Akira and Morgana let Yusuke spend the night at Leblanc and led him up the stairs and to the couch. It wasn't like the young artist could go anywhere, being both blinded and deafened, anyway. Everyone else grabbed the stack of porn doujins out of the middle of the road and had them destroyed. Meanwhile, Sumire was trying to explain everything that had happened while Kasumi was deceased. Once everyone was done, Akira made coffee for the gang while they tried to figure out what to do next.

Everyone sat around the cafe, looking toward Akira, behind the counter, in hopes that the charming leader would have an idea on how to tackle this new enemy. As Akira took a sip of his coffee, Sumire spoke up.

"What should… be done about this?" Sumire asked.

Akira set his cup down on the serving plate. "Without the Nav… We're fucked," Akira bluntly stated.

"Straight to the point, huh?" Makoto sighed.

"And a bleak point at that," Haru added.

"I mean, unless you have any suggestions on how to stop him," Akira firmly stated.

"I can't say that I do," Makoto admitted.

"I still can't wrap my head behind how Bob can do everything he did," Maruki spoke, "Summoning objects, shapeshifting, control over life and death… and all without the Metaverse,"

"Looks like we're up against another god," Morgana sighed.

"Another!?" Kasumi blurted.

"I'll… explain later," Ann said.

"All we can do now is wait for morning and hope everyone comes back," Haru chimed in, "And hope that Yusuke-kun is healed,"

"Not like we have a choice in this," Akira sighed. Then a thought just popped into Akira's head, "And what about Kasumi?"

"You're right," Sumire gasped, "How do I explain Kasumi coming back to life?! It should be impossible!"

Just then, two cards appeared at the table the girls were sitting at. The girls jumped at the cards' appearance, but Makoto picked them up. The cards looked to be Student IDs. One for Kasumi that was for Shujin Academy and backdated to the beginning of the school year. As well as an ID for Morgana who now apparently goes to Yasogami High School in Akira's hometown of Inaba.

"I guess this is his way of telling us not to worry about it," Makoto stated as she handed Kasumi her ID, "He even stuck to his word and made Morgana's human form permanent, so it seems," She handed Morgana his ID card.

Morgana inspected the card for a moment. While the prospect of being human was exciting for him, he suppressed it considering all the tragedy that had happened. "Morgana Kurusu?"

"Are you two brothers now?" Sumire asked.

Akira checked his phone and noticed a text from his mother. In it, she tells him that she already misses him and his brother and that she hopes the two have fun in Tokyo. Too late for that, but Akira noticed something weird. His mom mentioned a brother. He was an only child.

"According to my own mother, he is now," Akira answered, "So we can add mind control to the list of Bob's powers, although that shouldn't be surprising,"

"I am so confused," Kasmui sighed.

"It's a lot to take in, even before all this started happening," Morgana sympathized, "We'll be sure to give you a rundown of everything that has happened since… your passing, but for now… I think we should all go home and get some rest,"

"Still going to bed early, huh?" Akira commented.

Morgana shrugged. "Not like we can do much else?"

The last thing Sojiro could remember before waking up in his bed was having a conversation in a dive bar with an elf, an angel, and deceased U.S. President John F. Kennedy. He couldn't remember what they spoke about all that well. It wasn't often that Sojiro drank as much as he did that night, but after what had just happened the previous day, who'd blame him? However, the second his eyes snapped open, he got up and immediately checked on Futaba.

"Futaba!" He called as he approached her room, "Futaba!"

"What is it…?" Futaba groggily replied on the other side of her door.

"Thank goodness you're alright," Sojiro said as he breathed a sigh of relief.

Futaba opened the door. "It's good to be back," She yawned, "There were too many Inklings and I couldn't understand any of them. It was really scary to be honest… How did everything go while I was gone? No one else died, did they?"

"Uh… no," Sojiro asked, "And you shouldn't sound so casual asking such a question,"

"I-I'm worried too," Futaba replied, "I'm going to check if Yusuke and Ryuji are alright after this, but… if Bob comes back… this'll happen again,"

"I'm afraid so," Sojiro frowned.

"Nothing we can worry about now!" Futaba shrugged, "Are you going to the cafe? I didn't eat while I was in Inkopolis and now I require sustenance,"

"That's not a bad idea," Sojiro smiled.

The two walked over to the cafe and when they arrived, they saw Akira serving some coffee and curry to Morgana, Yusuke, and himself.

"Good morning," Akira greeted, "I made some extra just in case you both wanted some,"

"Smells good," Sojiro complemented, "Thanks,"

Morgana was one of the first to take a bite of the meal in front of him. "So much better than that other stuff," He managed to say in between bites.

"Agreed," Yusuke added, "And I must say, it is a relief to enjoy this meal with all five of the scenes,"

"Stupid Inari," Futaba said as she sat down next across from him, "What does hearing have to do with eating curry?"

"It's not just about the meal, it's the entire experience," Yusuke began to explain, "From the sounds of the meal being prepared and the coffee being brewed to the sipping of the coffee and the conversation that we're having now, wouldn't you say that is beautiful, Futaba?"

"You spend half a day blind and deaf and you're suddenly an audiophile," Futaba rolled her eyes.

"Did you expect any less from Yusuke?" Morgana asked.

"I mean, I just thought he'd look at a wall and want to draw it,"

"Now that you mention it, he did stare at the floor for a while," Akira informed her.

"I was simply entranced by the patterns in the wooden planks," Yusuke defended.

"Silly Inari," Futaba smirked.

Ann decided to take the day to visit Shiho and see how she was doing. She would have liked to have reminded herself than have some interdimensional smut depicting Shiho and her rapist do the reminding for her, but after a day like yesterday, she just wanted to be around someone with no connection to this at all. After a couple train rides, Ann found herself along the outskirts of Tokyo. Getting to her place was a tad more inconvenient than getting to everyone else in Tokyo, but it was worth the hassle.

