Ryuji: Fucking Kamoshida!

Ann: He's been pretty angry about this for a while, huh?

Shiho: Yeah…I don't want to see what else will happen in this next chapter.

Morgana: Don't worry about it. The best thief around is protecting you! I shall not let you be injured.

Ann: Let's start the show!

Disclaimer (Ryuji): I'm going to say it right now, there may be some triggering shit in here so be careful and happy reading!

Persona V: Reversing the Wheel of Fate
Chapter Eleven

[Opening Scene: Shujin Academy (Daytime - Rainy)
Theme of Horror: Just Like This from Persona 3]

"Shiho!" Ann screamed as she pushed through the crowd with Ryuji and Ren behind her. The three found themselves standing over her bleeding body, tears falling down her eyes. "W-Why did you do this?" Ann sobbed out.

Ren lowered his head while Ryuji's fists were clenched so tightly, blood was flowing from between his fingers with a rage-filled expression on his face.

"I-I'm sorry. I just wanted the pain to stop," Shiho whimpered before her eyes drifted closed. The last sight she saw was the horrified looks on the three teens.

[Scene Change: Shibuya Hospital (Morning - Rainy)
Theme of an Injured Thief: I Will Give You… From Persona 5: The Royal]

Ren's head snapped up from the hospital bed, panting heavily, his eyes glowing a bright cobalt blue before fading into the familiar storm gray before he gasped as the intense pain in his side immediately struck.

"You're awake," A familiar voice said.

Ren turned his head and found himself staring at his doppelgänger, but he knew well enough that this was Arsène by now.

And around Arsène were several nurses that were frozen time.

"Arsène, What are you doing here and where am I?" Ren asked

"You were stabbed and taken to this hospital," Arsène noted with an amused grin on his face. "Not the first time. Won't be the last either."

Ren chuckled and said, "Sure did hurt for not being my first time." The gentleman thief held his hand out to Ren.

Ren grabbed the hand and was hoisted to his feet, but the pain in his side caused him to stumble towards Arsène, who caught him and placed a hand on the wound.

"Relax. You are in safe hands," Arsène told him calmly.

"I know," Ren replied with a grateful smile. "So…Why and how are you here?"

"Remember the first time you saw me? While I can only do it in short bursts, I can appear here. The reason I am here is that I am here to warn you," Arsène told him.

"Warn me about what?" Ren asked.

"Everything before this moment has been nothing but a prologue for you and your team," Arsène told him. "But today is the day that things will change and will put you on your path to becoming a Phantom thief, and you need to be there with them instead of in the hospital."

"But I was stabbed, and from what I remember, there was a lot of blood. How can I get out of here when I was so thoroughly fucked up?" Ren questioned.

Arsène smirked at this and said, "And that is the joy of being a Persona user, Ren. The healing factor. You can absorb a lot more damage than most humans, and when you do, you heal at a faster rate. It's not enough to stave off a killing blow like a bullet, sword, and an ax to the head, but it can save you in a dire situation."

"So should I be healed then?" Ren asked him.

"Not fully if you wake up now but just enough where you can leave," Arsène answered. "Now go, it's time for you to begin your true purpose!"

And with that, time unfroze, and Ren found himself standing in front of a mirror. He was still pale and felt weak, but the intense pain in his side that he had briefly felt when he woke up to Arsène had somewhat dulled.

He lifted his hospital gown and peeled back the large bandage, and to his surprise, the vast wound he expected to be there was a medium-sized gash that he could see the ethereal lime-green sparkles that were healing him.

Ren grinned.

'I'm not out of the game yet…'

[Scene Change: Shujin Academy (Morning - Rainy)
Theme of Dreariness: Nothingness…! From Persona 5]

"Yo, Suzui!"

Shiho turned around to see Ryuji and Ann running up towards her. Shiho had been a wreck since she found out what happened to Ren the night before. Despite what Ann told her last night, Shiho had a feeling that Kamoshida had something to do with Ren getting hurt the way he did.

He was used to her being "His" plaything, and now that she was talking to Ren, Kamoshida didn't like that fact and hurt him.

It was all her fault that he was nearly murdered, she just knew it, and that thought alone kept her up all night to the point that she was sleeping during all of her classes today.

"Shiho!" Ann's voice rang out in front of her, causing Shiho to blink rapidly.

"W-What…Ann-chan. Ryuji-kun, How did you two get here so fast?" Shiho asked.

"We've been trying to snap you out of your daze for like three minutes," Ryuji said. "I called out to you, you turned around, and then you zoned out."

