Persona 5 Royal: tmdrago Special Edition
By Tayla Drago
Episode #31 - Ichiko Ohya and Natsuhiko Nakanohara
OK...This has gotten pretty weird today. Yusuke wanted Ann to model for him nude and he was falling for Keiko to have him and Ryuji to be loving her looks and such, to already having a boyfriend being Akechi. After getting nowhere today to go with the modeling thing to get some answers from him somehow since Yusuke was hiding something big...Madarame's using his artwork to take all of the credit than his own students like Yusuke to not do anything! For Keiko to feel upset to get out of the shack first to have only her boyfriend to think about only and no other guy to take it away from her.
Keiko: (Calm down, Keiko, just try to think this over...So much to think over...I love Akechi-Cun, who means a lot to me...From Ryuji falling in love with me, then Yuuki, and now Yusuke? What if he asks me to model nude for him instead of Ann?! No! No! No! No NOOOO!) Ah! This isn't happening to me!
Morgana: Madame Keiko! I still can't believe a lot of guys are really finding you attractive. You look like one of those popular girls.
Keiko: I'm not trying to be, Morgana...
Morgana: Are you going to be okay? Just Yusuke saying that he was falling for you was...Completely out of nowhere.
Keiko: I'll be fine. My heart will always belong to Akechi and no one else.
Morgana: Maybe they can't take no for an answer. Yusuke just needs to hear it for you like Mishima did, but Ryuji will be harder to talk to with a lot of men to be on your love list.
The two waited outside first to wait for the other two to join with Keiko and Morgana.
Keiko: Speaking of Ryuji...Where is he and Ann?
They come back out to check on Keiko.
Ryuji: Keiko-!
Morgana: She's fine, Yusuke just hugged her is all. No harm done.
That still doesn't mean he was going to let this one go.
Ryuji: Yusuke huggin' on Keiko's fine body...That bastard...!
That's not the only problem we have to deal with too, Ann needs to model for Yusuke to be nude for it.
Ann: Shut up, Ryuji! Keiko can handle Kitagawa-Kun on her own! But me...He's totally out of his mind! I'm gonna have to pose nude if this keeps up!
Looks like Ryuji told Morgana what Ann has to do before he caught up to Keiko and he was mad.
Morgana: How dare that Yusuke...!
Ryuji: Touchin' Keiko and wantin' Ann to model naked?! The way he said it, it's not gonna be semi, but full-on nude...
Sure looks like it.
Keiko: He means it too. (Poor Ann's not taking this so well compared to my love life.)
Morgana: F-Fu-F-F-Full nudity...? Lady Ann's gonna...
She doesn't want to talk about it right now.
Ann: Drop it!
Was Ryuji jealous of Ann for doing this a little? Sure sounds like it.
Ryuji: You know, you won't have to worry about that if we make Madarame confess before the exhibit ends.
Ann: But Kitagawa-Kun thinks he owes his life to him. Is there a need to make Madarame confess?
Yes, how can they stop Madarame from revealing the truth for Yusuke to admit it without holding anything back?
Morgana: Then, Lady Ann...you're fine with baring it all...?!
She really wasn't.
Ann: I am not!
Keiko: Women wouldn't let men model them to be naked doing it, Morgana. Not even if someone pays me to do it for one painting.
Anyways, for stopping Madarame to learn more about it while there was still some time left during his exhibit to still be going on for a while.
Ryuji: Madarame's no different from Kamoshida. That asshole's usin' Yusuke, who doesn't have parents. You're tellin' me we should just ignore how he's bein' treated horribly like the other pupils? The hell, Ann?!
Keiko: I don't think that's what she meant to say.
It wasn't hard to find any more leads of Madarame using people right now.
Ann: No...It is frustrating to leave this alone, even if Kitagawa-Kun is fine with it himself...
Morgana: We can't leave it be because you've endured a lot yourself, with Kamoshida.
From what Suguru did to Ann, Ryuji, and tried to do with Keiko, it was hard enough to not see Yusuke go through the same thing with Madarame anymore. One was enough, but never again with anyone else to suffer the same thing they all did.
Ann: ...Yeah.
Ryuji: Anyways, we gotta go after this guy. Madarame's the kind of target we've been waitin' for. Let's help Yusuke come to his senses too...before he ends up like us. I don't like his attitude, but he's a good person for Keiko to worry about. But that's it! Yusuke has to stop hitting on her or anything when I'm around!
It's nice for Ryuji to not like Yusuke giving him the attitude to taking Keiko away, to still be trustworthy to save just to make Keiko happy and for Ann to help out in any way she can for the team.
Ann: ...Right.
Keiko: (Ryuji wants to do this for me for Yusuke's sake?) Yeah, we're not too late to save Yusuke's life from Madarame using his art work for selfishness.
This makes Ryuji happy to be blushing.
Ryuji: Well, I do anything for you just to see you smile, Keiko.
Ann: And it's sweet of you to worry about me too, Ryuji, thanks.
He was really happy to have two of the girls to thank Ryuji.
Ryuji: Ah, it was nothing...
Morgana: Good to know...We need to look into Madarame first.
