Later that day everyone gathers at Junes to discuss the incident. Rise begins to whine that she didn't get to see everyone else's ordeals with their lesser halves. *sigh* And here I thought you were the nice one. Yes Rise, we are special. We're the only ones that get cupcakes from Cupcake Fox. No cupcakes for the rest of you! AHAHAHA! Rise then decides we should have a party to celebrate the end of the case. Ah... I think the pervos in our party are rubbing off on Kanji. ^>__o^;; Since Yukiko's inn is booked solid, everyone decides the party should be at our house. Answer "Alright, let's do this!" for S. Link points with Rise. Aaaaggghhh Yukiko noooooooo, don't try to murder our baby cousin with your terrible cookiiiiiiiing.... haven't there been enough murders around here already. ^T__T^;; YES, YOSUKE, BE THE VOICE OF REASON. Ahm... you know, with all of the women in this game who suck at cooking... I'm... gonna be super-skeptical about Rise's supposed cooking skills. NO TEDDIE THAT IS A TERRIBLE IDEA. ^o__o^;; You know what, I want in on this cooking battle. *orders a pizza, hands out slices to everyone* I win. Flawless Victory. ^=__=^;; Once in the grocery section, you call Nanako and ask her what she wants her last meal in this life to be. ^<__<^;; She decides on an omelette. Heyyyy... even *I* can make omelettes! No, seriously. If it's something that even I can make... maybe it won't be so bad...? I mean... it's kinda hard to fuck up something that easy to make... right? Right? Right...? Well, at least Yosuke agrees with me, but then again it's not like he's never been wrong before... ... we're all going to die aren't we. As soon as we taste these things, we're getting the Game Over screen, aren't we... ... waaaaaah, I don't wanna die from foooooooooooooooood. ^T_____T^ When Yosuke asks you what kind of omelette you're making, say "Asian American, soy flavoured." The other options will not be successful, trust me (well, technically "Orthodox" and "Herb filled" come out OK, and the only one that comes out awful is "Aromatic," but "Asian American" gets you the most points). Ah... guys. Foie gras is... duck/goose liver. What the flying miserable cheesecakes. Look, I like pate and all but not in an omelette... ah, Yukiko you're scary all of a sudden. ^T__T^;; Wait, what's the legal drinking age in Japan? We don't really have one in my country so I don't understand these things. And anyway, if it's cooking alcohol do the laws still apply? Eh, whatevs. Meanwhile, Teddie is charming the pants, er, free samples, off of one of the sales ladies.

Back at home, Nanako is too star-struck to pay attention to anything Teddie has to say. Apparently Teddie thinks that since the case is over that means we won't want him around anymore. Nanako suggests that Teddie make a promise with her so that he has a reason to stay with us. Teddie agrees and you get a rank up~ Yosuke wanders over and is like, what are you even talking about, Teddie, you're staying here forever~ Aaaaaaaaand... this heartwarming moment is crushed to bits by the sudden appearance of objects of indeterminate origin attempting to masquerade as food. Yep. The time has come. And I continue to agree with Yosuke about how this is a terrible idea, especially the part involving our baby cousin. It is not mean, Rise, it is ACCURATE. *throws a dictionary at her* Well, I guess we're going to find out if Rise will finally break the curse of women who are terrible at cooking. ... *throws hands up into the air, wanders off, pizza in tow* ... NO, I DON'T WANT TO TASTE IT TOO WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO MURDER ME, GAME?! Iron...? Overcooked liver tastes like iron. Waaah... ^T__T^ Kanji bravely steps up and attempts to eat Yukiko's terrible cooking. Ah... he's going back for seconds? And thirds? ... did... did all of that practise actually pay off...? Boneless...? Omelettes are not supposed to have bones Kanji! Ah... well. I guess that something that doesn't taste like anything is an improvement over food that murders people? Oh Nanako, you should not be learning to lie so well at your age. Wait... wait. Are... are these women still not tasting their food before giving it to other people? Is that why Chie has no idea how hers is going to taste...? And why they keep serving us garbage? ^T__T^ What is wrong with youuuuuuuu. It's Teddie's turn to try the food, and digs into it with reckless abandon. lolcat Teddie, if it's awful why do you keep eating it. Agh, Nanakoooooooo *tries to smack the spoon out of her hand, is too slow* I'M SORRY BABY COUSIN I HAVE FAILED TO PROTECT YOU FROM THE TERRIBLE COOKING. I must now commit seppuku to restore our family honour. And Nanako is full of lies and bees. Yukiko, you are literally the last person who should talk about someone else's cooking being awful. Oh great, Rise killed Yukiko. *shuffles through her Persona deck, looking for one that has Recarm* Oh, Hanuman, thanks for ressing Yukiko. Nanako why do you keep eating terrible things. Oh right, she's a small child. They eat dirt and bugs and whatnot. I guess I really shouldn't've been too worried about her eating these things then. And of course the actress knows how to fake cry. *sigh* Fortunately our omelette saves the day. Hurray. *puts a superhero cape on the omelette* We also get S. Link points with Nanako for making the superhero omelette. So... because we're all starving, Yosuke suggests... we all go to a festival... that won't exist until the 20th. Uh. How exactly does that solve our hunger problem? I think the awful food destroyed his brain.

