Lize Helesta Wins Takemi’s Heart in Persona 5 Royal, Then Pushes Deep Into Okumura’s Palace

NIJISANJI — Lize Helesta, the Nijisanji streamer, won over the doctor Takemi about 16 minutes into a four-hour stream of Persona 5: The Royal. Playing the protagonist, she took the scene to its end after a scare: Takemi said she had been invited to lead research at another hospital and would move the following month, and Lize said she was hurt that nobody had talked it over with her. Takemi then admitted it was a tease and said the two would develop the new drug together without her leaving.

Takemi then pressed the protagonist on why he had kept coming to her clinic, and Lize said the moment was scarier than being in any Palace, the game’s dungeons built from a target’s distorted desires. When the scene closed with the two as a couple, she asked whether she had really won, and said it felt better than clearing any Palace. She added that she had wanted to help Takemi with her life regardless of the main story. Chat answered with cheers of congratulation, and 17 Super Chats came in over the stream, many of them within minutes of the scene.

“This is my win, right?” — Lize Helesta, as the romance scene ended

From there she took the party into Okumura’s Palace, a burger company’s headquarters turned into a space station. Haru Okumura awakened her Persona and took the codename Noir, which Lize approved of. Past that came gates that opened only with ranked employees’ badges: she fought her way to the section chief’s and then the department head’s, and worked through a conveyor-and-press section that stopped for only 30 seconds at a time during the lunch break. Along the way she talked several Personas into joining, among them Belphegor, Mithras and Thunderbird.

She reached the treasure room around the four-hour mark and decided to stop there for the day. Lize said the Palace, a space setting she enjoyed as a fan of space, ranked right behind the Pyramid, and that next time she wanted to change the heart of Okumura.