It was first to look up more dirt on Madarame before any of them could stop the man, more clues to look up on.
Ryuji: There might be tons more stuff that hasn't been exposed yet, too.
Morgana: It may become easier for us to investigate his Palace if he's preoccupied with his exhibit.
Keiko: Enough proof to show and tell Yusuke about it.
Ann: Also, there's the thing about me modeling! And Keiko, between you and me...I'm glad you're not doing it either.
Keiko: I know, and I'm sorry about the mess you're in.
And there's that to also deal with...
Ann: Kitagawa-Kun said there'd be "inconveniences" unless he submits a new piece. Maybe that's going to be announced soon as Madarame's next work...
So if Ann models naked for Yusuke for the whole world to see the works in the exhibits of arts, it'll be bad for others all over the states and other countries to see the poor girl get exposed badly.
Ryuji: Does that mean the whole country's gonna see you nude?!
Keiko: If it happens, probably...We cannot let this happen to you, Ann!
For Ryuji to be staring at Keiko and Ann to be daydreaming of him seeing them nude modeling for them, he needs to stop doing that.
Ryuji: If it was just me with you two...!
Keiko: That's not going to happen!
For Keiko to snap Ryuji out of it, same with Ann to not do it at all.
Ann: No way! Hell no!
Morgana: We must deal with Madarame, no matter what, before his exhibit ends!
Then the Phantom Thieves will have to get to work at the Metaverse Palace again tomorrow after school would be the best time to do it.
Ryuji: Let's start after school tomorrow. It'll be a pain if Miss President finds us on the rooftop if she already knows we've been using it, so where to meet up...Let's see...
From the walk-way of the mall would be a better spot to go to. Anything's better than Makoto trying to spy on them again.
Keiko: The place we were at earlier is the best place to go.
Ryuji: Yeah...Good thinking, Keiko. I guess that walk-way place in Shibuya would work. It's near Madarame's place, too.
So they're going to be changing their hideout to go to.
Morgana: ...Changing our hideout periodically, huh? That's a plan I didn't mind backing.
And it'll happen for Keiko, Morgana, Ryuji, and Ann to have the walk-way in Shibuya to be their new hang out for the Phantom Thieves. Smart move to do...Just then, an older woman walks by to see the four hanging out to ask them something...Another important character has arrived.
?: Hey, can I ask you kids for a sec?
From her odd appearances she was wearing, it looks like she was a reporter type from the camera she was carrying around.
Ryuji: ...Huh?
Keiko: Excuse me?
?: From the looks of things, you don't seem like the ordinary, stalking fans.
For them, not likely to know the whole story.
Ann: Uh...
The lady laughs it off to feel bad to question them out of nowhere without a reason first explaining herself to them. What she says next, is the very important one to talk about one of the famous drawings of one of Madarame's students.
?: Oh, sorry. I should've been more clear. I'm actually looking for people that know Madarame's pupils. There's this painting, "Sayuri", that was supposedly stolen in the past. But there's this rumor that it was taken by one of his pupils in retaliation for being abused. Have any of you heard anything about it?
What...? The Sayuri painting was stolen and not made by Madarame at all...? Well, hello! Another important clue.
Keiko: Sayuri...? Wait, Yusuke showed us that picture... (No way! Not only Madarame's plagiarism, but he's a bad thief too! He has no right to be called an artist.)
Ryuji: I don't think we don't know nothing, lady. Sorry.
Well, they sort of do.
?: I see...There's no case unless there's a victim, and if there's no proof of abuse...I can't write either. Looks like I'm back to square one. Sorry for taking your time, kids.
She gives Keiko something in case anything else comes up for her to get the next story.
Keiko: A business card?
?: I'm a journalist. If you ever get any leads, mind contacting me here?
Keiko takes it to keep in mind if she has to and feels something off about the girl to have...Well, you've guessed it, another Shadow was on the loose to get to the journalist was the next target.
Keiko: (Another one...? Right now?)
Too bad Keiko can have a key sense of things and the other three, but normal people can't who don't have powers like they do.
Ohya: See you then. I'm outta here. My name is Ichiko Ohya by the way.
Ohya leaves after that. For the Shadow continues to follow her to ruin her small distorted desires of hers next. The other four have to take care of this quickly in the area before they return to their own homes next.
Ryuji: ...I guess we should go home for today.
Keiko: Wait...A Shadow is here to go after this Ohya lady. Follow me! We have to stop it!
She rushes off for Morgana, Ryuji, and Ann to get the news and rush over to help her out as well.
Ryuji, Ann, and Morgana: Another Shadow's after a journalist?!
With Ohya passing by the liquor store to have the glasses breaking with other alcohols to spill all over the place for this Shadow was a heavy drinker with some different types of fire power all over the entire building, for this female type to be a very tough one.
Tayla: Persona #27 - Apsaras
Apsaras also known as Vidhya Dhari, according to Hindu and Buddhist mythology, are spirits that appear in the form of young, beautiful women who have mastered the fine art of celestial dance. They are the wives of Indra's servants, Gandharvas, and are known to entertain the gods and fallen heroes, dancing in the divine palaces to music made by their husbands. They are frequently equated with the water-elemental nymphs and naiads of Ancient Greeks, and depictions of them can be seen in Cambodian and Balinese culture. (Well for this one to be a little bit different from the rest of them to be fired instead...)
