Night Club - A Job For Children 3

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Location: Night Club Interior

- A few minutes later -

Rinne: Come on in~♪ Welcome to nightclub “Beehive”, where you can live out your dreams of gazin' so closely at cute idols you can even brush shoulders with 'em~!

HiMERU: ………

Rinne: Oh, it’s just you, Merumeru. Talk about wastin' my chummy greeting… You shouldn’t be here, y'know? This ain’t no place for kids~.

HiMERU: — Please cease arrogantly treating everyone like children just because you’re the only one over 20 here.

Regardless of what the legal definition says, HiMERU partakes in business activities and therefore considers himself an adult.

Rinne: What a goody-two-shoes. But, well, that’s just you doin’ whatever’s convenient for you... On the flip side, I’m free to do whatever’s convenient for me, which means categorizin’ ya as a kid and treatin’ ya like one.

Thinkin' people'll follow whatever ya tell 'em to as long as ya just wish real hard for it? Dumbass beliefs like that should go out with the trash the moment ya finish your compulsory education!  Gyahahaha ☆

Yuuta: ………

Rinne: Hmm? Aw man~... The kid's here too, huh — does that mean we’re doin’ this shit again?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, whassup? Ya here to beg me through snot and tears to “give back your Aniki~” again, or what? You’re gonna get in the way of our business, so couldja go bawl outside the club instead?

Bratty tantrums are such a pain in the ass to deal with.

Yuuta: (W-What? What’s with the attitude? This is exactly how this guy acted during MDM, he isn’t showing any guilt whatsoever, or rather —)

(Is he not even aware that what he’s doing is deplorable?)

Rinne: Hmm~? Oh wow, it's written all over your face just how ticked off ya are. Guess ya weren't brought up so well…

All your life ya only had to whine through teary eyes and your kindhearted Onii-chan would completely surrender on the spot and beg your forgiveness, yeah?

But I ain't gonna apologize. ‘Sides, ya wouldn’t forgive me even if I did... Am I right?

And anyway, humans take up oxygen and cause harm to all the creatures in the world just by bein’ alive…

If I went ‘round lowerin’ my head to every single one of ‘em, the one and only precious life I was given would be over by the time I was done.

Yuuta: ………

Rinne: So here’s what we’re gonna do. I’ll let ya make back whatever losses ya incurred, and more.

When ya make a profit, you immediately forget about your past losses before it. Well, in most cases, anyway —

Should be clear as day what I mean just by lookin’ at the Big Three at the top of ES.

Even though they’re a bunch of utter scumbags who trampled all over countless other guys, the public praises ‘em as if they’re role models for all idols.

And y'know why? It’s all ‘cause those guys kept on winnin’ and rakin’ in cash, and let everyone else involved have a slice of the profits, right?

Most people wouldn’t be able to rationally condemn and toss out somethin’ that — even just once — supplied ‘em with profits and pleasure.

That’s why casinos won’t ever disappear, and why people who indulge in booze and cigs for pleasure find themselves unable to quit ‘em after even just a single try…

But if you actually sit down and look at the big picture, it’s obvious that shit like that just wastes all your time and ruins your health.

HiMERU: — Indeed. And for that very reason you should quit indulging in such immoral games already. Your mere existence reflects negatively on the rest of us.

Rinne: So what? Ya tellin’ me to fuck off and die?

I soil myself just by bein’ alive, y’know? Are ya tellin’ me that I’m unqualified to be a part of society ‘cause of that?

HiMERU: — At the very least, please adopt a lifestyle that’s befitting of an idol. That is all HiMERU asks of you.

Rinne: Huh, so you’re tellin’ me to cater to the public and act like a goody-two-shoes?

If I coulda been successful by bein’ straight-laced, I wouldn’t have become the kinda guy I am today. And it’s too late for me to choose that sorta path now, don’tcha think?

Even if I did put on a front to convince everyone I'm not a nasty lil' creature, no one'd believe it at this point — not when it's comin' from a venomous bee that inflicted this much harm on people.

In fact, I’m pretty sure they’d take advantage of it and just torture me right to death.

HiMERU: — The roots of suspicion and despair you feel towards your fans, or rather, everyone around you, grow rather deep.

HiMERU had believed that your concerns in that regard were at least slightly resolved during the final match of MDM.

Rinne: Yeah, ‘cause the senior and veteran that is Amagi Rinne-kun got a good lesson from those arrogant kiddies on what bein’ an idol is all about.

Both I and the whole of Crazy:B's got fans who love and root for us.

As long as there’s even just a single one of those blessed people around, I’ll keep on livin’ just for them, even if I gotta guzzle mud.

It’s all for them. But I’m not gonna butter up the other rabble, kill my “self” for ‘em and serve ‘em like some kinda slave.

‘Sides, if I were to bend over backwards to conform to what the majority of society deems as “the ideal idol”...

Then that’d be exactly the same as betrayin’ those who love us as we are right now, yeah?

HiMERU: So rather than seeking the approval of many, you're trying to become an idol loved by only a select few, I see.

It’s only natural that fans choose their idols, but for an idol to choose their fans… Just what is the world coming to.

Rinne: Gyahaha. Don’t just spout the general opinion out there, Merumeru~. What do “you” really think?

Yuuta: (H-huh? What's up with those two leaving me in the dust and philosophizing about idol theory between themselves?)

(That’s not what we came here for — we’re here because I want to confirm if Hinata-kun's doing something behind my back—)

Hinata: Rinne-senpai~? What’s up, some kinda trouble going on?



Yuuta: — Hinata-kun!

Hinata: Woah, Yuuta-kun!? Honestly, I figured it was only a matter of time until you came here!

Aw man~, too bad, so sad. Welp, it was fun while it lasted —

Yuuta: ……?