on the hunt

[miseris_socios]

Characters: Ken Amada and open.
Setting: The Meadow and The Forest. Or catch him on the stairs! Just tell me where. Night.
Format: Action
Summary: It's training time. Ken's spear still isn't fixed, but he's got his Evoker. Time to hunt Shadows.
Warnings: Possibly dark subjects. Also shooting yourself in the head. :|b


[He's been still for too long. Going out at night, hunting Shadows… he's missed it. So quietly, as to not wake anyone, he heads out of his room and down the stairs, looking for something to fight.]

[And he finds it. Blobs of Shadow, there in a corner and over there, too - and the quick movement of a Shadow with too much speed. Lifting his Evoker to his forehead, he fires, summoning Nemesis, dispatching a few with Hama and frying a few more with Zionga.]

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[evokingfool]

[Well, Yu, you got your roommate looking at you with a curious look.

Even while dealing with monsters.]

[pitiedthefool]

[He supposes he should have expected that, what with no longer hiding his Wild Card ability - or the fact that he's a Persona-user in the first place. Then again, he'd stopped the moment another had been in danger just after the collars...

Nope, not going to dwell on it. He glances back, raising an eyebrow as Tam Lin strikes out with Deathbound. Isn't like he has anything to strike with himself other than his fists, right now.]

Something on your mind?

[evokingfool]

I'm curious about your Personas. [Personas. Plural. He never thought to meet another Wild Card user, not since he met Minako--Minami, too--and the other Minato.

Barong seems to dance around, striking monsters with a Heat Wave]

[pitiedthefool]

Ah. [To be honest, he was rather curious about Minato's as well. He's never met another like them before now, either - all of his friends only had their own individual Persona, after all.]

I only know what a friend mentioned, and how I'm able to use Personas in the first place. [Would he believe him about the Velvet Room, unlike the friends he pretty much figured couldn't see the door like everyone else in town? He spares another glance before paying attention to the creatures around them once again. Feel free to ask for specifics.]

[evokingfool]

Really?

[He wonders who is that friend, as well as whether Yu can see the Velvet Room. Go through the velvet door, too. The team couldn't see it back when he first enter Tartarus. So he keep it to himself, since it might make them question his sanity.]

Does your friend help you with Personas?

[pitiedthefool]

...Yes, he does.

[They're just dancing around the topic now, and his gaze ends up calling on Minato again. He's starting to wonder about his roommate, now- well, what's the worst thing that could happen.]

Did you ever see a door no one else could?

[evokingfool]

[That question, more or less, confirms some of his suspicions. A door? That could only mean...]

I've seen a velvet blue door around.

[pitiedthefool]

[...Does this mean they're from the same universe? And, if so, then that means...]

Then it seems we have one friend in common, at least.

[evokingfool]

[If that's true, then he feels like he's not alone. Not as much. There's Minako, but she lived his life in her world, so Minato isn't sure if the Velvet Room is only for people like them who went to Iwatodai.

To think someone else, who is not him or her, knows about the Velvet Room and have the Wild Card. It's reassuring.]

Knowing him, he's a great help...even if he's cryptic sometimes.

[pitiedthefool]

[To be honest, he never thought he would meet another with the same ability, even if their circumstances were more than likely different. He knew through Margaret there had been another at some point, but to possibly meet them?]

You mean "most of the time," and not being forthcoming with the information, but instead letting you figure it out for yourself? [There's a faint hint of amusement, though he still wondered... could Minato be the one she mentioned?]

[evokingfool]

[If Yu wants to know, he just need to ask. Minato would confirm it, even if he's from before the end of his journey.]

That's right. Either him or Elizabeth. [Does Yu know Elizabeth as well?]

[pitiedthefool]

[It's pretty much automatic that he recalls the words Margaret last said to him person before he faced Izanami with his friends. "Before Elizabeth left, she told me this: A soul slumbers at the ends of the world-- that of a young man who devoted himself to becoming a seal..."

Was he really the one--his predecessor?] You're the one she...

[He shakes his head.] Margaret mentioned her sister, but I never really met her. She'd left the Velvet Room by the time I was invited.

[evokingfool]

[Bang. In Barong's place, Titania appears and cast Magarula. The fairy queen continue to fight, even as Minato converse with Yu. He looks rather surprised.]

...I didn't know Elizabeth have a sister.

[pitiedthefool]

[...That is seriously going to take some getting used to. He continues letting Tam Lin attack for a while, since they were doing fine with physical attacks and the occasional Ziodyne.]

