>>20718352>[Fresh of an overwhelming defeat, MADDOTAKO and her personal Young Lioness, Kyoto Nokani, are sitting in their Spaghetti Town hotel room ruminating on the loss of the GJPW Intercontinental Championship.]>["Yamikawa-sama, is everything okay?"]["Nokani. Nothing is okay. Arlene shredded me like a shark, frenzied by chum. My title reign has ended in a four-minute, career-threatening quagmire. The new owner casts doubt upon my competency. And you ask, 'Is everything okay?' I am dragged from the water and suffocated in the air of my foe's enmity, blown about by these cruel Western winds. Yet I, the greatest IWGP Intercontinental Champion in history, am without my title, my prestige, and my station. And you ask, 'Is everything okay?' I have struggled against stronger opponents with bigger name value for the majority of my time in this company, overcoming mountains and spanning trenches to maintain the position I so recently held, and it has been ripped from my grasp. Not just a physical prize, but the very essence of what has defined me as a professional wrestling. And you ask me... 'Is everything okay?'"]
>[. . .]["I have a few more weeks in this accursed country. One match is already listed for my future. Cindy K. Lopez. A debutant. By all metrics, I should stretch her, twist her, and break her. But does the Mad Octopus even have what it takes anymore? Are the limbs so fragile that the depths themselves will cause them to crush under pressure from the rising tide?"]
>[. . .]["And yet you ask me, 'Is everything okay?' A walk to stretch my limbs will do my good. Do not wait up, Nokani-san."]
