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Yo-kai Watch Adventures
Chapter eleven: Enter! A new mascot!
Kira, a thirteen-year-old girl who lives in the Uptown Springdale area, was making her way over to the residence of the Adams family. Kira is one of two people who befriends yo-kai, and as such, she was accompanied by two of her yo-kai friends, Venoct and Illuminoct. The two of them were brothers, and they were brothers with the third member of their trio, Shadow Venoct. But their shadowy brother wasn't home for some reason.
"Can't you just summon Shadow Venoct with the Yo-kai Watch?" Venoct asked his human friend as they made their way to their destination.
"Shadow Venoct is part of the reason why Mrs. Adams asked that I come over," Kira explained, "Trust me, you'll find out what happened when we get there." Within another minute or so of walking, Kira, Venoct and Illuminoct finally made it to the Adams residence. Kira knocked on the door, and after a few seconds of waiting, it was answered by Lily, AKA Mrs. Adams.
The svelte-figured woman had obviously been performing an at-home exercise routine, as she was wearing a pale light-yellow sweatband, a pale light-blue women's tank top, a pair of gym shorts the same color as the tank top, and her lavender leg warmers. Lily also wore a look of resigned disappointment on her face. Looking up at the Adams matriarch, Kira said, "Okay, I'm here to pick them up."
"Well alright then," Lily replied as she turned around and gestured for Kira, Venoct and Illuminoct to come inside. Upon entering the living room of the Adams residence, Kira, Venoct and Illuminoct saw Shadow Venoct and Sergeant Burly sitting on the sofa, looking down in shame. Gesturing to the two yo-kai on her sofa, Lily said, "I believe these belong to you."
Kira sighed in disappointment while Illuminoct started to laugh. "Wait a minute," Venoct began in a mildly surprised tone, "Shadow Venoct did something to get into trouble? Isn't that usually Illuminoct's deal?"
"Yeah, I kind of want to know myself, Mrs. Adams," Kira remarked, "What did Shadow Venoct and Sergeant Burly do?"
"Hmph," Lily replied in a mildly annoyed tone, "I suppose you have a right to know…"
(FLASHBACK)
Lily, wearing a new outfit she got for working out, was standing in front of the TV while going along with an exercise routine that was on. Specifically, the TV was on a yo-kai world channel, and the exercise show was hosted by Sergeant Burly (it was a repeat, though). Lily was even singing along to the song that was playing while she was working out.
"I'm too scared to speak to that boy in my class," Lily sang along as she spun her forearms around each other, "If he doesn't like me I'll be broken like-"
*CRASH* "GYAHHHHH!" Lily stopped mid-routine when she heard the sound of a window on the second floor breaking, followed by her son Nate crying out in alarm, and that was followed by what sounded like two people getting into a fight with each other. Fearing for the safety of her son (and rightly so), Lily made a quick dash from in front of the TV to the staircase. Leaping up multiple steps at a time, the Adams matriarch was on the second floor and making her way over to her son's room within two seconds.
Practically throwing Nate's bedroom door open, Lily exclaimed, "Nate, are you o-" Lily stopped short upon seeing what was going on; her son Nate stood off to the side as he watched Shadow Venoct and Sergeant Burly having what looked like an old fashioned unarmed fight in the middle of the bedroom. Looking over, Lily saw that Nate's bedroom window was broken, and that there were bits of broken glass on the floor.
"Well that explains the sound of glass breaking," Lily thought as she turned her attention back to the two fighting yo-kai. Shadow Venoct looked like he was thrusting both fists forward for a double punch, but Sergeant Burly caught both hits in his hands.
"Aha!" Sergeant Burly laughed, "Nice try, Sha-" The exercising yo-kai was cut of mid-brag when he was struck in the face by two fists. After recovering from stumbling back, Sergeant Burly saw that both of the dragon heads of Shadow Venoct's scarves were moving back and forth, while Shadow Venoct's fists were pulled back, showing that the S-rank rare yo-kai was ready to go on the offensive again. It was then that Sergeant Burly realized that he had actually caught the dragon heads of the scarf, not Shadow Venoct's actual fists.
