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Sailor Moon Volume 01 Chapter 02

[042-1]Act 2

Ami

Sailor Mercury

[043-1]SOUNDWHOOOO

[043-2]SOUNDBOHH

[043-3]Queen Beryl:--You still

have not found the “Elusive Silver Crystal”?

[043-4]Jadeite:--No, ma’am.

Please forgive me.

[044-1]Queen Beryl:--Our Great Leader requires power.

Gather energy.

And find the “Elusive Silver Crystal” as soon as possible.

[044-2]Jadeite:Yes, ma’am.

[044-3]Jadeite:As General of the Far East division of the Dark Kingdom,

Jadeite,

[044-4]Jadeite:You may leave it to me, Queen Beryl!

[044-5]Usagi:I’m home!
SOUNDKACHAK

Mama:Welcome home, Usagi.

[045-1]Mama:Oh, Little Crescent Bald Spot, good morning!

SOUNDST-STEP

[045-2]SOUNDSCRATCH SCRATCH

Mama:[Kyaaaa!]

[045-3]Usagi:Mama, how many times do I have to tell you?

She’ll scratch you if you call her “Bald Spot.”

[045-4]Usagi:--I’m Tsukino Usagi. I’m 14 and in eighth grade.

I like to eat, sleep, and relax.

Sign:Usagi’s Room

SOUNDSHUT

Usagi:I’m a slightly crybabyish, normal, cute girl.

[045-5]Usagi:Ahhh, I’m hungry.

SOUNDKACHAK

[045-6]SOUNDSTARE

SOUNDPEEK

[045-7]Usagi:. . .Or, at least I used to be.

[046-1]Usagi:~~~Luna,

Are you living here so that you can keep tabs on me?

[046-2]Luna:What are you talking about!? You just became a soldier of justice, didn’t you!?
The enemy is still here! There are a lot of things you have left to learn!
[046-3]Usagi:[Ehhhh?]

I never want to be scared like that ever again!
Luna:[You cry too easily.]

Usagi:I became a soldier of justice thanks to this talking cat.

Arrrrrgh, I can’t believe it!

[046-4]Usagi:Who is this enemy, anyway, Luna?

[I hate being scared.]

[046-5]Luna:They’re not human.

--But you already knew that, right, Usagi-chan!?

[047-1]Luna:They’re something evil.

Something not from this world.

[047-2]Luna:You have to hurry and find your fellow soldiers!

And find the Princess and protect her!

Usagi:We have a Princess for an ally?

[I want some pudding.]*

*Note: Princess = Purinsesu, Pudding = Purin

[047-3]SOUNDPOP

[047-4]Usagi:Hey, hey!
[Ufu!]

Tuxedo Mask!
And Sailor V-chan!

V:[See you in “Run Run”!]

Usagi:What about them!? I’m sure they’re our allies!
[047-5]Luna:--I think I’ve already found

our second ally.

[048-1]SOUNDSNOORE

MHM MHM

[048-2]Sign:Crown Arcade

[048-3]SOUNDKACHAK KACHAK

[048-4]SOUNDKACHAK KACHAK BEEP

[048-5]SOUNDBEEP

Screen:Mizuno Ami

[048-6]SOUNDSPARKLE

[049-1]Sign:Public School Juuban Junior High

[049-2]SOUNDWSH

[049-3]Voices:Did you see the mock exam results?

I did! That genius from Class 5. . .

Mizuno Ami!
She got perfect scores in every subject again. She’s #1 in the country!
I hear she’s got an IQ of 300.

[Whistle]

She’s not human!

Sign:Tenth All-Japan

First

Mizuno Ami900 Points

Second

Osada Chiaki889 Points

[049-4]Usagi:Heeeh.

A genius, huh?

Caption:[I thought she was Miss Rain or something.]

[049-5]Naru:Oh, Usagi, good morning.

[You made it on time today.]

Umino:Another victory for the Crystal Seminar!
Girl:Oh, that really elite prep cram school?

Umino:Mizuno-san goes there!

[050-1]Usagi:Crystal Seminar. . .

That’s right next to the arcade, right?

My dad said it costs a pile of money to go there.

[050-2]Umino:Well, her mother is a doctor!

Naru:Smart and rich? What a different world she must live in.

Girl:But she’s so cool to everyone.

She seems hard to get along with.

[050-3]Girl:I heard she doesn’t have any friends.

All she does is study, after all.

