Saturday, March 17th of the Following Year, Dojima Residence

"Kirijo should be here soon. Did you get all your things?" - Asked my uncle.

"Yeah." - I said - "Plus it's not that hard for me to come back, right?"

"This will always be your house, Yu." - Said Miss Sofue.

I smiled.

"And yours, Miss Sofue, I'm sure." - I said.

"Well, the promotion I got plus her income... It sorta made sense for her to move in..." - Said my uncle, smiling.

"Hey, I totally agree. You and Miss Sofue are perfect together." - I said.

"You know you can call me Kimiko." - Said Miss Sofue.

"You will be teaching us for quite a while. If we treat you informally, people might ascribe it to favoritism." - Said Naoto - "Our profiles are quite high as they are..."

"The cutest sleuth in the world has a point." - Said Sayoko - "We're pretty much celebrities now and everyone looks for those feet of clay..."

"So you are worried about your image now? The world really has changed." - Said Rise.

"Yes, well, not all of us can make all problems go away with a smile and a wink, Kujikawa." - Said my uncle, smirking.

"I've been meanin' to ask." - Said Kanji - "How are ya gonna keep on with your studies on tour?"

"Oh, we'll get tutoring, plus I'll drop by every now and then to get notes." - Said Yosuke.

"So, the hero gets to be the doting boyfriend and the groupie!" - Said Yumi, smiling - "That feels very right."

"What about you, Teddie? Will you stay in Junes?" - Asked Chie.

"I've been working with Yumi-chan on her projects and getting some money playing the guitar on the side." - Said Teddie - "Being a pretty-boy bishonen all women want to score with has its perks!"

The women, except for Sayoko, blushed. The men blinked.

"Oh, Teddie, don't ever change..." - Said Sayoko, giggling.

"Ohkaaay. So what projects, Yumi?" - Asked Yukiko.

"Well, it turns out that when you become famous for killing a deity that was bent on destroying the world, people want to get you in pretty much whatever plays or movies they can..." - Said Yumi - "Buuuut... Hmm... I'm not sure I should say it yet..."

"You are planning to run for office as soon as you possibly can, and to work as an activist until then with your newfound fame." - Said Naoto, evenly - "You have been visiting Namatame. Your positive participation in the history classes had been increasing exponentially last I saw, particularly with regards to issues connected to inequality. And I have seen you read some works by Gramsci and Engels."

"Well, that's the distant future, but yes..." - Said Yumi.

"Nice! Actress, politician..." - Said Kanji.

"Ronald Reagan started like that." - Said Miss Sofue - "Although it might be downright offensive to you to compare you to him..."

"In the acting and being a politician sense, yes, we're alike, teacher, thanks for reminding me not to be like him in any other sense." - Said Yumi, briskly - "Anyways, how has your research been going?"

"Oh, quite well." - Said Miss Sofue - "We have been making experiments both in and out of the World of People's Minds..."

"And Kirijo actually asked me to help with some prothesis work, which ended three days ago..." - Said Sayoko - "Suffice to say Naoki will be one happy camper tonight..."

"Yes, well, besides that use of our time and resources, this work can also allow for other implants and such treatments. And we have been looking into growing food in the World of People's Minds..." - Said Miss Sofue.

"Quite impressive." - Said Naoto - "Well, as for me, I have been quite busy of late, thanks to the influx of cases... And Kanji has been working as either my support-slash-enforcer or helping his mother run the shop..."

"Yeah, well, I'm done pretending I don't like that stuff..." - Said Kanji.

"Well, as for me, I have been busy in the Velvet Room and decided to keep working at the inn for the time being, but I can always do other things too..." - Said Yukiko.

"You know there's only one of you, right?" - Asked Yosuke.

"Not anymore and let's leave it at that." - Said Chie, hurriedly - "Anyways, I'll actually train and study to try and... Uhm, and join the force."

"We'd love to have you, Chie. I know you'd be better than my old partner..." - Said my uncle, smirking.

"Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Yukiko, you can make copies of yourself now?" - Asked Sayoko - "Oh... Oh, Chie, you lucky, lucky kung-fu fighter, you!"

"Five, each with one fifth of my abilities." - Said Yukiko, blushing, her eyes golden at the moment - "I'm in the Velvet Room, doing groceries, studying and cleaning a bedroom at the inn as we speak."

"That's seriously freaky." - Said Kanji.

"Yes, well, even Nanako can fly when she's around Yukiko, here, so we aren't exactly normal, now, are we?" - I asked, smirking.

"Oh, we shall be soon enough if we do succeed in making those new abilities commonplace." - Said Mitsuru, as she came in - "So, are you ready?"

I blushed and nodded.

"The housewarming will be at 8, folks..." - I said - "We'll straighten things out as much as we can..."

"Oh, Kikuno will certainly have things in order at six..." - Said Mitsuru - "She is remarkable..."

I made my way to Mitsuru's car and we went to her house. Our house.

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Saturday, March 17th, Kirijo-Narukami Residence

"Woooow..." - Said Nanako - "It's huge... And so pretty!"

Mitsuru smiled that smile Nanako elicited from her, from Miss Sofue and from Margaret.

"You have a room here." - Said Mitsuru - "Not to mention the guest rooms all of you do."

"Wow. Fancy." - Said Kanji - "But why? Don't you want some privacy?"

"One, you are my dear friends. Two, it reminds me of a precious memory. And three, our new lives will likely mean we will sometimes need a base of operations for the whole of our team." - Said Mitsuru - "So there are both sentimental and practical reasons."

As we sat down to eat my uncle piped in.

"Hey, Yu. We actually discussed everyone's plans but yours..." - He said - "I mean, I know you got permission to stay here in Inaba with Kirijo and so on, but, when you're done with school, what do you plan to do?"

I smirked.

"Oh, uncle... I have no idea. I thought I did, you know. Back when I first came here, I was gonna get a degree in something like business and get a cozy job in Tokyo... But now I have no idea. Could be a law degree, could be working with Mitsuru's projects and helping bring about the new age of magic and technology to the world... It could be anything. Besides, I don't even think I can really make plans for one year from now." - I said.

"Why?" - He asked.

I smiled.

"A lot can change in one year."

The End

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Okay, folks, so... That's all! I'll be writing on the Minato Recovery Team at some point in the future, but that won't be for a while.

Thanks to everyone that read and reviewed!

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