, but at the same time, we're not" Jean said.

"Uh...I don't think we get what you mean..." Akeno said chuckling with everyone sweatdropping at this.

"Well, we have been given our powers through a mysterious entity, who claimed that we were pawns in a game that would decide the fate of the world, and then he unlocked our Birth Abilities" Naruko said.

"Huh? Birth Abilities?" Ryuji asked in confusion.

"We will get to that later. Anyways, aside from unlocking those Birth Abilities, he infused the concepts of life into us" Naruko said.

"Concepts of life?" Sona asked.

"There are several concepts in life, and each concept gives a supernatural power to the one holding it when given enough willpower to activate it. Ours, however, are different. Our own are called the Aspects of Death" Menma explained.

"I take it that they are the most powerful, yet dangerous ones of concepts" Rias inquired.

"Correct. Unlike other concepts, the Aspects of Death are linked directly to our Birth Abilities, which in turn makes them the strongest. However, if we violate them, we enter into a maniacal state of anger and madness that not even reasoning would be able to snap us out of it" Kokoro said.

"And what are your Aspects of Death?" Chidori asked, causing every occupant in the room to perk at the members of the Great 12 in interest.

"Guts" Naruko said.

"Sacrifice" Menma said.

"Pride" Jean said.

"Destruction" Dragon said.

"Gluttony" Blue said.

"Madness" Accel said.

"Nonexistence" Misogi said.

"Mentality Breakdown" Kokoro said.

"Bloodlust" Shiki said.

"Fear" Lucy said.

"Greed" Tamamo said.

"What about Shadow-san's own Aspect of Death?" Ken asked, causing the members of the Great 12 to look at each other with anxious looks on their faces, which caused everyone present in the room to opt looks of confusion.

"What?" Sona asked.

"Well, to explain it bluntly, Shadow's Aspect of Death is the combination of our own 11 Aspects in one" Naruko said.

"What would it be?" Yu asked.

"Wrath" Kokoro asked.

"Oh, so he's angry like all the time?" Saiji asked.

"Well, it's not like that. It's that he's extremely short-tempered and easily provoked. But that's a good sign, 'cause the more he's angry, the more he gets stronger. Not to mention that since his Aspect of Death is the combination of all of ours, which means that he has all of our powers and abilities, and that he can get stronger the more we become stronger as well" Naruko said.

"Wow! That way too OP!" Issei said.

"I inquire on the fact that you guys are effectively immortals, since those Aspects of Death are concepts that should be in this world for it to function. Right?" Sona asked.

"Well spotted, Sitiri-san" Menma said.

"Okay. What are the special properties that concepts could give you other than being immortals?" Yukari asked.

Menma just stood in front of them, created one of his short swords in his hand, and stabbed himself right in the heart.

"What the hell?!" Saiji said in shock.

"Are you insane?!" Issei said in shock as well.

"Hey. Chill out, guys. i'm okay" Menma said taking out the short sword from his chest, and the wound instantly healed itself the moment he took out the short sword.

"Whoa! It healed away!" Yukari said in shock.

"I wouldn't have believed it if i haven't seen it with my own eyes" Ryuji said with wide eyes.

"You see, Menma is the embodiment of Sacrifice, so he has to enter to save a person that would take a hit from an enemy, and for that, he has a healing factor that allows him to regenerate being erased out of existence as long as a small part of his soul still lingers. Not to mention that this is actually the lowest degree of regeneration he has. He is still trying to achieve the highest degree of his healing factor" Naruko explained.

"Dude...This is wicked..." Junpei said.

"I can't believe my eyes..." Mitsuru whispered with wide eyes.

"And there's more to it, but we will get to it later on" Naruko said.

"Okay. You have explained those concepts thing. What about the term Birth Ability?" Sona asked.

"A Birth Ability is a symbol of someone's powers and existence. You gain it through either immense trauma or immense willpower, which gives you a special power exclusive to yourself only. Birth Abilities are based on your own personality and your ambitions in life" Menma explained.

"So anyone could have a Birth Ability?" Aigis was the one to ask.

"Well, yes. Anyone can gain a Birth Ability. Though there are some exceptions where someone can gain several Birth Abilities. An example of that is Shadow" Naruko said.

"Whoa! How many Birth Abilities does this dude has?!" Junpei asked in shock.

"If memory serves, he has around 3 of them, aside from the ones that we, his companions have, as well as the ones that he copies using one of his own three Birth Abilities" Menma answered.

"Wow! He really is OP!" Issei said in amazement.

"Tell me about it..." Naruko said.

"But aside of that, you guys are Persona users. 2 of you have already unlocked their Personas and the others are sure to go" Akira said to the Great 12.

"Not to mention your super badass abilities as well" Ryuji added.

"I can unlock your Birth Abilities as well, guys" Menma said.

"For real?!" Ryuji asked in shock.

"Alright! Now this is gonna be even more cooler!" Junpei exclaimed in excitement.

"Oh! We forgot to introduce the others to them!" Yosuke exclaimed.

"Kanji Tatsumi"

"Rise Kujikawa"

"Naoto Shirogane"

"Teddie!"

"Mitsuru Kirijo"

"Aigis"

"Fuuka Yamagishi"

"Ken Amada"

"Akihiko Sanada"

"Arf! Arf!" Koromaru barked.

"He says: My name is Koromaru" Aigis translated.

"Ryuji Sakamato"

"Yusuke Kitagawa"

"Makoto Nijima"

"Futaba Sakura"

"Haru Okumura"

"Morgana"

"Whoa! A talking cat!" Blue said in amazement.

"I'm NOT a cat! I'm Morgana!" Morgana yelled in anger, only for Naruko to yank him swiftly, before hugging him tightly, burying the poor Morgana into her rather oversized ample breasts.

"Okay. Aside from Naruko's fetish for cute things, can we inquire on some stuff?" Kokoro asked.

"Go ahead" Sona said.

"First of all, we would like to know what is the Dark Hour? And why does it even exist?" Kokoro asked, targeting her question to the Persona users.

"The Dark Hour is a Phenomena that takes place at midnight, and serves as the 25th hour of the day. Once it takes place, non-Persona users are transmogrified into coffins and remember nothing that happens during the Dark Hour once they awaken. Because of this, the general public is unaware of its existence" Mitsuru explained.

"But we Devils weren't turned into coffins yesterday. Why's that?" Rias asked.

"I think that's because that just because your not a Persona user doesn't mean that you can be transmogrified into coffins. Being turned into a coffin or not solely depends on the spiritual pressure and essence which will enable a person to withstand the effects of the Dark Hour, allowing them to function in it" Kokoro stated.

"I believe that is the case. Well clarified, Kokoro-san" Mitsuru said.

"Sooo...Those who are not humans, or those who possess enough ego are capable of awakening a Persona, right?" Jean asked.

"Correct" Mitsuru simply answered.

"That still didn't answer my question. Why does the Dark Hour exist? And how did it came into existence in the first place?" Kokoro asked.

"It was the result of my own group. The Kirijo group. Before the occurrence of the Dark Hour 10 years ago, the Kirijo Group discovered the existence of the Shadows. Upon realizing that they had the property to manipulate time and space, the group decided to perform experiments on them to refine and acquire their powers. Their project was carried out in the man-made Port Island, where a laboratory was built for such a purpose. During the course of conducting the research, the Kirijo Group collected Shadows en masse and found out the prophecy of The Fall, or the end of the world. Accepting death as a deliverance and following the wishes of their employer, the senior scientists began rejuvenating Death, the appriser of Nyx to descend on humanity to bring about the advent of The Fall" Mitsuru explained clutching her arm with a distressed look on her face, before taking a deep breath, continuing her explanation.

"During the final stages of Death's rejuvenation however, one of the senior researchers named Eiichiro Takeba, who happens to be Yukari's father, opposed the efforts to initiate the The Fall, interrupting the experiment. As a result, Death was forcefully separated into thirteen distinct Shadows, each bearing their respective arcana, with the thirteenth shadow Death in an incomplete state" Mitsuru explained.

"What happened to those thirteen Shadows?" Accel asked.

"The fragmented Shadows went berserk, destroying the lab and everyone within it. This in turn, made a significant impact on the time continuum, creating the Dark Hour. A tower soon emerged from the ruins of the lab. This was Tartarus, considered as the lair of Shadows" Mitsuru answered.

"What happened to that tower?" Lucy asked.

"It was destroyed by two friends of ours, whom sacrificed themselves to prevent the Fall and erase the Dark Hour, and that was by preventing the malicious gods Nyx and Erebus to connect to each other, which would have caused the destruction of the entire existence" Mitsuru explained.

"What did he do to prevent Nyx and Erebus to connect?" This time, it was Sona who asked.

"They used a power called the Universe Arcana, which allowed them to use the Great Seal, which costed them their souls. Their willpower was so great that they survived without their souls for a whole month, before they died" Mitsuru said, causing the members of SEES to grimace and opt sorrowful and pained looks on their faces.

"I see, but what would happen if there was a way to kill Nyx and Erebus?" Naruko asked.

"We can't. Nyx is the personification of Death incarnate, and Death itself is a concept, which in turn, makes Nyx immortal. Erebus, on the other hand, is the personification of the malice of the accumulated collective unconsciousness, which in turn means that he will keep on existing as long as there is malice and negative emotions in the world" Fuuka explained.

"The what happens if there was a way to bend the rules of existence to just make it so that they are not even existent?"

At that question, everyone turned their head to the voice, only to see that it was Shadow, standing with his arms crossed, leaning on the wall.

"F-For how long where you here...? I haven't even felt your presence..." Rias asked Shadow.

"I was here ever since miss redhead over there explained the phenomena called the Dark Hour" Shadow simply answered.

"What did you mean with bending the rules of existence?" Mitsuru asked.

"Oh! We haven't told you about Shadow's first Birth Ability?! Oh silly us!" Naruko said in a creepy cheerful manner that didn't fit the current mood they were in.

"Huh?! Whaddya mean?!" Ryuji asked.

