Rocket Start ~sparse flash~ Chapter 5

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Mao: ...

...Oi. What're you following me for, Ritsu?

I'm pretty curious... Do you have anything to do with me? If all you're doing is just hanging around me, you're irritating, so why don't you go off somewhere~?

Ritsu: Muu. Recently, Maa~kun's been so cold.

Mao: Don't call me "Maa~kun". We're not kids anymore... You really don't change, Ritsu.

You spoiled kid, hurry up and wean already.

Ritsu: It's not "Ritsu, but call me "Ricchan" instead~! Like you used to, call me that cuter "Ricchan"~!

Mao: Don't throw a weird tantrum for argument's sake! Hey, seriously, what's with you; I don't get your reason for doing this! Anyways, it's almost the time to finally leave school, so don't get involved with me and go home already~?

Ritsu: On the road home, we're going together, you know. Let's go home, the two of us, getting along, Maa~kun...♪

Fufufu. How nostalgic. We used to go home together, right? Carrying schoolbags on our backs and stuff...

As it was a long road there, we'd link our hands together, bringing our faces closer and talking the whole time.

When I got tired and went to sleep, Maa~kun would carry me and lift me piggy-back, huh...♪

Mao: No, I don't have those kinds of memories. But I do remember carrying your share of the schoolbags and you yourself, going home while feeling as if I were about to die.

Ritsu: Fufufu. Maa~kun's been, ever since the beginning, my loyal "Servant", after all♪

Mao: What's with being a "servant". ...But seriously, I've got work left, so why don't you go?

You can get home by yourself, right, Ritsu? If you're in bad shape to the point where you feel you can't walk, why not call your house and ask for your "Onii-chan"?

Your "Onii-chan"'s already come back, right?

Ritsu: No, that guy who seems to be my brother died off in some foreign country's land.

Mao: What does that even mean... Wait, but I heard rumors that your "Onii-chan" came back.

It's only around the neighborhood, but your house's "Onii-chan" is a famous and well-known guy.

Compared to that, you're the underachieving younger brother, huh~...

You'd better watch and learn from your "Onii-chan" and live a bit more seriously; rather, I really don't even know how you managed to live up till now.

Ritsu: Uu~. I've been sleeping and getting up, breathing in oxygen and exhaling it, but... It could be said that "I've been living", or maybe just that "I just haven't died", though.

Oh well. If I meddle with Maa~kun too much and you start to dislike me, it'd get lonely, so just this time I'll listen to what you say and go home by myself...

Tomorrow, want to go home together? When's good?

Mao: Why do you want to go home with me so much...

I mean, if we're talking seriously, I'll be really busy for some time. After all, I've been helping out the Student Council recently.

Ritsu: Student Council, huh... Speaking of which, it was reorganized pretty recently, wasn't it.

That brother-type person had been the Student Council Chairman, because that guy was the type to be pushed into those titles, huh.

Maa~kun, you like those kinds of things too... You have no shortage of worries you reap the profits of, almost like they're odd jobs.

You like being busy, don't you? That's the kind of weirdo you are.

Mao: Who're you calling a weirdo. Anyways, it's ju~st because it looks like the Student Council doesn't have enough personnel.

For some time I'm only busy in the hallways and stuff being watched over, helping them with carrying documents.

That way, bit by bit together with them I would increase my activities... It's for now, but I've been invited to "possibly consider joining the Student Council".

Well, it's not like I have a reason to turn them down. Right now it's the feeling like I'm still in training; I'm kind of lost whether to become an official member of the Student Council though.

This is just my gut feeling, but it kind of reeks of something bad... I guess I'll think about it in depth for a bit.

Ritsu: Wha~t do you mean, "think about it". Maa~kun doesn't need to think about it, right? Seeing as how even if you get stuck in something you enjoy in depth you're gonna be pretty giddy about it.

But it's good, that's Maa~kun's life though... But in the end, I'm worried about it.

If you ever lose your way on what to do, rely on me. No matter when, I'll help you and fulfill all of Maa~kun's wishes.

Even if the whole world turns to become your enemy, only I will be on Maa~kun's side.

At any time if you wished it, I'd massacre any idiots who would upset Maa~kun.

Mao: To have them be massacred too... That kind of speech is embarrassing, so quit it already~. You're a high school student now, so you should've graduated from Chuunibyou¹ already.

Well, bye. See you tomorrow, let's meet in the classroom... Ricchan.

...Hey, his figure's up and disappeared. That guy's kind of like a ghost or something, huh~.

Anyways. Umm, what was I supposed to do after this...

Ugh, I'm gonna be going around doing detestable jobs.

The Student Council's making me to only help out with these kinds of jobs that are fit for a monster... Student Council seems pretty short on personnel, huh.

It's like a~ll I'm doing is the dirty work... Seriously, I'm sorry for these troubling jobs, though.



¹-Chuunibyou (中二病) is a "disease" that usually affects people in their second year of middle school, where those affected act high-and-mighty or delusional, or both. It's not actually a disease though. This is usually used to describe Shinobu, who's a ninja chuuni.