Apsaras: Party in the house! Or anywhere to get the story out with boozes! Lots of it for others to give me tons to write it all to then drinking to it with no effect on me whatsoever. But the rest of you humans will be totally wasted!
Trapping Apsaras into the Metaverse for Keiko, Morgana, Ryuji, and Ann to go together to see Ohya's world to look like a bar party of people drinking non-stop to tell dirty secrets to gather all over without a care in the world. Now that's just wrong. Ohya needs to be saved from all of this mess...!
Morgana: A drunk type of female Shadow who enjoys getting dirty to feel the power of fire when drinking? Everyone, we've trapped it into the Metaverse so let's stop it, save this woman, and go on home afterwards Transform! Suit up! Code name – Mona!
From Morgana/Mona transforms first, the other three do the same thing.
Keiko: Let's go. Suit up! Code name – Joker!
Once Keiko/Joker does it, both Ryuji/Skull and Ann/Panther do the same to join in.
Ryuji: Suit up! Code name – Skull!
Ann: Suit up! Code name – Panther!
Stopping this type of Persona to try to surround Apsaras won't be so easy to handle.
Morgana: Okay, lady! Drop the bottle and surrender before we...the Phantom Thieves have stopped you.
Apsaras: Hey...You humans are telling me what to do? Yeah, right...Like I'll lose the bottle because I enjoy drinking to get the stress out of me just by getting the stories off of others to live through the rest of my days. And if you think any of you can stop my career, then you better think again. If you can drink up to lend me a story to tell to expose the bad humans you all are.
A very pushy type of Shadow she was to talk a lot and hold up her liquor.
Ryuji: My god...! Does this one ever shut up?
Ann: And stop drinking too! It smells like pee!
Oh, I don't think dissing the boozes wasn't good for them to say right in front of this Shadow to then get very angry.
Apsaras: Pee...? Pee?! How dare you call my drinks to taste like pee, not to me! And with that, I won't let any of you stop me, my story taking, my drinking, or my fun time! You know what I do when I need to let out some steam while drinking? I need to burn some off, like so...
Powering up, Apsaras uses random boozes to drink and power up to create powerful fire to change in random colors to attack at the Phantom Thieves to move away.
Keiko: Hit the deck!
Ryuji: Bar shelf! You mean bar shelf!
Whatever! They duck and cover from the fiery blasts from this Shadow to have plenty of more from her body to blast out.
Ann: That's it...! Burning Claw!
From Ann and Carmen's power of fire, Apsaras had another powerful one to fire at and cancel out within seconds.
Ryuji: Hey! She's fired too, remember?!
Ann: I didn't know!
Morgana: Panther panicked was all!
Incoming fire attack to avoid getting blasted with, for the fake humans were hit to be burned but still drunk and talking about their stories to be nothing to them not feeling any pain at all.
Apsaras: Fire pretty, yes? You all saw me do red, so how about some green color fire next? Bombs away!
Even how she fires the blasts so random like to cause the entire place to be gooped in flames and too hot to do anything. There has to be some idea to do.
Keiko: (Too hot to not land a finger on this one...)
Keiko then had an idea to tell Ann and Ryuji what they have to do next, and to draw her closer with their love a little bit more. And for Morgana to almost have his tail on fire to put out in time, they'll be next.
Morgana: Ouch! Joker, whatever that look shows you have something in mind, good! Then put it to some use!
Keiko: Right... (This idea has to work.) Skull! Panther! You two go after two bottles of booze to be lying on the ground! And answer me this question in order for us to win...What happens when you mix booze with fire?!
They saw one bottle was on the left and the other on the right. And to hear Keiko asking both Ryuji and Ann the same question, they looked at each other, nodded, and then moved on to try to do something at the Shadow for her to place a powerful blue fire wall all over like a big circle.
Apsaras: What? Trying to do a double take down on me? Like I'm not an idiot to fall for it. Now, burn or tell me your stories!
Keiko: (I better give her the slip.) Daggers of Darkness!
It makes Apsaras slip on a bottle to make her fall a little, allowing Morgana to slingshot her a lot of times.
Morgana: Clumsy type of Shadow you are, huh?
Like she was going to give up.
Apsaras: What of it? Like this will stop me...Nor will a powerful orange type of fire of mine. Feel the burn! All of it!
A lot of firepower is happening, only for Ann and Ryuji pass a fan-like paper to cool off the Shadow to make her stop to see them escaping from her huge circle to then run up on each different side – from left and right.
Ann: Hey, Shadow lady!
Ryuji: Try to burn two of us at the same time!
Apsaras: Why you little brats-!
Firing one for Ann and Ryuji used their fighting skills to quickly break the bottles, pour a lot all over Apsaras's entire body so fast, and for her to release a powerful fire...Boom! It blows up right in front of her face to be covered in smoke, weak, too drunk, and pukes to go down for the count.
Keiko: It worked!