"You look so exhausted," Ann murmured as she touched Shiho's face. "Did you get any sleep?"

Shiho couldn't help but let a tiny smile appear on her face at this. Ann worried so much about her safety sometimes that it made her feel like she was worth something.

"Sorry, Ann-chan," Shiho apologized. "I had a lot on my mind, considering what happened to Ren-kun," Shiho responded with a tired smile.

"That's understandable," Ryuji said.

"Just try to get some rest tonight, okay?" Ann asked, her voice taking on a begging tone.

"I'll be okay, Ann-chan. I promise," Shiho told her.

"Okay. I know that you're feeling awful about Ren, but he wouldn't want you to lose rest because of him," Ann told her.

"I know. I'll be okay. I plan to see Ren-kun after school today," Shiho said with a small smile.

"Yeah, we'll all go see him today," Ryuji said with a grin on his face.

"Will Sakamoto Ryuji please come to the Student Council room immediately. Sakamoto Ryuji to the Student Council room. Thank you," The intercom rang out.

"Student Council?" Both Ann and Shiho questioned as the pair looked to Ryuji.

"Hell if I know," Ryuji said with a shrug. "Well, I better go see what's going on then. You guys get to class safely and watch your asses."

"We will," the two chorused out before Ryuji ran off.

"I better get to class as well…Please be careful, Shiho," Ann said before she embraced Shiho, who returned the hug gratefully before Ann ran off.

Shiho watched Ann leave, and the tiny smile on her face broke away to reveal a sullen expression, which only deepened when she saw the familiar gloomy face of Mishima.

Shiho noticed the large gash on the side of Mishima's face and felt the growing emptiness within her smother the concern she had for him.

The only time she saw him nowadays was during practice and as the personal messenger for Kamoshida.

Shiho sighed as the teen walked towards her with his head bowed in surrender.

But if she had paid a little more attention, she would have noticed a small black tuxedo cat watching from a distance with narrowed blue eyes.

[Scene Change: Shujin Academy – Student Council Room (Morning - Rainy)
Theme of Dreariness: Nothingness…! From Persona 5]

"Niijima-san, you look exhausted."

Makoto looked up from her desk to see Ryuji standing in front of her.

After Sakamoto and Takamaki had left her home, Makoto had read through Amamiya's journal and found herself stunned by everything he had written in it.

Castles.

Shadows.

Thieves.

King Kamoshida.

There was so much in there that she felt mentally exhausted. So much so that she nearly fell asleep during her classes, something very unbecoming of her.

But did she believe it?

Considering how much detail was behind it and other strange things, she found herself believing what she had read, but despite that, she needed to see this for herself instead of relying on the words of a bloody journal.

Hence why she called Sakamoto to her office. She knew she could have called Takamaki but admittedly, the blonde-haired girl had been pissed off at her, more so than usual, and had Makoto called her in instead of Sakamoto, there would have been a fight.

Besides, Sakamoto seemed to be more easing going than Takamaki.

"I am, but that is beside the point," Makoto wryly said. "Have you heard anything about Amamiya-san?"

She watched as Sakamoto frowned and answered with, "Nah, we know nothing yet. I'm getting worried truthfully…"

"He did lose a lot of blood last night," Makoto told him with a frown on her face. "It may be some time until he fully recovers."

"Yeah…Now let's cut the bullshit," Sakamoto told her with a grin. "It's obvious you didn't call me in here to talk about Ren, so what's up, Niijima-san?"

"Straight to the point. I like that about you, Sakamoto-san," Makoto said. "So, I'll return that in kind. Ren dropped his journal the other night. This journal detailed everything that has been going on in his life. I need to know if what is in here is true."

She narrowed her eyes and said, "Does this castle of Kamoshida's really exist? Do Personas exist?"

Despite her tired mind, she could see a hint of alarm in Sakamoto's eyes before a chill expression crossed his face. "What the hell is a Persona?" Ryuji asked.

"Don't try and lie to me. It says you have one. Captain Kidd. Electricity powers…" Makoto said slyly.

"No idea what you're talking abou-Oh! Persona! That's the name Ren's writing for his book," Sakamoto explained.

"A book?" Makoto repeated.

"Yeah. Ren's been writing a book about these beings known as "Persona." Basically, they are the power your inner self has," he explained. "He was having trouble coming up with names and shit, so I suggested that he use the people at school as placeholders until he came up with his names."

"Really?" Makoto asked.

