#taiga passing judgement on everyone's wishes... pfft

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Prism Rush Main Story Episode 7 Chapter 1

Your Dreams and Mine #1

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Translator’s Notes: This is... the last episode!! Just three more chapters and the epilogue left after this! The boys wrap up their Japanese New Year with a traditional shrine visit and feast.  Also boys will be boys. I’m posting this a couple weeks into the New Year, but still relevant enough I think. I couldn’t find that poem Yukinojo was referencing, but I didn’t look too hard for it either I guess. (There is a screenshot for if anyone knows it.) Also if you’re planning to ask me a question about that Jin scene, know that I have several questions as well...

Shin: Our first shrine visit of the new year... Umm... how does it go again?

Yukinojo: This is a Shinto shrine, so bow twice, clap twice, and bow once. 

Leo: That’s our Yuki-sama! You sure know a lot. 

Taiga: Does praying at a shrine actually do anything...?

Kakeru: Hey! If you go saying something blasphemous like that you’ll end up stepping in gum with a brand new pair of shoes for sure! 

 Taiga: Wha?! Where did that even come from... Well, I guess I’ll offer a prayer just in case... 

Minato: Heheh. Your true colors shine through. 

Taiga: S... Shut up!!

Shin: ................!!

Yu: ....Hey. Shin. 

Shin: *mumbling*

Yu: HEY!! It’s been like 5 minutes already?! Some of us ain’t got all day!

Hijiri: There’s a line of people behind us, so we should be getting on our way... 

Shin: Huh?! Ah, s-sorry! I just had... a lot of things I wanted to wish for... 

Leo: Shin-kun, what did you wish for?

Shin: I wished that I could get better and better at performing prism shows!

Taiga: Well that’s straightforward.

Minato: But I think everyone else here has that same wish too, right?

Kakeru: Well... yeah. 

Leo: Me too! 

Yu: But that can’t be all with all that sweet time you took. 

Shin: Oh yeah and I wished for the safety of the Edel Rose building, I wished none of us would be involved in a traffic accident, I wished for business prosperity... 

That Superintendent Himuro’s stomachache would get better, that Yamada-san’s toothache would get better, that Yu-kun could have a growth spurt... 

Yu: Nobody asked you to wish for that!! 

Hijiri: Oh my... I didn’t realize you were even worried about such things... Sorry for troubling you.... 

Shin: It’s really no problem! But... am I the only one who is going to share their wish....? What did you guys wish for?

Leo: I wished for my very own six pack! I’m a bit jealous of those... 

Yu: Leo wished to become like Alexander...?! Now that’s one wish that doesn’t need to come true! 

Leo: Yuki-sama, what did you wish for?

Yukinojo: A small boat... to weather the treacherous seas... With one thread of light... We can still go on....

Shin: Umm umm.... W... What....?

Yukinojo: It’s a traditional verse that means: The road ahead of us may be rough, but please show us the way. 

Leo: Wow! How elegant!!

Taiga: I have no idea what just happened... 

Kakeru: What did you wish for, Minatocchi?

Minato: I wished for big ripe tomatoes in the garden this summer too.

Taiga: Are you a housewife?!

Kakeru: I wished our company sales would reach 200% of last year’s!

Taiga: Too real!! 

Kakeru: You probably wished to surpass Kazuki-san at something, didn’t you Taiga-kyun?

Taiga: H... How did you know?!

Kakeru: You can’t keep anything from me! What about you, lil’ bro?

Yu: I... didn’t wish for anything. 

Shin: Huh, but why?! It’s our first shrine visit of the year....

Yu: Why, you ask... because I am the all knowing, all powerful Zeus!! I don’t need any wishes granted for me! 

Taiga: Excuse me...? 

Kakeru: Maybe I should have used my wish to wish lil’ bro would stop living in a dream world.... 

Yu: WHAT?! What did you just say...! 

Minato: Settle down now. No fighting or else there will be no rice cakes in your soup. 

Taiga: How... could you... 

Yu: You can’t... 

Minato: Well then, last one back to the dorm is a rotten egg! And the winner gets two rice cakes! 

Yu: WHAT! 

Minato: Ready... GO!!

Taiga: This is stupid... 

Minato: If you don’t hurry up everyone else will eat all the sweet chestnuts! 

Taiga: Hey!! No fair!! 

Shin: Wait up, everyone!! 

Hijiri: Heheh. They look like they’re having so much fun. As long as they keep shining so brightly, surely my wish will come true as well. 

My wish that the prism radiance will fill everyone’s hearts.... 

(Back at Edel Rose)

Yu: Minato’s soup really is the best! 

Leo: And lucky you with your two rice cakes, Yu-kun! 

Yu: It’s my prize for winning the race! So they’re all mine! Ack! .... It’s stuck in my throat...! 

Minato: It’s because you’re eating too fast. Here, have some water.

Yu: That was close... 

Shin: All of this New Year’s meal is delicious! 

Minato: It was made from Kouji-san’s original recipe which he passed down to me! In addition to the traditional fare, it also includes some western flavor to spice things up. 

Leo: This roast beef is so good! 

Kakeru: And the seaweed roll as well... 

Minato: But you know, it’s been a long time since we all sat down for a nice meal like this. 

Taiga: Yeah I know. Even during the New Year holiday we were busy with the countdown concert. 

Leo: All the prep and practice made me dizzy... 

Shin: Yeah, but... it was all so fun!! 

Minato: Yes, it was. 

Shin: I was so nervous about singing my solo song. Up until I got on stage that is... 

Kakeru: We all rocked it, didn’t we?

Leo: The audience responded to our calls too!

Taiga: And I think I saw some of them dancing along... 

Shin: It’s all because Yu-kun wrote us such great songs...

Yu: But the one who really worked the hardest was.... you, Shin. Wasn’t it?

Shin: Huh?

Minato: When we had that blackout due to technical difficulties and nobody knew what to do, you were the one who never gave up.

Shin: Minato-san... 

Yukinojo: It was because you encouraged all of us that we were all able to land a jump together. 

Kakeru: If we have nothing to light our way, we can become the light.... I would have never thought to say something like that. 

Leo: It’s really because of Shin-kun that our concert was a success. 

Minato: Thank you, Ichijo. 

Shin: Y.. You guys... 

Yukinojo: But we don’t have much time to revel in the past. We still have a long road ahead of us. We’ve got to focus on what is on our horizon... 

Shin: Yeah... Our next goal is....! 

(At Schwartz Rose)

Jin: A new year begins... It feels so divine. Don’t you think so, Louis?

Louis: ....What are you working on?

Jin: Ah, this is called a “kakizome”. It’s for defining your goals at the beginning of the year using calligraphy. The boiling passion which has been sleeping inside of me will awaken.... NOW!!  

Flow from my body and into this calligraphy brush!!! HYAAAAAH! 

Louis: That... That says....

Jin: “BEGONE EVIL SPIRIT”!! I am... FILLED WITH RAGE!! Against all who oppose me... HIJIRI! You are the evil spirit!! 

I will erase you from this world.... Louis! Bring me the purifying salt! Quickly!

Next Chapter.