Yoritomo (narrating): I don't remember when I started being scared of my brother's smile. Maybe the first time I saw him by the Kise River when he was a boy? We knew of each other, but never met each other until then. He smiled inscrutably and said all he wanted was to be helpful to me. I just thought he was a giant burden at the time since he'd probably be a future political rival. There's only room for one head of the Genji, but he look so happy as he reached out to me. I just thought he didn't know what was coming.
Yoritomo (narrating): I sent him on suicide battles...and somehow he came back alive! Totally fine! He rode horses down cliffs and turned every situation around! He'd bring back enemy commander heads in his hands as samurai do looking all excited. I couldn't praise him, but samurai MUST reward or punish everything. I tried keeping him away, but he kept coming back smiling. With heads.
Yoritomo (narrating): How was I supposed to believe he actually died? He didn't come back for once? That doesn't mean anything. I sent an army of hundreds to surround him? Pffft, like that would work. They brought back his head? It must be fake! He's the one I feared most in the world! Great timing though. When you finally disappeared, I completed my political system. I divided the emperor and the shogunate, influence and real power, and set us up for an eternal future. I guess you had to go so I could finish this.
Yoritomo (narrating): I'm utterly scared. What if you died knowing all this? You did tell me you wanted to be helpful to me. And if you left to do that, I'm obligated to give you something, whatever you want.
Present
Airavata: Entertain me? Why?
Barong: My job is to entertain lonely guests watching from outside!
Airavata: Your role? Oh okay then. Shouldn't you be doing that for my pitiful other side Girimekhala then? He's why I'm here.
Barong: Oh, so you see him as pitiful.
Airavata: ...well yes. In Deva Loka his unrewarded life of this reality is a tragedy. He's going to slip when he's looked at by others, so he's never going to be helpful to anyone.
Barong: I see. You'd be right if it weren't for us.
Airavata: What? You plan on interfering?
Barong: Oh no we can't do that YET. I'm just here to make the show more exciting.
Airavata: what
Barong: Yeah, a role can keep its ending but changing the direction of things can turn a tragedy to a comedy. It's gonna be great, I promise!
Elsewhere
Girimekhala: OH NO (whump) Social anxiety is making me choke up and trip ag--(trips again) AAAA
Shinya: Oh no, Girimekhala!
Bugs: Get them! For the Advisor!
Tiger Man: ¡Ay dios mio! Girimekhala fell over and now the Warmongers are firing!
Girimekhala: Oh no, we're surrounded! We lost already!?
Shinya: It's okay, I can handle this.
Shinya walks up.
Shinya: Ahem, please shoot me first if you have to. I'm so sad you'd look at anyone else now that we're here. Please...look at me?
Bug A: A-AN ANGEL
Bug B: Forgive us, Advisor!
Bug C: S-Shinya, please go out with me after this game!
Shinya: ...sorry. Right now, I must not show mercy. (BANG)
Tiger Man: ¡Híjole!
Shinya: Let's go, Girimekhala.
Girimekhala: T-thanks. Sorry you had to cover my sorry ass...
Shinya: I saved you because it was you...please let me be. If you can get up again, I feel like I can face my power too.
Girimekhala: Oh...well thanks. I can't just give up yet then!
Shinya: I'll do my best too!
Girimekhala: YEAH!
Shinya: Cupid! No holding back for today! I didn't want to be a Charming Flower, but I'll act the part just for now!
Tiger Man: Wow, look at the Missionaries go!
Tanetomo: (stares in plotting murder)
Shennong: H-hold up, Advisor! Don't just go charging solo!
Yasuyori: H-he's right! We should focus on the flag!
Tanetomo: I am perfectly calm, thank you. Look!
Angel A: OH NO
Angel B: TOO FAST
Tiger Man: Wow, look at the Warmongers fighting back!
Tanetomo: Tee hee I feel great. Now you two go be decoys, I'm expecting more casualties than I predicted.
Shennong: Uh, okay but are you sure? What if you get taken out?
Yasuyori: Yes! Isn't His Excellency's order supposed to be perfect?
Tanetomo: That's exactly why I'm doing this. I can't be leaving the stage without finishing my dance, and I will fulfill my orders.
Shennong: ...okay then. Don't get hurt out there.
Yasuyori: ...understood. May fortune bless you.
Shinya: Girimekhala, I'll be okay. You find MC.
Girimekhala: Wait what? You sure?
Shinya: Yes. Figuring out where they are in itself will swing the game in our favor.
Girimekhala: Oh! Okay then, I'll call if I find them.
Shinya: I'm looking forward to everyone giving MC chocolate.
