Persona 5 Royal: tmdrago Special Edition
By Tayla Drago
Episode #16 - Exploring the Castle
Year 20xx
Day #12 -April 4/20th – Wednesday
Another day at school for Keiko to get through to showering in the girls' locker room to have enough privacy 'without Suguru looking at her all creepy like during practice time'.
Suguru: Real soon she will be all mine...
Ew! Not happening! As Yuuki watched Keiko to be doing well in school, to day dream about asking her on a day of role play.
Yuuki: Ah, excuse me...? Amamiya...It's me, Mishima. I think you're cute and I think you want to go out with me sometimes...I don't care if something will happen to me or Sakamoto, just seeing you safe from Kamoshida is more than enough to love you.
Trying to practice kissing to act like Keiko was right next to her, but he falls down to feel a bit silly.
Yuuki: (...Someday, Mishima, she'll notice you.)
He's more than a friend to Keiko only, and for Ryuji to try seeing Keiko about to take her shower to see her stretching her legs 'from outside of the school building', for him to see how hot she looked and thinking about kissing Keiko yesterday.
Ryuji: Wow...So hot...! (I know I did something idiotic to Keiko, but I'll try to win her over someday. With her fine body, cute face, sexy legs...I can just stare at her all day long-!)
From standing on something to climbing up, only to lose balance to make Ryuji fall down hard.
Ryuji: OH SHIT!
That had to hurt, but he didn't see Keiko getting undressed so he'll live.
Keiko: (I thought I heard someone. Just as long it wasn't Kamoshida, and I doubt no other guy would've wanted to look at me.)
When Ryuji gets hurt, he loses the chairs.
Ryuji: Ouch...! Welp, not doin' that again.
Looks like it was Morgana's doing to be hiding in the bushes, for he's the one to make Ryuji lose balance. Ha!
Morgana: Hehehe... (Still skillful in this cat form.)
During class, Keiko gets a text message from the others...
[Ryuji: Man, we need cash.]
[Ann: Sure, but bring that up now?]
[Ryuji: Well we can get all sorta weapons and meds and shit now...But we can't actually buy any of it without some dough.]
[Keiko: So we'll earn some.]
[Ryuji: Oh, like it's that easy.]
[Ann: We could get part-time jobs?]
[Ryuji: I dunno...Do we have to? Oh shit. Ushimaru's lookin' this way. Sorry, gotta drop out of chat for a sec. Bye!]
Don't we all need some money and such, also getting it in the Palace will help out. Besides working on a part time job, so either one works. Once school was over, it was time to meet up on the school's roof top of their hideout 'after buying a few more items to be ready to go' and moving out back in the Metaverse as planned. Because Keiko stayed strong from Suguru's behavior for her, Morgana, Ryuji, and Ann were now gathered to move out whenever they were ready with their items, gears, and other things to use with a few other Personas 'along with their own'.
Morgana: Good, everyone's here.
Keiko: We are in our little hide out, yes.
For Keiko to be sitting down and Morgana was a cat to stand on tables, Ann sits down to make a fart sound to be made which causes Ryuji to laugh.
Ryuji: Wow, Ann. What've you been eatin'?
Ann: Shut up, Ryuji! It was the chair, not me!
Ryuji: Oh, right...And this sound is from the chair...
As Ryuji sits down next to let out a really big fart to stink for Keiko and Ann hated the smell to cover their noses, even for Morgana.
Keiko, Ann, and Morgana: Ah! Ryuji!
Ryuji: What? Its normal for a man to do.
Ann hits Ryuji on the head.
Ann: You're such a pig!
No kidding...
Keiko: So gross...
Morgana: That was so wrong...! My eyes are watering! Can we just get down to business already?!
Fart joke aside and Ryuji smack upside the head, he was done to get back to the matter at hand.
Ryuji: OK! I'm done, no more. I promise.
Good, for them to head out to remember to do this way before the month of May on the second day.
Morgana: Thank you. OK, I hope you all understand that our time limit is May 2nd.
Keiko: We know, and we'll stop Kamoshida's Shadow before the exact day arrives.
From there, yes. And what they have to do inside of the Palace of his.
Ann: We basically just have to go to that castle and steal the Treasure from Kamoshida, right?
Ryuji: But wait, what if there even is a Treasure? I wanna know that before we do anything.
For someone's Treasure will be a form of someone's distorted desires to be a shape of an item on who they are. What does it look like in the Metaverse of theirs?
Morgana: A treasure is the physical form of the Palace ruler's distorted desires. In other words, it's the core of the Palace. Once we steal it, the Palace will crumble...I think. Having said all that, even I don't know what Kamoshida's Treasure is going to be.
Makes sense so far, to know where they can find it from within Suguru Shadow's Palace was next to ask about it.
Keiko: Find the item of that person's distorted desires to steal, and the person will be stopped. I get it so far.
Ann: And where can we find it?
Well, the next part could be a problem to answer for Morgana won't know it yet until they find something.
Morgana: There's no way of knowing until we go in and find out. But if I have to guess, I'd say he has it locked up somewhere in the depths of the Palace.
Now the last part they needed to understand very well.
Ryuji: Eh, I think I get it now. We just gotta find the Treasure, yeah?
Morgana: Pretty much. There's just a lot we won't know until we go in...In any case, our objective is to find the treasure's location somewhere in the Palace. Make sure we go about this with time to spare so we can avoid any unforeseen circumstances...I expect great things from you guys.
And they were. All four of them were all set to go, items all set, weapons were good, all geared up to be equipped with, and just needed to train themselves to get stronger while finding the Treasure of Suguru Shadow to be all good. They started their cell phone apps to transform and head on out.
Keiko: We're all set if everyone else is.
Morgana: Then let's go. Everyone transformed once we entered. Lady Ann, you'll know what to say once we get there on what comes to mind. When you do get a code name, then you'll say it for now on.
Ann: Ah, OK...I'll try my best.
Entering into the Metaverse, and they go to transforming time.
Keiko: You'll do fine, Ann, now let's go. Suit up! Code name – Joker!
Mona: Suit up! Code name – Mona!
Ryuji: Suit up! Code name – Skull!
