Okay here's another chapter chocked full of shoujo cliches.


So the whole danger plan hadn't gone as planned. Angol Mois was still super mad at Kululu and avoiding him, and Saburo didn't know what Kululu was doing because he wasn't supposed to know and he couldn't just stroll up and ask.

"I...I got to choose something less dangerous and less likely to blow up in my face. Something that doesn't hurt Angol Mois at all this time." Saburo decided, flipping through his book.

He wondered if this book was cursed absentmindedly. Maybe romances just were though in this universe, although he was still unsure if Keroro had just started getting some with Tamama.

He hadn't really checked up on them. Who knew? Keroro could still be in the hospital for all he knew over a nosebleed. He didn't think anyone had ever seen Keroro nosebleed but wow, did that guy go down hard. He might be dead for all Saburo knew.

He was trying to do the impossible. First off get Kululu a girlfriend even though Kululu was not exactly the boyfriend type looks wise or personality wise, second having a couple have a successful romance.

Both made things look grim.

"Here's one that's got to help!" Saburo decided. "This will mostly work towards Kululu's feelings..." Since he knew for sure that was the problem, "And there's no way it can hurt Mois's feelings."

It was another one of those classic shoujo manga cliches. The love triangle. It was a fail-safe and easy way to make Kululu jealous, pay more attention to Mois, and make Mois happier since she was getting a lot of attention.

He brushed off the fact in his mind that technically if Kululu did fall for Mois they'd already be in a love triangle since she was interested in Keroro. He brushed that off though. Keroro never paid attention to Angol Mois so he didn't have to worry about it.

Not only that but when I'm alone with Angol Mois I can try to develop a better friendship with her so that I can learn more about her type and what would make her fall for Kululu. Saburo decided.

He tried to keep his worries to his minimum about all the different ways this specific task could blow up at him. For example, Kululu could get more jealous of Mois spending time with Saburo since Saburo had minimum time than of Saburo spending time with Mois.

Saburo really desperately hoped that wouldn't happen. He had never seen Kululu get friend jealous over him. Hopefully there wouldn't be a first for that.

If he seduced Mois and looked like he was into her there was also the risk that Angol Mois would fall in love with him too. After all, he was really attractive, a lot more so than Kululu in his opinion. Anyone would be more than pleased to have him trying to get their attention.

He tried to push those worries out of his mind. Those things might blow up in his face, but he had to try. On his own he had just tried the easy stuff like setting them up on a date. And that had gone really poorly.

So he had to rely on cliches. One of them had to work, right?

He knew he had to just be optimistic and hope more.


Angol Mois was outside near Giroro's tent raking dirt. It wasn't fall but Keroro had told her to rake leaves and she didn't want to try to explain to Keroro how that was dumb.

"M-mois. Oh there you are. H-how are you feeling?" Kululu kept trying to catch her, usually when she was alone. He knew she wasn't alone this time since Giroro was sitting by his fire poking at it and eyeing the two of them suspiciously.

Angol Mois had avoided him since the whole leaving her to die incident. Kululu had been desperately trying to explain himself, because there was no reason for her to be sad and crying but she just wouldn't talk to him.

He had always liked people's anger, but Angol Mois and the silent treatment was perhaps a sort of torture that he didn't enjoy at all. Something about it was incredibly terrible and was working on him a lot. It made him want to scream and make everything better but she just wouldn't listen to him or talk to him.

"Hmph." She just turned around not looking at him. Every other day Kululu would have cheered at the lack of looking at him. But he knew Angol Mois's anger was a rare thing and he had really hurt her.

"Hey! Am I interrupting anything?" Saburo jumped down from a tree having hopped the fence to get into Natsumi's backyard.

Angol Mois jumped a little in surprise. He could have used the front door!

"N-no." Kululu crossed his arms. He was happy Saburo had come to visit him but his words weren't truthful. He really needed to explain himself to Angol Mois and that was a lot easier when other people weren't listening in. "I was just, ku, ku, ku. Checking up on my little butt monkey, Giroro."

"Hey!" Giroro growled angrily. "You are interrupting. Natsumi doesn't want you here right now." He spoke for Natsumi even though it wasn't true.

Saburo laughed a bit. "I actually didn't come to see Natsumi."

"O-oh.." Giroro stuttered. "Well then did you want to hang with Kululu? Then can you leave so you're out of my sight."

"I-I..I am actually in the middle of a conversation with, um...Mois so if you could spend some time with Fuyuki or Natsumi..." Kululu trailed off trying not to be rude to Saburo, flattered that he had come to visit.

"I actually came to visit, Mois." Saburo corrected.

"Me?" That got Angol Mois to speak. She was surprised. "Why?"

"I was in alien street the other day and I heard some Viper boasting about you." Saburo frowned. "Ya know I was just trying to play around and scam aliens...But a lot of the things he was saying were really concerning."

