After they went through the door from Paulowinia Mall, they reappeared in the dorm again but this time, a door connected to the lounge directly.

Aigis and Metis the first one who came out from the door.

"Huh...? Is this-!?" Aigis noticed this incident for the first time,

"Wow... I didn't think we'd emerge directly here instead of the Desert of Doors... Looks like this place is fully connected to the Abyss of Time now. Maybe it's because everyone was hoping to make frequent resupply trips. This will certainly make it easier to go back and forth." Metis said.

"Hellooooo! We're kinda blocked back here!" Junpei shouted from their behind.

Junpei, Yukari and Minako came from the door as second.

"Minako, Look!" Junpei asked Minako to look with him.

"No way... This is crazy!" Yukari unbelieved what she saw in front of her.

"…." Minako didn't say while thinking about something.

"Hey, hurry it up! There's more of us blocked back here." Akihiko shouted, asking them to step aside.

Everyone finally had come out from the door and gathered in the lounge. Others had a same reaction as Yukari, they didn't know how the Abyss of Times's system actually worked. They found a first clue, but still got nothing to them until they would find another path.

Everyone sat on sofa, planning for the next investigation.

Mitsuru was the first one who stared at Minako and began to ask her about their situation.

"Minako, we found a first clue from the first door, do you get any idea why we have been brought here directly?"

"The Abyss of Time that I knew never being like this. This place seemed to know all of you quite well. I can't tell my opinion yet." Minako confusingly said.

"I see." Mitsuru quietly said.

Minako deiced to look at Metis.

"Could you explain to us, Metis?" Minako asked Metis about this incident to them.

"It maybe just my assumption, but it's possible that because…Everyone want to make a frequent resupply trips, the Abyss of Times may recognized their resolve, making the door that lead to the Mall emerges to the dorm directly." Metis uncertainly said.

"Doesn't it mean the Abyss has a mind on its own?" Akihiko questioned.

"That's purely untrue. The Abyss itself doesn't have a mind, it's just like perception system, like a human body without a soul." Metis spoke further.

"Without a Soul? Thinking about that, make me even scared about this place." Fuuka anxiously mumbled.

But Minako shook her head and began to protest what Fuuka was thinking.

"No, the Abyss of Times isn't not a terrified place as you image."

"Huh! Then, what does this place looks like in your world, Minako-san? Ken asked.

"Thinking as Museum of the past, it'll easy to follow up. You can revisit your own past here. Every incident you have encounter here is so surreal, like a real past. You can even interact with them, just like we talked to Kurosawa-san." Minako clearly explained about this place.

Junpei amazed about what Minako talked "So this is like stimulation. This is freaking amazing! If we have a wonderful place lik-"

"But this place is unnaturally born. It can only be created by an entity like me or some paranormal accident. There's no another method to materialized this place." Minako insisted.

"You mean… Tartarus?" Mitsuru asked. Minako seemed not to deny a fact by looking Mitsuru face, nodded to her.

Others seemed unsurprised about her answer. They knew something was never being normal when they were seeing those Shadows there.

"Sigh! Why does everything must connect to Tartarus anyways? I'm getting tired about this already!" Yukari being more irritated.

"Yukari-san…" Aigis worried about her.

"But those dungeon…hallways, doors, and even Shadows….. I don't get it. The Abyss of Times doesn't have that much power to replicate such as a place like that before, especially coming from all of your memories."

"So, you gonna say, it's actually a force that control this place." Akihiko questioned.

"That's…I don't know." Minako shook her head.

*growl* *growl*

"Hm? What's that sound?" Fuuka doubted.

Everyone confused, trying to catch up a sound where it came from. Shortly, that sound was coming to them again. They quickly looked at the source.

*growl* *growl*

It turned out it came from Junpei. It's stomach growling sound. His stomach emitted a loud rumble, echoing through the silence of the room.

"Aa…. Hahahaha…. Sorry." Junpei embarrassingly giggled.

"Oh, that's right. We didn't have a meal for a while. I…. felt hungry too." Yukari shyly said while rubbing her stomach.

"Hahahahahahaha!"

The silence of the room was replaced with everyone's laughing voice, especially Mitsuru who laughed the most.

"Ahahahaha! Well, then, we should prepare our meal from our food supplies immediately. I think everyone also being hungry too. Well, who can cook?" Mitsuru asked.

