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]

[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.]

[pitiedthefool]

I don't mind. Besides...
[He shakes his head, letting go of the glasses he'd once discarded while summoning the power of the truths he knew by heart, and his ultimate Persona who he could almost hear encouraging him. If their guesses were right, and what Minato and his friends were doing for the other (and had done by his time), then...]

...I should be the one thanking you.

[-Because their actions made his reality possible. Being able to grow up, to meet the ones who became so precious to him... his World Arcana-]

Maybe if our friend, Teddie, is brought here... he can make you your own.

[evokingfool]

Your friend make glasses?

[Interesting hobby, or job if it's Teddie's occupation. Minato examine the glasses in his hand, taking note of the small details.]

[pitiedthefool]

Yeah. Never did figure out how they worked in the TV...

[Definitely the former, just... don't ask about the joke glasses unless you really want a laugh. He smirks just a tiny bit, before changing to Izanagi-no-Okami and watching him kick a monster in the face with its bladed foot.]

[evokingfool]

The TV?

[He sound bemused, as he switch to a different Persona. A fired Evoker later, Cu Chulainn appears in his white armoured glory and start stabbing a monster with his spear.]

[pitiedthefool]

[...He is going to have to get used to the Evoker thing, even after Naoto used her gun to shoot her Fortune card all the time.]

It's a long story. [A pause, then a nod.] Basically, there was another world inside the TV in my time- one only others who had been able to survive it could enter. That's where my team trained.

[Yu would go into more detail, but he's running a little low on stamina here with having to resort to his Personas for all of his defending... Whoops.]

[evokingfool]

[Except unlike Naoto, Minato's using his Evoker to shoot himself.]

We can talk and exchange notes later.

[Like when they're not under attack.]

[pitiedthefool]

[Exactly. Yu nods faintly, eyeing the monsters around them. ...Might be a good idea to flee at some point.]

Right. Let's see about finishing them off first.

[Izanagi-no-Okami stops striking, instead rotating his blade around before a Megidolaon spell falls on the surrounding monsters in an explosion of almighty magic.]

[evokingfool]

[Cu Chulainn stops, staying out of the almighty explosion's range. Once the dust clears, many of the monsters died.]

Not bad.

[pitiedthefool]

[Sorry Cu Chulainn, and Izanagi really wasn't meaning to try and hit you. /all the shared EXP?]

You're not bad yourself.

[evokingfool]

[All the shared EXP, man.]

I have a lot of practice.

[Shadows infested towers are good training grounds, apparently.]