Tanetomo: Well well, Sir Shinya. I apologize for yesterday. It hasn't even been a day and you've done well in using your looks to ambush people.
Shinya: Thank you. I decided if doing something would help even a little bit I'd do my best at it.
Tanetomo: How wonderful. I think I hate you even more now. Dance!
Shinya: Go easy on...actually, come at me with everything you have!
Somewhere else
Jacob: Lord, forgive my weak self control.
Bug A: (punched) OOF
Bug B: My eyes can't keep up wi--(pow) AGH
Jacob: Aww, going up against so many opponents reminds me of when I first formed the guild by punching every angel into submission.
Tiger Man: Can no one stop this man's amor!?
Jacob: Okay I've warmed up. Now to deliver the chocolate!
Arslan: Oh good, you're alright. Not that I was worried.
Zabaniya: Girimekhala just found the flag. Please leave this place to us.
Jacob: Thank you, you two. I will be sure to give the chocolate of love! (runs off)
Arslan: Welp, I suppose it's time to follow fate to its end!
Shennong: Oh man, we're too late to help?
Yasuyori: Such is fortune's folly. There's only one thing left to do.
Shennong: Yep. Out of the way you two, we gotta get our advisor through.
Arslan: Ha! Good one!
Zabaniya: We shall do things, Missionary style!
Tiger Man: ¡Ayy! So many things happening now!
MC's Location, wherever that is
MC: So you're first Jacob. Figured. / (square up)
Jacob: You honor me. I came to take you away, MC.
Yoritomo: Perfect timing. Get out.
Jacob: (dodges) THERE! I won't fall for the same trick you keep using.
Yoritomo: You don't say? Allow me to spice things up.
Mob Squad deployed and firing!
Jacob: OH SHIT
MC: Hey, shooting me is against the rules here!
Yoritomo: Those are stray shots. These things just happen.
Jacob: Your insight is as sharp as ever. But I am enjoying this trail because I am not alone.
Girimekhala: I am here to help(?)!
Jacob: Yes, I am indeed counting on you to help!
Shinya: It's too bad we couldn't settle things, but we can't let the team win go!
Tanetomo: Inusaka Keno Tanetomo present, Your Excellency. I shall fulfill your orders and bring us victory.
Yoritomo: You do that. I suppose it's time for us to show off our own strength.
Tanetomo: Yes Sir! Shinya, I can't our team win slip by either!
Tiger Man: ¡Ay dios mio! The whole event cast is here to fight over MC!
Girimekhala: ...guys, mind leaving this to me?
Shinya: Are you planning to meat shield or something?
Girimekhala: No! I've been thinking about what I could do, so I got something I wanna try. If it works, I can take out some of them.
Jacob: ...okay then.
Shinya: Wait, aren't you going to ask him any questions!?
Jacob: I swore to stay by him until the end, so I must believe in him.
Shinya: ...oh, that makes sense. Okay I trust you too, Girimekhala.
Girimekhala: I got this! Hehe, I can finally say it!
Girimekhala: (Okay I dunno if this will actually work...but I wanna be able to say I tried everything I could.)
Girimekhala: Out of the way if you don't wanna trip with me, punks! GANESH IMPACT!
Tiger Man: ¡Híjole! Girimekhala turned himself into a giant rolling snowball!
Warmongers Mobs: NOOOO
Jacob: Thank you, Girimekhala! Now's the time to give of our love! Please accept this, MC!
Shinya: Me too! I hope even a bit of my feelings reach you.
Yoritomo: How dare you mock conventional warfare strategy. Advisor, we must keep up!
Tanetomo: Yes Sir! Oh, MC~? Please take my cute chocolates first.
Yoritomo: Clichés it is. Take your reward, MC!
MC: EXCUSE ME WHAT
Girimekhala: (Elephant bowling ball act done! Now I just gotta get up there with everyone else and...)
Girimekhala: Oh no, my social anxiety will act up if I go over there and everyone starts looking at me!
Somewhere Else
Amduscias: Oh I get what you wanted me to do over here now Senpai.
Amduscias's eyes start playing visualizations like Windows Media Player.
Amduscias: Quick sneak peek at some of my info! Look over here everybody! Mystic Eyes Noble Phantasm, Grimoire Charm Eyes: Gaze of Beautiful Greenery!
Battlefield
Wrestler: Why is there a spotlight and music playing!?
Angel: Manager's show? The miracle of Jacob's Ladder???
Girimekhala: Hey wait, everyone's looking away all of a sudden...MC, please take my chocolate too!