[050-4]SOUNDDING DONG DANG DONG

Voices:[Bye bye!]

[Bye!]

[050-5]Usagi:Ahhh, look at these disastrous scores. Mama’s going to kill me.

Paper:Japanese 52

English  20

Math   10

Social Studies  32

Caption:[Study a little, for goodness’ sake.]

[050-6]Mama:[Usagi, you go to cram school, too!]

Usagi:She’s been saying that a lot, lately.

SOUNDBOO HOO

[050-7]Usagi:It’s the genius from Class 5.

SOUNDRUSTLE

Ami:[Kya!]

[051-1]Usagi:Eh?

Luna:[Meow!]

Ami:Ahh, you scared me.

A cat?

Usagi:Luna!?

[051-2]Ami:If I didn’t live in an apartment building, I could keep a cat like you.

SOUNDPURR PURR

[051-3]Ami:You’re so soft!

[Ufufu!]

SOUNDSWF

Usagi. . .Hmm.

[051-5]Usagi:She seems kind of different from what everyone said.

SOUNDHOP

Usagi:Ah, Luna!

[051-6]Usagi:Hehehe, lemme talk to her.

Sorry, are you okay?

[051-7]Ami:Ah,

that cat fell from the sky so suddenly that I thought she was an angel.

[051-8]Usagi:[Luna, an angel?]

Luna:[Hey.]

SOUNDGASP

BLUSH

[052-1]Usagi:--She’s kind of cute.

[Hee.]

You’re Mizuno Ami-san, from Class 5, right?

I’m Tsukino Usagi, from Class 1.

[052-2]Usagi:The cat’s name is Luna.

[052-3]SOUNDNYOK

[052-4]Usagi:. . .If we become friends,

maybe she’ll give me some test tips.

And then I’ll be a genius, too?

[Gufufu!]

[052-5]SOUNDDASH

Usagi:Luna!?

[052-6]Sign:Crown Arcade

[052-7]Usagi:[Um]

. . .You don’t want to go to the arcade. . .

right?

[Ahaha]

[052-8]Usagi:This Sailor V game is really hard. I always die right away.

SOUNDPYOON PYOON

GAGAGA

[053-1]Usagi:All right, one more time!
SOUNDPYOON

CHA LA LA

[053-2]SOUNDKACHA KACHA

PYOON PYOON

[053-3]SOUNDKACHA KACHA KACHA

[053-4]SOUNDBEEP

Usagi:Ah, I’m out of coins.

[Ahh!]

[053-5]Usagi:Do you want to try, Mizuno-san?

[You’ll feel refreshed afterwards.]

[053-6]SOUNDPSHOON PSHOON

GAGAGA

PSHOON PSHOON

GAGAGA

[053-7]Caption:[A crowd gathers]

Guy:What’s going on?

SOUNDPYOON

GAGAGA

[053-8]SOUNDBEEP BEEP

GAGAGAGA

Crowd:[Ohhhh!]

[053-9]SOUNDBEEP

[054-1]Guy:The high score!? GEH!
[NO WAY]

Usagi:[Amazing, amazing, Mizuno-san!]

SOUNDCHALILAAA

Motoki:Whoa. . .a girl got that score?

[054-2]SOUNDKATHUNK

Ami:Eh?

Something came out. A prize?

[054-3]Ami:It’s a pen.

Usagi:[Ehhhh!] That’s so cool! No faaaair!

I want one, too!
[054-4]Usagi:I wonder if I can get another one out of here.

[Sometimes stuff comes out if you hit it.]

[Ey! Ey!]

SOUNDTHWACK THWACK

[054-5]Usagi:Hey!
I got one!
[Lucky!]

SOUNDVMMM

KATHUNK

[055-1]Usagi:It’s so cuuute!
Motoki:Usagi-chaaan.

[Please, don’t break it!]

Ami:You’re so funny, Tsukino-san.

[055-2]Usagi:Call me Usagi.

Can I call you Ami-chan?

Ami:Sure.

[Hee]

[055-3]Ami:Uh-oh.

Look at the time. I’ve got to go to cram school.

[055-4]Usagi:Oh, is today your day for cram school? It’s near here, right? Crystal Seminar?

Ami:Yeah, I go every day.

Usagi:EVERY DAY!?

[055-5]Ami:I have to study if I want to be a doctor, like my mother.

[055-6]Usagi:Heeeh, a doctor? That’s so cool.

