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Ahh...uh...

[Miki is trying to keep a straight face but this is harder than she thought.]

...umm I think that Minami is gone. W-well no. Not 'I think'. I know she's gone since her room is occupied by someone else, so I guess she returned to our world...

[Her best friend is gone but she...she doesn't think she could leave herself just yet. Not with what she's gained here.]

I kinda need to clear my mind a bit...

Anyone want to do something?

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[Awkward pauses, she was used to with Shinjiro. She doesn't even blink from it, and closes her door.]

Yeah. Lead the way.

[ So he does, waiting a moment for her and then heading on downstairs and out the door. He holds it for her, though, because he is polite or something. Not because he likes her or anything. ]

It's a couple blocks this way.

... [ But now that they're alone together, he's not quite sure... how to ask what he wants to know. It seems kind of.. rude or something to just ask about Minami, and he's also sure that if Miki wants to talk about how she's feeling, then she'll say something. ]

[Considering a double of you was attacking her with his Persona a few months ago, the door opening is really something different. Miki does freeze for a second before giving thanks, albeit in a subdued manner. She nods at his words and walks quietly besides him for a minute or two.

...so. How to break the ice...usually she has no problems with this. Hell she's good at getting Shinjiro to talk once in a while. Maybe if she goes for the 'tell me about yourself'. Actually...she is a bit curious about that, compared the quieter Minato is a stark contrast to the one she knows, and she has told him already a bunch of things from her own world a while ago.]

Sooo uh...how was SEES in your world like with you leading it? [Pause.] I mean in the things you did differently way.

[Why is she so bad at this? Usually she's not bad at this.]

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"Yes. Movies, videos, most media. Why?"

[Minako's gaze lingers on it for a moment, noting the burn. Only one photo... Briefly, she wonders if Akihiko has this one too... or if the mark meant it was probably gone.

...She decides to focus on the image itself instead, and an obvious question comes to mind.]

He's really had that hat for this long?

[She laughs quietly at that.]

Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born with it.

[She waits for Minako to turn the page. When she does, there will be pictures of Miki and Shinjiro very out of focus for the most part, or a finger in front. Someone was trying out her new camera, or getting one of the others to hold it for her when she took pictures with Shinjiro. There are also pictures of the Sanada family; the couple appears to be old, but happy.]

...Are these your parents?

[This illustrates another hole that came out of really only knowing her friends less than a year. She didn't know anything about Akihiko's adoptive family. She knew they existed, but that was from the rumor mill and not anything that he'd ever said to her. When he brought up past events he'd only ever spoken about his time at the orphanage, and Miki.

Maybe they'd never been close. But in Miki's photograph, they looked happy.]

Told— [The silence following should be enough of an answer: no, she hadn't.] I was talkin' about that cookbook you have.

[They should eat ice cream and watch some together sometime, it will be adorable and also full of secret shame.

Speaking of ice cream!]

Anything with chocolate is fine with me. I'm pretty easy.

[He won't sprinkle protein powder on it, either. Maybe.]

Yes. Okasama passed away a few years ago...

[She takes a small breath to calm herself down least she cries after just a few photos, and instead offers Minako a smile.]

...I am very grateful for everything they allowed me to accomplished. [She points to a picture of her winning her first tournament at a young age, her adoptive mother is (at least in Japan) very uncharacteristically cheering her on. You can even spot Shinjiro in the far end of the seats; even if hes' blurry, that beanie hat of his gives away who he is.]

[Just another day in the Sanada household, really.

And she grins, stopping herself from making a terrible joke from those words. Miki he is your brother, be nice.]

I'll see if they have double fudge, in that case.

[Because if her brother wants chocolate, she's going to get him something that has chocolate everything in it. A virtual choco-plosion.]

[Oh...well then in that case that was her fault for misunderstanding. Now she's angry at herself for not realizing this sooner. Don't worry, that face is for herself, not you Shinji.]

....oh. Tch, I should have realized that. Sorry, I'll go get it now. [She shuffles with the book in her arm.] And this is my photobook. Can I leave it here while I go get my cookbook?

They seem like good people.

