Tsukiuta. Girls’ 4th Season 1 – Chrysoberyl Drama (1)

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Summary – Attempting to find out their own specializations as Goddesses, Kurisu and Hina work passionately at their hands-on training. With Hina’s mentor Goddess, Okuri Ramune, joining them, they attempt to cheer up an apathetic target with this way and that. However, it doesn’t seem as if it’s going very well......?

1. Drama – “Pursuit”

 

[Someone is tapping away on a keyboard.]

 

Woman: ...*sighs*

 

Kurisu: Goodness, me. That’s a grandiose sigh if I’ve ever heard one. Hina, that person’s our target this time, right?

 

Hina: Yeah! Um... That person’s Murata Mako-san, 25 years old. An office worker who lives alone in the city, and ever since she graduated university, she’s been working in an office for a company that produces office supplies. She does clerical work, apparently.

Her weekly holidays are on the weekend on Saturday and Sunday, so looks like she’s off work today.

 

Kurisu: Thanks for the explanation, Hina. And?

 

Hina: What?

 

Kurisu: There’s still one more thing you have to explain, right?

 

Hina: Umm... uh...!

 

Okuri: Mm. Phew. *sipping tea*

 

Kurisu: ...Why is this person here?

 

Okuri: ✨KYOOHOHO!✨ Why, thank you for asking, Miss Kurisu!

My heart’s been thumping with anticipation, wondering just when you’d ask what’s going on!

 

Hina: Shh! Shh! Shh! Shh!! Ramune-san, the target will notice us!

 

Okuri: ✨AAHHAHAH!✨ It’s fine, it’s fine! When it comes to spilling my identity to normal, regular Earthlings, I, the current active-duty and earnestly hardworking Goddess—mmgghgh—

 

[Okuri’s mouth is covered up.]

 

Hina: Shush! SHUSH!

 

Kurisu: Um. So why’s said current active-duty and earnestly hardworking Goddess here?

 

Okuri: Gosh, where are my manners? Looks like I’ve gone off topic.

Then I guess I should get explaining with a WHACK, as all Goddesses do!

 

Kurisu: With a WHACK? That’s... the first I’ve heard of that expression.

 

Hina: She’s someone bursting at the seams with individuality and originality in many different ways.

 

Okuri: Well, first things first. What exactly are us Goddesses? We’re existences that help make progress in stabilizing the spiritual energy from Earth which is necessary to maintain the Moon world. In order to make that happen, we work every daaay~!✨

 

Kurisu: You started off from the most fundamental basics there are.

 

Okuri: Settle down, now. So, you Goddess candidates are still in the midst of learning how to do that. You’re assisting your bosses, namely, us Goddesses, as you work underneath us.

 

Kurisu: Why, yes.

 

Okuri: Howe~ver! We’d be in a tough spot if you were to keep supporting us and let things end like that!

Ah, well. More precisely, you can also choose to specialize in being support. But even if you were to choose that path, you need to drill into yourself the techniques of being capable enough to set off on your own. You need to gain experience.

Y’all still with me, girls?

 

Hina: Y-yes.

 

Okuri: And so! The next step towards support!

This time, you’re gonna go through practical training to find out and pursue your very own Goddess specialization!

 

Hina: Goddess specialization... Basically, it means... what work method best works for me in helping heighten the Earthlings’ spiritual power... It’s something I have to find on my own, isn’t it?

 

Okuri: Exaaactly! As you already know, Goddess specializations are unique to the person. There are no right answers, nor are there wrong answers. You need to find the right answer that suits you, yourself, in your own way. That’s what this training is all about ☆

 

Kurisu: I get the basic gist of it, but even though we’re supposed to do it “in our own ways,” we’re not alone. Why must we work together for this?

 

Okuri: OHH~ YES~! Good eyes, befitting my eternal rival, Miss Hijiri Kurisu! Now that’s a fine topic you’ve touched upon!

 

Kurisu: Do you have to be so insufferably overbearing for every little thing?

 

Hina: Shh! Shh! Shh! SHUUUSH!

 

Okuri: The answer to that is simple. When there’s neither right nor wrong answers, it’d be better to have a target who performs differently from you. It helps to standardize yourself with if you’re trying to find a correct answer befitting you.

If you can handle that, you’ll want to have a partner whose type and actions starkly contrast yours. And that’s why...

 

Kurisu: I see. Well, true. The pair consisting of me and Hina is the best of the best.

 

Hina: Ehehe. I agree~ After all, the two of us are definitely going to become completely different types of Goddesses~

 

Kurisu: ...So, uh?

