Shin Megami Tensei Persona: Dissonant Strain (Private RP)

[Cinnonym]

They didn't trust her. It was obvious... She supposed that it was also justified.

"Right, Mizushima-san. You're right. Listen... I think you'd be better off not sneaking around so much. No more meeting in the dark, all right?" Hikaru smiled, her mood slightly bettering to see at least some support, "From now on, you're the Akaito Securities and Investigations Team. Or, um. ...Something like that. I'll fill out all the paperwork. Oh... But who wants to be President...?"

Eber looked at Rin, Kojiro, Kumiko, and Yukimura and blinked.

 

[ShadowFolk]

Kumiko was going to say that it should at least be one of the team leaders as President of their sudden club, but then she remembered that Team Asshat's 'leader' was Kojiro. "I say Eber, he's got a pretty good head on his shoulders."

'I think...pretty sure...'

 

[Cinnonym]

Hikaru looked at Eber. The consensus seemed unanimous when he smiled.

"O-Okay. Furidomon-kun, I'll go ahead and put you down..." She cleared her throat, "This should help you get access to the rest of the school's equipment, and assist you in getting off campus at night. The faculty will be relieved to see its students taking such proactive measures to prevent the deaths of any more students!"

She smiled and bowed quickly, "See you tomorrow evening?" and then she left.

Eber turned to look at the others. "This is... good, right?"

 

[PresqueVu]

Yamada thought over the club idea and smiled very slightly at the idea because it just sounded so perfect. Then they'd have their own room, they'd have excuses to out places as a group.

He wasn't sure who'd make the best leader, but he thought he knew one or two that may nominate themselves and decided he was going to disagree with that pretty quickly if that issue rouse. Eber seemed a good choice. He had be a respectable leader thus far. He thought of himself as a good choice as well, but had seen first hand how well they listen to him and figured it'd be a lost cause for him to put himself up for it. He looked somewhat conflicted, but nodded.

He was about to give his two cents on the matter but it seemed to have decided before he had the option.He figured Seiya must be having a busy day all things considered, then looked down at his watch, worried he was missing cram school again, but of course this came first.

"Yes. This is perfect really. Now we can be more upfront, and have our own room and don't have to keep using every other one."

 

[Keppler]

"Securities and Investigations..." Isoroku just rolled his eyes, pinching the bridge of his nose "...this is stupid. But whatever. As long as we can get off campus without raising eyebrows."

He held one of the earpieces in his hands, turning it over carefully. He seemed rather...dubious.

 

[PresqueVu]

Yamada frowned at Yoshida, not surprised, but not pleased as that old anger with the him rose. "Don't be so quick to dismiss, Yoshida-san. There is no downside to this."

 

[Keppler]

"How do you figure? She won't give us any details about whatever 'organization' she's with, but she still manages to keep us under her thumb by setting us up with this oh-so-convenient school funding. She'll have tabs on everything we do!" He was tossing the earbud in the air and catching it at this point.

 

[PresqueVu]

Yamada watched it almost nervously. "After all that has happened you still suspect her? She has previous loyalties to keep. This isn't something new to her like it is to us. I'm sure that light will be shed on it in time, but strangely I agree that I'd like to look into this organization."

 

[Rosen2012]

"Its not Seiya that's worrisome," Kojiro turned to Yamada, "Its this 'sponsor'. I mean the fact that this has been going on for years, and there's a whole organization that knows enough about shadows and personas to make these," he holds up his ear piece, "And 'homunculus' to deflect attacks is unsettling. And the fact we can know nothing about them is even more so."

He tucked the device in his pocket, "But since its currently our only lead, I guess we're stuck here for now."

 

[Cinnonym]

Eber also took one of the earpieces--AMPs, he remembered--and stowed it away. He wanted to personally investigate it. He wasn't bad with a screwdriver.

"At least we are all alive..." He glanced at the others, "Is that all for today?"

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Hikaru returned to her dormitory room, though it took much longer than intended. She'd never heard so many questions before in her life. It took an hour before she finally slipped into her room and shut and locked the door behind herself.

 

[PresqueVu]

"Isn't that what I was saying? That the sponsor was the worry? I'm in Agreement with you that they're what worries me. How would a company like that form? Who would lead it? There has to be a way to research these."

He thumbed at his own earpiece, examining it for a name, or a mark, or something.

 

[Cinnonym]

No company names or logos; just the interesting red and black design with a bright yellow stripe.

 

[PresqueVu]

Yamada nodded, but didn't put it away, he had to figure this out. "Yes...I'm sure we could all use some rest after last night."

 

[Rosen2012]

"Yeah, may as well catch up on some school work," Kojiro nodded to the others, he looked at Rin and Isoroku, certain they would follow him out and left. This tea party was over, and he couldn't be happier.


