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1->''I! Magical Girl Warrior Dolly, do hereby invoke the power of Love and Magical Justice!'' '''BLACK FROST!'''
2-->-- '''Midori Komaki''', in the Velvet Room
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4''Seven Days Survivor'' started as a ''[[VideoGame/{{Persona3}} Persona 3]]'' [=FanFic=] where Midori Komaki from ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'' moves to Tatsumi Port Island to finish out her school year after her home school got wrecked in the Tokyo Lockdown. Less than a week later, she is drawn into the Dark Hour, and joins [=SEES=] in response with [[SeriesMascot Black Frost]] as her Persona.
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6Originally planned to cover just the events of ''Persona 3'', feedback from the [[http://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/seven-days-survivor-devil-survivor-1-persona-3-4.230614/ initial thread]] on [=SpaceBattles=] caused the author, [=JonBerry=] to keep going all the way through to ''Persona 4: Arena Ultimax'' and ''Persona Q''. The first two stories are complete: ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8563497/1/Seven-Days-Survivor-The-Journey The Journey]]'' - which covers the events from the Hermit Battle through the defeat of Nyx and ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9159184/1/Seven-Days-Survivor-The-Answer The Answer]]'' - which covers up to the last battle of ''The Answer''. ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10698295/1/Seven-Days-Survivor-The-Interlude The Interlude]]'' is the story of Midori in Inaba between ''Persona 3'' and ''4'', and is a more slice-of-life fic. The Golden is now available [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11568165/1/Seven-Days-Survivor-The-Golden here]], and covers the events of [=P4G=]. However, he has since decided to reboot the fic, which is still currently in the [=SpaceBattles=] forum [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/seven-days-survivor-desu1-p3-4-golden-begins-p55.230614/page-77 starting here]].
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9!!''Seven Days Survivor'' trope examples follow:
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11* AchillesHeel: No matter how powerful Abel is, he's still ''human''. That means that Nyx's descent will kill him along with the rest of humanity.
12--> '''Ryoji:''' He is still only human. No matter his name or his heritage. He too is part of the Death that Nyx brings. He cannot stop it. No one can.
13* AlternateContinuity: The story setting has merged the events of ''Devil Survivor'' and ''Persona 3'', including:
14** Fuuka being online pals with Atsuro.
15** That corrupt executive that Honda was working for to bring him a COMP? It was Ikutsuki.
16** Naoya helped develop the The Dark Hour proofing technology and Aigis. And then 'helped steal' it for the Shomonkai, hence why the COMP works in the Dark Hour.
17** The Seal from ''Devil Survivor'' is intact, hence why Midori thought The Fall couldn't happen since it prevents Demons from crossing over. Ryoji points out that Nyx and the Shadows just so happens to be a part of humanity and thus an exception. Only Man can stop it, not Angels or Demons or Bels.
18** Club Escapade hosted a D-VA performance, which Midori got tickets to.
19** Metis is a Shadow of Aigis' persona Pallas Athena, taking into account the shadows of Persona 4 and the similarities to her origins, rather than a manifestation of the Abyss.
20** [[spoiler:Mari heads to Inaba because there's a doctor relocation program for rural areas and takes Amane there under witness protection.]]
21* AmnesiaMissedASpot: Midori didn't lose her memories after the Dark Hour vanished because Black Frost isn't tied to it like the other Persona-users barring Minato and Aegis. It's because of this she and the latter could bond.
22* AntiMagic: When Atsuro unbricked Midori's COMP, he scrubbed it of the Demon Summoning App but has it play the unsummoning song at a sound too low to hear while its on. So as long as she's in the area, no demon can emerge as a safety measure in case something happens.
23* ArcWelding: WordOfGod has this as why he changed [[ShadowArchetype Metis']] nature in The Answer to be closer to Persona 4's Shadows.
24* AscendedExtra: [[Characters/Persona4SLinksAndNPCs Saki]] is this in The Interlude. The Quiz King or 'Riddle-kun', found on the third floor of the school in-game, is given the name of Dan (apparently his full name is really long), is made into the Student Council President and later enters a pretend relationship with Midori.