"…Clever girl," Sergeant Burly remarked in a quiet tone of amazement, right before a flying kick from Shadow Venoct struck Sergeant Burly in his stomach. After Sergeant Burly recovered from that, the two yo-kai were in each other's faces. As they were like that, they both felt their heads being pulled back; looking to the side, both Shadow Venoct and Sergeant Burly saw that Lily was grabbing the backs of their respective heads. The Adams matriarch then banged the foreheads of the two yo-kai together.
"What is wrong with you two?!" Lily snapped at the two quarreling yo-kai.
(FLASHBACK OVER)
"The two of you are lucky that Nate wasn't hurt," Lily said as she scolded the two yo-kai who sat on her sofa, "But seriously! Do you have any idea how afraid I was that something happened to my son? Be glad that the most I'm expecting out of this is for Nate's window to be fixed and an apology for this whole mess that you caused!"
"Yeah, covering the cost for replacing the window is reasonable," Kira remarked, getting Lily's attention in the process, "It's also well within my budget, given all the jobs I'm commissioned to carry out, and the fact that I'm pretty lucky when it comes to getting ahold of dolls made of precious metals."
"Wow, I did not expect something like this out of either of you two," Venoct said to Shadow Venoct and Sergeant Burly, "Illuminoct, maybe. But either of you two?" Shaking his head in a mildly disappointed manner, Venoct continued, "No way."
"Yeah, that could have gone better," Shadow Venoct remarked, sounding ashamed, as he agreed with his brother's remark. Sergeant Burly was about to say something, but he was cut off when the sound of a hissing cat caught everyone's attention. Turning to face the direction the sound came from, everyone saw a cat standing in the living room.
The cat was small and had reddish-orange fur with a white pattern of fur around his face that sort-of resembled a dollop of whipped cream, as well as having white fur over its chest. The cat also had white paws. Around the cat's neck was a simple gray collar with a pale light-blue tag on it. The cat walked over, leapt onto Shadow Venoct's lap, turned to face Sergeant Burly, and gave another angry hiss while swiping its right front paw in a warning manner.
"When did you guys get a cat?" Kira asked.
"Oh, that reminds me," Lily replied as her mood lightened considerably, "You remember telling me about back when you and your yo-kai friends solved the problem of a lot of kids having great trouble getting to sleep, and how you saw the respective preferred dreams of Nate, Katie, Eddie and Bear? Well, Nate's always behaved himself, and his grades in school are very impressive, so I figured that it wouldn't hurt to go to the animal shelter with Nate and let him pick out a cat."
Nate's new cat proceeded to nuzzle its head against Shadow Venoct while purring affectionately. Shadow Venoct got a mild laugh when, as he petted the cat, it purred a bit louder. When Sergeant Burly tried reaching over to the cat to pet it, the cat swiped a paw at the exercising yo-kai's hand while hissing in an angry tone; this made Shadow Venoct laugh even more.
"Heh," the S-rank rare yo-kai chuckled as he gently stroked the cat's back, "Good kitty. That's a very good kitty."
"Shadow Venoct, please don't encourage cats to act hostile towards Sergeant Burly," Kira said. Turning to face Lily, Kira continued with a bit of a smile, "Although it's still pretty nice of you to go through the trouble of letting Nate get a cat, Mrs. Adams." Pointing to the cat, Kira asked, "What's the cat's name?"
"Nate named him Steve," Lily explained. As she saw Steve the cat hiss angrily at Sergeant Burly again, Lily said in a mildly bemused tone, "And Steve seems to think that the whole mess is all Sergeant Burly's fault. By the way, I still expect the cost of replacing the window to be covered, and I'm still wanting that apology." Nodding in understanding, Kira proceeded to ask about which window repair place Lily was going to contact so that she'd have an idea how much she'd have to shell out.
The following day, Lily was entertaining her friend Rebecca Forester. Lily and Rebecca, with Nate and Katie sitting next to their respective mothers, were having a lovely enough talk about recent events that took place.