Guess the residents of that place have their secrets, too. [He pauses, watching the two Personas from the corner of his eye. How to subtly try and find out if they were from the same universe...]

According to Margaret, Elizabeth left the Velvet Room looking for a way to save a soul who devoted himself to becoming a seal. [If his suspicions are correct, then...]

[evokingfool]

...A seal?

[Unfortunately, Minato's from a time before it and no one ever told him of the future. Here or in the Underworld. His team back in the Underworld, the ones who knows, never mentioned it to him.]

Elizabeth wouldn't do that unless it's someone very important to her... [The realisation is almost there. Just a little more for him to connect.] ...Me?

[pitiedthefool]

... [He suddenly has a feeling as though, if Adachi-san were here, he would be laughing his ass off at Yu's momentary lack of tact. He mentally kicks himself, dismissing Tam Lin and instead calling forth Mot instead. As it peeked from the coffin, he could feel it- the evil glint in its own visible eye.

There's a certain air of guilt hanging about him for even mentioning it. He got to live, even if it meant temporary separation from his friends. ...Why had that been the only thing Margaret mentioned?!]

I don't know. She never once mentioned a name. [At least that was true. Though, his eyes say something else: sorry.]

[evokingfool]

...I see.

[If his guess is true, then in the future back home, he would become a seal. A seal for what, he don't know. But if he knows himself, it must be important enough to give himself up for.

How strange. Here, he's been worrying about keeping people alive as much as possible...and he might have learn that he have his own death. Not one by the Tower, or the Gods, but his own choice. Isn't that what it means to "devoted" himself?]

[pitiedthefool]

[He regrets even mentioning it, what little he knows of Elizabeth. Yet he says nothing more on it, instead focusing on the fighting for a brief moment while he sorted out his thoughts. If their guesses were true, then... he was incredibly lucky in only being separated from his friends by distance. Meeting the person he'd succeeded, whose been a friend since he came here...

If there was a way, he would find it. Any way at all to help set things right so that whatever danger he'd become a barrier to guard all of humanity from would be stopped yet he could continue on with his friends.

None of this was fair.]

...If it is, I'm sorry you had to find out through me. [-mental Chie-kick to himself.]

[evokingfool]

[Life in general is never fair, but Minato won't begrudge it. Instead, he embrace his experiences and never have regrets.

If that moment when he become a seal draws nearer, he'd probably make the same choice. Against who, he don't know, but if it's for his friends...]

It's alright... You didn't mean it, Yu. [A small smile.] But thank you for letting me know.

[It make sense now.]

[pitiedthefool]

[It truly isn't. Yu sighs, giving a faint nod. If it was true, and the person Margaret referenced to was Minato... then he really can sense a greater respect for his roommate growing--

He collects his thoughts, shoves his feelings aside because it doesn't matter as much as Minato's. ...Why was he thanking him, though?]

Minato...

[evokingfool]

Really, thank you.

[Minato smiles. So this is the truth they try to hide from him. His friends back in the Underworld.

And he was so blissfully ignorant of their pain, every time they see him.]

[pitiedthefool]

[...He grows silent, giving a faint nod. Really, it could be read any way, though it's mainly confusion as to why someone would thank him for saying something like what he mentioned unless... Unless the truth had been hidden from him. Somehow that both seemed right and wrong all at once.

Truth can be a painful thing, and hadn't he chosen to face it anyway? ...He only hoped their guesses were wrong.]

...What year was it, back home?

[evokingfool]

[If Yu ask, Minato would tell him his guesses. That the truth was hidden from him.]

It's 2009 for me.

[pitiedthefool]

It's spring of 2012 for me.

[So if Minato ever wondered if it had been something his friends had or hadn't done, it wasn't and more than likely after both their times if it were the case. Though, there was that one time- no, he was not going to think back on that possibility. But still, he pulls out a pair of grey glasses from his pocket and holds them out to the one who came before him.]

...Here. Because of my Persona, I no longer need these to see.

[He offers a smile, however faint. It was one of the last things he had of a close friend, but he doesn't mind. The memories and the picture they took together is enough.]

[evokingfool]

[He looks down at the glasses. Slowly, he reach out and gently take them. The glasses seem very important to Yu.

But Yu's giving them to him. Minato feels...honoured by the gestured.]

If you don't mind me holding onto them.

[He smiles back, holding the folded glasses in his right hand.]