A flier for a UranusxNeptune event. Uranus bursts in and says they're
not allowed to put out a book with a different pairing since it's a
"Uranus & Neptune only" event.
Another flier. A scene from later in this part is twisted to be about
Elza looking for the ElzaxMichiru book instead of looking for Michiru.
The story skips ahead to Elza's race with Haruka.
The crowd is looking at Haruka. Someone exclaims that she's handsome.
Elza comments to Michiru that Haruka doesn't really look like a girl,
but she does have breasts. Michiru is thinking about backing out,
but Elza says she's come too far to back out now.
Michiru is going to watch from the stands and then come down after the 100-meter dash. Elza spots her in the stands.
Title page for this part:
A girl teases Elza about having gotten her butt kicked in the race.
Naturally, Elza is in a crappy mood today, but it's not just losing that
pissed her off...
It was the fact that Haruka turned Michiru down.
Elza is totally shocked at this, and wonders who the hell Haruka thinks she is.
Then on the way home that day, Michiru started crying.
This upset Elza because it meant that Michiru liked Haruka enough to cry over her.
Elza doesn't get what Michiru sees in Haruka. It's unforgivable...
though of course, it was Elza who introduced them in the first place.
Elza can't just oppose them without a plan, because obstacles only make
love stronger.
The other girls, of course, are completely baffled by Elza's mumbling, but they decide to overlook it since she's a foreigner.
The girls are talking about their plans for summer vacation. At their
age, going on a family vacation is embarrassing; they'd rather stay
home, but with their parents' credit card, of course!
Elza plans to go visit her parents and train with the coach she has there. She'll go to Seychelles, too, and enjoy the ocean.
Elza sees Michiru again after summer break.
Michiru thanks Elza for the postcard she sent.
Elza thinks to herself that Michiru is now even prettier than before.
Some of Michiru's fans approach Elza.
Elza thinks they're just looking for Michiru (whom they cutely refer to
as "Michiru Onee-sama"), but it turns out they want to ask Elza herself
about something: whether it's true that Michiru is going out with Tenoh
Haruka of N Junior High. Some people saw Michiru and Haruka together in
Yokohama (with various rumors having them being seen in various Yokohama
hotels, all of which are prime spots for a date).
Apparently the pair looked like lovers, and had quite a mood going between them.
Elza asks if they've tried asking Michiru herself, and they're horrified
by the suggestion. They seem convinced that Elza knows the truth, and
insist that she tell them. She assures them that she doesn't know,
explaining that she wasn't even in Japan during summer break. She adds
that since they don't know if the rumor's true, they shouldn't spread it
around too much.
"......Oh. So it went well for them. Oh..."
Elza is continuing her training; she might go to a high school with a
strong track team (a place where she can make track her focus), but
she's not sure. She does want to do it seriously, though. Michiru asks
if she's going to aim for the Olympics, but Elza doesn't think she
should aim that high. Michiru insists that Elza could do it,
that she could win a medal in the Olympics. Elza says that when an
amazing person like Michiru says that Elza can do it, Elza feels like
she really might be able to. Michiru says that she's jealous of people
like Elza and Tenoh Haruka. Elza is surprised.
Elza notes that Michiru is looking pale, and asks if she's all right.
Michiru says that she's just been busy lately, and the summer heat is
wearing her out a bit. The two say goodbye, and as Elza is marveling at
the fact that Michiru could be jealous of someone else, Michiru
collapses.
Cut to a scene of Michiru and Elza in the infirmary, where they're waiting for the school nurse.
Michiru apologizes, saying it's just a touch of anemia. Elza replies
that she doesn't know what's keeping Michiru so busy, but that Michiru
should have a doctor look her over. She points out that Michiru's body
is important since she's a violinist, or rather, a painter.
Michiru hears the ocean stirring. DUM DUM DUUUM! (That was some ominous music to set the atmosphere for you guys.)
Michiru says she needs to go (presumably to fight whatever monster has
popped up). Elza misunderstands, thinking Michiru is agreeing with her
about needing to see a doctor. Then Michiru runs off without even taking
her bag, leaving Elza confused.
Elza is talking to Michiru's teacher, who says Michiru is out sick, apparently with a cold.
Elza offers to take Michiru her schoolwork for the day she missed (also the bag that she left at school).
Elza's amazed by Michiru's apartment complex, and the fact that Michiru
lives alone there. Michiru also happens to live on the top floor. Whoo!
Someone else (we find out who in a minute) answers Michiru's intercom,
and Elza stutters out her name and why she's there. The person tells her
to come on up, and she goes up to find the door answered by none other
than...
Haruka!
Naturally, Elza is shocked to see Haruka there, but Haruka just coolly
asks her for the bag and schoolwork, taking the items and shutting the
door in Elza's face with a brief "Thanks." Elza tries to keep the door
from shutting, crying, "Hey, wait just one minute!"
And that's the end of part 2.
Elza asks, "Is this really the end of part 2? Are we seriously cutting it off here?"
Haruka replies, "Yeah, I'm with you there. The best is yet to come!"
The caption at the bottom of the image says that the two of them will be stuck in this position until part 3 begins. lol
Then down below, we find that they've been stuck like that for 4 years
(since 4 years passed before part 3 came out), and that people made
comments about it when part 3 came out. lol
Studio Canopus Times.
Just some more humor about how much time passed between part 2 and part 3.
This page was drawn for a November 2000 Sailor Moon doujinshi event, but Yamada forgot to take it with her to the event. lol
A nun from Elza's new school shows her the indoor pool. Elza thinks to
herself that neither her new sailor uniform nor the school for young
ladies suits her.