No one waved for volunteering to cook at all. Suddenly, Minako decided to offer herself, cooking for everyone.

"Are you okay, Minako-chan? Fuuka asked with worry.

"Well, I used to practice for cooking's skill with Aragaki-senpai quite a lot and watching him cooked with Fuuka to prepare a whole meal to everyone. I think it's not that hard." Minako said.

"At last! A woman who can cook her meal…unlike someone we knew, right?" Junpei said, gazing at Fuuka.

"Hey! Don't tease me, Junpei-kun." Fuuka bashfully coved her face.

Everyone happily chuckled. It had been a while since they were laughing like this since that incident.

"Well, at least we don't need to eat pancakes a whole day like that day!." Yukari openly exhaled.

"What's wrong with that, Yukari? It gives you a lot of carbohydrate for working and-"

"That's okay! It doesn't it need to be justified." Yukari interrupted Akihiko and end their chatting. Minako saw this view again when Yukari talked about Akihiko's swimsuit with her. Minako quite missed these events and wanted to go back to her friends.

"Minako, do you need more assistance? I'm afraid you'll being excessively confronted such a burden." Mitsuru anxiously asked.

"Well then… Yukari-chan, Fuuka-chan, could you help me preparing ingredients? About cooking parts, I'll doing that part myself. If some menus I can't do it myself, I'll reach out both of you for helping me." Minako asked.

"Roger that, leader." Fuuka easily accepted.

"No problem at all! Let's go to the kitchen." Yukari happily said.

Three of them decide to go to the kitchen. Everyone was calmly waiting except Junpei seemed not happy about that when knowing Fuuka would join with them.

"Iori, What's wrong? You look displease." Mitsuru asked.

"Eh…Oh! Kirijo-senpai I'm not a being angry or anything. I just worried about Fuuka." Junpei said.

"And what's the problem with Yamagishi?" Akihiko seriously questioned.

"Senpai…Well…her cooking..." Junpei looked intensely panic even more.

"No worries. Minako-san keep watching them while cooking our meal in the kitchen. So don't worry, Iori-san." Ken encouragingly said.

"Well…. I hope."

"I don't need a food because I use an electricity as my power source anyways." Aigis calmly said.

"Me too." Metis said.

After they were being waited for 1 hour, Minako called everyone to carry a lot of dishes in the kitchen.

"Hey guy! Could anyone help me to put down those dishes? It's too many dishes to hold them on our hand." Minako grumbled.

"Ah! Wait there! We're going!" Akihiko shouted.

They deiced to help Minako, Yukari and Fuuka to help them put dishes on the dining table. All of them was being stunned how many dishes put on their dining table. A beef steeks, omelet with fried rice, onigiri, tomato pasta, kabayaki and curry rice a lot of soft drinks all served on their table.

Every instantly shocked about Minako's cooking skill while Junpei even more surprised when knowing that Fuuka also help in this too.

They tasted it in one bit…. This is a highly delectable, like being in heaven! They pigged out at every dish without waiting.

"It is insane! Just look at this! Those texture, sauce, flavour, garnishing….. Everything's absolutely perfect. This is totally a chef! Marvelous!" Mitsuru openly praised.

"This just like a Shinji's cooking at all…I totally miss it." Akihiko looked at these dishes, reminisced about Shinjiro and a little sobbed on his cheek.

"No way…no way Fuuka can make these foods tastes godly like this." Junpei unbelieved.

"*munch* * munch*" Ken delightfully ate.

"I never thought we could actually make all of this, Minako-chan" Fuuka still unbelieved she could make these off.

"Because you follow my advice, even you made a lot of mistakes in that time.…" Minako smilingly said.

"I think I have a confidence to do my own dish alone next time. Thanks for your help, Minako." Yukari offered thanks to Minako.

"No problem."

Minako already ate her food and decided to give Koromaru a food that fresh-made.

"It's for you, Koro-chan" Minako rubbed his head.

*bark* Koromaru happily barked. He seemed he highly liked Minako's food.

After they happily ate their food, cleaning dishes together, they decided to continue a plan about investigating the Abyss of Times.

"Okay. We finally got a rest enough. We should proceed our investigation next without a delay." Metis said.

"We need to get back to the Desert of Doors if there's another door's waiting for us. We couldn't waste our time here." Mitsuru logically noted.

