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==Komasan in the City: Urban Living==

[[Komasan]]’s homesickness is soothed by his brother living with him in the city, but [[Komajiro]] wanders off and gets lost sometimes. This time, the younger Koma brother is stuck on top of a human head. Komasan has a technique for navigating pedestrians though, and it so rhythmic and smooth that it look just like he’s surfing over the crowd. Komajiro is inspired by his brother and takes to the surfing technique easily. Despite their shared mastery of the moves, they just switch places with Komasan getting stuck. The two somehow get loose from the cycle, and debrief about their headsurfing session. While they’re talking, Komajiro gets curious about what a human on the street is doing, handing out what Komasan claims are trading cards that come with a larger game: the more cards someone collects, the more that person can win. Komajiro wants to win a prize, so the brothers spend all day collecting “trading cards” individually. When they reconvene, Komajiro says one of his trading cards got him “into open-mic night at the Ha-Ha Club.” Komasan, again, pretends to understand everything about this situation. Komajiro thinks Komasan’s plan all along was to take all the trading cards to save people from terrible amateur comedy. This time, Komasan can’t pretend to understand anything and only silently worries that his brother has become “a city slicker.”

Shogunyan behaves almost exactly like Jibanyan but more confident. While Nate and Whisper work through what’s happening a pop fly comes right at Whisper through the open window when, in a flash, Shogunyan shoots up and slashes clean through the baseball with his “deluxe flying slasher move number two.” Now that the cat’s sword skills are out of the bag, he also slices up a snack cake on Nate’s desk into perfect thirds for them to share. But Nate eats two pieces, Whisper eats one, and Shogunyan is mortified by this blatant disrespect. Because he is an upstanding samurai, Shogunyan draws his blade on this pair of traitors. He brings his sword down on Nate from a leaping attack, and Whisper attempts to clap his hands around the blade and stop this affair of honor, but his hands slip. Whisper is split right down the middle. Nate comforts his spectral friend in what feels like his finals moments, but Whisper is totally a ghost and is fine. They laugh it off together and Shogunyan is so moved by their friendship that he sheathes his sword and cries for them. He is so touched by Nate’s display of friendship that he grants the boy his medal with tears streaming down his face. The legendary yo-kai retreats back into the closet and is replaced by Jibanyan who mentions something about a dream where he was a samurai warrior. But the red cat panics when he sees all this catgirl merchandise is just out for anyone to see and discovers that somebody ate all this chocobars. He cries, not for the beauty of friendship but over his lost chocolate, and laments, “this is so not legendary!”