"Yeah. I mean Captain Kidd? He's a famous pirate from the old days. He was a living being, so why would he be this mythical guy with electricity now?" Sakamoto asked her. "It's all a story. I even gave him the name of Captain Kidd since I do enjoy my pirates."

Makoto was impressed.

She knew full damn well that Sakamoto was lying due to what was in the notebook, but she was damned impressed at how easy he improvised that explanation so quickly and seamlessly. If she didn't have the notebook, she might have believed him.

Makoto opened her mouth, but it was then the bell rang, signifying the start of their first class.

She would let him off the hook for now.

"That explains it then," Makoto said with a smile on her face. "Well, I hope you don't mind. I keep the notebook until Ren gets better then, right?"

"Sure, no skin of my shaft," Ryuji said with a shrug. "So, was that all you called me for?"

"Yes. Thank you, Sakamoto-san. You answered my question with flying colors," Makoto replied with a grin.

"Cool, I'm out of here. Late," Ryuji said as he walked out of the room, leaving Makoto alone.

'Now all I need to know is how they achieved this power…And what they will do with it,' Makoto thought to herself with a slight grin.

[Scene Change: Shujin Academy – Kamoshida's Office (Morning - Rainy)
Theme of Immediate Danger: Disintegration from Persona 3]

"Hey Suzui-chan," Kamoshida said with a kind smile, which made Shiho frown in disgust. "You've been ducking my calls. Why is that?" Kamoshida asked.

"I-I've been busy," Shiho told him with a small stammer.

"Busy, you say? Busy with what?" Kamoshida questioned. "Because last I remember, whenever I pick up my phone, you answer it no matter what. That is the agreement we had for me not to subject Ann to my desires, remember?"

"I remember," Shiho gloomily replied.

"And yet, you've clearly disobeyed my orders," Kamoshida said as he rose from his desk and walked towards her. Shiho began to back away into a corner to keep herself away from his grasp, but when she felt her back hit the wall behind her, she found herself bathed in the shadow of this hulking man.

"And you know the price of disobeying…" Kamoshida said as he lifted his hand, which made Shiho flinch, expecting the hit but instead, she felt Kamoshida's hand caress her cheek softly, which made her look up at him with confusion.

"I won't hit you, Suzui-chan…No, I plan to do a lot more to you. Something that will bring us both to a rather agreeable solution…" Kamoshida said with a sickening grin.

How Shiho wished she could knock it off his face.

"How long have we done this torrid affair Suzui-chan?" Kamoshida asked.

"T-Too long," Shiho whispered shamefully, but she bet that she sounded like a love-struck idiot to his ears.

"Yes, it has been such a wonderful time but don't you think it's time for us to take things to a higher level?" Kamoshida asked.

Shiho looked at him with a look of horror. "Y-You mean s-s-sex?" she stammered out. Her fears were quickly confirmed when Kamoshida's grin grew more prominent. "I-I can't…I won't!" Shiho said.

"You won't?" Kamoshida asked. "You know what would happen if you refused, right? I'll kick you right out of the Volleyball team. You know Ann will try to convince me for you to stay a member, and we both know she'll bend the world for you."

"You must not know h-her well…A-Ann wouldn't sell her body, not for me or for anyone else because she's stronger than that!" Shiho exclaimed, anger filling her veins as she suddenly pushed him with all of her might, making him stumble backward with that shit-eating grin still on his face.

"Well, if that won't convince you, perhaps Amamiya's life will?" Kamoshida suggested, stopping Shiho cold, her trembling hand hovering above the doorknob.

"W-What?" Shiho stammered out as she slowly turned back to look at him. "W-What did you say?"

"It was a shame about what happened to him. To be walking home only to get stabbed and put near-death…." Kamoshida continued as he leaned against his desk with his arms crossed. "It would be a tragedy for him to die, wouldn't I?"

"Y-You…You did that to him?" Shiho asked. "You nearly killed him…For leverage against me?" Shiho asked, her voice showing her disbelief. "Y-You really are a monster…"

"Me? I'm an Olympic gold medalist Suzui-chan," Kamoshida said. "And the Volleyball couch for our glorious school, Shujin Academy. How could I, a hero of Japan, be a monster?"

Kamoshida then let a dark smirk form on his face as he said, "Now if there was a monster in this room between the two of us, that title belongs to you. Are you willing to let one friend sell her body to me and outside forces murder the other friend? What kind of person are you to let that happen?"

