Author's Note: Hello, again! Sorry... This literally took so long to write and it's fairly messy compared to the previous chapters.
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Well then, here's the chapter!
"Last time on Total Drama Island, the eleven remaining campers were put through Master Chief Hatchet's brutal boot camp. Tenko was the first one to be sent to the barracks by Major Harshness for disorderly conduct. Shocker. But Junko ended up sneaking in, and the two had an interesting chat that ended in them stealing some food for the other campers. Whew. Junko was also the one to win her stripes for her team, and, in a shocking twist, Kirumi was the one who ended up going home, thanks to work duties."
The shot cut to Chris lounging at his usual spot on the dock in a lawn chair, eating marshmallows out of a bag as an intern fanned him with a large leaf. "This week, the campers are pushed to the extreme! Who will crack under the pressure? Find out right now on...
Total...
Drama...
Island!"
Episode Twelve: X-Treme Torture
The episode began with a pan-over the hotel restaurant, where a grizzly bear was rooting through the dumpster behind it for the unopened bags of marshmallows inside.
The camera then gradually panned over to and inside a few cottages to show a few campers sleeping. The sudden sound of a rumbling engine, however, soon disrupted their peacefulness. Several campers exited their cottages, tired and annoyed, to see what the ruckus was.
That was when Chris was shown flying a small and rusty orange plane over the island, yelling "Incoming!" as he made a pass over the cottages.
"Hit the deck!" Leon shouted, prompting the nearby campers to dart out of the way in the nick of time to avoid getting hit by the plane.
"Yes!" Chris cheered. "I can't wait to get my pilot's license!"
The host's eyes suddenly widened as he crashed right into one of the confessionals, revealing that the bear had hidden inside it due to the commotion. It noticed its apparent lack of shelter, causing it to shoot the camera an embarrassed look before gathering the bags of marshmallows it had collected and ran off.
Eventually, the plane screeched to a halt and Chris leaned out as the campers approached. "Just flexing your muscles for today's..." He suddenly pulled out a megaphone to announce, "Extreme sports challenge!"
His words reverberated from the megaphone, causing the campers to cringe and cover their ears at the sound.
Leon groaned. "It's too damn early for this..."
"This week, you'll participate in three challenges," Chris continued, "First up, extreme sofa bed skydiving! Contestants will plummet—er, skydive, onto a waiting sofa bed target below."
The side door of the plane slid open and Chef, dressed in skydiving gear, made the short hop onto the sofa bed below. He landed on the open mattress—which suddenly forcibly retracted onto him. The contestants winced at Chef's muffled screams.
"Of course, you'll be jumping from five-thousand-feet, and wearing these!"
With a shit-eating grin, Chris threw out two moth-eaten parachutes onto the ground, causing the campers to gasp.
"Our lucky contestants are," Chris said, pulling out a piece of paper and reading from it, "Sayaka and Rantaro!"
Rantaro shrugged. "Sure, why not? I've always wanted to go skydiving anyways."
Sayaka, however, was much more hesitant. "Um, yeah, sure... Let's do it."
"Not so fast," Chris interrupted, "because the second challenge is... extreme rodeo moose riding!"
The camera panned over to a small pen at the ranch with a rather angry moose inside, and a large pile of stinky socks in the distance as Chris continued the explanation. "Contestants will rodeo-ride a bucking moose for eight seconds, or get hoofed into a giant pile of socks from the lost-and-found."
"I could totally take that moose on, no problem!" Kaito proclaimed, pushing his fists together.
"It's your lucky day, Kaito!" Chris announced. "You're riding for Gophers, and Makoto, you're riding for Bass."
"Oh, that's... great?" Makoto glanced over at Kaito with a hesitant look.
"And the final challenge of the day is... extreme seadoo water-skiing!" Chris continued, and the footage showed the mud pit from last episode, except the obstacle course had been replaced with ramps and several colored flags along the tracks. A checkered starting and finishing flag bordered either side of the pit. "Contestants will waterski a race course while grabbing as many flags as they can before crossing the finish line, while a member of the opposing team drives the seadoo."
"Uh, how are we supposed to water-ski without water?" Maki asked.
"It's really hard. Check it out."
The camera panned over to Chef, who was water-skiing along dry dirt. He rode a ramp, only for him to lose his groove and consequently crash into a large rock.
