thank you so much for 5,000 followers!! the lack of art recently is due to me starting college and adjusting to that workload, I still intend to create when I can. i hope you all have a wonderful and thank you again for the support!
I wonder, on the rabbit chats sometimes there are bringing few informations. So in the lastest chat with Yaotome Gaku «marchen dream», Tsumugi guess it will be interesting if Riku get some villain role.
What do you think about it ? Why not. I will want to see that. :3
Riku: Manager, good morning. I’ve just woken up. I don’t really know what to say, but in any case, thank you for last night.
Tsumugi: Good morning, Riku-san. Don’t worry, it was nothing. All I did was accompany you, after all...
Tsumugi: You aren’t pushing yourself to rabichat (1), are you...? Please go back to sleep if it’s tough. You’ve only just come back from the hospital...
Riku: It’s fine, the medicine is working. My coughing has also calmed down, and it’s not hard to breathe.
Tsumugi: Really...? If you aren’t in pain, then it’s fine....
Riku: It’s fine. I keep my room clean, I’ve warmed up my throat, and I’m careful about the humidity too. I’m always trying to be careful about my health, but..., I’m really sorry for causing you so much trouble....
Tsumugi: This could never cause me any trouble...! I’m definitely relieved that your body seems to have calmed down, but when things get tough, please rely on us and don’t feel you have to go it alone...
Riku: Thank you. Both you and Banri-san stayed with me through the whole night. It was really reassuring.
Riku: I’ve done something really bad to everyone... My memories are fuzzy, but I remember Iori calling someone in a panic, and someone carrying me.
Riku: Manager, do you know who carried me?
Tsumugi: The one who carried you was Yamato-san! Everyone said they wanted to go along with you, but we couldn’t have a large crowd go to the hospital like that, so I had them remain behind...
Riku: So it was Yamato-san.... I’m gonna go say thanks later. I also have to go see Iori. He looked like he was about to cry. (2)
Riku: It’s gotten a lot easier since Iori become center in my place, but....
Tsumugi: Today just so happens to be a day off, so please think about resting your body first.
Tsumugi: You were the one who went through the most, after all...I’m really happy we can rabichat like this.
Tsumugi: I’d like to tel you to sleep so you can get better soon, but are you wide awake right now?
Riku: Hmmm, it feels like i’m not sleepy even though I am.
Tsumugi: In that case, do you want to talk a bit more? If you get sleepy or if things get tough, you can just fell asleep right then.
Choice 1
Tsumugi: Is there anything on your mind?
Riku: What happens after tomorrow, I guess. I’m glad I had today off, but I really wonder if I’m not causing any trouble....
Choice 2
Tsumugi: Is there anything you want?
Riku: I wish I had a healthy body....
Choice 3
Tsumugi: Is there anythig you want to eat?
Riku: I wanna drink hot milk with honey. Iori gave me some before. (3)
RIku: In any case, right now I’m relieved I was able to come back to the dorm.
Riku: When I had just entered elementary school, I suffered from a big attack. After that, I spent a while hospitalized in a private room.
Riku: I thought I would be able to go to school with Ten-nii, so I was really sad... But I’m really glad I was able to come back to the dorm right away this time.
Tsumugi: I’m also really glad, from the bottom of my heart, that you were able to come back with us.
Riku: I was able to hang on because you were with me, Manager! Thank you. I thought about how I wanted to go back to where everyone was.
Riku: Oh yeah, Manager, about our shopping plans for today...
Tsumugi: Yes, let’s go out once you’re feeling better...!
Riku: About that, I’m reconsidering it. (4)
Riku: I was too rash. The best gift I can give everyone is to take care of my body and get better as soon as possible.
Tsumugi: Yes. Everyone loves you, after all...!
Tsumugi: Once you feel better, let’s go out with everyone! I’ll do my best to match up everyone’s day off!
Riku: Yeah, that might be best! I’m looking forward to it.
Tsumugi: Let’s put together as many countermeasures as we can. I’ll look over some reading to study and see if there’s anything else I can do...!
Tsumugi: Also, I’ve asked everyone about their health secrets, so I’ll contact you once I’ve compiled them!
Riku: Everyone’s health secrets!? I’m gonna try to guess everyone’s secrets, so tell me while hiding their names!
Tsumugi: Understood! lol
Riku: I wonder if talking has made me feel relieved, I’m starting to get a bit sleepy again.
Tsumugi: Please take this time to rest. I’m at the office right now, but I’ll visit the dorm later.
Riku: I’m happy. Wake me up when you come. G’night.
Tsumugi: Good night, RIku-san.
(1) ラビットチャット is shortened to ラビチャ in JP, so I made it ‘rabichat’
(2) Iori’s P_G chat elaborates on this, but the poor kid was a right mess, meaning I, too, am a right mess. The tl;dr of it all is that Iori thinks this is the worst he’s ever seen Riku, and that he really really wishes he could change places with him. He thought he had hid his emotions well enough, but given that both Tsumugi and a near-passed-out Riku saw through him, he must have been feeling a LOT.
