Persona: Devil Summoner

"I am the one who should apologize. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings."

Just as Jiang Tianwei finished apologizing, he heard a woman's laughter from the corner, just like the standard sound of a bad woman seducing a man. When he turned around, he saw Cleopatra wrapped herself in a piece of silk red cloth, like a mummy.

"This Chinese silk is much more comfortable to wrap yourself in than the knitted blanket I used to use. At least it's not prickly."

"Why didn't you just put on some clothes when you were wrapped in the blanket?"

"Then why do I need to wrap myself in a blanket?"

"You're hiding! That's what the history textbook says!"

"That's all fabricated by you descendants. I just think it's more interesting this way."

"real or fake?!"

"Of course it's fake. Do I look like that kind of stupid woman?"

"..."

Jiang Tianwei exchanged a few words with Cleopatra, and then immediately realized that he really didn't have time to mess around with them here, and he had to get started quickly.

Including the interior decoration, the placement of goods, how to guide people, how to solve the problem of lack of manpower...they are all problems!

I have to praise India here.

Among the gods and demons that Jiang Tianwei summoned for the final decoration, only Parvati, the snow mountain goddess from India, was helping seriously. She didn't say much or show off, but just quietly arranged the shelves and placed these exotic gadgets that she had never seen before on them.

"You should all learn from Ms. Parvati..."

Jiang Tianwei sighed, feeling helpless.

Parvati, who was suddenly named, shook her shoulders obviously like a frightened cat. She was very cute. "Me? Thank you for the compliment. I'm just used to it. After all, that person likes to do penance. I'm used to doing these things."

The man she was talking about was, of course, her spouse in the myth and one of the main gods of Hinduism, Shiva. It is said that this is a man who regards destroying the world as his hobby and job. How terrible!

It seems that it is hard to say whether the borrowed cat's hand will be useful, but the borrowed devil's hand is definitely unreliable.

Therefore, Jiang Tianwei had to think of a way - what a stupid way, where would he have the time to do this now? !

He is now full of remorse. He regrets wasting his youth and is ashamed of doing nothing. Although he has no signs of dying, he always feels that he has dedicated his life and all his experiences to the most difficult cause in the world - wandering between several women. People like him should read "How the Steel Was Tempered" carefully.

Now, it has come to the point of being forced, he really needs a demon who can help him stop time, but unfortunately, the so-called demon also has its limits.

"So, everyone, stop playing! Now go full throttle!!! We have to make it to the school festival!"

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 724: My Homeland in My Mind, You Should Laugh at My Early Gray Hair

School festival is a non-inherent festival in Japan.

It is a festival organized by the school itself, and there is no fixed date. If you want, it is not against the law to hold a school festival on January 1st. But usually, it happens from September to November.

On the day of the campus festival, no matter what kind of school it is, it will be open to the public, and people from all walks of life are welcome to come and visit. This is also the best way for many people in society to re-experience their student days.

This year, the school festival of Shujin Academy is destined to be extraordinary, exceeding people's expectations... or rather, responding to people's expectations.

"Wow, this is truly a top-notch high school - there's such a grand ceremony!"

Hanamura Yosuke expressed such a feeling. He was casually wearing an orange shirt and jacket, holding popcorn bought from a stall at the school gate. There was a big Phantom Thief logo painted on the box.

The scene that impressed him was the gate of Xiujin Academy. Not only was the Phantom Thief's logo painted on the wall, but hydrogen balloons containing the Phantom Thief element were tied to the doorposts on both sides.

The instructions on both sides of the door also changed to "Want to understand me?" "Be careful not to let me steal your heart!"

Obviously, the theme of this year's school festival has been determined, which is the theme of phantom thieves.

This is more like a Halloween cosplay convention than a school festival. You can see all kinds of thief costumes at a glance, and a small part of them can be seen as handmade. There are also many students in the school who dress up as thieves. Everyone wears a black cape, a mask, and a hat. It doesn't matter. It's not forced.