Ann confided to Shiho about as much as she did to Akira, arguably more so. After the whole Phantom Thieves fiasco but before she left to study abroad, Ann had pretty much revealed to her that they were the Phantom Thieves. She notes the hypocrisy since she always had to tell Ryuji to stop saying they were, but if Akira ended up letting a few people in on the secret, why shouldn't she? After Ann spilled the beans, Shiho was even more grateful to Ann for not only being her best friend, but for making Kamoshida pay.

They'd spent a lot more time together after that. To the point where Ann felt that she had been somewhat neglecting the gang of thieves she had spent the last year collaborating with. Ann had already made plans to study abroad, so these would be the last moments she'd see Shiho for a while. They grew closer as the days to her departure grew ever nearer. The bond came to a head when Ann was getting ready to leave Shiho's room, after visiting her for the last time. Before she left, they hugged and, with a few tears in her eyes, Shiho confessed.

"I love you, Ann…,"

"I love you t-,"

"No Ann," Shiho looked square into Ann's teary eyes, "I love you,"

Ann soon found herself locking lips with the young woman in front of her, a surprise to both of them for sure.

"Why didn't you just tell me sooner?" Ann laughed with tears down her face.

"I… I don't know," Shiho replied, "I... thought a lot about this,"

That memory tends to play over in Ann's mind most days after that. Truth is, she originally just decided to come back to Tokyo simply to see Shiho and temporarily lower the hurdles caused by long distance relationships. It was just a happy coincidence that it happened to coincide with summer break and Akira visiting. One of the few upsides to Bob suddenly teleporting her to Japan was that she got to see Shiho sooner and she was certainly going to seize the opportunity.

Aidril had been making his way to Leblanc every afternoon for lunch since the first session, like clockwork. Despite doing a little drinking in the afterlife, Sojiro was unsure as to if he should trust him or not. Aidril was always fairly polite to everyone, even if he may come off as a little pompous at times. Sojiro always began by asking if that day was the day of the session. Aidril would reply with a no and order a plate of curry and a cup of the house blend. When there weren't any customers around, and especially if Futaba was in the cafe, he'd talk about his home in the Summerset Isles or his time in Skyrim. The cafe owner didn't quite understand half the things the elf was talking about, but he eventually came to the conclusion that Aidril had no ill will toward everyone.

It had been about a week since the first session when Sojiro opened up the cafe and not even five minutes later, Aidril showed up.

"Aidril, you're quite early today," Sojiro commented.

Aidril looked toward the man with a despondent look to his face. "Indeed,"

"Oh no! Don't tell me-,"

"I'm afraid so, Mr. Sakura," Aidril replied, "There's nothing I can do about it. Bob wishes for one of his so-called games to take place later on today,"

Sojiro sighed. "I'll tell one of the kids to contact everyone once they wake up. I don't have many of their numbers… do you want the usual?"

"I suppose I may as well since I am here," Aidril replied as he sat at the counter.

Later that day, everyone who had attended the last session had assembled at the cafe and were awaiting orders. Morgana was clearing up any questions Kasumi had about the Metaverse, Ann was sending off a last minute text to someone, and Futaba was telling Akira about the exploits of Harem Fucker69.

"So… about Operation Maidwatch," Futaba smirked. Ryuji just so happened to be listening in and just about choked on the soda he had been drinking.

"I was dragged along for it," Akira answered.

"And about my homeroom teacher being a maid?" Futaba continued to inquire, "One that offers 'special services',"

"For real!?" Ryuji blurted.

"Did you ever use them?!" Futaba asked.

"Futaba, you are quite possibly the creepiest girl I've ever known," Akira replied, "I did not use those 'special services'. I only called her because we had so much money from fighting shadows that I could use that to help her out with her financial troubles,"

"But… you still hired a maid regularly," Sojiro chimed in, "Under my nose, to do what? Dust your room?"

"Well, it is pretty dusty up there," Akira defended.

"Even still, that's pretty strange," Makoto commented.

Suddenly Bob manifested in the cafe. "The most Akira's ever done with Kawakami was get a relaxing massage after a day in Mementos. If he'd been lying, I would have shocked him fifty thousand volts of electricity,"

"A massage… from your homeroom teacher?" Sumire questioned.

Akira put his hand behind his head. "I mean… she's pretty good at it. They're rejuvenating,"

"Uh… alright then," Sumire moved on.

Akira gave a dirty look to Futaba for bringing the whole topic up. "What?" Futaba responded, "I just wanted to know the canon answer,"

"With that out of the way," Bob started, "Welcome back to the game! We got a few more dares this time around and considering some of the dares, we might just have a two day session. Something I've never done before,"

"Yippie," Ryuji said sarcastically.

"Exactly!" Bob agreed, "But first, a dare from last session that I didn't get to cover last time. For this, Yusuke will need to have full knowledge of tattooing people because Akira is getting a tattoo!"

"For real!?" Akira blurted.

"I suppose it couldn't hurt to expand my horizons and practice a new medium," Yusuke shrugged.

"Of course you're all for it," Makoto rolled her eyes.

"But if I were to use Akira as my canvas, especially when working with a medium that is so forigen to me, I'm afraid that the finished product will be… mediocre,"

Bob snapped his fingers. When he did so, he altered Yusuke's mind. "Your knowledge of tattooing is now on par with your knowledge of painting, so that won't be a problem. However, what you will be tattooing is the next question. It'll be a tattoo of Sumire on his chest,"

"A tattoo of… me!" Sumire said perplexed.

"On my chest!?" Akira blurted.

"Very well then," Yusuke nodded, "Akira, do you want this to be on the right or left pectoral?"

