23: So I heard you like gardens Prospero [video]

[needsteaplz]

[Video flickers on and it's the roof top of the hotel in the background. Saori waves.]

So I had an idea come to me a while back and it might sound silly but hear me out. What do you guys think about putting a community roof top garden here?

Everyone can use this place to plant whatever you like. I already suggested the idea to the staff here and they gave the okay to do it if we decide to go along with it. Of course, I want to hear everyone out on this idea too.

[video clicks off.]

Comments

[needsteaplz]

Well, remember when I paid off Miki's fine? Gilgamesh actually provided the money. He gave me more than what was needed. By several zeroes. And even after I made that giant dinner for Arturia and Gilgamesh, and donating some of it to the library and high school, I still have plenty of money left.

[truthsnomiracle]

(How can someone grow so rich in so little time that they can afford to give away millions of dollars on a whim -- and why him? Barring gambling, I fail to see how someone with so little regard for the ways of modern life could amass such a fortune.)

...I see. And you're certain that he isn't simply creating leverage with which to blackmail you?

[needsteaplz]

Well the dinner I had to make for him and Arturia was how I paid him back for it. He was the one who suggested it. Honestly, it could've been much worse. True, I don't know why exactly he decided to help out but he hasn't caused any more trouble for me as of late.

[truthsnomiracle]

No more trouble for you than for anyone else, at least.

[needsteaplz]

True. At least now I'm on...slightly better terms with him than before.

[truthsnomiracle]

Can one really be on good terms with a man like him without bowing and scraping at his feet?

[needsteaplz]

Hard to say but apparently there are a few who are like that. How they did it, I'll never know.

Maybe it's fact he was surprised that I have read his story. Sure people read or know stories like the Arthurian legends, but not so much one of the world's oldest pieces of literature.

[truthsnomiracle]

Perhaps so. He does seem offended that history did not end with him, particularly as he doesn't care for the direction it's taken in his absence.

[needsteaplz]

No kidding. He truly believes he is the king of kings. When he first opened the bookstore after buying it, he tried to toss out majority of the books--mainly the mythology and history books. Fortunately he gave in though I don't know why.

[truthsnomiracle]

I'm well aware of that -- it was in a philosophical argument with him that started when I became aware of those actions that my Persona first manifested.

[Yes, you heard right, the stress that made Edgeworth manifest Forneus was an argument.]

[needsteaplz]

[That got a chuckle out of her.]

Somehow I'm not surprised you awoke your Persona like that. I bet that must've surprised him for sure.

[truthsnomiracle]

I wouldn't know; I was extremely disoriented for the few seconds prior to my passing out. It was only early evening at the time.

[needsteaplz]

Summoning a Persona for the first time apparently leaves people a bit tired. Combined with the fact you summoned it outside of the Dark Hour, no wonder you passed out. Apparently doing the latter puts a strain on the user.

[truthsnomiracle]

Indeed, I came to that same conclusion as I learned these things for myself.