Although everyone had seen many strange-looking shadow monsters along the way, the monster before them still exceeded everyone's expectations.

It was wearing a yellow queen leather coat, a triangular hat similar to the FFF group, with its legs crossed, and its hair hanging down like octopus tentacles. Under its body, there were two faceless people riding on its neck. Of course, if it were a normal person, two people riding on a horse and then letting a third person sit on it would fall off in less than a second, but... after all, this was not a human being, right?

"Be careful!! I feel this shadow in front of you... something's wrong? Persona? This is... what on earth did you encounter?"

"We don't know either!"

Hearing Mitsuru's question, Yue Yu Yujiali was also confused.

"It feels like this person's Persona has suddenly rebelled!"

"What? There is such a thing?"

"It's dangerous anyway."

At this moment, Shiomi Kotone also clenched her naginata and stared at the monster in front of her.

"Everyone get ready, let's go together!"

"No, that's not necessary."

However, at this moment, Ellie reached out and stopped the two of them.

"Since there is only one opponent, leave it to me... Well, you guys step back and be careful not to get hurt by mistake."

"???"

After hearing what Ellie said, the two looked at each other in confusion, but still stepped back obediently, protecting the short-haired girl who was kneeling on the ground. At this moment, Ellie had already walked in front of the "Queen", and when she saw her, the "Queen" immediately whipped her whip.

"Are you going to stop me too? Then I'll take care of you first!"

"No, I'm the one who's going to take care of you."

As she spoke, Ai Li raised her right hand. At the same time, the space around her began to ripple like the ripples of a pond. Then, a bunch of heavy machine guns appeared out of thin air and aimed at the target in front of them. Ai Li looked at the other party silently, pulled the bolt hard, and then pulled the trigger.

In just a moment, there was a roar and continuous gunfire broke out.

Dozens of heavy machine guns opened fire at the same time, mercilessly pouring thousands of bullets at the queen in front of them. The other side obviously did not expect Ellie to be so unsportsmanlike and was ready to fight. Although the shadow has a barrier that can make magic and supernatural powers ineffective, Ellie simply uses her own ability to control the weapon. The bullets fired from the muzzle are still purely physical attacks, so they will naturally not be blocked by the shadow barrier. Soon, the shadow queen was seen screaming and retreating under a series of bullets.

If it were an ordinary person, he would have been shot into pieces by now, but the shadow monster is still a monster after all. Although it was screaming in pain, it still persisted in the hail of bullets and did not fall down.

"It's OK. It's pretty resistant."

Seeing this, Ellie raised her eyebrows, then she raised her left hand and swung it, and then dozens of grenades appeared out of thin air and fell at the feet of the Shadow Queen. Then a series of explosions sounded, and the flames and smoke that rose from the ground once again completely engulfed the monster.

“Ka-ka-ka.”

At this moment, the heavy machine gun bullets in Ellie's hand were completely emptied, and Ellie didn't even look at it. She threw the machine gun in her hand directly to the ground. Then she casually touched it again and took out a grenade launcher out of thin air - at the same time, dozens of grenade launchers also emerged from the void again along with Ellie's movements, and then quickly happened.

“Bang, bang, bang!!!”

Grenades flew through the air in arcs and fell into the smoke. Soon, the flames reappeared, and the area where the monsters were located was blown up again from beginning to end like plowing the land. The hall in front of them had completely turned into a battlefield. Shiomi Kotone and Yue Yujiali were trembling and hiding in the back, almost hugging each other. Although they all had a certain degree of combat power and had learned some martial arts, what was happening in front of them could no longer be called a battle - this was completely a war.

As the last grenade exploded, the entire hall was almost shrouded in the pungent smell of gunpowder and smoke. However, just when everyone thought that the Shadow Queen had been defeated, suddenly, accompanied by a scream, the charred Shadow Queen rushed out from the smoke again, waving a long whip and rushing towards Ellie.

However, just as the Shadow Queen raised her head and looked at Ellie, she saw the black muzzle of the gun in the white-haired girl's hand was aimed at her again.

"Bang!"

The shotgun with a huge impact hit the Shadow Queen's face directly. The huge impact force rushed towards her, causing even the Shadow Queen to scream and fly backwards. However, Ellie walked forward with an unchanged expression, and at the same time, she turned the M1887 in her hand around, and with a click, the bullet was loaded, and then Ellie raised the shotgun in her hand again and pulled the trigger.

"Bang!!"

“Gah——!!!”

"Bang!!!"

