Firem78910: hey guys Firem78910 here with another chapter of Daughter of the Velvet Joker
Leone: yup this time to explore the vain asshole's palace
Firem78910: onwards
Chapter 16
Entering the Museum of Vanity
May 15th
Café Leblanc
Ren and Lorelei's room
It was around 3 am where we see Ren, Morgana and Lorelei peacefully sleeping.
Well the former two were sleeping peacefully. Lorelei on the other hand was tossing and turning on her futon.
Tears were coming out of her eyes.
"No stop." Lorelei mumbled.
Lorelei's Dream
Lorelei was playing with what little toys she had left. She was hurt and bruised. She was wait for her papa and mama to rescue her. She hears a knock on her door and flinches.
The door opens revealing her papa's parents and a yucky looking man with them.
"Hello there Lorelei. We're here with a friend of ours and we want to play a special… game with you." Papa's mama said.
"Heh heh she's a cutie." The yucky looking man said as he gives Papa's Papa a wad of money.
Lorelei looks at him as she steps back. But the man charges at her and was about the tear her clothes but then it stops.
Everything was frozen Lorelei blinked.
"You're not supposed to see this yet." A voice said.
Lorelei turns around to see… herself but only with Mama's hair and her Papa's eyes. But she also has large velvet blue butterfly wings on her back.
"Wha?" Lorelei said confused about what's going on here.
"Don't worry you will never remember this as long as I'm here. In fact you'll only think of this as a dream once you wake up." The other Lorelei said.
"But why? I thought Papa's Donors only beat me up and broke my stuff. " Lorelei asked.
"Because I said so. Now I need to fix this. Also sorry in advance for the futon and pajamas." The other Lorelei said.
"Hey wait." Lorelei said as she wakes up.
Real world
Lorelei eyes snap open as she looks around. She then checks her covers and frowns.
"Oh no. I wet myself." Lorelei said as she tears up.
Morgana heard her as he looked at Lorelei.
Morgana yawn as he spoke.
"Lorelei-Hime are you ok?" Morgana asked.
"I wet myself." Lorelei sadly said.
"Oh boy I'll wake Ren up. Oi Ren Lorelei needs you." Morgana said as Ren snaps awake.
Ren sees a sad Lorelei and also sees that she had wet herself.
Oh Lori I'll help you clean up. Ren said as he picks up Lorelei and gets ready to clean her up.
After cleaning Lorelei up. Ren decides to let Lorelei sleep with him for the rest of the night.
Meanwhile within Lorelei's mind
The other Lorelei was wiping off the sweat off her brow as she looks at the damage.
She glared at the small cracks around the place.
"Damn it all." The other Lorelei said.
She knew that she was delaying the inevitable but she needed to protect Lorelei until then.
"All because she saw Kamoshida's Palace and his fall." The other Lorelei said.
She sighs at this.
"I hope this doesn't become a thing." The other Lorelei said.
Later that following morning
May 16th
Ren and Lorelei woke up the following morning and after having breakfast they went to school where once again Lorelei was crowded for being super cute. She also had her first session with Dr. Maruki today.
Right now Lorelei was in such session.
"Ok Lorelei-chan I'm to make sure that every said here stays here but I will have to inform your Father and Aunt Margaret. Is that acceptable?" Maruki said.
Lorelei nods.
"Alright then now then I will begin with well the beginning. Tell me about you and your papa." Maruki asked.
"Ok I was very happy when I got to see Papa after they took him away. Papa's Donors were mean to while he was away. Until I ran away and bumped into Stephen and Mido." Lorelei said as Maruki noted that Lorelei referring to Ren's Parents as his donors.
"Well then I want to ask what your Papa's Donors did to you." Maruki asked.
Lorelei was about to say something but her head started to hurt a bit but then it stopped.
Maruki noticed this.
"Are you ok Lorelei-Chan?" Maruki asked.
"I'm ok my head started to hurt for a minute but then it went away." Lorelei asked.
Maruki stared at her for a bit but decided to continue with the session.
"So anyway how about we talk about your Mama?" Maruki asked.
Lorelei perked up as she told Maruki about Lavenza.
"Mama is the best. She loves Papa and Me." Lorelei said with a smile.
"Indeed does your mama have a name?" Maruki asked.
"Ah mamas name Lavenza and I have a picture of her." Lorelei said as she takes out a locket and opens it and shows a picture of Lavenza, Ren and Lorelei as a Baby.
"Oh um I didn't know she was… short." Maruki said.
"I know sometime the new cops would assume Papa of dating a little girl." Lorelei said.
"Wait she still looks like that. She kind of a doll?" Maruki asked.
"Yup this is also the reason of why I hate dolls especially those Porcelain ones. Those are creepy and Mama hated be compared to a doll." Lorelei said.
