#i realized i typed papa's name as yaotome gaku like 5 times gdi

[yotsutama]

2nd Anniversary Special Story 5

Idolish7 2nd Anniversary Special Story

Chapter 5 - Innocent Feelings

Phantom: This is your last chance. Kujou Tenn.

Tenn: Okay.

Gaku: You look confident.

Tenn: Well, yeah. Can I answer now?

Phantom: Say it.

Tenn: Love is, when we find out your true self, and call out your name.

Riku: …… Call his name?

Tenn: I’ve been suspicious of you. You’re asking us what ‘love’ is, even if you are a criminal, it’s hard to think that you are a man.

Tenn: Phantom, you are a woman. Plus, you couldn’t understand philosophical or adult-like answers.

Tenn: What you understood was an answer anyone, even a kid could understand, ‘an exciting feeling when surpassing the rainbow.’

Tenn: What angered you was the word ‘sea.’ Because someone couldn’t take you there.

Riku: Take her there…? ……! Ah…!

Tenn: Yeah. Phantom is the Master Director’s daughter. Am I right? Hitomi-chan.

Master Director’s Daughter: …………………

Iori: Master Director’s… Now that you said it, if she wasn’t related to Master Control, she couldn’t release breaking news that quickly.

Nagi: However, Master Control’s room has high-level security.

Nagi: Even if she is the staff’s family. A little lady like her couldn’t possibly access the computer that easily.

Master Director’s Daughter: …… I took the magic bag.

Mitsuki: The magic bag…?

Riku: Hitomi-chan, why are you doing this?

Master Director’s Daughter: I heard Papa and Mama talking, they said it was the president of TRIGGER’s agency’s fault they couldn’t celebrate my birthday.

Yaotome Sousuke: …… What?

Master Director’s Daughter: I liked TRIGGER very much. But since I found out about that, I hate them so much now.

Master Director’s Daughter: They are idols, they can be stars whenever they want, but I can be the star only on my birthday.

Riku: …… Hitomi-chan……

Master Director’s Daughter: That’s why, I used the magic bag. Then, I found out you were going to have a party at this restaurant.

Master Director’s Daughter: It’s not fair only TRIGGER gets to be celebrated. So I wanted to mess it up, just like my birthday.

Sougo: …… What do you mean by magic bag?

Master Director’s Daughter: It’s a big bag Papa’s new coworker put in our garage, he asked us to keep it for him.

Master Director’s Daughter: There’s a lot of difficult instructions in it. But I’m used to computers, so I learned how to access it.

Master Director’s Daughter: Then, when I tried pulling a prank, the instructions told me how to do it and then I could write whatever I wanted and make it appear on TV.

Tamaki: A prank, you mean that news about King Pudding being discontinued!?

Master Director’s Daughter: Yes. The bomb was a lie, but there are detailed instructions on how to create breaking news about a meteor.

Iori: Is that… A special machine and instructions on how to hack master control’s work!?

Iori: It’s dangerous for you to have those things. Let us go, and give that bag to us……

Master Director’s Daughter: No!!

Tenn: ………………..

Tenn: You haven’t satisfied messing up our party?

Master Director’s Daughter: I haven’t……

Tenn: I see. But I don’t think you can be satisfied even if you continued.

Master Director’s Daughter: Why?

Tenn: Because you like us, after all.

Master Director’s Daughter: ………………….

Tenn: You won’t ask what love is to guys you hate, right?

Tenn: If you almost started to hate us, try to like us. We will definitely make you love us again.

Tenn: We promise you won’t regret it. Please, don’t give up on us.

Tenn: Please, keep loving us.

Riku: …… Tenn-nii……

Master Director’s Daughter: I……

Master Director’s Daughter: I wanted to marry Yaotome Gaku.

Gaku: Me?

Tenn: So your favorite is Gaku……

Ryuunosuke: Is that so……

Momo: Do the two of you feel slightly disappointed you’re not her favorite?

Master Director’s Daughter: But, if I marry Yaotome Gaku, I have to call that stupid president my dad……

Yaotome Sousuke: Who are you calling stupid president!? Don’t you know I can demote your father with my power!?

Okazaki Rinto: President Yaotome, don’t talk about adult matters in front of a little girl! Little lady, you shouldn’t call uncle Yaotome stupid!

Master Director’s Daughter: Okay……

Okazaki Rinto: Hitomi-chan, how about not marrying Yaotome Gaku-kun, and marrying Rinto Onii-chan here? There won’t be any problems that way, right?

Yuki: Okarin just lined himself with the most Desired Embrace no.1 man.

Momo: Awesome. I might fall for him.

Master Director’s Daughter: No way.

Okazaki Rinto: Hm… Youngsters these days reject confessions so fast.

Ogami Banri: Hitomi-chan, how about Banri Onii-chan? I would make sweet sugar bread snacks for you.

Tamaki: Our guy stepped forward too!