"It's a shame that neither Jason or Arron could have made it to the play due to work," Rebecca remarked, "I bet that they would have gotten a kick out of seeing Katie and Nate act in-" The Forester matriarch stopped midsentence when she felt her side ponytail knocked off her shoulder and fall over her back. Turning around, Rebecca saw Steve sitting behind her on the back of the sofa. The cat was simply staring at her as he purred while he swished his tail back and forth.
"Oh, that's Nate's new cat," Lily said, "I told you about him, remember?"
"He so cute!" Katie gushed as she looked at the cat. Turning to face Nate, Katie asked, "What did you name him?"
"I named him Steve," Nate explained.
With a bit of an amused smile, Rebecca said after she put her ponytail back where it was, "Well he certainly seems to be a friendly enough-" Rebecca stopped midsentence once again when she felt her side ponytail knocked off her shoulder and fall over her back. Turning around again to face Steve the cat, Rebecca said in her same amused tone, "Do you think that I'm playing a game with you?" Rebecca gave Steve a gently scratch on his head, which he seemed to enjoy, before putting her ponytail back where it was again and turning back to face Lily.
"But seriously, as I was saying," Rebecca said to Lily, "I bet that Jason and Aaron both would have gotten a-" Rebecca stopped midsentence for a third time when she felt Steve pull her side ponytail off from her shoulder and let it fall down her back. When Rebecca turned to face the small cat, Steve meowed at her, as if to say that she was not going to win this little game.
While Katie giggled at the sight of her mother apparently failing to win an argument against a cat, Nate remarked, "I'm really sorry about Steve messing with you, Mrs. Forrester. I have no idea why he keeps knocking your side ponytail off your shoulder."
The following morning, Nate woke up in his bedroom. As Nate stretched while sitting up in bed, Steve the cat leapt up onto the bed and proceeded to nuzzle against Nate's body while purring in an affectionate manner. Smiling, Nate proceeded to gently stroke Steve's back with his right hand. "Good morning to you too, Steve," Nate said, "Did you sleep well?" Looking up at his owner, Steve meowed before rubbing his head into the palm of the hand that Nate was using to pet him with, eliciting an amused chuckle out of Nate.
…
Later that morning, Nate was walking outside somewhere in the residential area of Uptown Springdale alongside Eddie and Bear. "So, there I was," Bear said as he was beginning to tell a story to his two friends, "Sharply dressed in my Willy Wonka costume, when I heard a girl's voice behind me say that I looked pretty good. I turned, and that's when I saw that it was Lulu who was complementing me."
"Oh yeah, you have a crush on Lulu," Eddie replied as he realized what Bear was trying to get at, "You've been trying to win Lulu over for how long now?"
"Ever since I first saw her back when all of us were in the first grade," Bear said with a nod, "But that was one of the few times I ever remember Lulu saying anything to me at all." With a mildly elated smile on his face, Bear continued, "It was one of the very few things she ever said to me, and it was a complement!"
"Well maybe it had to do with the suit you were wearing for your costume," Nate remarked, "I've been told how girls tend to have a thing for boys who dress in a-" Nate was cut off when he heard a cat meowing. Looking over, Nate saw that he and his friends were across the street from his house, and that his cat Steve was sitting on the front step of the house. "Steve?" Nate said in a confused tone, "What are you doing outside?"
"Your family got a cat, dude?" Eddie asked as he looked at the reddish-orange cat.
"Yeah, my mom took me to the animal shelter and let me pick out a cat because of how I always do very well in school," Nate began to explain. As Nate talked to his friends, Steve the cat, with his tail swishing back and forth a bit, stood up and proceeded to trot over to his owner, eager to have his back stroked. While Steve was trotting over, a car quickly (and somewhat recklessly) turned the corner and started speeding through the street where the Adams residence was located. Seeing the car, Nate's eyes widened with alarm.
"STEVE!" Nate exclaimed worriedly.
