Is this…Akihabara?

Heeey, everybody!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year, Kotori!

*Giggle* I've been waiting for you guys. I'm so happy I get to spend the New Year's holiday with all of you!

It looks like everybody's here now.

Yep. All right then, follow me!

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Wow, check out all those steps! These stairs are always so intense, zura!

So we're going to a shrine, huh.

Yeah. It is New Year's, after all. I wanted to do the first shrine visit of the year with you all.

Hey, where's the elevator?

There isn't one.

What?! You mean we have to climb these stairs all on our own?!

I wanna make my first shrine visit of the year with you. Let's do our best getting up these stairs together, Mia.

Anything for you, Rina! I got this!

[Fade in/out.]

I can't…do this anymore…

Pull yourself together, Mia!

*Huff* *Puff* I'm exhausted too, zura…

Somehow these stone stairs seem longer than usual. Is it because this is a dream?

Ugh, if only my fallen angel wings weren't sealed away. I could've cleared these stairs in a single bound…

Eep! Something touched my foot… Huh? An eggplant?! Why is there an eggplant here?!

Oh no, the old lady who's climbing the stairs ahead of us has a hole in her shopping bag, zura!

Oh no! Let's all help pick up her stuff, guys!

Okay!

[Fade in/out.]

*Huff* *Puff* We finally got everything. Urgh, now my legs are so tired they're trembling.

Well, since we haven't been able to practice much during winter break, this might actually have been some good training.

Yoshiko even went to pick up the eggplant that had fallen all the way down the stairs. That old lady was so grateful.

W-Well, fallen angels must be charitable to humans, after all!

With that out of the way, let's get back to our shrine visit!

First Mt. Fuji, now eggplants… What's going on here?