Akira and his mother make their way out of the train station, while Akira's mother has an internal debate if Nana had indeed cooked a meal for Akira's home coming. Which left a awkward silence looming in the air, leaving Akira to resort to his phone for entertainment, and by doing such he found a message from his friend and maybe boyfriend Ryuji. Dude, did you make it home alright?
Akira smiled at his phone and looked at his mother who at this point was at war with herself. Akira tapped onto his mother's shoulder pulling her away from her battle against herself. He flashed a worried look and his mother rubbed the back of her head. "Do you remember your way around here?" she asked.
"I think I can manage." Akira said with a pitiful chuckle.
Akira's mother stepped closer and ruffled Akira's hair with a smile wide smile painted on her face, "Make sure you don't get lost okay!" She exclaims as she departed with Akira.
Now alone, Akira was just about to call Ryuji when Morgana finally woke up from his nap in Akira's bag and with a yawn Morgana began to speak with Akira, "Are we home yet?" Akira gave Morgana and nod and with that Morgana jumps out of the bag to stretch his legs, "So this is where you grew up in?" He asked looked around the place that an unnatural fog rolling in.
"Yeah, you'll get use to the silent hill vibes after a while." Akira said half joking.
Morgana rolled his eyes at Akira, "You really did hang around those two too much didn't you?" referring to Ryuji and Futaba.
"Maybe, maybe not.." Akira was cut off by an oversized teddy bear ran past Akira and Morgana.
Both Morgana and Akira was taken back by the bear, and soon after a man with neatly combed back hair had been chasing the bear, for a moment Akira swear he saw that the man cracked a smile at him and mouthed the words Find me. Akira step back as the fog disappeared. Akira rubbed his eyes in disbelief, he looked down at Morgana as if to get some form of confirmation on what just happen, but at last nothing. Akira was quick to shake it off, which for the most part he was able to do so, heading back to his home.
His mother and nana had been setting the table up when he entered the house, he smiled at the scene of his nana smacking his mother's hand away from the sneaking a bit of food. "It's not time for that yet." His nana said turning around seeing Akira in the doorway, "Oh, it seems like Yu got a wig." She said bitterly before adjusting her thin round glasses before looking shocked at how Akira's smile had faded. "I'm surprised that you've forgotten about my humor." She added as she looked down at Morgana who had been by Akira's bag, "I guess you've also made a friend. I'm not going to be taking care of it for you…"
Akira blanked out as he didn't remember his nana sounding so much like Sojiro or was it that Sojiro sounded like his nana. Akira for a moment thought about which one was older, and with that Akira's train of thought was cut off with nana yelling at him for being such a stranger, his mother just stood back and watched not saying anything. Akira bowed his head in apologetic manner and sat himself down at the end of the table and as did his mother and despite having only three spots at the table they still sat up for four people, though they never did put food on the empty plate. Morgana jumped in the empty chair and his ear just barely showed at the edge of the table. Akira's mother chuckled softly where Nana who had sat the glasses on the table rolled her eyes.
"I guess a stray has to eat too." She departed herself from the table to get a small plate, not wanting to use the plate that had already been at the table. When she returned she had placed a thick slice of meat onto the plate setting it onto the floor. Morgana of course jumped from the chair to the floor, heading to the food.
"Thank you!" Morgana yelled excitedly.
Naturally his Nana only heard it as meowing, however Akira's mother eyes widen the talking cat but quickly tried to play it off. Akira's mother cleared her throat a little and looked at Akira. "So, Akira did you make any friends in the city?" She admitted to make the homecoming seem more welcoming than before.
Nana took her spot at the table listening half heartedly to Akira's stories about the city and at the end of one she remarked how it sounded like he was the main character of a harem. Akira gave a small chuckle as he felt like he was required to do so. His mother also forced a laugh at the joke. Morgana looked up at Akira confused by nana's dry humor. Akira shrugged at Morgana, as he also didn't understand his nana's humor very well. The rest of the meal was spent with meaningless, unrememberable conversations. Once the meal was done. Akira got up and washed the dishes.
Afterwards he made his way to his room. Unlike the one he had at Sojiro's it had been cluttered with many books on all kind of subjects, but Akira did not remember having all of these books. Then again the only thing he remembers about his past was the accent that had him sent to the city in the first place. Akira cleaned up the room a little bit but he didn't get too far as his eyes started to get heavy. He clear off his bed that was littered with American comic books and with ease drifted to sleep.
Akira sat alone in a dark void, at first it didn't feel like anything but quickly a feeling of intense loneliness set in. The darkness that had started to become cold, a young voice began to echo in the void, "Maybe, if I get good grade… hel'll come back to mommy."
It had been a child's voice, and through Akira didn't know who's voice it was he opened his mouth as if to say something to comfort the unknown child, but nothing would come out of his mouth. "Why isn't he coming mommy!" The child started to cry "I got As on my test, I did extra credit too!"
Suddenly Akira's mother's voice began to echo in the void as well, Akira's eyes closed tightly and they started to string and he pushed his hands into his face trying to keep the tears that was forming from escaping, and of course had failed. Tears had began to fall, and finally a quiver had escaped his throat, but a sense of warmth overcame him. He looked up into the dark void seeing that his persona Arsene had been near and was he hugging Akira?
That he was and Akira relaxed for a moment and the world around him started to brighten up showing soft pinks and yellow. Akira smiled at the color with a childlike wonder, quickly forgetting about the dark void he was once in.