(Full chapter name: Chapter 19 - Wholesome Feels In Many Places)

Hey guys! From now on, these chapters won't be pre-written as this is the last chapter that was pre-written. Now, this was during my writer's block so if it seems rushed, writer's block sucks. Either way, I hope you like this chapter!

Last time on Persona 5 Female Protagonist Edition...

The four of us entered a huge room with a statue of Dog Shit. Oh god, he looks more stupid in stone. Huh? This room is shifting from it to the gym. "Huh? Is this... the gym...?" my thoughts exactly, Panther. "I get it... the gym's some kinda holy place for him. He's a god there," Oh, right... "I can't believe he can think that way... especially after what he did to Shiho..." the femme fatale's hands clench up as she holds back her tears, "God, that bastard makes me so freakin' sick! Just you wait, Kamoshida!"

"I see... so you are the ones who tampered with the library..."

Huh? "Guys, stick together. Back to back." I command as we do it.

" It seems my time here has paid off..."

Now, let's continue where we left off!

A knight with wings and a sword appears before us as we all begin the battle. "Guys! Check for weaknesses!" Summoning Silky, I cast 'Bufu' on it as it does neutral damage. "Let's go, Captain!" a lightning strike comes from Captain Kidd, "Dance, Carmen!" at the same time, Carmen blasted fire at the target. Yet again, both do neutral damage. Zorro swings his sword in his 'Z' motion with a wind attack, doing approximately the same damage as the others. The flying knight looks as it's charging for an attack, "Everyone, defend!" We do so as it casts 'Cleave' on Mona. "Okay, Mona! Be on healing duty! Skull, Panther, be offensive. When it charges, everyone be defensive!" The orders worked out as we defeated the shadow with ease. "Amazing Joker! You're order giving was splendid!" The praise from Mona while he healed us with Panther made me smile. Panther and Skull agreed with him as my face begins to flush in embarrassment, "Let's go and find the treasure everyone!" With those words, we continue on.

Our route leads us to being above the room from before. I was afraid of falling 'cause of my heels and I kept turning around to make sure Panther doesn't fall. With a big leap, I was able to make it onto the platform. However, I began to lose my balance. Falling backwards, I began grasping in the air for dear life. Thankfully, someone took hold of my left hand. "I've got you, Joker!" It was Mona! Panther was holding him by his feet while Skull had his arms around her waist. They pull me up with ease, probably because of my weight being in early 40kgs, as I began hyperventilating. "Thank you guys! And sorry, I really need to get used to stilettos…" They accepted it while jumping themselves and I follow. Panther helped me as I do the same. "Ooh! A chest!" the femme fatale pointed out as we walked up to it. Opening it, a foul smell poured out. It's a piece of grimy gear, "Oh god that stinks! Wait, isn't there a laundromat near Leblanc? Let's go when we have time!" Nodding at Mona, he takes it and places it into his infinite pouch.

Following the map we got from the… shrine room? What am I supposed to call it? I don't want to call it the 'Shiho Room' because that's just fucked up so I'm gonna call it the shrine room. Anyway, following the map lead us to the roof. Powerful shadows were on the prowl and a door on the other side. I take the lead and signalled them to follow once the coast was clear. Shit, I can't dodge this shadow. Okay, "Show me your true form, bitch!" Jumping from my crouching position, I land on the shadow's back and ripped off the mask on it. Two Beriths appear as I summon Silky to cast Bufu on them. Thank god, I already got a Berith so I know the weakness. "No holding back!" Calling out, the four of us go into an All-Out Attack. Easy experience. Oh my god, another shadow? Well, "I'll reveal your true form!" tearing the mask off, another Berith appears with a naked dude with an owl head and wings. What the actual fuck… "Ravage them, Silky!" Bufu appeared with the Berith as it goes down. Okay… who should I pass the baton to? Ah! "Skull! Leaving it to you!" We high five, officially passing my turn to him as he begins to shoot the owl man. Wait, it's weak to it? I'll take it! Nodding at him,"Alright! Time for some pain!" Skull calls out as we go into All-Out Attack. At the end, he falls on his face and stands up. "That's all she wrote!" Skull pulls the rock sign, giving him some cool points in my book. My face heats up but I just shake it off and walk up to the door.

