R1G1D: Mr. Snoozer?! What’s going on?!

Snoozer: The yokai who came from the future…is me! In fifty years, the Earth will be destroyed.

Various yokai: What?! Impossible!! Absurd! How could that be…Oh no!

Pebble: But who would ever try something like that?!

Snoozer: Who else but all the yokai in this fair?! Your words are sunny now, but in the end despair will overcome you all, and you’ll conspire to end everything.

Pebble: W-we’d never–

Snoozer: And I’ve realized something else: Everything I’ve said here – all of it came true, fifty years from now. Someone here is the ringleader; they will spark hatred in the hearts of yokai and abuse it for their evil ends!

Snoozer: And you humans listening to this guide….

Yokai: What did you say?! *If possible, would like male and female versions of this line*

Snoozer: There’s no point in asking; it’s already too late. I will erase you, humans, and I’ll erase you too, yokai, right now. I will change the future!

R1G1D: It’s Naraku!

Snoozer: That’s right – Naraku will consume…consume everything. I’ll end it here and now.

Pebble: Stop this right now! No one here, human or yokai, ever asked for anything as CRINGE as that!

Snoozer: But it was humans who destroyed the forests we yokai have always called home! Mark my words – next they’ll use you for their wars, and by then it’ll be too late!

Scuttle-Butterfly: Wait just a minute! Are you telling us this is really what you want?! Listen carefully to your own heart!

Snoozer’s Heart: Of course I don’t actually want to do this. I came here to prevent the destruction of the world.

Snoozer: Shut up, shut up, shut up, shut up, shut UP! I have to do this to save the world!!

Naraku: I also do not wish to be used this way.

Snoozer: (He’s shocked. He crumbles down) N-Naraku…

Naraku: I have finally said it. I sympathize with your desire to act. But let us hear what these humans and yokai have to say. It would not doom us to speak to them, no?

Snoozer: I see. I’ve been dashing around by myself. Destruction will not stop the cycle of hatred.

R1G1D: Pheeeew! Thank goodness…For a while there I thought we were goners!

Scuttle-Butterfly: You’re the tsukumogami spirit of an alarm clock, right? Won’t you please tell us what you know? Become who you truly are, and awaken the world of humans and yokai!

Pebble: Tee-hee. My platform’s pretty small, but I’ll help amplify your warnings to all my rockheads out there in the world!

Snoozer: I see now. What I needed wasn’t to end everything, but to use my words – to speak and cooperate together with you.

R1G1D: There’s no need to blame yourself. I have forwarded a comm to the World Fair Management explaining the situation. Other yokai have also begun direct talks with Management.

All yokai: All right!

Snoozer: To the humans with me on this tour: I have no excuse for my actions towards you. I have no right to ask this of you but, let us work together from now on – to solve issues without robbing anyone of their future.

R1G1D: Ah…All’s well that ends well! Did you have fun? It was a bumpy ride, but this concludes our tour! Shodoshima is home to many and more yokai, so take it slow, relax, and have a little chat with us, meat-friends!

Scuttle-Butterfly: Oh! We almost forgot– If you want to know what kind of world you want to build, you must listen carefully to the voice of your heart, meat-friends! You can bet I’ll be listening, too! Eeheeheehee!

R1G1D: And that, as they say, is that! Come back and see us! We’ll be waiting for you!

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