High 5 - Epilogue 2

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Location: Poppin’ Party Stage

Nazuna:

Anyway, I’ll let that slide for now. Thanks to all the veteran performers from our Rhythm Link staging a “mutiny”, everything’s been shook up.

Seems like our agency couldn’t spare us any staff or money for my welcome back concert.

Normally we would’ve just accepted it and moved on. “It is what it is”, after all. But you wanted to make sure my welcome back concert went ahead no matter what, right, Tomo-chin?

Tomoya:

Yeah! I never, ever wanna force myself to just put up with things I can’t wrap my head around and sit there stewing over things not working out the way I wanted.

There’s nothing I hate more than just throwing in the towel and going home to cry into my pillow without putting up a decent fight first!

We are not helpless little animals anymore! We’ve grown up since then! We are strong and we are proud; and it’s all because you raised us that way, Nii-chan!

So what if our agency wouldn’t fund this event? We’ll take the L$ we have at hand and put together our own concert, all by ourselves!

We put today’s Poppin’ Party, Nii-chan’s official welcome back concert, together from scratch!

… But realistically, we were never gonna be able to do it completely by ourselves.

If we’d squandered all of our funds on this single event, it would’ve been a serious handicap for our future idol activities.

Hajime:

It really would’ve. Which is why we asked everyone around us to please help us out!

That’s the decision you came to all of a sudden, Tomoya-kun. And the rest of us agreed that was our only choice.

So we took it in turns to pay a visit to all of the other units we’d been involved with up until now—

Mitsuru:

Yeah! We told ‘em we were real worried about our situation and begged them to lend a hand, one by one! We asked a ton of people!

Like my Track Clubs seniors; MaM and Knights and Undead, and even those guys from Crazy:B decided to help us out!

Nazuna:

I would’ve never seen that coming. Those guys seem to have enough on their plate taking care of themselves.

Though I guess Mitsuru-chin got involved with one of ‘em before a while back, if I recall correctly.

Mitsuru:

Yeah! They don’t seem to have the best reputation for some reason, but when you talk to them Crazy:B all turn out to be pretty nice guys!

Nazuna: 

Nah, that’s not just it. Anyone’d become a “good guy” once they’ve talked to you, Mitsuru-chin. You just bring it outta them.

Mitsuru:

Huh? What do you mean? Was that a compliment just now, Nii-chan?

Nazuna:

Of course it was! But back to the point; we got help from all sorts of different places, like Alkaloid, thanks to what went down at MDM…

Not to mention, Trickstar. We go way back with those guys, after all. And our own agency’s Akatsuki too!

Even Valkyrie had our back. It really feels like everyone is one our side.

Of course, we reached out to our fans too and did some kinda crowd-funding to collect a bunch of donations.

Thanks to all of that, we managed to put together this incredible stage. Look how good everything looks!

I really am so, so grateful… But do you guys know why exactly everyone was so good to us?

It’s ‘cause you guys—no, scratch that; it’s ‘cause all of us Ra*bits are such good kids. We’re just nice people; always have been.

We’re always there to lend a hand, and we’d never dream of laying a hand on anyone else. We do our best to lighten the mood when needs be, bouncing from place to place; it’s no wonder everyone comes to like us.

We never had anything but the best intentions at heart. And now, all of the good deeds we’ve done up until now, just by being good people up until now; it’s all paying off.

Helping someone out just ‘cause you wanna, lending a hand whenever someone’s looking troubled; all of that seems like such an obvious thing to do when you’re a good person at heart.

Some people might put it down as shameless begging, or depending too much on others.

I would’ve probably reacted the same in the past! I would’ve been way too embarrassed to ask for donations, and if anyone had ever brought it up, I would’ve shot down the idea straight away!

“D-d-don’t be stupid! D-d-don’t treat me like some little kid! I’m not some weak little animal who can’t even stand on his own two feet!”

It would’ve protested ‘til I was red in the face, stumbling over every word outta my mouth in anger.

But that’s not what it is. Just ‘cause we don’t have fangs to bare, doesn’t mean we’re weak. We’re plenty good enough just the way we are!

In the animal kingdom, rabbits have their own strategies for survival. And in the world of idols, we Ra*bits, we good kids, have our own strategy for survival. We don’t have a bad bone in our bodies, never wished any ill-intent on anyone… It’s only natural it all paid off in the end!

Yeah. There’s absolutely nothing for us to be embarrassed about.

Hang on. I’m not saying we should start relying on everyone else 100% of the time. That’s no good either. We may be small, and we may be cute…

But we’re not some baby bunnies who can’t survive by themselves without anyone else around to protect them. Like you said, Tomo-chin, we were all raised to be strong and proud. We can take care of ourselves just fine.

Of course, just ‘cause you’ve gotten older doesn’t mean no one’s gonna be there to comfort you any more. Adults still need hugs too sometimes.

But if there’s somewhere we wanna go, or something we wanna do; we’ll find a way to get there on our own two feet. This is who we are and this is who we always will be; and we were always meant to be in this together.

That’s our story. That’s what Ra*bits is all about.