Later, Kira and Venoct were walking along in Uptown Springdale alongside Atticus and Kyubi. "Like I was saying, Kira," Atticus said as he faced the thirteen-year-old girl, "That prayer bead necklace you saw me wear when you caught me working out at the Springdale Sports Club was a gift I received on the first birthday I had here after I moved back to Japan. My grandaunt gave me that necklace, saying that it had-"
"Hey Atticus," Kyubi said as he cut off his human friend. Pointing to something that was ahead of the group, Kyubi continued, "Forgive the interruption, but there's something of a scene over in front of that Nate boy's home."
Looking over, the two humans and two yo-kai both saw a number of humans standing around outside of the Adams residence. Lily and Rebecca were giving Gilda (Bear's mom) a royal chewing out from the looks of it, and Katie was talking to Nate, Bear and Eddie, all three of which were sitting on the steps in front of the Adams residence. Nate was sitting with his face over his knees, with his arms around his shins. The Adams boy was also clearly crying.
Looking over, the two young teens and their respective yo-kai friends saw a car parked along the street, and a white sheet laying on the ground, covering something. "…This does not bode well," Atticus remarked as he and the others all walked over to see what was going on. Upon reaching the three adult women, the two young teens and their respective yo-kai friends could hear what they were going on about.
"I am so sorry about what happened," Gilda said in an apologetic tone, "But I-"
"The boys, including your own son," Rebecca began to point out, "Claimed that they saw you turning the corner recklessly, and that you were also driving far quicker than what's legal in the residential area of this neighborhood!"
"You're lucky that you didn't hit one of the boys, Gilda," Lily added, "Things would have ended up way worse if you did!"
"Umm, Mrs. Adams?" Kira began in a somewhat unsure tone, "Mrs. Forester? Mrs. Bernstein? What's going on?" Upon hearing someone speaking out to them, the three women all turned and saw Kira, Atticus, Venoct and Kyubi standing there.
"Oh, hey kids," Lily said, "Umm, something really bad just happened."
"What happened, might I ask?" Atticus replied, thinking that he was not really going to like what the Adams matriarch was going to say.
Sighing in a resigned tone, Lily said while gesturing to Gilda, "A few minutes ago, Gilda here drove through the residential streets of this neighborhood a bit quickly. According to Nate, Bear and Eddie, who were walking along the sidewalk on their way over here, they saw her make a quick turn and speed through. Sadly, Steve got out around that time, saw Nate across the street and, well…" Pointing over to the white sheet on the ground that was covering something, Lily said, "Steve's over there."
"Oh geez," Kira said, covering her mouth with her hands out of shock upon realizing what Lily was getting at. Kira and Venoct proceeded to head over to where Nate was crying so that they could try to comfort him. This left Atticus and Kyubi standing there with the mothers.
"Oh yeah, Kira told me about how you let Nate pick a cat from the animal shelter, Mrs. Adams," Atticus remarked, "It's really tragic that Nate lost his cat so soon after getting it."
"What really breaks my heart about all of this is how devastated Nate is," Lily replied as her expression showed sympathy, "A mother would never want their child to go through such anguish, you know."
"This reminds me of how upset Katie was when a hamster she had died a few years ago," Rebecca remarked, "I never knew it was possible for a second-grade girl to cry that much."
As the mothers talked with each other, mostly Lily and Rebecca continuing to chew Gilda out for her recklessness, Atticus and Kyubi looked over to where the late Steve laid under a white sheet. As the human boy and his nine-tailed fox yo-kai friend looked at the scene, they both saw a small, white sphere of light slowly float up from the tragic remains. Atticus and Kyubi were the only ones who saw that small, white sphere of light, and were also the only ones who saw it fade away, as if it were a wisp of smoke from a barbecue grill.
Atticus and Kyubi turned to regard each other. "…You think that maybe…" Kyubi began, trailing off somewhat as he stopped to consider what he and his human friend just witnessed.
"Maybe, Kyubi," Atticus replied. Turning back to face where Steve laid under the white sheet, Atticus repeated, "Maybe."
The following morning over at the Adams residence, Lily was standing at the counter as she was preparing something, while Nate, still in his sleepwear, was sitting at the table, a dead tired look on his face as he absentmindedly dipped a spoon into a bowl of cereal. His red, puffy eyes and the faint but noticeable races of dried mucus under his nostrils were clear indications that the Adams boy was still grieving for the loss of his cat.
