The Phantom Thieves of Hearts Pt. 4

Chapter 41: Mot

Int. Pyramid – Continuous

The Phantom Thieves are now inside the pyramid and are greeted to the same kind of interior that they already saw from when the entered the pyramid from the front entrance.

Ryuji Sakamoto: Damn, that fresh air feels so damn good!

Ann Takamaki: We were in that damn heat for so long! I thought I was going to sweat to death in this tight ass costume!

Makoto Niijima: Yeah, but if we weren't wearing these "tight ass costumes", then I imagine we all would have gotten extremely sun burned.

Ann Takamaki: Ah, that's a good point!

Yusuke Kitagawa: Hey, Mona, how come the heat in the Metaverse doesn't seem to affect you?

Morgana: No fucking idea.

Yusuke Kitagawa: I see...makes sense.

Goro Akechi: Does it, though? Anyways, at least, we are back in the pyramid.

Akira Kurusu: Yep, now, we can continue the infiltration and find a route to the treasure. We've already wasted a lot of time fighting that bird Shadow so we should probably get a move on.

The Phantom Thieves make their way through the pyramid and begin their infiltration.

Int. Sakura Residence – Moments Later

Futaba Sakura is sitting in her gaming chair and watching YouTube on her laptop while eating some curry that Sojiro had prepared for her. She smiles as she watches the podcast on her laptop. She checks the time of the video that she's watching and makes sure that a minute has passed since she took her last bite of curry. After verifying that it has been a minute since her last bite of curry, Futaba takes another bite of her curry. The podcast that she's watching is talking about anime and manga which are two things that she's very passionate about. Futaba enjoys listening to the podcast because, due to her lack of friends, she has no one to talk to about the stuff that she's interested in like anime and manga. Hearing other people talk passionately about things that she's passionate about brings her a small amount of joy in her, overall, dreary, life. All of the sudden, Futaba begins to hear voices inside of her mind.

Voice In Futaba's Mind # 1: You killed her! It's your fault!

Voice In Futaba's Mind # 2: She was so close to the discovery of a life time and then she went and died because of you. It's such a damn shame.

Voice In Futaba's Mind # 3: You caused that poor woman so much stress, that it caused her to have a mental breakdown. You're such an awful child!

Voice In Futaba's Mind # 4: If only you were more like your mother. She was such a genius while you are nothing more than a weirdo and a burden!

The voices continue to appear inside of Futaba's head and they begin to overlap each other, making it impossible for her to focus on the podcast that's watching. In a desperate attempt to drown out the voices she turns up the volume on the video but this doesn't help because the voices that are overlapping inside of her mind become even louder. At this point, she can't even focus on the podcast that she's watching so Futaba decides to pause it. Futaba closes her laptop and puts her fork down on her plate. She moves the plate to a different spot on her desk and then Futaba folds her arms on the desk, in front of her. She places her head down on her arms and begins to cry in frustration.

Futaba Sakura: Why...why won't my stupid mind ever shut up and let me enjoy, anything? I'm already so limited in what I can do while I'm inside of this room and I can't even enjoy the few things that does bring me happiness. What's the point of living like this? I can't even call it living! I just wish I would die!