Cerise
Bandit Hideout, Cell
[Talk, first]
Cerise: ...ZzZzZzZz...
Kabbu: Um... Hello, fellow bug...?
Cerise: ...ZzZzZzZz...
Leif: Maybe we should just let her sleep.
Cerise: ...ZzZzZzZz...
Vi: NAH! WAKE UP ALREADY, COME ON!
Cerise: ...? Ah!
Cerise: AHHHHHH! DON'T EAT ME! I DON'T ACTUALLY TASTE LIKE CHERRIES!
Kabbu: W-We won't hurt you. Just calm down, please.
Leif: We might give you a hug, though…
Cerise: Oh, okay! My name is Cerise!
Vi: Oooookayyyy... The heck were you doing underground?!
Cerise: I came to this weird land looking for my boyfriend Tanjy!
Cerise: ...But I got really sleepy, so I dug a hole to take a nap in!
Cerise: And monsters can't see you if you can't see them, you know?
Kabbu: That's...not how it works, but alright.
Vi: Weird. I thought you were a prisoner too…
Cerise: What's a prisoner?
Leif: Oh no. She's not too smart.
Cerise: I also found this weirdly shiny berry while digging. Doesn't taste very good though!
Cerise: You can have it if you want, Uncle Iron Seed.
Kabbu: Uncle Iron...what?
Cerise: Uncle Iron Seed! Because you look like an Iron Seed, and you look old enough to be my uncle.
(minibubble) Vi: Pfft...
Cerise: But...you don't look strong enough to have been eating lots of Iron Seeds, though…
Kabbu: ......We should get going.
Cerise: Okie-love-you-bye-bye! I'll go outside and look for Tanjy in a little bit, so don't worry about me!
Leif: We won't...too much.
[talk again]
Cerise: Hiding underground keeps you safe from monsters. But I just wish I could dig through solid rock…
Kabbu: Indeed. It's quite a pain to be unable to dig past troublesome enemies at times.
Cerise: It also helps you find rare stuff like that weirdly shiny berry I gave you, Uncle Iron Seed.
Cerise: And sometimes, you can even find weird cherries that like to sleep underground…
Vi: Kinda like you, right?
Cerise: ...? I'm not a cherry…
Leif: Stop it, Vi. You're confusing the poor girl.
Ant Kingdom, Main Plaza
[Ending celebration]
Cerise: Uncle Iron Seed! I was told there was a party for the strongest…
Cerise: But Tanjy's not here! And he's the strongest bug I know!
Kabbu: ...…
Leif: Let it go, Kabbu.
Golden Settlement, Residential
[postgame]
[first talk]
Cerise: Yay! I found Tanjy!
(minibubble) Leif: So his horn grew back...
Tanjerin: Yay! Cerise found me!
Kabbu: Oh. So that's who "Tanjy" was.
Kabbu: Glad they found each other in the end!
Vi: I thought it was obvious.
Tanjerin: Why'd you come find me anyway?
Cerise: Oh, right! I was supposed to take you back to the east where everyone else is right away.
Tanjerin: Oh! Well, I'm much stronger now, so I can head back. But which way's east again...?
Cerise: Uhhhh…
Leif: Oh no. They're both not too smart. Should we help them? We could see their homeland for ourselves…
Kabbu: Let's...not.
Vi: Yeah.
[subsequent talks]
Tanjerin: East is...to the...left...?
Cerise: My left?
Tanjerin: No, I think it's my left.
Vi: THE RIGHT! IT'S TO THE RIGHT!
Tanjerin: Oh? Mine, or yours?
Kabbu: How did these two even walk to Bugaria by themselves...?
Npc Spies
[Bandit Hideout, Cell, before waking]
Kabbu: Should we wake her up?
Vi: ...
[Cell, after talking]
Vi: PFFTHAHAHAHAHA! "UNCLE IRON SEED"?!
Kabbu: Oh, be quiet…
Vi: She kinda looks like one of those rare Dark Cherries. But red. That's weird.
Leif: She's more like a shade of pink. And we think it's cute, not weird.
Leif: If she's really a cherry, maybe that's why she naps underground…
Kabbu: I've heard that there's a land to the far east where bugs resemble various fruits. Perhaps she's from there?
Vi: Oh, yeah! Like in those fairy tales...
Vi: Their cherries are red and grow from trees, not the ground! They must cost a fortune!
Leif: ...Then why is she napping underground? Maybe we'll find answers if we visit her land…
Kabbu: ...Just this once, perhaps we shouldn't explore?
[Golden Settlement, Residential]
Leif: We're very glad that Tanjy's horn healed...and these two reunited safely.
Kabbu: I...I still don't know how that's even possible.
Vi: Maybe he just ate a bunch of Tangy Berries.
Kabbu: Okay, but where did he get so many? They're rare and expensive.
Leif: Maybe he has a stash of them in his house.
Vi: That explains why it's boarded up like that.
Kabbu: But that doesn't explain how he got so many in the first place!