Paths crossed once more and a Cruel realization
After breakfast, Minato told Satomi what happened in the Ultra-dimension, the magician shadow turning human and the wallet he found.
Wasting no time, Satomi sent a message to the Oracles requesting an urgent meeting.
She got a message saying they were having a meeting with the Ultra-dimension in a few hours, it also mentioned they were about to see over a message to the Enlightened when they received Satomi's message.
The meeting started with the events of the previous day, considering the Magician shadow turning human and Minato gaining the powers of a CPU.
There was an audible crack as everyone snapped their necks in Minato direction.
Satomi looked at Minato with a surprised expression before asking "Milord, please. Is it true what they said, have you gained the ability of a CPU!?"
Minato didn't move for a moment before he reluctantly nodded "more or less…"
Everyone continued to stare at Minato, almost as if was a newly discovered species of animal. The silence was broken when Neptune leaned forward with a curious expression "can we see it?" Minato gave Neptune a questioning look before she continued "come on! You got to see all of us in our CPU forms, it's only fair you show us yours!"
Minato turned his gaze at everyone else "well…"
Noire looked at her fellow goddesses "he is the first male to be accepted as a CPU…"
Blanc nodded "it would be interesting to see a male CPU form"
Plutia spoke up "we didn't get a really good look at it either" the Ultra-dimension goddesses nodded.
Vert smiled brightly as she put her hands together "well then, I believe we're all on-board with this. When you're ready"
Minato silently thought to himself "this is worrying, I prefer not using that form so I can keep my faith energy untouched until I return to the seal…"
Dues Ex spoke to Minato "don't worry, as long as you don't use it for too long your reserve of faith energy will be untouched"
Minato asked "…and the strain on my body?"
Dues Ex was silent for a moment "you should be find, I think the first time was just a bit of a shock"
Minato frowned mentally "not 100% sure"
Deus Ex answered in a hurry "more use should get rid of the problem and in time should unlock your true CPU form!"
"True form?" Minato's mental frown deepened.
Deus Ex answered back with a worried tone "oh, I thought I told you. Because your body is not human it'll take some time for you to use 100% of its power, till then you'll be using a demi-deity form"
"We'll continue this later" Minato thought, wondering if he'll come across anymore difficulties using an imperfect avatar of power.
He sighed "alright, just this once" Minato got out of his seat and took a few steps away from the table. He turned to face the girls "Henshin"
System…. Standby ready.
Activating transformation sequence!
Minato is standing in a void covered by numbers, a tarot card showing the world arcana flouted down. On the back of the card, the Persona symbol had an overlaying power symbol. Minato snaps his fingers as the card shatters and Minato's body is covered in light.
The light shifted and became his CPU form, he opened his eyes to show them completely glowing a brilliant blue colour. The helmet materialised on his head.
Central Processer Unit, Online.
Combat Ready.
Minato flouts there in his CPU form as everyone stares at it.
They held a generally curious expression as they took in every detail of Minato's new form.
"Well, this is unexpected" Vert said wide eyed.
"I was expecting some differences, but not to this extent" replied Blanc.
Minato tilted his head "is the difference between my CPU appearance and yours truly that great?"
Neptune nodded her head "yep, for starters you show less skin and you're actually glowing, like a human night light"
Noire asks with a neutral expression "haven't you seen for yourself what you look like in that form yet"
Minato shakes his head "no, I was very busy after I got it and didn't have time to check later that evening"
Satomi raised her hand "M-Milord…" Minato tilted his head to face Satomi "c-can I touch it?"
Her statement caught the attention of everyone listening, they look at Satomi with blushes as Minato keeps a blank expression.
"H-huh!?" Noire looks at Satomi wide eyed.
"Oh my, she's quite bold" Vert comment.
Blanc kept silent as she observed Satomi.
Plutia had her hands in a position so she could cover Peashy's eyes in a moment.
Neptune looks at Satomi with a slight blush "whoa, moving pretty fast there aren't ya. Though I guess everyone goes at different speeds"
Satomi looks at them before she realises what she just said "N-no, no! I meant his wings, his wings!" her face turned pure red as steam began rising from her head and blood began to fall from her nose.
Minato tilted his head "why?"
Satomi began flailing her arms around "b-because they looked cool!" she hung her head low to hide her face.
"Very well" Minato said, everyone looks at Minato "if she merely wishes to know what energy base wings are like, then why stopped her?"
