…But I am…
"You hear anything?" Ryuji asks checking his surrounding.
Akira didn't reply back at once and keep listening on the door. "Yeah, I hear a man talking."
"Really!? Who!?"
"Ummm, It was you."
"The heck!? *Clang* "Ryuji kicks him on the head, effectively ramming and opening the door.
"Ahhh…." Akira slowly gets up holding his head.
"How many times do I have to tell you not to make those stupid jokes!?"
"It wasn't a joke. I really heard you talking."
"Hey, what are you two idiots doing again!?" Morgana said, coming back from his scouting mission. "Didn't I tell you this is a stealth operation!?"
"Oh, this is not my fault. Akira keeps doing stupid thi-"
"Hey, Blondie what did I tell you!?"
"Huh?" Ryuji stares at Morgana with a raised eyebrow. "Umm, This is a stealth operation?"
"No, I mean, yeah. I said that too but No, that's not the one."
Ryuji suddenly remembers it. "Ohhhhh, the codenames." Ryuji said nodding to himself. "Ahhh, I mean, 'Joker' Keeps saying stupid things."
"It's not stupid things." Akira/Joker said, standing up straight. "I am making jokes because I am the Joker."
"No, No!" Morgana said walking over to him. "I told you, not that joker! The 'Joker' from cards!"
"You said that but I don't know a thing about cards. To this day, I don't know how you call this," Joker draws something on the air.
"You mean clubs?"
"Maybe. I don't really know."
"Okay, I will teach you later, But, wait, Mona?"
"Hm?"
"You just called me 'Blondie'."
"So?"
"Call me by my codename!"
"Ohhh, Sorry, sorry." Morgana apologizes, acting nonchalantly. "Sorry…, Huh?" Morgana stares at Ryuji weirdly. "…What's your codename again?"
"Skull!"
"Oh, Right, Right. Sorry, I just don't see the name with you."
"Why would you not!? There's a f*cking Skull on my face!" Skull shouted loudly, pointing his face.
"Okay, Calm down, you two." Joker said catching their attention. "We are deep in the enemy territory. We don't want our voices to draw their attentions.", "You are the one who started this whole thing!"
"Okay, Skull, it's not a matter of who started this, It's a matter of who's ending this and as far as I'm concerned….", "There! It's the intruders!", "It's them." Joker said, pointing at his back.
"Huh?", "Huh?"
"For King Kamoshida!"
"The heck!?" Skull said readying his weapon. "Why wouldn't you say that sooner!?"
"Joker, you and I are going to need a talk about your leader position!"
"Come on, Don't worry. After all you have me." Joker said with a smug before turning around. "As long as you have your trump card you can't really lose." His smile turned Feral. "Pixie!"
….
"You know what, I get him acting all cool when summoning that Arsene guy but on summoning a midget girl? I don't know, Man."
"Yeah, But…." Morgana answers back also readying his weapon. "It was either Pixie or that horse. We only have two after all."
"Oh, right. That horse is just…Blerrgh."
x-x
"It worked." Ann said looking at her surroundings. "It really worked!" She's now back in that weird castle again.
"So, you can come here with this, Huh?" Ann said to herself looking at her phone. "But, what is this, though? It just suddenly appears on my phone."
Ann looks up the big castle with a bright smile.…That soon falters. "But, what do I do now?"
Ann again, checks back her surroundings, before settling on the big, big door in front of her. 'Well, that's a door, so…' *Cre-*
x-x
….*-eak, *Fwip, Fwip* , "It's clear, come on in." Mona said entering the room first. Before both Skull and Joker follows after.
"Why can't I be the first one to enter, again?"
"Oh, let it go!", "We're already over this, Joker."
"No, No! I made one teeny tiny mistake and I can't be the lead party anymore." Joker whines to himself, as Skull and Mona looks around the room.
"Oh, Oh!" Suddenly Skull exclaimed pointing at the middle of the room. "Is that what I think it is?"
"A map?"
"Oh, Goodie!" Skull runs over to the place with a big grin. "That was ea-Whaaa!" Joker pulled him back in time as iron bars suddenly sprouted beneath the place he was before.
The irons bar surround the table with the map in a complete square.
"What the-", "See, I just saved Skull. Out of three of us, I have the best instinct!"
"No, Skull's just dumb! This place reeks of traps and he just ran towards it like an idiot."
"Meh, meh, excuses, excuses." Joker said smugly and walks around the square to get to the door on the other end. "Now do you see the fact I am the most qualified to enter a-", Joker grabbed the doorknob. "-room first and for-*Sching!*" Joker quickly retracts back his hand.
….
The familiar iron bars now cover the door.
….
"Mona-san?"
"What?"
"Next time you can enter first."
x-x
After some time…
"So, did you guys see anything?"
"I don't know. How about you?"
"I don't know. How about you?"
"I don't know. How abou-" Joker finds out there's no one beside him. "Oh man, I wish Arisato-senpai is here."
"So, Joker?"
"What?"
"Did you find something suspicious?"
"Uhhhh." Joker tries to think. "I'm not sure but I see three suspicious guys wearing masks."
….
"Okay, Joker, If you still gonna make that stupid jokes, at least make it believable!" Skull said loudly before pointing at Mona. "In What way is this thing a guy? And he's not even wearing a mask!"
"Hey, I'm as much as a human as you two!"
"Oh, really!? In what way!?"
Joker walks over to a suspicious lever with a lion or something head.
"Well, Uhhh, I can talk! Can your cats talk? I don't think so!"
"Yeah, but all this stupid monsters here can talk! Does that make them humans!? No!"
"Ahh, Oh, that makes sense. Wait, are you calling m-", "Woahhh!" Both of them turned to the voice to see Joker jumping back and that lever breathing fire.
"What the?"
"Yay! I cracked it." Joker suddenly shouted.
….
Mona and Skull looks at each other weirdly.
"Explanations, Joker."
Joker turned to them with smug grin. "I know how this place works. You have to pull the specific levers in specific order to make this bars go away."
"Really?"
"Yes, I see them a lot in movies and games before."
"Huh?", "Oh, great!" Skull said with an equally energetic smile. "So, come on, do it!"
"What?" Joker said back with the same smug grin.
"You know, pull the levers!"
"Yeah, about that I don't know which one to pull."
"What!?" Mona said in surprise. "Didn't you just say you know how it works!?"
"Yes, I know how it works. I just don't know how to make it work."
"What!?", "Why don't you try pulling random ones?"
