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Wataru Hibiki Idol Story 1 (Ensemble Stars!!)
translated by: sesera
Location: Play theater
Wataru: Amazing! Producer, welcome to our theater... ☆
Pardon me from greeting you from up here! What, you want to know why I'm up on the ceiling?
It isn't just an eccentricity! What do you think I'm doing?
Fu fu fu. There's a very silly story behind it - nothing that would bring both of us to tears if I were to tell you!
Do you want to hear it? Then allow me to take up some of your time ☆
Once upon a time, there lived an old man and an old woman..... I've gone back too far!
I do apologize, I must be getting influenced by the company I keep because lately I've been quite long-winded!* One rotten apple does spoil the bunch!
In any case, I don't know if you know this but very recently I became a member of a theater troupe!
You're also very close to Hokuto-kun--his mother is the top-billed performer, and the troupe as a whole is highly regarded in terms of its history, its fame, and its reputation!
For theater actors like us, we've dreamed of joining such a troupe ever since we were in our mothers' wombs... ☆
And it's the same for me, I've been captivated by the plays they create so I went up and asked to join them! Knock knock knock!
Yes! Because I felt that I simply must aim for the top!
Very fortunately, because I can get work based on my good reputation as both as idol and as a performer, the world opens up ever wider and wider!
I can't stop my progress, I want to set my mind on reaching even greater heights!
However! Oh, what a tragedy--I arrived at the theater where the audition to join the troupe was to be held only to be immediately turned away at the door!
It was such cruel treatment that I trembled all over... ☆
Actually, that mother of Hokuto-kun's that I mentioned hates me to death! It's common knowledge and a famous story in the theater world.
She took one look at me when I got in the door and spit in my face, shouting foul-mouthed insults at me! She said, "You're a total amateur who doesn't have what it takes to join our troupe!"
Such caustic words! I fell in love right there - if she weren't Hokuto-kun's mother I would have proposed!
But I really, truly wanted to join that troupe, so I refused to give up and entreated her over and over! I said, "Please let me into your troupe!"
And the other troupe members took my side and soothed Hokuto-kun's mother who was so unwilling, and I ended up being allowed to undergo the audition!
After that it was one trial after another! Only a very select few are able to pass this difficult audition and be allowed into the troupe.
So my rivals were all very important and highly regarded veteran actors compared to me who's still so inexperienced!
An exciting turn of events, isn't it? I love that kind of thing! Of course I acted with maximum energy and used up everything I had!
I was able to meet all of the unreasonable demands Hokuto-kun's mother kept setting for me, but even so she wouldn't acknowledge me and so for three days and three nights...
For 100 hours, I kept acting in a complete daze!
One by one, my adversaries disappeared - they folded or their acting started to crack and they were cut.
I cried out for mercy, but she yelled back at me, "Who the hell do you think you are?" A pandemonium of alternating cries of joy and sorrow! Ah, this truly is what life is!
I realized that I was standing all alone on a stage with my adversaries' bodies strewn all about my feet!
Since it wasn't ending, the troupe audition judges had all passed out too, or perhaps they had fainted after reaching their limit after concentrating too much!
Except one! Only Hokuto-kun's mother was staring at me with absolutely inextinguishable, fierce, beautiful burning flames in her eyes!
It was her goal not to miss any negligence or mistake on my part, to make sure to catch anything like that so she could immediately identify it and dismiss me from the stage!
Oh, how nervous I was! I wore no armor and shed no blood, but make no mistake, that was war!
We were killing each other, play vs. play! No, soul vs. soul, battling each other with our very existences!
Ah, how wonderful life is! I fully enjoyed it!
No matter how much I acted, it was never enough - I wanted to act forever on that stage where I felt the pinnacle of happiness!
However! Extremely unfortunately, just then we ran out of time.
Hokuto-kun's mother had another job to go to, so she left.
As she left, she hurled abuse at me: "From start to finish you were boring and uninspired. Learn to act, you talentless hack."
She didn't tell me to quit acting, so just like the girl in the fairy tale, I kept dancing in my red hot shoes!
Dancing madly! Like crazy! Amazing!
After about half a day of that, it truly was time up!
