Wonder Game - outbreak 8

Location: Student Council Room

Eichi: Let’s return to the main subject. I don’t want to keep wasting time, so let’s get this briefing session started.

Now that Hiyori-kun and Nagisa-kun officially joined us, we can finally start our activities as fine.

All this time, we’ve been in hiding, waiting for our chance. But this means... From now on, we will be able to proactively intervene in the ongoing situation.

Now then, what should our first move be?

Hiyori: Hold it right there. Before we get into that, mind telling me why Eichi-kun is the one in charge~? I think you’re being too intrusive. Tsumugi-kun is fine’s leader, right?

Tsumugi: Ah, Hiyori-kun… I see you finally remembered my name ♪

Hiyori: Rather than just remember, once I hear something I never forget it!*

Tsumugi: Eeh? Then how come that this whole time, you always acted like you didn’t remember me whenever we met, and referred to me as “background character-kun” and other strange nicknames like that!?

Eichi: Fufu. Making fun of someone and offending them, and then gauging their reaction is an old trick used in high society.

It’s not exactly a classy method, but it’s a quick way to get to know someone by getting a grasp of what angers and influences them the most. 

Hiyori: ...You sure talk as if you know it all, Eichi-kun. What do you think you know about me?

Eichi: You can see a lot when you look down from up above, Hiyori-kun.

Hiyori: Hmm? Fine, if that’s going to be your attitude, this is it! I’m going home, or rather, I’m quitting fine, got it?

I can’t work with someone who has no respect for their peers, it’ll just cause me stress and there’s nothing for me to gain from it!

Come on, Nagisa-kun, let’s go home together.

Nagisa: …...Wait. Just a little longer, and I’ll be done reading this book.

Eichi: Do you see now, Tsumugi? If you anger someone, just like this, their true colors show. It’s plain to see that this man named Tomoe Hiyori is nothing but a selfish young boy who plays at being an aristocrat.

It’s like he hasn’t grown up in the least since we were kids.

Tsumugi: Wh-, why are you saying stuff like that? That’s rude! Please apologize to him, Eichi-kun! Just how much do you hate Hiyori-kun…!?

We were the ones who asked Hiyori-kun and Nagisa-kun to join our cause and become our companions…

I’m not telling you to entertain them as if they’re guests, but let’s strive to at least work together in good spirits.

Eichi: I don’t feel like buttering him up. As you said, they’re not our guests, but are supposed to become our companions, so I want to show them my true colors.

No matter how much I try to disguise myself as a saint, Hiyori-kun will see through my act right away anyhow, because he’s known me since we were children.

Hiyori: ………..

Eichi: Hiyori-kun, Nagisa-kun. You two could become not just fine’s leading actors, but also our irreplaceable trump cards.

While I may be able to deceive you two and put on a good facade in order to use you temporarily…

Your outstanding talent is too precious for me to treat you as disposable. That’s why I want to put all the cards on the table, and show you even the ugly and vulgar sides of myself.

And if, after seeing them, you still find that in order to fulfill your dreams and ideals, you need me, and fine…

Then take my hand. I won’t force you, but I also won’t reject you.

I don’t want to make you dance, I want to dance together with you. And I want to sing in unison with you. ...Surely, there’s no way the two of you are happy with the current status quo?

In that case. Let’s revolutionize this world, together.

You may find me disagreeable, but I am not your enemy.

Hiyori: ………..

…..Ah~ah. I guess you’re serious, Eichi-kun.

And here I always just thought of your ideas as the delusions of a child who can’t get up from his sickbed and is lost in his fantasies.

But if you’re serious, and determined to put your life on the line for this… Then there’s no way I can just laugh it off.

Okay. I may hate you, but I’ll stick with you a little longer.

If I was here to have a fun, idle youth, I wouldn’t have any problem with Yumenosaki as it currently is.

But both me and Nagisa-kun are here to become idols.

For that, the school needs to be reformed. And rather than leaving something that important to someone else, it’s best to do it myself.

It may be a lot of trouble, but there’s no helping that. Nagisa-kun, you’re fine with this, right?

Nagisa: …...Yeah. To be honest, I didn’t really follow your conversation, though.

…...I was, brought to life by Hiyori-kun.

…...That’s why, I live for Hiyori-kun. For his sake.

Hiyori: Well… It’s your life, so I’d rather you live it for your own sake, though.

Tsumugi: Umm… You kind of left me behind, but can I take this to mean that from now on, you’ll get along as fine and do activities together?

In that case, I’m relieved ♪

Hiyori: I don’t really feel like getting along as friends, and as soon as I feel fed up with this, I’m out the door. But for now, I’ll put up with it and dance together with all of you.

Eichi: Fufu. So you learned to put up with things, no question that’s the fruits of your poverty-stricken lifestyle.

Hiyori: Even if my lifestyle is lacking in wealth, I’m still more fortunate than you, who is lacking in heart.

Tsumugi: Now, now… We finally managed to calm down, please don’t start another quarrel…

Good grief, we really aren’t getting anywhere with our conversation.

Are we going to be okay from here on out, with the way things are?

Nagisa: …...The future, is always uncertain.

…...However. If we keep walking, we will probably arrive somewhere, someday.

Tsumugi: ? Are you encouraging me, Nagisa-kun?

Nagisa: …...I was just stating facts.

Tsumugi: Ahaha… Well, at any rate, now that we’ve started walking, all we can do is strive to keep these legs moving.

It’s fine to only look back once we can no longer go on.

That said, let me start this briefing session once again~!

First things first; let’s work out the details of fine’s debut match, “Wonder Game” ♪

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* Hiyori’s special talent as noted in his profile is his “memory”.