A few hours later, I looked into my phone and it was almost 10 at night. We finished in the right time, and Minako was huffing in tiredness as she sat on the nearby chair, Fuuka was cleaning up the other cooking supplies we used (and the fry-pan she burned), and Aigis was helping her.

Aigis showed some physical touch towards Fuuka, and some of them were...well...

"Ahn! Aigis!" Fuuka said as she turned towards to Aigis, who had a guilt-free look on her face, and pretended to do the dishes with her.

"Fuuka-san, you are just too adorable when you flinch in shock." Aigis said with a smiling face that looked like it was from a kindergartener. Fuuka frowned, and went she went back to her dishes, Aigis gave a smile.

Aigis is...somewhat into 'those' kind of stuff. But then, my curiosity struck me, and decided to risk it a bit.

"Hey Aigis..." I whispered as I neared close to her carefully. "Yes, Yu-san?" Aigis said as she turned her head around, while her hands were still cleaning the dishes. "May I ask where you...um...learned those kind of stuff?" I asked with extreme caution, with my hands covering my mouth half-way.

"This is highly confidential information, therefore I cannot reveal it to a lower grade personnel like you, Yu-san." Aigis said as she flicked her head from my face, looked straight into the sink, and continued scrubbing the dishes. I scratched my head in confusion of what to do next.

"She really is hard as a rock..." I sighed, and went back to where Minako was, and she snickered. "Getting rejected by a robot, huh? You've hit a new low, my friend." Minako said as she patted me in the back, while still sitting on the chair. I carefully sat next to her, which was just a marble floor with a wooden wall next to it. I looked up, and suddenly thought of something.

"Hey, but Minako, are we going to go back there by any chance?" I carefully asked. "Go where?" Minako asked. "You know..."

"'Your' timeline." I responded. She looked down on her chair in silence, and her smile faded a little, and it soon turned into a expression of worriedness. "But if I go back there...I'm going back knowing that I'm going to die..." Minako said as she played with her fingers in nervousness. "And...I don't want that to happen because..." Minako carefully glanced at me, and then immediately flinched when she noticed that I was looking at her. She turned a bit red.

"I-I won't be able to be with you..." I flinched. She cared about me? "You...care about me?" I asked her with a widened eye. Minako grunted, and looked at me with fierce eyes. "God, you're just so clueless sometimes Yu!" She said as she slammed the handle of the chair she was sitting on. "Of course I do! We literally stuck with each other for days now!" Minako said as she neared her face with mine. I stuttered a bit.

"As a friend though, right?" I calmly said. Minako shook a bit when I said that. She was about to say something, and then stopped, and opened her mouth again. "Oh..y-Yeah, of course!" She said with a bit of a panicked tone. A bit later, we both had a bit of red on our faces, and Fuuka giggled at this view.

"Minako-chan and Yu-kun are so cute together." Fuuka said as Aigis tilted her head in question.

"'Cute'...you say?" Aigis tapped her chin in thought. Aigis squinted hard to think about what Fuuka meant by "cute". Steam was coming out of her headphones now, and she was overheating so much that it looked like you can cook an egg on her skin.

Fuuka immediately noticed and tapped Aigis on the shoulder. "Um...Aigis...Are you okay?" Fuuka carefully asked. Aigis turned and grabbed Fuuka by her shoulders, and with a determined look, Aigis asked Fuuka the killing question. "Fuuka-san, how can I be 'cute'?" Fuuka looked conflicted to answer the question, because god knows what Aigis is going to do if she gives a weird answer.

"Um..." Fuuka said as she scratched the sides of her head with one finger. "...Swim...suit? Wait no-" Fuuka was about to give back what she said, but it was too late. "...Understood." Aigis nodded her head in acknowledgement, with her determined look still on her face. She closed the faucet of the sink, took off the rubber gloves, and ran out of the door.

"Oh no..." Fuuka already started to imagine what's going to happen. "This is bad, this is bad, this is bad, this is bad..." Fuuka started to tell herself as she started to bite her nails in what was about to happen next. But Fuuka stopped and started to get...imaginations.

