Wild Card

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“To his credit, he had been training out in the wilderness for a long while beforehand, and apparently had fought bears. It was understandable that he might assume he could at the very least absorb a very strong punch. He simply underestimated the degree to which I was holding back.” Of course, this was also how she convinced him to return to his college education.

“I still feel like there’s a notable difference between bears and androids literally made to fight Shadows en masse... I could probably survive getting hit by a car without any serious injury and still not think I had the durability to take a hit from you at full tilt.” Of course, it’s clear that while Akihiko had underestimated Aigis’s full power, Yui might possibly be overestimating it... Or maybe she’s right on the money. Frankly, she feels it’s safer to high-ball the strength limits of the blonde with literal rocket jets in her heels and assume she has upper arm horsepower somewhere in the tens of thousands.

     Happy robot noises!

“Yo. ‘Sup, Rise?” Yui looked up as she was scrubbing the inside of a pot, a pile of dirty pans, pots, plates, and utensils to her left on the counter of the Cuisine Club’s clubroom. It was her turn to clean up afterwards, and normally she had help, but a number of the other members had obligations and had to bail early, leaving Yui to clean up after the club’s efforts for the day on her lonesome.

“Really beginning to wonder if this is how I’m going to spend the rest of my life. Fighting Shadows... or demons... or whatever. This is, like, the fourth incident I’ve dealt with like this in the span of, like, a year and a half.” The worst part is, Yui wasn’t even exaggerating. First the murders in Inaba, then the P-1 Grand Prix, and then the incident at the Festival of Bonds... It really felt like she was a magnet for Shadow-related trouble, at this rate. Was she going to have to move out of the country and live somewhere secluded, or something...?

Well, when it comes to Yui’s direct family, the main branch of the Minamoto clan is pretty small, consisting of just Yui, her parents Soujirou and Asuka, and her grandparents. Yui barely knows her grandparents beyond the formal meetings she’s had with them as a child, as they live in Kyoto and are pretty much retired, so even if asked, she wouldn’t be able to tell you much of anything about them beyond “they’re old, rich, and super traditional”.

When it comes to Yui’s parents, though, her relationship with them has been a very tumultuous series of ups and downs until post-Persona 4 - albeit mostly downs. As Soujirou and Asuka are both the President (or “shachou”) and a high-ranking executive of the Minamoto Group respectively, they’re both very busy with business, to the point where after a certain point, they were gradually more and more absent from their daughter’s life, leaving her in the care of various babysitters and hired staff. It’s this rocky relationship with her parents that made Yui very sensitive on the topic of neglectful adults, and why she’ll often drop everything to help her friends unless she legitimately can’t do so or is already in the middle of doing so for someone else.

“...Maki, right? S’been a while.” Admittedly, Yui hadn’t been expecting the Minamoto’s branch family to show up to visit her after she got out of the hospital from the amputation of her left arm. It was all the usual platitudes, well wishes and all that, but it was surprisingly nice of them, considering her reputation in the Minamoto Group can’t have been that great. Though, considering she was on better terms with her parents, now, they must’ve decided to make the effort to start rebuilding bridges, as well.