Satomi blush remain, but she moved to Minato's side with anticipation. She places her hand over one wing, takes a deep breath, and then places her hand on the wing… before it went straight through it. "Huh…?" was Satomi's response as moved her hand through the energy multiple times while she wore a blank expression "nothing… nothing. Not hot, cold, liquid, solid, I don't feel anything"
"The wings have two main functions. To provide as a shield-" the wings shifted to cover Minato "-and to combat enemies who attack from behind" the wings unfolded and releases a weak wave of energy from behind Minato "when they are not in use they are merely cosmetic"
Satomi pouted and sat back down with her arms crossed.
Nothing much happened after that, the goddesses took the wallet to find out who the Magician shadow was.
After the meeting ended, Minato and Satomi head back to the village. Minato, in his human form, and Satomi were riding back to village twenty two on Satomi's bike. Satomi was driving as Minato held to the back, Satomi kept her pout on her face ever since the meeting.
When they were near the village, they got off the bike and Minato asked "Satomi, you've been pouting ever since we left the meeting, what's wrong?"
Satomi looked down as she kicked a rock on the ground before she took out her storage disk and sucked her bike into it "nothing's wrong, I'm just a little disappointed"
Minato tilted his head "with what?"
Satomi looked at him with a pout "your CPU wings…" Satomi was silent for a moment before she began to panic "w-what I mean is, I thought they would be something more than that. You, know wings you can wrap yourself and… someone else in a soft, warm winged cocoon that invites you to drift into a comfortable, protective sleep" she began flailing her arms now "not that your wings aren't cool or anything they-"
"Satomi, enough" Minato said. His hair cover his eyes.
Satomi froze altogether, worried she just insulted the future saviour of Gamindustri (and her first full on crush)
Minato's hair moved to reveal his eyes, his sleepy eyes "just you saying that is making me want to take a nap in a winged cocoon blanket" he sighed as he looked up to the sky "that would be nice…" he lowered his head "… I wonder if I can change my CPU form so I could get wings like those"
Satomi let out the breath she was holding in "hope so, if you do can I try it out with you?"
Minato absently answered "sure, but no longer then a 30 minute nap"
Suddenly, Minato and Satomi heard the sound of gun shots come from the village.
Glancing at each other, both Minato and Satomi ran for the village.
When they neared the main plaza a woman and her children approach Minato and Satomi in a panic "Lady Satomi! Lord Saviour! There are two men fighting in the main plaza!"
Minato nodded "what weapons are they using?"
The woman paused to think "both are using swords, but one of them has a gun"
Satomi quickly nodded "thank you, ma'am. We'll take it from here"
Both Minato and Satomi ran to the plaza.
Village 22, Plaza.
The sound of swords clashing against each other rang throughout the plaza, with the civilians hiding in the buildings keep their heads down. The village guards tried to intervene in the fight, sadly it appeared both fighters were so engrossed in the fight that they never even noticed the guards. Some who tried to get in close to the fighters to break them up were badly hurt by a sword strike that missed its target or was deflected.
Right now all the guards could do was keep the civilians safe until back up arrived.
The two fighters moved away from each, one charged at the other.
The fighter being charged took out their gun and fired a few shots, the charging fighter dodged each one as they readied to strike. The one being charged raised their own sword to match the charging fighter.
However, they blades clashed no more. In an instant, a figure appeared between the fighters.
The figure raised their hands and blocked both blades with their pinkie figures, the figure grabbed both blades, the figure moved the blades suddenly down causing both fighters to stumble. The figure bent low and perform a leg swipe causing both fighters to land on the ground.
The figure stood up straight "you've caused unrest among my people, the both of you" the people began to realise the figure that took down the fighters was Minato, the Saviour of the Enlightened "so I'll give you both a chance to explain yourselves before you face judgement"
When he saw the fighting, Minato wasted no time. He used Trafuri to teleport in between as they were about to clash. Minato had equipped a persona the nullified slash damage, from there it was only a matter of using the moment of confusion to knock them both down. As Minato looks down at the two, he notices something on the charging fighter's left arm. It was wrapped, just below the elbow, in a unique bandage.
The same one Minato created for Virgil…
Both fighters' heads turn to look at Minato,
"Minato-!?"
"Lord Arisato-"
Both fighters look at one another, Minato stepped back to get a better look at the two.
After a moment he recognised the charging fighter was Virgil and the one with the gun was James Solus.
