Isekai by Moonlight

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The current chapter is just shy of 100kb now.

Have a teaser. The Sailor Team is in the middle of a planning session at Usagi's house, about the threat faced in the Sailor Moon S movie, but they've reached a point where they have to wait for a while for two specialists to join their meeting. So... Chibiusa, who in canon is good at sketching, gets out her sketchbook while Robu-san and Hotaru have an important talk. However, the important talk has some spoilers in it, so we'll come in at the end of it.

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"Then it's settled. We're practically siblings. We're just going to have to figure out where to spend New Year's together: here or at Maison Lyrique."

"We have plenty of room here," she pointed out.

"We'll just have to ask Saeko-mama first, Tomoe-s... Hotaru-chan."

Princess Lady looked up from her sketchpad; she had started a picture of the two of us. "Don't worry, Hotaru-chan. He can be slow to change sometimes."

"Thank you, Chibiusa. Should we be holding still for you?"

"No, that's okay. I have to learn how to do this without bothering the people I'm sketching." She went back to her work. "Besides, this is more the idea of the two of you than it is a particular scene."

I kid you not; Hotaru-chan actually giggled at Princess Lady's comment.

We waited for another half-hour for Bidou-san and Saeko-mama to arrive, during which Bunny-chan offered everybody tea, Artemis and Luna had a short talk that he wasn't happy about at the end of it, and Princess Lady finished her sketch. She offered it to me, but I insisted that Hotaru-chan get to keep the first picture of the two of us.

Princess Lady took that as a request to draw a second sketch of the two of us. It was at that point that I noticed she was drawing on kyogi instead of paper. Seeing that I was looking at what she was holding, she said, "It's better for the environment to use wood sheets instead of pulping the wood and making that into paper."

I couldn't argue with her. "Makoto and I use kyogi in the kitchen to line our cutting boards and wrap leftovers. I've never seen it bound into a sketchpad before."

"Even in Crystal Tokyo, I have to get big pads made special for me," she admitted. "But I can get these small pads by mail-order right now."

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Because what else do people do during important planning meetings than make small talk?