All three of them and still happen for Ann to transform for they're back at the Metaverse of Suguru's Palace. As they gathered near the entrance very carefully for Ann to get used to her new look.
Ann: Well, we're here again.
Ryuji does dig both Keiko and Ann's hot looks from their costumes to have on them.
Ryuji: Damn, Ann...Same with your look, Keiko, still hot. Both of you!
Keiko felt silly to hide her appearance a little. For Ann it was fine to keep Ryuji's hands away from them if he was acting like a total pervert.
Ann: Just ignore him, Keiko, I got your back.
Keiko: I'll be fine, Ann, but thank you.
Well, there was something on Ryuji's mind to be staring at Ann.
Ann: Hm? What's up?
From him looking at Ann a lot, he really might have a thing for her a whole lot more.
Ryuji: N-Nothing. I was just thinkin' we should choose a code name for you too.
Ann: A code name?
Ryuji: I'm Skull, she's Joker, and that's Mona.
Keiko explains to Ann the reasons why they have to go by their code names and not their real ones in the Metaverse.
Keiko: It's to hide our identities.
It was there that Morgana tried to look at Ann's appearance to guess what she was dressed up like – some type of cat-like person to me.
Morgana: Judging by your costume...
Ryuji: I mean she's got that tail and stuff, so...Whadda you think, Keiko?
Coming up with some different code names is a bit harder than it was.
Keiko: Hmm...I don't know...Maybe Sexy Kitty? Cat Girl? Kitty Woman? (Sorry, I'm really bad at this! Forgive me, Ann!)
Nah, that was a bad choice.
Ann: Wait! Is that what you were going to call me for now?! I am SO not down with this! Keiko, I know you're trying...It's fine. It just won't work for me. Those three sound like a stripper's name.
Well, Keiko did try to keep on guessing.
Ryuji: What do you wanna be called, then?
Ann: Uh, something better than just a little cat...
Looks like Ann thought about this one very hard, she thought of a very good code name.
Ann: Maybe... "Panther"? That sounds pretty cool, doesn't it?
Panther, good one.
Ryuji: Huh? Why?
Ann: 'Cause it sounds more...ferocious?
Keiko: I like it.
Keiko was fine with the code name, Ryuji was confused to still go along with it, and Morgana loved it very much.
Morgana: She's a cougar...!
Not the name for Ann to go with at all.
Ann: Don't call me that! More importantly, Kamoshida!
Now with Ann being called "Panther", it was time to move on out.
Ryuji: Oh, right. Let's go! All right! Let's start fresh and get goin'!
Keiko: I'm ready as long as I have all of you guys by my side. (Ready or not, Kamoshida Shadow King, because here we come to find your treasure.)
All four of them were all set.
Morgana: It's game time from this point forward. I'll teach you guys the basics of infuriating a Palace as we go.
Keiko, Ryuji, and Ann: Right!
From getting inside to sneaking in somewhere hidden and into the Castle Palace, they were good at finding the treasure for the four to stay close. As the four were trying to sneak around again, Keiko stops to see someone familiar – Justine to have the gates open to the Velvet Room where Igor and Caroline were waiting for her.
Keiko: (Huh? Justine is in Kamoshida's castle-like Palace too?) Ah, Justine, hi. Is there something wrong?
Nothing was wrong, only for her to guide Keiko inside of Igor's Velvet Room to have another talk real quick about something.
Justine: Nothing's the matter, Inmate, quite the opposite. My Master would like a word with you before you do anything else. Right this way please.
With Justine guiding Keiko to the other room 'and wearing her jail clothes again in her cell room' to see Igor and Caroline again.
Caroline: The prisoner inmate Keiko Amamiya has returned.
I guess there was more to learn on the next thing since Keiko saved two people so far to be a start, and two new Personas to have for power, and another member to join with the group.
Keiko: Igor. Caroline. It's good to see you two again. We are about to stop Kamoshida at his Palace to find the treasure first before we can stop him in person, like you said to be part of my deed to do.
That it was...
Igor: Well done, Ms. Trickster, it's good to see you again too. Having you to aid me was the right choice I've made. And it seems that you have remembered my words. You truly make it worth rehabilitating you, my dear.
Keiko saw this part coming to ask Igor more about it.
Keiko: I take it that you have something else to tell me?
He chuckles in a good way.
Igor: *chuckle* I am not attempting to withhold information from you. The essence of the rehabilitation that you must complete will be explained in due time. Once you've encountered friends who share your aesthetics and discover your place in reality...Only then, will I explain it all. Such a day should not be far off. This time, Ms. Trickster, I wish to introduce you to the aid we are providing.
Keiko: Aid...?
This version here's different to have some Shadows for Keiko to absorb by having the bad ones executed for Caroline and Justine to do to turn good Personas and their powers for Keiko to have from her special mask to use in battle, a little something for Igor to give to her.
Igor: Yes, we're giving you other wild Shadows to kill off the bad ones and give them new life to have more power on your side. More than one Persona for you, Ms. Trickster, to use on however skills they have to your advantage. And no need to fear, they'll still be part of you like more from Arsene is, with power to use for skills in battle's a good thing.
Keiko: You're giving me more Personas to change and to use for power? I never knew you could do that.
Igor: But I can. My girls stopped lots of bad ones to reform them into good. And then I thought since a few days from the doctor and guns salesman of the two you've saved...I thought what better way than to have more power to use however and whenever you want than to give you a little back up; come here at any time to set them up just for you, more of them will be shown. For I prepared you with three new ones. Use them well.
Looks like Keiko can visit the Velvet Room at any time from now on. And what's to come next...As the twin girls bring over three boxes to take care of the first part to turn them from Shadows into Personas now as Keiko takes them to be very useful in battle...Who were they though? More to tell details about next!
Tayla: Persona #12 - Agathion
An agathion is a familiar spirit which appears only at midday in the shape of a human or an animal, or even within a talisman, bottle or magic ring.
