towerofanimus | 001 | ❝Do you seek the truth?❞

Characters: Yu and... you.
Setting: Dorm Room 2-04 → everywhere
Format: I'll adjust to your preference.
Summary: One protagonist awakens, confused and left to his thoughts before seeking the truth.
Warnings: None currently, aside from true ending spoilers.

Awakening wasn't a strange ordeal for him. After all, he normally did end up falling asleep after staring at the passing scenery. What wasn't in the realm of ordinary happenings? Not being able to move at all, and suddenly waking up on a bed that was certainly not his own. It would be a lie if he wasn't freaked out slightly, yet he paused... tried to reflect on how he could have gotten from the train and to this location, yet it was all a blank.

Soon the paralysis wore off and he began to sit up, taking in the sights around him. ...A dorm room? He had just been on the train back to the city, right? Yu sighed, looking to see if there was any sign of where he is now. The first things he noticed other than the cool metal around his neck (a collar?) is the letter...

One that he automatically placed down after reading the first sentence. Destroyed? How could that be? Hadn't they stopped Namatame from unknowingly doing what the true killer had to kill those two last year? Hadn't they caught Adachi and faced not just Ameno-Sagiri, but the one who had been behind the events that transpired? There were so many questions going through his mind, and none of them were going to be answered by staying here.

After opening the trunk at the foot of his bed, Yu set out to search for answers... and any familiar faces that may be here as well.

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Now what kind of greeting was that...? It gets a vaguely amused chuckle from him - brief, because he can't get the contents of the 'welcome letter' out of his head. Seeing Yosuke smile left him slightly more at ease, however, so there was that along with the nod.

"Yeah. Not even an hour ago, actually," he admitted, which meant his worry for the rest of the team, his family and his friends came first. "Are any of the others-?"

Yosuke nodded, picking up where his partner left off. "Naoto's here. And-" - Yosuke trailed off, not even sure what to say about the other tower resident from back home. How was he supposed to break the news that the crazy goddess they'd worked so hard to stop had now taken up residence inside the tower?

"... and there's someone else from home, too."

That moment of trailing off was rather suspicious, Yosuke. He couldn't help but grow curious, either. Naoto was good; that meant at least Yosuke hadn't been the only one from home here while he wasn't...present, but- Alright, that sentence got him to raise an eyebrow.

"...Who is it." Calmly and slowly, Yosuke; that was generally the better way of saying news such as this before, right? Maybe it would still work this time, or it could backfire. Either way, wasn't it their goal to seek the truth back then?

There just wasn't anyway around it, was there? And the way he said it, he'd have to come clean sooner or later. So, with a deep breath, Yosuke steeled his resolve and said the single most outlandish thing he'd said in quite some time.

"Well, I was walking around the other day, and I ran into Izanami."

"...What!?" How? Why? Why would they even- ...He truly is at a loss for words at the news, and while that may not exactly be something that was foreign for anyone who even barely knew him, hearing that the person - the goddess - who had been so dead set on causing the fog to engulf their entire world was... here... Yet Yosuke wouldn't lie about this, would he.

Somehow, he felt closer to the god for whom his persona was named or possibly was.

"Yeah... we didn't talk for very long, but it was obvious who it was. I wish I could explain how the hell she got trapped here along with us, but..." Yosuke gives a small shrug, accompanied by a sigh, "I have absolutely no idea. Normally I'd feel a little better knowing Naoto's just as stumped, but here? Not much of a comfort."

Yu continues to attempt to wrap his mind around this- hadn't then finished her off? What could this mean, not just for them, but the rest of those trapped here in this tower? Would she try once again to enshroud everyone in fog and turn everyone into Shadows? The fact that they were all stumped doesn't easy the wariness coursing through him right now, either.

"Have you both been alright?" That's the first concern he has to express, but the second: "...She hasn't tried anything, has she?" It's times like this that he wonders just how much his uncle rubbed off on him.

At that moment, Yosuke finds himself in a somewhat unbelievable situation - he's forced to defend Izanami. He's heard the expression that there's a first time for everything, but this seems a bit much.

"Actually, she didn't try anything at all. This might sound a little weird, but if anything I think she was almost... disappointed? And saying it aloud didn't make it seem any less crazy, crap."

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