Disclaimer: The characters (except the female protagonist, Velvet room attendants, and people tied to her backstory), places, mechanics and others are fictional and belong to the videogame company ATLUS and P Studio.

Author's Notes:

-Do not expect perfect English sentence structure as English is my second language.

-Protagonist's (male) name was kept as the one in my Persona 5 walkthrough, Kazui Asaka. This is because the personality of the MC is not the same as the official one for Ren Amamiya/Akira Kurusu.

-Story and tutorials were modified to advance the development of this fan fiction. Some characters were genderbent to fit the Confidants' balance for a female character (Makoto Nijima and Tae Takemi are guys in this version).

-The Velvet Room attendants are Victor and Will, as in comparison with Persona 3 Portable having the choice to select Theodore instead of Elizabeth.

-(This chapter has been corrected and reuploaded).

Prologue

A girl in a magician-like blue and black suit was running over the roofs of many buildings. Someone behind her started to shoot but the bullets were repelled by a magic wall. She reached the edge of the last building on her way with nowhere to scape:

"You're surrounded. Give it up." said the voice behind her when it reached her. "I won't let you take my treasure…"

"Is it fine with you to stay as you are then?".she asked"I have someone to save and this treasure is what I need."

"Very well, then." said the person behind her and blue fire emerged from his body. The girl jumped off the building and blue fire also emerged from her, taking the shape of a demon dressed like a gentleman to which wings made her fly out of this strange dimension while she was looking at the enraged subject she was talking to.

When she came out however, an army of men was pointing out their guns at her:

"Don't move!" One of them shouted. "You're under arrest, Phantom Thief!"

"No way." She thought. "How could this happen?"

She raised her hands to avoid a sudden death from the force in front of her and one of them cuffed her hands.

"It's time for you to confess, Ms. Phantom Thief of Hearts." said someone in front of her. It was an attractive woman in a gray office suit. "You didn't expect your victim this time to be more astute than you, huh?"

As the woman said this, everything went blurry for the girl, and she lost consciousness all of the sudden.

"This truly is an unjust game... Your chances of winning are almost none. But if my voice is reaching you, there may yet be a possibility open to you…

I beg of you... Please overcome this game... And save the world."

11 months ago…

It all started in the Koshigaya Hospital of Saitama Prefecture, Japan. A girl, with black, short and frizzy hair, dressed with brown shorts, a long-sleeved shirt with green neck, tights and white shoes was running towards the room in the corner of the floor she was in.

She stayed in front of the door for a few seconds, trying to recover her breathing, and put a smile on her face before she opened the door:

"Kazuya, I'm here!".she exclaimed joyfully to a kid inside the room. He was 7, short, almond-colored eyes, his hair was black and frizzy too and he was using the green pajamas that the hospitals provide to their patients.

"Big sis…" He said in a quiet tone, greeting her. Kazuya knew how lively was his older sister but sometimes it was too much for him and his recent auditive problems.

"Oh my, I'm sorry." she whispered and sat next to him. "Your infection hasn't healed yet…"

"I'm fine. The hospital is quiet after all...and lonely." he said in a sad tone while looking at his stomach.

"Doctor Hiromi said that they will set your surgery very soon, am I right?" She mentioned it while she was taking out her phone. "Here."

"Uh?" Kazuya looked at his sister's phone and saw an amusement park. "Is this Destinyland?"

"That's right! I have saved a lot to go.".she said"We will go together as soon as you're discharged."

"Is that a promise!? Will you really take me, big sis?".he said enthusiastic

"I promise it." she said as she offered her right pinky and her brother touched it with his left pinky. That was their pinky swearing.

"Oh, Kazumi.".they were interrupted by a bald middle-aged man with a doctor coat."I didn't expect to see you today. How is everything?"

"Doctor." she said as she stood up in respect. "Pretty good actually. I'm studying for my finals and the softball team is doing good. My father is also out of the province."

"I see. So much going on for a first year student." he replied with a smile.

"Say, Doctor. Is the date set for Kazuya's Gastrectomy?" She asked with worry.

"It's fortunate that you ask. Why don't we discuss it in my office?" he replied as he fixed his glasses.

"Sure." she nodded. "I'll be back, Kazuya."

"Don't take too long, sis!" he exclaimed before they left. When the door was shut, Kazuya started to feel an intense pain in his abdomen. The kid has been hospitalized for about three months due to an infection on his stomach. Not to mention, other sudden infections ever since he was hospitalized. He might be a kid but he knew the reasons why.

