Persona 5 Royal: Makoto X Male Reader OC- The Forgotten Shadow (Part 1)

Distortion and Misdirections (Chapter 96)

*Early Morning July 10*

Your POV

After quietly sneaking out of the house, noticing that Sojiro was fast asleep in the living room, you left through a window and began to walk towards your home. Thinking to yourself while rubbing the soreness in your body.

You: Wow that took its toll on me, that is for sure. Thankfully I healed my wounds before we got back to the real world. Otherwise, I might need a proper visit to Takemi.

Walking by her clinic, you take out the bottle of pills and take one. After feeling your body relaxed, you noticed that the time was still very early and you weren't feeling tired at all. Thankfully school was out today and you go out for a night walk around the city...

Time passes and the sun has begun to rise. You had frequent around stations and talked with some older folks, had a quick run-in with a drunk reporter woman who gave you her card. You may or may have not been hit on by her so you tried to forget it. You saw a church with a woman carrying a shogi board walking out of it and rubbing her eyes. Noticing you she said her mornings and it kinda hit off with you two talking. She tempted you at Shogi and your previous knowledge of playing your dad when he wasn't busy with work gave you a slight boost in your abilities. It was close but she defeated you in the end. She gave you props and told you her name was Hifumi Togo. She mentioned she had someone who she practiced with but invited you to join her sometime again. After exchanging IDs, you waved goodbye and walked around for another hour and got your fortune read by a very odd woman trying to sell you a very expensive crystal... Thankfully your skills in determining that she was selling a worthless thing shifted towards just getting a reading. Your little night adventure came to an end soon after that when you arrived back home and sat in bed. Laying down you still didn't feel exhausted but you decided to talk to Makoto and shot her a text.

*Your Text: Hey! You awake?*

No response.

*Your Text: Well I just wanted to talk to you is all. I don't have to work so I figured we could maybe hang out. Let me know.*

Hours passed and no response.

You: Hmm...Is she still sleeping? Maybe she pulled an all-nighter like I did but only fighting a demented version of Wakaba. Well, shouldn't waste my day like this, I am gonna hit up Leblanc.

Taking a quick shower and cleaning yourself up, you proceed to head out and walked towards Leblanc before you received a text. Thinking it was probably Makoto, you nearly fumbled with the phone before regaining control, only to notice it was from Futaba.

*Futaba's Text: So I don't know about you but, no one has responded to any texts from me. I've been trying for a little while now.*

*Your Text: Yeah I texted Makoto hours ago and nothing.*

*Futaba's Text: Oh geez at least you responded. I was getting worried that no one was on so I decided to come and see what was wrong.*

You: "What was wrong"? *Opens door to Leblanc* What does she mean by that-...!

You enter the shop and stop mid-sentence to see Futaba sitting in one of the stalls with her knees propped up into her chest while looking at her phone. She is started as she hears the bell ring from the door but calms down quickly after noticing it was you.