"Left, I guess," Akira sighed.

While Akira took off his shirt and laid down on one of the tables in the cafe. Yusuke had Sumire pose for him while he did a quick sketch of her face. As soon as he was done, he turned toward his human canvas. All the supplies needed were already in place thanks to Bob, so all he had to do was get to work. For Akira, it turns out getting a chest tattoo was rather painful, a fact that was found out shortly after Yusuke began doing the line work.

"While those two go at it, how about we move on to some dares from Gabe2000. Long time, no see buddy," Bob commented, "This first dare will take some time, which is perfect, considering Akira's tattoo will be a moment. You all must build an altar to Gabe2000,"

"Where the hell are we going to do that?!" Ryuji asked.

"Not my problem," Bob replied, "Just do it before Yusuke's done or else I'll kill you. Here's the only known image of Gabe," Bob handed Sojiro a piece of paper, "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to Big Bang Burger," With that, Bob disappeared.

Sojiro looked at the photo, but all it was was just a picture of a white silhouette on a grey background. "Is this supposed to be anyone?"

"Looks like an online profile with an avatar picture," Futaba answered.

"And where are we going to build this?" Makoto asked, "We can't just place this altar in the middle of a public area,"

"True," Akechi agreed, "...Sojiro-san, do you happen to own any property with sufficient space?"

"All I have is the front of my house, but that's not very big," Sojiro stated, "It'll work if we wanted to make something small, but I don't know how this guy will react,"

"Well, this Gabe2000 was the one who asked for an altar to be built in the middle of a dense, urban environment such as Tokyo. He'd be a fool to expect any better than that,"

"How about I run over to the hardware store and grab some supplies," Sojiro suggested.

After a couple hours of running around and building, the group was able to build a small, wooden altar inside Sojiro's fenceline. There was a flat board standing up right that had the fanfiction default avatar painted on it. Yusuke probably would have had complaints about it, but he was too busy working on Akira's tattoo. Overall though, it was an alright altar given their skill level.

Once they'd return to the cafe, Yusuke was putting the finishing touches on Akira's tattoo. Everyone had to admit it, the tattoo was spectacular. The vibrant colors of Sumire's eyes and hair popped out the most, but even that didn't seem to outshine the rest of the portrait on her face. Yusuke handed Akira a hand mirror so that he could take a look at it.

"I have to admit, you've done an amazing job," Akira commented.

"I strive for nothing less," Yusuke replied, "I do hope that this wasn't to uncomfortable for you,"

"It was, but I've been through worse," Akira shrugged, "What do you think Sumire?"

"I mean… it's almost like looking into a mirror," Sumire replied, "It's good but… it's just strange to see my face on your chest like that,"

Bob returned shortly after with more notecards in his hand, ready to continue the game. "I see that everyone has returned, good! Now let's see… Oh yeah, Akira's gotta spank all the girls as hard as he can,"

"Going to the perverted dares right away?" Haru sighed.

"We'll be going back and forth with them," Bob warned.

Akira went around and slapped all the girls in the ass as hard as he could. He felt weird doing it in front of everyone, but it's what had to be done.

"Now, how did you girls like the spankings?" Bob asked.

"No!" The girls yelled in unison.

"Alright, fair enough," Bob shrugged, "How's everyone liking the game so far?"

"It's bullshit!" Ryuji shouted, "I was mauled to death by a gorilla last week!"

"What your doing is truly awful," Kasumi admitted, "But… I'm alive again and… I feel conflicted,"

"I feel the same way," Morgana agreed, "But even though I'm human now, this horrible game of yours, Bob, shouldn't go on any longer!"

"Your feedback is noted," Bob lied, "Morgana, you have to motorboat Ann,"

"I see what you're trying to do," Morgana scolded, "You're trying to wrestle a positive comment out of me, but I'll have you know my opinion still stands!" Just after he said that, fifty thousand volts of electricity went down his spine for about five seconds. The cat turned human yelled out in pain and when the shock was done he dropped to his knees.

"Are you alright, Mona-chan?" Haru asked.

"...yeah… I'm fine," Morgana replied as he picked himself up.

"I take it that happened because you lied just now?" Makoto asked.

"Really? That one dare made you change your mind?" Ann inquired while glaring at Morgana.

"Well, I guess… after that dare… this game shouldn't go on any longer," Morgana confessed.

"Pervert," Ann scoffed, "Just get it over with,"

Morgana, happily yet somewhat guiltily motorboated Ann's breasts. Despite the circumstances, being a human was awesome.

"Now we got a bunch of dares from RosyMiranto18," Bob announced, "And we'll be bringing someone else into the fray. Give it up for Sae Niijima!"

All of a sudden, Sae, who was currently in the middle of defending a client in court, found herself sitting in the cafe.

"How'd I get here?" Sae asked, "Why is Akechi-kun alive and… why does Akira-kun have a tattoo of Yoshizawa-san on his chest?"

"I really should put a shirt on now," Akira commented as he did just that.

"Oh no, not sis," Makoto sighed.

"Welcome, Ms. Niijima to the game of Truth or Dare," Bob welcomed, "I'm sure you'll understand how everything works as we move along, but what you have to do is, just do as you're told. I can bring people to life as easily as I can kill them,"

"What do you want from me?" Sae inquired.

"Good question," Bob began, "You see, there are multiple, alternate realities. Many of them end up the same, but they take small deviations here and there. Now, remember when you interrogated Akira?"

"Of course I do," Sae answered, "What are you getting at?"

"Remember how he went into detail about nearly every aspect of his life?"

"It was like the drug they gave him made him remember everyday prior to the incident," Sae stated, "At the time, I thought all these people he met were heavily involved with the Phantom Thieves, but I just don't see what getting a maid massage had to do with anything,"

"She really had to use that as an example," Akira muttered. He could see Futaba giggling to herself in the corner of his eye.

