The Keisuke Saga

## **Summary**

The Keisuke Saga is a series of events as to how Aya fell in love with Keisuke Takagi. It is taking Aya, and putting her as the protagonist, while still keeping it real and having hints to how Real Life Aya felt too. It's mostly just Aya's playthrough, except in more detail + a LOT of Keisuke.

## **Keisuke Saga: The Playthrough**

Aya found Devil Survivor. How? Nyarly’s video. So long ago, about in October before she found Genshin, she watched Nyarly’s video on Devil Survivor. She thought Nyarly was some sort of Megaten expert, and because he liked the game so much, she decided to try it! And also because her crush at the time told her to play it. She started with the DS version, for a bit of the game. She got stuck fighting Wendigo though. So then she switched to the 3DS version, Overclocked. So then Aya immediately fell back in love with the game. She spent hours upon hours, pouring all of her love into the game while playing. When, this… “soyboy” as her strange journey fanatic friend would call him caught her eye. She didn’t realize her feelings at first, but she was really attached.She didn’t care about practically anything else when she met this boy. She knew that he was the one for her.

“Is that, Keisuke?!” Atsuro asked.

Aya finally knew the boy’s name. Keisuke. Keisuke Takagi. And he was Atsuro’s childhood friend. How heartwarming.. Someone that got along with her favorite boy(at the time).. Little did she know, that boy would forever change her life. She passed on through the days, craving for more content of this “Keisuke” boy since he made her so happy. Nothing else mattered to her but him. Her crush at the time warned her that she would need to save him at one point, and that she would need to be cautious in order to keep him around. So that’s exactly what she did! She cautiously went through the days of the game, checking every dialogue box and everything… When suddenly, Day 4.

“They’re going to kill Midori for it!”

Keisuke screamed. Aya felt really bad about him going on his tangent about how he wanted people to treat Midori with respect and not kill her. She mentioned a few things to help, but he said that wasn’t the point. As he stormed off, all she could think of was how much that boy meant to her. Her feelings were not yet awakened, but.. they were starting to form.. And they were going to take her by storm. She rushed and did everything she could to save Keisuke. She ran and got the bag for Mari. Everything. But when that Day 5 came and she gave the bag to Kaido, she said:

“Let’s bullshit our way around this, Atsuro. There’s no other way.”

Aya thought this was the only way, when it wasn’t. She was so confused when Midori up and left right there. But it didn’t matter to her anymore, Keisuke was safe and happy. He was with her again. She didn’t realize her feelings yet, but she could feel her heart yearning for more of him.. As she went on to save everyone, the final day came. --The decision. She thought she had finally unlocked Naoya’s route. Because her friends had pressured her into doing it. But because she told Naoya “I don’t know.” when he asked “Is God just?” she was locked out. But that’s a decision she would’ve never regretted anymore the moment she went for Atsuro’s route. When she clicked on his little icon, and the sound effect played… She heard Atsuro’s happy voice. She happily obliged to his idea.

“Wow, I’m so glad!”

Atsuro lit up with joy on her macbook, clear daylight all around in her room. Aya smiled as she saw Keisuke appear on screen after accepting Atsuro’s solution. But, what she didn’t realize is that she had almost nobody. Nobody. Just barely enough for a full team. Aya, Atsuro, Yuzu, and Keisuke. She saved Mari, but didn’t know how to recruit her.. She bullshitted her way around Keisuke-- and it cost her Midori. So she had almost nobody. But… Keisuke. Atsuro. Nothing else ever mattered anymore! As the next day started, she was prepared to beat up ANYONE for the happiness of Keisuke and or Atsuro. And she had to. Naoya with his cocky smirk laid around COMPs went wild. Aya and the gang couldn’t let this happen, so they charged at Naoya with all they had!-- Even if it was Laksmis and Cu Chulainns… And he was still out of range for them to attack. Yuzu stomped on the COMPS while Atsuro, Keisuke and Aya went on a wild goose chase after Naoya. It took so long to reach him, but they caught him. Naoya-- in a bind, surrounded by these people he’s disgusted by. And they all ripped him to shreds. Aya used holy dance, Atsuro used a mighty hit, Keisuke used elec dance! And Naoya screamed in pain as he went down. He was now willing to cooperate, and now they had to go beat up a bunch of bitches.. Aya went up to Beelzebub. She looked at the skill cracks, and then realized…

“HOLY SHIT I NEED TO STRATEGIZE!”

And so she did. She went to crack skills like Samarecarm and Prayer, but couldn’t because  of the bugs. She was madly disappointed, but pressed onward to defeat Beelzebub. He went down so quickly, to Aya with Holy Dance. Atsuro with now Deathbound. As Beelzebub was defeated, Aya felt confident with her severely underleveled demons. But then.. Belberith. That big fat monster. She charged head on, with her level 60-ish team leaders. When, suddenly-- Everyone had died. Belberith buttfucked them too hard. Only Yuzu was left. Aya died to an “attack all”, Atsuro died to Mabufudyne, Keisuke died to “attack all.” Mediarahan, Drain, Maragidyne. She had no demons. Her Vivian and Cu Chulainn had died. She fought for her life, but ended up dying anyways. But in her final moments before the reset, she said: “I’m sorry.”