SOUNDBWMMM

[056-1]Sign:Crystal Seminar

SOUNDHONK

HONK HONK
[056-2]SOUNDKACHAK

[056-3]SOUNDKACHA KACHA KACHA KACHA

[056-4]Woman:Mizuno-san, I have high hopes for you.

SOUNDPAT

GASP

[056-5]Woman:Someone who excels like you has the weight of the world on her shoulders.

Everyone’s trying to catch you. You have to study more and more to stay ahead.

[056-6]Ami:. . .Yes, ma’am.

[056-7]SOUNDDING DONG DANG DONG

[056-8]SOUNDKYA KYA

Sign:Girls’ Locker Room

[056-9]Naru:Hey, do you guys want to go get ice cream at the corner shoppe?

Usagi:Ehhh? I’ll go, I’ll go!

Girl:Me, too!

[057-1]SOUNDSWF

MUTTER MUTTER

[057-2]Naru:Kuri-chan started going to Crystal Seminar.

Yumi:Everyone’s going there now.

Usagi:Is it really that good of a cram school?

[057-3]Someone:All the students use computers in the lectures.

I hear the classes are really interesting, and they all get these disks that they take

home and they even study themselves mad there.

I’d like to know what’s on the disks.

SOUNDKACHA

KACHA

[057-4]Usagi:Disk?
[057-5]Sign:AV Room

SOUNDKACHA KACHA

Freetalk:

Takeuchi-sensei has moved again. Lala!

Of course, to Azabu Juuban, where Usagi-chan lives. I bought a pure white bed and chest of drawers, like in a resort. The curtains and the bedclothes are my faaavorite blue (like Ami-chan’s color). And I have a bunch of yellow lamps.  (They call it the Ruffle Room.) Ahh, what should I do? I just sleep all the time in my fluffy, fluffy bed like Usagi-chan. . .No, no, I’m doing my work, I promise. Please read “Sailor Moon” in Nakayoshi and “Sailor V” in Run-Run.

Oh!

Azabu Juuban is actually. . .where Tuxedo Masks walk around! (I thought they were the real thing!)

Everyone always, always says “What a weird name!” Sob! Who cares? I like it! Ahh, my Tuxedo Mask!

Tuxedo Mask: I like these clothes!

[058-1]SOUNDKACHA

PHEW

KACHA KACHA

Ami:. . .Ugh, my mind’s getting fuzzy.

[058-2]Ami:I’m just not absorbing anything  by studying off the disk. . .

[058-3]Ami:It’s much easier to remember when I write it down.

SOUNDSCRITCH SCRITCH

[058-4]Sign:Audio-Visual Room

[058-5]Usagi:Aaami-chan!
[There you are!]

You’re studying even though classes are over?

[058-6]Usagi:Oh, you’re using that pen!

[Me too, me too, look, look!]

Hey, you want to go get ice cream on the way home?

Label:2-1 Tsukino

[058-7]SOUNDMUTTER MUTTER

SHOVE

Usagi:[Oof!]

[059-1]Guy:I’ve got to hurry and get to Seminar!

SOUNDMUTTER MUTTER

Girl:Me too!

Ami:!

[059-2]Teacher:Everyone’s trying to catch you. You have to study more and more to stay ahead.

[059-3]Ami:. . .I’ve got to go to Crystal Seminar, too.

[059-4]SOUNDFWA

[059-5]Luna:[Myaaaow]

Usagi:Luna!

[059-6]Usagi: I just got rejected by Ami-chan.

She studies too much.

[Maybe I should just go straight home.]

[059-7]Usagi:Huh? What’s this?

I wonder if Ami-chan dropped it?

[059-8]SOUNDDING DONG DANG DONG

Teacher:It’s free if you sign up now!

[059-9]Teacher:You could vastly improve, too!

SOUNDTHRUST

[060-1]Flyer:New Discovery

With the Crystal Disk, you too can be a genius!!
Genius Mizuno Ami uses it, too!
Recruiting Students

Crys Sem (cut off)

Usagi:It’s Ami-chan! This is a flyer for Crystal Seminar, huh?

“New Discovery!! With the Crystal Disk, you too can be a genius!!”

Luna:Why don’t you sign up and study a little, yourself?

[060-2]Usagi:Ehh, no way, not at that weirdo cram school.

