Chapter 1: Whisper of the White Dragon

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Today was an especially weird day in Kaneshiro's Palace. From even entering the Metaverse, there was a chilly air surrounding the place, as if it had recently been swept up in a blizzard. Inside had fared no better, shadows were frozen solid like a statue. Mona cautioned the others in case. "Just because they're frozen..." He warned. "Doesn't mean they can't pop out of it at anytime." Making their way to the lower levels, they were impeded by a door frozen shut, but it was nothing a good shoulder bash couldn't get past.

Breaking through on the other side, the Phantom Thieves see a knight in white plate armor. The bulk of the plate was made in a way that it outlined his body and underneath the plate was a blue surcoat with flowing knee-length fabric underneath the bottom of the chestpiece. The armor had a dragon motif, with the shoulder plates forming into wings, the gauntlets had golden tips at the ends of the finger to make a claw, and the armor itself had a scale pattern to it. The face of the knight was covered up by a white hood that shrouded the face in shadows.

On both sides of the hips were sheaths meant for the two shortswords the knight held in his hands. The blades had gold hilts and crossguards, but the peculiar thing about them was that the blades were blue like the ocean. Whether or not this was a Persona at work, was unknown. As the knight approached Kaneshiro, his bodyguards were freezing up with every step until they were glorified statues. His blades had ice freeze over them, extending their edge by three feet, holding them in a reverse grip. Sensing the killing intent, Joker fired a round from his pistol. As the bullet traveled to the knight in white, he turned around and split the bullet by holding up one of his swords in the middle of the bullet's arc.

Dragon Knight: There's still people that wish to save you? What a surprise.

The elevator finally came as Kaneshiro's shadow quickly entered it out of fear as it went down, the Mysterious Swordsman turned his back towards him and to the Phantom Thieves, who leapt out of their cover as they were aware that he knew where they were.

Dragon Knight: You've got guts. More than what those other guards had.

Queen: Wait, we just want to talk. We're not with him!

Dragon Knight: We have nothing to talk about.

Out from his back sprouted wings made from ice. Pristine and beautiful, the knight's wings looked like angelic ones as they had great detail made into the "feathers". With these wings came a frozen, turbulent winds as they swept up all around the Phantoms were pushed back from the frost emanating from this knight's Persona, which they could only see an outline of.

Dragon Knight: I won't stop until you're frozen solid.

Panther: Carmen! Keep us warm!

A futile attempt, as Carmen emerged from Panther's soul with two great balls of fire, the cold air and violent winds were more than enough to extinguish her flames. For some reason, the frozen blizzard spawned by the Dragon Knight as his wings turned to diamond dust. He stood there motionless, like a statue. The Phantoms didn't know what to make of this, but stood at the ready just in case.

Dragon Knight: I did most of the heavy lifting for you. Down that elevator is the lower areas where you'll find access to his vault.

Skull: Wait, what? One moment you were trying to freeze us solid and the next you're helping us?!

Fox: What kind of scheme are you planning?

Dragon Knight: We share a common enemy, yes? It makes sense for us to work together to defeat him.

Queen: Why do you want Kaneshiro?

Dragon Knight: He threatened people of mine. People that I care about. I wish to teach him a lesson he won't soon forget.

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