I found myself back in the red room. The two angels in front of me.

"You have made the emperor and empress bow to you…" angel yukari said. The two cards appeared before me.

"The Emperor represents masculinity, authority and the strong will of a king." angel fuuka said. The card then goes upside down. "On the other hand, the Reverse Emperor represents weak will, corruption and rigidness. While the empress represents someone caring about one with motherly love, assuring the enjoyment of life." angel yukari said as the card flipped upside down. "The reverse however represents selfishness and hedonism." angel yukari said. The cards flipped up and two more fiends spouted from them. The emperor type fiend was a crusader flying on a jackpack armed with a spas-12 and ar-18 the empress card spouted a woman with a skull face 7 headed creature.

"I am terminator. Let us bring judgment to sinners!" terminator yelled. I didn't realize personas and fiends could be based off of movies. Well that oughta make things interesting.

"Greetings child. I am mother harlot. Let's indulge in the vices of this world shall we?" mother harlot asked as she and terminator disappeared and a red light surrounded me as my dream ended. And i woke up.

June 14th-june 20th 2009.

That evening. I returned to the dorm to find that shinjiro was here. He finally returned to s.e.e.s but he made it crystal clear that he's only here for payback against me. Both him and akihiko are more alike than either cares to admit. Neither of them can take an L and move on. Speaking of akihiko he actually invited me to hagakure. As a means of burying the hatchet between us. After an extra large bowl of soup and a chat. The voice in my head came back.

"I am thou..thou art i...thou has formed an new bond...with the power of the star by your side. The power to change fate will be closer to your grasp." the voice said.

Star

Akihiko sanada.

Rank 1.

The next 5 days hanging out i spent at track. Getting to rank 8 with yuko and kazuchi. The coach pressed me and makoto for what's happening to kazuchi considering he took a dive again cause of his leg. And yuko getting an idea of what she wants to do with her life. An instructor.

At the front of the dorm. I saw yukari and fuuka petting a small white dog.

"Can i pet the pupper?" i asked.

"Oh hey skell, yeah you can." yukari said.i petted the dog. The dog enjoyed it and i enjoyed the softness of his fur.

"What's his name?" i asked.

"Koromaru." fuuka replied. A passing housewife approached us and told us that koromaru used to belong to the priest of the naganaki shrine. This is where he would take him for walks. The priest died six months ago. Hit by a car during a walk. His loyalty to the priest means he won't let anyone else take him in.

"Loyal to the end huh koromaru?" i asked as the housewife left to go pick up her son. Koromaru was petted by yukari.

"Huh is he?" fuuka asked.

"Notice something?" i asked.

"No it's nothing. Anyway isn't the chairman coming tonight?" fuuka asked. We soon headed in and waited for the chairman. He let us know on his research. That their eight more full moon shadows left. But we still have no clue on their true purpose. And that's what is bothering us the most.

June 21st-july 6th 2009.

During this time. I joined with makoto and kotone hanging out with two people at the park at the naganaki shrine. A little girl named maiko oohashi who's life home…is not going very well. Her parents are divorcing. And if that's not bad enough for a kid. The two are constantly fighting. And that's not something a kid should deal with…the other person at the park is a young man named akinari kamiki. As much as i like to preach as long as one person would mourn for your loss than you owe it to them to keep living…that mindset doesn't really help when you have a terminal incurable illness. Poor guy doesn't have much longer. So all we can really do is give him a friend while he waits for the inevitable. Through the days of hanging out with both we all reached rank 5 the hanged man arcana and the sun arcana.

During this time was when he hit up tartarus again. With the defeat of the emperor and empress another block of tartarus is now opened. The yabbashah block. Boy these names are weird. And here we got introduced to another random event that could happen when we enter a new floor. This one is a nasty one. Well the berserker is not dead. Not to mention there's another one that we call the pirate. If either catches we either have to fight or use fuuka's escape route ability. They can't be outrunned. We started calling these powerful chasing shadows "phantoms." During our climb up we rescued people that somehow found their way here. As we climbed up the tower. I got to give terminator and mother harlot a good test drive. As expected of a crusader packing heat. His kit consists of pierce and light attacks. While mother harlot has electric and ice spells to her name. So there's two zones I wasn't able to cover before. Which came in handy for the first gatekeepers of this block. The ochlocratic sands. Which were weak to ice. Which made me glad mitsuru was back for this fight. Considering her persona Penthesilea was packing bufu spells at it's main way of dealing pain to shadows as well as status afflicting spells. You'd think she'd have some slash attacks considering it had a rapier and a parrying dagger. But guess not. While shinjiro's persona castor. Was all about reeling back and hitting as hard as possible. Having skills like power charge and tarukaja to make what comes next hit hard, extremely hard.

