> 3rd floor, refreshment booth "Sweet, Sweet Hell"...

> Your friends are eating Anmitsu while talking...

Junpei: "A festival, huh... I think if we weren't in the situation we're in that could actually be pretty fun..."

Teddie: "Yep, Festivals are great fun!"

Teddie: "Last summer, I was with Yuki-chan and Chie-chan and Rise-chan on our festival!"

Chie: "Ahh... Yeah, I remember well. Very, very well..."

Chie: "You stuffed yourself at the stands, and then acted like you didn't know what money was."

Chie: "Who do you think you are anyway, royalty?"

Teddie(human): "But Chie-chan, don't you know? I~ am~ your~ prince~!"

Chie: "Yeah, a prince who freeloads off Yosuke's salary. Never heard of that kind before."

Yukari: "Yeah, that sounds like a thing Yosuke-kun would let people do to him."

Junpei: "A bit poisonous today, aren'cha, Yuka-tan?"

Rei: "Chie-chan, what did you eat on that festival?"

Chie: "Hm? Well, it's not a really big one, so just the usual stuff You know, Sukimi-Yaki, Cotton-Candy, that kind of stuff."

Rei: "Wooooow! That sounds greaaaaat! I wanna eat that too someday!"

Chie: "You just had some of both of that earlier!!"

Rei: "Ah, right."

Chie: "Wheew... Well, once we're out of here, how about we all go to a festival together?"

Rei: "...Yeah!"

Zen: "..."

Yukari: "You guys from the Myriad Group all really get along well. You even got to festivals as a group."

Teddie: "We sure do~! We gotta enjoy our lives' spring all-out after all~!"

Yukari: "I dunno about your 'life's spring'... That's a pretty fancy way of saying it."

Fuuka: "B-But Yukari-chan, don't you think we're all getting along well, too?"

Yukari: "Ah, yeah, probably?"

Teddie: "Hey, I just had a beariffic idea! How about for next year's Summer Festival, the Moonlight Group comes over and we all go together!"

Teddie: "I'm sure it's going to be even more fun than the last festival then!!"

Yukari: "Ah, I guess that could be fun... But you're gonna be there too, huh?"

Junpei: "Aaaaand poison bite number two~!"

Fuuka: "First of all, we have to take care of the festival right here, though."

Rei: "No problem! They say anticipation makes everything better, after all!"

Chie: "Alright, then I guess we're gonna plan for the Summer Festival later!"

Teddie: "I'm looking forward to it, Yuka-chan!"

Yukari: "Feel free to, it's not like I had already decided if I am even gonna come."

Junpei: "Aaaand, poison bite numbero tres! She's dangerous today~!"

>The sealed door led to a clearing. You decided to take a short break...

Junpei: "Ahhh... And so, our Culture Festival Lifestyle is about to come to an end...

Makoto: "It's a real shame."

Junpei: "Yeah, 'specially because our festival got cancelled because of that stupid Typhoon."

Yosuke: "Huh, it did?"

Yosuke: "The Gekkoukan School Building is huge, so I'd imagine that a School Festival there must be a real blast. Next year, I'm gonna come and pay you guys' festival a visit."

Chie: "Yeah, especially since when we went to Gekkoukan, they wouldn't let us do anything but study."

Mitsuru: "...You have all been to Gekkoukan High School then?"

Chie: "Ah, yeah. During the cultural exchange trip. I think it was in September."

Mitsuru: "Cultural Exchange Trip? This is the first time I've heard of such a practise..."

Yukiko: "Well, the school was actually closed that day. Only a few of your students were there, I think, so it's possible that most of you just didn't know."

Akihiko: "Even then, I think at least Mitsuru should know. She is the Student Council President, after all..."

Yosuke: "Huh? But the Student Council President we met was a girl called 'Fushimi'."

Yosuke: "No way I'd ever forget a bespectacled cutie like her, after all!"

Mitsuru: "Fushimi? But... she's just a first year student!"

Naoto: "Hm? But we were told she was a third year student..."

Yukiko: "Now that you mention it, Junpei-kun said something about a "typhoon" earlier, but..."

Yukiko: "Shouldn't the typhoon season actually be long over? I mean, we're already at the end of October."

Akihiko: "October...? Last time I checked, it was still September."

Naoto: "W-Wait just a moment. I just want to accertain something, but... Tell me, which year by the Gregorian Calendar are you currently writing?"

Yukari: "It's 2009."

Chie: "Wha...!? No way, it's 2011!!"

Junpei: "Hah!? No, it's totally 2009!"

Yosuke: "Two years? No way that that's just a mistake..."

Naoto: "Unbelievable... Could it really be that our points in time are two years apart...?"

Naoto: "Rise-san! Please get a confirmation from Margaret-san!"

Rise: "OK, just wait a moment, please!"

Rise: "..."

Rise: " 'Oh My, you have only noticed now? I believed it to be obvious, actually. ' That's what she said..."

Chie: "If she knew, she should have told us earlier..."

Rise: " 'I have told you as much that you have overcome the flow of time, so I expected you to come to a conclusion yourselves' she says"

Yosuke: "That lady may be pretty as a pearl, but but she can be pretty damn unreasonable, too..."

Teddie: "I know! Isn't it great!?"

Chie: "If we were two years off all along, doesn't that mean you're actually all our Senpai!?"

