HDN: Gameindustri's Wild Card

Prologue: Re;birth

[Aria of souls]

He awoke from his slumber of darkness, his eyes were a bit clouded before adjusting to his surroundings.

He noticed there were blue walls, blue flowers, blue curtains, and a blue rug. Everything in the room was blue from the room and to the furniture itself.

He was in the Velvet room.

"Welcome to the Velvet room my dear young man." a creepy voice was heard, He didn't show any fear (or bothered showing it) as he recognized the voice from a very old friend.

"A place between dream and reality, mind and matter." 

He turned around and saw an old man with a long nose and was wearing a suit. He was happy that he saw him, but he was also curious on why he was called to the room.

"It seems that yo have some questions to be answered." The old man began. "So please. Take a seat. And ask your questions away."

"... it's good to see you Igor." The boy said to him as he took a seat that strangely looks like a lyre.

"It's good to see you as well young man." Igor replied to him.

"Now, you might be thinking that "what am i doing here." well, it's because that your duty as the Great seal is no more."

He was shocked upon hearing this. The Great seal, the barrier between Erebus and Nyx was no longer needed. He was about to stand up to protest, but was interrupted by Igor as he stood up before him.

"Follow me." He said to him as a door manifested out of thin air. Looking for answers, he complied and followed him.

He followed him to a corridor and conversed with the long nosed man to the door at the end of the hallway.

"Normally." Igor began "I usually don't give guests to go beyond the Velvet room, But i will make an exception for you young man."

They made it to the door at the end of a hallway. the young man became cautious as Igor began opening the door. he was surprised on what he saw next.

It as a girl, a girl with short white hair and in a stewardess-like outfit lying on the bed resting peacefully.

"...... Elizabeth." He muttered before Igor noticed his grieving face.

"Do not worry young man. She is only resting. And she is also the reason why you are no longer the Great seal."

He was surprised when he Knew this, he urged Igor to go on.

"She was the reason why and i am quite surprised as well, She was the one that defeated Erebus, the very representation of humanity's grief and negative emotion. Is no more.

Though. She didn't do it all by herself. You see, without the help of the help of personas you made sentient with your Universe arcana, she could have winded up dead."

He gave a silent 'thank you' to Elizabeth.

"She did however, ended up exhausting herself to death when she casted the last of her strength to finish of Erebus. It was a miracle that we found her minutes before passing away with her last breath."

A ghost of a smile crawled upon the boy's face, but was confused on what Igor meant by 'we'. Noticing his confusion. Igor managed to discretely called for the other denizens of the Velvet room and gathered around him.

The First to introduce was a man with white hair and yellow eyes and was wearing a black and blue suit, complimented by a blue necktie.

"My name is Theodore, but please, feel free to call me Theo."

Next was a mature woman with the same outfit as Elizabeth.

"My name is Margaret, It's a pleasure to meet you."

Next was a girl who was wearing casual clothes and a checkered skirt.

"My name is Marie, don't forget it." rude but he didn't mind.

Then came in a man with a blue blindfold around his eyes.

  "I am Nameless... A pianist who opens the shuttered doors of one's soul..."  

 Next came in a woman with black hair with a white line running through it and looks like an opera singer in terms of fashion and appearance.

  "I am Belladonna♪ I praise visiting warriors♪ Who challenge the monster called thyself♪" he found it amusing that she sings instead of talking. and realized that the two were the ones who play the music whenever there's a guest.

"I am Lavenza, pleased to make your acquaintance." He turned and saw a girl with platinum hair and a victorian dress, and a fashionable headband with golden butterflies.

"Minato, Minato Arisato." He introduced himself to all of them.

"Now that introductions are done. I will give you a choice young man." Igor said upon the end of the introduction

"..... A choice?" he asked him.

"Yes. One is that you will live again, and the other is that you will move on and receive your deserved rest."

Minato was surprised when he heard that he will live again. but moving on was the choice for him as someone like him won't fit in today's society of his old life.

He was about to say his answer until Igor stopped him.

"In all honesty. Young man, upon all of the guests we had in the Velvet room, you are the most 'intriguing'." He was taken back from Igor's words until he allowed him to continue. "We had intriguing guests in the past, but you will be the most intriguing one of all."

"You sacrificed your life to stop The Fall, and even befriended the very representation of death itself." Minato smiled lightly, but he is not someone to brag for an achievement like that.

"However. We've received some worrying things  recently."

"... Worrying things?" he asked and Igor pulled out a tape recorder and played a message.

"P-please........." The voice sounded like a girl, she was in distress.

"............ some......ne....................help...us.....sa...ve.......Gameindustri-" she was abruptly cut off.

"It appears to be that someone is in need of helping." Igor said as he stashed the recorder in his pocket.

"Despite us not knowing much about your world's lifestyle, we are sure that this is not from your world."

"It is from a world known as Gameindustri. Even though we might not know about your world and this one, but the world Gameindustri is a place for Video games and your characters. that is what we know so far."

"So young man, are you going to help this world that doesn't belong to you, or have your deserved rest."

Minato knew that the girl needs help, but 'Gameindustri' was alien to him. but since Igor told him that it's based on Video games, that's the only thing he knows about it.

After some time of thinking. He gave his final answer.

"...... I'll help." Igor grinned from his answer.

"As I said "very intriguing" not only you are a man of few words, you are also willing to save a world that you do not  own. You will be the most intriguing guest of them all." A door manifested itself from thin air.

"This door will take you to 'Gameindustri'. I bid you good luck, Wild card."

He then walked to the door and marks his second journey.

THE SECOND JOURNEY OF THE WILD CARD.