Flashback!
Isaac: Ya-ha, you found me! So, you hoping to get cyborg body help?
It's unusual for anyone not a World Rep to somehow get into Isaac's lab.
Yoshito: Yes, I'm good with strings.
Isaac: Oh okay. But why do you need my help?
Isaac seems perfectly fine, even though he totally isn't. The power of Science™ and multiple kanji definitions! But yeah, why would Yoshito need help if he seems perfectly fine too?
Yoshito: I need to expand the range of places my adopted brother can live in.
Isaac: what
Yoshito: Moritaka saved me long ago when I should be dead by now. So now I can't stand for anything to happen to him, so I want to now die for him if anything happens.
Isaac: ...okay makes sense now. I can vibe with wanting to save your brother instead of fixing your own defects.
So sayeth Professor Guinea Pig.
Yoshito: He fixed me.
Isaac: Aww, I'd love it if my siblings said that about me. But reminder, this is all something you are thinking, not you as him. You will always still be you, but I'll still help you be closer to that new you.
Present
It's time for Housamo Kart! ...at extreme speeds!
Tianzun: Yeeeeaaaaah!
MC: Yeeeeaaaah! / OH MY GOOOOOD / (freaking out)
Hastur: Earth carts can go at these quaint speeds? Impressive.
Snegurochka: I'm winning this one!
Hastur: How dare! Behold my Foreigner driving!
Snegurochka: DID YOU JUST TELEPORT???
Sidelines
Jack Frost: ...how DO our safety mechanisms work?
Koropokkur: Future tech accident prevention. Speed limits? Height limits!? Pfbfbft! I can protect anyone here!
Jack: Is that why you made me of all people a mascot and let the police or whatever stake out Hastur?
Koropokkur: Also I referenced the Santa School sleighs for these carts.
Jack: Uhhh, they aren't that hardcore tho?
Yoshito: Master, go!
Koropokkur: Haha, wow Snegurochka. Get 'em, MC!
Racetrack
MC: How am I supposed to catch up!? / Thanks! / I'M SO WINNING THIS
Tianzun: Where's the love for ME!?
Hastur and Snegurochka are fighting for 1st! Hastur's starting to win!
Snegurochka: Okay I might actually lose!
Sidelines
Jack Frost: ! Don't lose, Snegurochka!
Racetrack
Snegurochka: !! Oh, thanks Jackie!
Snegurochka starts catching up! It's a dead heat! She and Hastur cross the finish line!
Snegurochka: wait who won
Hastur: ...you did. Impressive.
Snegurochka: Oh my god, really!? I'm going to brag to Grandpa!
MC: Congrats, Snegurochka! / Aww, Hastur / One more race, dammit!
(A) Snegurochka: Thanks! You did good too!
(B) Tianzun: Hastur, you big softie you.
Hastur: I know not what you two are talking about.
(C) Koropokkur: Haha, you're such a kid sometimes. I'll race you!
Snegurochka: Jackie, I won because of you!
Jack Frost: Yeah I saw. I'd totally have won if I was in.
Hastur: Hmm, big words boy. Care to put your money where your mouth is?
Snegurochka: Oh, do the next race then Jackie! I'll watch!
Jack: Psh, you'll see that I kick ass with my grades even with all the class cutting.
Tianzun: You don't go to class? Hmmmm...
Jack: Oh shit. NOT EVERY DAY, ALRIGHT?
Tianzun: It's cool! Next time you skiv off, call me so I can show you somewhere fun!
MC: you what / what kind of teacher are you / Me three!
(AB) Tianzun: Behold the dao of making cutting class alone boring!
(C) Tianzun: Even better! So when I'm not there things will suck!
Tianzun: Y'all getting addicted to me yet~?
Jack Frost: Nope. Also geez, there's teachers like you for real?
Yoshito and Hastur don't seem to know what to make of this conversation.
Koropokkur: Snegurochka. Don't be like him.
Snegurochka: But he's a good guy! But anyways, let's race again! I'll win this time too!
She seems excited.
Jack: ...you do remember you're here for Santa School stuff, right?
