Let's punch God in the dick! The Shin Megami Tensei LP!

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by Solid Snake

...Oh wait, she's in love with KRYLO?!?

Fuck that shit
Why the fuck does every story involving me and Krylo involve him getting the girl

I think you know why.

Also, save her. While eyeing those amoral companions critically.

[Donomni]

Oh, sure, Liz, give me the hope of bizarre morallegal battles.

But really, you're just making this better. So, keep it up, and such.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

I vote save the girl. Also keep up the great work.

[pochercoaster]

Save the girl. Women are useless and need to be protected!

Edit: Also if you still need the name for a heroine I vote myself, obviously. But only if I get to kick ass.

[Sifright]

I agree, we should name the girl 'myself' it will make the dialogue 100% funnier

[Kim]

Krylo quickly decided, "We have to help her."

Fifth didn't seem too pleased at the prospect.

Unfortunately for the party of four, the priest overheard their debate.

"Wait a second! I know that voice!" Krylo realized, calling out, "Pocheros, is that you?"

A look of shock appeared on the priest's face as he asked, "Wait, her name is Pocheros?"

"Yeah. Why?" Krylo wondered.

Without warning, the priest and his cohorts collapsed to the ground.

"Are they dead?" Snake asked.

"I think so... What the hell was that?" came Fifth's response.

"They were trying to summon a terrible Demon Lord. They almost succeeded," Pocheros answered, matter-of-factly.

"It seems we're still stuck here. You wanna come with?" Krylo offered.

"Yeah, we could always use more help," Snake seconded.

"Could we really?" Yuriko asked snidely, just loud enough for Pocheros to hear.

However, Pocheros shook her head.

And with that, the dream ended, and Krylo awoke in his room once more. As he slowly regained full awareness of his surroundings, the dream began to fade from his memory once more. Turning his attention to the computer, he saw he had yet another email from Steven.

Krylo downloaded the file without a moment's hesitation. After the day before, he no longer had any doubt that Steven knew what he was talking about. However, some way or another, Steven had managed to send him these emails without leaving a valid email address to respond to.

Krylo thought to himself, "You know, I'm probably not the only person who's been getting these emails. Maybe I should hit up the mall and ask around."

Having come to that decision, Krylo got dressed and stepped out of his room, only to find his mother waiting to speak with him.

"Shut up shut up shut up shut up!" Krylo cried out as he bolted from the room.

He heard his mother call out, "Don't stay out too late!" as he did.

Of course, no amount of urgency could stop Krylo from stopping to play with Pascal.

"Be a good boy, okay?" Krylo not-so-seriously ordered.

Stepping outside, Krylo suddenly had a thought. "Wait a second. What did my mom say? I was dreaming about Pocheros?" Though much of it was forgotten, the tiniest fragments of last night's dream reassembled themselves.

"It's probably nothing, but... well... demons."

Krylo turned to head to Pocheros' house, when suddenly...

"Fuck."

Krylo pulled out the knife from yesterday, muttering to himself, "It's better than nothing."

The zombie stumbled towards him and Krylo tried to steel his nerves. Gripping the knife with both hands, he charged forward.

"AAAAAHHHHHHH!"

The knife sunk into the dead flesh of the zombie with little resistance. The zombie retaliated with a swing of its arm, clumsily hitting Krylo in the side of the head. Krylo pulled the knife out and then stabbed it into the monster's neck. It tried to shove him away, but Krylo refused to relent, stabbing again and again, until it finally fell.

Adrenaline pumping through his veins, Krylo stared wide-eyed at the crumpled form of the monster he'd slain. Each deep breath he took was a celebration of his victory. After a moment to regain his bearings, Krylo pocketed the knife once more, and completed his journey to Pocheros' house.

Krylo stood outside the house and knocked on the door.

"Come in!" an elderly voice called out.

Krylo obliged, happy to be inside a house. He was safe(!), at least for the time being.

"Hi, doc," Krylo answered cheerfully, doing the best to hide the panic he'd been in just moments before. After all, "I JUST KILLED A FUCKING ZOMBIE! JUST NOW! RIGHT OUTSIDE!" is not the best start to a conversation.

Krylo gave a casual wave to Pocheros' dad as he left the room and headed over to hers.

"Hey, Poch. This is gonna sound weird, but did you have any weird dreams last night? Maybe about being in a maze or something?" Krylo asked, trying to show in his face that he knew how bizarre the question was.

"Ah, sorry. Forget I asked. So what's up with you?"

"Yeah, seriously. So who're you dating?"

"Of course! Of course! I was just curious is all. Anyway, I've got some stuff to do, so I'll catch ya later."

