The three friends all enter the café and are immediately hit with cool wind, the smell of hazelnut coffee, and the sound of hipsters blogging on their smartphones.
"Ah, so this Café Shanista." Whisper commented while floating around. "Quite the vivacious atmosphere!"
"Whisper, we've been here before. Don't you remember?" asked Katie. "I bought you a parfait here after you were crying about not being able to use the Model Zero Watch."
"Oh yeah. That story…"
"Still I don't blame you for being impressed. Coming here is always a pleasant experience."
"Sure is!" Alex chimed in causing Katie to get startled.
"Huh!? Oh, yeah. I was definitely talking to you and no one else ehehehe."
"Well great! Let's go order!"
The friends walked up to the counter to order their treats. Alex's eyes sparkled and her mouth watered at all the desserts on display.
"One strawberry shortcake please." Ordered Sarah.
"Chocolate parfait for me," Alex ordered, wiping the drool from her mouth. "And a stack of Royal Pancakes, no cinnamon, that my friend Katie here will generously pay for."
"Yeah, 'generously.' " Katie sarcastically replied and sighed. "I suppose I'll just have a plain cheesecake slice then."
The friends received their treats and sat down with them. Sarah was savoring her strawberry shortcake while Alex wolfed down her Royal Pancakes and chocolate parfait simultaneously. Katie on the other hand ate her cheesecake with no special reaction, which made sense since it was just plain old, ordinary cheesecake. Katie was a girl who never settled for less if she could help it so not being able to get a raspberry cheesecake slice somewhat upset her, though she'd never admit it. Still she liked being with her friends and tried to make the best out of the situation.
"This is so nice," she smiled. "I mean doesn't this place just feel like heaven on earth?"
"Any place that doesn't make you feel guilty for eating dessert before dinner is heaven on earth to me." Agreed Sarah.
"And thankfully my pancakes don't have cinnamon on them, otherwise it'd be hell on earth for me." Chimed in Alex.
"Huh? You don't like cinnamon?" asked Katie.
"Don't like it? I'm allergic to the stuff! Highly allergic. It makes me break out in hives all over my butt and in-between my thighs!"
A nearby customer choked on her smoothie after hearing that. Katie stopped eating for a minute with her fork in her mouth and gave Alex a look of disapproval.
"Last time I ate cinnamon I was itching for days and whenever I scratched, I didn't wash my hands afterwards."
Hearing this made another customer do a spit take on his girlfriend.
"Alex… Why are you saying that here?" Katie asked looking completely disgusted. "And so loudly?"
"You know, I remember one time I was picking my nose when I was alone and found a booger that looked just like one of these strawberries." Revealed Sarah. "Obviously it didn't taste like a strawberry but the texture was nice nonetheless."
Even more customers started to choke on their food and drinks while Katie completely dropped her fork looking absolutely stunned by what she was hearing. Some customers started to get so disgusted that they began to leave.
"Gross."
"There goes my appetite."
"Some people just have no class."
"They're all leaving because of us." Katie said to herself while sinking in her seat.
"Hey Katie, are you really going to eat that whole piece of cheesecake?" asked Sarah "You know that stuff goes straight to your butt, right? And everyone says you have a big butt."
Katie began to blush out of anger. "Excuse me!?"
"Yeah everyone at school thinks so. If you eat like this, you're gonna be real fat by the time we start high school."
Another customer started snickering while typing on his phone.
Katie stared blankly at her friends for a few seconds wanting to get angry but then closing her eyes and taking a deep breath. "Ooookay. I'm gonna need to take a trip to restroom for a minute."
"Oh I understand how that feels." Acknowledged Alex. "Like this one time after I ate fried chicken and I had the ru-"
"That's nice, Alex. Buh-bye!" Katie backed away from the table as fast as she could before Alex could finish her story. She then hid behind the coffee barrel so no one could see her.
"Wow, are those really the conversations young girls have at cafés nowadays?" Whisper said, floating to Katie's side.
"Of course not, Whisper! Don't act like this is normal! Alex and Sarah would never reveal secrets like that in a public place like a café! People are leaving because of what they're saying! On top of that, I'm pretty sure Sarah wouldn't call me fat when we're all eating sweets! You know there has to be a Yo-kai behind this!"
Katie popped the Yo-kai Lens on her watch to search for a Yo-kai near Sarah and Alex. Of course, Whisper "lectured" her on blaming Yo-kai for everything, eyes closed and finger wagging.
"Katie, you're a lot more kindhearted than Nate I'll give you that, but blaming Yo-kai for everything isn't very nice. Maybe they're just comfortable about telling you these things no matter who else can hear and Sarah is just worried about your health."
"There!"
"No way!"
The Yo-kai revealed was an elderly woman with long arms wearing a face veil and traditional clothing. She also had two speakers with their jacks connected to the back of Alex and Sarah's necks as if they were cyborg-human hybrids of some sort.
"OH MY GOSH!" exclaimed Whisper. "IT'S HER! IT'S REALLY HER!"
"You know who she is?" asked Katie. "She must be a Classic Yo-kai then."
"Not even! That's the world famous Tattlecast, whis~!"
"Tattlecast? If she's so world famous then how come I've never heard of her?"
"Because she's famous only in the Yo-kai World! Her podcast entitled The Tattlecast is the most popular podcast there! Jibanyan, Hidabat, and I listen to it every week when Nate's asleep! Even Yo-kai superstars like Steve Jaws and Directator listen to it!"
"Wow, if that's the case it sounds like she's quite a big deal. So that's the podcast Manjimutt was listening to!"
"Most likely, yes."
"What's her podcast about, anyway?"
"Why, humans and their dirty little secrets, whis~!"
"What?"
"Look!" Whisper pointed at Tattlecast making Alex and Sarah reveal their secrets to each other while she recorded their voices with a tape recorder. "Tattlecast has possessed your friends and is now making them reveal their deepest and grossest secrets! She does this with other humans until she has enough secrets to record an hour-long podcast every week and each one is comedy gold! Except for episode 42, that one sucked."
"That's horrible! They're called 'secrets' for a reason and she's wrong for making people reveal theirs like that, especially in a public place such as a café! Then she has the nerve to repeat them on a podcast? Only the worst kinds of people do that!"
"Wow, I didn't realize you'd have such strong feelings about this. You know only Yo-kai listen to the podcast, right?"
"But what about the people around the person who reveals their secrets? You saw how all those other people reacted when Sarah and Alex revealed theirs. This isn't right and I'm gonna call Sailornyan to put a stop to it. Surely she wouldn't approve of something so lowbrow."
"Lowbrow?" Whisper began to look a bit lugubrious knowing that his dear friend absolutely detested something he loved. He felt like Katie hated him too for finding enjoyment in something she didn't personally approve of.
