Final Area: Continent I

Dammit, they just keep coming!

One, please!

One, please!

Hehehe. I do love seeing human faces contorted in pain. Now, give me one of those, and one of thooose...oh, oh, oh! One of THOSE, too!

Here! You'll take your payment in small-denomination QP and like it!

Feel free to count it to make sure it all adds up if you like. I know your fighting spirit will never let you do otherwise. Kehehe...

Go ahead and count them one by one. But don't you dare stop cooking in the meantime! Now, I think I'll take a shish kebab next!

Wait, hold up. They're almost at the finish line? So this event's gonna be over soon?

Isn't it strange that I've really been doing nothing but standing here this entire time?

I mean, I'm more than just an ungodly sexy swimsuit model, you know?

The way I saw it, the higher-ups for this event were supposed to notice the pop star power I couldn't keep covered up 'cause it's just way too strong.

Then they were supposed to beg me to take over the main role thanks to my incredible cuteness and popularity.

Heads were supposed to roll for having overlooked such an amazing talent right under their noses all this time, and my future as a superstar should have been secured!

Ahh... As official recordkeeper, it falls to me to preserve this summer woe. I shall call this one "The Tragic Buffoon"...

Fou fou, fooou!

Fou is excited too. He's jumping around like he wants to join the race.

This is finally it, Senpai!

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That's right. The only thing that stands between our racers and victory now is a single straightaway!

This area may have been improvised on the fly after the bridge collapsed, but hey, it works to keep things going!

I've tallied up the time it took each team to escape from the prison, and set up a new starting grid accordingly.

This time, each team will burn rubber as soon as we say go! It'll be a battle of fate, where each racer will have no choice but to trust in their luck.

There'll be no interference from enemies, and no tricky corners. All each team's gotta do is floor it and make for the finish line straight ahead!

A final leg for the ages, free of cheap tricks, where the winner will be obvious to anyone watching!

And we'll get to see how it all shakes out after a word from our sponsors!

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It's been one hell of a long race, folks, but at last, it's time to separate the winners from the losers!

Listen up, all of you waiting on the starting grid! Look back on everything that's happened during this race.

The four areas you worked so hard to cross. The countless trials you overcame with your trusty vehicles.

You should be all fired up by those irreplaceable summer memories. But!

If you win here, it will all have been worth it! If you lose, then it was all for nothing!

...So you can't go giving up now, can you?

To all you fierce competitors who've made it this far: this goddess salutes you!

I can't wait to see what happens, and not just for my own personal reasons!

I swear to you all as the goddess of beauty!

Whoever wins this race will be nothing less than the best summer Servant!

That's our Ishtar. She really knows how to get people fired up right to the end.

Still, it certainly looks like that worked!

The Ishtar Temple at the finish line will serve as the victory gate. Try to be the first one to cross it!

This is it! Get ready to begin the official last race of the Ishtar Cup!