Persona: Devil Summoner

In the cognitive space, every time you encounter a new enemy, the bullets will be automatically refilled, which greatly optimizes the backpacks of the thieves. But because of this, if you use up a whole magazine of bullets and still can't kill the enemy, then the gun becomes a fire stick.

As for magic, it has the same embarrassing problem as firearms, that is, magic consumes mental energy, and if you use it too much, you can't use it anymore. And the opponent's huge body naturally has the same level of resistance to blows, so it's not that easy to kill it...

For a time, the Phantom Thieves were in a stalemate.

"Hey, MONA! If you can turn into a car, can't you turn into an armed helicopter or something?!"

Long Si pulled the trigger continuously and fired all the bullets, and couldn't help but complain. Morgana was also very anxious, frowned and said: "There is nothing we can do! If we could change, we would have changed long ago!"

"Tsk... it's really useless at the critical moment..."

Long Si muttered something in a low voice, and although the voice was very soft, Morgana still heard it clearly. Just as he was about to attack, he saw the monster in the sky swooping down, and everyone quickly scattered to avoid it.

(If Jiang Tianwei were here...how would he solve it?).

Amamiya Ren looked at the miserable appearance of the crowd and couldn't help but think so...

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Meanwhile, the interior of the pyramid...

“Um——this, this is…shouldn’t I be in my room just now?”

Sakura Futaba made such an exclamation, holding her mobile phone in both hands, looking at the interface of the different world navigation APP on it, and made such an exclamation.

She was too thin, and she was casually wearing a T-shirt and loose pants. Her small feet were just stepping directly on the ground of the pyramid. Fortunately, it was very hot here, so she didn't feel cold walking on the floor barefoot.

It was obvious that she had entered the cognitive palace directly from home without changing her clothes, and was still in her home clothes.

However, unlike the others who were dragged into this, when she was really fiddling with her phone, she found an eye-like symbol on it. She clicked on it out of curiosity, just like what Amamiya Ren and the others had done before. Coincidentally, she activated the other world navigation APP and entered her own palace.

It is unheard of that the palace owner himself enters his own palace.

It is worth mentioning that people who have palaces are not necessarily bad people. The birth condition of cognitive palaces is distorted desires, but it is just distortion, not necessarily [bad]...

Sakura Futaba is such a person with twisted desires...

Her mother was originally a young and promising psychology researcher, but when Futaba was very young, her mother "committed suicide".

In front of Futaba, she stumbled in front of the speeding car and died on the spot. Later, according to the doctor, she suffered from severe postpartum depression. At this time, a group of men in black appeared with a suicide note from her mother, which was full of resentment towards Sakura Futaba: If you were not there, it would be great. If you did not exist, if it were not for you...

It was this past that caused serious psychological trauma to Sakura Futaba. She was even unable to speak or leave the room for a time. Although she was a child, she constantly longed for self-destruction and death.

Although her name contains the surname Sakura, she is not Mr. Sakura's biological child, nor is she even a relative. Mr. Sakura just adopted her.

As for why Mr. Sakura adopted her... I can only say that sometimes, some women have such magical charm. When Mr. Sakura was young, he was also a romantic man with many romantic partners, but he fell in love with Futaba's biological mother [Ishiki Wakaba] at first sight.

Even though Isshiki Wakaba later married someone else and gave birth to Futaba, her love for him never faded. Originally, Boss Sakura had persuaded him to accept everything, but he didn't expect that this kind of change would happen again. Futaba became an orphan without any relatives. He resolutely adopted Futaba and changed her name to Sakura Futaba.

"This is... my heart?"

Should I say, they are really top hackers? Sakura Futaba accepted it very quickly. When she thought about the Phantom Thieves of Hearts launching that app in front of her and disappearing in reality, and the fact that it was the Phantom Thieves of Hearts, she immediately guessed where this place was.

"You came."

Just as Futaba was looking at the cyber pyramid curiously, she suddenly heard a familiar voice talking to her. She looked in the direction of the voice and saw a COSPLAY-like figure of herself floating in the air and talking to her.

“Uh, um oh oh?! It’s actually me?! Hey, hey hey?!”

Futaba's glasses were about to fall off in shock!

She couldn't leave the room, so naturally her favorite things were only computers and the Internet. She had naturally heard of the famous Internet meme that there were actually two or three people in the world who looked exactly the same, and once they met each other, one of them would die.

Later, it even evolved into something like, when two people meet, they will engulf each other, erupting with energy similar to a nuclear bomb explosion...

The appearance of this completely similar doppelganger shocked Futaba so much that she didn't know what to say.

"You, who are you?"

