Fool: Makoto Itou & Kotonoha (The relationship meter), Rank 3
Magician: ?
Priestess: Kotonoha Katsura, UNLOCKED
Empress: ?
Emperor: ?
Hierophant: ?
Lovers: Sekai Saionji, UNLOCKED
Chariot: ?
Justice: Kokoro Katsura, UNLOCKED
Hermit: Sarujima, UNLOCKED
Fortune: ?
Strength: ?
Hanged Man: ?
Death: ?
Temperance: ?
Devil: ?
Tower: ?
Star: ?
Moon: ?
Sun: ?

Previously on The Power of Everything:

Makoto decided to buy bigger bag for Saru so that he could fit in and could travel with him anywhere. With that, Makoto and Kotonoha went to Sakakino to search for that bag. After searching for many shops, they didn't have luck to get it. Then, Makoto spotted a bag shop across the road. He asked Kotonoha to wait while he crossed over. Suddenly, a high-speed truck came and couldn't stop in time, resulting a crash to Makoto.

CHAPTER 11

SURVIVED

The truck crashed on me and I was bounced quite far. Seconds later, the truck managed to stop. After being bounced for several meters distance, I stopped and laid down. Most of the cars stopped because of the accident. Most of the voices I heard were from townspeople there. I could hear their screaming, shouting and talking.

"Oh, my god!" one of the woman said.

"KYAAAAAAAAAAA" one of the woman screamed.

"QUICK, CALL AMBULANCE!" one of the man shouted.

However, my concern was Kotonoha. She must be worried about me. I could hear her screaming loud.

"MAKOTO-KUNNNNN!" she screamed and ran towards me.

I looked at left right side. There was no people nearby me. I looked at the sky. Oddly enough, I wasn't even injured. No blood, no pain, no injury. I looked at my hands and sure enough, there was no signs of blood gushing out. After that, I closed my eyes and looked at my Persona, Raphael. I looked within its abilities and status. There was one thing that's interest me. It has "Null Physical" ability despite the status reflects zero resistance to physical. Does that mean that I am completely immune to any physical damage? That's way wonderful. I didn't know that Raphael's unique ability is to nullify all damage from Physical. Surely enough, had I set other Personas as main which has no "Null Physical", I would have been dead for sure. I guess I could say I was lucky.

Kotonoha's screams was getting louder and it snapped me in instance. I looked at her and she was crying while running. I had made her worried. I must apologize with her.

"MAKOTO-KUN!" she shouted.

"Kotonoha," I said to her while still laying.

"Makoto-kun, *cries. Are…. Are you okay?" she kneeled beside me.

"I am fine, Kotonoha. Besides, normally people would have died from this. But, I survived thanks to my Persona," I smiled at her.

"Thank god," she hugged my face and her tears dropped onto my face.

While personally I would enjoy this moment, however the fact that I just created commotion would be all over the news. It's best if we better ran away from this before people thought that I was just a freak that survived from this.

"Kotonoha, let's run quickly as fast as we can. The bag will have to wait for a while. Judging from this, I would say I would be all over the news if they found me still alive with no blood and something," I told her.

She nodded and agreed. I was thinking whether I had Persona which unique ability is to do stealth or give high speed in running or something else. The time was very limited as people started coming towards me although the distance was still quite far from them to see me. I looked within my soul fast and I saw my Persona Melchizedek. It has unique ability "Flight" which gives the user the ability to fly. That's even cool but, how the heck do I use this? Without further thinking, I just set Melchizedek as main Persona and suddenly, I was overflowed with knowledge on how to fly. I quickly stood up and grabbed Kotonoha. I raised my hand and flew horizontally to the other side from where people saw me. If I flew vertically, I would have been spotted for sure. The speed was incredible. It's almost the max speed of car that can produced. Kotonoha screamed a little considering the speed was too fast for her.

"Kyaaa," she screamed.

As we managed to leave people's sight of view, I flew vertically and headed straight to my apartment and trying not to be seen. Kotonoha closed her eyes and couldn't see below. I grabbed her tightly so she wouldn't fall. For about 20 minutes of flying which is already night, we arrived. Kotonoha and I arrived at my very own apartment door. I quickly opened using my key and went inside my room with Kotonoha. I breathed heavily thinking that earlier event was just disaster. Saru who was watching TV was completely confused about us.

"Makoto, what's wrong?" he asked.

"You wouldn't believe if I told you," I tried to catch my breath.

