A Christmas Carol inside of Rococo Village.

    The archetypal description of a good boy walked across the streets of Rococo Village. The calls of the town's crier weren't ignored, and while Labramon knew next to nothing about the so-called 'empress', her disappearance meaning the end of Christmas was among the worst news the poor dog could get.

    But! He had a plan; his goal was for Christmas to return, and maybe to get an extra-special gift for being the goodest of good boys. Completely flawless! Now... the only thing he had to do was to track the people fated to find the empress. And then help them.

    Now... how to find the chosen ones? The digimon's instincts were carrying him to the mayor's house. The most obvious place, of course, but why doubt about tried and true?

    Time to head that way.

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    Would the occupants of the mayor's house be aware that another entity was observing the whole exchange? If they hadn't, they would find out that fact very soon.

    Right now, in fact! A suspicious-sounding poof of smoke would ensue right between Akemi and Katherine, revealing a hooded image, shrouded in archetypal witch clothes. Who could be this mysterious being?

    "Are you really going to trust two girls who are obviously tsundere to each other?" The voice was smug, and didn't sound Amelie-ish at all. "They won't accomplish anything unless they reconcile their feelings. And get some eggs get cleaned up from a certain person's home. Those risk rotting and smelling real bad, you know?"

    In any case, it seemed like the new visitor wasn't going to leave any time soon, or expose her identity, while at it. Would the group bear with her or... do something else?

    That was up to them!

Julian sweated when Anzu mentioned someone recording that fight, because a little research will show you that the video is in the youtube channel called The Mayor rules. Under a little segment called (My wife is the most beautiful Mess ever #20) watching the whole series will show you just how bad Anzu can be, with countless disasters that takes time to fix so Julian decided to film it and put it on youtube so he can make money and help everyone. Why couldn't he pick a less controversial wife no one knows, but Anzu is his wife and he will ride with her to the end no matter what. But now she is asleep and will not bother anyone for now, so he can focus on the debate.

"Excellent job Detective Jasso you are truly a genius, now I want to hear what you know. And Detective Akemi, no cheating. Taking someone else's lead takes away from the test, use your own wits. This town needs its batman and I am gonna find it one. As for this, this the fine Witch, like damn she is a fine witch. " Julian said as he cleared his throat in order to make an announcement, something important. "I will like to let the record know that I did not call her a bitch, because a bitch is a female Labramon or Gaomon. Last time I said bitch I thought it was a good word, but I learned my lesson from last time. Anyways I have a guess to who we investigate a tall mean man but you go first Detective Katherine."

Well somewhere far far away, the mighty hero who will save christmas was cackling menacingly. He had an evil plan to get this, replace the bad santa and be a better santa in her place. This epitome of evil was a special digimon. "Shut up Santa, you had your chance but after what you did to me last Christmas I will never forgive you. Now me and my gorgeous assistant will show you how to do christmas properly, muhahahaha. Nyaaaaaaa!" Then the sound of a cute unthreatening purr covered the place, truly a fearsome villain.

    As expected, Amy became the focus of the conversation as soon as she appeared. Her reaction to that? Well, that was pretty obvious.

    After laughing, though? She scoffed, then looked at the mayor.

    "First off; is the clarification on the difference between witch and bitch important? It kinda feels like your post was too short and you wanted to pad it up." Even from under the hood, her expression was already smug; then, her eyes shifted to Katherine.

    "And you~." She paused, for dramatic effect. "While tsunderes work on anime, did you know that real-life people trying to do that end up as spinsters? Don't miss your chance with a good girl just because you can't admit your true feelings. Else, you risk turning into a Kinkakumon. Or a crazy cat lady; both are equally likely."

    Not to say, that rotten eggs were real smelly. Nobody ever deserved that. Speaking of the owner of the stinking house, however! Her question was the only one that had more or less a measure of sense. "Who I am? I'm just a Taeko with too much spare time in her hands that's also an extremely powerful and talented shipping witch for plot reasons I shouldn't even explain. I'll help you out as long as it results entertaining to me. But I'm also equally likely to help the bad guys if you prove to be a boring bunch! So, please, try to remain in my good graces and be a colorful group!"

    That was an aside for the time being; the two girls had a case to solve, right? "Somebody able to locate the owner of that smelly sock will appear in approximetely thirty seconds. Make sure to give him plenty of headpats and dog treats. Good luck!"

