Rocket Start ~sparse flash~ Chapter 4

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Makoto: Huh...? You're Class A's Akehoshi-kun and Sakasaki-kun, right? Do you have any business with the Game Club?

Subaru: Huh, you know our names? Huhhh...?

Makoto: Ah, I'm Yuuki Makoto from Class B. You two are pretty famous, Class A has quite a few showy students... Fufufu♪

Subaru: (So-somehow, this guy feels plain and pessimistic... Well, but at least it looks like he likes games.)

Umm, Yuuki-kun? You're in the Game Research Club also, Yuuki-kun?

Makoto: Y-yeah. Because I like games, I...

There was a time when I went and secluded myself and just played games, so that's why my eyesight got so bad.

Eh, my business doesn't concern you, huh... What do I do, I only just joined the Game Club, so I don't really know much about the other club members.

I don't know who you had business with, but you must've came to meet another club member.

But, I don't know their contact information and all... Should we wait until someone with authority comes by?

Our club attendance is bad, so there's usually no one but me... Even if we wait, there might not be a point.

Ah, would you like some tea?

You're guests. Hmm, the hot water pot is~

Hwaa!?

Subaru: You all right!? You just tripped over nothing, didn't you, it's like the very picture of a clumsy person...!¹

Makoto: Ahaha. Sorry about that, it looks like my glasses' strength isn't correct.

When I was doing my vision test, I wasn't very confident so I kept giving hazy answers... In fact, I think my eyesight must've been worse than I thought.

H-huh? I can't see anything! My glasses, where are my glasses...?

Subaru: Calm down~. These are your glasses, right, I'll pick up and give them to you.

Here, there you go~♪

Makoto: Thank you...♪

Subaru: ...

Makoto: Nn? W-what? Watching me like that... Is there something on my face?

Subaru: Nah... Yuuki-kun, without your glasses my impression of you changes a pretty good amount, huh?

Makoto: R-really? Don't look at me too much, I'm not good with being in people's line of sight... No, wait, it's because I'm an idol now, so people won't care about that, though.

Natsume: (...Ah, he was that "Yuuki Makoto" in the enD. To think that he'd entered Yumenosaki AcademY, I'd overlooked checking as sucH.)

(The school's information network has yet to be set in stone, huH.)

(Yuuki-kun, he's a child prodigy whose name was known widely to be a kids' modeL.)

(Idols and models are quite the different thingS, and looking at the circumstances it feels that the bud won't sprout and will be closed uP?)

(If I save such a chilD, these will be favors that I could win him over witH... It'd be beneficial in some waY. However, since it is quite the unexpected opportunitY, it seems that I must revise my plan in some waY.)

Makoto: Um, well... That's why, well, please don't look at me too closely, okay?

Subaru: Yuuki-kun, Yuuki-kun, what's this game you're playing? There's something like sugoroku² displayed on the screen!

That kind of game, if you play it alone it's not very fun, isn't it?

Makoto: Aah, don't keep moving around as you please~... Compared to its age, it's a very valuable game console.

If you hit and break it without a care, the senpais will get mad.

Natsume: Speaking of those senpaiS, are they not herE? I have business here.

Makoto: Wh-which senpai was it? There are all plain guys in our Game club who've gathered, though, but could it be... that number-one famous senpai?

Natsume: YeS. It's likely that senpai.

Makoto: Aah, it looks as if that person's quit the school. It was pretty sudden... I'd only just known about that after school yesterday, so I was pretty surprised when I'd heard about it.

Subaru: Hweh? In our school, there are more people who quit than I thought, huh~?

Makoto: Ahh, it's not as if his dreams got crushed~ or something... It was something like he wanted to pursue the path of game development in the first place.

His hobby is making games, so he must've thought to make business with that.

From what I've heard... Because some people from a gaming company noticed his ability in programming, so it seems he dropped out of school halfway and entered the company.

Subaru: Hmm. With other “things that you want to do”, which you can do in reality... If that dream can come true, you can really fly out.

It's not really what I like, but I might just understand it.

Natsume: AhaHA. In our schooL, it's an idiotic decision if you put all your might into simply becoming an idoL... I think that was quite the practical decisioN- rather, quite the mature decisioN.

Unlike that of Akehoshi-kuN, it's not as if everyone wants to be an idol with all they caN.

There are quite a few students who would rather think to fill up the seats of what they want to do~ in the gaP, until they reach "the things they want to do", huH.

I am also the saME. My main occupation is “fortune tellER”, see, learning the skill of an idol is a part of my hobBY.

I'm the same as welL. As my main occupation is of "fortune telleR", learning the trades of being an idol would be part of the skills was what I had thoughT.

Would you be the samE, Yuuki-kun. Your main occupation is as a modeL, correcT?

Makoto: Aah, no, I'm not a model any...

More importantly, the two of you aren't very troubled, even though the person you'd wanted to meet had already quit the school?

The Game Club members, too, they'd only joined just because they'd wanted to get close to that guy...

Thinking about how people will end up leaving the club~, is what I'm worried about.

Without enough members in the club who join, it might just as well be disbanded.


¹-A ドジっ子, which is what Subaru uses here, is a stock anime stereotype of a character who is extremely clumsy to describe Makoto.

²-Sugoroku is a Japanese children's board game.