animus_network | four ✾ intended to be voice, but due to terminal shenanigans, is video

[Yukiko has seen the writing on the wall, and she feels like she has to say something about it. She thinks she's hit 'voice' on the terminal. But because the terminals themselves like to play tricks at the worst times, of course, it's coming up as video.

And she has no idea.

Her face is approximately the color of her sweater as she starts to speak.]

A-ah, hello. This is Yukiko Amagi. Um, I think everyone's...probably seen what's written on the dorm walls.

[She still doesn't realize that this is video, so her little sigh and toss of her hair and added blush? All perfectly visible.]

...that whole 'Amagi Challenge' thing? It's kind of embarrassing, but that's how people referred to trying to actually get me to go out with them back home. I was always really busy with working and school, and, well, I didn't always read the situation well. So I pretty much wound up always saying no to everyone that tried asking me out on a date.

[She giggles, then, playing with a bit of her hair and smiling.]

But, well...I guess there's no sense in hiding it anymore, is there? I was going to say something to my friends privately, but since everyone can see it for themselves, I really shouldn't deny the truth. I'm dating Ryoji Mochizuki. And I'm really, really happy.

I think I might even be -

[She claps a hand over her mouth, shaking her head furiously.]

No, no, I can't say that much, not in such a public space! It's one thing to say the truth, but I can't tell everyone everything that I feel! There are things in a girl's heart that she just can't say in such a public space.

I just - it's not moving too fast, okay? Maybe we do spend a lot of time together, but that's perfectly normal! It's fine to want to be around someone you're going out with! Sheesh, saying things like that is way too much.

So that's that, all right? That's the truth of the situation, nothing more.

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[Two years. That means both of his senpais would be in university by then.

~~If only he knows about Akihiko~~]

If it's two years, then they'd be in university or so. [After what he learned about Nyx, he's honestly happy about it. If things went normally, everyone can have a normal (...or close to it) life again.]

They didn't mention university, but no one was really talking about school or anything like that - it was during Golden Week, and nobody really wants to talk about school then, you know?

...and, well, since you know Labrys, I guess that she's mentioned what else happened around then. We didn't really get a whole lot of time to sit around and talk about what everyone was doing in our free time while we were trying to get to the bottom of it.

Actually...I don't think we talked about what's going on for Labrys-san. I know she's Aigis's sister and knows my senpais.

[So yeah, this protagonist doesn't know about the fighting tournament thing.]

But it sound like another eventful fiasco.

[Her filter's to the Investigation Team plus Labrys, Akihiko, Mitsuru, Minato, and Ryoji.]

That's right - she's Aigis-san's older sister. Mitsuru-san, Akihiko-san, and she all came down to Inaba to fetch her.

What happened - well, it started, for me, a few months ago. Someone started dropping people into televisions and leaving them there for Shadows to kill. When it happened to me, my friends - Yu-kun, Yosuke-kun, and my best friend, Chie - went inside there to rescue me. Inside that world, we each had to face our own personal Shadows. When we did, those Shadows became our Personas.

Anyway, we wound up stopping the murders, and stopping the goddess that was riling up the Shadows in the first place, but we didn't shut all the portals to the TV world. See, one of the Shadows decided he wanted to help us stop everything that was happening. We didn't want to lose touch with our friend.

...that left an opportunity for someone to drop Labrys-san in there. Her Shadow went out of control and re-enacted what happened to her in the past - she'd been forced to fight her other sister units until they were destroyed. She wanted us to know how that felt, so she made us fight each other.

We managed to stop it all, and get her out safely, but, well, you see what I mean. Things were just so crazy that week that we didn't really get the chance to sit down and talk like we might have wanted.

[He knows about the murders, courtesy of Yu. So he can follow the explanation easily enough, but it did make him think.

Labrys faced her Shadow, which means she have enough sense of "self" to have one. Since she's Aigis's sister, Aigis can also qualify for it. He'd normally be happy about the possibility of Aigis being human enough, if she's fine with it.

But right now, the topic is on what happened in Yukiko's world.]

I know about the TV world and the murder case from Yu. [So yeah, just so you know, Yukiko.] But thank you for telling me. It must be hard on everyone.

[He faced his own Shadow last year, so he can only imagine what it's like for Labrys, based on what he's told about her history.]

It's one of those things I kind of -

[Yukiko pauses, tilting her head.]

At first, it was just about finding who had done that to me and bringing them to justice. Then, it was about my friends.

Over time, though, things changed. It wasn't just about justice, and it wasn't just about saving my friends. It became something more - bringing the truth to light became the most important thing. It was scary, yes, and there were parts of it that were hard to face, but in the end, I can be okay with those things because the truth did come out.

[She pauses again. Yukiko doesn't know Minato all that well, no, but he reminds her a whole lot of Yu. So, she's okay saying this.]

...and I...I talked with Ryoji-kun, about all of this, before we ever went out. He didn't tell me everything - there are parts he says he doesn't remember - but I...I know enough. I knew what I was getting into, and I...I got feelings for him knowing all of that.

[The truth. Yu did mention something like that and Minato agreed with his friend.

While their respective journeys differ in some aspect, in the end, Minato also wish to seek the truth in his own world. Behind the Dark Hour, the omen Pharos spoke of, everything.

His time in the Tower told him all he wanted to know, because he asked people instead of waiting for them to tell him.]

As long you won't have any regrets, that's what matters.

[Because the regret of not doing anything, or take a chance but miss it, will nag and nag at your mind.]

...You have my well wishes. I want Ryoji to be happy and safe--[Which is a lot to ask for in this Tower. But Minato can see that Yukiko is honest.]--so I'm glad that you understand.

[Because of Ryoji's nature, and how he seems to be watched by not so kind people.]

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