Cucumber Quest: Basically if Paper Mario the Thousand Year Door was a comic

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"Having bested the competition, Almond set out to retrieve her prize, the coveted trophy."

Oh. Well, now the question becomes "why does that feel like Doopliss?"

Am I forgetting something from that bit? I thought the fake fight went more or less as normal there - it only got odd after, right?