Twilight x Destiny/Story Mode

Once, I dreamt I was a butterfly. I forgot myself and knew only my happiness as a butterfly. Soon, I awoke, and I was myself again. Did I dream that I was a butterfly? Or do I now dream that I am a man? Yet there is a distinction between myself and the butterfly. This is the transformation of the physical
                                                                        - Zhuangzi
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Taking place an unknown amount of time after the events of TwilightXTwilight, Twilight x Destiny follows a completely new cast of characters. Unlike the prior two games, the story is not split in two. However the story still follows two separate main casts. The difference is that the story simply swaps between the two each chapter starting from a later point in the game. 
==Chapter 0: Prologue ==
The story begins in a giant elevator shaft; one that is quickly revealed to be the Velvet Room. Inside the elevator shaft are two people. A man behind a fortune telling table and a woman who stands behind him with a book. The man reveals himself to be Igor and greets the player, telling them that he is pleased to be in the players presence once more and is delighted to make their acquaintance. 
After reminding the player that the Velvet Room is a realm that exists between dream and reality, Igor asks the player for their name and for whatever difficulty they’d prefer to play on. Afterwards the camera shifts around, revealing the player character is none other than the Protagonist from Persona 5 (Who by default is known as Ren Amamiya). Igor welcomes Ren back to the Velvet Room after such a long absence. However, it seems that Ren has no knowledge of who Igor is. Igor explains that due to an unforeseen event, Ren lost much of his memories. However, Igor lets him know that on this incoming journey he will remember not only himself and his past, but his purpose. He also states that the only way for him to go home is for him to find it.
After Igor is done, bright light slowly begins to encapsulates the Velvet Room. Igor admits that this game will be quite an interesting one. Yes, indeed. 
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An Opening Animated Cutscene Plays.
The Theme song is “Break in to Break Out ”
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Chapter 1: Let Us Begin The Game 
Slowly but surely, Ren begins to open his eyes as he find shimself lying back first on the shores of a beach. The sun rising right behind him, Ren begins to weakly get to his feet. However he is incapable of finding the energy and falls back down stomach first. As he begins to raise his head towards the horizan once more though, his eyes catch the sight of a bright blue butterfly. Somehow Ren manages to find the energy to get to his feet and once he's up, groggily make after the butterfly. After a few moments of following right behind it, Ren catches the butterfly. However to his shock, the butterfly seemingly vanishes from his hands. Looking around for the butterfly, Ren briefly notices two slimes heading in his direction. Initially unsure what to do, Ren hears a voice in his head. The butterfly reappears in front of Ren, giving him advice. 
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Butterfly: 'Don't think too hard. Just let your actions flow through your veins and soon enough you'll be feeling right at home as if you were still in Japan
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The butterfly lands in Ren's arms, manifesting into a dagger and a gun. Ren enters combat with the slimes, defeating the enemies. Once the slimes are gone, the butterfly reappears and lands in front of Ren before taking the form of a little girl. She tells him to find the nessicary allies and to eventually steal the heart of the one who needs it most. Before Ren can ask any remaining questions however, the little girl turns back into a butterfly and flies away; wishing good luck to the trickster. 
Ren decides to check his surroundings and his weapons. He finds his gun is completely useless as it only seems to fire blanks to his confusion. After searching around the area a bit, Ren recognizes that his current location is nothing more than a great grassland. However he sees the glimpses of what may be a village ahead. Ren begins to make his way over towards the small village. 
Ren decides to explore the lands a bit where he discovers his location is nothing more than a great grassland. However he sees a glance of a town up ahead which he makes his way over too. 
He finds himself in a town named Revala. It's nothing more than a few buildings and a church from the looks of it. He decides to enter the church where he finds a priest. Ren walks up to the priest and is asked if he's seen Kiryl, a young man who left a few hours ago to find the local Inns lost alchemy pot. Ren admits that he has not seen the young man and has no clue what's happened. The priest explains that a few days ago another young man named Kiryl had recently come through the town and had been staying. A few hours ago, when Kiryl heard that the local Inn had their alchemy pot stolen, he quickly volunteered to go find it. However they haven't seen him since and everyone was wondering what was taking him so long to grab the pot.