 

Okuri: Hm?

 

Kurisu: That still doesn’t explain why you’re here, though. If an active-duty, earnestly hardworking Goddess is here in person, we’re not preparing ourselves to set off in the slightest.

 

Okuri: Ahh~! You noticed. You’re quite right.

To tell the truth, I could’ve totally stayed behind on the Moon to watch over you girls. But you know?

It’s a common united front between my eternal rival and my favorite pupil!✨

Now that’s what sets my heart aflame! And it’s also a chance for me to finally meet y—

Er, uh. Prime time for rubbernecki—

Urk. I’m just here to observe~!✨

 

Kurisu: You clearly were about to say rubbernecking, weren’t you!?

Hina: Ramune-san...

 

Okuri: Ahahah...! Don’t worry about the small things! Whew, it’s a real honor to be meeting Miss Kurisu in the flesh!

 

Kurisu: ... *sighs* Yeah, whatever. Thanks, thanks. I’m very honored to meet you too.

 

Hina: Kurisu-chan! You’re talking to a Goddess, so maybe, um... act with a little more polite language, just for politeness’ sake...?

 

[The worker gets up and walks out.]

 

Kurisu: ...Oh!

 

Hina: Looks like the target’s on the move.

 

Okuri: All right, you two. Go ahead. You know what to do after you’ve confirmed the target?

 

Hina: Yes. First, we need to investigate why the target’s spiritual energy is so low.

 

-

 

Murata: *sighs* Hnngh...

 

Kurisu: SO. GLOOMY. That lady is clearly emitting an aura of negative energy.

 

Hina: She’s not reading a book or on her phone or anything... it seems?

 

Kurisu: What’d she even come to the park to do?

 

[Time passes...]

 

Kurisu: Like, what the!? She’s doing nothing at all!!

 

Okuri: It’s been thirty whole minutes... right?

 

Hina: Ah! It looks like she’s moving.

 

-

 

Murata: *sighs* ...

 

Okuri: It doesn’t seem as if she’s attempting to enter any shops.

 

Hina: Window shopping... seems unlikely too, since she’s so spaced out... Hrmm.

 

Kurisu: Hm.

 

-

 

Hina: We’ve tailed her this far, wandering around here and there, and now she’s in the convenience store...

 

Kurisu: This place is pretty close to her house, right? I wonder if she’s going to buy dinner or something?

 

Hina: U-um, I guess we should head in!

 

Okuri: You got it~!

 

[They go in...]

 

Murata: ... *sighs* ...I don’t even care.

 

Kurisu: The target has obtained something. Is that... a stuffed bread?

 

Hina: It looks tasty, but it seems like she just took it for no apparent reason.

 

Okuri: Oh? It looks as if she’s leaving the shop.

 

Kurisu: Already? Like, if you’re going out of your way to enter the shop, wouldn’t you check it out? You don’t have to peruse the whole place, but won’t you at least check out the sweets or drinks?

 

Okuri: Oh, for sure! And for some reason, I also check out the corners that don’t have the things went in there for. Then I’d buy snacks on a whim!

 

Hina: Ehehe. I understand that feeling. I check out the stationery corner.

 

Kurisu, Okuri: Stationery!

 

Hina: Huh? You don’t? I get a proper and precise atmosphere from shops where the refills and products in the stationery corner are tidied up! Uh, wait!

This isn’t the time for me to argue my point!

 

Okuri: Let’s chase after her.

 

Kurisu: Yeah, let’s do this!

 

Hina: Mako-san’s been aimlessly wandering around for a while now... I wonder if she’s all right...?

 

-

 

Kurisu: In the end... after just going to various places, all she did was go home.

 

Hina: I wonder what she went out to do...

 

Kurisu, Hina, Okuri: Hmm...

 

Kurisu: Maybe she... doesn’t even know what she, herself, wanted to do.

 

Hina: Huh? She didn’t know?

 

Kurisu: Yeah. She purposely left her home, but she didn’t have a clear destination in mind, so she ultimately wandered around various spots indecisively, looking for... something.

That’s what it looked like to me.

 

Hina: You’re right. She went outside on a day off, went into a café, went to the park, and took a walk. Putting it this way, it sounds like a pretty satisfying day, but...

In reality, Mako-san didn’t seem as if she was having fun...

 

Kurisu: That’s what I’m saying! Like, I can’t shake off the idea that she seemed lethargic... and straight-up depressed.

 

Hina: Yeah. She didn’t look very positive, to say the least.

