YuYuYui - What I can do for everyone

What I can do for everyone - 1

[Hero Club room]

Aya: Shinju-sama... Please, protect the heroes today again.

Aki/Yos: We implore you to grant your protection to the heroes for their safety in battle.

Kir: Eh~, perfect health... safe household... traffic safety... Ah~, jugem jugem...

Mit: Shi-Shizuka-san!? Please do it seriously!

Kir: I am, I am! My words ain't there but my mind is, trust me.

Aki: What kind of skill lets you speak and think different things!?

Aya: *Chuckle*

Hin: Aya-san?

Aya: Ah, sorry, it was unintentional. Having more Mikos made me wonder if it was as lively in the jukai.

Aki: Sorry, we were too loud, right?

Yos: Just as simple confirmation, am I right to assume your "we" refers to yourself and Kiryuu-senpai?

Aki/Kir: Aaah!?

Aya: Ufufu. Lively, fun and reassuring... I am grateful for Shinju-sama's guidance♪

Mit: You're so nice, Aya-chan.

Kir: Hm hm. The two newcomers could take a lesson from Ayaaya~.

Hin: In that case, you should have ten.

Kir: O-Okay...

[Jukai]

Meb: Urgh... hard!

Wak: Our formation is falling apart! Advance guard, temporarily fall back and rally!

Anz: Advance guard falling back! Split on both sides and provide covering fire!

Tou: Everyone, ready! Aim! Fireeeee!!

Tak: Many large vertexes are following me...! Somebody help me!

SON: I'm here! You won't get any further~~~!

Hin: Everyone. Good work as well today. I cannot be happier knowing there were no casualties.

Wak: Aah... Good job, Mikos. Phew...

Uta/Shi/Its: Haa~...

Mit: A-Are you okay...? I'm brewing tea, take it easy and rest.

Kar: Hey... Did you notice? Doesn't something feel strange... and did for the last few days?

Fuu: Yeah... It looks like the enemies are getting stronger...

Aki: Are you serious? Why so suddenly...?

Aya: I was certain more Mikos would only mean your fights would go quicker...

Kir: This is probably the reason... I'll say.

Aya: Eh!?

Kir: Shinju-sama and the Heroes power up with the strength of prayers. Naturally the enemies too...

Ren: Our power increase is immediately counteracted by theirs. Hmph, how cunning.

Yos: Mine and Aki-senpai's arrival has backfired... I am terribly sorry!

Kir: Dummy. What're ya saying? Since ya two came, they got serious and the Heroes completely messed them up.

Chi: That's right. In other words, we could say that at their most favorable timing, we settled it without getting serious... fortunately I guess.

Yos: Thank you very much... It's a blessing to hear you say such a thing.

Yum: However, how shall we fight from there on? We succeeded today, although should the assaults turn out to be consecutive...

Suz: More of this? I'm already dead tired, I can't~!

Aya: .........

Meb: ...?


What I can do for everyone - 2

[Hinata's room]

Hin: Yes, come in.

Aya: Sorry for intruding...

Hin: Aya-san.

Aya: Uuh.. I'd like to... talk a little about today's matter. Would you mind?

Hin: You can tell me anything. What is troubling you?

Aya: I've heard the heroes saying they would start a special training to become stronger, but...

Aya: They're already trying so hard, so to become stronger that quickly...

Hin: Indeed... They could reach this level only after training until this day, it would be impossible to have such fast results.

Aya: That's what I thought... but then the Mikos would have to become stronger, right?

Aya: Ah, but... if the more we pray the stronger the enemies become, it's not good...

Aya: Ha!? Was Shizuka-senpai not praying seriously because she predicted this would happen?

Hin: N-No, it's simply her personality...

Aya: Hinata-senpai, what can I do?

Hin: ......Aya-san, what do you want to do?

Aya: I want... to be helpful to the Heroes.

Aya: If I could even a little bit avoid injuries, give them much more strength, that's what I want to do...

Hin: ......The reinforcement of Mikos is likely the only turning point in this battle.

Hin: If our strength surpasses that of the enemies, the advantage will naturally shift.

Aya: ......! S-So... If... the Mikos were a little weaker...

Hin: Aya-san... weak-mindedness is forbidden.

Aya: Yes... of course... but, uuh... this keeps repeating itself into my head since then...

Hin: ......?