"Shadow has the ability to control all kinds of concepts, causalities, probabilities, laws, and physics. Not even that, but he can also create new ones as well" Naruko answered, causing every occupant to widen their eyes in shock and disbelief, while looking at Shadow.

"For Real?!" Ryuji voiced out loudly.

"I told you that he's way too OP!" Issei voiced out as well.

"Anyways, this is my own opinion. If you don't agree with it, then i don't mind leaving an innocent youngster strapped into a door that holds two beings that would have erased the entire existence on a 5-dimensional domain" Shadow said before slowly walking outside the club room, leaving the awestruck group of fighters and the Devils behind.

"Geez! What the hell is wrong with this bastard?! Why is he so harsh?!" Issei asked in anger from Shadow's behavior.

"Please everyone. Forgive Shadow's behavior. That's just his way of telling you that he will help" Naruko said.

"His eyes...I can tell that he had it rough in his life..." Akihiko said.

"You really have no idea how much crap he went through" Menma said.

"Okay. Let's end it here. Thank you all for sharing these valuable information with us. I hope we all get along well" Sona said, causing everyone to nod.

"Okay. You all may take your leave" Sona said before everyone walked outside the Occult Research Club room.

"Um...Before you go..." Rias said walking to Akira.

"Yes...?" Akira said with a flat look on his face.

"You guys are the Phantom Thieves, right?" Rias asked.

"Uh...Yes? Why?" Akira asked.

"Can i have your autograph?!" Rias said with a comical glint in her eyes.

Not only the Phantom Thieves sweatdropped at this, but also the other 3 group of human fighters.

---

2 Hours later. At the street

"God! I can't believe that this bastard was so impolite!"

"It's just the way he is. Don't worry about it. He may not seem like it, but he is so kind"

Menma was walking with the still pissed Issei on both Naruko and Rias' orders, since they didn't want him to be targeted again by Fallen Angels.

The two quickly took a liking to each other, since they both were 24/7 perverts. The difference, however, was that Menma knew his limits, and wasn't as pervert as Issei. That didn't block the fact that Menma introduced Issei to the series of Icha Icha Paradise, specifically the uncensored versions of it, which Jiraiya gave to Menma as a goodbye gift.

Menma raised his head to the sky with a warm smile on his face. Sure, this old man was as pervert as Issei, and he was unbearable at times, but deep down inside, he was a man that had a heart of gold. He was the only one that helped them in their journey in the Elemental Nations. He even promised to take care of his mother and even try to get her to them.

He never ever thought that his grandfather was far more better than his father.

"Hey, man. Are you with me?" Issei asked waving his hand in front of Menma's face, snapping him out of his thoughts.

"Yes? What is it, Issei?" Menma asked.

"I was telling you how much a cruel bastard is Shadow" Issei said.

"Dude. I already told ya. He's-"

"Hawa!"

"?!"

Before Menma could finish his answer to Issei, the yelp of young woman sounded beside the deck they were sitting on. Both looked at their side, only to see a petite young woman with long sun kissed blonde hair, green eyes and a green nun outfit was worn on her body.

But what Menma and Issei were focused was the fact that her butt was positioned right in front of them, revealing her white panties right in front of the faces of both males.

The reaction was expected from Issei's side as the brown haired male's nose exploded in blood, while Menma was able to hold his nose bleed by pinching his nose tightly.

"Aw...Why did i trip...?" The girl whimpered while adjusting herself to sit on the ground, which also failed to hide her panty shot from the two perverts. This snapped Menma out of his daze, before he stood up and extended his hand to the small nun.

"Are you okay?" Menma asked.

"Uh...Yes. Thank you very much..." The nun said, still whimpering from the fall.

"Oh! Your suitcase...God...That's dangerous..." Menma said looking at the case which had her undergarments popped out of it.

"Oh my!" The nun said.

"Here. Let me help you" Menma said, before looking at Issei, only to sweatdrop upon witnessing the brunette lying emotionlessly in a pool of his own blood face first on the ground. The white haired youth sighed at this, before kneeling down to get several pieces of clothes. The first piece that got in his hand, however, was a pair of white panties. Menma held the panties in his hands, staring at the piece of cloth, only for the small nun to blush at this heavily with comical tears building on her eyes, before she zoomed with supernatural speeds past Menma, snatching the pair of panties from his hands before rushing at her suitcase, and shuffling all of her stuff inside the suitcase.

"I'msorryi'msorryi'msorry!" She apologized repeatedly before she tripped on her knees, revealing her panty-clad butt to Menma, to which he wasn't ready this time, and his nose bursted in blood at this. The nun then stood in front of Menma, smiling while blushing at the white head.

"Ah...You saw a bad side of me..." She said.

"On the contrary, it's so good that it's burned deeply into my eyes and brain!" Menma thought with a perverted grin on his face.

"Oh my god! Your bleeding!" The nun said to Menma.

"Eh...It's no big deal" Menma said back.

"I remember having a tissue in my pack" The nun said, before taking out a white tissue, and handing it to Menma, to which he took to wipe the blood off his nose.

"Um...Are you travelling?" Menma asked.

"No. I've been appointed to the church in this city, but i have got lost on the way" The nun answered.

"Oh. I see. Your not from here then. This means that your not used to the language around here, i see" Menma said.

"Oh, yes" The nun answered.

"Well, if your looking for a church, then i know where it is. Would you like me to help?" Menma asked, causing the nun's eyes to shine brightly, and for her to grab the cross dangling on her neck.

"Really?! The lord really points the way!" The nun said brightly, making Menma smile at this gently. Both of them suddenly heard a pained cough from behind, causing them to look at Issei, who coughed out blood in a comical manner, before clutching his throat.

"Is something wrong with him?" The nun asked.

"Uh...It's nothing. He's a little sick" Menma said.

"Hmm...It seems that divine items and prayers are poisonous to Devils...These things sure are dangerous indeed...I'm glad that i'm not a Devil..." Menma thought, before turning his attention to the young blonde nun.

"Anyways, let's go. We shall show you to the church" Menma said.

"I have to go home...I think i have lost lots of blood lately...See ya tomorrow, Menma" Issei said before walking slowly away.

"It seems that he's hurt..." The nun said in worry.

"Don't worry about it. He will be fine. By the way, my name is Menma Uzumaki! Nice to meet you!" Menma said giving the nun a toothy grin, which caused her to blush slightly.

"A-Asia Argento...Nice to meet you too, Menma-san..." She said stuttering a little.

Suddenly, she stopped upon witnessing a little boy on the ground, clutching his knee that was bleeding while crying his eyes out. She rushed towards him and knelt to see the injury.

"Are you okay? A boy shouldn't be crying over something like this" Asia said before positioning her palms in front of the injury. Not a second later, the boy's injured knee was surrounded by green light, and the injury rapidly vanished from the boy's knee.

"There! Your injuries are healed! You should be fine now!" Asia said smiling at the small boy. Menma then saw a woman running towards them, which Menma presumed to be true, which indeed turned out to be so, as the woman took the boy in her arms, hugging him happily.

"He was injured, so i just helped him" Asia said smiling.

However, the woman just gave her a look of disgust, before walking away with the boy, saying nothing in return.

"What the...?" Menma was stunned at this.

"It's okay. It's nothing" Asia said smiling at Menma.

However, Menma was no beginner when it came to human's emotions. He knew it from first hand experience, and he knew that right in front of him stood an extremely hurt girl, whose heart was assaulted several times by the several glares and looks of discrimination of that of others around her.

"Hey. Let's make our way to the church" Menma said, snapping Asia out of her solemn look, which was immediately turned into a smile.

"Yeah! Let's!" She said cheerfully before both of them continued their walk to the church.

"By the way, this power of healing..." Menma said.

"Oh yes. It's my power of healing. It's an amazing power granted to me by God" Asia answered with a smile on her face, before both continued on walking in silence. After a few minutes, they reached a rather huge white church.

"Ah! This is it! I'm so glad!" Asia exclaimed in happiness clasping her hands together.

"Well...I will take my leave now. See ya" Menma said before turning tails and started to walk away, only for Asia to jump and grasp his arm with both of her petite hands.

"Please wait!" Asia said.

"Huh? What's up?" Menma asked.

"You have helped me when no one else didn't. You should let me repay you in kind" Asia said with puppy dog eyes glinting in front of Menma.

"Shit! I can't refuse an offer from those eyes! I have to head out of here and quick before i succumb!" Menma thought, before opting a slight grin on his face.

"Uh...I'm really sorry, but i'm in a hurry. Maybe we can meet again later?" Menma asked, which caused Asia to smile brightly at this.

"Yes! I hope to see you again, Menma-san!" She said in excitement, before she saw Menma running away from her, which made her wave to him.

---

A few minutes later

"Phew...Okay. I think i'm out now. I have to find Issei and make sure he's okay" Menma said to himself before he started walking, only to hear someone, particularly a girl call for his name.

"Menma-san! Wait!" The familiar voice yelled to Menma, making the white haired boy look behind him, only to see Yukari running towards him.

"Oh! Yukari-san! What's up?" Menma asked.

"I have been looking all over for you to give you this" Yukari said, before taking out something from her pocket and showing it to Menma.

It was something that looked like a model gun, which was pitch black in color, and had writings carved in red on the two sides of its barrel which said 'Great 12'. Menma took the item from Yukari, and inspected it.

"Uh...You ran with ragged breath to give me a gun...?" Menma asked in confusion.

"That's not a gun. That's an Evoker. It will allow you to summon your Persona once you unlock it, which will be easier than slamming your palm into your heart. I have given each one of your teammates one of those, save for Shadow-san, as he wasn't there. So i gave his own to Naruko-san since she told me that she will give it to him if she sees him" Yukari said.

"Oh. I see" Menma said.

"Well, i have to return to the dorms now. Are you coming?" Yukari asked.

"Eh...I think i will stroll around to see around the town so i could get used to it" Menma said.

"Okay then. Good night" Yukari said before walking away, only to gasp before reaching for her pocket and pulled out a smartphone, before turning around and giving it to Menma.