Giroro's head snapped up at the mention of a Viper. He glanced at Angol Mois and at Kululu. Kululu was looking down as if he felt almost guilty about something. Angol Mois looked a bit pained.

"It's all good now. I visited the Viper orphanage and the kids cuddle piled me." Angol Mois explained.

"But I heard you were kidnapped by the guy. Are you okay?" Saburo faked concerned since it was his kidnapping plan that had put Mois in that situation. "When I heard you might have been injured..." He weaved his fingers through his hair. "I was so worried. I don't know why but the thought of you being hurt made my stomach do flips. I don't know what I would have done if I lost you."

He said exactly the words he had wanted Kululu to feel. Hopefully Kululu would clue in.

He didn't ever see Kululu glare at him, but he did now. "Hey. The Viper is the Keroro Platoon's problem. You stay out of it. Mois's fine now. She's completely uninjured..."

"WAIT A VIPER KIDNAPPED YOU?" Giroro jumped up. "Why didn't you mention anything, Mois?" He glanced at Kululu. "And you knew? Is that why you were asking her how she was feeling?"

"You could say, all over? It's no big deal." Angol Mois waved her hand. "Apparently the Viper never intended to hurt me."

"Never intended to hurt you my ass-" Kululu said under his breathe. Angol Mois glanced at him. "But yeah, umm...She was captured, but I got her out of it-"

"You didn't help at all." Angol Mois finally responded to Kululu. "You left me to die and said you wouldn't care at all if the Viper hurt me and then left." Her voice was very bitter.

Giroro's eyes widened. "Uhhhhhhh...Ummm...Oh my brother's calling...Uhh he's in the tent and I gotta go!" He quickly ran in realizing Angol Mois and Kululu were fighting and it was probably rude and awkward to listen in.

He could still very much hear though. After all it was just a tiny tent.

"I didn't leave you to die, Mois, I called the Viper's bluff and-" Kululu tried to explain.

Unfortunately Saburo was still there and wasn't listening to Kululu very much. He was focusing on how to implement the fact that he was supposedly in love with Angol Mois and make Kululu jealous.

He decided to do such a thing by putting his hands on her's as she held her rake tightly and probably in a lot of anger. His hands and touch were gentle and he moved forward as if to let her fall into him if she wanted a hug.

"I'm just glad you're okay now. Man, I was so worried. It made me truly realize how much I care about you. I mean if the world lost a cutie like you..." Saburo just said some romantic bull crap he made up on the spot.

Angol Mois blushed at the skin contact, but just looked super confused. "The world is going to lose many cuties when I blow it up. I don't understand the big deal?"

"Ku, ku, ku. Good one, Mois." Kululu congratulated.

Angol Mois ignored him.

"Ku..." Kululu seemed a bit sad. So he instead turned his attention to Saburo. "Is...That the only reason you came? To say how worried you were about, Mois?"

Uh-oh. Is he disappointed I didn't come to see him? Saburo wondered.

"Well ya said it now. If you don't need anything else you can probably go." Kululu shooed his hand away. "I'd love to spend time with you, but..Unfortunately I have another concern that I can't put off."

Some work? Saburo wondered, not realizing Kululu was talking about apologizing to Angol Mois because the silent treatment was heck for the guy.

"Actually I didn't just come to tell Mois how worried I was. I wanted to spend time with her." Saburo confessed. "That's fine, right, Mois?"
"Yeah! I'm sure Uncle has some jobs and chores for you to help with too!" Angol Mois smiled.

Saburo frowned. That wasn't what he had meant.

Kululu laughed. "Ku, ku, ku!"

This jealousy tactic isn't working at all how I pictured it. Saburo winced. "Actually I meant doing something, ya know, fun. Getting to know you. Maybe going on a date or something? You know fun things besides doing chores."

Angol Mois tilted her head. "Oh, like a friend date." She realized. She wasn't getting that Saburo was flirting with her.

Saburo wrapped his arm around Angol Mois's waist. Kululu watched.

"You can think of it how you want." He was smooth and twirled her around. He kissed her hand lightly.

Kululu was about to open his mouth and say something, but Angol Mois spoke first.

"Yep. Like a friend date." She replied, since that was what she wanted.

Kululu grinned. At least I'm not the only one getting rejected by Mois. I mean I have no idea why Saburo's flirting with her, but like...Good luck buddy. That's a road that just isn't going to happen. Ku, ku, ku. Maybe he'd take Saburo aside later and talk to him about that. Give him fair warning that Angol Mois just wasn't interested. Saburo deserved some warning at least.

He didn't know why Saburo was suddenly interested in Mois. He was smart enough to see that Saburo was directly flirting with her. He did feel a little relieved that Saburo at least wasn't trying to get anything romantic to happen between him and Mois anymore. Had he realized that Angol Mois was cute or something? He didn't know what was up with the sudden change.

