Operetta - Brothers 1
Sep. 7th, 2019 05:34 amLocation: Road to School
- Some days later, in the early morning -
Koga: (...Aah, shit. It’s like I’ve totally become a “dog without a collar”.)
(I ain’t a dog though! I’m a wolf, figuratively speakin'!)
(I'm free to do what I want from now on, like I've been released into the wild. But I ain't got a clue about what I wanna do or how I wanna live my life.)
(Havin’ said that, I gotta hunt for my own food now, else I’ll just starve to death.)
(Still~... At least we decided that we're joinin' our senpai after graduation, so we can keep performin' as UNDEAD together.)
(That bein’ the case, I can't get my head around anyone but us four bein' the members.)
(That’s why I’m on the fence about recruitin’ new members like Knights and Ryuseitai are doin’~…)
(It just seems like there’d be trouble if we did that, and I wouldn’t know what to do about the new members after we graduated anyway.)
(Honestly, I wouldn’t feel like lookin’ after ‘em either.)
(The twins from the Light Music Club are cute and all, but I ain’t got the time or patience to deal with frivolous brats who don’t know a thing.)
(I only wanna focus on the stuff I wanna do, and sing ‘n dance with all I’ve got.)
(So… I guess I don’t have a choice but to keep going with just Adonis and me, and perform as somethin’ like the super cool UNDEAD’s reserve troops at school.)
(But y’know~, that’s kinda tedious... Feels like we’re runnin’ in place for no reason.)
(If we’re gonna reunite with those guys sooner or later anyway, we might as well get it over with already.)
(We could just quit school right now and become full-time idols…)
(But the deal was about joinin’ up with them “after graduation”, and droppin’ out of school halfway seems like it could end up hurtin’ our careers…)
(Ahhh geez, I’m so irritated! Why am I of all people havin' to worry about stupid stuff like this, it ain't me at all!)
(...I miss the days in my second year where I could just sing without a care in the world, with nothin’ to fret about.)
Ritsu: Bam~☆
Koga: Waongyah!?
Ritsu: Ahaha. What a funny shriek~. You’ve totally got the makings of a reaction comedian*, Corgi...♪
Koga: Ritchii, you bastard~! You really just ran me over with your bike like it’s the most natural thing in the world, didn’t ya!?
What the fuck do you think you’re doin’, I’ll kill ya! Don’t screw around, what if some well-behaved little kid imitates you!?
Ritsu: Well, I think as soon as they imitate that they’re no longer a well-behaved kid. Sorry Corgi, I’m sooo not used to riding a bicycle yet...♪
I carelessly made a mistake while steering and ran you over. I really didn’t mean to, I swear ♪
Koga: I-Izzat so. Tch… Guess it can’t be helped then, but be more careful next time.
Ritsu: Roger-dodger. I’ll deeply reflect on my actions and vow to some God or whatever that I shan’t repeat this faux-pas~.
Koga: But hey Ritchii, you come to school by bike now?
Didn’t Dekosuke** carry you to school and back last year? You brothers are pretty much the same in that way, huh..♪
Ritsu: Quit bringing up Anija and me in the same breath.
...Ever since Maa~kun became the new student council president he’s been stupidly busy, and if I added onto that burden he’d seriously die, so I’m exercising some self-restraint about being spoiled.
I want Maa~kun to live a long life after all.
Koga: I see. Ain't that admirable of ya, doin’ your best like that.
Ritsu: Yup. Feel free to heap on the praise, I really am doing the best that I can lately.
In any case, Corgi, there’s something I wanna ask you. ...What the hell is going on?
Koga: Aaahn? Whatcha talkin’ about, you gotta give me more details than that!
Ritsu: That so. Hm~... Well, seeing is believing, so take a look at this.
Koga: Hmm? What’s this, a newspaper? French, huh. You gotta know I can’t read that without a dictionary.
Ritsu: Figures. Guess we've gotta study up on foreign languages and all too.
Thanks to Ecchan and Anija hustling pointlessly, the idol industry has been expanding world-wide.
Well then. This translation is just my summary, but the article goes more or less like this-
“That Sakuma Rei has a little brother! He’s an idol just like his brother, and is super popular in Japan!”
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*Reaction comedians in Japan make their money by partaking in over the top scenarios where they’re made the butt of a joke by reacting in over the top ways to the ridiculous skits they go through. Popular examples of this are routines where the reaction comedian is being fed hot oden, or being pushed into a tub full of hot water.
**Deko means forehead and -suke is an ending for boys’ names. I liked this dig at Mao’s hairstyle so much that I couldn’t bring myself to translate this nickname.