Armed Angel Agency

The **Armed Angel Agency** (武装天使機関 (Busō Tenshi Kikan(ぶそてんしきんかん))), also known simply as the Angel Agency (天使の機関, *Tenshi no Kikan*), is a group of Persona users in the *Persona 2: Hope Harmony*. This group was formed as the **Combat Club** (コンバットクラブ (Konbattokurabu(こんばっとくらぶ))) and was founded by the Japanese Education Minister since the Shōwa Era in the 1970s.

After their first mission, the group can be named (with the default name being "The Angels" (ザ • エンジェル (Zā Enjeru(ざえんじぇる))), which will be set on calling emails, to others via online features, and in dialogue (although voice dubbing will always refer to them as the "Armed Angel Agency").

## Appearances

* *Persona 2: Hope Harmony/The Havoc*
* *Persona 2: Hope Harmony (Manga)*
* *Persona 2: Hope Harmony Comic Anthology*
* *Persona 2: Hope Harmony Character Comic Anthology*
* *Persona 2: Hope Harmony Super Girls Comic Anthology*
* *Persona 2: Hope Harmony Dengeki Comic Anthology*
* *Persona 2: Hope Harmony - The Extraordinary Agent*
* *Persona 2: Hope Harmony - The Agency's Strikers*
* *Persona 2: Hope Harmony Code: Trinity Sky Comic*
* *Persona 2: The End of Seven Sisters High School* (Cameo)
* *Persona 2: Future Generation*

## Profile

### Take Back Reality

In October, while the Armed Angel Agency was dealing with their increased popularity, Makoto and Invi attempted to return a charm to Shelby Silverman, but the three were accidentally transported into an unknown Palace due to an offhand mention of a laboratory. There, Shelby awakens to her Persona, Harmonia. After they escape, Invi offers Shelby the choice to join the Armed Angel Agency; she accepts but she gives her time to focus on gymnastics. Back at Seven Sisters Dormitory, Makoto and Invi conclude that they shouldn't burden the rest of the Armed Angel Agency with the additional stress of knowing there's a new potential Persona user, and decide to not tell anyone.

If Makoto maxed out Steve Miller's Confidant before November 18th, the events will occur.

After defeating Gozen, the Armed Angel Agency, along with the rest of the general public and the 1980s Team of Assassination Specialized Execution Foundation, find themselves living in an altered reality where everyone's deepest desires have come false. Every one of them, save for Makoto, Tyler Uchida, and Shelby, is content with their reality and unable to rebel. When Shelby notices that the mysterious palace from October is visible in the real world, the Wildcard trio groups up to investigate inside. As they penetrate the entryway and explore the development areas, more and more evidence of Shelby's true self is presented, up until they encounter the Palace ruler, Steve himself.

He reveals himself as the creator of the new reality, and that he made it to the beginning of all of humanity's suffering. Shelby, frenzied with confusion and scared of what she's discovering, demands Steve show her who she really is. At her request, Steve shows the group Shelby's memories, which reveal that she is in fact Shelby's younger sister, Sarah. After blaming herself for the death of her elder sister, she came to Steve for therapy. During a session, he used his actualization abilities to make her believe she was Shelby. The revelation returns Sarah's cognition of her identity and sends her back into the grief and depression she sought to escape by allowing Steve to change her.

As Makoto denies Steve's ideal world, he seizes Sarah, who is his subject to break her mentally to make her pain torture, and orders a Hastur to attack the two guys, forcing them to unleash a Showtime and defeat it. Steve then threatens them to reconsider, giving them a week to explore his reality for themselves or he will ultimately destroy the world last resort. Makoto uses this week to talk to the rest of the Armed Angel Agency, the 1980s Team, Katsuya, Maya, Ulala, Baofu, Tatsuya, Eikichi, Lisa, Yukino, Maki, Hidehiko, and Reiji living in Steve's reality. Once Makoto and Tyler return at the end of the week, he gives them threatens to accept his reality for the sake of their suffering, as well as their friends and their teammates. They refuse, which stirs Sarah into attacking them, desperate to escape her berserk. When she is defeated, Steve forcibly restrains Sarah, holding her out of the reach of the two guys. This separates Harmonia from Sarah and causes the Persona to go berserk. Harmonia absorbs all of the Byakhee that Steve summons and is virtually invincible, up until Kenji appears to block its finishing strike, heralding the arrival of the other Agency. Once they defeat Harmonia, Steve allows Sarah to be set free and threatens them to return on February 3rd, 2018 for their final decision or he will ultimately destroy the world once and for all.

Elisa reveals that Steve may be in possession of his own Nyarlathotep, who is said to be able to manipulate cognition itself. However, he is also channeling power from Infinity Vortex, and if not stopped after a month, Infinity Vortex would merge with the real world and turn this version of reality into the 'Other Side'. Due to the lack of any corrupt memories, sin, or punishment, not even the Velvet Room is able to save a world like this.

The Agency now enters Steve's Palace, with Sarah joining the party as "Mary." When attacked and surrounded by several Shadows, Sarah tears off her mask only to have nothing happen, as the old Harmonia has been destroyed. She receives a new mask and as she tears it off, the real Shelby's soul reaches out to her and replaces the old Harmonia, officially marking Sarah as a rebel against her old, cowardly self.

Upon awakening their true ultimate Personas, the initial sixteen Armed Angel Agency regret and feel ashamed for accepting Steve's reality so hard, and resolve to change for the better, no matter how shameful reality is, admitting that facing these sinful events head-on is a part of their growth. They also lament being caught off guard by their subconscious desires, being rendered unable to support Makoto as a result, despite that being their utmost priority, having snared in their painful ignorance all the while when he was alone.