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[B]School Side[/B]

The bolt of lightning struck the false Tomoda in the back, sending to toppling forwards onto its knees, entire body distorting and twisting in an unnatural, horrifying manner. Its pursuit of Jin had been staggered for the moment, black, slime-like ooze dripping from the sizzling gash of where the Zio had landed, the electrical attack having lanced through layers of fake skin, cooking parts of the Shadow out from within. It was faltering, that was clear, even as the black mass regenerated over itself, fixing up the wound as if it was never there. And with Kaede's assault on its body, it now knew not of which of the assembled Persona wielders to strike.

A high-pitched, monstrous scream - curdling, angered, unhinged - emerged from the eerie chasm where Tomoda's face would be, and the golden eyes of the floating glinted once more in the darkness. It didn't know who to attack. It didn't know which way to go. But it did know one thing.

It wanted to kill them.

Its body twisted on one foot, and launched a fireball towards Kaede. And once again, its attentions had been taken off the rest of the group ...
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[B]NPC: Drama Clubroom[/B]

The name [i]Kaede[/i] seemed to cut through the haze of despair that was floating around the drama club member's head.

"Kaede-san ...?" he offered, shaking his head and glancing up at Lala. "He's ... he's our club captain."

He seemed to pause for a moment, before gripping his fists tightly, nails digging into pale palms.

"He and ... some other guys, they ran somewhere. I don't know. I was ... I wasn't really [i]there[/i] at the time."

There was a sense of frustration in his words.

"Maybe ... they tried to find out what happened here? I don't ... I don't know."

It was possible. After all, if Lala were to look outside the clubroom again, she would be able to notice a few faint droplets of blood. Not particularly obvious, but those droplets seemed to ... lead somewhere.