Working With Phantoms

Suga's Experience

May 26th

Madran arrived back from school and headed to the Velvet Room, which was becoming a small habit of hers. Once she got there, Madran saw that Maya was sitting with Elizabeth and discussing a persona fusion.

"If you combine Turdak and Arahabaki, you can create Mothman. While I would recommend fusing Turdak and Girimehkala to make Dionysus, the choice is yours."

Madran sat down and looked over to see Philemon sorting through a few persona cards by himself.

"Oh, hello, Madran. What brings you here today?"

"Eh, mom was busy, so I came here. I also wanted to discuss about a possible next target."

Philemon set the cards down.

"And, who would that be?"

"Well, something that I've seen in the past few weeks is that Rosana starts acting a little wacky whenever someone brings up where she used to live and stuff."

"Are you implying that she has a palace?"

"No, but there may be someone who does that is related to her. Like, not family, but is the reason as to why she's so wary about Peru."

Philemon held up a card with a 0 inscribed on the bottom that depicted a man walking towards a cliff with a dog following close by.

"Madran, you are quite observant. However, please, do not fool yourself. You yourself have seen what happens when you rush multiple times in palaces."

Madran nodded.

"I know, it's just, I've been kinda interested in it."

"I can see. Hmm, we could possibly discuss this later. For now, you should head back to your home and take a day off. After all, we did just clear a palace."

"Well, I guess you're right. Also, hey, one more question."

Philemon sighed.

"What?"

"Um, did you see Mitsuru's group appear at all in Madarame's palace? Like, I didn't pick up their signal once."

"No, I'm afraid not. This doesn't mean that they have suddenly lost interest in us, however. I feel that some issue has been arising in the Kirijo group itself. We both saw how conflicted the team was about going after you, yes? I do fear that they are having their own issues as we speak."

"Well, that's kinda good, but I'm worried for Ulala and Baofu."

"Don't worry too much."

"Ok. Well, bye!"

Madran left the Velvet Room and returned home for the day.

May 28th

It had been a few days, but nothing of much impact happened during them, aside from a quick training session Madran had done with her team by going through the Lovers Arcana door. Saturday had snuck up on an unsuspecting Madran, who was slightly shocked to see the week almost over already. However, on Saturday, Madran decided to begin to put forth a plan of sorts, with her arriving at lunch and sitting down at her table. Suga was already there, so they began to chat.

"Hey, Suga, what's up?"

"Oh, I'm fine. Um, Rosana actually invited me to her house so that we could work on a project that we have in History class, so please, be quiet about all of these supposed secrets about her. I can do my crap there and try to figure stuff out, but please don't make lunch more awkward."

Madran nodded slowly.

"Um... ok? I wasn't too bad, was I?"

Madran thought back to yesterday when she asked a few questions to Rosana, and recalled that she had simply remained calm.