"Well, there are universes where Akira had a girlfriend before his arrest in your palace," Bob continued, "Here is a clip of the interrogation, in another universe, when that topic came up,"

Bob turned the television in the cafe to show video from an alternate version of the interrogation. From the sound of it, Akira was going through what happened in the final days before the heist on Sae's palace.

"So Makoto called me up that night," Akira said, "I can't exactly remember why, but I could tell she was very worried for some reason. She asked if she could come to the cafe after Sojiro left to talk and-,"

"Hold up," Sae interrupted, "I think I can already tell where this is going. Can you just skip it and move on?"

"I would if those goons hadn't drugged me so much," Akira replied, "Unfortunately, I can only recall everything that has happened in chronological order. So, if you want the truth-,"

"Fine, just say it,"

"And after she arrived, we ended up having sex," Akira admitted.

Sae rested her head in her palm. "Of course you did…,"

"She absolutely blew my mind," Akira continued.

"Any additional detail is unnecessary," Sae told him.

"What can I say? Losing my virginity was an important memory in my life," Akira stated, "It only makes sense that I'd remember it vividly,"

"But those details aren't important!" Sae argued.

"Look, you're the last person I'd want to tell about what happened that night," Akira defended, "This is the only way we can reach the end,"

Sae sighed. She was already invested in the wild story that was Akira's testimony and she had to hear how it ended. "Fine!"

As Akira went into detail about the things him and Makoto did together that night, all Sae could do was try to tune it out and wait for the actual testimony to continue. The video ended and Bob turned back to the audience.

"So, what'd you think?" Bob asked.

"I'm glad you weren't dating anyone before then," Sae told Akira.

"Agreed," Akira replied.

"I know you've already said it, but the fact that there are an infinite number of universes… it's impossible to comprehend," Makoto commented. She was a bit embarrassed due to all the things her alternate self did that the alternate Akira had described in the video.

"I know right?" Ryuji agreed, "Get this! There's an alternate universe where Akira got accepted into Super Smash Brothers!"

"Freaking awesome!" Futaba cheered.

"The… video game?" Makoto asked.

"Well, apparently there's a world just for the tournaments," Ryuji replied, "At least that's what Pit told us,"

"Pit is… in Super Hell?" Akira asked.

"It's… a long story," Ryuji said.

"Anyway, let's move on," Bob said, "Sojiro, you're a coffee guy, I bet you know what Kopi Luwak is,"

"Yeah," Sojiro answered, "The beans from the coffee are harvested from civet poop. It's overrated if you ask me. There's no bitterness, but that's about it,"

"I dunno, I had poop coffee with Haru one time and thought that was good," Akira stated.

"That was Black Ivory Coffee," Haru clarified, "And those beans were harvested from the feces of elephants,"

"Oh… my bad for not remembering," Akira apologized, "The poop part really stood out to me,"

"Anyway, Sojiro's dare is to drink this," Bob made a cup of Kopi Luwak appear in front of Sojiro.

"He just made that coffee appear out of nowhere!" Sae gasped.

"I teleported you here, that was nothing," Bob scolded, "Stop pointing out the obvious,"

Sojiro took a sip of the coffee without a second thought and it was like drinking napalm. "I… I don't remember it… b-being this… spicy," Sojiro wheezed.

"That's because I mixed it with an excessive amount of ghost pepper seasoning," Bob explained as Sojiro went to the fridge for some milk. Bob summoned a microphone and handed it off to Ryuji, "Yell something about being the Phantom Thieves or something,"

Ryuji cleared his throat for this moment. After months of keeping quiet, he was finally able to say it out loud and with little to no consequence. "We are the Phantom Thieves!" The yell was played on all the speakers in Tokyo, alarming everyone.

"Makoto, do your best robot voice," Bob dared.

"I gotta record this," Futaba smiled as she pulled out her phone.

"That was the next part of the… nevermind," Bob said.

Makoto gave what she thought was her best robot voice for Futaba to record. She felt absolutely silly for it and wondered what this could possibly be used for, but Bob decided to move on, leaving her questions pointless.

"Akechi, your dare is to go to Canada, get real canadian maple syrup, then sing this song these lyrics to the tune of Dancing Queen while making and eating pancakes," Bob dared.

Akechi was given the song lyrics to look over. "Pancakes may be one of my favorite foods, but why would anyone dare me to do something this fucking asinine?"

"I didn't tell you," Akira chimed in, "That's how we figured you out. When we first met you, you mentioned pancakes even though Morgana was the only one who said anything about pancakes,"

"Fantastic," Akechi said sarcastically and with frustration, "Two and a half years of work gone down the drain because… I fucking love pancakes!" Akechi continued to mutter under his breath as he walked out the door. But at least he didn't have to deal with the rest of the bullshit in this game.

"Dr. Maruki, eat these ten boxes of animal crackers. Alone," Bob dared.

"Ten whole boxes?" Maruki asked.

"Except for the penguins, give those to everyone else," Bob stated, "Now while he does that, let's think of the worst ingredients to put in a crepe,"

"Let me guess, we'll be eating it after we're done talking about it," Ann guessed.

"Maybe,"

"I mean, if we're talking about things that shouldn't be in a crepe, how about that Mystery Food X stuff," Ryuji suggested.

"... You know, I think you win this one Ryuji," Bob beamed, "I'll award you with a UNO skip card,"

"So, will this allow me to skip dares?"

"Yep," Bob answered, "And now, for Ann to eat Mystery Crepe X!"

"Ryuji! You jerk!" Ann protested.

"I got a skip card out of this, I don't feel bad at all," Ryuji smiled.

