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Please leave a message with your name and number after the beep and I will respond at the earliest convenience. Thank you very much! ❞

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I suppose I felt I owed you the truth after all this time.
I apologize for how sudden it all is. Maybe it was a mistake.

No, it's fine. I didn't know if something had gone wrong. You never know with all the bullshit around here.

And...I didn't realize I'd be a person you'd want to know. [ She's nothing if not blunt. But that's sincere. ] Thanks? If that's how I'm meant to respond.

You're welcome.
It really is a strange story to tell people. In a sense this power is bestowed upon us, but only through certain conditions? But not everyone meets those.

You're telling me. It's not like anyone knows what led us to be chosen as gods back in my world.

But what conditions were there? Did you know any?

There are other Persona users it turns out, but I do not know what they had to do in order to awaken to that power.
For my friends and I we sought revenge and rebellion against those who were abusing or had wronged us and others.

[ That could explain why Haru's so private about this, couldn't it. ]

Well, did it work?

It did. We changed the hearts of every one of our targets and brought them to justice.

[ Except her dad died so... ]

100% success rate? Damn. You understand that you're all apparently the only organized teenagers in the world if that's true?

[ Cass doesn't have the highest opinion of most youth, after all. ]

So why didn't you ever do it here?

Or did you?

[ Video games, man. ]

There was a target here, but long before I arrived. However, from my understanding our ability to change hearts does not work the same way it does back home.
If I'm being honest, I think this is what drove me to tell me the truth now. The previous target had a weapon that Goro-kun had been keeping. It's been stolen and it may end up in his hands again.

Fuck. So there is a reason.

[ Despite the "gotcha" tone of that text, she's not reveling in the feeling the way she would be if Haru wasn't someone she liked. More to the point, she's concerned now. ]

What kind of weapon? Please don't tell me it's some sort of death ray. And how did it get stolen, do you know?

I'm not sure how, but I know it's what they call a lightsaber.
Count Dooku's lightsaber.

[ ...That guy? Really? ]

What, the laughingstock? I know people hate him for a reason, but I missed most of what happened.

Are you saying you're the reason he stopped committing crimes?

As did I, but from what I understand he was a dangerous mastermind behind a group called Constellation.
My friends changed his heart, yes.

I might have been lucky for skipping all of that shit, huh. I heard about it in retrospect, but I'd have to read up on it all again.

[ There's...a lot to keep track of. ]

Okay, then- who do you think stole the weapon? And why?

Dooku put a reward out for the return of his weapon, but someone else has it now who we suspect was hired.
My suspicion is they will demand a larger sum of money or something else from Dooku.

He's not the worst person in the world to scam...but it's still a scam. [ She's sure plenty of people would find some pleasure in that, but she doesn't know enough about Dooku to be one of them. ]

Your best bet might be figuring out who Dooku keeps in contact with, then. The kinds of people he'd trust to find his things. Particularly the ones he shouldn't have trusted.

Yes, that's true. I suppose I can pass that off to Goro-kun... he is a detective.
Thank you for being understanding, Cassandra. I know what my friends have done here has been a topic of controversy. Even back home, there were many who believed what we did was wrong as well.

Look- if you weren't you, I wouldn't know what the hell to think of this. But...you're not the type to have bad intentions.

[ Honestly, she's still a little wary. But not for Haru herself- more for the Phantom Thieves as a whole, and any potential routes her comrades could go down. Particularly the one Haru has a history with. ]

You've got to be careful. Especially now. Can you not go too far with this? Get involved in something you shouldn't, for example?

I can't promise anything. Nothing has happened, but Futaba-chan and Goro-kun are all I have left from home.
I need to stand by their side if anything does happen.

Standing by their side can mean stopping them if they get into any shit, though. Trust me- I had to do that a million times with the rest of the Pantheon, not that it ever stopped them from pulling half the shit they did.

Not that I know if either of them are the type.

No, they would not. Especially with our numbers here. It wouldn't be wise for us to make any hefty decisions.

Thank god.

Look- just don't fuck it up? I know you're responsible, but things can go to shit quickly. Believe me. I think we both know we don't want things to get any worse than they already are around here.

We will be cautious.
I don't know how much Dooku knows about the Thieves, but it would be for the best for us not to approach or antagonize him lest it slip our numbers have dwindled.

Yeah, it would.

If things get dire...I've been pretty busy, but if you need to find that lightsaber ASAP, I could try to track it down. Divining can do that.

How does divining work?