"Oh that's true especially Annabelle." Maruki said as he shivered.
"Yeah um can we talk about something else?" Lorelei asked.
"Alright then let's continue on with something else. How about we about your time in Shujin… besides the whole Kamoshida thing." Maruki said.
Soon Lorelei talked about her time in Shujin and how much fun she had. She didn't tell him about the Metaverse however.
"Ok now this question is something the police wants know. It's about Kamoshida and how he treated you?" Maruki asked.
Lorelei thought about it for a bit until she spoke.
"Hmmm… he didn't hurt me but for some reason he felt yucky to me. So I called him the Yucky Man behind his back. At least he felt that way until Papa and I saw him on May 1st." Lorelei said as Maruki writes down on his clipboard.
Maruki thought about what she said and believes it must have been the change of heart these Phantom thieves did.
"Well Ren told me that you can draw well. Can you draw me what Kamoshida looks like to you." Maruki said as he gives Lorelei some paper and crayons.
Lorelei then drew on three pieces of paper after a bit she showed them the finished works. She arranged the three drawing in a triangle.
On the lower left corner was Kamoshida in his normal outfit, then in the lower right corner was Kamoshida with golden eyes dressed in a pink speedo, a crown, a cape and holding a scepter. Finally at the top was a monstrous form of Kamoshida with four arms holding a fork, knife, whip and a glass of wine, horns and a trophy filled with… flailing legs…
He did noticed two things as well. One Lorelei is a good artist and two when he sees this arrangement he sees the Kanji of Lust.
"That's quite creative Lorelei-Chan." Maruki said.
"Thank you Maruki. I did my best." Lorelei said with a smile.
They then began to talk about other things. But she also told him about her dream last night.
All in all she had a good time with Maruki.
Soon however Lorelei had to go back to Ren as he picked her up.
But not before picking up her drawings.
After she left Maruki frowned.
"Hmmm… I need to tell Narukami-San about this." Maruki said as he called Margaret.
After a few seconds Margaret picks up the phone.
"Yes Narukami-San I need to tell you about a dream Lorelei had." Maruki said over the phone.
Margaret's tears fell from her in horror at the very idea of what might had happened to Lorelei.
With the Phantom Thieves
After School
We find the Phantom Thieves on a train headed towards Madarame's home. They also got onto a train where they allow pets. But they didn't pay the pet fare.
"Phantom Thieves goin' by train… This isn't any different from how I got home from school, y'know." Ryuji said.
"Yeah but the train is the fastest way to go. Plus, we can bring pets on here." Ann said.
"Ann you dummy." Lorelei mumbled as Morgana popped out of Ren's bag.
"Hey, who you calling a pet!?" Morgana shouted.
"Dude be quiet! We didn't pay the pet fare." Ryuji said.
"Yeah Mona hush." Lorelei said.
But it was Morgana yelled a girl slightly older then Lorelei came towards them.
"Ooh, kitty!" The Girl said.
"(Ah damn it)!" Ann thought knowing that she messed up by calling Morgana a pet in the first place.
"Is that your pet, Mister? I heard it Meowing!" The Girl said.
"Oh it's my toy he Meows every time you touch his head." Lorelei said.
"(I'm a horrible father I've taught my daughter how to lie)." Ren thought as he cries in his head.
Arsène and the other Personas within Ren couldn't help but Sweatdrop at his thought.
"(Ren you stole from a rapist pedophile and sold a bunch technical illicit goods. Lying is the least of your worries)." Arsène said.
But in order to sale Lorelei's Lie he pressed Morgana's head.
"Meow." Morgana said.
The girl claps as Lorelei grins as she button mashed Morgana's head until he barfed.
"Ugh I should have kept my mouth shut." Morgana said.
Soon the train reached Shibuya.
"Oh this our stop! Well see you later Bye-bye!" Ann said.
"Mm-hm! Bye-Bye." The Girl said as she leaves.
Soon they leave the station and walked towards Maderame home. As they walked Lorelei spoke.
"Ok here's my super plan on Maderame's Place." Lorelei said with a smile.
"Huh… so what do you have Lorelei?" Ryuji asked.
"Ok then since Morgana can go into Palaces without the App we can have him scout out the Palace." Lorelei said.
This caused the Thieves to stop.
"Holy crap Lorelei is right". Ryuji said.
"Yeah I mean with this we can find out what the place is like." Ann said.
"Indeed with that we can find the keywords a lot easier." Morgana said with a smile.
"Alright then thanks to Lorelei we know that Madarame name and we're about to go to the location so Morgana will go into the Palace and get the Map." Ren said as he agrees with Lorelei's plan.
"Ok I can do that." Morgana said.
"Remember Morgana for this to work you need to go in get the map and get out." Lorelei said while making a Cute but Serious face.
