Chapter 1
Ren and Sumire were happily resting in each other arms in the boy's room after their incredible white day date, they had to endure a lot to get to this moment, after defeating Maruki and getting Ren out of Juvie they decided to spend as much time as possible together before he had to come back to his hometown.
“Did you enjoy did you enjoy yourself tonight Sumire?“
“This was the most fun i had in years Senpai… Thank you so much“
“No problem my love, i would do everything to see you smile“
Sumire s cheeks turned a little red as she snuggled her face in her boyfriend's chest.
“Well... we should get some sleep... tomorrow you have practice don't you?”
Sumire nodded as she feels her eyes starting to get heavy
“I love you Senpai”
“I love you too Sumire”
The two teenagers then fall asleep with a smile in both of their faces, then, Ren feels that something is off, he still feels Sumire slepping comfortably with her head on top of his chest and her arms hugging his left arm, but he feels more heavy and he doesn't feel the covers of his bed anymore, so slowly he opens his eyes and sees a familiar blue ceiling, then he looks down to his body and he sees something that he thought he would never see again, he was in his Phantom Thief outfit, but that’s not the only thing, Sumire was also in her Thief outfit.
“This is not possible, the metaverse is gone... is it?”
Ren feels Sumire move her face with her eyes still closed trying to push her face closer to him.
“Mmmm…Senapi, please don’t move so much” Sumire mumbled to her boyfriend.
“Sumire... can you look at me for just one moment?” Ren asks to the his red headed kouhai.
Sumire opens her eyes and looks up to see her boyfriend in his thief attire, she jumps a little almost falling down of the bed if not for her boyfriend grabbing her just in time.
“R-Ren… What’s going on?” as she sees that she is also in her thief outfit.
“I don’t know… but it seems that we are in the velvet room”
“The velvet room?” Sumire asks as Ren and her start to get out of the bed
“This is the place where my trickster came to fusion his personas to make new and more powerful personas”
Ren and Sumire look down finding the source of that voice.
“Lavenza!” Ren says as he kneels down to look in the eyes to the to the platinum blonde headed girl.
“It has been quite a while trickster” Then Lavenza looks up to see Sumire as well “Also welcome to the velvet room emm…” Lavenza says as she looks at Ren again.
“Would you prefer that I called her Faith or Mrs. Trickster?”
Sumire blushes as she hears the second name that Lavenza gives her, but then she looks at Ren and asks.
“Faith?”
“Its… a long story” Ren responds as he doesn't want to explain all the names of his confidants and what it represents. After that he gets up and asks Lavenza.
“What’s going on? Why I am back here? And why is Sumire here with me?”
“I know that the both of you have a lot of questions, so please, come with me so my master and I can answer it properly, please, follow me”
The two former Phantom Thieves follow the assistant of the velvet room outside of the cell to the next room, in it, Igor is sitting at his desk as usual.
“Welcome to the velvet room” Igor says as he greats the two teenagers.
“Ahh... I see that you were able to respond to our request to see the both of you again trickster”
“It’s nice to see you again Igor”
“I feel the same way trickster… but I fell that the two of you have a lot of questions, so feel free to ask, but before that, I will say that this time we summon the both of you here”
“But why are we here? Didn’t the metaverse get destroyed after we beat doctor Maruki?” Sumire asks before Ren could say something.
“Yes, the metaverse has been destroyed, but there is something else that we must discuss” Lavenza answer Sumire's question
“Yes indeed” Igor says before looking at Ren in the eyes
“Trickster, you have been a wonderful guest, winning a game that was rigged from the start against you, and freeing me from Yaldabaoth… so that’s why you are the perfect person to help me with this task”
“What task?” Ren asks visibly confused to the master of the velvet room
“Recently we discover that there will be a new guest in the velvet room… but she will be tasked to win almost the same game that you just beaten, but there will be some changes in her story, we don’t know how far this changes will affect her journey, so that’s why we ask for your help, we want you to aid her on her journey to rehabilitation”
Ren was speechless, he thought that his days as a Phantom Thieves were over, that he would be able to continue with his life.
