Working With Phantoms

Complete Madness

June 10th

Madran arrived back in the Velvet Room and saw that Philemon was alone in it.

"Hey, Philemon, where's Margaret, Marie, and Elizabeth?"

"They all left to have a catch-up with how Marie was doing. Now, I've been thinking..."

Madran saw that Philemon was rifling through persona cards. He had ten of them, and each had a different arcana on them.

"Hey, what's that?"

"These are my personas, excluding Yudhishthira. I lost a large amount when I fused Trumpeter, but have gained Archangel. I have had a certain persona in my mind for awhile, and now have the personas to fuse it."

"Oh, what would that be?"

Madran then sat next to Philemon.

"The persona would be Bishamonten. He has several useful physical and support-based skills and would be a great compliment to Artemis."

"Ok, cool. Which personas do you need?"

"Power, Archangel, and Narcissus."

"When did you get a Narcissus?"

"Earlier today. Now, all that is left is to choose the inherited skills and fuse away."

Philemon then took three persona cards out and Madran watched as they slowly rotated around an invisible circle that she began to imagine in her head. Then, the cards spread apart and formed a small window into what appeared to be another dimension. Then, after Philemon looked into it and murmured several attack names and shook his head, Madran heard him recite a set of skills with him nodding.

"Ok..."

"What's going on?"

"Stand back."

Madran took a few steps back as Philemon held the cards and arranged them into a triangle-like formation in the air. Then, a magic circle formed around the cards and they merged together into a new card. Then, Philemon took the card with his hand as it merged into it.

"It is done. This should be of much use in the palace."

Madran blinked a few times before looking towards the door as it opened. Philemon then made the persona cards vanish as Suga and Wysteria stepped in and Chicory ran up to them.

"Hi, everyone!"

"Hello, what's up?"

"Oh, nothing much. We've been chatting for a bit."

Suga nodded and sat down with Madran. Then, once everyone had arrived, Madran stood up.

"Ok, everyone, now that the hello's and hi's are over, are we ready to get started?"

Madran looked around at everyone, with a very clear response due to everyone getting up.

"Ok, let's move! We have three more floors to go until we reach the treasure. If we're quick, we can do this in two days!"

"I wouldn't get too hopeful..."

"Wishful thinking is always good!"

"Not really."

"Well, aren't you just a ray of sunshine today, darling daughter?"

Wysteria chuckled as Suga glared at her. Then, after the slightest amount of chatter, the group went to the palace once more and arrived at the lift, where they went down to the seventh floor. Once they arrived, Madran found the elevators in front of a set of winding stairs that were made of stone. The area around them was complete darkness except for the stairs, so Madran led them down it.