"It's a puzzle, isn't it?" Lidding the pot, he watches Amamiya feel his way around. "Almost nobody past a certain age has come here. And of those few, they almost all have Personas. All but one."

And that one is his mother, of course—or, more or less; even he finds her uncomfortable. "If they did show up, in a way, we'd have to be the adults. They'd be powerless in this atmosphere of threat. Imagine Chihaya, for example."

He thinks of Chihaya Mifune as a little sister, despite the small gap in their ages. She has strength she doesn't know, yet at the same time she's so... well, there's a reason she's one of his favourite confidants.