One day over at Parallel Flight's office, the door bell rings. Mokdai goes to answer it and is surprised to find Sui there, and Sui in turn is surprised he answered so quickly after one ring because she guessed he wouldn't have noticed if she texted him. She apologizes for the not texting part, and Mokdai is shocked to wonder how unreliable she thinks of him and insists he can do work right too. He's in the middle of planning a show for the summer festival and editing a PR video, so Sui laughs and says she's joking and thanks him for his work and opening the door. Sui says she came straight from work so she didn't have a card key, then greets you upon noticing you.
You greet Sui back and ask what business she has today, so Sui tells you Maculata asked her to go over to Hisaki's today. She found Crowne over there went she reached his factory, and they asked her to give you something. Sui pulls out a wrapped package out of her bag and hands it over, and you wonder what Hisaki and Crowne would give you before having an idea.
When you open up the package, you find a long list of scribbled notes and a small box. Mokdai looks over curiously, and the box itself turns out to have a ring-shaped pendant strung up on a simple chain. The ring is relatively thick and has a shining blue line going around it. Mokdai comments on how pretty it is and compares the blue light to light filtering through the sea. Sui explains that Maculata designed the thing, though she has thought it was weird of her to design an accessory. She also wonders why Crowne and Hisaki were involved and thought it was weird of them to be together.
You say that explaining it would take a while, but it's something the three of them are collaborating on for hero transformation related stuff. Mokdai starts looking doubtful as he eyes the ring, and you look over the memo Crowne and Hisaki included. You summarize that it seems to be a transformation experiment where you have someone wear it while transforming and seeing what changes happen. Sui asks if that means that there's going to be bodily effects, and she's reluctant to be involved though it's not like she's suspicious of Hisaki and Crowne.
You nod at this and turn to Mokdai. He's shocked at the implied question and avoids the subject by saying he has a video to get back to editing. By the time he gets back to his seat, the door opens again as Huckle and Akashi walk in. Akashi greets Sui and Mokdai upon seeing them, and he says he had some time since baseball practice was over so he decided to visit. He came across Huckle along the way, and Huckle greets Sui and asks if she came because of work Maculata sent her on. Sui confirms, though she says it was more an errand than anything. She's done with that now.
You decide to ask Akashi to put on the necklace without telling him there's anything more to it. Akashi sputters in surprise as he asks if it's a present, blushing as he says it's not actually his birthday today. You go vague about it being a present or whatever, and Akashi quickly says he's not actually rejecting it or anything. You were thinking about him when you gave it to him and all! He happily laughs to himself about getting a present from you, and Sui and Mokdai awkwardly look away as Sui comments on how happy Akashi is.
Sui then changes the subject to note that Ryekie isn't around since she didn't hear him yell out a greeting to her. Huckle explains that the office had meetings with two other agencies, so Huckle and Ryekie had split the two between them. He should be back soon, and now that Sui and Akashi are around he asks them to join in for an office meeting. Everyone else stops their own conversations, then get seated around a table.
A bit of time later, Huckle tells you guys that he was given something at the business meeting he went to as he proceeds to pull out some colorful tickets. He explains the agency he was meeting with was working with the construction of a soon to be finished resort spaceship, and now you guys are invited to go. Akashi has heard of this resort ship and excitedly asks if it's that one sightseeing ship that's built to be like an entire tropical resort island as he points at the tickets.
Sui is confused at the idea of a spaceship being made into a resort island, so Akashi explains that it was built based on the concept of a resort ship that can go to any sort of environment. He's heard from a school friend that it can go undersea, fly in the sky, and travel through space. Being able to go to a resort like that with your crush a FRIEND sounds like a dream!
Huckle laughs and says Akashi's well-informed about the ship, then says the ship is the Resort Planet Grand Island built in the middle of Muirauqa IV's redevelopment plans. Unfortunately, Monsters have started appearing towards the end of the ship's completion. The agency he was meeting with has sent their heroes to deal with the problem before it blows up, but the ship's owner has sent out invitations to heroes for the pre-opening in hopes of making things perfect.
Mokdai says the idea sounds good since having heroes attend would make Monster appearances something that can be dealt with while also doubling as a publicity thing. Huckle nods and says you guys were invited too since the things were going around. There's actually not that many opportunities to build better relationships with other hero agencies, and Huckle asks if everyone can go. Mokdai says he can go and starts thinking about all the food that'll be at the resort. Sui says she can go too, saying Maculata has told her to actively take part in hero work. You either say you can go, excitedly yell about a resort, or gasp about going to a resort with Huckle. C gets an extra line of Huckle being amused by how big your smile is. This is technically a work thing, so he figures he should organize an actual office party trip.
