Tokyo Psychic

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Coop [Romance] Anwa Subaru ①

安和昴

COOP: Romance

The Major Arcana [Love] symbolizes profound connection, balance, and the power of choice.

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Harmony and Disharmony:

When viewed positively, lovers symbolize union, harmony, and a deep relationship;

When reversed, it represents disharmony, dishonesty, and difficult choices.

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Upright:

(Love) The Lovers card, upright, represents connection and romance in love. It may represent a passionate and sincere romantic relationship, or an important marital relationship. This card encourages you to pursue love, express your feelings, and seek out people with whom you have a genuine connection.

(Work/Career) Cooperation and partnerships with others. It may represent close collaboration with colleagues, clients, or partners. This card encourages you to build good relationships with others, supporting and cooperating with each other to achieve common goals.

(Art) suggests the connection between creativity and art. It may represent collaborating with others or expressing emotions and thoughts through art. This card encourages you to pursue art and creation, and to share your talents and ideas with others.

Reversed:

When making life decisions, you may feel lost or unsure of the right direction. At this time, careful consideration and deep self-reflection are necessary to find the choice that truly meets your needs.

(Family) Potential instability or disagreements within family relationships. In such cases, more communication and compromise may be needed to restore harmony and unity within the family.

(Art) Obstacles to creative inspiration or difficulties in collaborative art projects necessitate a reassessment of goals and methods to find more suitable creative pathways.

Reversed summary: This suggests communication difficulties, indicating challenges and challenges in interpersonal relationships. Special attention needs to be paid to communication, understanding, and reassessment to resolve issues and find better solutions.

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[As of Chapter 106, the Personas currently possessed by An and Subaru]:

[Currently available information]:

Persona "Sisyphus"

—"A person who, for his love and life, is punished by the gods to endlessly push a giant rock in defiance of fate."

Arcana: Love

Destructive power: F~A (the effect varies depending on the scenario in which the ability is activated);

Speed: C (This ability must be performed by "weighing on a balance scale").

Range: D (can only capture targets within line of sight);

Durable: F;

Precision: A (capable of materializing the experience of death into a "rolling stone");

Growth potential: A;

The Persona embodies the ability of "death rewind," possessing the power to repeat everything between "arrival" and "inability to arrive."

"Rolling Stone" personifies the experience of death as a "rolling stone," which can be used to directly attack enemies or as a bargaining chip in the "scales of fate."

108. Sumire Yoshizawa is a bad girl (two-part series)

"Have you heard? That Singaporean and Malaysian scholar..."

"I never imagined he was such a terrible person behind the scenes; you'd never guess it from his usual demeanor!"

"very scary."

"But thanks to the Mind Thieves..."

On their way to school, high school students formed small groups of two or three, and the sounds of their conversations gathered nearby.

The pitch-black power lines cut through the clear blue sky, and sunlight bursts through the wounds in the clouds, instantly engulfing the city's countless ravines and gullies.

The celery was so bright from the sun that it was hard to open its eyes, so it had to raise its hand to cover its forehead.

But that wasn't safe enough, so she simply lifted her schoolbag above her head, which made her feel more comfortable.

Akira Kurusu raised her hand and lightly tapped Serina Izana's head through her backpack. The girl shook her head for a while and said, "They're all praising us."

"Are you really going to go and tell them, 'The Phantom Thieves are here, everyone, let's all celebrate!'" Akira Kurisu tapped her head again.

He immediately saw through the restless desire to show off that was lurking in Serina's heart. This girl had probably been suppressed too much in her school in Kumamoto, and now she was always thinking about becoming the center of attention...

However, whenever more people focused on Izana, she would become stage-frightened and timidly hide away. But as her first performance went smoothly, she occasionally became bolder when accompanied by acquaintances nearby.

"Stop knocking!" Ishigami Renna didn't like being treated like a child by Kurusu Akira.

Lai Qixiao tapped her head for the third time, "Have you read 'Journey to the West'? Bodhi Patriarch tapped Sun Wukong's head three times, implying that he was 'teachable' and that he was going to give him special training. So I was actually praising you."

Jing Qinren's face immediately tightened, and she said nervously, "I would never sneak into your room through the back door in the middle of the night!"

Akira was stunned by Serina's unusual thought process. It wasn't until he reached the school gate that he swiped his student ID to enter the school while advising the girl beside him.

"Read less erotic magazines."

"I didn't look at that kind of thing!" Jingqin Rencai lunged at Laixi Xiao, baring her teeth and brandishing her claws.

The thief snatched the schoolbag she was waving from her hand and restrained the unruly girl with one hand. "People around are watching. Can't you be a little more discreet?"

Jing Qinrencai immediately quieted down, took the schoolbag from the phantom thief, and obediently followed him toward the entrance of the teaching building.

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While changing her indoor shoes next to the shoe cabinet, Jingqin Jincai noticed that the girls behind her seemed to be having a heated discussion, and she heard her own name mentioned in their conversation.

So she curiously approached, but the girls were quick to notice her arrival and immediately ran away as if they had done something wrong.

Jingqin Rencai watched their retreating figures and lowered her raised hand with some disappointment.

Am I being ostracized again?

And in their conversation just now, they seemed to have mentioned "Anwa Subaru" and "Kurasu Akira"... Oh no, could it be that the Phantom Thieves have been discovered?!

Jingqin Rencai quickly ran to the other side of the shoe cabinet and looked longingly at Laixi Xiao, who was locking the cabinet.

Akira Kurusu immediately returned Serina Ii's questioning gaze.