25* TheAtoner: [[spoiler: Kaido, from his appearances in the Interlude. He's aware that he may never be forgiven, but still wants to make amends.]]
26* AuthorAppeal: Apparently a big fan of natural misunderstandings, and [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools abuses this]] for drama and comedy.
27* BadassBoast: Midori to Adachi.
28-->"I have seen things you wouldn't believe," Midori taunted him right back, seeing now that he was even more scared by this place than she was. "Worlds on fire while wrapped in the wings of an angel. Seen the sky open up and a tower rise from hell. Stood before things with more angles than possible. I have turned back humanity's worst, and embraced its best. The Legions of Heaven and Hell know my name and fear it. ''You don't scare ME''."
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30-->He raised his gun one more time, and Midori saw that his aim would be true. "Time to lose," she said as his hand and hers tightened at the same time.
31* BagOfSpilling: Justified. Midori loses some of her power from the lockdown in order to avoid breaching the seal between the human and demon worlds.
32* TheBerserker: Midori has shades of this, a {{Flanderization}} of her characterization in ''Devil Survivor''.
33* BloodKnight: A less... extreme interpretation of the above.
34* [[BigBrotherInstinct Big Sister Instinct]]: Midori has one for Nanako. The author has revealed aborted plots where this would have led to a RoaringRampageOfRevenge when or if Nanako got kidnapped.
35* BigEgoHiddenDepths: Midori develops into this over the course of The Interlude.
36* BlindWithoutEm: Midori is massively far-sighted, although unlike most representations of this trope, she can still function. She's just very careful about it.
37* BondingOverMissingParents: How Nanako is brought out of her shell.
38* BreatherEpisode: The entirety of the third arc is this, though it still contains some drama.
39* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: Averted. The quote Midori uses at the top of the page has only been used thrice in the story so far. When she first received Black Frost, when she first [[spoiler: summons Frosty in the Real World]] and [[spoiler: when she shows him to Nanako]].
40* CasualDangerDialogue: Midori has saved the world once already, and she joins the rest of [=SEES=] in this.
41* CharacterDevelopment: ''Midori'', as this is her story and she responds to her experiences.
42* {{Charm Person}}(a): [[spoiler:Jezebel, Amane's Persona, has Marin Karin]]. First used on a Maya, [[StopHittingYourself and it started hitting itself]].
43* ChekhovsGun: Frosty's Card may be this, given the [[WordOfGod the author]]'s comments.
44* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: The girl's yukatas during New Year's.
45* ConflictKiller: [[VideoGame/DevilSurvivor Abel]], to the point where his sole appearance so far had the possibility of a fight rejected by the characters in-story.
46* ControlFreak: How Midori sees Mitsuru. She's also a bit of one as well.
47* DangerousForbiddenTechnique: Summoning Demons. Igor is ''very'' quick to point this out to the offending party, as there is a thin barrier between the world of humans and that of demons and angels and her summoning Black Frost like that ended up threatening to undo the Seal erected after the events of Gin's route. Shadows and Persona are just reflections of things on the other-side of the veil, so they don't damage it, but calling out a demon does and would undermine all of Abel's efforts.
48--> '''Igor:''' Now, dear Midori. When you called forth your 'Frosty', he at least had the sense to return to the Demon World once he was finished protecting you. But in calling him forth like that, you damaged the seal. You endangered the world and came very, very, very close to invoking the wrath of Metatron and the Council of Angels. There would have been no 'Ordeal', they would have simply taken over!
49* DeathByAdaptation:
50** [[spoiler:Tohru Adachi gets wasted at the end of ''The Interlude''.]]
51** Prior to this, the Song of Hope ending was chosen in the ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'' side, except Keisuke dies by Kaido's hands.
52** [[spoiler:Junpei opts not to be revived in exchange for [[SparedByTheAdaptation Chidori living on]]]]. [[spoiler:Subverted when he's revived later in ''The Answer''.]]
53* DePower:
54** The Lockdown survivors as a whole have lost their abilities to use demons due to the Great Seal, outside of Midori with Igor's help.
55** [[spoiler:Junpei loses Hermes to empower Chidori.]]