"I almost forgot. Take this as well. This is a smartphone, which will allow you to call us if we are far away. I have installed all of the numbers of all of us, as well as the other Persona users and your teammates, since we have given your teammates phones as well, sans Shadow-san for course" Yukari said.

"Oh...Ok...Thanks...I suppose..." Menma said, not knowing what to say.

"Well, i have gotta go. Good night" Yukari said before turning tails and walked away from Menma, who stood there silent for a couple of seconds, before sighing, pocketing both his Evoker and phone in the pockets of his trench coat, and walking away as well.

---

1 Hour later

After one hour of strolling around the town, Menma knew several stuff regarding the new life they are in.

There are places called convenience stores, which sell several goods that he has never seen before in his life, but what differs is that unlike the Elemental Nations, the country of Japan worked with a currency called Yen, and he had only his enormous amounts of savings of Ryo. When asking one of the workers in a convenience store, he told him about a place called a bank, which would allow others to change foreign currencies into Yen. So he just unsealed all of his savings, and went to change the currency from Ryo to Yen, to which the bankers inside the bank were shocked as they had just discovered that one Ryo is equal to 200 Yen, and by so far, Menma had savings from his bounty hunting in the Elemental Nations worth of 10 million Ryo, which in turn meant that he had around 2 billion Yen, making him officially a millionaire. Everyone in the bank was completely awestruck at this amount of money, and they were even more shocked when Menma said that he wanted to take this money with him home. And after some arguments and desperate persuasions from the bank manager for Menma to invest his money in the bank which went to downright refusal, Menma got out of the bank with a case that holds 2 billion Yen in it, before he used a seal on it to teleport it to his room via the seal that he placed in his room in the dorms.

When he exited the bank, it was already 11:00 PM. He then heard a weird ring that came from his pocket, before putting his hand in it, only to find that what was ringing was his phone. Curiously, he pressed the green button, which in turn caused it to stop ringing, before he heard a familiar voice.

"Hey, bro! Whatcha' doin'?" Naruko's voice sounded from the phone.

"Oh! Hey, Naruko! How are you..." Menma trailed in his speech.

"Oh! Yuka-chan told me how to use the phone! So i thought of trying it out to give you a call! It's so cool, ya know!" Naruko said.

"Uh...Yeah...Is that what you want, sis?" Menma asked.

"Oh yes! That's all i wanted! Make sure you come back before the Dark Hour! See ya!" She said before the line was cut.

Menma sighed at this, before starting to walk home, only to see someone running towards him. He immediately recognized who was that.

"Takamaki-san? What are you doing here at this late hour?" Menma asked.

"Everyone, including Otsutsuki-kun are inside the dorms now, with you being the only one left. Your sister said that we should not worry about it, but i was worried. So i went out to see you. Are you alright?" Ann asked trying to take her breath from running too much.

"Uh...Yes. I'm fine. Don't sweat it" Menma said.

Suddenly, Ann witnessed Menma gasp, before whipping his head over to a certain house, dashing off to it shortly after.

"Hey! Wait up!" Ann called to the white haired male, running behind him.

---

At the house

If there was a word to describe the situation Issei was in, then it would be...Problematic.

Right in front of him was mad corrupted priest, who had just slashed his back with a light saber, and shot his right leg with a bullet infused with holy energy, and he was sitting on the floor, doubling in pain.

"Hah?! What's wrong, shitty Devil?! Already out of fuel?! KUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Freed laughed manically.

"Damn you!" Issei spat his words at Freed.

"TIME TO DIE, SHITTY DEVIL!" Freed yelled before raising his light saber, preparing to kill Issei with it.

"Fuck! I'm gonna die!" Issei thought before closing his eyes, waiting for his inevitable demise...

"NO!"

"?!"

Issei opened his eyes slowly, only to see Asia standing between him and Freed, where her upper nun clothes were sliced in half, nearly making her upper half naked if it wasn't for the fact that she held the two halves of her clothes to hide her modesty.

"Huh?! Are you an idiot?! You could have been chopped in half, you idiot!" Freed yelled at Asia.

"Stop it! Why are you doing this to Menma-san's friend?!" Asia asked.

"Eh?! Bah! 'Cause he's a Devil!" Freed answered sticking his tongue out like a mad man.

"What?! This person...Is a Devil...?" Asia asked in shock.

"Well, sooner or later, he will be turned into a similar work of art like that!" Freed said pointing to the corpse that was pinned on the wall, which was drenching in blood. Not a moment later an Asia held a hand on her mouth with tears building on the corners of her eyes and her face became pale from horror.

"What is it, Asia-chan?! Is that your first time seeing a corpse?! Well, you ought to get used to it, since this is our way of work!" Freed said.

"This bastard!" Issei hissed at Freed.

"That's how we work! If we don't cut them down, we will never be able to complete our job. Now, Asia-chan. Hurry up and set up the barrier, okay?" Freed demanded from Asia, to which the girl responded by positioning herself in front of Issei in the form of protection, which made a tick mark form on Freed's forehead.

"We can't just do this just because this person was lead astray by the Devil! Despite being a Devil, i can feel goodness in him! Father Freed, please let this person go! This is wrong!" Asia said with tears flowing freely from her eyes, which caused Freed to lash at her, hitting her with the handle of his gun on her head, knocking her on the ground.

"Asia!"

"?!"

The one who called was not Issei, but it was Menma, who had just arrived witnessing Freed knocking Asia off her feet, followed by Ann, who stared at her surroundings in shock and disgust.

"Ah?! What's that?! More shitty Devils?! Or it's just shitty Devil worshippers?!" Freed asked with disgust on his face.

Menma, on the other hand, was seeing red right in front of his eyes. His friend, as well as the kind girl he had just seen today were about to be killed by some kind of a mad man! This guy was going to steal everything from him! Just like everyone else that tricked and discriminated him and his friends.

He doesn't want this to happen anymore! Not to him! Not to anyone else!

[Persona 5 OST: Awakening]

...

...

...

"You kept me waiting for a long while"

Suddenly, Menma gasped, his eyes then turning dark golden, before he started clutching his head with both hands, and soon afterwards, he sunk to his knees, gripping his head, before banging it to the floor.

"Guh! A...Augh!" He gasped in pain.

"Menma!" Issei called.

"Menma-san!" Asia called for the white haired boy as well.

"No way! He's gonna...!" Ann trailed in her speech, knowing fully well what was going to happen next.

"Your discriminated...Humiliated...Discarded...Loathed...Thrown Away...And for what? Nothing..."

Menma rolled slightly on the ground, still screaming in pain while clutching his head with both hands.

"But despite that, you remained as positive as ever, and deep inside your heart, you wanted that to never happen to either you, or those who are around you..."

"Hah?! What's wrong with that guy?! Is he going mad?!" Freed asked no one in particular.

"You seek power to change all of this, correct? The let us form a contract"

Menma's wails started to get even louder.

"Damn! So noisy! If your just feeling pain, i can release you from it!" Freed said before brandishing his light saber once again, walking slowly towards Menma's pained form.

"Since your name has been disgraced already, why not don the armor and start the war? The other you that exists within desires it thus..."

"No! Don't hurt Menma-san!" Asia exclaimed before desperately grasping Freed's leg to stop him from advancing towards Menma, to which Freed kicked her in the face, sending her flying away and knocking her unconscious, leaving also a nasty bruise on her cheek.

"Shitty nun! After Mr. Whittie here is done, you and the shitty Devil are next!" Freed said with an angry look on his face.

"I Am Thou...Thou Art I..."

"Now, time to finish my business, and break my world record of killings" Freed said with a mad grin on his face, before proceeding to walk to Menma, to which he was stopped by Ann, who was now in her Phantom Thief outfit, brandishing her whip at the mad priest.

"I won't let you touch him!" She exclaimed through gritted teeth.

"There's no turning back..."

"Oh well. I suppose your gonna be the first one to die, bitch!" Freed cackled before raising his blade above his head.

"The blade of rebellion is yours henceforth!"

Menma stopped screaming and suddenly gasped, still on all fours, raising his head to the sky as if it was a ritual, before his head hung down, shadowing his face.

"DIE!" Freed yelled before bringing down his sword towards Ann, to which the Phantom Thief was ready...

...Only for the blade to stop upon hitting something solid.

"Huh?" Ann just gasped as she saw Menma right in front of her, blocking Freed's light saber with the frame of his Evoker, with his head still hung low. The white head then pushed Freed away from him, before he raised his head, showing a fierce glare of anger plastered on Menma's face. He then slowly raised his Evoker to the right side of his head, positioning the muzzle to said body part, with his index finger on the trigger, inches from firing.

"Huh?! Now your mad?! Are you just gonna kill yourself?!" Freed asked in annoyance, having been bothered from killing.

Menma, in response, didn't say anything. He just pulled the trigger with one swift pull to the trigger, causing something like an ethereal blue card to blow out of Menma's left head side, shattering like glass while floating in midair, before said ethereal card got sucked back to his head, yanking his head to the right side. Menma then groaned in pain, before throwing his head to the skies.

"Augh...GH...GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Menma's roar echoed through the sky, causing a blue pillar of energy to rise to the heavens, blowing the ceiling of the house he was in, with said pillar rising to the heavens, splitting the clouds in the process. The pillar disappeared after a couple of seconds, revealing Menma, with a new figure behind him.

[Persona 5 OST: Will Power]

It was a male samurai twice the height of Menma, with pale skin, dull red eyes, long waist-length black hair, a red tattoo-like slash mark that traveled vertically on his left eye, a red samurai armor with a black chest plate that had the name 'Yoshitsune' written in red kanji in the center of the plate, yellow spikes-like decorations located on the shoulder guards, arm guards, and shin guards, white pants that had several star drawings on it, white short socks, a black long hat with a red kanji mark on it in a red circle located at the end of the hat's length, and two red katana sheaths strapped to both sides of his waist. Finally, on each hand there was a katana, with the left one held in a reverse grip.

