[center][color=ff9815][b][h1]Nakano Nagi[/h1][/b][/color]
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When next she opened her eyes, Nagi found herself outside the entrance gate of the school. As in, right next to it. She slumped against the wall, running a hand through her hair as she caught her breath. 

[color=ff9815][b]“Holy shit…”[/b][/color] She murmured, taking a moment to look herself over. Uniform, check. Bag, check. Brass knuckles, back in her pockets. Gun...nope. Damn. Would’ve been nice to have kept it, though Nagi supposed it was better to not have it on her person at the moment. After all, it wasn’t as if her school bag was spacious enough to accomodate an entire assault rifle. Now, what was she missing…? 

Oh, right.

Nagi looked to her side. 

[color=ff9815][b]“You awake, Mune? There’s no way in hell I’m dragging you all the way to your house.”[/b][/color]


The boy had spilled out onto the ground, laid on his back with his limbs sprawled out as they were returned to the ‘real’ world. [color=Plum][b]“Barely,”[/b][/color] Munehisa whined, sitting upright and rubbing his forehead. [color=Plum][b]“I don’t think I’ve ever felt this exhausted in my entire life, even after basketball practice.”[/b][/color]

Seeing that his lounging was beginning to attract the occasional glare of attention, Munehisa let out an exasperated sigh, slowly rising with an audible wince. [color=Plum][b]“I think I broke my ass,”[/b][/color] he half-joked, looking back up towards the ordinary architecture of their school. There was simply no way that any of their friends would believe a single word about what had happened just now– Personas, beehives, that alternate version of Miss Okamoto. Even he couldn’t believe it to be some parallel universe. [color=Plum][b]“You down to just, forget everything and never step in there again? I don’t even know how you would get back– oh right, that app on my phone.”[/b][/color]


Nagi looked askance at Mune. While she was relieved he was alright, what he was saying, well…

[color=ff9815][b]“Mune, we already got dragged in once. What’s stopping that shit happening again? Let’s face it, we’re probably gonna have to stamp this problem out ourselves if we don’t wanna get jumped by an alternate world just turning a corner in school or something.”[/b][/color] 

She sighed, fishing her phone out to check the time. And...huh. That app hadn’t been there before. Judging by what Mune had just said...

[color=ff9815][b]“Plus, somehow that app you’re talking about got on my phone too. Pretty sure none of this is gonna leave us alone if we stick our heads up our asses and pray. No one’s gonna believe us, so we’ve gotta deal with this before someone like, I dunno, Asumi gets dragged in-”[/b][/color] Nagi paused, checking her texts with a groan.

[color=ff9815][b]“Aw, fuck. We forgot about the study session. Don’t think you’re in any shape to go, and honestly, I don’t really have the energy for it either. Ugh...screw it. I’ll come up with something to tell Asumi tomorrow. Or I’ll let her believe we ran off to make out or something, that’s probably the first thing she’d think of.”[/b][/color]


He lacked an animated reaction towards Nagi’s last sentence, only rolling his eyes as Munehisa was cosigned to their new duty. [color=Plum][b]“Ughh, I guess you’re right,”[/b][/color] he pouted, instinctively pulling out his phone upon her mention of the app now appearing on her device. His tongue clicked upon seeing that he’d received five unread text messages, opening the inbox to see that they were all from Asumi hounding him about their whereabouts over the span of a few hours. [color=Plum][b]“Yeah, I’m definitely goin’ straight home. I need a damn nap,”[/b][/color] he pocketed the phone, thinking back on the final glimpses of the escape.

[color=Plum][b]“Was that really Okamoto, though? Like, there’s no way it was someone else, but… this whole thing just gives me a headache,”[/b][/color] Munehisa briefly pondered on the supposed overlord of their school’s alternate universe before his mind drifted to their newly acquired superpowers. [color=Plum][b]“Hey, you heard it too then, right? That ‘other’ voice, calling itself a Persona? Yours was pretty badass, too!”[/b][/color]


[color=ff9815][b]“Huh? Oh, yeah. Was yours screaming at you to kill people too? Because mine was.”[/b][/color] Nagi shrugged at the thought. Then something else occurred to her. [color=ff9815][b]“By the way, since your outfit changed, I guess mine did too. You get a glimpse at all? Because I didn’t have the time to tell other than I had a jacket on my shoulders.”[/b][/color] 

Nagi quickly fired off a response text to Asumi as she spoke, telling her that something came up and she’d tell her about it tomorrow. 

[color=ff9815][b]“Anyways, beats me if it was or not. Probably shouldn’t be talking about it just off school grounds, though. In case she gets any more creative ideas on how to give our class shit. Should probably skedaddle the fuck on outta here too before someone gets on our ass for loitering.”[/b][/color]


[color=Plum][b]“Mine wasn’t that edgy, no,”[/b][/color] Munehisa shook his head, tapping his shoes together and hoisting his backpack over his shoulder. Her indirect mention of Okamoto brought a frown to his lips, stirring a pinch of resentment in his stomach. [color=Plum][b]“If it’s true, I just can’t believe she already knows about it, but just wants to lead a witch hunt anyway,”[/b][/color] he bit the inside of his mouth, sighing. [color=Plum][b]“But whatever, enough for today then. I’ll see ya tomorrow, Nagi.”[/b][/color]


[color=ff9815][b]“Yeah, yeah.”[/b][/color] Nagi sighed back, waving him off as she started to walk off. [color=ff9815][b]“Go home, get some sleep. We still gotta deal with her shit tomorrow too.”[/b][/color]