Anyways, Huckle turns to Akashi and asks if he can go too, since he'd prefer to have all the new heroes in the office come along for introductions. Akashi says he can go since school and baseball practice is slowing down at the moment, so he can go when there's some time open during his workout schedule. Huckle thanks everyone for agreeing to go, and since there's no urgent business at the moment he'll go ahead and RSVP the trip. He'll tell Ryekie about it when he gets back, and while this is again a work thing, he suggests that everyone have fun together and relax after going around and talking with the other agencies. Everyone brightens up at the suggestion and starts getting ready.
Title card pops up, and this episode is called Summer! The Beach! The Resort!
Narration then briefly talks about Muirauqa IV. It is a planet that is covered by water by 90%, so the people tend to live on giant ships. And once the agency travels all the way across the galaxy to reach there, brilliant scenery greets everyone. Mokdai is amazed at how the resort ship looks as he talks to you. There's the standard beautiful white sands and blue seas, and of course Mokdai notices the restaurant area further ahead. Sui is surprised as she says she can see a Ferris wheel, merry go round, and water slide in the distance. Welcome to the supergiant resort complex passenger ship, Resort Planet Grand Island! The giant deck is big enough to be called an artificial island on its own, and the bright beach and shining waves spread out upon it.
Akashi is embarrassed as he tells you to stop pushing him, but you prod him forward over his protests and call out to everyone else apologizing for the wait since you two had to change into swimsuits. Akashi comments that he feels a little embarrassed now that he's somewhere else, and he asks if he looks weird. Mokdai says the two of you look great, and he wishes he was called over to change into a swimsuit too. And based on a look around, about half the people present are in swimsuits, so Akashi should be fine. Now Mokdai really wishes he changed out too. Sui says it should be fine and says Akashi looks good in his swimsuit.
Akashi is surprised that Sui can give a straight compliment, confusing Sui as she says she's still a professional when it comes to clothes. Mokdai then decides to point out that Akashi has tanned like hell, which is drawing his attention more than his swimsuit. Akashi admits that he's been so excited about going to a resort that he couldn't focus on working out, so he spent all that time outside practicing his bat swings instead. Sui then suggests that he's getting too excited about going to a resort.
Ryekie laughs about everyone having fun and saying it's nice to have jobs like this once in a while. He also talks about how Mokdai's gotten better at driving a space car, which was a huge help. Mokdai thanks him, saying he's been practicing since last week at it. He's recently had a chance to watch a space taxi driver work from up close, so he's been referencing their driving. He also had Huckle's instructions and the manual Crowne gave him too.
Huckle talks about how Crowne tuned up the space ship's autopilot and nearby functions, then thanks Mokdai for driving. It's important to be able to follow directions especially since driving has lives involved. It's much better than leaving the driving to a certain someone who would think to shoot up a stalling engine with an electrical blast like a maniac. Sui is concerned about that example and says someone like that shouldn't be able to get a license. You either stay quiet, wonder sarcastically what S Class Hero Huckle could be talking about, or needle Ryekie about how frightening that idea would be.
Ryekie is taken aback at the look you're giving him and denies the idea that he's always causing the engine to stall out. But now that this is a matter of his personal honor, he starts volunteering to drive the car on the return trip. Huckle immediately shoots the idea down, partly because Ryekie's driving is rough but also because he's still not fully recovered at this point in time, so it's not good for him to sit for long periods of time to drive. It's unfortunate that Huckle's own license has expired, but that means Huckle has to ask Mokdai to drive when it's time to go home as he gives him the car keys.
Ryekie is disappointed by this, but he resolves to do what he can. First order of business is to take care of work, then it's rewarding the younger team members who have been working hard every day. He then turns to you and declares there's going to be a night party after work is over, and you either say it's a great idea, try to remind him that this is still a work thing, or say you want to go drinking with Ryekie. B gets an extra line of Ryekie saying he knows, but it won't be a problem after work hours. C gets different extra lines of Ryekie being flattered and saying he's been wanting to drink with you too.