Tayla: Persona #13 - Kelpie
In Celtic mythology, a Kelpie is said to be a supernatural water horse that haunts rivers and lakes in Scotland and Ireland. Its mane is black, but its skin is said to be cold as death. It is said to lure mortals into water, specifically young children, into drowning so it can eat them. The kelpie tempts children to ride on its back, and once the victims fall for the trap, the kelpie's skin is said to become adhesive.
Tayla: Persona #14 - Silky
According to the book The Fairy Bible: The Definitive Guide to the World of Fairies written by Teresa Mooney, the Silky is a female fairy from the borders of Scotland, who "wear rustling silk as she does household chores" and "terrorizes lazy servants."
Looks good for Keiko to have all three of them placed within her mask. Making five Personas' powers now, and a lot more to get little at a time.
Keiko: Six Personas so far. Five to have for power to use in battle, and Arsene as my ace in the hole. (This is getting better for us to win in every battle.)
Arsene: So many Personas will aid you from their powers to use in battle, as will I, Keiko. I'll always stay by your side to protect someone who is as lovely as you are.
And it's been done, more later on.
Igor: Now with more to summon at any time while still keeping your original one, you and your team can do anything against Shadows and stopping the humans who have distorted desires from within their hearts.
I guess that makes much more sense when you think about it a lot.
Keiko: I see...
The twins have something else to say about this part next to Keiko.
Justine: It's worth will be made clear when you return to the field of battle.
Igor: We'll find more Shadows to turn into Personas for you, come here anytime to become your power and use them in battle. Devolving your powers as such will play an integral role in the stand against ruin.
Justine: So that your rehabilitation goes well, we have a variety of rituals to choose from for Caroline and I to execute more of the bad ones to make the good ones just for you. Keep at it on others to gather more power during your battles.
Caroline: And depending on the effort you put in, our Master might consider further development of the new rituals. Cry your tears of joy, inmate!
Keiko will remember to be happy to hear, but not to make herself cry with tears of joy.
Keiko: I'm happy with it, thanks.
But wait, there were a few more things to say next...
Igor: Ms. Trickster, I must say...Your heart is steadily gaining the strength of rebellion. It seems your rehabilitation is proceeding smoothly – a joyous fact, indeed. Now allow me to give you one more gift of something that I may use for you to use. Since you can sense Personas and Shadows in your world, you can do the same thing from your surroundings as well.
Igor now gives Keiko one more gift to be the Third Eye. Allowing her to see other things glow up to the places she and her team need to be in, or to have and go to. You get it?
Keiko: My eyes...They're turning blue and they're glowing! But I can still sense things and see more from the Metaverse than ever.
Igor's Confidant and bonding with Keiko's goes up to level 2 now. And now, more details please!
Tayla: What is the Third Eye you all wish to know about...? The Third Eye is an ability in Persona 5/Royal that allows Keiko to look for clues and items in the Palace. It is gained automatically during the early story, when the Fool Confidant with Igor proceeds. It can be activated at will in the dungeon and highlights areas of interest. Stealable items gain a yellow glow. Interactable places like gaps and ledges have exclamation marks over them. Overworld shadows gain a glowing outline that depends on how threatening they are. Hardest ones gain a red outline, medium ones gain a yellow one and the least dangerous encounters glow with a blue color. In the real world, Third Eye can be used to examine on-screen locations that can be used for daily activities (NPCs, shops, confidants and Velvet Room locations). Reading certain books also allows Keiko Amamiya/Joker to use Third Eye during certain activities. In the Batting Cages, Third Eye causes time to slow from her perspective, letting the player line up a better-timed shot. At the Fishing Pond, the Third Eye highlights fish, with different breeds glowing in different colors, allowing the player to gun for specific ones like the Guardian. The Third Eye also helps with certain obstacles in palaces.
Igor: That is a thief's skill, allowing one to tap into their sixth sense and see what is hidden in the dark. I believe you can handle it now. May you continue devoting yourself to further rehabilitation.
Looks like Keiko gets it to have a few more gifts for it was all worth it.
Keiko: I will use them well. Thank you again, Igor.
Justine: ...Now then, if you have any requests, we will heed them.
I think she was all set 'until the next time she comes back for more Personas and their powers to get' for her to leave again.
Caroline: Now get, inmate, until we meet again.
A new skill for Keiko to have to see things better in the dark and three more Personas to use their skills against Shadows, and more to get later on. As Keiko returns with the others for Morgana, Ryuji, and Ann to check on their leader since they just see her standing around being all quiet, but she wasn't to not know about Igor and such just yet.
Morgana: Joker? Is there something wrong? You were just standing around all of a sudden.
I guess Keiko was the only one who went to the Velvet Room.
Keiko: (From the look of my teammate's reactions, they didn't know I was moving to see me leave.) I was just...thinking about things before moving out is all.
Ryuji: Are you sure, Joker?
He touches her forehead. Ryuji was touching Keiko's forehead to blush even more than Keiko not feeling ill and felt weird for him to be this close.
Keiko: Ryuji? (You're too close to me! Don't think about him kissing you again!)
Hard to get that part out of your head from that event, huh?
Ryuji: Well, you ain't burnin' up...So that's good. So why're you spacin' out? It's...kinda hard to tell what you're thinkin' sometimes.
Morgana: I think I call it a strong female power type of skill to me. But other than that, she's okay. We're counting on you, Joker.
All back on top for them to sneak through the hole to find a Safe Room and to be ready for anything.
Ann: I guess we're in now. Whatever you're ready, Joker...Sorry, I'm still trying to get used to our nicknames...
Keiko: It's fine, Panther, you'll get used to them, trust me. Now that we're in the Palace, let the Treasure searching finally begin. (I guess I'll tell them about Igor and the twins later on when the time's right.)
For the search throughout the entire castle to find Suguru Shadow's Treasure, for it won't be so easy to search for to still do what needs to be done...
Ryuji: So, where do we start?
Morgana: Let's head to the Safe Room we found last time. It's on the first floor of the west building. That's pretty close to our usual entrance. It should be a pretty decent starting point.
This was new for Ann to hear about the Safe Room since the other three were in it so far.
Ann: Safe Room...?
Keiko: Oh, right...You haven't seen it yet.
Ryuji: It'll make sense when you see it. Welp, let's head out!
