Okay, now that everybody's calmed down,
let's all have one of our strategy meeting where everybody's naked!
Why are we doing this?
It doesn't make sense.
Ma-kun, what's the topic for today?
Obviously, it's about Medhi and her mom.
Why are you so obsessed with her anyway?
Just ignore her!
Well, we have other things to do,
and we weren't asked to get involved, so maybe we shouldn't.
But I know how it feels to have problems with your mother and not know what to do.
It feels personal to me.
I want to help both of them. And I'd like your help in doing so.
Please.
Ma-kun, Mommy thinks that's a great idea!
I'll help you.
Mom...
Fine, fine. I get it.
You're the hero, so of course you want to save the hopeless heroine.
I'm such a nice sage!
Thank you, Sage.
So, Porta...
I'll help, too...
- Oh my! Porta! - Porta!
She's been in the bath too long!
That's dangerous!
Wake up, Porta!
Are you okay? I'm here for you!
No punishment this time?
Thank you...
I think?
Students are the Protagonists of a School Festival. But People Wearing School Uniforms are Included, Too.
School Festival
Yay! A school festival!
Wait! Hold it!
What's wrong, Hero Masato? Why are you screaming in the middle of class?
I mean, come on! It doesn't make sense to have a school festival without warning!
It'd be pointless if I told you in advance!
The point of this is to see how well you can handle an event that occurs without warning!
This is a pop quiz that's very important for the game.
A quiz?
You can do anything you want for the festival.
Parents are welcome to participate, as well!
Now, form up in groups and get to work!
My mom's going to take part in the school festival, too?
It's your destiny, so just accept it.
Ma-kun! Ma-kun!
How about we do a little cafe for the school festival?
I'm pretty confident I can cook something good!
That's a great idea! I'm in!
So am I! I want to cook with you!
If you're doing a cafe, then so shall we!
And we'll compete to see who sells more!
Um...
Huh?
We'll be the ones to win, understand?
Heave-ho, heave-ho.
Amazing...
Everybody's really getting ready.
It's Mom, and...
I’m in love with you, Mamako! Please be my girlfriend!
Thank you.
It makes me very happy you feel that way.
But, I'm sorry.
I'm Ma-kun's mother, so I can't be your girlfriend.
I'm really sorry!
Did I just beat out a rival in love?
No, I didn't! I definitely didn't!
Mamako's very popular.
There were lots of love letters in her shoe cubby.
Th-There were, huh?
But I'm not a Dark Lord with a mom complex, so won't challenge any of them to a duel.
That was a problem in class the other day, right?
Hey, Masato, I'm sorry about earlier.
When my mother challenged you to that weird competition.
No, it's nothing you need to apologize for...
No, everything my mom does is for my sake.
Her desire to make her daughter number one is what makes her act as such.
I know it's causing problems for you...
And I know this is selfish, but please put up with it for just a little more.
Are you okay with things as they are?
I don't like causing problems for the people around me...
But I believe in my mother.
Medhi...
It is now time for the first annual Lover's Lane Academia school festival to begin.
Heave-ho, heave-ho.
Mother's Back
It'll be ready soon, so be good kids and wait, okay?
Okay, we're waiting!
There are so many customers!
And they're all kind of weird!
Excuse me! I'll take one Mommy's Special Rice Omelet!
Coming!
Give me a Mommy's Special Ginger Pork and Pork Soup Combo!
Coming up!
I'll take Mommy's Special Curry!
Coming!
I'll take some curry, too!
I'll take a fried pork bowl!
The fried fish combo!
Two rice omelets, please!
H-Hang on! We can't make all that at once!
It's fine, Ma-kun!
Hungry children are waiting for me!
Mommy will do her best!
Mommy, I'll help you!
Me too! I'll help!
I'll pass out the chopsticks!
You're all such good kids! And a great help to Mommy!
Thank you!
Th-That's Mamako for you...
Why?
Why is that place getting so many more customers than our cafe?
This is bad! I need to do something!
Medhi?
Yes, Mother?
Go change into a swimsuit immediately.
Okay—
Wait. Why do I have to do that?
We'll use the sight of you in a swimsuit to lure all the customers over here!
If you have to, spread your legs and pose for them!
Do you need something, Masato?
Um... I just came to see if Medhi was enjoying the school festival.
Oh, how kind of you.
So? Do you have anything to say about her naked body?
I'm ready for what comes next.
Very well, then it's time for you to be punished for your indecency.
Spara la Magia pel mirale...
Wait, hang on!
Morte!
Masato?
Hero Masato.
Multiple instant death attacks have leveled you up from "dead form" to "floating form."
I see. So this is thanks to all those instant death attacks Wise used on me.
This "Staff of Aperto" is quite powerful.
Seems like they can't see me.
I don't know who sent it to me, but if I use it...
H-Hey, Mom, you should revive Masato.
We can do that later!
But first, Medhi, I will use this power of release to draw out more of your beauty.
Seduce Masato and then control him so he ruins his cafe.
Then we'll win for sure.
Th-That's not really fair...
If I say it's fair, then it's fair.
You must win, no matter what.
What is wrong with that woman?
- Hey! Revive! - Yay!
I'm bored...
Yeah, the customers are doing everything.
Masato!
Masato, did you go and see all the other places at the festival?
If not, will you go around with me?
It'll be just the two of us, so we can have a lot of fun!
Y-Yeah, sure...
What's up, Medhi? You're not usually like this.
Come on, Masato! Go! Go! Go!
Medhi! Hey!
There's lots of different little cafes, huh?
I've always wanted to tour the school festival with my boyfriend like this.
Oh no, did I accidentally say boyfriend? What am I saying?
I'm so embarrassed!