When she goes in, the girls all wonder who she is. Elza doesn't see what
all the fuss is: this is a mission school, so foreigners can't be all
that rare, can they?
Elza notes that one of the girls in the pool (who turns out to be Michiru, of course) is a fast swimmer.
Elza smiles at her, but Michiru just ignores her.
As Elza and the nun walk off, the girls speculate about her--is she a
transfer student? How old is she? Is she from Africa? Does she speak
Japanese? She's so exotic!
Elza wonders to herself if she'll be able to make it at her new school.
Title page for the first part of the story:
Elza wants to find someone who's a fast runner, to run in relays and
stuff with her, but the girls say that all the fast people are already
on other sports teams. Then one of the girls remembers someone who was a
fast runner.
It's a girl who was in her class back in elementary school. When the
other girls ask who it is, she just says "her," and they get it,
instantly. Elza, of course, does not, so they explain that it's Miss
Oh-so-perfect--she's rich, beautiful, smart, and entirely too good at
everything. She's in the art club.
Elza says she checked out the school's runners at last year's athletics
festival and doesn't remember seeing anyone that fast. The girls tell
her that Michiru was away performing a solo at a music festival--she's a
violinist, and famous to boot. Elza then puts two and two together--she
has heard of the girl before.
She asks the other girl to introduce her, but everyone thinks it's a bad
idea--Elza will never convince her to join the track team, the girl
doesn't know her well anyway, and this famous girl is really
unapproachable.
The famous girl doesn't have any close friends, though
she does have a fan club.
And her name is... Kaioh Michiru-"sama" ("sama" is a very respectful
suffix, and the quotation marks suggest that either they're using it
sarcastically or they're telling Elza how much Michiru is respected).
The girls joke that she'd be called Michiru Kaioh, written in katakana, where Elza comes from.
Later, Elza is running. She thinks to herself that she's surprised
someone so talented is at a school like this one. As she's running, she
sees a girl drawing.
She thinks the girl is cute, and recognizes her as the one from the pool.
After Elza has finished running, she goes up to the girl and discovers
that the girl has been drawing her. The girl apologizes, but Elza tells
her that no apologies are necessary. Elza starts to ask the girl if
she's in the art club, then suddenly realizes that this might have been
that famous girl the others were talking about.
She asks her if she's Michiru Kaioh, with a rather belated "-sama" tacked on the end.
When Elza tells the other girls about it, they laugh at her and ask if
Michiru gave her the cold shoulder. Elza says that no, Michiru didn't
give her the cold shoulder, she just rushed off.
Elza brags about being sketched by a famous artist, saying it means she
must be kind of good at modeling. She asks the others where Michiru (she
calls her "Kaioh-san") eats lunch, and the other girls try to dissuade
her from pursuing Michiru (which Elza denies she's doing), saying she'll
earn the wrath of Michiru's fans. Plus, Michiru is antisocial; it's
best to just leave her be.
Elza thinks to herself that Michiru is apparently a beautiful, well-bred, rich, talented, haughty princess.
And yet, she thinks that's not the sort of person Michiru really is.
Elza wonders what just happened, but cheerfully says hi and asks if she
can sit next to Michiru (then sits down before Michiru has a chance to
say no!). Elza goes on to tell Michiru that she saw Michiru in the pool
the day she transferred to the school, and that she couldn't help being
charmed by Michiru's beautiful, mature appearance. She says she was
surprised to find out that Michiru was only in junior high.
It was Elza's animal instincts that told her Michiru wasn't like everyone said she was. (She doesn't say that aloud).
Elza breeches the hostile atmosphere with a question about what book Michiru is reading, which turns out to be The Tale of Genji.
Elza remarks on what a Don Juan Genji is, and asks Michiru if she
enjoys reading stories in which one woman after another becomes
miserable. She then hastily apologizes, saying she didn't mean to bash
Japanese culture.
After a few moments of thought, Michiru answers that she's reading it
because it's the original text of the book. Elza gets now why people
call Michiru an oddball. Michiru says that it's the first time someone's
called her an oddball to her face. Elza bursts out laughing, and
comments that Michiru isn't as antisocial as everyone says.
Michiru replies that if everyone says she's antisocial, then it must be true.
Elza then bursts out with, "Well, you can think of me as an animal, then!!"
Michiru laughs.
We get the first part of what Michiru says next ("You..."), then it cuts
to a new scene, with Elza reflecting that she thinks of Michiru like a
princess in an old story.
"You're an intimist, hm?" (Presumably Michiru's words from the previous
scene, and using the French "intimiste," the old title of the story,
rather than the English "intimist.")
A princess that's been shut away all alone in a tall tower.
Elza tries to recruit Michiru for the track team, but Michiru declines, as Elza expected her to.
Elza asks Michiru what she wants to do with her life--does she want to
be a violinist? An artist? Both? Well, actually, she's both already...
Michiru replies that she probably won't be able to become the thing she most wants to be.
Elza realizes that she shouldn't ask what that is. She thinks to herself
that Michiru is like a flower in bloom, hidden away within the strong
walls of the school. Watching Michiru walk off, she remembers the
saying, "A lily as she walks" ("Standing, she's a peony; Sitting, a tree
peony; Walking, a lily.").
The other girls come up to Elza and see Michiru walking off. They ask
Elza if Michiru's going to be joining the track team, and Elza says no,
which was what they expected as well.
Elza continues her train of thought from before: Someday, Michiru will leave the school, just as the rest of them will.
Elza waves to Michiru.
Michiru waves back, shocking the other girls.
Someday, Michiru's fate will come for her, and she'll be taken away to a far-off land,
like a proud, single-minded princess from a fairy-tale, with her prince/knight/whatever.