Crap! It's locked. Hold on… "I see it…" I enter the zone, activating my third eye. They look at me weird but I continue to observe. Aha! "Skull, Panther! I need a leg up! I ask, pointing up onto a ledge as they look at each other. With both of their shrugs, they help me up as I pull Panther up, the two of us pull Skull up while Mona jumps and I catch him. Travelling up this way, we ended up hugging the outer wall of the tower. All the while, Mona is just resting on my head. I try not to look down as I'm afraid of heights but I would stop for a bit to breathe. Stopping at the windowsill, I ask if we could takt a small break as we do. "You okay?" Panther asks as I nod, "Yeah, just afraid of heights. I'll be fine if this is the last time we do that…" I groan and stand up. Okay, not leaving until we steal the treasure. Traversing through the tower, we can see that the distortions are getting out of whack. Mona said it's because we're getting closer to the treasure. Thank, Jesus! There were more shadows but they weren't all that tough. However, we found a bridge that has FUCKING SWINGING AXES. My god, this guy's insane. "How are we supposed to get across that?" While those three are discussing, I activate my third eye. Blue figures are shown running to a Kamoshida statue, placing two items in the eyes. They look like it's supposed to be eyes. I inform the others about this as we go and look for the keys. Now there are high-ranking guards around and we try to attack them. After a long time, we managed to find both the right and left eyes. I place them in which stops the axes swinging and we walk across the bridge.

Getting closer to the treasure, we were stopped by another high-ranking guard. Why do we have to fight this? Why am I complaining? Because the shadow is shaped as a dick. It keeps looking at both Ann and I which lead us to be guarding. "Mona, Skull, I don't want that thing killing Ann and I, you need to be the main attackers." Nodding at my orders, they began attacking with physical attacks since it resists magic. "... too late for regrets!" Mona calls out while attack with his sword and fired his slingshot. "Mona, give us the call!" "Time for some bloodshed!" Initiating the All-Out Attack, a chair drops down with Mona in it with him holding a wine glass. "Cleanup complete!" Yes! A safe room! More walking and dodging Kamoshida in his throne room with archways of girls legs (gross) took us to a room filled with gold and a floating hazy object. "Whoa! What is this place?! Holy shit! This has gotta be where the treasure is!" It's gotta be, this is the treasure room on the map. "Hey, what's this hazy-looking thing? It's floating…" Panther starts to awe at the hazy thing. "Looks like a fart cloud from the holiest fatass ever…" The others look at me weird but Mona's reaction takes the cake, "Really? That's what comes to your mind? Anyway, that's the treasure. We found it." The amphomorphic cat jumps on a chalice on the ground.

"Now, how do steal it? I can't touch it," Skull starts grasping at the thing. "That won't work, Skull. Let me explain," Morgana started clearing his throat, "Ok, I wanted to elaborate on us stealing the treasure once we made it. Simply finding it isn't enough. We need it to be materialized so we can steal it." 'Materialized'? He needs to elaborate on it, "Whaddya mean?" Okay, thanks Skull for asking the question in my head. "Desires have no physical form by nature. Hence, we'll first need to make the real person that their desires an in fact a treasure. Once they are conscious that their desires might be stolen, the treasure will finally show itself." I put my chin on hand, "Now I get it. It's a shift in cognition, right?" "Yes! You're very sharp, Joker. Even though your mind is out there…" Mona, that's what you call, 'thinking outside of the box'. "Now… how do we do that?" Let's just hope Mona knows how to or else this was a waste of time. Well, not really. We got to kick some ass. "We warn them. Tell them, 'We're here to steal your heart!'" Ooh! That's badass! "So we're gonna send a calling calling card? That's totally what a phantom thief would do!" All I could do was laugh my ass off, "Hah! Surprised you know what phantom thieves do but not actually know what they are!" "S-Shuddup!". More giggling, "Heh, I'm just kidding. Can you continue please, Mona?"

