[Yukiko looks worried as she gets on the network. Very worried. She'd disappeared after the battles at the barricades, not been able to get back, not seen or heard from anyone...]

I owe everyone at the barricades the night of June 19th an apology. I couldn't do enough to help you, and I couldn't get back in time to prevent more damage and keep more of you from being hurt because of the way my magic was blocked.

[She gives the camera a deep bow.]

I'm sorry.

I'd also like to say something to everyone I was fighting with - from the brave, brave girl who kept pushing past her limits and kept going, to my team leader at home for showing why he's our leader, to every healer in the fight, to everyone who stepped in and replaced those who couldn't keep going any longer, to every single person there...thank you. You're very brave and very strong. Don't let anyone make you think otherwise. You're incredible.

And someone else has already said this, but to those who were turned...I don't hate you. You had no way of knowing. I didn't want to witch-hunt you, or go after you, because of something you couldn't control. Please take care of yourselves. You're not what Ruana says you are.

[She bows again, then cuts off the feed.]

[Also, the Persona-users at the barricade, SEES, the Investigation Team, Strega, Hidetoshi Odagiri, Ryoji Mochizuki, Saki Konishi, and Labrys will all get a note in their inboxes, with sharing instructions.]

Hello, everyone. This is Colette here. I would just like to say to all those people who got turned into monsters.....I am sorry that it happened. I wish I could have done something to prevent it.

However, I would also like to say that it's not your fault what happened to you. I'm sure that you didn't mean to hurt anyone and if you knew that you were gonna be turned into monsters, you would have stopped it from happening. I'm sure the people you killed would have understood that too.

It's just like the experiments last April [Colette should very well know that herself - she died by Ryoji's hands.]. I know that you - or at least most of you - wouldn't act like that normally. So please don't blame yourselves for what happened. You are good people, really. I'm sure you are!

And Ruana, please.....stop doing such awful things to everyone.

["Monster", written over her bed in blood, memories of nights spent prowling the tower with a laugh in her throat and a mindless thirst for death, and Maka wants nothing more than to lock herself in a room somewhere and never come out.

But she has to keep moving forward. She's not scared. She's not scared. It doesn't matter that she transformed for the first time while she was awake, or that she got stuck for a few long, terrifying moments with her blades out. She's not scared.

But she needs to apologize. So she finds a terminal tucked away in a hallway, and addresses the network at large, because she has no way to know the names of the people she killed.]

I was one of the monsters. I killed a boy with a ponytail in the library, and a robot in the cafeteria. I'm sorry.

If anyone has a retrieval unit following them and wants to name them, I have a few name tags that people can use for that purpose. I can be found in the third floor library, or a different location, if you don't like the library or like privacy.

[Those who have been here quite a long time will recall that Lina went back home around November - however, going by her expression and the way she's acting, it doesn't seem like it's been that long. She may have a tendency toward burying her emotions, but she's not good enough to hide what would go along with eight months of solitude.]

Well, it's about time I got back here! I swear, another day back there, and I would have screamed.

[Well, she did after the first few days, but she's not gonna broadcast that in the least. She sighs, then folds her arms.]

So what'd I miss while I was gone?