Sakura Futaba asked bravely. After all, the person in front of her looked almost the same as her. According to common people's thinking, the physical fitness of these two people was also similar. Futaba was very aware of her small body: she couldn't even kill a chicken with a kitchen knife. Even if she had any bad ideas, she probably couldn't do it.

However, Futaba at the cognitive level did not say much to her. She just silently pointed upwards to the road that the Phantom Thieves had walked before, leading directly to the location of the secret treasure... or in other words, directly to the battlefield of the final battle.

"What do you mean? You, you want me to go up here?"

Sakura Futaba asked weakly. The cognitive Futaba did not speak, and just looked at her with a pair of bright yellow eyes, which made her feel creepy. After all, no matter who you are, being stared at by a similar but different "self" is a very scary experience, otherwise horror movies would not always use mirrors as scenes.

"Okay! I get it! I'll go!"

Futaba gave up on herself and stopped thinking. She ran up the path the other person pointed to...

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 341 Know Yourself

Philosophers generally believe that human beings are often willing to pursue things that they cannot achieve.

For example, humans cannot fly, so they yearn to fly.

On the other hand, from the many times humans have written adventure stories about fragile humans destroying powerful beasts, we can draw a conclusion: it is very difficult for humans to kill these behemoths in reality.

Now, this cognitive level Sphinx monster is a great example.

"Damn it, why is it so difficult?!"

Sakamoto Ryuji roared angrily. The shotgun in his hand had long been empty of bullets. Now in order to attack the huge Sphinx, Ryuji could only summon Captain Kidd's persona and continuously release lightning attacks.

But, think about it, magic is such a rare thing, how can everyone be good at it? Long Si looks like a big and strong man, and he doesn't look like someone who is good at magic.

Dazzling lightning bombarded continuously, but not to mention that the Sphinx was flying in the air and dodged a lot of it, even if it hit, the power was not great.

One of the advantages of having a weak physique is a stronger ability to withstand blows. Even the strongest ant cannot bite a human to death.

Amamiya Ren observed everyone carefully. People like Ryuji who liked to shout and yell had naturally exhausted their physical strength. Takamaki An and Morgana also looked tired, which showed how exhausting it was to just use magic attacks.

Amamiya Ren kept deducing in her mind which personas in her hands could solve this embarrassing situation.

"Ugh?! What is this place?!"

Just when he was at a loss, Sakura Futaba's exclamation interrupted Amamiya Ren's thoughts.

"Why is there someone else?! Futaba-chan? How did you get in!?"

Gao Juanxing was shocked when she heard other people's voices here. You know, this is a cognitive space, not a vegetable market, where did the outsiders come from? !

Sakura Futaba let out a sigh and realized she was talking about herself, and was also shocked at the time.

After all, she was essentially a homebody, so of course she would be startled when she was suddenly addressed by a girl like Takamaki An who was obviously at the center of the topic.

"Futaba!!!".

Such a big living person suddenly broke into the battlefield. Of course, both the enemy and the friend would notice it. The huge sphinx roared fiercely, and the face of the white-collar worker was filled with terrible hatred.

"If it weren't for you! If it weren't for you! If you hadn't been born!"

“Mom…Mom…?!”

When Sakura Futaba heard the hateful roar and saw the face she hadn't seen for more than ten years, her pupils lost focus, she broke out in cold sweat, and trembled uncontrollably. She then fell down with her hands covering her head.

This is her palace of cognition. The huge sphinx is the monster called mother that was born from her distorted cognition.

Normally, when it comes to the concept of guarding the mausoleum, everyone thinks of "not letting outsiders in". However, in Futaba's cognition, it is just the opposite, that is, "not letting people inside out". In Futaba's cognition, the Sphinx [Isshiki Wakaba] is the culprit who has been imprisoning Sakura Futaba all this time!

"Mom, I'm sorry... I'm sorry, Mom..."

Futaba was originally a child, and now she was severely condemned by her dear mother, and her already weak heart collapsed all of a sudden. It is said that adults can collapse in an instant, let alone a child?

Upon hearing this, Gao Juan Xing was immediately unhappy. She stared at the Sphinx, whose size was ten times larger than her, and angrily said, "How can you be a mother like this!"

"Outsiders, shut up!!!!"

Unexpectedly, Takamaki An was very angry, and Sphinx Isshiki Wakaba was even angrier. The size difference was so great that the intensity of their voices naturally increased as well.

The violent roar directly suppressed Gao Juan Xing's anger. Everyone covered their ears involuntarily, fearing that their eardrums would be torn by this huge roar.

Sakura Futaba felt a headache and her eardrums were buzzing due to the stabbing pain. Countless images emerged from her mind.

This is the palace of the heart, where all the secrets hidden in her heart will be revealed. When she was a child, the men in black appeared at the funeral, and the suicide notes in their hands... My mother was walking on the street, and suddenly she rushed to the street like crazy... And the scene of me pestering my mother and insisting that she take me out...

