Kirigiri, Togami, Fukawa, Yasuhiro, and Asahina. They were all there. And all of them were staring at him.
The 5-10' person who just walked out of the elevator wearing their 5 3' friends clothing.
Got cold feet now don't ya' Naegi?"
Junko said in a sickeningly sweet voice
At that, Makoto gathered all his nerves to try and remain calm
"Don't worry it's me Makoto!"
"Makoto? What happened to you?"
Aoi said concerned at Makoto's vast changes, though this would only be the tip of the iceberg compared to what would soon happen.
"Uhm. Junko is a bit strange"
He responded
"Yeah but that doesn't answer my questio-"
Aoi said before she was cut off.
"Oh, that makes perfect sense!"
Hiro said in his ignorant fashion
"No, it doesn't plebeian"
Byakuya spat out.
Kirigiri observed him, her lilac eyes falling towards his hood before shooting down to his waist, carefully examining his body.
"Makoto, why do you have your hood up?"
At that Makoto's nervousness increased as his heart accelerated
"It's… a long story, but I assure you everything's fine, really"
"L-like h-Hell it is! Something clearly isn't r-right!"
Toko said bluntly accusatively pointing at Makoto.
"I'm fine, Fukawa, honest! It's just that-"
But before Makoto could say anymore he felt his right hand lift up. When he realized what had happened it was too late. Junko had pulled down his hoodie revealing his hair and eyes to all.
Each and every one of them as they saw him their faces stretched to shock as they let out a gasp
"Naegi!? "
Asahina said in a rushhy and panicky voice
Makoto's heart was pounding so hard it felt like it would rip out of his chest as his body began to shake
"Oh look at the reaction on their faces they are so horrified, disgusted, and disappointed, reminds me of my birth hahaha"
Junko said
Makoto's body flooded with different emotions but the thing was even if his mind knew what he felt his body reacted the same the beating of his heart, the shaking of his body, it was equally caused by the fear and sadness he felt seeing his friends faces as it was the joy and excitement Junko felt at their despair. He felt a heat rise in his core… as his eyes and lips twitched and as his eyes watered a noise began to emanate from his lips
"Eh...hehe"
At that like a ticking time bomb or a balloon under too much pressure he burst, in both ways, as his eyes streamed down with tears and his mouth bellowed out a horrifying laugh
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA"
he didn't want anyone to see him like this but in an attempt to cover his face it only succeeded to make him look more deranged.
Makoto was slipping down the slippery slope of sanity, no one but Junko to pull him up
Makoto's one green eye looked up at his friends. The other was too flooded with tears to see through it.
"You See That!? That is clearly not okay. Is that even normal? I mean how does that work?
Yasuhiro Said.
"There has to be something more than what we are currently seeing,"
Kirigiri stated as she continued to look at Makoto try her best to look as composed as she normally does despite her shaking a bit.
The others only nodded at her statement.
"Makoto... Can you tell us what exactly happened?"
At that Makoto tried to stop himself as he took deep breaths
"Okay so, do you want the short explanation or the-
"More fun one"
Junko interrupted using his mouth to speak.
"Whichever one helps us understand this better"
"Well, when a hopeful Makoto and a despairful Junko hate each other very much~"
Junko/Makoto held up a finger on each hand to represent each one of them
Everyone was extremely bewildered at the manic tone that Makoto spoke in
"They go onto fuse into one body and-"
"JUNKO'S IN MY BODY!"
Makoto blurted out, controlling his mouth again.
Everyone looks out in shock. His eyes started to become teary.
They knew Junko is insane but this just took it to another level.
To fuse herself with there friend—
it's just simply insane!
"Why would she even do anything like that in the first place?"
Yasuhiro blurted
"Why else? Despair."
Junko blurted out giggling slightly.
Everyone could only stand there.
After about 10 minutes of that Kirigiri shooed everyone out of the room.
She went up to him and tapped his shoulder, which she made a mental note about how much harder it was to tap his shoulder now that he's a lot taller than her. While she doesn't know how to feel about this she can't just abandon the only person who trusted her
Even if he was now fused with the very person that killed her father
"Awww that's so sweet of you to say, Kyoko"
Junko said,
The purple-haired woman gave her a puzzled look.
"You were mumbling, that's really annoying, you know that, right?"
"I'm sorry I don't know how to control her"
Makoto raised a hand to wipe his eyes.
She looked at him and for a second he could have sworn he saw her eyes soften on him.
But she quickly put back on her iron mask.
"Makoto I know this must be very hard for you and I can't imagine what it must be like but I know that if anyone can get over this it's you"
Then Kyoko put a hand on his shoulder and looked at him reassuringly
"and while things will be harder from now on I will be with you every step of the way"
At that, Makoto smiled back at her
"Thank you"
Of course, Junko spoke in Makoto's mind
"Man that was sooooo sappy but of course you'd be into that"
"Shut up!" Makoto said out loud which startled Kyoko a bit.
"Sorry, it's just she's constantly in my head"
"I understand," Kyoko said. Though she could only look at her friend with concern
"I think I'm ready to face the others now"