The Mystery Crepe X appeared on a plate in front of Ann. Through the surface of the crepe, the purple gunk could be seen. She took a fork to the specimen and which caused the miasmic odor to escape along with the purple ooze. She took a tiny bite from the thing, crewed it once, and immediately spit it out and fainted.

"Oh c'mon!" Ryuji shouted, "We didn't faint when we ate that stuff,"

"Oh, I found an even worse recipe," Bob chimed in, "It's more faithful to the original. Now for Futaba's dare!"

"Alright, bring it on!" Futaba challenged, "What do I gotta do, eat weird ramen, cosplay, hack into a foriegn government's servers? I noticed that all these dares from this guy are tailored to everyone so let's see what they got!"

"Cool," Bob smiled, "Give a powerpoint presentation on the R18 stuff on both your computer and laptop!"

Futaba's mood immediately did a 180. "So Ryuji… how was Super Hell? I hear you met Pit for Kid Icarus down there,"

"How much do you... ," Ryuji began, "... ya' know what? Nevermind,"

"Don't you still have the reverse card?" Haru asked.

Futaba smirked and began to laugh somewhat maniacally. She held up her UNO card which soon disappeared. "Now we get to see what's on your computer! I know a fanfic writer has weird stuff on their PC! So show us the goods!"

"Sometimes, I think the internet was a mistake," Sojiro sighed.

"Will do," Bob turned on the TV once more and began the slideshow. The slideshow began with the title card, 'The Porn on Mr. InsaneGuy's PC'. Then he flipped it over to the next slide that was blank. "Nothing, people!"

"No way!" Futaba protested, "There's gotta be something!"

"There isn't because I don't save my porn onto my computer. Stupid," Bob gloated, "And now we move onto a comment left by someone simply known as rob. Futaba. Inari. Futanari. That was all he wrote,"

"Dammit… that is a clever ship name," Futaba muttered.

"I personally don't think that would be a good name for a vessel," Yusuke chimed in.

"I wasn't talking about boats!" Futaba clarified.

"Then what was it you were referring to?" Yusuke asked.

"Well…," Futaba began to blush, "When two characters are… um… a couple, fans kinda combine their names together… and that's what you'd call the pairing,"

"She got awfully quiet when that came up," Aidril noted as he spoke to Sojiro. Sojiro nodded in agreement.

"Now we must move onto some real dares," Bob began, "danialsonicfan24 wants Akira to sing the song Fly Me to the Moon, specifically to the Yoshizawa sisters, but we can extend that to everyone," Bob tossed Akira a microphone and a magical spotlight shined down on the young man while the lights in the cafe turned off. Akira's mind suddenly knew the lyrics to the song and began to sing it to the best of his abilities. Akira had a fairly deep singing voice and it was quite pleasant to listen to. Sumire was especially charmed, since Akira was looking at her the entire time he sang it. Once he was done, the lights went back to normal and the cafe filled with applause.

"You have a wonderful voice, Akira," Haru complemented.

"I agree," Yusuke chimed in, "You have a wonderful bass voice,"

"Really?" Akira smiled, "Thanks guys,"

"Why haven't we gone out on a karaoke date before?" Sumire asked, "I'd love to listen to you all night long,"

"Oooh, I really love the confidence boost, sis," Kasumi interrupted, "Openly flirting around like that,"

"Heh, thanks," Sumire replied.

"Now for Sumire to do a pole dance in a bikini while singing Moon River," Bob moved on.

"I don't have the confidence for that!" Sumire screamed.

"You can use your reverse card if you don't feel comfortable," Akira reminded her.

Sumire considered it, but what if something else were to come along and be worse than this dare. She took a deep breath. "I'll do it,"

"Are you sure?" Kasmui asked.

"It's something I can do. Well, maybe not the pole dancing part. But if I skip this, what else can I do if some other even weirder dare comes along?"

"I mean, you make a good point," Kasumi agreed.

Suddenly, a pole appeared in the middle of the cafe and the seats and counter were cleared out of the way to give Sumire space to spin around. Sumire also found herself wearing a red bikini and as the lights began to dim once more, the spotlight shined on her and the music began. Sumire suddenly knew how to pole dance as well, thanks to Bob's magical powers, and she began to perform. While she was embarrassed about spinning around half naked in front of everyone, she had to admit it was fun to do while singing. In the audience, Morgana and Ryuji couldn't help but to ogle (to the minor annoyance of Kasumi and Akira) while Yusuke was more enamoured with the grace with which Sumire danced around the pole. When Sumire was done, the cafe turned back to normal and everyone took their seats.

"Sumire, I've always figured pole dancing to be a meretricious style of dance, but you've single-handedly proven me wrong. Would you mind posing for my next piece?"

"Uh, No thank you!" Sumire answered.

"Okay, you've been giving me weird vibes all day," Kasumi accused Yusuke, "What's your deal?!"

"It's okay," Ann chimed in, "He's always like this,"

"Yeah, he's just a starving artist with a dream," Ryuji added.

"Sometime literally," Yusuke muttered.

"Well… okay then," Kasumi replied.

"Now we're going to move onto Ac's dares," Bob announced.

Meanwhile, Akechi was waiting to board an airplane to Canada at Haneda International Airport. He figured that this stupid dare will at least give him a little bit of a vacation, even if he had never planned on going to Canada before. Just as he thought that he was away from all the trouble that the dares cause, he found himself transformed into an overweight turkey.

"Gobble Gobble (What the fuck?! I thought I had a break from this bullshit)," Akechi gobbled to himself. A turkey in a crowded airport didn't take long for others to notice and security was called in to capture him.

At Bob's suggestion, everyone moved outside for the next portion of the dares. Bob made a moderate sized pool of water appear in the middle of the road. "Ryuji, throw Ann into the pool,"

Ryuji shrugged. "Alright,"

"No! I didn't pack a swimsuit today!" Ann protested.

