"WELCOME BACK PERSONA USERS" Everyone's phones rang at once, causing the group to look at their phones and gasp in shock. Right as the phones lit up, the whole screen flashed red with the eye logo popping up.
"Makoto, can you get your sister to look into this Suou Tatsuya," Amamiya said, his voice just below a whisper.
"Can you stop setting the church on fire for five fucking minutes?" Sae Niijima spoke into a speaker connected to the cop car she was in.
The would-be arsonists looked at the car and ran off screaming. Niijima sighed and ran her fingers through her hair, frustrations building underneath her skin.
She was surprised when her phone rang in the middle of her shift that involved keeping watch over the church.
"Hey sis… we need your help with something." Makoto spoke through the phone.
"What, right now? I'm watching the church." Niijima sighed.
"Well, we need this done as soon as possible." Makoto smiled sheepishly. "We're already setting up camp in front of the church."
Niijima looked out the window and, since the church was not on fire, the air was thin enough to see her sister across the street with one of the boys she always hung out with. The two of them were wearing surgical masks. She waved to her sister, making Niijima flash her headlights in acknowledgement.
"What do you want me to do…" she sighed.
"I want you to look into a man named Suou Tatsuya." came the reply.
The group overlooked the papers given to them from Niijima. There wasn't a lot. Off course what were they thinking? That the guy coming in with Akechi would have a record? That would be ridiculous. The worst thing that happened to him was the grades. The guy had barely passing grades, until…
"Wait hold up." Ryuji jumped up.
"What?"
"His grades jumped up during his last couple years." Ryuji showed the papers. "Look at the teacher comments. They tested him for drugs for a long time, for cheating even longer, but it looks like he lost something and just threw himself into his books. Where the hell did your sister get this?"
Makoto shrugged at the question.
"The teachers noted that his grades improved, the people around noted that he hollowed himself out." Anne almost wept for Tatsuya. "We may doom him if we try to help him by returning his heart to him."
"Not if we can find him somewhere he can get help from beforehand. Maybe try to find the people who mean so much to him that it takes threat of Armageddon to stop them from talking or meeting." Yusuke spoke.
"...The lighter… I bet that the lighter is a big part of this. He cradles it like a treasure." Haru said, her tears falling down her face.
Everyone's navigation app beeped at the info, like it was confused.
"INFORMATION NOT NEEDED." The app almost screamed.
"We need his name, his palace, and what he sees it as." Haru grumbled.
"Suou Tatsuya." Amamiya spoke as he placed his phone on the table with the screen facing up.
"LOCATION UPDATED." The app screeched.
"Now what would his castle be?" Makoto asked, running her hand through her hair.
"A prison?" Futaba randomly guessed.
"LOCATION DENIED."
"No, it seems like he suffers from loneliness. Not guilt to that extreme."
"An island?"
"LOCATION UPDATED."
"Now what would he see his palace as?"
"Japan?"
"LOCATION DENIED."
"The world?"
"LOCATION ACCEPTED. WELCOME BACK PHANTOM THIEVES."
"All in favor of scooping it out?"
"Yes!"
"All opposed?"
"..."
"Alright then."