"Okay. Fine whatever. I'd prefer to have a real date, but I suppose...I'll just have to win your heart slowly. I'll take you to a boat trip or something tomorrow. Boating is fun." Saburo smiled.

"You could say, not a carnival game? I can't be won by filling my face up with water." Angol Mois giggled, completely ignoring Kululu. She was not getting any of Saburo's flirtatious lines though.

Giroro's head popped out of the tent. Was Saburo flirting with Angol Mois? He smiled. This was great! If he could get her to recuperate and fall in love with him….

Well then one of his main love rivals was out of the way. He was free.


Kululu knew he should follow Angol Mois into Keroro's room to try to continue talking to her, but she obviously was in no talking mood. So he decided to try to warn Saburo before Saburo got hurt to try not to flirt with Mois.

"I...I um..See you're interested in Angol Mois?" Kululu tried to not sound interested or accusing in his statement.

"Yep." Saburo lied. "What's it to you? You said you didn't like her, right? She's just the girl of your nightmares."

Kululu nodded. "I wanted to warn you before you got hurt. She's not going to be interested in dating you. Her heart's set on the Captain. She's going to either be really dense when you flirt with her or she'll turn you down harshly. Ku, ku, ku. I mean it'll be funny to see but I didn't want you blaming me when you start crying."
"So she's a heart breaker is what you're saying." Saburo deciphered. Advice was not what he wanted. He wanted Kululu to be jealous.

"Ku. I'm sure if more people were interested in her it would be like planets to her. She'd just crush them like planets. Ku, ku, ku. Wish she were more aware of it so I could at least give her advice on dumping people. We could have so much fun pulling pranks~."

Saburo took a step back. This was all so confusing. So Kululu wanted people to be into Mois?

"Well I'm going to try to woo her anyway. I'm a pretty boy. I'm sure I can win her heart." Saburo grinned and did a hair flip.

"Ku. You're not even going to be hair that long. Hopefully she's just a phase to you for your sake. I mean what are you going to do when you leave for America?" Kululu pointed out. "This can't be a good long term idea."

"She'll visit me. You told me a few times that she can travel super fast because of her angolian abilities, right?" Saburo pointed out.

Now Kululu did look a little jealous that Mois would be able to visit Saburo easily when he couldn't. "Y-yeah. I guess you're right."

"So is it okay if I pursue Angol Mois? I know she is your co-worker and I don't want you to feel awkward or anything." Saburo joked. He wanted Kululu to say no.

"Sure, pursue her all you want. It isn't going to work." Kululu shrugged. "Ku, ku, ku. Just remember I warned you. All she's got in her head is Keroro." He turned around and started walking away.

Still Kululu's mind was a little side-tracked hoping that she wouldn't accept the fact that she was on a date with Saburo when she hadn't with Kululu. He was pretty sure she wouldn't, but still...He didn't really want her to be fine with Saburo but not him.

Their blind date would be more fun than anything Saburo could cook up.


Since Kululu likely wouldn't be watching their date Saburo saw no reason to keep up the romantic charade. He just needed to gain Angol Mois's trust and become closer to her. Actually become her friend so he could learn more about her.

He wanted her to enjoy their time together so she would talk to Kululu about it though. And it sounded like that was very likely to happen if he didn't push any sort of romance and was only very clear about how this was a friendly date.

If I become her friend maybe I can learn more about what sorts of dudes she's into too. What sort of things she finds romantic and all. It was a good plan.

Saburo checked for Kululu's satellites and all and any sort of Kululu trickery that was there to watch the date. He managed to remove them before he met Mois at the meeting place, the docks by a bunch of boats.

"Hey, Saburo!" Angol Mois smiled. She was in a nice summer dress as she ran over to him. "I'm glad we're going on a trip together today. Being away from Uncle's platoon….I think I really need it."

Saburo frowned. He knew she was talking about Kululu, not the entire platoon. She was still messed up over the Viper. He grabbed at her hand to hold it. "Well today isn't about any past problems. It's just us spending time together and having fun on and tasting the sea breeze. You can tour and play around the ship as much as you want. I got us both tickets on it." Saburo smiled. "I'll mostly be sitting and lounging on a chair, writing."

"Do you like writing?" Angol Mois asked.

"Poetry." Saburo admitted and smiled. The line moved and they entered the fancy boat.

"Were the tickets expensive?" Angol Mois asked.

"Nah, I had an in." Saburo grinned. He had actually gotten the tickets from Kululu a year ago as a gift. Kululu had intended for Saburo to use them with Natsumi to tick off Giroro, but apparently that didn't go as planned.

Angol Mois sighed as they got aboard the boat. The two of them chattered lightly about casual things like the weather and all that. Although Angol Mois was smiling, it was clear she wasn't thinking very much about the boat trip and her mind was still on the kidnapping.