The girls in two rows at the door were waving signs or holding up flyers vigorously: "Please pay attention to the XX project of Class X, Year X!" They were working hard to promote their own stores.

Friends who often watch Japanese animation must know that at this time, Japanese school celebrations are flourishing, with all kinds of projects, such as takoyaki, fried noodles, cafes, dramas, haunted houses... However, this year it was slightly changed, and everyone added "Phantom Thief" in front of their names.

For example, Kaito Takoyaki, Kaito Fried Noodles, Kaito Cafe, Kaito Drama, Kaito Haunted House...

Hanamura Yosuke sighed: "Phantom Thieves are really a hot topic. Fortunately, we didn't have this in our era..."

It was obvious that he was talking to his companions, but the silver-haired classmate next to him, Narukami Yuu, looked thoughtful. After thinking for a while, he said, "The Phantom Thief Get-Together is promising."

"Shut up! I don't want to think about our school festival at all!!!"

Hanamura Yosuke scratched his head with both hands in pain.

Although everyone says that youth is a group of kids doing stupid things together. They will become precious memories in the future, but there are still some memories that Yangjie hopes he will never think of. For example, the social coffee back then... As a social coffee, there were not enough girls, and they even had to find men to help... Wait, why do I always feel like I've heard of this operation somewhere...

"Haha, I'm excited! I wonder if there will be no Phantom Thief Kung Fu Club in the future!"

Next to Yosuke's other hand, Satonaka Chie raised her arms, her green jacket wide open, revealing the white shirt underneath. A gust of wind blew, and her jacket moved with the wind, like a master of qigong in a kung fu animation, except that her whole body was almost bursting with golden aura, and her hair was standing upside down.

"Don't just arrest all these people just because you can't help it!"

Yosuke kindly reminded his stupid classmate, and Satonaka Chie was shocked: "Who do you think I am? Am I that kind of person?"

“Pfft… Qianzhi… Ni… Puhahaha… Don’t you have any knowledge of yourself? Hahahaha…”

As if she had heard some great joke, behind a few people, a girl with long black hair like a waterfall and wearing a thin red sweater covered her mouth and laughed.

This person is called Amagi Yukiko, the future proprietress of a long-established inn in Inaba City. After graduation, she began to practice hard in order to inherit the family business. It was also for this reason that Naoto did not contact her when he was looking for help, because he was too embarrassed to ask her to give up the store to help him.

As for this Amagi Yukiko, both in appearance and body shape, she is a standard Yamato Nadeshiko. If you have to find a flaw, it is that she is similar to Yosuke. However, Yosuke cannot speak, and he tends to become sad when he speaks, and Yukiko cannot smile. There is only a smile between the ice sculpture beauty and the sand sculpture beauty.

"Anywhere is fine... Why did you invite me... Even if you did, why did you invite everyone else... Idiot, terrible! Hateful! Annoying! Stubborn! A blockhead who knows nothing!!"

As she said this, a girl with a blue fluffy hat and long hair pouted and kicked at Yuu Narukami's calf. Although it was already the junction of late autumn and early winter, she was still wearing a white vest with exposed arms on her upper body, and a blue plaid skirt with zebra-striped stockings underneath.

She wore a mask and sunglasses, trying to hide her face. Because if she didn't, she would be recognized quickly...

This is the very popular female weather forecaster nowadays.

A new female anchor known for her playful tone, cute personality and beautiful looks - Kusumi Mariko.

However, for the "self-proclaimed special search team" back then, this girl who seemed a bit sharp-tongued had a more common code name: Mary.

Speaking of Mary, she is amazing.

She was the final boss of Yuu Narukami and the others at that time. That was probably the standard setting, where she influenced the big boss, and then the boss gave up some abilities and joined our side.

But putting aside the somewhat clichéd development, this kind of happy ending is of course everyone's favorite. Moreover, it is really a waste of talent for this great god to be a weather forecaster, because her divine power can control the weather. If you want a certain weather, just say hello to her. The weather prediction rate is 100%! She is worthy of being a former god!

