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"...what?" said shadow Toshiro, who was kind of expecting more of a fight. "After talking to that masked boy and how he's ironically changing Japan more than he ever could as some kind of rebel without a cause by instead becoming the secret cabal behind it's political machinations, I've embraced the reality that the strong must eat the weak-or be torn apart in turn for the crime of being delicious!" shouted Toshiro, preparing to unleash his Persona. Which was NOT Che Guevara after my peptalk.

"HOLD IT!" shouted Elodie, ducking in, "the reality that your actions may cause harm to others doesn't eliminate the validity of the effort to mitigate them having meaning in itself! Walk the path you must, but don't get lost in the sauce! There is a middle ground involving not rejecting the career laid out for you, but also using your life experiences to inform your moral decisions going forward!"
"Excuse me, we're in the middle of something!" exclaimed Shadow Toshiro.

"She's not wrong, Tosh" I interrupted. "I'm all for going full 1984, but I honestly don't care enough about your personal life decisions to bother here when order is being enforced one way or another. The only question is to what degree"

"Also why not just have a fling with your childhood friend if you're trapped in a loveless marriage?" added the childhood wonder tulpa. "You're rich, she's single and crippled, and it's been years. Do the math, buddy"

"...huh yeah, I never thought of it like that"

"AHEM" coughed Shadow Toshiro. "Are we FIGHTING or-" "Why? I've got better things to do. C'mon guys, let's get out of here" said Toshiro.

Shadow Toshiro yelled impotently for us to get back here and fight him while Toshiro awakened Theodore Roosevelt as his Persona. As the Kingdom started collapsing, he suddenly wondered how he was actually going to fix all the problems in his life. I decided to start by teaching him the Pimp's Prayer.

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