Saburo wanted to apologize, but he couldn't. He just put his hands in his pockets, feeling guilty and looking at her sadly.

"So...Do you like boat trips?" Saburo asked. "Is...It a good date location?" He was mostly asking for Kululu's sake, not his.

"I don't go on many boat trips besides when Momoka invites all of us out. And when I am allowed to just play around I mostly get in fights with Tamama...I don't mean to, I'm just not sure what happens." Angol Mois sighed.

Saburo frowned. Yeah, her relationship with Tamama was difficult.

"I guess it's okay. I prefer museums though. And caves. And places that have fault lines or like volcanoes? Just things with sorts of natural land formations or information about those things." Angol Mois smiled.

God. That's nerdy. No wonder something had been keeping him away from being attracted to Mois before. She wasn't his type at all. "So you like nerdy things." Saburo couldn't help but say.

Angol Mois laughed. She was smiling now. "I guess you could say that. I don't know...Is researching fault lines and going on quests in caves to examine the rock formations nerdy?"

"Yes." Saburo replied quickly. That was very nerdy.

Angol Mois laughed again.

"...Do you like other nerd things? I mean like looking at occult things like Fuyuki does? Or computer-y things like Kululu?" Saburo asked, fishing for more information. Maybe Fuyuki, Angol Mois and Kululu were all just different sort of nerd.

And then Keroro was in the anime nerd category.

Angol Mois shook her head. "I'm not really into the occult. I mean, a lot of the occult stuff that Fuyuki's into has some racist undertones. You could say, don't discredit your own race's accomplishments? And I don't really care about nerding out over this planet and its mysteries. I already have all the answers." She shrugged.

"What about computer and tech-y stuff?" Saburo asked. "Into that? Like...Would a date in a computer store be cool to you?"

Angol Mois's face lit up. "Oh definitely! I mean I love technology! Although angolian technology is different it's so cool to learn about Keronian technology too. Me and Kululu debate the differences frequently. Sometimes we even go to computer stores and I pick up things and challenge him to make me something with the weird pieces..." She trailed off at the mention of Kululu and frowned.

Saburo knew what had happened between them. He just knew that he wasn't supposed to know. He didn't want to open old wounds by asking too. He stood up and leaned by the ship's railing by her side.

"You don't have to...pretend that you aren't sad if you don't want to." Saburo pressed his hand against Angol Mois's cheek as if to catch a tear. "I'm sorry." He was mostly apologizing because her sadness was his fault, but maybe it sounded like he was apologizing on Kululu's behalf.

"I'm not the type to be frightened of my own death or think about it. I destroy so many lives already after all. And after I die, I'll just be reincarnated." Angol Mois's voice was cold. "But I had complete and utter faith and trust in him. Not that he'd help or be successful, but that he'd at least try. That he wouldn't leave me. I thought we were friends."

"You are friends!" Saburo tried to reassure. "Kululu's my friend too. I know how he's like." He knew Kululu probably thought of Saburo more as a friend than Mois, but he tried to reassure her with lies anyway. "He probably just was pretending that he didn't care so he could get something to help you out. He's done that for me." He had seen what had happened so he wasn't too sure this was true, but if a lie helped Mois right now he could give it to her.

She sniffled a bit. "You really think?"

"Y-yeah!" Saburo's voice was shaky. "I mean he was checking up on how you were doing so he can't fully not care, right?" He was wondering if he was reaching for nothing right. "Like you said you two are friends."

Angol Mois smiled a bit. "Y-yeah. I just gotta take what I can get. Some days Kululu's going to be fine with being a jerk to everyone, and some days he's going to check up on me. He did come with the ransom money so that counts for something, I guess..." She was still pretty hurt and mad.

She hugged Saburo. "Thank you, Saburo. You really cheered me up."

Saburo frowned. He didn't know if he was doing the right thing. Perhaps Kululu should have been the one to cheer her up especially since he was just reaching for straws. He knew Mois and him probably both fully didn't believe his words.

But he was glad she felt a little better.

Hope she doesn't really fall for me. He thought worriedly. He was at least becoming her friend. He knew she was starting to trust him and that was good. That was all part of the plan.


Saburo and Angol Mois started going on friend outings or 'friend dates' for that whole week. And when Saburo went to the Hinata house to pick her up or ask her out to museums he was a lot more flirtatious than he was on the outings.

Everyone was starting to realize that Saburo had a thing for Angol Mois. This ticked off Natsumi by far the most, which was not what Saburo was going for.

He wanted a rise out of Kululu.

This is odd. I thought he'd give up by now. Kululu watched Saburo and Angol Mois chat as Angol Mois giggled and laughed. He was unaware that she was completely fine with this weird flirtation since whenever Kululu wasn't around it just stopped so she didn't give much real thought to it.

