The crowd stared at Katie as she walked down the steps to the front of the stage.

"I just want you all to know," she began. "That I can talk to Yo-kai and I'm personal friends with Pandanoko!"

The crowd talked amongst themselves after hearing that.

"What?"

"Yo-kai?"

"Those folklore creatures?"

"I think she's lying."

"Is this part of the show?"

"Maybe she's here to tell us what's going on."

Katie's friends looked at her in utter confusion.

"Katie? What are you doing?" asked Sarah.

"Is she trying to play crowd control or something?" asked Alex.

"Hey! Do you know what's taking the idols so long!?" someone from the crowd asked.

"Yes!" Katie began while smiling. "They're under the power of a Yo-kai named Draaagin who used his powers to make them postpone their performance so another Yo-kai named Tattlecast wouldn't reveal their secrets, but don't worry! My Yo-kai friends Whisper and Sailornyan have got it all under control!"

The crowd was starting to believe Katie was just some crazy fangirl looking for attention.

"Yo-kai? Tattlecast? Whisper? Draaagin? Sailornyan?" Sarah asked, looking more concerned for her best friend than ever.

"How… interesting." Commented Alex.

"Tell tell. (I knew it, you were responsible for the delay.)" Tattlecast deducted while standing on Katie's shoulders and holding her tape recorder to her mouth. "Tell tell. (No matter.) Tell tell. (After your friends free Next HarMEOWny, my plan will proceed as normal.)

Tell tell. (You're just a bonus.) Tell tell. (After revealing you can talk to Yo-kai everyone is starting to think you're nuts, including your friends.) Tell tell? (In fact, I wonder what kind of embarrassing secrets you're keeping between each other?)"

"Look whoever you are, we've been waiting for over an hour so if you know what's going on then tell us!" another person demanded.

"Oh, I know lots of things." Katie began "Like I know how my cute friend Sarah Hayashi over there secretly owns…"

Sarah's eyes widened as she began to blush. "Katie… You wouldn't." She thought to herself. "You said you would keep that between us! I only bought that Next HarMEOWny photobook for fashion reference! Nothing more! If anyone else found out, they might get the wrong idea!"

As Katie was about to reveal Sarah's secret, her face began twitching and her forced smile began to break. "Owns… a… rare Pandanoko plush! The kind that goes for an insane amount of cash on bidding websites!" She quickly revealed, breathing heavily afterward.

The crowd looked at Sarah in shock.

"Impossible!"

"You had to pre-order months in advance to get those!"

"Lucky girl."

"Oh, that." Sarah nervously chuckled with a blank expression on her face. "Yeah. Ordering six months ahead was a smart move."

"Tell tell!? (What!?) Tell tell! (That's not embarrassing at all!)" scolded Tattlecast. "Tell tell! (I'm actually kind of mad because I wanted one of those plushes!) Tell tell? (What about the one in the hat?)"

Tattlecast's speaker sent a jolt of electricity to Katie's neck which pepped her back up. "And next to her, my other friend Alex Yamaguchi is a karateka, and did you know during her last tournament…"

Alex's eyes turned completely white out of fear as beads of sweat rapidly ran down her face. "Katie don't you dare bring that up!" She thought to herself. "So what if I had to forfeit the final round because I had to do number two? Having an accident on stage after taking a kick to the stomach would've been even worse! How was I supposed to know the milk I had for breakfast was spoiled!?"

As Katie was about to reveal Alex's secret, her face began twitching and her forced smile began to break again. "She… for…got her own her strength during the breaking portion and accidentally broke one of the cinderblocks after chopping the wooden planks! She's really strong! Strongest girl I know actually!" She quickly revealed again, this time breathing heavier afterward.

The crowd then began to talk about Alex in high regard.

"That's amazing."

"And she's so young too."

"I'd hate to get in a fight with her."

Alex blushed from the praise she was receiving. "Aww shucks, Katie. You're makin' me turn all reddish now."

"Tell tell!? (What are you doing!?)" Tattlecast angrily asked. "Tell tell!? (What kind of embarrassing secrets are these!?)"

"You aren't gonna beat me that easily you old hag." Katie quietly replied with her teeth clenched.

"Tell tell. (I see.) Tell tell. (You've got more willpower than I thought.) Tell tell. (Well desperate times call for desperate measures I suppose.)"

Tattlecast grabbed the jack of her second speaker and inserted into the back of Katie's neck, next to the other one. Katie head hung low and she began to lose consciousness as she could barely stand upright.

"Tell tell. (I've never had to use both my speakers for a single person before, but you're quite the special case, Katie Forester.) Tell tell. (Try to resist now!)"

"H-hey, are you alright?" someone asked.

Katie looked up smiling with her eyes closed. "Totally! Say, have I ever told about you the time I was possessed by the Yo-kai Cheeksqueek?"

"Again with the Yo-kai?" asked Sarah.

"How long can she keep this up?" worried Alex.

"For crying out loud where is Next HarMEOWny!?" asked another person.

As Katie told her story, Sailornyan continued rushing to Gourd Pond Museum's parking lot to assist Whisper, though she wasn't really enjoying the exercise. "Nya~, I'm starting to sweat because of all this."

"We've got trouble." Moskevil warned over the walkie talkie.

"Drat! I feel like I don't have to ask what it is."

"Well whatever she'zzz told them zzzo far muzzzt not have been too embarrazzzzzzing and they're calm for now, but I feel it'zzz only a matter of time before she revealzzz zzzomething truly shameful."

"I won't allow that to happen! I'm nearing the parking lot as we speak."

