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[The camera turns on and someone who may or may not be a very familiar fourteen year old shows up on the screen. She looks very serious, her facial expression carefully blank but judging by the way she's worrying at the hem of her jacket, she's very concerned. The world truly couldn't have ended.... right?]

Sanada-senpai? Junpei? Are you guys here? Takeba? Yamagishi? Kirijo-senpai?

Ai-chan? Did anyone else from Gekkoukan make it here? [She pauses a second before speaking up in a slightly tenser voice:] Miss Yoshino? Are you here, too? [Because the last she saw of her was in the hospital and despite things she was strong enough to make it, right?]

[Minami pauses for a moment, reaching out to hit post for the video, but she stops, draws her hand back, and manages to put on a cheery face.]

Um, for anyone else here, my name's Minami Arisato, Freshman at Gekkoukan High School in Japan! I'm on the Track team and enjoy photography! It's nice to meet you all and I hope, whatever's going on here, we can all get along!

[There. A good first impression is always how to get off on the right foot? It isn't like she isn't used to having to make these and, well, hopefully what the letter said isn't true. Nyx.... Nyx couldn't have ended the world that quickly, right? It's only been a few days since the Hanged Man was defeated, since Ikutsuki.]

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... Here I'd been thinking we might have some peace, but I guess they decided there weren't enough pathetic little girls in this Tower.

[ He scoffs. ]

And you would ask that, wouldn't you? Cute, how you pretend to care about others, projecting that fake confidence of yours.

... They're not here, by the way. The rest of your precious little puppet-team.

[ Not like he cares, or anything, but... ]

[Somehow, somehow she manages not to freak out. She knows he's here, had fair warning. He also hasn't been causing trouble so she can give him benefit of the doubt. So she takes a deep breath, tries not to let the words sting--even though she knows they're true. They were puppets. Just not to who Minato thinks they were puppets, too.

She looks very tired as she looks at the screen, at him. He has the advantage and without Tartarus, without their whole world he has no reason to do this.

Right?]

Look, can we.... Can we not do this today?

[Because they both know how close his words sting, how easy it is to her. She doesn't know how much he knows about how their world ended or the Hanged Man or Ikutsuki or them or anything else, but she doesn't want to deal with this today. Not him. Anyone, but him.]

Is Miss Yoshino here, then? Is she okay? [Of course, then Chidori posts like five minutes after this. Pfffff.]

Whatever. ... But I don't take orders from brats with no real life experience.

[ Tch. He despises her. So, so much. And she's asking about Chidori... yeah, no. ]

Whatever you want to know you can find out on your own, why the hell would I tell you anything about MY team members when you kidnapped her from us?

[ Yeah fuck you. ]

Your Persona works here, but don't rely on it. ... And... try not to die, I guess.

[ That's all he says. Which is weird, but... maybe he actually cares. Sort of. maybe. ]

[She winces. Yeah, technically they did. To put her in the hospital and let her heal and get information. There's no getting around that, even if the kidnapping part had not been planned at all.]

I'll try not to.

[A beat. She gets a response from Chidori and smiles. Good, she's here. That's one less person to worry about. Her expression falls to neutral as she concentrates on talking to Minato.]

You take care of yourself, okay? And Miss Yoshino.

[The closest she can get to a peace offering at the moment. If she can't rely on her persona, then what can she do? Well, she's pretty fast on the track team and if she can find a staff or something, she could potentially defend herself.]

[ ... ]

Stop being so cordial, it's annoying.

[ Tsun tsun tsun. ]

There's wood in the workshop floor. You could make a staff or Naginata or something if you're desperate, I guess.

[ .......... ] Though I really don't care what you do. Try not to get in my way.

I won't.

[A beat.]

We don't have any reason to fight here, so.... so I think it'd be easy to stay out of each other's way.

[this is going way better than she thought it would.]

... Each other? No. Everything else not a captive here you will need a weapon for.

[ He shrugs, indifferent completely, expression icy and full of malice. ]

But I'm only telling you because you're a tool who can't fight her way out of a wet paper bag. It wouldn't hurt my feelings if you'd die or whatever, so I don't care what you do. Die, jump off a ledge, go be irritatingly cheerful somewhere... I don't care.

Just don't do it around ME.

[ Click! Yeah, he hung up. SOMEONE needs to learn manners. ]

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