Rocket Start ~Prologue~ Chapter 1

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Jin: Oh, Transfer Student, welcome. You were kind of late, what were you doing?

Ahh, today was your day shift...

If there ever comes a time when even all your effort isn't enough for anything and everything, if you have trouble with it, rely on your classmates.

If a girl looks up at them with raised eyes and asks "Help me out?", well, high school boys are kind of taken out in one shot. They'll be very happy to lend you a helping hand, yup.

Want some tea? Whoops, the water heater pot's empty...

Akiya~n, I'm taking a trip to the vending machines to buy some coffee or something. You go start the beginning of the talk.

Akiomi: Please don't call me "Akiyan", Sagami-sensei.

Honestly. The one in charge of them is this carefree, that's why the children are so cocky.

First of all, if adults such as ourselves do not set a good example to show that we need to "Respect one's elders~", even if one were to scold, it would result in utter indifference.

Well, all right. Transfer Student-san, take a seat over there.

My talk today consists of largely items in the material, et cetera, that has been prepared... For a moment, please excuse me.

Already, your comrades... "Trickstar"'s individual members have gathered by now.

Makoto: Transfer Student-cha~n, over here, over here♪

Hokuto: The space next to me is open, Transfer Student.

...Akehoshi, a sofa isn't for lying down to sleep. Your behavior is so bad, you're revealing your upbringing.

Mao: Well, well, Subaru's tired too. Wait, he's less "lying down to sleep" and more "sound asleep", right?

Subaru: Zzz, zzz...♪

Hokuto: Huh, that's a happy sleeping face there... Wake up, Akehoshi, don't act so lazily. It's embarrassing.

Anyways. A word that we have to be admirable, or else we don't know when Kunugi-sensei's temper is going to be at breaking point.

I don't want to spend breaks to be scolded for messes forever. As the fervor of yesterday has ebbed out of our bodies, I want a meeting to review and reflect.

The day's output is important as well, but caring afterwards is also necessary.

Makoto: Hi-Hidaka-ku~n... For some reason, Akehoshi-kun is handling my hand like he's about to eat it.

Subaru: Mnya, mnya...♪

Hokuto: Is this guy a baby. Speaking of which, he usually sleeps soundly without concern in the soundproof practice room, what kind of nerve does he have?

Mao: You're ki~nd of on edge, Hokuto. Calm down~, just take a deep breath.

...Yeah, Transfer Student's making a puzzled face, shouldn't you guys properly explain the circumstances?

If only ourselves are rushing through it, you're the ones doing wrongly.

Transfer Student's a "Producer", and our treasured companion. We have to make sure to jointly share everything.

After all, I'm in a different class, so I have to leave it to you guys to take care of the matters for Transfer Student.

You guys are the ones who have to pull off support flawlessly. ...Oh, wow, but it looks like I'm the one taking care of you.

Hokuto: Hm. I have no words to reply, it's just as Isara says.

Makoto: Hey~. Um, me too, I don't really know why we were called here.

Hokuto: I know I properly explained it to you, Yuuki.

Makoto: Sorry, sorry... I guess some fatigue from yesterday's still left over; today my head's been all foggy~ ever since the morning.

Even in class, the content felt like it went in one ear and out the other.

Hidaka-kun, if it's no bother, let me copy your notes later.

My grades just steadily keep going down and down~, well, in our school, class lectures aren't really that important, though.

Hokuto: Compared to your first year, you've gotten better results in memorizing. Do your best. Fundamentally, studying in the school has indiscriminate memorization to be no problem at all.

Yesterday, we got the better of [DDD]. We defeated a multitude of powerful stars, beat the "Emperor" and were victorious.

We stirred up a miracle and obtained entry to the year-end [SS].

The live for Yumenosaki Academy... Our results in DreamFes will be reflected in our grades.

If there are achievements this time, things like studying in the school shouldn't be a problem with your utmost effort.

More importantly, I want to do more lives. I want to dance and sing with you guys.

Mao: Nah, on paper, [DDD] is rank "B1", you know. It's written out on an unofficial field, so I don't think it has any effect on grades.

Neither good nor bad. Of course... it's not that the value of what we accomplished in [DDD] is going to disappear like a phantom or something.

There the fans and experience that we obtained, we build it up steadily so that from today on we'll keep growing more and more... It'll definitely look toward our future, that's what I believe.

Makoto: You're positive~, Isara-kun. I respect you. Honestly, I can only just think of negative thoughts that just spring out.

Today, when the teachers called us to the staff room like this...

I got worried that it couldn't have been because they wanted to lecture us for "the thing that we'd done yesterday~", right?

Like they would tell us that there were difficulties, or that the win in [DDD] just "wasn't enough"...

Because, really, I don't even think it feels real even for me.

It just all seems like a dream.

Mao: Ahaha. If it really were all just a spectacular joke, I'd even be jolted to the point where I might die.

Hokuto: Don't say such ill omened things, you two. ...It's all right, this should be reality. I feel somewhat between dream and reality, or how should I say it, a bit worried.