"Aigis in a swimsuit...maybe a two-piece? One piece swimsuit doesn't seem too bad...but this is just-NO, NO, NO! I have to think about how to cover this up from Yu and Minako!" Fuuka slapped both sides of her face lightly, but repeatedly to make herself concentrate. Behind her were (obviously) Yu and Minako, now talking about how they're going to plan things out if they do get back.

"So...every full moon, a huge shadow attacks a specific location?" Yu said as Minako nodded in response. "Yep. And there's also a place called Tartarus, where all the shadows appear at the Dark Hour." Minako explained. Yu scratched the back of his head. "So this..."Dark Hour" thing is when all the shadows appear, right?" Yu said. "But also...what happens to those huge shadows when they get eliminated? Do they turn into a Persona also?" Yu asked her curiously. Minako looked at Yu in disbelief. "Shadows turn into Personas?" Minako said as she titled her head in thought. "The shadow is a form of oneself, and it is something that you don't want to admit. But the more you try to deny it, the more stronger it gets. But if you beat it and accept your shadow, then that shadow becomes your Persona." Yu explained. Minako still looked doubtful. "Although...I've gained my Persona without facing my own shadow...so I guess I'm an exception." Yu said as he scratched his face with a finger. Minako still thought to herself, not about Yu's definition of shadows, but where the shadows go after they disappear. Minako then turned to Fuuka, tapped her shoulder, and asked-

"ISWEARIWASNTTHINKINGOFAIGISINASWIMSUIT!" Fuuka immediately turned around and screamed. Minako stood in the same position for another good 20 seconds, and Yu was in a similar state. They both really wished they had that memory wiping device from Man in Black, but unfortunately, this was real life.

Fuuka then tried to recover from this situation. "s-So, what were you going to ask?" Minako shook her head to shake off the memory of what Fuuka said just now. Yu was washing his face with the same reason. "u-Um, so I was going to ask about the shadows..." Minako asked. "Say...I still haven't figured out what happened to them after they disappear...Do you know what happened to them? Cuz you know, you've already been through everything." Minako asked with a sigh, which was hoping for a answer that wouldn't make her faint.

"When shadows disappear, they each give power to a being called Nyx. And that Nyx is the being that Ikutski is trying to make, hoping for it to end the world." Fuuka said as she her hands balled into a fist. "He planned out all of this, then later on, a boy called Ryoji comes over. He's friendly at first, but he's just another one of them. He tells us of what will happen month after the new year. Nyx will bring an end to this world." Fuuka said, now her head looking at on the floor. "Long story short, Nyx is the reason why you died." Minako was shaking at this point, and Fuuka noticed and immediately tried to comfort her. "b-But, it doesn't matter now, because you're here!" Fuuka said with a bit of a forced expression. Minako looked up, and into Fuuka's eyes, with a determined look. "Fuuka, I have something to tell you." Minako said. Fuuka gulped. She already knew this wasn't going to be any ordinary thing Minako's going to say.

"You're going to go back?!" Fuuka gasped. Minako nodded, with a bit of a sad expression, and Yu comforted her by patting her back. "This wasn't a easy decision. But I felt a bit fishy all around. There was obviously a reason why we two met, and why Minako could travel to the future like this, and why the Velvet Room was like that also." Yu explained to Fuuka. "There's just so many questions that were left unanswered, I felt like this wasn't just something we could let it slide." Yu grabbed his phone and tapped on the screen. "Who are you calling?" Minako asked curiously.

"Your old pal." Yu said as he smiled.

As the quartet gathered into the train station(including Aigis who they had to find for around 30 minutes, and they found her in the lingerie section of Junes), Yu was on his phone talking to his friends and keeping them updating on where he is and what he's doing, Minako was in the nearby ATM, where her check card surprisingly worked, and she had unimaginable amounts of money in it, all from tartarus. Fuuka and Aigis were chatting in the cafe near the entrance of the boarding floor stairs. Fuuka was having a sip of white coffee, and Aigis ordered black coffee, because she doesn't seem to think about whether a food or drink is tasty or not, she just recognizes the taste and that's pretty much it.