"Try me," he challenged me.

So, we sat down together and I told Saru how the accident happened, getting no injury and Persona's unique ability "Null Physical" and "Flight" and how we went back to my apartment while flying. Oddly enough, he wasn't surprised and kind of expecting of it already. Though, he felt that I was not cool that I deliberately showed to people that I had power beyond human.

"*sigh, luck you that you weren't seen. if my intuition is correct, the news should be coming right about…. Now!" he told us.

Kotonoha, Saru and I sat together in sofa and watched the news.

"An accident happened at approximately 18:30 pm near the Sakakino town, a truck driver was reported to have a problem with the break. He reported that the break was fine since he drove in the morning and suddenly, it stopped working. The townspeople reported that a man was crashed by the truck and bounced quite far distance. When the police came to investigate, there was no corpse found on the site. The police had questioned the witnesses of the townspeople about the reliability of the source as there was no blood on the site as well," the reporter reported.

The news continued. It's a good thing that I wasn't caught on camera and quickly left the scene. I would rather avoid the police or some sort of higher authority. I sighed and felt relieved. Saru suddenly said something.

"It must be the work of Shadows," he suddenly said that.

"Are you sure? Shadows did this?" I asked to confirm.

"Yes, there is no doubt. From what I can see, a truck that big should have been checked for the parts whether they are obsolete or rusty. I highly doubt that they missed checking such important parts seeing that it takes a great skilled driver to drive that huge mechanical vehicle. Furthermore, the news mentioned that it was working fine until recently with no rational explanation. Who could have done that beside the Shadows?" he deduced the point.

"I see. So, the Shadows are trying to kill me?" I asked again.

"More or less, I am also their target. Whatever this is, the Shadows can't be underestimated. They operated in secret and if necessary, they can resurface to create panic. Our job is to maintain in secret while defending the society from Shadows," Saru told me.

"I see. Is there no way to kill the Shadows permanently? I mean like they will keep showing up all the time."

"Unfortunately, even I do not know about that. If we can find the core of what causes the Shadows to resurface, we can destroy them permanently," he said.

That seems like trouble for us. It's a mystery. I had still very limited knowledge about Shadows. The core... it wouldn't be easy to find it. But, if we want to end this thing, we have to try. That's what I kept to myself. Kotonoha was even more worried about me while listening to all of these.

"Ma… Makoto-kun, are you going to be okay?" she was worried.

Honestly, I didn't know what to answer. I just touched her cheek and tried to calm her down. Luckily, she calmed down and showed a bit smile. I realized that it's already late night. So, I asked Kotonoha if her parents would be worried if she went home late.

"Um… I would like to sleep at your place. Can I? I almost lost you and I just wished I could stay with you today," she begged with her sparkling eyes.

I honestly when I saw that, couldn't reject her.

"But, what about your parents? Won't they get angry?" I tried to ask about them since I would like to avoid being scolded by her dad.

"It's okay. I will call them and tell them I will stay at your apartment," she said.

I nodded and she called to her home. They picked up and I could hear Kokoro's voice. She sounded like jealous when her sister had sleepover in my place. However, she's okay with it and told her mother. Her mother also gave an okay. I couldn't hear her dad's voice though. It could be that he's not at home. But, I might think this is a bad idea at all since her dad would start to hate me even more. However, I have already agreed to Kotonoha. Oh well, screw it then. She finished calling and smiled as well as me. Saru broke the moment by asking a question which reminded us again.

"So, did you get the bag?" he asked us.

"Saru, I am sorry. We searched many shops but the bag was not even big. I found a shop across of the road of the town. Unfortunately, that's when I got that accident happened. I figured Kotonoha and I better ran away before we were on the news which I am glad I did that. I decided to try again tomorrow. Had I not changed my Persona to Raphael, I would have been dead for sure. Also, had I not asked Kotonoha to stay, she would have died and I would have lost her forever," I told Saru and looked at Kotonoha.

"Saru-kun, I'm so sorry. We will look again tomorrow," she told him.

He sighed but said that it's good that I was okay. At least, he wasn't mad. In any case, this is the first time I had woman sleep in my apartment. The problem is that the bedroom is only one and it's also not wide. Do… does that mean I will sleep together with her on the bed? My face was totally in beet red. I snapped out quickly. I offered Kotonoha to take bath and I said to Saru and her that I would prepare the food. This night will surely turn into different night.

TO BE CONTINUED