"I just did that and I got burned. Ahhahahah." Joker answers back as a matter of fact. "Good thing I'm resistant to fire."
….
"Is there any way we can know that?"
"How would I know? It's not like he left a manual here."
"So, wait, you're saying we're stuck agai-", Suddenly a loud sound echoes throughout the place. "What now!?"
"Oh, that sound is for when intruders came in to the castle." Morgana answers back. "…I don't like where this is going."
"Wait, outside the three of us, there's only one who knows how to get here."
….
"Senpai!?", "Arisato!?", "One eye!?"
x-x
"Princess, stay calm and please come with us."
"No!" Ann backed away in fear. "Who are you-what are you- are you guys humans!?"
"Hm, princess appears to be confused.", "Maybe the real intruders did that to her.", "No matter what, we have to take her back to King Kamoshida."
"Wait, King? What are you gu-", Ann didn't finish her sentence as the two medieval knights in front of her suddenly grabbed her. "What? Let me Go!"
"Princess, please don't struggle."
"No! No! Stop this. I said sto-*Fwossh* What?" Ann looks at her side to see that there's no knight. "*Blink* , Wh-what? I-I don't understand." She then turned to the other side to see that there's no one there too.
"*Blink, Blink*" Ann turned around. "Did I just imagined all of th-BwaGahhhhhhhhh-"
"…."
"-AHhhhhhhhhhhhhh-"
"…."
"-Ahhhhhh-Ah." Minato covers her mouth.
….
"Okay, stay calm and list-", "-Ahhhhhhhh-", "God…."
"-Ahhhhhhh, oh wait, Arisato-senpai?"
"What?" Minato looks back up to the girl.
"Senpai, where did you come from!?" Ann asks him before stopping herself. "No, wait, don't answer that yet. I just saw a rotten corpse came up to me!"
….
"…I'm sorry, what?"
"It's true!" Ann explains to him in a loud tone. "There was some kind of weirdos in knights suit groping me and suddenly they all vanished and when I turned around, there was a moldy corpse staring at me with lifeless eyes!"
"Okay, enough, stop. I can take the 'corpse' but I drew the line at 'Moldy' and 'Rotten'."
"Senpai, why are you here? I thought you came with me to hospital but I kinda lost you on the midway."
Minato's eyes harden. "…That's my question, why are you here?"
"Umm, I was following on Skakmoto and Kurusu. Is this true that this place is Kamoshida's heart? Can I really change his heart here?"
"…You don't need to know." Minato walks past her. "You can leave if you keep going straight back."
"What? No!" Ann pulls on his shoulders. "I won't leave! And I know you are with Sakamoto and Kurusu. You know this as much as them. So, please tell me, Can you really change Kamoshida's heart here?"
….
"I said, You don't need to know. This has nothing to do with you." Minato removes her hand.
"Nothing to do with me!? I'm also Shiho's friend. Not only you! To save Shiho, I deserve to be in this as much as yo-"
"What?", "Huh?" Minato slowly turns around. "…You think I'm here for her?"
"Huh?"
"You think I came here for a girl?" Minato walks up to her. "You think I would do all of this just because She and I talk for some times?"
"What!?"
"I came here for Kurusu. And that has nothing to do with you. So, get out of here."
"Talk for some times!? Shiho thinks of you as her friend. You are her friend! Don't you dare try to deny her!"
"I am not her Friend!" Minato surprisingly shouted as the girl stared at him with wide eyes. "…I knew she was getting abused three days after I arrived this school."
"You knew?"
"I knew…and I did nothing.…So, tell me. Would a friend do that? Tell me, would a friend watch in sidelines as she suffered? No, I am not her friend and I was never her friend. She's the least of my concerns. I don't care whether she dies or-*Slap!*"
The sound echoes throughout the large hall.
….
"Stop." Ann said as tears flown down from her eyes. "Just stop."
….
Minato didn't move his head back. "…I am here for a purpose and that alone. I will not jeopardize that no matter what." Minato said turning around and walking, leaving the girl still crying.
"…How great is that purpose for you to give up on a girl's life?" Ann asked in shuttered voice.
….
"…Great enough that I would do another." Minato keeps walking without turning back. '….'
….
"Is that really what you think, Yuuki Makoto?"
"Im!?" Minato suddenly stopped and turned around. "What did you just call me?"
"…." The girl didn't say anything back. 'It wasn't her. What am I thinking? Of course, it wasn't her.' Minato shakes his head and turns back around.
"Is that really who you are, Yuuki Makoto?"
Minato stopped in his tracks again. Minato slowly touches the gun in his pocket. 'This is getting really dangerous.', "Damn it, we're going to get out of here." Minato said pulling the girl along.
"Wha-No, No, I won't leave!"
"You're still on about tha- *Bang!*", "Oh my god!" Suddenly a barrage of fireball explodes in front of them.
"…I'm too late."
"Leaving so soon, Arisato?"
"That voice…." Ann slowly turns around. "Kamoshida!?"
"Wait a minute…." Kamoshida looks over the girl from up to down. "Is that who you guys told me? Is that supposed to be my princess?" Kamoshida asked a golden knight beside him.
"Uhhh, y-yes, my liege."
"*Sigh*", Kamoshida sighs again. "I can't believe you mistook my princess for someone like that."
"Kamoshida, what the hell is that outfit!?" Ann shouted loudly interrupting the man. "Have you lost your mind!?
"Oh, I hear you girl, but surprisingly today, you are not my focus." Kamoshida turned to him. "Bold of you to come back here again after what you did, Arisato."
"…I said I'm sorry, didn't I?"
"You have some nerve to think you can escape again after doing that to me." Kamoshida gritted out. "You think I will let you live after this. I will make sure you know true hell i-"
"Been there. But that's enough." Minato looks up at the chandelier. "How much longer are you guys going to wait?"
"What?", "Who are you talking to?" Everyone including Kamoshida and Ann look up.
….
There's nothing.…or not.
"Wait, is he talking about us?" Suddenly a feline voice said in surprise.
"For real!? He knew we're here!?"
"Ummm, what should we do? Should we keep pretending that we're not here?"
….
"Is that Kurusu-kun?"
….
"Uhhhh, no, there's no point. The only reason we're waiting is for Skull to recover."
"Hey, I'm already good to go long ago!"
"Huh? Why wouldn't you say that sooner?"
"Oh, Didn't feel good when it happened to you now, huh?"
"Then, we should show ourselves right now! Lady Ann is in danger!"