Ann: Too bad for you, lady. Once Joker said about mixing fire and alcohol can cause a huge fire to be blown right back at you. I say it was a cool idea.
Trying to reach for another spare bottle, to have trouble grabbing one of them at all.
Apsaras: Huh...? Where is it? Where did my fine boozes roll on to?! I need one...I'm starting to feel ill! I need to drink! I need my stories!
Well, thanks to Ryuji's metal pole to bash the other bottles all over the ground and Morgana's sword have broken and spilled all of the boozes to all go to waste for this Shadow.
Ryuji: I think we're cutting you off from drinking a lot. You need an intervention, you crazy bitch!
And you know what happens to people who drink too much with no break, they completely lose it like this Shadow Apsaras does.
Apsaras: NOOOOO! My drinks! My stories! How am I going to get any of them now like this...? Sober and a mess...
Now all four of the Phantom Thieves could surround the Shadow to be stopped and for Keiko to rescue it next.
Morgana: Seriously, this isn't healthy for you. Your powers can do so much more to help us and hear stories, just not to get wasted over it.
Apsaras: Huh...? You mean I can get stories and help you guys out? But how...? From my fiery powers?
That's a good thing to use, yes.
Keiko: Of course it will if you allow us to be part of the team. Look...Drinking isn't good for you to learn right from wrong before doing it, or it'll just destroy yourself, your life, work, power, and health for people who are like that don't need to get drunk just to hear these things. It's not good to do.
And the most important health is to do some responsible drinking. I mean, come on people!
Apsaras: And by doing this...I have to give up drinking...
Keiko: Sometimes, quitting is hard to get over it for a brand new start later on. It takes time.
Apsaras: And I'll still be me?
If the four have faith in this Shadow to give up drinking and hear stories while aiding the others, then things will all work out somehow.
Morgana: It'll be a brand new beginning for you. Fire power and to hear so much to be going on to be surprised to never forget any of it.
Ann: Or to never be alone to talk about it either.
Ryuji: What she said.
For Ryuji and Ann to do well together to be starting sweetly was slowly getting in their love life. As for Apsaras, she places her trust on them.
Apsaras: Well, I might as well cut back on drinking. It does smell when mixing them up a lot...OK! I'll see what I can do while hearing a lot of good stories from good people and the dirt by bringing down the bad guys along the way.
Good enough, and allowing Keiko to use the mask to set the bad Shadow to becoming a good Persona to set Ohya free.
Keiko: I'm glad you're quitting to not drink anymore...Apsaras - Waterside Nymph, I've commit thee to join!
Now Apsaras was set free.
Apsaras: Wow! Not drinking a lot anymore feels wonderful to hear tons of stories! I feel brand new today! Say, thieves, you all saved me to learn a lot today and not play with fire or someone will get burned. Ha! I am thou, thou art I. I got by Apsaras – who has strong fire power to blow anyone or anything to burn up or to melt painfully if you like.
The Persona's powers get absorbed into Keiko's mask and save Ohya's life to turn everything else to normal once they all returned back to the real world again.
Keiko: I got it.
With Ohya passing out to be sleeping now, she'll be just fine now.
Morgana: And the journalist will be just fine.
Ryuji: A kick ass plan you did there, Keiko. Having Ann and me throw booze at the Shadow to get a taste of her own medicine like that. Way a go!
Trying to hug Keiko, she slightly moves away from Ryuji to feel silly.
Keiko: It just came to me from what I once learned in science class.
Ann: Yes! Alcohol and fire do make it very flammable to try not letting that happen a lot. Keiko, your quick thinking helps out a lot to have you as our leader.
Keiko: Well, I'm glad you all think that way. Now we can all go back home before Ohya wakes up.
She was about to slowly back around.
Morgana: Then let's leave. We'll meet at the new hideout for later tomorrow after school. Move out.
Ryuji: See ya!
With them leaving their separate ways now, Keiko could see Ryuji and Ann looking at each other a lot to be a sign of their love to grow. As for Ohya, now waking up to not remember anything but a dream she had to have some type of idea in mind, about imagining what the Phantom Thieves might've looked like.
Ohya: Huh...? What was that all about? What happened? The bar exploded but it really didn't...And I was in danger with someone drunk, on fire, and four living things came to my rescue...They were all dressed and looked different to be thieves-! (Could they've been in my dreams, the Phantom Thieves themselves...? Changing people's hearts like mine? I was the one to be rescued and to be good before something dark came into me? All of it?) Yes, yes, yes...! I got it! I know of a good scoop to be added!
Something tells me that the sign of Phantom Thieves saving her life might mean something important for her to do next in her journalist business type of job. Morgana and Keiko came back to Leblanc, for Keiko to get a phone call from Yuuki.
Keiko: Hello? Yuuki?
[Yuuki: Amamiya, got a minute? I got some great news to tell you about. Someone who had a change of heart told me something on the Phan-Site...He said, something about meeting you guys to talk about someone else's heart you have to change next.]
Was that true? Then who could it be...?
Keiko: Someone wants to tell us to change someone's heart since we did for this person? (If we did, how can we do it without our secrets getting exposed?)
