Mun is cracking up over the P4 Arena. Aki is just... confused about something.

[southpaw_senpai]

...I don't understand. Why would someone burn a magazine on medicine? Especially if it has tips on veterinarian medicine. I would think that sort of knowledge would only be beneficial to a person...

[No, no, Aki... Bear behinds. It's a pun.]

...I don't get it.

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[genbukaiden]

I'm not sure I understand either, so at least you're not alone?

[southpaw_senpai]

Yeah, I suppose so. Still, it baffles me why someone would go so far as to burn a medical journal.

...I wonder if Hanamura-san's parents say it's against their religion or something?

[genbukaiden]

If that's the case, maybe they could...donate it? Unless they find it offensive.

[southpaw_senpai]

I'm not sure. Things seem... odd in Inaba right now. That might be effecting people...

[genbukaiden]

Odd how? (She frowns worriedly.) Where is Inaba located?

[southpaw_senpai]

It's... difficult to describe, dealing with another world and the power myself and a handful of others have awoken to.

Inaba is a fairly isolated rural town a few miles south of Iwatodai.

[genbukaiden]

You sound like...my friends. (The Seven - er...Eight - Celestial Warriors.) Can you do things others would find impossible?

Is that your home?

[southpaw_senpai]

I guess you could say that, yeah. We use a power called Persona to help us fight Shadows. [As if that would mean anything to anyone outside of SEES or the Investigation Team.]

Iwatodai? Yeah. It's been hard for me to really pin down where my home is... but yeah. I think Iwatodai fits the bill.

[genbukaiden]

Are Shadows...on another plane? (Like Celestial spirits?)

...you weren't...born somewhere?

[southpaw_senpai]

I... suppose you could say that. They're like the suppressed emotions a person is too embarassed to acknowledge. Our darker sides, things we don't want to show anyone else. When we confront these creatures, and accept our darker sides as part of ourselves, that's when our Personas are born.

[He pulls what looks like a silver handgun from its holster at his side, puts the barrel against his forehead and pulls the trigger. A small shattering sound later and Caesar appears behind him for a moment before fading away.]

Well, I was. But... I don't really know where. My sister and I were orphaned while we were still very young. We grew up in an Orphanage with my best friend Shinji... but there was a fire, Miki died in the fire. Ever since, Shinji and I kind of drifted from place to place without anywhere really stable to call home until we discovered our power, and joined SEES and were put up at a dorm for Gekkoukan High School in Iwatodai.

[helenchanted]

[What does that even mean.]

...I don't think I get it either.

[flurryofsnow]

Yeeeah. I can't say I get it, but I know who would, and it's not helping.

...Though you've got my mun grumbling something about 'stupid European Arena release dates' and making funny noises. [Shrug--] Wish I knew what that was about too.

1/3

[southpaw_senpai]

Good to know I'm not the onl-- [Wait a second...]

2/3

[southpaw_senpai]

[He's just going to go pale for a bit, like he's seen a ghost. At first he doesn't believe it.]

3/3

[southpaw_senpai]

[...but the more he looks at her, the more he's convinced.]

...MIKI!?

[And cue a big-brother bear hug.]

[southpaw_senpai]

People can be so weird at times...

[flurryofsnow]

[Have a grin, Akihiko.]

Heh. Tell me about it. And I swear they just keep getting weirder.

[hasthepotential]

Seems pretty wasteful, if you ask me.

[Koro-chan would probably agree.]

[southpaw_senpai]

It doesn't help that Shadows are constantly interfering with people's minds either...

[southpaw_senpai]

That's what I thought!

[Don't encourage him, Minako.]

[hasthepotential]

[But that's what she does best! ♥]

What did they do with it after they set fire to it? Just let it burn..?

[Though wait!]

And just what sort of situation were you in that had you near that kind of delinquent? Was Shinjiro-senpai with you?

[flurryofsnow]

I can imagine. 'Screw with your brains' seems to be in their job description, huh? I get what their deal is, but damn right it doesn't help.

[southpaw_senpai]

[You give the mun no help, you realize.]

I... don't know. All I know is that Hanamura-san's mother found it, and burned it. [Shrug.]

[...Wait. Delinquent? Shinji? ...Something was off, but he chalked it up to the peculiarities of this place.]

No, I was on a mission with Mitsuru-san and Aigis. One of Aigis' sister units went missing and we were called in to help find her.

[hasthepotential]

[You can blame her mun or something.]

...that's just...kinda spastic.

[Maybe she doesn't have the whole story or something.]

Called in by whom? [And why didn't she get invited? Hrmph!] Did you guys find it?

[southpaw_senpai]

That's why it's a good thing we Persona users can help keep them in check.