Card Story: [Panda Rider] Emu Otori

Part 1

Phoenix Wonderland
Wonder Stage
1
Emu
Hum hum huuum, hu-hu-hum♪
2
Nene
You're in a pretty good mood, Emu.
3
Emu
Yeap! Because Tsukasa and Rui have made up and our next show looks like it's gonna be super fun and exciting too♪
4
Nene
Haha, yeah.
5
Nene
Now that you mention it, when Rui and Tsukasa fought that day, you ran after Tsukasa. Did you actually find him?
6
Emu
I did! And the panda was a great help!
7
Nene
Panda?
8
Emu
Where could Tsukasa have gone to?
9
Emu
Ah! Since he said he was going to cool down, maybe he's somewhere near water?
10
Emu
Let's see... Water, water, water...ah!
Hi there, Mr. Panda!
11
Emu
Ah-hah! I'll ride on this panda to look for Tsukasa.
12
Emu
Let me get on first... Okay, panda!
You gotta help me here♪ Here's your coin, clinkity-clink☆
13
Emu
Yay! It's moving!
14
Emu
Alright, panda!
To Tsukasa we go!
15
Emu
...
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Emu
Mr. Panda's so slow, though!
17
Emu
Ah! But I can't be impatient in times like these, right?!
Okay, I'll just match myself to Mr. Panda's speed, then...
18
Emu
Tsuuukaaasaaa, wheeeere aaaare yooou?
19
Nene
What in the world?
20
Emu
You remember the time when you rode on Robo-Nene and went whooshie-whoosh to and fro? I was trying to copy that♪
21
Emu
But unlike Robo-Nene, the Mr. Panda was reeeeeeeally slow.
22
Nene
Of course it was...
23
Emu
But I still managed to find Tsukasa and talk to him!
24
Nene
Wait! While you were still on the panda?
25
Emu
Nah, I'd already gotten off by the time I was talking to him. Oh, yeah! You should've seen how amazing the Mr. Panda was!
26
Emu
It came to a sudden stop the moment I found Tsukasa!
27
Emu
Almost as if it was telling me to go to him quickly!
28
Nene
Putting aside everything that sounded wrong about what you just said because I can't even be bothered anymore...
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Nene
So, how did your conversation with him go?
30
Emu
We came back to Wonder Stage together.
31
Nene
Don't tell me...you rode the panda back together?
32
Emu
Nah. What happened was...
33
Emu
Hehe♪
Now that's the classic Tsukasa-style delivery!
34
Emu
I'm sure he'll hear you out!
35
Tsukasa
Yeah, I'll talk to him properly.
36
Emu
Okay, let's go back to Wonder Stage together!
Nene and Mr. Panda are probably really worried about us right now.
37
Tsukasa
Yes, it's not nice to keep Nene and Mr. Panda waiting... Wait. Who's Mr. Panda?
38
Emu
Oh, here, this is Mr. Panda!
Clinkity-clink♪
39
Tsukasa
You were talking about that panda car?!
40
Tsukasa
Why would it be worried about me?!
And more importantly, did you ride this panda all the way here looking for me?!
41
Tsukasa
For goodness' sake, I have so many questions I don't even know where to start!
42
Emu
Haha! Tsukasa's back to being Tsukasa again, yay♪
43
Tsukasa
Don't you yay♪ me!
44
Tsukasa
So that fancy music slowly losing steam coming from behind me just now was because of this fellow, huh...
45
Emu
Do you wanna ride together?
I think Mr. Panda's strong enough for both of us!
46
Tsukasa
Leave me out of this! It'll be daybreak by the time we actually get back to the stage! I'm going on ahead.
47
Emu
Ahh! Don't be so mean, Tsukasa! Wait for me!
48
Nene
I'm frankly amazed things worked out the way they did.
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Emu
Hehehe!
50
Nene
Wh-What are you laughing about?
51
Emu
You were worried about Tsukasa too, right?
52
Nene
Well, if even Tsukasa were to be in low spirits, we wouldn't be able to do the show at all, so...
53
Emu
Yeah. That's why it was so awesome.
54
Emu
When Tsukasa nailed the scene that Rui came up with!
55
Nene
Hehe. That wall-climbing scene, right?
I'm sure both Tsukasa and Rui breathed a sigh of relief after that.
56
Nene
And...so did we.
57
Emu
Yup♪ And now we can keep expecting Rui to come up with even more amazing stage effects!
58
Emu
What's our next show after Halloween going to be like? I can't wait to find out☆