What is it like to be blocked at the door by Boss Mabel in Stardew Valley?
Suke wasn't entirely sure about this, but he figured it would definitely be much more thrilling than being blocked on a bridge by Hikami Meruru at the aerospace base... no, wait, Urugu on the bridge.
Jokes aside, one shouldn't make fun of Mabel-chan. He didn't know what kind of scene it would be if Mabel-chan really threw a tantrum, but according to the law of 'being three times stronger when turning dark,' he estimated that even if everyone in the entire valley attacked her together, they wouldn't be able to hold her back.
Therefore, Suke indeed planned to properly study how to break the restrictions based on the rules born from the original Stardew Valley. Of course, it would have been better if Boss Mabel hadn't just closed the door only to immediately poke her head back out to change her words, shortening 'one year' to 'one week.'
If the Farm system hadn't promptly popped up to issue a new quest, Suke really would have had the urge to execute Boss Mabel on the spot and ask her if she would ever go back on her word again.
[Congratulations to the Farmer for triggering the quest series: Finding the Missing Junimo · Fish Tank]
[This quest is part of a series related to the opening and reconstruction of the Community Center. Please treat it with caution, Farmer.]
[The Junimo "Grape", who manages the Community Center's Fish Tank, is troubled by love. After being rejected by "Starfruit" for keeping too many 'fish' in its pond, it chose to go to an unknown faraway place all alone.]
[Quest Requirements: Please bring the Junimo "Grape" back to Stardew Valley. Its power might help you expand some special rules within Stardew Valley.]
[Junimos are the darlings of the forest and nature, but some also say they are actually little sprites formed by the condensed wish of every person in distress wanting to return...]
[Although Junimos have no gender, who says you can't love without gender? Is love really such an inconvenient thing?]
[Quest Hint: It is recommended that the Farmer takes "Starfruit" along for the journey, but pay attention to protecting "Starfruit's" safety.]
["Grape" holds a very special status within the Junimo community. It is the most powerful Junimo responsible for protecting the Junimo population, yet it is often troubled by love, resulting in a somewhat delicate reputation.]
[According to the Junimo itself, it just wanted to give all Junimos a family. Because it is a 'bunch of grapes', as long as it turns into 'individual grapes', it can fairly accompany every single Junimo.]
[There is absolutely no such thing as the love of one heart being divided when facing multiple hearts, right?]
[Note: As determined by the system, there may be other Junimos who followed Grape and left Stardew Valley. Please observe carefully to find them while carrying out the quest.]
Looking at the new quest that had popped up on the system panel after a long time, Suke was almost rendered speechless.
No, wait, are the 'fish' that this fish-keeping Junimo is keeping even proper?
He felt that this world must have gone mad; even Junimos knew how to build a harem now.
And by the looks of it, this Junimo ran out of Stardew Valley on its own. He didn't know just how strong it actually was, despite the quest panel calling it the "most powerful."
"Starfruit, do you know about the Junimo 'Grape'? I heard it left Stardew Valley on its own. Do you know where it went?"
After carefully reading through the quest description and realizing that it didn't specify where the Junimo Grape had gone, Suke naturally could only pin his hopes on the Junimo Starfruit.
After all, Starfruit was the Junimo that Grape had courted to no avail. Although Suke expressed his strong support for Starfruit's decision—I mean, you're a Junimo without even a gender, yet you're starting a harem; where is the logic in that!
Moreover, in a sense, Suke felt like he was being somewhat attacked by this quest, though he had no proof.
[Grape...]
Crawling out of the small house that Suke had built using items from outside Stardew Valley—which looked like a Junimo Hut but actually possessed none of a Junimo Hut's characteristics and abilities—Starfruit stretched out its slender little hand to touch the green leaf on top of its head, and then said:
[Starfruit does indeed know some clues about where Grape went... And as far as Starfruit knows, it is precisely because of Grape's departure that the forest became empty, and the Farm and the Town also began to decline...]
Starfruit looked somewhat hesitant, its words inadvertently revealing a lot of important information.
Suke: ?
Wait, what is the meaning of this? So it was actually the main culprit?
Suke originally thought that he was just looking for a single Junimo. He figured that no matter how difficult it was, it couldn't be harder than the time he looked for Chili, which caused even Yuki to be elbowed out of the sky into a crash landing.
But now, after hearing Starfruit say this, he realized things weren't that simple.
"Grape" apparently didn't just wander off ordinarily, but rather, like a scumbag, took a group of people and defected from Stardew Valley, which resulted in the dilapidated and deserted scene he had seen when he first transmigrated here!
"What is going on here?"
[It's like this. Back then, Grape courted Starfruit, but Starfruit was busy with important matters at the time, so I didn't agree... As a result, Starfruit found out the very next day that Grape had left the forest, its destination unknown.]
Starfruit spoke with some hesitation; clearly, it was also considering how to describe that past period of time:
[Grape's departure made many Junimos burn with anxiety, especially Winter Melon and Apricot, oh, and Cherry as well.]
[The three of them must have all left together with Grape. Then, because the forest lost the protection of Grape's power, the outside aura began to... seep through... and eventually, it got... worse and worse...]
Alright, through Starfruit's mouth, Suke perfectly understood a melodramatic White Album-esque soap opera that belonged to the Junimos.
From his perspective, he only felt that Grape was sick in the head. It already had three Junimos pining for it, yet it still irresponsibly walked away just because one Junimo rejected it. It was simply the kind of heartless scumbag!
In his words, it was like having three beautiful wives at home but still going out to fool around with other women. It simply had no conscience!
If it were him, he would absolutely, definitely never do such a thing, and he would be able to handle things much better... This wasn't setting a flag! It was the truth, he swore!
[However, Starfruit remembers Grape saying before that it was going to a place with many, many guys, a place that serves as the opposite of the forest... That place seems to be called 'Little Garden'?]
Starfruit continued to narrate, the little leaf on top of its head shaking as it spoke the word that made Suke raise his eyebrows.
He naturally wasn't unfamiliar with the term "Little Garden". According to Abigail, the so-called "Chaos Labyrinth" established by Mabel was exactly that, but it was obvious that the Little Garden mentioned by the Junimo Starfruit was not the same thing at all.
Connecting it to what was said earlier about it being the opposite world of the "forest"—that is, "Return" where "Stardew Valley" is located—then there was only one obvious answer.
—The "Little Garden World". The supreme plane from the worldview of "Problem Children Are Coming from Another World, Aren't They?".
Suke thought about it. The characteristics of that Little Garden World did indeed perfectly match "Come".
Gods piled together, endlessly fighting each other in Gift Games, all just to climb to higher numerical positions—this place could be said to naturally clash with the essence of Stardew Valley. He didn't know how a mere little Junimo like Grape dared to go to such a place.
However, since it had already gone there, Suke would also have to figure out a way to chase after it.
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