Everyone unanimously nodded. They knew they couldn't waste their time any longer as long as they were still not discovering the truth about this place.

They quickly rushed go below into the Desert of Doors; another door reappeared in front of them. It seemed like it was waiting for them.

"Minako, I heard you regained your own power. Would you continued to fight with us?" Mitsuru asked.

"Of course! Mitsuru-senpai" Minako suddenly accepted.

"Then lemme help all of you guys! I knew I can protect Minako." Akihiko openly said without care.

"Look like he's serious this time." Junpei barely shocked.

"Everyone let's go. Let's what's inside of this labyrinth."

Everyone nodded at Aigis, decided to go all-in, inside of the door.

Abyss of Times, Cocytus

They had arrived inside of the door; they glanced around immediately. It's no different to them unless…they noticed something on the wall. Those structure and floors…technically like a Tartarus. All

of this mysterious thing made them even more confused.

"Hey! This is totally a Tartarus! No friggin' way!" Junpei extremely shocked.

"Sigh…..The more I look at them, the more I hate those incidents." Yukari openly grumbled.

"…" Minako didn't say, only looked around her.

Fuuka summoned Juno, beginning to scan around their radius with Minako's help. They detected all Shadows and how many floors they would go through.

"Yamagishi, everything is okay?" Mitsuru asked.

"Yes! With Minako's power to enhance my scanning power, it's quite clearer than usual. It looks like we need to go below thoroughly for 15 floors again." Fuuka reported.

"15 floors again! This is totally the same as the past door that Minako-san' team went." Ken shockingly said.

"So, this is a pattern we must remember, huh?" Akihiko noted.

"There're so many Shadows here, be careful about the black figure too. It might make those Shadows stronger than before." Fuuka seriously warned.

"Understood!" Aigis answered.

"Don't forget to check about our Theurgy rate too, we may need it in the future." Mitsuru repeatedly said.

Minako was being confused, she wondered…..what is the Theurgy?.. what's it using for?

"The..Theru What? Could something elaborate to me what Theurgy is you guys talking about?" Minako questioned.

"Ah! That's right. You never see them, didn't you? Let me show you."

Mitsuru unequipped her armband and show it to Minako. She thought it's just like accessory like in her world. But for a minute, she could sense immense aura from an armband. She knew this is not a normal armband.

"Now you mention it, everyone' uniform is just like battle suit too! I just noticed earlier. I never see any of this in my world." Minako being surprised.

"This is a Theurgy's system. An additional battle system allows us to act more strategic in combat. Our body will be moved by itself and performed special technique." Aigis explained. But Minako was still unclear about this…. how does it work?

"Thinking as a trump card." Akihiko shortly summarized.

"I…. see."

"Everyone has their own condition to perform their own special power too. I need to check it every time before the battle begins. When a Theurgy gauge fully fill, we can our special skill as we want." Fuuka spoke further.

"I…think I get it some points." Minako unknowingly nodded.

Metis accidently heard their chatting and joined in conversation. "It's strange. that time, I could use some kind of Theurgy or something like that without knowing too."

Minako suddenly recalled her memories. "Do you mean Orgia Mode? But I thought you can activate it anytime!"

"But how? Or just be like Takaya?" Junpei doubted.

"Put that part aside, Iori. Yamagishi, do you still have an armband for them? It may be useful to them if they'll equip it." Mitsuru asked.

"Yes, Kiriro-senpai. I'll pick them up here, Wait me for a moment!" Fuuka said, rushed back to the dorm and bring armbands to Metis and Minako.

"This is for both of you."

"Thank you, Fuuka-chan. It feels nostalgia to wear it again." Minako said thanked to Fuuka while looking her armbands with impress.

"Great! I feel like I have more power in me." Metis happily said like a child.

"About your Theurgy condition, I'll keep checking it during battle. If anything happen, I'll tell to both of you."

Metis and Minako nodded.

"Anyways we should go now. Just only 15 floors. We need to spill up if we want to find a path quickly, okay." Aigis said.

Everyone nodded, decided to spill up, finding a way to below floors as fast as possible.

At 3rd floor, Akihiko and Minako met a large of Shadows, waiting for them. It seemed they noticed that Minako is not their Nyx. They attacked her without a delay.

"Minako!" Akihiko pushed Minako out, receiving damage instead of her. His injury was not bad, but his legs broke at left leg.