"Okay, then on my count, three, two…."
Minato pulls back Ann as suddenly the whole chandelier falls down towards the ground and from it, a shadow comes out.
Akira jumps out towards the air. "Arsene!" A red being appears behind him and it smacks down it's hand towards the ground, effectively destroying multiple shadows.
As the explosion faded, Akira with a smug smile, stands up.
"The show's over, boys."
x-x
"The show's over, boys." Akira said with a smirk on his face.
"You're-" Kamshida is too stunned to speak as he was taken by surprise.
"Heh." Akira's smirk grows even wider…before his face turns neutral again. "But, before that." The white mask appears again on Akira's face as he runs back to where he and Ann are standing.
"Senpai, are you okay? Takamaki-san, why are you here again? No, forget about that. You also okay? Did they hurt you? Was Arisato-senpai mean to you? Ahh, no. Shouldn't ask that. He probably was!"
"Kurusu, care to explain me why's she here?"
"Oh, senpai. But, No, it's Joker now."
"I don't care if you become a clown or not, we need to get her out of here first." Minato said pointing back at Kamoshida who's now shouting madly at his second in command to mobilize all the guards.
"Oh, yikes, that doesn't sou-*Fap!* Suddenly a sound was heard from the chandelier mess.
"*Cough, Cough* ,What the hell, Aki-Joker!?" Ryuji said loudly coming out from debris.
"Pwwah!" Morgana also comes out from beside him.
"Hey, I thought you guys are never coming out. What happened?" Joker asked in a excited voice.
"What happened? What happened!?" Morgana said glaring at the boy. "Why would you suddenly cut the rope!?"
"Wasn't that the plan?"
"No!"
"But, I warned you guys!"
"That doesn't count." Ryuji asks standing up from the mess. "It's 'on my count, we jump' not 'on my count, I cut the f*cking rope!'."
"But, it was cool."
"Maybe for you! I have to eat glass!"
"Shut up." Minato stops them before his already occurring headache could become more worse. "Ryuji, can you still fight?"
"Umm, yeah. But, it's Skull now."
"I don't care. Morgana, take taka-Tama-Umbrella girl out of here."
"Gladly." Morgana walks over to the girl who's still watching them with wide eyes. "Ahhh, one eye, it's Mona now."
"I said I don't care."
"But, Arisato, shouldn't you go back too? You can't also fight, you know."
"Yeah, I know but…." Minato looks at the girl and as she saw him looking at her, she suddenly turns to the other side.
"Him and I don't interact too much but He's friend with my best friend, so he's kinda sorta my friend."
"…Kurusu, my gun."
"Huh? Oh, this one?" Akira throws the gun at him which he catches with his hand.
"Morgana, leave and make sure she stays there. You don't need to come back for us."
"You sure?"
"Yes, now get out." Minato said checking the bullets in the gun.
"Why would I have to listen to you!?" Ann suddenly shouted, but Minato didn't falter one bit. Although the same can't be said about other three. "Who are you to demand me to go there and stay ther-Uh!?"
"Se-senpai?", "H-hey, du-dude?" Akira and Ryuji said in surprise and Morgana is too stunned to utter a word as Minato points the gun at Ann.
"H-Hoi, one eye! Is that how you treat a la-", "Don't you know that you have to listen to the man with the gun?" Minato readies the gun.
….
"Now…Out…*Bam!*", "What!?" Minato suddenly shoots the Pixie that's flying towards them. "Morgana, Out!"
"Y-yeah, Lady Ann, please with me.", "Wai-wait, did he just kill somebody!?", "I will explain later, Please."
"Takamaki, just go! I will explain later. Joker, come on!" Ryuji said pushing the girl and the turning back to the battle.
"Senpai, please stay in the back."
"You don't need to tell me that." They break into two groups as the trio met the enemy heads on and Ann escaped with Morgana.
"Dude, what the hell was that!? I know she's stubborn but that's still too extreme!" Ryuji said running beside him.
"Sorry. I'm not exactly in stable condition."
"O-oh, yeah. I get you. I'm sorry about that."
"No…That's not it." Minato said looking down.
"You don't have to blame your-", "I'm not."
"Wh-what?"
"Ah, Sorry." Minato sidestep as a lighting attack falls on the place he was before. "Just focus on the battle." Minato keeps shooting every shadows he sees.
….
"Arsene, Eiha!" Akira runs to the front. "Eiha!", Akira turns to another shadow. "Eih-Oh," He comes face to face with a plant like shadow.
….
"Pyro jack!" The mandrake got burned to crisp. "Haha, you got burn-Oof!" Akira dodges to the side as an ice block nearly missed him. "Oh no."
….*Bam!* Akira ran along the corridors as a multitude of ice blocks and ice spikes zone in on him.
"Guys, chill up!" Akira stops as he reaches the corner. "But, Don't try to chill me up. It won't work. Kelpie!"
….
Minato shoots his gun at the approaching knight, Eligor. *Bam!* Again, *Bam!*.
"Foolish human! It won't wor-", "It doesn't work. Sakamoto!"
"Okay!" The blonde haired boy swings his bat at the shadows in front of him. "Oh, we met again, Shrimp. Well, here's your favourite, Zio!" Ryuji ripped his mask off and A lightning falls down on Eligor, killing it's horse and throwing it off to the ground. "Right on!"
"Gahhh-" In the middle of Eligor trying to stay up Minato appears and kicks his helm off, revealing there's only black silhouette inside.
"F-for Kin-" Minato crushed its skull with his feet.
"Holy crap, that was brutal."
"…." Minato looks at the blonde boy…But didn't say anything back and moved on.
"Say something, you're freaking me out!"
Suddenly someone came towards them with a horse.
"Aristao, behind you." Minato turns around and aims at the gun-
"Woah! Woah! Senpai, it's me."
"What?" Minato said in surprise.
Akira comes down from Berith's horse. "Hey, Skull. Looks at that. I got another persona."
"Dude, how many that does make?"
"Um, four."
"Man, that's not fair." Ryuji said scratching his head. "I'm stuck with one, while you can get every damn one."
"Kurusu, explain." Minato said walking up to boy.
"Oh, that's true. Senpai doesn't know yet. Well, Uhh, turns out I can use multiple personas. I only have to talk to these guys." Suddenly Berith breaks off into pieces and the white mask again appears on Akira's face.
"…Who told you that?"
"Umm, No one. We just kinda know it when we were exploring."