"Yeah. But there's a chance I might be gone for a bit. Yeah. Okay. Got it. Right, thanks Yosuke!" Yu said as he hung up, and looked at Minako. "I was talking to one of my best friends back in town. I had to keep him updated so I wouldn't have him and my friends worry about me." Yu explained. "Plus, this might be a long journey waiting ahead of us too, so..." Yu got his phone from his pocket and checked the time. The quartet had a solid 30 minutes left before the train arrived, and Yu gathered Aigis and Fuuka to discuss what they'll do for the remaining time.

"Hm...how about we split up between the people who we usually don't talk to?" Fuuka asked. Yu somehow looked a bit uneasy towards that statement. Minako smiled in agreement. "Yeah, I think it'll be good if Fuuka and I shared some stories that I missed out on so far. Yu and go with Aigis then, right?" Minako suggested. Yu was internally shaking his head in denial. "Yes, that will be fine." Aigis said as she nodded. This was getting worse and worse for Yu as time passes... But Aigis suddenly grabbed Yu's arm and pulled him across the floor with force, as Fuuka and Minako waved as they both got further.

"I think I'm okay on my own now, Aigis." Yu said as he forced himself off from Aigis' grip. He dusted his pants and shirt, and coughed because of the amount of dust that came into the air. "I'm sorry Yu-san..." Aigis said quietly. "Wait...did Aigis just apologize to me?" Yu thought to himself. "Um...it's alright. So uh, what you need?" Yu said as he looked around where he was brought. It was a corridor where there was a window behind them, and there were trees outside the station. There was a water fountain next to the two bathrooms, so since Aigis wasn't saying anything yet, Yu decided to take a sip from it. As he was taking a drink, Aigis asked the question, and it wasn't something Yu was expecting.

"How do you define, "sexy"?" Aigis said with a facial expression as plain as yogurt. Yu immediately spat out all of the water towards the marble wall, and huffed out air soon after, then looked at Aigis for confirmation. "I'm sorry Aigis, what?!" Yu said in shock. "How do you become "sexy"?" Aigis said. This somehow made the atmosphere more awkward, as people passing by can see a blonde girl asking a huffing grey-haired boy how to become sexy, with a pool of water stuck on the wall next to the boy. If the police were here, they would take them away for sure.

But since they're NOT here, Yu decided to calm down and tried to answer the question 'to a certain extent'.

"You know who Risette is, Aigis?" Yu asked, as he cleaned the remaining amount of water on his mouth. Aigis nodded. "I have heard of her from Fuuka-san very often. She seems to be a high school student, and a very popular idol at the same time. I find it very odd and strange how Rise-san can catch two birds with one stone like this." Aigis said with a tone of interest in her voice. "Okay, but the school thing aside, why do you think she got so popular?" Yu said as he rubbed his chin. Aigis put her down a bit, and searched the server for everything about Risette.

Aigis raised her in discovery of a answer, and grabbed Yu's hand. "Thank you Yu-san! I finally get it now!" Yu couldn't exactly be happy or be worried in this case because he didn't know what this 'answer' was and how she was going to do it.

But either way, time passed for a bit, and seeing how Yu wanted to get out of this situation as fast as possible, so she doesn't cross the line and does something weird.

"Hey Aigis, can you give me a favor also?" Yu asked. "Yes, I shall 'grant your wishes'." Aigis said. For some reason she sounded like some kind of a genie when she said that, but Yu shrugged it off, and whispered his favor to Aigis. Aigis shuddered a bit. "Is this information important to you in any way?" Yu nodded heavily. "...Very well." Aigis said. "I shall try to get the information as fast as possible." Aigis walked off into the distance, and Yu smiled and followed her.

Yu: So you're not in the new P3D game...

Minako: ...

Yu: Don't worry, maybe they're planning something for you. Like a...twist, maybe?

Minako: ...

Yu: You were in the PV2. There's no way they'd miss you out.

Minako: ...

Yu: I think you gargled enough, Minako.

Minako: *Spits* Ah...my teeth feels so healthy already! Sorry, what did you say again?

Yu: Nothing...

What's up guys, it's Edward.

I'm sorry if anyone's been dissapointed with this chapter. I rushed this alot, but I tried to focus the plot again, while doing 10 thousand other things at the same time.

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