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Yo-kai Watch Adventures

Chapter four: Feel the burn!

On a lovely enough day in Uptown Springdale, over at the Adams residence, Adams family matriarch Lily was in the kitchen, bending down to open a cabinet under the sink to get out a small box that contained plastic sandwich-sized bags. Normally, such an action would prove to be no problem for Lily. However, Lily had been inspirited by a trio of Hungorges, a species of yo-kai, over a fair period of time.

Luckily for Lily, her son Nate had gotten a local girl who befriended yo-kai to step in and drive the trio of Hungorges off. But the damage had still been done; because of the influence of those three Hungorges, Lily was now, in all honesty, a rather plump and well-fed woman.

Her now ample belly making it somewhat difficult for her to bend over to reach for the box of sandwich-sized plastic bags, Lily said under her breath, "Come on, just a little more-"

*RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIP*

Lily's eyes widened in shock as she heard the ripping of fabric. She also felt the tear of fabric as well. Standing straight back up almost instantly, Lily proceeded to cover her rear end with her hands. When she did, Lily felt something that confirmed her fears.

Her denim shorts ripped.

As Lily began to blush with embarrassment, she saw her son Nate walk into the kitchen. "Morning, mom," Nate greeted in a friendly tone, "Did you sleep well last night?"

"Oh, I slept well, sweetie," Lily replied, her tone carrying a mild amount of strain brought on by embarrassment, "Say Nate, can you do me a favor?"

"What's up?" Nate asked, his friendly expression showing that he was oblivious to what was going on.

As she moved out of the kitchen while making sure her son would not see the ripped area of her denim shorts, Lily said, "I need you to get the box of sandwich-sized plastic bags out from the cabinet under the sink."

"Sure thing," Nate replied as he immediately bent down, reached into the cabinet, and pulled out the box of sandwich-sized plastic bags. While he was holding the box, Nate asked, "What should I do with it?"

"Oh, just set it on the counter next to the sink," Lily replied as she made her way to the staircase. As she proceeded to walk backwards up the stairs, Lily continued, "I'm also going to need you to stay down there until I reach the top of the stairs."

"Umm…okay?" Nate replied in a confused tone. Nate is never one to disobey his parents, and he always does as they tell him. Even so, this does not keep Nate from becoming baffled by some of the weirder things his parents have asked him to do, although this was the first time Nate's mom has ever asked him something that came off as kind of weird. The weirdest part of all of this was how Nate's mom was acting.

After about a minute, Lily called down the stairs, "Okay, Nate! It's safe to come up the stairs now."

This all felt off to Nate; his mother never acted weird before to his knowledge. But then again, his mom never acted like this prior to the incident involving those three yo-kai that Nate got Kira and her yo-kai friends to drive off. Maybe this is all related? The Adams boy resolved to find the thirteen-year-old girl who befriends yo-kai and ask her for her help in this matter.


"…Huh," Kira said as she met up with Nate, Eddie and Bear outside of the candy shop in Blossom Heights, "You're saying that you mom walked out of the kitchen in a weird way this morning, Nate?"

Nodding in the affirmative, Nate said, "She didn't turn around once. It was as if she wanted me to see her only from the front."

"Maybe she bent over to get something and ripped a hole in her pants or whatever she wears," Illuminoct remarked. As per usual, Kira was accompanied by her three closest yo-kai friends, Venoct, Shadow Venoct and Illuminoct. "Yeah," Illuminoct continued, "I'm guessing that's the reason why your mom walked in a weird way out of the kitchen."

"Things have been kind of weird over at my family's place ever since you guys got rid of those three yo-kai who made my mom eat a lot," Nate remarked to Kira and the Venoct brothers in a concerned tone, "I'm kind of worried."

"Hey Kira," Venoct began as he turned to face Kira, "Aren't we supposed to be trying to track down a Nekidspeed to help with getting Mrs. Adams to lose weight?"

"It's been slow going on that, not helped by the fact that we've been busy with other jobs," Kira pointed out, "Or have you forgotten?"

"I was figuring that trying to track down a Nekidspeed could be like a side-job or something," Venoct replied, "I mean, this could be a follow-up job that we can-"

"Hang on a minute," Eddie interrupted, "If you're looking for a yo-kai to help with getting Nate's mom to lose weight, then I may have the solution."

