With the Olympics over (and again with some attacking the closing ceremony as "a woke mockery of Christianity), there was now more time for the comparisons between Professional Olympic Athletes and Amateur Animalian Athletes. While some Olympic Athletes were able to beat said athletes, more often than not the Animalians were able to beat said athletes, which were an ego blow, no question about it, but the athletes who won Olympic medals were allowed to keep them.
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While August was one of the hotter months of summer, it was also one of the slowest months due to having no real holidays per se. However, the summer events in Animalia were more than enough to make up for it.
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What was unquestionably the "hottest" event was the "opening party" at Ao Guang Island. Because of its geographical location, it really only had two seasons: hot, dry summers, and cool, rainy "springs". Because of that, it was guaranteed to be a popular tourist destination, and all kinds of new features and attractions were being added, some more child-friendly than others.
One new thing that was on Ao Guang Island was a jet ski rental service, which was being advertised with a jet ski race (partially helped by the fact that all the competitors in said race were female Animalians).
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Another thing that was heating up was the expansion of Renardville. While it wasn't expanding at the rate of, say, Gondwana Land, it was still speeding up considerably due to the Olympics, apparently due to both the Medieval Event and the fact that Renardville was close enough to several Olympic events for athletes who finished their events to cool off, whether they had won a medal in their event or not.
What was currently going on was a full-contact sparring match between Chinese cultural hero Mulan and Minamoto-no-Yoshimitsu, the "twin sister" of Minamoto no Yorimitsu (since in the actual historical records, Yorimitsu and Raiko were different names for the same person), though this was to show the difference between their own martial arts techniques.
Meanwhile, Hide was doing another interview with Miles about how he and Raiko first met, since Raiko was also a bearer of Sohayamaru.
"I actually met up with her during her struggle with the Tsuchigumo, who had infested a certain gatehouse at Kyoto. Because the area where I met her was bathed in dark energy, my yokai horns were fully visible, causing her to attack me, thinking I was one of the yokai infesting the city. Fortunately, I was able to prove myself to her by first, wielding Sohayamaru against her, then easily killing the Tsuchigumo."
"Wait," said one college student who heard what Hide was saying. "If the Tsuchigumo thing was in the year nine-seventy-fi-- how old are you, man?!"
"I'm a shiftling." said Hide, shortly, "I don't age the same way humans do."
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As a side effect of Renardville's expansion, there were going to be more students at both Miss Juliet's school and Renardville's 'official' school, so Miss Juliet had to put out some new ads for teachers.
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Speaking of schools, Ryouiki's school (unofficially known as "Ninja Prep) had just announced that it would be starting its first school year this autumn. While those at Samurai Prep would be excited to have a rival school to compete with, others who were more familiar with the pop culture ninjas than actual ninjas were more excited about what would be taught there. This inspired one animator to create an animation on what would be most likely to happen:
During one class at ninja prep, one of the students spotted tourists coming toward the school and blew a signal on a bamboo whistle. Almost immediately, everyone went into a flurry of activity hiding everything related to ninjas in concealed compartments in the walls, floors, ceilings, etc., though it was only when said tourists left in semi-disappointment, and the sentry had signaled all clear, that the ninja things were brought out again.
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Of course, the biggest thing heating up this year was the heat/rut cycle for Animalians who breed during the autumn months, so contraceptives for both male and female Animalians were being sold at discounts.