"Look, just let me throw ya' in,"

"I don't have to, it's your- Ahhhh!" Ryuji had suddenly grabbed her by the waist and tossed her into the pool, "You dick!"

"It was a dare," Ryuji laughed, "Can't blame me,"

"Next, Akira must do the Naruto One Thousand Years of Death on Sumire," Bob dared.

"Oh no," Futaba, Ryuji, and Akira blurted.

"I don't like the sound of this," Sumire stated,

"Just, uh, turn around," Futaba suggested.

"Um… okay," Sumire obliged.

Akira got ready for this. He clasped his hands together, extending his index and middle fingers. Meanwhile, Sumire was preparing for the possibility that she'd be killed by her boyfriend. Since the dare wasn't hers, there was nothing she could do to reverse this.

"Don't worry, Sumire, I promise it's not as bad as it sounds," Akira promised.

"How could a thousand years of death not sound bad!?" Everyone who was unfamiliar with Naruto exclaimed.

Akira charged over to Sumire. He thrust his fingers between Sumire's butt cheeks and the young gymnast into the air and through the open attic window.

"That… wasn't what I was expecting," Haru commented.

"Good job Akira," Bob congratulated, "Now go up there and take a break,"

"You're joking, aren't you?" Akira accused.

"No, I'm serious," Bob lied, "Go tend to her injuries. Help her lick her wounds, especially her feet and have her use this," Bob made a purple bat, shaped like a dildo appear and gave it to him.

"The Penetrator!" Futaba said aloud.

"What!?" Sojiro blurted.

"It's from a game, I swear!" Futaba defended.

"What game has that in it?"

"Saints Row: The Third," Futaba replied, "And the sequel,"

"Well… I guess things could get worse," Akira said as he went back into the cafe. After a few moments, the windows in the attic were shut.

"Now that that's out of the way," Bob moved on, "Ryuji has to jack off in front of everyone!"

"I thought you said I could skip it if the gorilla killed me!" Ryuji argued.

"If I did, I was lying," Bob replied.

"Well, no way I'm doing that," Ryuji pulled out his recently received UNO skip card, "Skip please!"

Bob nodded and the card disappeared. "Sounds good to me. Ann, whip yourself in a naughty way,"

"How am I supposed to make whipping myself naughty?" Ann asked.

"I dunno if I'm being honest," Bob admitted, "Maybe add some fake moans or something?"

Ann tried her best to make self-flagellation as seductive as possible. But, just like her acting ability, it was sub-par.

"For Ac's last dare of the day is for Yusuke to just run around Yongen-Jaya until you pass out,"

"Must it be necessary to pass out?" Yusuke asked.

"Yes, now go before I burn the Sayori!" Bob threatened. With that, Yusuke jogged away from the group in a quest to pass out from exhaustion. Consider how he hasn't eaten today, this should hopefully be slightly quicker.

"Our next dares come from Big D," Bob announced, "Our first dare is for Sojiro to become an old man with dementia," Bob snapped his fingers and instantly aged Sojiro up to about the age of eighty-seven.

"Oh my God, you turned him into Part 4 Joseph!" Futaba blurted out.

"He turned me into what, little girl?" Sojiro asked with his hand to his ear.

"I'm not a little girl!" Futaba argued, "And I'm Futaba! Your adopted daughter!"

"Did you say your name was Wakaba?" Sojiro asked, misunderstanding her.

"No, Wakaba was my mom!"

"I knew a woman named Wakaba once," The elderly Sojiro reminisced, "She was smart, beautiful, and way out of my league. She had a daughter too and her name was Futaba,"

"Ugh, this is so annoying! Change him back!" Futaba begged.

"Your suffering brings me great joy," Bob smiled, "Therefore, I won't. Now Ann, I recommend running to the bathroom right about now,"

"But wh-," Ann suddenly felt an intense nausea, followed by a desperate need to go to the bathroom as quickly as humanly possible. She carefully exited the pool then proceeded to waddle her way to the bathroom inside Leblanc.

"Now Aidril, as we've discussed earlier," Bob nodded.

"I apologize in advance, Morgana," Aidril said as he summoned a pair of spectral scissors.

"Uh… why do you have those," Morgana asked while stepping away from the elf.

"I think this dare was meant to be given to you while you were a cat," Bob began, "But it's time to get neutered Morgana,"

Morgana immediately ran off and Aidril gave chase. "It's either you or me Morgana!" Aidril yelled.

"You won't take me alive!" Morgana screamed.

The two ran through the roads of Yongen-Jaya. Morgana was in a panic, trying to keep his testicles intact and was slowly losing distance to Aidril, a well-trained Thalmor soldier. In the distance, Morgana spotted Yusuke making laps around the neighborhood. Yusuke wasn't feeling so good after all the running he'd been doing and his friend only registered as a blurry figure that was quickly approaching him.

"Yusuke! Help! Aidril's trying to neuter me!" Morgana cried as he ran closer to him.

After Morgana passed him, Yusuke dropped to the ground. Yusuke just so happened to drop right in front of Aidril. This caused Aidril to trip over the starving artist. The elf instinctively tried to catch himself but unfortunately, he had scissors in his hand. Aidril stabbed himself in the neck with the blade of his spectral scissors. Morgana eventually turned back around to check on Yusuke and Aidril and was relieved to see that the elf who had been after his testicles was no longer a threat.

Yusuke woke up shortly after, sweaty and dehydrated. He turned to see Aidril's dead body and Morgana standing over him. "Morgana... what happened to Aidril?" Yusuke panted.

"This is why you shouldn't run with scissors, Yusuke," Morgan said as he helped Yusuke up off the ground. As they walked back to the group, Bob had just summoned a skunk to spray its stink on the girls, minus Ann and Sumire, in the group while Kasumi was just spinning around and around.