    Just like that, the witch disappeared in yet another poof of smoke.

    Her words hadn't been a lie, though! Thirty seconds later, the sound of a pair of paws tapping at the door could be clearly heard. Who was there? It was none other than good boy extraordinaire, Labramon!

Well once Amy made the princess laugh Julian realized something, he might be stuck in a Shojo anime. Which sucked since he wanted a cool senien but life gives you lemon sometimes and you gotta make lemonade out of it, so he is gonna play along as best as he can. The digimon then chuckled at the naive witch's statement, he cant blame her she probably did not deal with the paparazi as much as he did. Those digimon are like rapid dogs and will eat you for any tiny mistake you make. "I mean you say that Amelie but, anyways I digress go on." He then waited for Amy's guidance which was....about romantic feelings.

The patamon slammed his face to table, he regret being part of this romantic movie. Julian just kept thinking about how close he was to hiring batman to solve this crime, but nooooo he was too busy fighting aliens to come save Christmas. But hey as long those two get the job done everything will be fine right ? The mayor continued to listen to the conversation till Katherine made some cases for her being the new batgirl the city needs, she caught on and knew who to follow the evil grinch. The mayor whipped his head back up looking excited, finally something interesting and relevant to talk about.

"Yes! The grinch, I heard he is a mean one. Apparently rumor has it that he does not celebrate christmas for religious reasons, what a big jerk am I right ? But anyways, lets step back. What !? His sock was in the grocery store ? Is no one going to question this ? You guys are detectives, how can you- screw it I am pretty sure there is no internal logic and we are just improvising as we go along." The mayor then watched as Akemi patted the dog, while it was kinda sweet, Julian now knows Katherine is way in the lead in terms of being an actual detective.

Back to the probably evil Clearlöwemon who only got mad when the lewd and crude santa tried to shift blame, only proving to him that she is an evil coward that ruins everything. "Silence! You no longer have the right to talk anymore, you lost that right. Now my beautiful assistant bring me the te-." And oops that did not last long, Roy face palmed using both of his hands as he took a deep breath in and out, why must Jazz do all of this ? "Wait no! Don't take the blindfolds, dang it Jazz. Ah well its not like things will change either way, our plan to save christmas is underway. I bet the mayor and Batman are going to suspect the grinch first, but they will find nothing. Muhahahahahahaha, nya~" the evil cat was so evil, oh my god christmas is in danger, what will our heroes do ?

    As soon as the door was opened for him, the first thing that Labramon did was to inquisitively sniff Akemi as she patted him. The dog was supremely thankful at the display of affection, but he needed to find out something extremely important first.

    Whether the girl was already on a ship or not. Only after shaking his head dismissively, he could accept the full extent of Akemi's niceness. The good boy already liked her!

    At least until Katherine greeted him and presented the stinky sock. A sudden bark was his initial response before sniffing Katherine this time, searching for possible pairings present within the girl. Yet... this time, something resonated within.

    Had she married a boxer dog that wasn't a Gaomon... somehow, somewhere? Well, Labramon was nobody to criticize the dark-haired teenager's life choices! Now, onto what was important!

    The sock itself smelled pretty bad, but the Grinch was definitely somebody who needed to be tracked if Christmas was to be saved! Once he was done with the item, the dog just... ran outside the house.

    That awful stench was pretty easy to track; Labramon would reach its owner in short order, but... would the detectives be able to keep up with his pace?

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    Another poof of smoke revealed the witch's visage. This time? She was in the same room than Empress, Royland, and Jazz.

    "So... the detectives are on their way here; or at least will be, eventually. I know the whole plan is a dramatic face-off, but you probably want to do whatever you were meant to do to Santa, else Jazz will probably give her out before you can do anything at all."

    Given the difference in height between the human and the digimons —and the fact that she wasn't the tallest being in the room anymore—, the witch was gently levitating in a broomstick, slightly above everyone else. At the moment, she was right beside the Cho-Hakkaimon, gently patting the head of her pig suit. "Not like that's something bad, anyway; I still struggle to understand the point of undermining Christmas, to be honest."

    Would the plot thicken, or was this gambit just an excuse to fool around? Time to find out!