Devils - bright complex 3

[bakemonoremy]

Location: Light Music Club Room

Rei: Shikushiku, mesomesomeso… Gussun, oyoyoyoyo…

Hinata: Oh geez, will you please stop it with the affected crying noises and cheer up, Sakuma-senpai~?

Rei: Eguegu, there’s no way I wouldn’t cry at a time like this! Hinata-kun, who always gets along with his brother, can’t understand my feelings~.

Hinata: Eh~, it’s because I understand them that I’m saying this...

We’re always fighting over stupid reasons, even though I love Yuuta-kun this much~?

We had another quarrel last night, and now he hasn’t spoken to me all day.

Aah, geez! If I don’t get my dose of Yuuta-kun, my heart whittles away! I feel like I’ll disappear!

Rei: No, Yuuta-kun has every reason to be upset. You’ve been secretly doing part-time jobs in order to increase your activity funds without telling him, right?

You can’t deceive my eyes.

I was wondering how you were able to come up with the money for the lessons and costumes easily despite having been banned from activities until “Easter”*, so I went and looked into it.

Hinata: Ah, please don’t tell Yuuta-kun about these details! I’m probably working way more jobs than he is aware of!

Rei: Hm~m. But if I don’t say anything to him, Yuuta-kun will keep thinking you’re skipping lessons and spending all your time in idle amusement?

If you don’t explain yourself properly, the gap between you will only widen.

And it’s not like you’re committing any evil…?

Hinata: That may be true~…

But if we go down that road, Yuuta-kun might find out about one thing after another from my past that will make him worry about me. I don’t want to sadden him.

I want Yuuta-kun to keep living in a brightly sparkling world...♪

Er, how come I’m suddenly spilling my troubles to Sakuma-senpai again!

The problem right now isn’t us Aoi siblings, but you Sakuma siblings!

Rei: Very well... In the end, it’s about your family, so I won’t step into your territory any further than this.

But you know, I have no idea why I’m receiving this atrocious treatment from Ritsu~?

Is my ignorance the sin itself…?

Hinata: Ahaha. Sakuma-senpai, you usually know other people better than they know themselves, though ♪

Rei: It’s normally impossible for a human to know everything about themselves.

That’s why we get involved with each other… I want to think that it’s a good thing that Ritsu opened his heart to someone else besides his childhood friend Isara-kun…

Aoba-kun is a gentle and composed man, and I am sure he treats that spoiled child well…

To think that I acted all selfishly, saying “No! No! Only I am Ritsu’s Onii-chan~!” as though I wasn’t thinking objectively.

How troubling. I am still unripe myself, boys grow up easily but getting learned is harder.

Hinata: Ahaha. For Sakuma-senpai to be having similar troubles to mine, I feel close to you for the first time.

...Hm? Did you hear a knock-knock just now?

Rei: Hm? I was playing my instrument the whole time, so I did not take notice, do we have a visitor?

He~ey! I don’t know who you are, but the door isn’t locked, so feel free to step inside.

Hinata: ...Oh, it’s Tenkousei-san! Hello~ ☆

Do you have some business with the Light Music Club? Or are you tryna get in contact with 2wink and UNDEAD because of something related to “Easter”?

Rei: You’re being overly familiar… She is your senior, so you should be showing her more respect.

Hinata: I got scolded! Eerrr, should I be using keigo** when talking to you… Tenkousei-san?

Hmm. It’s fine for me to speak the way it’s easiest for me? Yaaay, I’ll be taking you by your word then and flat-out not think about etiquette!

Rei: The young lady is so mature. Or rather, maybe she prefers not to rock the boat… Hmm, or maybe it’s out of love?

Er, this isn’t the time to be analyzing I suppose. Really, what business do you have here, young lady?

By the way, I already informed everyone that the lesson for “Easter” is canceled today.

The timing for the meeting is bad today, and it seems like we are still unable to match our breathing.

Until I hand out the lesson regimen to everyone sometime within the next days, everyone will be doing autonomous training.

The truth is that I don’t have the entire plan figured out yet.

It’s going to be a festival to celebrate the revival of 2wink, and us, UNDEAD.

If we get too restless, we’ll just stumble, trip and fall, and make fools of ourselves... So we must proceed with caution.

...Will our producer, the young lady, take this into account?

Hmmm…. So you want to take a preliminary look at the venue for “Easter”, and go out to buy any necessities?

Hasumi-kun instructed you to take along any kids who are interested in that?

Well, verifying the atmosphere of the venue is necessary indeed.

The local residents there will become our audience during “Easter”, so even just finding out what kind of people they are will be an advantage for us.

Kukuku. Sitting around and strumming the guitar to release stress is unproductive, so I’ll come along with you. What about you, Hinata-kun?

Hinata: Ah, I’ll contact Yuuta-kun. If possible, I want to go with him...

But the fact that he still hasn’t shown up by now means that the probability of him having already gone home by himself is high.

Rei: Yes. We’re in no hurry, so feel free to do that while following behind me.

While he is doing that, may I consult with you on something… Young lady?

If I recall correctly, the young lady has a younger brother. The two of you seem to get along well, so I’d like for you to tell me the secret to that.

Ah, no need to put yourself on guard. In truth, there’s merely a trivial little worry that’s on my mind.

Besides, listening to an idol’s worries is the job of producer, isn’t it?

So please don’t say something sad, like me being an exception to that.

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*To jog your memory, this was due to 2wink’s misconduct during DDD (Main Story ch 117)

**Keigo is polite language, and it seems like Hinata did somewhat halfheartedly try to use it in this sentence but ended up sounding like Midori does