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Her eyes widened as he laughed, he actually laughed at her, strange. She frowned, "I wasn't manipulating you." How horrible were people to him that he felt like that when she had genuine interest. She added a little huff. "I really don't know anything about it. It sounds cool."

The laughter comes to a slow, gritty halt. "Are you really telling me your Akechi doesn't have Call of Chaos?"

Because that... even now, it's so critical to how he conceives himself. Without it, what would Goro Akechi ever have been? How would he have held on to even the ends of sanity?

"So what does he have? What does he do? I suppose it's going to piss me off again."

She shook her head, "as far as I'm aware, no he doesn't." She couldn't place why call of chaos sounded so familiar.

"He's just a guy? I don't know what he's supposed to do? I've never seen him use something out of the normal." Granted she hadn't been around a lot of persona users.

Okay, no, there's no way that can be as it sounds. "He has a Persona—but not Call of Chaos."

It occurs to him she hasn't named him, either, as any of the Personas he also was. "What Persona does he even have? I suppose he's as different as you."

"Hereward?" She tilted her head. Why was he acting so strange? This was really strange to her, but she hadn't discussed personas with others yet, only the other Futaba had seen Necronomicon.

It's all just so puzzling to him, the difference of it. The lack of that one thing he feels defines him.

"So he's entirely different. Or"— and he falters, so strange to see from him; even though the name rings true and pure inside him, he was never Hereward; rather than beginning to trust, he was betrayed.

"That's what I do. Instead of skinning people alive, you understand. I send their Shadows for a little rampage in the surface world. All but one, that is." He scowls.

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She snorted at the little joke. She knew better than to ask who the one was. "I wonder how that feels," she hummed, more pondering out loud than anything else. Her eyes were back to sparkles when she focused on him again. She was so happy discovering more about him. "I think that's really cool. Do you get tired using it? What are the effects it has on you? Can you use it on yourself or just others?"

But the scowl deepens, as he contemplates it. "I can use it on myself. It was the first thing I tried, when I understood my situation. It didn't work."

Ah, she should have thought about that. "So you can still use it? That's so cool!" She was still looking at him like he had brought her the sun. Who was she not to live up to the self assigned role. It didn't make her any less honest. "Can you show it to me sometime?" That might not be a good question to ask, but she did, before she could even give a second thought to it.

Not a good question, that. Turning to look at her, quietly, and increasingly more wickedly, he starts to laugh. She's as naive as any Phantom Thief.

Okay, laughter. That was a strange way to react to someone just wanting to know more. "You know 'no' is an option right?" She moved sitting back up tilting her head. What did she get herself into?

"But isn't forbidden knowledge your whole thing, little flayer of your enemies?" He doesn't stand or shimmer so much as he glides upward, still bubbling up with laughter, more and more unhinged as sick red fire crackles around him.

It's his ability, his power, his judgment. The only thing that's his alone; the only thing he has left. And he will be delighted to show it to her.

The red fire washes over her. The mad laughter fills him to bursting, overflowing. And just for a moment, just like it had been for Goro once, he's free, he's free, he's free.

Forbidden knowledge? What does he mean? And was that seriously his nickname for her? Her mind didn't get long to process those questions as she watched him shift positions. The fire starting around him.

The second it takes hold around her she's shocked? It doesn't hurt her like she thought it would. She shut her eyes trying to process the feeling but her thoughts failed her. She felt stronger somehow.

She also knew that mask she had kept up, was no longer there for her to access, so she joined him laughing. God, it felt so different. She felt herself. She felt so warm.

She was quick to switch to Merlin, the one she always for more comfortable. Her clothes shifting with it. She felt good, strangely. Not something you'd expect from being hit by a shadow.

(Ooc note: I'm on mobile so I don't have the outfit on my phone. I'll @ you)

And Goro never used Call of Chaos on another Persona-user; the Shadow had no idea what it would do, though he could make several guesses.

His laughter lifts him from his feet before he's done, up to the tunnel roof like the bird he was once named for; he clings there like a spider, all brilliant wide eyes and exhilaration.

"What do you think? How does it feel?" He really wants to know.

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She was giggly, that's the best term for it. "It feels, god, it feels freeing. Like I can do whatever I want. It also has a solid power boost. It's also kind of warm?"

Her brain was going so fast with how everything felt, and her persona felt so close to the surface. It felt like if she wasn't careful something might bubble over, but she wasn't sure.

Someone not a Shadow might, at this point, think something along the lines of My God, what have I done? The Shadow, for fairly obvious reasons, does not; he just laughs from the ceiling.

"That's it? I was hoping for at least some screaming rage. It does feel good, though. Like nothing else in the world. I remember..." He remembers how freeing it had been, when Goro was finally desperate enough to take the chance. All those chains lifting; knowing he could do anything, anything, and knowing just what he wanted—or thinking he knew...

The Shadow hisses, discorporates, reforms, still clinging to the tunnel roof by his hands and feen looking down. "So do something with it, Glitch! Let's see you wreck something. Let me see something!"

It, in turn, may not be the brightest question he's ever asked.

She was taken by shock for only a moment. Then she broke out in a grin. He wanted to see something. She nodded. She aimed for the spot he hit earlier. He wouldn't mind that. It shouldn't hurt him either.

At the top of her lungs she screamed, "Merlin!" The red and black swirls around the spot before the black explosion of her eigaon.

"Fuck, I want to do that again. It felt so easy." She didn't even feel the normal power drain that such a skill brought.

There is a glory to the Eigaon as it bursts against the wall, but it's not where he looks. No, he looks at her Persona, as it looms above her. And suddenly he's no longer laughing; he's been the Persona twice over, yet he's also been the boy who commanded them.

"That's causality for you," he mutters to himself, then raises his voice. "You should do it again! Find something to kill. They all have it coming. Do what you want!"

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She looks at him. There's something different but her mind was too fast to catch on to it. She didn't really want to leave him, which was dumb, but she had bonded to him some. "Okay!"

She really shouldn't have to go far to find a shadow that wasn't him. She did want to kill something though. That sent a thrill up her spine.

It is startling that Glitch doesn't attack him. Perhaps he'll see about provoking her. For now, he follows her as she lollops down the tunnel, like another, angrier Persona.

A couple of junctions down, another Shadow is hurriedly trying to make its escape, still in its amorphous form. He offers it a little wave.

"Kill! Tear! Destroy!" He so rarely gets to have any fun.

She was glad to see him follow her. She had a lot of energy as she walked, having fun with the attacks.

Her eyes catch the shadow sending another Eigaon in it's direction, loving the shadow of death it provides when the target dies from it.

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