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Crusader LordAs the girl and Kato accepted their shadows, all that remained was the one disgruntled looking shadow. Kami puts a foot forward, before stopping himself from going any further, fearful of what was to come. As he steadly stays in place the reflection turns his head and begins walking toward Kami, with a contempt look on his face. The golden eyes pierce into Kami, keeping him frozen in place, seemingly unable to move even though every muscle is telling him to run... But...
"(I can't keep running forever... But, can I really hear what he has to say?)"
As he ponders over the thought, he glares downward, seemingly unwilling to accept the inevitable. The shadow kept steadily walking towards him, until he towered over him, enveloping him with his own hidden consciousness. Kami turns his head up and his eyes meet with those piercing golden eyes. As he stares him down, the shadow begins to pull something from behind it, but what? As it begins fiddling around, it begins speaking in a voice like Kamis, excepted its more warped and twisted then it should be.
"Heh, you don't even have the courage to face yourself, what a god damned coward... Then again you are me."
The shadow stares downward at Kami, seemingly depressed about something. Kami looks around, trying to look for the object of his malice, his sadness, his anger. Before long the shadow sighs, and whips out a pistol from behind it, brandishing it in front of Kami and the others. Kami could only glare at the pistol, worried that this thing might set it off on him, or worse - his friends. But what could he do about it?
"We are pathetic you know, always running away from the sight of danger. You say that we will help our friends, but in their time of need we do jack shit... We really do deserve her hatred, am I right? Of course I am, because I am you!" The voice screeches in anger at Kami, wailing in absolute pain. "We are fucking hypocrites you know, I mean, we didn't even listen to Sachikos problems when she feigned happiness and now your saying you'll listen to her? That's a ton of bullshit coming from the both of us, you know? You say you care and then you turn a blind eye, just like you did with Ayano, the girl your supposibly infatuated with?"
Kami could only stare, and mutter something quietly to the shadowy replicant. "Sh-shut up...."
"I'm so awful, how can I care for her when I'm like this... You know, I should run away and just die." The figure puts the gun up to his own head, his hand shivering. "I don't deserve to live, I should just end it all... I can't own up to my own actions... I'm afraid of losing my friends, yet I don't deserve them at all... I should just... Disappear." Kami could only stare stunned at him, falling onto his knees as the shadow began backing away.
"Shut up, y-you don't know what you're talking about..."
"Oh really, then why haven't you owned up to your parents, you know about possibly not being a detective. You know, how we don't feel like living up to our legacy? All of this liking detective stuff is a little facade. Why lie to yourself and run? Is it that hard to face the truth? You know, we really are pathetic.... We really should just die."
Kami turns his head upward, staring down the goldened eyed clone. "Shut up, that's not true, all of what you say is a lie! You, you are..."
"I mean its not like any of your friends would care... I still wonder why we didn't pull the trigger on that one day..."
"That's because I realised that a simple bullet wouldn't solve anything."
Kami pushes himself up, staring defiantly at the shadow self. He then begins walking over, and begins to pull the gun away from his head, and strangely enough the boy goes with it. He then takes the gun, and pistol whips the shadow self before discarding the false weapon. "Sorry, I did have to knock some sense into myself... You see, suicide isn't an answer to a temporary problem. I had courage on that one day to stand up to myself and stray from taking my own life. We need to stop looking back on the past and move forward, lest we will drown in our own sorrows, alright... Me?"
Kami stares at the golden eyed teen before smiling to him. That sad frown on the golden eyed boy begun froming into a small grin, before turning into a full on smile. As he smiles, he becomes enveloped in a blue aura that causes him to radiate with great energy, before dissolving into a form of a man in armor. As this happens, Kami utters something, smilling happily with sad eyes. "Thank you."
The man then transforms into a small tarrot card, one that could easily be crushed in his hand just as the others. He hesitates for a bit, staring at the card, before smiling confidently at it. It isn't long before it vanishes from sight, and into Kamis body.
"Come on, lets get out of here before anything else ha-"
Before he could finish speaking, a small sphere like object with a tongue rushed out of no where trying to attack him. He deftly side stepped the attack, countering the thing by pulling out his baton and smashing the thing with it. The blow hits, and Kami turns on the weapon with a sudden impulse, shocking it. The Slipping Halberie writhers in pain and begins to... Retreat? No its bring over eleven more of its buddies.
As the situation goes from bad to worse, Kami could only hold his ground and do his best to protect the ones he cared about... I mean, what else was there to do in a seemingly hopeless situation like this. Maybe if he bought them enough time...
-??? : Mirror World-
"Invoke the power of your personas!"
-Kaminari : Mirror World-
As Kaminari reflected on the situation, he heard a voice seemingly shout out from no where. "(What, invoke the power of my?...) As he thought, the same blue glow from earlier resonated above him, and began floating downwards. As he stared in wonder, all he could do was grin wildly. Kami began moving his hands into a fist like motion, but not before uttering one word.
"Persona!"
And then, with all the might in his body, he crushed the card, shattering it into a million pieces. He then was also enveloped in a strange aura as earlier as an armored form with a lightning spear appeared behind him. The form looked at the enemies, seemingly intimidating the timid shadows. As this happened, a voice echoed through the area around him.
And I am thou..."
"From the center of the soul, I come... I am Zeus... Leader of the Gods, Harbringer of Friendship."
As the voice resonated in his head, the summoned persona dashed at one of the enemies as Kami followed in tow. A Halberie rushed at them, and Kami caught it out of the corner of his eye. Zeus turned his undivided attention to the enemy, and quickly impaled it with his lightning spear. He then threw the thing off the spear at one of the other halberies, having them crash into a stall. Kami, points at the place where they landed, uttering "Zeus."
As he points, a small streak of thunder strikes the stall, killing the two occupants in it. As he stares at what Zeus had done, he was cut off guard when one of those things slammed into his persona. As it hit Zeus, he felt a tightening pain in his chest as if he was hit by the Halberies ram. Kami then springs upward, and smashes the spherey assailant with his Baton, before beating it until it was nothing but a sloppy, gooey, black mess. "I won't let you harm any of them, you hear me!"
As he belows this, he begins dashing at the nearest Halberie who seems poised, ready to attack one of the others.
"I am no longer afraid!"
[Nine Enemies Remaining]