May 30th 2009.

Thanks to kaze. I was able to get access to the kirijo database. And so i looked into the history of S.E.E.S. and I found out who that beanie wearing douchebag was. Shinjiro aragaki. S.e.e.s was a three man team of him akihiko and mitsuru. Couldn't get very far in tartarus due to lack of fire power. But what drove him to leave? Apparently he lost control of his persona castor. Resulting in the death of a woman with the last name amada. So i take this is what akihiko does when he says he's going to talk to someone. I'm guessing he's talking to shinjiro to try to convince him to come back. Not only do i not care if he succeeds. But i honestly hope he doesn't. S.e.e.s has no use for a liability who can't keep his persona in check. And a coward who runs from his problems.

May 31st. 2009.

Alex and fuuka came to our dorm in the evening. The evoker and s.e.e.s armband for both of them. And they agreed. But before the night ended. Yukari had something to say.

"Hold, I have something to ask mitsuru…i know the truth. That where doing this to clean up your family's mess. How your grandfather experimented on with shadows to control time! So when you were going to tell us this!?" yukari demanded. Mitsuru gave a disapproving look to kaze.

"What? They had a right to know mitsuru. Her father is dead, and his father has permanent scars because your dear old grandpa messed with things he shouldn't have!" kaze yelled. Mitsuru didn't argue. She was just silent.

"Damn…experimenting on shadows…that's fricking nuts." junpei said.

"Yeah…and i agree with kaze. We had a right to know. Where you ever gonna tell us this? Or were you just going to keep stringing us along?" i asked. Mitsuru was silent. "I'm already in too deep to back out now…but a bit of transparency goes a long way assholes! Telling us this from the start would have ripped off the bandage earlier on. And you wouldn't lose of trust of the people you're expecting to fight for you! The same goes for you akihiko! Care to explain why you kept your mouth shut about this!?" i asked.

"I…have my reasons." akihiko said.

"Are you going to tell us those reasons? Because need i remind you that you and the red head rich girl are on thin ice with us!? And last i checked you need our help. Because from what i read. We managed to make progress in a single night then you had the entire time you started SEES! Not surprising. Considering it was only you her and that coward in a beanie shinjiro!" i yelled. Akihiko stood up.

"What was that!?" akihiko asked.

"I read about SEES history. Thanks kaze. And from what i read, i want you to stop trying to reel him back into SEES. the fact he couldn't keep his persona in check to the point of an innocent woman got killed proves he's worse than useless. He's a liability. I know the standards aren't very high considering beggars can't be choosers with who has the potential. But SEES has no use for a coward who threw down his evoker and ran from his problems like a little bitch!" i said. Akihiko got up and grabbed my shirt.

"Shut the hell up skell! You have no idea what your talking about!" akihiko yelled. I judo throwed him over my shoulder. I sighed and went to the door.

"Continue on with this conversation…i'm going to bed." i said as i left the room. Not even giving anyone the chance to say…i was tired and at this point i didn't care…i said what i needed too.

June 1st 2009.

Things are pretty rocky after last night. With akihiko really pissed at me for the stuff i said about shinjiro. And Mitsuru losing a lot of everyone's trust. Not sitting on the reason we were risking our lives what have done a lot to prevent this mess. From what the yukis told me. We got an idea of what to do. Kill the twelve moon shadows. The dark hour goes bye bye. The full moon is in 7 days. So I should get some training in. but first. A hakagure bowl is calling my name, i entered the shop and…speak of the beanie. He's here.

"You…did akihiko send you?" shinjiro asked.

"Nope…me and him aren't on speaking terms right now." i said. I ordered my soup and waited for it to arrive.

"Heh…what did you say to that protein loving idiot to get him so pissed?" shinjiro asked…he's not gonna like what i say next. But screw it.

"A simple truth…that SEEs has no need for a coward and liability like you." I said.

"What was that!?" shinjiro asked enraged.

"What? it's true. An innocent woman died. And a kid out there is now an orphan because you couldn't keep your persona in line. Something even yukari could do! And she didn't even have the strength to summon io at first. Just couldn't pull the trigger. Yet she's still competent than you. At least she didn't lose control of io and got innocent people killed. And instead of facing it. You threw away your evoker and went to the alley where the scum of this island go to hang and rot away like a piece of garbage." i said. My ramen arrived. It was too hot to eat. Eh. i wasn't done roasting the beanie bitch anyway.

"Screw you!...i just want to forget what happened! Okay?" shinjiro asked. My response was a laugh.