The man flashed a calm smile at Freed, to which the corrupted priest gasped in fear for the first time ever since showing his face in the picture.

"What the...?!" Freed asked in shock and disbelief.

"Unbelievable..." Ann whispered while staring in awe at Menma and his Persona.

Menma, on the other hand, was closing his eyes ever since the display, before opening them, showing a fiery glare of rage directed towards Freed.

"Ya know, People ain't cheap toys the likes of you can toy with, you scumbag..." Menma spat his words at Freed as if they were venom, to which Freed just shivered in fear at this.

"People like you stole everything from the likes of me. They destroyed them. Now...It's your turn!" Menma yelled.

"Bastard!" Freed could only say.

"I have had enough of you...Nothing can stop me now!" Menma said before smirking, creating his two short swords, Kansho and Bakuya in his hands, before calling out.

"Let's go, Yoshitsune!"

[Persona 3 OST: Mass Destruction]

And just after he said that, the house blew up in a massive explosion, before several oversized blades that towered over skyscrapers erupted from the ground, and with it flew Freed, Ann, Issei and Asia, where Menma caught Asia while in mid air, with Yoshitsune hoisting him on his shoulder.

"Are you alright, Asia?" Menma asked the nun.

"Uh...Menma-san...What are you?" Asia asked, which made Menma smirk.

"I will tell you later. For now, let's just take this bastard down!" Menma exclaimed, before he witnessed some winged humanoids with black wings flying straight at Menma.

"What are those?" Menma asked.

"Those are Fallen Angels. Be careful. They're strong" Asia answered.

"Issei!" Menma called to his airborne friend, before he stood on Yoshitsune's shoulder, holding Asia with one arm above his head.

"...Huh?" Asia could only opt a confused look on her face.

"Asia" Menma called to the blonde nun.

"Yes, Menma-san?" She asked.

"Do you trust me?" He asked her back.

"Um...Yes, i do" Asia answered, which made Menma's smirk become bigger.

"Good" He said.

And before Asia could question his intent, he threw the small nun towards Issei, to which she screamed with tears streaming from her eyes in a comical manner, to which Issei gasped at this, before summoning his Sacred Gear on his left arm, before catching Asia in his arms.

"Asia! Please heal the injuries of my friend!" Menma called to Issei, before he positioned his attention to Ann, who found her footing on one of the sword's flat sides.

"Takamaki-san! Provide shelter for Issei and Asia while i take care of Freed!" Menma called to Ann, which made the Phantom Thief nod, before she ran towards Issei and Asia, catching them in the air, before landing on the flat side of one of the huge blades. She then noticed dozens of Fallen Angels swarming around her with spears of light in their hands, which made her brandish her whip, and then she ripped her red panther-shaped mask off her face.

"Carmen!"

Once she proclaimed this, Carmen came in her full glory behind Ann, before she took a puff of her cigar, confusing the Fallen Angels at this act. And before they knew it, Carmen released a huge smokescreen from her mouth after pulling the cigar out of her lips, blinding the Fallen Angels around her. Everything seemed silent for a short while from the perspective of the Fallen Angels, before a pair of eyes glowed in red for a split second, and before any one could react from the side of the Fallen Angels, several whip lashes connected to each single wing of several out of the dozens of the Fallen Angels, and each time the whip connected, it encased the wing in ice, flash freezing it instantly.

The Fallen Angels who got struck screamed in horror as they fell from the sky like ducks that got hit by a shotgun from a duck hunter, where they desperately tried to claw on the ice encasing their wings but to no avail, and they didn't even live for long, as they fell on a big bed of normal sized blades located at the bottom of the ruins of the house that used to be in the place of the blade carnage, impaling their bodies in a merciless way, which killed them instantly upon them falling on the bed of blades.

The rest of the Fallen Angels, on the other hand, were able to maneuver through Ann's whip lashes, before they used their wings to blow away the smoke, which succeeded, only to see Ann shielding both Asia and Issei, where Issei was healed by Asia. The Fallen Angels prepared their spears of light, and aimed them towards Ann, before throwing them towards the Phantom Thief, who just smirked at this despite the danger of being skewered apart.

"Carmen! Maragidyne!" She exclaimed before Carmen casually waved the heart-shaped minion in her left hand, an at this moment, several pillars of fire erupted from the ground, with each one targeting each Fallen Angel remaining. The Fallen Angels' screams were silenced by the fire gradually scorching their bodies and even their ashes, leaving nothing behind to remember them with as well, with the fire pillars destroying the spears of light targeted at Ann as well.

"Wow...This is amazing!" Issei could only watch wide-eyed at the display, where from a few 100 meters, Menma was witnessing the scene while sitting on Yoshitsune's shoulder.

"Heh...Way to go, tiger! It seems that i'm not needed here, but i think i'm needed in another place" Menma said before looking to his side, only to see Freed dashing downwards at the huge blade towards Menma, who commanded Yoshitsune to fly towards the maniac priest, and once they were a few meters away, Menma jumped off Yoshitsune's shoulder, before slamming Kansho at Freed's light saber, clashing against him. The two then continued their clash, with Menma parrying all of Freed's blows with his two short swords. Freed then found an opening, taking out a gun and pointing it at Menma, and was about to shoot Menma's head, but Yoshitsune hurried to his master's side, hitting the gun with the pummel of his reverse-gripped sword, knocking it away from Freed's hand and sending it falling towards the bed of swords.

Freed cursed at this, and that actually distracted him, which allowed Menma to hit his right cheek with the pummel of Bakuya, causing the corrupted priest to stagger away, before Menma followed his assault with an ax kick to the same right cheek, causing Freed to lose balance, and fall off the huge sword, falling towards the bed of blades, but he was lucky, as he managed to grab on one of the blunt sides of the giant blades on the lower tier of the other larger blades, causing Menma to curse at this, before he commanded Yoshitsune to fly and attack Freed while he's immobile.

"Yoshitsune! Brave Blade!" Menma exclaimed, causing the right blade of Yoshitsune to glow in white energy, and when the Persona reached Freed who was still hanging on the blade for dear life, Yoshitsune slashed horizontally, causing a huge energy arc to be released from the blade, flying through several huge blades, slicing them several times with one swing of his sword. The energy arc, however, didn't hit Freed, but blew away all of the huge blades around the one Freed was clinging to, causing them to be blown to pieces and sending said pieces flying to the air.

"Hah! Ya missed me, ya dobe!" Freed smirked at Menma, who simply smirked in return, much to the priest's confusion. Menma just held his index finger up, pointing to the sky, which in turn made Freed look up.

Which the priest regretted doing so.

Right above Freed was a rain of huge shards of sharp steel which was the result of Yoshitsune's attack at the huge blades, to which said blades immediately rained mercilessly on Freed, stabbing him in various areas: The arms, the hands, the palms, the legs, the feet, the eyes, the face, the cheeks, the stomach, the torso and even his groin.

After 5 minutes of steel mercilessly raining down on Freed, the assault of sharp metal rain stopped, leaving Freed, or what remained of him desperately clinging to the huge metal blade, with all what remained of said priest was his right arm that was clinging by a thread to the huge blade, his head which was bloodied from hair to chin and his torso that was pierced by metal. Menma just commanded Yoshitsune to fly towards Freed's clinging form, before he stood on the Persona's shoulder, and gave a gentle push to Freed's bloodied remains, making it fall towards the bottom of the ruins of the house, and directly towards the bed of swords which had multiple corpses of the Fallen Angels with it.

Freed didn't even release a last breath as he met his demise upon falling on the bed of swords.

[End Music]

---

At the same time. In Kuoh's school dorms

Shadow was sitting silently on his bed, with no signs of sleep apparent on his face.

Ever since being imprisoned in Konoha's underground secret lab, and having gruesome experiments done on him by Mueller, Shadow never slept at all, except in the day of his birthday, since this was the day where he was placed in the lab, as well as being the day where he witnessed the death of his parents on the hands of Minato Namikaze, which happened right in the middle of the village.

And despite that, Shadow never understood why did his parents die with smiles on their faces.

He cursed their positiveness from the deepest part of his heart. If they had never been positive like this, then they would have never died. They would have been beside him right now, preventing him from taking this bath that was filled of infinite amounts of bloodshed.

If only they-

"Kuh?!"

Suddenly, the black haired youngster gasped, experiencing the familiar feeling where he was granted the ability to summon Asterius after Naruko unlocked her Persona, where the same voice echoed inside his head once again.

"I Am Thou...Thou Art I...Thou hast turned a vow into a blood oath..."

"It shall be the oath that breaketh the yoke of thy heart..."

"Thou hast awakened to the ultimate secret of the Tower...Granting thee infinite power..."

"Thou shalt be bestowed with using Orpheus Telos, the ultimate form of the Tower Arcana..."

Shadow's heart suddenly felt lighter as something started to form within his depths of his soul, which took the form of a male, mechanical humanoid figure, with an oversized silver lyre attached to its back, and a dull red jumpsuit that covered its torso, where everything in his body making him look more like a robot, save for his head, which was more human in nature, with shoulder length blonde hair, light pale skin and glowing light blue eyes with no sclera and no irises.

Shadow released a breath he didn't know he was holding, before he looked at the window that was beside the bed in his room.

"Menma..." He whispered.

---

Back with Menma, Issei, Asia and Ann

"Man! That was totally wicked! I didn't know that you were that badass!"

"I have never seen something like this in my whole life..."

Issei and Ann showered Menma with praises after seeing the battle that he had with Freed, as well as his Persona being unlocked.

It has been a few minutes ever since the fight against Freed and the army of Fallen Angels were done. It was a total carnage to say the least, with blades of steel sporting everywhere from where the house was originally built and intact, with the armies of Fallen Angels that weren't scorched by Ann's Persona being impaled in the bed of blades that was on the ground alongside Freed's remains, which was in the middle of all the carnage.

Menma then noticed Asia staring at him on the side with a shocked look on her face, before realization struck him at the fact that the poor innocent girl had just seen him killing several beings, as well as Freed in what seemed to be cold blood.

