Parallel World - Ch. 21

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Parallel World - “Epilogue” Chapter 21

Writer: Akira

Season: Winter

(Several hours later. Announcing the results of the Parallel World project on stage.)

Tomoya:

“Thank you all for choosing us!”

“We are—”

Hajime:

“We are—”

Mitsuru:

“The real Ra*bits~! Yay! ☆”

Nazuna:

“You did an incredible job of choosing the right answer, so we’d like to give you some gifts as a reward!”

“Everything has been sent to your SSVRS account, so make sure to pick it all up within the timeframe!”

…Man~ To be honest, I was pretty on edge.

I really am glad everyone could tell that we’re the ‘real’ Ra*bits.

Hajime:

Me too… Possibly thanks to a lot of the work Mitsuru-kun is popular for doing especially recently, the ‘cool’ versions of Ra*bits ended up getting a lot of votes too.

Nazuna:

You mean like the Knights version of Ra*bits?

But I’d seriously hate that~ Having to act all pompous like Izumi-chin does by simping for all his fans like, “Anything for you, Princess!”

Hajime:

Nii~chan, you shouldn’t say that he ‘simps’ for his fans~ Especially not when the world probably thinks that we Ra*bits are even more guilty of leading on or kissing up to our fans with how cutesy we act.

Tomoya:

Yeah. Not to mention Knights’ fans can be pretty terrifying, so if anyone overhears you and posts what you said online, we could get seriously ratioed.

Nazuna:

You have a point~ I’ll be careful. Both Izumi-chin and I respect each other, so there’s no harm in poking fun at one another. But the Internet won’t really care about that; they’ll just take it completely out of context.

I’ve come to learn all too well what it feels like to be the subject of a hot topic.

We weren’t one of Crazy:B’s targets this summer so this was our first time, and I was pretty shook.

Hajime:

If anything, Knights were the ones that Crazy:B attacked and put in the same position as us.

Ritsu-senpai was grumbling about the way they blatantly came for them during SS.*

Nazuna:

Yeah. I heard that the whole situation was an absolute disaster.

Things got pretty rough; aggressive even~ And that includes all of their fans too. I guess they’re influenced by Knights’ disposition as a unit.

Conquer and defeat the enemy, that is. If we had war in our blood like those guys, maybe we could’ve easily sorted out our problems this time around much faster.

Hajime:

That’s who they are. But this is who we are, Nii~chan ♪

Tomoya:

Yeah. Not to mention, if we fired gunshots, things could’ve gotten pretty messy. We did our best to sort out our problems in the way that worked best for us.

And now Bishojo-senpai has promised to back off. They’ve probably managed to gather the amount of people they need by now.

And so, the four of us will be able to continue down this path of “cuteness”; just like we’ve been doing up until now.

Hajime:

Yes. We’ve had ups and downs, but the result is that we’re going to be maintaining the status quo, so it seems.

What Ideia-sama spoke about might still be just a dream, but who knows? In the not so distant future, it might just become a reality.

And so from now on, we’ll seriously have to start thinking about what we’ll do when that time comes—and whether we can keep on living in this status quo.

Tomoya:

Yeah. But for now, everything’s been sorted out. Good work, guys.

Mitsuru:

Uuu~! But that person caused a bunch of trouble for us! They decided to gang up on us, and then once they got what they wanted, they’re just like “Bye, bye”! What are they, a typhoon?

Hajime:

Hehe. Even now that everything’s come to a conclusion, we still can’t be sure of Ideia-sama’s true intentions. It really is the sort of thing you can’t tell without seeing someone’s face.

Did they just use us for their own benefit? Or was there any emotion behind what they did?

But, if you ask me, there’s no way Ideia-sama simply used us; they genuinely and truly supported us all along.

They did this to make us stronger, and chose to bestow this trial upon us to test us—that’s what I want to believe.

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*Hajime has referred to Ritsu by “Ritsu-onii~chan” since the start of !!, so this might be an error. When Parallel World was first released, Eichi mistakenly referred to Tomoya as “Tomoya-kun” instead of “Mashiro-kun” but this was quickly updated a few days later, so there’s a chance Akira simply made a mistake here too.

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