Chapter 2 - The Sentinels' group work.

The Sentinels' Group work

Mebuki: T-This is an arikake joint! To think they even reproduced this traditional construction technique! You can't take model kits lightly these days! Come in!
Aki: Kusunoki-san. I see you're building plastic models again. You don't ever do anything except that or training, do you?
Mebuki: Is there something wrong?
Aki: I brought complaints and requests from the other Sentinels.
Aki: "The snoring from the next room is too loud", "Kusunoki-san's training is too harsh", "Aya-chan is too much of an angel", and so on.
Mebuki: And?
Aki: I'll leave taking care of those requests to you, Kusunoki-san.
Mebuki: Eh?
Aki: Overseeing the squad members' daily lives is also a part of leading the squad.
Mebuki: Eeh?
Aki: Well then, please take care of these.
Mebuki: Requests and complaints? What am I, the housemother? But she's right, that might be part of my duty as the commander.
Mebuki: (What are you supposed to do in this kind of situation. I wonder if there's a book that could help... This is it!)

Mebuki: Suzume, Miroku-san, Shizuku, Aya-chan, I've gathered you all here today for some group work with all five of us.
Suzume: What do you mean?
Shizuku: Dunno.
Mebuki: We'll talk and work together in a group. By doing this, we'll improve our societal communication skills and commit to innovation!
Suzume: Mebu, that sounds kind of pretentious.
Yum: As long as it lets me prevail over Mebuki-san, anything will do!
Mebuki: Miroku-san, group work isn't a competition. *cough*
Mebuki: Lately there have been voices of displeasure with each other amongst the Sentinels. And so, I decided we should hold talks about things we don't like and want people to improve upon. As a test case, just with us five.
Yumiko: Hmm, I see. Well then, I shall be the first to inquire. Not that anyone is likely to be displeased with my exemplary lifestyle, as is expected from one who holds the Miroku name...
Mebuki: Please stop being so foolhardy.
Yumiko: Eh?
Suzume: Stop this whole pretending to be a rich girl thing already.
Yumiko: Eh?
Shizuku: Ramen is better than skipjack tuna.
Yumiko: Nobody is pretending! And how can you not recognise the brilliance of skipjack tuna!? Alfred! Alfred! Bring out fresh skipjack tuna immediately!
Aya: Miroku-senpai, please calm down!
Yumiko: I shall make you understand one day! The deliciousness of the Miroku family and the glory of skipjack tuna!
Mebuki: You mixed the two up, calm down.
Suzume: Oh, and the procurement lady was complaining about how it's a pain to get so many brands of tea for you. She said she put the same leaves in a different package last time but you didn't even notice.
Yumiko: EEH!?
Mebuki: I will listen to what you have to say next. As the one who leads the squad, I guarantee that I will take even the harshest criticism earnestly.
Suzume: What are you, a politician?
Yumiko: Complaints about you, Mebuki-san?.. You make too many plastic models.
Suzume: The training is too harsh.
Shizuku: Ramen is better than udon.
Mebuki: I don't think my plastic models are bothering anyone!
Yumiko: Do you not leave the massive kits you cannot fit in your room at the viewing platform? When my gaze falls on them in the middle of briefing, I hardly know what expression to make.
Mebuki: W-Well, in that case I'll be putting them at the seaside park from now on.
Yumiko: Are you trying to create a new sightseeing spot?
Aya: Isn't it okay? Mebuki-senpai needs a way to relax, too.
Suzume: Ayaya, you're so kind.
Mebuki: By the way, Suzume. If you think that sort of training is "harsh", then you've been slacking off. I'll train you harder.
Suzume: Eeek! This is bad!
Yumiko: Next is Suzume-san's turn, I suppose?
Mebuki: Suzume, stop coming to me in tears so much. It makes me think of how the protagonist of that anime that's been continuing for 300 years even after the country's downfall comes crying to a robot.
Yumiko: Suzume-san, you are far too noisy.
Shizuku: Ramen is better than mandarins.
Suzume: What, I'm like Nobi**?
Mebuki: Yeah, it makes me feel like I'm Dora****.
Suzume: I'm sorry, Mebu! Don't hate me please!
Yumiko: You truly are noisy...
Aya: But Suzume-san, your liveliness brightens everyone up. You're our mood maker!
Mebuki: Next is... Shizuku.
Shizuku: ...Me?
Yumiko: That is right, going in order.
SHIZUKU: Awright, if you got any problems, I'll listen.
Suzume: Y-Y-Y-You're going to change personalities now?
SHIZUKU: I was born to protect Shizuku. If it's something that might hurt her, I'll listen instead. And fight back if I need to.
Suzume: Why would you fight back!?
SHIZUKU: Come on, hit me up.
Mebuki: Obviously udon is better than ramen.
Yumiko: Skipjack tuna is clearly superior to ramen.
Suzume: It's gotta be mandarins!
SHIZUKU: These aren't complaints at all! Don't screw with Tokushima ramen! And you damn Kagawa people eat way too much udon.
Mebuki: The rest is omitted.
SHIZUKU: If you bastards take away the water from other prefectures in drought, what if people in Tokushima can't have ramen, huh!?
Yumiko: We must have spent ten minutes on this argument about udon and ramen.
Mebuki: I'm, uh, sorry.
Aya: It's going to be fine. We have the Shinju-sama's blessings with us, so there's no way people won't be able to have ramen.
Yumiko: I have a feeling we went off-track.
Suzume: It's not like we're going to find a way to solve our problems right away, either.
Mebuki: A-Anyway, let's do this to the end. The only one left is Aya-chan.
Aya: Here! Please tell me if you have any complaints about me!
Mebuki: (She says that, but...)
Yumiko: (Complaints about Kokudo-san?..)
Suzume: (She's so diligent, kind and nice...)
SHIZUKU: (T-There's nothing to say...)
Aya: I'll do anything I have to!
Mebuki: Nothing.
Yumiko: Absolutely.
Suzume: At all.
SHIZUKU: Nope, nothing.
Aya: You're all being considerate of me because I'm younger, aren't you? Thank you very much!
Mebuki: That's not it at all.
Yumiko: On the other hand, do you have no complaints about us? You have not mentioned anything you would be displeased about yet, Kokudo-san.
Aya: Complaints? Displeased? There's nothing like that!
Suzume: Come on, there's no way that's true. We're all human.
Aya: And since we're all human, there are some parts of us that won't match with others. But I think people can come to like each other even with those parts included!
Yumiko: For some reason I feel my behaviour just now was extremely childish...
Suzume: Same here.
SHIZUKU: Yeah.
Mebuki: Let's end this group work here.
Mebuki: After that, me and Aya-chan listened to each of the Sentinels' complaints in person. The fact everyone was too ashamed of themselves and couldn't say anything after Aya-chan started speaking is another story...