In Great Spirit, the concept of owning things doesn't exist. Instead, everything is borrowed. And the men of the Shaggy tribe pray that they be the epitome of that idea. What other people believe, they do, and that plays into Bigfoot's artifact. By abandoning all that they have, they can be nobody and be nowhere in particular. It's what Bigfoot was born for, and what he's continued believing in when he came to Tokyo.
Present
Himavat: Everyone, we're helping look for the missing children! Inventory check!
Info has been sent to everyone's phones!
Zao: Okay so putting together our info and Claude's... we seem to be on the Jebel Quruntal mountain stratum of the plot singularity.
The Mountain of Temptation where Christ hallucinated the Devil apparently.
Zao: Buddy system, regular checkins. Prioritize the children and keeping each other safe!
Himavat: If you get separated or something happens, fall back to base and wait. Move out!
Later
Zao, Himavat, MC, and Bigfoot are searching to the east of the camp area.
Zao: Kouhais, no touching plants without gloves. And watch your heads!
Bigfoot: Okay.
MC: Yes Captain! / Wow you're so handy on the mountains / Senpai, stay forever
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(A) Zao: Stay on my or Himavat's trails, okay?
(BC) Zao: WHAT... ahem, stay on my or Himavat's trails, okay?
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Himavat: So you DO see me as an equal, no matter what nonsense you say Zao! Rivals! I am the peak who will always stand in your way!
Zao: Get away from me you weirdo!
MC: Wow Zao actually called someone weird / God I wish that were me / Take ME, Himavat!
(C) Himavat: You aren't on Zao and my level.
Zao: OOF I can't BELIEVE you almost smothered me in your fur collar! ...ooh Himalyan jasmine. Never met a mountaineer who cared so much about their personal presentation before though.
Himavat: You've said that before!
Zao: But isn't this literally the first time we've met?
Himavat: ...I'm the only one who remembers all those hot, passionate mountain times we had together?
Zao: NOOOO, PHRASING
MC: omg Zao??? / Just like we have! / a fantasist?
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(B) Zao: Not you too, Kouhai!
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MC: (Hmm, deja vu I've felt this before)
Himavat: I'm a little disappointed in you as another club captain now.
Zao: what
Himavat: You have your successor next to you and you've watched them this entire time.
MC: wait what / ...
(AB) Himavat: Quiet, you aren't peak enough to talk while captains are speaking.
Zao: (frowns)
Himavat: But back to what we were talking about...
Himavat: I sent my successor Kumano on a different team and I'm not worried about him at all. Not like you. You're doing the whole captain thing wrong.
Zao: !?
Himavat: Have you gave ANY thought about what you'd do if you weren't around anymore? You can't be club captain forever! Can you be the meme baboon throwing the lion king off Pride Rock!?
Zao: !!
Himavat: Your hobby and work are different things, Zao.
Zao: ...
MC: No bully!
Himavat: Quiet, peon. Zao, you're too good for these mountains!
Zao: YOU TAKE THAT BACK
Himavat smiles.
Himavat: The area up ahead is dangerous. You and me should go while the others should go somewhere else.
MC: now hold up
Zao: No! I actually agree with Himavat here, but I'll be okay. Check somewhere else, please.
Bigfoot: ...okay.
Zao and Himavat leave.
Bigfoot: ...it okay. Captain went because cares...MC, sad?
MC: ...Zao's graduating soon. Feels unreal.
Bigfoot: (hugs MC) It okay. Me still be here.
Bigfoot's smile seems so familiar.
Bigfoot: Captain, good guy. Captain thinking. We go too!
Later
MC and Bigfoot are investigating the Mountain of Temptation.
Bigfoot: !! MC, there dangerous. Might break.
Bigfoot pulls MC closer!
MC: O-oh, thanks. You were like Senpai just now. / Doki doki!
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(C) Bigfoot: T-teasing, bad. Me definitely protect you.
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Bigfoot: Me, fill in for Captain while Captain away.
Bigfoot awkward smiles.
MC: How am I supposed to be a senpai like this?
Bigfoot: Me understand! Work important to MC!
MC: Well, not really / (shakes head)
Confused Bigfoot.
Sun's setting. No luck finding them kids.
MC: Did they really come this way? How did we find literally nothing!?
Bigfoot: ...MC, that must be right.
Bigfoot: Last night, Missionaries say fence up. But no traces of movement, no alerts on equipment.
Bigfoot seems to see something in the ground.
Bigfoot: Many children footprint. But trail suddenly disappear. Me good at tracking, sure about that.
MC: wait what
Bigfoot: ...remember yesterday? What Berserkers said?
MC: Overlapping? So the kids teleported to some other mountain? But why--
Sudden motion in the bushes!
Bigfoot: MC, quiet!
MC: Mmph! / (nod) / (rub against Bigfoot's face)
(C) Bigfoot is surprised but pleased!
Bigfoot keeps watch.
Monstrous noises!
MC: (OMG suddenly bears!?)
Completely surprised Bigfoot!
Bigfoot: Definitely no one else around before! But...!
Much illusion. Suddenly, kid shadows!
MC: (Oh no, we have to save them!)
Bigfoot: No! Me protect MC as work. Me protect children as work. Me play decoy. You take children, go. Me come after, me be okay.
Bigfoot pushes MC and jumps out!
MC: Bigfoot! (run after Bigfoot and jump in front of the children)
More animal noises!
BATTLE START (more happens after)
Flashback!
Oscar: Okay, so we're the backup cast this time Bigfoot. The stars of the show are the ones after the trophy! And you know who the star is this time, right?
Bigfoot: Yes. Me, stand-in. Me, like work.
Oscar: Cool! On another note, I like your Hulk caveman speech patterns and pro attitude. Did that feel weird? Well I hadn't planned on saying so. You're an Urban Legend I made and not a normal Transient, so I guess the regular app translation doesn't work right. Which reminds me! If OTHER people make the translator bug out in the plot singularity, that's A Problem. Babel Tower runs the translator for Tokyo, so it not working means you probably aren't in Tokyo anymore, and that puts you Outside the Management's Jurisdiction.
Present
Growling gibberish!
MC: (block for Bigfoot)
Confused growling!
Bigfoot: MC!?
MC: Come at me bears! But not too hard!
Voice: [Strange Noise]--wait, MC?
MC: wait what
Later
MC: my bad
Leib: Nah, it's cool. It was freaky suddenly being attacked with random gibberish.
Ashigara: We were doing Bear Camp on another mountain. Except we somehow got here and where even are we!?
Kimun Kamui: Wasn't Maria's Cooking Camp supposed to be further away?
Ciramanteps: Play more with us, old guys!
So unconcerned.
Ashigara: Pffft, I'll show you old!
Ciramanteps: Whee!
So the bear guys seemed to have found the bear kids and tried to bring them back. Also Zao and Himavat are coming back because of the noise, probably.
Bigfoot: MC, why save me? Me be okay. Because senpai work? Or...???
MC: No, saying that is depressing me / (hug)
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(C) Surprised Bigfoot.
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Bigfoot: *(stares in cryptid)*
MC: So other people could always fill in and I don't know what your job really is...
MC: But that can't be your whole life. That's all so sad! / (cry)
Very surprised Bigfoot.
Bigfoot only knows how to live for work and copy someone to be a stand-in. Which might be why he copies something he saw the other day.
Bigfoot: Me, want marry MC. Be together forever.
MC: wait what
Bigfoot: Me found dream. Me want be star of your life. One day, pick me? This, love confession? Wait, maybe bigger. Me want be everything for you.
End of Episode
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