Persona: Mask of Innocence

Hattori called out his mirror image and it attacked Orpheus. Hattori turned towards the Death shadow and attacked.

 

It dodged and attacked Hattori. A masked person wearing a long scarf around his neck and attacked Arisa. The leader laughed. "Kill them, Death Arisa. Kill them all!"

 

Hattori called out Ares.

"You deal with the shadow."

"At once, master Hattori."

Ares pulled out his sword and struck the shadow as Hattori put his scythe nd ran towards Arisa.

 

Midori used one of her shadows to look into Arisa's mind and when her shadows touched Suki and Hattori, they saw into Arisa's mind. Suki shouted, "Nee-chan!!!!"

 

"Snap out of it Arisa! I know you don't want to do this!"

 

Suki saw a scared younger verison of her sister kneeling down, her hands on her head, shaking. "I have to obey or he'll hurt me again. I have to be the subject for Project Nyx." Suki walked up to her and hugged her.

"Nee-chan, you know this isn't you. You're brave, nice, and caring. You're my hero, everything I wish could be."

 

"There's no one that can control you. You're a free person, Arisa."

 

Suddenly, Nekotoma, Orpheus, and the Death Shadow turned to the leader and attacked her. The person released Arisa and she fought the leader as well.

 

"We did it. The leader's hold on her is broken."

 

Arisa shot her arrows alongside Orpheus and Nekotoma as they attacked the leader.

 

Ares started slashing at the leader.

 

Shinji could feel Thantos within him stirring, and put his hand to his forehead. "What's wrong!?" He couldn't hear Thantos's words as Shinji's other Persona were doing their best to hold back the Persona of Death within him.

SHinji tried to summon forth his gloves but somehow couldn't. "Kumoi I need those gloves! He mentally said to him.

"Kinda busy at the moment!" Kumoi replied as SHinji knew there was no weapons lying around anywhere.

 

Orpheus attacked the leader and she disappeared. The Death shadow roared as Arisa started to weak, falling to her knees. She called the Death shadow back inside her.

 

Hattori knelt down and put his arms around her.

"You alright now?"

 

Shinji felt really useless and sighed deeply as Thantos started to calm down now as his Persona within him let him go.

 

Arisa slowly stood up and took off the hamlet as she turned to the others, tears in her eyes. "I'm...... sorry, everyone......."

 

"It's alright. It's not your fault."

 

"Don't say sorry, you were forced against your will to do that." he said to her.

 

"Hey, you." Midori turned to the masked person. "Who are you?"

The person removed the mask to reveal a familiar face to Yukari and the others. "Ryoji-kun?!" Fuuka said.

"With Arisa housing the Death Shadow, I'm connected to her," he said.

 

Shinji stared at Ryoji calmly, he held hsi head as Thantos appeared above him. "This is the first time we met while you are in human form, Ryoji-sama."