"You're very strong, Kazuya-kun." a voice said as someone entered his room. It was a nurse. "Doctor Hiromi has been very gentle with you...but, don't you ever think you can get out of here just like that."

"Why are you doing this to me?" asked the little kid still bearing the pain.

"Your mother is from a rich family. She has been paying quite a lot for your treatments and that makes you our money pig." The nurse was preparing a syringe while she was saying this. "Honestly, I never thought it would be this fun to make someone sick."

"W-What is that?" The kid tried to hide after seeing the large needle in the syringe. "H-Help."

"Sorry, Kazuya, I forgot my–" Kazumi interrupted in the room at the moment the nurse holded her brother's arm forcefully.

"Big sis!" Kazuya exclaimed as tears appeared in his eyes. The girl made her approach to the nurse with the suspicion that she wasn't ordered to do such a thing.

"What are you doing to my brother?" She said while making a quick look to the room in search of a weapon, just in case.

"Oh, there's nothing to worry about, Miss. This is the medicine for his auditive infection." she said with a smile.

"Then, why are you forcing him like that?" she asked. The nurse's smile fainted as she released Kazuya to throw the syringe to Kazumi and she avoided it by crouching and pushing the nurse to the floor. The woman was knocked out when her head touched the floor.

"Kazuya!" Kazumi exclaimed while she proceeded to stand up and hug her brother.

"Big sis…" he hugged her tighter and tried to calm himself.

"What is this?" said someone entering the room after hearing the ruckus. "Nurse Haruka!". The person was Hiromi who immediately assisted the unconscious woman.

"What is the meaning of this, Doctor!?" exclaimed the girl angry at the superior man. "That woman was about to inject something weird to my brother!"

"Is that true!?" he said in surprise and the girl pointed at the syringe which was broken and the content was spilled on the floor. "This is…not a medicine…"

"Doctor Hiromi!" Other nurses and some security officers came to the place and saw the scene. "What happened here?"

"I'll explain this later. Take Nurse Haruka to the security office, now!" said the Doctor in a light state of concern. The staff did as said and the room was left alone with the two kids and the doctor.

"Kazumi, Kazuya, hear me out." said the Doctor trying to calm them down. "I'll do the surgery in two days."

"Really? But why…?" Kazumi asked as she was worried about the prior issue. "Is there something we should know?"

"Kazuya, when did this started to happen?" asked the doctor to the little and scared kid.

"Ever since the last time you said I was going to be discharged…" he replied while hiding on his sister's big chest. "That woman came to my room and injected something weird on me saying that it was Doctor's order."

"Kazuya…" Kazumi looked at him very worried and started to knead his head. "You should've told me that."

"I see. In that case, we're definitely doing your surgery in two days." He declared. "I'm afraid that woman might have worsened your condition."

January 21st, two days later…

Kazumi stayed alone in the waiting room next to the operating room where her brother was going to be attended. Some thoughts gathered in her mind, most of them were about the previous incident. That nurse was not fired from the hospital as she was being questioned by the police for answers. Doctor Hiromi also seemed nervous at the beginning of the day when she visited Kazuya before the anesthesia.

"Kazumi, stop!". She slapped her cheeks as she said this. "I should be hoping the surgery goes well for Kazuya! That's the most important thing now!"

Meanwhile in the surgery room, the old man Hiromi was starting the incision in the upper part of the abdomen. Everything was going well as the kid's heartbeats were stable and no sudden bleeding occurred:

"Scalpel No. 15". The Doctor said to one of his surgery assistants as he reached out his hand.

"Yes." The nurse passed said instrument and the Doctor took it to proceed to cut a long part of the stomach which was infected by a large ulcer.

"Ngh…" before cutting the stomach wall, he suddenly felt an intense headache.

"Doctor Hiromi?" Asked the other assistant who was checking Kazuya's condition.

"Agh...ARGHHHH!" suddenly he backed off from the child's body and impaled the scalpel on himself to the horror of the nurses. His eyes went totally blank and blood was pouring from his mouth and his injury.

However that was not all, the Doctor went on his feet towards the patient with the scalpel on his hand. One of the nurses tried to stop him while the other one ran towards the emergency button. The Emergency alarm sounded over the whole building, Kazumi heard it and knew something was wrong inside it:

"Kazuya!" She exclaimed as she intended to go in but the door of the surgery room was locked. "Can somebody hear me!? Doctor Hiromi!!"

