What if Dirac pionini existed in a purely chiral superfield formulation?

By an explicit construction, it is shown that the geometry of the SU(3) pion multiplet with respect to the group manifold SUL(3)⊗SUR(3) may be deformed to admit a second pseudoscalar multiplet that is analogous to the Z0 in unified theories of the electroweak interaction. This observation is found to play a key role in the construction of the N=1 supersymmetric models with pions and Dirac-like spin-1/2 superpartners (`pioniniʹ). Recent results suggest that models of the type described necessarily arise in constructions involving manifest off-shell irreducible N=2 hypermultiplets.