Persona 5 Royal AU

Chapter 22 - After the Battle and Meeting Akechi

The next day, we all met up where we could see the press conference when Yusuke told us about the fact Madarame was going to hold a press conference. We watched as he confessed to the people of Japan that he had been stealing the ideas of his pupils and even tainted the Saiyuri.

This was exactly the result we were hoping for but had to quiet down because of attendance officers coming over to ask us questions.

"Excuse me?" one said.

"Ah yes, how can we help you?" Ann asked with a smile.

"That tone of hers never fails to send a chill down my spine." Morgana said.

"Why are you merely hanging around here?" one officer asked.

"We were discussing about where to get some tea." I said.

"Yeah, we were just deciding where to go." Ann said quickly.

"Well just be careful, it seems to be getting dangerous now-a-days."

The officers left and Ann scolded me a bit for coming up with something out of nowhere.

"Better than letting them get suspicious. Why don't we disband for the day?" I said a bit quietly.

"Good idea, see you all tomorrow." Yusuke said.

Before I left, Ryuji asked me to follow him as he had two free tickets to a place in Kichijoji where we could play darts and pool. I agreed to go, I never been there before and thought it'd be nice to go somewhere new. As we were heading there after getting off the train, I stopped a moment as Ryuji checked out one of the shops.

"Ren, someone's following you." Shadeon said.

I looked back and saw Nijima-san, standing a bit away with her nose in a book. But every few seconds, she was looking up. Could she be anymore obvious that she was following us? I shook my head, then Ryuji and I went to the place. It's called the Penguin Sniper.

"Why is it called Penguin Sniper, do you snipe penguins?" Ryuji asked.

"You dork." I said chuckling.

"No Ryuji, this is the place on those promotional tickets." Morgana said.

"Oh great! Let's go inside!" Ryuji said yanking me inside.

We decided that we would play darts today and we had a lot of fun. This place seems like it would be a great place to build connections with my team. But first, I need to start my social link with Yusuke. But I know he needs some time with everything that happened.

I wonder what we will do about the celebration? After the game of darts, Ryuji had to go home and I had a few more things to do before heading home myself. I went to Shibuya to buy some books and passed by Ann.

"Hey Ren!"

"Oh hey Ann, what's up?" I asked.

"Not much, what are you doing?"

"Just buying some books to read." I said. 'And going to the velvet room to show another persona to the twin wardens.'

"Oh okay, do you have time to hang out with me?" Ann said.

"Sure, want to talk over tea?"

She nodded and we went to the restaurant and ordered some tea.

"So...How's your eye doing? Has it bleed anymore?" she asked.

"Thankfully no, I just have to be careful of my emotions." I said. "How's Shiho?"

"She's...Doing well." Ann said.