Persona 3: Shadow Cry



Shadow Cry is a Persona 3 novel released in Japan, China and a few other asian countries.

The story starts with Jin, Takaya, and Chidori finishing off the target of one of their revenge commissions.They get attacked by shadows and after defeating them, a person runs out of the darkness, trying to attack them. The person turns out to be also one of the artificial Persona users who should have been dead years ago when Kirijo Group sent the children into Tartarus. His name is Izumi and he used to be an acquaintance of Jin's. Jin was thrilled at having met an old friend, and also a bit envious since Izumi seems to be leading a normal life with people he loves.

However, Izumi has a request to ask of Strega. That is, to find and kill the person who supposedly killed a woman two years ago. The woman saved his life when he escaped from Tartarus, but Izumi did not want to be a burden to her and her son so he left. Later on he heard from her son that she was dead, and it wasn't an accident, but murder. Feeling indebted to the woman, he asked that Strega use their powers to find out who had murdered her and kill the culprit.