“I know this is sudden, but we don’t know how much is going to change in the new trickster journey, so that’s why we ask you with this task”
“Trickster” Laveza says looking at Ren “I know that you already beat this game, but please, I hope that you will help us with this task, we don’t know how this new reality will change yours… please, be the light that this new trickster needs”
Sumire and Ren looked at each other, they didn’t know what to say, they wanted to let this Phantom Thieves thing behind them, but they also didn’t want to let thing be when they could have helped.
“Ren…” Sumire says to her boyfriend “What you want to do?”
“I don’t know, I know that we already beat this game… and I don’t want to let you go…” Ren says shyly
Sumire blushes a little, but before answering Lavenza starts taking again.
“That’s why we call the two of you here, we want the both of you to help her in this journey, you two will remember each other and the events that you already live, you two will be together if you desire… but you will lose the bonds that you made with your other confidants”
“I will do it” Ren says with a new resolve “But with one condition” Ren says before graving Sumire’s hand on his own “Only if she agrees to come with me”
“Senpai… if I have you, I know I can do anything… I will follow you to the end of the world as long as we are together” Sumire says blushing a little.
Ren smiles and gives her a little kiss on the lips, then looks at Igor.
“It seems that we have a deal”
“Marvelous… I am in your debt trickster” Igor says with a smirk on his face
“Thank You my trickster, you truly are the world’s greatest men” Lavenza says as she looks at Ren with a big smile
“Before we begin, I most inform you of some changes” Igor begins to explain to Ren and Sumire. “First of all, you will not be able live anymore in your old home at that café since that will be the new home of the next trickster… but I hope that you find your new home comfortable, you will be able to take all the money and objects that you already have with you in this journey, you will not have a criminal record in this reality, you will be a normal student in your school since your successor will be the one with it”
Ren fells a little bit bad, he knows how difficult is to have a criminal record and knows that the first days in Shujin will be for the new player in this game, but he hopes that he will be able to help her.
Lavenza looks at Sumire as she begins to explain how different her life at this new reality will be.
“You will live at the same home with your parents, and they seem to know that you already have a relationship with him” Lavenza says looking at Ren. Sumire nods as she had already introduced Ren to her parents, and it would be better to avoid the nerves of having to re-introduce them.
An alarm sounds warning that their time is running out.
“Well trickster, i know that this will not be the last time that we see each other, Yaldabaoth will take my place and the twins will replace Lavenza again, so until we meet again…” Igor says before disappearing.
“Goodbye trickster, thank you for helping us with this task, I will be waiting for the day that we meet again” Lavenza bows before also disappearing.
Then Ren and Sumire close their eyes as they exit the velvet room.
Ren slowly opens his eyes as he fells the sunlight entering from the window, as he looks down, he sees Sumire sleeping peacefully in his arms.
Then he looks at his surroundings and realizes that he is no longer in LeBlanc’s attic, it looks like he is in a expensive looking bedroom with a giant wardrobe with a mirror. But before he can continue exploring, he feels Sumire moving in his arms.
“Mmm good morning Senpai” Sumire says a little bit sleppy.
“Good Morning Sumi”
Before Sumire could say something, she gasps as she sees where they are, in a place that she didn’t know but it looked quite in the expensive side.
“Errr Senpai? Where are we?” Sumire asks confused
“It seems that this is the place that Igor says that will be my new home….” Ren answer but not entirely too sure.
But before for Sumire could say something the hear a knock on the apartment door. They quickly get up and quickly go to see who is it.
As Sumire and Ren go to open the door they hear a voice that it seems to come from outside of the apartment that makes Sumire stop opening her eyes wide and putting a hand to her mouth.
“COME ON SUMIRE, OPEN THE DOOR!!! ITS FREZZING OUSTIDE”
As Sumire stays on her place in shock Ren looks at her with a confused face before going to open the door. As he opens, he is in shock at who he sees. It couldn’t be… she was dead…
It was her, the girl with auburn hair, with big brown eyes and with a beauty mark on her left eye. Sumire’s sister…
Kasumi Yoshizawa.