nebulancer | Seleas Best Album - Hoshitsuki Drama Tracks (2)

2. Though It May Be Sudden, You’ve Been Chosen.

Reina: And that’s where it starts! That’s where you gotta start paying attention! Like, could you believe that Fishcake lost his fledgling—

Ah.

Tsubaki: Ah.

Akane: Ah.

Matsuri: ‘Sup.

Reina: Akane and Matsuri! Y’all going home? What a coinkydink!

Tsubaki: There is no such thing as a simple coincidence in this world.

An encounter which seems to be coincidence at first sight... such an incident comes about as a result guided by the vast flow of destiny.

With that being said, I wish for you to join me in battling against fishcakes.

Reina: Oh, come on, Tsubaki. I’ve already told you: fishcakes are the ones doing the battling, and you’re not the one engaging in battle!

Akane: U-u-uh? Coincidence...? Destiny...!? Fishcakes!? Battle!? Hwaah...?

Matsuri: Okay, okay. Fishcakes are tasty anyway. And tasty topics... are things you should leave to your upperclassmen.

Akane: Matsuri-chan, don’t get caught on a line of conversation you don’t understand, just because there’s a food name in th—

Reina: AAH! IT’S FINE...! Because in reality... it’s a really... REALLY tasty topic...

Tsubaki: I know that means something different for you.

Reina: Plus! If y’all don’t really understand and I manage to drag you into stanning it with me, that’s what makes a shiller worth her salt!

Welcome to the world of the Fishcake Chronicles~!

Akane: Fwuh... What the...?

Tsubaki: ...Brand new sacrifices have arrived.

Reina: Jeesh, I’m telling you! It’s fine, Tsubaki. I mentioned this already, but I won’t force it on y’all if it doesn’t sit well with you.

I’ll continue to read the room and push when I need! But when I pull away, I retreat with a whoosh~

That’s basic etiquette for shilling, after all!

Akane: U-uh...? I can’t really catch on to what you’re talking about...

Matsuri: Same.

Reina: Well, then! I’ll get explaining as we walk on the way. So first, there’s this minced fish paste made from white-bodied fish...

Reina: A-and then... *sobbing* After many sacrifices made for his sake... With a new duty engraved in his heart... *sniffs* Fishcake left to go on a brand new journey... And that’s what happens...!

All: Ah...

Matsuri: Fishcakes... are so profound!

Akane: It sure was profound. I never expected that fishcakes could be a processed fish product... er, story that made me cry this much!

Even though I was just listening to the summary, I felt like crying halfway through!

Tsubaki: ‘Twas a story of the mystery of life and outer space, hidden within a processed minced fish paste product...! That was Fishcake...!

Matsuri: Ah... Thinking about it again, I can feel tears welling up in my eyes again.

Reina: *sniffs deeply* How was that!? Intense, wasn’t it? That’s why I’m reccing these fishcakes... Uh, Fishcake Chronicles to you! I thought you’d all love it for sure!

Matsuri: Could you lend me the manga first? I’m going to start by deeply analyzing the plot from the line-spacing and the letters themselves...!

Reina: Roger that. I’ll bring it over to you later.

Akane: I hope I could get started with the anime~?

Reina: Your wish is my command! The door is always open. Feel free to drop by and hang out!

Tsubaki: I want to eat fishcakes.

Reina: Already in the fridge ☆

Matsuri, Akane: It’s already in there...

Reina: Haaangh~! The way y’all understand just how interesting it is, and you’re getting into it more and more, is absolute pure, true bliss!

Tsubaki: Good for you, Reina. Perfect timing. We’ve reached the dormitories as well.

Reina: Aw yeah, babey~! In that case, I’ll have to drag out my treasured COLLECTION for the sake of my new companions!

Matsuri: It’s treasured? What could it b...

Akane: I’m curiou...

BAM-TALALALA~ [Fanfare]

Matsuri, Akane, Reina, Tsubaki: Huh?

