[h3][url=https://youtu.be/tHIQdXyNxwY]Sato Hashimoto // Noodle Shop[/url][/h3]	It was as they walked out of school grounds and to that obscure noodle shop that Sato reflected upon the quality of the hospital's food, Rokurou's asshole-ish tendencies, and, most of all, the words Mako had used to describe their relationship. On one hand, Sato wouldn't refer to what they were as 'friends' just yet considering how short a time they had known each other. For some reason, though, he didn't quite feel like he wanted to be 'friends.' Not that he didn't want to know Mako, but...

	Anyways, soon enough the two highschoolers were seated at a table in a corner, the quiet shop empty besides the owners and a few other students that decided to do the same as Sato and Mako had. It was quaint enough, and luckily the other customers had the courtesy to space eachother out pretty well. After ordering-- Sato just getting soba-- it struck Sato how they were essentially repeating their last outing together. Discussing the cult activity over some food. It was, of course, different this time, now that they both had personas. The issue, of course, was getting Mako on the same page. 

	Sato tried his best to recap what they had tried to tell Mako back in the hospital, but it was a bit of a struggle. The fact of the matter was that it was hard to really understand unless you just went into the mirror world yourself, so Sato decided it best to focus more so on the real world part of the cult. While he knew they both had a pretty good knowledge of what was going on (the cult, obviously based in Warakuma, was kidnapping people and doing other such illegal activities, while recently they had been getting more aggressive with their actions), Sato realized that there were some finer bits of the story only the investigation team knew of.

	"So," Sato started, the sounds of sizzling meals and dinner conversation in the background, "I'm not sure how much of this is common knowledge, but I'll fill you in on what we've learned about the cult, otherwise known as Junsei Sekai Tensei--  Perfect World Resurrection. I'll assume you know most of the 'normal' stuff for brevity, and just talk about the more obscure things.

	"When we were rescuing one of the other members, we happened to corner a few of the cultists at the end of a dungeon. According to what one of them said, we think that the cultists believe the mirror world to be a 'new world' of some sort. While we confronted them, one of the men panicked and a shadow came out of him. It was suppressed rather easily thankfully, and it also didn't seem intentional. What that means, I don't know, but if the mirror world is their goal for the real world, then that's... concerning. Additionally, they made mention of some woman named 'Lady Asai'. We don't know much about her, but on the way they talked about her, it seems like she might be their leader. Any information regarding either their intentions or who the leader is would be essential to the case, but we haven't found much on either yet, outside of what I just told you.

	"On a side note, after we saved you and others, an actual detective approached the team in warehouse, meaning he followed us there. Luckily he didn't do anything about us, and instead offered that we could call the police station if we ever needed to. I'm not sure about him, but I just told you that so you wouldn't be surprised if it ever came up." Sato let out a deep sigh. As far as he could remember, that summed up pretty much all of what they'd learned about the cult so far. It wasn't very conclusive, but they were good leads at least. "Now you're pretty much caught up. I still have a few questions, though. One: while a 'persona' is obviously some kind of representation of one's psyche, what is a shadow? I'd guess they were similar to personas, but what would they be then? The 'shadow' of who were are? Second, what are they really trying to accomplish? If the mirror world is the kind of paradise heaven thing they're trying to achieve, why don't they go in there themselves? Are they just being manipulated by this 'Lady Asai'? But that begs the question of what [i]her[/i] intentions are..."

	"But," Sato gave a slight smile as he leaned back into his chair. "I've been talking too much. Your turn."