[She's glad Miki had such a good experience with her adoptive family. It's definitely something she deserved.]

Well...I always wanted to know what the future enjoyed at entertainment...

They are.

[The next few pages look like life in the mansion; the Sanadas were no doubt rich for having planned to adopt both of them at such an older age. There's sometimes utterly pointless shots of just pieces of her room, or pictures of much younger self taking a photo via a mirror.

Then it slowly starts inching school life...and a surprising amount of Shinjiro photographs.

He's smiling. Or at least compared to how he is now for the most part, smiling a lot.]

"Well, if you'd ever like to come over and view Omoikane's library feel free to do so."

[ He blinks at the question and is quiet for a moment, thinking about how to answer. ]

We had a different arrangement of people, but you already know that...

In the end, SEES was my family... [ It's the most he can think to say that isn't just listing off differences they've already established. The different line-ups of SEES and Strega, the different people alive and dead between their worlds... And they all know how it ended, so things can't have been all that different... right? He's just unsure. ]

[Huh. Somehow she hadn't quiet expected that answer...and yet..the other him had said something similar.

"It's my family..." Miki could understand that.

Something worth fighting for...

And something with sacrificing yourself for...

Would have she done the same in the shoes of the two Arisato's? She would have given her life as well back them to stop Nyx, but in the end it was just due to one person. Not just for the world...

...But for family.]

We kinda are, aren't we?

[...Granted a very dysfunctional family for the most part. But there's no other people she'd rather be with.]

[It's... a photo album? He tilts his head, staring at it.]

Yeah. Just put it on the table.

Mm. [ He smiles a bit at this thought. ] We fill in the missing pieces for each other... Give each other people to rely on and trust. ... maybe that's a difference, though. How the trust manifests between people.

[ How Minako and Shinjiro have come to trust each other, and how she interacts with other people she trusts is different from how he interacts with people he trusts which is again different, he's sure, from how Minami interacts with people she trusts. And the same goes for Miki and Akihiko, as well. ]

They who does not trust enough, will not be trusted.

[Something Miki herself needs to put into practice more often, she realizes.]

...that was from Lao Tzu. [She grins a little more.] Force of habit. [And she knows, Family isn't just flesh and blood relatives.]

That's why we miss them even more when they're gone. [And the void they leave.]

Alright.

[There is now one(1) photo album on the table. Miki gives him a small wave as she closes the door.]

I'll be right back!

[Shinjiro nods, grey eyes wandering over to the photo album as she leaves. He stares at it for a minute or so until curiosity finally gets the better of him and he walks over to the table, pulling up a chair. There's a moment of hesitation as he debates opening it—if she didn't want him looking at it, she wouldn't have brought it—but he does eventually, opening to a random page somewhere in the middle, eyes flashing across a photograph... and a memory that has him in it that he doesn't remember, though a similar one likely resides in its place, somewhere on the shelf of memories he has with Aki. He goes through a few other random pages (who the hell is the guy with the obnoxiously yellow scarf?), but he eventually stops going through the photos aimlessly, and flips to where he should have started: the first page, at the first old, damaged photograph. And that's where Miki will find him when she returns, staring at it, with maybe a small smile breaking across his usual deadpan expression.

He might not remember the rest of the memories in the book... but he remembers this.

...Not that he's at all sentimental about it or anything.]

[She does see it as she opens the door, and can't help but grin a little herself...at the same time she knows how he is and closes it a little again before knocking then letting herself in. You know, just so he's sufficiently warned and she totally didn't see anything.

Tch and her without her camera at that moment. No...no she couldn't have done that even if she had her camera.]

Hey. I'm back!

[With the right book this time (let's pretend it's actually a Japanese book)]

[And he definitely didn't hear her come in the first time either. But the warning's more than enough time for the smile to disappear into something a bit more solid. He could have closed the album and acted like he hadn't touched it, but he doesn't. Seemed a bit childish to do something like that, anyway. Be pretty damn obvious.

He turns his head, spots the book—yeah that was the one—and mumbles the ritualized "welcome back." Comes out automatically almost.]

You've got a hell of a lot of photos. Beats me why you need them all for.

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