Night Club - A Game For Adults 3

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Location: Night Club Interior

- Nearly one hour later -

Rinne: Whazzu~up, Amagi Rinne-chan’s in da house ♪

Sorry, sorry! I meant to call, but I got dragged into a whole mess —  I mean, I had to take care of a lil’ somethin’...

Oh?

Hinata: Welcome~♪

Table for how many? Will you be smoking? Er, wait, according to regulations, smokers are considered a nuisance, so we basically can’t even consider them “customers” to begin w— 

Huh?

Whazzu~up, Rinne-senpai! I’ve been waiting for you~♪

Actually, you got me all worried. I saw your name on the shift plan, but you just wouldn’t show up!

Rinne: ...Hina. Dude, why’re ya still here at work?

Your lil’ broflake was worried about’cha, yellin’ “Gimme back my Aniki~!” with tears in his eyes, y’know? Gyahahaha ☆

Hinata: Aah~, I’m so sorry. Did Yuuta-kun cause some sort of trouble to our seniors, by any chance? 

Yuuta-kun’s sins are my sins! Allow me to apologize to you twofold, or even threefold!

Rinne: Nah, his anger was totally justified. If I heard that my lil’ bro got abducted by someone, I’d summon every last soldier from our hometown and go wreck the culprit ♪

Hinata: That's pretty extreme, you know~. I suppose at this point “extreme and immoral” may as well be Crazy:B’s slogan.

Rinne: Fine by me, though. Seems like UNDEAD's sick of havin’ that slogan, since it just led to annoyin’ rumors for ‘em, anyway.

Like, if they don’t need the title they should quit hoggin’ it and just hand it over already, right?

Also, I keep repeatin’ myself here but ya really don’t gotta speak politely around me, Hina. Maybe we've got a bit of an age diff, but we’re both workin’ adults of equal status at ES, aren’t we?

Hinata: On paper, yes. But alright, thanks! ‘Cause like, if me and Yuuta-kun both kept to polite speech we’d get unfavorable reviews on how hard it is to tell us apart ♪

Rinne: Well, you’ll feel like it’s “unfavorable” ‘cuz that’s how you see it.

This world’s full of bums who hurt others while meanin’ to praise ‘em! Havin’ no self-awareness makes for a bad personality!

Anyway, lemme try to get back to the point I was makin’. Why’re you workin’ here again today?

You kinda got dragged into helpin’ us out yesterday, but this isn’t the sorta work a pair of Mr. Populars like you two should be doin’.

Hinata: That’s it! That’s exactly the problem! I know we're the ones who always said we wanted to make it big, but~

Now that we have, all we ever get are cherry-picked jobs that "suit us", and I’m sick of it!

Ever since we were kids we'd do pretty much any job just to survive; whether performing on the street or picking up trash —  you name it, we did it.

No matter the job, we’d gladly do it and enjoy ourselves as long as we got to do what we wanted, but now it’s like all our toys have been confiscated, save for one kind —

If this is what it means to be an adult, it’s the actual worst.

And here I thought that if you work hard, become popular, earn lots of money, and get all this praise and approval from the public, you’d get to do more and more of the things that you wanna do.

Rinne: Gyahaha. It’s exactly for those boring adults who’ve become cogs of society that things like night clubs and gambling exist.

The world's filled to the brim with all kinda ways to have fun, yeah?

Who the hell decided that fun's something immoral and frivolous, something you'd pinch your nose at while tossin' it out onto the garbage dump?

What kinda joke is that, where you’re stranglin’ your own neck while goin’ “I can’t breathe~”?

Poor lil' ES idols. Most of ‘em are still at an age where they wanna play with toys, anyway.

I feel bad for ‘em, bein' turned into working members of society — And bein’ made to suck it up like adults.

Hinata: ………

Rinne: Hm? What's up, Hina, got somethin’ to say? Then spit it out — I might shoot ya a retort right back or somethin’, but — 

I’m not playin’ grown-up with ya like we’re just “playin’ house”, I’ll treat ya like a proper adult, on equal footing ♪

Hinata: Oh, my bad, I was just thinking how rare it is for me to be treated like this, so I ended up staring. I feel like I might've been rude there~, but I’ve also never met anyone like you before in my life, Rinne-senpai.

Rinne: I’ll bet. After all, unlike most species, vermin don't form herds -- they can only survive by becomin' obedient lil pets.

You guys were tryin’ to become convenient cattle for the adults, ‘cause that’s what your instinct, or maybe your experience, was tellin’ ya to do, right?

That’s why the humans don’t kill ya, and everyone gives you cheap words like “We’re family”, yeah?

Because you’re convenient, cute and useful, they all pat your heads and go “good boy~”, don’t they? Every last one of ‘em.

But outside your real family, you’ve never met anyone quite the same breed as you, have ya?

You found a safe place to survive and hide yourselves, and learned to perform tricks for passersby so they’d feed ya, didn’tcha?

But take a look around ya. There’re night clubs like this, where the air is sticky with the smell of sweet booze.

The world is just overflowin' with the same breed of creatures as ya, more than you could ever imagine… Hina ♪ 

Hinata: ………

Rinne: So if ya find this place comfortable, feel free to take a breather here ‘til ya feel better.

But make sure ya tell your lil’ broflake what’s goin’ on and how you’re feelin, ‘cause it’d be a pain if I got roped into somethin’ weird again.

The ones most likely to be by your side 'til the end are gonna be your blood relatives...

So if you’re feelin’ weak and hurt, you should at least gather more people who’ll be there for ya as much as ya can.

— Before you’re devoured by the “normal, virtuous humans”.

Hinata: ……...