Hanayui no Shou 23-4H

The meaning of club activities - 4

[Coast]

Tak: Ahaha. You're right, Mebuki-chan. This might be pointless.

Meb: Takashima..

Aya: Takashima-senpai.

Meb: You're going to return to your own era once everything is over too, aren't you?

Meb: But you're going along with these activities as if it was nothing.

Tak: Yeah. I mean, we can't know for sure what's pointless and what's not.

Meb: Huh...

Tak: Ways of heaven, or kind of like that!

Chi: Takashima-san, "ways of heaven" is too vague to understand anything...

Tak: Ahaha, I forgot the words. It was something about being crooked...

Chi: You probably meant "inscrutable". Inscrutable are the ways of heavens.

Chi: It means that nobody can know why something happens and whether or not it will lead to anything good.

Tak: And even if it was pointless, what's the problem with that?

Tak: I mean, I'm enjoying just doing the club activities with everyone!

Meb: ...Is that really it?

Meb: (To look for the meaning not in the results, but in the process.)

Meb: (And being satisfied with that meaning being simply "fun", without anything to gain...)

Tak: Phew... The beach is all nice and clean now!

Chi: Yeah. Mission complete.

Yum: What a beautiful scenery it became. Let us erect a monument to the Miroku family to commemorate this cleaning.

Suz: It'd just ruin all of our work cleaning here, so we'd have to remove it immediately.

Yum: Suzume-san!

Meb: ...

[Hero Club room]

Fuu: Once you put the photo of the kitten up on the homepage, the e-mails from people who want to take it in came pouring in!

Fuu: Now we need to just meet them in person and find a good home, but I'm sure that won't take long.

Yuu: Yay!

Tou: It's thanks to Itsuki-chan, Aya-chan and Iyojima-san taking such adorable pictures of it.

Its: No no, nothing like that! But I'm really glad.

Aya: I'm glad too. I hope the cat becomes happy.

Meb: ...

Tak: So, Mebuki-chan? Doesn't it make you glad to see other people happy?

Meb: ...I don't feel that just yet.

Meb: But maybe eventually...

Meb: I'll be able to feel the same way as you all.