Minato keeps looking at the boy. '…That's good, right? It saves time for me.'
"Okay, Enough wasting time. Break formation. Sakamoto you go with Kurusu." Minato ordered quick and to point. "He's gonna get tired quickly."
"Wait, You gonna be okay alone?"
"I will manage." Minato reloads his gun again.
….
Kamoshida worriedly watches over the battle as the shadows get killed left and right.
"Why can't you guys kill three people!?"
Akira and Ryuji fights in sync with Akira weakening the shadows with his multiple personas and Ryuji finishing them off one by one.
Although Akira sometimes use his original persona, Arsene whuch remains the strongest in his arsenal except for it's glaring weakness of ice.
Ryuji stormed through the battlefield attacking everything in his way. Although some hit, a lot of his attacks still missed its mark.
"M-my leig-", "And most of all why can't you guys kill a normal guy with a gun!?"
Even without using his powers or his limbs, Minato can kill normal shadows with just the gun. Although he still use his leg to kick away the shadows that's resist to gun.
Kamoshida with beads of sweat rolling down his head glares at him fighting shadows with still as expressionless as ever.
"Damn it."
"Arsene! Ravage them!"
"Damn it…."
"Blow Them Away!"
"Damn it!" Kamshida slams down his hand on the railings. Then his eyes settled over to the ones who's are in the back of the battles.
Morgana protecting Ann from stray shadows that Minato and others missed and leading the girl out to safety.
….
Kamoshida's face breaks into a grin.
"Let see how you let another die, Arisato."
….
x-x
"Die! For god's sake." Ryuji pummeled the shadow which then vanished into black ichor. "Whew, Man when is this gonna end?"
"Hnnnngh, Happpangh, Haaaah."
Ryuji turns towards the boy. "Wow, Arisato's dead on. You really tire yourself out, huh?"
"Hnnngh, well yeah. Ahhh, I've been using a lot of spells." Akira mutters through breaths. "Actually, Ahhh, I've only been using spells."
"Yeah, that's because you got a big head from getting too many personas."
"Guilty as charged." Akira slumps down to the floor.
"*Bam!* *Click* What do you think you're doing, sitting down in the middle of a fight?" Minato said as he reached where the duo is.
"Sorry, senpai. I need a little rest."
"Yeah, let him rest. Arisato. I'm sure we both can hold out until Takamaki escaped."
"Speaking of Takamaki-san, How did she, what the-" Akira turns around and what he see completely silence him.
"What!?" Ryuji looks up the stairs. "How did Kamoshida get there!?"
Minato watches as Morgana fights off shadows with Ann trying her best to stay alive.
'Damn it, I got careless.'
….
…*Sching!* Morgana uses his own sword to guard against the attack. "Kamoshida! Do you have no honor!?"
"Who do you think you are to lecture a King about honor? You're just a trash I pick up."
"Tch! Zorr-Crap!" Morgana was hit by a lightning attack. "Shit! Lady Ann! Run back to Joker!"
"W-what?" Ann looks still to shocked to react what Morgana said. "Wh-what are these monsters?"
"Well, well, Takamaki. Looks like you can't escape me." Kamoshida said walking up to the girl.
"Wha-what is this? This is not funny…." Ann said in a terrified voice holding her head.
"Lady Ann, please ru-Ack!" Kamoshida stepped on Morgana with a cruel smirk.
"Looks like our friends noticed us." Kamoshida said in a mocked tone.
"What!? How did Kamoshida get there?"
"We shouldn't disappoint them right, Takamaki?"
Ann backed away in fear but two guards suddenly grabbed her. "Ahh!"
"Takamaki-san!" Akira tries to get up.
"Kurusu, stand down. You can't make it in time."
"Then I will make it in time. Berith!" Minato watches as Akira ran towards the girl as fast as he could. '…Tch.'
"Now, let's see." Kamshida walks up to the girl who's held up by two guards. "How should I play with you?"
"Let me go!"
"Hahahah, what a lively slave."
"Takamaki-san." Akira ran and ran but the distance is still too far.
'No, this is not my concern.'
"I think a nice execution is in order." Kamoshida said as a Knight in golden armor walks up to the girl with its sword.
Minato watches the scene still unmoving.
"Please…." Ann watches her reflection from the shining sword with tears on her face. "…Shiho."
"Arisato! Is there anything we can do!? Hey, Arisato!?"
"Arisato-senpai, I was hoping introduce you two but, it looks like you've already met Ann."
"…Ann?"
"You know, the beautiful girl with twin tails?"
"Twin tails…Oh, Umbrella girl."
"Yep, that one. So, you really did break her umbrella."
"It was…an accident…"
"How do you run over an umbrella by accident?"
"Accidentally, of course."
'No…No! This is no time for this. And I can't! I can't do this.'
"What do you mean you can't?"
'What?'
"The whole 'Universe' is in your hands, isn't it?"
'….' Minato looks up to see the girl pleading with Kamoshida standing in front of her still with the same grin.
'Damn it.'
"Takamaki-san!" Akira still trying to save her from her sure death.
"Senpai…."
"I hate myself. *Snap*", "What? Did you think of somethin-what is that!?"
Minato crushed the floating card beside him.
"Odin…."
x-x
Joker shouted still not stopping on his futile running. "No, Takamak-What the?" Suddenly something flew right past him in a streak of lightning. "Uh!?"
"Shiho." Ann closes her eyes shut muttering her friend's name like a prayer.
"Execute Her!"
The knight brought down its sword at the girl…*Sching!* when suddenly something appears right in front of it.
"What?", "Huh?" Ann opens her eyes to see a blue haired boy with lightning crackling around him stopping the sword with the spear on his hand. "Aris…ato-senpai?", "One eye? Is that you?"
Minato? Didn't reply back to any of them but when he speaks it's not the same voice he's heard ever since he heard him. It's a creepy echoy voice.
"Gungnir." Minato spinned the spear in his hand before thrusting it at the shadow in front of him. *Boom!*
"What the fuc-" Kamoshida falls on his butt as a beam of lightning pierced the shadow through it's chest with a bright shine and completely destroying the decorations above them.
"Huh?" Joker looks with his mouth hangs open at the scene.
…*Snap!* Minato snapped his finger and the shadow holding the girl vanish in black smoke.
"Wha-what is happening?", "Holy shit! Did you see that?" Skull said running up to him. "Was that an Elec attack? It was never that strong for me. He completely thrashed that ro-"
"Is that-Is that really Arisato-senpai?" Joker said pointing at the blue haired boy with an unfamiliar spear in his hand.