"Don't...don't...don't appear in my mind..."

Unable to hold back, big tears rolled down Futaba's eyes.

"No, you have to watch and listen."

Suddenly, amidst the surrounding sounds of auditory violence, the voice of Sakura Futaba was heard. At some point, the cognitive Sakura Futaba stood in front of the real Sakura Futaba. She lowered her head, squatted down, and looked at her original body. However, she did not comfort her original body. On the contrary, she held up the original Futaba's head with both hands a little roughly, so that she could not look away and could only be forced to look at herself.

"If you want to be free, you have to look directly at these scenes that you don't want to look at."

Shadow Futaba's voice was low and very serious.

The owner of the palace can be considered as his own essence, so he will neither lie nor go against his own "heart". Sometimes, the truth is bloody and can hurt people. Just like a rose full of thorns, if you are afraid of being pricked by the thorns, you can't pick it.

Since she was a child, Futaba Sakura was afraid to seek the truth because of her childish fear, and she just took everything others said seriously. If she wants to save herself from distortion, she must have the awareness to face the past that she cannot bear to look back on.

"Think carefully, is your mother that kind of person?"

"Mom...Mom, at that time, you were doing research. It was me who kept pestering you to go out and play..."

"So, what did Mom say?"

"She said...she is very busy now, and she said that she will take me out to play when she finishes her work..."

When the two Futaba were talking, it seemed that the trauma deep in her memory was touched. Suddenly, a large number of people in black suits appeared around Futaba. They pointed at Futaba and said similar things, saying that Futaba killed her mother and that her mother committed suicide because of the pressure of raising a child...

"Ignore their voices! After talking with the Phantom Thieves, haven't you decided to face up to everything? - Who told you that your mother died because of you?"

Sakura Futaba in the cognitive space asked, her tone stern.

"Yes, it was those men in black who said that to me at my mother's funeral while holding her suicide note..."

"Do you think your mother would say something like that?"

"No, Mom, she has always been, she has always been very gentle!"

Sakura Futaba's voice became more and more choked.

The Sakura Futaba in her cognition is her suppressed true heart. It is also her original thoughts deep in her heart and her resistance to those unreasonable voices.

But, all along, Futaba in reality has been distracted by the words of those men in black, unable to think deeply about these things, and just muddle-headedly muddles through.

Today, she came to the cognitive space in person and came face to face with her own heart. In philosophy, this can be called "knowing yourself."

Sakura Futaba, at this moment, finally realized what she was thinking deep down...

"My mother, you can't possibly say such excessive words to me! So, you are not my mother at all! It's a false memory!"

"Yeah. It seems like you've finally recognized the reality."

Futaba, who was in a cognitive state, suddenly spoke in a vague tone.

She flew into the air, and her fair skin suddenly turned pitch black, as if someone had poured a bucket of ink on her.

Then, her slender body twisted strangely, her arms and legs stretched out, as if she was a soft octopus. Then, her dark body glowed like another sun, emitting a dazzling emerald glow.

Everyone squinted their eyes and barely saw that the true face of the emerald ball of light was not a celestial body! It was a flat object that looked like a plate. If you often watch science fiction movies, you will definitely be familiar with it - this is the unidentified flying object called a UFO!

That suspended ball of light is exactly the bottom of the UFO, and is regarded as the entrance to the spacecraft in many science fiction works!

There was a ray of green light falling there, and Sakura Futaba seemed to be attracted by it and slowly rose into the air. Then, she was grabbed by the octopus tentacle-like structure inside and dragged into the flying saucer!

"Huh? Could this, this also be a kind of persona?!"

Sakamoto Ryuji looked at the strangely shaped persona in surprise. Although he knew that personas had different shapes, this flying saucer was too cool, right? !

"Ahhh?! Futaba, ahhhh!"

However, without giving everyone time to react, the Sphinx Isshiki Ruoye swooped down from the sky, raised its claws high, aimed at the location where everyone was and smashed down hard!

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 342 Civilized Weapon Crossbow

The heavy claw blade attacked everyone violently with tremendous pressure.

Considering that Sphinx Isshiki Wakaba had previously blown off the roof with a single slap, one can imagine the power of this blow.

She is the monster created by Sakura Futaba deep in her own heart. This is her own spiritual palace. It is not difficult to conclude from the fact that the monster can destroy the pyramid that without the help of the Phantom Thieves, Futaba's own inner world will one day be destroyed by this heavy pressure.

However, facing the inner demons now has accelerated the destructive process.

The Sphinx's sharp claws came down with all its might, and the heavy wind pressed everyone to the ground like a hammer.

"No way, I'll let you succeed!"