April 27 (Tuesday)
Chapter 105: Early Morning
Yu notices Nanako's nervousness at breakfast, and encourages her that whatever she's worrying about, she can do it, reassuring her...then he yoinks one of her strawberries.
Chapter 106: Morning
Shujin students look at the posted calling cards, and Kamoshida is furious when he sees them. The Thieves watch from nearby, none of them impressed by Ryuji's work, and they split up as Kamoshida heads in their direction.
Chapter 107: Palace of Lust
After a final meeting, the Thieves split up, Joker and Mona infiltrating one way and the rest another way onto the chandeliers in the entrance hall. Angel drops a smoke bomb on the Shadows below and they split up, she heading to the elevator behind Kamoshida's portrait, Panther fighting the entrance hall Shadows, and Skull clearing the banquet hall before stealing every bottle. Joker retrieves Kamothreeda and drags him along as he freezes the nearby waterfall and grapples up. Mona sabotages the volleyball cannon and slays Shadows in the dungeon. Nanako enters the Chapel, having the difficult task of holding off any backup soldiers from the tower alone. But after using Legion's Tentarafoo to confuse the Shadows, she summons Berith to pose as a commander and mimics a deep voice, claiming there are traitors among them and ordering them to kill them, turning the Shadows on each other. Skull douses the library with the stolen alcohol.
Panther has the entire entrance hall ablaze but is running out of energy. Mona appears and heals her, shortly followed by Skull, emptying wine behind him the whole way. Ann finishes the Shadows, then they head for the elevator, Ann replenishing her stamina with coffee along the way. On the castle roof, Joker explains that Mona stole the gunpowder from the volleyball cannon, and between that and the stolen wine, they attacked the support pillars in the entrance hall to break the castle's stability, and had also left a trail of alcohol leading to the library to destroy all of Kamoshida's books, failing to mention that the rest of Angel's smoke grenades were caught in the explosion, making it look worse than it was. Joker claims they're destroying the Palace, and informs Kamothreeda that he was showing and telling him so he could tell his master, then kills him, sending his remains and the false information back to Kamoshida's Shadow. Joker launches his hook over the side as the chapel window shatters beneath him, swinging by with perfect timing to catch Angel as she jumps out. They exchange confidence that the others made it before heading to meet up with them.
Chapter 108: Palace of Lust
Hoping that Shadow Kamoshida will believe they're trying to destroy the castle, the group convenes in the Treasure Room, and after shaking Morgana out of his attraction to the giant crown, they grab it and rush out, heading for the elevator. Shadow Kamoshida intercepts them and takes back the crown, dismissing their damage as temper tantrums and knowing that the castle isn't falling. Joker points out that all of his guards are still dead, prompting Kamoshida to transform into his Asmodeus form.
Nanako has a panic attack as the huge red head makes her flash back to Kunino-Sagiri, and Joker, failing to snap her out of it, gets her to the entrance of the throne room, encouraging Panther and Skull to work out their frustrations and keep Kamoshida distracted while Mona steals the treasure. As they oblige, his costume fades, and Ren calmly talks her through her panic. Slowly, her memories become clear, and she realizes that she had been terrified not just of Kunino-Sagiri, but also the monstrous Personas that Yu and the others were summoning, worried that she would have to be a monster to fight back effectively. Realizing similar monstrosities exist in Ryuji and Ann, she finds peace in recalling Margaret's words about contradictions, and Ren steadies her as she stands up, helping her cement her resolve to fight for Justice. He helps her summon Izanagi, and she thanks him...then she yoinks his grappling hook and swings on the chandelier, having Izanagi knock off Kamoshida's crown over to Mona, to Mona's mild indignation.
Arsene and Izanagi quickly finish Asmodeus off, and he reverts to Shadow Kamoshida.
Chapter 109: Palace of Lust
Carmen conjures a wall of fire around Panther and Shadow Kamoshida, the cognitive Ann trying to defend him until Panther whips her aside. Despite Kamoshida saying she has the right to kill him, Panther finds she can't do it, accusing Nanako of corrupting her hatred and leaving only pity, somehow not even able to kill the cognitive Ann. Angel suggests that she sees her kindness and empathy reflected in the cognition, and says revenge isn't justice. Livid, Panther demands that Kamoshida remember and suffer for what he did to her and Shiho for the rest of his life. The Shadow quietly accepts this before he and the cognitive Ann fade away.
The group rushes out as the Palace starts collapsing, Izanagi cutting the elevator cable to get them to the ground floor, and they find that the front has become a raging inferno. With no better ideas, Nanako conjures Forneus, Ren joining her with Silky to cast Bufu as they leap into the entrance hall. Ice encases them, skidding across the entrance hall and leaving them just free of the fire, and they escape the Palace.
Chapter 110: After School
The group finds that Kamoshida's Treasure was his Olympic gold medal, and Morgana says what they now have is a copy that they should sell. The group, exhausted but triumphant, heads to the train station.