Mizuki: *clapping* Congratulations~!

Yuno: A-ahaha... You have my condolences...

Matsuri, Akane, Reina, Tsubaki: What?

Mizuki: To those who have walked into the dorms just now! Uh—huh? Oh my? Oh my, oh my, oh my! One, two, three, and...

Goodness, how wonderful! Four people have been roped in at the exact same time! I’ve captured four—er, no—brought in four people, Yuno!

Yuno: You were about to finish the sentence by saying that you captured them, huh?

Mizuki: Again, allow me to congratulate you, everyone~!✨

Matsuri, Akane, Reina, Tsubaki: Uh...

Mizuki: Ever since I started counting, you four are the 500th people to step foot into the dorms. I had decided that I would make the person and/or people part of my group when the entrants reached the number I thought up in my imagination!

Yuno: It’s sort of incredible how she immediately thinks of them as group members...

Mizuki: This coincidence... No, this world contains no such thing as coincidence.

This is... yes! Destiny! Let us give thanks to the vast flow of destiny together!

Matsuri: I heard that phrase somewhere earlier today.

Akane: Y-yeah...

Reina: Um? Yunochin, what the heck’s going on here...?

Yuno: Aah, Reina... Sorry, I honestly don’t really get what’s happening either. It’s just...

Mizuki: All of you will become test subjects—er, um! Allow me to rephrase. You’ve been chosen to become members of a group that will experience an innovative and experimental trial venture! Congratulations~!

Yuno: ...What she said, apparently.

Matsuri, Akane, Reina: Yikes...

Tsubaki: [SHOCK...] ...! I have sensed a suspicious electronic signal.

Reina: Tsubaki. Too late for that.

3. And Thus, the Unit is Formed!

Mizuki: With that being said, what shall we name our unit? Isn’t it oh, so exciting to start something new? And if I’m with such wonderfully lovely companions, I have no choice but to suddenly become motivated for it all!

Reina: I have a question! Chief! Er... Mizuki-paisen. I’m sorry to bring you down while you’re fired up! I cannot catch up with the things you’re going off about!!

Matsuri: Same.

Akane: M-me too...! Even though you’re treating us to tea like this, I honestly have no clue what’s going on...!

Tsubaki: Explanations wanted.

Yuno: You heard them, Mizuki. Sorry to remind you when you’re so excited, but I have absolutely no idea what’s happening.

Mizuki: Oh my! Oh my, oh my. I apologize, girls. I ended up with more people than I expected, so I just got so excited. My thrill got the better of me.

Tsubaki: Unit name. Something new. Companions. Excitement.

I heard those words from you. And what I can deduce from that is...

Our activities as Goddess candidate students, which have only been proceeding solo until now, will happen as a group from now on with these six members who have formed a unit together. While aiming to become Goddesses by each other’s sides, we’ll do exciting and enjoyable things as well. ...That was about the only thing I could understand.

Yuno: Though you said “only,” I get the feeling... that you were completely spot-on?

Mizuki: You got it~! You got the right answer, Tsubaki!

Yuno: And it really was right!?

Akane: What do we do, Matsuri-chan...? The correct answer was confirmed so easily that I didn’t even have enough time to get surprised.

Matsuri: For sure.

Reina: Unit activities with the six of us... Hwoehhh! Us six are gonna make a unit?

Is it basically like... those Japanese idol groups from Earth that I’ve heard about?

Mizuki: Why, yes! It’s exactly like that. That’s what I was imagining.

Uh, um. Perhaps I should start my explanation from the start. Ahem.

This Moon has two academies specifically meant for raising Goddess candidate students. Those schools are composed of Selene Academy here, and...

Tsubaki: Diana Academy. My childhood friend Kurisu attends that school.

Mizuki: Yes, Diana Academy. Ever since their establishment, these two academies have been like rivals and sisters.

There have been times they collaborate and other times, compete, for various aspects, in order to improve one another. Their goal is the same. It’s to raise even better Goddesses. You’ve no questions up until this point, correct?