Luna:Hey! Don’t just throw that in the street!
SOUNDCRUMPLE

THROW

[060-3]Mamoru:--Hey.

Dumpling Head,

I’m not a garbage can!

[060-4]Usagi:Ah!

Ahhhh, it’s you, from the other day!
[060-5]Mamoru:. . .Was that cat

talking, just now?

[060-6]SOUNDSHOCK

[061-1]SOUNDSTEP

Usagi:O-Of course not! Good bye!
[If he finds out, we’re in big trouble!]

[061-2]SOUNDTHUMP THUMP

[061-3]Teacher:Here, you take one, too!

SOUNDTHRUST

[061-4]Luna:Hey, Usagi-chan, that thing Ami-chan dropped earlier

is this Crystal Disk.

Let’s use one of the school’s computers.

This seems kind of fishy.

[061-5]SOUNDKACHAK

[061-6]SOUNDKACHAK KACHAK

Usagi:This is a cram school lecture? These seem like pretty ordinary problems.

Everyone’s so crazy about this place, I expected more.

[061-7]Usagi:There’s got to be some secret version.

SOUNDSLAM SLAM

Caption:[Really, Usagi-chan!]

Luna:Usagi-chan! You’ll break it! [Stop it!]

[061-8]SOUNDPOP

BEEEP

SSSSS

GAGA

Computer:. . .energy. . .

[062-1]Usagi:--What is this!?
SOUNDGAGA

BEEP

Computer:. . .Become a servant to our Great Master. . .

and collect data

on the “Elusive Silver Crystal.”

Luna:This is. . .!!
This is a brainwashing curriculum from the enemy!

[062-2]SOUNDKACHA KACHA

[062-3]Computer:and collect data

on the “Elusive Silver Crystal.”

SOUNDGAGA

BEEP

Computer:data. . .

[062-4]Usagi:!!
Luna!
[062-5]Usagi:Those kids are all going to Crystal Seminar!

SOUNDZAZA

[063-1]Usagi:Ami-chan!?

She’s so pale! Even Ami-chan’s been brainwashed?

[063-2]Usagi:I have to save her!

Luna:Usagi-chan, use the pen!
Usagi:Eh!?

[063-3]Luna:The pen you got at the arcade!
Throw it high in the air!
[063-4]Luna:Then yell to transform!!
Usagi:EHH!? This pen can do that!?
[063-5]Usagi:Moon Power!!

[064-1]SOUNDSHINE

[064-2]Usagi:Transform into a doctor!

[From a university hospital!]

Luna:Usagi-chan, hurry!

[064-3]SOUNDDASH

Sign:Crystal Seminar

[064-4]SOUNDVMMM

Usagi:I got a call about an emergency!

[I’m going in!]

Sign:Reception

[064-5]Usagi:Ami-chan!?
SOUNDFWA

[064-6]Usagi:You can’t let them brainwash you!

Get a hold of yourself!! “Illness comes from the spirit”!!

SOUNDSLAP SLAP

[065-1]Sign:Crystal Seminar

SOUNDHEH HEH HEH

KACHA KACHA

SHUUUU

[065-2]Youma:This Crystal Disk also absorbs energy.

[065-3]Youma:And if we use this girl genius’s brains. . .

We’ll rule Tokyo. . .no,

all of Japan.

--And we’ll soon find the “Elusive Silver Crystal.”

Flyer:New Discovery

With the Crystal Disk, you too can be a genius!!
Genius Mizuno Ami

[065-4]Usagi:Everyone!

Get away from the computers!
You’ll be crippled for life!
SOUNDSLAM

[065-5]Youma:Who’s there!?

[065-6]Luna:Usagi-chan! Transform into Sailor Moon!

Usagi:Ehhh?! [Again?!]

[065-7]Luna:You can’t fight like that! Hurry!!

Usagi:[Urrrrrgh]

I have to fight, huh? I knew it.

[Waah.]

SOUNDSA

[066-1]Usagi:Moon Prism Power!!

[066-2]Usagi:--Make Up!!

[066-3]SOUNDSNAP

Sailor Moon:I won’t forgive you for taking advantage of and brainwashing pure minds that

love learning!

[066-4]SOUNDZA

SNAP

[067-1]SOUNDTHUNK

[067-2]Sailor Moon:The soldier of love and justice,

Sailor Moon, has arrived!!

--In the name of the moon, I’ll punish you!

[067-3]SOUNDRUSTLE

DUN DUN DUN

Sailor Moon:[Kyan!]

