Parallel World - Ch. 3

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Parallel World - “Cuteness is Unjust” Chapter 3

Writer: Akira

Season: Winter

(Ten minutes later. Inside ES, Rhythm Link Office.)

Tomoya:

Excuse me… It’s us, Ra*bits.

Mitsuru:

Ahaha, you’ve been so gloomy all day, Tomo-chan! Cheer up!

Tomoya:

Well, considering someone’s about to chew us out any minute now, I’m hardly going to have a big grin on my face… If anything, you could do with being a little more on edge.

All you’re gonna do is gonna rub the person we’re dealing with the wrong way, so you could at least try to look like you’re sorry for what we’ve done.

Mitsuru:

But I dunno what they’re so mad at us for, so how am I supposed to look sorry about it?

And when we haven’t done a thing wrong?

Tomoya:

I mean, I thought the same thing… And it doesn’t seem like anyone else has any idea why someone would be mad at us either.

All the agency told me was that some big, influential figure that they can’t ignore is mad at us. But I have no idea who it is.

Hajime: 

I do wonder who it could be… I’m getting nervous.

Oh! Maybe it was the actress I held back when we had to do dozens of retakes because of me? Or it could have been that salesman? Or maybe when I was on that TV show—

Nazuna:

Hmm… I’m sure all of us have slipped up in little ways plenty of times, but nothing that would infuriate some major figure enough to storm into the agency to give us a beatdown.

Tomoya:

Well, we don’t even know what we did to set them off.

Nazuna:

That’s true. But you know what they say—a picture is worth a thousand words. I’m sure once we see the person who’s here to give us a beatdown, we should be able to guess what’s up.

All right! All of you, follow me. If you get scared, you can hide behind me.

Hajime:

Nii~chan, you’re as macho as ever… Even though you’re the tiniest, you’re the coolest out of all of us ♪

Nazuna:

You didn’t have to call me the “tiniest”?

Tomoya:

Everyone, ssh… I can see someone who looks like they might be the person in question. Look, sitting over there by the window.

(Scene change. Rhythm Link Office window seat.)

Hajime:

……

Tomoya:

(Oh, it looks like Hajime is frozen in shock. Well, yeah. I get that. This is terrifying.

Who is that guy…? A member of the yakuza? A pro wrestler?

He’s so massive and looks terrifyingly strong… Like he’s made out of muscles.

Aw, I hate this. This guy seems terrifying. Is this the guy we upset?

No. There’s still a chance that might not be it. We’ve gotta confirm things with the agency first.

This massive guy might have nothing to do with us. Maybe he’s a pro wrestler who just so happens to be in the office at the same time as us. Yeah, I sure hope that’s it.)

???:

“I’ve been waiting for all of you.”

“Ufufufufu… And all of you came the moment I summoned you. Aren’t you all such good boys, Ra*bits?”

Tomoya:

(...?! What?! Did that massive guy just say that? He’s monstrously big, so that mysteriously cutesy voice I just heard doesn’t suit him at all!)

Hajime:

I know that voice!

Tomoya:

What? Hajime, you know this guy?

Hajime:

Oh, no. I’m not familiar with this large man.

But I’ve heard that voice before. There’s no way all of you haven’t either. The tone was a little bit different than usual, so you might not have recognized it right away.

???:

“Yes. But since this is the first time I’ve met some of you here face to face—well, face to face perhaps isn’t the right word—but this will be my first time speaking with some of you. And so, I will introduce myself.”

“Allow me to officially mark the start of our first meeting.”

“My name is Kirarai Dearu. Kirarai is my last name, and Dearu is my first name. Ah, but the whole thing is my stage name, of course.”

Tomoya:

Kirarai…?

Hajime:

Fans tend to shorten the full thing and use ‘Ideia-sama’ when talking about this person.*

In other words, this is “Bishojo-senpai”.

Ideia-sama:

“And I happen to prefer that nickname. It captures my true essence.”

“I don’t mind if all of you continue to call me ‘Bishojo-senpai’ as always. Do feel free.”

Hajime:

Err, umm. Since we’re face to face (?) right now, it feels a bit embarrassing to call you that.

Ideia-sama:

“And why is that? It isn’t as if it’s a derogatory nickname. If anything, it’s a compliment.”

“There is no such thing as expressing too many words of praise or gratitude.”

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Notes:

*Pronunciation:

EEE-DEH-AHH

I’ve been struggling on how to romanize this to match the pronunciation.

As it’s short for Kirarai Dearu, “Idea” is the closest spelling, but it is pronounced differently to the english word “idea.” And so “Ideia” will hopefully get the pronunciation across the best, but this may be changed if it is ever confirmed otherwise in future.

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