Plum Blossoms & Snowflakes [Plum Blossoms 2]

[anakidd]

Madara: [Hello to the audience! Thanks for coming to today’s live!]

[Everyone, let’s get fired up and prevent Mayoi-san from repeating a yeaaarrrrrrrrrrraw!!! ☆]

Mayoi: [Mikejima-san please, I beg you to not raise your voice….]

Eichi: [ Exactly, there’s no need to shout. With the microphone I prepared, we can reach the whole Yumenosaki.]

[If you prefer, we can livestream globally in simulcast.]

Mayoi: [ Whhhaaat?? G-globally!?]

[That’s too embarrassing, I want to bury myself seven feet under and disappear!!!]

Niki: Mayo-chan, Mayo-chan. Before you bury yourself, do you have a moment?]

I’m reeeeeeeally hungry, and wanted to get something to eat backstage.]

Mayoi: [Eeeh, during the live!?]

Niki: [I become dangerous when I’m hungry, and at this point I’ll lose control!]

[If I can’t come back backstage, I’ll eat you up!]

Mayoi: [Hmm… Shiina-san, I’m not food.]

Niki: [Nwahaha. Don’t say something like this when we have your delicious smell in the air~]

[Just a lil’ bite?Just a nibble on your finger, pleeaseeeee!]

Mayoi: [ Hyaaa, please stay away for meeeeeeeeeeeee!]

— if it ended up like this…!  Uuuuu, I feel my stomach dropping just from imagining it!

Akiomi: Why would you choose them of all people?

Mayoi: I thought it would be better to imagine the worst case scenario for me….

Akiomi: Hm. Mikejima-kun and Tenshouin-kun already graduated and Shiina-kun isn’t even enrolled in this school, so this is an impossible scenario…

In any case, you don’t need to choose complete strangers. I did say, right? “If possible”, preferably people you don’t frequently interact with.

I’m sure there are students out there that would like to help you. You just had half a year, but you must have made connections on some level.

I believe you, Ayase-kun.

[Few minutes later]

Mayoi: — Then, I’ll take my leave.

(Pathetic. I was living at ease, with no doubt the credit score was sufficient)

(Except for ALKALOID and people I usually don’t interact with… Is it ok to rely on Narukami-san and Kagehira-san?)

(I’m scared of joining people I don’t know well, and I don’t even have the courage to talk to them in the first place…) 

(But if I don’t assemble a temporary unit, I won’t be able to graduate. And if I repeat a year…)

(... speaking of, Ritsu-san mentioned earlier that he got held back a year)

(He said it wasn’t so bad)

(I’ve been enrolled at Yumenosaki for the last three years, but I just spent six months as an actual student)

(If I repeat a year, I’ll have one more year at school…)

(Maybe I could earn the memories I wished for so badly, and make my own graduation album)

( I could be classmates with Hiiro-san and Chief—)

(Ah, Chief! If I graduate, Chief will be alone at the Ninja Association!)

(Aaah, I can’t stand to see him completely alone!)

(If that’s going to make the Chief sad, I prefer to…!)

..........

(.... I’m sorry, Akiomi-sensei, but I won’t swim against the flow. I’ll accept repeating a year without resistance.)

(It would be impossible to someone with social phobia like me to assemble a temporary unit anyway)

(That’s certainly the best choice.)