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The Owl House gang was walking through Tokyo.
Hatsune tripped, falling into Eda.
"Watch where you're going, kid," Eda muttered, catching Hatsune by the elbow.
"Get your hands off of her!" Sakiko spat.
Hatsune stumbled back.
"Sakiko, chill. She just tripped," Nyamu said.
"It was my fault," Hatsune blurted out. "I'm really sorry! I-"
"Hatsune, shut up!" Sakiko ordered.
Hatsune froze. "I'm....sorry...." Why did she always have to screw everything up? Why was she always such a nuisance? "Don't hate me, Saki-chan....." Hatsune wanted to punish herself for breathing, for existing. She began to hyperventilate. **You freak! You ruined it! You're cutting yourself when you get home. You fucking parasite** Her fists shook. Cut herself? But wasn't that what she deserved?
"Are you guys a cult?" Luz asked.
"Yes," Nyamu replied. "And we need to *stop* being one!" She shot daggers at Sakiko.
"I-I don't mind it," Hatsune put in.
"You don't mind being in a cult because you're Sakiko's fucking brainwashed pet!" Nyamu spat. "We only just recently found out about your secret, too. You're a liar and a brainwashed pet. Two in one. How exciting! Did you not trust us enough to tell us about your real identity?"
Hatsune fell to her knees, sobbing. "I'm sorry! I'm so *fucking weak*!!"
"That's enough," Lilith said, staring Nyamu down with the same withering glare she'd once reserved for Emperor's Coven subordinates. "You're attacking someone who is clearly breaking."
Luz tried to mediate. "Umm, Lilith-"
"ENOUGH!!" Amity yelled.
Luz raised her hands. "Wait, Amity-"
"I'm SICK AND TIRED of famous people with fucking God complexes! Like, everyone's always like 'but Amity, your family's so cool. Your mother's famous. What's not to love?' HERE'S what's not to love!" She started listing things off on her fingers. "Getting treated like a tool? Check. Not being allowed to have the friends you want unless they're approved first? Check. Being forced into working to try and join a coven you never wanted to be in in the first place? Check. Being told I can't be Luz's girlfriend because she was labeled a 'criminal' by the Emperor's Coven? Check. Being used to test products in front of thousands of investors and almost getting killed on multiple occasions? Check. Being starved and locked up for trying to stop my stupid mother help in the Day of Unity? Check."
They heard a roaring applause in the distance.
"What's that?" Eda asked.
They followed the noise, where they found a band performing on an outdoor stage.
"Ready to kick this off, everyone!?" Raika yelled.
The crowd screamed.
Raika raised her guitar pick. "Then let's get started, my family!!!!"
🎵Raika & Miku🎵
Fever Time!
🎵Raika🎵
Countless phrases that never stop ringing
Our place where we can say "welcome back"
Enviable connections
Let's give them a name, A to Z
A misty view, one way
On this ship we've boarded, we move forward
A journey is better with company, and kindness is the best friend in this world
🎵Raika & Miku🎵
Ready, go!
(Hey!)
🎵Raika🎵
A great entrance, how are you feeling?
Of course, absolutely fantastic!
🎵Raika & Miku🎵
(Hey man!)
🎵Raika🎵
Today, too, let's play like a pro
🎵Miku🎵
And strum away!
🎵Raika🎵
It could happen to any of us tomorrow! Proof of our alliance! Resonance
🎵Miku🎵
Reckless baby
🎵Raika🎵
Together you are us, when we gather we are
🎵Miku🎵
Maybe even the impossible is possible
🎵Raika🎵
Drown off your daily worries with a roaring sound!
🎵Miku🎵
Come on, come on, come on, come on baby
🎵Raika🎵
Now, starting now, Shanana, it's still not enough!
🎵Miku🎵
Pierce through and go my way!
🎵Raika🎵
Go home once more!
Come on, get back! Get back hope!
🎵Miku🎵
I'm no longer interested in yesterday
Towards the future that my heartbeat points to
🎵Raika🎵
From the entrance to the limit
It's infinite
🎵Miku🎵
It starts from here, there's nothing to be afraid of
🎵Raika🎵
Come on, turn it up! Turn it up! Stand up!
🎵Raika & Miku🎵
Keep on going like this!
Homies I've met
🎵Raika🎵
Even on the edge of a cliff
🎵Miku🎵
As long as I have a place to return to
🎵Raika & Miku🎵
Someday I'll call
With my head held high, "My family"
🎵Raika🎵
The warmth of
🎵Miku🎵
our joined hand
🎵Raika & Miku🎵
is no joke!