"What do you mean?" Kira asked as she and the Venoct brothers all turned to face Eddie.

"Yesterday," Eddie began, "When some of the other kids in my class and I were at Springdale Elementary because we wanted to use the field to play soccer, I climbed up one of those really tall poles because I was trying to impress a girl from a different class who showed up to watch the soccer game. I reached the top of the tallest pole, which let me see the roof of the school. When I got a view of the school's roof, I saw this muscular yo-kai performing some exercises."

"You saw a muscular yo-kai performing exercises," Kira replied in a mild tone of disbelief, "On the roof of the school."

Nodding in the affirmative, Eddie continued, "I could tell it was a yo-kai because humans don't have horns coming out of their foreheads."

"Sounds like an oni-type yo-kai to me," Venoct remarked, "Can you continue describing this fellow to us?"

With a single nod in the affirmative, Eddie said, "The yo-kai had a single horn coming out of his forehead, like I said. He also had this sort-of orange skin, he wore a green men's tank top, a green loincloth over a pair of green gym shorts, and a pair of-"

"-Yellow fingerless gloves," Shadow Venoct said, finishing Eddie's sentence for him.

"Uhh, yeah," Eddie replied in a mildly confused tone, "Umm, do you know who I'm talking about?"

"Yeah, Shadow Venoct," Kira remarked, "Have you encountered the yo-kai Eddie is talking about sometime in the past?"

"Yes, although I wish I hadn't met him," Shadow Venoct replied. Turning so that he properly faced Kira, Shadow Venoct said, "If we can get ahold of the yo-kai that Eddie is talking about, then he will undoubtedly be of great help of getting Mrs. Adams back into shape. He'd certainly be loads more effective than a Nekidspeed, that's for sure."

"Well alright," Kira began, "Looks like we-"

"However," Shadow Venoct interrupted, "I have to warn you that this yo-kai can be a tad overbearing at times. Not to mention he constantly tries to promote his fitness and exercise routine. I hear he even has his own work out show now."

"Hey bro, quick question," Illuminoct said to Shadow Venoct, "Do you like this guy?"

"Not one bit," Shadow Venoct replied instantly, "But I'm not going to let that stop our professional attitude when it comes to helping people with yo-kai related problems."

"How is Nate's mom being hot dog eating champ material a yo-kai related problem?" Bear asked as he raised a hand.

"Because it was the influence of yo-kai that made Mrs. Adams like that in the first place," Venoct pointed out, "And potentially, we can use yo-kai influence to get Mrs. Adams back down to a manageable weight."

Sighing in a resigned tone, Shadow Venoct said, "I'm probably not going to like where this is going, but it's our best bet, so I guess I'll have to deal with it."

"Alright, boys," Kira said to her yo-kai friends, "Let's go check out the roof of Springdale Elementary to see if we can find that oni yo-kai that Eddie said he saw."


A short while later, Kira and the Venoct brothers walked through doors on the very top of the main building for Springdale Elementary, allowing them access to the roof. When they did, they saw the very yo-kai that Eddie had described to them. The muscular orange-skinned yo-kai was currently in the middle of an exercise routine.

Sighing in a mildly annoyed tone, Shadow Venoct said, "Yup, it's him, alright."

"Try not to tear his head off," Kira said, "We're going to need him if we're to get Mrs. Adams back down to a healthy weight." Leading the Venoct brothers, Kira approached the exercising yo-kai. "Excuse me!" Kira called out, getting the exercising yo-kai to stop mid routine and turn to face her.

"Oh, I wasn't expecting anyone to be wanting to join me in exercising," the yo-kai remarked in a pleasantly surprised tone, "But I don't have any objections." Pointing dramatically at Kira, the exercising yo-kai declared, "My name is Sergeant Burly, and I'm about to enroll you in Burly's Beat Camp!"

"Oh, it's Sergeant Burly now," Shadow Venoct said in a sarcastically surprised tone as he stepped forward, "Last I heard it was Private Burly. Got yourself promoted now, did you?"

"Oh, uhh, hey there Shadow Venoct," Sergeant Burly said in a mildly unsure tone, "Umm, long time no see, huh?"

