Sworn friends and the year's end - 1-1N

Sworn friends and the year's end - 1-1N

[Hero Club room]

Fuu: Well this is a pickle. I never expected we'd get a request like this.

Its: Yeah... Onee-chan, what are we going to do about it?

Meb: What happened? You all have really grave expressions.

Aya: Did some trouble occur?

Suz: Eh, what's going on!? The Hero Club isn't collapsing or something serious like that, right?

Shi: Overblowing it...

Yum: Calm down, Suzume-san. So, what is the issue at hand?

Tou: We got a lot of requests asking us to dress as Santa and give out presents to children.

Fuu: We've been doing that in the club for the past few years, dressing up and giving presents.

Fuu: The rumours spread, so now some kindergartens and child organisations are asking us to do it for them too.

Sek: Oh yeah, I had to be Santa last year. How fast the time flies.

Yuu: Oh yeah, we dressed up as Santas and gave everyone a lot of presents!

Fuu: But this year we have so many requests, there won't be enough Santas to go around!

Fuu: Oh... But now that I think about it, we got more club members this year too... *glance*

Shi: She's throwing some intense glances our way...

Meb: I understood that picking up garbage and helping people were part of the Hero Club's activities, but... Santas?

Fuu: What, doesn't click? Uh, it'd really help if you girls took care of the nearby kindergarten...

Meb: But wouldn't it be better to train instead of-...

Yum: Heh heh heh... In that case, allow me to take up the role of Santa!

Yum: Call it noblesse oblige! Bringing joy to children is too, an obligation of nobility.

Yum: Alfred, let us be off!

Suz: Yeah yeah, nowhere to be seen as usual. And Miroku-san, you're in the commoner category, not in the nobility.

Yum: I am a noble at heart!

Shi: So you're admitting that you're not one physically...

Kar: Hmm... I'm a bit worried to leave that to Miroku alone, so I'm coming too. Fuu, make the adjustments.

Meb: Urgh... Karin. You're going?

Kar: Yeah. I mean, I already gave out Christmas presents in the real world.

Kar: ...Huh? Wait, have I? Wasn't I playing a reindeer...

Yuu: I think I went to give out presents at a kindergarten together with Karin-chan too... But when was that? [1]

Kar: Anyway, we're helping people out, so it's no different from what the Hero Club usually does.

Meb: Hmm... So Karin's going to do it...

Aya: Giving out presents should definitely be fun! I want to see you in a Santa outfit too, Mebuki-senpai.

Meb: I guess I've got no choice then, if even Aya-chan says so... If Karin can do it, then there's no way I can't.

Suz: ...If I use how soft Mebu is with Ayaya and how competitive she is towards Karin-san, I could probably manage to control her to some extent.

Meb: Hmmm!?

Suz: I'm sorry! I won't do that!

Kar: Mebuki, let's do this! We're going to decide which one of us is the perfect Santa!

Meb: I accept the challenge!

Fuu: What the hell is a perfect Santa?.. Well, whatever. Mebuki, Karin, Miroku, I'll leave that to you.

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Notes:
1 - This is a Jukai no Kioku reference.