Hold me tight
Hold me so tightly it almost hurts!
🎵Raika🎵
Wait? The challenge came suddenly
The situation was unexpectedly intense
The distortion that clips
🎵Miku🎵
Feels good?
I just can't understand the market
🎵Raika🎵
I'm a repeat offender who overdoes it and gets yelled at
🎵Miku🎵
In that case, let's also unleash the curfew limit of comp
🎵Raika🎵
Tomorrow it could be me, proof of our alliance!
My wavering mind screams loudly!
Together you're me, when we gather we are
Call my name!
🎵Raika & Miku🎵
Voyage to the ends of the earth!
Don't complain about what's already happened!
🎵Raika🎵
We promised, didn't we?
🎵Miku🎵
Take it easy and feel safe
🎵Raika & Miku🎵
Undeterred by rain
Undeterred by spears
🎵Raika🎵
Want a discount?
🎵Miku🎵
Household finances on fire?
🎵Raika & Miku🎵
It seems like we're the ones who've gone crazy
🎵Miku🎵
If words from the past determine our destination
🎵Raika🎵
Wake up! Break out with the latest and greatest!
🎵Miku🎵
I'll sing my favorite words out loud
Oh yeah, yeah!
🎵Raika🎵
(Shout out the power of words!)
🎵Miku🎵
Even against rough waves that everyone fears
🎵Raika🎵
And from insurmountable absurdity
🎵Raika & Miku🎵
I'll protect you!
🎵Miku🎵
Engraving sixteen, feels like coexistence
🎵Raika🎵
No matter how much we complain, life goes on
🎵Miku🎵
Ride on to the funky, punky beat
🎵Raika & Miku🎵
The journey continues, companions are welcome!
🎵Raika🎵
Keep on going!
Homies I've met
Even on the edge of a cliff
All you need is one place to return to
🎵Raika & Miku🎵
When you've grown accustomed to calling out to each other
As if to bless you
With the excitement of the song
The path will open up and you can overcome it
🎵Raika🎵
Let's paint a brand new story
🎵Miku🎵
To the other side of reality
🎵Raika🎵
Let's move forward so that we can say, "Now is the best"
🎵Miku🎵
We can't stop
🎵Raika & Miku🎵
Let's tie it all together
Homies' tie
I want to call it "Home" where we belong!
The crowd went wild.
After the performance ended and crowd dispersed, they walked offstage.
"Who wants hotpot for Ikka Dumb Rock!'s successful very first live show?" Raika exclaimed energetically. "My treat!"
"If they don't have yudōfu, I'll pass," Shizuku said.
"Eeehhh!?" Chieri looked hurt. "Shizuku-chan, you're not coming?"
Yomogi sighed. "As long as there's no people...."
Chieri gasped, running up to Nyamu. "It's you!!!! Oh my god!!!"
Nyamu blinked.
Chieri was squealing inaudible words, sounding like a boiling tea kettle. "Can I get an autograph?"
"Me?" Nyamu asked.
"Yes!" Chieri replied.
Nyamu was literally speechless.
"No!" Miku dragged Chieri away.
Luz shuffled up to Hatsune with a napkin. "Here. You look like you need it."
Hatsune took the napkin from Luz. "Thanks...."
Shizuku was staring at Hatsune.
Hatsune gulped. "Hi.....Uika-"
"Please refrain from calling me that name."
Hatsune flinched. "You're still mad, huh?"
Chieri stood in front of Shizuku. "Hey, I don't know who the hell you are, but stay away from Shizuku-chan!"
Luz intervened. "So, uh, hotpot?"
"Yes!" Raika replied.
Everyone sat down at the hotpot place.
"I call all the meat!" Chieri yelled.
Lilith looked disgusted. "What is this?"
"Have you guys never had hotpot before?" Raika asked.
"They're from a place that doesn't really have this kinda stuff," Luz explained quickly.
Amity made a face, staring at the meat.
Chieri tried to grab a piece of beef from the plate, but Shizuku's chopsticks blocked hers. She tried to dodge and come from the other side, but Shizuku blocked her there, too.
The two began to engage in a chopstick war, both moving fast to grab and block. The chopsticks were a blur of fast motion.
Shizuku took a second pair of chopsticks with her other hand and began eating her yudōfu, still effortlessly blocking Chieri with the chopsticks in her other hand. She wasn't even looking as she deflected them.
Akagi suddenly burst in, hugging the commander's arm. "Shikikan-sama, let's eat together!"
Zuikaku sighed. "Akagi-senpai, please let him breathe."