I wonder...If she's really into it? He couldn't figure it out. He knew she did like romantic gestures. Perhaps she had fallen for Saburo's pretty boy charm.

Saburo handed her a bouquet of roses and kissed her knuckles lightly as Angol Mois smiled. "This is all very sweet, Saburo. You're always so sweet."

"I'm only like this for someone as pretty as you." Saburo winked. "You make me sweet." He flirted like he was completely into her.

And for all Kululu could tell, she was into him too. "Gross." He said from the corner, observing them. "Get this PDA out of my face. Ku, ku, ku. It's gross."

Saburo frowned. He's not acting jealous! He's just acting normal about this whole thing. Saburo realized. How annoying? Why couldn't he be jealous like a normal person? Why couldn't he fall into the love triangle trap?

Did he just not care that Saburo was stealing Angol Mois away? He just kept eating chips and looking at his computer in the corner, completely ignoring Angol Mois and Saburo's love fest. It wasn't working at all.

Unbeknownst to Saburo, Kululu was just trying to avoid looking because he didn't like seeing it. Something just felt very weird over the fact that Angol Mois might actually be falling for Saburo.

He shoved the jealousy away and didn't do anything with it. He was very used to Angol Mois being interested in other people after all. At least hearing about Saburo every day might not be as annoying as hearing about Keroro.


He had to be harsher. More prodding. It wasn't like Angol Mois would let him kiss her in front of Kululu, so Saburo just had to start talking about how into Angol Mois he was to Kululu alone.

Don't let this backfire. He hoped. He knew Kululu was willing to do a lot to help him. He just hoped it didn't involve supporting a relationship between him and Angol Mois.

"You've talked to Mois a lot more than I have." Saburo smiled approaching Kululu for advice. "Please, give me some advice on her likes, romantic things she'd be into, what could get her to kiss me, and her favorite music and foods and those sorts of things." Saburo begged. "I want to impress her so I can officially ask her to be my girlfriend."

Kululu spun around in his chair. "Yeah. I know tons about Mois. I know tons about everybody." He leaned his chin on his fingers.

"So you'll help me impress her?" Saburo asked. He was surprised.

"Of course I will." Kululu said. There was some sort of sinister air to his voice. But perhaps that was just Kululu's normal answer for people asking him relationship help.

"Ku, ku, ku. So what did you want to know again, ah yes, her likes...Well her favorite music is actually cheesy parody songs, but only the covers by artists who aren't very good and have gratey voices." Kululu started.

Saburo frowned. That didn't sound very real. He's...He's giving me false info!

"Her favorite food is natto with chocolate sauce. Ku, ku, ku." Kululu smiled.

He's totally being a jerk. But is it because he's jealous or just cuz he's a jerk like this all the time? Saburo wondered.

"She absolutely loves soda like cola and belching competitions." Kululu continued. "Oooh! She also loves gundam models! Talk to her about your gundam models, she'll love that."

Saburo wanted to believe that one was true. He didn't know that Angol Mois had such an intense hatred of gundam. But that must be why Kululu was telling him. He was setting him up to fail.

"Mois once confessed to me that she'd only kiss someone who ate three cloves of garlic. Ku, ku, ku." Kululu continued. He saw Saburo's skeptical look and put his hand up. "I swear it! She's a weird girl. She has a lot of weird interests."

"Like wanting to destroy a planet with whoever she's dating?" Saburo raised an eyebrow.

"Ah...You knew about that one. And that isn't weird." Kululu frowned. "I left out the planetary destruction stuff because you aren't into it. And she's already got me to talk to about fault lines. She doesn't really need to talk to you about it. Ku, ku, ku."

Saburo wanted to grin. So Kululu was expressing some jealousy! He was totally setting him up to fail for personal reasons.

You were pretty good at hiding your jealousy before but I guess the fault line stuff is something I can't touch. It sounded pretty weird to him but he wasn't going to question it. Instead he pretended he believed Kululu's advice.

"Thanks, man. I'll be sure to talk to her about a lot of gundam models." Saburo replied.

"Good...Good. I mean, good luck!" Kululu smiled innocently.

Saburo smiled. Yeah, Kululu was totally jealous. That or a big jerk. He was going to interpret this how he wanted though.

He left after waving to Kululu and saying good-bye.


Although Kululu had told Saburo some of Mois's least favorite things hoping to sabotage their relationship, he still need to secure the sabotage on Mois's side. She still wasn't talking to him that much but she was slowly ignoring him less and less.

She'd keep talking about how nice Saburo was being in the invasion meetings. Both Tamama and Giroro clapped and told her to keep talking, encouraging her to compliment Saburo.

"She used to talk about me that way, you know. Like I was the best around." Keroro frowned.

"You're still great, Uncle! It's just Saburo's been doing so many nice things. He's taking me to a museum tomorrow." Angol Mois bragged.