Huckle chides Ryekie to focus since they're going to see the ship owner soon. They went as far as to arrange rooms for you guys, so he has to be sure he doesn't act rudely. Ryekie says he knows and isn't someone pretending to know how to do office work. Huckle isn't too confident about this, but he accepts it. He remembers at this point to tell everyone that they're supposed to take part in the opening ceremony later, but there's free time until then. Everyone may as well enjoy the resort, but he reminds everyone to keep track of the time so you can be at the meeting place when needed. You can see the whole ship area from there. Also, Huckle offers to treat everyone to dinner tonight.
The party starts oohing excitedly starting with Akashi, who says it's sad Crowne wasn't able to join you guys. Huckle says he'd have liked it if Crowne could come too, but her spacecraft workshop place gets slammed with jobs in the summer from people with travel plans. He has sent her something to relax with to make up for it, but he suggests having enough fun in her place. Huckle then prompts Ryekie to come see the owner with him, which Ryekie assents to and says they're past that suspension bridge nearby.
Before they go, Huckle asks if Ryekie remembers what he's supposed to regarding what he shouldn't do at the social meal with the owner. Ryekie says he does and motions for Huckle to hit him with the questions. When Huckle does so, Ryekie quickly answers that he shouldn't drink any alcohol, shouldn't eat any kiwis, and he shouldn't speak too loudly. The party is baffled (and dismayed in Sui's case) since Ryekie was getting progressively louder in his answers, and Huckle seems worried before shrugging it off as good enough. Ryekie then excuses the two of them as they wave to you guys before leaving.
Sui suggests that you guys start looking around then, asking Mokdai if there's anywhere he wants to go since he's holding a pamphlet. Mokdai looks it over and says the ship is divided roughly into the hotel area, amusement park, restaurant area, pool, and beauty salon. There's also a spa and sauna, experiential leisure activities, a beach path, and a souvenir corner, boggling Mokdai with the sheer amount of choices. He does however say he wants to go get some pancakes from a southern country food stall though, and he asks you for your opinion. You say you can't decide from all that, say you're fine going anywhere with Mokdai, or ask Sui what she wants to do. B has Mokdai blush and say he should have researched the place more, then asks you to wait. C has Sui blushing and surprised at the question and suggest the Ferris wheel since she doesn't know much.
As the group converses and walks along, you end up bumping into someone. This turns out to be Hydoor, who complains about you not watching where you're going as he glares at you. Akashi asks if you're okay, then objects to Hydoor being so aggressive with you. Since Hydoor bumped into you too, Akashi says he has to apologize as well. Sui does concede that you guys shouldn't have been walking in a line like you all did, but she says Hydoor should spare some concern for you guys too. Hydoor however gets pissy, and Mokdai attempts to talk Akashi and Sui into calming down. You say you're fine, ask Hydoor if he's hurt, or immediately swoon and call Hydoor cool. In A, Akashi is annoyed but says he isn't looking for a fight and will back down if you say so. Hydoor is surprised that he's the only one treated as the bad guy and says he's not actually looking for a fight either. In B, is surprised you're concerned for him first instead of yourself, then says you've got guts. In C, Hydoor is shocked and blushes as he interprets this as you making fun of him.
Hydoor clicks his tongue and gives up a bit. He rechecks your name, then asks if you're okay before demanding that you not hide it if you're not. You quickly say you're fine or be kind of surprised he's worrying about you. B gets an extra line of Hydoor say he's just checking and isn't going to accept any complaints if you say anything about it later on. But anyways, if you are fine then he'll just call things even since nobody got hurt. It's a huge pain in the ass that he got dragged along to this place since it's been a while since he came back to his home planet here.
Hydoor sighs, and Sui starts talking to Hydoor having recognized him from somewhere. She asks about him being a sports swimsuit model, and Hydoor is surprised she knows about him. He says he's there to do some PR and made to wear something he thinks is weird, and remembering it all just irritates him. Not like you guys can do anything about it though, and Hydoor tells you to watch where you're going next time before stomping off.
Mokdai comments on how intense Hydoor was, though he also notes that he wasn't actually a bad guy. Akashi sighs about Hydoor being a jerk, then asks if you're really okay. Sui says she's never really sure how people who are aggressive like him are going to act, and Mokdai tries to take their mind off of what happened by suggesting you guys have fun at the resort. Akashi agrees with the point after some thought, and so the group walks along again.
Soon after you guys notice a small crowd forming, so Akashi suggests checking it out. He notes that it looks like there's some sort of TV production crew there, and it turns out Hitomi is there doing some sort of tour program of the resort. She describes the place as charming and recommends that people come by on their vacation, then ends the segment. Sui recognizes Hitomi and says her swimsuit + parka outfit combination looks great. Akashi is amazed at how well Hitomi is holding up with all the attention focused on her since just watching her in that situation is making him nervous. He feels he should take a page out of her book and be like her that way.
