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Persona 4 - Black Carnival

Akira watched once more as Samuel went through the cards chosen, giving each its accommodating definitions. Unlike the first run it would appear this set would bare fruit. The first card definitely held some interest 'Justice' the definition would give an interesting perspective on his school life at least. A small nod to himself at the end of Samuel's reading of the card. This man was clearly skilled at what he does, first Tomomi's reading was accurate and now this second reading of his didn't look like it'd be far off the mark. Akira tried to the push the thoughts to the back of his mind to try and concentrate more on the readings being made.

Each card would be read in turn, though there was some accuracy there was also some inaccuracies. However, with the scrambled mess that Akira's mind sometimes felt it was hardly surprising that the reading wasn't exactly on the mark. He felt the Hermit card very much matched his lifestyle of choice with him choosing to be alone a lot of the time. "Interesting..." Akira spoke to Samuel, his tone different to before. "Definitely food for thought, in these cards at least." Akira picked up on the final comment that Samuel had said to him. "Perhaps, if the reading was inaccurate once more. I apologise for my earlier words, but I cannot for how they are perceived. Bluntness may be opposite side of the ugly coin that intentional rudeness resides upon. But it is not as easy a trait to drop."

Akira intentionally avoided going into any detail as to how he felt the cards matched up with him, but Samuel had been more or less correct with which ones he thought had matched and not matched Akira's personality. He rested his hands on the table and pushed himself up to his feet as he watched Samuel re-shuffle his cards ready for the next patron. "Although I'm sure it was a pleasure, may the cards ever be in your favour." Akira pulled at the strap of his bag as he turned ready to walk away before looking over his shoulder to continue. "May fate not deal you cruel hand." With that Akira glanced, and nodded to Tomomi before heading off, making his way to Aiya. He was already hungry without having to think in depth about his reading and he was ready for some good food to round off the afternoon with.

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Akira watched on as Tomomi's reading was done. From what little he did know of her it did seem to make sense and all add up. Even Tomomi had admitted the accuracy of most of the cards, although not directly admitting to the hermit reading it would appear it was on the mark but had hit a nerve with her. Maybe this wasn't some con after all? As Tomomi stood and 'guided' Akira to the seat there was the soft objection of "Hey." before he ended up planted on the seat. He sighed as he watched the hooded man reshuffle and reorganise his cards before picking one of the sets at the appropriate time."Fate can't be any more surprising then the differences in today, go ahead."

Akira nodded his head, somewhat sarcastically in agreement of the first card being wrong. Maybe the reading Tomomi had received were merely coincidental and this fortune reader wasn't as good as he'd have them believe. The drawings continued in this fashion with each card being accommodated by this 'Samuel's' comment of inaccuracy and Akira either shaking his head at the reading of the card or nodding in agreement of it being far from the truth right up until the very conclusion. But could such a thing bare even the slightest relevance to him? Probably not, Akira couldn't even think of a person that this sort of reading could even be true for.

He looked to Tomomi with a small smirk. "Well... I guess it was free at least." he comments before something that Samuel said regained his attention. The offer of a second try of getting an accurate reading. To be fair making a more accurate reading than the first one wouldn't exactly be difficult, but could he really be bothered to sit through it all again? Akira stared at the cards as he contemplated it, before looking to Tomomi and giving a small shrug. "Sure go ahead, you sticking around for this one too?" Akira asked, this wasn't exactly an activity he'd usually partake in. After all sometimes it's best not knowing what fate has in store for you.

Persona 4 - Black Carnival

Akira had been just casually plodding along as he made his way towards town, seeing Tomomi ahead of him he slowed his pace to avoid having to walk alongside in some awkwardly forced social scenario. This would be how things would remain pretty much the whole route as Akira did what he did all the time, minding his own business as he strolled. Up ahead, he heard Tomomi yell something as he barely sidesteps out of the path of a charging child. He merely glared as the girl ran past softly growling in his throat. "Damn kid should watch where she's going..." He mumbled as he continued to walk toward town.

Then someone called out to him and Akira un-naturally stopped. It wasn't a voice of a person he recognised which made it somewhat harder to ignore. Glancing over he saw the hooded man and that he'd managed to grab Tomomi's attention. By the sounds of her words it would seem that he'd worded the offer to her in the form of a challenge, which of course she wouldn't refuse. An interesting tactic for some stranger to implement without knowing them. Akira contemplated his options, there couldn't be any harm in right? Akira rolled his eyes as he approached the tarot reader. "Fine..." is all he says as he adjusted his bag strap and nods in acknowledgement to Tomomi.

Akira was in the very least a bit sceptical of these kinds of people. He didn't really believe anything they said to be true. But given this is the first time he'd seen such a thing in Inaba he was most definitely intrigued. It was just a matter of making sure he wasn't here to try and feed him and Tomomi some Bull shit spill and then try to convince them to pay or 'donate' after receiving the reading.