Tera Burger
Anyway, if you're the person next to me when my dream comes true,
maybe we are fated to be together.
Just kidding...
That's going a little far, isn't it?
Yeah, it is.
Actually...
Medhi, let's talk.
I know what's going on.
About what Medhimama told you to do.
She wanted you to seduce me so I’d do what you wanted.
You couldn't see me, but I was there.
So...
You knew all along, huh?
I feel like such an idiot.
Medhi?
What's her problem? I didn't even want to do this.
Waving around that weird staff, saying all that stuff about "power of liberation."
Stop, stop!
Your inner dark power is being unleashed!
And thanks to her, all this weird stuff is happening!
That awful mother!
Medhi?
Well?
Did you get close to Masato?
Yes...
I see. Then I'll leave you kids to your fun.
Don't you think it's time to stop this?
Stop what, exactly?
All of this.
The competition, the things you're forcing Medhi to do...
I’d like you to stop it all.
Please.
No.
We're not competing for fun.
We can't quit before it's over.
Don't you think it's already over, though?
N-Not yet! We can compete for something else.
Beauty Contest
This!
A-A beauty contest?
Beauty Contest Recruiting Now
Let's compete head-to-head with the most attractive waitresses from our cafes.
It's time, everybody, for the main event of the school festival, the beauty contest!
Lover's Lane Academia School Festival Beauty Contest
This cheer meter will measure how much you're all cheering for our contestants,
and decide the winner!
Now, time to introduce our beautiful contestants!
Let's start with entry number 1! Healer Medhi! Go ahead!
Okay! Thank you for hav—
I-I'm sorry!
I'm so embarrassed!
C-Cute!
Whoa! Our first contestant's off to a great start!
Well done! Splendid!
There's no doubt about it. Medhi is very talented.
Next up is entry number 2! Our class rep.
And lastly, entry number 8!
Sage Wise! Go ahead!
It's time for the winning contestant!
How can she smile like that when she's so obviously going to flop?
Does she have some plan to win?
No, not a chance.
Not a chance in hell!
You can do it, Wise!
Ow!
Sorry! I'm so clumsy!
Wise! Yay! Yay! Yay!
Don't you guys like this crap? So why don't you show a little joy?
Thank you, Sage Wise!
Now, get off the stage.
Hey, that was mean!
Well, now that the mood's been completely spoiled,
I have to tell you the results, even though everyone knows...
Looks like we've won.
But instead, I'm making a last minute call for entrants!
Please, come up on the stage!
Oh, maybe I will, then!
Mamako, what's up?
Well you see, there's not enough burners on the stove at the cafe,
so I can't warm up the miso soup.
So I wanted you to use your fire magic.
Is that okay?
Oh, sure. That'll only take a second.
Looking good.
Oh?
Maybe I'll advertise the cafe while I'm up here.
Everyone, the miso soup's ready!
But it's hot, so Mommy will blow on it for you!
Come and try some!
What?!
A girl who can cook! So cute!
We have our winner!
The winner is Mamako! Congratulations, Mamako!
H-Huh?
Medhi!
Masato?
Can we talk?
Where are you going?
Ma-kun?
Masato, what's wrong?
Um, well, I just felt like... I guess my instincts, or child's intuition,
were telling me to get out of there now.
Oh, I see.
That mom was about to go nuts over her kid again.
Medhi, can we talk?
S-Sure.
How long are you going to keep being your mom's slave?
I'd never do what you're doing. I have a will of my own!
Don't you?
O-Of course, I have a will of my own! I do!
Then speak up.
What do you want to do right now?
I-I...
It's okay. We're the only ones here.
I...
I want to enjoy what I have now. What I'm doing now.
It's the school festival, so I want to work alongside my friends and open a little cafe,
laughing, having fun...
But...
But what?
I don't have any friends.
So...
That's not true!
You've got friends right here!
Like me!
And me!
Me, too, if you'll let me!
If you tell me what it is that you, personally, really want to do,
then, as your friend, I'd like to enjoy this school festival with you.
B-But my mom's caused so much trouble for you...
I've got problems with my mom, too.
We've both got the same issues.
So we can be friends.
Right! Right! Right!
I've got resistance against awful moms, so it'll be easy!
I'm younger than you, so I don't know if we can be friends, but...
I want to be friends with you!
Everyone...
I want to have lots of fun with my friends!
I want to have tons of fun with everybody instead of just doing what my mom tells me!
I want to have lots of fun!
What are you doing?
What are you saying?
M-Mother...
Um, I...
Masato and his friends are being nice to me, and I want to be friends with them...
Because they're my first friends...
You know that friends don't matter! What matters is being number one!
That's the only thing! You're so frustrating!
H-Hey!
You’re a terrible daughter!
You again?
Why do you always show up at the worst time?
You're really pissing me off!
I'm sorry...
But, let me talk to you!
It makes a mother very happy for her child to be number one, right?
I understand how you feel!
Right?
But does that mean it's alright to push your child too far?
Is there a reason she has to suffer in order to be number one?
There is!
I need her to be number one, or it'll trouble me!
Because, if my daughter is number one...
Then I can tell everyone that I'm the number one mom!
Does that mean she's doing this all for herself?
Enough of this.
Enough.
Medhi?
I've endured this for so long.
Everything you forced me to do made me so sad and hurt...
But I believed you were doing it for me.
That's why I was able to do it all.
But it was all just so you could say that you were the best mom?
How could such betrayal exist?
Medhi, wait! Let's talk this out!
Staff of Conforto, unleash everything I have!
I won't forgive... anyone!
If I Say Nothing, It Won't Be Heard, But If I Say Something, It'll Be a Critical Hit. It Sucks Being a Family.
Ma-kun, tell her!
So that she can regain the bond between parent and child!