Tartarus
Right now Ryouta and Mikan joined the Mitsuru's SEES. They were outside of the school
??Baseball guy??: "Hey isn't this the school
??Injured guy??: "Just watch. It's almost midnight.
The school becomes a giant tower with a crazy design. It looked eerie and massive
Mitsuru: This is Tartarus. A labyrinth that appears only during the Dark Hour, brimming with Shadows.
(Tartarus "it "grows" out of the ground every night, the layout of the tower is random, except for certain key floors that never change. The tower consists of 6 blocks divided into subsections, at the end of which there are Arcana Guardians blocking the path to the next subsection. The aforementioned subsection divisions also have controllable teleport terminals that allows one to access the lobby and other previously unlocked subsection terminals in an instant unlike the one-way teleport devices found in random floors")
??Injured Guy??: This is probably where we'll find the key to solving the mystery of the Dark Hour.
Yukari: True, it's awfully suspicious that a tower would only appear during the Dark Hour
Mikan: I wonder who made this
??Baseballguy??: I can't imagine a human making this
Ryouta:..." hmm" he shrugs his shoulders "well this place is a shadow nest...thats all I know
Mitsuru: "Kise is right." She looks at everyone in front of the gate. "Before now, we've never had the right manpower to conduct a search of it
??Injured Guy??: But with this many members, we should be able to pull it off
Ryouta then looks at everyone and smiles and asks
Ryouta: "So who are you guys... I know pinky, and new girl but the rest no clue
Mikan: On...Ryouta-nii they introduced each other
The first person who stepped forth was the baseball guy. He has dark buzzcut hair, grayish eyes, and a goatee...wearing a baseball hat and school uniform
??Baseball guy: I'm Junpei Iori
Ryouta: like the swordsman?
Junpei: Swordsman?
Ryouta: whispered "idiot" 'the Iori clan are said to be a famed swordsman clan...did he lacks training...I'll just call him baseball guy now on. ' he shakes his head and looks at the injured guy
Junpei: This kid
Yukari: Junpei he's like this to everyone
Ryouta: "Okay baseball guy and you are"
the injured guy has short silver hair, gray eyes and wearing a white band-aid above his left eye. He has a slightly modified school uniform, where he replaces the standard jacket with a red sweater vest
??Injured guy??: "I'm Akihiko Sanada" he inspects Ryouta nods and punches with his punch but Ryouta easily stops it. Akihiko whistles "So you must be a grandmaster level
Ryouta: I am...barely grandmaster level...but you're strong...Master level. You seem to have gotten that strength on your own...I had several masters...amazing...Akihiko Sanada right, I'll remember that.
Ryouta brings out his arm and so does Akihiko
Ryouta: Sanda-senpai I am Ryouta Kise it's nice to meet you... I wonder if later you can tell me about your match with Baki
Akihito: Sure Kise-Kun...
Ryouta: What he's Advance Grandmaster...damn I doubt I'll make it to that level in a year...haha my blood is boiling
Everyone else was twitching. He never showed anyone respect. but Akihiko he was showing was
??NewGirl??: hey why is he treating him different than us
The new girl looks at Mikan and she awkwardly answered
Mikan: He respects people who push themselves hard...out of everyone the only two people he respects are Kirijo-san and Sanada-san
Mitsuru: You can call me Mitsuru and I'll call you Mikan" She said blushing
Mikan happy nodded
Mitsuru: come on we don't have time to talk right now
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They entered the tower. Mitsuru provided communications towards everyone. Her persona enables communication. (apparently, normal cell phones don't work in the Dark hour). Akihiko was injured so he stayed behind too.
The Kirijo provided weapons for them. New girl and Baseball dude got swords, Mikan got a naginata. Yukari got a bow and Ryouta got...shoes
Mitsuru: Are you sure you wanted shoes
Ryouta: Yeah my shoes always rip when I fight
'how do your shoes rip when you fight'
The New girl runs up in front attacking left and right with her sword. She is doing well but a shadow in the ground tries to attack her but Junpei comes up killing it before it hit her. Suddenly one came flying in fast but Yukari shot it fast.
