[ To the elevator! Which, fortunately, arrives almost immediately after Makoto hits the button. ]

I'm surprised too. [ She admits as she steps into the elevator and presses the button for the ground floor. ] Maybe there wasn't anything ruling out the possibility of someone else getting the Meta-Nav or awakening their Persona, but considering how few people have discovered the Cognitive World, I didn't think that we'd encounter someone else after Akechi-san either.

[ She's still holding Haru's hand, by the way. Thinking absoluely nothing of it thanks to the effects of her costume - but, luckily for them both, the topic they're on is engaging enough to keep Makoto's thoughts away from what the Dragon Lord wanted to do to the Beauty Warrior, at least for now. ]