The next gatekeeper was the arcanist decapitator. A powered up seeker. Alongside two powerful balances called the sky and heat overseer. And this is where keeping single target spells came in handy. The heat overseer heals from fire and ice but is weak to electric and wind. And it's the reverse for the sky overseer. The decapitator on the other hand had no weaknesses and straight up blocks ice and wind. So the only way to knock him down would be with a critical hit.

Next up after more climbing was the deviant convict and the tome of atrophy. A stronger minotaur and book shadow. The tome was weak to fire but resistant to electricity. Good thing alot of have agi spells considering how buff and debuff how happy these two were. Thank god for red capote. Otherwise that minotaur would have knocked our lights in one swift hit. Deviant convict was right. He certainly knows how to strategize.

The next gatekeeper on our way to the end was the dependent and controlling partners. A couple of dancer shadows. The dependent one was weak to pierce attacks which made it easy pickings for yukari and terminator. As for the other one. Didn't have any weaknesses so we had to hit until it died. And by hit it. I mean shoot it as blades and blunt weapons didn't do a damn thing. On the final stretch of this block. We found a red door at the end. But decided it was best to tackle it later when we were stronger. And so we reached the end of this block and considered the way forward was blocked. We grab the old document and called it quits.

July 7th 2009

Another full moon tonight…no hanging out with anyone today. I have a big shadow to splat. And so when midnight hit. Fuuka was already in lucia. Scanning for our mark. She found it. Proving our theory was correct. These big bastards show up on full moons.

"It's located in iwatodai. Inside a building on shirakawa boulevard." fuuka said.

"Hmm, shirakawa boulevard…they've been finding the lost in pairs lately. Now i understand why." ikutsuki said.

"Of course they would. It's the place to go for horny lovers that want to get in trouble with the dorm staff or their parents. Dirty cheaters. And ugly bastards and hookers." i said.

"W-what?" fuuka asked.

"It's where people go to fuck." i said deadpan and bluntly.

"Dude…blunt much?" junpei asked with a sweat drop.

"Come on. Don't let your imagination get carried away. They're no different than other hotel. The rooms are just a bit more…exotic that's all." ikutsuki said.

"True…i guess horny people who want privacy could bang in any hotel. Just a matter of how pissed off the staff who has to clean that room will be." i said. Alex chuckled.

"I don't know about this…maybe i shouldn't go." yukari said.

"Aw, look at you yuka-tan. You're such a child sometimes." junpei teased. Yukari took offense to that.

"Who are you calling a child!? All right, fine let's go! I'm reserving in the lineup for today's operation no objections!" yukari yelled fired up

"You know falling for junpei's teasing like this is not helping your case yukari." I said dead pan.

"Shut up skell! So who's taking the lead?" yukari asked.

"Shi will be leading this operation this time around. Yamagishi will take support from here on." mitsuru said.

"Alright. Well in that case i'll take kaze and mitsuru for this op." i said.

"That was quick on the party deciding." kaze commented.

"Why not? Consider it a double date." i said with a teasing smirk. Mitsuru and yukari's face turned red. I saw alex and kotone trying not to laugh. I was already out the door by the time they were about to object.

We arrived at champ de fleurs according to mitsuru it means floor of flowers. We headed right up no resistance and we arrived at the hierophant. This was too easy…worry about that later. The heirophant took the form of a fat guy on a chair with a woman with a golden tree thingy for a head behind it. It had two paper-men like you see in rituals by it's sides.

"This thing's the boss? Huh, it's more normal looking than i expected." yukari said. I turned my head slowly to her.

"You have an interesting definition of normal yukari. Anyway, we found our target. Time to kill it!" we said. This full moon shadow wasn't really impressive. It had a medium strike and light attack. It's unique attack was doomsday doctrine. If that sounds scary. Well that's the main point. It's a spell that hits us all with fear. Attempts too. Something that was easily defeated with a slap with a paper fan. And soon the shadow fell. 7 more to go. I turned around and tried to open the door…but it wouldn't budge.

"No way. Why? I still sense a shadow in that room." fuuka said.

"So I take it this is like the emperor and empress. Two in one night. But where is the other one?" i asked. We all looked around in this room until we payed attention to the mirror.

"Is it just me or something odd about this mirror?" yukari asked. Soon a flash of white hit me and I found myself sitting on a bed. The sound of a shower.

"Where the fuck am i…and who the hell is taking a shower during the dark hour? I thought all liquid turned to blood during it." i said. The shower then stopped. I stood up and waited at the door…and yukari came out wearing nothing but a towel. But I noticed her eyes were glowing pink. She came closer trying to connect her lips to mind but I pushed her back and shook my head. "I do want to kiss you yukari. But it'll be something we do by choice. Not because some shadow is brainwashing you into getting freaky with me…" i said. Why do i feel like a bunch of pervs on the net are going to make doujins of this if they find out? The pink glow yukari's eyes faded away.