"I'll help you!" Minako shifted Death Arcana into Hierophant Arcana, summoning Thanatos to use Diarahan heal him.

"So, you want to play with fire then? *crack* Arcana Shift" She shifted into Chariot Arcana, casting Goddess's Wrath. A summoned large sword with fury aura from her skill was slashing and destroyed a large Shadow, causing other Shadows being inflicted Fear. She swiftly picked her tarot cards from her tome, struck into them with insanely high speed. Their body was cut through and being killed instantly.

She immediately looked at Akihiko, to check up if he was okay.

"Are you alright, Senpai?"

"I'm…..all right. What's about the other?"

"They might go ahead of us, we should hurry." Minako suggested.

"I agree, could you lend your hand to help me? I can't stand up by myself. My left leg still be hurt." Akihiko asked for help.

"Yes, I'll help you. Let me heal you for a little bit …. I hope everyone will reach to final floor already."

At the 5th floor, Aigis and Metis was fighting with Shadows, Obsessed Cupids, and Laughing Tables.

"Jack Frost!" Aigis summoned Jack Frost, casting Mabufu to attack them, but it seemed it was still able to stand up because her ice spell was too weak.

With Jack Frost was weak to fire, they countered by using Agi back to her, making her knocked up instantly.

"Ack!"

"Sister!" Metis immediately rushed into her, looking at them with fury.

"How dare you hurt my sister!" Metis awfully raged, her Theurgy gauge was fully filled.

Fuuka could sense Theurgy power from Metis.

"Metis, it seemed your resolve to help Aigis, let your Theurgy gauge become full. You can your Theurgy anytime now."

"Okay, Orgia Mode!" Metis activated her own system, kept attacking with her battle axe until they died out.

Metis quickly rushed to Aigis to check her.

"Sister! Are you all right?"

"Don't worry about me, Metis. I'm fine." Aigis said.

"Thanks go-" Before Metis would speak any further, she had overheated and collapsed on the floor. Aigis worried about her.

"It seemed she was overheated from Orgia Mode, I need to wait her awake here before going forward… Just how much we need to explore about this place…. I wonder?" Aigis thought in her mind.

New Theurgy Unlocked: Metis

Gauge Condition: Once Aigis has been attacked, her resolve become strengthened and motivated to protect her sister.

Neo Orgia Mode: Heavy Slash dmg to all foes, ignoring resistances. Ignores orders for a time.

At 8th floors, Ken, Koromaru, Yukari, Junpei and Mitsuru seemed to reach this floor first. Suddenly, the black figure reappeared to them again but this times, it disappeared early when they tried to look back.

"Mitsuru-senpai, It's them." Yukari pointed her finger in front of her. They finally encountered a boss in this area, Brilliant Cyclops. Its body was bound with the blue wheel, and its clothes totally awkward to look at it.

"This is totally nuts, this pervs!" Mitsuru felt irritated when looking at it.

"Fuuka, scan its weakness and its special power. It may have a trap to against us." Yukari suggested.

"Okay! I'll scan it immediately."

Fuuka began to scan all its skills and weaknesses. "It looks like it can absorb ice, electricity, wind spell. Slash is also resisted too. Instant-Kill spell can't work on them too. I still can't detect about its skill or special power. Be careful!"

"Don't tell me Mitsuru-senpai and I can't attack them with our Persona spell? Oh god!" Yukari openly raged.

"Then we'll leave that Shadow to you. We'll support you from behind." Mitsuru said.

"You can count on us, Kirijo-san." Ken said.

"Yep! It's my time to shine." Junpei felt happy more than usual.

*bark* Koromaru fully accepted.

They prepared to attack Shadow Cyclops. Koromaru and Ken began to summon their Persona.

"Kala-Nemi" Ken commanded it, casting Kougaon upon a Shadow but nothing scatter on their skin. It's totally tough one.

"You should apply some debuff upon them before fighting." Fuuka suggested.

"I get it. Artemisia, Marakunda!" Mitsuru cast Marakunda into Cyclops. It was getting weak for a while.

"Everyone, attack!"

*crack* Junpei summoned Trismegistus, casting Gigantic Fist directly to it, but it could dodge his attack.

"Dammit!"

But suddenly, Cyclops summoned Soul dance for reinforcement. Fuuka saw it and kept scanning again.

