Katie removed her kitten mittens and pulled a Slippery Tribe medal out of her hoodie pocket. "Yo-kai Watch Model Zero! Calling, Draaagin! Yo-kai Medal, do your thing!" She shouted as she inserted the medal into the watch and turned its dial to 1.

"Oh! Summoning time!" The watch announced.

As an instrumental of the Slippery Tribe's theme played, Draaagin slinked down the rainbow path like a slug as if he didn't want to be summoned in the first place. Then his whole demeanor changed, and he began to walk normally with confidence. However, he started slinking again before making it to the center where he decided to stand with confidence once more, ending the summoning process.

"Summoning Slippery." The watch announced as a light-blue spiral emitted from the center.

"Draaagin!"

"Heeey, it's Katie again." Draaagin said while lying on his side. "Is it tiiime for ramen yet?"

"Not yet, Draaagin." Katie replied. "First you have to hold up your end of the deal."

"Mmmm, what a draaag." Draaagin sighed. "Fiiine, what I have to do again?"

"You need to inspirit the idols so they won't go on stage right now. Tattlecast is hiding in the spotlights waiting for them so she can jump down and make them reveal their secrets. When they don't because of you, Tattlecast will eventually leave. Once she's out of the area, that's when you stop inspiriting the idols and the concert will go on without a hitch."

"And after that, Everything Ramen, riiight?"

"Right! So the idols should still be in their tour bus getting ready to come on stage soon. It's in the museum's parking lot right across from here. You know what to do."

"Iii'm on it!" Draaagin strolled out of the concert area and into Gourd Pond Museum's parking lot towards Next HarMEOWny's tour bus. He stood there, staring at the bus for a few minutes before holding out his right hand, pausing for a moment, then shouting, "Aaand Release!" before breathing in and then blasting an icy breath towards the bus which made it appear to be frozen solid.

"Wait, what is he doing!?" asked Sailornyan who was watching him. "He was supposed to inspirit them, not freeze them!"

"Huh!?" asked Katie.

"Not to worry," Whisper reassured. "That's just how Draaagin inspirits multiple people at once. The idols are perfectly fine, whis~."

Katie looked at Whisper to see that he was reading from the Yo-kai Pad again, so she snatched it from him. "When we get home, I'm flushing this thing down the toilet!"

"No please! I don't want to go through that again!"

"Um, Luna to Hazel Eyes," interrupted Sailornyan. "Something just occurred to me. Won't the audience get restless if Next HarMEOWny takes too long to show up on stage? I mean, what's the duration of Draaagin's power? Over."

"I… Didn't think that far ahead." Katie admitted with a sweat drop appearing on the side of her head.

"I'm baaack!" Draaagin announced. "Nooow can we go eat Everything Ramen? Pleeease?"

"Say Draaagin, how long will the idols be under your influence?"

"Considering I used my most powerful technique on them, shouuuld be only about three to six hours tops."

"What!?" Katie exclaimed as she dropped the Yo-kai Pad, alarming Whisper who quickly caught it just before it hit the ground. "That's way too long! No doubt Tattlecast will leave by then but so will the audience, and they won't be happy!"

"Sorry, buuut that's how my Soultimate Move works. The ooonly way to speed up the process is to melt the ice around the bus, which I can't."

Katie scratched her head out of irritation. "No no no! This isn't what was supposed to happen! Why didn't you tell me your Soultimate Move was the only way you could inspirit multiple people and that it took a long time to wear off!?"

"Weeell, why didn't you ask?"

"I could've told you but..." Whisper passive-aggressively added as he wiped the Yo-kai Pad's screen.

Katie groaned. This whole ordeal was giving her a stress headache. "Man, if only I could summon Blazion right now." She pondered for a few seconds before coming up with another idea, though she wasn't too confident in this one. "I guess, it's up to you Whisper."

"Whis~!? But what can I do?" he asked. "I don't have any fire powers!"

"I know, but you're all I have so just find and use whatever you can. It may seem pointless, but you have to try anyway. I need to go check in with my friends now. I'm counting on you!"

Whisper nodded with a confident "whis" as Katie ran towards the seating area, but truthfully his stomach was overrun with butterflies. He had no idea how he was going to unfreeze the bus on his own.

"Sooo, I guess it's still not time for Everything Ramen, huh?" asked Draaagin as he began to lay across the ground. "Mmmm, what a draaag."

Katie ran down to the section where her friends were seated. "Hey guys, I'm back!"

"Nice. Well the idols haven't gone on stage yet, so you didn't miss anything." Sarah replied.

"Say, do you know why people are giving me and Sarah weird looks?" asked Alex. "Did we do something wrong?"

Katie looked around the crowd and saw some familiar faces from Café Shanista. Those same people who heard Sarah and Alex reveal their secrets at the café last week were there in the audience, judging them. This bothered Katie to no end, but in typical fashion she did her best to hide the truth. "Oh, those are probably just some superfans upset that you aren't wearing a shirt with their favorite idol on it or something. Don't pay them any mind."

"Yeah, you're probably right." Alex smiled.

Meanwhile, Whisper floated in front of the frozen tour bus at a loss of what to do about it. "Oh, I don't want to disappoint Katie, but what does she expect me to do about this?"

"Why don't you try putting some of that hot air of yours to good use for once? Over." joked Sailornyan.

"Oh, shut up!" Whisper didn't want to admit it, but Sailornyan might have been on to something. So he took in deep breaths and exhaled puffs of hot air all around the tour bus.