"Well, Sister Mary, don't you like coming to the school festival?"

Next to Ming Shangyou, a girl who looked like she had just entered junior high school asked the question timidly.

She has long straight hair with a hint of brown, which is not too conspicuous, but reveals a bit more playfulness and cuteness than ordinary black hair. She is wearing a dress, which makes her look a little younger.

"No. Sister Mary was just mad at some idiot. That's called jealousy."

Mary squatted down and patted the little girl gently on the head.

"I see! This is jealousy!"

"Mary, please don't teach Nanako unnecessary knowledge..."

Ming Shangyou couldn't help but complain.

This girl called Nanako, whose full name is Nanako Dojima, is the biological daughter of Ryotaro Dojima, the uncle of Yuu Narukami, who lived with Yuu Narukami back then. She is also Yuu Narukami's cousin and a popular girl that everyone likes.

"Um, brother, aren't Xiao Xiong and Xiao Li Shi coming?"

Nanako looked around and found that there were a few missing old acquaintances...

"If Risa-chan comes here, it will cause a big commotion. Besides, popular idols always have to do some disguise work. She said there is no need to wait for her, so we can go in first. As for Wanji and Kuma... hehe... I guess they got lost..."

The person who spoke was, of course, Baek Jong Naoto, the last member of the self-proclaimed special search team who had not been mentioned so far.

Rational and logical, he is a super detective as wise as Zhuge Liang.

"Anyway, it's a bit too awkward to just stand at the door like this, so let's go in first."

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Meanwhile, Tokyo, Shibuya Station.

"So, where exactly is that high school?! Little Bear, you idiot! Didn't I say I'd leave it to you?!"

A burly man was holding a blue top and red bottom stuffed bear in both hands and shaking it vigorously.

"No, that shouldn't be the case, Kuma! Little Bear followed the map given by Master (Narukami Yuu) exactly, Kuma! It can't be wrong, Kuma!"

"Ah?! Let me see--"

"Ah, Wan Er, don't be so rough, ah!"

"Don't make weird noises, you stupid bear! - Didn't you hold the map upside down? Even the words are flipped over. How do you read it!!!"

"Huh? No, you can't, Kuma!"

As the two were talking in unison at Shibuya Station, a policeman suddenly came over and patted him on the shoulder. "What are you doing? Threatening? Anyway, come with us."

(End of this chapter)

Chapter 725 Classic Re-Engraving

This world is free, especially the streets of Japan.

In this country where the concentration of two-dimensional culture is too high, no one is surprised by any strange clothes you wear.

After all, no matter how weird you are, can you be weirder than the Phantom Thieves?

Because Shujin Academy changed its policy this year and plans to hold a phantom thief-themed school festival, you can now see all kinds of phantom thief costumes everywhere on the nearby streets.

Jiang Tianwei has never exposed his Phantom Thief costume in public, so this gives the public and manufacturers plenty of room to take their own initiative. There are about a dozen Phantom Thief costume manufacturers circulating on the market, and there are four big brands. This only counts the so-called "genuine" ones. There are countless knockoffs that directly copy the designs of big companies and then produce them cheaply.

These businesses all claim that their Phantom Thief Servers are authorized by genuine Phantom Thieves, 100% restored to the original, and are the only choice for Phantom Thief fans, but Jiang Tianwei and other Phantom Thief Team members said they had no idea. They really want to know which Phantom Thief authorized them, and who paid for the authorized IP?

However, one has to admire the imagination of the Japanese. Even though there were clearly no pictures to refer to, the manufacturers still managed to create several similar sets out of nothing.

Amamiya Ren's outfit is so classic. Apart from the top hat, he is just an ordinary thief, right?

Ryuji's outfit, standing with Amamiya Ren, looks like Batman and Robin. Maybe a manufacturer got this and imitated Robin, making a phantom thief costume with exposed arms.

