(A/N: Did you like Chapter 1? Welp, here's Chapter 2 for ya! XD)

-----Unknown Place-----

Akira randomly opened his eyes as if he a sudden hard wooden on his back. He notices that he wasn't sleeping at the attic but rather he was in a weird-looking prison cell, he sat up and trying to processing everything of why he ended this place. Was this a dream?

"*Chuckle*" 

Suddenly Akira heard a chuckle, he looked through the cell bar and notice that two twin-girls went to the cell.

The twins both wore a black eye patch with the letter "V" over one of their eyes and a blue prison guard outfit. One of them had a long braid and a hat with the letters "O-Y-O-O," while the other had hair buns and a hat with the letters "X-M-R-N." The letters appeared to spell "OXYMORON." They wore a brassard on their right arm. They also had matching black ties.

Akira decided to stand up and walk towards the entrance just to see who was the other person outside the cell but he stops as he felt a heavy weight pulled him over to his other foot, he looked and notice a huge metal ball attach to his foot but that didn't stop him to reach the cell bar. As he finally reached the bar, he noticed a bizarre-looking old man with a long nose, pointed ears, and bulging, bloodshot eyes. He wore a black suit with white gloves.

The old mean decided to speak to Akira, "Trickster... Welcome to my Velvet Room."

"So you've come to, Inmate," The malicious girl spoke not very politely.

"The you, in reality, is currently fast asleep. You are only experiencing this as a dream," The quiet girl said with a polite attitude.

"You're in the presence of our master. Stand up straight!" The malicious girl wasn't too nice as she yelled at Akira.

Igor didn't waste any time and decided to speak to Akira, "Welcome. I am delighted to make your acquaintance. This place exists between dream and reality, mind and matter. It is a room that only those who are bound by a 'contract' may enter.

"I am Igor, the master of this place. Remember it well. I summoned you to speak of important matters. It involves your life as well." 

"What do you--?" Akira was trying to ask a question but Igor interrupted him.

"Still, this is a surprise... the state of this room reflects the state of your own heart. To think a prisoner would appear as such. You truly are a 'prisoner' of fate. In the near future, there is no mistake that ruin awaits you."

"Ruin?" Akira can't process anything of what the man is talking about.

"I speak of the end to everything. However, there is a means to oppose such a fate. You must be 'rehabilitated'. Rehabilitated to freedom... that is your only mean to avoid ruin... Do you have the resolve to challenge the distortion of the world?"

"Wait, what?" At that time, Akira clearly did not understand anything.

"You didn't decline, hm? Very well, that is enough. Allow me to observe the path of your rehabilitation," Igor was about to end the conversation until the two girls face in front at Akira.

"Ah, pardon me for not introducing the others. To your right is Caroline; to your left, Justine. They serve as wardens here," Igor introduce the twins.

"Hmph, try and struggle as hard as you like," Caroline --who isn't friendly-- spoke to Akira again.

Justine --seems nice but bit strict-- decided to speak, "The duty of wardens is to protect inmates. We are also your collaborators... That is if you remain obedient."

When Igor spoke the two girls step aside, "I shall explain the roles of these two at another occasion. Now then, it seems the night is waning... it is almost time. Take your time to slowly come to understand this place. We will surely meet again, eventually..."

Suddenly a bell rang which caught Akira in surprise.

"Time's up. Now hurry up and go back to sleep," After that sentence, everything went pitch white.

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"What a strange dream... Ruin... Rehabilitation... What does it mean...?" Akira mumbled to himself while he was changing to his Shujin uniform.

"That dream almost felt like it was real..." Akira looked at his wrist where there's a mark of handcuffs on it, "*Sigh* I guess it's just a dream."

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OPENING 1

https://youtu.be/zcpt1u6n8Rk

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-----Somewhere Around-----

"That was direct footage from the accident. According to the police, the engineer's life was not in danger despite his injuries. After quarantining, even he could not explain its high speed when approaching the station. No further comments were made. Police are still looking for a possible motive."

It seems there are two people inside the office, one is an old looking man and the other is a woman. They were watching the news until the old man spoke something, "It's less of an operating accident and more of a crime to the company and the government. Site inspectors apparently reported all of this six months ago-- and deterioration it tracks and the ATC. Seems the railway company and the Ministry of Transport both turned a blind eye on the truth. There's no way they can hide. This will go all the way to the top."

"Now on to our main story, with this accident as well as other incidents with unknown motive, the concern is spreading among the general public. Just what could be causing such a drastic change so suddenly in these people...? CNN--" 

Then the old man asked the woman, "Everything's linked--that's what you're thinking, correct?"

"...Ah well. Are you free? You and I haven't gone for a drink in a while."

The gray-haired woman spoke to the man, "Thank you, sir, but I have another meeting to attend. I must be going."

The woman exits the office as she was walking downstairs she notices a brown-haired high schooler was waiting for her.

