Backstage Translation - Sharing Out Cuteness (Part 1)
Sakuya: These chocolates are delicious, Muku!
Muku: Yay, I'm glad! When I heard these yogurt and strawberry chocolates were only being sold this Spring, I figured it'd be nice to bring them to today's tea party.
Homare: Quite right. They've a truly lovely taste. Not being too rich, you find yourself reaching for another one.
Sakuya: And they go perfectly with the tea Homare-san prepared!
Muku: Yeah! Alice-san's tea is really tasty, I love it.
Homare: That's wonderful. I purchased this blend recently from a specialty store, if you two are fond of it I'll endeavour to buy from there again.
Sakuya: Speaking of rabbits, I saw some adorable tea bags the other day. Should be on my phone…
Ah, here!
Homare: What's this now…
Muku: Wow, they're so cute!
Homare: There's a rabbit clinging to the rim of the tea cup, as if soaking in a bathtub.
Sakuya: Looks like there's dogs and cats too, and even unusual animals like otters.
Muku: It seems easy to drink, and would probably make a good gift. Choosing the perfect animal for who you give it to sounds fun as well.
Homare: I see… I myself would never have imagined tea bags such as this exist.
Homare: (When I went to stock up on those tea leaves Sakuya-kun and Muku-kun like, I ended up taking the opportunity to buy a whole variety of things. I'll try to use them at the next tea party.)
Izumi: -Ah, Homare-san!
Homare: Oh my, are you also out to buy something, Director-kun?
Izumi: I'm on my way back from a meeting. Are you buying something?
Homare: Indeed I was. I'm heading home having just finished my business. If you're also returning, shall we go together?
Izumi: I… want to say yes, but I'm thinking maybe I will go shopping.
Homare: Allow me to accompany you, then.
Izumi: You sure? Thanks a lot!
Izumi: Fufu. Having Homare-san push the cart really is refreshing.
Homare: Is that so? You must have seen this many times already.
Izumi: Yeah, but that's not the poi- ah, onions and carrots! And minced meat, too!
Homare: What a fluid way of tossing the ingredients in. Perfect! I feel a poem coming up!
A silver runway for a vegetable and meat harmony, clad in spicy finery!
Izumi: Ahaha. That poem's really put me in the mood for curry. Though, today I was thinking of using eggs for-
Wait, I forgot the ketchup! I'll go get it now, wait here for me please.
Homare: Understood.
*footsteps*
Homare: …I was certain she was going for keema curry, but I suppose it was omurice.
Event Translation - Spotlight ~Tsukushi High Side~ (Part 5)
Azami: …Go on.
Kumon: Huh?
Azami: Help out. Don't mind me.
Kumon: …Sorry! I'll message you when I'm done!
I'll help out until the next guy's here, let's go!
Classmate A: For real!? Thanks, that's a huge help…! Right, let's hurry.
*running*
Sakoda: …Azami, do you wanna go round with us?
Azami: …We'll stand out, so no. Plus, shitty Sakyo's here.
Sakyo: What was that?
Azami: …
*LIME notification*
Kumon: Azami, where r u rn?
Azami: Roof
Kumon: Got it!
Azami: (…Seems pretty lively in the schoolyard.)
*door opens*
Kumon: Azamiii!
I thought for sure you'd be going around with someone, but here you are!
Azami: Too many people, didn't feel like it.
Kumon: But that's the best part of a school festival.
Azami: Anyway, that was quick.
Kumon: The guy in charge later got the message and hurried over to swap out with me.
Thanks for coming earlier too, Azami!
Azami: …It was nothing.
Kumon: When I heard that guy fell ill, it didn't really feel like someone else's problem. It may be for my own satisfaction, but… I wanted to do what I could to help out.
Azami: I figured as much.
Kumon: It sounds like they recovered after some rest though, so that's good.
Looks like we can go around together, Azami!
Azami: …You really need to be so fixated on that?
Kumon: 'Cause this is the first and last time we'll both be able to do it as students of Tsuku High!
Since it's the school festival, don't you wanna make some memories? There'll be no other opportunity for us to enjoy ourselves together like this!
Azami: --.
You're saying embarrassing stuff as usual, huh.
Kumon: Huh!? I'm embarrassing!?
Azami: Not what I said.
Kumon: Anyway, we've gotta hurry! The festival's gonna end at this rate!
Azami: Yeah yeah.
Kumon: Ah, by the way, did you see Muku and the others?
Azami: Yeah. Got to talk to Shift too.
Kumon: What! I would've come if you'd messaged meee!