As Lily was doing her thing at the counter and while Nate was pretty much only pretending to eat his bowl of cereal, a pair of small feet could be heard gently patting the floor as the owner of that pair of feet made its way into the kitchen/dining area. "Good morning Nyate," a voice said, "Good morning, Mrs. Nyate's mom. Do we have any Choco-bars?"
"There should be some in the bottom cabinet," Lily said, not even realizing that she was talking to someone she didn't recognize.
"Okay, thanks," the voice replied as the sound of little feet made its way to the bottom most cabinet in the kitchen. When the cabinet door opened, Lily and Nate, both suddenly realizing that someone was in the kitchen/dining area with them, turned to face the cabinets in the kitchen. When they did, they saw the visitor that they had.
The visitor was a bipedal cat that, for the most part, looked a lot like the late Steve the cat. The only differences were that this cat was walking on his hind legs, he had a slight snip in his left ear, he wore a yellow belly wrap around his stomach, his tag was replaced with a bell, and he had two tails rather than one. Also, there were little blue flames on the end of both tails. Ducking out of the bottom cabinet, the bipedal cat was holding a Choco-bar.
"Yum," the cat said as he held the prize that he sought, "This is going to-" The cat stopped short as, realizing he was being watched, he looked up to the stares of Lily and Nate. Regarding the mother and son pair with a confused look, the cat said in a confused tone, "What?"
From outside of the Adams residence, you could hear both Lily and Nate scream in surprise.
A few minutes later, the two-tailed talking cat that had mysteriously showed up at the Adams residence was sitting on the living room sofa as the disk-shaped resonator of a stethoscope was placed against his chest, followed by his stomach. Atticus, who was using the stethoscope, got up as he turned to regard Lily, Nate, Kyubi, Kira and Venoct, all of which were present while Atticus was looking over the mysterious cat that had shown up out of the blue.
"It's as I expected when Kyubi and I saw that small sphere of light leave the deceased remains of Nate's cat yesterday," Atticus remarked to everyone present. To Nate specifically, Atticus said, "Congratulations, Nate, you got your cat back. I hope you don't mind that he's a yo-kai now."
"Wait a minute," Nate said in a tone that was equal parts happiness and confusion as he pointed to the cat on the sofa, "That's Steve? Steve's a yo-kai now?"
"Well that certainly explains why Nyate or Mrs. Nyate's mom didn't recognize me at first," the yo-kai form of Nate's cat remarked. Getting off of the sofa, the cat yo-kai said to everyone that was present, "Although I am now known as Jibanyan."
"Ji…banyan," Kira repeated slowly, clearly having trouble comprehending what was going on.
Nodding once in the affirmative, Jibanyan said, "Yes. Jibanyan." Looking to Venoct and Kyubi, Jibanyan said, "These yo-kai here aren't smelly dummies like that muscular yo-kai who broke Nyate's window, are they? Because if so, then I'm going to have to ask that they both leave. Smelly dummies like that muscular yo-kai who broke Nyate's window have no place in this household as far as I'm concerned!"
"No, no," Kira remarked in a mildly amused tone to the cat yo-kai, "Rest assured that Venoct and Kyubi are well behaved, very smart and are not smelly. …Well, I can only say that much about Venoct. Atticus will have to fill you in on Kyubi."
"Kyubi is indeed well-behaved and does not smell bad," Atticus assured Jibanyan as he looked down to where the cat yo-kai stood.
"Oh, okay," Jibanyan replied, his tone sounding relieved. Jibanyan then pulled something out of his belly warmer and handed it to Atticus. "Nyate doesn't have one of those watches," Jibanyan said as he handed his yo-kai medal over to Atticus, "And you're the guy who examined me, so here you go. Please try not to summon me too much, as I actually kind of like living here."
With a bit of an amused smile, Atticus said as he accepted Jibanyan's medal, "Sure thing."
