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[He's helping provide motivation, clearly. The motivation to succeed purely to prove him wrong... This works for his friends at home, but they are kind of a weird group of kids. Either way, it's not a very exciting trip to the forest, and it's not a particularly exciting Persona show, either - cool, yes, but he's seen enough of these guys already to be used to them.

So he's just gioing to stand here while the tree gets cut--] Y'know, it's weird you've gotta talk to 'em. My friend Koichi does, but—

[But his continuing confusion about Personas vs. Stands is cut short as he's abruptly grabbed and yanked away, as two more trees come toppling down to land where they were just standing. Damn!!] Shit, dude, what did you do?