The next parts will have to be explained in better details for me to put in words, to try making them short if possible. Starting off from the beginning to go around to opening vases with some treasure chests, items to gather, and stopping Shadows as a team was something else for them; to also be sneaking around some more to also be doing a sneak attack to take the rest of them down was a piece of cake type of move. And from learning how to sneak around without getting caught or attack from behind when needed was good for Keiko to also learn this type of ability from Morgana.
Morgana: Keep at it, Joker, you're doing great.
Keiko: I move a lot faster than I appear to be. (I never thought having these types of powers would do so much for me.)
Ryuji and Ann follow Keiko and Morgana from behind to keep up with the two of them.
Ryuji: Look at Joker go. What a babe...This is like doin' some moves from a real spy movie.
Ann: Skull, please! This isn't a movie we're in, it's very real.
Getting treasures for Keiko to find thanks to her Third Eye thing to do wonders so far to fighting, and sneaking around the entire place.
Morgana: Use these items well when needed. No need to thank me for these babies, just doing what a Phantom Thief does best.
He sure comes prepared to have something for Keiko to use besides her powers and her Third Eye ability, also the Baton Pass when others can take a turn against the Shadows.
Ryuji: Kinda feels like a personal tag team, doesn't it?
Ann: *sigh* Whatever you say, Skull.
And speaking of the Third Eye, Keiko uses it to solve a puzzle to get a treasure chest in the middle to have the others be a trap – but one to work with the other ones in order. For Keiko to be figuring this one out by putting her thieving skills to good use.
Keiko: I might know what it is.
Looking around before Ryuji could do it himself.
Ryuji: I'll help out-!
Morgana: Skull!
Morgana stops Ryuji from doing anything to make things worse.
Morgana: One wrong pull, it'll be game over for all of us! Let Joker take care of it. She knows what she's doing.
That was close.
Ryuji: All right, fine...!
Keiko continues to solve the puzzle. From seeing from one chain to another...one from the far right on the other side of the room to walk around the cage to pull the lever, and back around to follow the footprints the guards left out for her to pull the last one...And it was done.
Ann: Joker, you did it!
As they enter the middle room to be unlocked now, they find a map left on the table. Now who does that? Leaving a map of the entire castle on the table...? So dumb. Anyways, Morgana looks at it next to be their navigator to have a look and see.
Morgana: Well, it's not the completed map yet...But it shows we're on the second floor of the Palace. I feel like the further we look around for the treasure in this castle, the better we'll get somewhere. I can feel it.
Makes sense to keep on going.
Keiko: Then we should search around some more. Mona, we leave the map navigating to you.
A good call to have Morgana to do that part of the job, and they continued to move forward. Getting to the next room to climb up from one chandelier to another to get through the other side to reach to the next room, doing that or not to get caught by a lot more guards down below won't be good at all - to also be getting another treasure chests to open it up with the lock pin to use to be very useful.
Ann: Another equipped to use, nice.
And very useful...
Ryuji: Who knows what else we can find from more of the chests we encounter with.
Going downstairs to look around on where they needed to go while still fighting with other Shadows, as they both stick together from this mess and still sneaking around. And having three more Personas on the team to use their powers in battle, along with guns, and items which all work well in the Metaverse works out very well – so that was very good. They climb a few more things to get around other rooms without being seen 'very carefully'...Then going upstairs to another Safe Room to continue on next once they were healed up and all set to go with new items to equip and things to put new weapons to use.
Morgana: Follow me so I may lead you guys to the right path we need to go next.
Ryuji: Following Mona as our navigator of the group. Whoopee freakin' do.
Nice way to show it, Ryuji, you're better in battle to know some things you are good at.
Ann: Please tell me you're not jealous, are you, Skull?
Ryuji: Me? Jealous of Mona...? Nah, just him buttin' in for me getting close to Keiko to notice me.
Ann: Oh, are you now...?
For some reason, Ann gets mad to stomp on Ryuji's foot to be really mad at him to not know why 'just yet'.
Ryuji: Ouch! Dammit, Panther! What was that for?!
Ann: You should have a better brain to know by now! But I guess you don't!
Ryuji: The hell does that suppose to mean? I don't get it...
He was confused, for Ann to get mad, and for Morgana and Keiko to see what just went down between them.
Morgana: Skull will never get a girlfriend if he keeps this up. I don't blame the beautiful Panther to be my girlfriend.
Well, not really...Both Morgana and Ann were just friends.
Keiko: (If you say so...) Well, Skull will learn to still be a good person on the team with skills.
For some to pass by and fight their way through to be doing very well, as a team...To also be seeing brand new Shadows and Personas in this version...One of them were these guys the four Phantom Thieves had to battle against.
Tayla: Persona #15 - Cait Sith
A fairy that takes the form of a cat. Its name means "fairy cat". The Cait Sith can converse in human tongues and walk on two legs, making no sound as it moves. It normally lives as a cat that travels back and forth between the Cat Kingdom and the human world. It has a white star-shaped mark on its chest. The Cait Sith appears in Irish and Scottish legends and served as the model for Puss-in-Boots.
With some beaten, one escapes in fear, but they won't be bothering them again.
Morgana: We stop the rest, Joker, it's fine. One escaped alone won't get the alarm going.
Ryuji: Puss 'n Boots...?
Yeah, don't get the wrong idea about this one person. Ha!
Morgana: Hey! Don't say we're a lot alike since they were more of a cat than me!
Ryuji: Chill out...I didn't.
Ann: I think we get the point, Skull.
In other words, there was nothing to worry about on any of their ends. Solving another level chain puzzle to get two hidden ones 'for Keiko to use her Third Eye', as she solves it to get another room to open up...in a kitchen type of diner area next. Fancy Suguru Shadow's mess up liking, huh? Not even the best place to sit and eat at.
Ann: Boy, there are an awful lot of bars in here for being...what looks like a dining room?
Good thing no Shadows were there to eat.
Morgana: Yep, sure looks like it to me. Now, according to the map...There's a path beyond those bars there.
From further away in the dining room should be their next location to head on to next.
Keiko: Through there, right? (I sense something is going on for sure.)
Two other doors to unlock again.