Minato sighed as both Virgil and James got to their feet "alright, I want to know why you two of you were fighting…"
Planeptune Basilicom
Neptune was setting up a game console, getting ready to play it, as Nepgear came into the room carrying a tray of snacks.
"Hey, Nep Jr'! Ready for a re-match?" Neptune asks as she holds up a second controller with the first in front of her.
Nepgear nodded eagerly as she laid down the tray, picked up a controller and played a two-player game with her sister.
The two sisters played the game for nearly an hour before IF and Compa came in.
"there you are, I thought we agreed to have another meeting after 30 minute break 30 minutes ago" IF said as she drew the attention of the sisters away from the game.
"Sorry, IF. We were only going to play a single match, but-" as Nepgear turned back to the T.V screen, she noticed in the corner of her eye Neptune push a few command buttons. Out of instinct she did the same. Both characters on the screen attacked each other at the same time, ending the match in a draw.
Both sisters sighed, the screen shows the results of the fight. Both Neptune and Nepgear were even.
Compa spoke up "alright now, you can finish your match after the meeting alright"
Both goddesses nod as they got up.
The group re-enters the meeting room from before and walk overs towards Histoire as the other goddesses and oracles were on the screen.
Histoire turns to IF and Compa, she nods "good, now that everyone is here we can start"
Peashy looks at everyone from the hyper-dimension "are we still waiting for Mister Mito?"
Mini-Histoire shook her head "no, Peashy. This meeting is about Minato…"
Everyone fell silent as Mini-Histoire continued "considering Minato's arrival and the arrival of the Shadows are so close to each other and discovering the wallet while no one else did. There remains a possibility that Minato has something to gain from all of this, perhaps even working with the Shadows themselves" Mini-Histoire looked over everyone from the Hyper-dimension "you all have spent some time with Minato, what are your opinions on him?"
The room fell silent as everyone thought about their opinions on Minato.
Noire was the first to speak "from what I could tell; he seemed very approachable but also seemed a little bit reserved… also protective as well. When a few nobles in Lastation called the Enlightened an insane cult he shot them a dark look when he spoke to them" the other goddesses nodded their heads, understanding that they would do the same thing if someone called their people insane cultists.
Blanc went next "from what I could gather, he seems considerate. But…" she frowned as she continued "I can't shake the feeling he's hiding something"
Vert nodded with a neutral expression as she looks at Blanc "you noticed it as well, I see. Though I am grateful he helped 5pb, the look in his eyes and the aura around him are a tattletale sign of someone who's keeping a big secret" Vert's face suddenly lights up with a smile "and his appearance matches that of nearly all characters who have a mysterious past in a number of game releases going back the last 20 – 25 years"
Everyone sweat-dropped at the end of Verts comment, Blanc gave her fellow goddess a deadpanned expression "I'm not sure how that's relevant to the current situation"
Neptune spoke next "you know, there is something I noticed about Minty" Neptune closed her eyes and crossed her arms before she continued "I wasn't sure at first, but now I am…" she opens her eyes and snap her fingers "…he's a main character!"
Everyone gave Neptune a confused look as the meeting continued…
Back with Minato
"So, let me get this straight" Minato said as he stood in the middle of a ruin restaurant, he looked at both James and Virgil, he points at Virgil "you went into that restaurant to find out where the inn was and you found a big guy harassing one of the staff. As the big guy unsheathe his sword, you went in to disarm him as someone screamed. You knocked him out, but he hit a large crate of tomatoes they were bringing into the kitchen as he fell. Which in turn made it look like he was covered in blood" Minato then points at James "it was at that point that you came in and, considering the scene at the time, thought Virgil was the one harassing the staff and had seriously injured a bystander" Minato put his arms at his side "and from there you two began fighting each other, that started to grow more and more intense as time went on" Minato crossed his arms "am I missing anything?"
Both James and Virgil shook their heads.
Minato sighed "well, the good thing is no one got hurt" Satomi walked over to the boys after talking to the manager of the restaurant, Minato turned to her as she approached "what'd they say?"
"The manager said they won't press charges for the damage and the disruption" Satomi looked a little uncomfortable before she continued "but, they still want both of them to answer for what they did"
Virgil spoke up "but it was all a misunderstanding! Besides, what about the guy who was harassing the waitress earlier?"
Satomi frowned slightly "turns out; the guy was the waitress's ex-boyfriend, they broke up on bad terms. He came looking for money off his ex to get his sword repaired"
Virgil looked a bit ashamed of himself "so he wasn't planning to attack the waitress?"