Chris chuckled. "Awesome! Leon, you'll ski for Killer Bass, and Kaede, you'll ski for the Screaming Gophers."
"Okay!" Kaede exclaimed, a bit forced.
"Now for the cool swag!" Chris said. "Whoever wins the most challenges receives bragging rights for the night, saves their butts from elimination, and gets this tricked-out multi-massage mobile shower!"
An all-white truck could be seen, with the door slightly ajar to show the shower's facilities. Meanwhile, Chef stood in front of said truck, playing a harp.
"Oh, wow," Tenko said in awe.
"Could it be?" Celestia gasped.
"Oh, it be," Chris confirmed.
"Is that it?" Leon asked, nose upturned. "We already have one of those."
"Yes, we already do have a shower," Celestia spoke. "But believe me, this will be a welcome reward when we win."
"...Fine," Leon relented, rolling his eyes. "It's not like I wasn't going to win anyway."
Suddenly, Chris started the plane's propellers started back up, the strong wind it created catching a few of the teens off-guard.
"Okay, gang!" Chris spoke. "Chow for breakie, then report back in twenty minutes for the extreme sports challenge!"
A large cloud of dust and dirt was kicked up as Chris sped off, leaving the campers with a hacking cough.
The camera panned inside the restaurant, where the contestants were eating their breakfast. Then, it focused on Leon, who took a seat across from Sayaka at the table she was sitting at.
"Hey, Sayaka," Leon started. "Mind if I tell you something?"
"Uh, yeah," Sayaka replied, setting her bowl aside. "What is it?"
"Well, I was thinking about what we should do about Junko, and I think I've figured out our solution—if you can't beat 'em, join 'em."
Sayaka furrowed her brows. "What? You aren't suggesting that we cheat, are you?"
"What? No, no, it's just... It'd be hard to convince the rest of the team to vote Junko out right now, right? So I think we should catch her off-guard first, then we take her out. What do you think?"
Sayaka put a finger to her chin. "Hmm... I guess that could work... But how would we do that?"
"By taking down her biggest ally—Tenko. I dunno if you noticed, but she's pretty buddy-buddy with Junko. Maybe not right now, but we should definitely form a plan to eliminate Tenko sometime soon. Okay?" Leon raised an eyebrow once he'd realized Sayaka hadn't responded. "Sayaka?"
"Look." Sayaka pointed in the direction she was staring in, and Leon looked over as well.
Junko had just entered the restaurant, standing uncharacteristically shyly in the doorway. One could only assume it had something to do with her hair; it'd been cut shorter, about shoulder-length, and pulled up into a ponytail. A simple black headband with a bow on the end wrapped up her entire hairdo.
Tenko was the first to comment, hopping up from her chair to get a better look. "Oh, Junko! You cut your hair!"
"Yeah..." Junko gingerly touched a strand of her new hair. "Does it look okay? I've never really cut my hair before, so..."
"I think it looks great!" Tenko turned towards the rest of the campers. "Don't you guys think so?"
Sayaka tilted her head curiously. "Why'd you cut your hair? I'm not trying to be rude, but it doesn't really seem like something you'd do."
"Well... " Junko rubbed her arm. "I just wanted to try out something. It probably won't be permanent or anything. Hair grows back, y'know?"
"Like I said, it looks great! So don't stress about it!" Tenko assured, taking Junko's hands in hers.
The two girls shared a long gaze, prompting Leon and Sayaka to exchange a look.
The campers were now gathered at the beach, with Sayaka and Rantaro fastening their gear on while their teammates examined their respective sofas.
"Now remember," Chris reminded, "ground teams can wheelie the sofas wherever they want in order to help their comrade with the landing."
"You've got this, dude!" Kaito encouraged, slapping Rantaro on the back. "And you can count on us to make sure you land safely!"
"Thanks," Rantaro smiled. "I appreciate it."
Sayaka watched the interaction with a concerned look, then looked back at her teammates.
CONFESSIONAL - SAYAKA:
"Yep," she started, an utterly terrified expression overtaking her features. "I'm doomed."
The shot changed to show Sayaka and Rantaro now standing in the open door of the plane while it was in mid-flight.
"If you could just fill these out!" Chris exclaimed over the roar of the engine, leaning over his seat with a stack of papers in hand.
"Huh?" a confused Sayaka asked. "But we already signed insurance forms at the beginning of the show!"
