https://youtu.be/rzvXBFwcyek“La la la~” sings a smiling girl on her way to school. Well, you’re likely familiar with this girl, for it is none other than Son Peppa! “Li-li-li!”
Skipping over mountains and rivers as she goes, she lets out a “Lu lu lu lu-lu!” to a nearby pair of birds. They warble along with her, before she descends back down to terra firma.
To review, Son Peppa has a lot of notches on her belt for a 16 year old. For one, she's the Champion of the World Martial Arts Tournament, having defeated Android 19, her father Son Goku, and Vegeta in a battle royale match! Then, she saved the galaxy from being swept up in Baby's tide of nanomachine infection! And best of all her achievements, she has a girlfriend, the rising star, Amaguri Cocoa!
And Peppa is in especially high spirits on this day of all days, for it is February 14th, and it is mandated by the World Government that every February 14th is to be celebrated as Valentine’s Day! Even the routine of lectures and busywork at school don’t make a dent in her Peppiness, and during PE she cartwheels into catching a baseball and tagging someone out, all with a ^-^ smile on her face! “Le le le, leee, leee~!”
Truly unstoppable, could anything possibly get in her way?
After PE, the students go back inside, and a freshly-showered Peppa climbs all the way up to her locker on the top-shelf to get her bag! For not only did it contain her school supplies and clothes, there’s also the precious thing! The precious thing she spent all weekend preparing for her dearest one! But that’s no problem, for after all, time flies by when you are, “In LOOOOOOOoooooh…”
"…oh?"
"...oh."
“Peppa, is something wrong?” asks a girl from underneath Peppa.
The other girls in the locker room glance over and see that Peppa’s frozen up.
Erasa goes over and pinches Peppa’s cheek, causing Peppa to gasp and cover her rear. “Hey, you’re still with us!” she jokes with a smirk. “So what’s up?”
The smiling Peppa turns to her friend and opens her mouth, “I- ah,” she swishes some spit around, and once more, “I’m fine?”
Videl observes Peppa’s stiffness, and points at her with a hairbrush, “Are you?”
“Am I what- oh, uh. Of course, I’m fine! No problems here!” Peppa turns back to her locker and rifles through her bag once more. “It’s gotta be here somewhere,” she mutters.
Her friends frown, but shrug and get back to getting ready.
Peppa goes back and forth through her bag, turns her clothes inside out, feels under her books to ensure it didn’t get smushed, and after checking to see that no one’s underneath her, she upends her bag onto the floor. Some capsules go rolling, but their proximity failsafes prevent any from going off in the middle of a crowded room. Peppa pays them no heed as she works at separating all the items in her bag from each other.
(Cont'd.)