Sailornyan looked at him with disbelief. "Wow. I didn't think he would actually…"

"The crowd izzz zzztarting to get agitated." Acknowledged Moskevil. "If he doezzzn't hurry I predict an unfavorable outcome will occur. It would look very bad for Next HarMEOWny to not show up after their fanzzz paid all that money to attend their concert. Over"

"You're absolutely right, Bloodsucker. Therefore, I'm leaving my post to go help him since I'm closer to the concert, so you need to be extremely attentive now. Over."

"By myzzzelf? Oh dear, thizzz izzz what I get for not pulling my own weight earlier."

"What?"

"Nothing! I'll keep a good watch!"

Sailornyan ran towards the elevator, but had to wait for it to come all the way up. "Come on come on come on!"

Back at the concert, many fans were getting tired of waiting for Next HarMEOWny to show up, though Katie's friends were more concerned than impatient.

"What's taking them so long?" asked Sarah. "I hope none of them got sick."

"Yeah that wouldn't be good for anyone." Alex fretted. She then noticed Katie sweating, twiddling her thumbs and shaking her legs. "Um Katie, are you okay? You're not coming down with anything are you?"

Katie laughed with her left arm behind her head. "No no of course not! I'm just a little anxious is all."

"I hear ya, it's not like Next HarMEOWny to be late like this. What if something really did happen?"

"Why don't I go ask someone at the concessions what's going on? Be right back!" Katie got up awkwardly walked away from her friends who were still receiving glares from people who recognized them from Café Shanista, causing them to put their Pandanoko masks back on out of embarrassment.

Seconds later, Katie was back at her starting point. "Why is nothing going right tonight?" she groaned as she pulled out her walkie-talkie. "Hazel Eyes to Luna, please give me some good news. Over."

"Luna here, I'm on my way to help the butler thaw out the bus, but don't worry Bloodsucker is still keeping an eye on things." Sailornyan replied as she was riding down the Excellent Tower's slow-moving elevator. "Unfortunately, the elevator at the Excellent Tower wasn't exactly built for emergencies."

Katie sighed. "I said give me some good news. You leaving your post is not good news."

"Well I mean Bloodsucker only has the stage to watch this time, so it's not that bad. If Tattlecast goes on the move again he'll be sure to let you know."

"I guess. Just please hurry."

"Tell that to the elevator."

As the crowd grew more impatient, so did Tattlecast. "Tell tell? (Where are those darn idols?) Tell tell! (They should've been on stage 30 minutes ago!)" she thought to herself. "Tell tell. (There's no way another Yo-kai dared to mess with them, not after that update I put out yesterday.) Tell tell. (Plus, I didn't see that Katie Forester girl anywhere around here.)" She sat for a few minutes before getting restless. "Tell tell. (Still, I'd better go look around to make sure nothing funny is going on.)" Tattlecast jumped down from the spotlight beams and started hopping on the audience's heads again back to the concessions.

"Bloodzzzucker to Hazzzel Eyezzz, Tattlecazzzt izzz on the move again! She'zzz leaping her way to your location! Over!"

"Of course she is." Katie facepalmed. "And of course I left my mittens and fan merch in my seat. Buying more would be a waste even if I did have enough money."

"Hold on, Hazel Eyes! I'm on my way!" Sailornyan assured as she ran out of the Excellent Tower.

"No, Sailornyan. Go help Whisper. Knowing him, he might be ready to give up pretty soon."

"But what about you!? You can't stop Tattlecast on your own!"

"Do you see any other options here? If Whisper tries to thaw out the bus on his own, the concert won't happen and Next HarMEOWny's reputation goes down the drain anyway."

As she said this, Whisper was trying to thaw the bus out with two battery-operated hair dryers, a futon spread across it similar to a kotatsu, and a bonfire.

"And if Moskevil leaves his post to come help me, he could get possessed too and that wouldn't be fair to him." Katie continued.

"She hazzz a point." Moskevil unconcernedly chimed in.

"The same goes for you, Sailornyan. It's better if Tattlecast only possesses me instead of you all and Next HarMEOWny."

"Katie…" Sailornyan said in a saddened tone.

"I'll be fine. Hazel Eyes out." Katie put her walkie-talkie in her hoodie pocket and folded her arms. There was nothing else she could do but wait for the inevitable. When Tattlecast eventually made it to her, they both starred each other down before saying anything.

"Hello, Tattlecast. Remember me?"

"Tell tell. (Katie Forester.) Tell tell. (At last we finally meet.) Tell tell. (You've been a real thorn in my side lately, and I'm sure you're somehow responsible for Next HarMEOWny's delayed performance which tells me you're not alone.) Tell tell. (I'm guessing whatever Yo-kai helped you has already gone into hiding.) Tell tell. (How disappointing.) Tell tell. (But, perhaps once they hear you spilling all of your secrets on stage, they'll muster up the courage to come try to save you.)"

"You know I can't understand a single word you said, right?"

Angered, Tattlecast jumped behind Katie and jacked in one of her speakers to the back of her neck.

"Next HarMEOWny! Next HarMEOWny! Next HarMEOWny!" the crowd chanted as their impatience flared up.

"I kind of wanna go home now." Sarah said while shaking in fear.

"Where's Katie already?" asked Alex.

"Here I am!" she shouted loudly, attracting everyone's attention.