Snegurochka:
Snegurochka: AAAAAA
MC: what? / you were!? / ooh fun
Koropokkur: Yeah, it's Snegurochka's idea to work with Ojimachi Academy and the theme park this year. I'm here to start discussions.
Snegurochka: Oh no, I have so much to do! I'm sorry for acting so smug, Jackie...
Jack Frost: It's cool, you're a kid, it happens.
Snegurochka: But I don't have much time left and I was so sure of my time management skills...
Jack: And everyone chose to play with you. Stop moaning.
Snegurochka looks at the rest of the party.
Snegurochka: I-I'm sorry for ruining the mood.
Tianzun: It's cool! Can we help? I love events and can give some guidance.
Snegurochka: That doesn't feel right...
Tianzun: C'mon, we're fraaands. Friends help friends! Right guys?
Hastur answers first.
Hastur: Very well then.
MC: Sure! / Am I gonna be any help...?
Snegurochka: You guys...!
Yoshito: Um, I have an idea.
Later
Yoshito: (frowns)
MC: You okay? (sits next to him)
Yoshito: Master. I apologize, I thought I had a good idea...
Flashback!
Yoshito: Let's open Moritaka Land!
Shocked party!
Koropokkur: Uh, no.
Present
MC: It'll be okay / I thought it was good? / (uhhhh)
(B) Yoshito: You do? I knew you were my forever Master!
Snegurochka: Oh, Yoshito! Let's go back to everyone together.
Yoshito: No, the world can go on without me if it must.
Snegurochka: Aww come on.
Snegurochka tries to drag Yoshito back! But it didn't work.
Snegurochka: Oh my god how strong are you???
Yoshito: Well, I do train with an exoskeleton.
Snegurochka: For Moritaka? Tell me more.
MC: Actually I wanna know too. / Is it okay to ask?
(AB) Yoshito: It's nothing special to anyone but me.
(C) Yoshito: Yes. It means a lot to me, though maybe not to anyone else.
Yoshito (narrating): My parents died while I was a baby so I was adopted as a servant into another family. They just treated me as a tool for dirty work and I thought I'd die that way. But then I met Moritaka and it felt like we were really brothers. He opened up my world.
Yoshito: And so I will now die for him.
Snegurochka: Omg mood! I want to pay back the Santas since Santa created me! So you dreamed of making Moritaka Land for him?
Yoshito: Oh no that's just me being a filthy simp.
MC: wait what / going a little overboard there / Stanning and simping are different things, huh
Snegurochka: ...right.
Yoshito: Huh?
Snegurochka: Nothing! I'm cheering you on, Yoshito!
Yoshito: You...do? I haven't even told Comrade Masanori about this!
Snegurochka: Yeah, let's make Moritaka Land together! Oh, but it'd freak him out if this suddenly happened, huh?
Yoshito: Yes, but I'm sure he'll accept it. When I asked, he said it'd be weird and to stop but he didn't say it felt wrong.
MC: cool / um / but he said stop???
Snegurochka: You think of him like a big brother, huh?
Yoshito: Hmmmm...
Snegurochka: Tee hee I'll help as much as I can.
Yoshito: Thank you, you must already be busy with the Santa Sendoff.
Snegurochka: Yeah, but theme parks are supposed to support all dreams!
And so Snegurochka and Yoshito think up ideas before returning to the rest of the party.
Tianzun: Oh hey guys. We came up with some ideas and--
Yoshito: Jack Frost Frosty, I challenge you for Moritaka and the theme park mascot position!
Snegurochka: I'm Magical Girl Snegurochka and I support this match.
Jack: EXCUSE ME WHAT
Koropokkur: Cool! Fight him Jack!
Jack: but why tho
Koropokkur: I run a goddamn theme park, that's why. Were you going to sit on your ass until you grow up?
Jack: (frown)
Koropokkur: Look him in the eye and kick his ass, unless you want the park to have its own revolution.
Jack does so and sighs.
Jack: Fiiine, just gimme a minute to get ready.