"Well this is fantastic," Lily remarked, "Granted, it's totally unexpected, but it's still fantastic all the same."
"Yeah," Nate agreed. Turning to face Jibanyan, Nate said, "Glad to have you back St- er, I mean, Jibanyan."
His two tails slowly swishing back and forth, Jibanyan replied, "I'm glad to be back, Nyate. But there is one more thing that I need to point out."
A curious smile on his face, Nate said, "What is it?"
"We're going to be needing more Choco-bars," Jibanyan replied, drawing laughter out of everyone present.
The following afternoon over at the Springdale Business Center in Downtown Springdale, Jason Forester stepped out of a meeting room to get a breath of fresh air. For the past couple of weeks, Jason and his team had been working pretty much nonstop trying to come up with the next wave of yo-kai related merchandise.
There was only so much that they could do, especially when they take into account the fact that a lot of yo-kai don't really like having their likeness used without their consent; a lion-like bipedal yo-kai called Blazion taught Jason and his team that lesson all too well shortly after the phenomena roughly two years ago, which allowed humans to see yo-kai as easily as they could see other humans.
As he looked up at the ceiling on the floor of the Business Center that he was on, Jason let out a sigh. "This next pitch is going to be very tough to sell," Jason said aloud to himself, "Unless a miracle shows up out of nowhere, I have no-"
"Excuse me sir, but have you seen Mr. Nyate's dad by any chance?" a voice spoke up, getting the Forester patriarch's attention. Looking down to where the voice was coming from, Jason saw Jibanyan looking up at him. Jason didn't say anything, as his eyes widened out of shock as he met a yo-kai that he had yet to see before.
Pulling a brown envelope out of his belly warmer, Jibanyan said as he held the envelope, "I was asked to bring this to Mr. Nyate's dad. Mrs. Nyate's mom told me that her husband worked here in this really big building." As Jibanyan was explaining himself to Jason, Aaron Adams came walking out of the same meeting room.
"Hey Jason, we still need to figure out what we're going to do for the next wave of merchandise," Aaron said to his co-worker, "I know that this deadline that we're dealing with really has us in a bind, but you're the team leader, so we really need you to rally…" Stopping short upon seeing that his co-worker and friend was not responding, Aaron said, "Umm, Jason, are you okay, my good man?"
"Oh, there you are, Mr. Nyate's dad!" Jibanyan said as he looked up at Aaron. Holding the brown envelope to Aaron, Jibanyan said, "Mrs. Nyate's mom said that you forgot this at home, so here you go."
"Heh, thanks for the save, little guy," Aaron replied as he accepted the envelope from the cat yo-kai, "And it'd be a lot simpler in the long run if you just called me and my wife Mr. Adams and Mrs. Adams respectively."
Turning to his co-worker, Jason said with a mild hint of shock in his tone, "You know this yo-kai, Aaron?"
"Oh yeah, remember when I told you about how the cat that my wife got for our son was killed a short while ago?" Aaron said as he turned to face Jason. Pointing to Jibanyan, Aaron said while still facing his co-worker, "Yeah, Nate's cat came back as this here yo-kai."
Looking down at where Jibanyan stood, Jason asked him, "What's your name?"
"I'm Jibanyan," the cat yo-kai replied, "My favorite hobbies are having people pet me, eating Choco-bars, and…umm, mister, why are you looking at me like that?"
…
As the other men in Jason and Aaron's team at the Springdale Business Center were still in the meeting room, struggling to come up with any idea on a new pitch for yo-kai merchandise, Jason peeked back into the room.
"Hey men, guess what?" Jason said. After all of the men in the room turned to regard their team's leader, Jason held Jibanyan into the room. "I just found the newest face of our company's line of yo-kai merchandise!" Jason said, drawing cheers from the other men in the room.
As he was being cheered on, Jibanyan simply replied with a confused, "Nya?"
Two days later, as Nate, Bear and Eddie, with Jibanyan following behind Nate, walked through a store in Springdale, Eddie said, "And so that's when Inaho asked me to get this new bag for her that has the face of Nate's yo-kai cat on it. I mean, I know that a boy is supposed to get things for his girlfriend, often at said girlfriend's request, but what really caught my attention is that Inaho asked for that specific bag."