[Yuuki: I'm sure it'll be fine, but seeing the man in person would have to do. I know if the person was once bad enough to post the name of him on the website, I'll message him back to let him know you'll be seeing him later at the Shibuya Train Station after school tomorrow. Amamiya, I'll make sure he doesn't say a word about you guys.]
He has Keiko covered to care about her a lot and the other Phantom Thief members.
Keiko: Thanks, Yuuki... (Wait...) Do you know the person's name?
Keiko might know who it was right away to hear Yuuki say it for her.
[Yuuki: I do. The guy's name is "Nakanohara".]
Yep, it was the second target to change the heart from Mementos
Morgana: That's one of Madarame's students.
Keiko: (It is him!) I knew it.
[Yuuki: Yes, and I told him to approach you when you guys meet. Good luck, Amamiya...I love you.]
For him to say that to Keiko on the phone real quick and then hang up made her feel odd, but he did help out. After Yuuki said it made him feel a bit better to still be friends with Keiko for his feelings will never change for her.
Keiko: Bye, Yuuki... (What a strange and sweet boy he is.) Morgana, I think we got ourselves a suspect to speak to tomorrow after school.
Morgana: Sounds like a date!
From texting Ryuji and Ann the news for Keiko to do next.
[Ryuji: I found out something insane about Madarame. Sounds like a student of his offed himself when he couldn't speak up about Madarame stealing his work.]
[Keiko: My god...! Is that true?]
[Ann: That journalist was looking into Madarame too. It could be real.]
[Ryuji: Someone died though. No one's talking about it...I bet it was covered up.]
[Ann: I wonder if Kitagawa-Kun has heard anything...It'd be great if you could help us out.]
[Ryuji: Ain't that asking a bit much? After today, he's prolly gonna be on edge about us. Well anyway, Madarame's still a piece of crap! Let's meet up tomorrow. It'll be our first time at the new hideout.]
[Ann: It's that passageway in Shibuya, right? Got it. See you guys tomorrow.]
Then both she and Morgana get cleaned up as well as making better coffee for a bit; and next was going straight to bed next to make it through school first and then talking to Nakano 'only in person this time'. As well as keeping their identities a big secret.
Morgana: If the rumor Ryuji just spoke of is true, there have to be other victims...
Keiko: And some ended up in a bad way I bet. (I hope we'll find out more tomorrow with one student to tell us everything.)
Let's see how it all turns out for all of them, anything to get more dirt and clues on Madarame will be good enough for them.
Year 20xx
Day #39 – May 5/18th – Wednesday
Getting through the school day for Keiko to go meet up with Ryuji and Ann 'with Morgana tagging along' to see Nakano to speak to them down at the Shibuya Station, for them to meet with each other first.
Ryuji: Yo, Keiko.
Keiko: Hi, guys. We're here. (And Nakano should be here any second now like Yuuki told me...)
Ann: We're just about to head to the hideout to go back to.
They stop talking for someone to approach them in person, for Keiko to feel out the target they've changed this man's heart to come to them. It was Nakano himself.
Nakano: Excuse me...
Ann: Who's that?
For Morgana to quietly tell the other three about it.
Morgana: It's him, Nakanohara. Mishima said he would find us at the Shibuya station.
Ryuji: ...For real?!
Keiko: It's the second target we've saved from Mementos. I can remember the feeling from this man.
He gets down by first introducing himself to them to keep their identities a secret as thanks for saving Nakano with a change of heart.
Nakano: You must have them...Good. My name is Natsuhiko Nakanohara, the one who posted about the Phantom Aficionado Website.
Ann: This guy looks too nice to not be any stalker types up close. From changing his heart must've really worked.
Keiko: It proves that we can make a difference. Okay, Nakanohara, we'll hear you out to change Madarame's heart if you keep our secret hidden from the others.
He shakes on it as a promise to Keiko.
Nakano: It's a deal. Anyways, the administrator who made the website contacted me...He said to find you in a Shujin uniform with a cat. And...Well, I guess I came to the right person.
That Nakano has done it...
Ryuji: So whaddya want?
Nakano: You may have already heard, but there's someone I wish to trigger a change of heart in...An artist by the name of Madarame.
Now he has all four of their attention for the portrait in the Metaverse of Madarame's Palace that has one to look like Nakano to be in one and blood in the background, another clue there.
Ryuji: Ooh, you guys think this is it? A once pupil of Madarame's gonna confess his ex-master's secrets to us?
Ann: His Shadow did mention Madarame's name as well...
He'll soon get to the point of it all.
Keiko: It has to be...Go ahead, Nakano, if you don't mind for me to call you by that nickname. Tell us everything.
Nakano: It's fine, thanks. Okay...I'm...one of Madarame's former pupils. He gave me lodging at his home, where I thought only about art. I genuinely wanted to be an artist...There was another pupil as well. A very talented man, multiple years my senior. Obviously, Madarame kept tabs on him. Everything he made was claimed as a Madarame original. He wasn't the only victim though...
Yes! This was very good for the others to be gathering all about Madarame to not be an artist at all – but a real fake, breaking the law, using others to do it for him, and everything to be famous than his students to not have credit for it.