Ann: Looks like they're making things tougher for us yet again...
Ryuji: Eh, it shouldn't be too bad. Let's just get it done.
Solving other levers to pull for Keiko to see with her Third Eye for the third time, and through the vents to the other side, they've done it to move forward again. Also, from each empty room they go into for some items to take, Keiko finds three special books to come in handy somehow.
Keiko: (Hmmm...Saving these for later.)
Next up was getting up top of the stairs, but with no stairs to climb on. They were all destroyed. So, now what?
Morgana: Ah man...
Keiko: What? Oh. No stairs, I see.
Morgana: Yep. Looks like it's in pretty bad shape...
So how will they get on? Here's what the new type of thing comes in next.
Ryuji: Uhhh, I don't think we're goin' any further this way...
Ann: Should we check somewhere else?
Morgana: Wait-look up there.
There might be another way...From looking up to see another hook of the goat's head again, it could be useful to hang on to.
Keiko: Statue heads of goats?
Ryuji: What about it? Are we throwin' a rope over that and climbin' it?
A lot more than just using a rope for this one.
Morgana: Phantom Thieves do things a bit more stylishly than that...And I know just what'll do the trick. Here, Joker, from me to you.
A gift for Morgana to give to Keiko/Joker for her to use, what looks like-a hook shot! To fit on her glove to use it to climb up to higher places. This could work out for all of them.
Keiko: Hey, it looks good. My very own hook shot.
Morgana: Good-seems like it fits properly.
Keiko: What type of hook shot is this thing?
Morgana: That's just a little something I've been working on in secret. It's more like the Grappling Hook. It lets you zip to hard-to-reach locations in a flash. You'll see what I'm talking about when you test it out. Go ahead, give it a try.
As Keiko has it on her arm to begin to glow blue to see the spot to use the Grappling Hook on from above them...she aims, fires, and they are up top to continue on.
Ryuji: Man, oh man! That was crazy cool! You were just like Batman!
It appears to work just fine on Keiko's arm to use it well.
Keiko: I did feel like Batman.
Ann: It was amazing...
Now continuing on to see more stronger Shadows in the way to be careful within battle.
Morgana: Keep your guard up, team. We're going in!
Nothing that the four Phantom Thieves can't handle together, for this Shadow is down in seconds! Keiko also started to sing another song from Lyn – GROOVY. For she was a very good singer too – even Morgana, Ryuji, and Ann saw how talented this girl was.
Keiko 'singing': Time for some fun.
Let's start the trickster game.
It's showtime!
Let's get going!
Ain't it some fun
Taking a chance, or even two?
There's no guideline for doing it your way,
Let's just focus now
On what lies ahead.
Time to get ready
Cuz we're taking over here.
(Wake up, get up, get out there!)
Come on, let's be honest, right?
You've been waiting for us 'til now.
Here we are, and things are
Gonna get freaking hot and wild!
So can you feel the Jazz?
Or the beautiful Ballet?
How about a Tango?
Or maybe some Rock'n'Roll?
We'll bring it all to you
And guess what, you signed up for
Team A-W-E-S-O-M-E
Just say it, you don't need lame, pretty tunes.
Send BORING back to nowhere,
Come in for the whole deal, yeah.
That's what rhythm's about.
(Time to reunite, there is so much more to see.)
(Are you ready?)
Quid est Veritas?
We took over this stage
Right before you could even blink.
And we came to stay
High risk, high return.
We are the phantom
You have been chasin'
You can try'n catch us if you can, but
You won't.
(Wake up, get up, get out there!)
Get fired up, you wanna see
What's behind the mask, don't you?
Not like you didn't try before, haha!
Now what's your bet?
Follow the noise, come on
Follow the beat again
All your dear memories
Ready to flow with a new tune.
Taking you back to where
Our adventure began
We did our waiting, but here we are
Telling you to join our dance!
Don't tell me it's surprising
There still had to be more
This comeback was promised, yeah.
Now pack your bags, darling
If you don't wanna end up left behind alone
It's about time to be a
Part of this show that's
Gonna change your world
Let's rock!
From the Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight, such a fun dancing game it is by the way.
Keiko: What?
Ryuji and Ann: We didn't know you could sing!
Keiko: I just happen to do so...
Seeing another lever chain goat head 'after fighting some strong Shadow to always be aware of', for this next one needs a type of key to put in. Then entering a few more rooms with books on different shelves in the area for Keiko to look at and take three with her, she feels that they're in some important things from them to hold on to.
Ryuji: What's with these books, Joker?
Keiko: I don't know yet, but I feel something from each of the three. I think we can do something for us if we take them with us. Trust me, Skull.
Whatever it was, Keiko might be on to something, not just 3 but a fourth one too. Going down the hallways next as the four to then see another way for them to go in for the door was locked in a cage bar to block the path. But moving a lever chain by pulling it, however – it was high to not be reached. They needed a key.
Morgana: I see...We can't open it until we find a special key to fill the lever's statue's mouth with it. A size type of ball will do fine.
Sure looks like it...
Ryuji: Nothing to do with an Indiana Jones movie for this door to open.
Ann: As I said, Skull, this is not a movie. Anyways...where can we find the key for it?
Yep, this is the real thing and not from the movie itself. Lucky for Keiko to feel out where the key might be somewhere from within the area they were in right now.
Keiko: I have a feeling it should be somewhere in this room, let's keep looking around.
Morgana: Then lead us the way, Joker. And we'll follow you.
Looking around for the key to look for it somewhere in one of the rooms...Passing through a few more Shadows and stopping some to come across a library room that Suguru Shadow has to be something big for them to be in.
Ann: What an odd room to be in...
Morgana: A library, huh? This definitely seems fishy.
Sure looks and feels like it.
Ryuji: Whaddya mean?
Morgana: Come on, a library in a castle like this? There's got to be some kind of secret hidden in this room. Let's check it out.
Entering the room to see three slots to place some of the other three books in it and one more book as well 'making it 4', I guess Keiko was on to something big. The only thing was to find out which goes in where for something to be unlocked somehow.
Keiko: Books of...King, Queen, and Slaves...One of each goes in one of these slots. But how can we tell?