Presenter: At long last, it's time for the post-festival party! Let's enjoy ourselves to the fullest to celebrate this year's successes!
*applause*
Presenter: Now then, let's open with the first years!
Please welcome Team Hostile Beats! Heating up the floor with a stylish rap performance!
Azami: "Listen up, see if you can keep up with our voice and hard dance."
Student A: Ooh~!
Kumon: Go, Azami!
*applause*
Yamaguchi: Kumon, we've gotta go on standby now.
Kumon: Okaaay!
Azami: …
Kumon: Ah, Azami!
I saw you on stage, you were SO cool! I got all pumped up, it was mesmerising~!
Azami: Thanks.
…You're up next, right?
Good luck on your comeback. I'll be watching.
Kumon: …Yeah!
Presenter: As sad as it is to end, next up is our final performance! Let's give a hand for a Tsuku High tradition, the third year's dance performance!
Event Translation - Spotlight ~Tsukushi High Side~ (Part 3)
Kumon: This board came out looking great too~
Classmate A: I know, right! We're gonna be done with time to spare at this rate.
Classmate B: By the way, is dance practice going well?
Kumon: Yeah! We all practiced in the audiovisual room earlier!
Classmate A: Ooh! I'm looking forward to it.
Homeroom Teacher: Are you guys still at it? I understand getting sucked in, but it's time to go home, you know~
Classmate B: Okaaaay… wait, it's already dark out!
Kumon: For real, I didn't notice at all!
…Ah.
Classmate A: What is it?
Kumon: …
Azami: …
???: BOO!!
Azami: !?
Kumon: Hehe, did I scaaare you? I saw you from my classroom, so I came out!
Azami: Uh… you could just approach me normally.
Kumon: Are you alone?
Azami: Yeah. I was preparing stuff for our class display earlier, and when I was about to walk home with my classmates, I realised I forgot something and came back for it.
Kumon: …Are your classmates not waiting for you?
Azami: I told 'em not to.
Kumon: That's good then~ I thought you were being bullied for a second!
Azami: The hell?
Kumon: Alright, let's go home together then!
Azami: …Are you not going with those guys? They're looking this way, they're from your class right?
Kumon: Yeah! But I'm going the same direction as you anyway!
Azami: Suppose so.
Kumon: Anyway, your class must be fired up, preparing stuff this late.
Azami: That's… the same for you.
Kumon: This is the last festival for us third years, so our excitement's different. But you must be looking forward to your first festival, huh?
I was also really looking forward to it when I was a first year, but…
Azami: …Did something happen?
Kumon: …Well.
It was my first culture festival after entering high school.
When I started here, I was feeling down about not getting into O-High…
But I forgot all about that when the festival rolled around, and had fun talking about this and that while preparing with my classmates, like I am now.
On top of that, the baseball club I was in was going to do a piece at the post-festival party, and we planned to show off our personal pitching techniques that year.
I was going to represent the first years as a pitcher, and show off a bunch of different pitching styles on stage.
I prepared for both at the same time, and the day before the culture festival…
I remember I could barely close my eyes, my heart pounding with both excitement for the festival and nervousness for my part in it.
The day of the culture festival arrived.
Even though I got to school safely, I developed a fever during the opening ceremony.
It was one of my usual stress fevers, and I ended up staying in the infirmary.
In the end, I wasn't able to take part in either my class's piece or the baseball club's.
Kumon: At the time, I was a bother to everyone around me and made them worry, so it's a super frustrating memory for me…
But since joining the theatre, I'm able to get those symptoms under control.
So while it's definitely not a lie to say I want to take part in our traditional performance, applying for it was also due to a personal desire to make a comeback.
I've even danced for a play now, so I think I'll be able to do more than I would've before.
Azami: …I see.
Well, I don't wanna go on about what's already passed, but… for now, it's fine as long as you enjoy it this time, right?
Kumon: …Yeah, that's right!
Azami: I'll be looking forward to your comeback.
Kumon: Hehe, I'm getting more and more fired up! I'm gonna do some training when we get home!
Event Translation - Spotlight ~Tsukushi High Side~ (Part 1)
Muku: Today's food was delicious too.
Juza: Yeah. I like how this stew tastes.
Izumi: The stir-fry's also delicious! As expected of Omi-kun.
*door opens*
Kumon: Haa, that was a good workout!
Izumi: Kumon-kun, were you training by yourself?
Kumon: Yep! Or, well, rather than training, I was practicing my dancing.
Since I'll be dancing at the school festival this year, I gotta learn the choreography!
Sakyo: Right, Tsuku High's having its school festival soon, isn't it.