Satomi shook her head "don't know, the report she gave to the officers stated that he was prone to outbursts of rage that he directed at either monsters or inanimate objects. He could have gone either way" Satomi offered Virgil a smile "thanks to you though, it didn't come anywhere near that coin flip"
Virgil smiled a little as James spoke next "so are we free to go, I still need to meet with someone about an apartment I'll be staying in while I'm here"
Satomi winced "the owner isn't pressing any charges, but other people are considering to. They'll forget about it if you two do 500 hours of community service" Satomi sighed "it was the best I could do to keep either of you from spending time in jail or in a courtroom"
Both James and Virgil went wide eyed, Satomi noticed a waitress approaching James and Virgil as she grabbed Minato's arm "you two order anything you want, I need to take to Minato for a minute"
She dragged Minato to a secluded part of the restaurant before she spoke "what are we going to do? Our people are complaining that we allowed two people to have a death battle in the middle of a public area and are demanding we reprimand them!" she then began rubbing her forehead "on top of all that, James is a member of one of Lastation's noble families. If we arrest him or give him certain community service jobs we'll have an international scandal over it, even if James doesn't tell anyone" she then began to pace back and forth "but we can't show favouritism in this case or it'll look suspicious. So, we need to give them the same jobs together. But, that in turn may cause them to get in another fight"
Minato rubbed his chin for a moment before he spoke "how about this…"
30 minutes later…
Minato and Satomi walked back over to James and Vigil, Satomi was talking on her phone whil they walked over to the two boys. She put her phone away and looked at the two boys at the table with a smile "alright, I just got off the phone with the local judge and she's agreed to our idea for your community service"
"Which is?" Vigil asked.
"You'll both be working with me on a number of Guild Quests and helping me with anything else" Minato explained to the two.
James smiled a little "well, it'll be better than picking up trash"
Vigil smiled as he got up "so, how many quests do we have to do?"
Satomi answered "you'll need to perform a minimal of 100 Mid-Level Quests and pay 100,000 Credits, each"
James looked at Satomi with a thoughtful expression "huh, I expected something more severe than that"
Satomi waved her hand "it was all a misunderstanding in the end after all"
As Minato, Satomi, James and Vigil left the restaurant Minato's mobile vibrated. He took it out and read the text message.
Minato.
We found out who owned the ID you found, come over as soon as possible.
-Histoire.
Minato frowned slightly as he looked at message, he turned to Satomi to answer her unanswered question "it appears they found out who Mr Magician is" Mr Magician being the code they decided to use to talk about the Shadow from yesterday without alarming anyone.
Satomi's eyes widened, before she nodded with a serious expression. She turned to address James and Virgil "alright, change of plans boys. We're off to Planeptune"
A few minutes later…
Minato, Satomi, James and Virgil were walking to Planeptune, because Satomi's bike only had room for two and the buses wouldn't be around for another 4 hours. Minato had one of his bludgeon weapons, Megaton Rod, Satomi with her rifle, Virgil with his swords and James with his Sword and gun.
Virgil turned to look at Minato "so, you're actually the saviour of the Enlightened. I'll admit it through me for a loop when I found that out"
Minato shrugged his shoulders "sorry I didn't tell you earlier, but it didn't seem the right time to tell you. Anyway, would you have believed me if I told you that?"
Virgil thought about it for a moment "probable not, then I again I don't watch much TV and I don't have anything to access the internet with. I mostly get my information from adventurers through word of mouth"
James raised an eyebrow at Virgil "pardon me, but is that because you're someone who doesn't trust technology?"
Virgil shook his head "it's not that, it's just there's no good signal in the caves" Virgil grimaced after he spoke.
Satomi looked at Virgil with a raised eyebrow "caves?"
Virgil walked a little faster until he was ahead of everyone else "it's not important, lets pick up the pace people. Can't keep the goddesses waiting"
Satomi reached out her hand "Virgil, hold up" she jogged up to Virgil.
Suddenly, loud footsteps echo throughout the area as four monsters made out of crystal approached the group.
Minato and James rushed forward to join the others, Minato looked at the monsters "what are this things?"
"Crystal Golems, but why are they here? They normally stay at 'Wanderer's Cave' in Lastation" James replied as he took out his sword and gun.
Satomi levelled her weapon at the monsters before glancing at Minato "you don't think the shadow's arrival are behind this, do you?"
