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    One year after evading a grim demise, Goro Akechi's managed to find his footing in a post-Thieves world... kind of. Aside from the use of sarcasm and the surprisingly sage advice of a self-help book, Goro's still not sure of the right way to handle the weight of his regrets, his obligation to the world at large, or the matter of his... feelings... for Ren Amamiya. But sometimes it's not about fate, angel numbers, or the caprices of false gods. Sometimes, it's just that the only path leads forward— so, with the chance you're given, you steal ahead.

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    04 Jul 2025

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    Things aren’t quite the same this time round. The big things don’t seem to change—the Palaces. The bad guys. The reports on TV, another psychotic breakdown, another mental shutdown. But the small stuff varies a lot. Ren can check his old probation diary to compare: he meets different people on different days, he does different stuff, he starts working for Iwai way sooner, he doesn’t eat at Big Bang Burger so much. The biggest difference in this timeline that he’s been able to find is that both Yoshizawa sisters are alive. They’re the honor students, the two of them always together, whispered about by the rest of Shujin Academy. Sumire seems—not happy, exactly, but she does seem like herself. She doesn’t end up as Ren’s friend this time, and she doesn’t call him senpai. He misses her, but he’s glad for her as well.

    So that’s different.

    Also, Akechi has a dog now.

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    13 Jun 2025

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    Futaba closes the door again for some thinking time. That was Goro Akechi on her doorstep. Well, on Sojiro’s doorstep, but Sojiro’s not here. Only Futaba is here.

    Open door. Peep round it. Akechi is a sort of heap on the step. Asleep? Or… possibly dead? Dead mom-killing ex-detective on Futaba’s doorstep? Didn’t he die four years ago? How is he here? Futaba hasn’t slept. Or eaten. She shouldn’t have to deal with this. What do you even do with a murder-detective possibly-corpse? She closes the door.

    Okay, no, she can’t just ignore him and hope he goes away.

    Well, she could though. It’s super super tempting.

    No, come on. What would Ren do? What would Sojiro do?

    What would Mom do?

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    05 Jun 2025

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    On the morning of February 4th, most of a decade ago, Akechi wakes with a start, stares blindly up at the tiles of the ceiling without registering what he’s looking at, and says out loud, “Well, that’s embarrassing.”

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    28 Apr 2025

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    “You told him you were your own ghost?” says Makoto. She’s trying to sound disapproving, but she can’t hide the note of shocked laughter.

    “How’d he take it?” says Ryuji, in roughly the way you’d inquire after a really horrible bug.

    Ren thinks about the demon stalking through Mementos cursing and cackling and calling out his name. Joker, Joker! “Uh,” he says. “Badly.”

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    23 Feb 2025