"It's weak to ice! Kirijo-senpai, defeat them first! They can heal to a large one." Fuuka warned.

"Understood" Mitsuru commanded Artemisia to aim at Soul Dancer and prepared for casting Bufudyne.

"Bufudyne! *crack*" Soul Dancer immediately knocked up.

"Yukari, help me finish it off." Mitsuru asked.

"Roger that…Isis, Garudyne" Her wind spell fully hit that Shadow, but it nulled.

"Wind's not working! I must use a bow to aim it instead."

Yukari concentrated her mind and preparing for aiming an arrow.

"Hah! *Twang* Soul Dancer was being hit and disappeared.

"Good work, Yukari"

"We can't let our guard down yet. There's still have that Shadow appear." Yukari said.

"It seemed we need to wait the others, Iori, Amada, hold that Shadow until our team will fully be here." Mitsuru grumbled.

"Um!" Ken and Junpei nodded.

They tried to hold enemy up for a while even their attack still not working upon it.

At last, Aigis, Metis, Minako and Akihiko had finally at the scene.

"Sorry for waiting. I need a healing from Minako. So, it's quite late." Akihiko apologized.

"Those Shadows has catch up our back. So, it quite a late because I need to wait Metis awake." Aigis explained her reason.

Mitsuru seemed not care about their delay. She only needed their help.

"Never mind. Everyone, keep your position! We have to defeat this off quickly before it'll summon another one!" Mitsuru ordered them.

Minako swiftly began to rush into Fuuka to help her scanning with Thanatos's enhance power, allowing her to see all skills and all stats in it.

The blue aura in this floor emitted all around between a Shadow and them.

"Ah! This Shadow has a mediocre endurance and high strength. Don't be hit by its physical attack! Junpei-kun, avoid its ice spell as much as possible, your Persona is weak to ice. If we want to defeat this efficiently, anyone who has decrease defend debuff spell, apply them quickly!" Fuuka reported to everyone.

"Okay, I'll try to dodge it." Junpei listened.

Mitsuru could sense about Minako's power to enhance Fuuka's power. She decided to entrust her faith into Minako.

"Minako, I'll entrust you. Stay with Yamagishi. Your power can enhance her scanning. If any Shadow come near her. You can defeat it without our command." Mitsuru said.

"Leave her to me!" Minako fully took Mitsuru's order and continued to stay with Fuuka.

Others decided to find a way to defeat this Shadow. It would be difficult to them if they still don't do something.

"I'll apply debuff to decrease its speed first, Caesar!" Akihiko summoned Caesar, casting Matarunda upon it. It seemed its speed became slower.

"I'll assist you too, Akihiko… Artemisia!" She commanded, casting Marakunda again. it was vulnerable to attack for a moment.

"Iori, Amada, Aigis and Metis, I'll leave the rest to you. Koromaru, stay with Minako to help her protect Yamagishi, okay?"

*bark* Koromaru barked, running to Minako.

"Leave it to me! Come on, Ken!"

"We ready, Iori-san." Ken calmly said.

"Metis, let's fight together." Aigis asked Metis to fight with her.

"Of course! Sister." Metis happily said.

They began to sprint around that Shadow to find a perfect spot to attack with a surprise. Metis noticed that its back have a blind spot. They could use their physical attack pierced through here.

Metis began to make a hand signals, telling them to attack its back.

"It seemed Metis find a weak spot. Ken-san, you and Metis must help us to distract that Shadow before we will attack it from behind." Aigis asked.

"Roger that."

"Junpei-san, it's time." Aigis nodded to Junpei to make a signal, preparing to attack.

"They leave this to us; we'll not make them disappoint. Let's go, Ai-chan." Junpei said.

Junpei and Aigis swiftly rushed into Shadows 'back while dodging Bufudyne from it. Ken and Metis tried to summon their Persona to keep distracting it from both of them.

Aigis jumped with the highest speed, preparing to fire at it with her handgun unit.

*bang* *bang* The rain of ammo scattered across the floor, making it came to Aigis instead.

"Sister!" Metis shockingly shouted.

"…..It's over."

Aigis kept firing a Shadow to taunt it to her, made a wide open, allowing Junpei to stab from behind.

"It's on! *stab*" His two-handed sword thrusted through its body, completely disappeared.

Everyone finally got a rest for a while enjoying their victory.