As it is raining today, go hand in your cat-insanity quest to Cupcake Fox. Back at home go finish your book.

Grab your next quest from Cupcake Fox. Apparently some haiku-loving person has lost their wallet. Go to the riverbank and go left to find some girl standing by a trashcan. Ah... what? Were you trying... to eat out of the garbage...? Seems this is the one who lost their wallet. Talk to her again and she says she might have lost it by the river. While we're here, feed the hungry cat any fish you've got that isn't the Huge Fish that has been living in our inventory since forever. Go down to the riverbed and check the black and yellow bordered sign by the stairs to find a Round Wallet. Return to the girl... who says that it's not her wallet. Huh. Most people would just be like YEP IT'S MINE KTHXBAI. She wonders if she dropped it at the field next to the shrine. Return to the northern shopping district and check the bushes by the yellow stick-thing near the lamppost below the shrine to find a Square Wallet. Return to the girl and it is actually her wallet this time! Hurray~ Wait, you what? If buying plots of land is something you do all of the time, shouldn't you have a ton of money in the bank? Like, what's your deal ladyface? Regardless, quest done. Now, go hang out with Hisano-baachan. She seems startled to see you. Turns out that for a minute there she thought you were her dead husband. She tells you that he met him here in Inaba when his acting company came into town one day. The company only came by once a year but somehow they fell in love anyway. He quit the company and married her. She says that all she wants is to be by his side again but that she knows it will never happen. ... because she's going to Hell. ^O__o^;; But but baaaaachaaaaaaaan you're so nice why you mean to yourself. :( Back at home, start reading Men in History (Man's Life series) for points towards Courage.

Go talk to the dude standing in front of the bookstore, who tells you that his klutz of a sister enjoys destroying her plates. Finally, the three Fashionable Plates quest! So, since we kept them this long go ahead and hand them over. He gives you the Riddlemania book and 10k. Woo~ Afterwards, go hang out with Rise. Your first answer is irrelevant, so pick whatever. She then wonders where Kanji buys his clothes. You know, he probably makes them himself. Does... does Rise want to be pointy too? Randomly, some guy shows up and asks if she's Risette. She's like, NO WAY, and drags you off. Man... I've probably said this before but if I were an idol I'd be punching so many people. GO AWAY. ^<__<^;; Rise's happy that she got to tell them all that she's not Risette. Well, I guess that's kinda true, since Risette was her fakey-fake manufactured idol personality created by her management team. She tells you that she loves Inaba because you're there, her grandma's there, and she has important work to do there, i.e., PERSONA POWER~ Now that your S. Link with Rise is r3 her Persona has a new skill: Treasure Radar. This skill allows you to see the location of all the chests on the current floor in a dungeon, even if you haven't uncovered any part of that floor yet. Back at home read your book some more.

Today, Kou will call you to hang out. Accept his invite, and he and Daisuke invade your room. Kou... are you Goldilocks now? Not too hot, not too cold, our room isn't made of porridge ya know. Regardless, he gives you a new book, The O-Cha Way. Nanako shows up, and Daisuke ropes Kou into helping her with her homework. Haha. And hurray, we needed more S. Link points for Nanako. After they leave finish your book. Some of you might reach Courage r5 tonight but if not, don't worry, we'll make it up soon enough.

Well, you know the drill. Since it's raining, go hand in your quest to Cupcake Fox. Back at home start reading The O-Cha Way (Manuals) for points towards Expression (and Knowledge too I guess but we already maxed that so meh :op ).

