Ikebukuro Christmas Concerto Prologue Part 2

Things pick up at some track and field area as some mage is calling for some fir trees and handmade decorations. A wolf says he’s bringing some trees and points out the decor. Another mage brings out some buche de noel cake and asks to have it sent out, so Yule goes to do it and asks for someone to help him with it.

Some other wolf comes to help, and a fencer tells him to be careful with it. Kurogane comes in pushing something through, which he says is a Crafters custom made sleigh. Yet another wolf asks what the undercarriage is made out of.

You come in around this point and either ask if this is the track and field area, point out all the Santas and reindeer, or say you see people you’ve seen before. Solomon is amazed that all the people who were gone are over here, and narration says they’re in a chaotic mess trying to get decorations done.

Tanngrisnir explains that the Santa School and Bukuro Academy are cooperating this time on the Santa departure ceremony. It’s the first time there’s been a combined opening, but everyone’s working to make it a success.

Solomon asks if that means this is in Ikebukuro and asks if they had a sports field. You wonder if this was an express construction job, say it looks like a colosseum, or say you wouldn’t put it past Claude to do this.

Claude walks up to you right after that to greet you, and he interprets you being tardy as being fashionably late and bold. You can either greet him casually, say you wanted to see him, or say he’s involved after all.

Going with A, he’s glad you’re doing well and says he’s expecting you to look good. Tanngrisnir reports that everyone seems to be here now, so Claude thanks him for taking the time to check.

Tanngrisnir waves it off as part of his job and tries to excuse himself here. You speak up and either thank him for helping and say he’s a good guy or say he sorta looks like Solomon. Going with C, he seems mildly interested, and Solomon himself questions this aside from any cool parts about him.

Anyways, Claude asks Tanngrisnir to stay, to his surprise. Claude says it’s a request from Ded to have him join too, so he agrees and goes somewhere first. Claude tells Snow to start things now that everyone is there, but then he realizes Snow isn’t there.

Melusine walks over and offers to help, referring to Claude as an ally of Licht. Claude is surprised to see her and hands her a schedule (I think. Can’t find the term in the dictionary.) she takes it and hands him a mic.

Claude goes into his speech and thanks everyone for coming and introduces himself as Bukuro Academy’s student council president and principal. Then he talks about how the Santa departure ceremony is a joint thing this year and how he wants to have an event held to mark the occasion. He calls it the Tokyo Great Santa Marathon, a race that will run around Tokyo.

A huge commotion occurs at the announcement. Claude hands the mic to Melusine, who begins to explain the goal. A map of Tokyo shows up on a screen, with Ikebukuro being the start point. Yoyogi, Daikanyama, Roppongi, and Shinjuku are all checkpoints for the race as they’re also cooperating with it.

Also, Melusine says anyone in the race should designate one person to be Santa and one other person to be the reindeer at the start. At every checkpoint when two reindeers stop by, they’ll get a present and head for the goal. I’m fuzzy on the part with the checkpoints though.

You can either say you understand, ask if you’ve been made the Shinjuku representative, or ask if you were called over to take part in this. In any case Melusine says there’s a warning she needs to give to app users, especially to anyone part of a guild. This is supposed to be a clean fair race to promote inter school unity, and that any guild based grudges and such should be set aside.

Claude takes the mic back as Melusine is done, and a bunch of maids come with him holding boxes so you wonder what’s happening next. The maids say teams are going to be formed by lottery drawing and asks people to take a pick. When one comes to you, you grab one or ask Solomon to do it.

You end up pulling a colored piece of paper with a number on it, making you Blue 2. The maid tells you to find the one who matches your draw, figure out who does what, and come to the window after that. Whoever you get is going to be someone from the Santa School.

Some time later as everyone is milling around, Snow comes back and reports to Claude. Claude notes that and says Snow should get a paper drawing if he’s entering the race. Snow’s already ahead of him and is on team Red 1. Claude calls it his testarossa and thinks it’s a lucky sign. You either comment on them being together, ask if Snow actually drew a paper, or ask if the string of destined has been tied.

Going with A, Solomon bugs you to go look for your randomly assigned teammate and wonders who it could be. Melusine comes over to talk to you and greet you. You greet her back or ask if Roppongi is doing anything.

Going with A, she says since there isn’t another of you(?), she’s delighted. If it weren’t for the business going on she’d like to have talked some more. But anyways she asks which team you’re on as she takes out her lot. Turns out Melusine is going to be your partner.

Someone else comes by to talk to Melusine, and that turns out to be Pollux since he saw a blue paper. He notices you there too and talks to you. As it turns out, he also has a blue piece of paper with a 2 on it. You can comment on this or ask if Ikebukuro isn’t doing anything for Christmas.

Pollux asks if Kengo is there or not, then talks about how he came because Claude said something interesting is happening only to find out it’s a race. He’s still down for that though and hopes it’ll be fun.

Pollux turns back to face Melusine and recognizes her as the one giving the explanations earlier and asks for her name. They introduce themselves to each other, and Pollux asks about whether Licht is in on the race. Melusine is surprised and says Licht is busy with stuff at Roppongi, so she’s here in his place.

Pollux thinks it’s kind of a waste since it’s supposed to be a fun event, while Melusine hopes he’s doing okay. She then claims it’s nothing when Pollux tries asking her about what she said.

Anyways Pollux says they just need to find one more person, who should be from the Santa School. Since most everyone has gotten their teams together it shouldn’t take long to find them. You wonder if it’ll be Yule, Krampus, or even Ded.

Pollux calls out for anyone with a Blue 2 paper, but no one answers. He asks what happens if there aren’t enough people for the team. Melusine says they should be there. Tanngrisnir walks over and says he had to take a lotto paper, and of course he’s the last team mate for you guys.

You tell him as much and maybe ask if this is destiny. He’s surprised by this turn of events, but he says he’ll do his best. Melusine and Pollux greet him, and he in turn offers them some stew. Melusine is taken aback by this and Pollux says it smells good. You either comment that he’s handing stew out again, say he really likes stew, or compare it to Snow’s milk tea.

Claude says everyone seems to be sorted out now, and a maid announces that the race will start at 5pm. You comment about things turning crazy again, wonder what it is you’ve gotten into this time, or say you’re going to win. Going with A, Melusine asks how you’re doing. Tanngrisnir talks to himself about being in a race and heads off, leaving Pollux to call after him since positions need to be decided.

A random girl observes that Tanngrisnir is skipping and wonders if something good happened. Solomon narrates about how the Christmas race has started and asks whether you’ll win, then says to wait for next time. This is apparently not the end of the episode though.

Things go one hour earlier back at the front of Shinjuku Academy as someone talks about being invited by someone. These turn out to be Shirou and Snow, and as they settle to talk business, the episode does actually end.