Curious, Ren goes leaves the town with the intention of finding Kiryl. Sure enough, by the river he finds a young man who seems to be a Priest himself. Ren discovers him just as he finds the Alchemy Pot which seems to have been abandoned on the shore of a small river outside of a forest. The young priest celebrates gleefully, however upon discovering Ren he switches to a more serious attitude and formally introduces himself to Ren .
He explains what he’d been doing but Ren interrupts him and explains that the people of the town he’d just left had been worried sick for him. Kiryl is a little shocked by this but admits that they’d likely have every reason to be a little worried for him. Kirly explains that he’d been staying with the village for a while after he’d suddenly woken up near the village. He doesn’t remember much about his past, aside from the fact that he himself is a priest and he’s been desperately searching for something important. However he has yet to remember. Ren admits that he’s been struggling to remember his past as well. Hearing this, Kiryl offers to join Ren since they seem to be in the same pickle. Ren accepts this offer and they return to the town to hand over the Alchemy pot.
The church people are happy to see Kiryl okay but when Kiryl asks why they were so worried in the first place. The Priest reveals that he recently received information about a recent disappearance. A girl named Lavender was out on fruit picking duty and he basket was discovered not too far outside of the town. Ren quickly states his intentions to find her with Kiryl feeling the same. The two explore outside the village and quickly locate her basket. The two look around and try and see if the girl is anywhere in their vicinity but have no luck.
Along the way, they find another village, this one named Hato. The townspeople all seem depressed and saddened about something and after talking with various people, it’s revealed that their children have recently been getting kidnapped by some unknown force. It doesn’t take too long for Ren and Kiryl to connect the dots and the duo promises to find out where the children have been taken. In this village they meet a man who is willing to send them off with much better equipment before they go, introducing them to shopping mechanics. =
The duo moves out into the overworld to collect more evidence about the kidnappings. While looking around, Kiryl brings up a potential theory. He reminds Ren that the children in the previous village had all vanished without much of a trace and yet the girl from the other village had much evidence of what had happened to her. He figures that whatever is happening, the monsters must be doing this in a rush now and figure that they should wait out another kidnapping and see if they can discover the monsters responsible.
They camp for the night and the next day, return to Revala. Upon their return, they discover Revala is much more panicked than last time. Two children were kidnapped during the night with their parents harmed during the events and incapable of giving out an idea of what had happened as they’re all unconscious. Ren and Kiryl begin to investigate even further but are not able to find anything concrete. The two decide to come up with a plan of their own to find out what’s going on with the two towns.
While initially Kiryl suggests waiting out another kidnapping, Ren doesn’t like the idea since they don’t know what happens to these children. Kiryl comes up with a different suggestion. After going over the information they found, Kiryl suggests letting themselves being kidnapped as they seem to be kidnapping Teenagers (which Ren and Kiryl both are) as well. He asks Ren if he can be the one to do so. Ren, while initially not willing, decides to go ahead since Kiyrl reasons why he himself can’t do it. He suggests Ren dress as a woman in order to look much more innocent. Ren obliges, dressing in clothes found in one of the ransacked houses.
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Kiyrl: *Blushing* Wow you look... 
Ren: 
     Option 1: So are you ready to go?
     Option 2: Are you blushing?
     Option 3:' 'Fabulous, aren’t I?
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During the late night Ren and Kiryl enter a nearby forest with Ren dressed in a dress. Kiryl hides up in the trees while Ren pretends to be wandering out alone. Predictably, two monsters rush up and capture Ren but at speeds so quickly Kiryl isn’t able to see them through the dark. Ren is captured and wakes up in a cell in some dark room. From his cell he hears the angry musing of some offscreen force. He discovers that he has a cellmate who appears to be a young blonde woman. She quickly shushes him and tells him to be quiet she listened in on the conversation. Right before Ren can ask her anything, she yelps and collapses on the spot. A monster guard walks by and notices. Recognizing the need for more available room for more children, he unlocks the door and picks up the woman. However once the guard and her leave sight, the guard in launched back into view. The woman also walks back into view, revealing that she’d faked an injury upon hearing something about their being a lack of room in the cells. She orders all of the children in the cell with them to stay there, Ren included as she wants him to watch over them. However Ren offers to go with her. Initially the woman rejects the offer but she decides to let him come as she may need backup just in case. On the way towards a much larger part of the cave, she reveals that her name is Bianca Whitaker and that she’d been kidnapped after she’d awoken without her memories and with little energy to resist the kidnapping. 
