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YOU'RE RIGHT ON TIME
And he totally did do something that dumb... sorry, Akira. Either way, he wasn't in his room this time, but rather curled up downstairs--so it's a bit easier for him to haul himself over to the door, especially since the majority of his symptoms have started to fade by now.
He's still pale, though, hair totally disheveled and in general looking like a huge mess.
He opens the door...and blinks.]
Akira-san...?
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When Minato opens the door, Akira's eyes widen in surprise. Minato looks... bad. Like he's been pretty sick, and is still just getting over it.
Seems like he did exactly the thing Akira was afraid of.]
...You look like you could use some help.
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... Yeah, maybe. I think... I might've messed up a bit.
[He admits that, rueful.]
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[But he doesn't sound too critical. He hasn't drank the strange potion he received after the Jorogumo, but he can understand the temptation. At least Minato probably has a Persona that was able to help him...
But he's not out of the woods yet. Whether Minato wants him to or not, Akira is going to push his way in.]
Why don't you lie down. Do you need anything?
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I'm more or less okay now... it's just been really miserable.
[Fun Facts from Minato Arisato: do not drink poison.]
So... honestly, company is nice. [A beat.] Company that won't yell at me.
[HE FUCKED UP but he definitely scared Vriska and Guren pretty badly, so he knows he deserves it, but...still.]
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[He won't even yell! Partly because that's not really his style, unless he's dramatically yelling at shadows.
As Minato is not a shadow, he's safe.
Akira comes and sits down on the step next to him.]
Who's been by to yell at you already?
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So that...makes it even better.]
Vriska-chan is my roommate, so...she wasn't very happy about it. And Ichinose-san... I wanted to give him the poison so that he could keep it safe. He figured it out. [Naturally.
Though Guren did do minimal yelling, for Guren.]
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Hmm... probably enough yelling then.
[He lightly knocks his shoulder into Minato's.]
Anything I can do to make it less miserable?
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It'd be nice to talk about something not poison related for a bit? I don't really know what, but...
[He's been dealing with a lot of scolding lately.
He might also fall asleep on Akira's shoulder, but right now he's just leaning comfortably against him.]
It'd be nice to take my mind off of it.
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Okay.
[He thinks for a moment, casting his mind around for a story, before...]
Do you want to hear about how I met my first friend, in Tokyo? ...And my cat.
[It's a wild ride. But not really a bad one - at least, not the first part.]
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That sounds like exactly the sort of thing he'd want to hear to take his mind off of things; so that gets a small smile out of him, and a nod.]
I'd really like that.
[He wants to hear this story...!!]
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It was my first day at Shujin, my new school. I hadn't known it was supposed to rain, so I forgot my umbrella. [Kind of embarrassing, really, but ah well.] It started to rain while I was only a few blocks away, so I ducked into a stoop to wait it out. A girl hid under it with me, but it wasn't long before she was picked up by a teacher in a car.
[It feels a bit rude to gloss over his first "meeting" with Ann, but for this story she's only a small part.]
He offered me a ride too, but I turned it down. And just as he drove away, this boy with bleached hair ran up, yelling after him.
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The feeling of trying to find a new school is familiar to him, after all; he's all too used to it.]
... Yelling after him?
[That seems kind of strange.]
Did he not want the teacher to pick her up, or did he want a ride too...?
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[Ah, Kamoshida... that is an even longer story. But he'll leave that aside for now, giving a shake of his head.]
He stopped under the overhang with me. Figured out I was the new transfer student right away. [That would quickly become a theme.] He was angry about the teacher, saying he thought of himself as the "king of the castle" at Shujin.
He offered to show me the way, so I followed him... and that's how we stumbled on our first Palace.
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On the first day of school...?
[That's rough, buddy.]
That's the first time you encountered Shadows?
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And it's also true, that this was their first time to encounter shadows.]
We didn't know what they were at first. Thought they were other kids in costume. But we learned pretty quickly they weren't. They knocked us out, took us to a cell.
When we woke, they said we would be executed, and that's when the owner of the Palace appeared. The teacher I had seen pick the girl up. Kamoshida.
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The teacher was the owner of that Palace...? Doesn't that mean he was some sort of...
[Very shady person...]
... Were you guys okay? You were in a cell?
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Kamoshida... wasn't a good guy. He was our first target - the first heart we changed.
[Akira gives another shake of his head.] But that's getting ahead of myself.
We were in a cell, and we were okay, but... the other guy. Ryuji, I'd learn later. He was furious. He was yelling at Kamoshida, and that's when the shadows attacked him. They held him down, pushed me against the wall...
[Akira shifts his weight on his hands, so he rolls his shoulders a little.] I couldn't let them keep hurting him. You can probably guess what happened next.
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That's when you had your Persona awakening?
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My first Persona was Arsene. He asked me if I would do anything to save Ryuji, and if my previous actions were a mistake.
[Meaning, of course, what led to his arrest... but he doesn't elaborate.]
I said they weren't... and that was when I awakened. I was able to fight off the guards, and Ryuji and I escaped the cell, locking Kamoshida inside.
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But...
Really, when he thinks about this situation...]
I'm so glad you both made it out okay. [That sounds like it was terrifying.]
...But I guess that's what our Personas are there for. They show up when we need them most.
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I wish... Ryuji hadn't had to go through that. But, for better or worse... that was the start of it all.
[He's quiet for a moment, lost in memory. But then he gives his head a light shake, and his expression lightens up.]
The rest isn't as serious as all that. [Well, other than seeing the shadows of the abused students, but...] My powers almost immediately fizzled back out after that - I didn't have control over them yet. So we ran, and that was when we came across... a cat.
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... Still, for now he keeps that to himself, instead tilting his head with a blank blink.]
...A cat? In the Palace?
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But now onto the story of Morgana, an oddity all in himself.]
Well. He says he's not a cat. [A little shrug from Akira. Though he's happy to help Morgana search for his form and memories back, he's not sure he's really a human like he thinks.] But he looks and acts like one.
His name's Morgana, and he'd been exploring the Palace when he was captured and put in a cage, like us.
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... So he could access the Palaces too...? Does that mean he also has a Persona?
[It's not that farfetched; their dog has a Persona, after all.]
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