Calm New Year's manners 1-Normal

Calm New Year's manners 1-1N

[Jukai]

Gin: Ooh, there they are! A whole bunch this year as usual.

Son: There really are a lot of Vertexes at the end of the year.

Suz: Whoa, whoa, whoa! What's with that horde!? Aren't our dear Vertexes working way too hard?

Suz: Okay, I'm calling it here! The rest is up to you, strong people!

Meb: Suzume, don't try to run away! I promise I'll protect you as well, so work harder!

Suz: Waaah! Got it!

Wak: Now then, let's go. We'll clean them up and safely welcome the new year!

Yuu/Tak: Yeah!

Tou: National defence... accomplished.

Kar: Phew, we're done, we're done. And the Forestization is coming undone.

[Sanshuu Middle - rooftop]

Yuu: Ah, we're back!

Fuu: Vertexes in this world sure come in big numbers at the end of the year. Talk about "toshi no se".

Tam: "Toshi no se"? What's that?

Sek: It means the end of the year. "Se" means a rapid, the fastest-flowing part of the river that's hard to cross.

Sek: They say it's called that because in the Edo period, the end of the year was the time to pay off your debts, so it was a difficult season to get through.

Tam: I-I see...? I don't get it...

Anz: Tamacchi-senpai, I'm sure you'll understand when you're bigger.

Tam: T-Tama's big enough already! She's your senior, you know!?

Fuu: Sekka, you sure know a lot. O-Obviously, I knew that as well!

Its: I wonder about that...

Fuu: These days, my little sister's cold stare has looped around into actually feeling quite comfortable.

Yum: Well, what matters is that our duties for this year are done. All that is left is to spend the end of the year elegantly.

Suz: With some mandarins under a kotatsu.

Anz/Tam: Agreed!

Chi: I'll be playing games... I built up a pretty big backlog.

Tak: I'll play with you!

Uta: (This year, I'll recruit more people for the year-end soba faction for sure! And my logical weaponry is perfect! Come at me, Wakaba!)

Wak: Hm? What's wrong, Utano? Why are you staring so hard?

Uta: ...Huh?

Mit: (Phew... Thank goodness. Doesn't look like they're going to do it this year.)

===

Calm New Year's manners 1-2N

[Hero Club room]

Yuu: Back at the clubroom!

Uta: Okay, Wakaba! Year-end soba-!

Mit: By the way, how are all of you planning to spend this New Year's Eve?

Gin: New Year's Eve... Watching TV, I guess? I like watching the 24-hour variety shows, but my family prefers music shows.

Tak: If you're watching something on New Year's Eve, it has to be martial arts!

Chi: I'm going to finish the year with games...

Nat: Swim in the sea.

Its: You're going to freeze!

Yum: An elegant and Miroku way to finish the year would be a classical music concert.

Suz: Miroku-san, do you even know what classical music is?

Yum: Naturally. It involves mozarella and choux a la creme, right?

Meb: Does she mean Mozart and Schubert...?

Shi: Kusunoki... Amazing. How did you get that?

Meb: Well, it's how Miroku-san would think.

Yum: I have this feeling I am being ridiculed right now!

Sum: What, songs from the Occidental lands!? The true classical music in our country is gagaku! [1]

Sum: And it should be said that seeing off the year at a shrine is the most appropriate for a citizen of our country.

Tam: Oh yeah, they have bonfires at shrines on New Year's Eve, right? Wonder if they roast potatoes there too?

Aya: That's called otakiage, and they're done to purify old talismans and charms by burning them.

Sum: Greeting the New Year next to a ritual bonfire... That's the very meaning of tasteful.

Son: I see... Spending New Year's Eve at a shrine might be romantic!

SON: Memo, memo...

Fuu: This information is going to be used for something rotten eventually...

===
Notes:
1 - Gagaku - classical Japanese court music.

===

Calm New Year's manners 1-3N

[Hero Club room]

Yuu: Happy!

Tak: New Year!

Tou: Happy New Year and the best of wishes.

Sek: Man, it's cold. My breathing is turning white even here inside.