"Once we do that, the treasure will appear for certain!... I think…" Of course. "This again…? Either way, sounds like it's worth givin' it a shot!" I actually agree with Skull, "Our infiltration route is secure. All that's left is to pump out a calling card in reality, then come back to take the treasure!" Wait, we have to come back here? Then again, we found a safe room. "This is it, huh?" Panther's expression shows both relief and worry and I take her hand, "We'll win, Panther. For Shiho, for the volleyball team, and for us!" With an affirmative nod, we smile and giggle at the same time. "Yeah, we will." Yeah, she will be one of my bestest friends. "Once we send the calling card, there's no turning back. Just let me know when you're ready. We'll head back to the hideout and send the calling card!" And with Mona's words, we leave the MetaVerse.

"Hey, Akano?" Turning around, I see Ann. "What's up Ann?" I ask, tilting me head as she yawns. Don't blame her, we just got out of the castle and I'm tired myself. "I'm planning on going to visit Shiho tomorrow after school, want to tag along?" "Shiho? Of course! I want to give her new flowers!" We exchange smiles and walk off. "Morgana, we're gonna have a talk about the calling card tomorrow before Ann and I see Shiho, 'kay?" I say as he replies with, "Sure." With that, we make our way to Leblanc. Sojiro eyes me but I ignore it and walk upstairs to write inside that stupid journal. Akari was on her futon, dead asleep, which made me smile while going to grab my journal. I think I could get used to writing in this every few days and Kenny needs to just suck up his pride and allow it.

4/21

Ryuji, Ann and I got a whole lot closer. I feel like I can really see us being close friends. School's going okay, actually Ryuji and Ann are the only ones who talk to me like a normal person. But I'm still the little smartass that never left. Now, I'm tired. Go fuck yourself, Kenny. Bye.

"I'm closing up! Help me out, kid!" Ugh! Fine. "Morgana, stay up here. The old man needs me to help him out."

This guy had me wipe this table while smokes. Well, he did wipe his counter and prep curry for tomorrow so I can't blame him. But the smell of cigarettes is the worst. "Hey, Sojiro. I'm gonna be late tomorrow cuz I'm going to the hospital after school. Can I have the keys so you don't have to wait here?" I ask as he sighs and throws me the key. "I made a copy for you. You're a teenager with friends so it's only natural you would stay late. Just after tomorrow, you can only stay in Yongen, am I clear?" "Yes, sir." Finishing up, I walk upstairs and change into my nightie.

4/22

Lunch came around and I messaged the others to meet at the hideout for lunch. Ann and I arrived first and then Ryuji. "What are we gonna do about the calling card?" I ask, opening up my container to have the stolen curry I took when Sojiro left. "Hold on. Before we start with that, I need to explain the function of the calling cards." Morgana climbs and sits next to me. "First, if we plan to send a calling card, we only have 24 hours before the treasure dematerializes. I want to make this very clear. Sending a calling card is this crucial, because this leads to the other point. We can only send a calling card to one person ONCE. In other words, we only have 24 hours to steal it or else we won't be able to do so." So we only have one chance. "Okay, we know the consequences. I say it should be written today and sent tomorrow. Do you all agree?" Ann put out as the rest of us nod, "Oh! Can I write it?" putting his hand up like a child, Ryuji looks at us as we sigh. "Should we?" I look at Ann as she shrugs and Morgana stated he didn't care who did it. "Fine…" Ryuji does a mini celebration at my words, "Just don't make it obvious it was you, okay?" but was shot down by Ann's words but we all just laughed it off and continued eating. "Hey, you still up for visiting Shiho?" Ann asked while eating from her bento box. "Yeah, can we stop by the underground mall first? I want to get some flowers for her." "Sure! I want to find some flowers too!" Giggling we continue to gossip while the boys just look on. Occasionally, we'd hear, "Are we even allowed to hear this girl talk?" or "Those two are in their own worlds".