"Look, we can work out what happened in the past at a later time, you jerk," Shadow Venoct remarked, "Right now, my brothers and our human friend Kira need your help with something."

"What's on the agenda?" Sergeant Burly asked as he walked up to Kira and the Venoct brothers.

"Recently, my yo-kai friends here and I took care of a yo-kai related problem where a trio of Hungorges made a woman living in the Uptown Springdale area stuff herself silly," Kira began to explain, "This woman is the mother of the kid who hired my friends and I for the job. We drove the Hungorges off and completed the job."

"So, what's the problem?" Sergeant Burly asked.

"The mother of the kid who hired my yo-kai friends and I is still kind of on the heavier end of things, so to speak," Kira replied, "From what Shadow Venoct told me about you when someone reported seeing you, we have reason to believe that you might be able to help us out on this one."

"Heh, is that what this is all about?" Sergeant Burly said with a bit of an amused laugh, "You want me to get some chunky chicken nugget back into shape? Well why didn't you say so from the start? If there's anyone who can do what you're asking for, it's me, Sergeant Burly!"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah," Shadow Venoct said in a mildly annoyed tone, "We know the drill. Feel the burn and all that good jazz."

"You…you don't really like him, do you?" Venoct asked as he turned to face his brother.

"Just because I don't like him doesn't mean I'm not willing to put up with him if he's helping us with something," Shadow Venoct replied.

"What…what happened between you and Sergeant Burly in the past?" Kira asked.

"I'll tell you later," Shadow Venoct replied, "Right now, we got work to do."


Later, Kira, Nate, Lily and the Venoct brothers were at the Springdale Sports Club. Lily was dressed for working out; she was outfitted in a purple leotard, yellow leggings and lavender leg warmers. Kira and Nate were both in standard workout outfits that were appropriate to the gender of the person that was wearing them. They even had the benefit of matching the general color scheme of their respective usual outfits.

"It's a good thing that you're yo-kai sensitive, Mrs. Adams," Venoct remarked as he turned to face Lily, "Because the personal trainer that my brothers, Kira and I got ahold of for you is a yo-kai who is well-known in the yo-kai world as something of a fitness instructor."

"Wait a minute," Lily said as she held her arms out to her sides, "Since I can see yo-kai like you guys, then how come I couldn't see the three who made me like this?"

"They were actively cloaking themselves, Mrs. Adams," Kira explained, "Luckily for us, my yo-kai watch can uncloak yo-kai who are actively cloaking themselves. But that's beside the point for the time being."

"Indeed," Illuminoct remarked, "The point of the moment is that we're going to set you up with one of the finest fitness instructors that the yo-kai world has to offer."

It was at that point that Sergeant Burly came walking into the room that everyone was in. "Alright, ya chunky chicken nuggets," Sergeant Burly began, "Now that the master, that being me, has finally arrived, we can get down to-" The exercising yo-kai stopped midsentence upon seeing Lily. "Umm, wow," Sergeant Burly remarked in a surprised tone.

"Oh, don't you even start on that, you jerk!" Shadow Venoct snapped, pointing an accusing finger at Sergeant Burly.

"No, no," Sergeant Burly remarked in a mildly resigned tone, "It's not that. It's just…" Pointing to Lily, Sergeant Burly said, "…She reminds me of how I used to be."

"…What?" Shadow Venoct replied in a deadpan tone.

Sighing in a mildly resigned tone once again, Sergeant Burly said, "It's true. I wasn't always the lean and mean fitness machine that you see before you today. There was a time in my past that I myself was a chunky chicken nugget."

"That must be from sometime before we met one another," Shadow Venoct remarked.

"Putting aside your unusual euphemisms and the bad blood between you and Shadow Venoct, how did things change?" Venoct asked the exercising yo-kai.

"I met a strong yo-kai one day," Sergeant Burly went on, "He was not only strong, but fit as well. He got me working out, and eventually I dropped all of that extra weight I had. But then I took that yo-kai's teachings a step further, transforming myself into the yo-kai you see before you today!" Sergeant Burly then flexed his arms, showing off his bulging muscles.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever," Shadow Venoct said in a mildly annoyed tone. Pointing to Sergeant Burly, Shadow Venoct continued, "Look, we don't need Mrs. Adams to become a muscular freak like you. We just need you to get her back to this." Shadow Venoct took out a photo which he handed to Sergeant Burly. It was a photo of Lily back before she stuffed herself silly under the influence of those three Hungorges.