"That's too bad." Kululu spoke up. "I kind of needed materials from a mountain and I could have used your skills with your spear-"

"No. Just use a drill or something." Mois refused.

"It has a fault line to look at." Kululu tried to get her interested in it. "I…I thought maybe we could look at it together after work, you know. You could say, job well done?" He tried to use an idiom to get Angol Mois's attention.

She did look at him since those were her idioms. She looked almost convinced since she did really like fault lines. "Wait, are you just saying this to keep me away from Saburo?"

Darn. She figured out. Kululu frowned.

"I guess Kululu's the only one not on team SabuMois. I guess I can understand. It's probably awkward for you." Giroro shrugged. He didn't care about Kululu's feelings though.

"Listen, you've just been spending a lot of time with him….Too much time." Kululu pointed out. "I know he's some pretty pekoponian guy, but man it would be a problem for our invasion if you got seduced too by a pekoponian, just like Giroro did. Ku, ku, ku. Don't fall for him."

Angol Mois frowned. She wasn't into Saburo at all though. "Do you really think I'd fall for anyone who was just a little bit kind to me?"

"...Yeah?" Kululu replied.

"Yeah." Tamama answered.

"Definitely." Keroro answered.

"You don't have a good track record for men that you've liked." Giroro told her.

"Kindness is something to be valued...But Keroro could not have been that kind." Dororo just scowled.

Angol Mois grumbled. Why did they all have such little faith in her? "So you think I'm just going to jump from Uncle to Saburo and run off with him and give up the secrets of the invasion? News flash. There are no invasion secrets to give up!"

There was silence. That was true.

"So what's it to you, who I spend time with and who I don't, Kululu?" Angol Mois frowned.

Kululu frowned. She was right. It shouldn't be anything to him. Yet it was his best friend that she was probably dating. So of course it meant a little bit to him.

Right? That was all it was.

Really there was a worry in the back of his head that he didn't want to say, that the two of them would run off together and he'd have neither of them in his life. He was already losing Saburo to distance, but now oddly enough he was losing his partner to Saburo.

It wasn't a good feeling to have. It made him oddly angry at Saburo even though he knew Saburo had done nothing wrong. She's my partner. She's talked to me more than she's spoken to you. I don't understand how she could fall for you in like a week. Kululu just crossed his arms.

"But it's Saburo." Was all he could say. Angol Mois should know the problem. He knew the ins and outs of Saburo's mind. Saburo probably wouldn't even be a good boyfriend. And she should know he felt uncomfortable with her dating his best friend.

"So I can't hang out with him because he's your friend? People can have multiple friends." Angol Mois pointed out.

Kululu was just silent. He didn't have any good answers to stop her.


The person who was most visibly jealous was Natsumi, not Kululu.

"How can he like her and not me?" Natsumi asked. "What does Angol Mois have that I don't?" She complained to Giroro.

"Absolutely nothing." Although he was happy that Angol Mois and Saburo were getting together because it meant that Natsumi was not with Saburo, he felt sad listening to her complain about Mois and Saburo.

That and he wasn't sure if they really were together. Mois still talked about how she loved Keroro every now and then.

I know he has a crush on her...But maybe she doesn't fully love him yet. I need to fix that so they're out of the way. Giroro realized. Once Natsumi had left he noticed a book on the ground.

He didn't realize Saburo had dropped it. "A wingman's guide to hooking up a pal? I can use this to hook Mois and Saburo up!" He realized.

Giroro was not too smart so when he saw sticky notes that said 'bad plan does not work.' he did not realize that it was 1. a bad plan, 2. someone had used this book before.

He also did not draw the conclusion that all of these ideas were very familiar and that oddly enough Saburo had used them before on Kululu and Angol Mois. He was too dumb to draw conclusions.

"First find the subjects types. What sort of people they're attracted to." Giroro read.

He nodded and approached Angol Mois. "Hey!" He was loud.

"Eek!" Angol Mois covered her ears.

"What's your type? What's your ideal sort of guy?" Giroro asked.

"Uncle." She replied a little confused why Giroro was asking.

Giroro sighed. "So somebody into gundam models?" He could work with that. Saburo liked anime and gundam.

Angol Mois scowled. She scowled a lot. "Actually…."

Giroro ran off before she could answer. He had to find Saburo after all. "Saburo. What's your type? The type of woman you go for?"

Saburo was a little surprised that he was being asked. "Cute people? You know people who are attractive?"

Good enough! That's Mois! Giroro smiled. He ran off back to the other side of the house where Mois was. It was onto the next plan. Saburo and Angol Mois were already perfect for each other.

The next plan was to set them up on some sort of blind date to judge compatibility. "Hey, Mois...I have a favor I was wondering if I could ask of you."

"Sure." Angol Mois smiled.

"I have this friend. And he's really interested in you and I wanted to know if I could set you up on a date-" Giroro started.