[Aya's flashback]

Suz: Waaaaaaah, I can't do anything! Mebu... everyone... sorry...

Yum: I shall not let it, Suzume-san!?

SHI: Miroku, you dumbass, don't go!

Meb: Everyone! I'm coming to save...!

Meb: Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!

Hin: A-Aya-san? Aya-san!

Aya: Hi-Hinata-senpai! I have to become stronger. What should I do to become stronger!?

Hin: I understand, but Miko and Hero powers are alike, you cannot strengthen them overnight...

Aya ......This... makes sense.

Hin: ......That being said, I cannot leave you so anxious, would you like to try the kind of practice I do?

Aya: Eh, yes! The same as Hinata-senpai... please let me do it!

Hin: (Power can wait, I must cheer Aya-san up...)

Hin: (Because more than Miko powers, this is what the Heroes need the most...)

Aya: I'll do my best! I'll train my hardest so that I can help Shinju-sama and the Heroes!


What I can do for everyone - 3

Aya: Have to try hard... Have to try hard...

Aya: (Why are you trying so hard...?)

Aya: If I don't do my best and cleanse my soul, I can't be useful to the Heroes...!

Aya: (Will you be useful if you do this...? Can I truly do this?)

Aya: T-That's... Eh!?

Aya: M-Me...?

Aya's heart: It's been on my mind for a long time, I don't think my power is strong at all...

Aya's heart: My potential doesn't compare to Mito-senpai and I'm not good at thinking hard like Hinata-senpai...

Aya: Right...

Aya's heart: Then there's not much of a point in starting to train so suddenly...

Aya: I don't think so. If I can improve even just slightly, something could get better.

Aya's heart: Even if you must trouble someone for it...?

Aya: Eh? Trouble...?

Meb: ...-chan... Aya-...chan. ...up. ...Aya-chan.

[Shrine]

Aya: Mebuki-...senpai...?

Meb: Aah... it's a relief. you came back to your senses.

Aya: Why are you carrying me on your back!?

Meb: Don't worry and stay calm. I'll carry you to the dormitory.

Aya: What... happened to me?

Meb: You lost consciousness during purification by water. You must have been too cold.

Aya: Ah......

Meb: I'm glad I came to check up on you after hearing you were trying Hinata's training...

Aya: I'm sorry... Mebuki-senpai.

Meb: You don't need to apologize. How are you feeling? Does it hurt anywhere?

Aya: No... I'm fine.

Meb: I see. It's reassuring.

Aya's heart: Even if you must trouble someone for it...?

Aya: ......!

Meb: Aya-chan?

Aya: Y-Yes.

Meb: Don't pour water on yourself if you don't feel well.

Meb: You have to train at your own pace.

Aya: Yes... I'll do my... best.

Meb: ......Go ahead and sleep for a bit.


What I can do for everyone - 4

[Dormitory's kitchen]

Meb: All right... Aya-chan is sleeping in her bed, what can I do next...

Meb: I have to make her something nourishing for when she wakes up... right.

Meb: But... Hm~m... Were there always this many cooking utensils?

Meb: I know which kind of chisel to use for what purpose, but I don't understand the difference between knives...

Meb: ......W-Well, as long as it cuts. It just has to cut!

Meb: See, it cut! ......Ha. Wait... I haven't decided on what to cook yet.

Meb: W-What do I do... What should I cook... Ha. Before that... what am I able to cook?

Meb: Uuuh...

Shi: You want to cook because Kokudo fainted...???

Suz: So you want to discuss what to cook with us... is that right?

Meb: Yes... that's correct.

Suz: Jeez~, oh you, Mebu~! You're so kyute sometimes~♪

Meb: Urk...!

Suz: Gyaaah! Sorry, forgive me, I just apologized, please put these differents knives away!

Yum: Mebuki-san, have you set your mind on a dish? I will educate you on whatever it is you wish to cook.

Meb: Thank you, Miroku-san.

Yum: Your gratitude is uncalled for. I simply do not dislike the feeling of being relied on by you.

Suz: Well yeah. I'll help out too so in exchange, protect me even more in battle♪

Shi: Miroku's likableness has increased and Kagajou's plummeted. A predictable phenomenon...

Suz: Awawa! A-And what can you help with about cooking?

Shi: I... think ramen is nice. It warms the body.

Meb: It may be too heavy. Aya-chan has a fever after fainting...