~Timeskip~

The bell rings as Ann and I make our way out of the school while Morgana begins to nap in my bag. Students begin to look at us weirdly.

"Woah! The school whore and the criminal getting along?"

"I had a feeling Takamaki~San would be friends with Kurusu-San…"

"You think those two are easy?"

"Hell nah! Kurusu~San might hurt us if we mess with either of them!"

Tch! Assholes. Even Ann's disgusted by it.

"So Kamoshida's bitches are together…"

That's it! I try to go and find the fucker who said that we were Dog Shit's bitches but Ann held me back. "Look, it will soon come back to bite them in the end. Won't it be more satisfying to see it unfold like the plot of a story?" She's right. If they think I'm that bitch's bitch, they will regret it when it comes to bite them in the ass. I calm down as we kept on walking to the station. "Thanks Ann… if I was by myself, I don't know what I would've done…" I expected her to feel awkward about it but she gave a big smile and took hold of my hand. "I'll always be here for you Akano. You helped not only me but also Shiho and you don't know how thankful I am. I hope you know that…" That… sounds like what Nicole would say. The train finally arrives as we start talking about the most random stuff. "Say, Ann? You know how you want to know what happened between Ryuji and I?" Ann slowly nods after I ask this question. I kinda regret bringing it up, but I don't want to hide anything from her. Especially if the cat knows.

I tell her what happened with a red face. At the end, she giggled at how it ended and I don't blame her. It was cringey. "Say Akano, do you like Ryuji?" Her laughter subsided, looking at me with anticipation. That question just lead me to think, 'Do I like him?' "I… I don't know… yeah he's cute and stuff but we just met and stuff. It's only been a few days, ya know?" She seemed to respect that answer with a brand new smile. The two of us just kept talking until Morgana woke up and joined into the conversation. Talking lead to another as we were in front of the flower shop. Don't know how that happened but as long as I don't end up in a freaky basement, I'm all good. I ended up picking up a bouquet of red, pink and yellow orchids while Ann chose a single potted oak leaf geranium. She just thought it was pretty then asked me about it and I told her that an oak leaf geranium meant true friendship so she just went for it. With that, we took the train to the hospital.

Inside the hospital, Room 5-S

Shiho was lying peacefully on her bed with Ann and I on opposite sides of her. "... should I really be here? Shiho barely knows me and is it even okay for me to call her Shiho?" I look down with tears in my eyes. This is making me think back to when I was in the hospital and how horrible it was. Especially after going through physical rehab where it took so long to even start walking properly and the pain I endured after falling a lot of times. "Akano…" the blonde girl muttered until she raises her head, "Do you know what Shiho said to me, before she went unconscious? She said, 'Tell Akano, I'm sorry. She tried to help me but I shoved her down the stairs. Please Ann!'. If she wanted to be able to say that before she lost consciousness, it means she was sincere. She even called you, 'Akano' which is rare because she only calls people by last name except for me. I think she wants you here," that lead me to unleash all my tears. Thank you Ann, I needed that.

Rank 2= Girl Talk~ Chance to step in after shadow negotiation fails, allowing a retry

Wiping away my tears, I take hold of Shiho's hand on my side. In my shaky voice, "Shiho, i-if you can hear m-me… we're going to ch-change Kamoshida's h-heart!" my voice gets less shaky now, "Please have faith in us! Please b-believe in us!" Ann took hold of her other hand and began lightly sobbing into it.

"I believe in you… please… win…!"

Huh? That… sounded like Shiho… I guess Ann heard it too cuz she looked over at Shiho in shock. However, her face was the same. No matter how long we stared at her face, nothing happened. It can't be possible, can it?

I hope you guys enjoyed it! One thing for you writers out there, the worst thing to encounter is writer's block. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Anyway, I'm sleep deprived from binge watching random shit from my childhood and gonna continue doing so. Have a good day!