"Open up!" She started to force the door while the distress clouded her mind. "Kazuya! Kazuya!!", she yelled banging on the door with all her might. The lock finally opened after a few seconds and Kazumi burst through it, seeing a small river of blood on the floor.

She looked up and saw one of the nurses on the floor. The woman was dead as the mark of a sharp weapon on her chest showed. Kazumi entered in distress and searched for her brother. Doctor Hiromi, in his current state, was using the scalpel on the body of his patient and while doing it, lots of blood spills splashed on the room.

"No...Kazuya…" Kazumi's legs started to tremble and she was unable to hear anything but the sound of the sharp object piercing through her brother's body. "KAZUYA!!!"

"Ugh…".Hiromi mumbled when he heard her scream and turned around to see the girl on the floor. He walked towards her with the scalpel in his hand. The girl backed off until she walked into a table.

"Doctor...Stop!" She screamed as she pushed a nearby table to him. Hiromi was pushed back by it and he fell on the ground. The scalpel flew from his hand towards his face and pierced his throat deeply, killing him instantly.

Kazumi tried to compose herself after the events. However, the door was crushed by firefighters and the police who saw the bloody scene in front of them. One of them saw Kazumi in her catatonic state:

"You, there!" He exclaimed as he approached her. "What are you doing here? Hey! Answer me!"

"My brother…" She said in a quiet voice looking at the bed where Kazuya's corpse lay and she burst into tears.

After the emergency was attended, it was reported that only one of the nurses and Kazumi were the only ones found alive. The nurse was on treatment while the girl was sent to the police office as a witness.

She told the authorities everything she saw when she entered the emergency room. The investigators asked her about Hiromi's behavior before the surgery but she couldn't come up with something aside from what happened with Nurse Haruka:

"Two days ago, Doctor was acting weird when he found out a nurse was injecting my brother with a strange substance." She explained to the prosecutor in front of her. "That day, he told us he'll do the surgery today. He looked like he was in a hurry…"

"I understand who you're talking about." He said. "We'll ask her for more details. Thank you for your help and… my apologies for your loss."

Kazumi felt dishonesty in his words at that moment, but she ignored it as she didn't want the pity of a stranger.

February 2nd…

Kazumi was dressed in her uniform. That day, they were going to bury her brother's body. Her father was back from Okinawa since a week ago and they never spoke a word about what happened. Not like she cared, as she was not in the mood to talk to someone about it either:

"The ceremony will be held in an hour. Are you ready?" asked her father as he saw her coming to the living room.

"Yes." she said as she dropped something in her left pocket.

"Ok." The grown man with black hair and gray eyes, as his daughter, said as he stood up from the chair he was sitting on.

After they arrived to the cemetery and parked the car, Kazumi's father spoke to her:

"Do not speak a word to your mother." He said in a cold voice. "I'm telling you for your own sake."

"I know, father." She replied obediently as they came in front of the coffin.

Very few faces were seen attending Kazuya's funeral. Kazumi was not surprised by that. Her family in short terms could be described as a 'business'. She and her brother were both part of a contract between their parents' families. However, as Kazuya was born with discapacities, her mother's family agreed to a divorce and to have Kazumi under her custody. Kazumi decided by herself to stay with her father and her brother and take care of him. When Kazuya was hospitalized, all the money for his hospitalization came from her mother as she wanted to get rid of any other responsibilities with the boy.

During the ceremony, Kazumi could hear all kinds of rumors about her family and her brother's death. She ignored them as much as she could. In her mind, the most important thing for her was that her brother could rest in peace. Or it was until she heard two women saying:

"I heard the police made her sister confess." One said. "She blamed the fault on a totally unrelated nurse. What a foolish girl."

"Oh yes, I heard that woman is the wife of the mayor's son," said another. "Even if she did something, there's no way the police will put a finger on her."

"How nice...I would like to be that untouchable too." replied the other one.

"No way…" Kazumi thought as she remembered how the prosecutor replied to her answer. "I knew he was lying about the investigation…"

After the coffin was buried and the guests went inside the church to give the condolences to her parents, Kazumi stayed in front of the grave and took out a little plush toy of a cartoony Zombie Mouse from her pocket to put it there:

"I bought this from Destinyland's website." she said while she was in a praying pose. "It's not much but I wanted to keep my promise. Farewell, Kazuya."

Kazumi heard something very faint. It was like a woman singing accompanied by a piano. Then, something small passed behind her. She turned back and saw no one. Somebody once said that cemeteries are not places where you should be alone, and with that thought, she went back inside the church.

