Ueno Fluffy Dream Kingdom Episode 3 Part 1

Before we pick back up with the plot, Kuniyoshi starts things off by talking to the camera, and in his rapid greeting he makes a strange comment about it being a long time since we met, even as we bring up we only just did that.

He decides that’s not a big deal and has a stream of consciousness asking what the topic is and where he is. He then remembers the first part as about the story of things being so hard you just shrug and go welp. If that happens he suggests that you should give up without a second thought.

Kuniyoshi thinks that the happiest way to be is to gather up what’s most important to you and what you pride yourself on the most. We then tell him we don’t know what that is, or “why.”

Narration then steps back a bit to say this is a conversation that once happened in an art class that Kuniyoshi had with someone next to him. As soon as he said that, Benten responded with angry yells. She already thought of herself as better than him, and she believes that there’s meaning in being lost and wandering around. Not knowing is what makes life fun, and she accuses Kuniyoshi of not being the one to really understand for not knowing that.

Back in the narration zone, Kuniyoshi says he thinks it’s fine if you understand yourself and wonders why Benten was so upset. He doesn’t understand why he snapped back at her either, looking back. But he sets that aside to say that he has to go over there and says he’ll see us later. If we meet again, then...

Title card pops up, and this chapter is called Pig Out in the Kingdom of Candy!

Back to the present, narration starts describing the scenery. In the Kingdom of Candy, everything is made out of candy. The houses. The streets. The sky. The castle. That’s the sort of place the party has landed in.

Leib says he’s never heard of a place like this being in Ueno Academy and figures this must be someone’s Dream World. You wonder about the place and compare it to a fairy tale. Leib goes on to say they thought there was only one Dream World, but now there seems to be more than one of them pouring in and that is going to be such a pain.

You either wonder why there are several of the worlds, say you feel like something like this happened before, or wonder how far you have to go before you can escape. Fenrir wonders what is happening himself, so Leib says you guys should review overworld shifts. Then he asks Jambavan to do it, who steps up obediently.

You either ask Jambavan to go ahead or be shocked that Leib passed it all over. Jambavan starts describing overworld shifts as a certain kind of phenomenon that occurs within enclosed spaces. That is to say, the event when a part of Tokyo is overlaid with a part of another world.

There are several conditions required, but the most important one is a Transient who has intense emotions regarding that world being present. Some researchers have taken to calling that Transient the overworld shift’s core.

As for what’s going on, Jambavan admits it’s based on an assumption similar to that, but he supposes it’s a bunch of shifted areas sitting side by side at about the same place with instances recorded into the past. Leib nods when Jambavan asks if he has that right.

Jambavan then follows up on that saying that there should be several Transients acting as cores. Or in other words, there should be others here seeing this world in their dreams. If they don’t wake up, you guys might not be able to leave.

Leib says that since you guys don’t see any exits, you’ll need to wake up everyone involved. He sighs about it all being a bother and turns to Alp. Alp is flustered to be put on the spot, and Leib is surprised and says he was just seeing if he agreed. He quickly does and wonders who could have caused all this.

Alp has another internal freakout over being the root cause and thinks about trying to solve things without letting anyone else catch on. Otherwise he worries he’ll be hated like he was back on his home world. Leib just stares in silence.

Anyways, you ask will you guys do next and ask if Jambavan will be coming along. Jambavan himself asks to come along, though he worries about all the troubles he’s caused earlier. He wants to help find a way out and he wants to find Cu Sith too. Fenrir says he wants to help too, so Leib says it’s reassuring to have them along.

Leib also suggests that everyone else should stay here, by which he means the other alchemists who have come along. If they want to join he asks you to look after them. You agree and suggest going, but the alchemists feel dizzy so they ask to stay. You agree to that too and say only those who want to come should do so.

Jambavan says they’ll come back for them when things are over, so he asks them to stick together. The alchemist thanks you all, so the party moves along. Jambavan says that in any case you’ll all need to find the core. Leib figures that if Cu Sith is in this world you’ll find him soon enough. You say he’d like this place and he’s probably be eating if he were.

