Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon Extra Story:
ちびうさ絵日記
七夕カウント・ダウンにご用心の巻
Chibi Usa Picture Diary:
The "Beware of the Countdown to Tanabata" Story

p. 140

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Everyone:

Usagi! Chibi Usa!

Happy June 30th Birthday!

Usagi & Chibi Usa:

Thank you!

p. 141

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Usagi:

So now you're 901, right?

Chibi Usa:

Nope. I'm 902.

Makoto:

Eat plenty of cake, guys!

This one came out really well.

Rei, Minako, & Ami:

Yay!

Someone:

Chibi Usa, you look great in those clothes we got you.

Chibi Usa:

Heehee. Really?

Usagi:

Thanks, guys! I've been wanting one of these.

(They got me a star bracelet.)

Momoko:

Chibi Usa-chan, I got you this picture book.

You like books, right?

Momoko:

It's about constellation legends.

Chibi Usa:

Thank you, Momo-chan!

Mamoru:

Happy birthday, Chibi Usa.

Here's my present.

p. 142

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Momoko:

A Sailor Moon watch! It's so snazzy!

Chibi Usa:

(Thank you, Mamo-chan!)

Minako:

Mamo-chan, did you go to a toy store?

(Doting dad!)

Not bad.

Mamoru:

Actually, while I was on the way to the toy store yesterday...

Rei:

Very strange.

Makoto:

Unbelievable. How could you buy that!?

Mamoru:

It really was a watch, though. And it looked like something Chibi Usa would like.

Usagi:

Mamo-chan, where's my present??

(I'd love a Tiffany pendant.)

Mamoru:

I didn't have time to look for it.

(I know.)

Momoko:

Ooh, Chibi Usa-chan!

The inside of this watch is a locket!

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Chibi Usa:

A rocket?

Momoko:

You've never heard of them? You put a picture of someone you love in here.

Chibi Usa:

Wow.

Usagi:

(I bet you plan to use a picture of Mamo-chan. He's mine!)

Chibi Usa:

Morning!

Momoko:

Oh, Chibi Usa-chan!

Girl:

(Morning!)

Momoko:

Look! I bought one too!

Chibi Usa:

Oh! A Sailor Moon locket watch!

Momoko:

It seems like they're really popular lately, because everyone's got one!

Girls:

(Why, it's a Sailor Moon watch!)

(Aah!)

(Aah!)

Chibi Usa:

I don't know if I like everyone having one.

p. 144

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Girl:

Ugh, Mika. You have Kyuusuke's picture in your watch? (Lemme see.)

Mika:

Well I like him. (It's a secret.)

Momoko:

What's likeable about someone who's so mean to girls!?

Girl:

Whose picture do you have, Momo?

Momoko:

Fudou Mitsui-kun. Heehee

Girls:

He's so cool. (I like him too.)

His father runs that huge real estate company, right? He has a bright future.

Momoko:

Whose picture do you have, Chibi Usa-chan?

Chibi Usa:

It's a se-cret.

(Mamo-chan, of course.)

Haruka:

Ooh.

 

Chibi Usa!

Chibi Usa:

Big Sis Haruka, Big Sis Michiru!

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Haruka:

Is that bamboo grass for Tanabata?

Michiru:

(Wow.)

Chibi Usa:

Yep. Tanabata is really soon, right?

Everyone at school wrote their wishes on strips of paper.

Haruka:

Bleh. They're all about boys.

Momoko:

Well, yeah.

Girl:

We wanna have boyfriends right away!

Woman:

Do

you girls

know the Tanabata legend?

 

Just as she was beginning her new married life with Kengyuu,

she incurred the wrath of the Sky Lord.

She was torn away from her husband and only allowed to see him once a year.

That is the legend of Shokujo, the beautiful yet sad weaver girl.

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Girls:

Unbelievable! How could they stand seeing each other only once a year?

If that were me, I'd look for someone else that could be near me.

 

That reminds me,

both Satou-kun in Class 1 and Gomi-kun in Class 5 confessed their feelings to me. I'm so confused!