"Hey, how did you get that photo?" Lily asked, more curious than anything.

"Nate gave it to the boys and I at my request," Kira explained, "We needed a point of reference to show to Sergeant Burly so that he'd understand what we're asking for."

After looking back and forth between the photo of Lily and Lily as she was at the moment, Sergeant Burly said, "I can do that." Handing the photo back to Shadow Venoct, Sergeant Burly continued, "This reminds me of how that yo-kai helped to get me back into shape. I always wanted to for someone what that yo-kai did for me. You know, to pay it forward."

"Alright, we'll leave you to it," Kira said as she and her yo-kai friends turned to leave. The four of them didn't get too far, however, before they were stopped.

"Hold it right there, you four!" Sergeant Burly called out, getting Kira and the Venoct brothers to stop in place.

Sighing in an annoyed tone, Shadow Venoct said as he and the others turned back around, "What the heck do you want this time, you bronze-skinned buffoon?"

"Who ever said that this chunky chicken nugget was the only one I'm enrolling into Burly's Beat Camp?" Sergeant Burly asked while jerking a thumb at Lily. Pointing dramatically to Kira and her yo-kai friends, Sergeant Burly continued, "You four are also going to get in on the action!"

"No," Shadow Venoct replied instantly.

"Although a good work out does sound nice, my brothers, Kira and I are already in good physical shape," Venoct pointed out, "There shouldn't be any need for the four of us to join you and Mrs. Adams in working out."

"Working out is always better if people do it in a group!" Sergeant Burly declared.

"He's got a point," Nate said, "In fact, my mom usually works out in a group with Mrs. Forester and Mrs. Bernstein. But neither of them are available right now, so I'm joining mom's work out group instead."

"Aww, well aren't you a mommy's little prince," Illuminoct remarked.

"Mommy's little prince?" Kira repeated in a confused tone.

"That's the opposite gender counterpart of daddy's little princess, right?" Illuminoct asked as he turned to face his human friend.

"You're…technically correct, I suppose," Kira replied in a mildly unsure and confused tone, "But I never heard it quite put that way before."

"I never heard it put that way before either," Lily remarked, "Although it does kind of have a nice ring to it, now that I think about it."

"Enough of that stuff!" Sergeant Burly declared, "It's time for Burly's Beat Camp!"

"Someone out there must hate me, I swear," Shadow Venoct thought as he reluctantly went back over with his brothers and Kira to where they were standing before they tried to leave.


"Work those deltoids!" Sergeant Burly exclaimed as he led Kira, the Venoct brothers, Nate and Lily in a workout routine, "Bring those knees up! Knees up! Knees up!"

With the exercising yo-kai getting into leading the group work out, the Venoct brothers found themselves free to talk quietly amongst themselves. "You know, I think Mrs. Adams is really getting into this," Venoct said to Shadow Venoct. The two of them turned their respective heads to see Lily mirroring the movements Sergeant Burly was making, working up a sweat in the process. The two brothers turned back to face each other, with Venoct saying, "I think that this might actually work."

"At least Atticus the Kyubi brothers don't have to put up with this musclebound moron," Shadow Venoct whispered to his more optimistic brother.

"Oh, come on," Venoct replied as he and his brothers continued to go along with the workout routine, "You really need to cut Sergeant Burly some slack."

"I am cutting him some slack," Shadow Venoct said, "It's just that I got a lot of beef with Sergeant Burly is all."

"We can go over that at a later time," Venoct remarked, "And as a side note, you mentioning Atticus and the Kyubi brothers got me thinking. What are they up to right now?"

In a vault room in the back of Gourd Pond Museum in Breezy Hills, Kyubi, Frostail and Darkyubi were fighting a gigantic animated suit of samurai armor. The one sword that it held had broken, and when Frostail threw an elemental ice attack at the armor's body, it shattered, revealing a small mouse inside, apparently operating the armor as if it were a giant mech robot. In this state, the armor was helpless.

