2026-08-01: Reporting to the Top Brass
- Cutscene: Reporting to the Top Brass
- Cast: Yua Ijuuin, Chizuru Ishigami, Hisataka Shinjo
- Where: Aoba - Penthouse / ???
- OOC Date: 2026-08-01
- IC Date: Tue, Dec 18 2012
- Summary: Yua makes her report on the status of Maria's capture and Lisa's Awakening -- directly, for once, since Miho was busy with her own target. Unbeknownst to her, Chizuru was already going over the materials they'd uploaded... alongside the object of her affections, the disaffected head scientist Shinjo. It seems she's able to see a side of him which many think died long ago...
"Ishigami-san? It's Yua Ijuuin," Yua's voice comes through the phone, later -- once they're back in their penthouse, now her feets are up and Welwetes is safely docked and Tyrrha is busily being repaired by Para-Mind. "Is now a good time?"
"Go ahead," Chizuru Ishigami's voice says, smoothly.
"I'll be making my report directly today," Yua says. "Mimi was busy apprehending another target, so... Tykko and I went to catch Maria Sakurai alone, and we were able to do so during one of Lisa Silverman's performances."
"... the girl your woman mentioned," Chizuru notes. "I remember. Go on?"
"Unfortunately, there were a high number of Persona Users present," Yua says, her gaze dropping, as she relates it. "Tykko did her best, Ishigami-san, but... fighting all those people at once might have been okay, but when the Joker attacked her, too, it... ah, it took her arm off."
"They're sinful creatures," Chizuru says, with an air of regret. "Is your daughter all right, Ijuuin-chan?" It's something which has distinguished working at this level, with her fellow mystic, from Yua's experiences with the men below her: Chizuru seems to have some measure of concern. Those men might have called her Ooshiro-chan, back then; but rather than respecting her efforts to be so deliberately cute, it was really just more disrespect.
Whether there's a deeper comment as to why she's given Yua the cute address and Miho the standard respect is beyond the scope of this document.
"Ahaha... she was mostly just annoyed she had to run away," Yua laughs, a little of her tension draining away; she was horrified, of course, but Tyrrha just insisted that was why the Joker Monsters were the best fights. "Well, so that was a failure, but... but we had a big success, too! Lisa Silverman has Awakened to her Persona, Eros. I guess it's a lot different to how it was the first time, though... she must have changed a lot this time? Apparently it's not just her, though... even me and Mimi... she told me how in the True World, it was Faust who was the Navigator, and Gretchen was the one protecting them."
"So you switched roles... fascinating. So Silverman-san Awakened, and you retreated after the Joker disabled Tyrrha-san? Is there anything else?"
"Um, the Black Mask stumbled over us... he said it was just a wrong turn, but... w-we really did try our best to complete all objectives!" Yua hurries to assure her. "So if there's any concern over that, ah -- we definitely didn't just let her go! I know it would be bad for us if we didn't really try," she adds, her fear returning, when she remembers Ruin.
"Hmm? If it took a severed arm to dissuade you, I have no complaints," Chizuru assures her, though she still sounds a touch distant about it all. "Was there anything else?"
"Oh -- there was one thing," Yua says, as if it just dawned on her. "The other boy with that staggering potential... Tatsuya Suou? Somehow, even though I'd set up all my mazes, he eventually found me... he knew I was trying to Awaken Silverman-kun, and he wanted to stop me. Um... when he realised I was pregnant, though, he let me go really easily... um, I didn't make a fight out of it or anything, since Tykko had already gotten badly hurt by that point, and, um, my connection was disrupted too. Plus... there's all those reports about how strong he is, and... I'm at twenty-five weeks now, you know...?"
"I don't want you to put yourself in unnecessary danger," Chizuru says. "Avoiding a fight with the Paradox Boy when there was no one to protect you was the right call. All right... I'll review the material. Thank you for your hard work."
"Thank you, Ishigami-san," Yua says, and the phone clicks to silence.
Chizuru looks up, from where she's leant on the back of a lounge -- a lounge where Hisataka Shinjo sits, watching the camera feed Welwetes uploaded.
He nibbles at a potato chip, as he watches the Aqua ball advance on Welwetes' rear camera. It's the sort of casual motion one doesn't expect to see from him at all -- some of the men who serve him have wondered if he deigns to do such things as eating or sleeping at all. "Set this to Wyoming Jones music," he says, as the forward camera captures the way the little robo-raptor skids in beneath the chair. Clicking forward --
-- the camera shows how Welwetes went to go fetch a piece of broken chair for Suzume. "Give whoever programmed it to do this a raise."
"Hmm," Chizuru smiles, gazing down to him with affection. "As you wish."
"There's nothing funnier than seeing the robes of tradition draping on something as modern as a cyborg," Shinjo remarks, as he watches the Joker take Tyrrha's arm clean off. "'Looks like I'm disarmed'... heh," he even chuckles, if darkly, and perhaps it's the greatest privilege Chizuru knows to witness him indulging in pursuits he's long left behind.
Perhaps allowing a man such as Shinjo to feel the smallest amusement is why no complaints about Tyrrha's loose lips have made it too far...