Assemble the What Now? (Persona 5 x DCMK)

Chapter 6

Ren's POV:

At one moment, I am in my desk; The next moment, I am in front of Leblanc. Thinking about it now, three days had passed. Why we have to do that? I don't understand the concept of it. After standing for a while, I open up the door, but to see either Kudou or Kuroba talking to Boss about something. They stop talking and look straight at me. Oh, it's Kuroba. He waves a hand as me as I bow my head down for a bit. My eyes tear up for a bit as I yawn.

"Those exams got you hard huh?" Morgana asks before I reach the stairs.

I nod in response as I walk up the stairs.

I didn't made it close to the bed. Instead, I lay on the sofa with my head facing down. Slowly but surely, I pass out after all of those days of cramming.

~~~~~~~~~~

Kaito's POV:

Shinichi and I went our own ways for a bit. We agreed on meeting up at Leblanc after we did our little research, Shinichi's being the incident that was live and mine being more information about the Myriad Dreamer. While remembering why the Myriad Dreamer is a candidate of Pandora (which isn't likely), I play around with my phone that was teleported here with us. Are my tabs still open? It turns out that all on the information from our world are still valid within my phone. Tabs about the spectrolite are functioning properly, at least it was. After experimenting with a new tab, the screen would not load, as if there isn't any wifi or data around. Thank god I tested it on a different tab.

I return back to the home screen. Maybe, just maybe... I press the call button to Jii-chan to yet hear his voicemail. It is already settled that Shinichi (or should I say Conan Edogawa) and I are sleep in a dream, knowing that we fell asleep next to each other to wake up in a different world and knowing the interesting backstory of that gem. I know this next attempt is going to be a failure, but I call Akako-chan next. A voicemail replies back.

Not wanting to look back, I reread the articles about the Myriad Dreamer from the leftover tabs.

~~~~~~~~~~

It is a few minutes before our rendezvous that I arrive. Leblanc is pretty empty, seeing that the only costumers here are two other people besides myself. After a while, those two costumers left the building, leaving me alone with the manager of this place.

"I didn't introduced myself last time we met. I'm Sojiro Sakura, owner of Leblanc, but you can call me Boss," the man says as he passes me a glass of water.

"Kaito Kuroba, magic extraordinaire," I say as I catch the glass of water. "Thanks for the water and nice to meet you again Boss."

"Are you waiting for that boyfriend of your?"

I blush behind the poker face. "My apologies. My relationship with him isn't like that, at least I don't think so."

"But you're still waiting for him right?"

"Yeah. We were suppose to met up here minutes before, but it's not the first that I heard."

There is a moment of silence.

Boss start to speak again, "I heard that you two recently moved here. Enjoying your stay so far?"

"It's peaceful to the point that it's almost scary. I'm not sure about Shinichi, but my life was never this peaceful before."

"Not that peaceful huh?"

"Tell me about it. Have way too many people chasing after me."

"Does that includes him too?"

"..."

Then, he laugh. It may be a short one, but it's heart felt. Ren must be lucky to meet him. "I remember how I used to be chased too when I was around your age."

"... Around my age?"

"You're about as young as that brat right? That age of high school? Guessing that's the same for your boy too."

My eyes widen to his revelation. "I, uh...what? How?" I'm positive that we put our ages in the twenties range in our ids.

"You two are giving off those vibes when we first met, high on puberty. I used to be like that too. Chasing after the girls as girls chase after me."

But Shinichi's currently an elementary kid. Unless kids these days goes through puberty way too early, that shouldn't be possible.

"With how handsome you two look, the ladies will-"

The door chimes. We stop our conversation to see Ren coming in. I wave at him as he nods back at me. He slowly carries himself towards the stairs. "Those exams got you hard huh?" A voice claims as Ren nods again. Who is that voice? I turn around to see Boss scratching the back of his neck for a bit.

"Is there another person in this building with us?" I ask at him.

Boss look back at me with confusion, "No, why?"

"I thought somebody spoke..... but now thinking about it, it must be my imagination." Boss might heard a meow instead of a voice. "My bad."

"It's alright, you don't need to apologize."

~~~~~~~~~~

Minutes later, a chime runs into our ears. I look aside to see Shinichi panting. After catching his breath, he moves away from the door to sit next to me. He orders his coffee and then look at me with an apologetic face.

"Sorry for being late. Getting information was tricky when the police were basically judging me as a kid with no manners. I can tell you the stuff later. How is it at your end?"

"I tried libraries and archives, but it is a nope. Then, I tries using my old phone. The tabs were still on, but it acts like it doesn't have any wifi or data so I couldn't get much info about it apart from those tabs. I went off course to try communication with it. Maybe it work because I only heard a voicemail."

"Are you going to give it another try? The communication thing."

"I will but not now. After all, we are here for another reason."

"Yeah..."

Boss places Shinichi's coffee down. "Your Mexican Altura is serve."

--------------------------------------------------

Coffee dad is back and talking about girls.

And happy early/late/on time Hmong New Year depending on where you are! Since it's around the corner for where I live and I feel like drawing, I thought it would be cute to see Kaito and Shinichi in hmong clothes (though I messed up on Shinichi's vest).