"Uh…what was i?" yukari asked she noticed the situation we're in and her face turned red because of it. "Eeeek!" she screamed and tried to slap me only for me to grab her hand she tried the other hand only for me to grab that one two.

"Hey! No need for that! I'm just as confused as you! Now would you please put your clothes back…on." i said as my face turned red. Because of this struggle and the fact she has no hands to hold on…her towel fell off. And i see everything. Her face turned red.

"EEEEEEEEKKKK!" yukari screamed as she covered herself with her freed arms and ran towards the bathroom. Slamming the door.

"Ah, i can finally reach you! Can you two hear me?" fuuka said. Seems like whatever the hell was going on. It blocked out her communication.

"Hi fuuka. Any idea of what the fuck just happend?" I asked

"I'm sorry I couldn't contact you sooner. The shadow was interfering with your thoughts so I couldn't reach you. Looks like you two got teleported away as well. The groups all been separated. The enemy is still in the same room, let's regroup and head back there." fuuka said. I know the shadow had it's tendrils all over yukari's mind. But me? I was perfectly fine…no big shadow messing with my brain…weird. Guess i have some sort of immunity. "Did you hear that yukari?" fuuka asked.

"Yeah i heard you." yukari said. Her tone of voice screams she's not happy.

"Um did something happen?" fuuka asked.

"NO!" I yelled. Way to go genius…yelling and panicking will totally get her to believe you. Yukari stepped out of the bathroom fully dressed. I bowed my head. "I am so sorry yukari!" i yelled.

"Just…keep your mouth shut about this and all will be forgiven. Okay?" yukari asked i nod my head.

"What happens in shirakawa boulevard stays in shirakawa boulevard." i replied. And so we headed out and regrouped with the other two.

"So you two were only one floor down? Didn't expect another shadow to be hiding. What happened with you two?" kaze asked.

"What about you?" i asked.

"N-nothing odd! Nothing at all!" mitsuru yelled. It was obvious from her reaction not to mention the two refuse to make eye contact shows that the shadow put them in the same scenario straight from a porno. We went to that room again unfortunately it was still locked up tight we had to figure something out which we did…the mirrors. Smash the wrong ones and we'd get warp to that room again. Thankfully not being in the same situation again. It didn't take us long to figure out which ones were the right ones. There were mirrors with no reflection. And last i checked being persona users didn't make us vampires. So smashy smashy. We smashed the final mirror breaking whatever spell was keeping the door closed. Though before we left that room i noticed that there were three coffins on the bed.

"Either some guy has massive rizz or some girl is a massive slut." I said as we left the room. We entered the room again and found another shadow. One taking the form of a massive cage in the shape of a heart. The male and female symbol floating around within it. It had wings and a head which had the mask you see on shadows of the lovers arcana.

"So it was you! I'll teach you for messing with a girl's heart!" yukari yelled. And the battle started.

"I hope your high schooler fetish was worth the pain i'm going to inflict you fucking creep!" i yelled.

"Unforgivable…I'll never forgive you for that!" yukari yelled. Both her and my theurgy charged up immediately. As both of us were pissed at this shadow's dirty little trick. The fight was over quickly as yukari unleashed cyclone arrow. And I unleashed bulletstorm. A theurgy that requires terminator. He surrounds the target in a bunch of guns and with a snap of his finger raining a storm of bullets on it the shadow couldn't even retaliate as it was dead before it could. Six more to go.

We all left the place. Along with the memories of it. What happens in shirakawa boulevard stays in shirakawa boulevard. Still another big shadow defeated and my bond with sees has grown after defeating a tough enemy.

Fool

S.E.E.S

Rank 4,

I notice junpei staring off into space.

"Something wrong junpei?" i asked.

"Looks like you're really shining out there skell." junpei said.

"We all did." i said trying to ease whatever is bothering him.

"Really now…well, whatever. I guess." junpei said clearly my attempt failed.

"Don't tell me your jealous someone else is getting all the attention." yukari said. Really yukari?

"Shut up!" junpei yelled clearly not in the mood for yukari's bullshit tonight. He stormed off.

"What's his problem?" yukari asked. Everyone else soon left. I soon turned to leave as well. But i soon felt a presence. I looked up to the building in front of the hotel. And saw three people. Some pale guy with no shirt cosplaying jesus. A girl with red hair wearing a white dress. And some guy who looks like he stepped straight out of digimon. Normally I would just consider them a group of weirdos and move on. But the fact it's the dark hour and there not coffins tells me one thing…their packing personas.

"Hey roof weirdos! I don't know what your goal is…but if you get in our way. I'll put a knife in your eyes!" i yelled as i walked away. Hopefully my warning will get them to back off…but somehow i doubt that.