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[Almost as soon as Ryoji awakes and finds himself back to normal, he searches for the nearest terminal and switches it on. It's late, it's unlikely that anyone will hear this but... he needs to get it out somehow.

His face is pale, and for a moment, he almost looks like he's still wearing that terrifying mask. His bloodshot eyes, though, are there, are real eyes, not empty holes of darkness.

It takes him quite a few minutes before he gets up the courage to speak, and he doesn't have that booming voice anymore, either. This voice is just shaky... and sad.]

... Nyx is not a malevolent being. She only exists to give mankind what they all desire, deep in their hearts. She believes any man keeps this want a secret, hidden from the rest of the world and even himself.

B-But it's still there. The want for death.

It seems that this Tower is indestructible, and therefore Nyx could not bring down the Fall... I think she thought that there must be a way to end it, that she just wasn't seeing it. She thought that... maybe if people didn't want to die yet, then she'd make them want it...

[Ryoji lowers his head for a moment, eyes scrunched together as he lets out a pained sigh.]

That's not an excuse. I shouldn't be defending her-we...

I shouldn't be defending myself. I'm truly sorry. If anyone was harmed, please let me know. I'll do my best to make it up to you.

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...Nyx is still inside me.

[He doesn't feel like he needs to say much else. Those from his old world will know what he expects, and if they don't, maybe that will give Ryoji more of a chance to convince them. The feed shuts off.]

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[...Sigh, Ryoji.]

You're not alone in this. Besides...what kind of friends would we be if we couldn't help yuo somehow?

[Read: don't even think about it; handling things like this alone = bad. 8(]

[Hey, he inherited more from Minato than his charm and good looks.]

But what kind of friend would I be for involving you in something like this? Please, I don't want to hurt anyone. It'll be harder if we are friends.

[Dammit, he had to talk a Strega Minato out of stupidity; why dos he have to continue with people related to any Minatos?]

Consider it an intervention. [Funny. It sounds like he'd done it before with another aspect of death.]

[Because any part of Minato is a self-sacrificing woobie?]

...I'm not going to be able to convince you to stay away, am I?

[It does sound like Yu has experience, though Ryoji isn't exactly realizing that this must have happened with the other him before.]

[SIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGH. Them and all his friends. Seriously, Yu could go on about his own team.]

No, you won't. [And not just another him, but someone back home, too.]

[Hey, our games are depressing, man.

Ryoji doesn't say anything for a long while, just trying to maintain that same weak smile.]

So... you mentioned something similar to this happening with Izanami?

[He gets the vague feeling that he was supposed to meet her for tea at some point.]

[That they are. Yu lets that sink in for a while, but nods at the question.]

...Her, the representatives [hi there] and the Sagiri, yes.

[~~Death gods and entities plz.~~]

Representatives?

...You don't have to answer if you don't want to.

[Ryoji may want to know, but he doesn't want to force painful memories for Yu.]

[He makes this private.]

I don't mind.

Basically, the part of her that wanted to "fulfill humanity's wish" chose three humans who represented three aspects of humanity in an experiment to see what it was they wanted: Despair, Emptiness, and Hope. ...I was Hope; the reason my friends all survived to awaken their own Persona ability.

[Fighting their shadow selves was fuuuun. 8D]

Survived... What happened to all of them?

...Most of them got shoved into another world where their own Shadows manifested.

[Oh, Yosuke...]

Their... own Shadows?

[Yu you are just making Ryoji even more confused.]

It's a long story...

[So long that him mun begins the action command spam.

> You explain that in Inaba, there was something called the Midnight Channel - a window that both reflected people who became famous through the media that people wanted to know more about.
> Additionally, you also explain that this window was able to be passed through by Persona users and the representatives, which was how the two initial murders of the case first took place and how your team became involved was the kidnappings that resulted in a vain attempt to keep them from being killed.
> You also mentioned that those who were kidnapped would appear on the Midnight Channel, and it wasn't really them, but everything they repressed from themselves and what society thought of them--in other words, their Shadows.
> You thus end mentioning something similar happened in the Tower once except it was transformed into what the other world was, rather than their appearances end up on the network or the TVs in the media floor.

...Yeah, that year sucked yet was the best of his life. Try explaining that one to the kids at home???]

[Ryoji listens attentively to the whole story, and it does start to make a little more sense.]

So in your world, you didn't have the Dark Hour... and Shadows are a little different than how they were for Minato and the others.

[Though that does make Ryoji wonder if he's technically Minato's Shadow.]

Right. Though, I would say "time" instead of world entirely... We visited Gekkoukan once.

[Hey, if you are? He wouldn't stop being friends with you. Best friends with a beary friendly Shadow, he is.]

A-Ah, right. It's still strange to think about what happened in our world after what I saw.

[Oh hey, he knows Teddie! He doesn't know about the Shadow thing yet, but Teddie definitely seems friendly.]

I can't say I disagree there, but it happened.

[One day a certain someone will know. Then things will really get interesting.]

Of course, Yu-san. I trust you. I'm just glad you all made it out safely.

I'm glad, too.

[Because when their worlds are restored... his friends will have a future.]

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duo of the forever late, we are.

/tries to not be late this time!

/omg we're boomeranging-!

/le gasp

/zomgwtf face

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