Waking Dream - Devil Survivor CYOA

Is it wrong that I am thinking about voting C. I mean we get Tenticals to focus on us and it gives a pissed off Elise a free shot with her demon and either Elise defeats him before he kills us or Gregory saves us before Tenticals kills us.


Final Answer C

If you can just give Elise an opening...!  You start drawing as much attention to yourself as you can.  You grab anything you can hold and start hurling it all at the demon.  It directs a lone tentacle in your direction, almost lazily, still focused on Elise.  You throw up your arm and let it coil around your wrist, then grab it with your other hand and start yanking.  The demon staggers forward, then decides to give you the attention you deserve.  Another pair of tentacles lash out at you, then another.

You manage to ensnare three of them.  You hold them as tight as you can, but another rips your foot out from under you.  The good news is that for a few brief seconds, you manage to draw the attention of all six tentacles.  The bad news is that for a few brief seconds, you manage to draw the attention of all six tentacles.  They start crushing and tearing and lashing and flinging you violently.  You hear a loud popping noise from your shoulder.  The sound is followed by a rush of pain.  Fortunately, you quickly forget that pain as your face is slammed into the floor.

Elise yells as she rushes the last few yards.  "Mighty Hit!"  You feel the tentacles go slack.  You vaguely make out a few bright flashes as everything goes back.

You're awoken by a terrible grinding pain in your shoulder.  There's another sharp popping noise, the feel of healing magic flowing up your arm...  The pain in your arm dulls considerably, but you become acutely aware of the various aches throughout your body.

"Good enough for now.  I don't want to waste another moment in this dreary place.  Drag us upstairs and we'll finish patchin' up.  Yes, me too.  Look at my leg, ya slack-jawed dope.  We took a right brutal beatin'..."

You gradually recover your senses as Brute Ikusa hauls you out of the basement.  The demon's nowhere to be seen.  Dead, you assume.  It looks like several shelves caught fire during the fight, then got extinguished by a huge blizzard.  As you come out of the pitch-black basement to the first floor, you wince at the blinding light.  Ikusa sits you down in a chair as you look around.  Gregory and Kumiko look a bit tired, but unhurt.  Elise is even worse off than you realized in the gloom.  Thor slides her into a chair next to you and she flops down limply.  Her clothes are stained with blood.  Mementos of the battle cover her arms, legs, and neck, and more peak out through the tears in her shredded clothes. Recently-closed slashes criss-cross across her back and stomach.  Bruises and welts have already begun to form everywhere else.  A purple ring around her neck highlights a jagged, circular scar at her throat.

"Man.  I didn't expect you'd need us to take that guy down and save you, boss," Gregory says with a smirk.  He gestures over towards the lobby.  You see the jerk who stole your phone buried neck-deep in toppled shelves in books.  A sharp crack makes you whirl back around to the others.  Gregory's stumbling back, hands covering his face and groaning in pain, while Elise calmly reclaims her seat.

"C'mere to me, Greg.  'fore you go gettin' any clever ideas, know I can still whup ya.  And Kira, I'd belt ya one, too, if you weren't already beat all ta Hell.  I'd say ya owe me more'n one l'il favor after all that, yeah?"  She glances over to you with a smarmy smirk.

You nod in agreement.

"Oh, before I forget..." Kumiko reaches into her pocket and pulls out your phone.  "Here you go.  Um...  I do have some bad news, though..."  You flip open your phone and start checking it for damage before she can begin.

"Kira's back!" Bast says cheerfully.  "Oh, man, you don't know how much we missed you!  Well, me, at least.  Seriously, that guy was no fun.  It was like having a second Vorvadoss.  Anyway it's good to see you back."  No major damage, new messages - which reminds you, better make sure Elise knows about that flood she had - low battery, almost all your macca's gone...

"You're hurt," Vorvadoss observes.  "I'll assign some healing magic so you can patch yourself up."  At least a few new skills have been added to your cracked list, you notice.  You flip open your demon list and your heart drops.  The first two demons on your list are gone.  You frantically scroll up and down the list but... well, it's not a long list, you didn't overlook them.  Ikusa, Moloch, King Frost, Thor, Man in Black, Grey... and some random ball of static that looks more like an error than an entry on the list.