Nat: ...Brr.

Sek: Ah, Natsume-san's movements are getting sluggish. She's weak to the cold, after all.

Son: Mmrgh...

Yuu: What's wrong, Sonoko-chan? You look a little angry.

Son: Why are you all wearing normal clothes? Why aren't you wearing kimonos?

Fuu: Well, it's not like we agreed to come in kimonos in advance or anything.

Tam: Denied! Denied! No kimonos! I did it before, but they're still too inconvenient to move in!

Gin: Well, it's not that I dislike them, but if I had to pick a side, I'd lean towards Tamako-san's.

Chi: I can't put a kimono on by myself...

Tak: I'll help you!

Chi: Then I'll do it.

Kar: Easy...

SON: Mmrgh... There's a surprising amount of people against it.

Son: However, we won't give up! Even if we can't make everyone wear them, then at least Sekka-senpai and Natsume-senpai!

Sek: Eh, why me!?

Nat: It's cold... I can't move...

Son: Sekka-senpai and Natsume-senpai, you didn't wear kimonos last year or the one before it either, right?

SON: Yeah yeah, so let's go prepare kimonos for you right away!

Sek: What, now!?

Son: If we ask at the store I'm a regular at, they'll prepare it immediately!

Nat: Can't... move...

Fuu: Natsume, here's a heat pack! Stick it on your back.

Nat: It's warm!

Nat: Fuu... I'll treasure it forever!

Fuu: No, why treasure a disposable heat pad...

Fuu: And there they go...

Hin: I don't think there's anything to worry about, it's not as if she'll take it and eat it.

Hin: Well then, let's go for our first shrine visit of the year.

[Field]

Uta: Meanwhile, the two of us! We were in the middle of our New Year work!

Mit: Utanon, who are you talking to?

Uta: Nevermind that. It's nice to do farmwork right on New Year's Day. The winter lettuce look so fresh and juicy.

Mit: Utanon, you really love your fields.

===

Calm New Year's manners 1-4N

[Shrine]

Wak: Wait! Tamako! Don't go any further!

Tam: W-What!? Is there a sniper aiming for Tama!?

Wak: No. You shouldn't pass through the middle of the shrine's torii gate. The path through the middle of the gate and the road is reserved for the gods.

Tam: What, that was it? Who cares, don't sweat the small stuff.

Tou: Tamako-san, you mustn't. You have to mind your manners when interacting with the gods.

Sum: That's right. That's the way we Japanese... no, we humans should act.

Its: Tamako-san, I think it's important to mind your manners at a shrine.

Yuu: Yeah. I just takes a little attention, so I think you should try to follow the rules as much as possible, Tama-chan.

Tam: When it came from Wakaba, Tougou and Sumi I expected it, but getting told off by Itsuki and Yuuki as well...

Tak: I don't really know proper shrine manners either...

Tak: I played at a shrine a lot when I was little, so I was probably pretty rude to the gods.

Chi: It's fine. Takashima-san, it's not your fault. If some god got angry at your because of just that, I'd *bleep* them up.

Fuu: Stop! Don't say stuff like that at a shrine!

Hin: Hmm. Looks like people from the Divine Era all know proper Shinto manners to a degree.

Hin: I suppose that must be the difference in culture born from 300 years of separation between the eras.

Aya: When you enter a shrine, first you should rinse your hands and mouth with the water from the basin.

Aya: Rinsing your hands removes the impurities on the outside of the body. Rinsing your mouth removes them on the inside. The gods hate impurities.

Tam: The gods are a bunch of clean freaks, huh. How are they going to camp like that?

Anz: Tamacchi-senpai... Gods don't camp in the first place...

Aya: Also, when you're visiting a shrine, the amount of bows and claps matters too.

Tak: Huh... I'm learning!

Anz: Aya-chan, you're amazing! You're so little but know so much!

Aya: Ehehe... Thank you very much.

Meb: ...

Suz: What's wrong, Mebu? You're staring at Ayaya.

Shi: Kokudo's surrounded by others... Maybe she's feeling lonely?

Meb: What are you talking about? I think Aya-chan getting along with the others is a good thing.