BATTLE START (more happens after)
Shinya Tennouji is a Tokyo native who became Olympus's Spare World Representative for Reasons. He has the power to forcefully create bonds with anyone and everyone, a power just as strong as the other Representatives. He can totally form a guild army and fight against the Representatives if he felt like it. But he doesn't, and he's looking for some other way as he joins different organizations.
Present
Tiger Man: It's the war zone of love!
MC: What am I supposed to do here!?
The four press in.
???: MC...!
Tiger Man: Hey wait, what's that?
Girimekhala: AAAAAAAA
Tiger Man: ¡Ay dios mio! Girimekhala is rolling towards everyone!
Girimekhala: (I can't stop! I can't even SEE!)
MC: Oh no!
???: What are you doing!?
MC: W-whoa, someone pulled me in and saved me? / Uh, I feel something warm beneath me
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(C) Yoritomo: (frowns) Will you step away now? My stomach can only take so much!
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Yoritomo: Get up already if you're back to your senses. I can't BELIEVE you'd try to stand in front of that without a weapon. You are a stupid little brother, but rather splendid as well. I'd never stand for you dying to something like this.
MC: Thanks Yoritomo! / I'll be more careful next time! / Can I get another hug?
(B) Yoritomo: You didn't even blink over that empty promise. Are you planning on being an agitator?
(C) Yoritomo: STAY BACK
Yoritomo: ...why are you smiling? You just put yourself in harm's way for nothing. Actually, stupid question, don't answer that. I wouldn't understand anyways. On another note, let's leave the reckless ideas to him.
Jacob: Girimekhala! I shall come help you! Jacob Punch! (punches Snowball Girimekhala)
Girimekhala: OOF! ...o-oh, I stopped now.
Shinya: Girimekhala, you're okay!
Yoritomo: ...you would give up on victory and risk yourself for your friends? This is rather anticlimactic and unfulfilling as Tezcatlipoca would say, but...we win. (holds chocolate out to MC)
MC: ...oh.
Tiger Man: (gasps in Spanish) Yoritomo just captured the flag. Game over, Team Warmongers WIN!
Mobs: AAAAAAAA
Yoritomo: ...may I ask you a question, Tennouji Shinya?
Shinya: Yes?
Yoritomo: You are quick enough that you could have shot my chocolate out of my hand. Why didn't you?
Shinya: ...that would go against the Missionaries' beliefs. Jacob pulled back to help Girimekhala. He would step away from his own role to bring love to another, even if he doesn't deliver it himself. I don't need to get in the way of that as another Missionary.
Yoritomo: Oh, such skill in invading the Missionaries.
Shinya: Well if you'd like one more explanation, what MC wanted most was to save Girimekhala earlier. So was MC happier with your chocolate, or...?
Yoritomo: I won the battle but lost the war? Who set up this plot? Heh, we are going to settle this one day, Tennouji Shinya.
Later
Girimekhala: ...oh, I lost.
Shinya: ...yeah, it's over.
Girimekhala: ...dammit! (cries)
Shinya: ...yeah, I'm upset too. Every time the Game ends, I keep wondering if there was some other way out.
Jacob: You two can let it out. Giving your best makes your tears a sign of wonder and love as well.
MC: You guys...you guys did great all the way to the end!
Girimekhala: MC, I...! I dunno if I was any help, but I did everything I could! And I helped for once! It's a personal miracle... I had friends with me sharing in things good and bad, so I'm never gonna give up no matter how much I mess up and trip!
MC: Awesome! / I'm cheering for you! / I'm with you
Girimekhala: ...heh, somehow that hits different this time compared to before. Thanks MC, we're besties!
Jacob: Girimekhala, you were impressive with how you threw yourself literally to deliver your love.
Maria: Let us welcome you to the Missionaries all over again!
Elsewhere
Airavata: ...good show. I'm leaving now.
Barong: Thanks for watching! Happy with our production?
Airavata: Yes. The results were the same, but Girimekhala has found something all new. He is no longer another me anymore, so I can leave peaceably seeing that smile on his face.
Barong: Nice! Exit's that way.
Airavata: ...okay one last word before I go. You said your role was to entertain, and you believe it doesn't have to be you that is any help. I feel a different kind of pity...actually, fear towards your way of life than I do Girimekhala's. I hope the spotlight falls on you one day. (leaves)
Barong: Geez, tough crowd. (beep beep) Oh, hello? New Guy? Saw your playing! You barely pass. Get back to the hotel, we got a party to put on!
Game Field
Tiger Man: Finale time, amigos! Time to end things with a bang!
End of Episode
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