Ryuji: All right, we got some real proof of the plagiarism.
Keiko: Yes, we are. Good ahead, Nakano, please continue.
And he does tell them the rest of it...
Nakano: In response to Madarame's actions...that senior pupil committed suicide.
Yep, for the first target Nakano witness has taken his life because of this mess.
Ann: Suicide...
Nakano: He must have been unable to bear seeing his work praised under Madarame's name. That was when I disobeyed Madarame's pleas and left...But he quickly pressured other parts of the art world, and my life as a painter was destroyed. I tried to turn over a new leaf working at a ward office...but it was no use. My attachment to art warped my emotions. Soon I began getting attached to everything...In the end, I even turned into a stalker...Ha...Haha...So I'd like to ask again. Please, make Madarame have a change of heart. Not only for me. It's...to save the life of another man as well.
Wow...Madarame's a mess up man. And what life to save next in time did Nakano mean...?
Keiko: Who do you mean...? Wait, Yusuke? He's Madarame's next pupil who he saved since his parents passed away. (He might kill himself next?!)
Nakano: Yes! Yes! Even now, there is still one young man remaining under Madarame's tutelage. I think he's about your age.
Looks like Keiko was right, it was Yusuke if nothing was done and soon.
Morgana: You're right, Madame Keiko. It has to be Yusuke.
Keiko: (No! Not Yusuke!)
Keiko, Ryuji, and Ann were all shocked for Yusuke to be the next to be used and thrown out by Madarame to take all the credit than him.
Nakano: Not only is he a talented artist, he also owes Madarame for taking him in after his mother passed...He is a perfect target.
That's why he won't listen to reason at all, it's so sad.
Ryuji: So Yusuke's got no choice but to listen!
And that's not all, Nakano has talked and seen Yusuke once...
Nakano: I…actually spoke to him a few times back when I was still living at Madarame's. I asked him if he found it painful to stay with Madarame...and do you know what he said? "If I could leave, I would..."
So Yusuke really wants to leave Madarame to follow his dreams, but he can't do it.
Keiko: Madarame's forcing poor Yusuke to stay...
Ann: Kitagawa-Kun...
Nakano: I have no right to say this given my prior cowardice, but I don't want to see another suicide...! I'd like to find a way to save this young man. He has a bright future ahead of him...Please consider that when thinking about changing Madarame's heart. I got to go, I'm glad I told you guys, thanks again, and...good luck.
Once Nakano leaves – for Keiko, Morgana, Ann, and Ryuji to talk about what they have to do next to pull through this mess to not only stop Madarame from doing all of this, but to also save Yusuke's life.
Morgana: Well, we've been asked to do this on behalf of one of Madarame's victims. I guess we might have to change his heart so we don't have much time to rethink about this.
Keiko was all the way through this for Yusuke's sake and for Nakano to help him out.
Keiko: You're right, Morgana, we have to change his heart. (Madarame will pay for this!) Let's save Yusuke!
Ryuji: Hell yeah! Madarame's a piece of shit who preys on the weak!
For Ryuji too, even Ann was both in on this one.
Ann: Suicide...I'll never let something like that happen! Plus, we finally get to hear how Kitagawa-Kun really feels!
Morgana: Since we're here...Let's head to our new hideout to talk about the rest.
Keiko, Ryuji, and Ann: OK!
And they go on the walk-way type of hideout of theirs right away to talk about the rest of stopping Madarame to changing his heart, and saving a life of Yusuke's to also get out of the shack before he becomes like the old man did to ending his life for Nakano to not witness someone else to die again, sad huh...? Well, that will soon change everything 'even Makoto was not trying to get into their business and for Yuuki to keep quiet from her'. Of course that's a different matter at hand.
Morgana: My fellow thieves, welcome to our new hideout!
Keiko: A good place we've discovered, I like it.
Morgana: A good way to get more privacy...Any who, our target this time is Madarame! We all saw that Palace. We'll pay dearly if we assume it's just going to be like the last one. And furthermore...Lady Ann's chastity is on the line! And for Madame Keiko to not become Yusuke's girlfriend...
Ann hates to be heard of her modeling nude.
Ann: What!?
Keiko: I'm not in danger, Morgana, I'll talk to Yusuke to let him know that I already have a boyfriend. That doesn't mean I won't let him down to save someone's life like his.
I think Morgana was being too scared of Ann to be nude to not let it happen at all, and Keiko can handle Yusuke like she has with Ryuji and Yuuki...Sort of.
Morgana: Okay, I know. We'll need to do what we did with Kamoshida. First, we secure an infiltration route in the Palace. After that, we sent our calling card. One the Treasure has Materialized, we steal it.
Good plan, as Ryuji had something else to say next...
Ryuji: Oooh, I got a question! Madarame doesn't know that we were doin' stuff in the Palace yet. Why are we already gettin' treated like criminals in there?
Morgana: You're learning, Ryuji. Well done.
Keiko: Is it because he only cares about himself is why...?
Morgana: Something like that. Madame Keiko might have a good point...It must be because he doesn't trust anyone. Any unknown person may as well be an enemy.