Persona 4 - Black Carnival

Bit short but I didn't want to just go running off into town.

Persona 4 - Black Carnival

Having idly read at his desk for sometime, Akira creased down the corner of his currently page before softly closing the book with a sigh. Gathering his things and placing the book back in his bag, Akira slung it over one shoulder and headed out of the room. The corridors were almost completely bare, most already having chosen their destination for that afternoon. Akira was not longing to stay any longer himself as he began to make his way back down to the ground level to leave the school. The lack of other students made this process certainly quicker and a lot more comfortable for himself as he made his way to the shoe lockers to change his foot ware. Akira glanced out of the windows towards the gate, time for another daily ritual of his.

Akira stepped outside as he headed toward the gates, trying to avoid the unwanted attention of certain individuals that would often hang around this area. There was still plenty of time in the day and Akira didn't particularly want to waste it going back and forth with petty insults against some self proclaimed 'cool kid' or Shiro for that matter. Perhaps he could wonder the streets for a while for anything new in town, or he could just swing by Aiya's and get some good chow. Decisiveness wasn't exactly a strong suit for the aimless wanderer, but when you have this much free time who really needs decisiveness?

Persona 4 - Black Carnival

Waiting for the audio to be fixed within the assembly hall was taking a painfully long time. Watching those, that clearly had no idea what they were doing rinse and repeat the same attempts of fixing everything. The sharp ring from the microphone caused Akira to grit his teeth from irritation. Perhaps that was supposed to be a sign to them having almost everything fixed? Akira sighed as he continued to tap away on his legs, his patience slowly running more and more thin. There was literally nothing to do other than what he was doing, and talking, both of which now felt like a maximum effort activity. But then an idea struck him and he turned to look to Tomomi once more "So..." But before he could continue it would seem the audio had been fixed as the assembly began. A look of annoyance on his face, Akira turned back to face the front of the hall once more.

It was the usual yearly drivel, half-empty promises which most people would likely forget about in a month. There was of course the speech about students directing their activities to something more productive. "Like that'll happen." Akira mumbled to himself as he continued to listen. The assembly dragged on as Akira lost more and more interest merely wanting the ordeal to come to it's end. It eventually would and everyone would end up shuffling their way out of the assembly hall and back to their homerooms. "Interesting as ever eh?" Akira directed to Tomomi before getting up himself to join those making their way back to class.

The day went by with very short classes. Each break between them Akira would reach for his books and open them to a random page before deliberately holding them in front of his face to discourage conversation with his peers. Any that were not able to read this obvious sign were either ignored until they went away, or met with uncomfortable silence and blank eye contact until they decided to leave him alone. With the day ending so soon Akira wasn't really sure what to do with his time, he could just head home? Or perhaps aimlessly wonder around town to try and find something mildly interesting? He, unlike most of the other students didn't have any friends that he was intending to spend his afternoon with, but it didn't really bother him. Akira simply watched others leave as he gathered his books up placing all but one back within it. He opened the book, searching for the carefully creased paged which marked his progress, softly brushing the crease back and continuing to read. A moment of normality within a somewhat different day to what he had been used to since moving to Inaba.

Persona 4 - Black Carnival

I was trying to think of something I could post up for tonight, but there has been several meetings... and drinks over the last few days which have hindered my ability to think something up, sorry. >.<

Saving the Damned Cont. (AkiraShadow & HiddenBeauty)

The crowd didn't seem it would disperse anytime soon, though it didn't mater. Akira watched As Allura decided to force her way into the crowd. He has only just about realised that their hands were still clasped together as Akira was forced to also shove his way into the stream of people. This was simply ridiculous, even for a trade town. Maybe there was some kind of event happening in the town? Akira would have shrugged off the thought were it possible to do so. "I doubt there's any particular specialist trade." Akira mentioned with regards to Allura's first comment. "If you specialise, you limit your market that in turns limits the merchants interests. I'd say this represents more a free trading post." Akira glances to the buildings that surrounded them. "once of epic proportions I might add. This could quiet possibly be the largest town of its kind, it clearly offers free passage to any and all races of patrons." Akira gripped at Allura's hand tightly as the pair both ensured that they wouldn't be separated. "Well it'd certainly be nice if there were fewer people. This must be the bulk of the market traffic however. When we're near the tavern it'll likely ease off."