"Asia, i-Guh?!" Menma started speaking to the little nun, before he suddenly sunk to his knees, with his body aching heavily.

"What...Is that...? I can't tire...I'm the concept of Sacrifice..." Menma thought.

"Menma! Are you alright, bud?!" Issei asked in worry, rushing to the side of his friend.

"Don't worry. This is the backlash of unlocking a Persona for the first time. I experienced it as well. He just needs some rest" Ann assured, which made Menma remember when Naruko fell unconscious after unlocking her Persona, despite the fact that she had limitless stamina due to her status as a conceptual entity.

Suddenly, a red pentagram formed in front of the four individuals on the floor, before Rias, Akeno, Koneko and Kiba appeared in a flash of red where the pentagram was.

"My my. It seems that there was a lot of mess here" Rias said, trying to desperately hide her shock behind her smile, but the cold sweat that dripped from her forehead completely ruined her facade.

"I'm sorry we were late, Ise-kun. Are you okay?" Kiba asked smiling gently.

"Yeah. I'm fine. Thanks to Menma and Ann-Senpai. You should have seen them! They were really amazing!" Issei exclaimed in excitement, causing Kiba to chuckle, Akeno to smile silently, Koneko to stare emotionlessly at him, and Rias to sweatdrop at him, before the red head sighed, moved to Issei's side and touch his face gently with both her hands.

"I'm so sorry, Issei. I didn't place the account of having a priest and an army of Fallen Angels. Forgive me" Rias said to Issei with concern plastered on her face.

"I hate to break the lovey dovey atmosphere here, but it seems that we have got company" Ann said, making everyone look at the direction where the Phantom Thief was looking at, only to see an army of Fallen Angels and exorcists charging at them with spears of light and light sabers respectively. Rias pulled Issei to her side, before going towards Akeno, Kiba and Koneko, before a red pentagram shone under their feet.

"Wait, Buchou! We can't leave Menma, Asia and Ann-senpai here!" Issei said to Rias.

"Sorry, Issei, but we can't teleport non-Devils with us" Rias said.

"But..." Issei tried to protest, but Menma raced him to it.

"Hey, bud! I will be alright! I die hard, ya know! Don't worry! Takamaki-san and i will handle this with a bang!" Menma exclaimed, flashing a toothy grin at his friend, to which Issei opened his mouth, trying to say something to protest at this, only for the words to refuse coming out, before he himself opted a smile on his face.

"Okay! You better keep your promise, pal!" Issei said before the pentagram shone brightly, before the Occult Research Club members vanished in a flash of red.

"Okay...What about ending this with a bang...?" Ann asked with a deadpan look on her face targeted to Menma's kneeling form.

"I just said that so they won't be worried about us..." Menma asked through ragged breath.

Asia, on the other hand, watched everything transpiring in front of her in silence, before she ran and stood in front of both Menma and Ann, confusing both Persona users.

"Asia? What are you doing?" Menma asked the nun.

"Menma-san, Ann-san. You two must go. I will stay here" Asia said.

"What the heck are you saying?! We can't just leave you here!" Menma exclaimed with a loud voice.

"Don't worry. They won't do any harm to me. They need me after all" The nun said before tears started building on the corner of her eyes, with a gentle smile appearing on her face. She then stood face to face with Menma.

"Menma-san...We have to meet again..." She said through her tears and smile, which made Menma opt a worried and horrified look on his face, before Ann grabbed him and threw his arm above her shoulders.

"Don't worry, Asia-chan! We won't leave you! We will come back for you!" Ann exclaimed before she jumped high in the sky, with Menma looking at Asia's form disappearing gradually as both he and Ann ascended to the sky even more. He then gritted his teeth, before shouting.

"ASIA! I WILL COME TO SAVE YOU! PLEASE WAIT FOR ME!"

---

A few minutes later. In Kuoh school dorms

"DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT DID YOU THROW YOURSELF INTO?!"

Naruko scolded her twin brother harshly, to which Menma just stayed silent, with a saddened look on his face, where the 4 groups of human fighters were gathered.

"Menma. Dude. What happened there? Did Mueller attack you?" Jean asked calmly, where Tamamo and Dragon were trying to calm Naruko down.

"I...Couldn't save her..." Menma just whispered.

"Menma..." Ann whispered with a sad tone apparent in her voice.

"That's okay. What's important now is the fact that your okay" Ryuji said.

"Not to mention that you have unlocked your Persona, which is amazing, bro!" Junpei said flashing a toothy grin, trying to lighten the mood. After a few minutes, Naruko started to calm down, before she looked at Menma.

"I'm sorry, bro. But we are all in constant danger, ya know. I have to be worried about you. Forgive me for shouting at you" Naruko said gently to Menma, to which the white head didn't pay it any mind, before he silently stood up from his seat, and proceeded to exit the large hall in the school dorms, heading straight to his room.

"Uh...Is he gonna be alright?" Aigis asked.

"I'm gonna go talk to him" Jean said before walking towards where Menma went.

"I will go to check on him as well, guys. Good night" Blue said before following Jean.

"Okay, everyone. Bedtime now. Go to your rooms. We have school and college tomorrow" Mitsuru called, causing everyone to immediately depart to their rooms, calling it a day.

---

The next day. After school. 02:00 PM

After finishing the school, Menma told everyone that he wanted to be alone, and went ahead to a restaurant to eat lunch all by himself. He then took out his burger, and just sat with his solemn look plastered on his face.

"She said that we will meet again, right...? Then...Why am i...?" Menma trailed in his thoughts, before dropping the burger in his hands lightly on the table, and used both his hands to slap the cheeks of his face lightly.

"Damnit, Menma! Snap out of it! Your causing trouble to yourself and the others around you! Have some confidence in people!" Menma thought once again, before going back to his burger. He was about to take a bite from it, until he saw a familiar figure from the glass frame of the restaurant.

"Eh?! Asia?!" He said to himself in surprise, before storming out of the restaurant, calling to Asia, who turned around and saw him running to her with a smile on her face.

"Menma-san?!" She said in shock.

---

A few hours later

Both Menma and Asia had a very long, yet funny day.

First, they ate hamburgers at the restaurant, where Asia showed complete shock upon knowing that burgers can be eaten with hands, not by knives and forks. Next, they went to the game center, where Menma won a Ratchu-kun doll for Asia, and despite the fact that it costed him half the portion of money he placed in his wallet from his huge savings, Asia's happy smile directed at his face while hugging the stuffed animal made Menma completely forget about the money problem. Afterwards, a girl became interested in Asia's nun outfit, thinking that she was cosplaying just like, making her switch her clothes with a cat-like one, where the little poor Asia only wore a white short shirt, with nothing to hide her lower modesty but her own white panties, alongside black cat ears, to which caused a huge amounts of blood to erupt from Menma's nose, and for Asia to be completely flustered at this. She couldn't, however, change the outfit at time, as Menma dragged her into a photo booth, taking various pictures together, where she was shy at first, but started to get along with the mood, and smiled with Menma in the photos, enjoying herself even more.

"Whoa...I have never ever had so much fun as today" Menma voiced out.

"Yeah! Me too!" Asia said cheerfully with a cute smile on her face.

"Hah...Never ever thought that i could see these days again...Not that i saw them in the first place" Menma said.

"Huh? How's that?" Asia asked.

"Eh...I will tell you about it later. Anyways, this power of yours...This healing power...I take it that this is a Sacred Gear?" Menma asked.

"Yes. This Sacred Gear has the ability to heal any kind of wounds" Asia answered.

"Well, that's indeed a cool power of yours" Menma said.

"Um...Menma-san?" Asia asked, seemingly hesitant to speak.

"Yes? What's up, Asia?" Menma asked back.

"What was...That power you used back then to create so many swords? Was it a Sacred Gear?" Asia asked.

"Oh! That one! This is my Birth Ability!" Menma answered.

"Birth Ability?" Asia asked in confusion, tilting her head to the side.

"A Birth Ability exists inside each and every single one of us. Be it human, Devils, and even animals. A Birth Ability is a special power which represents everything about its user, where their deepest desires is fueled in it. Some abilities involve the increase of the potential of someone, like having a high adaptability to magic or any other kind of power source. Mine is called The Tracer. This ability consists of three processes: Structural Analysis, Reinforcement and Projection. Structural Analysis allows me to analyze an item's structure, Reinforcement allows me to fill in the gaps in the object with magical energy to improve any of the object's qualities. This works not as a matter of making objects "stronger" or "tougher", but by making them "more effective". For example, a bike would become faster, a knife would become sharper, armor would become tougher, and by reinforcing my eyes, i can see farther and with greater detail. The last process is Projection. This is a high-level magical skill that allows for the materialization of physical objects from magical energy using one's imagination. It is generally seen as a useless spell, as objects created from Projection are extremely fragile and disappear as soon as the user loses focus, but this is where the unique type of my own Projection comes" Menma explained.

"And that is...?" Asia asked, waiting for the answer.

"It's Tracing, which is a type of Projection which allows me to replicate not only the shape of an object, but its magical properties, forging processes, and age, but there's a catch: To trace and reproduce something, i must see it first, and it can even extend to the point where i can also able to copy the skills and physical abilities of the user of said skills and abilities by only seeing it. And due to my limitless stamina, i can project weapons that are higher in power and effectiveness than the original ones, but to tell you the truth, i'm mostly skilled in the projection of swords due to "Sword" being my Origin and Elemental Affinity" Menma explained once again.

"So...Your a fighter and a supporter at the same time?" Asia asked.

"...Yeah. You can say that, Asia...Uh...Say, what about your Sacred Gear? How did you get it?" Menma answered before asking a question, which caused Asia's smile to vanish, before her face opted a sad look, and soon, she started sobbing with tears running down her eyes.

"Asia?! Why are you crying?! I'm really sorry! I shouldn't have asked you about something personal!" Menma panicked upon seeing Asia crying.

"No...It's not Menma-san's fault. This just brings back bad memories..." She said.