[Scene Change: Shujin Academy – (Morning - Rainy)
Theme of Immediate Danger: Disintegration from Persona 3]

"Yo, Ann!"

Ann turned around to see Ryuji running up to her, a look of panic on his face, and instantly grew worried. "Ryuji, are you alright?" Ann asked.

"I'm fine but remind me to kill Ren when I get the chance," Ryuji said. Ann looked at him in confusion, which prompted Ryuji to explain. "So Niijima-san pulled me into her office and told me she read Ren's journal she found at the scene where he was stabbed."

Ann scowled. "What?"

"Yeah, it's fucked," Ryuji said.

"Well, I d-don't think that would be a reason to fuck me up though Ryuji," A weak-sounding Ren suddenly said from behind them, prompting Ann and Ryuji to turn around.

With his skin pale and his legs shaking, Ren leaned against the railing, wearing his academy uniform, minus his blazer.

"Ren!" The two shouted and rushed to him to hug him.

"Hey, guys…" Ren murmured as he returned their hug with one of his own.

"You look awful…How in the hell did you get here?" Ann commented as she touched Ren's cheek.

"Yeah, dude, what the hell? You just got stabbed last night, and you looked near death. You should be healing, not doing stupid shit like this," Ryuji told him with a scowl.

"I know, but I'm healed enough," Ren said, but as he took a step forward, his legs buckled, and he nearly fell, but Ryuji and Ann caught him with their arms.

"Healed my ass, you need to go back," Ann told him with a worried frown on her face.

With a shake of his head, Ren gently pulled away from them and asked the pair, "Where is Shiho?"

"I don't know. I was pulled away by an announcement," Ryuji said.

"I was going to class, so I have no idea either," Ann said.

Ren's eyes widened in horror as he began to stalk towards the stairs as he said, "We need to find her quickly. Something horrible is about to happen to her, and if we don't stop it, she'll jump off the roof to her death!"

"She'll what?!" Ann and Ryuji chorused out in unison.

"The day that it happened, I had a vision of her on the ground with blood around her. The last few days, more of these visions kept appearing. Kamoshida does something heinous to her, and in turn, she'll try to commit suicide," Ren explained.

[Scene Change: Shujin Academy – Kamoshida's Office (Morning - Rainy)
Theme of Immediate Danger: Disintegration from Persona 3]

Shiho felt tears pricking her eyes as her breath began to quicken as Kamoshida's smirk deepened. He was getting off torturing her like this.

Putting the fate of her best friend and a person she was starting to care about in her hands.

If it was just Ann, she knew Ann was strong enough to withstand Kamoshida and his mind games and threats, but Ren was innocent in all of this.

He was just a new student that got mixed up in her horrid affairs, and he had been stabbed for his troubles. He was fighting for his life, and she was putting him at risk for death if she didn't comply.

And even if she still left and things fell into place, who would believe her? Who would think to trust the words of a high school girl over an Olympic Gold Medalist who is beloved by all?

She would be laughed out of Japan.

It was genuinely hopeless.

"It seems you understand that there is no way out of this that you can win from…So with that said, I want you to come over here and get on your knees," Kamoshida told her, his voice calm and inviting but all Shiho could hear was her heart beating with hopelessness as well as rage.

Slowly, she turned around with her shoulders slumped and walked to the other side where Kamoshida sat and whispered, "I-I submit to you Kamoshida-sensei…"

A slow smirk began to form on Kamoshida's face as he reached up and carefully stroked her cheek.

"Such a beautiful sight," he told her, making Shiho sick to her stomach.

Luckily, his touch stopped, and he leaned back in his chair and said, "I want you to pull down my pants and service me Suzui-chan to begin our long and beautiful day together."

Tears began to form in Shiho's eyes as she began to do as he told her to, tugging down his pants as slowly as possible before his large hand smacked against her cheek, sending her falling to the side.

"Faster," Kamoshida said, his pleasant tone never changing.

With her cheek stinging, Shiho whimpered and leaned up and swiftly tugged down his pants in one fell swoop, and to her dismay, the sight of her future displeasure was front and center. "Go ahead, Suzui-chan…" Kamoshida goaded. "Give your master its well-deserved kiss."

With tears freely flowing from her face, a sobbing Shiho began to lean forward to do the deed, but without warning, the fire alarm began to go off, distract the pair.

Seconds later, a cat's yell was heard, and a black tuxedo cat with angry blue eyes sprang up from the shadows and collided with his face, causing Kamoshida to shriek in terror as his chair whipped backward.

