~Yasogami Auditorium~

[Rednal]

Iofiel, the Angel of Love

"Bel!" Hug! He wasn't Amora, but he was still one of her treasured companions from the future - and completely ignoring his disparaging remarks, Iofiel simply wrapped her arms around his chest and squeezed tightly. Asking him to be nice was usually a waste of breath... so she lavished him with attention and affection instead. He couldn't possibly be as harsh as he tried to sound. "I told you about him earlier, remember?" she added cheerfully, glancing back to Rednal. Indeed... beans had been spilled. Many, many beans.  

[Necromonium]

Faust and Amora

Amora almost wanted to nudge Bel...with a knife...But, she couldn't. He had been an invaluable, if incredibly untrustworthy ally...And, in the middle of meeting another parent..She had to try to compose herself. Look appropriate...
"I'm...I'm fine." she called to Iofiel, shaking her head. "Just..a bad dream...s'all."
No...That world had been very, very real. But, the Angel didn't need to know about that..
Faust himself clutched his head, cringing.
"It's just....I was thinking of.."
Of what? A world that ended? A time when they were summoning Demons to fight aliens? Where Satan was serving burgers at a fast food joint? It all sounded like a fever dream...And yet...
That monster...Benetnasch.. he thought, remembering his own involvement. There was a strange, dual-being that he'd fought.... Using moves he'd learned from Chie, and such...A powerful, tough encounter....
But..why did it stand out to him so much? He cringed, a small surge of energy flowing in him...
Before suddenly, one turned into two...And Faust found himself looking at....himself.
"......"
Amora just stared, wide eyed. Was he...Did he....Was....
"Daddy...?"
"...I..literally.."
"Don't even know what to say."
God they hoped no one saw this. Oh.....
Right.

 

[Rednal]

Rednal Ak'Thias, Iofiel, the Angel of Love, and Keira Gayuno

Rednal blinked a few times, then rubbed his eyes. "...I think I need to talk to my doctor about my meds. Unless that's you messing with me, Yid." he muttered to himself. There might have been a faint, bell-like laugh in the air at his words.

Io, looking amused, just pat Rednal's shoulders a few times. "That's interesting!" she said, circling around Faust A and Faust B. "You should probably turn that off, though, before someone sees it when they shouldn't."

Yuno, meanwhile, had already darted half a foot forward when Rednal grabbed her around her waist, holding her back as she reached for something that nobody could prove she intended to be a knife. "H-hey, lemme go! What if he's dangerous!?" she cried, struggling a bit.

"Nothing's blown up yet! I'm sure he has a perfectly good explanation!" Rednal answered quickly. Goodness knew his own day had been weird enough - and this didn't seem like a 'shoot first' situation.  

[Necromonium]

Faust and Amora

Faust merely stared at himself for a bit, and sighed, too lost in his own thoughts to notice the attempt on his life.
"I think it's something from that thing...Phecada." Faust mentioned to Yuno, his hands interlocking...and then his two selves melding back into one. "Somehow, I feel like this has been an incredibly. Long. Day."
"I remember it all too.." Amora's voice called, leering up at Rednal as he held back Yuno. "There were all of those nasty things...Benetnasch...Alioth...Polaris.."
She had been able to unite with her parents in that world....And, she had acquired a power of her own for it... But, she wouldn't attempt to use it so..Openly.
No...the power of that toxic being would have to wait...Until later.
"Rednal..were you around during all of that Chaos?" he asked, not entirely sure if he'd seen him, or not. "Do you...remember that?"

 

[Rednal]

Rednal Ak'Thias, Iofiel, the Angel of Love, and Keira Gayuno

"I have no idea what you're talking about." Rednal said, blinking a few times. All right, all right, consider this rationally... lots of weird things happened, and truthfully, even memory was hard to trust. Either the two of them had gone nuts simultaneously, or they were telling the truth. Either one was troublesome.

Yuno, meanwhile, was peering up at Faust, even as Iofiel watched things, an interesting expression on her face. "Do you two need to sit down for a bit?" she asked, blinking a few times at Faust and the girl who claimed to be her daughter.  

