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[ ONE ] Arrival

Who; Mitsuru + You
What;Arrival and wandering around the city+narrow escape from tonberries
Where;The residential buildings, market, the cemetery
When; 23rd and throughout the week
Warnings; Will update if any come up.

A. 23rd Residential Buildings

The young woman hasn't had a chance yet to replace her school uniform. There's a slight bit of awkwardness in her mannerisms about that, made most apparent by the way she seems to keep her arms wrapped around herself. Almost as if she thinks she can disappear into herself by doing that. Of course nothing is quite that simple. In the back of her mind she keeps telling herself that there's no need for awkwardness. After all, back home on a Saturday juts like this she'd be traveling through a sea of other students in their uniforms. This isn't home though and she can't help but feel like the uniform just makes her stand out.

There's not too much she can do about that particular fact at the moment though and her mind wanders quickly to the vastness of the situation at hand. Nothing about this place is similar to anything she's ever seen before. She holds the red key as she looks up at the buildings trimmed with their different colors.

"Green, Blue, Gray and," she looks down at hers, "Red. What does it mean? Why are we being categorized like this?"

B. 24th Market District

The market was like absolutely nothing Mitsuru had ever seen before and there was no denying that it was overwhelming. There were things Mitsuru needed though and so she'd made a list and headed out. The list was something she was clinging to as she walked through the open-air market with an icy expression that revealed nothing of her inner thoughts about the place. At least she was quite good at hiding her emotions, which hopefully meant that she wouldn't need to worry about embarrassing herself too much here.

In order to further avoid the potential for embarrassment she also seemed to be doing her best to avoid people in general. All of her attention seemed focused on her list and the various stalls and buildings. Nothing about this place seemed to make sense and she would even go so far as to say it looked like nobody actually planned the layout. Honestly, that in itself was a little frustrating. Frankly, it was just poor design. That wasn't something she needed to get distracted by though. She needed to be focusing on the list and trying to get out of here as quickly as possible.

Unfortunately, the ever important list slipped from her hand and went flying off away from her.

"Come back here right now," she commanded. Because certainly commanding a piece of paper would work.

C. 24th Just Outside the Cemetery just as it's getting dark

Artemisia had noticed something just as the sun was starting to set. From the brief whisper that came into her mind she couldn't quite figure out what she was sensing. The most logical thing to do here would be to contact Shinjiro and have some sort of backup before she attempted anything. However, she wasn't really thrilled with the idea of getting Shinjiro involved in something dangerous immediately after their mutual arrival here. It was selfish of her, deep down she truly did know that, but everyone could be selfish sometimes. She justified going forward alone as something she needed to do. She'd been the one to sense it and it would make more sense for her to put herself in danger than to let someone else do it for her.

Wasn't it amazing how someone could justify something in their own head?

It was easy enough to locate the hooded figure as it rounded a corner. All she could catch a glimpse of at the moment was it's heavy brown robe from the back. From a distance it looked to be a fairly decent size, perhaps around four feet in height? She couldn't quite tell, which only compelled her to try to get closer to it. She continued after it, using Artemisia to keep track of it every time it sped up around a corner. Eventually it stopped attempting to flee just outside what appeared to be a cemetery. It wasn't somewhere she'd been yet, though it wasn't as though she was too familiar with anything here as of yet.

When the creature turned around she steeled itself against it's hollow eyes. It reminded her considerably of a shadow and yet she knew that wasn't what it was. A terror began to prick at the back of her mind and instinctively she reached for the Evoker on her belt. She brought the gun to her head and pressed (making quite a sight for anyone to stumble upon).

"I command thee," she shouted with an authoritarian voice. With an explosion the Persona appeared hovering slightly above her.The creature began to shuffle closer to her, closing the gap to where it was almost close enough to touch. With a flourish of her own rapier she pointed Artemesia forward to attack as she quickly maneuvered backwards. A flurry of ice like daggers formed in from of Persona and then cascaded into the green skinned creature in front of her. It stumbled back allowing for more distance between the two of them. The terror that had only been prickling at her mind had started to push down the closer it got.

To make matters worse she was fairly certain she was sensing another somewhere nearby. This was not a battle that she should be taking, though a part of her did want to stay to finish it off. She stole a glance back and noticed that it was slowly getting back up on it's feet and heading her way. She needed to make a choice. Flee or stay.

In the end she chose something in between. Her goal now was to gather intel. Unfortunately, her Persona was a bit more geared towards combat than support, which meant her scanning took longer than Yamagishi would have. This ended up leaving her slightly vulnerable to the growing sense of dread and anguish that the creature seemed to dredge up the closer it got. Perhaps flee would have been the better choice.

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Mono was out and about, looking for snacks to pick up to share with his friends next time he saw them, friends meaning Luna, a few children from the messenger service, and imps. He’d gotten a promotion recently, and with all the common sense that most children had, he’d decided to very responsibly spend it on tasty things to share… Sure, he actually lived with people who were intent on providing for him now, but it was still hard to actually ask for things… He needed to get used to the fact that he could rely on people more than he had when he was living in the gray building.

But his own shopping was distracted rather quickly as a woman seemed to be having trouble. Mono was, if anything, a helpful child. Either helping to carry things, retrieving money stolen by pickpockets, or helping to get missing items back… This counted as the last one, in a way. Tugging his newsboy hat further down on his face to make sure it stayed on, he dashed by, “It’s okay, lady! I’ll get it!”