56** Frosty has lost a lot of the power he had at the end of P3 due to the fact that Midori hadn't been using him to battle until [[spoiler:Amane was thrown into the TV World.]]
57* {{Determinator}}: As a consequence of her experiences in Tokyo, Midori isn't the kind of person to give up on world saving.
58* DiedStandingUp: Shinjiro.
59* DirtyCop: So far, the only ones in the story who aren't this are Kurosawa, Ryotaro Dojima, and his partner before Adachi.
60* DissonantLaughter: Midori when Ryoji explains how The Fall and Nyx will work and everyone else is dead serious. She believes that she already resolved the problem because the Great Seal is intact with Abel, but Ryoji points out that Nyx and the Shadows are an exception.
61* DivineParentage: [[spoiler:Amane]] raises this point as a possibility, causing Midori to have a minor {{BSOD}}, given her distaste for the angels.
62* ExperiencedProtagonist: Not an issue in The Journey, as Midori joins half-way through the plot, but will be a concern once The Golden begins.
63* FantasticallyIndifferent: Being a Type 2 comes with the territory.
64* FatalFlaw: {{Pride}}.
65* FightingYourFriend: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] in The Answer, thanks to CharacterDevelopment and ThePowerOfFriendship.
66* FirstNameBasis: How Midori addresses other characters is a good indication of how she views them. Her friends get their names used to show her friendship. Nanako gets a diminutive "Nana-Chi" to emphasize the CoolBigSis relationship she has, while she uses -san on both Chie and Yukiko to maintain her personal distance. Importantly, Mitsuru doesn't even get that much, always being referred to as "her" or "that woman", demonstrating Midori's absolute hatred for her.
67* FusionDance: Hermes and Medea merged to [[spoiler:give Chidori Helios]].
68* [[SlidingScaleOfGameplayAndStoryIntegration Gameplay and Story Integration]]: Minato explains Social Links to Midori, who accuses him of "Dating Yukari for a powerup", which he denies. Healing skills are also used outside of combat when applicable.
69* GlassCannon: Midori's stats for Persona 3 have been released by the author, which he said was a combination of her natural stats in ''Devil Survivor'', and Black Frost's. Endurance is her weak point while her Strength and Magic are almost maxed out (''95/100'' for each at Level 99).
70* GirlfriendInCanada: Saki wants to leave Inaba despite Midori's objections, and claims she has a boyfriend in Tokyo named Toshiro and that he's [[spoiler:a member of the Tokyo Demons]]. Midori later calls [[spoiler:Kaido]] on this over the phone, [[spoiler:he denies having any member with that name (and that it's not the first time anyone used the gang's name to make themselves look better), and he says he'll get to the bottom of this]], as well as meet with Saki if she ''does'' leave for Tokyo. He also makes it explicit that this doesn't have to make things even between them.
71** The "boyfriend" was real, but turns out to be exploitative, as [[spoiler:Kaido's gang]] found out sometime after coming over to pick up Saki from the train station. [[spoiler:Some members of the Tokyo Demons]] sheltered her before ensuring she returns to Inaba.
72* GoingNative: Midori, during ''The Interlude'', getting used to life in Inaba compared to the bigger cities.
73* HateAtFirstSight: Abel and Aigis immediately sized one another up when they first met during the Tokyo Tennis tournament as non-human and nearly came to blows. After Midori stopped them, they settled for talking things out in private.
74* TheHeart: Midori is this for [=SEES=] during ''The Journey'' and ''The Answer'' [[spoiler:after Junpei is killed and before he is rescued]].
75* HelpYourselfInThePast: [[spoiler:Rescuing Junpei through the Abyss of Time.]]
76* HeroicNeutral: Abel and his companions. They cannot summon their demons after the end of the lockdown, and doing so to solve a problem made purely by man's hands would bring the wrath of Metatron upon them, so their hands are tied.
77* HowDoIShotWeb: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] by Midori getting instructions on how to use Frosty from Igor.
78** Played straight with [[spoiler:her ''second'' Persona (which she got from the Midnight Channel like Yosuke, Chie, Yukiko, and Amane) Mannequin.]]