(3) I think the first time (the only time?) Iori giving Riku hot mik and honey was mentioned was in the End of Year chats. Both Riku’s and Iori’s cards mention it in their third chapter.
(4) 反省 usually has an air of regret or remorse about it, so Riku’s kind of regretting how he didn’t really put his body first before!
(5) I read Iori’s version of events first (and no one else’s yet, tho I do have Mitsuki and Nagi’s cards too), which was already a stab in the heart, but seeing Riku like this immediately after a massive attack is really ;A;. We really aren’t given the opportunity in the main story to be so close and personal, 1-on-1 with Riku in situations like this--at least, until Part 2 happened and we got lines like “it’s tough to have replacements...it’s tough to have no replacement” or however it was he phrased that AWFUL, AWFUL LINE--but even then, his attacks are always a little more like plot devices and a little less like something personal that happens to him. In chats like this they feel a lot more personal, so here I am, typing this up in public, Very Emotional and Trying Not To Show It.
Tsumugi: Riku-san, thank you for your work today. Do you have time now? We’ve received a survey from the program you’ll be going on...
Riku: Good work today! Now is fine! What kind of survey is it?
Tsumugi: Connected to the title of the new song, the topic is “About Perfection”!
Riku: I see, perfection...! It’s got a very tense sound!
Tsumugi: Please answer it with your instinct!
Riku: Okaaay! Understood.
Tsumugi: Well then, what is one thing you are able to do perfectly?
Riku: It’s not something you can call perfect, but I can name the all the Tokugawa Shogun from the beginning! (1)
Tsumugi: As expected of an avid reader, you’re quite strong in that area, aren’t you! I probably couldn’t name all of them...
Riku: Yeah, I looked over history books as well. There are a lot of really interesting stories from the Edo period. I’ll lend you one, Manager!
Tsumugi: Thank you...! I’ll make sure to study!
Tsumugi: Now for the next question. Out of all the members, who do you think is perfect?
Riku: Sougo-san, I guess? He’s got the feeling of an adult that can do a variety of things smoothly.
Riku: Iori would be perfect if he was just a bit cuter! lol (2)
Tsumugi: While he may deny it, Iori-san has some cute thing about him sometimes! lol
Riku: Hmmm, maybe it’s because he’s isn’t honest, but he doesn’t really show me those parts very often.
Riku: Also, if I could choose someone who wasn’t a member, then Ten-nii is unmistakably perfect!
Riku: But that’s a secret!
Tsumugi: Yes! Of course.
Tsumugi: Finally, please tell us something you’d like to do perfectly!
Riku: Sing for the fans. That’s the one thing I wanna do perfectly!
Riku: I say that, but I can’t do it right now.
Tsumugi: We all know that you’re doing your best to sing perfectly. Your voice is IDOLiSH7′s treasure!
Riku: I want to be able to respond to those feelings properly.
Riku: Especially to Iori, since I’m really indebted to him now. I want to be able to make him tell me “you’ve done well, Nanase-san.”!
Riku: I want to sing perfectly for the people I love!
Tsumugi: Riku-san....I've started to get a little emotional. (3) You're so optimistic, so I can't keep moping.
Tsumugi: I need to grow too, so I can support you perfectly!
Tsumugi:
Riku:
Tsumugi: Ah, by the way, about the shopping trip we talked about the other day, there’s something I’d like to talk with you about...!
Riku: Could it be we got a new job, and we have to change our plans...?
Tsumugi: Oh no, there’s no problem with our plans...! I just thought we should talk beforehand about what we wanted to buy for everyone!
Riku: Ah, I see! The shops we go to would probably change based on that. I wonder what would be good?
Tsumugi: In times like this, I wonder if it’s better to go with everyone’s favorite food?
Choice 1
Tsumugi: Like spicy foods for Sougo-san!
Riku: It’s gotta be! Maybe we should try looking for really spicy candy! I’ve never seen Sougo-san say something is spicy, so I wanna make him say it! lol (4)
Choice 2
Tsumugi: What will you give to Iori-san?
Riku: Maybe something soaked in honey? When Sougo-san gave me a drink with honey in it, Iori also looked like he wanted to drink it!
Choice 3
Tsumugi: Yamato-san is difficult, isn’t he!
Riku: He’d probably be happy with anything, but it’s hard to pinpoint the right thing...Maybe he’d be happier with something like beer?
Riku: Hmmm, I can’t decide! I definitely wanna look around, so let’s go to that shopping center by the station that sells everything!
Tsumugi: I see! Let’s do that then. I’m looking forward to Saturday!
Riku: Yeah, it’s almost here! My body also seems to be fine.
Tsumugi: Thank goodness...! Let’s take our time looking around and avoid the crowds, so there isn’t too much stress!
Riku:
(1) That’s 15 people over about 200 years. I wonder if he can also name when they were shogun.....