[Great Ryoman!]

Bel Heartily

"Yidhra must be giggling right now." Bel put a hand on his chin, observing the new development. He could sense the world they'd been to on them, but he felt that trying to explain it to Faust and Amora would do surprisingly little to help. One could practically see the exclamation mark appear above his head as well when he realized he'd let the name of Rednal's Persona slip, glancing to the side to see if he'd caught his suspicion. "Just...think of it as a bad dream. A future that doesn't exist, a world that never was. But now that he's seen that, your father must believe you a bit more now, right Amora?" It wasn't like there wasn't merit to their way of thinking; when it came to Io, Amora and the others, their future was already gone. It was like they themselves never existed...the past that carved their personalities, the people they'd been related to, all had been wiped from time itself. They were merely stragglers, waiting to disappear...perhaps Yuno's denial had more truth to it than these optimistic little children wanted to believe. "I can provide more than enough proof to these two's claims. But if you continue to insinuate these children are liars, that I will take a bit of offense to. I assure you their parents made these decisions in a world very far away, and under very different circumstances...you may look alike, but their lives were very different from yours. You don't understand a bit of the horrors they survived just to see your faces again...faces similar to their loved ones, every last one of whom has long since perished. You should at least consider allow them that." Even though he tended to feign indifference, Bel had a small stake in seeing them happy again; after all, many of the survivors had endured in that ruinous version of Inaba Mataki had controlled, at least for a little while. The things some had suffered...really were things neither Yuno, Rednal or Faust could comprehend. And he knew that Yuno would shrug off their insistence for some time to come, so he would give her no quarter on the issue; they were their children in a sense, and denial wouldn't change anything. ...and he was prepared to be stabbed once or twice since, you know, he was a demon. He could take a little thing like that. When he glanced over towards Iofiel suddenly though, he raised an eyebrow and moved his gaze elsewhere, scratching his face a bit. He didn't want a goody-goody like her to get the wrong idea, damn it...this was only due his own sense of pride.  

[Rednal]

Rednal Ak'Thias, Iofiel, the Angel of Love, and Keira Gayuno

Heh heh heh.

"I knew you cared!" Iofiel squealed, hugging Bel. Which, honestly, he probably should have seen coming if he did anything even vaguely nice in front of her - she was a very huggy sort of person, and rare indeed would be the friend who didn't get at least one embrace per meeting with her.

"Yuno didn't say they were liars." Yuno added a moment later, looking over to Bel. Her gaze narrowed a bit. "Yuno's also wondering why you're so keen on jumping to that conclusion an-" she stopped talking for a moment. "Um, sorry!" she said, abruptly sounding just a little bit different. "Sorry, sorry, that's my fault! D-don't worry about it! I actually really like Amora!" That was... quite the 180 - but the apology in her tone was clearly genuine.  

[Necromonium]

Faust and Amora

Faust held his head a bit as Rednal said he wasn't...and Yuno asked if they needed to sit down.A bit of a pause, before the mysterious man started speaking to them...
"A bad dream?" he thought, as the boy noted that he would probably believe Amora more after..that. As Bel kept speaking, Faust's arms quietly went around Amora, thinking about the kind of things that they must have faced...
Especially if..that world wasn't comparable.
Amora squeezed Faust tightly, her memories of the past worlds...both the one flooded with corruption, and the one with a myriad of demons, monsters, and other beings. She could feel a power coursing through her....But, she subdued it.
Bel was being..unusually nice about the whole thing...And, she felt relieved about that. The way Faust held her, and she held him back....
This..this'll do.
She turned as her mother suddenly changed tones, saying that she really liked her. Amora smiled happily, and leaned away from Faust.
"Thank you.."
Faust raised an eyebrow a bit at how fast Yuno's mood changed. He still had his memories of the other world...But, he couldn't quite place a finger on what was going on...

 

[Great Ryoman!]

