Persona 5 x persona 4

chapter 4

November 22th

Yu climbed into the SUV as Naoto mirrored his movement to get into the driver's side of the vehicle. His partner had actually slept the night before and looked far more ready to face the day then she normally did. He on the other hand hadn't gotten much sleep as he would have liked, then again it was something he was use to by now. Yu just didn't sleep well most nights. Naoto was the type that needed coffee in the morning and so far just the one cup had sustained her. They were no doubt going to get more coffee at their destination so Naoto was probably waiting until then to go for that precious second cup. Sojiro brewed a good cup of coffee. Even if the shop wasn't the place their person of interest Ren Amamiya was staying the two detectives would still probably frequent the place well in Tokyo.

Yesterday had been a busy, between helping the Inaba crew set travel arrangements and interviewing Makoto Niijima about the finer details of their Phantom Thief exploits it had been a fairly full day. They also managed to do one on one interviews with all of the thieves. It was just down right eerie how close their situation was to the one from their exploits 5 years ago. It was as if history was repeating itself and even Mitsuru was a bit surprised by the similarities.

A report had been sent out last night and when the two detectives woke up Mitsuru had already gotten to reading both reports and sending a reply. The reply a simple a go ahead to continue helping the new set of teens. The head of the shadow operatives just she wanted to kept up to date on everything. Honestly Yu was mildly surprised they hadn't been pulled once all the information about this involving the other world had been confirmed. Mitsuru could have sent a whole shadow operative team but she was specifically holding back on that. Either the shadow operatives were busy with something else or Mitsuru was planning something. Yu gut told him it was the later. Mitsuru was too smart not to have a plan.

Naoto pulled into the familiar back alley way before both detectives got out. Yu stretched and rolled his shoulders before he followed a few steps behind his blue haired cohort. They were arriving early to the small café to check up on Ren before they had a small meeting with Sae Niijima this morning. The meeting was more of a show of good faith to give her their reports as well as a fake report Naoto had drafted yesterday. After all Sae was really putting her neck on the line by letting them take Ren. She gave both detectives the feeling that she was more after the truth then the simple lies that the apparent corruption wanted them to believe, so they were putting their faith in her by offering her information on the other world. Mitsuru approved of course but she was the one that pointed them in Sae's direction in the first place. After the meet up with Sae it would probably be time to pick some of their friends up at the airport.

The gentle jingle of the bell over the door of Leblanc announced their arrival as Sojiro the shop's proprietor glanced in their direction. Naoto moved to take a seat at the counter as Yu scanned the room a bit disappointed to see Ren wasn't down yet, Futaba was however there hiding behind her laptop. The kid had been pretty out of it the last time they spoke. Yu had to wonder if it would still be another day or two before the boy was able to resume his life and possibly start looking at ways to get himself out of his current life or death predicament.

"2 Coffees, black." Naoto ordered.

"Comin' right up." Sojiro nodded before started to get the order ready.

"Think Ren will be able to be up today?" Yu mused out loud as he took a place next to his partner at the counter.

"He should be, he's up right now and should be down in just a moment." Morgana moved across the counter to sit in front of the detectives.

Naoto stared at the cat before her as it sat upon the counter of the café. The cat stared back as if they were both sizing each other up silent. This went on for several long seconds before Naoto reached out rubbing the feline's cheeks and instantly the fierceness the cat had been holding seemed to melt into Naoto's touch. It was at that moment Naoto suddenly put all of her effort into petting said cat. Sojiro placed two coffee mugs down in front of the two detectives as Naoto petted the feline.