Yum: Indeed. Since time immemorial, it is a self-evident fact that rice porridge relieves a weakened body.

Suz: Rice porridge. It's the opposite for me, I can't eat it when I'm sick. It tastes dull, you know.

Shi: Hm... Swallowing tasteless food... is hard.

Yum: Pardon me!? Are you insinuating my cooking is tasteless and bland?

Meb: Haa... But isn't rice porridge just like this?

Yum: The simple act of cooking the rice along with carefully selected soup shall bring out its taste, and that is only the beginning!

Yum: Meat soboro, leek miso, egg yolk, umeboshi, kelp, and many others can be added as toppings depending on your tastes!

Yum: Doing so would cause the energy to regain her stomach, resulting in a complete cure of Kokudo-san!

Meb: It... sounds delicious. Gulp...

Suz: Miroku-san, you're pretty knowledgeable about cooking tricks for a rich lady~. You're amazing for commoners standards~.

Yum: You will find sparrow breast as topping!

Shi: Kusunoki... let's make rice porridge. Together, for Kokudo...

Meb: Yes, you're right. To make Aya-chan feel better, we'll...... Aya-chan!?

Aya: Haa... Haa... Everyone... sorry. I'll... help you too...

Suz: Are you serious!? You can barely walk! You need to get back to sleep, Ayaya!

Aya: But... I'm being a bother to you... Haa... Haa...

Yum: Mebuki-san, we will handle the rest, return Kokudo-san to her room.

Meb: Understood. I'll do this.

Shi: Kusunoki... Take an apple.

Meb: Aah... Yeah. I also eat apples when I'm sick. Thank you, Shizuku.

Shi: ......Hm.

Suz: Ah... By the way I eat orange cans.

Yum: Eh~, how interesting. I, on the other hand prefer peach cans... Wait, nobody asked!


What I can do for everyone - 5

[Aya's room]

Aya: I'm sorry... Mebuki-senpai.

Meb: It's okay. I'm good at peeling apples.

Aya: (As a Miko, I am supposed to help Mebuki-senpai, and yet...)

Aya: I'm always the one to receive the help... this isn't good... right...

Meb: It's done. Pretty good, won't you agree? You don't need to stand up. Here... Aah~.

Aya: An apple bunny. Ha...Mh...... nom...nom. It's cool... and very... delicious...

Meb: I see. Glad to hear it. Even when you don't feel good, you still have to eat a little.

Aya: Yes... nom... nom... Gulp. Ffff... ZZ... ZZZ.... Aah...

Meb: It's okay. You can sleep if you need to.

Aya: I-I can't... I've received so much...

Meb: Don't worry about this. Here, take my hand to feel at ease and rest.

Aya: B-But...

Meb: It's a secret, but when I was a kid... I enjoyed having a fever a little.

Aya: Eh, you did...? Why would you...?

Meb: My papa was never talkative... but only when that happened... he would give me his hand and stroke my head...

Meb: It made me realize... that he was worried about me. Thinking back, it's embarrassing in a way but...

Meb: Even though he had the hard and rough hand of an artisan, it was so kind and warm...

Meb: And that appeased me...

Aya: Your hand also... always... puts me at ease... every time...

Meb: But you're feeling sorry, don't you?

Aya: Y-...Yes... But that's... because I'm of no use... and pathetic...

Meb: Anyone has these thoughts when they don't feel well.

Meb: But while he was peeling an apple with his large hands, papa told me "those things just happen".

Aya: Did your father... also make you apple bunnies...?

Meb: He did. Much better than I can. Then I would think to myself how great he was.

Aya: Mebuki-senpai... you're also... great. More... than everyone else... So I...

Aya: I have to become stronger... much stronger... and quick... so I can be helpful to you...

Meb: When I was down with a fever, I would also apologize to no end for being a bother but...

Meb: Papa stayed quiet, and embraced me.

Meb: We were both embarrassed, we couldn't see each other's eyes or face, but the warmth alone felt incredibly comfortable... Strange, huh.

Aya: Fufu, I never met your father but I can picture what he was like.

Meb: He wasn't doing much, but it meant the world to me.

Meb: And I'm confident when I say that knowing that I am alive and well is what gives him energy.

Aya: ...Gives him energy.

Meb: Successive battles... Aya-chan, stay here and rest. It's a promise. Pinky swear. Absolute.