After making their way through the cave, they find a large monster sitting on a throne seeming frustrated. His minions cower in fear as the monster yells at them for being incapable of finding the right children for food. It turns out the monster is named Jelavich who is dying from an unknown illness. In desperation, he’s begun sending out his minions in search of humans with a specific taste which is said to be able to cure this illness. This can mostly be found in younger humans but at the moment they haven’t been able to find many people with this taste. While Bianca and Ren are initially obscured, they are found out when a monster bumps into them and knocks them into plain view. The large group of monsters gang up on Bianca and Joker who fight wave upon wave of enemy. Eventually however the duo is overwhelmed and chained up. Some minions walk in with a child who begs and cries to be released. The monsters decide to just make Jelavich eat everyone inside in order to clear up space and hopefully find a kid with the taste to cure him. Bianca and Ren are forced to watch as the monsters begin to heat up the boiling pot to boil the child in. 
Pinned down and with no other options, Ren willingly gives up. However a voice calls upon him. 
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“So you’ve finally returned, hm? What’s the matter? Once again, you’re going to let those around you just fall like this without any form of resistance? What happened to that rebellious spirit inside you? The one you showed me the last time we encountered each other. I know it wasn’t a fluke. You should be determined to vow to your hatred and frustration. Shall I say, your inner rebel?”
-Ren clutches his face and stands up as everyone pair of eyes in the room begin staring towards him-
“Nice, nice. Now... We can begin..."
"I am thou, thou art I...Thou who art willing to perform all sacrilegious acts for thine own justice! Call upon my name, and release thy rage! Show the strength of thy will to ascertain all on thine own, though thou be chained to Hell itself!”
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The voice begins to fade away and a light engulfs Ren and the rest of the room as everyone stares in complete disbelief.
Once the light clears out, Ren is standing up; a mask attached to his face. Ren recognizes this and begins to desperately pull it off of him. An agonizing process that leaves Ren screaming in pain and his face bloodied as he tears the mask right off of his face. However once the mask is gone Ren stares at the monsters, giving an extremely eerie grin. His body begins to engulfed in blue flames. Once the flames disappear, Ren reveals himself to be wearing a black ankle-length tailcoat, a high-necked waistcoat with gold accents, black pants, brown-black winklepickers and a pair of red gloves. Once again he dons the mask. Upon closer inspection, the mask is a black and white, birdlike domino mask. Ren spreads his arms, revealing he has broken free from his chains. He gives yet another grin and yells towards the air.
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“PERSONAAAAA”
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Upon yelling Persona, a large, tall figure appears behind the rebellious boy. Ren gives a menacing grin to his foes, who now eye him fearfully. 
Ren Kurusu is no more. Enter: Joker - The Phantom Thief. Joker in this new form quickly makes work of the monsters. Once that's done, he quickly  frees Bianca. After Bianca compliments his new getup, the two take down Jelavich with no interference. 
Afterwards, the two traverse the rest of the dungeon and release the rest of the children. 
They find Lavender who theorizes that Jelavich may have worked for someone in particular as they’d heard rumblings from him about how  “I needs to be by his side in time” and stuff like that. after finding the rest of the children, they exit the cave. They all head for Hato and at the break of dawn, Bianca and Joker bring the children back to the village.
As they enter, they run into Kiryl who hugs Ren, happy to see him okay. He questions his clothes though since they were completely different from what he’d seen him last time they’d been with each other. Ren ignores this and introduces Bianca. After talking about the events, Bianca asks to join their party seeing as they are all in similar dilemmas. Ren and Kiryl accept her offer and she joins the party.
