First interaction available from 6/24 with Makoto Nijima outside the Student Council Room. You will need to initiate it.
Location
You can find Makoto at the School Gate on non-school days and outside the Student Council Room on school days.
Rank and Status
Rank 1
- Speak to Makoto to activate social link
- Required: Knowledge Lv 3 – Scholarly + Kaneshiro’s Bank cleared
- Unlock ability: Shadow Calculus – Allows you to see skills and potential item drops on the analysis screen
- P5R follow up response: “The red-light district next”
Rank 2
- 1st response – “You’re very well informed.”
- 2nd response – “That was dangerous.”
- 3rd response – any
- Unlock ability: Baton pass (P5)
- P5R Phone: “Couldn’t agree more.”
Rank 3
- 1st response – “You have the wrong idea”
- 2nd response – “You can change”
- Unlock ability: Brainiac Talk – Chance to step in after Shadow negotiation fails, allowing a retry
- P5R Phone: “Sounds like you two get along”
Rank 4
- 1st response – “That’s unlike you”
- 2nd & 3rd response – any
- 4th response – “Why do you use it?”
- 5th response – “It’s an amazing goal”
- Unlock ability: Follow up
Rank 5
- 1st response – “He sounds suspicious”
- 2nd response – “I got this”
Rank 6
- Required: Charm Lv 5 – Debonair
- 1st response – “Love comes in many forms”
- 2nd and 3rd response – any
- Unlock ability: Harisen Recovery
- P5R Phone: “Tell him you’re on a date.”
Rank 7
- 1st to 3rd response – any
- 4th response – “He was a noble man”
- 5th & 6th response – any
- 7th response – “I’m game if you are”
- Unlock ability: Shadow Factorization – Allows you to see Null, Repel, and Drain when highlighting a target in battle
- P5R Phone: “Of course..”
Rank 8
- 1st response – “He says that to all his girls”
- 2nd response – “Absolutely”
- Unlock ability: Endure
Rank 9
- Go to Shinjuku and speak to the man outside the Bookstore.
- 1st & 2nd response – any
- 3rd response – “That was the right move”
- 4th response – “It’s a popular meeting spot”
- Friendship route:
- 5th response – “You’ll find someone someday”
- 6th response – “That’s not what I meant”
- Romance route:
- 5th response – “I’ll be your study partner”
- 6th response – “I do”
- Unlock ability: Protect
Rank 10
- any response
- Unlock ability: Second Awakening – Transforms her Persona