Beware the end

"So her full name is Izanami-no-Mikoto. Is that correct?"

"Yes."

"And your Persona is Izanagi-no-Okami, right?"

"That's right."

Shin sighed and rubbed his face.

"Hayato, did you cuck your own persona?"

"That... I did not think of it like that before..." said the grey-haired man, suddenly falling into deep thought.

The black-haired boy who stood opposite of his shook his head.

"At least I can't cuck Arsene... from what I know." thought Shin, as he concluded that he should avoid any potentially-immortal women named Josephine.

Thankfully for both of them, Rise decided to interrupt at that moment by opening the front door.

"I'm home." she said, and casually walked into the living room.

"Hm? Are you the Shin that Hayato's been telling me about?" she asked, looking at the black-haired boy.

"That is me, indeed."

"I've wanted to meet you for some time already. My name is Rise Kujiwara. Hayato is my fiancé." she said with a smile on her face as she sat down next to Hayato.

"Risette AND the primordial Shinto mother goddess? You lucky bastard!" said the teen, unfettered by the fact that the woman in front of him was a famous singer.

"Now wait a minute. Me and Marie aren't together, you see. I'm not that lucky." said Hayato, deadpanning.

Rise, hearing that, pinched him on the waist.

"What do you mean by that?" she said, annoyed.

"Eh, I meant as a team! Yes, yes. A shame that I couldn't team up with a god, but your support is top-tier too!" said Hayato, nervously.

"Hmph." Rise turned her head away from Hayato.

"So anyways, regarding this Marie girl that's also a god apparently, where is she now? I'd like to have a talk with her about Personas, since I'm still working on summoning mine in real life and you're pretty useless, Hayato."

"I've told you already. You just have to achieve the World. Simple as that." said the grey-haired man, disgruntled.

"Easy for you to say. And besides, I'd rather not trust in the power of friendship." scoffed the younger man.

He stretched out his arm to take his glass with juice off the table and took a sip.

"I can't just sit around, waiting for the World. And it's not like that is the only way. There have been cases where Persona-users could summon their Personas outside of the special dimensions." said the black-haired teen.

"Yeah, but those were either under extreme stress or took incredible amounts of willpower." replied Hayato.

"But what if there were people who could summon their Personas in reality right off the bat?" asked Shin.

"That's impossible." said Hayato.

"And how do we know that? Hayato, you and Rise and your other friend went into a magical dimension inside a TV. And I access another reality through an app on my phone. Summoning Personas in reality from the beginning isn't all that much of a stretch." said Shin.

"You're not wrong, but that's not the case with you. All you can do is achieve the World or go through a crisis, and even then that one's going to be temporary. Unless you can get into a contract with a really strong god or something like that, it won't happen any time soon."

"Huh? Why do you say that?"

"Well, I'm not sure about the guy you're against, but I think Izanami wouldn't have wanted me, Adachi and Namatame running around shooting electricity and stuff at others. But it might also be that they didn't have that kind of power. So, if you can find a god that can influence reality as it is, they might be able to grant you that ability."

"That's... noteworthy."

However, Shin was also thinking about the wishing star he received from Jose. If he could use it to modify reality, even if very little...

A wide grin appeared on Shin's face as he planned what to do with that power. Thought, for him to go full force with his plans, he'd need Futaba's hacking abilities, which meant that this plan had to be postphoned for a while.

-INTERMISSION-

Inside of a prison that isn't relevant enough to be named.

Sickening moans were echoing through the corridors. The guards patrolling the area were grossed out, despite having many years of experience in prisons.

Inside one prison cell, things seemed to have gotten particularly crazy. Three relatively large men were... ehm... with a fourth one.

After several minutes of continuous moaning, three of the men exited the cell.

"Hey, Kamoshida's down for the count again." said one of the guards to his colleague.

"Oh. It's your turn to clean up after him, isn't it?" said the other one.

"As if! I did it the last three times too. And don't think I don't know about that magazine you took off the inmates and put in your cabinet."

"Tch. Alright, fine."

The second guard begrudgingly went to clean up the cell from Kamoshida's endeavours.

The guards had tried to make him stop doing it in his cell, but every time Kamoshida tried to do it with them, which immediately disgusted the guards.

Had he been having that kind of activity in the showers, they wouldn't have bothered at all. But the cells had to look somewhat presentable in case a sudden inspection came through.

Kamoshida's reputation has spread far and wide in the prison, offering 'relief' to any and all that needed it. Some inmates even called him "Buttslut".

Eventually, this sort of actions had caused the ex-teacher a rectal prolapse, making him need to stay in bed in the infirmary for an indefinite amount of time.

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This chapter's additional info is on... Agathion!

An Agathion is a familiar spirit which appears only at midday in the shape of a human or an animal, or even within a talisman, bottle or magic ring.

Agathion is the first Persona of the Chariot Arcana.

Pretty underwhelming, honestly.

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Confidants:

0. Igor (The Fool) - Rank 2

I. Morgana (The Magician) - Rank 3

1. Takuto Maruki (The Councillor) - Rank 1

II. Makoto Niijima (The Priestess) - Rank 2

V. Sojiro Sakura (The Hierophant) - Rank 3

VI. Ann Takamaki (The Lovers) - Rank 7

VII. Ryuji Sakamoto (The Chariot) - Rank 6

XIII. Tae Takemi (The Death) - Rank 4

XVIII. Saki Yoshiko (The Moon) - Rank 2

XX. Sae Niijima (The Judgement) - Rank 1

Shiho Suzui (The Hope) - Rank 7