The Ultimate Ordeal

Mod Cassie

Yu Narukami

Rise Kujikawa

Minako Arisato

Mod Alice

Kanji Tatsumi

A tired sigh escaped her lips as she stared at the compound, sadness hidden within her eyes. This wasn’t the environment she wanted this place to be, yet circumstances forced their hands. 

“I hope that plan of theirs works... or else I’m going to have a hard time finding someway to help keep him fed.”

" Today folks, we got a bad case of in-law in-fighting! Aw, but what’s a little siblin’ rivalry between brothers, huh? Now I get tempahs are high, but I still want a good, clean fight-- ‘kay? ”

Ready?   FIGHT!

Both challengers have agreed to the match. This fight is underway!

“ In our next match, we have the excitin' match up of death and the death-defyin’... On one hand, the blue-eyed harbinger of deadly charm, Ryoji! On the other... Michael, the undyin', hot lava hell-hog!   Show us what ya can do ! ”

Ready?   FIGHT!

Both challengers have agreed to the match. This fight is underway!

“ In our   FIRST   match in the new and improved battle arena, we have an all blue match up! The emo messiah with a killah’ playlist, Velv, versus... the cold weathah’ women with a burnin’ tempah’    Vivi ! Now without further ado... ”

Ready?   FIGHT!

Both challengers have agreed to the match. The arena's very first fight is underway!

VELV VS. VIVI

Mitsuru mumbled to herself as she oversaw the final repairs on the compound. The new construction still needed a bit more time to complete and unfortunately would not be done before the group returned. Even with the extended trip. Pulling out her phone she stared at the blank screen. Something didn’t sit right with the Empress and she went to unlock the phone before shaking her head.

“No. I shouldn’t. The last thing they probably want is to see me in their chat room. Especially after last time.”

The request was reasonable and it made sense. Anyone from the Phantom Thieves most likely possesses no experience with the TV World. If the TV World was functioning normally, he would not be concerned over a trip such as this. However, with their normal summoning methods ineffective. Extra precautions needed to be taken to ensure that the risks the group encounters are minimal at best.

"I can take you in. However, with the TV World acting abnormally I'll have a few extra people come with us."

Rise and Teddie were the top two people on his mind. Both could navigate the group if something were to happen and for some reason Teddie seemed to have no issues summoning his Persona. It probably had something to do with his origins, however, that was a discussion best saved for later. No need to worry the other members of the group over what Teddie really is.

"Not many though, just Rise and Teddie for extra security. The dungeons that we are familiar with are not present anymore. So we would have to go into the one dungeon we do have access to and those Shadows seem to be around mid tier Shadows."

" Do my eyes deceive me..? " No, she'd know that operating assistant's voice anywhere. And that super impossible heartshaped hair... When she was sent to help bugfix Sophia-- this is not what she was expecting. It also explains why they sent Aigis to the location too.

" She does not appear to be made by the Kirijo Group-- she is similar but lacks certain trademark components. " It seems the blonde robot girl was already physically handling the smaller robot girl and looking her up and down. She hoped she was not being impolite in doing so.

But before Sophia knew it, she was being lifted and checked all over by both the girls attempting to assist.

" Well... this is gonna be a little harder than when I could just plug you into a USB port, huh? You have to have some some sorta panel that opens-- like Aigis does... "

" Perhaps she will be responsive to my recharging station's system check scan, regardless of differences? "

" Eh, it'll need some recalibrating but it's worth a shot... "

Taking a break from how they ran the poor AI ragged, they both place a hand on the heart-haired AI and grin assuredly, saying at once--

Rise understood that yesterday’s mission didn’t go exactly to Yu’s plan. Thankfully, they gained precious information so the day wasn’t a complete loss. However, there was something bothering the idol about the TV World yesterday. Unable to shake this feeling, she grabbed her bag and stuffed some stationary into it. Heading into her grandmother’s kitchen she went to fill up a water bottle before seeing her grandmother and telling her goodbye. A lot was on her mind, so she instinctively went to the one place where she goes to think while in Inaba...

The Junes food court. 

Considering how unhealthy it probably was to stay cooped up all day- even for the good reason of trying to figure something out- Raven decided to take a walk when he started hitting one too many frustrated points.

The floodplains wasn’t quite the end destination he had in mind, even if he walked along the path. But he did notice the Yu of this world brooding. And curiosity getting the better of him, he stopped nearby and listened.

…Ah. Not even the natives knew what to make of all this. Which…to be fair, he figured and knew, but this was perhaps the first time he actually saw any of them be so…downtrodden.

This really was a situation that no one knew how to handle, huh?

”Hm…” A glove hand held his own chin, a pretty practiced neutral smile on his face. “Excuse me, Narukami-san? Is it alright if I sit here for a bit?” After all of that, it’d be helpful to have some company around. Especially if said company included someone with no ill will for all of that. 

Distracted by his rampaging thoughts, Yu was unaware of anyone coming out to this part of Inaba. However, hearing a familiar voice snapped him out of his thoughts. Sitting up straight, he saw that the one who found him was Raven. At least it was someone from the group who found him. Thinking of a satisfactory excuse to fool Dojima about his current mood would be very difficult in his state.

“Go right ahead.”

(’don’t mess up don’t mess up don’t mess up don’t me-’)

Byakuya tries to keep the panic of someone suddenly approaching him down, and gave what he hoped wasn’t a nervous smile.