"Forget? Oh that's funny. You really think you can forget? Hate to break it you beanie boy. But you're never going to forget. It's going to be in the back of your head until the day you die. How can you forget? Because of you. A woman is dead. And a poor boy is now an orphan. Cause you couldn't keep your persona in check. Something even mitsuru and frigging akihiko can do just fine…face it. You're pathetic." i said as i sipped my soup. He soon left without his order.

"What was that about?" the owner asked. He didn't hear our conversation. Just noticed shinjiro dashing out.

"Just some teenage drama." I said with a shrug. Before returning to my soup. What that loser does with his life is not my concern.

June 2nd-june 6th 2009.

I spent the next 4 days hanging out with alex and fuuka. And i learned about their hobbies. Fuuka has a thing for technology. And alex has a thing for baking. Both are really good at it. Alex makes some awesome cookies. So i reached rank 5 with both of them. I got a more power staff axes. And some awesome cookies and an mp3 player fuuka was working on.

June 7th 2009.

Another full moon therefore. Time to eliminate another full moon shadow. And how lucky for us. It was at the entrance to tartarus. It was a short trip. However there was two massive curveballs. For starters. We weren't facing one big shadow, we were facing two. The emperor and empress…makes sense i guess. The other gimmick is that they could change their fricking weaknesses. I'm glad we recruited fuuka. This would have been a lot more difficult if not for her persona being able to fully scan and show their weaknesses. Which turned a tough fight into a joke. Needless to say. That's two more shadows down. Eight more to go.

July 8th-13th 2009.

These days i spent hanging out with my sports team friends. Kazuchi and yuko. Kazuchi has a knee injury. But he's too damn prideful to let his teammates know. At this rate he won't be walking at all…prideful fool. Yuko is dealing with some rowdy kids who's got too much energy to spare…kids am i right? I think i have an idea of what she'll doing with her life…cause she makes a good sports coach. The 13th has arrived and has a special announcement…new gear. Cool suits and special cartridges that allow us to use a new ability called "theurgy." needless to say we went to tartarus that night to try out the new gear. And i had to admit all of us looked badass. Mine was a trench coat esque uniform with my family's crest in the back. Two scythes between a skull. Kaze's was a long black coat like you'd expect a modern samurai to wear while alex's was a heavy looking coat that looked bullet proof and right for a berserker. As we were about to begin a familiar beanie got mitsuru's attention.

"Aragaki?" mitsuru asked.

"I'm not here for re join. I'm here to teach that black haired punk some manners." shinjiro said.

"Pff…good luck with that." i said with a snicker. He readied his axe and evoker…despite akihiko and mitsuru trying to get him to back down. He wasn't having it. So i granted his desire…it went how you expected it would. I wiped the floor with him. He's been out of the fight for a long time. He could barely control castor to begin with. And clearly he didn't run a few floor of tartarus before coming here to pick a fight with me. Honestly he might as well have had a bullseye painted on either butt cheek considering how I thoroughly kicked his ass. Akihiko and mitsuru stayed behind to check on their friend while we gave the new gear a spin. After splatting a few shadows. The next floor pulled a dirty move on us. As it was filled with darkness and we were separated.

"Oh what the hell!?" i yelled.

"Why is everything so dark!?" yukari yelled afraid.

"Everyone stay calm! We need to regroup quickly!" i yelled.

"Right…be careful everyone!" kotone yelled.

"Roger." i said before wondering through the door. I soon heard yukari scream. It seemed a shadow got the drop on her. A solid castle. As i was protecting the damn thing managed to knock me on my ass.

"Shit…" I said recoiling from the pain.

"Skell!...not again." yukari said. The shadow hit me with an assault dive. Which hurt twice as more considering my guard wasn't up. "Everyone's always protecting me and getting hurt because of it…what am i even doing!?" yukari yelled annoyed with herself "fuuka i need you to back me up. I'll hold this thing off until everyone else gets here!" yukari yelled with determination as she fired her bow and managed to knock the thing down.

"Not so fun when it's you getting intimate to the ground is it?" i said. My wounds felt better when yukari summoned io and hit us with a media. "Way to step up to the plate yukari." i said with a smile.

"Now's the time." yukari said as she loaded the new evoker cartridges in and unleashed her theurgy. Destroying the shadow with a volley of wind charged arrows. I stood up.

"Skell are you okay!?" yukari asked worried.

"Not the first time those damn things managed to knock me on my ass…not the last time probably." i said

"I'm sorry. It was all my fault." yukari said. I put my hand on her shoulder.

"No sweat. You stepped up when you needed to. Plus you're the first to do a theurgy. So there's some bragging rights right there." i said giving her a thumbs up. Soon the others arrived we made it out. These special bullets. This theurgy. No doubt is going to come in real handy in the future…