The kingdom's jester || persona 5 || shuake

Chapter three

Ren winces. He didn't think he did that much to himself, but he's more sore than when he suddenly got hit with a bless attack while using Arsène annoyingly. Despite it all, he still manages to get up, looking at himself in the mirror. He sighs, the blood spilled on his shirt managed to make it so it looks like it came with the shirt itself.

He quickly gets changed into the uniform and heads downstairs. He heads downstairs and opens the fridge with the food he's been saving for Morgana. He takes the plate and brings it back upstairs, laying it on the floor next to Morgana's bed. He then leaves for school, careful to shut the door quietly.

Morgana finally opens his eyes and sees the plate of food. He sighs, "Ren, just what is your last keyword..?" And goes up to the plate. He thinks of this while eating the food, why can't he figure it out? He's only figured out that it might have something to do with acting, he just can't figure out what it is from there.

Hopefully the thieves have figured something out...

Akechi sits up on his bed. There's really not much time to do Ren's palace, he thinks. He ponders how he's going to break to the thieves he's actually alive, and his task. Will they even trust him? No, no they won't. Not after already trying to kill Ren.

He knows they're here. They're in the same damn hotel. The reason being? Ryuji is really loud. Still, can he really just knock on their doors and hope for the best? Does he need to threaten them again? 

Why did Ren have to live here anyway? Akechi just moved here to have some quiet but all of a sudden, the metaverse is back, he has to go into a palace, and Ren's one of the only people everyone talks about. He didn't need any of this.

He sighs, there's no use thinking about all this stuff. He just needs to get in contact with the thieves, explain why he's there, and force them into Ren's palace. It should be easy considering how much they care about Ren, but...

No, Goro, you kind of have to do this, he thinks.

Yusuke hears a quiet knock at his and Ryuji's shared room. He gets up from the bed comfier than his own and opens the door expecting one of the girls. This, was not in his scope of expectations.

Instead, a brown-haired man greets him awkwardly, he looks like he wants to already get out of the situation upon Yusuke's gaze.

"Akechi?! How are you..." Yusuke wonders aloud, catching the blonde boy's attention, who was just in the room.

Ryuji runs up to the door, "Akechi?! What is going on?!" The boy yelled, miraculously not getting any of the girls' attention.

Akechi only sighs at the reaction he was given, "Yes, it's me, in the flesh," he responds, not exactly sure how to act anymore.

"But, you're supposed to be dead and gone by this point!" Ryuji shouted, Yusuke giving him a look that definitely said "shut up."

"Don't act as if I don't know that. I wasn't going to make an appearance to you guys, you know." The older boy informed, "I don't know which room the rest of your group is, get them for me, will you?"

Yusuke complies, going down the hall and knocking on the girls' door. Upon them opening it, he leads them to the dead man standing, followed by shrieks.

"But you're..." Futaba stammers, unable to process the information given to her.

"You revived again?!" Ann screeches, staring at the boy.

Haru simply gasps and stays quiet.

"...Should we be getting used to this?" Makoto asks, genuinely meaning it.