The group once more meets with Lavender, who asks the trio to accompany her back to the village. On the way back to the village, the group asks her more about Jelavich and this person they were working for. However Lavender reveals she doesn’t know enough and it was really just a theory. They make it the town as night falls. Lavender rushes home, and after some discussion between Ren, Kiryl and Bianca, they all crash at the local Inn and sleep for the night. 
During the night, a cutscene plays which shows Lavender sitting on her bed looking melancholy. A woman walks in - presumably her mother - asking her if she’s going to be okay to which Lavender replies she will. The woman tells her that she shouldn’t be stressing herself so hard trying to remember her past and that she’ll continue raising her as her own, even if she isn’t her daughter (Revealing that she is not in fact her mother). As the woman leaves, Lavender quietly tip-toes towards a drawer near her bed and upon opening it up, stares inside at its contents... a school uniform and a blue sweater.
'The next day the trio awakens and wonder where they should head next. They really have no goal but they feels as if something is going afront that they need to get on. Lavender walks outside to obtain water from the nearby Well. As water, she overhears Kiryl bring up how they trio has lost their memories and so they may be connected. Lavender questions this in her head but decides to ignore it. She greets the trio and asks if they’ll be running off soon. Bianca admits that this may be the case but they aren’t sure since they don’t exactly know where to head next. Before the group can continue talking anymore however, a swarm of monsters bursts through the village fence and begins attacking the village. They ask for those responsible for the death of Jelavich which leads them to Ren and Bianca.
The duo, as well as Kiryl, vow to protect the people in the village and are forced to fight wave upon wave of enemy. This starts to almost become too much and in the heat of battle, Ren’s gun is knocked off of him and towards Lavender. Just as the group begins to run out of steam, Lavender notices the gun and all at once a stream of memories hits her like a truck. In a series of flashes she sees random details of her past and starts to make out a few notable ones. Two things stick out however. Notably the sight of a group of kids her age who she seems to feel euphoric seeing and a gun, not too dissimilar to the one right in front of her. She picks up Ren’s gun and stares at it. The trio turn their towards Lavender, who they notice is now holding the gun at her 'head. 
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-Ren stares with shock in his eyes as Lavender begins to point the gun at her temple. He quickly extends his hand desperatly, trying to stop the girl-
Lavender: *Heavy breathing*
-More of Lavenders memories flash rapidly with little context given- 
Monster: What’s that girl doin, eh?
Lavender: *Breathing harder* 
“Per… So… NA!” 
*Gunshot*
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A light shoots through Lavenders skull as her eyes turn bright blue and her face becomes obscured by darkness. A blue blinding light erupts around her. When the light dissipates, Lavender is revealed to be inside a giant glass sphere which is surrounded by humanoid woman
Lavender mutters that she thinks she’s starting to remember and turns to Ren, Bianca and Kiryl. She kneels down and unexpectedly the trio is healed. and turns to her teammates. She kneels before her friends and unexpectedly, Ren, Bianca and Kiryl are all restored to full Magic and Health points. Lavender explains that this is her Persona, similar to the one Ren had been using. 
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Lavender(?): “I just remembered. My name isn’t Lavender Krusha. I’m Fuuka Yamagishi of Tatsumi Port Island, Japan. I don’t know why I’m here, but I know that helping you guys is apart of my destiny.”
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Lavender, now revealed to be a girl named Fuuka Yamagishi, gives moral support to the group through her Persona known as Lucia. She saves Ren, Bianca and Kiryl and scares off the remaining monsters. As the monsters run off, Fuuka faints. The trio all rush up to her and take her back to her house. As Fuuka rests, Bianca asks the lady who lives at the house what they know about Fuuka. The woman, named Arbosa, sadly admits that she is not Fuuka’s mother. 4 months ago, a dazed Fuuka wandered into the town. Arbosa healed her up which is when she discovered that Fuuka had no recollection of any details of her past which included her name. Arbosa decided to let her stay with her and she treated her as the daughter she was never able to have. 
She asks for Kiryl, Bianca and Ren to wait however. When she returns to the house grabs her school uniform and sweater, quickly putting them on. She then rushes to Arbosa, who was waiting outside her door. Arbosa hugs Fuuka, thanking her for being the light in her life for the past 4 months and wishing her the best of luck with her memories. Fuuka thanks her back. However before she goes she asks that she cut her hair back to the way it had been when she’d been found. Fuuka walks back outside, now doning her more familiar Persona 3 hairstyle. 
