Zeroth Directive

Archive II

Haruka demonstrated an affinity for water-related Arts during her onboarding test. She carries bubble water with her and enjoys blowing bubbles, especially when she is in a particularly good mood, or a particularly bad mood. The bubble water itself is entirely ordinary, but the bubbles she makes are remarkably colorful and long-lasting, and her Arts are also only maximally effective when expressed in the form of bubbles. Her talents in this regard are not exceptional, but impressively flexible and able to play a unique role in combat. She has given some of her Arts the names of her past songs and albums. Under extreme emotional conditions, she occasionally demonstrates remarkable performance in melee, but this is entirely unpredictable. She has been seen using the Higashinese Form of Kasumi, Leithanian zweihander swordplay, and even Yanese sword-dance, but all without any subtlety. Once, as she cleaves through a poor dummy target with a picture of some ninja stuck to it with a wooden sword, all the instructors have the same question... How did she learn that hodgepodge of styles? —Dobermann After the emotions pass, however, she can no longer recreate the same forms, or swing with the same speed and sureness. In her own words, she has always been prone to forgetting things when anxious, and she remembers little about the moves she learned as an actress. She had only performed the techniques subconsciously because of the memories that photo brought back. The examiners lament that any talent Haruka may have had was buried so deeply by life that there was no way to excavate it, even in mortal danger. She only shows a sliver of it in fits of rage. With her role defined as a supporter using Arts, Haruka enthusiastically went through Originium Arts training without complaining even once, leaving a deep impression on everyone. Her mic has been installed with an Arts unit for easier use. For her, however, the best part is that she no longer has to rely on bubble water to make colorful bubbles.

Archive IV

Much like the plants she used to keep, Momoka Hanyuu's career struggled in the period after she left the Kinseki Talent Agency. The public that had expected her to bring back even bigger news was disappointed. Her comeback concert went without a hitch, but there was no kaidan, no dark secrets exposed, not even the sudden appearance of a tall Oni woman. She had been honing her singing and performance skills, and remained as sweet and cute as ever, but she had shed the image of being associated with kaidan. Her confession on that summer night is widely known, but her antis saw it as abandoning the sinking ship that was the Kinsekikai, while many of those who claimed to be her fans simply treated her as a toy that squeaked whenever she was squeezed by a kaidan. Add her true fans to the fray, and a war of words quickly broke out on the intercity net. Momoka was inevitably asked about kaidan whenever she appeared on a show or did an interview. Though as timid as ever, she now believes that there is an explanation behind every kaidan, be it the presence of a kami, sheer coincidence, or the intentional work of man. For example, although she was trembling when she accepted an offer by a TV station to investigate the truth behind 'Sawara the Silentious' in Shin-Aki City, she spent a week with the crew in the Saeki district, wandering on the midnight streets. Luckily, nothing out of the ordinary happened, other than running into a thirsty young man who drank all the water they were carrying. This led to another controversy on the intercity net, this time expanding to include Mifune and the Kinseki Group, only for the topic to suddenly go silent when the ownership of Kinseki Group was touched upon. Even Momoka went off the grid for an entire month before she reappeared in public. Even harder for some people to accept was how she began to draw attention to usually-ignored issues and people, such as the strange illness that plagued her homeland, gamblers who'd lost everything but gambling itself, teenagers who fell into the dark side of society after dropping out of school, victims of land sale scams, etc. She is powerless to change anything at the root of these issues, a fact that she herself knows full well. As such, she never judges. All she hopes is that Higashi, amidst its roaring progress, can spare the time to listen to these voices, even if most consider those distant cries to be irrelevant at best, or annoying at worst. Momoka Hanyuu's career got back on track as Mitsukue got used to her changes. For Haruka Shino though, the happiest moment was when she received a package after the program where she talked about the strange illness aired. In it was one of her new albums released after going independent, and a photo album her relatives had put together, including photos of her childhood and her parents... and a letter, which she read with tears in her eyes. 'We thought you had changed. But when we saw you on TV, we realized that you've always been the same Haruka. Always timid, always scared, always crying, but always brave when it comes to things that really mattered.'

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