cetana | [OPEN] fastforwarded to december 1. open house!!

[ On December 1st, Hirajiro's residential district goes through a minor change, which is having Terry's two-story house appear right next to the Black Cat house. With Orien's help, Terry bought the land that the house sits on. Anyway, the house has two floors. The entire first floor has a living room, kitchen, and a bathroom with sink, toilet, and shower. When you climb up the stairs, you'll reach the second floor, which has four bedrooms with a bathroom connecting two bedrooms together. The bathrooms can be locked from the inside only. There is no master bedroom nor bathroom in this house. One of the rooms are soundproof, but Terry is not telling anyone which one it is. You'll have to find that out for yourself. AC and heater are fully functional.

Terry sent out a message to all the Guests. For those who don't have phones, Orien personally delivered the message to those people himself. The message is as follows:

We solved the housing situation. Terry will not ask anyone to pay rent, but the house isn't furnished at all except for a refrigerator and a fireplace. You'll have to buy supplies and furniture on your own. There are several conditions you need to accept if you choose to live here:

1) Please do not destroy the house or cause property damage. If you do, you're paying for the damages.
2) Clean up after yourselves. A clean house means no bugs and good standard of living.
3) Do not steal/take anything from the Black Cat house. (this needs to be mentioned because he had several door stealing incidents)

The address/general directions to the location has been mentioned, which is basically next door to the Black Cat house.

Feel free to make your own top levels and stuff. ]

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Oh, really? They worked in real time back home, so you couldn't lose days... I mean I don't always remember some things that happen in dungeons so it's kinda like losing days, but that's different because it's only me. Anyway, I guess only being in there for a few hours for you makes sense.

[Why anyone would want to stay in there for hours is beyond him anyway, though. Arsène is sooooo annoying.]

But then I guess they weren't really your friends at all, right? If you spent more time in the dungeon and lost weeks of time spent with them.

[ Wow. Akira's blunt candor makes him smile, because that's exactly how it was and Akira doesn't try to justify the behavior or anything like that. He did what he did, that's it. ]

Yeah. We were teammates, but we weren't able to become friends. We got along and everything, but you don't need to be friends to work well together.

[ Gestures at Rio and Jiro and all these really independent people in their team, who might not be here to make friends and that's alright. ]

Souji too?

[He was supposed to be in the same group, right? Did Minato just be a dick to him at the start but Souji kept coming back like a stupid puppy?]

[ y...es... ]

Mm... I got along better with Souji 'cause our experiences were most similar. [ aka the Persona dating sim life, compared to the sheer amount of everything that was P1/2 that made his head hurt listening to ] But I still didn't know him all that long.

After we became Attendants and spent a gazillion years together, that's when we really got to be friends, I think. The only other person on the train was me. There was no escape.

[ There was nobody else to be friends with... so the only option was him. ]

So you only ever made a real friend because you were trapped so long that you were kinda forced to. And now you like him a lot.

[Hmm. Minato sounds like kind of a dick. Or, at least, he was kind of a dick.]

Do you think you've changed much since back then? Or are you only helping us now because you have to?

[ Minato nods, because he won't deny that he's a dick. It's the idea of people growing fond of each other because they're kept in close proximity and start to rub off on one another, he thinks. It helps that Souji is a very likable and forgiving person. ]

Back then... there was the feeling that I was needed. Here, it's not the case. I'm helping you guys, but you don't need me. That's what it feels like.

Because you're not one of us, you're a warden.

[He doesn't even bother to correct himself to Attendant.]

You're doing this because you want to, then?

[ It's true enough. The fact is, this isn't his story anymore, because his journey is over and all that's left for him is providing bombs and bullets that are so much weaker than Personas anyways. Power of the heart or whatever that nobody wants to rely on. ]

I guess... It's not like anybody's twisting my arm over it. And if you guys all die, it's just... such a waste. I don't want that.

[ Even if it'd be easier, he realizes, if all of them fuck off and die, and then he won't have a job and he can go back to floating around in the void on the train like he was originally. ]

You sound so indifferent about everything.

[Akira's tone is less accusatory and more... observational. Minato says it's such a waste if they die, but Akira reads it in the same way that letting expensive cheese go moldy is a waste.]

Is there anything you really, really care about, besides being with Souji? Or is that all gone?

[ LMFAO Akira isn't wrong........... Minato had put in minimal effort into these Guests and them just offing themselves every other week is kind of insulting, actually. Mostly to themselves. ]

...A couple months ago, Sasuke took me to the school rooftop. It was a nice view. I thought maybe I want to keep this town safe. [ He's still kind of iffy about individual people, but life in general is something he can appreciate. He's not sure that counts the same as caring, but it's the closest he's got. ]

But then, you know. Things went to hell.

Yup, and now we're living in Hell's house.

[He smiles pleasantly.]

But, okay. That's... a start. It's still not much, because if you've been doing anything to act on those feelings you've been doing a piss-poor job, but it's a start.

Taking all of us out of the equation, do you think you're ever going to actually do anything to save this town?

[ Minato shrugs. ]

The town will be saved once you guys get out of here. That's sort of the end goal for everybody, I think.

[ He's already been through all the Daitengu-Kotengu bullshit and his turn at it is over. It's up to everybody else, him trying not to let everybody die (as long as there's one person still alive in the end...... honestly, he's banking on 45 at this rate. maybe Red, but maybe he'll change his mind after this month), and after they're all gone then the world will go back to how it's supposed to be. ]

So you're not gonna do jack shit. That's what I thought!

[No wonder Minato got relegated to Attendant.]

Hm, Minato, I think you need to figure out something else to work towards. As it is now, you're still floating through nothing like you were, except now you're in a blue outfit.

An afterlife like that is boring and useless.

If you think I'm going to pick up knitting or something, you're wrong.

[ He's fine being boring and useless! His chosen hobbies are nothing but eating and sleeping and existing while dreading the fact that he still exists. ]

It doesn't have to be knitting. Knitting is also boring and useless.

[Akira rolls over onto his back.]

Doesn't that bother you? Don't you think you'd be better off if you had a reason to exist, instead of just existing because you can't stop?

[ Somewhere in the background is Kido and Toki going O:!!! at the knitting comment. ]

Not really... It's not like I think about that stuff, so it never bothered me. It was enough for me, to just lie around and be with Souji. I'm old, Akira. Let me enjoy retirement.

[OPEN] fastforwarded to december 1. open house!!

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