"Alright, guys," Atticus said as he stood behind his yo-kai friends, "The Phantasamurai is down! Finish it off!" Frostail and Darkyubi proceeded to repeatedly throw elemental ice and draining attacks at the downed Phantasamurai while Kyubi started charging up a powerful fire attack. When he was finished, Kyubi threw a great inferno at the downed boss yo-kai, finishing it off before the mouse, who was struggling to repair the armor, could even finish.

After the defeated boss yo-kai disappeared in a swirling cloud of purple smoke, Atticus and the Kyubi brothers were approached by what seemed to be a normal high school girl, albeit with long dark hair that was wild in some places. This girl was actually floating in midair, and holding a journal with a red cover.

"I knew that there was some manner of cursed object in this museum," the floating high school girl said to Atticus and the three fox yo-kai, "But I did not expect such a reaction when we tried looking into the matter. I'm sorry for any trouble you four went through on my behalf."

"It is a nonfactor, Foiletta," Darkyubi assured the floating high school girl, who is actually a yo-kai, "You'd be surprised how often things like this tend to pop up for my brothers, Atticus and I. In fact, I'd say that this was easier than our fight against the Tarantutor." Turning to face his brothers, Darkyubi asked, "What do you guys think?"

"I think that fight was actually easier than the one we had against the Tarantutor," Frostail remarked, "Despite the fact we were dealing with a giant animated suit of samurai armor that was wilding swinging katanas around."

"Now that the little nuisance we just finished dealing with is out of the way," Kyubi began, "What about that thing you said you were looking for, Foiletta?"

"Kyubi's got a point," Atticus remarked, "This is the only place in the museum that we haven't check yet for that missing item you're trying to locate."

"It should be among the stored objects here," Foiletta replied, "Give me a moment." Atticus and his yo-kai friends proceeded to watch as Foiletta went about searching the entire vault room. After about a minute or so, the high school girl yo-kai exclaimed, "Aha!" Foiletta then held up what looked like a necklace of some kind. It had a charm that resembled a magatama.

"That's the thing you were looking for?" Atticus asked Foiletta as he pointed to the necklace that she held.

Nodding in the affirmative, Foiletta said, "This was given to me by a friend of mine a while ago, before I became known as Foiletta. However, this was confiscated from me when I visited this museum by a curator who thought it was an actual magatama necklace that I was trying to steal from the museum, even though the museum doesn't have any such display. Later that night I had an asthma attack, and when I woke up I found that I had become a yo-kai."

"So now that you got your necklace back, are you good to go?" Atticus asked.

"There is one more thing," Foiletta admitted, "Do you know of Mount Middleton, over in the Harrisville area? There is a small sort of shrine at the top of Mount Middleton." Holding up the necklace she recovered, Foiletta said, "My friend who gave me this necklace and I always wanted to go to the top of Mount Middleton so that we could see the view. But then I became a yo-kai, so that plan flew out the window." Lowering the arm that she was using to hold the necklace, Foiletta said, "The last thing I can think of before I can feel at peace is to go to Mount Middleton's summit and see the view. I can't do so with my friend physically, but I feel I can do so with her in spirit if I bring this necklace she gave me along."

"Harrisville, huh?" Atticus remarked, "You know, I've been meaning to check that place out myself at some point. It's going to be a bit of a trip, but it's nothing I'd object to." Turning to face the Kyubi brothers, Atticus added, "Unless any of you three have any objections."

"That sounds like a peaceful journey where one can take in the sights," Frostail remarked, "Count me in."

"I'm itching to see all of this come to fruition, so I'm in as well," Kyubi said.

"I myself am also wanting to see Harrisville," Darkyubi stated, "So I'd be glad to tag along."

With a mildly amused smirk, Atticus turned to face Foiletta and said, "Looks like we're all in, Foiletta. When are you ready to head out?"

"As soon as you are," Foiletta answered, "I'll be waiting for you in the train station in Downtown Springdale." With that, Foiletta poofed away in a cloud of swirling purple smoke. After Foiletta had left, Atticus turned to face the Kyubi brothers.

"Well, looks like we ought to get ready for a trip," Atticus remarked.

"We haven't had a job that took us out of Springdale since the time we had to go check out that small shrine in San Fantastico," Frostail said, "This is kind of exciting."

Atticus merely hummed to himself in mild amusement; leave it to Frostail to be eager for a job that involved travel. But then again, who doesn't like to roam about, to take in the sights and experience new things? It was something that Atticus could not blame Frostail for in the least.