And he was off, chasing after the paper being blown on the wind. Quickly, though clumsily, as he skidded sidelong at one point and had to throw his arms out for balance, before jumping to climb up the side of a stall and using it to reach a higher point to try to grab it. At least the owner seemed familiar enough with the strange kid, and wasn’t too bothered by it as long as Mono didn’t knock anything over.

Before Mitsuru could even object to the offer the little boy was suddenly off and parkouring up to where the list had blown up. Perhaps that was the luckiest aspect of the entire unfortunate situation, at least it had actually blown up and gotten itself stuck rather than just blowing away on the ground. Somehow she felt if that had been the case it'd have been lost forever to the wandering locals and unfamiliar streets.

"Please, be careful!" She shouted firmly at the boy as he threw his arms out to catch his balance. Enough people around her had been hurt recently and the last thing she wished for was for another to be hurt while she did nothing to prevent it. She held her breath as he reached for the paper hoping both that he wouldn't fall and that he'd be able to retrieve her list.

Yes, Mono had a tendency to run headlong into things, whether it was a good idea or not. Smart as he was, sometimes he could be impulsive, especially if he were trying to help. It was, indeed, lucky that the list had gotten stuck… Otherwise Mono would have just kept chasing after it till he got it, probably with a few scrapes and bruises from the endeavour if he did fall over.

Instead, he seemed to be mostly unscathed by the chase. Even if he had fallen, he was pretty used to landing on his face… Six used to shake her head at him for that, but he was terribly clumsy. “I’m fine!! I know I can get it!” He responded over his shoulder, making it rather obvious he wasn’t too concerned about it. He was more intent on the list. So once he was in a decent place to reach the paper, he hung onto the sign resting on top of the stall and leaned forward. His fingers wiggling a little as he tried to catch the edge of it… Just a little further!! “It’s just being kinda silly.”

Wobbling a little, he edged a little further off the edge in an attempt to catch a hold of it. Sorry, Mitsuru, for the worry.

But with a little luck, as a breeze nudged it back his way, he managed to catch hold of it and tugged it free. Turning and waving it excitedly in the air for her to see. “I got it!!!” He called out, sitting on the edge of the stall roof and grinning rather triumphantly.

Mitsuru moved rather deftly towards the location Mono was at. Of course she was solidly on the ground and looking up to where he was. Parkour was not a skill she'd be trying out anytime soon. Each wobble resulted in her tensing up.

"Careful, you're going to fall!" her fingers instinctively reached for where her evoker was, preparing just in case she needed to have access to quick healing. This child was going to cause her to have a meltdown, it was like dealing with a younger version of Akihiko.

"Then you can come back down," she said rather firmly. "Or...can you? Do you need help?" she asked tilting her head up at where he'd sat down. The others would probably all say she was being ridiculous, it wasn't even that high up on the roof of the stall.

“Nah! I do this all the time! And it’s not even that high!” The child responded quickly as he carefully clutched the list in his hands, looking down at the woman curiously. Adults… Always worried about weird stuff! Specifically weird stuff concerning him, he supposed. Well, Tommy had explained it… But that didn’t make it less weird to experience time and time again.

And to be entirely fair to Mitsuru, even if he wasn’t admitting it, Mono fell from varied heights all the time. He wasn’t the most stable on his feet, and sometimes he had to leap before he looked… But he’d been doing really well with his lessons since arriving in this world, and he was getting as good at climbing down as he started with climbing up.

“Okay! I gotta return your list, anyway.” He finally responded a moment or two later, tucking the paper in his pocket for now and working on climbing back down the side of the stall. “I got someone teaching me how to do this better! I climbed up and down the Historium without any ropes already this month!” It was a source of pride, after all, to have managed that when he’d always had a harder time climbing down from heights than going up them.

His feet met the ground soon enough, and he turned quickly to Mitsuru to deliver her lost list, only to trip over an uneven cobblestone and ending up flat on his face. All that and the kid still managed to fall… Drat!

What purpose does learning that really have?" she asked as she watched him coming down with a concerned expression that made her look far older than she actually was. As it turned out the concern wasn't unfounded. Panic flashed on her face as she rushed to his side to check if he was alright. The only thing that kept her from reaching for the evoker on her belt was the knowledge that it could be dangerous to reveal that particular skill in such an open area.

"Are you alright?" she asked quickly as she began to look him over for any potential serious injuries. "You really shouldn't do such foolish things simply for someone else's lost paper."

The question seemed kind of weird. Did learning to climb up and down well really not make sense? Well… Mono supposed it was probable that most people didn’t need to learn stuff like this. But in his world it was useful, there was so much to run from, and sometimes escape could only be found by climbing. Especially with so much of the place in shambles, buildings and roads alike. His answer is a little more careful. Of course, adults got weirdly worried when they learned that. “Um… It makes getting around places easier, and faster!”

He pushed himself up and rubbed the side of his face. There was a small scrape, and a bruise was already forming. The kid didn’t seem bothered, though. It could always be worse. “Yeah, I’m okay, I’m just clumsy.” He was glad the fall hadn’t happened on the way down the stall. That would be embarrassing to admit to his teacher. This was just him being clumsy as usual. “Yeah, but you might not have gotten it back if I didn’t!” He responded as though that made perfect sense, before digging the paper out of his pockets to present to her victoriously.

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