Meeting people has never been so mildly entertaining!

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Who: Kaede, Momoko
What: Getting to know fellow Purseowners.
When: Friday, lunch time
Where: Student Council room

It had been Tuesday that Kaede overheard someone talking about their student council president's open-door-policy sessions. Not really something she was terribly interested in one way or another, as she had no real plans of interacting with with the student government.

It had been Wednesday that she realized this would be an opportunity to actually talk to one of the others who'd been dragged into this... low-budget magic-girl-anime but-real-life. She wasn't much of one for large gatherings, so meeting people one-on-one seemed ideal.

Thursday, she'd gotten the when and where figured out.

And finally, on Friday, she arrived at the student council room, near the beginning of the lunch break. And, without further ado, she knocked twice.

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The thing about the power outage was new, or at least, if it had come up before, she hadn't been paying attention then. That did kind of put a damper on her theory, but still, she might as well go ahead and present her reasoning.

Kaede shook her head to answer the question, before explaining. "There are twelve of us, based on who Mara added to our contacts," she began ticking points of on her fingers; that was the first. The second, "Ten of us go to Matsubayashi. The other two didn't say either way." Third, "Three first-years, six second-years, and yourself. We're all in our year's C class--1-C, 2-C, and 3-C. Based on that, I'd guess the two other members of the group are in one of those three classes as well."

That perhaps gave an impression of her being more insightful than she really had been. The detail was something she'd noticed when organizing her thoughts a few nights ago, entirely by chance. She hadn't shared her thoughts until just now, largely because the options had been, well--Azusa, Kaito, and Yuzuki. And she didn't want to just post it all into the open when she didn't know most of these people and wasn't sure if it was all right.

"It seems hard to believe that'd be a coincidence," she continued, "So I think we should assume that Mara either knew what the class assignments would be ahead of time, and singled us out based on that, or he chose us first and then one way or another arranged for us to be in those classes."

She paused to take a breath and give a quiet sigh, before continuing. "Either one would make sense, with how he's talking about wanting us to work together. He even made sure we'd all be able to get in touch with each other. That's actually why I don't think it's the first."

"I mean, if you think about it, if he was picking students out based on class assignments, and wanted them to all be grouped together, why not put us all in the same year, too?" At that point, she raised a hand and began lightly rubbing her temple with a pair of fingertips, while turning her attention to the desk between the two of them. "Which means, if all that's right, he probably picked us out first, or maybe us and some others, and moved all his candidates into their year's C classes."

Which, in a roundabout way, brought her back to the question before. Without changing her posture, she glanced up, across the desk. "What I was getting at before was, it seems like there'd be at least a few people who actually work for the school that could do everything he did, without needing to be some outside super hacker. Though, I guess that might not explain the outage. I didn't know about that, until just now."

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Annnd Momoko hadn't thought of that connection, and internally she was kicking herself because now someone younger than her who wasn't Mako looked smarter than her. However she was just about capable of not having a small tantrum about looking stupider than a second year so instead gave Kaede a nice big positive smile, internal rage be damned.

"Oh! Well it makes sense we'd all be connected somehow and the class assignments is an awful big coincidence." Her expression became serious. "And if Mara could have an influence on our class assignments because hacking aside it does mean he could be a student or a teacher, there must be parts of the system the faculty are not meant to access. It also raises the issue of why classes there are plenty of other ways to group us together." She did find it rather arbitrary, most of their fellow Persona Users were in 2-C but then there seemed to be very few in 1-C and Momoko was sure she was the only one from 3-C.

She tapped her fingers together, still frustrated she hadn't seen what now seemed blatantly obvious especially as she knew a fair few of their fellow Persona Users and knew what classes they were in and unable to fathom out why this particular criteria was so important.

"It seems likely we are going to have to go back there, and I'd like to know as much as possible beforehand, hopefully everyone can be organised into pooling our resources. You already seem to be doing a great job of thinking everything through." Momoko used the power of compliment!

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Kaede smiled, just a touch shyly--she was not, really, a shy person, but social interactions... weren't something she did a lot of (mostly because she typically didn't want to); doubly so for cordial ones.

"It's just something I noticed while organizing my thoughts, but thank you." When her thoughts turned to the prospect of returning, though, Kaede sighed, and rubbed breifly at her forehead. "I'm not exactly thrilled at the idea of going back," she admitted. "But even if what he said isn't true, I don't think I could just forget about this without finding out more."

And, at that, the faint smile from before transitioned slowly towards a frown. "...Come to think of it, that might be why he's holding back so much information."

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Kaede's shy(ish) smile was noted, Momoko assumed it was purely due to being in her presence. Many younger students got shy and embarassed around her, she had become quite used to it so pretended as best she could not to notice, no one wanted someone they looked up to to see them vulnerable after all.

"You are right, we need to find out what we can." Momoko frowned. "He could be lying to us from the start, for all we know he might be the bad guy trying to manipulate us into doing exactly the wrong thing. We need to be careful." After all that is exactly what she would do should she be a villain, in fact she did tend to trick people into doing her bidding as it was but she was a hundred percent sure she was not the villain of the piece, that was the Art Club.

"We'll work it all out don't worry, and we will work him out too."