Yoshito: Thank you. I must get ready myself, for that matter.
Gift Shop
Tanetomo: Now what should I get Yasuyori and His Excellency?
Alp: I wanna buy presents but then I'd rat myself out on coming here without them...
Moritaka: ...I think someone has been watching us.
Tanetomo: You mean Yoshito? What else is new?
Moritaka: No not that! I mean like little kids have been staring!
Yuma: I want Frosty doll!
Tanetomo: Ooh a doll. Or maybe I'll get Yasuyori a hair ornament.
A wild group of children appears!
Boy A: Yay, the doggie from before is here!
Moritaka: I am not a--wait, what do you mean before
Elsewhere
Jack Frost: where did my life go so wrong? MC, what's wrong with your friends?
MC: Sorry, play along please? / (apologize) / Hug me, Frosty!
(A) Jack: ...meh, whatever. Not like I'll lose here.
(B) Hastur: !? I saw the way you looked at me! This all happened because of you!
(C) Jack: YOU GET BACK! You'll freeze if you get close!
Hastur: Oh is that all? MC will ignore that sort of threat completely.
Jack: ...okay fiiiine, Frosty can hug you. No bitching about how cold it is.
MC: Not like that! / Say it like you mean it! / Yay!
Yoshito: I'm back. Moritaka is ready.
Giant Moritaka!
MC: OH MY GOD HE'S HUGE / what
Yoshito: Lord Isaac gave me a giant robot body I made to look like Moritaka. It's fluffy AND a giant robot, so of course children like it. I'm going to win!
Jack Frost: You seriously expect to win with this dumb thing!?
MC: Is Moritaka actually okay with this? / what's the robot actually for? / Ooh, toughie
(A) Yoshito: Moritaka is public property...but I'm still stabbing anyone who sullies him of course.
(B) Yoshito: I plead the fifth.
Koropokkur: Shady shit then.
(C) Yoshito: Pick Moritaka, Master.
Jack Frost: ...how are we even doing this thing?
Snegurochka: Child popularity contest! With mascot character greetings in a time limit!
Jack: Oh, so I just gotta be efficient.
Snegurochka: Right! So I'm arbitrarily adding a rule about cute points! You only get points if the children call you cute!
Jack: UHHHH...well I guess it makes sense.
Yoshito: Oh? You don't think you're that cute? I'm winning then!
Jack: What? No, I get called cute tons of time.
MC: Yoshito sure is confident / nice / Good luck, guys!
Snegurochka: Okay, Koropokkur can you attend to Jackie?
Koropokkur: Meh, I guess I AM his boss.
MC: what / like a cameraman or something? / Then I'll attend to you, Yoshito
(A) Tianzun: Support role.
(B) Yoshito: I'll take up that role on my end.
(C) Yoshito: Really!? Thank you, Master!
Snegurochka: Hastur, Tianzun, you two keep track of the cute points!
Tianzun: Mkay, I'm in. Maybe I can join too?
Hastur: Heh, I suppose I can assist.
Snegurochka: Yay, thanks um...Big Bro Hastur!
Hastur is pleased.
Jack Frost: wait you're calling him Big Bro now?
Hastur: Did you want to as well? By all means.
Jack: What, you want me to?
Hastur: !?
MC: He tried making me say it too / Big Bro Hastur! / Big Bro Jackie!
(A) Hastur: N-no, I merely wanted to establish my superiority over you!
Snegurochka: Isn't it great!? It feels like we're getting closer!
(B) Hastur: UH. Wait, wait...at least say it with more respect.
Snegurochka: Isn't it great!? It feels like we're getting closer!
(C) Jack: W-what? I'm not your brother either!
Snegurochka: Isn't it great!? It feels like we're getting closer!
Children are getting interested in Giant Robot Moritaka.
Boy A: Wow is that Frosty's new friend?
Boy B: Look, Frosty! I thought he wasn't here today!
Jack Frost: Hi guys, thanks for waiting for me!
Code switch, on!
Yoshito: Okay it's time. Hitting the button!
BATTLE(?) START
End of Episode part
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