Jing Qinrencai quickly said, "There were quite a few girls at school talking about me just now."

"Isn't this good news? You might make a lot of new friends soon."

"But they also mentioned you, An, and Subaru!" Izareina looked around anxiously, lowering her voice, "Has the Phantom Thieves been discovered...?"

Akira reached out and pinched Serina's cheek. The girl didn't dodge or avoid him, letting him do as he pleased, but her eyes became somewhat aggrieved and annoyed.

At this moment, the phantom thief said, "You're overthinking it." Then he picked up Serina's schoolbag and headed for the stairs.

Jing Qinren didn't let go, but was pulled along by the force at the other end of the schoolbag, "Why!"

Akira glanced at the students on the stairs, took two steps back, and whispered in her ear, "If we were really exposed, we should be sitting in the Metropolitan Police Department office drinking tea right now, instead of leisurely going to school."

As they were saying this, the faint, piercing sound of police sirens could be heard from outside the campus, growing louder as they approached.

The slight relief that had just begun to ease vanished instantly replaced by panic. She looked helplessly at Akira Kurusu beside her. "The police are here."

"The Metropolitan Police Department needs to investigate the Singapore-Malaysia police."

"Will we get arrested and thrown in jail?"

Akira Kurusu reached out and flicked Serina Izayoi's forehead. "Stop thinking about these endless things. Those girls are probably just gossiping about the messy romantic relationships in the 'Mental Health Education Department'."

Jing Qinrencai stared at him blankly, "Confused? Relationship?"

"Go check out the post that's ranked fifth on the campus forum's 'HOT' list."

Lai Qixiao seemed reluctant to discuss this topic. She let go of her schoolbag, quickly stepped up the stairs into the corridor, and headed to the first-grade classroom. "Let's review a little more before entering the exam room. I'll go borrow a pen from a friend."

"You haven't taught me the math problem yet!"

"Then you take your notebook and wait for me at the door of classroom 2-C."

The two parted ways temporarily at the stairwell.

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[AM. 8:17]

An and Subaru rushed into the examination room, panting, found their seats, and then collapsed onto the table in a panic.

We've finally made it.

She glanced at the clock on the wall in the classroom; there were still 13 minutes until the exam started.

Akira Kurusu, sitting next to An and Subaru, coughed lightly twice while clenching her fist. "Didn't you bring any stationery?"

Anhe Subaru froze. "No..."

Then she saw Akira Kurusu stand up and walk out of the classroom.

After a while, Lai Xixiao returned with a pen that looked very expensive. "Here, this is for you."

"Ah, this brand is a bestseller in Ginza..."

"It doesn't matter, just use it."

Anhe Mao looked at the end of the pen, where a rose pattern was cut out. "Thank you."

The students around immediately noticed Akira Kurusu and Subaru An and couldn't help but gossip.

The proctor, standing on the podium, had witnessed the interaction between the young boy and girl. Finally, unable to bear it any longer, he announced, "The exam is about to begin. Please maintain order in the examination room!"

The classroom immediately fell silent.

Sunlight streamed through the windows, then gradually spread throughout the classroom.

Akira Kurusu was quickly finishing the test questions in front of her, and the last page of the test paper was being filled at an extremely fast speed. Crisp footsteps echoed in the corridor outside.

He looked up and saw two neatly dressed, capable-looking, and stern-looking criminal police officers whispering to each other by the door, pointing at the scene inside the classroom.

Clearly, the detectives had other duties to attend to and soon stopped paying attention to the high school students' desperate struggle with their exam papers.

However, their arrival clearly distracted the proctors.

At this moment, Akira Kurusu flipped over the test paper and generously showed each page of answers to An and Subaru, who were eagerly waiting for their turn.

Although Shinma Hsiao-lien has been detained, the exam room seat he arranged still accommodated this transfer student from Kawasaki City.

An and Subaru's seating position was too clever. By simply craning their necks and making a gesture as if checking the time or daydreaming, they could clearly see Akira Kurusu's exam paper out of the corner of their eyes.

About ten minutes later, An and Subaru seemed to have come to their senses, so they flipped the test paper to the first page and wrote their names on it.

"Finished copying?" Akira Kurusu winked at Anwa Subaru.

An and Subaru nodded.

"I'm handing in my paper." Lai Xixiao raised her hand.

"I'll hand in my paper too." An and Subaru did as they were told, looking quite professional.

Then the two of them made a high-profile exit from the classroom.

As soon as she left the classroom, Akira noticed that An and Subaru were very close to her. They were so close that she could smell the fragrance of An's shower gel.

"The exams are over for today. What's the schedule?" Anwa Subaru asked Kurusu Akira in a voice that wouldn't disturb the nearby classrooms.

"Is there anywhere you'd like to go?" Akira Kurusu noticed the unusual closeness that An and Subaru were showing and tentatively asked her in return.

"How about an arcade? Or an internet cafe?" Every place name she uttered was unexpected to Akira Kurusu.

"I thought you were going to the amusement park... Is this considered the 'employment' we agreed on before?"

“Hmm… I guess so, if you like it this way,” An and Subaru suddenly stopped at the top of the stairs. She reached out her hand to Akira Kurusu, a faint blush rising on her cheeks as she did so.

Akira Kurusu belatedly realized the meaning behind the cryptic essay that An and Subaru had sent this morning.

But now it's too late to turn back.

The sun was shining brightly, making the stairwell lights appear somewhat dim, but reflected in his eyes, they shone like starlight.