Minato readied his weapon "maybe, something to think about later"
Virgil unsheathe one of his swords and took a battle stance "here they come!"
Virgil ran up to one of the golems and began slash at one of the golems, switching blades every couple of slashes, Minato swung the Megaton Rod behind one of the golems knee causing it to buckle and drop to one knee. Minato then jumped up and brought the rod down on the monsters head, confusing it.
Satomi and James kept firing their guns at the golems, ensuring to hot weak points and making sure they don't gang up on Minato or Virgil.
Minato and Virgil shared a glance before nodded.
Minato puts his bludgeon weapon away and took out one of his short swords.
Minato and Virgil stand beside each other.
Virgil smirked as he gripped the handle of one of his swords "ready boss?"
Minato nodded "let's go"
The two ran at the group of enemies and began using hit and run tactics with their slashes, until finally they both stood on opposite side of the group of enemies.
Minato's short sword began to become covered in a golden energy while Virgil's Kanata became covered in a dark energy.
"Yin Yang Destruction" they both said as beams of energy rocket out of their weapons and hit the group of enemies, destroying them.
Minato and Virgil stepped away from the enemies and offered each other a nod of respect.
Satomi looked their party's main melee fighters with starry eyes "wow! A combination move, that's the first I ever saw one in person"
James nodded "have you two fought together before?"
Virgil shakes his head "nope, honestly that was the first time I ever did a combination attack"
Minato shrugged "I just improvised and went with the flow"
Virgil smirked as he looked at Minato "if that's the case, maybe you can do a combination attack with anyone"
Satomi's eyes light up "oh! Next time we encounter more monsters, can I do a combination attack with you Minato?"
Minato nods "sure, why not"
Satomi smiles as she walks a head "alright monsters, whenever you're ready!"
Later… At Planeptune's Basilicom…
As James, Minato, Satomi and Virgil stood in the elevator, James spoke up "it's surprising we didn't encounter anymore monsters on the way here"
Virgil nods "you normally have at least two encounters when travelling in a normal area, even when it's an ultra-high level party"
Minato sighed "thankfully too, we would've have missed the meeting if anymore showed up" Minato looked to see a slightly pouty Satomi "so; on the way back, does anyone want to hunt monsters and try new combination moves?"
Satomi perked up "I'm in!"
When they entered the meeting room, Minato saw everyone was attaining the meeting as well as several people he hadn't meet before.
He also noticed they were all girls.
At that moment, Minato was very glad he brought Virgil and James along. Being the only guy in a room full of girls, most he didn't know, was bound to be at least a little awkward.
After a long series of introductions, everyone were seated as Historie spoke up and the meeting began.
She recapped on everything we knew about the Shadows, Minato mostly paid attention to what she was saying but it wasn't until she got to the part about the wallet that he paid very close attention.
"The wallet left behind from the battle with the Magician belongs to a man named Yuuma Takahashi" Histoire paused as she brought up a picture of the man.
He appeared to be in his late teens to mid-twenties, had long black hair that parted at the forehead, brown eyes with bags under his eyes and wore a pair of glasses.
As soon as it was up she continued "from what we could gather about him, he seems like a normal citizen. Except, we have conformation he's part of the group known as the Ascenders. Although he hasn't been seen in a few days and he's not the only one, a large number of people have gone missing as well"
IF spoke up looking over a few files "from what we can gather, all the missing people have one thing in common. Their all members of the Ascenders" she looked around the room before she continued "Add in the fact the Ascenders all went missing after the reaper attacks, their main base was at the Gamindustri Graveyard where the reapers originated from and I think it's pretty obvious they were somehow involved in unleashing those things"
Minato frowned at that piece of information. This Ascenders endangering the world by using the Shadows are too close to what Mitsuru's grandfather tried to do was too close for his liking.
Minato remained quiet for most of the meeting, speaking up when asked about the Shadows and ideas for dealing with them.
Near the end of the meeting, Minato altered the wavelengths of everyone else in the room the same way he did for IF and Compa.
Near the end of the meeting everyone began chatting with each other, either about the current situation or something else altogether.
Looking around the room, James was talking to Noire and Blanc, Satomi was with Virgil as they talked to IF, Compa and a red hair girl Minato hadn't meet before.
When Minato heard someone approach him, he turned to see 5pb. 5pb gave a nervous smile "uh, hello again. It's been a while, how have you been?"