Sometime later, Sergeant Burly was back at the Springdale Sports Club, working with Lily to help her lose weight. Nate, Kira and the Venoct brothers were also there, working out alongside Lily. "Get ready for some core work!" Sergeant Burly declared suddenly into the work out, "Get on the floor!"

"I can't believe that we're actually doing this," Shadow Venoct remarked to himself as he and everyone else laid on the floor on their backs.

"Let's see some sit ups, ladies!" Sergeant Burly commanded, "Come on, squeeze those abs!"

"Th-this is really exhausting," Lily huffed in a mildly exhausted manner as she was finding trying to do a sit up to be something of a challenge.

"I SAID SQUEEZE THEM!" Sergeant Burly exclaimed, startling everyone into successfully doing one sit up each.

As everyone started to do some sit ups, Shadow Venoct turned to Illuminoct and said, "You know, Atticus and the Kyubi brothers are really lucky in that they aren't being forced into some sort of workout."


Over in the Harrisville area, Atticus and the Kyubi brothers got a good workout by climbing up to the top of Mount Middleton, not that such physical activity was a bother to them. When they reached the summit, they all took pause to take in the view.

"Now I see why Foiletta and her friend wanted to come all the way up here," Frostail remarked in a tone of amazement, "The view up here is breathtakingly beautiful."

"And we got here right when the sun is setting, so our timing could not have been better," Atticus said. Turning around, Atticus face Foiletta, the client of the job that Atticus and his yo-kai friends had undertaken. "So Foiletta, where is the shrine?" Atticus asked.

After looking around for a bit, Foiletta saw something and pointed to it. "It's over there," Foiletta replied, making Atticus and the Kyubi brothers turn to face a simple stone pillar that resembled the carved stone grave markers you would often see in a Japanese cemetery. Going over to the shrine, Foiletta took a good look at it. "…Oh, so that's what it's here for," Foiletta remarked aloud to herself. Turning back around to face the others, Foiletta said, "My friend and I talked about what the shrine at the top of Mount Middleton was for. After taking a look at it, I learned that both my guess and my friend's guess was wrong."

"That's kind of funny, if you think about it," Kyubi remarked.

After a few seconds, Foiletta chuckled a bit. "Heh, I see what you're getting at," Foiletta replied.

"So, what's on the agenda now?" Atticus asked the high school girl yo-kai.

"Now…" Foiletta began, "…I'm good, actually." Pulling out the necklace she recovered from the vault room over at the Gourd Pond Museum, Foiletta said as she looked at the magatama charm, "You guys have done all that I could have asked of you. Now that I've settled everything that's been on my mind, I…I have no idea what to do now, actually."

With a shrug, Atticus said, "I'm sure you think of-"

"Already did that," Foiletta said, interrupting Atticus in the process. Foiletta floated over to Atticus and said, "Hold your hand out." Doing at he was asked, Atticus held his hand out. When he did, Foiletta deposited something into Atticus's outheld hand. Taking a look at what he got, Atticus saw that it was Foiletta's yo-kai medal.

"Huh, thanks," Atticus replied in a mildly surprised tone, "Glad to have you on board."

"I kind of feel that be became friends over the course of you guys helping me," Foiletta replied, "So why not make it official?"

"Welcome to the team, Foiletta," Kyubi said, "You could not have picked a better group to join."

"We're looking forward to working with you," Frostail remarked.

"I'm looking forward to it as well," Foiletta said, her eyes closed as she smiled. Atticus was glad to have recruited a new yo-kai friend, especially one like Foiletta. She doesn't seem like the kind of being who'd get on Atticus's nerves.


Sergeant Burly was without a doubt the kind of being who'd get on Shadow Venoct's nerves, but that's beside the point. It had been a week since Sergeant Burly started working with Lily to help her lose weight, and Kira and the Venoct brothers were walking up to the Springdale Sports Club to see how things were going for the well-fed matriarch of the Adams family. It was getting close to evening, as the sun was setting, so the group expected to meet up with Lily and Nate outside of the sports club as it was closing down for the evening.

