Black Bunny in Underland - Chapter 9

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Chapter: Black Bunny - Mitsuru to Escape 3

Writer: 西岡麻衣子 Nishioka Maiko

Season: Fall

Location: Outside ES

Hajime:

Mmm... He’s not here either...

(I’ve checked more or less everywhere in ES... Where did you go, Mitsuru-kun...?)

(Hmm... No messages on my phone either.)

(We promised to contact each other as soon as we found him, so I guess neither Tomoya-kun or Nii~chan have seen him yet either...)

(Tomoya-kun’s looking inside the main ES building, Nii~chan is searching Seisou Dorm, and I’m checking all sorts of places.)

Where on earth could he have gone?

Perhaps he’s gone further than ES?

(But the current Mitsuru-kun doesn’t remember anything, so it’s hard to imagine that he’d go somewhere unfamiliar to him.)

Hajime:

Oh! I might have one idea... Could he possibly have gone there...?

Location: Yumenosaki

Hajime:
Somewhere the current Mitsuru-kun might go is here... I wonder if I’m right?

In any case, I’ll go have a look around.

Location: Outside Yumenosaki auditorium

Mitsuru:

......

Hajime:

(Oh, there he is...! I knew it, he came back to school.)

Mitsuru:

!

Hajime:

(Huh? He’s not headed for the sports grounds?)

(It looks like he noticed something and headed inside...)

Location: Yumenosaki auditorium

Mitsuru:

...?

Hajime:

Hehe. Did this place catch your attention? We often used to perform here.

Mitsuru:

Whoa! You scared me! Hajime-chan?

Hajime:

Oh! Ehehe... I startled you, huh. Sorry about that.

But why did this place catch your eye? You’ll probably get scolded if you try running in here.

Mitsuru:

Hey, Hajime-chan. Why don’t we perform here anymore?

Hajime:

Huh? Oh, we as in Ra*bits?

Mmm, thankfully now we have ES to perform at instead. Performances at school are when they hold big events and such.

Mitsuru:

Hmm...

There’s something about here... It definitely means somethin’ to me.

But it’s not a fun feeling at all - it makes me feel all disappointed and angry. It reminds me of that feelin’ I get when I haven’t had a good run; all pent-up and gloomy.

And...kinda scared. Even though I’m no coward!

Why does just being in here make me feel this way...?

Hajime:

Oh, I might know the reason for that.

This is the place we performed...even though we had no audience. Well, it’s more accurate to say that Anzu-san and Akehoshi-senpai were here watching us but...

Mitsuru:

Just two people...? How come? Isn’t that pointless?

Hajime:

The situation is a little complicated... But everything's changed now, so there’s no need to worry about it.

Oh but it wasn’t pointless at all, you know?

We’re idols. If even just one person is there to support us, then we’ve got to put our whole heart into our performance. We’ve got to thank them with the brightest smiles we can.

Isn’t it the same for you, Mitsuru-kun? If even just one person says they like watching you run, then you’ll run and run as fast as you can, right?

Mitsuru:

Yeah. If I can make whoever it is watchin’ me run smile, then I’m gonna dash, dash, dash with everythin’ I’ve got!

Hajime:

Yes! And we idols are the same.

Hajime:

That said... To be honest, rather than just one person, or two people, I’d much rather reach a whole crowd.

So to not even be given to the chance to do that was so painful that, as soon as our performance was over, I bawled my eyes out. Ehehe...

Mitsuru:

Was I there too?

Hajime:

Of course. You and me. And Tomoya-kun and Nii~chan too. All four of us make up Ra*bits after all.