Yep, as Keiko just guessed for Morgana to explain the rest, if it's true for Madarame to be a real big jerk.
Ann: Or maybe he's just super salty from all those rumors that have begun spreading about him...
Keiko: Salty...?
An odd word to say, but I guess the rumors spreading about Madarame has really gotten to him a lot lately.
Ann: I'm just putting it into words for Madarame to feel bad for hiding in the lies for so long.
Ryuji: Then his Palace bein' so crazy had nothing to do with us...?
Nope, I think they're good.
Keiko: If it was, Madarame's Shadow would have tightened up security the first time we went into his Palace.
Morgana: That's right...Either way, we should stay on our best behavior. It'll be harder for us to steal the Treasure if we needlessly increase the security levels.
Not only with that, they also needed to help Yusuke out to stop Madarame from doing all of this. If not, he'll be next to kill himself.
Ann: We need to be careful of Kitagawa-Kun this time too. I'm sure that whatever he sees will just get passed on to Madarame.
Yeah, he should stay out of it until the job is done.
Keiko: We don't want to be told on and to have his life put in danger... (It's for the best.)
Morgana: That's right!
Now they wanted to guess on what Madarame's Treasure will look like from the Metaverse on what he sees, to the real world one to have hold of...
Ann: Hey, what is Madarame's Treasure going to look like anyway? Another crown?
Keiko: I think it'll be related to a fine art work to me.
Morgana: And I doubt that. But my sixth sense will know when I see it.
From when he was happy from getting the Treasure from Suguru the first time...? He acted silly like a real cat, how can we forget?
Ryuji: Oh yeah, you go completely nuts, huh.
They'll know when they see it with Morgana, as they must also finish this by the time the art exhibits all over.
Ann: Our time limit is when the exhibit ends, right? That means...June 5th.
They each looked at their phones to see the ends of the place.
Keiko: We have plenty of time, one thing to do before we send out the calling card next. For I'll lead, we'll train, stop Shadows, get more treasure chests to open up, get some money, items, and Morgana's our navigator to create a map.
Morgana: I won't let you down, Madame Keiko. We'll carry out the plan after we've sent out the calling card. So, our infiltration route will need to be set in stone two days prior, on June 2nd.
Then it's all settled without holding anything back now.
Ann: Now listen here. We can't mess this up. NO MATTER WHAT! OKAY?!
They hear Ann loud and clear, for Keiko needed to get a few things first before going back.
Keiko: Morgana, come with me. Ryuji and Ann, you two stay here. We need some items and such before we head on out. Let's make this count.
Ryuji and Ann: Right!
Morgana: This is the first job for Team Drago, so let's make sure we do it right! We better get it done now than forgetting it. We'll be right back.
As Ryuji and Ann waited at their hideout, Keiko and Morgana go out to buy a few things before heading back to the Metaverse of Museum Palace...As Keiko on her own gets some things from some vending machines, and then goes back to the Velvet Room where Igor, Caroline, and Justine await for her to show up again to get more Personas and their powers to have from within her mask for today.
Igor: Go right ahead, Ms. Trickster. Take your time.
Keiko: Thank you again, Igor...Ouch!
Caroline kicks her from behind.
Caroline: Move it, Inmate!
Keiko: Caroline, that hurts you know...
She'll be fine for Justine to have no trouble with Keiko, Caroline shows her feelings a bit differently than her twin sister does.
Justine: Please pick out what you need to take with you, Inmate.
And she does choose out good ones and for some too hard to name on other skills they do, but by reading the details will give you some ideas on the rest. For the others to do something, I'll post it up.
Tayla: Persona #28 - Hua Po
According to scripture Zi-bu-yu in Qing dynasty, Hua Po is a kind of tree spirit said to be formed from the disembodied souls of dead humans when three or more people hang themselves from the same tree. They appear as beautiful young girls that are dressed in white clothes but are much smaller than the average human. Although they cannot speak, it is said that they make sounds that are as beautiful as those of songbirds.
Tayla: Persona #29 - Koropokkuru
Koropokkuru are a race of small people in Ainu folklore. The name is traditionally analyzed as a tripartite compound of kor or koro ("butterbur plant"), pok ("under, below"), and kur or kuru ("person") and interpreted to mean "people below the leaves of the butterbur plant" in the Ainu language.
The Ainu believe that the Koropokkuru were the people who lived in the Ainu's land before the Ainu themselves lived there. They were short of stature, agile and skilled at fishing. They lived in pits with roofs made from butterbur leaves.
Long ago, the Koropokkuru were on good terms with the Ainu, and would send them deer, fish and other game and exchange goods with them. The little people hated to be seen, however, so they would stealthily make their deliveries under cover of night.
One day, a young Ainu man decided he wanted to see a Koropokkuru for himself, so he waited in ambush by the window where their gifts were usually left. When a Koropokkuru came to place something there, the young man grabbed it by the hand and dragged it inside. It turned out to be a beautiful Koropokkuru woman, who was so enraged at the young man's rudeness that her people have not been seen since. Their pits, pottery and stone implements, the Ainu believe, still remain scattered about the landscape.