Shiho scrambled back as Kamoshida cursed up a storm. She quickly ran towards the door, but just as she made it to the door, the cat was thrown and slammed against the wall hard before slumping to the ground.

She looked to see Kamoshida climbing to his feet, and there were several claw marks with blood dripping from his face. Shiho quickly grabbed the cat and rushed out the door only to see dozens of students running down the stairs in a panic.

Shiho looked from left to right before she ran to the girls' bathroom and cowered inside of a stall, holding onto her savior, who meowed weakly in her grasp, her breathing quick and shallow.

She can't do this anymore.

She failed, and because of her failure, Ann would become Kamoshida's sick sexual slave, and Ren, he was going to die.

Guilt began to build up in her stomach as she began to sob heavily.

"You can stop it…" That familiar dark but sweet voice whispered in the back of her mind. "Do it…The pain…The suffering…The betrayal…It can all go away. Just let go. We can be free from all of the pains your heart feels…"

"You have been sullied by his touch. Your soul is forever tainted by the humiliation of what he nearly had you do. Your life is ruined, but it's not too late to claim the peace you have long sought, my Shiho…It's time for you to let go of your worries and fears. Just jump and embrace eternity with me…"

Shiho's eyes flashed yellow before fading back into their original color. Her shoulders slumped forward as she whispered, "I…I'm tired of this life. I am tired of being used and abused. I'm so tired. I just want it all to end…"

She gently placed the cat down on the floor and whispered, "I don't know where you came from but thank you for saving me from that monster…" She gave the cat a small pet and told the cat, "But it's time for me to find some peace finally…"

[Scene Change: Shujin Academy – (Morning - Rainy)
Theme of Immediate Danger: Disintegration from Persona 3]

"Good idea on using the fire alarm to clear the place out Ren," Ryuji said as the three teens walked up the stairs.

"I just hope no one saw," Ren said. "I don't need to be expelled. Otherwise, it's the lockup for me."

"I'll take the hit for it if anyone did," Ryuji said. "I'm used to that shit."

"We both will," Ann said. The two made it to Kamoshida's office and saw that the door was wide open.

"Another goal for the fire alarm was to interrupt anything if it was going down and looks like it worked," Ren said.

Ryuji quickly walked into the room and looked around.

Everything was in disarray. It looked like there was a struggle, but Kamoshida and Shiho were nowhere to be seen.

"Shit! Kamoshida's gone," Ryuji swore in anger as he walked from the back of Kamoshida's desk to Ann and Ren, both of which stood at the doorway of the empty office.

"A-And Shiho is nowhere to be seen…" Ann whispered as she fell to her knees, tears falling from her face. "T-This is what he meant…By something terrible happening to her…He meant this…It's my fault. It's all m-my fault."

"Ann…" Ryuji murmured.

"All this time, I was trying to protect her f-from him…And a-all I did w-was feed her to him…" Ann tearfully whispered as she looked to Ren and then to Ryuji, who had knelt down in front of her. "T-This is my fault…I should have just had se-"

"Snap out of it!" Ryuji suddenly yelled, an angry look in his eyes. "None of this is your fault, Ann! Kamoshida is the asshole here using students as his personal playthings. We are supposed to look up to them and protect them. He abused that trust and caused all of this hell for everyone." Ryuji told her firmly. "He's the asshole here. Not you."

Ann sniffled and nodded her head. "You're right…He's the asshole. Not me," Ann murmured as she looked into Ryuji's eyes and said with a strong voice, "We need to find them, and we need to make him pay."

"Damn right!" Ryuji said with a determined smirk on his face. "Yo Ren-Ren, what's the plan on finding this dick?"

"Mishima. We find Mishima," Ren weakly responded.

"That's perfect," Ann said. "Kamoshida uses Mishima for everything. If anyone knew where he is, it would be him."

"That's a good idea. Let's go find that fucker," Ryuji said with a grim look on his face.

The three walked out of the room, but Ren noticed drops of blood on the floor and prayed to God that it didn't belong to Shiho.

But just as they were going to walk away from the office, they spotted Mishima coming up the stairs. "And speak of the devil!" Ryuji said.

Mishima immediately panicked and ran back down the stairs. "Oh, don't run now, you little bastard!" Ryuji shouted as he chased after him, with Ann and Ren following behind him.

By the time Ann and Ren caught up, Ryuji had Mishima cornered in the hall. "L-Look, I don't know what you want, so leave me alone!" Mishima exclaimed fearfully.