Bel Heartily

"Tch, I just said they weren't your parents..." Bel half-heartedly protested to Iofiel, reminding her of that small comment he'd made. People with the same faces and lives to a certain extent, similar personalities, and relationships that mirrored them precisely? Yes. But the same people as their parents? Absurd. There was a reason he'd asked them to 'indulge' the kids... "Just so you know, I'm not her boyfriend." Bel stated matter of factly to Rednal, attempting to peal the girl away and hoping that her silver haired hero would help with the matter. He was being very nice right now, by his standards...but 'nice' could quickly turn into 'setting the whole school on fire to burn all his problems away' just as quickly. As for the rising suspicion from Yuno, which he could totally sense...well, he didn't feel like pushing too hard. He knew how she acted in general, but at the same time, he knew that those other two must have been just as suspicious right now. He was doing this all for fun, so getting overzealous and ruining things too soon would be no good. As for explaining the now THREE worlds to this group...well, he was a demon, so he had far more understanding of these things than most of them. There weren't many people lining up for theoretical time travel lessons in their world either, given the situation they were in...so it was no surprise. "Just think of it likes twins. Even though both of our worlds looked identical, it's what we did with them that made them different. And our world will probably not be calling us again." Bel offered a (somehow queasing) sincere smile to them, basing it on a real life experience he wouldn't admit that he'd had before. Ah those two girls...he would wonder how they were doing, if everyone they ever knew or cared about wasn't dead already. It was...actually a testament to his character as a demon that he could still look fondly on them, ignoring that little (giant and bloody) hiccup.

"You know, if it's really so hard to clear our heads after...that...' Bel motioned towards the formerly divided Faustus Necromonium. "...we could just fill them with nonsense instead. Sometimes the best way to understand something is to just stop worrying about it for a bit. Who'd like to have some fun?" Bel smiled, and clicked his hands together, a glass-tapping sound coming out of nowhere. As he spread them, suddenly he had a pair of bottles in his hand that you could definitely say was booze, and in between two of his fingers he was holding the microphone from before. Karaoke! This was a way to get them all to shut up already. He was teetering between being happy that things were going well, and being sick to his stomach at all the sickly-sweet family reunion joy...and Iofiel was definitely tipping those scaled. So instead, he wanted to get debauched! What was a better way to celebrate their reunion than getting loaded and hopefully not forgetting that the cute girls sitting next to you were your children? That's right, Bel was the only available bachelor here...muahahaha!  

[Rednal]

Rednal Ak'Thias, Iofiel, the Angel of Love, and Izumi

Iofiel's hands moved in a quick gesture, and abruptly, the bottles were out of Bel's hands and sitting on the table instead. "I don't think you want to call that kind of attention to yourself." she said, sounding a bit amused - but it was true that word of drunk students would probably get back to Mataki, and THAT kind of incident was something nobody needed. It wouldn't even involve therapeutic yelling.

Looking just a bit nervous, the pink-haired girl gently pat Amora's head. Showing affection to someone was interesting, but the little girl (well... not THAT little, really) was actually pretty cute.

...Maybe this would be a good time to mention it. Rednal mused, looking at his companions. Goodness knew that she was going to have to say hello to everyone sooner or later, and while he was still uncertain about this... Bel... person's motives, Iofiel seemed to think he was trustworthy enough, and her word was good enough for him. "Izumi, it's time you said hello, right?"

"Ah! Right!" she half-shrieked. "Sorry, sorry, I forgot!" She clapped her hands together and bowed slightly in apology. "So this is kiiiiiiiind of a long story, but I'm Izumi, and I'm in here." she pointed to her head. "Don't worry, we're not crazy. Is, um, is Soji-senpai around anywhere? I want to give him my greetings, too, since he's done so much for us."

Wait, WHAT!?

"...It's been an interesting day." Rednal said by way of explanation.  