(2) This is the same かわいげ from Fly Away, but it can also be translated as ‘charm’ or ‘lovable nature’.
(3) All she says is that she’s gotten じんわり, which just means ‘gradually’. There’s this extra definition of things like tears or emotions gradually and quietly swelling up, as well.
(4) Literally ‘I wanna see the form of Sougo-san saying it’s spicy, which I’ve never seen before’
(5) I translated a conversation from the main story (that’s in the queue rn, as I post this) where Iori talks about DON’T RAISE A STRESS FLAG ON YOUR OWN, NANASE-SAN, and here Riku is again, raising a health flag by saying ‘and my body seems fine!’
A request from @lindaniakyouko! Sorry it’s taken me a bit to get the first chat up. I’ll try to go through these when I have downtime.
Chapter 1: Feeling Thankful
Tsumugi: Riku-san, good work on the recording for the new song. How are you feeling...?
Riku: I’m fine. My voice came out perfectly today, so it was easy to sing!
Tsumugi: Thank goodness......This is a different form than usual, so please tell me if there’s anything on your mind.
Riku: Thanks! I think the new song suits Iori, and I’m thankful he became the center for me.
Riku: But, I also feel really guilty. Iori had expectations of me, but I couldn’t fulfill my role as center....
Riku: I wanted to answer those expectations through singing....It was something that you all had decided after carefully thinking about it, so I’m sorry. (1)
Tsumugi: Please don’t apologize...! You were always our center. And we all think that’s where you belong from now on too.
Tsumugi: Iori believes that as well, so that’s why he’s accepted the position of center this time. Iori wishes more than anyone to keep hearing your song.
Riku: Thank you, Manager. I wanna do something properly to thank Iori too! I wonder what he’d be happy with?
Tsumugi: I wonder.... Why don’t you try asking Mitsuki-san? If it’s about Iori-san, I’m sure Mitsuki is the one that knows the most....!
Riku: That’s true! I’ll try that then. But I definitely wanna do something to thank everyone, and not just Iori--!
Riku: Nagi and Tamaki cleaned the dorm so it was spotless, Yamato-san made sure to keep the humidifier on, Sougo-san gave me drinks with honey in them...
Riku: And whenever I have a coughing fit, Iori and Mitsuki-san come to check on me. I keep being indebted to everyone!
Tsumugi: Everyone is worried about you, Riku-san. Everyone is happiest when you’re able to stand in the middle with a smile, so don’t think about it too much.
Riku: I hope that’s the case....
Riku: Ah, right, I have a favor to ask, is that alright?
Tsumugi: Yes! What is it?
Riku: Would you go shopping with me on my next day off? When my health is really good!
Tsumugi: Shopping....? I see, staying in the dorm all the time when you aren’t working probably isn’t good for your health, so if you’re feeling well, then let’s go out for a bit!
Tsumugi: You’re trying to look for gifts for everyone, right?
Riku: Yeah! I wanted to give my feelings a shape! Since you’re always standing beside us and watching us, I thought I’d like to have you come with me.
Tsumugi: If you’re fine with me, then please let me help you! But don’t forget to wear a disguise. With our new song and our crown program, IDOLiSH7 is definitely getting more fans....!
Riku: Alright! I’ll put on a large hat or something!
Tsumugi: It’s still chilly, so make sure to protect yourself against the cold! Don’t forget your scarf and gloves!
Riku: I’ll put on a mask too! Iori bought a lot of masks from the drugstore the other day. He said he chose ones that would help maintain humidity! (2)
Tsumugi: As expected of Iori-san, he chose masks that were good for both disguise and your throat!
Riku: But there were also masks with pictures of bears on them in the bag of stuff he bought. Whose are they...?
Tsumugi: Masks with bears on them... How cute! Maybe they’re for children?
Riku: Does that mean Iori’s treating me like a kid!? Man, I don’t know if he’s kind or mean...
Riku: Well, I do know that he’s kind!
Tsumugi: That’s true! Iori-san is a very nice person...! He may have bought them by mistake.
RIku: Maybe! I’m looking forward to going out with you!
Tsumugi: I’m looking forward to it too! It looks like it’ll be your first trip out in a while.
Riku: Yeah! Somehow, going out with Manager feels like a da--
Riku: day full of daisies and sunshine. (3)
(1) Riku uses マネージャー達, which is basically ‘manager and other people associated with manager’, and does he mean, like, Banri? Is this an attempt at hiding that Riku eventually finds out about Iori’s involvement? The world may never know.
(2) The was originally a direct quote, which somehow feels a lot more natural in Japanese.
(3) I’d like to thank not only god, but also buddha, for allowing me to pretty much keep this completely intact. (That being said, I’m ready for the day this game stops putting in random Member/Manager romance, but fans of that still exist so it will probably keep Being a Thing)
(4) Reading through Riku’s P_G card again is like *writhes on floor, dies a little bit at What’s To Come, remembers Iori’s card, KEEPS DYING*