"Yeah, but these are for organ donation!" Chris responded. "I have this cool cannibal challenge I wanna pitch to the producers, and this'll go a long way towards budgeting free props!"
"Yeah, I'll think we'll pass," Rantaro declined. Sayaka frantically nodded in agreement.
Chris shrugged. "Suit yourself! By the way, drop's coming up!"
Sayaka and Rantaro stared out the airplane door again, with the former growing more and more terrified by the second. "I can't see anything!" she exclaimed.
On the ground, meanwhile, the Screaming Gophers were struggling to push their sofa along the sand of the beach.
"Ugh, this isn't working!" Kaede groaned as she let go of the couch and rubbed her aching hands. "There has to be an easier way to do this..."
"Hmm..." Kaito pursed his lips as he stared at the sofa in thought. "Okay, how about this? Kaede, Ryoma, take the ends. Maki and I will take the back."
Kaito and his teammates got into position, and after a bit of effort, the Gophers managed to lift the sofa with ease.
"Good thinking, Kaito," Kaede said, briefly locking eyes with him when she turned her head.
Kaito's eyes widened, and he scratched the back of his neck. "U-Uh, yeah... Thanks."
CONFESSIONAL - KAITO:
A blush covered his cheeks as he continued to scratch the back of his neck. "Kaede's pretty nice, huh?"
CONFESSIONAL - KAEDE:
"I meant it; that was super impressive of Kaito. It was kinda cute, seeing him all flustered like that..." A blush crept onto her face as the confessional ended.
Back in the air, Sayaka and Rantaro were preparing to jump out of the plane.
"Well," Rantaro said. "Here goes nothing, I guess." Taking a deep breath, he flung himself into the air and began rapidly descending.
Kaede gasped as the viewpoint switched to the ground once again, pointing up. "Look! Rantaro's coming! Go, go, go!"
The Gophers quickened their pace and, once they figured out approximately where Rantaro would land, they unfolded the mattress. Rantaro landed squarely on it, and his teammates cheered—only for them to fall dead silent when the mattress forcibly retracted back into the sofa, with Rantaro still on it.
"Okay," Sayaka told herself back up on the plane, "you can do this. If anything goes wrong, you can just use the parachute. Okay... One... Two... Three!"
Sayaka jumped out of the airplane and into the air, only to immediately regretted her decision as she screamed and reached for the cords of her parachute. Much to her terrified horror, when she pulled both cords, both of them snapped on her.
Makoto was the first one to notice Sayaka falling down. "Ah, Sayaka!"
"Come on, we have to go this way!" Junko instructed, pulling the sofa in one direction.
"No, she's coming this way!" Leon countered, pulling the sofa in the opposite direction.
"We must hurry," Celestia urged, although her tone suggested that it was more so that they could finish the challenge already, than out of any actual concern for her falling teammate.
"Exactly!" Leon agreed, still trying to pull the sofa in his direction. "So we should go this way!"
While Junko and Leon continued to argue over the sofa, Sayaka had grown closer to the ground and was now completely at the mercy of the wind as she swayed back and forth, gripping onto the backup parachute that had fortunately deployed.
It was Makoto who gave up first. "Sorry, Sayaka. I don't think you're gonna hit the target. Um... I've heard that you're supposed to land on your side to reduce the impact."
Another, softer, sound escaped Sayaka, but she managed to land on her side as she touched the ground, the finally, her parachute dragging her for a few feet.
"...Sayaka?" Tenko called.
When Sayaka didn't respond, Makoto turned to both Junko and Leon. "Jeez, you two really need to stop arguing," he reprimanded before he and Tenko chased after Sayaka to see if she was okay.
"Crap," Leon muttered under his breath before running over to check on Sayaka as well.
Junko was about to go over too, but a certain manicured hand suddenly grabbed her arm and pulled her out of sight of her teammates. Her eyes widened slightly as she came face to face with Celestia. "What the—?!"
Celestia put a single finger to her lips in a shushing motion, and Junko stopped mid-sentence.
"What are you doing?" Junko asked, lowering her voice to a whisper.
"I have a proposition for you." Celestia lowered her hand, her lips curling into a small smile. "An alliance, to be more exact."
"Okay..." Junko raised her eyebrow, crossing her arms. "And why would I even agree to this alliance?"
