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shivalriesSeason: Spring, one year ago
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Location: Checkmate Stage
Eichi: ......
Tsumugi: Fufu. You look down, Eichi-kun~ If you don't feel well, please leave Checkmate to me and go have a rest.
Eichi: I can't let something like that happen, Tsumugi.
While I appreciate the offer, this is something Tsukinaga-kun personally asked from me...
Actually, I'm rather apologetic for making you take action as well, even though you're not involved.
You're really quite agreeable.
Tsumugi: Well, we're comrades, aren't we? I'd accompany you even to the depths of hell, Eichi-kun~♪
Eichi: So soon? I feel like you'll regret those words someday.
Oh, well... There's no need to worry, as I'm in perfect condition. I can't push myself too much, though, but I could jump for joy at how glad I am to be in a big live like this.
Now's the time for us to lay low, so we're not doing much on center stage right now.
I'm ecstatic just being allowed to lavish the audience with smiles and song, just like a real idol.
Well, I got scolded by Ke... Hasumi-kun anyway. He came all the way to the dressing room just to lecture me. It was pretty off-putting, so I asked my servants to hold him back.
He was in quite a bad mood. When things don't go as he likes, he's the type to get moody.
Tsumugi: Aren't you the same, Eichi-kun? That's childhood friends for you, having things in common with each other.♪
Eichi: Is that so? Well, I want to believe we're at least heading in the same direction.
Anyway. Tsukinaga-kun did ask me to help, but this Checkmate is also a fairly important stage.
I'll have to play it by ear here.
And as for you, I'd like you to follow my directions as usual.
Tsumugi: Got it. But are we okay with only me? Maybe it'd be better to call the other members of fine in as well?
We're going up against the large-scale Chess, right? With our smaller numbers, it seems like we might get overpowered.
Eichi: Mm~ It's more like if we drag them along with us, they might just get in the way.
It hasn't been long since they joined fine, and I can't fully predict how they'll behave.
This time, I'd like to keep it as the two of us personally lending Knights a hand.
I'd rather not stand out too much, after all. Try not to say the name "fine" while onstage today.
Tsumugi: Yes, sir~ I'll be good and stand back here as your shadow.
Um, so Knights is the name of the unit we're helping, right?
Lately, so many units have been cropping up like bamboo shoots after rain, and I can't quite remember them all.
Eichi: That's how I set it up. I explained some of it to you, but I'm currently testing out the unit and DreamFes systems.
I'm prepping the ingredients for the sake of my final, greater goal.
Tsumugi: It sounds like you're cooking something up. I won't spread things around or anything, so I'd like it if you could share whatever goals you're planning with me, to some extent.
Eichi: I'll tell you when the time comes. I'm still in the planning stage, but I don't have any guarantee that this will go well.
It's like some exaggerated delusion right now, so it's embarrassing to even talk about.
Tsumugi: Ahaha, so you're being shy, Eichi-kun~ Spending all your efforts for something isn't embarrassing at all, though. I won't ever laugh at you.
Eichi: Perhaps you're right. It seems that you're essentially okay with anything and everything.
Anyway. Hasumi-kun and I did some work here and there, and first set up the new systems.
I reconstructed this lawless, chaotic world as a chessboard with clear rules.
And I divided the greatest power at Yumenosaki, Chess, into little pieces.
Using the unit system, I casually made it so no one would notice it was our doing.
If one doesn't become part of a unit, the DreamFes lives they can participate in are limited. I restricted individual live battles, and made it so that it'd be more difficult to do solo work.
Additionally, the official DreamFes lives organized by the student council are reflected in school grades.
If students don't participate in lives, they'll be branded as doing badly or failing, and wind up unable to receive various different benefits.
Everyone in Chess who just sat around and enjoyed their lazy pleasures started to panic.
If they spent their days doing nothing, like they have until now, they would lose everything.
That's why they panicked and started forming units.
But at the moment, there's a limit on the number of people that can be in one.
Tsumugi: Huh? Was there always a limit like that?
Eichi: It hasn't been outright stated. You're free to have ten people, or even a hundred. But at the moment, there's no merit in making a unit of more than about five people.
The greater the number, the lower the benefits and rewards are for participating in DreamFes lives.
No matter how many people are in the unit, the amount of money rewarded is fixed.
In other words, the earnings each individual receives would be smaller.
So instead, a large unit like Chess would build up debt the more it participated.
A large-scale unit does much more harm than good.
I widely circulated this fact, casually framing it as a tasty bit of information, and soon it became well-known.
