Rocket Start ~Prologue~ Chapter 2

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Subaru: I forgooOOOT!

Hokuto: Uoh!? Wh-what's wrong, Akehoshi? Don't just suddenly raise your voice. Aah, you surprised me!

Makoto: Good morning~, Akehoshi-kun... "You forgot", huh, what do you mean?

Mao: You still half asleep, Subaru?

Subaru: No, I'm telling you, the sakura, the sakura! I forgot! To make a prayer!

Hokuto: The sakura? It seems to be late bloom this year, and they haven't bloomed yet...?

Subaru: Sorry! I'm just gonna go for a while!

Hokuto: Where are you planning to go? Oi, Akehoshi...?

What's with him; I just don't understand. I'm going to chase after him and call him back.

When the teachers come back, I'd be relieved if you could properly explain the circumstances.

Mao: Roger that~

Sakura, sakura, sakura, huh... Would you happen to know anything, Makoto?

Makoto: Eh? H~mm... Compared to this year, I felt that they bloomed earlier last year, though.

I saw right in front of my eyes that they were blooming widely, and I'd thought it like magic.

Speaking of which, didn't we four of "Trickstar" first gather, right next to a sakura tree?

Mao: Eh, I guess so. When the four of us got together, it was at that time, huh...

When we were first-years, it was Makoto and myself, and Subaru and Hokuto in our respective classes, right?

From the beginning, we weren't even the single bit close... Wasn't it that after working together, we managed to hit it off splendidly?

But, wasn't that during autumn?

You know, we kind of became the "First Year Representatives", ending up participating in DreamFes, huh.

Makoto: No, we didn't really join as a "unit" at that time, and it was just the time for the four of us to get together...

It left a huge impression on me, so I'm able to remember it.

That was around springtime. Make no mistake... After all, the sakura were blooming right in front of us.

Come to think of it, wasn't Akehoshi-kun also asking for something that time? Couldn't it have been what he was talking about "praying" before?

Mao: I don't know. Ahh~...

Ah, I remembered too.

Sorry about that, even though it was a keepsake of when we "Trickstar" gathered for the first time. Somehow, I just totally forgot.

Makoto: It couldn't be helped. Isara-kun, every day, every day... you're very busy, so you have to likely remember quite "a number" of things.

That time, it's not as if anything really happened.

Even the sakura, to me it looked... as if they'd already started blooming from the beginning.

Everyone at the time was only looking at the stars in the night sky, after all.

Even if you hadn't noticed, it would've been natural to not have remembered.

Mao: But still, it seemed to be a pretty important episode, though. When we become honored and excellent idols, we could use it for our autobiographies and all that.

Ahaha. Just to think about autobiographies and stuff even though we've only just won the [DDD], I guess I'm really getting carried away.

Despite the fact that we're still "ourselves who are still nothing", huh.

Makoto: Isn't that good enough? It's good to dream big, after all, and we've done some pretty "notable things" too...

Just a bit, we have a bit of a privilege to get carried away, right♪

Mao: Ahaha. Even though you're actually pretty timid, so~mehow, and I feel like you assess yourself quite lowly... Instead, it'd be better for you to act more proud.

Now, you're a lot "better", but before you were really "nervous and jumpy" to the point I was kind of upset.
When we first met, I felt like I was bullying the weak after all.

Makoto: Honestly, weren't you really bullying the weak, thou~gh? Because of "what happened then", my first impression of Isara-kun was just the absolute worst, you know?

Mao: Eh~. It couldn't be helped, I was just doing my work. Now we're friends who get along well, so can't we just not talk about what happened that time.

...Wait, sorry. Transfer Student looks confused, not being able to keep up with our conversation.

Makoto: Aah, sorry about that, Transfer Student-chan. We were only just talking about the old times, when the flowers were blooming.

A transfer student, after all, wouldn't know what we were saying if we were talking about last year.

Mao: I get the feeling that you guys didn't tell Transfer Student a lick about last year?

Well, after she transferred here, all those rebellious happenings took place, though... It hasn't even been a month since.

We didn't really have time to fill her in on the profound things.

But we were pretty reserved that time~, and I'm super grateful for what you took care of for us in [DDD], though. Transfer Student's already our treasured comrade.

From now on, let's share all kinds of things. Transfer Student, too, one day tell us about your previous school.

We've already become like your family, so let's keep "nothing" from each other.

Anyways, until Hokuto and Subaru come back, the teachers aren't going to start their talk...

To kill some time, how about we reminisce about all the things that happened that time.

When I went all-out in [DDD], too, I thought I'd just drop dead...

So~mehow, like some revolving lantern, I remembered this and that from back then.