Betrayal Love

Ryuji' Palace?

Akira woke up and saw that all of his friends were there except Ryuji. He frowned and stepped over everyone to get ready for the day. He looked at himself in the mirror to see that he looked horrendous.

"Why Ryuji? Why did you have to leave and make me suffer? You did all this bullshit for what? All I wanted was you to be happy. I shouldn't have let my jealousy get the better of me and because of it, you're gone. I don't want this. I want to be with you."

Tears rolled down his face uncontrollably, but he tried to be quiet so he didn't wake up the others which failed. Ann turned on the sink to wash Akira's face for him so more snot would come out of him. She then took him out of the bathroom to a table for him to sit down. Akira was putting his head down, still crying over the lost of Ryuji.

"Yusuke, Haru could you prepare the curry?" Makoto asked sitting down next to Akira

"Yes, we can. I'll get it out of the fridge." Yusuke said getting the pot out of the fridge.

"I'll make more in case if anyone wants more." Haru said getting the ingredients out.

"Ann, Futaba can you go get us some sweets or some sort of comfort food?"

"You can rely on me for that!" Ann shouted with excitement.

"What are you and Morgana gonna do?" Futaba asked.

"We'll try to comfort Akira in any way we can. It won't be easy, but I'm sure we'll find a way."

Ann and Futaba left the store to run their errand while Akira spotted his bag and started to look through it. He eventually found what he was looking for. Ryuji's jacket.

"Is that... Ryuji's jacket?" Makoto asked shocked.

"Yeah. This purple jacket of his has been special to me ever since he gave it to me for my birthday. It wasn't that cold, but I just wanted to wear to show my appreciation to him." Akira said with a small smile.

"How sweet of him. I'm sure you can cherish this gift from him forever."

It was then the bell rang and everyone looked who was at the door.

"I-Impossible! R-Ryuji?" Morgana asked astonished.

"That's me."

Akira looked at him, but something seems off about him. He had his usual looks but his clothes and eyes are different. He never remembered Ryuji having yellow eyes or wearing very dark clothes besides his clothes in the metaverse.

"But... we thought you died." Yusuke asked getting the curry ready.

"Pffff, please. I'm stronger than that. I'm not a weakass person. So there's no reason to shocked that I'm alive."

Akira had a suspicious look on his face and knew this wasn't the real Ryuji.

"Ryuji..." Akira asked calmly.

"Yes?" He answered with a smile.

"Can you tell me why your eye are yellow and why you changed your clothing style?"

"Oh my clothes. I got tired of wearing very vibrant colors all the time, so I thought I could change it up."

"And your eyes?"

"What about my eyes?"

"You used to have dark brown eyes."

"Uh, I'm wearing colored lens?"

"You're not Ryuji.

"I am though. Here in the flesh."

"Then say the f-word."

"Fuck."

"You are definitely not Ryuji. He would have said effin not fuck. Who are you really?"

"Hehe, guess there's no point hiding it. I'm Ryuji's shadow. He may be dead, but I'm still here kickin."

"That makes no sense. If the person in this world, then there's no way their shadow can be alive!" Morgana shouted.

"Ahahahaha! I may have said he's dead, but is he really?"

"He is! We watched him died right in front of us." Makoto said getting up.

"Hmph, you amateurs don't know a thing about me do you? Ryuji is still alive. I simply brought him to life again. The people you saw take my body out were shadows and you couldn't even see there faces cause it was covered so well."

"This isn't making any sense. How are shadows like you able to be here? You should be in mementos." Morgana said with a slight irritated face.

"Enough chit chat. I'm here to complete one task and one task only. It is to kill Akira Kurusu and rule this world."

"What?! Stop right there. You have to explain what's going on."

"The only thing left I can tell you is that, you're not in the real world. The real Ryuji is still in the real world trying to wake up from this bad nightmare."

"Wait!"

Ryuji started to float in the air with his eyes turning into a bright red light. He then transformed into a different outfit. He had a black glazer up shirt, pants, and shoes with a white button up shirt. He had a pirate captain hat and his hair had turned black as well. He had the mask that he always wore when entering to the metaverse. His cape was a dark purple with red flames on it on the bottom.

"Well shall we do this the easy way or the hard way?"

"What will you achieve for killing Akira?" Yusuke asked not looking at him but at the curry.

"That's none of your business. It looks like this will have to be the hard way."

He finger snapped and Leblanc's roof flew off for them to see what was happening. The sky had turned red with it pouring bloody rain with explosions and fire happening around them.

"Wh-what?" Haru questioned.

"W-why didn't we hear any of this?" Akira asked looking at Ryuji.

"It's because I had pity in you pathetic human insects so I made it Leblanc your only safe place." He replied sitting as if he was on a chair with his legs crossed.

"Th-this can't be happening." Yusuke said with shock.

"Since I feel generous, I'll give you time to prepare yourself. You have until the blood moon is high in the sky which is in 3 hours. I'll be waiting for you at my palace."

With that, disappeared into thin air, leaving Akira, Yusuke, Morgana, Makoto, and Haru to wonder, why was he doing this for?