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[It's a cloudy mid-morning on THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, and the town is bustling as always. Many people are quite excited about the second batch of new arrivals; though they're not getting quite the celebration the first round got, they still might find themselves being greeted by bizarrely friendly folk.

Out of place is a number of geese scattered around town, each with their own little messenger bag packed full of rolled up parchment. They're putting the papers up all over, on fence posts and market stalls and storefronts, even stuffing them into mailboxes and leaving them on benches. Each paper is nearly identical, with large, blocky font and the occasional inky feather mark.

LOST
SEVERAL ITEMS OF GREAT IMPORT

SOMEONE HAS STOLEN FROM OUR HOMES THE FOLLOWING THINGS

ONE GOOSE-SIZED NIGHT CAP
THREE TEACUPS (PINK AND YELLOW FISH PRINT)
EXACTLY SEVEN AND A QUARTER LEFT SOCKS
AN APPLE CRUMBLE

IF FOUND PLEASE CONTACT
ADELICIA VON FARTHINGTON (THE FIFTH)
AT THE NORTH BANK OF THE LAKE

If stopped, the geese will be more than happy to talk at great length about how terrible this all is. Strangely, there appear to be a few other people and animals poking around as though looking for something, or acting a bit sullen for such an otherwise joyful day.]

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We had until the fog returned to the city.

[She paused.] ... Well, mine was Sukuna-Hikona. With some help, he became Yamato-Takeru and then Yamato-Sumeragi. By legend, Sukuna Hikona was the deity of medicine. Yamato-Takeru was a legendary prince who wielded the Kusanagi against an army. It was also believed he could turn into a great white bird spirit. Finally, Yamato-Sumeragi is an epithet for various Emperors.

Yamato-Take-

[He knew that one. Didn't he? That's the one Walter fought.

Tayama... the fool who thought himself King of Tokyo...

Jonathan just barely scanned the entity before it turned into stone. Entity from the soul... Naoto has a demon from the soul...?]

...Yamato-Takeru. Isn't that a demon...?

Depends... he can fight like a demon. I guess you came across a more demonic version of him in your world then?

[...

He didn't really know. He can't say much.] I suppose so. My friend fought him. [And also murdered someone, but let's not go there.]

Are all Personas... entities, then? Not very different from before, but from the soul...? [Lilith said something like this before. The humans and demons are the same in essence.

He's still not gonna believe that.]

I see...

[Though, she doesn't stay on the subject.]

Some are. Others are figures of legends that align well with the person who calls upon them. The forms they assume are shaped around the person whose soul houses them.

[Align well... they're like entities, but not... solid? Not individuals, rather, personifications?]

How do you use Personas to fight? [If there's no Demon Summoning Program or Gauntlet and something sentient to command...]

[He's getting there.]

We have to call them from ourselves by sacrificing energy. They can be called without, but... it's not safe.

[Personifications... PERSONas! ...Something... like that?]

What do you mean, not safe...? [...does he want to know.]

[We'll keep working on it.]

Well, you're forcing your soul out of your body. It isn't comfortable either way, but it's more painful alone.

[OUCH]

That sounds... fatal.

I wouldn't know, but the pain I saw one man go through... I wouldn't try it.

[Perhaps she should sound more sympathetic, but it can almost be taken from her tone that they deserved it.]

[...Moving on]

So you bring out your... souls... which become Personas... to fight for you, like entities?

That's a rough way of summarizing it, but yes.

[If he's ready to move on with the story, but she had a feeling this would be the hardest part for him to grasp. Second... hardest. She didn't even mention her Senpai's ability to summon multiple ones.]

Alright, then... what happens next? [He wants to know that this got resolved!!! This seems like such a dangerous situation.]

We did find the one responsible for Yamano-san and Konishi-san's death. He attempted to frame Yamano-san's lover first, Namatame-san.

[She sighed] Taro Namatame was steadily going insane for being unable to save Yamano-san from her death, but he wasn't aware of how dangerous the world was. He was fooled into believing placing people inside the television world would protect them from harm. It wasn't until much later, where he kidnapped a young girl, that he found out how dangerous it was. He immediately regretted his actions.

The one who tricked him... was a detective by the name of Tohru Adachi. He had the same ability as us, but realized what he could do after pushing Yamano-san into the television world. He didn't regret his actions. Later, he purposely trapped Konishi-san inside the television world, all for some 'excitement'. We managed to catch him and took him in before the two worlds merged, but the case wasn't over with his arrest.

[A misled person who only had good intentions... and a disgusting individual who got such a twisted thrill from subjecting others to doom. Humans, entities, no matter what world or scenario... they're all the same, aren't they?]

How vile... [...Like Medusa, though, that can't be the end of it.] What was there left to do?

Obviously, we had only uncovered who was doing it and why. However, who had given him the ability to do so? In truth, the one who had selected Adachi had also selected Namatame-san and Senpai to see what humanity truly desired: Emptiness, Despair, or Hope respectively.

We couldn't leave the job unfinished. Senpai lead us back once more into the television world to face Izanami-no-Okami.

[Well obviously Hope sounded the best, but... Izanami-no-Okami? He doesn't know who that one is. Maybe she just never appeared to them...]

What did Izanami-no-Mikoto possess to give humans the ability to cause such destruction?

Being the Goddess of Death helps. Besides that, she does bear a grudge since Creation, one where she vowed to kill one thousand men a day while her husband, in turn, have to vow to create one thousand and five hundred. If anything, it was probably better she tested humanity and see if they had the will to live still than keep her word.

[oh]

What could've caused a grudge of that extent...? Did you all defeat her?

As the story goes, she died while giving birth to a Fire God and Izanagi ventured into the underworld to save her. When he found her, he was told not to look upon her. However, he did and immediately fled when he saw she had become little more than a maggot-ridden corpse. Of course, she sent many legions of demons after him in her ire and swore her curse as he sealed the gateway.

[She nodded] Though, it was Senpai who ultimately defeated her.

[Ow, getting your own husband to flee from you has to hurt.

Still, though.] I see... you speak of Senpai with much regard, and they do seem highly skilled. Who are they? [Does he actually think Senpai is Yu's name? Yes.]

[Hell hath no fury...]

[She smiled a bit] He is... a surprising individual. To be more accurate, he was our leader. All he had been planning on doing prior to the case was living in Inaba for a year. Still, when everything happened, he didn't back out. He willingly saw it through.

[Obviously, Naoto admired him.]

[He sounds nice enough.]

That's rather unfortunate for him... but he did pull through. didn't he? Do you know where he is now?

[You know! Someone like that with the ability to fight that well has to go somewhere. He'd like to know because he has no idea in hell where Flynn is.]

He should be in the city with his parents now.