Minato nodded "alright, though the paperwork seems never ending at times"
5pb nods with a look of understanding in her eyes before the two were approached by a girl wearing a witch's hat "Greetings Saviour of the Enlightened, I would like to thank you for helping my cousin the other day"
Minato nodded "no problem, though if I may ask. Who's your cousin, Miss…?"
The girl bowed her head slight "MAGES, Master of magic and technology. Once again thank you for saving my cousin from her would be kidnappers"
Minato's eyes widen, his exact thoughts being 'kidnappers?!' Before he could ask however 5pb spoke up.
5pb spoke up "Sorry, she's referring to the incident with the reporters. MAGES is my cousin and she has a very… enthusiastic way of speaking"
MAGES looked at her cousin with a worried look "the fact you still can't see the difference between a normal reporter and the pawns of the organisation are still a problem we must address I see, very well. We shall go over how to spot a pawn of the organisation when we check you equipment later"
Though Minato wasn't sure what was going, but the smile 5pb had when she nodded to her cousin's idea lessen his worries a bit.
He hoped this was just a case of 8th grade syndrome, wouldn't be the first he saw today, and not a revelation of a shadowy organisation manipulating the entirety of Gamindustri before the Shadows arrived.
"Hi, long time no see" Minato turned around, and to his surprise, saw NISA approaching.
"Yo, good to see you again NISA" Minato said as the group of bluettes began talking amongst themselves.
Over all the meeting could have been considered a productive one.
Later on the way back to Village 22
Minato, Satomi, Virgil and James were walking back to the village as they talked amongst themselves.
Satomi walked along side Virgil and asked "so… what was that about caves?"
Virgil winced "there's no real reason to explain it, so can you please drop it" he was silent for a moment before continuing "you're not going to drop are you?"
"Nope" Satomi said, popping the P.
Virgil sighed "fine, I'm homeless and I was living in caves for the past year"
Everyone stopped as he said that.
Satomi herself looked shocked and ashamed of herself "I'm sorry, I didn't… I was just asking about which caves stopped blocked a signal. I didn't…" Satomi grew silent as the group stood there.
Virgil wince at the answer he gave.
Suddenly, James took out his gun "We got enemies!"
Everyone turned to see more of the Golems from earlier.
Minato used a spear and Virgil his swords while James and Satomi provided cover fire with their guns.
When there was only one golem left, it froze on the spot and started to shake violently.
As everyone took a step back Minato asked James "is this normal?"
James answered "No… No it is not"
Suddenly, a wave of darkness engulfed the golem. When the golem was seen again, it bore the mask of a Shadow. It released a primal roar before the group were attacked by stone spikes of erupting from the ground.
In the momentary confusion of the surprise stone spikes, the golem rushed the group and grabbed Satomi.
It held her up high and began squeezing the life out of her, it never got too far as Virgil sliced the arm holding Satomi off. Virgil's own arm held a dark glow to it as he swung his sword.
As Satomi fell Minato caught her as James shot the golem in the face.
The boys glance at each other before Virgil and James rushed at the golem with Minato providing buffs.
Virgil rushed at the enemy unleashing a series of slashes while James constantly fired his gun. As Virgil jumped away from the enemy, he held a sword back and charged it with dark energy.
James, meanwhile, threw his sword into the air. The blade stayed suspended in the air with the tip pointed downwards towards the enemy as he prepared a charged shot.
James fired the charged shot at the sword, the sword released a pillar of white light at the enemy, at the same time Virgil released a wave of dark energy.
"Cross Equilibrium!" they said as the attack consumed the enemy.
As the golem fell backwards, it turned into a black mist. The mist dissipated, leaving nothing behind.
Everyone turned to Satomi as she got her breath back, when she did she looked at the others "I really need to work on my dodging…"
Virgil smirked "you think?" his smirk quickly fell as he ask Satomi with a worried tone "you alright though, nothing broken?"
Satomi shook her head "my guard shield held up thankful, but what was up with that Golem?"
James looked around the area where the mist, the golem turned into, was "I don't have any concrete evidence, but perhaps that golem in particular was under the influence something else"
"Any particular ideas…" Virgil turned to Minato and stopped when he saw the grim expression on Minato's face "…Minato?"
Everyone turned to look at Minato and he met their gaze "it seems some Shadows have started infecting some of the monsters"
James rubbed the bridge of his noise "this is going to be one of those 'this is going to get worse before it gets better' situations isn't it?"