"Did you ask for me? Is it a case?"

"Not quite. I want to ask your opinion on something," The gray-haired said.

The brown-haired respond, "Sure. Your judgment is quite often correct, though. Can we discuss this over sushi, perhaps? You are making a student work late, after all."

"Conveyor belt only," The woman said while she continues to go downstairs.

"Aw..." The boy awe in sadness.

-----Meanwhile-----

The students were going to school as fast as they can so that the rain won't get heavier. Unfortunately, the rain starts to become heavier as the students who pulled their umbrella's or students use their bags to be their umbrella's. Akira didn't have an umbrella so he decided to go to the nearest shelter which he found one and decided to stay there for a while.

Akira was scrolling through his phone and notice the weird-looking app appeared on his phone again, by surprise, he didn't react anything when the app appeared again on his phone but rather he just sighed.

Then another person came to the same shelter as Akira was in, the frizzy-haired looked at the person and he was surprised that he met the girl again on the other day.

The (H/C)-haired looked around her surroundings and she felt like someone was staring her for a long time now, and she looked at the person next to her and didn't even notice that he was with the boy from the other day.

They stared each other in an awkward atmosphere surrounding by the two. Soon the (H/C)-haired decided to break the silence.

"Is there something on my face?" The (H/C)-girl said in a cold expression but seems polite at the same time.

Akira snaps out as she heard the girl spoke to him, he decided to respond since he didn't want to make it awkward, "N-No..."

They both stop staring each other, the (H/C)-haired notice that a piece of cherry blossom was falling into her direction she gentely caught the cherry blossom and held it in her hands as she was looking at it. Then another person came to the same shelter as the two teenagers were staying, the person has;

bright blue eyes and ash blonde wavy hair styled in bushy pigtails, with parted side bangs on the right side of her face. She accessorized with a single yellow hair clip above her left ear, as well as small circular earrings on both ears. Her school uniform was modified; the standard black blazer over a white varsity-like hoodie worn long to cover most of her short plaid skirt. Her hoodie had a zipper, a red stripe between two blue stripes at the bottom, and S symbol near the front bottom on one side, and a green four-leaf-clover symbol on the back of the hood. She wore red tights and brown boots with yellow laces.

After the ash-blonde went to the shelter, the (H/C)-hair girl decided to leave the shelter. It was just only the ash-blonde girl and Akira, then a car came at them revealing a jersey-like teacher Shujin uniform.

"Good morning. You want me to give you a ride to school? You're gonna be late." The Teacher said to the ash blond-haired.

"Um, sure. Thank you," The girl with the pigtails agreed while getting inside the car.

"Say, you need a lift too?" The teacher asked the other teenagers.

Akira kindly declined the offer with a plastic smile on his face.

The window began to close as the ash-blonde girl wasn't too happy when the car drove away.

"Dammit... Screw that pervy teacher."

Suddenly a blonde boy was trying to approach someone but he was too late.

"...Pervy teacher?" Without any hesitation, Akira asked the blondie.

The vulgar boy looked at Akira and he decided to speak, "What do you want? You plannin' on rantin' me out to Kamoshida?"

"Kamoshida?"

"Huh? In the car just now, it was Kamoshida. He does whatever the hell he wants. Who does he think he is--the king of a castle? Don't you agree?"

Akira becomes more confused, "The king of a castle...?"

"No, I mean... wait. You don't know Kamoshida? Are you for real? You're from Shujin, right?"

Akira wasn't sure what to answer since he's just a transfer student, "Maybe..."

"What...? No other high school's got a uniform like this," The vulgar boy decided to look at Akira's left side to see what year he is in.

"A second-year, huh... we're the same grade then. Never seen you before though," The Vulgar said.

"I'm a... Transfer," Akira got stuttered for a second.

"Then no wonder you don't know him. The rain ain't too bad. We better hurry up, or we'll be late."

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"The subway accident that day... Yes, I remember it as well." Niijima spoke, "It was all over the news, and one of the victims was a teacher at your high school. Shujin Academy, the kind of high school you'd find all over the city."

"I've no doubt you heard about it." Niijima said, "On that day... Were you still an 'ordinary' student?"

"......." Akira remained silent.

"...Let me change the subject." Niijima said, "After you started there, this was posted around the school." Then a showed a calling card.

"At that time, people thought it was a prank, but that wasn't the case." Niijima said, "This was the Phantom Thieves' first 'calling card.'" Then Niijima showed a picture of a teacher.

"The target was an Olympic medalist, an alumnus of the academy. The gym teacher, Suguru Kamoshida." Niijima said.

"What happened at Shujin Academy next?" Niijima asked.

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Ending 1

https://youtu.be/8wNd_ds01qg

End Of The Chapter

A/N: And that's all for Chapter 2 I really had nothing to say... So yeah... :P

Anyways, hope you liked the chapter and have a wonderful day wherever you on earth and...

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