"Hey Nate, what's your yo-kai cat's face doing on the bag Eddie's girlfriend wants him to get for her?" Bear asked.
"My dad and Katie's dad decided to rope Jibanyan into serving as the quote unquote 'newest face of their company's line of yo-kai merchandise', or some other nonsense like that," Nate explained, "That's what my dad told me when he called me and said that he, Katie's dad and their team at the Springdale Business Center needed my permission to go on ahead with their plan to use Jibanyan."
"Well you're my owner, aren't you, Nyate?" Jibanyan asked, "I mean, people have to run stuff like that by you before they can use me for stuff like that, right?" Pulling a Choco-bar out from his belly warmer, Jibanyan unwrapped his favorite treat, surprisingly not melted in the least even thought it was being kept inside of a belly warmer, and took a bite out of it.
"Umm, Nate," Eddie began as he and the other boys saw Jibanyan eat the Choco-bar, "I'm pretty sure that chocolate isn't safe for cats to eat."
"Jibanyan is a yo-kai now, Eddie," Nate pointed out, "I'm pretty sure that stuff like that doesn't apply to him anymore." As the three fifth-grade boys and one cat yo-kai talked, Kira and the Venoct brothers came walking over to them, with Kira waving to get their attention.
"Hey Nate," Kira began, "Word on the street is that Jibanyan is now the new poster boy for the merchandise that is being peddled by the Springdale Business Center. Since you're apparently responsible for looking after Jibanyan, I take it that this means that you and your folks are seeing a nice little bump financially?"
"Yeah, but my dad's handling all of that stuff," Nate replied.
"There's even a new brand of gummy snacks shaped like the head of Nate's yo-kai cat," Bear pointed out, "I heard that Lulu wants to try it, so I was thinking of grabbing her a bag."
"Yeesh," Venoct remarked in a tone of mild amazement, "Who knew that the face of a two-tailed cat yo-kai would be able to sell so much stuff?" As the kids and the yo-kai all talked, they heard a familiar voice call out. Turning to face the direction the call came from, they came face-to-face with Katie and her mother Rebecca. It had been Katie how had called out.
"Well if it isn't the cat who saved the day," Rebecca said in a mildly amused tone while regarding Jibanyan, "You showing up at the company my husband works at really pulled him team out of quite the bind."
"Oh, hi Mrs. Katie's mom, hi Katie," Jibanyan greeted as Rebecca and Katie came up.
"Umm, you can call me Mrs. Forester," Rebecca replied, mildly caught off guard by how Jibanyan referred to her.
"He was pulling something similar with my parents until my dad told him our last name," Nate informed the Forester matriarch.
"I think it's kind of cute how he refers to our respective parents like that," Katie remarked to Nate before turning to face Jibanyan. Kneeling down, Katie ruffled the top of Jibanyan's head while saying, "But then again, a lot about this little guy is cute."
"You got a point, sweetie," Rebecca said as she walked over, knelt down herself, and proceeded to start petting Jibanyan after Katie pulled her hand away. However, about a second after Rebecca started petting Jibanyan, the cat yo-kai jumped up, flicked her side ponytail off of her shoulder so that it fell down her back, then landed back down.
"Didn't I warn you that wearing your hair like that is a cursed hairstyle?" Jibanyan said, "I'm trying to break the curse that's on you, Mrs. Forester."
Sighing, Rebecca remarked, "At least you got my name right this time." The kids and the Venoct brothers all started to laugh as the Forester matriarch sighed in a tone of resigned defeat.
END, YO-KAI WATCH ADVENTURES CHAPTER ELEVEN
Author's notes:
Seeing as how Jibanyan is pretty much the golden boy of the Yo-kai Watch series, I couldn't go for too long without eventually bringing that lovable nekomata in at some point or another. So, this chapter will cover that little issue. Anywho, the next chapter is going to be something of a Halloween special, seeing as how it's October, and Halloween takes place during the tail end of this month.