Fuu: Alright, since we're here, let's get purified as well!

Fuu: O-Oh... If you want to get purified, you need to pay up a pretty hefty sum as the first offering to the gods, don't you...

Hin: It's fine, Fuu-san. You have us Mikos here, so we'll do the purification ceremony for you.

[Field]

Uta: Heh.

Mit: Utanon, did something happen? You're all smiles.

Uta: Mii-chan, back then you didn't help me with my field work, but now you do. It makes me kind of happy.

Mit: I hesitated to help out because I don't like bugs, but I want to always be with you... So I'm helping.

Uta: Mii-chan!

Mit: Utanon!

===

Calm New Year's manners 1-5N

[Shrine]

Fuu: *sob* Itsuki! Itsuki! I'm sorry I'm such an unworthy older sister!

Its: Onee-chan! Onee-chan! I'll wake up early and help you make breakfast!

Kar: Who let them drink amazake!?

Meb: Karin!

Kar: W-What!?

Meb: I... I didn't lose to you, got it!? I would've won if it was building plastic models...

Meb: If the Hero test was a carpentry competition... I would've become a carpenter Hero! A carpenter Hero...

Kar: No, I have no idea what you're talking about... And wait, are you drinking too!?

Meb: That's right... I'm drinking... Amazake from 100% rice starter!

Suz: Mebu, get it together! Who's gonna protect me if the Vertexes attack now!?

Meb: I'm not Mebu...

Meb: I'm the boss!

Suz: B-Boss?

Meb: That's right! Suzume, sit down over there!

Suz: Y-Yes!

Meb: Suzume, you know. You think too little of yourself... You'll survive until the very end... I'm certain.

Meb: Maybe, even if mankind dies out, sparrowkind will live on...

Suz: What's sparrowkind!? And what's with that "will live on even if mankind dies out", am I a cockroach!?

Meb: I'm telling you, stop saying you'll die all the time! Orders from your boss!

Suz: G-Got it...

Aya: Miss boss, the reason Suzume-senpai keeps saying "I'll die" is because she wants to live.

Aya: So what Suzume-senpai really says all the time is "I want to live".

Suz: Yeah, that's it!

Meb: Aya-chan... You're a good girl, Aya-chan! Nicely spotted! There, there!

Aya: Wah, I'm getting headpatted...

Meb: Aya-chan, you have to always stay by my side!

Aya: Yes, of course.

Kar: Ah... I have to get away from here before I get dragged into this...

Yum: I shall do the same...

[Field]

Uta: Mii-chan, give me your hand. There.

Mit: Utanon, is that a... ring?

Uta: Yeah. Because I want to always be with you, Mii-chan.

Uta: I made this ring from a garlic chive... And garlic chives are the soul food of Nagano...

Mit: Utanon!

Uta: Mii-chan!

===

Calm New Year's manners 1-6N

[Shrine]

Fuu: Huh? There's a really expensive-looking car outside the shrine gates.

Its: Huh? I feel like I've seen that car before.

Kar: So you two are back to normal, then...

Fuu: What do you mean?

Kar: How convenient, you lost your memories...

SON: Hey hey! The stars always come late!

Son: And the stars today are these two!

Nat: They made me put it on...

Sek: Me too. But what can you do when they ask you like that?

Tak: Wah, you two look great in these!

Sum: They really draw out Natsume-san's coolness and Sekka-san's elegance.

Sek: Feels nice to get complimented like that. Though I like dressing others up more than I like dressing up myself.

Sek: But I guess this isn't bad once in a while.

Nat: It feels kind of warm in this kimono...

SON: It's specially-made cold-resistant kimono!

Nat: ...Then I'm going to wear it through the day.

Fuu: Natsume, it looks good on you.

Nat: Thanks, Fuu. But I only managed to endure the cold while changing thanks to your heat pack.

Nat: Thank you, Fuu. Thank you, heat pack.

Fuu: No, you don't have to thank the heat pack...

Fuu: Well, anyway, back to our shrine visit! Let's draw our fortunes!

Everyone: Yeah!