Angol Mois's eyes widened. "Oh no. Not this again. I won't be pranked again." She shook her head.

Again? Giroro wondered.

"Why are you people all so mean to Kululu to try to set him up on a fake date with me? He and I don't appreciate it." Angol Mois frowned.

Giroro was just very confused. So somebody had asked her to go out with Kululu before? He could understand why she'd be skeptical of this plan if she had to date Kululu.

He didn't ever want anyone to go through that. So he skipped to the next plan which was a play. "Okay..Well instead of that favor could you act in a play I wrote, it's a romance-"

"With Kululu?" Angol Mois frowned. "Not happening again."

Giroro just frowned. Why had this poor girl experienced these things already? "Want to play a truth or dare game?"

"Tamama promised he'd ask sexually explicit questions next time. I'm not risking it." Angol Mois shook her head.

Giroro could understand. He flipped around in his book. Angol Mois barely glanced at it, unsure of why Giroro kept asking her such weird things.

Danger, huh? Well, I'm the most dangerous guy around! Giroro leaned on a wall. He smiled giving his toothy grin. He had to get Angol Mois to fall head over heels for Saburo. "You've spent too much time around the pekoponians. I have to eliminate you or else risk that you'll become a traitor to us." He threatened in a growl.

Angol Mois raised an eyebrow. "Oh, Giroro...How low you have sunk. I mean, are you of all people really giving me this lecture? Really? When you're the one here in love with a pekoponian?" She asked.

"S-shut up!" Giroro growled, this time actually mad. "I will have to eliminate you unless your boyfriend, Saburo manages to fight me!" He would have pulled out a fake gun but he slipped on the floor instead.

He fell to the ground bonking his head.

Angol Mois just stared at him and shook her head like he was no threat all. She had no idea what was going on.


There was one sure-proof plan that Giroro knew from experience would work. A love triangle. A love triangle always made people more in love with another person.

He approached Angol Mois when Saburo was talking to her and flirting with her, telling her how pretty she was. Oddly enough Kululu was coming down the hall too.

"Mois! I'm in love with you!" Giroro loudly declared. Heads turned. Saburo just looked so confused.

"Is that my…?" He glanced at Giroro's hands. He face-palmed. So this was what was going on.

Kululu, having arrived in the hallway just stared wondering if he had come in at the wrong moment. Was there any context at all? "What. The. Hell." Was everybody in love with Mois now?

Suddenly Tamama jumped out of nowhere. He was holding a similar book, that he had purchased with Nishizawa money. Apparently he had the same plan as Giroro. "Me too! I'm in love with you too!" He said chipperly.

Kululu's jaw just dropped open. This was...So weird. Was this a nightmare? Some weird dream? He knew he had joked about Giroro and Tamama fighting for Angol Mois's attention once before, but that could never happen?

Saburo glanced at Kululu's shock. "I know this is the wrong time and place, but I also really like you, Mois!" Saburo declared.

Angol Mois looked ulta confused. "Um...Is this some pekoponian holiday I'm missing out on or…?" She looked straight at Kululu, maybe for help, maybe because she honestly didn't know anymore if he'd confess too.

Everybody turned to Kululu as if waiting for him to declare his love for Angol Mois too.

"Ah heck no. I'm outta here!" Kululu ran the heck out of there to drown himself in curry hoping to forget the out of context stuff that he had seen.

As soon as he left, Angol Mois just stood there still confused. Saburo grabbed the book out of Giroro's hands.

"Hey!" Giroro protested.

"Same plan?" Tamama asked.

"Same plan." Giroro nodded.

They looked at Saburo and Angol Mois. At least Saburo had confessed, now they could finally be rid of their rivals. They waited with baited breath for Angol Mois's answer.

"Saburo, I'm sorry, but-" Angol Mois was cut off.

Saburo laughed. "Sorry I just got caught up in the moment. I thought I might as well since everybody else was. After all it confused Kululu a lot!"

"That's...Pretty jerky...I can see why the two of you are friends." Angol Mois realized.

Saburo was laughing.

"But I wanted you to know...I wanted you all to know that we're just friends. I don't have romantic feelings for any of you." Angol Mois replied.

"Dude, I'm gay, woman. Don't think for a moment that you mean anything to me." Tamama said snidely. "If my plan didn't work then I take it back!"

"Yeah...I just wanted Saburo to be jealous. I was trying to get the two of you together." Giroro defended.

"Uhhh…." Saburo just frowned. So all three of them were wingmanning. "It's fine." He waved off Angol Mois's rejection. Guess he couldn't flirt with her anymore.

The plan had failed? He guessed? He wasn't too sure anymore. He needed to have a long talk with Kululu before he knew for sure.


Before he could reach Kululu, Natsumi approached him. Her face was flushed and she was holding some paper towels crumpling them in her hands.

"I...Uhh..." Natsumi knew she needed to be honest.

