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Who: Baku Ogata, Persona Users
What: Team-Building Meeting
Where: Kobe, Regality
When: After Class, Thursday, May 11th

Reserving an entire room and providing drinks? How the hell did I get roped into hosting this at such a ridiculous place? Not to mention the money spent on the endeavor, but with all of this persona business, it seemed a bit out of place to worry about finances. I didn't even have that much spending money left. In truth, however, it was a welcome distraction from the stress of having all of the explosive components of the group come together under one roof without the adults to keep them tame; at least they did that much amidst all of the fear-mongering.

Baku had naturally arrived first to sort out the room reservations and whatnot. Along with him came a certain apprehension and paranoia; it was unlike him to skip out on kendo for something like this. What if someone caught wind of their activities? Despite a certain amount of inner protest, he knew that this was something that had to be done. No one of them would be able to succeed against the threats to come.

The teen soon began to regret arriving too early; he fiddles apprehensively and turns down several drinks before the first person arrives.

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[allisnothing]

Haruka's still. For a while, it doesn't seem as though she heard Suzuki, or that maybe she was ignoring him.

Then, she turned and said, deceptively like herself, "Huh..." She nodded. "If you don't mind, Senpai?"

[acidhexagon]

Minoru picked up the cup. It was noiseless - he had a very good pulse, apparently. "Excuse me while I return," he said, leaving.

[brage]

Baku sat by quietly as Haruka and Minoru conversed, through some miracle; what he'd really wanted to do was to tell Minoru how wrong he was. But that won't get us anywhere, will it? A dejected sigh escapes him as Minoru leaves the room. He looks to the others and offers them a stern nod.

"Well, whatever we do, we have to become stronger. I plan to start training hard soon, and... well, I would really like it if you would come along. Any of you," he pauses to stare at his drink pensively, "because I think Yachiyo-sensei and the others are only correct about one thing: these 'persona' things are the key to fighting back whatever the hell these things are."

[conformity]

Sayuri was mostly quiet as she listened to the others, having thanked Haruka with a small nod as she explained what it was normally supposed to be like before going back to being entirely passive.

Except by the time Baku spoke up again, there was something interesting in it to her-- training? She had never really done training of any kind other than what she did in kyudo club, but she doubted that really counted in the grand scheme of things. And he did say that they needed to get stronger and train to win.. and Sayuri even knew it herself. She wasn't strong enough to fight. She probably wasn't even as strong as all of the others sitting here at the table.

So she weakly nodded and rose her hand a little.

"Um.. If you don't think I'd be a burden, I'd like to train along with you. I don't have much experience though.."

[brage]

That was all he really needed. It would suck a bit training out in that world by yourself, but he already had at least one volunteer! Despite the atmosphere, Baku quickly becomes gung-ho at the thought of empowering his own persona, and it shows.

"No burden at all! We'll start tomorrow! I really hope you guys plan on training too; we don't know much about this threat, but it won't matter if we're not strong enough to deal with it."

Right, become strong, then we'll have the power to stop all this. That's all that really matters right now.

[allisnothing]

Suzuki was still out and, hearing no response to her earlier question, Haruka leaned back in her chair and picked at her cake with little appetite. In response to Ogata's, she replied,

"Training's good. Have to skip tomorrow though."

Considering critical thinking had taken her out of the classes she wanted to take and had come to Chitoku for, she wasn't missing club practice too. She also didn't feel like going back into the other world, yet.