GUYS, TODAY IS THE KO DATE FOR VOID QUEST. IF YOU HAVE NOT SAVED MITSUO YET GO DO IT OR GAME OVER. Go get your next quest from Cupcake Fox. Somebody wants to see something called the Guardian of the Samegawa. Well, Samegawa is that river we keep going to, so we might as well start there. Talk to the old fishing guy, and he starts telling you about the Guardian. Apparently, this Guardian is some huge giant fish of DOOM that lives in the river. He says that he caught the Guardian once when he was younger, but couldn't reel him in, and ever since he's been trying to see the Guardian again but now he's too old to fish him out. He wonders if there are any skilled young fishermen out there. Suddenly, he notices our Huge Fish. (OK so we totally cheated and bought this off the telly forever ago but this is totally going to save us a lot of annoyance, trust me) He then asks you to fulfill his wish and fish for the Guardian. Tell him you will, and he gives you his Angler's Set, which is a much better fishing rod than the one he gave us before. He says to try for the Guardian when it's raining. Go eat at Aiya. We're aiming for Diligence and Understanding today. If you get Courage too you might max that out today. If not, don't worry, we'll get it soon enough. At home, the weather report says the fog will set in tonight. Open the fridge to get rid of the lazy beer that does nothing, then go to your room to watch the Midnight Channel, which has nothing to show us.

It's time to hang out with Rise again~ I wonder if she's sick of us yet ^<__<^;; She takes you to the hill Kanji likes so much, and tells you she used to come out here all the time when she first got here in an attempt to find herself. Your first answer here is irrelevant. She says her life here is more relaxed than at home, because her parents are so strict and her grandma doesn't harass her about anything. But apparently tells Rise that she's like tofu. Um. OK. Seems that her grandma just meant that tofu looks fragile but is actually resilient, that it stands out but can also blend in with anything. Rise says that she's nothing like any of that. She confides in you, telling you that she used to get bullied at school before she became an idol, and that it was some relative of hers that sent in an application for her to the agency without even telling her. She tells you that the only reason she became an idol was that she saw it as an opportunity to change herself and make friends. Eventually she realised that the person everyone liked was just Risette, her agency-manufactured fake personality, and not the real Rise. She asks you if that's true for you too. Either reply no, or that you don't know. She says that none of that matters now, because she's got people who see the real her, and she has power to help others. Back at home, it's tiEm for moAr readingz, but first, talk to Dojima to get 40k for doing well on your exams.

Yosuke will call you today asking you to work at Junes for the entire week. Accept (no, seriously, the game will make you go even if you decline). True to her word, Chie is also working there, as is Teddie. The game then fast-forwards to Friday, with a spastic-looking Teddie losing his mind in the background. Well Yosuke... Teddie has ice magic. That's how he does it. He's probably spamming Bufula at himself. Yosuke then reminds you that the festival is tomorrow night.

Blehhhhh, Kanji, who wants to eat squid on a stick. Or squid anywhere. ^>__o^;; After acquiring snacks of varying degrees of tastiness, the girls show up in yukata. For reasons. Why do you need to put towels... oh nevermind, I'm never wearing one of those things anyway. Filing that under other things I don't need to know, like why anyone would want chocolate on bacon or why some frogs meow like cats. Tell Nanako that she looks cute in the towel outfit of DOOM. ... Teddie stop hitting on our baby cousin. ^>__o^;; Compliment Yukiko cause we need S. Link points with her. Dojima shows up and actually decides to spend some time with his kid for once in his life. Will wonders never cease. Teddie, I think Chie is rubbing off on you. You sound like the back of a movie box. He then decides that y'all need to couple up, but the math's all off. Ah, Kanji, can we not have a repeat of the campout fiasco plzkthx. And Teddie continues to be unable to count. Although I think he's just pretending he can't count... and further manipulates the situation by getting Kanji to agree that it's not manly to, uh... be seen walking around with a girl? While everyone's distracted, Teddie makes his move and buggers off with all of the girls. But don't get too upset. As anyone with half a brain knows, it's a terrible idea to try to get with multiple girls at once, as you shall soon see~ Triple doghouse time for Teddie, haha.

This time, when Ai calls choose to go to the festival with her. Ai, we are making "that face" cause we're the ones who grant the wishes at this shrine... ^<__<^;; Tell her that your wish is to be closer to her. She then decides her sweet tooth requires candied apples, but gets distracted by some lottery thing going on at the festival, in which you can win "magnificent prizes." Ai, you're rich, I'm sure you could just buy whatever it is. Instead, she decides to buy 10 of every food item at the festival. Who's gonna eat all this stuff. ^@__@^;; We end up with 50 tickets which gets us the grand prize. No surprise there. I don't think a total of 50 people even live in Inaba, let alone showed up to the festival. ^<__<^;; What is surprising is what the "magnificent prize" is: a bale of rice. What. Ai isn't all that pleased either, so the lottery guy offers her a shopping coupon instead. Well, Ai does love shopping... We also get a new book, The Divine Way, so hurray for that.