"Trust me, it will be worth your while. I can guarantee immunity against any of our teammates who might try and vote you out. Oh, and I can also guarantee immunity for Tenko if you wish. I can tell that the two of you are, no doubt, very close."
Junko's eyes widened as she took a step back. "Wha—? That's..." She then shook her head, trying to fight off her growing blush. "Yeah, no thanks. I'm not interested in having obligations to other people."
Celestia frowned at that. "That's a shame. Oh well. I won't pressure you to join, but I will tell you that my offer is still open. All you have to do is find me."
"I doubt it, but sure."
As soon as Junko and Celestia rejoined the rest of the team, Chris came flying over a few trees and circled around the contestants. "Gophers win, Bass lose! One, zero!" he announced through his megaphone.
"Okay, cowpokes," Chris announced at the ranch as he and the campers stood around the pen from earlier, "let's start the rodeo moose challenge!"
"Are you sure you'll be okay?" Kaede asked Kaito as they stared at the angry moose inside the pen.
"Don't worry!" Kaito assured, patting her on the shoulder. "It's just a moose; it can't be that bad."
"I don't think it'll be that easy..." a unconvinced Kaede spoke as Kaito eagerly entered the pen and climbed onto the moose's back.
"I told you, I've got this!" Kaito grabbed a sizable tuff of the moose's fur. "All I have to do is—"
Suddenly, the moose's eyes turned narrow and angry. Chef reached a trembling hand towards the latch on the pen gate, and once it was lifted, the moose charged forward. Chef fell with a pained yelp, and Kaito clung to the animal's back as best as he could. However, the moose bucked once, and that was enough to shake him, as he was sent flying straight into Chris, who had his eyes firmly on a stopwatch.
The nearby campers winced as the two guys groaned on the ground.
Then, unexpectedly, the footage paused.
"Wait a minute, pause that!" Chris instructed. "Let's just rewind that back a bit." At his command, the footage rewound to just before Kaito entered the scene.
Using a pink marker, he scribbled over Kaito, who began entering the scene, as well as himself, save for his head, which he circled. "I'm embarrassed," he complained. "This is so degrading. I mean, just look at me! Can we just get a decent budget for hair and makeup? I look like I just fell out of bed. Sheesh!"
The footage resumed to normal, and Chris glared at Kaito once the two were back on their feet. "Seriously? You could've at least landed in the sock pile like you were supposed to!"
Kaito shot him a sheepish grin. "My bad."
Regaining his composure, Chris turned to Makoto. "Makoto, you're up. Hopefully you'll do better than Kaito did."
"R-Right." Despite his lips being pressed into an unsure frown, Makoto carefully approached the moose, who was back in the pen, and climbed into it. He awkwardly patted the animal's head. "Uh... Good boy?"
That was all it took for the moose to start huffing again, its eyes turning a deep red.
"Sweet mother of—" was all Chef could get out before the moose charged straight through the gate and into him, leaving the man reeling in the dirt.
By some miraculous miracle, Makoto managed to stay on the moose as it went back and forth through the clearing. It even barreled through the other campers, who yelped in panic and dived out of the way.
"Sorry!" Makoto called back. As he faced forward again, his eyes widened when he noticed the moose hopping over the pen and heading towards the bear from earlier. The bear was about to eat its marshmallows until the moose trampled all of the bags.
"...Was that bear eating marshmallows?" a perplexed Ryoma asked.
Neither he nor the other had time to contemplate that, as the moose came running towards their direction once more, forcing them to dive out the way again.
The footage skipped ahead to show Chris skidding a red ATV to a halt at the race course for the final challenge.
"Well, it looks like the teams are tied," he said. "Whoever wins the extreme seadoo waterskii challenge wins invincibility!"
"Alright!" a voice exclaimed. The campers looked over to see Kaede who, instead of wearing of her usual pink swimsuit, was wearing a baby blue bikini. "I'm ready!"
Kaito was the first to react, coughing loudly to cover the fact he choked on his own spit. "Oh, h-hey, Kaede," he started as she joined her team. "You look... great."
"Thanks!" Kaede beamed, oblivious to Kaito's reaction.
CONFESSIONAL - KAEDE:
"Okay, so the teams are tied," she began. "Maki's driving Leon, and I'm skiing, so both of us have to pull through in order for us to win. No pressure!"
