Minaduki Rui’s Speech – “Brought to You From the Scenes of Hyakunen Aoharu”

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Minaduki Rui’s Speech – “Brought to You From the Scenes of Hyakunen Aoharu”

 

“Hyakunen Aoharu. Minaduki Rui’s Speech: Brought to You From the Scenes of Hyakunen Aoharu.

 

Yoohoo. Minaduki Rui here.

They told me it was fine to talk about anything, just as long as I talked, so I guess I’ll talk about what it looks like being on-site at Hyakunen Aoharu.

Um, well. First, let’s start with my class.

My class in Tsukino Academy is 1-B. Ai, Sora, Naosuke, and Haruto are in this class.

I’ve talked to Ai through Koi, and we’ve worked together before. But I’ve never been together with her this long, so it felt new.

I talked with Sora pretty often in break rooms during concerts, so it’s been a while since.

For work, I hadn’t really interacted with Naosuke and Haruto much aside from our joint stages and the like... I’ve gone to their dorms with Shun to hang out before, though, so while everyone watching might see it as being new and unusual, it felt more like, ‘Yoohoo. I’m back,’ for me.

Tsukino Academy is set like a high school, so while we’re waiting, the conversation tends to shift into talking about how things were when we were back in high school. It’s pretty amusing how everyone’s all over the place.

I didn’t go to school very much, as I was mostly holding recitals and performing overseas. I suppose I seemed the strangest out of us.

From my perspective, however, everyone’s ‘normal’ felt more unique.

The time spent from waking up until going to school, or how they spent their time during breaks.

It’s interesting to listen to whatever they have to say.

If I were to provide examples of what everyone said, for example...

 

Ai said, because she’s a girl, she spent thirty minutes preparing everything from waking up until leaving for school. Breakfast aside.

We all responded with a, ‘Huh, wow~’

Naosuke said that he didn’t even need thirty minutes to finish everything once he woke up until he left school, breakfast included. Ai was surprised at that.

Haruto is an early riser, so he would wake up about an hour and a half before going to school and go for morning runs. We all applauded him, saying, ‘How healthy!’ ‘How diligent!’ ‘Impressive~!’

 

I’m... really bad in the mornings, aren’t I? After all, it takes me more than thirty minutes for my brain to start working after I wake up.

I praise myself for being able to wake up on my own even now.

Though if Ikkun and Kai had to wake me up, I’d reflect on my mistake. ‘Shoddy excuse for a working adult.’

Even if I’ve gotten enough sleep, my low blood pressure means that I can’t move very well. I wonder what I can do about that...

...Ah. I strayed off topic.

 

I guess I can talk about club activities next. I’m in the Photography Club, alongside Issei from QUELL.

After school, we show each other our photos and talk about them.

Neither Issei nor I are the type to initiate conversations on our own, so at first, the club room was silent as could be.

I found it amusing how Issei was fidgeting so restlessly.

It’s interesting enough to me listening to the sounds of a certain place, even if it’s quiet, so silence among people doesn’t bother me very much.

Still, it seemed as if Issei were the type to be bothered by that. Now that I think about it, we’re in the same year setting-wise, but I should’ve been the one to speak first as his senior in showbiz and also being older than him. I messed up there.

Sorry about that, Issei.

 

After some time had passed, I asked him why he chose the Photography Club, and what kinds of photos he takes. He answered me very sincerely, which made me laugh.

I love people who are earnest with what they do.

Issei says he often takes photos of scenery. He also takes photos of people, but he likes them to be within the scenery itself.

I also don’t take many pictures of people. We laughed together, since we had that in common.

The slight difference between us is that I don’t pay attention to the people or the scenery itself. I take pictures like I’m taking a slice out of the world I see in front of me, with the vague sensation that this particular moment ‘feels good.’

Issei’s photos have memories packed into them. It contains the before and after of when the photo is taken, too. That’s what’s different between us.

We discuss the instants when we feel we want to snap the shutter and analyze them for ourselves.

Though there are times we talk about music, we’ve never discussed our shared hobby for photography so deeply before, so it was pretty interesting to me.

...Ah. Also, the two of us somehow tend to take a bunch of blue photos. I wonder if that’s related to how both our image colors are cool colors?

I don’t often have things in common with others, so I think I have many similarities with Issei, in fact. We might be quite similar.

When I thought of it that way, my same-year junior started looking cuter. I decided to put on airs of being a big brother in our first-year duo in the Photography Club.

 

Hyakunen Aoharu has only just gotten started. What kind of youth... should I make it?”