Lilim White and Lilim Black...  What happened to the Lilim sisters...!?  You're... surprised how angry you are about this.  And your anger clearly shows because Kumiko takes a step back before explaining.  "He... he tried to perform a fusion during the battle.  Bast tried to stop him, said something about an error, too low of a level, but he did... something, I don't know, hacked it somehow, over-rode the...  I'm not exactly great with computers, much less demon computers, but he forced the fusion and something went horribly wrong."

"More or less," Vorvadoss says.  "We're working on fixing the damage, but it'll be some time before this demon's data's in working order."  A progress bar appears under the jumbled name.  2%.

"We already broke his phone, by the way.  He's not going anywhere,"  Gregory tells you.

You knock your chair over standing up.  You march deliberately towards the thief.  The dumb smile he flashes you as you approach doesn't help his case any.  It just makes you want to kick his teeth in.  "Hey, so, uh...  No hard feelings, right?  We're all just doing what we gotta do to survive.  I mean, y'know, I coulda killed you when I stole your phone and I didn't, so...  Y'know?  You're going to let me go, right?"

(A) Let him go
(B) Leave him there
(C) Beat the crap out of him, then leave him there
(D) You won't let him do this to someone else.  Kill him.

『D』I demand 『blood』.

You stomp over to the jackass.  You line it up.  You kick him in the mouth.  More blood than you expected.  You call out Thor.  Thor grabs him.  Digs him out.  Hurls him across the room.  Slams into the wall.  Sounds like something broke.  Maybe the wall, maybe him.  You don't care.  You're right behind him.

"Oi, hold a moment, Kira," Elise calls out.  Dionysus floats over and pulls the guy's shirt off, then rushes it back to her.  "All right, go 'head," she says, nonchalantly checking the size.

The guy's in a heap on the wall.  He groans, spits out some blood.  And broken teeth.  You toss him over.  Kick him a few times.  Until he rolls over.  Mount him.  He's unconscious.  It's disappointing.  You feel magic start flowing through you, unbeckoned.  Healing magic.  He chokes back awake.  You smile.  Start punching.  And keep punching.  And keep punching.

An ache in your shoulder keeps getting worse until you can't ignore it any more.  You give him one more punch, since that pain's his fault, too.  Out of breath and panting, you stand back up.

"Tilt his head an' get the blood out so he don't drown 'fore I get a turn," Elise calls over.  She's still resting in her chair, though she's changed her shirt.  Gregory leans impassively against the reception desk.  Kumiko looks over at you.  She's trying to mask what she's feeling, but she seems uncomfortable.

You kneel down and treat them man like Elise said.  Now that the initial rage has passed...  No, you really don't feel too guilty.  Not when you look at Elise, anyway.  You're glad Rita didn't see that, though.  Or Sara.

Ugh...  You really wish you could go talk to Sara right now.  You check the time on your phone.  Just a few hours before she'll have a few days off...  Assuming Jackson keeps his word, anyway.  Well, right now you really want out of here.  Out of this library.

You thank Elise, Gregory, and Kumiko again.  Gregory nods.  Kumiko gives an unenthusiastic "no problem."

Elise stops you.  "Yer mighty useful in a scrap, gotta admit, and it means a lot that ya came back for me.  So ya got a standin' invitation to join m' Cobras.  And I'd even call us square.  Like I said, ya owe me a helluva debt, and yer gonna pay up one way'r another.  But I ain't gonna order ya join us.  I got no illusions 'bout us bein' heroes.  The unwillin' got not place with us."

You tell her you'll give it some thought.  But right now you need some time to cool off.  She nods and waves you off with a flick of her wrist.  You head...

(A) Home, where Rita is
(B) To find George uptown
(C) Downtown to kill a few demons, blow off some steam
(D) Out towards the farm to visit Daniel
(E) To search for Waite.  She was at the docks yesterday...

Sure, let's.

『B2』『social link』go.

『You』