Hiei walked in beside Zuikaku. "You're going to smother him."
Laffey sleepily walked over. "Hiei."
"Laffey," Hiei greeted.
Missouri appeared. "Sup!"
"You're the one who-" Sakiko began.
"Had Japan's surrender signed on her deck, yeah, yeah," Missouri replied.
"We....did bad things back then," Zuikaku admitted, looking guilty.
Arizona glared at her. "I *still* have trauma! I'm literally STILL RESTING AT THE BOTTOM OF PEARL HARBOR!"
Shoukaku intervened. "We regret what we did, Arizona. But no amount of apologies can bring your sailors back."
Akagi cleared her throat. "Technically, we were in the right."
West Virginia bristled. "EXCUSE ME!?"
Akagi pointed at them. "America was going to attack Japan! We had to act first!"
"What kind of propaganda bullshit is that!?" West Virginia spat. "How many innocent civilians died in the name of 'protecting the Empire' shit!?"
Hornet scoffed. "Raping CHILDREN in Nanjing! Ring a fucking bell!?"
Eda was absolutely shocked. "Raping......children?"
Hornet nodded. "Yeah, the Nanjing Massacre."
Z23 stepped forward. "ENOUGH!" The Iron Blood destroyer yelled.
"Z23 is right!" The commander agreed. "This is all in the past." His gaze swept over the shipgirls. "You're all members of my fleet, former enemies or not."
"Sorry, Shikikan."
"Sorry, Shikikan-sama."
The shipgirls all muttered apologies.
Queen Elizabeth laughed. "That's what you peasants get for arguing!"
Atlanta bristled. "Peasants!? You-"
Prince of Wales intervened. "Your Majesty, Eagle Union is our ally. Please try not to provoke them."
"Your Majesty, perhaps we should-" Warspite began.
"I will *not* be told what to do by my own subjects!" Queen Elizabeth snapped, slamming her scepter against the floor.
Valiant snickered. "Ohhhhh, Elizabeth-sama is maaaad."
Queen Elizabeth grabbed Valiant. "Valiant, I am your *queen*! Show some respect!"
Valiant faked a courtesy. "Oh, please forgive me, Elizabeth-sama. Or is my dear big sister just feeling demanding today?"
"Valiant-sama, enough," Belfast ordered.
Valiant got in Queen Elizabeth's face. "Tell you what? A chess match. Right now. If I win, I get to be queen for a day and you have to play maid."
Everyone went silent.
Warspite pulled out the chess set. "Do you agree to the terms, Your Majesty?"
"Very well."
Warspite set up the board on the table.
They began facing off. The moment Valiant's knight slid into place for checkmate, the entire room inhaled sharply.
"Checkmate," Valiant announced. "Sorry, Elizabeth-sama. I win."
Queen Elizabeth began sputtering. "I-You-What!?"
"Ahem. Per the terms, Your Majesty will temporarily defer royal authority to Valiant for the duration of the day," Warspite declared.
Queen Elizabeth grit her teeth. "Your first order, *Your Majesty*?" She said the honorific with spite.
"Brush my hair."
Queen Elizabeth's jaw dropped. "That's....it? Nothing else?"
Luz cleared her throat. "Excuse me, but are you two sisters?"
"We are," Valiant replied smugly. "Elizabeth-sama and Warspite are my dear big sisters. And as their very cute little sister, it's my job to be chaotic."
Luz's eyes lit up. "How many other people here are siblings?" She asked.
Hatsune slowly raised her hand. "I'm Uika's older s-"
"I told you to stop calling me that," Shizuku retorted.
"Sorry," Hatsune mumbled.
Shoukaku wrapped an arm around Zuikaku's shoulder. "I have Zuikaku!"
Zuikaku blushed. "Shoukaku-nee...."
Hammann pouted. "I have Yorktown-neesama!"
Hornet gasped. "I'm not your big sister too, Hammann?"
Thatcher snickered. "You're a destroyer. She's an aircraft carrier. You and Yorktown can't be sisters."
Hammann scowled. "I protected her during Midway! That counts!"
"You tried to," Thatcher corrected. "But in the end, you both got sunk."
Hammann froze. "I-" She could still feel the pain from I-168's torpedoes. "I stayed by her side and aided her, even when she was injured. That should-"
"Try not being able to keep your promise," U-556 snapped. "That's worse!"
Bismarck flinched.
"I was *right* there! Watching!" U-556 shook. "Some knight I was....."
Raika stood up. "Let's just all sit down and eat! We cool with that?"
They all agreed.