Sougo: And he used snacks to lure her……

Iori: Plus, the snacks were simply cheap……

Master Director’s Daughter: No way. Yaotome Gaku is popular in my class.

Gaku: You like me because I’m popular? You shouldn’t like someone just because of that reason.

Master Director’s Daughter: …………………

Gaku: I want you to find my good traits and like me because of that. I have weaknesses too, but I have quite a lot of good traits.

Gaku: Find your own reason to like me. When you genuinely like me, my old man won’t matter to you anymore.

Master Director’s Daughter: …… I thought of that too before……

Master Directobr’s Daughter: But my birthday, the day I became an adult, ended up as a boring day. I can no longer believe in love or adults anymore……

Mitsuki: Don’t say you don’t believe in it! Hitomi-chan, you’re still 10 years old, aren’t you?

Mitsuki: Lots of exciting things are waiting for you! True, there might be sad things too.

Mitsuki: But believe, you are the star in your life every single day, forever!

Master Director’s Daughter: …… Not only on my birthday?

Ryuunosuke: He’s right. Even on sunny days or rainy days, you are here, with your family and friends. You are the star in your own story that will always continue.

Momo: Even if you don’t stand on a stage or air pranks on TV, if you laugh, it’s a good story ending!

Yamato: A story about locking idols up is hard to brag about to your classmates, right? You should go out, and make a new story.

Yamato: Onii-san understands it well. If you think you can’t believe it, you will no longer believe it. But…

Yamato: If you think things will be OK, and believe in yourself, surprisingly, it will be OK in the end.  (1)

Gaku: Please let us go, Hitomi.

Master Director’s Daughter: …… Gaku-kun……

Gaku: You like me, don’t you? Then come to me. I will make you feel like you’re surpassing the rainbow.

Gaku: I promise.

Yaotome Sousuke: ……………….

Yaotome Sousuke: …… I understand. I will talk to that TV station’s Master Director.

Yaotome Sousuke: I can’t promise, but I will see if your father can have another day off for your birthday.

Master Director’s Daughter: Really…!?

Yaotome Sousuke: Yeah. So you must let us go already. Anyway, where is this!?

Master Director’s Daughter: The restaurant’s 1st floor.

Yaotome Sousuke: What? Then, where are the owner and chefs!?

Master Director’s Daughter: They’re here. They’re waiting until the surprise ends. They helped me lock the room too.

Yaotome Sousuke: Surprise!? The owner thought this was a surprise!?

Master Director’s Daughter: They said Re:vale called them and asked them to help with their surprise.

Master Director’s Daughter: That’s why they listened to my requests too.

Yaotome Sousuke: You brats…!!

Momo: Ouch--! Sorry sorry!!

Yuki: Well well, President, well well well.

Anesagi Kaoru: Then what are the hand-shaped bloodstains on the refrigerator!?

Master Director’s Daughter: The owner accidentally put the documents and CD into the shredder and when he tried to take it out he injured himself.

Master Director’s Daughter: If it’s put in a refrigerator, the scratches would disappear so he placed it in there.  (2)

Anesagi Kaoru: Don’t you know that’s our legendary CD!?

Master Director’s Daughter: Ah…!!

Riku: Are you okay!?

Master Director’s Daughter: Some weird people are coming! The restaurant owner is unconscious…!

Iori: Is the owner of the bag coming back to get it?

Iori: He had instructions on how to hack master control’s work, he can’t be a normal person. He must have planned a criminal act!

Nagi: Hurry up, Hitomi! Hide yourself this instant! Look for a narrow space so the adults can’t find you!

Master Director’s Daughter: Eh……

Nagi: Go go go! Hurry up!

Master Director’s Daughter: ……gh, Kyaaa…!

Nagi: …… Jesus!

Yamato: Tama! How’s the door!?

Tamaki: It won’t open!!

Riku: Hitomi-chan! Hitomi-chan…!

Sougo: …… She’s not responding……

Anesagi Kaoru: You must be lying… No way…!

All: ………………..

Takanashi Otoharu: …… Everyone, are you okay!?

Tsumugi: Dad!

Ogami Banri: President!

Yaotome Sousuke: Takanashi! Is that you!?

Takanashi Otoharu: Sorry I am late. When I arrived, a little girl was cornered by an odd guy.

Ogami Banri: President, are you safe!?

Takanashi Otoharu: I am okay! I threw him with a one arm shoulder throw!  (3)

Ogami Banri: President, so ikemen…!!

Momo: Ban-san just fanboyed like me……

Takanashi Otoharu: I will open the door now. … Ah! Right. Yaotome-kun, TRIGGER.

Yaotome Sousuke: What.

Takanashi Otoharu: Congratulations on your award! As expected of Yaotome Production’s top idols. Do your best from now on too.

Yaotome Sousuke: …… Haha. Shut up. Hurry and open the door already.

Tsumugi: Thus, the case was solved.

Tsumugi: The man who owned Hitomi-chan’s magic bag was arrested by the police.