"It's been a few days since we left Mrs. Adams with Sergeant Burly," Shadow Venoct remarked to his brothers and Kira as they walked, "You don't think that he somehow screwed things up, do you? Because I sure do."

"Okay, Shadow Venoct," Kira replied, "I've got to know. What happened in the past between you and Sergeant Burly that caused your deep-seated anger at him?"

Shadow Venoct was about to explain why he has a beef with Sergeant Burly, but before he could say a word, the group heard Nate call out, "Hey Kira, Venoct, Shadow Venoct, Illuminoct! Over here!" Kira and her yo-kai friends turned in the direction that Nate's call came from. When they did, they saw Nate and Lily walking up to them with Sergeant Burly. To the surprise of Kira and the Venoct brothers, Lily was as slim as she was in the photo that was shown to Sergeant Burly.

"Behold the awesomeness of my patented exercise routine!" Sergeant Burly said to the group as he gestured to Lily, "I took the chunky chicken nugget that you brought to me and turned her into a brand-new woman!"

"…What?" Shadow Venoct said, his tone clearly showing that he could not believe what he was hearing or seeing.

"It does feel good to finally be able to go back to my original wardrobe," Lily remarked, "Boy, let me tell you that I never want to go through that again!"

"…What?" Shadow Venoct said again, and with the same tone as before.

Lily and Nate took their leave, leaving Kira and the Venoct brothers with Sergeant Burly. Looking into the distance in which Lily and Nate left, Sergeant Burly sighed. "I've always wanted to pay forward the kindness that yo-kai who helped me did," the exercising yo-kai remarked, "After working with that woman, I'd like to think I succeeded on that part."

"So, what are you going to do now?" Kira asked the exercising yo-kai. At that prompting, Sergeant Burly threw on a full travel suit, as if in a flash.

Putting a fedora onto his head, Sergeant Burly said as he picked up a suitcase, "My work here is done. I'm going to be going on tour to promote Burly's Beat Camp, and maybe see if I can help another chunky chicken nugget drop his or her spare tire. But if you ever wanna get ahold of me, though…"

The exercising yo-kai paused midsentence, reached into the front pocket of his suit top, pulled something out and handed it to Kira. When she saw what it was, Kira was mildly surprised that it was Sergeant Burly's yo-kai medal. When Kira and the Venoct brothers looked to Sergeant Burly, the exercising yo-kai flashed a smile and said, "…You how to reach me." Turning around, Sergeant Burly then walked into the sunset, leaving his new human friend behind.

After Sergeant Burly was out of sight, Shadow Venoct said, "Well Kira, I suppose that's one yo-kai friend you'll never be calling upon."

"What yo-kai now?" a familiar voice called out, getting Kira and the Venoct brothers to turn around. When they did, they saw Atticus and the Kyubi brothers come up. It had been Atticus who had called out.

"What did we miss while we were gone?" Kyubi asked.

"Nate's mom got back down to her original weight thanks to the help of a yo-kai who just gave his yo-kai medal to Kira," Shadow Venoct explained.

"Really," Atticus replied, "Well, the Kyubi brothers and I just got back from a trip that we took out to Harrisville."

"Harrisville?" Kira replied in a confused tone, "What the heck were the four of you doing all the way out there?"

"Assisting a friendly yo-kai with a matter she presented to us," Atticus explained, "She even gave me her yo-kai medal when all was said and done."

"Heh," Kira chuckled in an amused tone, "It looks like both of our respective little groups are growing by the day, wouldn't you say, Atticus?"

"It seems like it," Atticus replied, right before everyone shared a group laugh. Atticus and the Kyubi brothers even joined Kira and the Venoct brothers in walking back to Uptown Springdale. As they made their way back to their neighborhood, the two humans and six yo-kai felt that things were going to go pretty smoothly.

END, YO-KAI WATCH ADVENTURES CHAPTER FOUR

Author's notes:

I thought that some follow-up on the job Kira and her yo-kai friends had in chapter one was necessary, and I figured that at least some people would get a kick out of seeing Sergeant Burly hitting the scene, so I came up with this chapter. Also, the B-plot involving Atticus and Foiletta sort of plays with the idea that has been presented in the series proper of how some yo-kai used to be humans. Anywho, the next chapter will see two S-rank rare yo-kai arguing with each other about what's the best way to deal with a boss enemy.