Kumon: Yeah! It's Tsuku High tradition for some third year volunteers to put on a dance show at the post-festival party, with all the most popular songs of the year.
I saw the previous year's performance and decided that I absolutely wanted to take part, so I applied for it!
Sakyo: Sounds like you.
Muku: Is Azami-kun doing something too?
Izumi: (Azami-kun doesn't really seem the type to take part in these things, but…)
Azami: …
Kumon: Azami's doing a rap show that night!
Juza: He's also takin' part in a voluntary performance like that?
Azami: …Seems like some guy from another class saw one of the rap etudes I do with Homare-san sometimes.
I was basically dragged into it against my will.
Izumi: I see…
Sakyo: Sounds like Bon's fitting in well.
Azami: Mind your own business.
Kumon: Only people affiliated with the school are allowed at the post-festival party, though.
I wanted you guys to see my dancing and Azami's rapping~
Azami: Well I didn't.
Kumon: But but, I'll absolutely make sure to video it! And I'll show that video to everyone!
Plus, anyone can enter during the day, so come and have fun. Our classes are putting stuff on too!
Mine is doing a bubble tea house, and Azami's is doing a haunted house.
I actually wanted to do a haunted house too, but I got to do that with everyone in the dorm.
And our bubble tea house is gonna be super hype!
Muku: I'm looking forward to Tsuku High's festival. I'll make sure I'm free then.
Kumon: Great! Ah, that reminds me, Sumi-san said he'd come too!
Juza: Right, that guy also went to Tsuku High, didn't he.
Muku: Let's go talk to him too, then.
Azami: You better not come, shitty Sakyo.
Sakyo: What was that?
Izumi: (Fufu, everyone seems to be having fun.)
Kumon: Lunch, lunch~
Azami: I'm starving…
Kumon: Hey hey, Azami, are you practicing your rapping?
Azami: Eh, here and there… you?
Kumon: Of course! I've got plans to practice after school today! Yamaguchi's joining in too~
Azami: Huh, that's a bit surprising.
Kumon: He said he was invited by his classmates.
Speaking of, let's go around the festival together!
Azami: Hah? Isn't that something you'd normally do with your own classmates?
Kumon: I wanna go around with everyone, and that means you too! C'mon, it'll be fun!
Azami: Well, I guess that's fine…
Kumon: Yaay!
Azami: Anyway, let's eat our food.
Kumon: I'm hungry too! I bought lotsa bread today.
Azami: I've got salad and onigiri… and a yogurt drink.
Kumon: Ah! That sounds good! I'm kinda interested in that one.
Azami: Yuki-san said it's pretty good.
Kumon: Hu~h!
…Y'know, it's just occurred to me, but going to school with you and regularly eating lunch together like this…
I never would've thought it would happen when we joined the troupe~
Event Translation - Spotlight: Tsukushi High & St Flora (Prologue: Super Popular Feature!)
Kasumi: This kind of meeting has become a regular occurrence, hasn't it?
Thanks to you, the latest special feature of "Spotlight" was also incredibly popular and in demand.
Even I got to hear a bunch of stories I didn't know, so conducting the interviews was really enjoyable.
Izumi: We're also very grateful and happy. Thank you!
Kasumi: The Newborn Mankai Company really has a lot of different relationships in it, I doubt we'll ever run out of special features.
Izumi: Speaking of… what should we do for the next group?
Kasumi: About that…
Our readers seem to want another school focus, there were a lot of survey responses about it.
The last school focus was the first of these features we did, on HanaGaku and O-High, so I think there's been a good span of time too, but… what do you think?
Izumi: I think that sounds good! It was mentioned last time that there are a lot of groups like them that go to the same school, after all.
Kasumi: That's great~ thank you!
It is, of course, due to the reader's requests, but…
Personally speaking, I'm also excited for the valuable opportunity to hear tales of youth from students, as someone who can't go back to that time.
Izumi: Ahaha, I'm interested in those too.
Izumi: Thanks for taking the time to come today as well.
Kasumi: I should be thanking you! You even went as far as getting some nice tea and snacks.
*door opens*
Homare: I have returned.
Izumi: Welcome home, Homare-san!
Kasumi: Pardon me.
Homare: Oh my, Kasumi-san? Welcome, I didn't know you were coming.
Kasumi: We were just having a meeting to discuss "Spotlight".
Homare: Ooh, is that so! I always enjoy reading each new issue.
I've yet to be featured in one, but I'm sure my waiting will be over soon.
I'm looking forward to it. Well then, until we meet again.
*footsteps*
Izumi: Umm…
Kasumi: …I guess I'll have to have Homare-kun in the next feature?
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