79* HumansAreSpecial: Unlike Demons or Angels, Humans are creatures of freedom and thus not bound by Law or Chaos. They can also convince others to do the same, which was how Frosty went from a Jack Frost to a Black Frost.
80--> '''Midori:''' But humanity is different. We are not creatures of 'Law' or of 'Chaos'. Even though in a school like this, in a culture like mine, total rigidity is impossible. Exceptions exist, leeway occurs. Humans are creatures of... freedom. We are capable of choice. To follow the dictates of Law, or of Chaos, or of neither.
81* {{Hypocrite}}: Midori shows signs of this early in ''The Golden'', especially when things turn to the issue of Personas. WordOfGod implies that this is part of her SanitySlippage as her Shadow starts to work its influence.
82* IGaveMyWord: Midori will keep a promise if she makes it. Hence why she plays SecretKeeper for the events of the Lockdown and Persona to those who don't know about them. Only those involved in both, such as Naoya, having been involved in both cases, and Ryoji, who knows about them both, are exceptions.
83* ImpededMessenger: Played with in that Midori left her cellphone at home during her day trip to Okina City early in the second version of The Golden, meaning that she has [[spoiler:missed Amane's kidnapping and the first excursion to rescue her.]]
84* ItsAllAboutMe: Midori has a bit of a problem here when she decides to do something. She hasn't gotten better as during ''The Journey'' and ''The Answer'', people found it easier to work around her then through her.
85* KillItWithFire: Frosty and Helios.
86* KillItWithIce: Frosty again.
87* LampshadeHanging: A few times, from GenreSavvy comments, to people making light of the situation in general.
88* TheLancer: Midori is one for Aigis, as demonstrated all throughout ''The Answer''.
89* LawmanBaton: Given the lack of weapons in ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor'', the author gave this to Midori as her weapon of choice. It was explained as her using a club to start with, before taking a police baton off of one of the defeated Police Tamers. She has kept it, and often [[HiddenWeapons tucks it under her shirt]], which has caused problems when people find out about it.
90* LeeroyJenkins: Midori needs to get this out of her system again at the start of the story.
91* LevelGrinding: WordOfGod is that everyone in ''Devil Survivor'' reached Level 99, as did everyone in ''Persona 3''.
92* LibationForTheDead: On the Anniversary of the Lockdown by Midori and [[spoiler:Kaido]].
93* LoopholeAbuse: Abel can't directly interfere against certain things, like stopping Nyx, but he can extend the Dark Hour to last until Midori and her friends win.
94* {{Lunacy}}: Midori takes the place of the Moon Arcana for Yu and Aigis.
95* MagicalGirl: Moreso than in ''Devil Survivor'' where she can now actually back it up without using Demons. People who know about Personas poke fun at her for this.
96** This is what she calls herself in front of Nanako [[spoiler:after the latter sneaked into the former while she was bathing and saw Frosty washing Midori's back and screamed from how "evil" it seemed to be]].
97* TheMedic: Midori has shades of this, thanks to practical experience. She helps Mitsuru deal with a leg injury in one battle, and [[spoiler: performs surgery on Junpei to remove Takaya's bullet and save his life]]. WordOfGod is that she will not get any Healing Magic.
98* MundaneUtility: Midori uses Frosty for plenty of non-combat uses. She has used it as a spare pair of hands while working, a foot warmer when it's cold, to help make her class' haunted house more authentic, and in many ways treats it like an extension of herself. Comparisons to [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure Stands]] are common in the commentary.
99* MustMakeAmends: [[spoiler:Kaido is trying, for the most part]].
100* MutualMasquerade: Igor orders Midori to keep the knowledge of the existence of demons away from the Persona users and the knowledge of the existence of Personas away from the demon tamers. Despite her best efforts, Abel and Aigis swap notes and figure it all out during ''The Interlude'', and Amane learns everything during ''The Golden''.
101* MythologyGag: During the Halloween Party in ''The Interlude'', Midori plans to dress up as a "[[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne Demi-Fiend]]" for the Haunted House.
102** [[spoiler:Her second Persona, Mannequin]], calls back to the Manikins from ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne''.
