Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-36289716-20190325170412/@comment-29194274-20190327141424

"Alright, so we first met Akechi a few months before he actually joined our team. A few of us, the Thieves, has been talking, and Morgona mentioned getting pancakes. I know, that doesn't seem to bad, but none of you can understand him, can you? Only people who have entered the Metaverse can, and here he was, talking about pancakes when only Morgona had said something. Something was obviously amiss, so they asked me to get some info once he actually joined our team." Futaba has approached the group, Joker in tow, and pulls out a phone from a pocket on her leg.

"So, when we first met Akechi, he had already been inside the Metaverse. None of us actually know how, but he claims to have run into a 'Black Mask' in the Metaverse and the fight that occurred forcing him to awaken his persona. We had already heard of the Black Mask, he was behind the multitude of psychotic incidents and mental shutdowns, although the general public didn't know that. Of course, we were concerned, but he was also was coercing us into letting him in, doing one last heist, or else he'd release our identies to the public! We couldn't risk that, so we let him in and went after our 'last' target, Sae Niijima, a public prosecutor whose sense of justice had become corrupted and twisted. We went in, tried to take her Treasure so that she'd be a good person again, only for the police to suddenly swarm the place."

Futaba looks at everyone in the group before continuing.

""But who brought them in there in the first place?', I hear you asking. Well, we have Akechi over here to thank that for. Joker was arrested, beaten and drugged, forced to sign a confession, and then went with Sae to go answer questions. We bet everything on the fact that our leader could convince Sae to bring Akechi into the Metaverse and have Sae's Shadow Self create what is known as a cognition, giving Joker ample time to escape, but having Akechi kill a cognition, not the real guy. We convinced Sae to whisk him off, back to the café, before we went after the big man himself, Masayoshi Shido. We were about to head down into a part of Shido's Palace before being brought here."

"Now, I feel I should explain what the Black Mask has done. While he's only targeted a few people directly, his actions have created a ripple effect and he's gotten hundreds of people killed! There's been subway accidents,vand multitudes of seperate people have had mental shutdowns and died."

"Look at me, Futaba." Akechi takes the chance to argue his defense once she stops. "This 'Black Mask'? He has a black mask. I have a bright red one, and unlike your friend over here," Akechi waves a hand at Joker, "I can't take on multiple Personas as masks. If it was anyone you know, it'd more likely be him, or, oh, I don't know, someone who actually has a black mask?"