"I'm not going to hurt you, Mishima," Ryuji said with a roll of his eyes. "We just want to know where Kamoshida is."

"W-Why would I know where he is?" Mishima questioned with his head bowed low.

"You're his foot soldier. You do all of his dirty work," Ryuji said.

"I-It's not like I w-want to do his work," Mishima whispered. "A-All I want to do is live a quiet life…"

"We know…" Ren said softly, catching Mishima's attention. "I told you the other day; we just want to stop him. I know you don't want to tell us because of your fear of him, but something potentially bad may have happened to Suzui Shiho, and we need to find her."

"S-Suzui-san?" Mishima stammered out.

"Yeah…We just want to find her…" Ren told him.

"K-Kamoshida-sensei asked me to talk to her. Said it was about her position o-on the t-team…" Mishima stated. "B-But t-ten minutes ago, he s-summoned me to the nurse's office a-and asked me to f-find Suzui-san to c-continue the talk…"

"So he was in the nurse's office?" Ryuji asked.

"Y-yeah…" Mishima whispered.

"Thanks, Mishima. We owe you one," Ryuji said, with Ren and Ann nodding behind him.

"Y-You shouldn't be t-thanking me…" Mishima softly stammered. "I-I did a lot of bad things for Kamoshida because of my cowardice…"

"I know," Ren said with a nod. "He had you leak my personal file, am I right?"

Mishima looked down in shame but nodded.

Ren stared at him for a moment and then pushed himself away from Ann, his hand pressed against his wounded side, stood in front of Mishima, and placed a hand on top of his head, making Mishima look at him with surprise.

"In a past life, I would have been furious, but in this one, I know that it wasn't your fault. A stronger individual forced you to do it. I can't blame you for that, Mishima," Ren kindly said before he turned to Ryuji and Ann and said, "Let's go."

The three of them walked off but were stopped by Mishima's voice.

"W-Why?" Mishima's asked from behind the trio. "W-Why are you guys doing this? Sakamoto-san, Takamaki-san. You two have been at this school as long as I have. You both know Kamoshida. You both know no adult here will take you all seriously because they love him, and y-yet you two are helping Amamiya-san…"

The trio looked back as the tearful Mishima screamed, "Don't you know what he could do to you? And Amamiya-san, you're a new student here and already experienced how cruel h-he can be. So why stick your necks out for us? For people, you don't even know?!" Mishima screamed.

The three were silent for a moment before Ren said, "I can't sit around and let people get hurt if I can stop it. Blame the hero complex in me. I just can't allow innocent people to wallow in misery."

"Yeah, his attitude rubbed off on us in a way," Ryuji said with a grin. "Kamoshida is cruel d-bag and preys on the weak. It's time someone stands up to him."

"And who better to stand up to him than the very people he has hurt and humiliated?" Ann finished.

"So don't sweat it. First, we will find Shiho, and then we will end Kamoshida's reign of terror against everyone here. We promise," Ren told him with a thumbs up before the three walked off, leaving the awed Mishima behind.

"Dude, we totally sounded like heroes back there," Ryuji whispered.

"Wasn't my intention but hell, we sure did," Ren replied. "But we must find Shiho and soon. I don't want my vision to come true."

Just then, Morgana turned the corner, slightly limping, and said, "Guys…"

"Morgana?" The three said in unison. Morgana fell to his side, and Ann quickly rushed to grab him and asked, "Are you okay?"

"I got thrown to the wall by that Kamoshida guy, but I'm okay…" Morgana said. "He was about to have Shiho do something unsavory to him, but I stopped him…I stopped it…"

"Oh my god, thank you so much, Morgana," Ann said with relief as she hugged Morgana, who squeaked in alarm but began to wiggle in her grasp.

"S-Stop. There is still more!" Morgana gasped out, causing Ann to stop.

"She was hiding in the bathroom, and she started to talk real scary-like. She was saying stuff like how she's sick of this life and wanted to find peace, and then she left," Morgana said.

The three paled, and it was then they heard a voice shout, "Look! Someone is on the roof!"

"Ann!" Ren shouted in alarm as Ann quickly ran away from the persona users. Ren turned to Ryuji and said, "I'll only slow you down. Do everything you can to stop Shiho from jumping!"

Ryuji nodded and followed after Ann, leaving Ren alone to watch Ryuji runoff.

Once Ryuji was gone, Ren held his side as he began to walk in the direction of the nurse's room with anger burning in his eyes.

Ren: D:

Ann: D:

Morgana: D:

Ryuji: Holy shit!