Alp says he thinks the street looks tasty too, drooling as he looks at the houses. The smells of it all drift by too. He raps about how great it all tastes, so Leib asks how he knows since he hasn’t actually done so. Alp quickly claims his own dreams are like that, then floats the idea of eating the houses if anyone is hungry. Leib says he is after all that walking, but you ask if it’s possible to eat them or ask if it’ll bother whoever lives in them.

Alp says that, *~hypothetically~* if this is a dream, it’s an object that only takes form during this time. When the dreamer wakes up it’ll all disappear, so even if you eat it it shouldn’t bother anyone. Jambavan adds that it would be odd for anyone to be living in them, and that there are no traces that anyone lives in it. Whether it’s ethical to eat them is a different question.

Jambavan’s stomachs growls as he wonders if it’s okay. Would his daddy be okay with calling it emergency prevention measures? Leib frames a dream as a closed area pertaining only to one person if you look at it from a certain point of view. As such, since that’s what he researches on he’s gonna eat something *for science.* You’re all already here so he may as well test it out, but he doesn’t know if it’ll carry over to reality.

Leib starts tearing off a nearby house’s wall and tries eating it. You either express shock over this sudden turn of events, say you’ll try too, or just watch him. Leib is surprised to find it’s really good. Jambavan asks if it’s true and figures he should too if Leib is doing it. You pick something up and say that’s also really nice, and that it seems to be high class candy.

Jambavan starts eating a part of some dog house, then describes it as chocolatey, light, and springy. Fenrir decides to pass and tries to get some water from a nearby faucet. What actually comes out is some sweet cocoa. You then get a choice to try one of what the others picked up, going Leib, Jambavan, or Fenrir.

Going A, Leib asks what you think and says it’s an awesome treat. In any case Alp will say he’ll try licking some candy he sees. When he does though, he says they’re surprisingly normal. You check yourself and wonder why only that kind of candy tastes like regular candy. Alp gives up on that and says some flowerpot nearby is also edible and eats that. He comments on being able to eat it for a long time, but calls it fearsome for the same reason.

Alp figures that having all the sweets lying around being that good would mean the dream holder thinks about sweets a lot. Then he talks as he eats, remembering something about Jambavan’s world, asking why only some of the people in it were dreaming. Like you and him woke up just fine when you two appeared there.

Jambavan also eats as he talks and considers it. He guesses that when the core dreamer went to sleep the effects were strongest on those nearer to them. You try to tell them not to talk at eat at the same time, except you’re doing it too.

Jambavan continues and says being cast in a part in the dream may have an effect too. Like Fenrir was his guard dog in his dream, since Fenrir guards him in reality too. You ask about this and say Fenrir is cool. Jambavan says that association might be why Fenrir was pulled in like that. And since you guys were further away, you just fell in as normal.

Leib says that under that assumption it’s weird how Cu Sith wasn’t with you guys, then wonders if he got up during the night. Alp pretends not to know and suggests he went to the restroom. Jambavan wonders if Cu Sith is okay. Leib then says it’s about time to go, and Alp says he thinks the dream holder is probably somewhere comparatively easy to guess. Since a dream world is something built around the dreamer, he suggests going to the castle. Narration says it’s built like a cake.

Jambavan says it looks delicately put together and wonders if it tastes good too. You ask if he can still eat or ask if he likes eating. He’s embarrassed by the question. Leib says he thinks the dreamer is there and suggests looking there first. Fenrir thinks it’s weird but definitely must be where someone who rules a place like this is. You agree, and the party heads on over.

The inside of the castle has a lot of people there as opposed to how deserted the town was. You push on through and see Durga sitting on the throne. She’s surprised to see you here. Meanwhile some alchemists are trying to give Durga some really nice sweets they have, but she turns it all down because she worries about getting fat.

You either compliment or question her getup. In A she has an extra bit where she says she thinks it’s cute. But anyways she was dressed like that when she woke up. She was sure she was in her jammies, but now she’s in her uniform plus the royal trappings, and she’s shocked that someone apparently changed her while she was out.

Gunzou talks to Durga and asks her to stop looking so puzzled and try the candy. It was all brought for her! You call out to Gunzou and ask if he’s okay. Durga asks in suspicion if Gunzou is responsible for everything, even changing her clothes. She threatens to beat him up if he did it, especially the last part. He in shock says she did it herself.

