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[epilogical]

I - [Phone, Persona users' filter]

Status report, everyone. I have concluded things have been...complicated for the population at last, and if what I've heard so far is true...

[She's trying to remain completely unaffected, but she's tired and feels overall like a complete failure. ...Aigis has been torturing herself over losing those that are

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Phone.

[iheartcabbage]

Man, I don't even know what the hell is going on anymore. I was supposed to meet everyone at Minato's but I kind of got lost and kept running into all these people fighting. I've just kind of holed myself up in my house for the time being. Have you heard from anyone?

Phone.

[epilogical]

Adachi-san...

I have received really little information, but at least I am more or less aware that Minato-san and Souji-san are taking care of themselves. I don't know much else though.

[iheartcabbage]

[Well, that's reassuring. She may also be able to pick up on the shakiness in his voice.]
...Great. We were so dead set on helping people but, I guess we overestimated how crazy this town would get.

[And then it happens, all at once. Maybe it was because he heard a gunshot close by. Maybe it was because she was the first voice he had heard in a while, but... it just happens.]

I... I can't help but feel useless. I know I'm at risk if I go out there. I know they'll come for me if I stay here too. And if I try to fight back, I might... not be able to stop myself.

[epilogical]

I understand, Adachi-san. I really do.

[She's making the biggest effort to remain calm now.]

But...one way or another, we must endure this, or else we won't be able to live on once it's over. So please...be strong, Adachi-san.

[doudemoe]

Aigis... [So she's still alive. But not for long, everyone was slowly being killed and all he could do was watch it all---stop it.]

[epilogical]

Minato-san.

[No use on hiding the happiness of hearing him alive.]

What is our current situation?

[doudemoe]

Chie and Yosuke were found by Kanji, both dead.

Minako...is still MIA.

[epilogical]

This...everyone. The odds are against us without Personae, even if it's just one per person.

Minato-san, we must find Minako-san immediately.

Phone

[inababanchou]

...

Kanji's dead.

Phone

[epilogical]

[A moment of silence where Aigis closes her eyes and tries to subdue her feelings. It's getting a lot harder now.]

Minato-san informed me he had found...others...

There must be something we can do.

[inababanchou]

Others?

[ His voice actually fucking wavered. It was miniscule, but it was there. ]

[epilogical]

[Oh no. Nononono. Not her, don't make her be the one that tells him...]

Chie-san...Yusuke-san...

[And silence. She can't do it. Her voice just then was at its weakest.]

Action - so late arg sorry :(

[bitemescumbag]

[Since when was life in Mayfield ever full of coincidences that weren't an awful conclusion - a potential disaster in the making.

To that extent Aigis find Yuri walking on the same sidewalk as her, in the opposing direction. Whether it's due to natural testiness or just sheer impudence he's been going along something close to his usual routine during all this.]

Ah, shaddap. You bastards still aren't real anyway. Never will be.

["Keh heh heh! We need not be real to punish you for your sins, detestable harmonixer!"

"Ho ho ho! If anything, we are doing you a service! We will keep you company for your last hours as a human!"

"Hee hee hee! Do you remember it, harmonixer? Do you remember Shanghai!? Such lovely crimson flame, the smell of burning bodies on the air, and one foolish little boy who bit off more than he could chew!"

"Tsk tsk tsk! Again! It shall happen again! Though it may not be so explosively violent, you shall become naught but a beast driven by malice once again! And when it happens..."]Like hell that's gonna happen

Action - is okay!

[epilogical]

[She recognizes her target as once, and her body tenses completely and stops walking. She shouldn't be so obvious...yet she's rooted to the ground. Sweat coats the back of her neck, and she feels her newfound humanity in full effect. It's quite...stunning.]

Ah...

[Like a deer blinded by the light, yes.]

[bitemescumbag]

[It took him a bit to notice - absorbed enough in his own "conversation" as he was. He glanced upwards and slowly stopped. That... was not the kinda reaction he was used to seeing in people looking at him - irritation usually fit that bill. Raising an eyebrow, he ran a thumb along his jawline as he looked downward.]

Uhh... s'wrong, lady? There something on my face?

[Cue the peanut gallery.
"Kah hah hah! She sees you for what you are, harmonixer! A monster playing at being hum-"
"Seriously. Shaddap."]

[epilogical]

..Yuri Hyuga-san?

[The chance is there, ready to be taken. All it would take is a quick movement and good aim. She has both, plus the fact she would be a lot better on her work protecting Minato if she had some of her power back...

But she can't, can she? A life is a life.]

I was issued to kill you. Nevertheless, I don't think I am fitted for such a work.