Another troupe was to use the theater next, and they crowded around me and pinned my arms behind my back as I continued to act and forced me offstage!
I did not go easily, so I ended up getting myself kicked out of that theater!
It was a very close call, because I'd actually been let into Hokuto-kun's mother's troupe and everything!
Yes! I passed the audition! Everything up until then was surely all part of Hokuto-kun's mother's plan!
After all, no matter how famous I am and how much I bring in as an idol and a member of fine, no matter how many core fans I have as a performer who's continued acting on my own...
In the end, in the eyes of the world I'm just a novice who's only just graduated high school!
Do you understand? Hokuto-kun's mother gave me a very painfully felt chance to express my worth...
...to all the stage managers who don't look at talent and tend to judge based on the length of your credits and accomplishments.
And I made it out of that neverending play, that performance hell!
No one was around to watch me until the end, but an apparatus--a camera taped me without rest!
That footage will guarantee my worth, which I don't yet have because I'm still so new!
If I show it to anyone who's not a good judge of talent and points out that I'm young and inexperienced, they'll shut right up!
They'll see that I passed the audition based on my own talent, not because they went easy on me due to my degree of fame as an idol!
I was able to prove that by making it through that neverending play!
Because what happened did make some waves in the theater world - the facts of it should have reverberated** to all corners of the industry!
Thanks to that I am currently receiving roles through that troupe and happily acting in their plays! As a performer, I'm able to live at the top of the world!
Which is why, in order to show my gratitude for that, I am up on the ceiling!
When I was acting in a play with Hokuto-kun's mother, the spotlight right here created an ambience she did not like!
So when I went to check on it, I found that bugs had created a nest there!
Amazing! Of course it would be a shame to exterminate them, so I plan to safely release them into the wild!
Come, you living things! Let's go on an adventure to the free sky, let's give glory to our lives!
I, Wataru Hibiki, am doing the same thing too... Fuhahahahaha ☆
------
TL Notes:
* To me this sounds like we're supposed to think he's talking about Eichi... but it could also be Keito!
** Using the verb "hibikiwataru" (to reverberate)
translated by: sesera
Location: Play theater
Wataru: Amazing! Producer, welcome to our theater... ☆
Pardon me from greeting you from up here! What, you want to know why I'm up on the ceiling?
It isn't just an eccentricity! What do you think I'm doing?
Fu fu fu. There's a very silly story behind it - nothing that would bring both of us to tears if I were to tell you!
Do you want to hear it? Then allow me to take up some of your time ☆
Once upon a time, there lived an old man and an old woman..... I've gone back too far!
I do apologize, I must be getting influenced by the company I keep because lately I've been quite long-winded!* One rotten apple does spoil the bunch!
In any case, I don't know if you know this but very recently I became a member of a theater troupe!
You're also very close to Hokuto-kun--his mother is the top-billed performer, and the troupe as a whole is highly regarded in terms of its history, its fame, and its reputation!
For theater actors like us, we've dreamed of joining such a troupe ever since we were in our mothers' wombs... ☆
And it's the same for me, I've been captivated by the plays they create so I went up and asked to join them! Knock knock knock!
Yes! Because I felt that I simply must aim for the top!
Very fortunately, because I can get work based on my good reputation as both as idol and as a performer, the world opens up ever wider and wider!
I can't stop my progress, I want to set my mind on reaching even greater heights!
However! Oh, what a tragedy--I arrived at the theater where the audition to join the troupe was to be held only to be immediately turned away at the door!
It was such cruel treatment that I trembled all over... ☆
Actually, that mother of Hokuto-kun's that I mentioned hates me to death! It's common knowledge and a famous story in the theater world.
She took one look at me when I got in the door and spit in my face, shouting foul-mouthed insults at me! She said, "You're a total amateur who doesn't have what it takes to join our troupe!"
Such caustic words! I fell in love right there - if she weren't Hokuto-kun's mother I would have proposed!
But I really, truly wanted to join that troupe, so I refused to give up and entreated her over and over! I said, "Please let me into your troupe!"
And the other troupe members took my side and soothed Hokuto-kun's mother who was so unwilling, and I ended up being allowed to undergo the audition!
