(open) bet you thought you'd seen the last of me

[forethinking]

Who: Ren and YOU!!
What: His return to the Void after his canon update
Where: Everywhere, we know how I roll, I'll probably update this forever
When: OOCLY, around the 10th of December!
Content Warnings: 100% Persona 5 Royal Spoilers will happen BUT I will put it in the comment subject if anything comes up.

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[forethinking]

No, you were there too. Time doesn't seem to work the same.

(And this is something Ren and Akechi had theorized a while back. Perhaps they never truly left, their respective selves being frozen in time for them until it was time for them to return. Or perhaps it's just a parallel instance of events, happening at the same time.

He doesn't even know. Ren doesn't have all the answers, unfortunately, all he can do is comfort her right now.)

You just picked me up and I was on the train home. Now I am here again.

[menaretrash]

...That's...

[ Different. Because she doesn't recall any of that happening. All she recalls is being depressed and frantic and numb before acceptance had started settling in. ]

....What about Akechi-kun?

[ Is he alive at home, then? ]

[forethinking]

He says he is from the same date now.

(Ren is still a little lost on the details, he still hasn't had the chance to go home yet, to ask and get on the same page, because really, to Ren, he has lost him again.

Taking down Maruki meant so. Apparently, they were wrong.)

[menaretrash]

...Wait, really?

[ Ann doesn't draw back from the embrace, but she does lift her head to peer up at Ren, blinking and probably looking very akin to a Hot Mess™. ]

That's... that's great! Right? [ Because it means he's not dead! She... she thinks. She hopes. ]

[forethinking]

I met him briefly.

(If she's crying, he's quick to gently wipe her tears with his index finger, soft and kind.

It is a good thing, even if he doesn't understand it.)

I don't know the details, I am on assumptions.