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Takuya turned his administrator key card over in his finger tips. 'What to do? What to do?' he felt torn between two desires. One to go off campus and follow this constant pull to god knows where. The other, to find Seiya and get the truth from her over her recent affairs. His ever present companion felt either was acceptable. She longed for him to satisfy the urge to travel underground, and she felt excited at the idea of a confrontation with Seiya.

"You don't like her, do you?" He pocketed the key and turned for the girls dorms. He had decided. All day he had been talking to 'her' out loud. Some students questioned who he was talking to, and they were quickly greeted with a look that could kill. "Idiots," he muttered. "As if you reveal your presence to them?" He scoffed at the idea of such lesser individuals encountering such a creature as he had. If anything they would encounter her to die. He laughed a bit at the thought.

Takuya swiped his key card at the girls dorm and entered. "Seiya is always with me," He continued to talk to her as they passed through the lobby. "So your unyielding hatred will have to cease. I have no intentions of getting rid of-"

He stopped on the stairs and a feeling of pins and needles crept up his arm. Her nails? She's scratching at him. "You're against it," he started up the stairs again, "Of course you are...but you want me to see her. Something about Seiya." He stopped at his secretary's door. Something about Seiya indeed. There was a whirlwind of unanswered questions in his head. And a torrent of anger in his chest at being ignored. He would not allow this to continue.

Takuya dug into his pocket and pulled out a skeleton key- a gift to himself he had possessed since first year. There was a another shriek; of pleasure and disgust. She hated Seiya, her interest in seeing her rest solely in causing her pain. But that was not Takuya's intention. Yet.

He opened his door and sat on her bed. He wouldn't go through her things. He would just wait.

And she waited with him.

 

[Cinnonym]

...And so when she turned around, he was there. She'd been so eager to get here that she'd hardly even noticed the Presence he was giving off. Oh, but she felt it now.

She clutched her bookbag to her chest. "Ta--...um. Mori-sama. H-Have you been looking for me...? I know that you're upset with me... But. But, I can explain."

 

[Rosen2012]

"Oh you can!" Takuya sat up on her bed, he had been lying down, "And you will." He nodded slowly at her as he brought his legs over the side of her bed. He never took his eyes off of her. Even before she got there, he had felt her coming. And now that she was in the room, a stifling feeling was building up around him. He could barely breath, or see strait.

There was just...something about Seiya, that upset her senses.

"So explain yourself, how was the afterlife?"

 

[Cinnonym]

She instinctively took a step back. Hikaru couldn't look him in the eyes. His eyes were maddening.

"I was really sick the past couple of days, s-so I was with my parents. It's very sad about that girl, but it isn't me! It was just a mistake..."

 

[Rosen2012]

He stood up and shook his head, he felt his breath catch. She's lying. "Sick? Is that really what you're going to tell me, Seiya?" He stood with his- their arms crossed. "You expect me to believe that? I know that's the lie you fed to the principal...but why do you think I would fall for something so pathetic?"

He kept shaking his head while he looked at her. Out of disapproval and partly because he couldn't stop. Her little lie left a twinge in his muscles. It made him so angry to hear her lie to him. As if he was some common idiot. How dare she? How could she think he wouldn't catch that.

"Do you want to try again, Seiya?" He stopped shaking his head and took a step forward. "What's really going on? What's so important that you'd lie to me?"

 

[Cinnonym]

She felt her back press against the door at his approach. Not good.

"It isn't a lie--I f-fainted at cram school, and a friend took me to father's clinic!"

Hikaru gave an awkward laugh out of nervousness.

"You know I don't skip class, I don't do any of those things..."

 

[Rosen2012]

"Of course you don't, Hikaru." There was a certain hint of sarcasm on his voice. "You are the perfect student. The perfect secretary. The perfect...one." He smirked and nodded to her. "Which is why the teachers would right off any account of your card key being swiped at late hours as a glitch...Or perhaps just the fact that dutiful Hikaru is out making sure others are in their room..."

He chuckled and rolled his head back; and his companion laughed with him. She wasn't shrinking away today, despite the closeness of the other female. Whatever it was about Seiya that repulsed her before was weak today. And let the other woman know she was there, following along in every action Takuya made. He then snapped his attention back at her, "But not I." He started walking toward her again. "At least not at first...but after today. After your odd behavior, after your obvious lies," He stood a few feet from her, "I wonder who Hikaru really is. Or what she's really up to?"

He took a few steps back gain and walked over to her desk, "And I thought about it for a while, because I too, originally believed Hikaru would only stand me up for an illness of some sort. A grave one at that to not even answer her phone..." He looked at her desk, the outer edges adorned with little panda trinkets. He picked one up, "But then I realized, she's not sick. It's someone, that's the problem." He looked back at her.

"So what's his name? Who's more important that school? Who's more important than me?"