A couple minutes later…
After reporting what just happened to Histoire, Minato and his group continued back to village 22. Blanc, Noire and Vert were already returning to their home nations and any sudden return to a meeting that was just let out could cause people to worry.
The mood had gone down because of this, so when Minato saw a monster in their path he nudged Satomi "ready for that combination attack?"
Satomi grinned as the monster let out a resigned sigh.
Minato charged at the monster and slashed it a number of times before Satomi began shooting it, as Satomi was reloading Minato returned to slashing the monster.
As Minato was about to move out of the way; one of Satomi's shots grazed his shoulder, after realising what she known Satomi began to bow her head trying to apologise.
Minato stabbed the ground before running over to comfort Satomi, while the spot Minato stabbed with his weapon exploded in flames.
After proving to Satomi he was fine they continued back to village 22.
In an Unknown Location…
A man glared at a woman in front of him "what do you want now, Priestess?" he asks with an annoyed tone.
Priestess shakes her head "tsk, tsk, tsk. Be careful of your tone, you don't want to get a cold shoulder little Yuuma-"
Yuuma? snarled at Priestess "Yuuma Takahashi is dead! And in his place I was made, I am Magi! If you want to be called by your new name then you can extend the same curtesy, seems fair. Wouldn't you agree, Mana?"
Priestess glared at Magi "Regardless, let's get back on topic. Considering I can't make my debut until the next full moon, I'll need you to run a few missions for me"
"THAT WON'T BE NEEDED, PRIESTESS"
Both Magi and Priestess bowed their heads as the heard that voice, Priestess spoke to the mysterious voice with reverence in her tone "my Lord, we are honoured to be within your presence once more. But, what do you mean by that won't be needed"
"IT SEEMS I MADE A MISCALCULATION, YOUR POWER AND THE POWER OF YOUR NEW BROTHERS AND SISTERS IS GREATER THAN EVEN I FIRST THOUGHT"
"NO LONGER DO YOU NEED TO WAIT FOR YOUR MOTHER'S EYE TO FULLY SEE YOU TO ALLOW HER TO EMPOWER YOU, REGARDLESS OF HOUR OR DAY SHE SHALL BLESS YOU MY CHILDREN. HOWEVER, YOU ALL MUST STILL FOLLOW THE UNIVERSAL ORDER OF AWAKENING"
Priestess smiled as she glanced at Magi 'perhaps this time, with me around, you can finally be productive. Magi'
Omake: He's not a Robot.
Minato summoned Metatron to get rid of some high level Shadows that were coming a bit too close to the city he was in.
"You can summon a giant robot!" Minato flinched at Nepgears loud shout.
Minato gave her a blank look "Metatron is not a robot"
Nepgear blinked "but he's made out of metal"
Minato shook his head "it's his armour…"
As he was saying that Metatron used its Fire of Sinai, which manifested as a laser beam from its eyes, on a Shadow that was almost as tall as Metatron.
Minato, after seeing that, looked at a starry eyed Nepgear "He's still not a robot"
Omake: for the ladies.
Minato stared at all the major shadows before he summoned one of his strongest Personas.
And when it appeared…
"GIANT NAKED MAN!"
…his teammates screamed in unison.
He looked over to see everyone had varying degree of blushes on their faces. The Goddesses were quick to act and cover their little sisters eyes as everyone else were either looking away or cover their eyes, however they all took the time to peak.
Neptune spoke with a slight stutter "I knew we'd eventually get some fan service for the girls at least once during this story but NOT to the extent!"
Minato started to think maybe he should have chosen a different Persona then Helel…
…oh well, too late now.
Then a Morning star hit the Shadows.
Hello everyone, sorry for the long wait.
List of excuses as to why it took so long
Life
Writers Block
Fell out of the HDN Fandom and haven't completely come back in.
Other stories.
Work
Etc
Anyway, I'm sorry for the wait and have every intention to finish this story.
Till then, farewell.
Minato entered enter angel's office.
There were large amounts of notes everywhere and several computer screens showing various documents.
Angel himself was sitting in his chair, as he held a sniper rifle in front of a portal.
"Come on, come on. There…" he pulled the trigger and a bullet flew through the portal, Minato could hear a faint high pitch scream as the portal closed "…Finally! Took forever to get those Holy Anti-Dragon Bullets made" Angel looked over at Minato.
Minato twisted Angel's ear "that was for taking so long"
