Neo Angelique Abyss What Is Most Important to the Unhatched Queen!? NEWS FROM HIDAMARI MANOR by Yumiko Deguchi The dreaded Thanatos monsters terrify the populace... In "Hidamari Manor" lives she who can purify the Thanatos, the Unhatched Queen, Angelique, and the four Aube Hunters who battle the Thanatos... Nyx: Angelique hasn't been in good spirits recently... J.D.: Something seems to be troubling her, doesn't it? Hyuga: Consider the immensity of the burden on Angelique-sama's shoulders, and it is understandable. Rayne: Guess she's the type to keep things bottled up, huh... pg. 2 Nyx: First one to get it out of her gets to make her afternoon tea starting tomorrow! Rayne [thinking]: All right - it's in the bag! Hyuga [thinking]: Soon, she'll be enjoying my handmade kintsuba... Narration: THEY'RE ALL SENSITIVE SAMURAI. [Later...] Nyx: Reading in the garden? A splendid pastime, isn't it? Angelique: Nyx-san! Nyx: Might I chat with you a bit? pg. 3 Nyx: Here at Hidamari Manor, we're like family. And as your family, we're become concerned about your behavior. If there's anything on your mind, might you not let me know, Mademoiselle? Angelique: On my mind...? Actually...I've been thinking that there's someone who sure does speak like you, Nyx-san! (I've got it *right* here...) Nyx: ? [Ange pulls out...] Book Title: CHIBI MARUKO-CHAN Angelique: There's someone in this book who's a little like you! (A *little*!) Rayne [guffawing]: _HANAWA-KUN!_ BWAAAAAHAHAHAHAH! J.D. [sweatdropping]: Shh-! Angelique: (Hee hee!) Just substitute "mademoiselle" for "baby", and...right? (*giggle!*) Nyx [sweatdropping]: Huh...?? J.D.: He's totally blowing his chance to grill her! Rayne: She sure gave him the slip, huh? pg. 4 J.D.: Hey, Angelique! Angelique: J.D.-san! J.D.: I *thought* I saw an angel sitting there! Hyuga & Rayne: ... J.D.: This's a comfy spot in the sunshine, isn't it? Or maybe the sun shines here because of *you*... Angelique [busily scribbling in a notepad]: shines...here... because of *you*... SFX: memo memo J.D.: What're you writing? Angelique: "J.D.'s Words of Wisdom"! J.D.: Huh? Angelique: I think it's so cool how you say stuff with a straight face that people'd normally be too embarrassed to say, J.D.-san! pg. 5 Angelique: It's REALLY fun when you read it all together! Stuff like: "I've been waiting for a girl with eyes as beautiful as yours"! That's from when we first met! (*I* sure couldn't say that to someone *I'd* just met!) Nyx: Sucks to be you, J.D. Rayne [thinking]: Whoa--! This is TOO embarrassing! J.D.: Actually, what I said was, "a woman with beautiful eyes, like you". Rayne [thinking]: You come back with a *straight line*? You're no ordinary man, J.D.! Angelique: :squee!: Check the others for me, too, please! J.D. [cringing]: *Sure!* Hyuga [lustily]: *I* certainly couldn't withstand such psychological warfare! That's what *I* call an Unhatched Queen! SFX: :doki doki: Nyx [looking at Hyuga weirdly]: ...Exactly what _is_ *your type* of Unhatched Queen, I wonder? Rayne: He's just like his Words of Wisdom...no way, J.D. [That night...] Rayne: Man, she blew him off on purpose for sure, huh? Hyuga: Perhaps she'll speak to me. pg. 6 Narration: REMEMBERING THE FOREST SPRING Hyuga: When I first met Angelique-sama, I was bathing. Maybe I, who has nothing *left* to hide from her... Rayne: HIDE IT! _HIDE IT!_ (You're just _full_ of dirty little secrets, aren't ya?) Hyuga: I retained my composure so as not to upset Angelique, but inside, I was truly panicking. Rayne: Then you shoulda _stayed_ in the water up to your shoulders and not come out!! How d'ya think _Angelique_ felt!? Angelique: I--I WAS OKAY! Rayne & Hyuga [turning around]: ANGELIQUE!! Hyuga: --SAMA!! Angelique: I'm sorry - I overheard... I was all right! I didn't think anything of it! Rayne & Hyuga: HUH...? Angelique: Both of my parents were doctors, so I got used to seeing people naked through helping them! So *much* so, really, that I'd wanted to become a doctor myself! Rayne [turning around]: ...I never *heard* that... Space Where Hyuga Used to Be: GONE pg. 7 Rayne [turning back to Angelique]: ......... Something's been on your mind lately. Care to talk about it? Angelique: *ah*--...oh... It's no good! You're the only one I CAN'T talk to about it, Rayne! SFX: :dither dither: Rayne: Wha--... _What do you MEAN, "I'm the only one you can't"--!?_ Angelique: Because you're such a brilliant scholar, Rayne! You'd know the answer right away... Nyx: calm down, you two. Won't you tell us outright, Mademoiselle? pg. 8 Angelique: But I'd wanted to do it myself... [taking out crossword] "If a dog is facing west, which way is its tail pointed?" Nyx, J.D., Rayne: EAST. Rayne: (A *crossword*?) Angelique [huffy]: Yeah, BUT! The dog they had next door - [- who apparently was a Shiba Inu, with a curly tail whose tip pointed not *only* east but every which way, depending on the tightness of the curl -] Angelique: - obviously, the question demands a deeper reading! Rayne: It doesn't matter which way the *tip* is pointed. They're talking about which way the *base* of the tail is pointed. Angelique: The _base_ of the tail...yeahhhh! SFX: *DING* Rayne [peeved]: Hey - you haven't got anything filled in on this, *anyway*! (Lemme see that!) I'll solve it myself~ Narration: What Is Most Important to the Unhatched Queen? Peace, Above All... Narration: Angelic Angelique, pure and innocent - An angel's heaven is a natural paradise... Hyuga: (In *one blow*, Angelique-sama... Just as I'd expect...) SFX: ouch