"Okay. See you later, Krylo."

With that endeavor rather fruitlessly resolved, Krylo made his way over to the mall, ever vigilant lest more zombies attack.

Luck seemed on Krylo's side, and he made it to the mall without seeing any more demons.

Once inside...

For the briefest of moments, Krylo considered crying among his options. Readying his knife once more, he charged the machine creature. The blade penetrated its flesh but quickly met resistance.

"Right... Machine... Huh," As Krylo reassessed his strategy, he took comfort in that the creature had at least stumbled backwards a bit in response to his blow. However, it quickly righted itself and delivered a hard punch to his chest, knocking the wind out of him.

Gasping for air, Krylo looked over the monster, searching for some kind of weakness. It was then that he finally noticed that part of its head was missing.

Krylo charged again. As he did, the creature swung at him, but he managed to just barely avoid the attack. Confident in his plan, Krylo brought the knife down in an arc, stabbing into the hole in its head. Sparks flew, and the machine let out an inhuman cry for help, but no help came.

Krylo yanked the knife from the dead thing and began searching the mall in earnest. It wasn't long before he found someone else who'd been receiving the same emails as he.

"What? Why?" Krylo couldn't hide the frustration in his voice, and the man gave him a rather puzzled look.

"Th-thank you for your time..."

Krylo began his search again, when...

"No..."

Krylo wanted to collapse from exhaustion but forced himself to prepare for battle once more. Just as he was about to attack, he remembered something. The demon summoning program he'd been given supposedly allowed him to talk to these things. It even said he could convince them to help him. Using his Comp, Krylo selected the Demon Summoning App and used the talk function.

"Friendly or Hostile?" the app asked. Krylo selected Friendly without hesitation.

The app seemed to work, because, not moments after he'd selected Friendly, the fairy asked, “Will you love me even though I'm a demon?”

"Uh... sure?" He didn't want to hurt his chances at avoiding battle. Besides, the fairy looked mostly human, just smaller.

“I want to see a sign of your sincerity! Give me 130 yen!”

Sighing and mumbling, "Fine... fine..." Krylo dug into his pockets and pulled out some change, wordlessly handing it over.

“More! More! Give me a magic stone!”

Krylo's first attempt at befriending a demon had already hit a major hurdle.

"I don't know what that is," he confessed.

“Liar! You're just being cheap!" it said, pouting.

"I'm telling the truth. I'm just a human, after all."

"Fine, then give me 41 magnetite!”

"Is that a Pokemon?" Krylo innocently asked.

"Argh! I give up!" the fairy screamed. A second fairy flew over and joined the first, and they launched their attack.

Unsure how to deal with such tiny foes, Krylo began swinging his knife wildly in the air while shielding himself with his other arm. Out of nowhere, he suddenly heard two tiny screams cut short and something warm splashed onto his arm.

Lowering his shield arm, Krylo looked down to see two mutilated fairies and a large pool of blood.

"I think I'm gonna throw up," he muttered, running towards the nearest bathroom.

Krylo's status as of this update.

[Donomni]

Something tells me these demons are gonna be extremely picky.

[Kim]

Walking pale-faced from the restroom, Krylo thought to himself, "I'll just check the cafe and be done with it."

The waitress gave him her usually cheery, "Welcome!", but Krylo could only bring himself to give a short nod in her direction. Most everyone in the cafe was still stuck on the subject of the murder in the park, except for the lady in the red dress from the day before.

"What happened?" he asked. She shrugged.

Krylo didn't say anything, but he felt fairly certain demons were behind whatever had happened. After all, if demons were out and about, there's no reason to think they were only terrorizing his neighborhood.

"Well, I might as well get a coffee before I head home," Krylo decided. However, it seemed the master of the coffee shop had some news of his own to share.

"Yeah, I know what you mean." Krylo tried his best to feign ignorance of what had likely happened.

"Huh... Weird." Coffee in hand, Krylo left the shop. However, the old man hanging out in front of the park wouldn't leave his mind.

"Well, the park isn't too far out of the way, I guess," and so Krylo's mind was made up, and he began his southbound trip to the park.

Of course, what would life be like without the constant threat of demons attacks?

Upon seeing the demon, Krylo sighed and said, "Listen. I'm getting really sick and tired of murdering you guys. Can you please just fuck off for five goddamn minutes?"

"Wait a second... Is your name Krylo?" the demon asked.

"Yeah?"

"Oh. Sorry! I didn't recognize you! Uh, here, take this and I'll... go..." With that, the demon tossed a gun at Krylo's feet and ran off.

"Huh, I didn't actually expect that to work." Krylo picked up the gun and shoved it in his pocket, returning to his trek to the old man.