Skull also looks at the blue haieed boy. "…I don't know."
"Morgana, get her to Kurusu." Minato? said to Mona. This time his voice sounded normal but…'There's something strange.'
"On-one eye, you're not human, are you?" As Mona said that everyone including Ann looks up at Minato?. '…What? Not human?'
Minato? didn't reply back at once and turns to the ground. "I thought I wasn't…But turns out I still am." Minato? readjust the spear on his hand. "Ask more when this is all finished." Minato's silver eyes turned to blue and started to glow. "This will be over in a flash." Minato? pointed his spear towards the man with his butt on the ground.
Kamoshida nervously turns to the shadows around him. "K-Kill him. Kill HIM!"
The shadows nervously approach Minato? who's still looking at the man.
Suddenly he vanished and *Slash!* Completely sliced one of the shadows in half.
"What?"
Minato? kills the shadow too fast that they don't even have the chance to change their forms.
With a streak of lightning, Minato? moves around so fast, Completely decimating the legion of shadows. In less than thirty seconds, there's only Kamoshida and the golden cladded guard left with all others either got killed brutally or …got killed more brutally.
Kamoshida looks at the boy standing with waves of lightning still circling around him. "I-I will not die here! Go!" Kamoshida pushed the shadow beside him.
"F-for Ki-King Kamosh-ida!" Shouting that in stuttered voice, the guard changes into a large shadow with…equally large toilet.
"That shadow…One Eye! Be careful! It's dangerous!"
….
'Yeah, it looks scary but it looks more ridiculous.'
….
Minato? undaunted by the shadow's size, spins his body around and throw the spear at the shadow. *Whish!* The spear stays true and pierces through the shadow's body.
"Ahh-" The large shadow completely vanished into smoke, as the blue haired boy opens up his palm where the spear appears back with a whizz.
The four of them, plus Kamoshida stares in wide eyes at Minato?.
Minato? slowly walks over to Kamoshida who seems to be crying.
"Ah, ah, ahh-"
"Where is your treasure?"
"W-what?"
"Just tell me where your treasure is?"
Kamoshida still crying like a child turns towards the ground. "I knew it. You kids are trying to change my heart, don't you?"
"…."
Joker and the others stay in silence watching the exchange.
"…You think I will easily let you do this!?" Kamoshida shouted punching the ground. "You butchered my guards. You destroyed my castle. You took my princess." Kamoshida keeps punching the ground. "You think I will kneel before you after all of this? You think I will still let you live after all this humiliation!?" Kamoshida wobbly stands up.
"What is he doing?" Ann said watching the scene with terrified eyes. Well, they all are watching with terrified eyes except for Minato? whose expression doesn't change a bit.
Kamoshida's body morphs into something…something hideous…something not human.
"I Am Suguru Kamoshida." Kamoshida keeps growing completely towering them.
"Ah-ahh,", "For real!?"
"I am The King Of Shujin!" The black oozes covering Kamoshida's body falls down revealing a large pink monster with multiple hands and legs. "I am the KING OF THIS CASTLE!"
….
"…What the HELL is that thing?" Skull shouted loudly from beside him. But, he's still too stunned to reply back. Not because of the shadow but because of the boy who's standing in front of it.
….
"Wrong answer." The spear on Minato's hand vanishes.
"You resigned to your own fate, I see." Kamoshida said in a mocking tone. "I will gladly gran-What?" Suddenly the spear in front of Kamoshida's face.
…*Buzzz* Minato pointed his finger towards the large shadow. "…Thunder Reign."
Suddenly the spear shines brightly and brighter and brighter to the point that they have cover their eyes.
Even as he covers his eyes, the light is too bright until his entire vision filled with the light and the only thing n his mind is…
….
'Oh god, I'm going to die.'
x-x
….
….
Joker slowly opens his eyes. He's not sure what happened. The only thing he know is there was a loud sound and there was a…scream. 'Really loud scream…'
"Are you okay, Lady Ann?", "Y-yeah, I'm not sure how though?"
But, it looks like all of them were unharmed. 'Although I might need a real glasses after this.'
Joker turns to the scene. Minato? is still standing there with his back against them. '…Senpa-No….'
"you're not human, are you?"
'Just what are you, Minato Arisato?'
"Ahhh, Ahhh." Suddenly a familiar voice was heard in the cloud of smoke in font the blue haired boy. As the smoke clears, they can see Kamoshida trying to stand up with all his strength.
"He's still alive!?" Skull said from beside him in surprise.
"…Barely.", 'Mona's right. I could smell the scent of burnt flesh from here.'
"Ready to talk?" Minato said in his monotone voice.
"Eieee!"
"I like to say you can keep being stubborn but…I don't think you'll survive."
Kamoshida falls down again.
"…Treasure…Talk."
Kamoshida looks around in fear before suddenly crawling up to Minato. "P-p-Please, spare me! I will do anything you want, Please!"
"I didn't say I will kill you."
Kamoshida looks up in surprise at Minato?. "Y-you only want to change my heart?"
"…."
"R-Really?" Kamoshida keeps staring at Minato?. "Heh…HEheheH…HAH…HAHAHAHAHA." Before he suddenly bursts out laughing.
"What's so funny, Asshole!?" Skull said as he was creeped out.
"HEh, Heheh…." Kamoshida ignored Skull and looks back at Minato?. "Ar-arisato, you're a smart kid, r-right?"
"…What?"
"T-think about this. If you take my treasure and change my heart, My real self in your world will confess all-all of this, r-right?"
"So, it's really gonna work, huh?" Mona said thinking out loud.
"Then that's all more reason to keep going." Skull said back to him before turning back. "Hey, Arisato, kill that bastard. If he's not here we can easily search for the treasure ourselves!"
"Shut your F*cking Trap, Sakamoto!" Kamoshida shouted at Skull before turning back to Minato?. "I-I don't know if you know this or not. But, Suzui-Suzui is in critical condition." An emotion flickers across Minato's face. "Th-they are not sure if she's gonna live or not, But it's leaning towards the bad side."
"N-no, Shiho." Ann slumps down on her knees beside him. "Takamaki-san?" The girl didn't respond even when he caught her.
"S-so, y-you two are close, right? Now, the girl is still in coma but" Kamoshida speaks like a madman. "I-if my real self tell the truth, the girl will have to die with a bad name. Her parents will never be able to take it. You don't want that happen to her, r-right? As her friend, you must at least do this for her."