The most puzzling thing is that some manufacturers actually made a Kaito suit that is exactly the same as Okumura Haru's Kaito suit. What an amazing coincidence.

However, even the manufacturers did not expect that the Phantom Thieves’ costumes, such as those of Takamaki An and Niijima Makoto, would be so unique. In the case of Takamaki An, the manufacturers could not understand why the Phantom Thieves would wear red, but they did think of the black rubber costume of Catwoman. As for Niijima Makoto, the manufacturers probably thought that the reason why Phantom Thieves are not called robbers is because they will not use force casually.

Haha, that’s why I say that sometimes the truth is often more absurd than imagination.

The costumes of the other Phantom Thieves are all the same. Basically, they are the type that are cut and subtracted to become new costumes. The fans of the Phantom Thieves are buying them while cursing at the street. They are very distressed. Everyone is calling on the Phantom Thieves to either open their own flagship store as soon as possible, or change the mind of these unscrupulous vendors.

All these strange and bizarre thief costumes gathered in front of the entrance of Xiujin Academy.

And all these strange clothes, added together, are not as strange as this man's fashion sense.

A strong man with white hair was seen wearing a red cape, exposing his muscles, and a pair of tight pants and boxing shoes. He looked like a pervert at first glance, but no one came to stop him.

Because the police also knew about the event at Showjin Academy, and when they saw him dressed so outrageously, they thought he was cosplaying. For example, isn't Zangief from Street Fighter dressed in a similar style? And his name is Red Tornado, so it makes sense for him to wear a red cape!

"Sanada, I should have told you many times, please pay attention to your public image - you didn't come to the station wearing this thing, did you?"

Kirijo Mitsuru narrowed her eyes, reached out and rubbed the fabric of his cloak, with a look of contempt on her face.

The person he despised was none other than Sanada Akihiko! At this moment, this world-class fighter, a famous martial artist, smiled sheepishly, thinking to himself: (How can you say that about me?)

Mitsuru Kirijo is his old classmate and the two have known each other for a long time.

When they were in school, they were similar, with reinforced parts in their school uniforms. After graduation, they both started to wear combat uniforms as their daily clothes. In order to maximize the convenience of moving the body - and also to show that he did not cheat when participating in competitions, and to prevent opponents from grabbing the collar of his clothes, he gradually began to not wear clothes.

Kirijo Mitsuru, on the other hand, is just the opposite. Since she doesn't need to wear school uniforms anymore after graduation, she simply doesn't wear them anymore! At first, she just wore ordinary clothes with reinforced parts, but later she paid more and more attention to performance, and finally came up with a full-coverage combat suit. It looks like the sexy leather jacket in a movie, but it is actually full of technology and hard work. It can not only coordinate muscles to exert force better and faster, but also effectively reduce the impact of the enemy. It even releases a slight electric current to stimulate acupuncture points and muscles on weekdays, which can help you lose weight, keep fit and beautify yourself!

Today, Kirijo Mitsuru did the same. She casually wrapped a white plush coat over her black leather jumpsuit to keep warm.

Although he doesn't look like a thief, he looks very much like the classic rich villain that always appears in works of the thief type.

"Ahaha, we haven't seen each other for a long time, let's not quarrel right away. Hulangmaru thinks so too, right?"

The person who was speaking was a tall boy wearing a black school uniform and had a smile as bright as spring breeze. A dog was following him. He looked very old, with declining physical strength and spirit.

This man and dog were companions of Kirijo Mitsuru and his companions. The man's name is Amada Ken and the dog's name is Toranomaru. Both are good fighters who can use persona.

Just like the so-called special search team came here to play today, these members of the Shadow Walker also came for this purpose. Of course, they are not here for fun, at least not for the first purpose.

The first purpose is to protect Jiang Tianwei and his fellow thieves.

"Speaking of which, it seems that the personnel are not complete. Report, Yue Yukari and Iori Junpei are not here. There is a communication, Yamagishi Fuuka has shared my monitor data."