Haruka, Michiru, & Woman:

(K-Kids these days...)

Girl:

Pick Gomi-kun!

His family owns a bunch of huge buildings!

Momoko:

I guess my man

will have to stay with me and have financial power!

Chibi Usa:

(M-Momo-chan!)

Haruka:

(...These kids.)

 

Huh?

 

Who was that shady woman?

Michiru:

Oh, you all

have cute watches.

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Chibi Usa:

Aren't they great? They're Sailor Moon watches.

(I got mine from Mamo-chan.)

Momoko:

They're lockets, too!

They're really popular lately!

Michiru:

(They can be cute sometimes, too.)

(giggle)

Kyuusuke:

Pssh.

 

What do you mean men need financial power?

Yeah right.

Men need physical power!

Sorano:

But Kyuusuke-san, in marriage,

financial power is what will matter when you lose physical power...

Oww!

Kyuusuke:

Shaddup, Guri! Let's go!

Girls:

Sailor Moon watches!?

We can put pictures inside? I want one! I'll buy it!

(No way.)

(Wow.)

Sorano:

Huh, Chibi Usa-chan and the others have those, too.

I guess they are very popular.

Kyuusuke:

This old hag sells them on the side of the road? That's weird!

Women:

(Hehehe)

Girls:

(Aah!)

(Aah!)

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Diana:

"Tanabata."

"The legend of Shokujo and Kengyuu."

Diana:

Shokujo, daughter of the Sky Lord, really loved weaving, and spent all of her time doing it.

The Sky Lord could not just ignore this, so he had her marry Kengyuu, a cattle herder from the other end of the Milky Way.

Once they were married, they did nothing but goof off and neglect their work.

The Sky Lord became angry and separated them, allowing them to meet only once a year: on the night of July 7th.

Rei:

July 7th is always during the rainy season, so it often rains. It could rain this year, too, and they wouldn't be able to meet.

p. 149

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Ami:

Shokujo refers to Vega of the Lyra constellation.

It has a luminosity of 0.1, and it's the fourth brightest star in the sky.

Vega, along with Zeta and Epsilon to the northeast, are also called the three weaver girl stars in China.

Ami:

Kengyuu refers to Altair of the Aquila constellation. It has a luminosity of 0.9. On summer nights, you can see both stars high in the sky.

The two stars are 16 light years apart.

Chibi Usa:

16 light years apart!? That's so far.

Diana:

I wonder if I could tolerate being so far apart and meeting only once a year.

Ami:

Huh?

(T-Tolerate??)

Chibi Usa:

Maybe you could use the phone. I'd worry what he's doing everyday.

Diana:

It'd be hard to trust each other over that distance.

Ami & Rei:

Huh? Huh?

Chibi Usa:

I guess long distance relationships really are terrible.

Ami & Rei:

C-Chibi Usa-chan, Diana-chan. It's just a legend, you know?

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Chibi Usa:

...Hm?

 

"July 7th. 12 AM. Ichinohashi Park."

Chibi Usa:

"Meet there."

 

Meet there.

Meet there.

Diana:

Small Lady!?

 

What are you doing!? Wake up!!

Chibi Usa:

Aaah!

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Chibi Usa:

I lost consciousness when I looked at the watch.

(That really hurt, Diana!)

Diana! This watch is really weird!

Diana:

Let's just go to Ichinohashi Park, Small Lady!!

Chibi Usa:

Diana! All these people!

Woman:

The era for women to live alone starts now.

Women can be independent with trade skills. Let us live for our work!

p. 152

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Woman:

We can't trust men!

We don't need men!

Crowd:

Yeah! Yeah!

Chibi Usa:

W-What's with this lady?

Everyone's been brainwashed!!

Is this an enemy!?

Diana:

Transform, Small Lady!

Chibi Usa:

Already on it!

 

Moon Prism Power

 

Make-Up!!

Woman:

We can live without men!

Sailor Chibi Moon:

Hold on a sec!!

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Sailor Chibi Moon:

A friend to all girls! For love and justice! The sailor-suited pretty soldier! Sailor Chibi Moon is here!