"…What do you mea-", "So, you really-you really…You F*CKING BASTARD!" Suddenly Ann shouted with tears flowing down on her face. "You-you…How could you do this to a girl!? What have she ever done to you!?" Ann tries to struggle free. "Takamaki-san, please calm down.", "Let me go, Kurusu! I'm gonna kill him. I'm gonna kill that son of a Bitch!"
"Shut Up!" Kamoshida shouted, glaring at Ann. "All of this wouldn't have happened if you just listened me, you bi-", *Clan-clang* The spear falls to the floor. "I-I don't understand." Minato? suddenly said in a soft voice. "I-I don't…I don't get it." Minato? said turning around towards them.
And he saw it. Joker saw the face of someone who just got all of their hopes shattered. And he realized it then. 'He didn't know about that, isn't he?'
"What? You mean to say she was…Shiho was…" Minato said in despair. "Isn't…she was…not because of abuse?"
"Y-you get it, right, Aris-arisato? The girl has suffered enough. At least let her die in peace. At the very least, let her death be pea-"*Boom!* Suddenly Kamoshida got thrown away towards the door almost like a rag door. "Ah! …W-what?"
Minato didn't turn away them, still looking at them with wide eyes, then he slowly turns towards Kamoshida almost like broken machine. *Crack* , 'Hm?' Joker looks around. 'What is that sound?'
…
"Kamoshida…Do you know what death is?" Minato? suddenly said breaking the silence.
"H-huh?"
"Death…Death is the true peace. Death is the true salvation. Death is a mercy.…Because it accepts all. From a tiny flea to a giant. From saints, saviors, martyrs…to murders, killers…you. No matter who you are, death accepts all.", 'Wha-what is that?' Suddenly a large black tearing appears behind Minato?. "…And as the Death,…I tried to accept you."
Minato takes one step towards Kamoshida. "Eieeee!"
"Do you know what a Messiah is, Kamoshida?" Minato? takes another step. "A Messiah is the epitome of forgiveness.…Even if someone's the reason he can never know the true peace…Even if it is someone who will keep torturing him for eternity…Even if someone tries to throw away the life the Messiah has always, ever wanted…The Messiah has to forgive them all." Joker can feel a sudden pressure growing in the air as the tearing get larger and larger. "…And as the Messiah, I tried to forgive you."
Minato? stopped in front of Kamoshida. "But, turns out I can't. "What the!?" A large white hand appears from the tearing behind Minato.
x-x
"Hm?" Margaret turns to another page. She the slowly touches the book. 'His handwriting is really pretty.' He left her alone here with his bag, so of course she's gonna try to search for something. 'Although I didn't expect that out of all his virtues, his handwriting's the one that was gonna impress me the most.'
Margaret closes the book. 'Maybe…Just Maybe…I could try to make him to go together with me to this world's library.', Yeah, why not? Caroline and Justine are always asking him for something. It's not gonna be weird if she also joins in. More like he should have already expected that.
"That's true. That's true." Margaret nodded to herself satisfied. She then turned to Minato's bag again but stopped in the middle and suddenly turned towards the school.
"What?" Margaret looks at the school. "No, he didn't…How could he-"
"I may be called death…But I still froze up when someone died in front of me."
x-x
"Ready?"
"Yes.", "Yes, of course."
"Then, one, two, three…Action!"
"HiHi, This is Kanamin!", "And this is Riset-Huh?" Rise turned to her side. '…What is that?'
"Hey, Rise-chan?"
"Hm?" Rise turned to her manager's voice.
"The camera's rolling."
"Oh!" Rise covers her mouth in surprise. "Oh, Ummm, I'm so sorry. Umm, This is…." she didn't finish her lines as she keeps turning to her left. The crew's starting to look at her weird. "Ummm, Sorry to ask for this. Can I take a short break?"
"Oh, Umm." Her manager and the director talk among themselves for a moment. "Okay, we are going to take a break. 30 Minutes!"
"So-sorry for the trouble." Rise said standing up.
"Senpai, are you okay?" Kanamin asked from beside her. "Are you not feeling well?"
"No. No, It's okay. Kanamin-chan. I just remembered something. Uhh, Be right back." Rise said quickly excusing herself.
"Uhhh, Senpai!?"
….
As Rise arrives somewhere with no people around, she tries to concentrate.
….
'It's true. I didn't imagine it.' When she was shooting, she suddenly felt a large power. 'And now I know I didn't imagine that.'
"*Breathes…Breathes*" She's never effectively summon her persona in real world but 'Nothing like right now, huh?'
Rise tries to concentrate hard again. "Kanzeon." A shattering noise appears and the she felt the warmth of her persona on her body.
'It's in…this direction.' Rise searches through the whole city, blocks after blocks, buildings after buildings. The power is huge and she can still feel it but it's a little hard to pinpoint exactly where.
"Hm!? Found it!" Rise focus on the place. She can see nothing but darkness. She can feel only darkne-"Ah!" Rise suddenly breaks off her persona as a white bone head appears right in front of her eyes.
"What-Umm…Ahhh…Aeergh." She suddenly vomits right on her hand. "*Cough, cough* Wha-what is that?" Rise looks at her hand. "Huh!?" There's no blood. There's no spit. There's only inky black substance on her hand.
"Wha-what is happ-Huh!?" As she blinks, the whole thing vanished and there's nothing on her hand. "What?" Rise fearfully looks her surrounding.
"N-No, I must be hallucinating." She tries to reassure herself, but…."No. No, I've seen that white head before. Where was it?"
"Rise-senpai?"
"Hm?" Rise turns around towards the voice. "Ka-Kanamin-chan?"
"Oh, there you are." Kanamin walks up to her. "I was worried so, I kind follo-Oh, Senpai, Are you Okay!?"
"Hm?"
"Your nose's bleeding!"
"R-really?" Rise touches around her nose. "Oh…." Yeah she's really getting a nosebleed. "I must…Aheheh, I must be getting tire-Ahhh." Rise didn't finish her sentence as her vision faded to black.
"I may be called messiah…but the only one I've save so far is myself."
x-x
"Oh, it's ringing."
….
"She's not picking up." The man said back to the one beside him.
….
"Oh, there we go…Hell-", "What!?"
…. The man takes a glance at his phone.
"Uhh, Where are you?", "I'm out."
"E-exactly which part of the out?", "Why do I have to tell to you!?"
….
"Actually you do. You can't leave in the middle of shooting."