After Aya reset before the fight, she decided to grind. She got mediarahan and samarecarm, but failed to crack Prayer in her hours of grinding. But she was ready as she fused Norn and got better skills on Yama through grinding. She kept some underleveled demons but it was okay. After she was done grinding-- it was finally time. To face Belberith once again. With new and improved skills and demons, she was for sure to win.

As that guitar filled battle theme blared, Aya walked with Atsuro, Yuzu, and Keisuke to face Belberith. He chuckled as if they were going to fall again; but they weren’t. Yuzu went to crack Megido as Atsuro, Aya, and Keisuke went to flip the switch so they could get to belberith. They all fought relentlessly against the shomonkai enemies with their now powerful demons, no longer practically defenseless against Belberith. After the shomonkai cried in defeat, there was only one thing left to do. Defeat Belberith. During this battle, Aya realized her feelings for Keisuke as he rushed up to circle around to get to the stairs. His flowing hair, his glasses slightly tilting as he ran. She felt so happy to see him, and was practically flustered. Somehow, nobody noticed. But for some reason, everyone had to keep passing turns so Keisuke could reach Belberith. It took so long for Keisuke to get his turns back. And even then, he couldn’t move that far. But then he made it. He got to Belberith. But something surprising that nobody but Aya herself noticed… Is how she squealed loudly, blushing and legs shaking while Keisuke defeated Belberith. When Keisuke looked back, panting.. Everyone realized the fight was over. Everyone threw their hands up, and cheered.

“Keisukethankyousomuch!” Aya happily exclaimed.

“Man, that dragged on for way too long. But I’m glad it’s over!” Atsuro smiled.

“We did it! We really did it!” Yuzu jumped up.

“Wow… that was kind of easy. But I’m glad we were able to do this.” Keisuke slightly smiled.

But. There was one more battle. Naoya informed Aya and company that they had to defeat Babel next, and that there was nothing else in the way. They all nodded simultaneously, determined-- and pressed for choice! Aya immediately went to summon him, but then-- She got her ass kicked. HARD. Nobody survived. She reset so many times, and everyone died in vain. Aya wondered what she and the others were fighting for. She always remembered everything that happened; but everyone else didn’t. She tried to learn from her mistakes, but couldn’t. When suddenly, Real life Aya decided to stream the game in a server. Someone joined. His name was Lofiy, and he watched her struggle through the fight once again.

“Hold on, you’re doing this all wrong.”

“Huh?”

“WHY DO YOU HAVE KEISUKE?”

“I DON’T HAVE ANYONE ELSE!”

“I THOUGHT YOU WERE DOING NAOYA’S ROUTE!”

“SO WAIT, THIS ISN’T NAOYA’S ROUTE?!”

“OF COURSE NOT!”

After some banter, Lofiy taught Aya everything she needed to know to beat Babel. Everyone became strong again, and she pressed onward with help from Lofiy! She and her allies quickly demolished the demons, while Atsuro and Naoya hacked away! When they beat the first phase, Aya was scared again. But then she realized, she couldn’t just stand there. She had to do something, LITERALLY! She and her allies ran up to Babel. Keisuke attacked first, using Elec Dance. When Babel switched weaknesses, Aya laughed off a Fire Dance when it did 1200+ damage per hit. Even Lofiy was impressed watching this happen. --And then. It was the end. Atsuro’s plan became a reality. The power of the demons was transferred to the government. Aya likes to think she ended up with Keisuke, and that Atsuro ended up with Yuzu during this end. But that’s very unlikely, considering what Aya says is usually not factual according to everyone who knows her. But that’s where the Keisuke saga ends-- Aya’s feelings carried on forever, to this day, but her first playthrough of Devil Survivor was something that changed her life forever.

## **Keisuke Saga: The Actions**

Aya took actions on her feelings a little bit after she played the game. She went on discord, twitter, EVERYTHING. Just to express such intense emotions she felt about Keisuke. How she yearned for his touch, how she wanted to hear his voice, and how she NEEDED to be beside him... But. Aya knew he wasn't real. But she wished he was. So badly, in fact, that she wrote AN ESSAY ON THE FANTASIES SHE IMAGINED OF KEISUKE! It was horrible. Blood, bones, guts, and brains flew everywhere to any poor soul who read it. They were traumatized for life, and wanted to kill Aya for it. But she didn't care at all. She kept writing about how much she wanted to be Keisuke's slave. She didn't realize how weird it was for her to be saying that in general until The 3rd of May, 2021. She immediately discarded the feelings she yearned to be gone, and went on with her life after months and MONTHS of being so down horrendous for Keisuke Takagi, the Justice Freak.