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Peppa hugs her cousin, and continues despite the bitterness on her tongue, "That Izumi is who I love. Don't forget she's you, and you're worthy of love!"
"Peppa," Izumi whispers. Her body fidgets in discomfort still. "I'll... try, I guess?"
Peppa smiles up at her... and still feels disgusting, even worse than Baby looks. "Uhhh, whendoesitstop?"
"It doesn't till you deal with it!" Izumi scolds her. "And what's with telling me you love me, huh!? That's just gonna make it pump through everything faster!"
Peppa groans out, "Aw, for real?"
"For real," Izumi says, scratching at her arm again.
"Well excuse me, Princess-" Peppa snaps her gaze up at Izzy. "I'm allowed to call you that, right? There were three candies, so are they all Izzzzzu... your first name, or other things?"
Izumi lets out a nervous laugh, her core still betraying her. "Just stick with Izzy!"
Peppa frantically nods. "Okay, if the power of love is useless, there's Plan B! I apologize in advance."
"Plan B?" She looks down at Peppa, and sees the girl's foot raised. "Wait, Peppa, no-"
-stomp-
Izumi collapses, and cradles her foot. "Yeooowwww!"
"Did it work?" Peppa asks, still tweaking and thinking that maybe she is the common denominator in all her friendships going screwy-
-whok-
Izumi kicks her in the face, and all those spasms and thoughts get replaced with <span class="mu-i">Ow, my nose is broken!</span>
Peppa mumbles, "danks izzy!"
"Any, hsssss, time! Guh!"
They stumble back to the infirmary.
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Up at the projector, Peppa holds a pair of reels up. "How did 'Clothes Found' and 'Dizzyingly Busy' get spliced together?"
>SPLICING: Sometimes the story gets abridged by virtue of it making too much sense for things not to be interconnected.
>Medicine Ball completed!
>Clothes Found completed!
>Dizzyingly Busy completed!
The three of you consult with each other as your host wonders how her own memories work.
"Called it!" the Doting Aspect of Maple gloats.
"Oh really? You managed to call 'Izumi is taking a weird drug' in advance?" Inquiring asks her.
Doting considers. "Yes."
Scolding rages, "You did not!"
Doting tips her hat, smugly. "Well, heheh, maybe some of us should take the time to reread the Manga!"
Inquiring picks up the copy of the Dragon Ball manga, and flips to Doting's bookmark. "You reread up to Chapter 7."
"Aaaand I found it! What can I say, it's my lucky number!" She looks aside and whispers to the audience, "thanks anon!"
Back up at the projector, Peppa finishes deliberating over how the films melded together. "Oh well, here's the next one!"
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Fun fact: Mt. Paozu is located over 1000 kilometers away from Orange City, but there Peppa is, walking home from school!
Balancing along a branch as she makes her way through the forest’s canopy, Peppa grumbles as dark clouds loom over head.
Stepping off a branch, Peppa lazily vaults over a stream with her Power Pole to another tree, but something in the water catches her eye!