Finally, he'd reached his destination.

"Why does everyone seem to know who I am?" Krylo asked the man.

"How? I'm just a normal teenager. I play with my dog. I go to the mall. I play video games on my computer. What makes me so special?"

"Soon you will see, for the world is undergoing a great change even as we speak."

"I'm not sure."

"It is something you should consider carefully, I think."

The world twisted, and Krylo found himself in a dream once again. The memories of each previous dream returned, and he found Snake and Fifth standing before him.

"We need to go to the top of the building," Krylo stated with utmost certainty.

"How do you know?" Snake asked.

"I'm not sure. I just know."

"In that case, I'll let you take the lead this time," Fifth said.

The trio went up staircase after staircase, growing more tired with each one. By the time they were on the fourth floor, they were all pretty winded. It wasn't exactly a long walk, but staircases had a special way of wearing down the less-than-active.

Taking a break before heading to the next floor, the group made light conversation.

"So what were you doing before this dream?" Fifth asked.

"I was talking to the old man in front of the park," Krylo answered.

"Oh yeah? Isn't he homeless or something?"

"Definitely 'or something.' He was telling me I had to choose between Law and Chaos."

"Isn't Law the obvious choice?" Snake quickly interjected.

"I'm not so sure. I just feel like it's more complicated than that, and the old man seems to think so, too."

"Weird..."

"Well, I think we've wasted enough time. Shall we move on?" said Fifth, gesturing towards the next staircase.

Once they reached the top, the group found themselves in long hallway. At the end of the hallway was a door, and Krylo felt confident that door was their destination. However...

"M-mom?!" Krylo asked in shock.

"I'm sorry, Mom, but I have to go."

"...I don't know. I'm sorry, Mom." A great sadness washed over Krylo, and his mother vanished.

"You gonna be okay?" Snake asked, a note of concern in his voice.

"Yeah. I'll be fine."

After a brief pause, the group marched into the room before them.

"Stop," Krylo commanded.

"I came to stop you."

The man who'd been conducting the ceremony scowled. "Hmph, like I'll let you do that!" He charged at them, transforming into a demon as he did, and the trio quickly backed up into the hallway.

A wave of fire washed over Snake, Fifth, and Krylo, and they collapsed to the ground. Again the world twisted. Krylo was in the park once more. However, this time the dream did not leave him. He remembered every detail of what had just happened, and even the dreams from the nights before.

As his mind cleared, Krylo muttered to himself, "We lost..."

"Yet?"

The old man stood up and continued, "In this park, there is a building. If you enter, you will find people and items to aid you. Good luck." With his message delivered, the old man walked away.

Krylo quickly found the building of which the old man had spoken. Walking inside, he found that some doors were currently locked. However, in one of the rooms he could enter, he found a small box.

Some small rocks were inside the box, and a message appeared on Krylo's Comp referring to them as magnetite. Krylo's mind quickly turned to his earlier encounter with the fairy that had asked for just that.

"I'll probably want to keep at least some of this stuff handy," he said to himself as he pocketed the rocks. "Well, that's enough adventure for one day. I'll try to figure out more tomorrow."

With that resolved, Krylo began to walk home. However, the moment he turned onto his street, he could tell something wasn't right. Down near his house was a large group of cops. He ran down the road toward the police.

"What's going on? Is my mother okay?" he asked frantically.

"What are you talking about?! What scene?!" Krylo's fears escalated more with each passing second.

The realization hit him harder than any demon he'd fought today. They were talking about the guy who'd been killed in the mall the other day. Worse yet, the knife they'd likely realized was missing from the crime scene was still in Krylo's pocket.

"Oh..." Was all Krylo could think to say.

Krylo didn't even put up a fight. After all, it's not like he could explain that what had really killed the man was a horrible demon. At a time like this, all Krylo could do was hope his mother hadn't heard anything yet. It would break her heart.

Krylo had been roughly thrown into the cell, scraping his arm on the hard, concrete floor. As he stood up and looked for a place to sit, he noticed he wasn't the only person in the cell.

"Uh, hi..." he mumbled.

"Yeah, but how do you know me?"

"Snake? You mean that Snake? What are you doing here?"

"That's a familiar story. Some demon killed a guy the other day, and now the cops think I'm the one who did it. Do you know if you're girlfriend's okay?"

Snake shook his head. "I honestly don't know..."

The time for choosing is now...

[Donomni]

I vote yes, because my first RPG playthrough almost always results in me helping everyone. I'm a helper!

[pochercoaster]

Yes, so the story is interesting. Also women are useless! Just think about the horrible fate that may have befallen her by now!