[067-4]Sailor Moon:Noooo! These papers are as sharp as razors!
SOUNDZING ZING

Sailor Moon:Stop, stop, I’m getting all cut up!

[067-5]Sailor Moon:Owww!! I hate cram school and test papers!

SOUNDWAAAAH

PING PING

RIP RIP

[068-1]Sailor Moon:Lunaaaa!

[Waaah]

SOUNDCRASH

WAAAAH

PING

PING

CRASH

Luna:Usagi-chan!! Stop crying! You’re releasing ultrasonic waves!

[Jeez!]

If you don’t get a hold of yourself, Ami-chan and everyone will be. . .

[068-2]SOUNDGASP

PERK

SOB

Sailor Moon:That’s right, Ami-chan!

[068-3]Sailor Moon:Ami-chan!!
SOUNDGRAB

Youma:Damn you, why are you not brainwashed!? You skipped studying with the disk!

[068-4]Ami:Can’t breathe. . .

SOUNDGRIP

Ami:I didn’t skip studying! Studying is something you do with your own power. . .

I can’t hang on anymore. . .

[068-6]Luna:Ami-chan! The pen!

Hold the pen high in the air!!

[069-1]SOUNDSHAKING

Youma:Die!
[069-2]Pocket:2-5  Mizuno

[069-3]SOUNDSHINE

SHINE

[069-4]Luna:!!

[069-5]Youma:What is this?

Uuu. . .my body is freezing. . .

[Ohhhh]

SOUNDWHOOOOSH

[069-6]Sailor Moon:Fog!?
Luna! Where are you!? Ami-chan!? I can’t see anything!

SOUNDSHIVER

[069-7]Sailor Moon:Luna!?
Youma:! There you are!

SOUNDSHAKI

[070-1]SOUNDSHUUU

Youma:Heh heh

[070-2]Youma:I’ll chop you into little pieces.

[070-3]SOUNDSLIP

Sailor Moon:!!

SOUNDTHUMP

[070-4]Tuxedo Mask:Now! Kick!

SOUNDFWA

Sailor Moon:Eh!?

[070-5]Sailor Moon:Sailor Moon Kiiick!!

SOUNDTHWACK

Youma:[Gwehh!]

[071-1]Tuxedo Mask:The enemy can appear at any time! Be careful!

SOUNDFWA

Sailor Moon:Tuxedo Mask!?

[071-2]Sailor Moon:No way! We meet again!?

SOUNDTHUMP THUMP

[071-3]SOUNDPLOP

[071-4]Tuxedo Mask:You’d better hurry and save your friend.

[071-5]Youma:! There you are!

[071-6]SOUNDGASP

[072-1]Sailor Moon:Moon Frisbee!

SOUNDSNAP

[072-2]SOUNDSLICE

[072-3]SOUNDCRUMBLE CRUMBLE

FWSH

Youma:[Gyaaaa]

[072-4]Sailor Moon:Tuxedo Mask!?

[072-5]Sailor Moon:. . .He’s gone. . .

[072-6]Luna:Usagi-chan.

Sailor Moon:Luna! Where’s Ami-chan?

[073-1]Sailor Moon:The fog is lifting!

SOUNDMWAH

[073-2]Sailor Moon:Ami-chan!?

That outfit. . .

[073-4]Luna:Just as I thought!
She’s our brain!

[073-5]Luna:She controls water at will and can create fog.

Under protection of the planet Mercury,

[073-6]Luna:Sailor Mercury!

We’ve been searching for you!

[074-1]Luna:You’re a soldier, too, Ami-chan!
[074-2]Sailor Mercury:Sailor Mercury!?

Me!? A soldier. . .!

[074-3]Sailor Moon:Ami-chan’s one of our allies!?
No way! All right!

[076-1]Freetalk2:

I’m so happy, I’m so happy! Dolls of Usagi-chan and the gang are coming out! There are really tiny ones, too. Gufufu. And model figures! Gufu! I’m going to get them, ufufu.

I love the word “arcade.” I wanted to draw girls with dumpling heads and school uniforms with bows in the back and handsome men in tuxedos and miniskirts and the night scenery I love and exciting and romantic and heartracing and sexy and sometimes really cool! girls so I started this story about Usagi-chan. Girls are strong, aren’t they? We have to protect the girls we love.

Sailor Moon:I’ll punish you!