Back in the concert area, the audience were having mixed reactions to Katie's Cheeksqueek story.

"Oookay then."

"I mean I know it's a normal bodily function but…"

"Ew."

"I actually remember the day that happened. I just… can't believe she'd bring it up at a time like this. Or ever." Sarah said while feeling embarrassed for her friend.

"Telling such stories just to stop the crowd from rioting. Katie's got more stones than any of the boys in our class." Chimed in Alex.

"There are other Yo-kai who don't have any special powers like Manjimutt, who just serve as a hinderance to society!" Katie continued.

In his cell at the Springdale jailhouse, Manjimutt suddenly sneezed. "Someone's talkin' about me."

"He made me late for my get-together with my friends at Café Shanista last week and because of that, Alex made me buy her Royal Pancakes which left me with only enough money to buy plain cheesecake when I really wanted raspberry cheesecake. She's done this kind of stuff before when I was late for our meetups and I've never appreciated it. Nor do I appreciate the fact that she and Sarah both think I'm fat. Well I'll have you both know that I lost five pounds this week so now I only weigh…"

A truck passing by the concert blew its horn at a cat that luckily avoided getting hit, so no one outside of the concert area could hear how much Katie weighed.

"…pounds!"

Alex and Sarah gasped as people in the crowd conversed with each other.

"Wow, her own friends told her she was fat?"

"That's still kind of a lot for someone her age."

"Not cool, Alex."

"But… we didn't say… How did she?" stammered Sarah.

"Don't look at me, I never said anything to her about it." Alex replied as her eyes got watery. "But man, I didn't know she felt that way about buying stuff for me."

Tattlecast chuckled. "Tell tell. (A maiden's weight is supposed to be sacred, yet everyone in the audience now knows yours.) Tell tell. (And after tonight, so will the entire Yo-kai World.)"

In the Gourd Pond Museum parking lot, Whisper was attempting to thaw out the bus with two large tanning lamps plugged into a generator. "Come on, thaw out already! Please!" he begged. The lamps were turned up to their maximum settings and because of this, unknowingly to him, the ultraviolet rays from the lamps were causing his skin to darken and bake as if he were in a microwave oven.

"Step aside, butler!" Sailornyan shouted as she ran towards him with two containers resembling salt shakers.

"Whis~? Sailornyan? You left your post?"

"Yes, because we don't have all night for you and your shenanigans! Now, I've got two Yo-kai repellants here meant for Slush and Alhail. Since both Yo-kai are made of ice, these repellants should have the same effect on Draaagin's ice as it does on them."

"But that just looks like regular, everyday salt."

"Well it's not! …I think. Listen, while I take care of this, you need to get your toasted tuckus to the concert and break Katie free from Tattlecast's control!"

"Tattlecast inspirited Katie!? I'll rescue her, whis~! But where'd that "toasted tuckus" comment come from?" Whisper started to smell something burning. "Hey, what's cooking?"

"You are, stupid."

Whisper's antenna suddenly caught on fire and he flew towards the concert area screaming in pain.

"Honestly, how does a pea-brain like that become anyone's butler?" Sailornyan asked herself as she poured the repellant around the bus.

"So that's why you definitely don't wanna get possessed by a Yo-kai like Failian at a potluck party!" Katie said after finishing yet another story, to the dismay of the audience and her friends.

"I remember that too. Even after saying "kidding!" nobody wanted to eat her mom's miso soup after she said it had spider eggs in it." Sarah groaned.

"Tell tell. (Alright, enough embarrassing Yo-kai moments.) Tell tell? (How about something personal again, like who you're in love with maybe?)" Tattlecast inquired.

"By the way, this is kind of embarrassing, but I'd like to tell you all who I'm madly in love with! They're not in the audience, but I wanna say it anyway! Heck, just thinking about them makes me blush."

This time Katie really got the crowd's undivided attention. Stories about Yo-kai making her do embarrassing things was one thing, but learning who stole the heart of this eccentric 11-year-old girl was another.

"I-is it really okay for her to reveal something like that here?" Alex asked while blushing.

"I mean even if they're not in audience…" Sarah replied while also blushing.

"And yet, I kinda wanna know myself."

"Tell tell. (This is it, Katie Forester.)" Tattlecast said while deviously smiling under her face veil. "Tell tell. (The only thing more embarrassing than a young girl revealing her weight in front of a large crowd is also revealing who she's infatuated with.) Tell tell. (Consider this ultimate payback for interfering with me and my podcast.)" Tattlecast then noticed a large ball of fire headed straight for them. "Tell tell? (What the tell?)"

The ball of fire was Whisper whose entire body caught on fire. "PUT IT OUT! PUT IT OUT!"

"They're the most beautiful person I've ever met, and I actually hope we can get married someday." Katie continued.

"I'M GOING TO DIE!"

Tattlecast jumped on top of Katie's head with both her speakers while moving her from side to side, signaling for Whisper to stop. "Tell tell! (Stop you fool!) Tell tell! (You'll burn us both!)"

"Their name is…" Katie continued with every staring intently at her, waiting for the reveal.

"BURNING!" Whisper shouted.

"TELL TELL! (STOP!)" Tattlecast yelled.

"Me-" Katie started before Whisper crashed into Tattlecast, knocking her and her speakers off Katie's head. Whisper continued flying and landed right in the river.

After getting singed by Whisper, Tattlecast struggled to get up only to see her speakers disconnected from Katie's neck and burning up along with her tape recorder. "TELL TELL! (NOOOO!) TELL TELL! (MY BABIES!)" She cried.