The Twin Persona's

Naoto's Theory

(A Few Days Later, Inaba, Daytime)

a few days had passed, the school trip had ended, yet, the second day was a blur for the group, yet, everyone had gotten past it, not long after, Naoto showed up on T.V., talking about the case of the mysterious deaths that had plagued Inaba, everyone had met up as they were walking to school to talk about it.

"hey, did you see the show on TV last night, Naoto-Kun was on", Chie asked

"that thing about the Detective Prince solving the case, come on, we're the ones who caught the killer", Yosuke stated

"but the police were the ones who identified the suspect, and he was cooperating with them on it, right", Yukiko asked, "so it's true that he helped solve the case

"I'm kinda surprised, though, I didn't think he was the type to go after the spotlight like that", Chie stated

"Good morning", Naoto greeted, walking up to the group, "I've been waiting for you all, there's something I needed to discuss with you regarding the case",

"discuss, dude, we'll be late if we talk too long... hey, where's your uniform", Yosuke asked

"could you please indulge my current theory on the matter", Naoto asked, ignoring Yosuke's question

"what is it", Yosuke asked

"first, as regards commonalities between the victims, all of them were kidnapped before they were murdered", Naoto explained, "the victims were all locals who had been the focus of recent media attention, becoming suddenly well-known... that is the most likely scenario I don't believe there's anything unique about the victims themselves... haven't you all come to the same conclusion",

"we plead the fifth", Yu said

"then... allow me to state my point, will you admit that a number of you fit these identical circumstances", Naoto asked, making the group shocked, "there was a long interval between the second and third deaths in this case, but after I applied the aforementioned criteria, I discovered several similar disappearances had taken place, Yukiko Amagi, Kanji Tatsumi, Rise Kujikawa, all of you disappeared shortly after being shown on T.V., I exclude Amaya and Sakiya Takahashi for they were only gone for a day and a half, and before everyone disappeared, either you escaped death somehow, or faked your own disappearances in order to divert attention from yourselves, since some of you have ties to the victims, there came a point where I suspected one of you must be the culprit",

"you thought one of us was the killer, you can't be serious", Chie shouted

"this was a prior theory, since discarded, putting together everything I've learned until this moment, I believe exactly the opposite", Naoto said, confusing the group, "you aren't the culprits, you may, in fact, be the only ones with means to pursue the true perpetrator, seen as a joining of forces between the rescued, everything falls into place... of course, this is all speculation, there is in fact a flaw in my theory, it doesn't account for the third incident... Mr. Morooka's murder, he has never been broadcast on television, and neither did he ever disappear, we must also consider the condition of his corpse, the first two victims are still listed with an unknown cause of death, but Mr. Morooka died of an easily identifiable blunt force trauma to the occipital cranium, the police have not satisfactorily resolved this discrepancy, yet they are desperate to close the case, further action will be necessary to obtain some sort of decisive evidence",

"further action, what do you mean", Chie asked, confused

"I think he means arrest", Amaya muttered

"seriously", Chie whispered

"well, whatever the outcome, the evidence should come to light... you said something interesting to me not long ago", Naoto stated, as he began to walk away

"hey, where are you going", Yosuke asked

"this is not a game for me either", Naoto stated, walking away, as the group continued to school... yet, Naoto didn't show up to school, as school went on, Yu and Amaya began passing notes to each other

A- do you think he's still suspicious of us... thinking that one of us is the killer

Y- I wanna say I doubt it, but I'm not sure

A- I know for a fact that one of us isn't the killer, I remember seeing the killer, but I don't remember the face too well

Y- I know, but we should be careful from now on, we'll let the other's know too

A- yeah, just be careful at home, you're living with a cop after all

Y- I know, you be careful too