"You sure we won't encounter a Wendigo this time?" Nico sighs.

"H- hush now, will you Nico?" Maki speaks, "quit scaring yourself."

"You sure y- you aren't the one who- who's scared?"

Eve, with her reindeer accompanying her, looked back, stunned to see the two children following her. "I thought I told you two to stay indoors," she shakes her head and puts her palms on her shorter comrades, "this is a job I do once every 365 days, 366 on leap years, I don't want to burden you both with my responsibilities..."

"Eve," Maki's voice seemed serious, "you aren't burdening us. And I know we won't too. We want to help you out here. Please let us help."

Eve knew where this was going. "There's no pursuading you kids, huh?" She gives a light smile. "I guess it will be good for those nine other kids as well."

With that, the three of them continue to venture into the deeper areas of the snow. Nico feels slight fear, as she holds on to Maki's hand. They then find a spot where they had previously discovered Eve.

"Well, we have no leads, le- let's head back, like we previously-" Nico took a few steps back, before Maki tugged on her scarf a little.

"We do, over there," Maki proceeds to point to some tracks on the snowy ground that appeared to resemble thick lines, presumably bobsled. Maki then peered over to see where the tracks were leading to, only to realise it was a slope, and a pretty steep one at that.

"That's pretty dangerous, there are stairs over there, use those," Eve speaks before both and her and her pet flawlessly slid down the steep slope while on their feet. Meanwhile, Nico and Maki did as she said - take a nearby flight of wooden stairs down. As they did, they were more capable of seeing Eve chasing after a skier carrying a sleigh. The duo proceeded to split up to confuse and confront the odd, supposed thief.

With combined kicking force, Maki and Eve rushed towards the sleigh and released a kick, toppling it and causing the thief to lose her balance and land on Nico.

"I don't know how we got into this mess, but it's all good, right?" Nico questioned as she held a tight grip on the little thief.

"Let go of me!" The thief struggles as Eve approaches her to unveil her ski mask. She was rather astonished to find out who it was.

"So that's where you went, Reina. You shouldn't make Producer worry."

"... so I thought I'd steal some, since I haven't exactly been good girl this year," Reina explains the situation as she holds her head low. They were now in the comfort of Maki's house.

"Don't be like that, Reina," Eve smiles as she rubs Reina's hair, "everyone has good within them, so there's always next year."

"With such naive thinking I don't know how you even got the job," Nico says, "a leopard-"

Before Nico could complete her sentence, Maki covers Nico's mouth. "What she meant to say is that you'll take a while, but it'll come to you naturally."

"As for you two," Eve turns towards Nico and Maki, "I can't thank you enough for saving Christmas, even if it was just nine children. I'll go place the presents over there." With that, Eve grabs the presents from her bag, before placing them under a nearby tree Maki prepared.

"Wha- wha- what's the meaning of this?" Nico was pretty confused.

"Isn't it obvious," Maki says, "those presents are ours.

Reina pouted, feeling rather upset, until Eve placed a hand on her shoulder. "Reina, here's your early New Year's gift. Don't open it until New Year's," Eve flashes a smile, before Reina proceeds to hug her. Upon the sight, Maki and Nico grin at each other, before turning away and pouting.

"I suppose we must head off now, until we meet again," Eve waves as she and Reina leave the house and board onto Eve's sleigh, which was being powered by Eve's pet. They flew into the distance, before a loud 'Ho Ho Ho! Merry Christmas!' was heard.

"Eh?" Honoka emerged from the large bedroom, along with six other members, only to find Nico and Maki resting on the sofa.

"They must've been staying up all night," Eli suggests, "let them sleep a little more.

"Nyamazing," Rin pointed to the presents under the Christmas tree, "those weren't there last night." She proceeded to approach them. "It's ours!"

"Seeing is believing," Nozomi vaguely speaks as the members of Muse walk towards their presents.

They were unaware of the magical night that happened beforehand, and still are to this day. However, Umi did find a name card that said '346 Production' on it, and some sort of name.

"Oh, what's this?' Honoka peers over to the piece of paper Umi gazed upon. Hanayo too, looked.

"3... 46? 346 Production?" Hanayo gasped, "that's like... they're the- they're the-"

"Think twice, guys," Umi smiles, "don't make descisions you might regret. You don't want to take too many steps forward."

It was, indeed, a very Merry Christmas for Muse.