Night Club - A Game For Adults 4

[bakemonoremy]

Location: ES Lobby

- Noon, the next day -

Yuuta: (Aaah, geez, I’m so pissed off!)

(Why do I have to feel so awful!? Did I do something to deserve this or what?)

(It’s all Aniki’s fault! Didn’t we decide that we’re “two as one”, that we’d live as though we’re sharing a single body?)

(That’s why we promised to never neglect Ho-Ren-So* in the first place~!)

(And the way ES works is no help, either!)

(Those highly confidential emails that only unit leaders can send and receive — those Glitter Mails — they're no good at all!)

(They don’t even reach me!)

(Apparently Vize Prez Saegusa used them to ask a special favor of Aniki, but Aniki isn't showing any sign of wanting to tell me about it so I don't have a clue what it is!) 

(We may be twins, but we don’t have psychic abilities or anything like that! It’s not like we actually share one body after all!)

………

(Either way, it seems like the Vice Prez asked Aniki to support Crazy:B or something…)

(But how did that turn into him working at such a suspicious establishment? That’s what I still don’t get.)

(I guess he first started talking to Crazy:B in order to deepen their friendship, but then fell for Amagi Rinne’s sweet-talk and was brought to that place, huh?)

(Unlike me, Aniki isn’t the type to get tricked so easily, but he does have that weird, bad habit of trying to get on other people’s wavelengths.)

(If that’s what you wanna do, get on my wavelength instead, not some random person’s who’s got nothing to do with us!)

(Deciding things on your own, working jobs without me, and keeping me in the dark  — I thought you quit doing stuff like that, Hinata-kun.)

HiMERU: ………

Yuuta: (...Hm? Huh? That person who just entered that café — Cinnamon, was it? — Isn’t that someone from Crazy:B?)

HiMERU: ~......♪

Yuuta: (What’s that person doing there all alone?)

(Well, I guess compared to us Yumenosaki idols, Crazy:B doesn’t really have that same spirit of doing everything together…)

(Maybe I should try talking to him. Among the chaotic Crazy:B, this HiMERU guy seems like the most decent one of the bunch.)

(Yesterday, he was the only one who acted as if none of it concerned him at all, and it felt like he was keeping his distance from the rest of Crazy:B.)

(So much, in fact, that I’m starting to suspect he doesn’t get along with them.)

(I've only been able to talk to Hinata-kun over the phone so far, but I didn’t really get what he was saying — And I still don’t really know the full situation, either.)

(It could be that Hinata-kun's once again staying quiet and trying to pull the wool over my eyes just to take on all the dirty, terrible things upon himself...)

(No, I'm sure of it! It’s all he ever does!)

(But I don’t want that kind of nonsense from the past to repeat itself! This time I swear I’ll crush the buds of impending calamity before they sprout!)

Location: Café “Cinnamon”

Yuuta: ………

Mika: Ngah~? Oh, hey, Yuuta-kun! Good t’see ya ♪

Yuuta: Uhyah!?

Ah, hello, Kagehira-senpai! What a surprise to find you here! Working hard?

Mika: Nah, more like hardly workin’...

Oshi-san an’ I worked way more than we’d planned ta durin’ MDM, and used up almost our whole repertoire…

It ain’t our style as Valkyrie to keep showin’ audiences the same stuff over 'n over, so we shelved those performances an’ now we’re comin’ up with concepts for our next works.

Ngah~, seems like Oshi-san's already holed himself up in his atelier in Paris an’ started pumpin’ out new stuff all trial-an’-error-like.

But as fer me, I’m plum feelin’ out of it and just can’t seem t'get into gear...

Yuuta: ………

Mika: ...By the by, Yuuta-kun, whatcha up to? Playin’ hide ‘n seek?

If ya crouch on the floor like that, won’t yer knees get all dirty?

Yuuta: Shh! I’m sorry, but please don’t pay any mind to me, Kagehira-senpai! I'm currently on an important mission that'll decide 2wink’s future!

Mika: Ngah~? I ain't really gettin' it, but you guys always got it rough, huh? Tell me if there’s anythin’ I can do t'help y'all, ‘kay~?

Us Yumenosaki folks’ve gotta look after 2wink and protect the two of ya...♪

Yuuta: ………


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* “Ho-Ren-So” (Houkoku, Renraku, Soudan) is a Japanese acronym that’s used in business settings and stands for “Report, Inform, Consult”.