103** In the reboot of ''The Golden'', while waiting for the Midnight Channel, Yu muses it as just a rumor, like "[[VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2 cell phone apps that predict your death or something like that]]".
104* NaginatasAreFeminine: [[spoiler:Amane's weapon]]. She's had practice in its use when [[spoiler:she was a member of the Shomonkai]]. She never used it [[spoiler:during the Lockdown]] because [[spoiler:she was in a more public relations position, and by the time she needed to act directly, she had the Shomonkai's disciples (and later Abel and the others) backing her up]].
105* NatureSpirit: The Fox of the Shrine in Inaba is a Land spirit, native to Earth unlike the DS!demons and angels.
106* NewTransferStudent: Midori transfers over to the same school as the P4 cast because her father got a job in Inaba for his advertising company and she has to go with him.
107* NoBodyLeftBehind: Junpei's body disappears on his death. [[spoiler:This is because they pulled him from the past and into the Time Abyss in the future.]]
108* NoNameGiven: The protagonist of ''Devil Survivor'' is only ever referred to by the name of his pre-incarnation, Abel.
109* NonIdleRich: Mitsuru. If she believes that her company or she is responsible for something, she'll set out to correct it, which is why she usually tries to help Midori in private by donating to her school in Inaba.
110* NotAMorningPerson: Midori.
111* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Igor of all people just rips into Midori over accidentally summoning a Demon into the Dark Hour. Elizabeth actually jumps into the corner of the Velvet Room out of shock.
112* OhCrap: Igor's response to Black Frost getting summoned.
113* OrderedApology: From multiple people.
114* PaintingTheMedium: In ''The Golden'', before leaving the Velvet Room with Marie and Midori, Margaret ''turns off the music'' that plays inside. Marie lampshades that the music gets on her nerves after a while.
115* PatchworkFic: A necessity because of the source material.
116* PhysicalScarsPsychologicalScars: The Lockdown left Midori with a number of physical scars that she hides behind makeup. Her mental scars are still there.
117--> What she saw curdled her stomach. A web of scars and pockmarks ran up along the left side of Midori's body. The backs of her arms – crossed over her – held many thin white lines. Her inventory stopped as she fell back, a look of horror on her face.
118* PowerBornOfMadness: This is how Mitsuru views Midori, due to the Lockdown cover-up. She believes that the trauma she suffered there (in addition to a theory that the Cult was also attempting to force them to summon Persona) resulted in fracturing her psyche and creating Frosty as a coping measure. This may be more literal thanks to Midori's slow SanitySlippage.
119* PuppyDogEyes: Junpei mentions Koromaru being able to pull this off, and not even Aigis is immune to it.
120* RageAgainstTheHeavens: Midori's primary motivation, which she can't share with people due to promises made.
121* {{Reconstruction}}: In her speech to Akihiko after Shinji's death, she rebuilds her personal philosophy as a MagicalGirl into something workable in reality.
122* RefusedTheCall: Despite having been in the TV World as the rest of the Perona-users, Saki has chosen to turn away from it. She is not in on what the other Persona-users are up to, only that Midori has experience in this "as a MagicalGirl". [[spoiler:She eventually accompanies the Rescue Team, but her overwhelming fears meant they had to pause in her Shadow confrontation before they could finish, though with promise to continue later]].
123* {{Retool}}: Part 1, ''The Journey'' and part 4, ''The Golden'' have been given major overhauls by the author. The first was due to expanding the plot to accommodate moving into later games, while the latter is being done (at the time of this edit) due to the author admitting to writing himself into a corner.
124* RunsOnIgnorance: One view of Midori's use of Frosty until people learn more about the Tokyo Lockdown.
125* SecretKeeper: [[VideoGame/DevilSurvivor Midori]], [[VideoGame/{{Persona3}} Midori]], [[VideoGame/{{Persona4}} Midori]]! She knows far more than she tells people, but as a price for gaining the ability to use a Persona, she has promised Igor not to tell SEES about the Battle of Bel and not to tell her old friends about the Dark Hour, but this doesn't stop anyone from figuring out that she does. At this point, the only ones who know what she does are Aigis and Abel - and they've agreed to [[{{Irony}} not tell her that they know]]. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] when she complains to herself about all the effort involved in not telling people things.
