Hello World (A Persona 5 x Male Reader Story)

Chapter 5 Stand Tall, Loser!

3rd POV

"Well, well. Would you look at that." Mitsuyo sneered as she looked down at Kinta tied up on the stage, "The street rat returns."

Kinta just glared up at her.

Mitsuyo laughed, "I knew you would come back. Rats like you always come crawling back to grovel beneath the feet of the rich and powerful."

"I'm not here to grovel you old hag! I'm here to rescue Togo chan from the clutches of you!" Kinta spat.

Mitsuyo's face twisted into anger, "Old hag?! OLD HAG?!!" She screeched, making the audience of puppets stir uneasily as if they were ready to evacuate from the theater queen's wrath.

"Yeah! Old hag! The types that try to hide their age with lairs of makeup and weird flashy clothing! Like you're doing right now!" Kinta shouted.

Mitsuyo at this point was trembling with rage, "You insignificant filthy rat!!" She hissed through gritted teeth.

Kinta stuck his tongue out defiantly. Mitsuyo glared down at him with pure hatred in her eyes. For a minute, it seemed like Mitsuyo was about to sentence Kinta to death but instead a sinister smile spread across her face.

"Since I captured you, why don't you tell where your little friends are and I might consider a quick, dazzling death for you." She said.

She clapped her hands twice and a spotlight lit up. A long wooden walkway led to a giant pot filled with boiling oil.

"What's a better death for a dirty thief than being boiled alive in a pot of oil!" Mitsuyo cackled coldly.

"I'll never tell!" Kinta spat, "I'm not going to sell out my best friend to the likes of you!!"

Mitsuyo's smile spread wider, "Oh? So, you'll sell out your own parents but not your friend?"

Kinta's face went pale, "H-How...?"

"How do I know?" Mitsuyo laughed, "My webs spreads to every corner of Japan. I know everything about everyone, even you. Kinta Kamiyoshi."

Kinta just stared at her in wide eyed horror.

"It came to a shock to me, to think a little boy sold out his own parents to the police about their crimes." Mitsuyo said with false sympathy.

Kinta was looking down at the ground, looking like he was about to throw up.

"So, my offer stills stands; tell me where the other rats are, and I'll consider giving you a quick and easy death."

"You don't know anything...."

Mitsuyo quirked an eyebrow, "What was that?"

Kinta raised his head up and glared at her with a fiery anger, "You don't know anything!" He shouted, "Don't go pretending like you know what I've been through!! Don't pretend you know what happened to my parents!!"

He rose to his feet and stared down Mitsuyo, "I didn't tell the police about my parents! And I won't tell you where my friends are!! I sick and tired of people like you nosing around my life and  accusing me for stuff I didn't do!! So forget finding out anything from me, because I'm not telling even if you kill me!!"

Mitsuyo stared down at the boy, her face going red with fury, but Kinta didn't back down. He looked at the theater queen with a blazing anger and rebellion. And then-

"You finally see me..."

"Ahk!!" Kinta doubled over as a sneering pain shot through his head, a voice ringing out from somewhere deep within him.