[Necromonium]

Faust and Amora

.....
Even with the words of wisdom from Bel..The offer to 'Fill them with nonsense', and procuring what looks like Alchohol....He paused.
"I'm...Not old enough to." He noted quietly, letting out a sigh he didn't know he was holding. Hearing Rednal talk about someone named Izumi, he paused....As Yuno's entire demeanor changed. She bowed..She spoke in a rapid tone...and, she.....was Yuno?
"It's nice to meet you, Izumi." he called, bowing lightly. "Though..I feel we already have met.."
....
He was getting way too accepting of this s**t.
Amora smiiled lightly as Bel tried to be friendly for a change..And as her mother patted her head, she smiled quietly.
"Nice to meet you too." she added, doing a small bow towards her, as if greeting someone new for the first time. She leaned against Faust at this, feeling her memories of the other timeline completely come back to her...As she mused.
"We should...do something fun..or something." She added, lightly, agreeing with part of what Bel said they should do. Something that didn't involve death, demons, and Otherworldly monstrosities.

 

[Great Ryoman!]

Bel Heartily

"You're a Shadow, right? But one with a strong personality it seems. I suppose 'Shadow' isn't quite the correct term then." Bel wasn't going to be the first one to comment on the strange circumstance of the girl, but now that they were openly discussing it themselves, he felt like poking his head in on the issue. The girl had the Potential, but at the same time there was a Shadow in her body as well. It must have been quite the unique circumstance...ah, just so you know, he was quite knowledgeable about the subject, but he'd never encountered a Persona User before now either. After all, in their world by the time he could remember anything they were all already... "More like your own person. Izumi's an Izumi, then." It was a matter of fact statement. The personality couldn't even be called just that, as it had already separated into it's own mind, a life completely divided from that of Yuno and the human host. He had no attachment to them, so he could swallow such a big gulp of reality easily, but the others were probably going to start blowing fuses in a moment imagining the implications, so it was probably best to remain calm for the time being. "Mother mentioned it before. It looks like things are more complicated than I thought..." Bel put a hand to his chin. To the unaccustomed (Rednal, for example), he had merely said 'his mother'. But to Faust, Yuno, and the others it could only bring up his previous hints that they were his parents, just like Amora's. It was a fun little tidbit, so I thought I'd bring it up again. o wo)/

"Ah, if we're going to have fun, perhaps I should let my hair down a bit." Bel raised his hand and snapped his fingers, and suddenly his hair changed from the deeper shade of orange to a pink that deeply resembled Amora and Izumi's. The fact that he was capable of shapeshifting was a pleasant distraction, he was sure. It could also be looked at in two ways; but of course, the implication for the time being was that this was more like what he naturally looked like, and that most of the time he simply liked to go with the look he'd had before because it made him cooler on the outside. Appearances were everything after all, especially when you were a sinful little Prince of Bel, and you had to keep the demons in line all day with as little commotion as possible. Some of them could be easily swayed with something as superficial as a pretty smile, and he had that in spades, but right now he felt that looking pink would be a lot more fun. Not just because it might effect those around him...he also simply felt, looking at the crowd around him, that it'd be more relaxing for him as well. Adapting to your surroundings was a quintessential demon thing, in it's own way. Who could even say that the look he'd used before now was his true form? The kids from the future had only known him for a slightly longer time than the parents themselves...ah, the mysteries that trailed behind him. Again, they were for my entertainment. o wo)/ To Bel, changing looks was just for fun.

"So, perhaps we should relax? I think somebody brought booze in a moment ago." Bel commented with a small sneer that quickly turned into a smile, glancing at the bottles Iofiel took away. He wanted to drink those, damn you...! Leave it to an Angel to never have any fun.  

[Rednal]

Rednal Ak'Thias, Iofiel, the Angel of Love, and Izumi

"He's always like this, isn't he?"

"Apparently." Iofiel said. She was looking at Bel with an odd expression, seeming to mix amusement with the desire to just... cuddle his brains out or something. At the very least, he needed lots of attention and affection, and who better to give that to him than his friends? Maybe Bel hadn't noticed the one major flaw in his words... and with a shrug, she glomped him. "You're right, we should relax! There's a whole festival to enjoy, so let's go!" she said, starting to tug him towards the door.

Izumi, meanwhile, was simply looking at Bel... and her expression was undergoing constant small shifts, as if different people were making slightly different expressions. After a few moments of that, however, Yuno simply smiled. It was the kind of smile a shark might have when it found an injured fish. She turned to Amora a moment later, bending down to look the other girl in the eyes. "Hmm..."