Go find Chie in front of Daidara's. She takes us to Aiya again. And again, our mission to acquire meat is thwarted by the stupid bullies. So off we go to seek vengeance for our lack of meat. Their leader claims he's got a plan though. Seems Corporal Pimpboy blabbed to them about how Chie's friends with Yukiko, so now he's threatening to hurt Yukiko if we don't back off. Your first answer here doesn't matter. Chie tries to get the guy to hit her for some reason. Maybe she sensed that this guy is actually chickenshit and only bullies people with words but runs off at the first sign of conflict. Mayyyyybe her motto, "Don't think, feel," actually worked this time? Cause the bullies run off and the kid thanks Chie for her help. Tell her either that it all turned out OK, or that she protected the kid. She says that her motivation was to protect the kid, and Yukiko, and you. OK guys. Here comes my moment of absolute terror, the point where you can get into a relationship with Chie, of all people. Again, just a reminder of the three key points: You can max S. Links without being in any relationships with anyone, you can be in relationships with multiple girls at once without any negative consequences (despite the game's pink warning text), and not getting into a relationship with them is not a reversal. If you want to be in a relationship with Chie because you're like Kou and like girls with the body shape and hair of a 12-year old boy, ask her to be your girlfriend. If you don't want to be in a relationship with her, just say that you're counting on her. Blaaaaghghaghahgahgh the things I do for you guys. Back at home, it's time to help Nanako with her homework (so choose Yes).

Today we're aiming for Diligence and Understanding at Aiya again. ... huh, I guess he heard me that one time we came here with Naoki, cause he gives us a book (The Ramen Way) for having come here so often. Back at home, more interruptions for Nanako's homework. This time it's Chie and Yukiko. Yukiko suggests that Nanako write about when we all went to the festival.

Head to the shopping district and take the bus to the daycare. Yuuta decides that he'd rather play with us than go home. Eri gets annoyed and just leaves him there. Er... I don't remember having a child, why do I suddenly have to take care of onnnnnnnnne come back here Eriiiiiiiii he's youuuurrrrrrrssssss... As you walk Yuuta home, you come across Eri sitting in her usual place. Yuuta asks if she's mad at him. Your answers for this rank don't matter. He claims that she hates him and yet has to take care of him, so he feels sorry for her. What. Eri, it is not our responsibility to take care of other peoples' children after daycare is over. ^x__x^;; She says that at least he seems to have fun at daycare. Back at home, there are no interruptions for Nanako's homework tonight. When she asks you if being alone makes you happy, tell her no.

Here we go again, Diligence and Understanding at Aiya. Back at home, Nanako's homework's reprieve from being interrupted is over. This time it's Rise and Kanji. KANJI! PERFECT PERSON TO HELP WITH ART HOMEWORK. Kanji... what did you make. A rabbit kaiju sitting on a car? I approve!

So like I said, the game will force you to do your homework eventually, and eventually has arrived~ and hurray for pointless points towards Knowledge since we maxed that out like forever ago. Ha. At night, tell her that it had stopped raining by then.

Go hang out with Kanji (shopping district, north side). He takes you to Aiya. Suddenly, some cops show up. They try to haul Kanji off. Tell them either that Kanji didn't do anything, or ask them if they have a warrant. What do you mean "kind"... DO YOU KNOW WHO OUR UNCLE IS?! I'LL HAVE YOUR BADGES FOR THIS. ^=__=^ Oh I see. This is about those idiots who tried to rob Corporal Pimp-Boy over in Chie's S. Link. Wait, what idiot claimed that Kanji was threatening Doll Boy? Were they drunk? High? Both? Your next answer doesn't matter. The cops then try to arrest us, but Kanji insists that we have nothing to do with anything. Suddenly, it's Doll Boy to the rescue! ... even though he's pretty clueless. The cops try to lead the kid into saying that Kanji stole his money, but he misunderstands and thinks Kanji actually lost his money. Since cops are stupid, they take this as proof that we robbed the kid. Then Doll Boy is like, "Oh and I've got cookies for you too! ^____^" and spills the beans to the cops about how Kanji made him some dolls. The cops don't believe it for a second. Your next answer also doesn't matter. Kanji tells them straight up that he made the dolls and that he's going to SEW THE COPS TO HEEEEEELL. Or just their buttons. Whichever. :op Kanji's mum shows up and the cops soon bugger off. Ha, losers. GTFO stupid cops! Go stare at some more manhole covers or something. Back home read your book.