Tsumugi: His motive was he was upset because a woman he worked with at the TV station dumped him.

 [Re:vale’s Agency]

Momo: I’m glad the case was solved in the end! If the culprit’s plan went as planned, Japan would be in a panic.

Yuki: Idols who saved Japan, that doesn’t sound bad.

Momo: You’re super ikemen!!

Okazaki Rinto: Thanks for your work! I should do my best too so President Yaotome will forgive me soon……

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Riku: But it was inspiring! We don’t talk about love except at our jobs after all!

Nagi: We were able to get home on time to watch Cocona as well.

Tamaki: Nagicchi, which do you like more, girls or Cocona?

Nagi: Tamaki… My love is deeper than the sea and higher than the sky.

Tamaki: So?

Nagi: I love both with all my heart.

Mitsuki: That’s called two-timing!

Yamato: How about you, Mitsu? Have you improved your vocabulary, not just ‘having your heart throbbing?’

Mitsuki: Uumm… It’s kinda hard to express our feelings, see?

Iori: What if there are feelings that can’t be expressed using words?

Mitsuki: In that case… I’d bake a delicious cake to express my feelings! I’m a baker’s son, after all!

Tamaki: We’re goi--…… Sou-chan, leave that thing!!

Sougo: But Tamaki-kun, you said I should bring this with me regularly……

Tamaki: I wasn’t serious! The police would arrest you if you brought that screwdriver everywhere!

Yamato: …… You could get out easily whenever you’re locked somewhere, then.

[TRIGGER’s dressing room]

Anesagi Kaoru: Sigh… I was afraid that something would happen to you. Thank god you are ok.

Anesagi Kaoru: That girl was able to have her birthday party with her dad too!

Ryuunosuke: Is that true!? I’m glad!

Ryuunosuke: But Tenn, I was impressed by how you could guess that Phantom was a girl.

Tenn: Because I’m an idol.

Ryuunosuke: Because you’re an idol?

Tenn: I’m always thinking about how to make the girls who like us happy.

Tenn: I’m having fun doing that, it’s like celebrating someone’s birthday every day. I have a wonderful job.

Ryuunosuke: You’re right. Even though we don’t have any magic item, we can always make someone happy with our own power.

Ryuunosuke: It’s such an honor to have this wonderful job.

[TV station hallway]

Gaku: Oi.

Yaotome Sousuke: What.

Gaku: I heard from Mom. When I was a kid, we celebrated my birthday at that restaurant before.

Yaotome Sousuke: ………………..

Gaku: …… If that’s the truth, you should’ve told me.

Yaotome Sousuke: …… Your mother was raised in a small town with an impetuous personality. She always complained about the French cooking there.

Yaotome Sousuke: ‘The cooking time is so slow. Even a Soba just takes 10 minutes to be served,’ she said. Thinking about it now, we never got along from the start.

Gaku: …………….....

Yaotome Sousuke: …… However, it was a good memory.

Gaku: Hmph……

Yaotome Sousuke: I won’t take us to dinner again. You made friends with those brats without my permission and messed up the dinner.

Gaku: Thanks to that, you were saved by them, right? Anyway, I don’t care, we can have a party ourselves.

Yaotome Sousuke: Head to the studio already. Stay focused.

Gaku: You don’t have to tell me that. Bye.

[Backstage]

Tenn: Gaku, you’re so slow.

Gaku: My bad.

Audiences: Kyaaaaaaaaa……..

Ryuunosuke: The audience is so excited.

Tenn: Are you ready to show them the rainbow and the sea?

Gaku: Yeah.

Ryuunosuke: Let’s do our best!

Tenn: No matter where our stage is, we are TRIGGER. No matter what happens, we won’t budge. Our passion is here, and it will never change.

Tenn: Being loved as if it’s our birthday and loving them as if we were celebrating their birthdays.

Tenn: Up until now, from now on, towards every person we see with these eyes.

 End.

T/N?

Proofread by Sophia @ousama-pudding!! <3

(1) *part 3 spoiler* do you know how much I cried at this line knowing yamato spent his young days not believing in anyone SOBS

(2) Freezing a CD can actually remove scratches on a CD. By placing a damaged CD into the freezer for several hours and then letting it thaw to room temperature on its own and removing any excess moisture afterwards will fix the CD. When small ice layers forms in the scratch, this will allow the laser to read the song normally and it basically won’t read the scratches anymore and play the CD like normal. (TBH I didn’t know this until Sophia told me hahaha thanks!)

(3) One arm shoulder throw is a judo/sumo move.

I WANT YAOTOME FAMS TO HAVE DINNER AGAIN (and eat soba together)

We plan to translate Twelve Fantasia in Fukuoka next (personally just because Re:vale and MEZZO” take the spotlight in Fukuoka story lol) not going to do the whole twelve fantasia story bc I believe someone would do it... someone would......

tHANKS FOR READING