Hitomi thanks the cameramen and goes to excuse herself, then quickly notices you guys around. She runs up to you guys, so you either greet her casually or more politely. Either way she greets you back and notes that you're all together. Sui says it's novel meeting her outside the workplace and asks if Hitomi was doing some filming. Hitomi says she was and that she just finished up a tour of the resort, so now she has some time until the opening ceremony. She asks if you guys have looked around yet and says the food and entertainment options are amazing.
Mokdai answers that you guys only just got there and were looking around until it's time for the ceremony. Hitomi asks to come along with you guys and offers to guide you guys around. And since you guys haven't visited the food court restaurants yet, she recommends that pancake thing Mokdai showed an interest in earlier. Very fluffy, and the tropical sauce with it is delicious. Mokdai is excited to hear that and says looking at the picture made him hungry. Sui reminds him that there's a buffet party happening after the ceremony, so he shouldn't eat too much. You agree with the idea of checking the restaurants out since you're hungry too, then excitedly say it's time to go. Hitomi then takes the lead to show you guys the way.
Some time later, Mokdai is singing praises about the pancake and sauce, describing the latter as rich and sweet. Akashi is enjoying some soft serve ice cream he has and asks if you want a taste. Hitomi suggests splitting some rainbow shaved ice with Sui since it's too much for her on her own. Sui agrees to the idea and wonders what sort of flavor it is.
When the group walks by the amusement park area, Hitomi says you have to have a swimsuit to get in, so she suggests coming back later after everyone changes. Sui takes note of the water slide and merry-go-round, along with something called a Splash Horror. Akashi is amazed at how stupidly long the slide is, which includes a tunnel and a section with a transparent bottom. That last bit freaks him out a bit. Mokdai wonders if the Splash Horror thing is some sort of haunted mansion attraction and says the pamphlet says the thing is meant for adults.
The next area you guys visit is the souvenir corner, and Sui says she wants to get Crowne something from there before you guys go home. Mokdai suggests getting the resort specialty cookies since those seem to be popular. Akashi suspects Mokdai wants them for himself and reminds him it's supposed to be a present for Crowne. Hitomi laughs and says the idea of giving something you'd be happy to get yourself as a present is a lovely idea.
Eventually the group notices that people are starting to move around, so Mokdai says it must be time for the ceremony soon. He suggests going too and remembers it's supposed to be at the island you can see everything in the ship from. Hitomi says she had fun going with you guys and that the time went by so quickly. She starts leading you guys over, but along the way Sui stops when she hears some weird groaning.
Sui asks if anyone else can hear the groaning, and Akashi is creeped out for a second before he says he can hear it too. Hitomi worries that someone may have fallen over and gotten hurt, so she suggests looking for whoever it is. Everyone approaches the greenery by the roads with some alarm, and you guys soon find a canine looking cleaning crew member crouching and breathing in pain.
Mokdai calls over to the guy and tries to ask about his condition, and the guy you found, Pubraseer, says he's okay aside from sudden stomach pains. Akashi says he doesn't actually look okay and says he needs to go to the medic's office. A speaker above you guys goes off as an announcement is made about the opening ceremony starting in ten minutes. It'll be held outside the ship, and if anyone is unclear about anything they should ask a nearby staff member.
Mokdai worries about the ceremony starting soon and says he has to call Huckle. Akashi says you guys can't all be late, so he suggests splitting up. Specifically, he asks Mokdai and Sui to go on ahead while he takes Pubraseer to the medic and explain why he'll be late. Sui asks if Akashi will be alright on his own since Pubraseer seems incapable of standing on his own right now, so you volunteer to help Akashi with escorting Pubraseer.
Both of you get to either side of him and put his arms around your shoulders, then raise him up. Akashi apologizes for taking your time, then asks Hitomi to go with the others. Hitomi however says she'll go with you guys since she was told where the medic's office was during her tour filming. She tells Sui and Mokdai to go straight ahead, and the ceremony area is right by the wharf. Mokdai thanks Hitomi for the directions, then asks you to call them when you're done. You, Hitomi, and Akashi split off, and Sui and Mokdai watch you guys go before moving on. And later once the ceremony starts up, the ship is quietly detached from the pier as the episode ends.
Thanks for the translation 👍
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