After returning to the trio, she reveals that her Persona can only assist in helping them. However, she tells them not to worry about it as she recalls being a Navigator of sorts for her friends. The group set out, leaving the Ardennes Region.
Chapter 2: Stalker Under The Dark Hour
The quartet does some exploring, but once they're done, they head for the Ardennes region. The region is separated by an enormous river, and to get across it the group has to use a nearby bridge. This bridge is guarded by a small platoon of soldiers, and they immediately ask the quartet for official identification in order to give them permission to pass. The soldiers explain it is a necessary precaution, as there have been a recent string of murder cases taking place in the region. The identification situation poses a concern for Ren, Kiryl and Bianca who all lack proper identification. However Fuuka gives the soldiers her official identification card and claims that her friends simply lost theirs while traveling and are heading back to grab theirs. The soldiers don't buy it, but Bianca manages to convince the soldiers with a thousand dollar bribe. The soldiers (very hesitantly) let the group through, and after crossing the river the quartet find themselves in the Ardennes. Fuuka explains that the Ardennes is primarily a forest biome and it, along with the Ardennes river, acts as one of many natural barriers for the Gaulish Kingdom. Kiryl expresses a bit of concern. He's heard rumors that the Kingdom is very authorian and has a habit of cracking down on foreign people, but Fuuka writes these off as simple rumors. Bianca does suggest keeping their heads down for the time being, especially with this supposed murderer running around, though she isn't quite sure if they should be too concerned about said murderer for now. The quartet decide that their plan of action at the moment should be figuring out their goal now that they were united as each member of the party believes that they had to have been brought together for some larger purpose, whatever that might be. 
After some exploring, the group will gain a map of the surrounding area and decide to head to a nearby town known as Ozark. It’s a decently sized town that hugs the river, acting as a port. While here the group is given more details about the murders. It’s believed this murder strikes at night, around the early hours of the morning. Up until fairly recently, almost all victims happened to be travelers who were making their way through the Ozark countryside or just so happened to be out at night. However recently, as was the case the quartet unfortunately discovers immediately upon arriving in Ozark, many have been found dead in their houses seemingly attacked late at night. The quartet is horrified, but they’re immediately brought out of this state upon a very sudden attack by a huge, mysterious monster. It strikes right in the heart of town, and the members of the party quickly ready themselves to make short work of it. However, right as the characters are about to strike, a young girl gets in between them and the monster and battles it herself and makes quick work of it all on her own by summoning her own smaller monsters. 
 
The monster, outmatched, runs away. Once done, the girl turns around and faces the party, expressing gratitude to the party for distracting it long enough that she could strike. She explains that that creature was in fact, not a monster, but instead what she referred to as a “Yo Kai”. Ren appears to be somewhat aware of the concept and explains it to the group. The girl is incredibly surprised. She asks Ren if he knows what “Japan” is to which he nods in understanding. The girl reveals herself to be Natsume Amano, a young girl who collects Yo-Kai using her Yo-Kai Watch. She explains that a couple months ago she suddenly woke up in this world and she’d been running around trying to figure out how to get back home. The group explains that they’re all in a similar predicament and asks if she wants to join them. 
Before Natsume can answer, a crowd of people surround the quintet, thanking the girl for saving them once again. Natsume asks the others to go rest up at the local inn where she’ll meet up with them later and explain everything she can. The quartet exit the scene, a little confused, but they discuss amongst themselves their opinions on the young girl. Given it seems she, like them, was summoned to this world, Kiryl and Fuuka both show some interest in recruiting her. However Bianca is a little more hesitant as she is a child. Bianca expresses that she has her reservations for bringing children into an adults battle. Kiryl quickly points out that Ren & Fuuka are both minors, however. 