"Huh? Like what?" Menma asked, before witnessing Asia taking a deep breath, and then she started talking again.

"After i was born, my parents abandoned me, and it was the orphanage in the church that raised me. When i received this power, i had just turned eight. After the church found out about my power, they treated me as a saint and worshiped me. I used this power to heal many sick people, and they were all cured because of it. The rumors started to spread everywhere, so people would come to the church seeking aid, with the church protecting me heavily and treating me well. I thanked the Almighty God who gave me this power to help others, and my heart was filled with appreciation, but since i'm a saint, people would look at me differently and i started to feel lonely. But one day, i met a mortally wounded Devil who was being hunted by an Exorcist, and i used my power to save him, and that Devil killed the Exorcist that was coming for him and fled. This caused the church to see that i have committed a grave sin for helping a Devil. People who worshiped me as a saint now called me a demonic girl, and eventually i was expelled from the church. Then a Fallen Angel found me and took me in..." Asia finished her story.

"God damnit! I hate those discriminating bastards!" Menma hissed in anger, before he watched more tears flowing down from Asia's eyes.

"Menma-san..." Asia said, not knowing what to say else.

"Well, i guess it's my turn now" Menma said, his mood flipping an 180 degree to his cheerful one.

"Huh?" Asia asked in both confusion and surprise. Confusion because she didn't know what Menma was talking about, and Shock because his mood just flipped very quickly.

"Don't you remember? You asked me to tell you what am i. Well, to tell you the truth, it's a very long story, but-" Menma was about to complete his story, but Asia threw her body on his own, wrapping her arms around his waist, to which Menma had to suppress his nosebleed by pinching his nose hard.

"Uh...Asia? What are you doing?" Menma asked, still clutching his nose.

"Menma-san...I...I don't want to know what are you...To me, Menma-san is Menma-san...I can tell that you have suffered a lot in your life, and it was as bad, if not worse than mine. So...I already know you now...As a friend..." Asia said smiling at Menma, who stopped clutching his nose, before looking at Asia in shock.

"Come to think of it, Haruno didn't call me by my name...She only called me Uzumaki-chan..." Menma thought before smiling gently at Asia.

"Asia..." He started to say.

"My my. What inevitable scene i have seen here"

"?!"

Menma was interrupted by the voice of a female. Said voice belonged to a female winged Fallen Angel. Said Angel had long black hair that reached to her waist, slender body, and violet eyes. Her attire consisted of a short black dress with a small, light purple jacket on top. The Fallen Angel descended lightly to the ground on her feet, smiling at both Menma and Asia in a calm, but menacing way. Menma stoo

"Raynare-sama?" Asia asked.

"Raynare...?" Menma repeated the name in confusion.

"My my...I had reports that someone killed Freed and half of our army of the Fallen Angels. I take it that it was you, right?" Raynare asked with a calm smile, sending her question to Menma.

"Yeah? So?" Menma asked while glaring at the Fallen Angel.

"I heard that you killed them all by summoning Yoshitsune, the ancient general of the Minamoto clan. How fascinating this power is. I would love to yank it out of your body right now, but i have to take what belongs to me" Raynare said before averting her sight to Asia.

"Come on, Asia. Let's go. Don't waste me time even more" Raynare said sternly. At this, Asia hugged Menma's arm tightly, with tears building on her the corners of her eyes.

"No...I don't want to help you...Killing people...And also me..." Asia said shivering in fear.

"To us, your existence is a must. You do understand that, right?" Raynare asked.

"Hey! Cut the crap! You saw her refusal, bitch! Don't act so smoothly as if she is yours!" Menma yelled at the Fallen Angel.

"Who are you calling a bitch, you shitty piece of human trash?" Raynare asked darkly, hissing her question to the conceptual human.

"You heard me, birdie! I won't let you take her!" Menma yelled back at her, and before he knew it, Raynare's dark look vanished almost instantly, before she placed a hand on her mouth, chuckling, and soon, the chuckle turned into a full blown laugh, which confused Menma and Asia.

"Huh? What's so funny?" Menma asked.

"You...Ahahahahaha...You just remind me of my first boyfriend, who had the Sacred Gear...Before i killed him...AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Raynare bursted out in laughter at this, where Menma's eyes were wide in shock and disbelief as pieces started to come together in his mind, before he soon realized it.

This woman...Is the one that Issei knew as Yuma Amano...The one who tricked him in order to kill him due to him possessing the Sacred Gear.

"You...Bitch!" Menma hissed.

"Huh?" Raynare stopped laughing upon hearing Menma throw a curse on her.

"Your the one who killed Issei!" Menma exclaimed, causing Asia to gasp in shock.

"Yes! Do you happen to be the friend of this wretched bastard?" Raynare asked with her sickly sweet smile on her face.

"I will make sure to skewer you here!" Menma roared before summoning Kansho and Bakuya to his hands.

"Oh! Is that a Sacred Gear? I suppose i have to kill someone else now" She said before forming a spear of light in her hand, positioning it in the form of a throw.

"Time to die..." She whispered.

"Wait! Don't!" Asia yelled, causing both Menma and Raynare to look at her.

"Raynare-sama...I understand...I will go with you..." Asia said, causing Menma's eyes to widen in shock and disbelief.

"What?! Asia! What are you saying?!" Menma yelled at the blonde nun, who walked slowly towards Raynare, but not before flashing a gentle smile to Menma.

"Menma-san...I really had so much fun today...But this is goodbye..." Asia said, before reaching Raynare, who touched her face gently, but with her creepy smile still intact.

"Asia! What in the world are you doing?!" Menma yelled.

"Menma-san...I already acknowledge you as a friend...Your a kindhearted person who got hurt a lot, and suffered a lot in his life. I can tell that by looking at your face...Thank you very much...For accepting me as well..." Asia said, trying to fight the tears from coming to her eyes.

"But i can defeat her! She won't take a sweat!" Menma said, worried that he would lose her.

"YOU DON'T GET IT!" Asia yelled, causing Menma to recoil a little back in shock, having witnessed Asia yell for the first time.

"YOU GOT HURT IN YOUR LIFE A LOT! I DON'T WANT TO SEE YOU GET HURT AGAIN! YOUR A GOOD PERSON WHO WAS FORCED IN THIS PATH OF JEOPARDY! YOU SHOULD LIVE NORMALLY! PLEASE, MENMA-SAN! PROMISE ME! PROMISE ME THAT YOU WON'T FIGHT AGAIN! PROMISE ME THAT YOU WON'T GET HURT AGAIN!" Asia yelled, the tears now freely flowing down from her eyes.

"Asia..." Menma's whispered with his face becoming pale.

"That's good...After today's ceremony, your pain and suffering will all completely disappear" Raynare said smiling.

"Ceremony? What the hell are you going to do to Asia?!" Menma yelled at Raynare, only for the Fallen Angel to chuckle at this.

"Your life is spared, human. If you get in the way, i will kill you...Farewell...Menma-kun..." Raynare said before disappearing in thin air, with Asia in her hands, to which caused Menma to fall to his knees.

"What the hell...She...Doesn't want me...To get hurt...?" He whispered, only for tears to start flowing from his eyes.

"Nobody...Nobody...Has...Ever said that...To me..." He whispered.

"I see this is rather troublesome"

"?!"

The familiar voice caused Menma to look behind him, only to see Naruko, Junpei, Ryuji and Issei behind him.

"What...?" Menma whispered.

"Dude...No man should cry, ya know..." Junpei said smirking.

"You seem to have been attached to this girl a lot...Wasn't that the nun you lead to the church the other day, as well as the one who you saved from that priest douche?" Issei asked.

"Get up, bro. We will save this chick. I have brought those three with me specifically for this" Naruko said.

"What do you mean by 'I brought those three with me'?!" Ryuji asked, clearly annoyed by Naruko's statement, to which she brushed off.

"Now then, don't cry, bro. We will save her...No matter what" Naruko said giving her hand to Menma, to which the white head stared at it for a couple of seconds, before brushing his eyes from the tears, and taking his sister's hand, with a resolved look on his face.

"Yeah. Let's" He said, causing Naruko and the other three males to smirk at this.

---

In front of the church. Dark Hour

It's now past midnight, and the Dark Hour was active, with the whole world being dark green and the blood covering the floor, as well as several coffins sticking around the streets of Kuoh town. At that moment, however, Menma, Naruko, Ryuji, Junpei and Issei were in front of the church where Asia was kidnapped. On behalf of Rias' orders, however, Kiba and Koneko accompanied them, where Issei remembered when Rias explained the specialties of a Pawn out of all the Evil Pieces.

Apparently, the Pawn, much like in normal chess, has the unique ability called Promotion, which would allow a Pawn to evolve in power, becoming either a Rook, Knight, Bishop, or Queen, but a Pawn can't promote to a King. Despite that, it was still something that is rather useful, thought each Promotion depends solely on the stamina of its user, but there is another catch: To use Promotion, A Pawn must be inside the enemy territory to promote.

And ironically, the church was one of the best places for Devils as an enemy territory.

"Okay. Issei and i will go inside. The rest of you guys will be outside to make sure there are no reinforcements ahead" Menma said.

"Uh...Okay?" Ryuji said, confused at Menma's orders.

"Don't worry about me and Issei. We will save Asia and get out. I just want you guys to be out to make sure there is no traps headed for us" Menma said.

"Okay, bro. Just give them hell!" Naruko exclaimed giving her brother a thumbs up, before he and Issei went inside the church. Menma summoned Kansho and Bakuya to his hands, before swinging Kansho at the lock of the church door, breaking it, which opened the door to them, making them proceed inside the church. They kept on advancing until they reached the church prayer hall, only to see a group of men wearing white priest cloaks, with light sabers and guns in their hands.

"Halt, Devils! We shall not let you pass!" One of the exorcists exclaimed.

"I don't have time for this!" Menma exclaimed before Kanshou and Bakuya disappeared from his hands.