Leon and Maki had taken their positions at the starting line; the former was using the skis and holding onto the tow line, while the latter was on the seadoo. Meanwhile, Chris slowly drove past on his ATV.
"Here are the road rules," he began. "Oh, wait. There are no rules! Which means, this is gonna be awesome! Ready? Go!"
Maki revved the engine and accelerated, nearly causing Leon to fall over. Much to her irritation, he managed to keep himself steady, though he got splattered with mud. Maki looked back at him as she drove over the first ramp; Leon quickly bent down and scooped up the first flag.
"Flag one for Bass!" Chris announced. Makoto and Sayaka shared a smile as their teammate landed off the ramp and continued to be pulled along.
Maki scowled as Leon collected yet another flag. As she approached the bend, she decided to take the curve tight. Leon, however, managed to make up for the distance by leaning forward, swiping several more flags in the process.
"Six flags and heading home!" Chris announced. "Maki has to cross the finish line or she will be disqualified, but when she does, Leon will take all five flags to victory!"
"Woo!" Leon cheered, waving his red flags in the air.
CONFESSIONAL - MAKI:
"I was not going to lose to that punk wannabe, so I only did what I had to do." Maki shrugged.
Maki narrowed her eyes as she turned around to face Leon, retrieving a pocket knife. With one hand still on the wheel, she began to cut through the tow line. Leon broke from his cheering and gasped, beginning to pull himself towards the seadoo. However, his attempt was futile, and with one final swing, the rope completely snapped in half, sending Leon flying.
"Well, it looks like Leon's been cut loose!" Chris exclaimed. "All Maki has to do now is cross the finish line!"
Maki smirked and twirled her knife before putting it away. She drove the rest of the race course without any problems and crossed the finish line, coming to a halt in front of her team.
"Ooh," Chris winced. "Thanks to Leon's wicked wipeout, the Bass have a total of zero flags! They'd better hope the Gophers somehow do even worse than they did!"
Some time later, Tenko and Kaede had taken their positions for the challenge. Tenko looked rather confident, while Kaede seemed more unsure of herself.
"Ready!" a nearby Chris announced, "set, ride it like it's sweeps week... Go!"
The engine revved, and the seadoo took off. They went over the first ramp, and Kaede snagged the first flag before splashing down into the mud.
"Flag one!" Chris exclaimed over the speakers, and the Gophers cheered. "Flag two!" he added as Kaede snatched another flag; she and Tenko were now approaching the bend as well as the next several flags.
"Crap," Tenko muttered to herself as glanced back at Kaede. In a split second's decision, she took a deep breath and swung her entire body around to face the blonde.
"What is she doing?" Leon asked in disbelief as the rest of Bass could only watch.
Tenko had managed to stand up almost completely straight at this point and started to move towards Kaede. She was suddenly cut short when a stray tree branch snagged onto her shirt, lifting her out of the seadoo completely and left her suspended in mid-air. She groaned as the seadoo continued to drive Kaede until she reached the finish line.
"Well, that was anticlimatic," Chris commented with a roll of his eyes. "Gophers win!"
The Gophers smiled as they looked over at their prize, the truck sparkling in the sunlight.
"Good work, Kaede," Rantaro congratulated as Kaede rejoined the team.
"Yeah, that was amazing!" Kaito added, pulling the girl into a hug. The two blushed when they pulled away.
"Tenko, are you alright?!" Junko called out as the camera focused on her.
Still hanging from the branches, Tenko shouted back, "Yeah!"
Junko moved to go help her down, but Leon snorted. "Just leave her, she's the reason we lost."
Junko whipped around, shooting daggers at him. "You didn't even collect any flags for our team!" she snapped before going to help Tenko.
Leon rolled his eyes before glancing at Sayaka, who sighed. "Guess we won't be getting those showers after all," she said.
As the scene switched to the Killer Bass walking back to their cottages, an arm pulled an unsuspecting Celestia behind one. The arm was revealed to belong to Junko, who Celestia shot an amused smile at.
"Allow me to guess: you have changed your mind about the alliance, yes?"
Junko sighed, slumping her shoulders. "Okay, you got me," she admitted. "But I'm agreeing to this only because I need two people gone."
Celestia quirked a curious eyebrow. "Oh? Do you mind telling me whom those people are?"