 

You've got it all wrong, lady!

Without men, we'd have no more offspring. We can't survive with only women!

Woman:

Quiet, you! I am!

 

A friend to all girls! The currently popular, Sailor Moon! My words are correct!

Sailor Chibi Moon:

Huh!? Sailor Moon!?

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Sailor Chibi Moon:

No way!?

Girls:

Yeah, yeah!

Sailor Moon's words are correct!

Sailor Chibi Moon:

(Ugh)

 

She's lying! Sailor Moon doesn't have fat legs like that!

Shokujo:

Uuugh

You didn't have to be so blunt.

 

You're right. I'm Shokujo, the personification of Tanabata. (sob)

Sailor Chibi Moon:

Shokujo!?

Shokujo:

I have to sit around weaving everyday,

and I can't see my husband.

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Shokujo:

My only joys are TV and eating!

So I got really fat at some point.

Woman:

Shokujo-sama!

Shokujo:

This is what I look like without make-up.

I've always wanted a vibrant face like Sailor Moon's.

Sailor Chibi Moon:

Huh?

(So that's what her face is like.)

Shokujo:

(Even though I told him not to peep while I'm doing my make-up.)

Kengyuu:

(Huh?)

Shokujo:

One year, my husband saw me without make-up. Ever since,

he's been kind of cold to me,

and it rains on Tanabata every year.

 

It's really cloudy tonight, too. I'm sure it will rain.

When it rains, the Milky Way overflows and we can't see each other.

He's been making it rain because he doesn't wanna see me! Why do I have to have the worst luck?

Women:

Yes. Men really do love young, pretty girls.

Kengyuu-sama must be meeting a young cutesy thing, too.

p. 156

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Women:

You can't trust men.

In long distance relationships, women are the only ones who are sincere and suffering.

That is why Shokujo-sama must work her hardest to find joy in weaving and eating.

 

Meanwhile, we

take the bouncy energy

from young girls

on Earth.

And someday, we'll take Shokujo-sama's plumped up energy, too.

Diana:

I remember now!

You're Zeta and Epsilon, the three weaver girl stars Mercury mentioned, right!?

Did you do all this!?

Sailor Chibi Moon:

You won't get away with this!

Pink Sugar Heart Attack!

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Zeta & Epsilon:

Aaaagh!

Girls:

Oh!? Huh!?

Where are we?

Shokujo:

Kengyuu!

Kengyuu:

Shokujo!

 

We've been married for 3,000 years, haven't we? I couldn't possibly hate you, you know.

Shokujo:

Whenever I'd call you, I'd get the answering machine. The excuse is that you were busy, right!?

Have you been working hard and saving up money!? You haven't been walking around goofing off, have you!?

Kengyuu:

(You worry too much.)

No!

p. 158

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Kengyuu:

Well,

 

when it comes to love,

young, cute

girls with thin legs are

great. But

 

with wives, stability is the most important.

Diary Entry:

July 7th. Partly cloud skies.

Today is Tanabata. The one day of the year that Shokujo and Kengyuu can see each other.

A lot happens when you're 16 light years apart, but you have to stop fighting and make it last.

But I'd rather be with the one I love every day.

The end.

Chibi Usa:

(Mamo-chan... Heehee... mwaah)

p. 159

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Usagi:

Wow.

(Heehee, he bought me this pendant.)

So the Sailor Moon watch Mamo-chan bought you was part of some demons' scheme?

Good job beating them by yourself.

Mamoru:

I'm sorry, Chibi Usa! Really! I messed up!

I never could've imagined it was part of some demons' scheme.

Chibi Usa:

...Then will you buy me another birthday

present?

Mamoru:

Of course! You can have whatever you want.

Chibi Usa:

Really!?

 

I want a pendant with gold and pearls! (Yay!)

(A Van Cleef & Arpels rabbit pendant!!)

I love Mamo-chan and his financial power!

Usagi:

(You're making him buy you something more expensive than mine!)

The End

p. 160