For the others, read what was there to lend Keiko a hand.
Ryuji: This one's says - "The History of Kamoshida".
From the upper part of the room. To then be the one on the right side said on other names for Ann to find next.
Ann: This side says - "Ann Takamaki and Keiko Amamiya: The Charming Dolls"...Oh, give me a break...!
And the last one was the slot on the left side to look at.
Morgana: And this one says - "Ryuji Sakamoto: The Vulgar Ape".
Ryuji: That bastard...Who the hell does he think he is?!
Figuring it all out very carefully, Keiko knows from which of one out of the three books goes in which.
Keiko: Wait...Yeah, I think I got it! History of Kamoshida would be the book of the king. The Ann and...me as the charming dolls is the book of queens. And Ryuji vulgar ape is the book of slaves. I think I just solved it!
Putting the books in each of the slots they're supposed to go into, they have done it. They've opened something up in the room to show one of the book shelves goes up to relieve a dirty room of Suguru's lovely time to be in there, as the others to see and be disgusted with it. Sure wasn't a pretty sight to look at.
Ryuji: Whoa, it opened up?!
Keiko: Thanks to my puzzle solving skills.
Morgana: Well done, Joker, now let's see what's in there.
Taking a closer look to see...lots of pictures of Shiho Suzui all over the walls. That's just wrong to see, really wrong!
Ryuji: Ugh...the hell is this room?! There're tons of pictures of Suzui in here! Like a f'd up love shrine for perverts!
Keiko: Wait...
This is where Keiko notices something in all of Shiho's photos.
Keiko: Are these every signal photo shots of Shiho? (And I thought Kamoshida had it bad for me and Ann.)
This makes Ann feel more disgust about all of this...
Ann: No...!
Keiko: Panther, are you going to be okay?
With Keiko checking on her friend Ann on how well she's holding up from seeing all of this, to try not giving up at all.
Ann: Yeah...Definitely, I'm fine. I feel more motivated to do this now...
What a strong woman like Keiko was, those two were awesome.
Morgana: I'm sure it feels awful, but we should search this room. There has to be something in here if he was hiding it with such an elaborate trick.
The key comes next to find somewhere within the disturbing little room to look for it, to be somewhere...And what do they find? One of Suguru's medal trophies to be the key to open up the next room on the shelves. What luck!
Ann: Is this a medal?
Morgana: Looks like it...The size, and the shape...I think it's the key we're looking for! Well, it has to be important. He went through all the trouble to hide it here, after all.
Keiko: And that's not all. Look, we also got another part of the map.
Morgana puts the two together to make a new map to look and see better with his navigate skills.
Morgana: Yep, it is. Let's take it with us. The map is completed now.
That it was for them to get to the gym teacher next.
Ryuji: So this is gonna tell us where the treasure is?
Looks like it.
Morgana: If we can head somewhere in the area of the Palace, then we should find it in no time. We're getting close, I can almost taste it.
Ryuji: All right! Let's head on over there!
Now they needed to go back in the hallways, but only for a Knight Shadow to come into the library room to appear and see the Phantom Thieves.
Knight Shadow: ...Hm? Hey! What are you doing?!
Now they needed to fight against this one.
Morgana: Dammit! Of course they spot us now...
Ryuji: If we wanna head back, we'll hafta go through this guy...Time to make a path!
Somehow, two Bicorns appear and another one...it was a darker version of Shadow to look a bit more powerful. This one is brand new!
Ann: One...Two...Three...Wait! The third one looks way different than the other ones!
Seems like Morgana might know what this special one was.
Morgana: Oh, is that...?!
Ryuji: What's up with that one? It's mumblin' to itself, but...it's not makin' any moves.
For this one to be not moving and talking to itself, seems to be trouble was about to happen.
Morgana: Be careful. If my prediction is correct, that one's a bit problematic for us.
Ryuji: Alright, then I'll go take care of it!
Morgana: Just be careful!
Trying to attack this special Bicorn, for him to strike back hard. Look out!
Keiko: Skull, move!
Just in time for the damage to be made on the floor to be a huge hole.
Ryuji: Whoa, what the hell?!
Morgana: It started moving after attacking it...Looks like it's exactly what I expected. Once we take it down-Hey, you guys! Watch this! Take that!
For attacking it as Morgana goes for the three, another hit from the special Shadow causes it to blow up the other ones in its way. Boom!
Keiko: This thing was like a bomb! (It sure weakens the other Shadows in its way.)
Ryuji: What the...It exploded?!
Ann: Sure looks like it.
Well, this is something you don't see every day in this world.
Morgana: I'll explain later! Focus on the battle for now!
Those things are called Disaster Shadows. Something to be strong in battle, unless any of them can take them down to blow up right next to the other Shadows who stand in its way. Freaky, but it gets the job done by luck for the others to finish the rest of the weak two off. But three more with another Disaster Shadows shows up again.
Keiko: Another one?
Morgana: There's another one like from earlier...Haphazard attacks on it will only make things tougher for us. It'd probably be best to take it down fast by striking its weakness and getting it to low up. Alternately, we could put it to sleep or make it unable to move, then just deal with it later.
Stopping them again with the same old weapons and gun firing skills of theirs, they use a special team move to kill it 'to blow it up next' for the rest were stopped in seconds as well.
Ann: This is something we've never seen before.
Morgana: Those were Disaster Shadows.
Ryuji: They're really scary.
Keiko: And they're like ticking time bombs too!
Morgana: But we handle them all in the end for me to tell you guys. Come on, we have a door that needs to be unlocked.
But wait, before that another bonus book for Keiko to come across from the other room, she uses it on the middle book shelves back down the hallways to give it a try. Only for an item to get caught in between.
Ryuji: Here's a free item.
Ann: So that's why it wasn't going in. Try it now, Joker.
A little bonus doesn't hurt to try.
Morgana: Better than not finding anything at all. Now for the main door to unlock next.
And another room they'll go once they get the key to use to unlock something else next. Which it works.
Keiko: Looks like it does work.
Ryuji: Hell yeah it did!
Ann: Now we can keep on going, the next room should have what we are looking for.
