Hoshiko only looked perplexed as Touko leaped up and complimented her hair after inspecting it thoroughly. She had never told anyone it was natural. "Wow, you've got good eyes! Though I would have never guessed that your hair was dyed, it's gorgeous!" Hoshiko encouraged, before realizing a few of the people there weren't in her class. Introductions were in order. "Oh, and I'm Hoshiko Koizumi, a second year in Class 2-4. Pleasure to meet all of you!" The girl gave a slight bow, before returning to daydreaming or listening to her new dorm-mates.

Then, out of nowhere, the floor once again glossed over into a mirror, the blobs on the other side moving and writhing. From the look on everyone's faces in the room, they were seeing it, too. However, this time would be different. Once they caught wind of them, a foul shriek pierced the air and the blobs seeped through. They had terrible claws and creepy masks, straight out of a horror film. The voice from before rang out once more in her mind, [b]"And these, are Shadows. They are extremely dangerous beings which live inside people's minds... Your only opportunity against them is using a Persona, now, I wonder, who'll be the first one to awaken it? After all, to summon it, you need to feel a really strong emotion. I hope you have something at your disposal that will help you in this, let's say, endeavor."[/b]

What the heck was a Persona? And these Shadow things, they were just hallucinations, right? Hoshiko believed this, until Ken was slashed by the claws of a Shadow, drawing blood.

"Blood?..." Hoshiko's normally bright eyes clouded with pain and fear, recalling the bloodied body of her sister in that alley. Her hand went to the ring on her finger, the band nearly pulsing. "Aki...Make it stop!" Her eyes grew fierce, and by instinct alone, her hand moved in a circle in the air, "Persona" leaving her mouth as she did so. The circle became opaque, cracking, before a blond woman in pink garb with wings of the same hue burst forth with a shatter, and took her place behind Hoshiko. A white bow and quiver of arrows were her weapons. A name found it's way into Hoshiko's mind. "Cupid..." She whispered, before taking a step forward. 

Something turned her attention to Ken's wound, and Cupid was nodding her head. Hoshiko nodded in response, telling her to go ahead and...do whatever it was she could to help Ken. The Persona raised her hand, encasing it in a pink glow. As she did this, so did Ken's leg, sealing the wound and hopefully alleviating the pain. Hoshiko was beginning to understand her role in this battle, although that didn't necessarily mean she understood anything else.