Alp
shivers at the thought at what would have happened if the books landed
on him, but then he notices one falling towards you. He leaps into
action kicking it and the other books Jambavan ends up scattering away,
and you thank him for it. He says he was just imitating what you did and
thinks it’ll shortcut the road to becoming popular.
Jambavan
runs in circles in his panic, so Leib tells you guys not to get
needlessly close to him. You say you can’t just leave him though and
wonder how you guys can calm him down. Alp mentions he’s hungry even
though now isn’t really the time for that, but Leib says it’s a good
idea. The plan is to give Jambavan a break and some food.
Alp
is confused by this, so Leib says the best thing to get things under
control is to stick to a routine. In this case it’d be having Jambavan
acts as he normally does. The problem is that it’s too dangerous to do
anything right in front of him now, so getting anywhere will require
making an opening. Alp says you guys will have to cooperate then and
asks if you’re ready.
You say you are, so
Leib says he’ll direct from the back and tells Fenrir to act as the
decoy and “do as he usually does.” Fenrir agrees and calls Leib the Tree
Spirit that Sheds/Washes Away Red Blood and stays where he is, while
you and Alp hide yourselves.
Fenrir calls
Jambavan’s attention to himself, then yells and releases his ropes for
just a moment. Jambavan freaks out at this, saying that he can’t let
this happen. His father told him that it was his role to maintain the
world, so logically he has to stop Fenrir. Him remembering this confuses
him over what his actual job is supposed to be since it conflicts with
his dream self’s thoughts.
Fenrir manages
to pull back and keep himself from rampaging in his giant form, which
Jambavan says is what usually happens when Fenrir changes clothes. If
it’s just for a second then he says Fenrir can undo the bindings without
an issue, but then panics at what that could mean.
You
and Alp take the opening this presents while Jambavan freaks out about
it being a trap. Alp prompts you to act, so you use your CS to
disconnect Jambavan from the power affecting him. This happens first
with Alp tripping Jambavan over and you cutting at where Alp grabbed
Jambavan.
He cries as you attack, and in
the middle of it all Alp activates his artifact to switch around dreams
and reality. The combined powers cause Jambavan to rapidly return to his
normal size. However he still happens to be in his dream mindset
wailing about the endless work that he has to get to. He falls to his
knees and pounds on the ground, and the power that made him rampage
starts to manifest again.
Fenrir says the
fragments of emotion and agitation are welling up and turning into
power, and Alp says things will just keep going at this rate. You wonder
if this will go anywhere or ask Leib for ideas. He says this is enough
and says you guys did good.
Before you know
it Leib is standing behind Jambavan, and Alp says it’s dangerous. Leib
says the bell’s rung and tells Jambavan it’s about time for his break.
Jambavan is confused and says he missed it again, then tries to say he
still has work left. He stops his fit though and pulls his pocket watch
out for a look.
Leib says he’s already made
tea, so Jambavan can’t just leave it cold. Jambavan notices and agrees,
calming down as Leib gives it to him. He says it smells good and thanks
Leib, then says it seems to be missing something that he normally has
with it. Alp grabs some scones from a shelf and offers them next.
Jambavan
thanks Alp for the scones, then says he wants a bit more sweetness that
the tea and scones don’t have. You hand over some jam and cream, so
Jambavan happily starts having his usual tea time, taking a seat at a
table set up and sipping.
This all calms him down, and he comments that thanks to Alice
a friend this started being customary to him. He describes tea time as
break time, the best moments he has to himself when no one can fluster
him. Alp sees it as his all or nothing chance to activate his artifact
again and cancel its effects while everyone still thinks this is
Jambavan’s overworld shift. He flips his hat around where no one can see
and dances, which causes the dream world to shift.
Everyone
turns up in the pink cloud dream realm and Jambavan questions what he
was doing. Leib notes that he’s back to normal and asks if he’s okay
now. Jambavan apologizes, saying he doesn’t remember what happened but
feels like he’s caused people problems. Leib notes the mental confusion
and says there’s something strange about where they are, suggesting that
there’s a strange logic to how things are working.
You
either ask Leib if he understand anything about the situation, wish you
had any clues to solving this incident, or say Jambavan’s pajamas are
cute. Going with A, Leib says more analysis is needed. All he can say is
that the library world has to be disconnected from reality. Also, a
part of the people who have been taken into the world have been
brainwashed, or more specially have been made to believe something.
Leib
then starts talking about Jambavan’s panic state and the events that
led to his growing in size. When he connects it to the way the mind
states were lifted, he compares it all to waking up from a dream. He
then comments on how the world was unrealistic and changes based on
illogical willpower and remembers the picture book’s theme for the
event. Alp panics to himself.
Leib says he
mostly has an idea about how the strange overworld shift and its rules
work. You either say you don’t or say it must be a dream. If you go with
B he approves of you following along. Anyways he says this world is
related to dreams and tentatively calls it a Dream World. This would
make everything that happened understandable as Jambavan’s dream.
Leib
does seem to feel a little bit bad that Jambavan still thinks about
work in his dreams, but he sets it aside for now and says he wants to
know something else. You interrupt to either protest that in shock or
suggest that might be the root cause of things. Leib just continues on
and asks Jambavan if anything happened before he went to bed.
Jambavan
says nothing in particular happened. But then he remembers something.
Flashback goes to him talking about the general story his team has
decided upon and how they’ll start drawing it after deciding their work
pace. Jambavan then thinks to himself about how he’d like to read about a
Kingdom of Books that would have anything he wanted and how he’d like
to live there if it existed.
He also says
he sympathizes with the Library King they have in their story. The
Library King’s work is to pick up the one book any of the kingdom’s
citizens ask for among the infinite collection, which he compares to how
he does anything anyone asks of him. Some alchemist classmate tells him
he should leave his work for tomorrow and go to bed, which Fenrir
agrees with. Jambavan says he will, and the flashback ends.
Leib
figures that means whatever you were thinking about before going to
sleep will be reflected in your dream world and influence what shape it
takes. Jambavan cries and apologizes to everyone, and Alp thinks that
Jambavan’s style of charm is in kindness and being unable to refuse
anyone. He also thinks that he can’t really imitate that style of
popularity because he’s trying to become popular himself.
Anyways
Alp says Jambavan shouldn’t worry about it and says this is all an
accident. Leib questions this since getting involved in other people’s
dreams is not normally possible, then says he thinks there has to be one
more factor that caused all this and that it’s artificial.
Alp
panics to himself since he’s figured out that everyone getting dragged
into this incident is his own fault. He worries about everyone getting
angry and hating him and hopes to avoid that outcome. Plus he figures
his artifact has been turned off anyways, so he thinks he has a chance
of covering it all up.
Alp starts saying he
doesn’t really get all the talk about dream worlds and tries to claim
the world is about to undo itself. And if everyone gets back to reality
it won’t matter! Except he’s then surprised that everyone is transported
to Candyland. You say it seems to be another dream world, which Leib
also says and sighs about as the episode ends.
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