Akane: Yes...!

Mizuki: One more thing. The way candidate students are chosen to become Goddess candidate students changes depending on the era, but the fundamentals themselves have always been the same.

Those who are best suited to become Goddesses are talented people who can accumulate the purest spiritual energy most often and most accurately.

Pure spiritual energy. In order to gather people’s faith, hopes, ambitions, we Goddess candidate students change our forms and methods... and in many cases, we take part in that which Earthlings refer to as their showbiz industry and accumulate devotees... or rather, fans. That certainty and amount requires the selection exam.

Reina: Mmhmm! That’s why we’re working daily as online idols~!

Mizuki: Thus, that’s how things connect to the experimental trial venture, known as the unit activities.

Yuno: Ahh. The thing that was brought up before? About not being solo idols, but working in a unit?

Mizuki: Yes, that!

Yuno: Hmm, was there some sort of reason we needed to make the experimental venture a thing? Since the activities themselves are no different from when we do things solo?

We sing, dance, emcee... In that case, wouldn’t it be fine to keep things—

Reina: YUNOCHIN!

TOO NAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE!

Earth has this thing known as COMBINATION POWER! Special moves that they can only launch when they join forces together!

Yuno: C-combination power...? Special moves?

Reina: Yep! Like, for example, in robot animes. When the small robots that form their team have been caught in a crisis, that’s when it all happens! They form an extreme amalgamation with a single swift turnabout! They become a huge robot together, and their power becomes multiple times that of what they were before!

Matsuri: Ooh...! An extreme amalgamation... with robots...!

Reina: For example! They use a last resort special move! And attacks they couldn’t do before, become possible as long as they combine!

Even the most imposing enemies are crushed in the blink of an eye!

Tsubaki: Amazing... a last resort special move...

Akane: Matsuri-chan and Tsubaki-chan’s eyes are sparkling!

Reina: SO BASICALLY! Team! Group! COMBINATIONS! THOSE VERY THINGS THEMSELVES ARE POWER!!

Yuno: Er... Sure...

Matsuri: Yuno. That’s so unresponsive. Akane might just fly off with a rocket punch. Don’t you want to see that?

Akane: That’s what I’m in charge of doing...!?

Tsubaki: Worry not, Akane. Entrust me with the job of pursuing the enemy.

I will use my most ultimate offense magic to certainly annihilate the opponent to smithereens.

Akane: If you could do that already, why wouldn’t you annihilate the enemy in the first place...?

Mizuki: All right, girls. We’ve gone off-topic.

Yuno: Ah, yes—I’m sorry.

Matsuri, Akane, Reina, Tsubaki: I’m sorry.

Matsuri: She got upset with Akane.

Akane: Why me... Isn’t the topic we’re talking about right now! Please, put things back on track, Mizuki-san!

Mizuki: I sure will. That being said, though, Reina’s spiel wasn’t all too far off from what I wanted to say.

Yuno: What? You mean how Akane’s going to fly off with a rocket punch?

Akane: Yuno-san. You don’t need to remember that part.

Mizuki: A team, that is, a unit, equals power. At the very least, it can become power. That is what I’d like to bring attention to.

Especially recently. Working in a unit and not solo... the more people there are, the acquisition is doubled. It also becomes easier for us to garner attention.

There was talk about possibly using our unit activities for our selection exam as candidate students.

Matsuri: The Combination Robot Plan, huh...?

Mizuki: You can see it that way, too.

According to the most recent report from the research department, I’ve heard that Diana Academy has quickly formed their own unit as well.

In that case, we of Selene Academy cannot lose out, either. Don’t you feel the same way?

Reina: Ooh! So we’re basically like rival units!

Mizuki: Ufufu. Still, it’s not as if we’re going to fight with one another. It’s the same as our schools’ relationship. We are both rivals and sisters. Doesn’t that make you want to do your best together?

