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Later, Jibanyan is awoken from a literal cat nap on the couch by metallic clanking, and he sees a robotic version of himself looking back with the yellow eyes from before and a reversed color scheme, where his main body is blue but the flames on his tail are red. Regular Jibanyan drags Nate and Whisper out of bed because “there’s a monster in the house.” Nate scans the room with the yo-kai watch, but no one appears. But the naked eye can easily spot places in the wood floor that have been punched in as footprints. They follow the tracks into the street and right up to the robot. Whisper tries to explain this character, but admits he was lying about yo-kai robots and can’t find this cat on the wiki. The robot is willing to explain himself though, after cycling through a few different voices and languages, finally settling on a deep, clear voice. Nate asks about the different voices while Jibanyan brings up his most pressing concern: this robot looks exactly like him. Once he points it out, his friends see it only then, which floors both cats. To clear everything up, the machine explains he’s [[Robonyan]], comes from the future and that he is Jibanyan, even though the latter just said he would never become a robot. He goes on to tell of a future where Jibanyan outlives his human friends and went through the mysterious disappearance of a yo-kai friend, holding his silent gaze on Whisper for a slightly long time, and chooses to evolve beyond his limits through technology.
Jibanyan can’t believe that he would mechanize himself, but Robonyan offers proof in the form of the factory in his belly that cranks out 85 percent dark chocolate chocobars. He accepts that Robonyan is a version of himself, but refuses to believe that the Jibanyan he is could become a robot. He clangs on his counterpart’s head and says he isn’t catlike enough because he’s too noisy to be catlike. Robonyan decides that contests between him and his past self will convince present-day Jibanyan to see the logic of the transformation. The first trial is a race, which Robonyan wins by being a racecar.Then he brings a truck to a dead stop in the street with just a finger. Jibanyan decides it’s time to straight-up fight robohim, and rushes Robonyan. The mech cat fires a rocket punch that Jibanyan dodges completely. Robonyan brings the mood down when he charges past his opponent to collect his fist off the ground to avoid littering.Jibanyan tries to get some hits in on Robonyan, but only damages his own hands like he’s a parked truck.
It’s still the middle of the night, so the four walk home and go back to sleep. Robonyan even takes care of himself, shrinking to the size of an action figure for convenience, and he can just plug himself right back into the normal outlets in Nate’s house.The next morning, [[Nate’s mom]] wants to know how he used more than 5000 watt-hours of electricity at midnight, more than there’s even room for on the chart she has on her phone. Nate and Whisper figure out right away Robonyan sucked up all the juice, but they turn around and he’s sinking into a time portal in the floor and saying, “I’ll be back,” as he flicks his medal over to Nate and disappears. In the end, Nate and Whisper raise Jibanyan’s spirits by deciding he is actually better than Robonyan because he doesn’t cost any extra on the electric bill. And the episode closes out on a shot of Jibanyan’s glowing yellow but non-robotic eyes.
