Daichi: So, to determine who the focal point of this chapter will be…

Verity: You flipped a coin. There's no need to make it seem dramatic.

Tsukaimon: We don't own this stuff. We do have a copy of the game… and Persona Q… but that's about it.

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Souji had, when he woke up that morning, decided to try and forget that yesterday had ever happened. Between how bizarre it was in the other world, the equally strange bear that had gotten them out, and the fact that he could conceivably go the rest of his life without accidentally sticking anything else in the television, he thought it was very doable.

Assuming Chie and Yosuke never brought it up again, of course, but he figured that whatever caused the people in Inaba to be completely insane would not be that bad. Unless it was something to do with the other world that they had fallen into and been directly exposed to.

So, no, there was no forgetting about any of it.

"Hey, isn't that Saki-senpai's brother?" Yosuke asked. "And there's Mochizuki-senpai and Metis. I wonder what they're talking about." As they got closer, Souji could hear exactly what they were talking about.

"- numerous cuts, equally numerous burns, and a concussion," Ryoji finished. "Also, she hasn't woken up yet after she passed out waiting for the ambulance, but that's probably more a symptom of exhaustion than anything… I hope."

Metis just sighed. "I don't know what I was expecting. She will be fine, right?"

"Most likely. Oh, Hanamura!" He noticed them and called them over. "Could you tell the boss that Saki-chan won't be coming in to work again for the foreseeable future? She's kinda hospitalized."

"Yeah, okay- wait, what!?" Souji winced as Yosuke lost all semblance of volume control. "Why was she hospitalized?"

"She fell into a television," Metis stated, completely deadpan. Souji was pretty sure she was only being sarcastic.

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Yosuke wasn't. As a matter of fact, Souji was correcting his earlier assessment. It wasn't just Chie who was insane, clearly, Yosuke was crazy as well.

"Yosuke… Maybe Yuki-san just has a terrible sense of humor. It doesn't mean that we should just randomly be jumping into television sets," He pleaded, begging whatever of the other boy's sanity remained that they wouldn't have to do this.

"He's obsessed," Chie groaned. "I don't think we'll be able to stop him."

"If anything happens, we do have weapons."

"A wrench and a golf club." Souji buried his face in his hands. "We're actually doing this, then? I can't convince you otherwise?"

He'd known that this was going to be a bad day. Yosuke literally dragging him into the T.V. only solidified it.

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"Yosuke."

"What?"

"I think I hate you."

"Why?"

"You dragged me into the electronics department and asked Chie to kick me in along with you. Just because she seems dead set on removing your ability to reproduce doesn't mean you have to involve me. And I can't see a portal out. Or Teddie."

Yosuke laughed nervously. "Okay, so I may not have entirely thought this through…"

Well, now that they were stuck there for the time being, Souji figured there was little point in yelling. Odds were it would attract the wrong sort of attention… if anything but the bear lived there, anyway.

He also decided there was no point in sticking around the same place. He wasn't sure why Yosuke had followed him, but he supposed it wasn't all bad.

At least it made sure they were together for the inevitable monster attack.

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Souji wasn't quite sure how they'd managed to make it to the… he'd say it was a perfect imitation of the shopping district, except for the small issue of the sky… without dying to the myriad monsters scattered about. But they had, somehow.

"We're lost. In a world of monsters and fog that makes my head hurt. This is entirely your fault, Hanamura."

"Why is it my fault?"

"This was your idea."

"You didn't have to come with me!"

"Have you met Chie?" Souji was then distracted from the conversation by yet another monster attack. Of course, it being just one tongue-ball meant a single blast of lightning would handle it. "...Why did it vaporize everything but the tongue?"

Yosuke poked it. "I think it's made of rubber or something. Feels like it."

"Yosuke, why are you touching the- nevermind." He shook his head, reminding himself that the residents of Inaba were all insane. The tongue wriggled- completely on its own- and Yosuke abruptly stopped poking it.

"Okay, that's just weird. Maybe we should consider leaving." The only thing stopping Souji from yelling at Yosuke was the fact that he could hear something from farther in. Voices.

"Do you hear that?"

"It sound like it's coming from the liquor store." They walked down the street, Yosuke showing Souji where to go, until they arrived.

"You'd think that somewhere this full of enemy Shadows would have some decent loot," he heard. He knew that voice.

"Mochizuki-senpai?" He asked. A moment later, the boy in question appeared.

"I need to have words with Metis about her sense of humor…" He muttered. "And I'd been hoping we'd be able to pass it off as sarcasm."

"What are you doing here?" Yosuke asked.

"Trying to figure out why my friend was presumably shoved into a television. Not that I expected to find anything... Oh, have you seen a blue bear around anywhere?"

"Not since yesterday," Souji replied. "Do you need him for anything?"

"...I sort of ditched him here yesterday so I could get Saki-chan to the hospital, and the portal out vanished a few hours ago. Wait, you were here yesterday?"

"For ten minutes." Souji's headache flared up again, and he winced. "Do you have any painkillers or anything?"

"You're not even asking how he's here! Don't you find that a little bit suspicious?" Yosuke complained, before groaning. "My head does hurt, though…"

"That'll be the fog. Humans aren't meant to be in it for long. I think Teddie has a solution, but that requires we find him… do you want to help? Shadow giblets sell for a lot at the weapons shop!"

Souji blinked. "There is so much wrong with that statement, I don't know where to start."

"That's funny. Makoto used to say the exact same thing."

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Daichi: Next time, the hunt for Teddie. And meeting Shadow Yosuke. While half of the group is suffering from a… well, it can't be a blinding headache in the fog, can it?