Episode 6: Challenge! Whitewing Solidarity!
Scene: The streets of Edo.
At the same time as the Weissflugel Landsol Branch's strategy meeting, Akudaikan was roaming the city, continuing to collect his taxes from the store owners.
Akudaikan
That's all of the taxes to be collected from this area. Time to move to the next area.
???
... You will go no farther!
Akudaikan
W-Who!?
Ninon
De-de-den! First is a feast of raw seafood...
Kuuka
S-Second is harassment from an old man... Harassment... drool...
Ayumi
Third... is the invisible hole in an inner tube...
Yuku
Fourth is dirty tableware that cannot be cleaned... Ah, how beautiful I am compared to that...
Monika
Fifth is a needle that cannot be threaded...!
Everyone
We'll take you out! The Weissflugel Landsol Branch!
Ayumi
That was... way too embarrassing...!
Kuuka
... I can see them... The curious gazes of all kinds of people from far off.. But I like it...!
Yuki
Ah... Even now, so many gazes are trained upon me... How sinful my beauty is...!
Monika
D-Deal with it, everyone! This is surely another part of our plan to beat Akudaikan!
Ninon
Yes... It is certain...! When the five of us all do this, it feels very good!
Ayumi
I feel like this wasn't part of any plan at all...!
Akudaikan
My, my... If it isn't the quick-to-run shogun and his cadre. I can only commend your bravery.
Ninon
Heh heh heh... Will you still say that after you see this?
Akudaikan
Hah... What are you taking out there? It's only a long patchwork of cloth... What is this supposed to be?
Ninon
Only a long cloth... Is that really it?
Akudaikan
Wh... The base of that cloth... That couldn't be... an obi...!?
Ninon
That is it exactly! Well, Lord Akudaikan? What do you think of this long, long obi?
Akudaikan
Obi... Obi... Obiii... Obiiiii... Give that... Give that to me...
Ninon
Heh heh heh... So after all it was true. The one who was stealing the obi was Akudaikan!
Monika
W-What!?
Ninon
Even though Kuuka appeared to be attacked, it was only the obi that was damaged... That means, Akudaikan was meaning to steal the obi!
Monika
I see, so that's why these obi thefts began occuring around the same time when Akudaikan appeared, like the teahouse owner's wife said.
Ninon
... O-Of course, I also took that information into consideration!!
Yuki
(... Looks like she forgot.)
Kuuka
(She's making a face that absolutely says she forgot...)
Ayumi
(Ninon's so smart...)
Akudaikan
Obi... Give me the obi... Let me... Let me pull it... Let... me... do it...
Monika
W-What's this? Akudaikan looks...
Akudaikan
Akudaikan... lives to pull obis... Obi... O... bi...
Akudaikan
Roaaaaar!
Ayumi
A-Akudaikan's body is transforming! He looks... just like one of those mechanical dolls from the souvenir shop!?
Monika
... So that's why he was tough enough to take no damage from my sword, sheath aside. Akudaikan is a monster that can imitate a mechanical doll, and his actions match the object he is imitating...
Monika
We coerced him into taking on a form where his actions would be slowed... Nice work, Ninon! I had my doubts when I heard your plan to lure him with an obi, but you must've taken all of that into account!
Ninon
... Y-Y-Yes, exactly!! I saw that he meant to steal Kuuka's obi, so I thought that he would let his guard down if we showed him a giant obi... That was it!!
Yuki
(... All she was thinking about was making a large obi.)
Kuuka
(Even I can see through that lie...)
Ayumi
(Ninon is amazing... I need to try hard to keep up.)
Ninon
N-Now! If we wrap this obi around Kuuka's clothes, then the perfect decoy of Akudaikan will be completed!
Kuuka
U-Um... How many times have I been tied up and presented as a decoy to monsters... It really does excite me, but... I also find it a little terrifying, let's say...
Yuuki
1. "We need your power, Kuuka..."
2. "You won't stay tied if you move."
Option 1.
Kuuka
... Y-You can't use such kind words on me at a time like this! That's the ultimate Mister Sadist move! Um... I-I'm still inexperienced, so please be kind!
Option 2.
Kuuka
You're admitting you're going to tie me up right here!? Mister Sadist suddenly got serious... B-But if you're going to be that forceful... I won't resist...!
End of branches.
Ninon
Well done, Shogun! What incredible skill of negotiation! Now, using my self-cloning arts... Shu-bababa!
Ayumi
I-I'll be better off holding Kuuka up... I'll try to... Hya!?
Yuki
Honestly... I can't just watch. Let's hold her up together.
Ayumi
Yuki... Thank you!
Begin animated cutscene. Throughout this scene, Akudaikan's voice is so muddy that I can't make out what he's saying.
Akudaikan charges at Kuuka.
Ayumi
H-He's coming!
Monika
Everyone, spread out!
Ninon
He has taken the bait!
Yuki
With such a beautiful presence as me around, it was the only possible outcome.
Akudaikan pulls the obi.
Kuuka
To have my body spun around like this... I'm lifting off! Ahhh!
Monika
Now!
Ninon
(I can't tell what she's saying here.)
Monika
Lightning... Flash!
Akudaikan blows up. End cutscene.