"Reschedule it then."
"You can't reschedule this."
"Well, then what can you do!?"
"No-nothing, Actually.", "ThenDoNothingAndSitOnYourButts!"
The man moves his phone away as his ears protest.
"Sorry to ask, if this is your boyfriend again?"
"I hope it is.", "Excuse me.", "IHopeItIsMyBoyfriendBecauseThisGuyIsMakingMeRunThroughHalfTheCity!"
….
"I don't ge-", "Cabxi!", "Hello…Hello? Hello?…She hung up."
"Oh, what should we tell the others?"
"I don't know."
"…did she just say 'cabxi'?"
"…She did, didn't she?"
"But now, I realized…I'm neither. I was merely pretending to be one."
x-x
"Ah…ah." Skull backs away in fear. "What the-What the hell is that thing?"
Joker slowly takes out his dagger with shaky hands. There's something in front of them. It's a large…thing in jet black suit with white gloves and pure white head. Kamoshida's monster form towers over them but this…this thing is just….'And only it's half is out of the hole.'
"So, I accepted it…I'm neither merciful nor forgiving."
Minato? said as a black sword appears on his hand.
"Senpai, what are-*Bap* , Hm?" Joker turns to the voice to see that Ann has fallen down on the floor. "Takamaki-san?"Joker carries up the girl. "Takamaki-san? Takamaki-san!?" The girl's eyes didn't open up. "Wh-what's wrong, Takamaki-san, open you-" Then he realized his hand is on the girl's chest and…'Her heart isn't beating.' Joker tries to hear anything. 'Nothing. She's not breathing.'
"Mona! Hurry up, Please, Heal Takamaki-san!" As he didn't hear any reply back, Joker turns around to see his friend looking at its hand with wide eyes.
"Huh!?" As he finally noticed him, Mona slowly turns to him.
"Hey, Frizzy…What am I?…Am I not human?" Joker couldn't take his eyes away from him. Mona…Morgana's hand is slowly disappearing into black smoke…Like the shadows they have defeated.
As Akira's watching that, he could feel some kind of bile rising up. And Ryuji's already vomiting beside him. Then a tremor shakes the castle.
"What now?" Akira looks up to see there's some kind purple light just above them. "What…is that?" The castle's slowly breaking up, as stones falls and walls starts to crack.
"I am neither Death nor Messiah…I am just a human named Makoto Yuuki."
"Please…please! Spare me! Please, I don't want to die!"
"Death…is no judge." Minato? holds up his sword.
Akira looks around to see that neither his friends are in any conditions to escape. 'Damn it.', "Arsene!" Akira summons his persona and covers up all of his friends. "Gah!" As debris falls onto it, he feels pain as if he's the one who got hurt. "Huh?" Akira looks up. 'Is it falling?'
"…But I am…I deemed us both guilty."
'No', "No!"
"…Megidolaon." Akira snapped his eyes shut.
x-x
The girl sits impatiently behind car. "Hey old man, hurry up!"
"Y-yes, miss."
"Tch!" The girl sits back down in annoyance. 'Is that the one I felt the other day…No, It feels too different.'
Them she notices that the car is slowing down.
"What!? Are you deaf!? I said hurr-Huh?" The driver didn't react to her words and he seems to be also…Slowing down.
"What?" The girl looks around to see that everyone slowly slowing down…Until the only moving is her.
The girl gets out of the car and looks around. Everyone and Everything is frozen in place.
"Oh! For F*ck's sake!"
x-x
Castle of Lust
The whole place is still with silence. The debris falling down are frozen in midair. And the man begging for his life is stuck in his own expression.
The Visage of Death is also frozen in time behind him…But he, too is no better.
Minato is also fiexd in middle of the motion of carrying down his sword.
….
Then suddenly a floating blank card falls besides him which then shatters into pieces.
Minato's hair turned white and the sword on his hand suddenly vanished.
"Pweh, Huuh, What the…." Minato looks around the place that is stuck in time. "Did I do that?" Minato looks down to see that the time for Kamoshida has also stopped. It's hard to feel pity when he wasn't angry at the man in the first place.
'I really messed up this time.' Minato turns around. "Kurusu, you oka…Kurusu!" He then saw the wildcard trying to withstand the debris falling over by acting as a shield to others. "Oh,…I really lost controrl. Ahhhh."
"If it's any consolation," Before he could run over to Kurusu, Minato heard a voice. "It's not because of your spell." Minato didn't turn around and kept listening to the voice. "The ruler's psyche was slowly breaking down…That's why the castle is collapsing."
A black robed man appears in front of Minato. "But, In the end it's still because of you. That's why Humans who became Gods are more dangerous than natural gods." The man removed his hood to reveal a dark skin boy with soft blue eyes. "Their body may be easily fixed with right adjustments, but their mind is still too weak to control that power.…And this is not your first time isn't it?" The boy's expression didn't change through the whole conversation. "But, Only time with consequences I see." The boy closes his eyes for a moment. "Long time no see, Makoto-san."
"…." Rivaling to the boy before him, Minato's expression doesn't change a bit.
"…."
"…I'm sorry, Who are you?"
"Huh?" and It looks like Minato wins because the boy for the first time shows an expression of shock.
….
"Oh, I see." The boy faces turn neutral again. "Well then, I change my answer. Your mind may be weak but it's clearly more than smart enough for this job."
"Are you igor's relative?" The boy didn't say anything back and looks around the crumbling(In the middlle of crumbling) castle.
"Humans never fail to amaze me. To think that each and everyone of them has their own world inside their heart." The man turns back to him. "Corrupt or not, this is still beautiful.
….
Minato didn't comment on any of that and move on with his own question."…Okay, then. How do you find me?"
The man pointed behind him. Minato turns around to the Death God he just summoned.
"…You called the death…Not Thanatos…You called The Death. Of course I'd find you in a second."
Minato looks at his…Friend for a moment before turning around to the world that is lost in time.
….
"…Time and Death…So, Chronos, then."
The man nodded. "I stand corrected."
"So what's a primordial doing here? Do you want to get sealed too? Get in line."
"Oh, I like to see you do it."
"…You do realize that I can?"
"I know that you can, but only at the cost of Nyx's freedom and all lives on all universes."
Minato looks up the God up and down. "…Seems like you know a lot about me."
"Yes, Indeed." The man said with a small smile. "But, you are drifferent from what I know about you…You've changed."
"…."