126** It eventually comes to a head as Yu and company find out [[spoiler:upon encountering Midori's Shadow while traversing her Dungeon]].
127* SpannerInTheWorks: Midori possibly, for [[spoiler:Izanami, as Adachi's (very early) death would be sure to throw off the test she has arranged]].
128* ShoutOut:
129** Chidori calls Aigis "[[Film/TheWizardOfOz Tin Girl]]".
130** Morooka graduated from [[VideoGame/{{Persona2}} Seven Sisters High School]].
131** Midori has the Moon Arcana in this fic, and along with her self-image of a MagicalGirl, will cause Yu to dub her "Franchise/SailorMoon".
132** [[Film/BladeRunner See: Badass Boast]].
133* SliceOfLife: The Interlude is this, and helps shows Midori's personal development when not dealing with world ending threats.
134* SparedByTheAdaptation:
135** [[spoiler:Chidori, but [[DeathByAdaptation at the expense of Junpei's life.]]]] [[spoiler:He comes back, though thanks to the TimeyWimeyBall.]]
136** [[spoiler:Saki Konishi is rescued by Midori before Adachi can kill her.]]
137* TheStationsOfTheCanon: Noted as a problem through the first two arcs, though starting in the third, things are starting to get off the rails even more. The Golden - Part 4 - has completely jumped the tracks with Naoto finding out about the TV world due to her investigations of Midori, Amane joining the Rescue Team[[note]]The Investigation Team in canon[[/note]] and [[spoiler:Adachi being dead]].
138* StepfordSmiler: [[spoiler: Midori. As it turns out, despite being quite cheerful, she still has the scars from the events of ''Devil Survivor''. And in the Persona 4 Golden installment, her shadow and maze reveals that Midori is losing herself from the psychological scars that affected her.]]
139* StoryBreakerPower: Part of the reason Abel doesn't participate in any of the battles, even if he is aware of them.
140* SureLetsGoWithThat: After Midori is confronted about having Black Frost's card in ''The Journey'', Akihiro comes up with the idea that the cultist were gathering Persona-users and forcing others to develop them like Strega. It's not the exact truth, but it is close enough that she basically uses it as an excuse to tell him about her other friend's demons without breaking her contract to Igor.
141* TakeAThirdOption: Naoya mentions that Abel's decision to reject the use of Angels and opt for humans to take things into their own hands was unexpected by the Council, thus he's fine with the outcome since he put all his efforts into doing exactly that in a different method.
142* TakingTheBullet: [[spoiler:Junpei's reasoning for his extended absence. He was shot trying to get Chidori away from Takaya's cult and they moved him out of the city to protect him.]]
143* ThereAreNoTherapists: Averted in that Midori does have a therapist at school for the events in Tokyo, but is hamstrung by the need for secrecy.
144* TragicKeepsake: [[spoiler:Chidori]] keeps [[spoiler:Junpei's hat]] after his death.
145* UnwantedAssistance: How Midori feels about Mitsuru's constant donations to the school that made her well-liked among certain parties.
146--> '''Mitsuru:'''"She feels like she owes me, and has dedicated herself to ruining my life ever since in some misguided attempt to help."
147* VitriolicBestBuds: Implied to be the case between Midori and [[IdolSinger Rise]] come The Golden.
148* WhamEpisode:
149** [[spoiler:Junpei is killed by Takaya, and resolves to save Chidori instead of having his own life saved.]] Yet [[spoiler:Junpei gets saved thanks to the TimeyWimeyBall]].
150** The end of The Interlude is a massive one as well, compounded by the [[AprilFools release date]]. [[spoiler:Midori kills Adachi in the TV World after he throws Saki in.]]
151* WhatTheHellHero: Igor actually screams at Midori about how much of a bad thing summoning a Demon into the Dark Hour was. Even if it was an accident.
152* YouAreWhatYouHate: WordOfGod is that this is [[spoiler: Midori's relation to Mitsuru until their battle in The Arena]].

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