Rocket Start ~set theory~ Chapter 3

[nebulancer]

Koga: Grrl, growl...♪

Ah~... Fwah, agh♪

(Nn- oh. Ah~... Crap, I fell asleep.)

(What time is it? It's pitch black, ain't it? The moon's come out.)

(About that, it's cold... It's already spring, but just once the sun goes down it gets real chilly. Before I catch a cold, gotta head home'n sleep then.)

(There's still time for the trains to be movin' around, right? Where I live's pretty far away, huh~)

(...In the end, maybe lookin' for a boardin' house that'll fit me or even a apartment to rent, better find a place to live by myself.)

(What to do. Can't walk home or anythin', and if the trains've stopped, gotta look for some empty classroom to sleep in then.)

(If I'm right, those lesson rooms or somethin' should've been rented...)

(But the school's idiots'n all gone and made it their hangout places, huh. They don't even pay the fees, crashin' and screwin' around.)

(With them thinkin' I wanted to do stuff like that, I was invited too...)

(But just what I thought, hangin' out with those bad types makes you rotten to the core. Even goin' on a rampage ain't fun at a~ll.)

(It's fine if I'm alone, though.)

Subaru: Yahoo, Gami-san♪

Koga: Uhyi!? Ahh, you scared me! D-d-d-don't just surprise me like tha~t! I'll kill you!

Subaru: Sorry, sorry. More importantly, what were you doing, sleeping here? The one who got surprised was me, you know~, I totally thought you were a corpse! Ahahaha☆

Hey, so I was talking Daikichi for a walk. For some reason, Daikichi just sat down and didn't budge a bit~

So I thought about it, like: was Gami-san on top of the bicycle parking area?

Because Daikichi really loves Gami-san, you know! He's got your smell if Gami-san's there, you feel?

Dogs are pretty amazing. Their sense of smell is better than humans' by eight million times, right?

Koga: Wai- wait a sec... I just woke up, so my head's goin' round'n round. Don't start snappin' and talk like a barrage.

Anyway. Hey, you're Akehoshi, aren't you... Better not be talkin' to me all casually.

Were we friends? That's wrong, ain't it? We're not gettin' familiar at all, I'll bite you to death!

Subaru: Eh~? But I thought we were friends; Gami-san usually plays with and feeds Daikichi, don't you?

My dad said that~: no one who likes animals is a bad person! So that's why I wanna get to know Gami-san better~♪

On a more serious note, I've gotten worried because there's no one in class who wants to pair up with me...

If I got along with someone in my same class like Gami-san, I'd be relieved to be able to join up with someone else~ and stuff♪

Koga: Hmph, gettin' along with someone's not to my taste at all.

Anyways... even though it looks like you're different makings from those pieces of junk, there's not like you're gonna get anythin' even if you work hard in class or nothin'.

I even end up skippin' class, goin' to practice playin' my instruments or singin' in the live house nearby.

There's this really lovin' band there, and I'm bein' guided by them. Fufun♪

Subaru: You'd better properly attend classes. Because Yumenosaki's a private school, even just the entrance fee is pretty taxing, isn't it?

We're putting a burden on our parents okay~, so take it seriously, why don't you.

Koga: Aagh, so showin' up in class means bein' serious?

All those idiots cawin' around are noisy as hell, so we can't even get the teacher's lessons into our heads at all. That kinda thing's already known as chaos in the classrooms.

Subaru: That's right, but still~. Even so, we've gotten all the way here and entered the school... There's no meaning to just skipping all the time; you're basically wasting both your money and your time.

That live house... you practice in it already. So why did you even enter Yumenosaki Academy?

Then, usually you wouldn't have a problem even if you didn't enroll here?

Koga: That's because of my superstar, Sakuma-senpai, who...

Wait- this ain't got anythin' to do with you, dweeb.¹

Anyways... Lately, people've been spoutin' stuff like if we all get along, join hands together, we'll make the goal.

Even if you're the only one gettin' hyped up, as the "nail that sticks out" you'll just end up bein' hammered down.

Subaru: Uu~n? So that's why, if Gami-san and I do our best together, we'd be able to both be reliev~ed?

Koga: I told you, that kinda thing pisses me off. Listen to what others say. Look, even Daikichi's followin' my instructions, listenin' to what I say when I tell him to "sit down", 'kay?

Hehe. Daikichi, could you c'mere? The moon's lookin' beautiful♪

Subaru: Gami-sa~n? I'm happy you're getting along with Daikichi, but show some more interest in me, the owner, too!

Koga: Aw, shut up, humans annoy me... Each and every one of 'em's damn annoyin'.

Akehoshi, you bastard, I'm not gonna wanna be friends with you either. Don't even call me "Gami-san" in the first place.

Subaru: Eh~? It's cute, isn't it? Calling people with nicknames makes me feel like we're getting a bit closer~♪

Koga: Like I said, we're not even that close. You're the one who heads over here all one-sidedly! You're annoying, shoo, shoo! Get lost already!

Subaru: Nn~... Okay, I got it. I thought I could at least be friends~ with Gami-san, though.

Koga: Huhh? Did you come to Yumenosaki Academy to make friends? Weren't you aimin' for the top in bein' an idol?

If so, you got it wrong from the very start. If you wanna "play friends", go choose another path!

If you're doin' it now, it's not like that's too late or anythin'. Goin' to school like always, makin' friends like always, doin' what you do in your youth like always, that's pretty stupid of you.


¹-Yeah, just like "shut up tacos" or whatever Koga refers to Adonis as, he calls Subaru "オタンコナス": "otankonasu". It's definitely a derogatory term; as such, I went with "dweeb" because it conveys that inferior feeling.