Tayla: Persona #30 – Onmoraki
In Shinto mythology, an Onmoraki is a bird-demon created from the spirits of freshly-dead corpses. They resemble a black crane, and if a person is caught sleeping in a temple's sermon hall, the Onmoraki will rebuke them while flapping its wings. Onmoraki are also said to shout the Degeneration Sutra in the household altar of priests who neglect to read their sutras.
Tayla: Persona #31 – Ippon-Datara
A rarely seen creature, one is more likely to see his footprints on the mountains. Some believe he might be a blacksmith or the ghost of one.
Got some good ones! Nice...As well as some powers to power up some Personas or add some new ones to drop others when needed, cool new ability to use when needed for Keiko to keep in mind. But before leaving, both Caroline and Justine wanted a moment of time with the female hero really quick to talk about something.
Keiko: Umm...Is there something you two wish to talk about with me...?
She sits down to wait to hear what Caroline and Justine needed to say to her Keiko before leaving the Velvet Room.
Caroline: Hmph, look how many Personas you're making. Not bad for an inmate like yourself.
Justine: Yes, and with it...We can help you out with something special as part of your rehabilitation.
Sounds good for them to help out Keiko a lot more besides Igor.
Caroline: It's rare for you to smile like this, Justine.
Justine: But you're the one smiling a lot more, Caroline.
Keiko laughs to see there was some good from Caroline and Justine to be good people with a strong attitude of theirs.
Keiko: (They're still like children from a different world...) You two are sweeter and amazing as you both appeared to be, I like that.
For it to be true, the twins hide it from Keiko to feel it out either way 'or try to'.
Caroline: Shut it, Inmate!
Justine: We wardens are only pleased with how you're rehabilitating so far.
Caroline: So idiotic! Still, I like your guts, Inmate. You have so many guys for one of them to have you, live a good life, you're smarter than you look, and...Ah...Just keep it up smoothly.
Justine: It is true that you can do more than just slack off, Inmate, very good.
Still, they do like Keiko to get used to her more because she was a girl like them.
Keiko: You're welcome...I guess...? (Just agree and smile with them, Keiko, just go along with it.)
Justine: Very well. If you do some good, we'll allow you to do other free things from outside of the prison cells from getting more Personas and visit us from time to time.
Sounds like a good deal to take this type of deal.
Caroline: Don't forget to take care of some of the things on your hard work if you really want this without our help. That's how a deal works after all, just take it and leave it already. It's like you forget where you are, Inmate. You've got some real guts though! With that spirit, you should have no trouble making progress! If you have the will to continue your penal labor, we can grant you greater freedom within this prison.
Keiko: Yes, I'll do so. Thank you, Justine and Caroline. (Looks like I just made a deal with Caroline and Justine.)
They shook on it, and the deal was all set. You all know what that means...Another Confidant is open up for those two now, being a bonus type for the twins to get off their Confidants here. For another slot to be open.
I am thou, thou art I...Thou hast acquired a new vow.
It shall become the wings of rebellion that breaketh thy chains of captivity.
With the birth of the Strength Persona, I have obtained the winds of blessing that shall lead to freedom and new power...
Tayla: Strength Arcana #10 - Caroline and Justine
Portrayed as a young woman holding up a terrifying beast (more often a lion), the Strength Arcana symbolizes an imagery beyond the Beast And Beauty, and is associated with the morality about the stronger power of self-control, gentleness, courage and virtue over brute force. In tarot readings, it can also represent creative or physical energy that needs to be or is about to be unleashed, sometimes out of desire to be recognized. The card is also named Fortitude in some decks, further giving meanings revolving on courage.
Game play-wise, the Personas of the Strength Arcana are commonly Personas excelling in Physical attributes. Archetypes embodied by Strength Arcana Personas are warrior figures and heroes, or are figures that embody strength of body or character.
A commonality between characters of the Strength Arcana is their strength of heart. Strength characters are not upset easily and typically portray the fortitude that the Strength card represents in readings.
Their Arcana and Confidant goes up to the first level 1.
Caroline: Now, it's time for your next task!
Justine: Train more to come in to see more Personas and some you've gotten so far, and that's it for now. Until next time.
Keiko takes off for now to make new friends with the twin girls...
Caroline and Justine: You're all good to go, Inmate.
Igor: Come back anytime, Ms. Trickster.
Even so, the strange woman in a hood approaches the other one as well for Sith to see them watching the four thieves.
Sith: Phantom Thieves, eh...?
Hooded Woman: Our new enemies for my Master want to be dealt with, along with the boss too. We might as well get what we both want. Maybe we can fool around with the leader and someone special to her. Are you sure you still want this girl?
Somehow, the male one does not keep his eyes off of Keiko the most to fall in love with her. Not good...!
?: How lovely...If you help me get to her, then I'll get you what you want from the gems you need.
Like the red one? Hmmm...Well, they were the only ones, same with two other girls, another ninja one, and...some odd looking Shadow to be wandering around in Madarame Shadow's Museum Palace. Was it a threat? Who's to say for sure right now. Weird...There's still more to come next time.