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K-ONSONA!
2011 © Kuroi-Oneesan
Perspective 05
Nemesis
Yui waited patiently on the second floor, she's not moving at all. She knew that this floor contain no shadow, but she's worried by Mugi and Nanako downstairs, as well as Mio and Ritsu upstairs. She is humming some random song like Fuwa-Fuwa Time and Watashi Koi wa Hotchkiss while sitting in the hallway floor.
Somehow, the word that Hypnos boy said to her is fazed her, she's alike his client. But who is the person which alike Yui? And what's this 'client' about?
"There you are Yui!" high-pitched voice of the brunette echoed in the hallway. She barged to where Yui's sitting with Mio and Shinjiro.
"Oh, Mio-chan, Ricchan, welcome back~" she grinned widely. "Wha~! Shinjiro-san is here to?"
"There's nothing to welcoming back for, Yui!" Mio groaned.
"It was a long story," he sighed. "Where are the others? Yamagishi, Yamanaka-san, can you hear me?"
"Yes, Yukari-san is on her way to the second floor." Fuuka's gentle voice can be heard. "Sawako-san guided them,"
"Alright," Shinjiro nodded, he diverted his eyes to Yui. "Hey, are you happened to know where the victim is?"
"Someone said to me that she's in this floor," Yui answered matter-of-factly.
"'Someone'…?" Ritsu repeated. "I-Is there anyone here beside us?"
"I-I-I-I hope no ghost!" Mio freaked out. "U, umm Yamagishi-san, could you please check out this floor, perhaps?"
"I'll try," Fuuka concentrated. "Gasp, I can sense…t-there is a powerful force in the fourth room of the second hallway…"
"Gotcha! That must be her shadow!" Ritsu exclaimed.
"Let's wait for Takeba first, then." Shinjiro blinked at every direction restlessly. "Damn, where's that Dojima brat?"
/
"Can you still walk, Nanako-chan?" Yukari hopped stairs as she and Mugi supporting Nanako in her shoulder. "If you would, I can take you outside—"
"No, don't mind me." Nanako insisted. "I'm okay, I'm already fine,"
"You're such a persistent patient, huh?" Yukari sighed discontentedly. "Well, you better watch out for yourself then…Hey, Sawako! Where're the others?"
"They're waiting on second floor. They'll keep you brief,"
"Alright," Yukari nodded.
"Nanako-chan, are you sure you're okay…?" there's a wary feeling inside her tone. "It seems you're troubled."
"Y-You can tell senpai…?" the bespectacled girl blinked. "You sure are psychic…"
"Whatever it is, please, don't overdo it." The blonde gave her a weak smile. "We'll be worried, and of course, your problem will not be finished,"
Nanako looked down at her feet, as she lowered her sound, "No senpai. This is my final gamble."
/
As the rest of the party gathered at the second floor, Shinjiro already came up with plan. They know that Azusa is on her homeroom class with her shadow—that's what they can conclude from afar. So the detective thought that they will barge in the room as they're ready to do so.
"READY, GO!" Shinjiro yelled as Ritsu snapped the door open.
Yes, there were two people inside the room.
One of them is the twin-pigtailed raven-haired girl that everyone searching for and her counterpart with untied hair and manic smile— clutching Azusa's neck with bark of laughter and enjoyment.
"Hitokoto-nushi Cleave!" Yui stashed her evoker at the sight of her threatened kouhai. The shadows backed down by Persona's attack and Azusa was released from shadow's grip.
"Y, Yui-senpai...?" she coughed a bit.
"Awww, that was hurt, senpai~" the shadow smiled playfully. "You guys came when I'm about to grant her wish…"
"Wish—wait a second! You don't mean it, right, Nakano!" Ritsu yelled at her unharmed kouhai.
"Y-You wanna die, Azusa?" Mio somehow felt like she saw her shadow again—but in more peculiar way than she is. "No, you can't!"
"It was her wish," the shadow Azusa said solemnly. "She's sick of you guys. She wants to be known, acknowledged by you guys, but this is what she got—jealousy."
"Jealous…? You're jealous to Nanako-chan, Azusa-chan?" this turn Mugi began to speak.
