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[aerodynamic]

HELLO

"Yo. Is this thing on?"

GOODBYE

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[aerodynamic]

[ thank you, dahut... ]

I can't feel my Persona anymore.

[artificialsweetener]

[GAZING AT HIM.]

...The thingy you can use with your powers? Um! Hm. Like a more extreme version of how the healing itself didn't work? Or just... totally poof! Gone!

[aerodynamic]

It kinda is my power? Our Personas are a part of us, it's pieces of ourselves given a physical form and usually even when I can't summon like back home because it's usually for the TV world I can at least still feel it. Now it feels like that piece is gone.

[artificialsweetener]

Uwah... The river excised a part of you straight out...

[GIVING HIM A CONCERNED LOOK.]

Do you think it's still in the water?

[aerodynamic]

[ a look of betrayal at the river. ]

If it is, it's not like I can fish it out. It's only a physical thing when it's already summoned.

[artificialsweetener]

[THE RIVER REALLY PUNKED YOU, YOSUKE. Presumably. He is probably coming up with dozens of hypotheses in his stupid little green bean noggin about this, tapping a finger against his chin as he looks toward the water.]

Well... We can keep an eye on the river and see if anything changes about it. You should document if anything changes on your end, too, so we have an idea of what exactly we're dealing with here.

[aerodynamic]

[ it sure did, maybe he will never get it back... ]

I wanna see if you ever get the same feeling I do about it. Still nothing, right? The feeling's not as strong anymore but I guess that's because I'm already healed.

[artificialsweetener]

[HIS SOUL IS JUST BALDED FOREVER.]

Still nothing! I have a hypothesis about it that would be pretty easy to test, but I have a feeling that for better or worse, I won't need to...

[PEOPLE ARE JUST GOING TO KEEP GETTING INJURED.]

[aerodynamic]

[ it'd be what he deserves. ]

Given how we probably would've been hurt worse by that stupid monster if we weren't fast enough, you're probably right. But I can still really, really hate that idea.

... think you could drink the water and it'd work the same? Like medicine.

[artificialsweetener]

[WOULD YOU BE NICE TO YOUR DAMN LADS]

Mm, you and me, both... [It would be great if they could just do things and not do it at great bodily risk.]

...Well! There's an easy way to test that out, too.

[aerodynamic]

[ no.

but... he does crawl back to the river to look at it and stick his hand in to try and scoop it up to collect enough to drink. ]

I guess... be on standby if something goes wrong.

[artificialsweetener]

Hey, hey! Not you! [IMMEDIATELY RUNNING AFTER HIM AND SWATTING AT HIS SHOULDER.] You've already lost something to the river, presumably. Don't go sticking your hands in there and trying to drink it next!

[aerodynamic]

[ HEY. ]

Dude! [ swatting back! ] You don't think it would just cancel itself out since I already lost my Persona?

[ no that is not how it works. ]

[artificialsweetener]

[DON'T HEY HIM types het first

ANYWAY, a bit more seriously:]

I think it's too early to say for sure what it might do, but it's possible that it could just take something else from you, instead. What it takes might be proportional to what it gives, and I don't know if it could give anything to a healed person, but I don't want you taking that risk.

[aerodynamic]

[ i won't do that either i guess. ]

... the hand isn't completely healed so there's that? [ but logically, yes, this should not be the vibe. ] I hate the idea of waiting for someone else to be hurt enough to test it, but I guess we can ask them to drink it instead.

[artificialsweetener]

[the het beam in this game is already too strong there are too many people in the closet]

I hate it, too, but it's the most logical choice.

[aerodynamic]

[ he visibly deflates slightly. ]

... think it'll be weird to ask people to be around when they try to heal?

[artificialsweetener]

They can handle a little weirdness or discomfort if it's for the sake of making important observations.

[Gently patpats his shoulder very lightly in case there are any lingering hidden injuries there too.]

[aerodynamic]

Dahut, that feels very much like something a mad researcher would say. [ at least his shoulders are sturdy. ]

[artificialsweetener]

But I'm not wrong!

[SOMETIMES YOU GOTTA BE A MAD RESEARCHER TO GET SHIT DONE.]

[aerodynamic]

[ just bats at him again. ]

Okay, you're not, but if people come back from something like we did their heads might not agee with you as easily as I did.

[artificialsweetener]

If only there was a way to set up some sort of surveillance system so we could keep an eye on things here even without being nearby, but even I can't build something like that with what we have to work with...

[This will perhaps be solved with the nerd locker that will soon appear... Thinking about how camera technology is basically limited to the Institute and the rest of his country just have to deal with no pictures or videos. Hilarious.]

[aerodynamic]

[ my god. ]

It is a little weird that I haven't seen any kind of security cameras or anything like that at all since we got here. I mean maybe whoever is watching us go through this doesn't need something like that but I don't know if that's better or worse.

[artificialsweetener]

To be honest, I think it'd make more sense if they could do that, considering the other things they seem to be capable of. But it's probably worse in a lot of ways, haha.

[DON'T JUST SWEATILY HAHA ABOUT IT.]

[aerodynamic]

I don't know if I want to think about how it's worse... but that's not wrong. If they aren't bound by cameras it means their reach is a lot further doesn't it? Maybe somebody's watch us right now.