Morgana: Then let's move out.
On their way down to recover a bit in another Safe Room, they soon have to stop another knight 'to hear them in the room' and not being held up or killed by no one from the Shadows. It went for a few seconds in battle to be defeated and then moving on afterwards for these guys...
Shadow Knight: I see...So you're the ones who tampered with the library. It seems my time waiting here has paid off...For you four have entered in the place of the holy ground for our great King Kamoshida. It is preposterous for miscreants like yourselves to come waltzing in like this. You will pay for foolishly defying King Kamoshida…with your lives!
For this - Keiko, Morgana, Ryuji, and Ann were ready to battle against this Shadow.
Morgana: I knew this would happen! Well, we don't have a choice! Let's take it down! And one more thing...He's trying to do something with his energy he's gathering up! It's important to guard if you think you're in danger! Don't want to take any chances, so get ready for anything!
Tayla: Persona #16 - Archangel
In the nine orders of angels in Christian teachings, archangels are among the eighth, making them second in the third hierarchy. Archangels are one of the few bodies of angels that contact those on the material plane directly and are the ministers and messengers between God and mankind. There is a dispute on whether famous archangels such as Michael and Gabriel are the same class as the "plain" archangels, who in the Kabbalah and in the Bible are called "Beni Elohim" (meaning "children of God"), or belong to a completely different order known as "Rav-Malakhim" or "Malakhim-Panav," who are the angels that stand before the lord himself. According to some texts, archangels are also the primary warrior race of angels and are known to be at constant war with the fallen angels. It is even suggested that Lucifer was an archangel before his fall from grace.
Just so you know, not all Personas 'as they were once Shadows' for some of them won't be part of their team for Keiko to have their powers for battle, some of them are. Going down a bit further to enter in a Safe Room, and in another one that looked like a huge church type of area to see a big statue of Suguru as their king. But for them to be in this one 'which was really in the gym area of Shujin Academy building' the mess up coach teacher looks like his Palace to image it from within the Metaverse.
Ann: Wait, was that...the gym...?
It is to have the Suguru Shadow king statue of the man with crown, cape, and rose petals falling down all over the place.
Keiko: I think it is...For some strange reason, we're in a gym from the school to be part of the Palace from a madman like Kamoshida really is.
Which means...
Ryuji: I get it...The gym's some kinda holy place for him. He's god here.
Keiko: Yes. Like he's the king of the entire gym.
That makes more sense right there!
Ann: I can't believe he can think like that...especially after what he did to Shiho...and what he almost tried to do to you too, Joker.
Ryuji: God, that bastard makes me so freakin' sick! Just you wait, Kamoshida!
He was mad at what he tried to do to Keiko 'the most', almost with Ann, and hurting Shiho to get herself killed.
Keiko: Skull, if we stop this mess, then we'll do it together.
Placing her hand on his, Ryuji was feeling a bit better.
Ryuji: Yeah, I know...Thank you, Joker.
Keiko: (And he will too...)
From seeing the statue for a bit...and more trouble comes into the room all over for other Knight Shadows to appear to surround the entire room. How can Keiko/Joker, Morgana/Mona, Ryuji/Skull, and Ann/Panther get out of this mess?
Ryuji: Crap...More of 'em...
Ann: What should we do? Head back?
Morgana: No, the treasure is definitely up ahead, and there has to be a path somewhere. Let's look around, Joker! Use the Grappling Hook to get on up.
Done and done for Keiko to do as she and the other three make it to safety from above, and away from the Shadows to fight lots of them too much right now.
Keiko: Done and done.
Morgana: That was a close one.
They got to the other part of the room safely, for the door was not locked for them to get to another room where the treasure was, until they spotted something further down the hallways...
Ryuji: The hell's that over there?
Looking from down further from a dead end to get across, it might be another room.
Morgana: Looks like we might've found something! Let's check it out, Joker!
Keiko: You got it, Mona.
Checking it out to see a goat hook to get across from there, seems easy enough.
Ryuji: Huh? Something's a bit fishy over there. A lot of vines are covering the door.
Morgana: Yeah. By the looks of it, no one's been in there for a long time.
Ann: I wonder what's over there...Should we take a closer look?
It wouldn't hurt to try.
Morgana: Hey, Joker. Do you see the handle-like thing at the top of that arch? Joker, use your Grappling Hook again.
Using it to get to the vine type of covered door, Keiko uses her dagger to open the door to see what was inside. Going inside of it next to see something poking out of the grounds on what looks like a skull.
Ann: This room seems different from everywhere else we've seen so far...
Keiko: Why is it covered up like an inside garden?
Ryuji: Yeah, and there's something super-suspicious over there...
Looking at it from far away, Morgana knows what it was right away.
Morgana: That's...C'mon, follow me!
For him to lead the others, they walk up to a skull of a plant to have blood type of roots sticking out.
Ann: What is this?
Keiko: A plant type of skull?
Morgana: Just what I thought...A "Will Seed."
Keiko: A Will Seed?
Something new in this place too, for it seems to be very important to gather throughout the Palaces like this one.
Morgana: Palaces are locations that grew distorted from their original forms due to their rulers' cognitions. When such distortions coalesce into form, this is the result-I call it a "Will Seed".
What an odd item this one was.
Ryuji: Distortions...coalesce...into Will Seeds...
Morgana: Should I try explaining that again?
Poor Ryuji...Sometimes he has trouble understanding new things.
Ryuji: Ugh, just forget it! That's a Will Seed. Movin' on...
Ann: So, what do we do with it?
That's an easy question to answer back.
Morgana: We take it. It may not be as prized as a Treasure, but it's still quite the rare find. Making it ours will only do us good...I think.
Again with the 'I think' part?
Ann: Ummm, is it really okay to take it?
Ryuji: Nothin' shitty better happen when you take it-like some trap goin' off, or we all end up cursed….
Keiko: I guess we should take it if Mona thinks it's fine.
I guess this was worth a try, right? And so, Keiko does it. See? It wasn't anything bad once Keiko got it.
Morgana: Nice! The Will Seed is ours!
Ryuji: I guess...nothin' happened?