Chie: "Oh man... And we've been totally buddy-buddy with you all along..."

Yu: >> Let us be very formal from now on. > No point in changing it up now.

Makoto: "You don't need to, really. Most of us are still just second years either way."

Chie: "Really? Thank goodness. I really suck at being super formal, you know..."

Aigis: "The people we meet and how we forge our bonds to them are unrelated to information such as the point in time or place that these events occur in."

Aigis: "I am sure that the same does also apply for Zen-san and Rei-san."

Rei: "Huh?"

Yukiko: "Heheh. She's saying that we're friends."

Rei: "We're... friends..."

Rei: "I'm freaking! Zen! I'm totally freaking!"

Zen: "You are?"

Rei: "And you, Zen!?"

Zen: "I am... wondering what 'freaking' means."

Rei: "Blockhead!"

Mitsuru: "Wait... If Persona Users in two years are unaware of the Dark Hour, wouldn't that mean..."

Mitsuru: "That the Dark Hour was erased, and that we... We have won...?"

Akihiko: "...Don't start celebrating already. If we consider ourselves the victors already, we'll only get reckless."

Mitsuru: "...You're right."

Mitsuru: "But I feel like I have seen a glimpse of hope. These people themselves are like a symbol of our shining future..."

Akihiko: "Yeah..."

>2nd Floor, Exhibit Corridor...

Chie: "Ahh... That was real close earlier... I'm sorry for how I freaked out when we were suddenly locked in."

Yukiko: "What matters is that we're out and safe. And it's all thanks to Rei-chan and the others."

Naoto: "It was quite unpleasant to be too helpless to do anything other than waiting..."

Naoto: "But I imagine it must have been even worse for you, Yuki-kun. You are used to taking a leading role, after all.

Makoto: "No... Actually, not really, I guess."

Makoto: "It wasn't only Rei-chan. Zen and Yu were with her."

Makoto: "I thought that there's no harm if I just relax and wait."

Fuuka: "Heheh, that is just like you."

Fuuka: "Rise-chan and I really panicked. The contact cut off all of a sudden, and we heard this strange voice..."

Chie: "A-A voice!?"

Rise: "It was only really faint, but it still gave me the creeps! I could hear it scream things like 'Nooooo!' and 'It huuurts!'..."

Chie: "J-Just stop it already!!"

Fuuka: "Just what could that have been...?"

Fuuka: "I wonder if it has to do with the big reading we are getting from the center?"

Makoto: "A big reading?"

Rise: "Yeah, I think that that's our next guardian."

Rise: "And it looks like there's several of them this time... Please, be careful."

Makoto: "Several... That's going to be tough."

Naoto: "Senpai, if we have to face several foes, you must make sure to take even more careful preparation than usually."

Yu: >> Understood. > What a bother.

Naoto: "Ha Ha. I don't think that is something we need to tell you twice, hm?"

Yukiko: "I am also preparing thoroughly. I hope you'll all be looking forward to it!"

Makoto: "...What are you preparing?"

Yukiko: "I'm gathering as many stories as I can, so I can make sure Chie won't be frightened again."

Chie: "...What kind of stories?"

Yukiko: "Ghost Stories from the Hospital?"

Chie: "YOU'RE GONNA KILL MEEEEE!!!"

Yukiko: "Huh?"

Yukiko: "I just thought if we mentally prepare you and get yourself in the mood for the horror, you won't be unsettled anymore when it actually comes."

Chie: "I have no idea what this is even supposed to mean, but the last thing I wanna do is 'get myself in the mood' for this!!"

Yukiko: "Oh, I see."

Fuuka: "Eheheh. Friendship is really wonderful."

Rise: "You think so?"

Naoto: "Good Grief..."

"I was just thinking... We all have the same power in this adventure now, right? Changing Personas and still having our own... That's a pretty big thing! Not to mention all the stuff happening with the school. So, how come none of us can remember this ever happened later on?"

"Yeah... That is a good question."

"Maybe that memory-thief Rei-chan mentioned got to us."

"Makes me wonder whatever happened to Zen n' Rei... I have one bad feeling 'bout this..."

"I... don't really wanna think of that..."

"No matter what it was, I am sure it did not happen because you were a 'bad' Big Sister, Yukiko."

"Yu-kun..."

"A...Ahhh, while we're at it! We were supposed to meet Master Akihiko and the others in this, right? But they haven't shown up yet..."

"Yeah, I realize that too... This plot is sure taking its time..."

"There were two doors in the Velvet Room, however... I would not be surprised if the second heralds the fact that we have already arrived, as well..."

"It can be concluded we have merely not run into each other yet."

"...Then you're already somewhere in the school... Well, that'd fit with what Margaret-san said. Well, except... she also mentioned a second 'Wild Card', right? Someone with the same power as Yu. Who would that be?"

"...Ah..."

"..."

"Oh, I see! It must be Aigis-san! I have seen her change her Persona in battle before!"

"Umm, I..."

"So the second Wild Card is Aigis-san...?"

"...I may hold the power of 'The Wild Card'... But the truth is that I was not always capable of wielding said potential."

"Not always...?"

"The one who held this power before me... The one who demonstrated it to me for the first time... was..."

"..."

"..."

"Hey. What's with the dark mood all of a sudden?"