Parallel World - Ch. 10

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Parallel World - “The Bad Kid Survival Strategy” Chapter 10

Writer: Akira

Season: Winter

(One week later. Madara Mikejima’s little sister’s rehabilitation center.)

Mitsuru:

Ta-dah~! ♪

There! Look, look, now it looks like we’re in a field of flowers~!

Ehehe. I don’t really like this room ‘cause it feels so gloomy, but all these pretty flowers’ll fill it with color and their pretty smell! So now it’s like we’re outside!

Like we’re under the sun! Right? And look, if we hold hands and move like this it feels like we’re runnin’ outside! Dash, dash, dash~ ☆

Madara:

…I sure wish you wouldn’t make my little sister go along with your crazy behavior.

Thanks to your influence, she’s becoming needlessly energized which is turning into a bit of a hassle.

Mitsuru:

Oh! Mike-chan-senpai! Caught ya, caught ya, caught~!

Madara:

Whoa there!

Mitsuru:

Don’t try to escape! Put your hands up and come quietly! You’re under arrest!

Madara:

Don’t jump at me like that. Surely you know better than to make a fuss in this sort of facility?

Mitsuru:

But if I don’t catch ya, you’re just gonna escape on me again!

Madara:

I really wish you’d just let me go already… Look, you’re much stronger, faster, and a superior idol to me. There, satisfied?

Mitsuru:

No! None of that counts until I’ve accepted it myself!

Madara:

You really are a bothersome kid.

Though I guess that’s why you and my little sister get along so well.

I suppose I do at least owe you an obligatory thank you. Apparently you come and visit my sister a lot?

That’s what the receptionist told me just now. And she made sure to glare at me and comment that today’s the first time she’s seen me in ages.

Mitsuru:

You’re supposed to be Guu~chan’s big brother. You guys are family, so you should really come and visit her a ton more!

Madara:

So, you call her Guu~chan? What about her is so Guu-d?

My misfortunate little sister has always been the gloomy sort, and a real schemer at that. She’s a bad kid rather than a good one.

Mitsuru:

‘Cause that’s her name! She’s called “Maguro”, so I call her “Guu~chan”!

“Maa~chan” sounds too much like your name, “Madara”, so I don’t like that, and Guu~chan doesn’t like it either!

Madara:

Quite the unpopular guy here, aren't I? I suppose I brought this on myself, karmic retribution and all that.

Mitsuru:

If ya don’t wanna be disliked, you should put in the effort for us to like you more?

…That’s what I’m tryin’ to do lately.

Madara:

Yeah, I heard you guys have found yourself in quite the tricky situation.

You Ra*bits are normally so peaceful—flouncing about without a care in the world, but now you’re in the center of a pretty scandalous plot.

On the contrary, Double Face—or rather just me—happens to be the subject of a plot that seems peaceful and carefree at first glance.

Unusual events are unfolding one after the other lately, to the point where I feel myself becoming practically religious these days… Do you think we’d better perform an exorcism at ES just to be safe?

Oh, that was a joke, by the way.

Are you guys in Ra*bits really okay? 

Mitsuru:

No, not at all! Nothing’s okay about this! My head feels like it’s gonna explode!

Madara:

As expected, huh.. Not that I’m particularly interested in you, but I just so happen to be in a position where I hear a lot about what’s going on, whether I chose to or not.

The super-idol Kirarai Dearu, otherwise known as Bishojo-senpai, is guilty of power harassment against you guys, and now all your work has dried up.

Mitsuru:

Yeah… All of a sudden, any sorta jobs focusing on “cuteness” have completely vanished.

We can still do jobs that focus on being cool, so it’s not like work has totally dried up.

But Hajime-chan’s not used to gettin’ offers for that sort of job at all. And since he’s left with nothing to do, he’s wanderin’ around worryin’ himself sick. I can’t stand seein’ him like this.

I feel like he’s seriously gonna get ill any day now.

But I’ve never worried so seriously about anything like this before, so I don’t even know what I should say to him.

Madara:

And so, you’ve come to my incessantly gloomy little sister to ask for advice? No one knows the way of a snake better than a snake herself.

Mitsuru:

What are you comparing a cute girl to a snake for? You should compare her to somethin’ like a bunny, or a kitty cat—

Wait, no. I can’t go sayin’ ya have to talk about her a certain way just ‘cause she’s a girl. Man~ This is so complicated…

Madara:

? Has Arashi-san said something to you about that?

Mitsuru:

Mhm-mhm. But that Kide, Ide… What was it again? Our enemy with the long name, Bishojo-senpai, seems like the type to be concerned about that sorta thing?

In order to win a war, it’s important to get to know the enemy. Isn’t that what someone once said?

Madara:

Your enemy, huh? Hahaha! You’ve really gone and made an actual enemy.

Isn’t this great? Everyone’s always been so kind and soft on you Ra*bits.So if anything, you had a more warped point of view of the world back at Yumenosaki. Frankly, it made me sick.

Doesn’t the thought of having a true rival get you all fired up? I’d go as far as to say I’m jealous; this sounds like the events right out of a manga ♪

Mitsuru:

If you’re jealous, then I’d rather just trade ya… No, I can’t say that. This is our problem to solve.

We have to do our best to think it over and figure out what the right answer is. Even though I suck at thinkin’.

And that’s why I’m here to borrow Guu~chan’s advice, since she’s way smarter than me.

Madara:

My, my. Mitsuru-san seems to have placed an unusual amount of trust in you, my misfortunate little sister.

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