"That's a way to go! Junpei I know you can do it." Yukari complimented.

"To think I got compliment from Yuka-tan…Hehehe." Junpei shyly chuckled.

"Good works, everyone. Those Shadows begin to run away from us because they lost their leader." Fuuka happily reported.

"So, if we face a new Shadow boss, we need to defeat it first, before we can be going forward." Akihiko assumed in overviews.

Everyone seemed to understand in the same thing. But what they still doubted were why that black figure always reappeared to them when they reached 8th floor and encountered a boss too. And when they faced a Shadow boss. It instantly disappeared.

"We nearly get to that door now. Let's hurry" Metis said.

"You're right" Minako spoke up.

They nodded and decided to keep moving without a delay.

They finally reached the door they sought. They were looking for their eyes each other before nearly walking to the door.

"I think this is a first door to find a cause here." Minako said.

"Still the same texture, like the past door. No doubt this is a door we seek." Mitsuru supported Minako's idea.

"Should we open it now. I can't wait to see it inside." Ken vigorously wanted to enter.

"Aigis, you first!" Yukari asked Aigis to open.

"Okay!"

Aigis slowly walked to the door, she loudly sighed before opening the door. A golden shining light piercing into their eyes.

And then, someone' memories were showing in front of them.

Ken's past, Unknown Date

Ken Amada, a young boy, confronted a Veteran Officer about his mother's death at Police Station. He didn't know how he can get help from… He decided to talk to him, hoping he would get his own help he sought.

"Well, Sergeant?" A minor police officer spoke up.

"Eh, you can go. Looks like a pretty routine accident." He said while commanding them to patrol.

"Hey kid, sorry I took so long. Says here that your name's... Ken Amada, is that right? Ah, well, geez... Sorry about what happened to your mom. But she gave her life to save you from the collapse."

"..."

"Anyway, I gotta take your statement. You're a witness, after all."

"If I told you what happened... would you believe me?"

"Of course I would! Helping people out is our job."

"My mom was... murdered."

"...What?"

"Around midnight, I got up to use the bathroom... and I heard voices by the door... I looked and saw this teenager, holding his head and yelling..."

"Wait... you're saying he did it? But the whole house was crushed!" That police seemed not believed what ken said to him.

"There was this shining kind of horse monster, and it came right out of him! It roared, and my mom and my house were-!"

"Oh, a monster, huh? Haha... There's no way that actually happened. Oh, uh... I shouldn't laugh... I know sometimes after a traumatic incident like this, people can-"

"I'm not lying! And I really saw it!"

"Look... it was an accident, plain and simple. A drunk driver crashed his car into your house."

"What...? A car crash...?"

"We've already found the car and what's left of the driver. We just need an account of the accident now."

"That's a lie! You're making that up!"

"I know that's what you think, but... it's true."

"Sergeant, can you come out here?" A minor police office from outside called him out.

"Be right there!"

"Wait! I really saw it!"

"I'm sorry for your loss... I have to go, but well... hope things get better."

The Veteran Officer went outside.

"Liar... You said you'd believe me! ... I can't trust any adults. So I'll find him myself..."

They already watched Ken 'past, making them be silent for a while. They were anxiously looking their eyes each other until they would look at Ken later.

"The door's gone... But the first door didn't disappear. It just opened up to a new place..." Metis confusingly said while looking at door that instantly disappeared for a minute.

"Never mind that... That was..." Fuuka sadly said.

Everyone looked at Ken with gloomy face. They didn't know what Ken faced in his entire life before meeting them, except Minako who had already know about Ken, but seeing that past again, making her even more curious about it.

"*chuckle* That brings back memories. I thought of lots of ways to search for the culprit, but I couldn't manage any of them alone. I kept wondering why the culprit had special powers, and I didn't... I wonder if that's what led me to start experiencing the Dark Hour since that day..." Ken kept saying while reminisced about his past.

"Ken…" Junpei sadly said.

"It's all right, Iori-san. I feel peace when I watched my own past again. To remind me what I still have in my life. I'm glad I met all of you."

Everyone except Minako nodded back to him with warm feeling.

"My family must have been the ones who put the "accident" cover-up in place. ...I'm sorry for that." Mitsuru expressed her remorse, even this's actually not her fault. It's her family who made this lie.

Akihiko suddenly felt raguly angry and asked Metis with furious face.

"Hey, Metis! What was that about!?"

