Digital Persona Saga - Mask of Longing

Hattori looked out the window as he continued to listen.

 

Minato continued to play, thinking of the other world.

 

The other Hattori stared out the window. The land was already beginning to heal.

 

Cara stared out the window as she listened to Minato play. Lesa had loved music too.


Lesa finally stopped crying and sat on the ground, her shoulders loose and completely relaxed when Bahamut's human form stood beside her, "May I?" His purple eyes looked down at her and smiled. Lesa nodded, "Is Cara going to be okay in that world?" He sat and nodded, "Of course. She is like you so she can handle herself. She also has Zalera. He won't let anything happen to her." Lesa glanced over at him, "Why do you look like a human?" He laughed, still sounding much like a dragon's rumble, "I like pretending I could be human. It's been a long time since I've pretended to be something other than I am. Not to mention, it's fun being human. I don't think many of the humans here could tell the difference." Lesa stood, "We should look for Sky. He has to be looking for me and now that the war is over..." She didn't finish her sentence, wondering how she could ever explain to him why she'd broken off their engagement and then recieved word of her other engagement. Everything was just too complicated for a romantic life.

 

Shiori was helping people who needed it.

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Minato finished playing. "I'm going to some people. Be back."

 

Hattori sighed as he looked at the stars. He felt since the war ended, a great weight came off his shoulders.

"So how does it feel to be whole again?" Lucifer asked him.

"It feels great. I feel like I did before the war started."

 

Suki, keeping her job as gardener, sat in the garden and smiled.

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Minato looked at the sky. "I wonder if we're looking at the same sky."

 

Cara came up behind Minato, "It's always going to be the same sky. No matter where you are, the moon, the sky, the breeze...it'll always be the same to everyone. As long as your hearts are connected."


Lesa walked into town and started her own search for her old fiancee, Sky.

 

Hattori stepped outside and breathed in the fresh air.

"Things can only get better from here." He said to himself as he watched the people rebuilding parts of the town.

 

Minato smiled and walked to her father's grave. She paid her respects.

 

The other Hattori stood beside Minato, paying his respects to his mother.

 

Cara fell silent and summoned Zalera. He wrapped the one wing that wasn't concealing the shamaness around her and they bowed their heads. Cara remembered when she'd died and Lesa wouldn't leave her grave sight. She shook her head as she spotted a bunch of wild white roses, Lesa's favorite. She gently ran her fingers over the petals but never picked one.

 

Minato sighed, running a hand through her hair.

 

Hattori stretched and walked away from the grave, not noticing black wings appearing on his back.

 

Minato noticed and sighed.

 

Cara was too in to the flowers to notice but Zalera did. His chilly voice echoed in Hattori's head, ...Hello...old friend...

 

"Why did you sigh, Minato?" He said before shivering at the sound of Zalera's voice.

 

"Black wings appeared on your back and you know this world's Hattori, Zalera?"

 

"I wonder why I've got wings now. Must be because I'm half-persona."

 

Zalera turned his gaping black holed eyes on Minato, speaking to everyone's mind, ...I know all of life's children...those with life...belong to me eventually...thus...I know both Hattori's. It matters not if he...knows me...I knew the Hattori before his time... Tis simple...one Hattori is no different to me than my own brethren...making him, yes, my old friend from so long ago. Cara blinked and patted Zalera's wing.