Template:InfoboxChapter 14-year-old Usagi Tsukino meets a talking cat named Luna who tells her that she is really Sailor Moon, a champion of justice.
Plot
A newspaper featuring Sailor V appears in the beginning, being read by Ikuko Tsukino. She calls to her daughter saying that it's passed eight in the morning. The girl wakes up and screams that she is going to be late for school
The girl introduces herself as Usagi Tsukino, a 14-year-old 2nd year middle schooler, who is, as she puts it, "just a little bit clumsy and a bit of a crybaby. On her way to school, she acciddentaly steps on a cat. She apologizes to the cat, but the cat scratches her face. Usagi realizes that the cat wanted her to take off the bandaids on its forehead, and removes them, to reveal a cresent moon on its forehead. Usagi stares at the cat for a few seconds and realizes that she is still going to be late for school and runs off.
Usagi hurries to school, but is pulled out of class and is put out in the hall for being late. She cries for a bit and then pulls out her lunchbox and starts to eat, having missed breakfast. Haruna Sakurada, Usagi's homeroom teacher, comes out into the hall and yells and Usagi for eating in the hall and about her bad test score, which she got a 30% on the test. Usagi is greeted by her best friend, Naru, and Umino, a fellow classmate whom Usagi finds creepy. Umino gloats about his test score of 95% while Naru teases Usagi for acting like a boy. Naru mentions that the only student she wanted to beat on the test was Umino, and Usagi notes that Naru is pretty, smart, and from a polite society and thinks that Naru's test score of 85% is good.
Later that day, the students head out to eat lunch, and a fellow classmate, Yumiko, remarks that there was another break-in at a jewlery store. Umino points out that the burglers were caught, thanks to Sailor V. Usagi asks who Sailor V is, and Umino explains that Sailor V is a famous champion of justice is a sailor suit, and is rumored to be a special detective from the police headquarters. Usagi's friends say that they understand why someone would want to steal jewels and Usagi says that she likes rubies and pearls. Naru mentions that her mother's jewlery store has been having a big sale and invites the girls to come with her after school. The girls excitedly agree.
After school, Usagi, Naru, Yumiko, and another fellow classmate, Kuri, head over to Osa-P, where Naru's mother is enthusiastically promoting her store. Naru wonders why her mother is acting strange because her mother has never promoted a sale before. While Usagi's friends ooh and aah over the jewlery, Usagi is upset because she is out of pocket money, and is unlikely to get any due to her bad grade. She leaves the store, crumples the test into a ball, and throws it over her shoulder where it lands on the head of a strange man in a tuxedo, who calls her a "dumpling-head" and makes fun of her test score. The man throws the test back at Usagi, telling her to study harder, and Usagi yells at him to mind his own buisness. After Usagi leaves, the man smiles to himself and says that at this jewlery store, he might find the Silver Crystal.
Not wanting to go home, Usagi makes her way to the Game Center Crown, a local game arcade. Usagi spots a Sailor V Game poster, and wonder what it would be like to be Sailor V. Usagi enters the arcade and decided to play the Sailor V game, but cannot get pass enemies in the game. Usagi is greeted by Motoki Furuhata who offers to help her with the game. Usagi hears a meow from behind her and turns to find the cat that she found that morning. Usagi wonders how the cat got inside the game center, and Motoki mentions that the cat has been wondering around the game center for a few days. Usagi laughs and points out that the cat has a cresent-shaped "bald-spot" on its forehead. The cat stares and growls at Usagi, and Usagi thinks it would be best if she went home.
Usagi returns home and says hello to her mother, who tells her that she is late and asks for her test. Usagi hand her mother her test, and Usagi's mother becomes furious due to her bad grade and tells her if she brings home bad grades, then she shouldn't even bother coming home and is kicked out of the house, where she runs into her brother, Shingo Tsukino, who is returning from school. He asks if she got kicked of the house again, kicks her, and calls her stupid. Usagi angrily kicks back, shouting "Sailor V Kick" but Shingo slams the door in her face and winds up kicking the door and hurting her foot. She cries loudly, and Shingo reminds his mother if she lets Usagi stay out there, she would start to bother the neighbors. Ikuto relets and opens the door to her daughter.
(to be continued)
Trivia
- Characters that were introduced in this chapter were: Usagi Tsukino, Ikuko Tsukino, Shingo Tsukino, Luna, Sailor V, Haruna Sakurada, Naru Osaka, Gurio Umino, Yumiko, Kuri, Naru's mother, Mamoru Chiba, Motoki Furuhata, Sailor Moon, Tuxedo Mask, and Jadeite.