"Jealous of me...?" Nanako dumbfounded. "Why? I was…I was just…"
"Yes…" Azusa bitted her lip. "I am…jealous."
"Oooh~ how much I adore to be known by my senpai~" shadow Azusa's tone became more dreamy, and then it displayed a maniac grin. "I only want them know me~ I want them look at me! Everyone, please look as I die! Hahahahaha!"
"Please! That's not true, right!" Yui begged. "Azunyan! I—I don't want to hurt you—it's just…it's so complicated that I don't understand!"
Azusa rolled herself like a snail as she trembled, "Liar…You liar…"
"All she needs is me! She only wanted me as her replacement! You heard her, oh Yui-senpai!" the shadow cried. "She doesn't want to live again! She just wanted to disappear! She wanted you guys to be happy without her! You're just cruel, senpai!"
"THAT'S NOT TRUE, WE NEED AZUNYAN!" Yui returned, yelled. "WITHOUT AZUNYAN, THERE'LL BE NO HOUKAGO TEA TIME!"
"Hmph, what a cretin upperclassmen," the shadow groaned. "Let me show you which one is stronger, YUI-SENPAI!"
A big bang of light ripped the whole area, as the party blocking the light—the brunette realized that she was alone in the room of light, without her friends—just like as the time stopped. On the opposite—there was floating Azusa with longer hair that also floated freely, bloody eyes, and her blazer tucked open without her usual tie.
"I am shadow, the true self…" the shadow gazed at Yui intently. "Let's see who the winner…is,"
"Power Charge!" Yui released her Persona and she has been charged up.
"Narukami!" The shadow is casted an electricity skill.
"Oof!" Yui knocked down—because it was one of her Persona weaknesses—and suffered major damage—granting the shadow a next move. The shadow then took a step and scratched Yui a few times. Yui took a stand and ingested some medicine to cover her condition as the shadow ready for the next attack.
"Narukami!" frantically, Yui dodged the thunder. She quickly ran toward the shadow and prepared her evoker to attack.
"BLIGHT!" few of blades shattering the air, landed a blow to the shadow. The shadow groaned a bit, but it's not a major damage that Yui dealt—she pulled back and guarded at her position.
"Narukami!" Yui managed to guard to prevent heavy damage. She tried to attack the shadow again.
"Garudyne!" she shouted as a mass of gust gathered to the shadow's way and made it fell down. She managed to run near it and slashed it with her broad sword.
"Urgh—senpai!" it retorted. "Why are you hesitating! It's my wish!"
"No, I won't allow that to happen, Azu-nyan!" Yui stated her own opinion. "It's because I want Azu-nyan to live!"
"Heck, you're liar!" it returned again. "You're just a liar that ripped my emotion apart!"
SLAP!
Yui's hand slapped Azusa's shadow. "Please, believe in us…believe in me once again, Azu-nyan…" she sobbed. "I-I-I…You're our part, you're my underclassmen, and you're a precious thing…"
The shadow silenced, she smiled.
"Thank you, senpai…you reminded me about you," the shadow sighed, it floated higher. "Then, let us die, together."
/
Meanwhile, in the present classroom
Mass of shadow gathered as the light faded. The remained people tried to get rid of shadows as fast and as much as possible. But, a nightmare suddenly swells between them. As Nanako about to finish one shadow, she collapsed beside Mugi, made the blonde shocked, Shinjiro and the latter eyes widened.
"Nanako-chan? Nanako-chan…?" the blonde attempted to wake Nanako up, her body is cold, she coughed blood and her breath is raged. Mugi paused at the sight, everyone stayed in their place, freezed.
"NO, EVERYONE STAY BACK!" Sawako suddenly yelled.
A terrifying dark aura emerged in between Nanako's cold bodies and her Persona awakens on its own. Somehow the Persona managed to release a skill without its master will. It was her Persona—Nemesis's key skill, Hamaon, and it directly hit Mugi which is nearby—caused a next victim fell between their very eyes.
"MUGI, NOOOOO!" Mio screamed, she clenched her teeth tight as she want to rescue the blonde, but Ritsu's hand stopped her.