The three of them get surrounded but suddenly Mikan comes in opening a path for them however they use this opportunity to attempt to attack her. Then Junpei summons his persona. killing the ones attacking her. Yukari still scared but summons her persona. A glint appears in the new girl's eyes and her summons her persona.
As they were fighting Ryouta just let them fight. He looked at the place trying to understand it
Ryouta: So this is a hell gate isn't it" he mumbles
(Hell gates are structures which serve as portals between the Human World and the Demon World )
Ryouta: "hmm according to this Yokai reader. shadows are demons...but they also feel human...Oh, I get it now. Shadows must be yokai born from human's negative emotion...but then some of these shadows must be good right...hmm so confused...whatever no use worrying about it..."
Ryouta says killing a shadow that appeared in front of him
Ryouta: If they attack me, I'll attack back.
Suddenly a strong shadow appears in front of the SEE's It looked like a giant pogo stick, but the handles are spinning giant lances
The new girl and Mikan run up and destroy the shadow by summoning their shadows
Like that the first trip to Tarturus ended
Ryouta got Akihito's contact and he and Mikan went back to their place
When they got back Ryouta woke up Rosette scolding her...until Mikan got mad at Ryouta for yelling at night and he went to bed
In the morning Ryouta was scolded by his teacher for causing a disturbance at the high school and his coach made him do extra drills.
Kuroko: So why did you go to another school
Kuroko says as he passes the ball to Aomine.
Aomine: It was to see another girl. I heard you confess to a girl
He says as he gets past Ryouta and scores a basket
The manager was frozen when she heard this
Ryouta: No I went to see the school. I already have all my credits done. A great boxer friend of mine goes there
The manager calms down
Ryouta went on a few minutes about how great he is...
A first string player whom spot Ryouta had taken heard this...Later a rumor would be spread because of this but that's for later
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Over at the hospital, Yukari, the new girl and baseball dude went to check on Akihito( he was still injured)
They just came back from a speech Mitsuru gave the students
Yukari: How can anyone compete with someone like that. That speech she gave was impossibly perfect. Does she have any weakness at all?
New girl: "Fire maybe"
Both of them laughed awkwardly
Yukari: Um, I didn't mean physically
Jumpei: I'm more curious about why you're competing with her?
Yukari: I-I am not
They knock on the door
Junpei: Senpai, we got what you...
A man was sitting in Akihito room. He has unkempt brown hair, worn perpetually under a beanie, and steel-colored eyes. His clothing is relatively simple, consisting mainly of a maroon peacoat, black pants, and brown Chelsea shoes.
Junpei: Huh? Isn't this Sanada-senpais...
The man looks coldly at them
Jupei: ...Hospital room?
Akihito comes to the room in his hospital gown
Akihito: Oh you are all here
Yukari: Oh you seem fine
cold guy: Aki
he approaches them
Cold guy: That's all you need?
Akihito: Yeah. That explained a lot
He walks out complaining about being bothered
Akihito: That guy never changes, he's actually a student at our school. He knows some victims of shadow attacks so I called him
Junpei then gives him what he asked for. A beef builder
Akihito: Oh after seeing that kid so strong. I thought I get stronger myself. I lost that fight but I don't plan to lose again
Junpei: So why did you get into boxing
Akihito: I am not fond of boxing...any type of martial arts would do..I just don't want to feel powerless again
The new girl just leaves the hospital
Yukari: wait for.. don't just...
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On the train they Yukari is sitting next to Junpei
Junpei: What do you think that girl is fighting for?
Yukari: I heard that her father became obsessed with yokai and experimented on her mother and sister and turned them into...well some sort of monsters...He joined some sort of organization and disappeared. She now hates Yokai and half Yokai...
Junpei: well it's not like we know any Yokai...
Yukari: Yeah I can't imagine how that meeting would go...what he goes and try to eat her
they both laugh
Ryouta who is walking home from ballroom practice, sneezes
Ryouta: Is someone talking about me?