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As Rumia walks ominously towards Shanghai a voice cuts across the clearing, “That’s enough of that. Rumia, clear out before I rip out your stuffing.”

Huh? Looking over in surprise it’s none other than Big Sis Melancholy! Rumia glares at her, “This is none of your business Melancholy, let me finish this.”

Big Sis shoots back, “A youkai bullying dolls is entirely my business. You’re lucky that I have better things to do than kick your teeth in, so don’t waste the opportunity and scram.”

Looking between Melancholy and Shanghai, Rumia shakes her head and flies off, “This isn’t over.”

Big Sis is not impressed at all, “You always say that.”

Rumia’s response is pathetic, “Because it’s never over!”

Sighing, big sis looks over the carnage of her fellow dolls, “What a mess. Still, no one is beyond repair, right?”

Looking the dolls over once more with a critical eye, Shanghai is relieved to see only superficial injuries. Already the nurse dolls are beginning to emerge from their medical tents and carry dolls back on stretchers. The dolls creeping back from the woods join in too, which is good because otherwise they’d get quite the talking to for cowardice.

As Shanghai ponders where she needs to insert herself into the process, her team comes over carrying the lemonade. Thankfully none of it was spilled, failing the very first self-assigned doll mission would be bad.

Big Sis looks over at the supplies in amusement, “Oh? You got refreshments for the other dolls? I approve of the sentiment but…”

Shanghai shakes her head at that before pantomiming a large witch’s hat on her head and flying around on the base of her sword.

Drawing closer and looking over the containers, Big Sis guesses, “It’s for… Marisa? Huh, I wouldn- uhhh, where did you get this?”

Tilting her head, Shanghai points towards the village.

Big Sis looks quite concerned as she asks, “And the person selling this was selling it as lemonade or something?”

Again, Shanghai nods.

Frowning, Big Sis takes a sip of the liquid and swishes it around in her mouth for a bit, “Polychlorinated biphenyl…”

Taking another sip she adds, “Tastes coplanar. Someone was selling this as a refreshment to people in the village?”

Shanghai gives a confused nod. She doesn’t quite know what a polycholor- wait! Poly means multiple! So it's uhh… multiple of something. Still, the way Big Sis is talking makes it sound bad.

Seeing her confusion, Big Sis explains, “Essentially, they were selling bad stuff as a drink that’d really hurt people if they bought it. How did they even get their hands on this stuff?”

They were selling bad stuff? Bad stuff that hurt people? They were selling bad stuff that hurt people as good stuff that helps people! How dare they! At the very least they should have had a sign that said ‘This is bad stuff that you shouldn’t drink!’, but instead they just pretended like it was lemonade! If that's okay what’s next? Rumia could sell her pee (which she would do because she’s a stupid ugly bedwetter) as lemonade and everyone would die!

She needs to do something! This is urgent! But… she also has a responsibility to watch over her dolls. At this point, all she needs to do is wait for Alice to get here and then she can bring that dishonest ‘lemonade’ fairy to justice. To that end, she sends two dolls (because the friend system is important!) to get Alice and heads down to the medical tents.

Entering the first tent, Shanghai is met with a tragic sight. One of the doll team bosses is facing a doctor doll while gesturing to one of her workers with a scratched arm. Tapping her empty little clipboard, the doctor doll shakes her head. This prompts the boss to fall to her knees and shake her fists at the sky as the doctor pats her on the back. Meanwhile, the injured doll watches the whole thing from bed. Going off the vitals monitor she doesn’t seem too bad, but that might be because the vitals bit is just painted on.

Heading through the rest of the tents, it’s a similar sight. None of the dolls are too injured, heck they even got teatime in bed. Now that was a heart-warming sight seeing each one bring the little cup to their face before a nurse doll refills it. Still, it could use some work. Some dolls were holding the cups way longer or shorter than a person drinking tea would and the same thing could be said about the nurses with the kettles.

Soon the nefarious Dr. Lemontene and her nefarious sidekick uhh Rikocko shall be brought to justice by our hero, Shanghai!