"Sayaka and Leon—mostly Leon. They're really pissing me off."
Celestia cocked her head. "Ah. I assume you want one of them voted off tonight?"
Junko opened her mouth to respond, but her words fell short. "Actually... Let's hold off on that for now."
Celestia nodded. "Very well, then."
CONFESSIONAL - JUNKO:
Junko sighed as she buried her face in her hands. "I don't want to do this to Tenko, but I really can't afford to have any distractions right now."
CONFESSIONAL - CELESTIA:
"I knew Junko would eventually come around sooner or later," she smirked. "It was only a matter of time."
The elimination ceremony began as it usually did—the losing team sitting on the log stumps at the beach, and Chris in possession of a plate of marshmallows.
"As you know," he started, "if you do not receive a marshmallow, you will be forced to walk the Dock of Shame, and you can never, ever come back. Celestia and Junko, you're safe." The two girls walked up to claim their treat. "Makoto and Sayaka, same goes for you." Both campers went over and collect their marshmallows as well.
"Okay," Chris said, looking between the two campers without a marshmallow. "That leaves Tenko, who ended up letting the Gophers steal the win she got caught in a tree branch, and Leon, who got cut loose by Maki and ended up losing the majority of the Bass' flags."
"How the hell was I supposed to know she had a pocket knife on her?" Leon asked in disbelief.
"Yeah, well, you're safe." Chris flicked the final marshmallow at Leon, who caught it in his lap.
"Yes!" Leon cheered under his breath.
Junko sighed, turning to Tenko. "I'm sorry, Tenko."
Tenko shot her a confused look. "What do you have to be sorry for? Besides, I kinda deserve it. I'm the one who cost us the entire challenge. But, um, I kinda want to tell you something... Can you follow me to the dock?"
Junko gave her a confused look, but let Tenko lead her off to the Dock of Shame anyway.
Once they reached the dock, Tenko turned to Junko. "So, um."
Junko tilted her head. "Yeah?"
"Um, well, I... I... I like you, okay?!"
Junko blinked. "What? Do you mean, like, like-like?"
Tenko blushed, twiddling her thumbs. "Y-Yeah! I actually wanted to tell you earlier, but I kinda chickened out... Um, do you... feel the same way?"
Junko stayed silent for a moment, causing Tenko to speak again.
"Oh, but it's totally fine if you don't! I just—"
Junko put a hand up, signaling her to stop talking. "No, I... I do like you. Like-like you. I've never been in a relationship—or even been in love, actually—so I'm not really sure how stuff like this is supposed to go. Uh... How about this?"
Junko leaned forward and pecked Tenko on the cheek. It was short and sweet, but it was enough to send Tenko in a flurry of blushing, barely able to get a word out as a dumb grin plastered her lips. Junko chuckled at this and patted the other girl on the shoulder.
"Well, you'd better get going."
Tenko simply nodded and entered the Boat of Losers. As it began to chug away, Tenko finally found her voice again as she cupped her hands around her mouth and shouted, "Bye, Junko!"
"Bye, Tenko!" Junko waved back, and continued to wave back until the boat was out of sight. A light pink dusted her cheeks as she began to make her way back to the campgrounds.
CONFESSIONAL - CHEF:
"Junko and Tenko?" he started. "I was just as shocked as you. But you didn't read the letters." With a chuckle, the confessional ended.
Killer Bass - Celestia, Junko, Leon, Makoto, Sayaka
Screaming Gophers - Kaede, Kaito, Maki, Rantaro, Ryoma
Eliminated - Toko, Mondo, Shuichi, Ibuki, Kazuichi, Komaru, Kokichi, Hiyoko, Yasuhiro, Mikan, Kirumi, Tenko
Author's Note: And with that, we officially conclude the first half of season one. I hope you enjoyed it.
So, Tenko's elimination. Yeah, I'm sure at least some of you are surprised, and maybe even a bit confused about it. Although I can't tell you a whole lot, I will tell you that Tenko WILL get the development she deserves, I promise!
Also, I was going to include the love poem subplot in this chapter like in canon, but I couldn't find a way to write it in a way that I liked. So, it was dropped. Ah well, I still got to reference it near the end.
Also, also, how do we feel about the Junko/Tenko ship? I don't think it even has a ship name, lol.
And, yeah, I think that's it for now. As always, Thank you for reading! Until next time!