 

Okuri: Heh! Looks like your analysis regarding the target is making progress. It doesn’t seem she’ll be leaving her home for the rest of today, so how about we observe her with the monitor in my office from here on out?

 

-

 

Murata: ...Hm. Thanks for the meal.

......

...There was nothing going on today. As always. Hmm.

If only I could make eating alone any more interesting...

But I feel gross when I drink alcohol, so...

*gulps down her drink*

Hah...! Phew. Guess I’ll go take a bath.

 

-

 

Kurisu: Hmm, hmm. It seems that the target has had issues regarding her immediate surroundings these days.

 

Hina: Her surroundings these days?

 

[Kurisu taps on the monitor and pulls up a display.]

 

Kurisu: Yes. Look here, at her career. When she got a job, she left her home region to live in Tokyo, and she started living alone. She apparently wanted to do editing work, but her wish didn’t come true.

 

Hina: She’s a clerical worker for a producer of office supplies, right?

 

Kurisu: Yeah. And when she got started working, getting used to the company, things got changed over to remote work. It happened before she could build up human relationships, so she doesn’t have any friends or a boyfriend.

I took a quick glance through her social media contacts, but it doesn’t look like she has friends close enough to spend days off together.

 

Hina: I suppose there are people who find it more fun to spend time alone, but... Mako-san...

 

Kurisu: Unfortunately, didn’t seem that way.

Insufficient interpersonal relationships. Nothing that she can devote herself to. She’s working, so she’s not worried about her daily lifestyle... But there’s just no variety.

 

Hina: Variety, huh...?

 

Kurisu: If I were to rephrase it in a way you’d like it, it’d be... “thrills”.

 

Hina: Th-thanks for the consideration...

...Mm. Maybe she should have a hobby. She could make friends who like the same thing, and she could find something she can get immersed in.

HWAAAAH!

 

[The door rolls open, surprising Hina.]

 

Okuri: Yes, you’re right! Hobbies are great!

 

Hina: Th-that spooked me...!

 

Okuri: Hobbies! And for me, that’s inventing! When I’m hunkering down on my inventions, it wouldn’t even be an exaggeration to say that my entire body is replenished with the joy of being alive!

Hobbies are looovely~

 

Hina: Just for the record, I need to comment: Ramune-san, your inventing is also part of your work! Please remember that’s also a thing and keep that in mind, too!

 

Okuri: Okay, okay~ Don’t worry! I’m the type of person to incorporate work into the things I like. You’re the same too, Miss Kurisu?

 

Kurisu: It peeves me to agree with you, but... yes. Inventing is also my purpose in life. I plan on putting my inventing to good use in my future work, after all. You could say that my work and hobbies are as satisfying as can be.

I do think I’m blessed.

 

Okuri: Oh! Like I thought, you’re going to make inventing part of your Goddess specialization too, Miss Kurisu.

 

Kurisu: Well, yeah. ‘Cuz when you ask me what my specialty is, it’s obviously that!

 

Okuri: Nice, nice~ Even when you become a Goddess, you’ll still be my eternal rival!

 

Kurisu: Yeah, whatever you say.

Hm. ......Fuhehe.

Ding, got it~! ☆

 

Hina: Kurisu-chan?

 

Kurisu: Yes, that’s it...! INVENTING! If I don’t have one, I can make one! That’s what my motto is, after all!

 

Hina: Hweh?

 

Kurisu: Reducing the apathy of our target, Murata Mako! To make that happen, I will invent the variety to put into her daily lifestyle!!

 

Hina: Huh!?

 

Okuri: Ooh~

 

Hina: I-invent...? Can variety be invented in the first place!?

 

Kurisu: SHADDAP, HINA!! Who do you even think I am? I am the Goddess who makes the impossible, possible (At least, if things go according to plan): Hijiri Kurisu, after all!

With me in the picture, one or two variations... no, three! No, four! Actually, five can be whipped up outta nowhere!

 

Hina: If people had that much variety in their lives, I think their lifestyles would turn into a Hollywood movie, right...!?

And in the first place, how is variation even created!?

 

Kurisu: What a foolish question. Didn’t I just say? I’m going to invent something that does it!

 

Hina: Oh, I see now...... just kidding, I don’t get anything! HUUUUUUUH!?

 

Okuri: Sounds good!

 

Hina: *gasps*

 

Okuri: That does sound great...! An invention that creates variety from thin air! The very phrase itself gets me excited! Challenge accepted~!

 

Kurisu: Bring it on!

 

[They glare at each other, lightning flashing from their eyes.]

 

Hina: Wh-why is it... suddenly a duel~!?

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(part 2)