"Trace On!" He exclaimed before something huge appeared in his hands. It was a huge axe sword, which was made of rock, and it was around 1.5 times taller than Menma himself. The axe had a round handle, which acted as a hilt and a guard at the same time, with a small white cloth wrapped around the handle, and the sharp ending being jagged and sharpened to act as the sharp side of the axe sword.

Menma hoisted the axe-sword with one arm above his head, glaring at the exorcists.

"Charge!" The leader of the exorcists exclaimed before the group of exorcists charged at both Menma and Issei.

"Boosted Gear!" Issei exclaimed before the Boosted Gear gauntlet appeared on his hand.

"BOOST!" The gauntlet echoed.

An exorcist lashed his light saber at Menma, only for the white head to swing his axe sword with only one hand at the exorcist, sending him flying away to the wall beside him. Menma then swung his axe sword at another exorcist, sending him flying to another one, knocking them all to a wall, crashing said wall in the process.

With Issei, he had already boosted 5 times, and entered the Rook Promotion. He then uppercut a exorcist to the ceiling of the church, sending him flying outside the church. He then delivered an axe kick to another exorcist in front of him, knocking him off his feet. Another exorcist tried shooting him with his light bullets infused gun, only for Issei to spin around and deliver a roundhouse kick to said exorcist, knocking the gun off his hand, before punching him with his Sacred Gear arm, sending the exorcist crashing through some of the chairs of the church hall.

"Time for some gal!" Menma exclaimed before the axe sword disappeared from his hands, before a black bow appeared in his hands, and then, a silver, drill-like mini sword appeared in one of his hand, before it turned into a yellow glowing rod. He then placed it on the bow and took aim.

"Caladobolg!" He roared before releasing the arrow, causing an explosion in the front wall that sent the rest of the exorcists flying away, which in turn blew down the statue in the front, revealing a row of stair that led underground.

"Menma! There's a secret passage!" Issei informed his friend.

"I can feel Asia's essence, as well as that Raynare. We must hurry up before something bad happens to Asia! Let's go, Issei!" Menma said to his friend before the two took the stairs to the underground passage. It took a minute for them to reach their destination, but once they reached it, they saw a completely naked Raynare, with Asia tied in the form of a cross into what looked like a glowing ritual altar.

"Asia!" Menma called Asia, who opened her eyes weakly, before looking at Menma and Issei.

"Menma...San..." She whispered weakly, seemingly drained of power.

"This is a heart warming meeting, but your too late..." Raynare said with a mock smile.

"Don't worry, Asia! We're here to save you!" Menma said.

"Yuma-chan...?" Issei trailed in shock.

"She said she knew her. If you want to take the kill, then be my guest" Menma said.

"The ceremony is about to end after all..." Raynare said before a strange symbol appeared above her breasts, with the same symbol appearing on the same area of Asia's, causing her to scream in pain.

"ASIA!" Menma yelled for the nun.

Suddenly, several exorcists came from the shadows of the side of the ritual room, jumping at both Menma and Issei.

"Tch!" Menma clicked his tongue before extending his arm and opening his palm, causing a sword to appear in his hand, where said sword had the handle of a light saber, and the blade was made of solid ice with ice spikes protuding from the sides of the blade.

"CHEW ON THIS!" Menma yelled before swing the sword in a circular motion, causing a wave of ice to emerge from the blade, and when the ice wave came in contact with the exorcists, they immediately turned into human-sized ice blocks, and fell on the ground, which in turn caused them to shatter apart upon contact with the ground, before their blood slowly smeared the ground, leaking from their frozen parts.

"Boy...Now that is brute..." Issei added his two cents.

"AHHHHHHH!" Asia screamed in pain even more as a silver ring covered in green aura in the form of a sphere emerged from her chest.

"Yes! This is the power that i have always wanted! If i have this Sacred Gear, then i will be loved!" Raynare exclaimed with a smile on her face, before catching the sphere in her hands, pushing it inside her chest, wincing in pain with her cheeks flushed.

"It's...Coming inside...!" She winced, before the sphere with the ring entering inside her literally. She then stopped moaning, before breathing a couple of heavy breaths, then she started laughing.

"Yes! I've got it! The ultimate power! With this, i can make those who made fun of me eat their words!" Raynare exclaimed.

Suddenly, a wall on the side, exploded, sending disperse flying away, only for Naruko and surprisingly Akira in his Phantom Thief outfit to enter the alter from the hole.

"Bro!" Naruko called.

"Naruko!" Menma called back.

"Naruko-san? What are you and Akira-senpai doing here?" Issei asked.

"He kinda followed me here, but that's not what i'm here for! Konoha ANBU ninja are showering around the church, and Ryuji, Kiba-kun, Koneko-chan and Junpei are fighting them alone!" Naruko exclaimed, causing Menma's eyes to widen in shock.

"What?! This is bad!" Menma exclaimed in shock.

"They told me to help you and Issei, and Aki Aki offered to help me as well. Don't worry, they're doing fine out there" Naruko said, before sucker punching a priest that came swinging his light saber at her. She then took out her Evoker, positioned it in front of her forehead, and aimed at her left forehead side.

"Persona!" She exclaimed, shooting herself with the Evoker, causing Arcueid to appear behind her in a flash of blue. Akira also ripped his mask off his face, causing Arsene to manifest itself behind him.

"Arsene!" He called out his Persona's name.

"Let's do this, Aki Aki!" Naruko exclaimed, before looking at Menma.

"We will take care of this! Menma, help Asia-chan!" Naruko called for her brother before entering the carnage, punching those in front of her, with Akira slashing with his knife and shooting with his handgun.

"I will help them, too! I'm gonna give you cover, so go and save Asia-san!" Issei said to his friend before charging head on to aid Naruko and Akira. Menma then ran to the ritual alter, as he saw Asia falling off of it, but he reached her falling form in time before she could fall on the ground, catching her bridal style in his arms.

"Is it fine? Saying your final parting words?" Raynare asked with a sly smile on her face.

"Asia!" Menma called, causing Asia to look at Menma weakly.

"Menma-san..." She whispered.

"Hang on! It's going to be alright!" Menma called.

"It's no use" Menma turned his face immediately towards Raynare upon hearing her saying those words.

"Do you know what happens to those who have their Sacred Gears taken out of them? They die" She said darkly before taking out her clothes, and started to change in front of Menma, who glared at her with immense amounts of killing intents. If looks could kill, then Raynare would have been dead right now.

"Then return the Sacred Gear to her!" Menma demanded from the Fallen Angel, which caused Raynare to burst out in laughter.

"AHAHAHAHA! I can't return the Sacred Gear! Just to get this i even made plans tricking my superiors!" She exclaimed, before looking at Menma.

"I will destroy you as well and leave no proof. Okay?" She said to Menma, which caused the white head's glare at her increase in malice and killing intent.

"Menma!" Issei's voice reached Menma, but all his sight was solely focused on Raynare, where Issei came to the side of his friend, before looking at the Fallen Angel in front of him, and he himself opted a glare as well.

"Issei-kun! Now i can take both of you down!" Raynare exclaimed.

"You...Bitch!" Issei spat.

"Issei-kun...It doesn't how you glare or curse me. In the end, the results are the same...Heh, you know...It was fun for me, right? The time i spent with you...After all, i was your first girlfriend...Just looking at you, you were totally innocent...A boy that knows nothing about women is so much fun to toy with..." Raynare said putting on her clothes.

"Back then, i decided that i would cherish you..." Issei muttered with his eyes being shadowed by his hair.

"Issei..." Menma whispered sadly, feeling sorry for his friend.

"Your sure protected me back then...Whenever i was in trouble, you would show up by my side in order to protect me so i wouldn't get hurt...Didn't you even realize that i was pretending to be weak on purpose? Because your panicked face...Was so interesting" Raynare said finishing dressing up.

"RAYNARE!" Issei yelled out the Fallen Angel's true name.

"AHAHAHAHA! Don't speak my name so easily, you rotten shitty Devil!" Raynare exclaimed with a sickly sweet smile that completely contradicted the dark mood that was present in the place.

"M-Menma...San..." Asia gasped, seemingly trying to breath.

At this moment, the side of the wall bursted open, only to reveal Kiba and Koneko.

"Kiba! Koneko-chan!" Issei called out.

"Hyoudou-kun! Uzumaki-kun! We will give you cover! You should escape now!" Kiba exclaimed.

"I won't let you escape" Raynare said creating a spear of light in her hand.

"You two go ahead of us! We will take care of this!" Kiba said to Menma and Issei.

"No! I will come with you guys!" Issei exclaimed coming to Kiba and Koneko's side, before looking at Menma.

"Menma! You go and take Asia-san somewhere safe! We will handle this!" Issei said to his friend.

"But-" Menma started to say, only to get interrupted by Kiba.

"Don't worry about us! Just go!" Kiba yelled, only for Menma to look at the three Devils for a couple of seconds, before he opted a firm look on his face, and nodded. He then carried Asia bridal style, and left to outside the underground passage, returning to the church hall. He then placed her gently on one of the benches, before standing up.

"Wait for me Asia...I will go bring it back to you right now!" He exclaimed before making his way back to the underground passage, only for Asia to weakly catch his hand, stopping him.

"Even if it's just for a short while...I'm glad that i became friends with you...I'm so happy..." Asia managed to whisper, which caused Menma's face to pale at this, before desperately putting up a pale smile.

"W...What are you saying...? We're friends, ya know...I won't let you go..." Menma managed to whisper.

"If...If i'm born again...Would you...*sniff*...Would you...Become my friend again...?" Asia asked starting to cry, with tears streaming down her pale face.

"Hahaha...What are you talking about...? We'll always be friends...We will go to other places to play again...We will never miss...Any good moment..." Menma said, and afterwards, he couldn't fight the tears anymore, as they streamed down his face.

"We will always be friends! I will introduce you to my sister Naruko! She might be a little tough from the outside, but she is really a good person! I will even introduce you to the rest of the bunch, including Jean and Blue. Those two are my best friends! They make be a little of lewd idiots, but they are extremely kind when you know them! They will definitely become your friends! We all are going to have fun together! That's why-" Menma couldn't finish his sentence as Asia mustered what remained of her strength to lean towards Menma, gently touching his cheek.