"Man, you girls smell awful," Ryuji complained, "I'm glad I ain't you guys,"

"Don't be too happy," Makoto said, "You still have to be near us,"

"Hey you two!" Bob greeted Yusuke and Morgana, "I assume you did your dares or escaped from doing them. Either way, good job!" Bob snapped his fingers and Yusuke suddenly turned into a lobster.

"Uh… alright then…," Morgana commented as he kept his distance from the skunk stench.

"Now for Akira and Sumire to tango… Where'd they go?" Bob asked.

"You sent them up to their room to do something with a phallic baseball bat," Sae replied, "I can't believe I just said that,"

"Oh yeah," Bob remembered, "Akira! Sumire!"

A shirtless Akira opened the window. "Uh, just a moment,"

"Dude, did you two really go all the way just now?!" Ryuji asked.

"No! Ahhhhhhhh!" Sumire answered before being shocked with fifty thousand volts of electricity.

"How could you two possibly do that during a time like this?" Haru asked.

"Honestly, I don't know," Akira answered, "Something kinda just… came over us,"

"It was drugs," Bob answered.

"You drugged us!?" Akira shouted.

"Don't be too upset, it was only a love potion aerosol mixed with some fast acting ecstasy. The previous recipe was, like, sixty percent meth," Bob shouted back, "Now get down here so you two can dance,"

The two eventually make their way down to the street once more and begin to tango with each other. This was a skill that the two learned when picked up a little bit when figuring out their showtime attack, which they opted to expand upon once Maruki was taken care of. They were a bit rusty, but they nailed it.

"Now for some dares from TheRealm4ss4cr3," Bob announced. He turned to the hypothetical camera for a brief aside, "I apologize if I don't do many dares from your list this chapter. To be frank, I hate Tiktok, I haven't played all of Persona 4 yet, and working in the seven deadly sins is a bit of a hassle. But, I'm cool with the setting of next session being an anime convention,"

"You're talking to nothing again," Haru commented.

"Who cares, we're going to an anime convention!" Futaba cheered.

"Do you not see the problem with this game?" Makoto asked.

"Yeah, but I can smell it even worse," She stated, in reference to her skunky smell.

"First off, let's do a mini Smash Tournament!" Bob announced. The host made a Nintendo Switch appear and led everyone to the cafe so that they could play the unreleased, at least in this universe (It's 2017), Super Smash Brothers Ultimate (With Joker included for good measure). The skunk smell got so annoying that Bob just decided to remove the smell altogether.

"This game isn't even out yet!" Ryuji said as he flipped through the characters.

"I guess they really did add Akira in the game," Morgana commented when he noticed the Joker character.

"They have Banjo-Kazooie!?" Futaba blurted, "And… Oh my God, a Sans costume!?"

"Why is the costume more exciting than the character, Futaba-chan?" Haru asked.

"Because Sans is from an indie game! That's like if some small mom and pop corner store found their way onto the global market or something,"

Everyone picked their characters, those familiar with the game picked their mains. Akira picked Kirby, Ryuji picked Donkey Kong, and Futaba picked Lucas. Everyone else was less familiar with the game and picked characters based mostly on looks or prior knowledge. Morgana picked Joker, Makoto picked Sheik, Haru picked Isabelle, Dr. Maruki picked Mario, Sae picked Peach, Sumire picked Wii Fit Trainer, and Kasumi picked Zero Suit Samus. It was immediately apparent that the ones who hardly played didn't stand a chance. It was essentially Ryuji versus Akira versus Futaba, but with weakling thrown into the mix to pad out the time. Even among those three, it was clear who the winner was going to be from the start. Futaba just wiped the floor with everyone with competitive tier plays. She came out victorious and was given the prize of am UNO skip card.

As she celebrated, everyone found themselves suddenly transformed into the opposite gender, even Bob. Ann screamed from the shock of this change from the bathroom where she was still dealing with the severe diarrhea. Everyone else was just as alarmed, but then Ryuji started to play with his own boobs, which were of moderate size.

"Of course you'd be doing that," Makoto scoffed.

"What? Wouldn't you?" Ryuji asked.

"That's not the point, pervert,"

"Hey, how am I a pervert, if I'm just messing around with my body?"

"It makes you an exhibitionist," Futaba pointed, "Which are perverts,"

"Hey, I skipped that jacking off dare! I ain't no exhibitionist," Ryuji argued.

"So you admit to being a pervert," Makoto asked.

"Hey, I just don't want to be shocked, alright,"

"To be fair, masturbation is the first thing I'd do after being magically transformed into a woman," Bob replied, "I'm just a magical being so I've already done it. It's amazing!" Bob pulled out one last note card, "Alright folks, we're in the final stretch!" Bob announced, "Just three more dares by Rogue H. Dragoon. One! Yusuke has to have sex with a lobster. Considering he's also a lobster right now, that should be easy," Bob placed lobster Yusuke into a tank with another lobster, "Next dare, all the female Phantom Thieves have to take off their panties and give them to Akira,"

"Technically, we're males now," Haru pointed out, "Does that still apply to us?"

"You know, this isn't probably what Mr. Dragoon intended," Bob pondered, "But you raise an excellent point. Morgana and Ryuji have to hand over their panties,"

"You even made us wear panties?" Morgana asked.

"Why are you people surprised by the most mundane things, changing boxers into panties, drugging people with ecstasy, teleporting cups of coffee, who cares man!?" Bob rambled.

Ryuji and Morgana begrudgingly handed their panties over to Akira, who wasn't really thrilled to have them.

"Alright, what's the last dare," Akira asked.