"Tch, dammit. I'm late!" Shinjiro sighed. "Don't come near her! It's dangerous!"
Before their eyes, Nanako's Persona changed into a figure-like-Nanako with yellow eyes as Nanako opened her eyes.
"Ugh," she coughed. "So you're here again eh…my shadow…"
"Shadow? But you already have your Persona, Dojima!" Ritsu dumbfounded.
"…I'll explain it later," Shinjiro whispered soundly. "Just shut up,"
"Hah, you're trying so hard to suppress me, you damn fool." The shadow scowled. "Even though you have his power, doesn't that mean his was yours Persona! Why don't you look at me? Am I ugly or something!"
"No, I must bear Nemesis with me because I don't want him to die!" Nanako cried. "I…I took those suppressants for nothing but to find him!"
"So it was him and him, huh? Could you think more about yourself? You're nearly died, damn ass!" it scolded Nanako more. "It was true he saved you, he sacrificed himself to let you live, so, is he wanted this!"
"NO, SHUT UP YOU DEFECTIVE!"
"Your option is fruitless, yet you bear it! How stupid you are! You just grieving and believed he would came! No, he's dead meat!"
"No, no, no, no, no, no, NOOOOOO!" Nanako clutched her head in pain, her shadow seems to growing large as she coughed and spilled more blood to the ground. "No, don't! Please, don't…take over…senpai…ugh…"
It revealed its true form as the owner collapsed.
A gigantic, rotten eight-handed figure alike of Izanami Ookami (from Persona 4 final boss, FYI) with Nanako's head came to realization in front of them, oversized the tiny class.
"Prepare for battle…you two" Shinjiro shot a look to Mio and Ritsu as he saw the reaction of the shadow. "Takeba, you stay back and treat Dojima brat, that cocky raven-haired girl and that blonde, and, you might call Yamagishi and that four-eyed teacher for assistance."
"Right away senpai!" Yukari managed to bring the mentioned three outside the battlefield—to the farthest room from the class—and fetch down some of her nursing equipment while calling for help.
"This is awful…Shinjiro-san," Ritsu gulped as she supported Mio to look forward. "This is just too awful,"
"I know," Shinjiro closed his eyes as he draws his evoker. "This pain is unbearable…I already know that…"
/
Garu, Cleave, Blight, Power Charge, Blight, Garu again…
Yui has been doing that combination all the time—but Azusa's shadow didn't even backed down—it was on its furious state and it kept bombarding Yui with electricity skills. But, a sudden though popped up inside her mind,
How about Instant-Death skill, like, Hama?
As she dodged more Narukami that spamming on her way, she ducked and jumped to the shadow's way. She then throwed her sword first to distract the shadow's attention as she draws her evoker,
"HAMAON!" she shouted freely as a brink of light released from Hitokoto-nushi's hands.
/
"AGIDYNE!"
As Ritsu sprayed fire over the rotten shadow, Shinjiro intercepted behind her while keep commanding.
"Nice one, brunette! Hey raven girl! Hit it again with Bufu! I'll keep up with my Deathbound!"
"Right…BUFUDYNE!"
CRASH, a block of ice startled the shadow vision. Shinjiro shot the evoker to his head and circled the shadow with Castor's scratch of Deathbound. The shadow only replied with groan, but it's not attacking whatsoever. The dark brown haired-man kept giving orders to the two high school girl as he himself supported with Castor. It was a good sync, but…
"WEAK, USELESS HUMANS." The shadow cried arrogantly. "YOUR ACTION WAS MERELY A VOID!"
"No way! So it was charged as you guys attacked it!"Fuuka cried from her interphone. "Everyone retreat! This shadow is impossible to defeat!"
"We have came this far! We have to at least REVENGED Mugi!" Ritsu said coolly as she balanced herself over the edge.
Somehow, the ground started to shake; the whole room crawled and stumbles upon as the shadow stated, "FURY OF YASOGAMI!"
"NOOOOOOO!" Fuuka screamed on top of her lungs.
Those EIGHT gigantic hands fallen down to the group, scratching, scrapped, and ripped every inch of ground beneath it.
"AAAAAAAAAHHH!" Ritsu winced in pain as rotten nails choked down her body.
