As Tomie begins her investigations about Twitchy, the Poké trio end up in a clay-based car.
This chapter contains examples of:
- Armor-Piercing Question: When Tokio asks Goh "Can you at least keep a promise to a friend, Goh?" (wanting to ensure that Goh doesn't inform Kisaragi that he knows him), it strikes a little harder than intended.
- Ascended Extra: Mad Ben was mentioned in The Fog Car as one of the few passengers the Apex couldn't defeat. He's shown at the end of this chapter, hell-bent on fighting off the Apex and getting payback against London.
- Call-Back: London notes that if the Apex were smart, they would've realized what they did and there would be "less dead bunnies", along with how Toby and Lucy note that Grace shouldn't have stabbed her knife on a rabbit. This is referencing Knight of the Orange Lily in which Grace murdered Utahoshi to "save" Tokio.
- Foreshadowing: In London's video, the Hazbin Hotel has an electrical aura around it. The Intermission reveals that it's from Easter, the denizen / Split Personality of Specter who is hanging around with the wrestler.
- How the Mighty Have Fallen:
- The Apex once treated the whole Train as their personal playground, with the denizens and other passengers living in fear of them. Now the group has fragmented apart and face being hunted down by those eager to see them pay for their crimes by any means necessary, while those who stood against them (like the White Gestalt) are being honored as heroes. Toby and Lucy are shown to be alone in the Termite Car with nobody to help them out.
- The denizens happily talking to each other on the Infinet also contrasts sharply with how the Apex's private channel has fallen into disarray; any attempts to use it dissolve into a massive Blame Game amongst the remnants.
- I Regret Nothing: London tells the Apex that the only thing the White Gestalt regrets is the extremes they went to stop the Apex; stopping them was still a priority.
- Ironic Echo: Back in Blossoming Trail, Toby scoffed at the notion of somebody like Chloe toppling the Apex. Lucy brings it up when Toby is in disbelief at how Chloe destroyed the cult.
- Little Old Lady Investigates: Tomie is apparently a fan of Miss Marple, and gets a kick out of playing her in Celadon.
- Malicious Slander: Rumors persist that the Celadon Gym refuses to accept any male trainers. Erika began taking photos of all successful challengers and displaying them prominently in an attempt to combat the slander.
- Noodle Incident: Mad Ben encountered the White Gestalt before as he suddenly remembers them after seeing London's video. Turns out, White Gestalt raced him when they visited the Desert Racetrack Car and tied.
- Once Done, Never Forgotten:
- Grace's murder of Utahoshi back in Knight of the Orange Lily, and how Kisaragi really hates the Apex for that move, is still remembered by Paul London as he tells the Apex that "Kisaragi says 'Hi'."
- Tokio remembers as well...but he admits that just as many of his nightmares are about what Kisaragi did to him.
- Powerful and Helpless: Paul (the Pokémon Trainer, not the wrestler) has a moment of this against the clay monsters, since Electivire can't do anything against the earth. There's also the fact that the last time he set Electivire to an attack, he drowned someone.
- The Promise: Tokio asks Goh to promise him to tell Kisaragi that Tokio has nightmares about the bunny, and to not reveal that Goh knows who Tokio is.
- Pyrrhic Victory: Played for Laughs. Leaf actually won the Hoenn Tournament...in the most embarrassing way possible. After an hours long 'softlock' as a result of two Wobbuffets with Leftovers, her opponent needed to use the bathroom and the exhausted referee called it in her favor.
- The Reveal:
- Paul London is in the Hazbin Car and he has issued a challenge to get the Apex to where he's at.
- Kisaragi is now the new White Rabbit and he still holds a bitter grudge towards the Apex.
- Shout-Out: The cyclops and skeleton monsters in the Clay Car are from the Gravity Falls episode "Little Gift Shop of Horrors", more specifically the Clay Day short.
- Orel's explanation of Santa Claus comes from The Love, Death and Robots episode All Through the House.
- Take That!: The author states that she wants all three stories — Knight of the Orange Lily, Blossoming Trail and Voyage of Wisteria to be interconnected and not like the Mummy Trilogy where the first two movies were Egypt based and the last one was Chinese for no particular reason.
- This Is Gonna Suck: Amelia's reaction when she sees London's video online."As Chloe would say, 'Oh Focalor.'"
- Took a Level in Cynic: Tokio recalling his time on the Train has really done a number on the poor kid's psyche. He reveals that he still has nightmares about what happened in the 400 Rabbits Car, and his request to Goh comes off as much snippier than one might expect from him.
- Victory by Endurance: Leaf's strategy in the Hoenn tournament...too bad her opponent had the same idea.Announcer: "Two Wobbuffet, both reduced to struggling in between bites of their leftovers. Neither trainer is even considering giving an inch AND IT STOPPED BEING INSPIRATIONAL AN HOUR AGO! I'm missing my daughter's birthday party for this?!"
- Wham Episode: Paul London has a challenge to the Infinity Train to hunt what remains of the Apex and bring them to where he's residing, the Hazbin Car. Then Lucy and Todd see something so horrifying that they immediately decide to go that car while an alternate version of Ben Tennyson — Mad Ben — also is going to join in on the fun. On a minor note, Goh's number is decreasing but wildly fluctuating, and Professor Cerise and Chloe plan to set Carl up.