After Bianca and Kiryl are done bickering on the subject of Natsume being allowed into the party, the group make their way to the only inn in the village. Upon arriving inside, the group is analyzed up and down by the woman at the desk who continues to eyeball them suspiciously until Fuuka gives her some identification papers. However this fails to ease the tension, as the woman continues to eyeball the party until Natsume barges in. She swiftly expresses that the quartet are friends of hers and not only that, she’ll be paying for their expenses too. The lady quickly eases up, smiles at the party and lets them stay. Kiryl asks Natsume what that was about, to which Fuuka asks Kiryl if he at all noticed how strangely the locals had been acting around them since they arrived. The group think back and recognize that indeed, the locals had been treating them with a level of suspicion since they arrived in town. While Natsume leads them to their room, she explains why that is. She points to the recent string of murders as being the culprit behind this behavior. She was treated no differently when she arrived in town herself. It just so happened that the town was under constant threat of attack by Yokai. Natsume then takes the opportunity to explain what they are. Essentially, they’re spirits. Natsume has a thing called a Yo-Kai Watch which allows her to collect Yokai, and she uses them to battle other Yo-Kai when the time comes. Fuuka & Joker, native to Japan where Yokai folklore originates from, are very interested. Kiryl and Bianca are both confused. Natsume also explains that the reason she’s stuck around Ozark for as long as she is because she’s investigating the reason for these constant Yokai attacks. Bianca asks if Natsume needs any assistance with the investigation, but the young girl quickly rejects the offer. Natsume argues it’d be in the group's best interest to leave town once they’re all rested up. The quartet questions her, but she chooses to not explain herself. She leaves the group behind. Ren decides to go follow her into town, but he loses sight of her as she becomes engulfed in a huge crowd of admirers. Ren takes the opportunity to go shopping around town. Once he returns to the Inn, he chooses to rest alongside his party. 
That night, while Natsume is resting at her own room at the Inn, she’s awakened by the sound of her window being opened. Natsume doesn’t even need to open her eyes to understand what’s happening. Sitting upon the windowsill of her now opened window, is what appears to be a young woman with short hair styled into a high ponytail. She wields what appears to be a spear, but it’s hard to make her appearance out as she’s veiled in shadow with only her red pupils being visible in the night. 
Natsume quickly summons one of her Yokai, and before she knows it the battle has spilled outside onto the streets. The sounds of combat awaken the quartet, who quickly grab their things and head outside and are immediately greeted by the sight of Natsume & this mysterious woman fighting each other. Upon seeing the odds stacked against her, the woman quickly exits the scene before anyone can follow her. With the coast clear, Natsume collapses, exhausted. Not because she exerted herself in combat, but out of fear. Kiryl picks her and carries her back inside amidst a growing crowd of people who were awoken by the fight, and while doing so, Natsume states that the reason she wanted the party to leave was because she was aware that she was soon going to be a target of the murderer. The quartet brings her to their room and while initially Kiryl begins asking questions, Natsume swiftly falls back asleep. Bianca smiles and suggests to the rest of the group they give her the rest she needs. The group agrees, and they begin speculating the identity of the murderer and the murderers motivations. The group was unable to make out many details of the person responsible, as it was too dark outside for them to see clearly. The few identifiers they could gather were that this person was likely a woman with short hair, that they wielded some sort of lance-like weapon and they had red eyes. As for the murders motivations, that was unknown. Bianca questions how exactly Natsume figured out she'd be a target, but figures that she can ask about that when she wakes back up. Fuuka speculates that Natsume’s status as an outsider to this world somehow caught the wind of the murderer, and that's why she was a target. Kiryl doesn't agree, seeing as this murderer has targeted several people, and there's nothing to suggest they were also from a different world like them. However Bianca does point out that there's also nothing suggesting that they aren't. Ren suggests it'd be best for them to stay on their toes nonetheless. Kiryl continues to call into question the possibility of them being future targets, as the murderer appeared to make a run for it the moment they arrived on the battlefield, but Bianca argued this was most definitely because they couldn't fight all of them at once. It's because of this assessment that Bianca swiftly changes her mind on letting Natsume join the group. She decides that in order to protect her, they must let her in. The group agrees, and plan to let her know about this once she wakes up in the morning. 
With that decided, the group all go to sleep with the exception of Bianca, who chooses to stand watch in order to protect Natsume.
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