A video starts up over at Santa School!
Snegurochka: Okay we're on! Come here, Jackie!
Jack Frost: Ugh, do I have to? We can't even fit together in the same frame.
Snegurochka: Shut up and get over here already!
Jack: OW, stop pulling! (kneels) Okay, happy now?
Snegurochka: Tee hee, here we go! So can you see us, everybody? It's me, Snegurochka!
Jack: And I'm Jack Frost, doing this for some reason.
Snegurochka: I asked Jackie to join me for this second season publicity video. By the way, we aren't actually at Santa School. That's just some studio backdrop.
Kamui Kotan backdrop!
Sengurochka: So's this one! It's kinda fun shooting on a studio instead of on location for once. Koropokkur made a studio at the theme park for us. Jackie and I can't leave for a while, but at least we can keep filming here!
Jack: We did our on site filming with you guys during the winter, but the rest we'll do in here...is this really publicity stuff?
Snegurochka: Wow, you're motivated for once! And you said you'd do anything~.
click
Magical Snow Land
Jack Frost and Snegurochka: Magical Girl Snegurochka, Season 2!
Jack and Snegurochka dance to the show's new theme song! This is a promotional vid the party is watching at Santa School.
Jack: Oh god the cringe!
Snegurochka: Dance covers are publicity SOP! Plus this'll help you as Frosty! It could go viral.
Jack: I-it's not like I wanna be popular or anything.
Back to the Zoom call between Snegurochka, Jack, and the rest of the party!
MC: You were cute, Jack / Nice vid / why weren't we in it!?
(A) Jack: S-shut up!
(B) Yoshito: ...wait, Moritaka should do the dance!
Tianzun: Maybe I should dance with my students?
Hastur: Pffft. The other Foreigners dancing would be better!
(C) Snegurochka: Don't worry, it's in the part after this!
Koropokkur: Are none of you morons taking this seriously? Ugh, I gotta do everything around here...though, I can't turn down a crying kid.
MC: tee hee / it's all thanks to you / our ideas worked out somehow!
(A) Koropokkur: Did you forget about all that damage!?
(B) Koropokkur: Shut it, I wouldn't be doing this if you guys didn't think of it.
(C) Koropokkur: ...yeah, I'd never have thought of it myself.
Koropokkur: But yeah, I sealed up part of the theme park and told everybody it's under construction. It's always winter in there, Jack and Snegurochka will live there until it's all done. This way, there won't be a reset for them. Thanks to Utopia tech, this can actually work.
Snegurochka: It feels just like I'm outside! We also have lots of "Santa is preparing" signs up and it's making me excited for the Sendoff Ceremony! We'll be Santas until we finish Grandpa's homework assignment. Isn't it cool to live at a theme park, Jackie?
Jack Frost: Yeah. Feels like overkill for someone like me.
Snegurochka: Ugh, would it kill you to just say thanks?
Jack: ...well it's not like this has actually worked yet.
He seems worried.
MC: It'll be cool / I'm worried too now
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(BC) Hastur: Why? I'm helping too, you know?
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Hastur: I got Pazuzu to pull strings. I hope you appreciate this.
Tianzun: We all just have to do what we can.
Yoshito: I'm sure this will work.
Koropokkur: Hey Snegurochka, watch the other vids too okay?
Snegurochka: Okay!
Snegurochka switches on a new video.
A recording of a new season!
MC: Let's go, people! (runs the camera)
Tianzun: I'mma be the villain!
Hastur: I'm the new setting's Senpai. I got this!
Yoshito: I'm the classmate who keeps switching sides. Okay then.
Koropokkur: I'm the big bad? Fine, fine.
Jack Frost: I'm the mascot? Right, that's how we're pulling it all together.
Time to get people to believe in a new show season! The theme park uses Frosty as part of the marketing. Magical Girl Snegurochka events will be happening regularly, with Snegurochka and Frosty available whenever open!
MC: Lights, camera, action!
Snegurochka: Let's goooo!
BATTLE START (more happens after)
Tons of clips of Jack Frost and Snegurochka dancing with people!
Jack: HELP I'M DYING OF CRINGE
Koropokkur: Cringe is your life now if you want the publicity to work.
Hastur: Koropokkur, why did you decide to help in the end after knowing what happened the other times?
Tianzun: It's cuz you have backup plans, huh?
Koropokkur: Can you just die already? But yeah, I do. Make Snegurochka and Jack Singularity cores. Maybe move some memories.
Jack: ...you can just lock me up by myself.
Koropokkur: Not after all this shit I did for you, bitch.
MC: Yeah, worrying is normal / Tianzun, say something / I'll ugly cry again if you do
(B) Tianzun: Okay. Jack, hug me if you feel lonely!
Jack: Can you not??? Plus we aren't even in the same room!
(C) Jack: please don't...
Jack Frost: Sorry for all the bitching. I'm hoping it works too, so we all can see the spring together.
MC: Yeah! / With our blood, sweat, and tears / I'll come get you!
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(C) Jack: ...heh, you better then.
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Hastur: We're really setting the second season in a new world at Santa School? How incomprehensible.
Yoshito: And we're all Santa School students there. Hehe.
Tianzun: And I'mma teacher! Watch me teach!
Snegurochka: Okay, I'm putting on our first episode!
click
TV show time! Snegurochka has transferred to Santa School and Christmas is around the corner.
