Yosuke gapes at the smirking boy in front of him. His eyes are yellow, a dark aura surrounds the boy, and disturbingly, he looks just like himself.
Except for the cat in his arms. Where did he get that?
The boy starts telling everyone in the room that Yosuke was only faking his cheerfulness to hide his resentment and boredom of the town. That he was only using Saki-senpai's death as an excuse to investigate this weird new world inside the television. He knows all this because he IS Yosuke.
All while petting that amused cat as if he was a James Bond villian reject.
"You can't be me, you son of a bitch!" Yosuke screams. The double smirks before laughing.
"That's right, say it again!"
"You're not me. You're nothing like me!"
The Shadow grins. "That's right. I'm me now and no one else."
The cat jumps out of the Shadow's arms as its owner is surrounded by darkness. Yosuke collapses as the transformation drains away his energy (but why...?). And before they can see what the Shadow becomes, a door appears and seems to suck it in. The cat runs after it before it slams shut and vanishes.
Yosuke weakly sits up. "What just happened...?"
"You rejected your shadow and he went bearserk!" Teddie explained, "You're lucky he went poof otherwise you and Sensei would've been in big trouble!"
The boy sighs and quietly says, "c'mon. Let's get out of here before he comes back. I'm beat."
Yosuke went to bed that night and never woke up.
He can breathe and his heart still beats. The scans showed that he still has REM and signs of consciousness. But nothing could explain the yellow eyes.
Except for Apathy Syndrome.