"GUAAAAAAKH!" Shinjiro managed to dodge, but he's too late, it already pierced him.
"UAAAAAAAAAGH!" Mio felt her body is ripped into small pieces.
The shadow stared to ground as it eyed the three members of party collapsed to ground and looked like a dead flesh; blood is slowly oozing from their scrapped wounds.
"Ugh…S…Shit…" Shinjiro snickered, holding his wounded arm as he stayed in ground, cannot move. "W…Why that brat shadow's…this powerful…? Is that because…of suppressants…?"
"No, it was because of me,"A figure of slender young man with auburn hair came at Shinjiro's vision, looked down at him. "I am Nemesis; I am here to accomplish what my client wants to,"
"Shut up…you're no Nemesis…" Shinjiro choked his words. "You're…"
"I am here to accomplish Nakano Azusa's wish…but it seems the girl that bearing me inside her coming here to take revenge, so I helped her instead, is that clear?"
"You…" the black eyed older man paused. "…Bullshit,"
The figure disappeared as Shinjiro's eyes began to blur. However, a sight of something caught inside his eyes. A black, machine-like Persona which wields a one-handed sword that was too familiar for his sight that began to torture Izanami-Ookami-like-Nanako shadow which was in fury and calmed it down.
"Thana…tos?"
"ORACLE!" the green-haired shouted. A warm light poured down, their wounds healed in amazing rate. Mio and Ritsu is the first one who stood up as Shinjiro remained puzzled downwards.
"Whew…I thought we might die…" Mio sighed in relief as she felt her touch came back to senses.
"Thanks a bunch, Yamagishi-san!" Ritsu waved. "Shinjiro-san, could you stand up?"
"Y, yea, thanks."
In corridor, a figure with a brown hair leaved the room rather fast. She was in her Sakuragaoka High uniform and a shiny silver gun was on her hold as she freed.
/
Azusa's eyes shot open, she felt more alive, but she breathed heavily. When she got her senses to her surrounding, she knew that she was on floor, and she can saw her shadow stood unmoving beside Yui.
"Azu-nyan~" Yui quickly cuddled her kouhai as she wakes up. "You finally back!"
"Senpai? What's…?" she then realized that she was collapsed because her counterpart self. She released herself from her senpai grip as she holds her shadow's hands.
"Azu-nyan…"
"Sorry, I'm…" Azusa paused. "…Too coward to face reality that I'll be alone…someday, I kept saying that I'm alone for their happiness, but…"
She tightens her grip.
"I…that's not the way the things should be! I should be more open…I should be happy for everyone's sake too…!"
The shadow nodded firmly, it disappeared in a warm light, and witnesses her own Persona. Yui grinned widely and hugged her again—prevented her to fell apart.
"Azu-nyan, you stay here, I still need to go~"
"No senpai! I'll go to!"
"But~" Yui pouted. "You just recovered!"
"I will go, period."
"Use my evoker then," Yukari passed a silver gun to the twin-tailed raven girl.
"Umm, Yukari-san, how's Mugi-chan and Nana-chan doing?"
"As for the blonde, I already treated her but she remained unconscious. But for Nanako…" she sighed. "Just pray for her, alright? I'll be sure to call Doctor Junpei for help,"
"Go for it, girls!" Sawako winked at the two as she run to the battlefield, once again.
/
"MARAKUNDA!"
"Good one, Mio! Here I come, BRAVE BLADE!"
"Huff, huff, keep it up! Power Charge!"
"ZIODYNE,"
A thunder creaked up the air, it bolted out at the shadow, but the shadow blocked it—which made Azusa sad for no reason.
"Nice, Azu-nyan!" a cheerful tone added. "I won't lose, GARUDYNE!"
A single gust way of wind managed to get the shadow down, reverted it again back to the original.
"Yui, Azusa!" Mio surprised at the two entries.
"Damn, you're late, leader. We're about to finish it!" Ritsu grinned sheepishly. "WHOA, NAKANO-KID HAS A PERSONA—Aww, don't step on my foot!"
"Senpai, I'm still tired, don't make any joke like this—urgh," she wringed as she felt pain across her stomach.