"Heh," The man scoffs. "You called a Death God into realm of living for a mere mortal girl."
"…It was a mistake."
"True," The man looks away with sorrowful eyes. "But, in the past, you wouldn't hestitate to do so."
Minato looks up from the floor. "…Have we met before?"
"That depends. But, I'm not here to talk about that." The man slowly shakes his head. "No, I came here to help you." He then walks over to Akira and the others. "So, this is the new wildcard…I wonder what would he become? I can't tell if he has potential or not but he has a lot to live up to with you two."
"…Two?"
"Oh, looks like one of them has already passed over."
"What?" Minato runs to the group. "What!? Which on-Oh," Minato dejectedly looks down, holding his head. "I forgot there's a normal human."
….
"She wasn't supposed to die."
"…."
"Mortals follow their destiny but Gods don't.…Now, you see what happens when you intervene?"
"…."
"Now, you see how dangerous your power is…How dangerous you are when you let your emotions get better of you?"
Minato just keeps looking at the others.
"Hence why I'm here to help you." Chronos takes something out from his robe and Minato looks at it to see a Stopwatch.
….
"Isn't that…against the rules?"
"Well, who's gonna punish us?" The man said, still with his neutral face. "But, there's a limit to how much I will do for you though." The man said looking directly at him.
Minato looks at his…supposed friends before turning back to Kamoshida.
….
'Take me back to the time we met.'
"Oohh, and look at your skin!"
"Ummm…"
"Your skin is so smooth and so sooffttt, ahhh I'm almost jealous!"
….
"No, just 40 minutes…Is that doable?"
"Is that so?…But, Will you not try to save the girl? Just today's earliest might be fine. There will be less consquences then."
'Please, let me see her smile once more.'
"Then I should probably come with you, to help you find her."
"Uh, no need-"
"Come on, don't be modest, Senpai, Let's go!"
….
"…I shouldn't do that."
"Then, It is not my place to change your position."
'Forgive me.'
"Don't you know that you had to practice? Do you think you can just pop in whatever you want? Huh?"
"N-no, I was just helpi- *Slap* , Ah!"
'Please forgive me for all my faults.'
….
"Is she on your list?"
"…You know you can check that yourself."
'I'm not strong enough.'
"You were in an accident!?"
"An accident my own, yes. With no one's fault."
"R-really?."
"Yes, So, you can calm down, okay?"
….
Minato turns to the lifeless body of the girl he has known as Ann.
'I'm sorry.'
"…I'm sorry but try to live strong."
'I'm sorry.'
"Goodbye, Minato-san, I am glad that I could have met you."
'I'm sorry…that I failed to become anything for you.'
….
Minato holds his head and lets out a breath looking at.
Then, without removing his hands from covering his eyes, "40 minutes."
"…As you wish."
"Wait." Before Chronos could do his thing, Minato suddenly stopped him. "…Why?"
….
Chronos puts down his watch and looks up at him. "Consider it a debt repaid."
Minato looks at the God before him. "I don't really remember meeting you."
Minato said back but the God ignored him. "That's not the only reason though." Chronos turns to the wildcard. "A cleansing is coming, Makoto-san…There will be wars. There will be Tragedies. There will be countless deaths. And I can't do nothing but watch in sidelines."
"…."
"And even the gods are in danger this time. Because we are powerless against it." Chronos lets out a soft laugh. "In times such as this, I realized how smiliar gods and mortals are.…Because in the face of death and fear,…in the face of despair…we gods also turn to the Messiah for our salvation."
"What do you mea-"
"Even if the said Messiah is the one who sets the cogs in motion."
"What? *Click* Hm!?" His vision started to fill with white. But he can see everything retreating…Retreating to the point in time.
"It was a pleasure, Makoto-san. I hope we can meet again in better circumstances."
"You didn't answer my-"
"*Click*"
x-x
"*Huff, Huff*" The girl runs through the street. "Damn it, it's vanishing." Suddenly her vision was filled with bright white light.
"What the!?" Then she was slowly moving in backwards direction. "Ga-GAH! I can't Move!" The girl looks up the sky to see that even the clouds are moving back. "Oh my god, what the hell is wrong with this city!?"
-x-x
Clang, Clang!* Minato falls over to the trash cans nearby.
"Makoto-sama!" Margaret runs over to him from the corner nearby.
"…."
"Makoto-sama, are you alright?" Margaret finally reaches him and asks him as she worriedly helps him up. But, he doesn't move an inch.
"What's wrong? Are you…Wait, you used your arcana?" Margaret finally notices the boy's hair. "When!? And Why!?"
"…." Minato lets out a breath.
"You shouldn't do it out in the open like that. Someone might notice you!"
"…." The boy said nothing back and keeps looking at the ground.
Margaret looks at the boy cluelessly.
"Are you mad at me because I keep following you?"
"…Not really. No." Minato moves his head and looks up towards the sky.
"Then why are you not answe-…Are you crying?"
Minato slowly touches his cheek.
"…Huh, I guess I am."
-x-x-
Now, Do you guys see why I said you are gonna be mad. Because I just did two of the things most readers annoyed of. A character death and a Retcon. But, because I warned you(I even left a hint on chapter 17 which no one talked about) Please don't be mad at me. It's not like there will no consquences. So, even if you want to be mad at me, Just be mad a little. Be cool.
And I know the pacing is slow. Becasue What I have in mind is huge. This is gonna be a long fic. I'm not sure even If I still gonna there till the end. Beacsue I'm really sick and always stuck in the hospital most of the time. That's why the updates are fast. Because I have literally nothing to do. But, still, wish me luck though.
And, No. This is not about changes Minato would bring. This is about changes P5 cast would bring in Minato. I know it feels like splitting hair but that is what I have in mind. One of the guest(Pokari) said that I should change the title to 'Light of coward.' But, No, it doesn't work like that. The title is not for Minato. It's for Elizabeth. It does not mean Messiah's power but Messiah's hope or beacon of light if you will. When Minato was in the seal, there was no one for him except Elizabeth. She was the only 'Light' of Messiah. Because only she was there for him.
I have this really cool idea of changing the title to 'Lights of Messiah' near the end, but I don't really have that much writing skill to make the readers realize themselves so, I'm just saying that outright.
And I'm not sure why you ask that but, there's gonna be P4 characters. Yu was already in Chapters before.
And I'm taking a little haitus. I don't know how long but I hope it will not be that long. So, Sorry. (Oh, there it is.)
By the way, should I change this to M or is it stii safe to be T?