Chapter 121: The Human Element

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Victory - Persona 5

"HELL FUCKING YYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

The rest of the group, naturally, joined her in her victorious cheers. Leprechaun jumped high into the air and did a double fist pump, Razor grabbed Sandbox and swung her around happily, and Highwayman did a little happy dance.

As the cheering continued, the Mementos moon exploded into a thousand tiny pieces. And just like that, the Phantom Thieves had conquered their greatest trial.

As the celebrations began, Sandbox lowered herself down, and as she did, her mechanical armor started to groan with the sound of machinery coming undone. The Persona reformed itself off of her body and transformed into what looked like an armored throne. It was still ascended from Alexey, but it had returned to being a chair. As she sat in it and it lowered to the ground, she finally hopped off of it.

"Sandbox, that was amazing!" Razor said, running up to her. "How did you DO that!?"

"I think my Persona unlocked a new ability when it ascended. In that moment, the only thing I could really think about was protecting everyone else and fighting back against the powers that be," she explained, her voice a bit shaky. "It made me feel strong."

"Well, I'll say! If you had been able to use that before, we would have crushed this place and all of its stupid machines ages ago!" Razor laughed, hugging the tired gamer.

"Well, like I said, it was involuntary," she repeated. "Also, from what I could tell, that transformed state was draining my energy super fast. I think I can only keep that armored suit up for a few minutes at most. Maybe I need to practice with it some more."

"I'm just glad you're okay," Highwayman said, joining the hug. "But hey, your Persona ascended too, Mozart!"

"Oh, it did!?" she said, looking surprised. "I didn't even notice!"

"What, you somehow didn't notice that your elegant lady Persona transformed into a gross anthropomorphic spider lady?" Lab-Rat asked.

"It's not-!"

She paused before finishing the sentence, summoning Arachne and looking at her.

"It's not gross!"

"The fact that you actively had to check proves that it is," Lab-Rat snickered.

He flinched as Mozart commanded her Persona to hiss at him.

"I mean, I don't know either," she turned back to Highwayman as her mask flamed back onto her face. "I just...I saw what happened to Shuichi and I just...I felt this power surging through me, and the next thing I knew, Hajime was telling me to pull up after I incinerated Wakaba..."

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