Melancholy and Compassion 2

Tetora: Ossu! Introducing the reborn Ryuseitai! We’re here to help you, senpais!

Chiaki: You guys... ☆ I’ve been waiting for you, my beloved comrades!

“Everyone! Please put your hands together to welcome the first year members of Ryuseitai!”

“They’ve responding to your support by coming to help us... ☆”

Shinobu: Ah—Captain-dono! Out of the way, get out of the way! We’re going to hit you!!!

Chiaki: Whoops, sorry! I was standing too far back. Don’t worry, I’ll catch you! Good, come here!

Right, and while we’re at it, let me introduce my comrades one at a time!

“This lively kid in yellow who just burst onto the scene is a miraculous ray of light piercing through the darkness! Ryusei Yellow, Sengoku Shinobu!”

“As you can see, he’s a ninja. How cute, right? ♪”

Shinobu: Wait, Captain-dono? I beg thee, stop spinning around while holding me like this! I’m getting dizzy!

Gwuh, why is it so bright...?!

Chiaki: Ahaha. It seems we have quite a few tourists from overseas. They must be excited to see a real live ninja, so they’re taking your picture!

All the flashes going off are hurting my eyes ♪

“Anyway, Sengoku! Say hello to the audience!”

Shinobu: “Eep? Ummmm, hello! Just now ye heard mine interduck—ohhh, I got tongue-tied just like Nito-dono!”

Chiaki: It’s all right, don’t worry about it! I’m right here. Let me give you a hug... ☆

Shinobu: Gyeh! Thy hugs are so powerful they make it hard to speak or even breathe!

Chiaki: “Hahaha! Everything is all okay ☆ Let’s keep up the momentum and keep introducing our new members!”

“Do you want to introduce yourself... Nagumo?”

Tetora: Ossu! Martial arts teach you to begin and end with good etiquette! I learned that from Taishou!

“Black flames are the proof of effort! The burning spirit stained by the earth!”

“I’m Ryusei Black, Nagumo Tetora... ☆”

Chiaki: Perfect! Amazing! I love you... ☆

Tetora: C’mon, Captain, you’re so irritating! Don’t cling to me while we’re on stage!

Chiaki: Sorry, I got a little excited! Okay, next! Takamine! Huh? He’s not there.

Where’d he go? Don’t tell me... he ran away?! That’s bad! We’re only Ryuseitai with all five of us!

Kanata: fufufu. you are taking midori for a Fool chiaki. he would not run away... he has become a hero too after all.

Midori: ......

Kanata: midori? what is wrong? do you not want to Greet the audience?

Midori: ......

Midori: (Oh no, this sucks... my mind’s gone completely blank...)

(For one thing, the crowd is so much bigger than I thought it’d be...)

(I could barely see it before since I was in costume...)

(But seriously, how many people are there? It’s gotta be hundreds... no, maybe more than that...? It’s just people people people, as far as I can see...!)

(And every single one of them is laser-focused on me right now... This cannot be happening... I’m literally just the kid of a greengrocer...)

(Oh... and he’s out in the audience, too...)

(I spotted him this morning while handing out fliers in the costume... my classmate from middle school...)

(He was just like me, a normal, no-name middle schooler...)

(Wearing a generic uniform, complaining about how boring class was every day...)

(What the hell is the difference between him and me...?)

(When I saw him today, he looked happy... He was holding hands with a girl, on a date with her at th amusement park...)

(Seeing it made me all frazzled...)

(I got so depressed that I even ended up worrying Nagumo-kun and Sengoku-kun...)

(Would my life have been better if I’d just kept being a normal person...?)

(What if I’d become a normal high schooler like him...? Could I have been a normal amount of happy...?)

(God... what is the difference between me and him...?)

Kanata: midori.

Midori: Gwah... oh, sorry... I just got a little in my head...

This is completely different from when I was in costume. Everyone’s staring at me now...

Kanata: it is all right~ calm down and let us do some Deep Breathing okay?

please remember the Exercise. i taught it to you during our Practice even though it was troublesome.

was all of our effort in vain? did we waste our time?

i do not think so. there were many hard times and many painful moments... but now i am Happy.

the Bottom of the sea were quiet and Peaceful. but because i came to the Surface i was able to Meet all of you.

i was able to stand on this Stage so i have no more Regrets.

ryuseitai is the ally of Justice. it does not Destroy Peace but Protects it. is that not right midori...? ♪

Midori: Umm... sorry, but I’m not really following...

(But Shinkai-senpai is really soothing. Just talking to him calms me down...)

(It’s like when you’re submerged in a hot bath up to your head and all the noise of the world fades away...)

(It’s like I’m being wrapped in kindness. It makes it easier to breathe... ♪)