Ikebukuro Christmas Concerto Episode 6 Part 2

The episode picks up with Andvari reporting live on the scene, pointing out that thunder is welling up in the sky. Team Krampus has slowed down and the race is now a battle between the top two. Who will win!?

Camera shifts over to your side with Claude laughing and saying “more” as he watches his and your team shine. The he turns to his team and directs them to charm the masses with their strength. He says if they can do so they can have anything, maybe even take back the things they lost.

You say you guys are going to win, tell the team it’s just a little further, and say to do your best. Tanngrisnir agrees, and you guys crank up the dial on your accelearation, going faster than the wind and faster than sound.

Suddenly, the world is washed away in light. Claude cries out, and you can too, or you can ask what happened or say things seem slow now. Wind gently blows here, and everything you see looks calm. Your body is hot, yet your thoughts are calm. Instead of the violent battle mood from earlier, all you feel now is a serene feeling.

Claude asks where you guys are. You can ask if this an overworld shift, outer space, or some sort of different dimension. Whatever you pick, Claude says it can’t be and says he feels comfortable. It’s calm, gentle, and refreshing, and it’s been so long since he felt that way.

Time seems to have stopped wherever you are, and Claude decides to look down from the sleigh at the people looking up at them. After thinking about it he asks if they’re looking at him like he’s Santa. He smiles like a kid himself instead of his usual haughty manner.

Claude talks about how when he was younger, he often wished to be someone not himself. It was just an idea, just a little kid’s fantasy. As he got older he threw away all his dreams and was raised with ambition. But here, there’s nothing. Here he can leave behind his fixations.

You can either ask where this is or what will happen with the race. Going with A, Tanngrisnir says this is a Zone, with the accompanying kanji meaning either mental state, field of activity, one’s situation, or a place. He says that’s what competitors call it. It’s a place where you can reach by putting together all your thoughts and power. When competitors are in an extreme situation, it’s somewhere that becomes accessible to them.

Tanngrisnir also describes it as a place where time seems to crawl, a mysterious place where it feels like your mind is shared with another’s. He knows about that too since he and his brother have been here before. He always wanted to see it again, and in wishing for nothing else he blinded himself to other things. His coming here before was because he had Tanngnjostr then, just like he has you all now.

He thanks you, saying he had clung to himself too much. The way he was running in circles before and getting nowhere was because of his own inexperience, where he ran only for his own sake.

Yule speaks up and says Tanngrisnir did want to pull the sleigh after all. Tanngrisnir says yes and that now he’s clearly able to confirm that. He still wanted to run, just like before when he was with his brother.

Pollux speaks up and tries to ask if Tanngnjostr is dead, though he doesn’t say that straight out. Tanngrisnir says he’s likely fine back in Yggdrasil and that he seems to be the only one summoned to Tokyo. Pollux then asks if he has anything to say if he happened to see him again. Tanngrisnir answers that he’d say thanks, and that he was glad to have run with him.

Pollux seems inspired and says he’d say that for sure if he did go back. Around that time the Zone starts shaking, and everything goes dark. Narration describes it as the end of a dream as you return back to reality from the Infinite Field. Tanngrisnir says it’s almost time to go back and says it’s time to go. He also asks you to order him to run and to grab the star.

You ask him to run with all his strength, faster than anyone else. Tanngrisnir directs a comment to Tanngnjostr and to his wheels, which start humming and spinning faster. You guys are then thrown back out to the Tokyo sky with the goal in sight. Melusine asks you to grab the star when they get over there. Pollux is counting on you to do it too, and you tell them to go a bit further.

Tanngrisnir pushes himself and the sleigh hits its max speed. You think that it’s almost in reach, and in that instant Claude orders Yule to show his true power. Yule is shocked by this, but Claude says he can tell he’s still afraid of something. That is, being noticed as a reindeer and not a Santa. Claude also says he’s afraid and left his dream behind and lived with the role he was asked to take, just like Claude did back then.

Yule hesitates, so Claude says life tends to not let people do as they please. Then he quotes Latin for “life is more than staying alive.” He tells Yule to show himself off, as both the greatest Santa and the greatest reindeer. Claude advises that Yule should arrogantly fulfill his own wishes and laugh off any chains other would try to put on him.

Yule is affected by this, so he tells you and Tanngrisnir he’s going. He activates his artifact, both of you are shocked as he creates a brilliant trail of white light, and Team Claude beats you to the star by a few millimeters. Silence falls in the arena, and Andvari takes the mic to declare that it’s over thanks to Yule’s last burst of speed. Team Claude is declared the winner, and the crowd cheers for all of the racers. There the episode ends, to be continued in the epilogue.