Wakan Tanka shows up and says this is all her dream, her wish. She asks what he means, so he says he’ll make her see that this is what she truly wants. Then he urges her to eat as she likes. Durga is shocked Wakan is acting like this too and denies that any of this is for her sake. She also says there’s a difference between sports about whether weight gain is okay. And in her case, she can’t have any.

Wakan says he can’t leave Durga like this at the moment. He can’t step down when someone whose thoughts and actions are total opposites, which comes from his desire to stop the sadness for the one(s) forced out of the world at least. Durga in response tells him to stop pushing sweets on her and saying things she doesn’t get.

Alp says he’s jealous of Durga a bit and calls her popular for having all these sweets brought to her. You call out to Wakan and are glad they’re okay. He’s happy to see you’ve all come to Durga’s dream. You notice something and ask Wakan if he’s awakened. He answers that he is, since to him all lands are connected. He confirms that this is Durga’s dream. Or dreams rather. It’s a place where her dream to eat sweets and her dream where she can’t eat sweets are conflicting. He’s been cast as a part of it.

You try to get him to snap out of it, but Wakan says it won’t work. He himself may be fine, but the buffalo body he dwells in belongs to Durga. They can’t go against the role casting, because everyone in Yoyogi is a yorishiro, or vessel meant for spirits. Also he tells you Gunzou is fully under Durga’s control. He personally wants to hear Durga’s deepest wish, then suggests you guys watch as the dream unfolds.

Gunzou says Durga said she likes these sweets, which Wakan agrees with. They talked to all the citizens personally to gather all these things for her. Since everything is connected, everything is shared, so they want her to have it. Durga says she’s happy they feel that way, but then she snaps and say they don’t normally do this.

She nearly begins going berserk, but she notices the change as the sound of something moving comes from within her. Durga then says something like this happened just earlier. Alp says that he thinks undoing the world isn’t necessarily wrong. As Durga doesn’t seem to understand what’s up, she freaks out a little and asks him to explain.

Alp says that things can’t progress until she resolves her conflicting emotions where she wants to eat sweets yet doesn’t. Jambavan says he was told that in his case being able to calm down was the start of things. Alp then demonstrates the deliciousness of the sweets by eating a nearby chair.

Durga isn’t aware it’s made of sweets and asks why he’s eating it all of a sudden. You mention the houses you ate in town, which scandalizes an alchemist. You apologize to him, so he decides to forgive you for being honest. He also asks you to keep eating and tell him what you think.

Durga’s brain is just about blown from trying to follow along the conversation. Leib steps back to think about how Durga could face her desires by eating the sweets. He does say it could blow up in the worst way possible though given how opposed to it she’s been. Fenrir comments that there doesn’t seem to be a correct choice, and Jambavan asks him to not say something unlucky.

You say you don’t want to do anything Durga doesn’t want and that her feelings are important. Durga says she could probably have a little bit since she can just work it off. She just worries that all the stuff being brought to her looks so good that she won’t stop at a little. You turn to Gunzou and say it’s wrong to force her into it.

Gunzou tries to argue in favor of having Durga eat. Wakan says they aren’t forcing her, just waiting for her to eat the things when she feels like it. Things then turn towards more violent ends as Gunzou threatens to fight if you’re gonna try to keep her from deciding. Wakan agrees, saying they’ll protect the candy, then apologizes to you saying Durga seems to want him to say that.

Wakan is still happy anyways since he says he’s wanted to connect with you again with you guys in the same place again. Durga is baffled by things turning this way, and Leib says everyone should step back since the dreamers are about to attack. You either say this is crazy, say you have to wake them, or...an expression I’m not clear about.

In any case, Wakan signals to Gunzou to get ready, using his own NP to set up a path towards you guys and calls for the alchemists to join in. As they charge, Alp is the only one left standing still.

He raps about the current situation and how he’s uninvolved with Durga’s mental conflict, but freaks as Gunzou and Wakan run over. Leib wonders what in hell he’s doing over there. Fenrir thinks Alp is just being really reckless about trying to get popular, and you either complain about Alp’s antics or say you have to save him as the episode battle starts.