Rocket Start ~star gazer~ Chapter 6

[nebulancer]

Koga: Aahn? W-what's up with ya~? Don't be makin' that kinda hysteric voice~, you hear!?

Ritsu: ...

Wataru: Oyaaa, quite the unsympathetic response, hm? Though you seem to be in conflict, just what could it be?

Please cease this quarreling! Rei will be upset, you see?

Ritsu: This has got nothing to do with you, doesn't it... It's not even as if we're fighting or anything~, because this guy just one-sidedly got up in my face.

So~mething or, my brother-like person had apparently unexpectedly gone abroad only this morning.

So he came to ask me his reason for doing so or the destination he was headed and stuff like that, but there's no way I'd be able to know.

Koga: Bastard~, you're his brother, ain't you? It's normal for you to at least know where he's doin', or did I say somethin' weird!?

Ritsu: Like I said~... That's the kind of thing that "happens often" with that thing, so it's your loss if you were to let every little thing get to you.

Don't be so upset; it's almost as if you were a stray dog that's been left behind...?

Koga: But, Sakuma-senpai, somethin' seemed really wrong with him!

Recently, here and there, there's been some kinda smell 'a fire or somethin'! I thought that he'd be gettin' wrapped up in weird business...!?

For me somehow, when I'm worryin' about Sakuma-senpai I don't really know where I have a place~ or anythin'?

If somethin' happens it'll be too late to have any second thoughts, so just fess up the whole story!

Ritsu: I'm telling you, I don't know a single thing... Uu~, I only came here to support Maa~kun, so why was I dragged into something so troublesooome?

Koga: ...Maa~kun?

Ritsu: Isara Mao-kun... I was told to perform in the [Golden Star Cup] with him, you know.

Due to some personal issues I had to cancel at the last minute, so I guess I am feeling apologetic about it.

That's why at the very least, I'd like to go support him.

..."Onii-chan" told me with an oddly serious look that I'd best not get involved; for the time being, I did as he said.

Maa~kun definitely took it the wrong way.

He thought I regarded it as a bother and skipped because of it~, it'll be "Onii-chan"'s fault if he saw me to be a cruel person who had no sense of sympathy.

Koga: Nn? Hey you~, did you just call Sakuma-senpai by "Onii-chan" or what?

Ritsu: Ah... No, that thing only takes the place of my big brother. My "Onii-chan" has for a long time since the past, been dead, and he's inside a coffin right now.

Natsume: HmM... Speaking of Rei-nii-saN, I had been given the same warning from him as welL.

Not exactly a problem but more meaningless was what I saw it aS, and I wanted to avoid being pulled into that maelstrom of conspiracieS.

Could something be about to happeN. Such as a dangerous or horrific kind of thing that one could not imagine ever happeninG, taking place todaY.

Though Rei-nii-san is somewhat of a noncommittal persoN, if danger were to ever approach myself or his younger brother-san he would surely protect us to the limits of his poweR.

Or it should have beeN. With such a vague warning of the sorT, it could be that even Rei-nii-san could not visualize the whole picturE...

If sO, even now it is more troublinG.

I wonder just what could happen todaY. This is the time for me to foresee iT, but there is quite the iron rule that one mustn't read one's own futurE, yeS?

Koga: Hey, I dunno what you're sayin'~, but... I just heard some singin' voices from the "auditorium"; does this mean the [Golden Star Cup]'s already started~ or somethin'?

If you wanna watch it, better to hurry and move to your seat, you know.

Even though you bought a ticket, it'll go to waste, won't it? Pretty dumb of you to toss away that kinda money~ in the gutter, huh?

...After, I'm gonna make you tell me more in some deeper detail, Sakuma-senpai's lil' bro.

Ritsu: That way of referring to me is irritating. I'm not "Sakuma-senpai's younger brother," as my name's Ritsu.

--Anyways. Hey you, you actually bought a ticket?

You don't have the feel of having come to the [Golden Star Cup] just because you wanted to be in the audience though... What a curiosity, isn't it?

Is there someone you're getting along with in the performance? It's not Maa~kun, right? Maa~kun's mine, got it?

Koga: Nah, 'cause they're the top class among the entire grade doin' a live. I just thought to maybe check just their level of ability~, it's jus' enemy surveillance.

Well, these "doin' for fun idols" are bein' made by the school, and that's what they're known for.

Or maybe for someone like Akehoshi, who's the real deal... I wanted to check just once.

Well, bye, I'm goin' to the seats.

Ritsu: ...I guess I'll be going too. Even though I didn't even apologize for skipping out on the job, with his sale of the ticket, Maa~kun must've gotten some kind of increase in the profit at least♪

Wataru: Fufufu. Now then, may we get along well, holding hands, and depart♪

Natsume: For what reason do we hold hands...? For MasteR, you really do move to the beat of your own drum, yeS?

Wataru: That is a compliment! But, wellll... though we know not of what shall happen, let us first enjoy the existence of the stage in front of us♪

No matter how far this suspicious conspiracy may spread its hold in reality, upon the stage will be a purely brilliant sanctuary!

There we may find our utopia, a land kept safe for vagabonds...☆

Ritsu: Hey-- don't pull on my hand like that... Ugh, jeez, why'd that brother-like thing get along so well with friends like this?

It's said that people's fates are bound together by God, but I seriously can't understand his aim.