"What was what about...? Oh, I see. Apparently, events that not everyone was involved in can only be watched. That's something new..." Metis seemed to not know about this too.

"That's not what I meant! Why did we see such a painful memory?" Akihiko continuedly asked with fury.

"Huh...? How would I know? It's your past." Metis carelessly answered.

"You'd better not be hiding anything." Akihiko began to not trust in Metis.

Metis can't hold her anger and argued with Akihiko like a childish.

"How would I benefit from that? I'm only speculating, but... I think the "door" reflects the mind of those who enter it. It's the same reason we found a place to get supplies, and why we were able to return directly back. "

Metis didn't care about Akihiko's word and speaking up.

Right now, you wish to erase the Abyss of Time as soon as possible and make it out alive, right? If so, then although what's inside the doors seems unrelated to our situation, we see it for a reason... Maybe you should think hard about what the reason might be instead of wasting time accusing me."

"What did you say!?" Akihiko felt even more furious against Metis.

"That's enough! Akihiko." Minako tried to keep them under control. He heard her, saying his first name with bluntly tone.

"Would I need to just say that already again? We came here for finding a cause and get out from this place, not acting like a child. Maybe she didn't actually know about this. Please, don't make me say that again!" Minako begged both of them to stop argued.

Akihiko felt empty and regretful what he said to Metis.

"Minako… I…I'm sorry. I felt…like…I'm not myself for a moment." Akihiko apologized to Minako.

"Thank you for understanding me, Minako-san." Metis felt appreciated to her.

"Minako, do you know what we saw, right? Would you like to explain that to us?" Yukari asked.

Minako was being silent for a while before beginning to speak up what she knew.

"What all of you just saw is the fragment of the past. It can appear to anyone who have a strong will to look at it. Normally, you can revisit your own past as you want, but if the door itself disappears in front of us, there's only one conclusion…"

"And your answer is…."

Minako shook her head with disappointing face. "Actually, I don't know that either."

Everyone shocked what she just said earlier. They thought she had already known the answer.

"Are you seriously, Minako-chan?" Junpei panicked.

"And why would I lie about that?" she annoyedly said.

But Minako changed the subject and talk about her assumption.

"But…what I actually want to say is Ken-kun's past may be the first clue, to reach a major cause we seek."

"I agree with Minako-san. If the door disappears upon us when we watched it, there're must be something connect between these past" Metis said.

Yukari suddenly interrupted and spoke up.

"Let's not talk like that. There's no use bringing up the past... Don't you remember our entire reason for risking everything? If we don't keep our eyes forward, it was all a waste of time." Yukari kept saying about wasting a time to bringing up the past.

"Yukari…" Mitsuru worried about Yukari.

"...Let's go."

Everyone noticed about Yukari's unusual behavior. She felt cold and empty when talking about the past. She didn't have a motivation to help them find the truth too.

They couldn't do anything but going back in the dorm.

*twinkle* *twinkle* Before she would go after them, she heard a sound behind, calling everyone back.

"Hey, everyone! I think I hear something."

Everyone looked surprised, coming back to the same spot.

"What's wrong, Minako? Do you hear something?" Mitsuru asked.

"Ah! There!" Ken looked at in front of him.

A glowing light shined upon into them, this light began to shape into something.

"What's that, enemy?" Akihiko said.

"No…It's not. I didn't sense any hostile from it. It felt…. warm?" Fuuka was uncertainly not sure what they just witnessed.

A glowing light had shaped, it's a tarot card as Temperance Arcana.

"This is….my power?" Minako slowly walked, trying to pick it.

"Be careful, Minako." Yukari changed her mood and warned her.

Minako pick it up, A card disappeared through her body, just like being the one with her.

"I... see."

"Are you all right, Minako-san?" Aigis worriedly said.

"Hm. It's okay now. I feel…. I become stronger than before for a bit."

Minako glanced at them. "Let's go back everyone."

They nodded and walked through the door, return to the dorm.

New Arcana Power Unlocked: XIV: Temperance

Serene Offering: Spend 150 MP, grants all allies except herself, an additional turn to act in battle each turn for a 3 turn. But all allies got inflicted unique negative effect with receiving continuous damage 20% total of max HP and cannot received any healing skill for 3 turns (Sign: A cross being burned with black fire). Minako can't act during using this skill for 3 turns.