Uh-oh. I hoped this wouldn't ever happen. Saburo frowned.

"I know you like Angol Mois and all that, but...I need to tell you, I like you! I've had a crush on you for a while!" Natsumi confessed.

"Natsumi I..." Knew all the time, but am not interested. "I'm sorry." He put his hands on her shoulders. "You're a sweet girl but you shouldn't be getting jealous over this. I'm going to America soon and I just don't have time for a girlfriend. That and I don't really think of you in that way and I don't think I could. I'm sorry. You're a good friend though."

Natsumi frowned but nodded. "If you don't have time for a girlfriend why were you flirting with Mois?"

"I was trying to make someone else jealous." Saburo replied honestly.

"The stupid frog?" Natsumi asked. "I don't think it's going to work. He's pretty darn gay."

Saburo didn't reply. He just pat her head and left.

Giroro comforted her all night.


Saburo made it down to Kululu's lab. Kululu was turned away from him, typing on the computer. He could tell Kululu was at least a tiny bit irritated at him though since he wouldn't spin around to face him.

"So I see you and Mois are officially dating now that you confessed to her." Kululu said, "Ku, ku, ku. Good for you. I honestly didn't expect that. Thought she'd reject you." He couldn't keep the hint of bitterness out of his voice. For some reason he just couldn't be happy for them.

"We're not dating. She rejected me." Saburo replied. "Said she wasn't interested."

Kululu spun around in his chair. "She did!? Thank god- I mean, bummer man. Ku, ku, ku." He looked much more relieved. "Ya need anything? I'm not good at helping someone out who's been rejected. But I did warn you."

Saburo smiled. He was way less mad and irritated at him now that he knew Mois wasn't into him. So he had been jealous. "You do….Know that I wasn't into Mois, right?"

"Oh? So you just wanted to use her or something? Or did you want to hook up briefly? You know I hate to do something right but I'm going to have to put my foot down at that. Mois's my co-worker and I don't think you should use her-" Kululu protested.

"I was trying to make you jealous." Saburo replied.

Kululu blinked. "Um...I...Uhh...S-saburo...I uhh told you I wasn't into you. I mean I could try, but I don't think I want to or could. Y-you're not really my type and umm there's things in the way of it, and I mean I'm real surprised and flattered." Kululu was very awkward not sure what to say.

Saburo rubbed his forehead. Why did Kululu have to misinterpret this and make things awkward? "I wanted you to be jealous of me because you wanted Mois."

"Oh." Kululu breathed a sigh of relief. "Well that's less awkward I suppose. I was wondering how to politely reject you again if you were really that serious." He paused. "Still weird though."

"Dude, you should just tell Mois how you feel. I don't think there's any reason for you to feel jealous if you would just try to actively pursue her. I mean you talk to her more than I do. You have a better chance of her recuperating." Saburo tried to give Kululu advice. It was pretty obvious now that Kululu had some feelings for Angol Mois.

He had been jealous. Or so Saburo hoped, it might have just been him being a jerk. Nah. It was probably jealousy.

"I. Don't. Have. Feelings. For. Mois." Kululu insisted. "And even if I did it has nothing to do with you, so stay out of it. I don't but like...Trying to date her just to get a rise out of me? Pretty not cool. Ku, ku, ku."

"I wasn't trying to get a rise. I just wanted to kick you into actually trying to pursue her." Saburo tried to point out. "You two would be a great couple, Kululu, I really think if you would just try…."

"I don't know if this is news to you, Saburo, but it doesn't take one person being interested to form a relationship. I know you won't believe me when I say I'm disinterested, but trust me that she feels the same way she does towards me as she does to you. We're just friends."

Saburo didn't think he had heard Kululu call Angol Mois his friend before. Kululu must have truly believed that Mois wasn't interested. "But if you showed some interest in her, tried-"

"Why do you want us together? Ku, ku, ku?" Kululu snapped. "This is getting pretty darn annoying. And although I'm patient and understand pranks, Mois sure doesn't. She could get really hurt or at minimum really uncomfortable with you doing all this stuff. So stop it."

"I just think you'd be a cute couple." Saburo tried to explain.

"So you are trying to set us up" Kululu confirmed. At least Saburo was being open about it now.

"Look I'm not going to give up on you two, so just accept my help, you could clearly use it..." Saburo tried to talk to him. "I mean you do like her at least a bit. You were...jealous..." Saburo didn't know if this was true he just stabbed at things.

"I don't need or want your help." Kululu said harshly. "It's my life, and even if I was jealous I'll decide what I'll do about it." Kululu turned around. "So stop meddling."

Saburo frowned. He left the lab.

He confirmed he was jealous though. So that means I am getting somewhere.


I think...Originally there was going to be more Gironatsu this chapter? But oops I forgot to plot out the whole chapter and give myself detail to go off of.