Assemble the What Now? (Persona 5 x DCMK)

Chapter 12

Kaito's POV:

"Would you like to join us?"

I look at Shinichi as he look back at me. "Join you in what?"

"We, the Phantom Thieves, are going to infiltrate a prosecutor's palace. Since you two are still relevantly new with that app, we thought that we can show you the ropes of being one of us."

I look a Ren. He's fidgeting with his hands. His eyes are focused towards the cups on the table rather than us. His feet are pointing towards different directions.

I open my mouth when Shinichi speak up first. "You're hiding something Amamiya."

With that, Ren flinches.

"Your group mates weren't aware of this decision, were they?"

"..."

After a minute of silence, I raise my voice into this conversation. "To answer your question Ren, we would like too, but we decline to this opportunity. Maybe at the next infiltration, but not this one."

After Ren finishes his glass, he walked towards the door. While putting on his shoes, he asks a question without facing them. A few seconds of silence later, Shinichi answers his question in english, "Need not to know." With that Ren leaves the apartment to Leblanc.

"So you're going to believe what she said," Shinichi relaxes on the sofa.

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Shinichi's POV:

Kaito pulls out his phone and scrolls through it; it is the phone from our world. With a push of a button, the phone dials. After the third ring, he starts to talk. Then, he pressed the speaker button. There is an echo from the other side, but I recognized that woman's voice.

"Hello Shinichi Kudou. I'm sure you heard about me," she says, imagining her grinning through the phone.

"You must be Akako Koizumi. Kaito told me about you when he received your voicemail."

"Kaito, huh." There's a pause until she speaks again. "Who would had thought the chemistry of the demon of light and the white sinner?"

"... What?"

She laughs but was interrupted by Kaito.

"This is not why we call Akako."

Her laughs dies down. "Then why this call Kuroba-kun?"

"You don't need my answer when you already know."

"True. Which part are you confused on my white sinner?"

"Anything we need to aware of?"

"Oh, I'm sure you got the gist of who, what, where. It's just when, why, and how. I can answer when and maybe how, but you and your little detective are the ones who is supposed to figure out why. But that little group of rebels, it will be best for you to avoid their current actions for now. Their trickster will be coming very soon. But I also sense two new event so close yet so far, separate of each other of course."

"Any updates out there?"

"Edogawa-kun is currently hospitalized at Beika General Hospital with his neechan currently occupied in his room. As for you, your body is at your home and not disturbed due to your assistant. You two are asleep for a good day and a half."

"When will we wake up?"

"When you leave."

"How are we able to leave if we can't wake up?"

"That is not in my field Kuroba-kun. You know that I initiate in the conscious and not the subconscious. I heard stories about someone familiar to this field, but never met or passed by them before."

"How are we able meet them?"

"I don't know, but someone you know is an expert on them, at least is what is supposed to be them."

Kaito looked at me and I got nothing to ask.

"I assume that's the last of your question."

"Yeah."

"Then, I'm going to be expecting a payment by the end of it. And of course it may varied. This includes the demon of light too since he's involved in this. Now, if you excuse me, he's going to get a brain scan soon and I need to catch up on a few things. Goodbye Kuroba-kun, Kudou Shinichi-kun."

The call ends with a call.

So I am in a hospital, asleep, with Ran worrying about me. With a bang, my chest hurts. I don't want to see her like that, don't even want to imagine it.

Trying to get distracted, I look straight at Kaito, expecting him to do something. But he did nothing, and that hurts even more.

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Ren's POV:

Walking back to Leblanc, I cannot think of anything else. What are you two? Need not to know. Their answer answers nothing. Futaba said that they never existed before the day we met. But I still remember that night with what happened on the news. They were looking at me, when I entered the cafe. Their presence were like of ghosts, wandering around wondering what's going on and supernatural-like. A few days later, I asked Igor and the wardens about them and they didn't know. That meant I have to use my own hands from then now.

By the time that I got back to Leblanc, Morgana is still at the top of the stairs, but this time, facing down towards me. He want to know. Instead I gave him the silent treatment until we got to bed.

"They said no."

Morgana, moved from the side of the bed to my chest. God I'm dying. "And what made you think that inviting them will be a good thing. We already got Akechi on our heels. Those two are more trouble than that prick and he's the detective prince."

"I-I don't know."

"You know what they say, 'Ignorance is bliss'."

"But they remind me of ghosts."

"Ghosts?"

"They wander around, confused, and wasn't supposed to be there. I don't think they were supposed to exist in the first place. According to Futaba, they forged their IDs and there weren't any record of them existing in any other countries either."

"And you think you can help them?"

"I... Yeah."

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Was planning to make their time together longer but ran out of juice.

Originally, I was planning to upload this on Shinichi's birthday (May 4th) but I didn't have much juice to continue and worked on it the next day. But still, happy belated birthday Shinichi! 🎉 🎉

And I'm sorry if this is a confusing one.