"Ok Lorelei I hear you and here I thought your Papa is the leader of the Phantom Thieves of Hearts." Morgana said as the other thieves chuckled.
"Oh ha ha very funny. By the way were here." Ren said as all of them saw a rickety shack.
"Um you sure this is the right pal." Ryuji said.
Ren pointed at the name plate that said Madarame.
"Oh well that was fair I guess." Ryuji said.
Just before they could answer, the door opened to reveal Theodore, Yusuke and Madarame.
"Well then I think with that I'll be going, Oh Ren and Lori-chan I didn't know you were going to be here." Theodore said surprised to see them.
Morgana takes the chance to explore Madarame's Palace.
"I apologize Arisato-San I asked Takamaki-san, Amamiya-san and Lorelei-chan for helping me find inspiration for my next painting." Yusuke said.
"Ah I see are you going to show the painting of Ren's Photo?" Theodore said.
"Wait a painting of my photo?" Ren asked wondering what Yusuke was talking about.
"Yes the one in your pocket watch." Theodore said.
This surprised Ann and Ryuji were surprised by this.
Ren blinks.
"Ah didn't I show you the photo?" Ren said.
The both of them shake their heads.
"Ok that's embarrassing." Ren said as he facepalm and Lorelei chuckled.
"Anyway perhaps we can see the painting." Madarame suggested.
"Of course Madarame-san." Theodore said.
Inside of Madarame's Atelier
The inside of Madarame's home is mostly the same as the outside.
It was messy but it was par of the course but soon Yusuke showed the group the painting of Ren's pocket watch.
"Huh so that's what Lavenza looks like." Ryuji said.
"Oh shes…oh. Ren I assume that Lavenza gets annoyed that she gets compared to a doll right?" Ann said as Lorelei nods.
"Not to mention the times I was almost arrested for dating a middle school girl. Which is weird because she's the older one by two years." Ren said.
"Hmmm Amamiya-san if you would allow it I would like to make an updated version of this painting?" Yusuke asked politely.
"Of course Yusuke-san." Ren said.
"Alright then now we should iron out the details." Yusuke said.
After ironing out the details the group leave and after Madarame closes the door Morgana appears.
"Guys I'm back." Morgana said.
"Oh Morgana you're back did you get the map?" Ren asked.
Morgana did so and gives Ren the map.
"It's just like Kamoshida's Palace it's only half of it." Morgana said.
"That will do Mona. Now did you see what the Palace looked like?" Ren said as Morgana became serious.
"Yes the distortion is a Museum and I assume that the location is here in the atelier." Morgana said.
"We have the name as well." Ren said as he begins to fill the Metapp with the keywords.
"Ichiryusai Madarame."
"Atelier."
"Museum."
"Destination found."
"Commence travel?"
Y/N
Ren picks yes as everyone disappears.
Madarame's Palace, the Museum of Vanity
As everyone appears at Madarame Palace. Everyone is in the Phantom clothes.
"Alright then everyone codenames." Joker said.
"Right then Joker." Ryuji said.
"Yeah and oh god the hell is that." Panther said as she points at the Palace itself.
"My word that's… shiny." Theodore said.
The Museum of Vanity was a massive building made out of solid gold. They also see the long line to enter the museum.
"It's ugly and gaudy looking." Lorelei said.
"Oh yeah I agree Lorelei-chan." Panther said.
"Still ain't a museum a must for Phantom Thieves!? By the way Mona where's our entrance?" Skull asked.
Mona pointed at a truck.
"We use that truck to get to the courtyard where we find an open skylight window. That's our entry point." Mona said.
"Phantom Thieves let's go!" Joker said.
Soon everyone began the infiltration of the Museum of Vanity.
Firem78910: with that we end the chapter where we now enter the second palace
Leone: well then and like with Kamoshida's Palace a Velvet sibling is with them this time its Theodore but until next time
Firem78910: Ja Ne
Ren's Confidants in order of appearance
Aeon (Lorelei): Rank 4
Fool (Igor): Rank 2
Chariot (Ryuji): Rank 4
Empress (Haru): Rank 1
Lovers (Ann): Rank 1
Magician (Morgana): Rank 2
Death (Tae): Rank 3
Hanged Man (Munehisa): Rank 1
Strength (Caroline & Justine): Rank 3
Hierophant (Sojiro): Rank 3
Sun (Yoshida): Rank 2
Hermit (Futaba): Rank 1
Moon (Yuuki): Rank 1
Councilor (Maruki): Rank 1
Lorelei's Demons
Fairy Napaea
Deity Krishna
Megami Demeter
Jirae Dwarf
Foul Jack Ripper
Aeon Arcana Personas
Napaea LV 3
Dwarf LV 8
Jack Ripper LV 10
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Demeter LV 36
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Krishna LV 56
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