"WHAT THE EFF IS GOING ON!!!" A shrill voice called out from the attic of Leblanc. The group had left mementos and were once again in the hideout aka Joker's room and as the high pitched screaming voice indicated, the boys had not transformed back into their male selves.
"Don't shout Ryuji," Makoto hissed, "We don't know if the boss has left yet and we want to avoid awkward questions at the moment."
"Yeah, if Sojiro saw 4 new girls up here then he's going to think Joker has some sort of harem going on." Futaba pointed out. 'I think he already suspects that...' Joker thought to himself.
"HELLO!?" Ryuji said as he poked Yusuke's chest, "I think everyone single person who knows us is going to be asking awkward questions. Or do you think we should just get ahead of things by sending notes to all our friends, family, and school teachers that we each decided to get a spontaneous sex change?"
"You joke, but there is school paperwork that is going to need to be filled out." Makoto said with a sigh knowing that as it would probably be up to her to get said paperwork if needed.
"GAAAAHHHH!" Ryuji yelled again kicking the edge of Joker's bed succeeding in only giving himself a sore foot. Yusuke meanwhile was taking the change with stride as he stretched out his hand seemingly looking at his new longer nails, but with the other hand he had already begun to sketch his new feminine limb for reference.
"And why are you so calm about this life altering change," Akechi said coldly.
"I still have my life and my art." Yusuke said calmly, "Besides, all other status changes in mementos goes away whether it be eventually or with a curing item of some sort."
"Yes, but even when something drastic happened like being frozen solid or turning into a rat we still were back to normal after a short while, and certainly before we returned from the cognitive world." Haru said.
"I've got it!" Ann said with a laugh, "I think I know the exact thing we need to cure you guys!" Everyone stared at Ann waiting for the answer, "I think because of how popular it's been lately the collective cognition created a shadow that looked like it was based on Ranko 1/2. So if the shadow's powers are like that from the show..."
"Then hot water will turn them back into boys!" Futaba finished Ann's thought as the two girls high fived.
"Well what are we waiting for!" Ryuji said practically running down the stairs.
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"Please tell me those old dudes left the bath as scalding as they usually do." Ryuji said leaving Leblanc and headed towards the neighborhood bathhouse with the other Phantom thieves following behind.
"Sorry miss but this is the men's bath," An attendate tried to say to which Ryuji said, "I am a dude!" He said taking off his clothes proving that at the moment that was NOT the case. And with closed eyes Ryuji practically dove into the bath and stayed under the water as long as the scalding hot water would let him and sure enough when Ryuji emerged as the others got there, the short haired school 'delinquent' was back to normal. Seeing he was himself again he said, "Come on in ladies, that water's fine!"
After Joker, Akechi, and Yusuke had their own dips in the hot bath they met back up in the Leblanc attic to debrief.
"So the more popular a thing is, the better a chance we run into something like it in Mementos," Yoshizawa recapped.
"We should probably avoid fighting anything the looks like it's from a movie, manga, or anime until we study them for their weaknesses." Akechi said making notes.
"We'll be able to handle whatever mementos throws at us, this last thing was just a little weird but now that we know the cure for the curse we're good to go again tomorrow no problem." Ryuji said kicking his feet up on the couch.
"Hmmmm," Futaba said looking at Ryuji with a curious eye, "One minute, I need to test something," Futaba said going downstairs.
"So now that the crisis of the night has come and gone how about we just relax and play some retro games, say Joker can your retro system run Doomaaaaaahhhhh!!!!" Ryuji let out a once again high pitched scream as Futaba took the bucket from the Leblanc closet and used it to dump cold water on Ryuji.
"Just as I thought, just like the anime and manga the hot water is only a temporary cure, cold water will turn all of you boys back into girls." Futaba said with a knowing nod.
"But...We...You....AHHHHHH!" Ryuji scraemed in frustration.
"It should be fine, I'm sure with enough research we can find a more permanent cure." Akechi pointed out, although there was definitely a growl of annoyance under his breath at the inconvenience of this curse. "Besides, we simply avoid getting doused in cold water. It should be easy provided no one goes out of their way to do such a silly thing." Akechi glared daggers at both Futaba and Ann who tried to look as innocent as possible (they failed).
"You know what, I'm just gonna get another bath and head home for the night." Ryuji said with gritted teeth as he once again made his way back to the neighborhood bath.
But Akechi was right, it was pretty easy to avoid getting hit with a wave of cold water for the cursed boys. In fact the curse wouldn't get triggered again for another week when something unusual occurred to one of the boys.
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