A few hours later, Kazumi and her father went on their way back home. It was snowing and the transit was not the best either. She turned to him to speak:

"Father. Has the police made an advance about the case?" she asked. Her father frowned. "Have they told you anything?"

"Not a word" ,he replied, "I doubt they will find something since the true culprit is dead…"

"I see. So you think it was Doctor Hiromi's fault?" she asked with disappointment

"Don't give me that look," he said, annoyed. "You must know more than anyone else since you saw him doing it."

"But he wasn't in his right mind!" she exclaimed. "Something...someone must have done something to him!", and a silly thought crossed her mind at that moment: "What if it was that woman? What if she injected him on revenge?"

"Kazumi, stop it!" He yelled, "Now, you're being silly."

"Listen. I understand that you loved your brother and all but you must keep it together." he mentioned exasperated. "You heard the rumors at the funeral, didn't you?"

"It was enough for this family to have a special kid for you to become traumatized about this." , he kept rambling, and Kazumi was actually scared by the coldness in father's words. "Even your mother was skeptical that I should keep you on my custody…", he kept saying, "The best you can do is to keep up as the decent student you are."

"..." Kazumi kept quiet as she didn't want to make him angrier. She knew that her father was always under pressure when it was about his ex-wife and the custody.

The next day…

The final exams were over that day. After all she went through, Kazumi was able to score well even on the exams she missed yesterday because of the funeral. Now that it was done, she finally decided to reach for the truth of the incident that day.

After school, she arrived at the hospital and asked for the location of that nurse, Haruka Furukawa. She found her in the hospital's cafeteria talking on her phone with a painful expression:

"It's very sad honey. I did my best to cure that little kid but I couldn't go against the Doctor's protocol.",she lamented, "I'm glad he got what he deser–"

The nurse noticed Kazumi when she came in front of her and hung up the call. She then changed her expression of sorrow to something more soft:

"It's you again. Kazumi Asaka, right?", the nurse said with a smile, "I heard about what happened to Kazuya-kun… If only I was there to assist…"

"You will have made him even sicker, won't you?", the girl replied coldly while adjusting her glasses.

"Oh? I see that you still think about me wrong." She said, "Why don't you take a seat and we will discuss it?"

"...Fine." Kazumi took a seat in front of her. "Tell me what I want to know."

"What would that be?" the suspicious nurse asked with a smile still on her face.

"Did you do something to Doctor Hiromi?" the frizzy haired girl asked with no delicacy, "You wanted revenge against him for uncovering your crimes, am I right?"

"What's gotten on your head, little miss?" she replied, "I wasn't even there, remember?"

"You didn't have to. You surely managed to do something with him before the surgery." Kazumi explained as she frowned, "Doctor Hiromi was well respected by everyone in the hospital. I refuse to believe he did this on his own mind!"

"You're starting to annoy me." The woman grunted, "So what if I did something? Will the police even pay attention to you?"

"Of course they will. I was a witness in both events!" The girl said bravely.

"That's right." Haruka made a sinful smile when she dropped a pen under the table. "But that's not enough. They'll perhaps say that you're being delusional. Ehehe."

"What?" Kazumi was confused by her claim.

"I can perfectly alter your medical record. Say that you're paranoid and that it's all because of your beloved Doctor." The sober woman mentioned while she was doing something under the table.

"..." Kazumi clenched her teeth in frustration."I have had enough of this."

Then, she stood up and took her backpack:

"I'll tell the police everything!",she exclaimed, "I won't let my brother and Doctor's death be unpunished."

"Hey, wait up!" Haruka stopped her by pressing her arm really hard. Kazumi, on impulse, pushed her away and the nurse ended up hitting hard on the floor. This called to the concern of other hospital staff that were present in the cafeteria.

"Mrs. Haruka!" exclaimed one as some nurses and doctors rushed up to them. Two of them helped Haruka to stand up. "What happened?"

"That girl! Stop her!" She yelled in distress. "She has drugs in her bag!"

Kazumi and the staff were shocked by her statement. The staff immediately looked at her with caution:

"T-That's not true!" The girl was distressed by their looks and denied her claim. "She made that up!"

"Young miss, please let us check your backpack" A doctor asked her and Kazumi held tight on her bag confused, just to be taken off from her for a second by one of the male nurses.

"Oh my god…" he murmured in shock after opening the bag and seeing packages of strange powders and herbs. "What is all of this!?"

"T-These are illicit drugs…" said another nurse in shock, "S-Someone call the police…!"