The more people there are, I’m sure there’ll be more we can do as well. I just know there’ll be more things we can try out, and by motivating each other, there will surely be points where we each improve.

That’s what I thought, at least. Which was why I made a selfish request to the headmaster and received permission for it.

Everyone here will act in a unit together! How about it?

Yuno: ...Heh. As always, you’ve got such prim and proper expressions despite your ability to get things done. You’re really intense, huh?

Mm. Mm, yeah. Sounds good! I’m starting to think it’s interesting! I’d like to do it.

Reina: Me, me~! I wanna do it too! I’ve always admired that thing where a bunch of girls wear matching outfits together ‘n stuff!

How ‘bout you, Tsubaki?

Tsubaki: [SHARP!] ...I sense the presence of my childhood friend Kurisu in Diana Academy’s unit. I’ll do it.

Reina: And how d’you know...?

Akane: A unit... a team formation... It sounds fun, but we’re with these members, right?

They’re all girls who stand out in the school, so wouldn’t I be the only one out of place here...? Will I be able to keep up with them? I don’t want to cause them any trouble...

Matsuri: Akane.

Akane: Huh? Y-y-yes? What is it, Matsuri-chan?

[Matsuri raises both her and Akane’s hands.]

Matsuri: Akane and I are doing it.

Akane: HWEHHH!? A-a-ah, um! Wait, Matsuri-chan! I-I’m still in the middle of thinking! And I might drag you all down!

Matsuri: You’re thinking too much before you act. If you want to do it, just do it.

Don’t start from, “Things might not go well.” Instead, make your starting point, “Things might turn out for the better.” Just give it a shot for the time being.

Akane: W-well, you... m-might be right about that...

Matsuri: Experiments are the same way. That’s the exact mindset I use when I cause explosions upon explosions. I won’t give up even before the explosions happen.

Tsubaki: Goodness, what a surprise. I think the same way. From explosion to explosion.

Yuno: Ugh... These words jumping out at us are nothing short of ominous. I’ll pretend like I didn’t hear them just now.

Though I—I do agree that you should give it a try if you want to. Let’s do it together!

Akane: Y-Yuno-san.

Mizuki: Exactly so, Akane. You needn’t put such thought into the subject. I, too, left my fortune to the heavens and called out to you four!

Akane: Wh-when you say that... it does feel easier on me, actually...

Yuno: I know, right? Speaking of which, Mizuki, why did you leave it up to chance when choosing the members?

Reina: Oh, yeah, true! Couldn’t you have chosen from the girls with the highest grades?

If you asked them, I bet there’d be tons of people wanting to join you!

Mizuki: I didn’t think about it so deeply. I just thought... if I’m going to start something new, I felt as if things would be much more enjoyable if we started from a blank slate, myself included.

That was all.

Tsubaki: You believed in destiny, correct?

Mizuki: I’d say it was both destiny... and instinct, perhaps?

Yuno: Sheesh... You’re so unbelievably smart, but... Actually, maybe it’s because you’re so smart. There’s just that side of you that adores doing things haphazardly.

Mizuki: But look at the results! Such wonderful members have joined us! Doing things haphazardly from time to time doesn’t seem all too bad, does it?

Yuno: Heh. I guess.

Akane: Urk... Will I also be fine?

Tsubaki: The least you could do is launch off with a rocket punch. You’re all right.

Akane: I will not agree to that!

Tsubaki: Tch.

Mizuki: It seems that the decision’s been settled. Selene Academy’s representative unit will be these six! Are you ready, girls?

Yuno: Yeah.

Reina: Oh, yeah~!

Tsubaki: Indeed.

Matsuri: No problem.

Akane: Hh...! I’ll...!

Everyone: You’ll?

Akane: I’ll do my best!!

Reina: Ooh~! Akane’s gotten over it!

Mizuki: Ufufufu. Well, then, Selene Academy’s unit (placeholder name) has been formed, here and now!

Everyone, let’s do our best!

Everyone: YEAH~!

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