A town like this, the tavern would be lively unlike the barely functioning one they'd visited in the last town. Akira forced his way through the crowd until he was alongside Allura, passing her a warm smile as he looked at her. He felt calm and relaxed for the first time in a while from being on the run. This would likely prove the best chance for them to rest and recuperate. "Maybe we'll stick around here for a while." His pace had slowed since catching up to be side by side with Allura. "See what the town has to offer. What do you think?" Akira asks smiling once more, the crowd thinning out as the reached the outskirts of the markets. "Never know, could turn out a nice place to come back to when this is all over." He hadn't really given much thought to what would happen once he had completed what he set out to do. Would Allura even be looking to stick around? Surely she would be expected to return to her own people assuming they'd let her go back that is. Whatever had happened when Irvine and Lance had shown up it couldn't be good. They hunted him, and angels were also looking to kill him. It was a rather predictable and likely outcome that they might be working together.

As they reached the southern district, where the tavern resided the crowd had evidently died down. There was less of a need for people to crowd around in this area. Though it wasn't a rundown section of town at all, the building quality was just as well as the market area, albeit much smaller. A lone building within the group stuck out as a wooden signed screeched as it swung on rusty chains. "Well looks like we're here." Akira said with a smiled, not separating his hand from Allura's even now. "Shall we?" Akira asked before opening the wooden door to the tavern. Surprisingly however the patrons were too busy with their own going ons to care about the arrival of two additional patrons, a welcome surprise at least. "Ok.. I'll get the rooms and drinks." Akira glances around the place with a frown. "Might be difficult to find a table though."

Persona 4 - Black Carnival

Tomomi was right of course, but trying to be cheerful really felt like a distant objective than a local one for Akira. "Well... if I ever find a reason to be cheerful I'm sure you'll be the first to know." Akira said shaking his head softly before listening to what Tomomi had to say about the events of Inaba's past. It was definitely a strange set of events and the story just seemed to get even weirder as it progressed. Dead bodies showing up on Foggy days, surely mere coincidence no? Well he could only guess that was the case having not been in the town at the time. "So even this small rural town has death rotting at it's very core eh?" Akira spoke quietly it was more to himself then it was to Tomomi 'Just like me...' he thought before noticing the story was still going.

As the story went on it seemed Tomomi was getting into the idea of telling it with choice words and motions. Akira smirked slightly but decided to remain quiet listening intently until the stories eventual conclusion of the events. A cop who had turned to murder, and the local police force inability to see through whatever guise that cop was portraying to them. It would seem Tomomi would be correct in doubting their abilities following that turn of events, who wouldn't? "I guess not." The idea of a rhetorical question lost on Akira as he answered Tomomi's last point. "I'd be careful about that middle part if I were you though. Other people might start thinking you're some kind of crazy conspiracy girl. By the sounds of whats going on around town, you probably don't want that kind of attention."

Akira turned back to face the front of the hall once more and began tapping his legs once more. "ehh... anyway... um... thanks, I guess." Akira speaks his last piece as a small smile grows and then fades away. They hadn't really conversed much, Tomomi had done most of the talking, yet Akira already felt socially exhausted. He wasn't exactly just going to outright blank her, but it was evident that he wasn't actively pursuing any extended conversation beyond what had already been said.

Persona 4 - Black Carnival

Akira had been trying his best to continue in his usual state of keeping himself to himself. But there was at least one person who could never let that happen, and that one person happened to be sat next to him. Akira a social recluse, sat next to Tomomi, a person who doesn't seem to be able to sit in silence for longer than a few seconds. It would be fair to say they were almost complete opposites in terms of socialising. Then the inevitable, Tomomi trying to strike up conversation, she really must be bored. Akira tried to ignore it but the Tomomi began to poke him, so he turned his head to look at her. Maybe he could humour her on this one occasion.

"Only when they're not trying to annoy me." Akira responded to her second remark. "I'm simply expressing how I feel. You on the other hand would transmit cheer, despite being in this cage we call 'School', which we both know you hate." Akira raised an eyebrow as if to imply it was Tomomi's behaviour, if either of theirs that was strange. Unsure of whether or not the conversation would continue, Akira turned back to face the front of the hall. He shook his head as the principle continued to struggle. "So..." Akira spoke again out of boredom to pass the time. "How often are we going to be seeing you this year? Because I'm somewhat intrigued as to know about this 'last time' and I'm sure your telling of it will be the most... interesting." Akira finished with a small smirk which, as usual didn't last for very long. If anyone was gonna throw a dramatic twist on a story it would be Tomomi... then again if anyone was going to tell the story at all, again it would probably be Tomomi. With a lack of a desk to tap on, Akira merely resorted to tapping on his own legs as he awaited to hear Tomomi's response.

This day felt strange, Akira did not normally feel so inclined to talk and interact with other people. Under different circumstances it was highly unlikely that he would, the person sitting the other side of Akira was living proof of that as the student fidgeted awkwardly in silence beside him. Students had gotten used to not speaking to Akira and him not speaking back, unless of course they were new, like the transfer student and the girl from earlier. Then again the other option was to be stubborn, like Tomomi, or you could just simply be looking to be a dick... Shiro.