Apart Friendship (Puella Persona Magia Q Chapter 1)

**Apart Friendship** is Chapter 1 of **Puella Persona Magia Q** and The 20th Chapter in the **Persona Record Series**. this is the first chapter of Puella Persona Magia Q.

Previous Chapter: **Differences**, Next Chapter: **Other Persona-Users**

## Apart Friendship

### First Published

September 6th 2020 (First Published) April 26th 2022 (Spanish) April 27th 2022 (Japanese)

### Characters in Chapter

Iroha Tamaki, Ren Amamiya, Ann Takamaki, Ryuji Sakamoto, Makoto Niijima, Haru Okumura, Morgana, Yusuke Kitagawa, Futaba Sakura, Shijro Sakura, Yachiyo Nanami, Felicia Mitsuki, Sana Futaba, Tsuruno Yui, Unnamed Female Student, Yosuke Hanamura, Yu Narukami.

## Chapter 1 Bio

*6 days before **Iroha Tamaki's** Birthday, **Ren** hangs out with Iroha buts something strange happens that makes Iroha run away from him, after that he comes ill, and Iroha passes out at school, when waking up she finds herself in her classroom but something is different she meets too boys who don't go to a school in Kamihama and her Persona-Users.*

## Summary

6 days before Iroha's Birthday, Ren is one the roof top of **Shujin Academy** with his friends, **Ryuji** tells him that Iroha birthday is coming up and **Ann** says they should cheer her on, Haru says it would lovely and **Makoto** asks if he has anything to give her, this makes him blush and he gets teased by **Morgana** and Ryuji, Makoto breaks it up and Ren says he's actually gonna hang out with Iroha that day.

After School, he when to the **Shibuya** Train Station, where he dozes off and has a small dream, a voice calls out to me and says his friendship will be tested, and he must be prepared for the Trail ahead, he's soon waken up by Iroha and Morgana and remembers they are supposed to hang out, Morgana acts as a Third Wheel and they go to a shop **Haru** had suggested, Iroha could tell Haru was the one who suggest as she was the type of person who likes Cute things, inside Iroha finds a Cherry Blossom Key-Chain for **Ui**,

Afterwards they go to a park where Iroha becomes very dizzy, Ren asks if she is alright and she says she must have not slept well last night, Ren told her she should sit down and he'll get some water for her to drink, however when Iroha almost collapsed he try to catch her but a strange electric ZAP! happened repelling the two from touching each other, Morgana asked if the two were alright, Ren saw Iroha was scared and then she ran away saying she was sorry, he tried to catch up to her but he felled down, Iroha just kept repeating she was sorry as she ran back to the Train Station on go back to **Kamihama**.

Ren went back to **Leblanc** with Morgana where **Futaba** and **Sojiro** were, Ren was confused of what happened and wonder why Iroha ran away, Sojiro asked how was his hang out with Iroha and Ren said it didn't went well, when Futaba questioned if Ren was alright and if did something happened to Iroha, Ren said not really before passing out on the floor which panicked Futaba and Sojiro, he woke up an hour later where everyone had surrounded him, he asked what happened and **Yusuke** answered him on how he was told he collapsed on the ground and Futaba called with over, Morgana asking if he was alright, Ren said he was fine but doesn't feel right, Ryuji touches his forehead and says he's burning up, like he is sick, Ann asked what happen and Ren told me what happens done to Iroha's Fear look and running away saying she was sorry, after this Futaba said she'll call **Sana** to make sure Iroha comes home safely, Makoto said they soon leave what has happened behind until they figure out what really happened.

In Kamihama, Iroha came back to **Mikazuki Villa**, when she passing out on the doorstep, **Yachiyo** comes over to her and ask **Felicia** and **Sana** to help and get Iroha water due to how far she ran to get her, Ui helped Yachiyo get Iroha inside and where they put her on the couch to sleep, Ui stayed next her, Iroha starts to have a dream where it was more vivid like Ren's Dream, it was dark but it became clear she was attacked by a shadow but it was soon defeated before it could touch her, she sees two boys, she going tell who they were because it was a blur too her, one of them said something that they had a feeling they will meet each other someday, Iroha soon woke up with a blanket over her and her sister Ui, sleeping beside her, she questioned on what happened.

The Next day at **Kamihama University Affiliated School**, Iroha was worried and afraid wondering what Ren would say to her when they see each other again, she didn't even noticed **Tsuruno** was talking to her, Tsuruno asked in her optimistic phase if Iroha was alright, Iroha said she was after she thought thought class about Ren, a Student came up to her to tell her that she was on Cleaning Duty today, Iroha understood at lunch she finally was able to talk to Ren by texting him, Ren told that he could not go to school because he needed to rest, Iroha was able to apologize to Ren for running off yesterday and he forgave her, after lunchtime and school, Iroha cleaned the desk as she was on Cleaning Duty.

A Student said to her they were talking out the trash and will be right back, as the student left, Iroha thought about her dream she looked out the window seeing the sun go down, suddenly she passed out again, when waking up she was still in the classroom, yet the student who took out the trash never came back Iroha was confused on what was going on she checked her phone yet she wasn't getting any service, and the atmosphere of the school felt different too like if it were a **witches labyrinth**, yet Iroha didn't get a sign there was a **witch** from her **soul gem**, looking out the window she saw a **foggy forest** and the school seem to not be on the campus anymore!, she could not call Ren because there was not Internet Service and checking for witches lead nowhere she remembered that **Rena**, **Kaede** and **Momoko** were on Cleaning duty too and Tsuruno left to help her **Family Business**, so she went too look for Momoko and her group she took a Mop with her as some sort of protect so she didn't had to waste magic.

She walked down the hallway and her heart was pounding, and she was afraid of how quiet everything was too, looking into other classrooms no one was there like the school was closed for the day, she suddenly heard running coming from down the hallway in a panic she ran into a classroom and hide in a metal broom closet, she heard voices of two males as they entered the same classroom she did, she could see them though the holes of the closet she made a noise on accident which got there attention, two boys were there, **a boy with gray hair** and **a boy with Orange Hair that the other boy called "Yosuke"**. The boy name Yosuke went to the closet where he opened it and saw Iroha with the mop she had raised up she then hits Yosuke with the mop and runs away yelling she was sorry for doing that, Yu Narukami the other boy goes after Iroha and Yosuke yells at him to come back too now with hand on his head from where Iroha hit him with the mop.

As Iroha is running away from them she calls out to Ren or anyone who can hear her in **Telepathy**, Yu was able to catch up her and grab her hand telling her and trying to calm her that he and Yosuke were not gonna hurt her, Iroha told him to let her go but he try to calm her again that they were looking for help and asked her to just listen to him, however a **Shadow** that happened to be chasing Yosuke and Yu attacks him and Iroha, Yosuke arrives in time and uses his **Persona**, **Jiraiya** to save Yu and Iroha, She was surprised to see Yosuke use his Persona, Yosuke asks if they are ok, Yu said yes and it was also thanks to Iroha protecting him, Iroha asks if they are **Persona-Users**, to Yosuke's surprise that she knew about Personas.

**The End of Chapter 1 to Puella Persona Magia Q**

## Audio Book

Apart Friendship- Puella Persona Magia Q Chapter 1 Audio BookAudio Book