Seeing Ellie mercilessly pulling the trigger at the Shadow Queen and repelling her shot after shot, the three girls behind her all silently wiped their sweat. They had just thought that the monster was very difficult to deal with, but now they felt that... Ellie seemed to be more terrifying than the Shadow Queen! !

At this moment, the Shadow Queen was completely exhausted. She had been mercilessly bombarded, exploded and hit by Ellie, which had brought her to the brink of collapse. Finally, after Ellie fired the fifth shotgun shell, the Shadow Queen screamed and fell to the ground. She barely raised her head, as if she wanted to do something, but at this moment the hot gun barrel had been stuffed into the Shadow Queen's mouth.

"Bang!!!!"

The Shadow Queen's body trembled violently, then she collapsed limply, gradually disappearing and turning into ashes.

"I didn't expect these shadow monsters to be so tough."

As she watched the shadow queen begin to disintegrate and dissipate, Ellie couldn't help but start mumbling to herself. Although she had discovered before that the shadow monster was also very resistant to physical attacks, she didn't expect the boss to be so strong. Logically speaking, this should be considered a small boss in the first level, but it turned out to be so resistant?

So will the next boss use tanks and rockets?

Or just bomb it with missiles?

While Ai Li was thinking, the Shadow Queen also disappeared completely, but the short-haired girl did not leave with her. Instead, she looked like a vengeful spirit, floating in the air motionlessly, staring at the short-haired girl behind everyone. At this moment, the short-haired girl also stood up with the help of Yue Yujiali and Shio Jian Qinyin. She looked at the other self with a complicated expression, and then walked forward.

"You...are me?"

“…”

"I... that..."

At this moment, the short-haired girl turned her head again and looked at Ellie and others, as if she wanted to say something, but didn't know how to say it, while Ellie shrugged her shoulders.

"I don't care. Everyone has their own ideas. What's important is the relationship between you. As long as you feel good about it, you don't have to care about what others think. No matter what you think, the important thing is the result, not the motivation. Some people do good things with bad intentions, and some people do bad things with good intentions, but in the final analysis, the harm caused by the latter is much greater than the former."

“…”

After hearing what Ai Li said, the short-haired girl was silent for a moment, then walked in front of another version of herself.

"You... are the other me that exists in my heart, right? The terrible me that I have been pretending not to see... But, I am you, and you are me, right..."

Hearing this, the other girl nodded silently, and then her figure gradually disappeared, and turned into a Persona and appeared in front of the short-haired girl. At the same time, the short-haired girl also softened and sat on the ground.

"Shadow time is almost over!"

The ground began to tremble, and the surrounding scenery gradually distorted. This was a call for the end of Shadow Time. Seeing this scene, Yue Yujiali hurriedly shouted, and Ai Li also quickly made a decision.

"Let's get out of here first!"

"But Amagi-san..."

"It's too late now. Take this girl away first! We can talk about Amagi Yukiko tomorrow!"

Everyone else had no choice but to obey Ellie's orders, and soon, everyone left the castle and returned to the outside. At the same time, the shadow time also ended completely, and everything returned to its original state.

After that, Ai Li and her group took the short-haired girl back to the Iwatodai branch, where they questioned the girl.

According to the girl's self-introduction, her name is Chie Satonaka, and she is a good friend of Yukiko Amagi.

But the way she entered Tartarus was somewhat different from what others imagined. According to Chie Satonaka, she didn't know what the other world was. In fact, she watched late-night TV on a rainy night just because everyone in her class was spreading such rumors. At that time, Chie Satonaka also thought that the figure in kimono that appeared on the late-night TV for the first time looked like her good friend Yukiko, so she continued to watch it the next night. Then, like Ai Li and others, she saw the funny third-rate late-night variety show performed by Yukiko, who had changed her temperament.

But unlike Airi and the others, Chie Satonaka was so shocked that she rushed to the TV and called Yukiko's name, and then...

"You just rushed into the TV?"

Ellie looked at her in disbelief, and the latter nodded.

"Yes, at that time I suddenly felt someone grabbing my hand and pulling me forward. When I opened my eyes again, I was in the castle..."

“…”

Everyone looked at Chie Satonaka's answer with surprise, and then they turned their heads to look at the big TV in the living room. Ai Li walked over and reached out to knock on the TV.

Hard, flat, and impenetrable.

In the end, everyone tried it once, but no one could enter that world through the TV, not even Chie Satonaka herself.

What is going on?

Ellie couldn't understand why.