A Vocaloid Christmas Carol

**A Vocaloid Christmas Carol** is the twenty-eighth installment in *Silylily - The Story* and the finale of the first season.

## Summary

Cocorobo, kokone, Gumi, and Lily visit the mall around Christmas time while Gakupo works as a mall Santa. Una sits on his lap and asks for a laser-shooting sword, but he refuses to deliver such a gift. Lily, Gumi, and kokone discuss what they are looking forward to the most about Christmas, so Lily mentions the annual Vocal Synth Christmas Concert that only specific vocal-synths are selected to sing in. Lily is confident that she will be chosen, but she is shut down when her longtime bully Namine Ritsu comes by to ridicule her. Ritsu observes that Lily has never been invited before, dwindling Lily's confidence as her friends attempt to comfort her.

Later, Gakupo and Ryuto bring a sack to the Internet household that contains the invitations to the Christmas Concert. Gakupo, Gumi, and Una receive invitations but the last one goes to CUL instead of Lily. Afterwards, Lily sulks while drinking hot chocolate with Cocorobo and kokone. Lily's friends promise they can celebrate Christmas in their own way, but Ritsu walks by in time to mock Lily for not receiving an invitation. Ritsu claims she will sing all of Lily's songs and take the credit for them before heading off to hang out with Hatsune Miku, referring to Lily's crew as "the vocal-synth rejects." In a fit of rage, Lily tells kokone and Cocorobo they should not be sticking together, since they will continue to be unpopular if they associate with each other.

Later, Lily helps Sonika decorate as the two discuss the concert. Sonika does not feel bad about not being invited, claiming she has great friends like Lily that make her happy. She then presents a fruitcake that someone with red hair and a high-pitched voice gave to her. Lily assumes this to be CUL, so she takes a bite of the fruitcake and passes out. When she awakens, Lily finds Nekomura Iroha sniffing her. Iroha introduces herself as the "Ghost of Vocaloid Pyaast" and addresses Lily's habit of putting fame over friendship. She blindfolds Lily and brings her to a new location that Lily recognizes as a concert hall she used to perform in. Lily sees her past self meeting Luna for the first time before they fell in love. Iroha takes Lily farther into the future to show her dating Luna. During the date, Lily asks Luna to join her band anim.o.v.e. Ultimately, Iroha takes Lily to see the day Lily decided to abandon her band to become a vocaloid. As a result, she and Luna break up.

Lily starts to cry, but she is then visited by Big Al, who claims to be the Ghost of Vocaloid Present. He takes her to see kokone, who is knitting a bee plushie for Lily. Chika walks in and verbally detests Lily, but kokone stands up for her friend. Big Al then shows Lily Cocorobo, who is being approached by Ritsu. Ritsu offers the maid a large sum of money to abandon Lily to work for her instead, claiming Lily does not appreciate her. Lily screams after Cocorobo as everything fades away and she is surrounded by fog. She is then visited by Fukase in a robe and realizes he is the Ghost of Vocaloid Yet to Come. Fukase shows Lily a vision of Gakupo and Gumi mourning before taking her to the graveyard to see the grave of kokone. He explains that kokone died of loneliness when her favorite friend abandoned her. He then shows Lily her own grave, which has been terribly vandalized. Fukase tells her that she died of stress and nobody misses her. Lily begs for a chance to redeem herself as Fukase fades away, leaving her alone in the foggy cemetery.

Lily awakens to find Sonika dangling from Christmas lights on the ceiling. Sonika tells Lily it is Christmas Day, so Lily runs off to fix her mistakes. Lily heads to Luna's house and apologizes to her ex for everything she had ever done. Luna accepts the apology, saying they should have never involved their careers in their relationship. The two find themselves underneath a mistletoe and take the opportunity to kiss. Lily then heads over to Cocorobo, who is once again receiving an offer from Ritsu. Lily apologizes to Cocorobo and professes how much the maid means to her. Cocorobo happily agrees to stay with Lily, but Ritsu angrily boasts about how much better she is than Lily. While she insults the blonde, she is blasted by a laser fired by Una, who received the laser-shooting sword she had asked for.

Finally, Lily heads to kokone and apologizes to her, giving her a chocolate-colored stuffed animal as a present. The two are joined by Luna, Cocorobo, and Sonika as Lily expresses her gratitude for having the best friends she could ask for. They wish the reader a Merry Christmas as Gumi offers a candy cane to anyone who read the whole comic.

## Characters

* kokone
* Lily from anim.o.v.e
* Gumi
* Kamui Gakupo
* Otomachi Una
* Namine Ritsu *(Debut)*
* Cocorobo
* Ryuto
* CUL
* Hatsune Miku *(Mentioned)*
* Sonika
* Nekomura Iroha
* Luna
* Big Al
* Chika
* Fukase

## Trivia

* At 20 pages, this is the longest silylily comic.
* It is unknown how Iroha, Big Al, and Fukase were able to become ghosts.
* kokone mentions that she still believes in Santa Claus.
* Lily's gravestone had the phrase "burns in hell!!" written underneath her name. This is a reference to the movie *Carrie*.
* Ritsu is referred to as a male in the story, but her gender was later changed when silylilyanimove's admin did not want every male character to be an antagonist.
* The cast picture at the end can be seen in Lily's Birthday with the words "Christmas 2021" written on it.