Aya: Mebuki-senpai...

Meb: If I see you got up and collapsed, even if it's you, I can guarantee you'll regret it. Alright, see you later.

Aya: Please... be careful.

Aya: So even Mebuki-senpai had......... Mebuki-senapi to her father...


What I can do for everyone - 6

[Jukai]

Ren: Hmph. As predicted, these are consecutive battles. This much is reassuring however.

Aka: Haa? How!? If they keep coming like this, we'll lose, you know!?

Sek: Nyah. The ones that appeared without letting us time to rest came in a rush.

SON: Yes. In short, they're going too fast to have a strategy or a trick up their sleeve~.

Tam: No tricks... So we can just get them all in one swoop and done!

Fuu: Not so fast, fireball. The poet Victor Hugo once said...

Fuu: "Running beer gathers no foam, No haste, gentlemen"! Let's get through these battles safely and achieve victory!

Yuu/Wak/Meb: Oooooh!

Aya's heart: What if they lose because I'm not good enough... If someone ends up injured, I...

Aya: It's okay... They'll be fine... Those gloomy visions are just illusions created by my weak mind...

Aya's heart: How can you say that? Where is this confidence coming from? What proof do you have?

Aya: I don't have one... Nothing... but Mebuki-senpai's hand... her hand that stroke my head...

Aya: With her hard hand full of blisters, she said she won't lose, told me to believe...

Aya: So I will believe. I believe. What I can do for Mebuki-senpai is...

Aya: Believe in the path they've all been been striving to walk on, and keep praying with everything I have.

Aya: Doubts and worries are important, but if they must get in the way of my prayers, I have no use for them.

Aya's heart: Aah... You're right. This is the right answer. Why was I so scared...?

Aya: It's... maybe because you compared yourself to others. Thank you for... making me notice it.

Aya's heart: Eh? Why are you thanking me when it's my fault if you worried so much?

Aya: If you weren't here, I think I would have kept bothering everyone forever.

Aya's heart: I see. You too, thank you for teaching me there were feelings like me inside you.

Aya: I can't do anything without my own way of doing things and thinking. Like Mebuki-senpai did for me... my own ways.

Meb: ......cha...n. ...Aya-......cha...n.

Yum: Kokudo-saaaaaaaaaaan!!!! Stay with uuuuuuuuuuus!!!!

Aya: Hawah!?

SHI: Heck, Miroku! You were too dumb loud! Shouting in a sick person's ears, what's your problem!!?

Yum: Hogyaaaaaaah!!

Suz: Ah~~~~, I'm relieved, Ayaya~~~! Your sleeping face looked too peaceful I was worried~~~!

Meb: Quiet! Good morning. How are you feeling?

Aya: Y...Yes. I'm feeling much better. And, uuh... I thought a little...

Aya: What I can do for you is praying. Believing in all of you... believe. I will believe.

Meb: I see... Fufu. I can't lose to any enemy knowing you believe in me.

SHI: Having Mikos with a strong mental is reassuring and all, but we want you to stay the way you are.

Suz: Hm hm. I'll tell the Mikos SHIZUKU said they had a strong mental, to Hinata-san♪

SHI: Hey, you cut this out please...

Yum: Kokudo-san. You must be famished, are you not? There is special Miroku rice porridge with soup waiting for you!

Aya: Thank you very much, Miroku-senpai. Actually... I'm hungry♪

Meb: Eat a lot and get your energy back. If you do, you'll surely be able to train again.

Aya: Okay! Mebuki-senpai. Please watch over me gently and warmly like a father would.

Meb: ......Eh!? L-Like a papa...?

Suz: I can see it. Mebu, you're like Ayaya's papa. Aya's energy is Mebu's papa-ness!

Aya: So, uuh... Would you agree to spoil me just a little bit...?

Aya: I want... you to... hug me. Just... for a moment.

Meb: Everyone, turn the other way! A-Aya-chan... just a little... okay.

Aya: It's warm... and extremely calming...

Meb: Aya-chan, you're my precious comforting Miko. You're my most important energy, so...

Aya: Yes. I won't do it again. I promise to stay cheerful for all of you.

Aya: (Slowly... but surely. I think I finally caught up to their feelings...)

Aya: (I am Kokudo Aya, the sentinels' and the Hero Club's Miko, I will continue to grow. Please keep watching over me.)