"This one also probably wasn't meant for a gender swap, but it'll still work," Bob said, "Akira, you must have a threesome with Sumire and Kasumi while everyone watches,"

"... So Ryuji, you said Pit from Kid Icarus is in Super Hell?" Akira asked.

"Are you sure you want to go to Super Hell?" Bob asked.

"From the sound of it, it's better than dealing with the fallout from having genderbent sex with my girlfriend and her sister and that's not even considering the fact that everyone is watching," Akira stated.

"Akira…," Sumire muttered.

"Can I give my skip card to him?" Futaba asked.

"UNO cards are non-transferable," Bob stated, "...So you're not doing the dare. Final answer?"

"Yes," Akira firmly stated.

"Very well…," Bob yawned, "Here's what would have happened if Akechi won," Bob quickly pulled out a pistol and shot Akira in the head. Screams of panic filled the room as his vision went black. For a moment, all there was was nothingness. Then the familiar song of the Velvet room could be heard. He opened his eyes and sure enough, he was back in the cell that he was all too familiar with. He looked at his clothes, which was the white and black striped jumpsuit. The door to the cell was closed. He was a prisoner yet again.

He got up and approached the cell door. In the middle of the room he was facing was a desk with Igor behind it and Lavenza standing off to the side.

"Welcome back to the Velvet Room," Igor greeted. Even though this was the real Igor, he could just never get used to the voice, "I'm sorry we had to meet again after such unfortunate circumstances,"

"I'm glad you're here now," Akira replied, "I'm assuming you're going to help me with Bob?"

"Yes," Igor answered, "We'll do everything in our power to aid you in your journey. Just as we have done before,"

"So, why didn't two show up sooner?" Akira asked, "It just seemed like the perfect time to bring me hear was last week when all of this was just getting started,"

"Unfortunately, we haven't been able to get in contact with you," Lavenza answered, "We've never had this problem before and we suspect that this might have something to do with this intruder of your reality,"

"We can't say what changed to allow us to contact you now, but we're happy to inform you that you and your friends will be given full usage of the Metaverse Navigator once again," Igor informed him, "I do hope this will be the last time you need it,"

"Agreed," Akira sighed.

The buzzer went off in the Velvet Room, indicating that he had to wake up soon.

"It's almost time to wake up," Lavenza said, "Good luck on your quest,"

Akira woke up in his attic room, alive and well and also a male. Morgana was just getting up from his futon.

"Are you alright?" Morgana asked.

"I met Igor," Akira stated, cutting straight to the point.

"Really!? What'd he say?"

"We have the Nav again," Akira and Morgana smirked in agreement. Someday, somehow, they were going to steal Bob's heart.

Meanwhile, Sumire was having a much different dream. This one was unusually vivid for some reason. It started with her being driven to the hospital by Akira, who seemed to be oddly panicked. She was helped out of the car and suddenly felt bloated. She looked down and noticed that her stomach extended out past her chest. As soon as she noticed that, she was hit with a pain from the lower abdomen. It was clear that she was going into labor. Sumire went through the procedings. Doctors checked in on her, nurses gave her drugs to ease the pain, and Akira stayed by her side through as much as he was allowed to. After a strenuous amount of pushing, the doctor presented her with a baby boy.

Then the dream ended. Sumire laid in her bed, just about as tired as she was when she had went to bed. It was a dream, but it felt too real to her. It may have been the result of mind tampering done by Bob at the request of some sick reviewer. Even still, she was disapointed that the dream wasn't a reality.

Yusuke was on his way to the cafe, when he happened to see Futaba sitting down in front of the building.

"Hey Yusuke!" Futaba greeted.

"Greetings," Yusuke replied, "Why do you happen to be sitting out here?"

Futaba shrugged. "No reason, really… so… how was losing your virginity to a lobster?"

"Why would you ask such a thing?!"

"Inari, this is me we're talking about,"

"Fair point, but isn't this still a personal topic?"

"I mean, somebody'll probably ask next time we have a session. Might as well talk about it,"

Yusuke sighed. "Well, if you wish to hear it. I'll start by say that while the lobster is a beautiful creature, I do not wish to be one any longer than I had to,"

"Well duh," Futaba interrupted, "Kinda hard to paint with those claws I bet,"

"That and when our sexes were altered, I was affected as well," Yusuke continued, "So it wasn't really me having intercourse with the lobster, rather than the lobster having intercourse with me,"

"My God! Are you alright, Yusuke?" Futaba worried.

"I assure you, I am. However, that experience caused me to thinking about sexual intimacy and how it can relate to art,"

"Uh… I don't imagine Lobster sex being too intimate,"

"It isn't! There is a lack of intimacy in the animal kingdom as a whole, yet we as humans are one of the few species capable of such emotional depth. It's something that I wish to capture on canvas,"

"Sounds like you just want to paint porn," Futaba noted.

"Nonsense! I do not wish to paint smut for smut's sake. It's the emotion, that connection shared by two people that I want to capture. But… to truly capture it… and to understand it… would I need to have this connection as well,"

"W-w-what are you getting at?" Futaba blushed.

"... I'm sorry. I realize this train of thought must be an outrageous one to follow. I'll leave you to whatever it was that you were doing prior to my arrival," Yusuke went inside the cafe and Futaba took a second to compose herself after what she'd just heard

(A/N: I hope this was in-character for Yusuke. My main way of writing him has mostly been, take any experience, and try to somehow tie that back into art)

Greetings everyone, Aidril Silinor reporting. I just want to say that I am relieved that this session didn't last a whole two days like Bob had planned. That would have been more dreadful than this game already is.

Also, the next session will possibly take place at a so-called 'anime convention' so please suggest what everyone should cosplay as. (I finally know what it means now)

And please, let me know if I am not capturing the spirit of the characters when I write these transcripts. Even such a task as this has a bit of creative liberties and if I am assigned to this job, I may as well do it right.