"Wait…" Kazumi tried to say something but she was still confused by the fact that there were drugs in her bag. "I haven't seen those things before! Those are not mine!"

"Pipe down." Haruka spoke up, "You were trying to get actual medicines so you could mix them up with that crap!"

"Oh my… how messed up can the young people these days get?" she said with a fake expression of sadness. "I tried to help you to stop but you won't stop taking those as Hiromi-san recommended them to you…"

"What." Kazumi got the hist of the situation, finally. "No...How low can you sink!? You disgusting old…"

"Don't say a word, you miserable brat." said one of the doctors. "You have said enough. You better keep your remaining sanity to the police."

As he said this, two officers conveniently came and took her by the arms:

"You're coming with us, kid," one of them said.

"Wait! I'm telling the truth!" she exclaimed, "These are not mine! I swear!"

The girl looked at nurse Haruka as she was still faking out with her coworkers. The woman looked up at her and smiled while saying something that Kazumi could read as 'You lose.'

She was flustered by the situation she found herself in. The police just straight up framed her as a drug user and aggression against a civilian. She wasn't allowed to explain anything and she stayed behind bars for a few hours until her father came to the station.

On their way home, none of them mentioned a word. However, as soon as they went inside, Kazumi spoke up:

"Father, I swear I didn't do such things…" she said as she was trying to keep calm. "You believe in me, right?"

"I know you would never touch drugs. No way in hell." he said as he directed his palm to his face. "But if you were framed then you must have pissed someone off…"

"..." she kept quiet as her frowned expression was sad.

"Who was it?" He asked, concerned. "Don't tell me you went with that Nurse you were talking about the other day…"

Kazumi looked away, confirming his guess. This make his father's anger explode:

"You moron!" He yelled, "I told you to forget everything about this! What are we gonna do now!? The court will only go against me because of this! You could also be put under a juvenile prison!"

"How could I forget about this!?" Kazumi raised her voice as well. "Kazuya was everything to me! That woman surely did something to Doctor Hiromi too! I can't live with knowing that she's attending more patients right now!"

"Don't act as some heroine of justice! We are an average family...We don't have any kind of power against entitled people like that woman nor your mother…", he explained to her as his anger quickly faded, but not his stress, "Also, that kid won't come back even if you had that kind of power." He also mentioned, "For now on, you better act as you really are; an average."

" That kid…?" Kazumi realized something she was ignoring for quite a long time. "I have never asked but...you sure also hated Kazuya, didn't you, Father?"

"You never cared about him and that's why you don't care about making justice for him." she continued while she tried to resist the tears coming out of her eyes. "Was it because he ruined your business engagement? Maybe him and I were never meant to be family to you or to my mother…"

"Are you going to abandon me as well because I have a criminal record now, isn't it?" She confronted him distressed. "Say something, damn it!"

Suddenly, her father approached her and slapped her cheek with strength enough to make her bleed. Kazumi was now in utter shock. That never has happened before.

"I have had enough of this." , he said very exalted, "The court will decide what we'll do with you. Until then, you better behave yourself. I'm still your father."

"Go to your room now. I don't want to deal with this anymore." He quickly walked away from her and towards the kitchen, leaving her alone in the living room.

"You're not the only one who had enough…" she whispered while pressing down her cheek.

A month later…

The decision of the judge was made. Probation. Kazumi was expelled from her school after the last semester of her first year in high school because of the incrimination. Her softball team, her reputation, her achievements… all of them were done for.

Her mother was the one who looked up for a new school for her. The school was Shujin Academy in Aoyama-Itchome, a neighborhood in Tokyo. Her father convinced one of his acquaintances to be her guardian during the probation period as it was near her new school.

A night before she traveled on her way to Tokyo, she had a strange dream. The same piano song and the woman singing woke her up and where she found herself was not her room but a blue room. She looked at her body and she was wearing an orange fugitive suit with cuffs on her hands. Then, she looked towards the sides of the room and realized that it looked just like a courtroom:

"Attention! Order! The culprit is now here!" a childish voice exclaimed and Kazumi noticed two kids in front of her. Two boys in blue and white suits with black ties. They looked like twins as their hairs were white and eyes were yellow. On their ties were some letters that together formed 'PARADOX'.

"We shall now begin your judgment." The one on the right, with a quiet voice, mentioned.

"Very well. The court is in session then." A deep voice replied, and she noticed an old man in a black suit, with a long nose sitting at the top of a throne like a judge.