"I'm glad...You cried for me...I don't need...Anything else...Thank you..."

"?!"

After saying this sentence, Asia's face fell limb to her side, drenched in Menma's tears. Her eyes closed, with tears on their corners.

At this instant, Menma's eyes widened. His heart froze, refusing to beat as if responding to his emotions. The world felt like spinning around from his perspective. Everything inside his head shattered like glass. He didn't even feel the tears streaming down his face.

"Why...Why..." He began to mutter.

"Why does someone like her has to be hurt like that? Why do the people that i love have to leave me like this? Why does she, out of all the people don't have to experience happiness? Why...Why...WHY...?! WHY?! WHY?! WHY?!" Menma stared to yell, throwing his head to the sky.

"Nobody...Nobody..."

At this, he started gripping his hair, his grip being so hard it threatened to tear the hair off his head.

"nOBoDy HaS eVeR sAcRiFiCeD HiMsElF fOr mE bEfOrE!"

His yell reached the skies, echoing throughout the whole town, with black aura starting to rise around Menma, and the white head falling to his knees, his hair shadowing his eyes, where he gritted his teeth so hard that blood literally poured from between the gaps of his teeth, his nails dug into his head so hard his head bled, and tears seemed to not stop streaming down his face.

"Heh...What a sight to behold..."

"?!"

The voice was familiar to Menma. It was the voice of Mueller, who entered the church slowly from its broken door, and on his side was a tall blonde man that looked just like Menma, but older. He was wearing a blue ninja jumpsuit, with a dark green vest on it, below a white cloak lined with red flames-like design on the back, where between said design laid the word 'Hokage' in kanji.

That was Minato Namikaze, Menma's and Naruko's father...

...And the one that was responsible for Shadow's misery, as well as Menma and Naruko's own.

"Menma...My son...It's good to see you again..." Minato whispered with a light evil smirk on his face, with Mueller smirking smugly. However, Menma didn't respond. He just kept his latter position, with his mouth and head seeming to never stop bleeding or run out of blood, and his eyes seeming to not run out of tears, with his eyes still being shadowed by his hair.

"Minato-sama...It seems that he broke...We can finally take him" Mueller said, before several tentacles bursted from the ground behind Mueller, heading towards Menma at neck-breaking speeds, and before this could happen...

"Bro!"

"?!"

Minato and Mueller were startled when Naurko's voice was heard, before Arcuied appeared in between Menma and the tentacles heading for him. The Persona then used her claws, raising it above her head, and in a swift motion, she sliced them into pieces, before they fell on the ground, causing them to evaporate. Arcueid then disappeared afterwards, leaving Naruko in front of both Mueller and her former father.

"My...Naruko...It's been years, my daughter..." Minato said.

"Shut up! I'm not your daughter! And your not my father!" Naruko literally spat the words, which in turn made a tick mark appear on Minato's forehead.

"Mueller...I believe that we won't need them alive for those...Experiments that would improve the power of our village, right?" Minato asked, which made Mueller's smirk grow even further.

"Absolutely, Minato-sama" The mad scientist answered.

"Very well. Bring them alive or dead...Though i would suggest bringing them within an inch of their life...I want to discipline them..." Minato said.

"Very well, Minato-sama. I was going to taste my latest experiment after all" Mueller said before raising his hand above his head, snapping his fingers afterwards, which caused a huge earthquake to appear, to which Naruko and the others inside and outside the church, no...The entire town...Nay...The whole existence, to shake violently, before a huge emission of light appeared behind Mueller's back, with the light causing Naruko to shield her eyes from it to prevent it from blinding her. The light then died after a couple of seconds, which caused Naruko to place her arm down to look at what happened, only for her eyes to widen in a mix of shock, horror, disbelief and fear.

Right in front of her, levitating, was a man that was barefooted, and had a metallic-like frame around his slender body, which had nothing to cover it but a simple white loincloth that was held to his left shoulder by a string, with said loincloth having a huge golden cross drawn on the lower and longer part of the loincloth that covered the lower part of the body, with two long, dark yellow sashes dangling from his waist. His body was also decorated with several golden crosses, which were located at the elbows, chest, feet, and knees. He also had short golden blonde hair that was hairstyled in an English way, as well as thick, blonde eyebrows, golden eyelashes and light blue eyes that seemed to be void of any emotions. His appearance was completed with the pair of angelic, but at the same time, metallic wings that were behind his back.

Naruko could only mutter one thing in a whisper.

"Metatron...?"

"HAHAHAHAHAHA! THAT'S RIGHT! I RESURRECTED METATRON, THE AVATAR OF YHVH! BUT THIS TIME, I HAVE ADDED AN INGREDIENT!" Mueller yelled before snapping his fingers once again, causing Metatron's chest to open, revealing two naked women that had their arms and legs sticking to the insides of Metatron, which was something akin to a black void. Both women were light skinned, with one of them having long red hair, while the other had green hair.

"Mom?! Auntie Lewis?!" Naruko yelled in shock upon seeing this.

"Those two were the perfect ingredients for causing Metatron to ascend to the same level of YHVH himself! Imagine the fact that we have right now a 10-dimensional being as our weapon! KUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Mueller laughed manically, throwing his head to the sky, with Minato simply smirkng evilly at both Naruko and Menma, before Kushina and Lewis were once again absorbed inside Metatron, before his chest closed once again.

Suddenly, a white flash appeared for an instant, and in the second one, Shadow appeared beside Naruko.

"Shadow?" Naruko asked, where said male had his eyes widened dangerously in absolute fury. In fact, fury was not even the proper word to describe it, with pitch black aura dancing around his form furiously.

"I sensed the signal of Minato's Chakra, as well as Menma's power raging, which means that the rule of his Aspect of Death was violated, so i came in here" Shadow hissed his words, before taking out Murasama, pointing it at Minato.

"Minato...I will rip you apart...Here and now..." Shadow said from between his gritted teeth. At that, Menma stopped gripping his head and clenching his teeth, before he started to slowly ascend to his feet, with his hair still shadowing his face.

"All what this girl wanted...Was to have friends...Even thought this girl just wanted to live a normal life...You took all that away from her...You fuckers..." Menma whispered, which caused Naruko to look at Asia's emotionless body that was lying on the bench, which in turn made her wide her eyes in shock, before using one hand to cover her mouth, where Shadow looked as well, and gritted his teeth even more in anger upon witnessing the sight of the dead girl in front of him, with tears being frozen on the corners of her eyes.

"You took everything from her...You destroyed her...Now...It's your turn..." Menma said, before his raised his head, only for the tears to scatter away from his eyes, replaced by a look of pure fury. And at the same time, Shadow, Naruko and Menma raised their arms, pointing their pointer finger at both Mueller and Minato, saying the same phrase at the same time.

"WE WILL ROB YOU OF EVERYTHING!"

"Enough of this! Mueller! Dispose of them! Just leave the bodies for experiments!" Minato yelled before walking slowly outside the church.

"Your not going anywhere!" Naruko roared before rushing towards Minato, but Metatron flew in front of her, blocking her path.

"Your not going anywhere, Naruko-chan. It's time for all of you to die. Metatron...If you will please..." Mueller whispered before Metatron spread his wings to his side, glaring at the three youngsters in front of him.

"Menma! Naruko! Summon your Personas!" Shadow yelled before taking out his Evoker from his pocket, with Menma and Naruko doing the same. The three took aim and fired.

"Warble!"

"Arcuied!

"Yoshitsune!"

The three called out the names of their Personas, before the respective Personas appeared in three flashes of blue behind their respective summoners.

"Now then, to prevent a destruction on a 10-dimensional scale, why don't we do it in another place?" Shadow asked before extending his arm, apparently not waiting for an answer.

"Chaos Control!"

"?!"

And just like that, Menma, Naruko, Shadow, Mueller, Metatron, and the three Personas of the three youngsters disappeared in an instant flash of white.

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Outer Space

The flashes of white appeared once again in outer space, revealing Naruko, Menma and Shadow on a side, and Mueller and Metatron on the other side.

"What...?" Mueller muttered out.

"We're in outer space. We don't the world to be destroyed from this battle, you know" Naruko said.

"I see...Quite convenient...I don't want my test subjects to be destroyed you know..." Mueller said, his arrogant and disgusting smirk never leaving him.

The three youngsters entered their respective fighting stances. Menma summoned Kansho and Bakuya to his hand, Naruko raised her fists in front of her, and Shadow held Murasama in both hands, gripping on the hilt tightly that his knuckles became white, with the blade cackling red lightning, shining furiously.

Mueller just kept on smirking arrogantly, with Metatron spreading his wings to his side at their widest.

It has been clear now...

Only one side was going to pull it out alive...

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And Done!

God! A chapter that has more than 22 K words! And I even ended it with a cliffhanger! Just how much evil can get?!

Now,for all of you, ye, Shadow is the Wildcard of this story, and 2 Ultimate Personas are already in his disposal. I will just list them with their arcanas, so have no worries:

Initial: Warble.

Fool: ?

Lovers: ?

Chariot: Asterios.

Hanged Man: ?

Hermit: ?

Magician: ?

Justice: ?

Judgement: ?

Strength: ?

Tower: Orpheus Telos.

Fortune: ?

Emperor: ?

Empress: ?

Priestess: ?

Aeon: ?

Sun: ?

Star: ?

Death: ?

Moon: ?

Hierophant: ?

Temperance: ?

Devil: ?

Hunger: ?

That's the first issue.

Second issue: I will introduce the harem in the next chapter.

Third issue: Yes. I'm pairing Asia with Menma, since I have seen most, if not all of the fanfics here pair Issei with Asia, so I have decided to snatch some women from Issei's harem and add them to another group.

Now, with that being over, let's say our parting words!

Next Chapter: The Fight Against the strongest Angel.

Until Next Time And Next Chapter!

Jude Warble, Out!