The next morning, his first day of being called Prince Mashiro, wasn't very great. Kokoro had went with the kingdom's newly-recruited army to help surrounding towns ravaged by Tainai's wrath. After breakfast, almost everything was stacked on top of him! From trying a new outfit for himself to picking an ambassador, it was just too much.
After all that work, Mashiro flopped onto his new bed, which had Zelda accents all over it. Nearby, Matsu crashed on his Pokeball-shaped bed, also exhausted.
"Is this what all the heroes go through after the game's over?" Mashiro thought as he closed his eyes.
He had taken a brief nap until there was a knock on the door. He woke up and opened the door. It was one of the maids with his school uniform. She had freckles and her mahogany hair in braided French pigtails.
"Your uniform, Master Shiitake." she said in a Texan accent, placing it on a chest by the bed's foot.
He looked through his freshly-washed and dried uniform. The jacket and shirt shined from the sunlight and both felt soft. His gray plaid pants and red tie were warm and fuzzy. The item that caught Mashiro's eye was his Smash Circle patch, no longer made of paper and tape. It was now a button made of red and black rhinestones that shimmered in the sunshine.
"Also, Princess Kokoro has arrived." the maid added.
"Thanks, Amabel!" Mashiro said in a rush as he dashed downstairs.
He reached the bottom of the stairs just as Kokoro was about to leave the door.
"Koko!" he stopped her.
"Oh, hey, Mushy. What's up?" she asked.
Her horseback outfit was just as pretty as her wedding gown. It was magenta and pink with bleeding heart flowers sewn on them. Around her neck was a purple cape with a large and very fancy 'K' stitched on it.
"Can you take me with you? Please?" he asked like a little kid with his mom.
"I'd like to, but who will take over Logshka while I'm gone?" she asked.
Realizing that he would take the riens of the kingdom, Mashiro sighed and replied with a soft 'Okay.'
With a wave of goodbye, Kokoro was back on her horse, off to find another town to help recover.