Morgana: There are more of these around here somewhere...As far as I can tell, there are two of them left.
Which will make it all three of them to collect.
Ryuji: Huh? How can you tell? You smell 'em or somethin'?
Ann: Yeah, like how dogs can-Oh, but you're a cat.
Keiko: Correction, a cat-like creature since Mona said he might be human.
True, besides-dogs and cats can smell things very well.
Morgana: I am NOT a cat!
Keiko: Ah, yeah... (This is not what I meant.) We should get going now.
Off they go. So yeah, Morgana, don't let their little mistakes get to you.
Morgana: I just seem like a cat...
Getting back across, time to keep on moving. And thanks to Morgana's navigating skills and Keiko's Third Eye power, they knew where they were going as the other two followed their leader. From the more hallways, enemies to be beaten, getting more treasure chests 'with some to unlock' with items to open up, and finally up further the stairs to getting to the roof top next as they stop to look outside of the castle to see a view with a few more things in mind.
Keiko: I think we're on the rooftop of the school now. Have a look, you guys.
The other three see what their leader was showing the others, also the scene from the backyard seems different in this one.
Ryuji: Hey...You're right, Joker. Take a look at that!
They see something...As Morgana tells the others the good news too.
Morgana: Oh! This part of the Palace matches with the map. There's no doubt that's the tower we're headed for.
Ann: So the treasure's up there?
Keiko: We're getting close.
So far, so good...
Ryuji: Hell yeah, we did it! So...where's the entrance?
Yeah, where was it? Keiko spots it out to point it out to the others, however...they needed to walk on foot this time.
Keiko: It's over there...
Ryuji: All the way up there...?
Keiko: I'm afraid so, Skull. (For someone like Kamoshida to make this castle world of his, some things seem unfair to get around.)
Things get worse with more Shadow knights to appear and show up to guard the area.
Ryuji: Ah...Not them again!
Morgana: No surprise for security guarding to be tight all over this area. But like the old saying goes – "nothing's venture, nothing's gain". Joker, you lead and we'll follow you. We can do this to fight or sneak around the strong ones very carefully.
Keiko: Right, I'll do my best to lead all of you. (I never did anything like this at all. I think I'm getting the hang of this leader stuff.)
So they have to sneak around the knights to move from one box to another without being seen...Working so far, and from Ryuji farting again to make it to the top by climbing around again. Lucky for the knights to smell it and they blame one another to fart like this, the blame game by luck.
Knight #1: Ah! How dare you let out bad gas in this Palace!
Knight #2: I let out that type of gas? I think it was all your doing!
Well, they see another Shadow to be walking, to think it was this one to start beating him up.
Knight #1 and Knight #2: Get him!
Knight #3: Hey! Stop! What did I do!?
Seeing the fight over nothing was priceless for Ann to ask Ryuji one question.
Ann: Seriously, Skull, what did you eat this morning?
Ryuji: Burrito buns. I have them every morning for breakfast.
And no wonder why it smells bad, but enough to keep the rest distracted because of Ryuji's farts to get out of that type of mess. Entering the castle 'with Keiko's hook shot' to get inside has a strange feeling to be going around, you all know what that means...right?
Ann: This place is freaky looking...
Morgana: We're almost there. The Treasure is nearby from where we're in, let's keep going.
For Keiko to see some footprint tracks with her Third Eye, again she leads the way.
Keiko: It's this way. And Skull, please control your toots, would you? It smells really bad.
With that said, Ryuji feels a bit bad for making Keiko hate it to not make another move on her this time, but he won't give up on her. Soon to get around to find another building on the other side, and getting the second Will Seed now, with one more to go now.
Morgana: That's two down, and one more to go.
Sweet! Now back down to get into another building where they need to be right away.
Ann: Wh-What's going on?!
Morgana: The distortion is getting stronger…The Treasure has got to be nearby!
From exploring the room to then seeing the strange looking elevator next.
Keiko: Huh?! (Now here's something you don't see every day!)
Ann: Huh...What's this...?
For Keiko has one thing right, it was to mess up looking statues. Going through the rooms with grounds to stick out to make weird blocks, statues of middle body high school volleyball girls to pose all over the place, as they also find an elevator to go down on next to lead them to somewhere important, right? Going down.
Ryuji: H-Hey, where are we?
Ann: H-Hey...Something's coming up.
Moving a bit further 'on what looks and sounds like factory gears to be running on the other side of the room', they come across the hallway of a portrait of...Suguru Shadow himself as king to look really messy to see.
Keiko: A Kamoshida portrait?
Ann: What the heck...? This is disgusting...
Tell us about it, ew! However, this part was very important to Morgana's point of view. Well, not from that thing - no.
Morgana: Either way...it's kind of strange that this would be our dead end.
Looks like it. Because once they try moving it, the portrait painting flips from the muscular Suguru Shadow and to a golden knight, one of himself to go to a different room of the castle now. With Ryuji getting stuck in between. Ouch...!
Ryuji: Ah...! I'm in total pain here...
The girls help him out next.
Keiko: There you go.
Remember this type of room? It's the main entrance of the castle itself.
Ryuji: Huh? This looks familiar...
Morgan hits Ryuji on the head with his big fan item.
Morgana: It's the entrance hall! Have you already forgotten, Skull?! Because Joker hasn't!
No, she didn't for Keiko and Morgana to remember and then Ryuji does after from the hit he took to the head.
Keiko: From Ryuji and I finding the place and then getting captured... (From one thing to learn about it, to another in seeing this room again.)
Ann: I didn't realize we would end up here...
Yeah, and there was something different from this whole scene.
Ryuji: Hey, look! There used to tons of soldiers wanderin' around, but I don't see any of 'em now...
What gives? For them to be back right where they started heading back outside of the castle so none of them won't get caught...I think they got a good idea on what they have to do next. First taking a break to heal up and going to the Velvet Room again for Keiko to take care of a few things next.
Keiko: OK you guys, take five.
But once this part is all done, they'll go right back to looking around into the Castle Palace to find Suguru Shadow's Treasure to change his heart right away. With some things to unlock there, doors to open up, gears to operate on, and much more to get back to work right away as more to be revealed next time.