Right? It was just... something out of a horror movi-- uh. Story. One second I'm surrounded by people, and then the next it's all dark and wrong, and it feels like I'm the only human left on earth. And then... I saw weird black things, moving in the darkness. They're were almost like those poor mutant blots we saw around here, but worse...

[ With Chidori, he'd pretended to be brave, but Jean would see right through his bravado if he tried, huh? Not that he was going to hide how it made him feel... he hadn't when he joined SEES. ]

I freaked out when it happened-- hell, my sen... uh, upperclassman found me crying like a baby hiding in that store, because along with all this I felt totally out of it and weak. But after about an hour? Everything went back to normal. Like nothing had happened. Turns out I had a special power called a Persona... only people who had this power could stay human after midnight- during the Dark Hour, a 25th hour where monster's called Shadows run around.

[ A pause, before Junpei chuckled sheepishly. ]

Sounds like complete bs, right? For me, it was something out of a story-- I'd lived a totally normal life till then, super mundane, wishing for adventure to come to me...

[ O-oh, right, with all that talking-- ]

O-okay! We're here... Uh, I'm gonna help you up the steps-- think you'll be good?