After that it was one trial after another! Only a very select few are able to pass this difficult audition and be allowed into the troupe.
So my rivals were all very important and highly regarded veteran actors compared to me who's still so inexperienced!
An exciting turn of events, isn't it? I love that kind of thing! Of course I acted with maximum energy and used up everything I had!
I was able to meet all of the unreasonable demands Hokuto-kun's mother kept setting for me, but even so she wouldn't acknowledge me and so for three days and three nights...
For 100 hours, I kept acting in a complete daze!
One by one, my adversaries disappeared - they folded or their acting started to crack and they were cut.
I cried out for mercy, but she yelled back at me, "Who the hell do you think you are?" A pandemonium of alternating cries of joy and sorrow! Ah, this truly is what life is!
I realized that I was standing all alone on a stage with my adversaries' bodies strewn all about my feet!
Since it wasn't ending, the troupe audition judges had all passed out too, or perhaps they had fainted after reaching their limit after concentrating too much!
Except one! Only Hokuto-kun's mother was staring at me with absolutely inextinguishable, fierce, beautiful burning flames in her eyes!
It was her goal not to miss any negligence or mistake on my part, to make sure to catch anything like that so she could immediately identify it and dismiss me from the stage!
Oh, how nervous I was! I wore no armor and shed no blood, but make no mistake, that was war!
We were killing each other, play vs. play! No, soul vs. soul, battling each other with our very existences!
Ah, how wonderful life is! I fully enjoyed it!
No matter how much I acted, it was never enough - I wanted to act forever on that stage where I felt the pinnacle of happiness!
However! Extremely unfortunately, just then we ran out of time.
Hokuto-kun's mother had another job to go to, so she left.
As she left, she hurled abuse at me: "From start to finish you were boring and uninspired. Learn to act, you talentless hack."
She didn't tell me to quit acting, so just like the girl in the fairy tale, I kept dancing in my red hot shoes!
Dancing madly! Like crazy! Amazing!
After about half a day of that, it truly was time up!
Another troupe was to use the theater next, and they crowded around me and pinned my arms behind my back as I continued to act and forced me offstage!
I did not go easily, so I ended up getting myself kicked out of that theater!
It was a very close call, because I'd actually been let into Hokuto-kun's mother's troupe and everything!
Yes! I passed the audition! Everything up until then was surely all part of Hokuto-kun's mother's plan!
After all, no matter how famous I am and how much I bring in as an idol and a member of fine, no matter how many core fans I have as a performer who's continued acting on my own...
In the end, in the eyes of the world I'm just a novice who's only just graduated high school!
Do you understand? Hokuto-kun's mother gave me a very painfully felt chance to express my worth...
...to all the stage managers who don't look at talent and tend to judge based on the length of your credits and accomplishments.
And I made it out of that neverending play, that performance hell!
No one was around to watch me until the end, but an apparatus--a camera taped me without rest!
That footage will guarantee my worth, which I don't yet have because I'm still so new!
If I show it to anyone who's not a good judge of talent and points out that I'm young and inexperienced, they'll shut right up!
They'll see that I passed the audition based on my own talent, not because they went easy on me due to my degree of fame as an idol!
I was able to prove that by making it through that neverending play!
Because what happened did make some waves in the theater world - the facts of it should have reverberated** to all corners of the industry!
Thanks to that I am currently receiving roles through that troupe and happily acting in their plays! As a performer, I'm able to live at the top of the world!
Which is why, in order to show my gratitude for that, I am up on the ceiling!
When I was acting in a play with Hokuto-kun's mother, the spotlight right here created an ambience she did not like!
So when I went to check on it, I found that bugs had created a nest there!
Amazing! Of course it would be a shame to exterminate them, so I plan to safely release them into the wild!
Come, you living things! Let's go on an adventure to the free sky, let's give glory to our lives!
I, Wataru Hibiki, am doing the same thing too... Fuhahahahaha ☆
------
TL Notes:
* To me this sounds like we're supposed to think he's talking about Eichi... but it could also be Keito!
** Using the verb "hibikiwataru" (to reverberate)