Snegurochka: I hope I make some friends!
Jack Frost: Hey new girl. Need me to show you around?
Snegurochka: Oh, okay! Who are you?
Jack: Jack Frost.
Snegurochka: Nice to meet you Jackie!
Ded's Office
White: Hello Snegurochka. Friends already?
Snegurochka: Hi Grandpa! He just met me when I came over.
White: Oh okay. Thank you, Jack. Would you mind showing around some other new students we have coming in.
Jack: Oh okay. What class is--
Snegurochka: Grandpa I wanna be in the same class as Jackie!
White: ...okay, I think that sounds good too.
Jack and Snegurochka leave.
White: I'm glad I asked you to come to this school, Jack.
Hallway
Jack Frost: And here's our class. Some people might know you, but whatever.
Snegurochka nervously opens the door.
Tianzun: Hello Jack.
Jack: Why are you here!?
Koropokkur: Politics is hard, man.
Hastur: We transferred in without you knowing.
Guy A: You guys are Jack's friends? Cool.
Jack: Yeah, I guess...but aren't you a teacher somewhere else?
Tianzun: I can always be a student in other fields.
Snegurochka: Um, nice to meet you! I'm new here too.
Yoshito: Same. Nice to meet you, Snegurochka.
MC: Let's be friends.
Snegurochka: Really? Yay!
And that's how the show season starts.
Still got other things to do, strings to pull! Montage of the party reaching out to their connections! Then it's spring as construction is done at the theme park and the party is over there. Jack Frost and Snegurochka have blindfolds on.
Snegurochka: Can we take them off yet?
MC: Yep!
VR Spring Space!
Snegurochka: Oh my goodness, this is spring?
Just like spring! Except for the temperature.
Tianzun: We brought bento boxes!
Picnic's set up!
Snegurochka: Oh my god, a flower viewing party? For us???
MC: Yep! Let's go!
Snegurochka: Thanks!
Hastur: We've ordered some good stuff too. What do you like, Snegurochka?
Koropokkur stares at a promise finally fulfilled.
Tianzun: It ain't over yet, Koropokkur.
Koropokkur: I know. They have to believe they can stick around to see spring again too.
Yoshito: Then allow me to open up some entertainment with my doll band.
Snegurochka: Wait what do I do!?
Tianzun: Nothing. Or dance.
Tianzun hints at Hastur. Hastur isn't totally against it.
Hastur: I suppose I can play along.
Snegurochka: Really!? Yay! Jackie, you dance too, okay?
Jack Frost: What!? ...well fine, I guess.
Nice party.
Yoshito: I brought desserts Father taught me how to make himself.
Koropokkur: Wow. Flower viewing's a thing in Wa no Kuni too, right?
Hastur: A-amazing! Snegurochka, try one!
Snegurochka's mind is blown at the sakura mochi Yoshito made.
Snegurochka: Whoa! Thanks so much for today, everyone! It's...okay for me to dream I'll be here for spring, right?
Koropokkur: Pffft, MC says they'd never give up on you.
Yoshito: As are many others.
Koropokkur: Yeah. You know how popular your show is?
Yoshito and Koropokkur hand over a bunch of fan letters. It's a big audience out there!
Zhurong's Letter: Yay, you're continuing the show! I'm excited to see you and Jack's new character!
Snegurochka: Oh my god all this mail, art, and fan figures!
Koropokkur: I'm glad I got Nakano and the Entertainers to put me through to the anime team. Now we just have to wait for the broadcast. You'll be okay.
Surprised Snegurochka!
Koropokkur: And Jack Frost...sorry for being such an ass to you.
Jack: What, you closing the park down? You being nice to me is creepy.
Koropokkur: HEY! ...well okay, back to making you my work bitch then.
MC: I hope you two stay with us, Snegurochka and Jack. What do you think?
Snegurochka: MC...
Snegurochka and Jack Frost look at each other. Jack doesn't want to say anything.
Snegurochka: I still believe it's my job in life to make people happy as Santa's granddaughter and a magical girl.
Snegurochka faces each member of the party in turn. Friends, and a brother.
Snegurochka: Maybe I became a magical girl so I'd be remembered, like Jackie’s spray painting. There'd be something even if I disappear.
Jack: ...that's fine, isn't it? Damn, we really are on the same vibe, Sneggy.
Snegurochka: !!
Flashback!
Snegurochka: Call me Sneggy, Jackie!
Jack: Not in a million years.
Present
The girl who could be Santa and reindeer simultaneously never once thought of hoping to live past winter. But now...
Snegurochka: ...WAAAAH! I WANT TO BE WITH EVERYONE FOREVER!
The girl has learned the fun in being with others, and the sadness of having to say goodbye. Those who resented their fates showed her she could resist her own role. Jack Frost hugs Snegurochka tightly.
Koropokkur: I'm sorry for all the times I couldn't save you.
Snegurochka: It's fine...I'm here now because you never gave up. And everyone, thanks for hearing out my wish. I'm going to keep living to make peoples' dreams come true!
MC: To a happy future!
Jack: Ugh, we still gotta work at the theme park though.
Tianzun: Would it kill you to NOT whine for once?
Jack: That's just me. Would it kill you to shut up for once? But anyways, we better make sure nobody ever forgets us Sneggy!
Sneggy: Yeah! We'll always be able to see each other again!
To be continued in the epilogue!
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