"Kazumi Asaka. Stay up to receive your judgment from Master Igor." said the noisy kid on the left. She looked at him confused about what was happening, "Do it now, culprit!", he yelled at her as he smashed his little mace on the podium she was standing in front of.

"Y-Yes!" she stuttered, as she stood up scared by the kid's yell.

"You are probably confused by this situation." Igor, the judge, mentioned. "Welcome to my Velvet room. This place only exists in your dreams. Where is it located however? In your heart."

"...In my heart?", she asked confusedly, "Then, why are you all here?"

"Moron. We are here to give you your judgment!" Exclaimed the noisy kid.

"This is our duty as residents of the Velvet room", said the quiet one.

"Ok…" she nodded, trying to play along. "Why do you know my name?"

"Oh. Apologies. We have not said ours yet." he said in apology although his smile never left his face. "I'm the master of the Velvet Room, Igor. The two in front of you are my assistants and your lawyers, Victor and Will."

"Uhm." ,she nodded again. As bizarre as the situation was, she believed, as they said, it was a dream.

"You seem to have understood your place, culprit." The quiet one, Victor, said. "Now, hear our master's judgment."

"Kazumi Asaka, you have been sentenced by fate to be a trickster" ,he said, "You shall begin your rehabilitation towards your freedom. In that order, you must accept your shadow. Your true self."

"My true self…?" She asked and, suddenly, she felt a little headache.

"Your shadow is impatient to talk. You better make it behave!" Will, the noisy kid, exclaimed.

"Ugh...W-What is this?" Kazumi held her head as she felt as if it was going to explode.

" So my voice has finally reached you." An androgynous voice said inside her head. " Tell me, miss. Are you on good terms with being framed wrong?"

"I-I'm not…", she said and suddenly a version of her appeared right in front.

"Is that so? Then, why have you accepted defeat?" The shadow version in front of her said while smirking. "Will you abandon him as they did?"

"That's not true…" she denied to the shadow, "I have no choice. I can't confront her anymore."

"I have lost everything. I can't take it back." Kazumi added in depression as the shadow giggled.

"Is that so? You should have to steal it from them", the yellow-eyed Kazumi suggested. "They have stolen your everything and you must get back at them. If that is your will, I'm eager to form a contract."

"A contract…?".she said confused looking at the shadow which transformed into a demon dressed in a blue gentleman attire with high heel shoes, his arms were tied down by chains, his face was blazing and his horns were short and sharp.

"I am thou. Thou art I." He said while coming at her and he kneeled, offering his hands to her. "Thou is willing to show this world thy rage which will unchain the gates to hell itself."

Kazumi reached for the hands of the gentleman demon. She took the chains that tied them down and pulled them releasing his arms and a pair of black wings on his back. The demon then took her right hand:

"I shall grant you my power. So we stole everything from those who you desire to do so." He mentioned as he approached his face with her hand. Kazumi's attire suddenly changed to a blue waistcoat with a white sleeveless shirt under it, short black gloves with blue diamonds on them, long black boots and a blue magician's hat.

"This is looking very promising." Igor murmured with an awkward smile on his face.

"Steal everything from them…" Kazumi said as she looked hypnotized at the gentleman about to give a vowed kiss to her hand. "Not only her but also everyone who did this to Kazuya…Everyone...Everyone…"

"NO!", she retired her hand suddenly making both the demon and her attire banish, "I can't do it...I really can't do it…"

"I don't want to be like those who put me in this situation.", she stuttered scared as she rubbed her hand back and forth in nervousness.

The Velvet Room assistants sighed in disappointment and Igor smashed a hammer against the table twice: "The court shall take a break. Until next time", he dictated.

"It's time for you to wake up, culprit." Victor mentioned to Kazumi as Will approached her.

"Go to sleep and you will be up in no time! Do it now!" Will exclaimed and the girl obeyed him as she tried to escape from the dream.

In the morning, Kazumi woke up sweating and checked her surroundings. The people in front of her were gone, meaning that it was actually a dream. That being said, it was time to face her reality. She dressed up in her new uniform: a white long neck and long sleeves shirt with the school's emblem, black suspenders, and over them, a black coat with red buttons and the school's emblem in white; a plaid red and black skirt, and long black socks and shoes. This was the unifrom that she will use for the whole year onwards. Her father gave her a ride to the train station and send her belongings by shipping.

Her probation was about to start soon but first, she must go on her way to Tokyo and with her guardian, a man called Sojiro Sakura.

Take your time. (To be continued.)