"Now, now, Nakano, I'm sorry." Ritsu patted her, she only smiled in reaction.
"Good thing we finished it, but…" Mio looked down at the unmoving shadow.
"W…Why she didn't hear me…?" the shadow voice twisted. "She only thinks about him…him…and him…"
The classroom door cracked open once again, Nanako stepped aside the room with Yukari help—much to everyone surprise.
"…I only thought about him…that's right." Nanako began to speak. "My purpose of living…is to find him; I don't want to believe he's already dead…"
She took more steps forward and leans closer to her shadow.
"But…now I realized that…" Nanako paused. "There's many thing as precious as him…friendship…hardships…everyone…my life… Yes, they're…"
The shadow vanished with a warm smile, Nanako looked back at everyone who waited for her, she holding her mouth as she coughed hard and drifted off unconscious, Shinjiro quickly caught her. Everyone minus Azusa which was weak rushed to see her.
"…Shit, this is bad," the young man examined her. Everyone take a look at her. Her face is paler than usual, she's having hard time breathing and she still coughed blood up until now.
"It must be the suppressants effect! How long she has been consumed those!" Yukari scolded at her senpai.
Shinjiro bitted his lips. "Almost…one year,"
"Let's get the hospital, quick!"
/
Haruka Municipal Hospital, hallway
Tense atmosphere filled the air as they waited for Nanako—and some medication for the main party member. The rest that left waiting on the hallway was the two scanners—Sawako and Fuuka. Sawako has contacted the rest of Police Station member to come to the hospital ASAP.
"Everything's confusing, don't you agree?" Sawako voiced her opinion.
"Yeah, it has been years since I last met my senpai so I don't know what have happened." Fuuka responded. "I think things got to be more serious this time,"
"…Suppressants, Nanako-chan 'precious person', and force that blocked many ways of Remnant Time..." the bespectacled woman tilted her glasses. "It seems connected somehow but, we know nothing."
"I see what you mean, Yamanaka-san." Fuuka nodded. "That force…I felt a strong presence of that when we're fighting those shadows back then…"
She quickly cut her words. "Oh, Junpei-kun!"
They rose up from their seat as Junpei—yeah, that doctor—going out from the emergency room alone. His face's somewhat happy, but a sadness feeling can be felt within it.
"Good news, her wounds prolly healed…" Junpei sighed. "But, because of the suppressants effect, she's–…"
Suddenly, a rushed step echoed the hallway as two more people entered the conversation. The doctor and the green-haired girl already know them too well—one is elegant red haired woman and another one is a policeman with silver hair and left-handed holding style.
"Mitsuru-senpai, Akihiko-senpai!" both of them called their respective senpai's name—it's not on Sawako surprise that they known each other.
"Wait, Iori. Don't tell me that you're the doctor…?" Mitsuru sweat dropped, Akihiko tried hard not to laugh.
"Aww…c'mon, senpai! THIS IS SERIOUS!" he said in bothered tone. "—She's comatose!"
/
Haruka Municipal Hospital, Examiner room
Mugi and Azusa lied on separate bed, unconscious. Yukari is there as nurse to care for them. They sat on a chair and began to chat idly to pass waiting time.
"So, um…Shinjiro-san?" Mio pointed her hand. "You told us you will tell?"
"Oh, right." Shinjiro inhaled deeply as he must do as he promised. "About Nanako, huh?"
"Yeah~ tell us, Shinjiro-san!" Ritsu is hyped to hear the story.
"About Nana-chan?" Yui left clueless.
His eyes blinked few times, he changed his sitting position to more serious one. He frowned as he looked at his shoes, but he lifted up his face and eyed every girl that listened to him.
"It was…one year ago in a rural town named Inaba,"
To be continued.
Okay, done! My back aches -_-' Nemesis, don't curse me /slap
Sorry that the evil me ended the story before it became clear until next chapter arrives, whew, what an all-nighter I put. And there'll be no addition to this story for a reason that there's nothing to post. What do you think about this chapter? Is the battle stance good enough? Please state me your opinion on one of my favorite chapters! And yeah, this story is still far from ended, so, please stay tuned!