Persona 3/Persona 4: Mask of Existence

"Down, Akihiko-kun." Arisa walked up to it. "Can you help us get back home?"

 

"Home? You must mean the other side then...well someone's been throwing people in here...it's a big headache, I dunno why theya re doing it but I don't like it!" It yelled.

 

"We're not doing it. We just fell in here." Aigis held Arisa's arm.

 

"Where is 'here' anyway?" Souji asked the bear as it looked at him. "This place is what it is, It doesn't have a name. It's where I live." It said as Yosuke stared at the bear.

"You...live here?" He asked as the bear spoke once again. "If I were you guys, I'd head back over to the other side." It said to them

 

"That's the only problem. We don't know how to get back." Yukari said.

 

"Urrrrgh! That's why I'm saying I'll let you out!" The bear said as he tapped the floor and three TV's stacked on top of one another appeared within the room suddenly.

"What the hell?" Akihiko asked as Junpei was also surprised. "Dude...where did these TV's come from!?" as they checked the TV's.

"Okay, now go, go, get outta here! I'm a busy bear!" he said he started pushing the group into the TV.

 

Arisa groaned as the bear started push them.

 

Everyone soon came out onto the Junes floor as they exited the TV.

"Is this?" Ken asked as he took in his surroundings

 

"Looks like we're back at Junes." Yukari sighed and looked up at Arisa, who was looking at the tv, trying to give the bear a angry look on the other side. As her reflection neared the screen, Yukari thought she saw someone else. Aigis gasped, "Look at that poster!"

 

"Attention shoppers, our daily limited-time sale will now begin at teh side dish area on the first floor." an announcer over the mic said as Shinichi took notice of the poster.

"Damn...It's late already?" Yosuke asked surprised as Shinichi took a closer look. "hey...Isn't this Misuzu Hiiragi? The one that's been all over the news about an affair with that Mayumi Yamano who died the other day?" he asked them.

 

"That looks like that same faceless poster we saw in that room." Fuuka mentioned. Arisa stood up and dusted herself off.

 

Junpei nodded. "There was that creepy noose hanging from the ceiling." he mentioned to them as Yosuke shook his head. "No more! We gotta stop talking about this! I'm gonna wipe what I seen today from my mind, I don't think my poor heart can take anymore."

 

"Oh, crap! Souji-kun and I better get home. See ya later!" Arisa grabbed Souji and ran off. Yukari simply waved goodbye and wondered to herself, "Was my mind playing tricks or was that really him?"

 

Souji felt himself pulled unwillignly by Arisa as he had no say in it it seemed as Yosuke also headed home as Shinichi strenched himself.

"I suppose I better get back as well." He said to himself and looked at the others. "Are you guys going to be okay or do you need some help to get to the Amagi Inn?" he asked.

 

"I think we'll be fine on the way to the inn." Ryoji said, waving at him and headed to the inn. Yukari kept wondering about what she saw.

 

Ryoji had left, leaving everyone else behind. "Well, he memorized it quickly." Shinichi commented as his heard a ringing sound as he dug into his pocket as the theme was something no-one expected, it had the Final Fantasy 7 Victory ringtone as he answered it.

"Inoue speaking....Don't tell me more work is coming tomorrow...I see, well, tell the boss of the company to expect it within a few day, thanks." He closed his phone as he noticed the group stared at him for either two reason, his ringtone or his work.

"Part-time programmer for a company, I do the programs, send them off, they send me the money so I can pay the rent to my house." he said.

 

"Understandable. We will see you tomorrow, Shinchi-kun!" Fuuka and Aigis followed Ryoji, Yukari ran after them.

 

Junpei grinend at Shinichi. "Awesome dude...we shold visit someone, hey wait up Yuka-tan!" Junpei hurried along as Akihiko sighed. "See you at school then, let's go Ken." he said as he followed suit and Ken followed as Shinichi left the store and got on his scooter as he drove home.

 

Yukari kept quiet as she followed them.

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Arisa opened the door and stepped in. "We're home."

"Welcome home." Nanako greeted them and smiled.

 

Souji still felt a little slugglish as he sat dwon at the table and Dojima looke dat them. "Do you two know a girl called Saki Konishi?" He asked