The masses, thinking themselves clever, took off with this.
Chess was bound together so loosely, as everyone saw it as some "super cheap" way to get benefits, with no need for emotional attachments. And then, it fell apart magnificently.
It divided into small groups of about five people each, at most.
They split off from the great guild that was Chess, mindlessly formed units with whoever they were friends with, and in the end alienated themselves without even a thought.
~~~
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Location: Checkmate Stage
Eichi: ......
Tsumugi: Fufu. You look down, Eichi-kun~ If you don't feel well, please leave Checkmate to me and go have a rest.
Eichi: I can't let something like that happen, Tsumugi.
While I appreciate the offer, this is something Tsukinaga-kun personally asked from me...
Actually, I'm rather apologetic for making you take action as well, even though you're not involved.
You're really quite agreeable.
Tsumugi: Well, we're comrades, aren't we? I'd accompany you even to the depths of hell, Eichi-kun~♪
Eichi: So soon? I feel like you'll regret those words someday.
Oh, well... There's no need to worry, as I'm in perfect condition. I can't push myself too much, though, but I could jump for joy at how glad I am to be in a big live like this.
Now's the time for us to lay low, so we're not doing much on center stage right now.
I'm ecstatic just being allowed to lavish the audience with smiles and song, just like a real idol.
Well, I got scolded by Ke... Hasumi-kun anyway. He came all the way to the dressing room just to lecture me. It was pretty off-putting, so I asked my servants to hold him back.
He was in quite a bad mood. When things don't go as he likes, he's the type to get moody.
Tsumugi: Aren't you the same, Eichi-kun? That's childhood friends for you, having things in common with each other.♪
Eichi: Is that so? Well, I want to believe we're at least heading in the same direction.
Anyway. Tsukinaga-kun did ask me to help, but this Checkmate is also a fairly important stage.
I'll have to play it by ear here.
And as for you, I'd like you to follow my directions as usual.
Tsumugi: Got it. But are we okay with only me? Maybe it'd be better to call the other members of fine in as well?
We're going up against the large-scale Chess, right? With our smaller numbers, it seems like we might get overpowered.
Eichi: Mm~ It's more like if we drag them along with us, they might just get in the way.
It hasn't been long since they joined fine, and I can't fully predict how they'll behave.
This time, I'd like to keep it as the two of us personally lending Knights a hand.
I'd rather not stand out too much, after all. Try not to say the name "fine" while onstage today.
Tsumugi: Yes, sir~ I'll be good and stand back here as your shadow.
Um, so Knights is the name of the unit we're helping, right?
Lately, so many units have been cropping up like bamboo shoots after rain, and I can't quite remember them all.
Eichi: That's how I set it up. I explained some of it to you, but I'm currently testing out the unit and DreamFes systems.
I'm prepping the ingredients for the sake of my final, greater goal.
Tsumugi: It sounds like you're cooking something up. I won't spread things around or anything, so I'd like it if you could share whatever goals you're planning with me, to some extent.
Eichi: I'll tell you when the time comes. I'm still in the planning stage, but I don't have any guarantee that this will go well.
It's like some exaggerated delusion right now, so it's embarrassing to even talk about.
Tsumugi: Ahaha, so you're being shy, Eichi-kun~ Spending all your efforts for something isn't embarrassing at all, though. I won't ever laugh at you.
Eichi: Perhaps you're right. It seems that you're essentially okay with anything and everything.
Anyway. Hasumi-kun and I did some work here and there, and first set up the new systems.
I reconstructed this lawless, chaotic world as a chessboard with clear rules.
And I divided the greatest power at Yumenosaki, Chess, into little pieces.
Using the unit system, I casually made it so no one would notice it was our doing.
If one doesn't become part of a unit, the DreamFes lives they can participate in are limited. I restricted individual live battles, and made it so that it'd be more difficult to do solo work.
Additionally, the official DreamFes lives organized by the student council are reflected in school grades.
If students don't participate in lives, they'll be branded as doing badly or failing, and wind up unable to receive various different benefits.
Everyone in Chess who just sat around and enjoyed their lazy pleasures started to panic.
If they spent their days doing nothing, like they have until now, they would lose everything.
That's why they panicked and started forming units.
But at the moment, there's a limit on the number of people that can be in one.
Tsumugi: Huh? Was there always a limit like that?
Eichi: It hasn't been outright stated. You're free to have ten people, or even a hundred. But at the moment, there's no merit in making a unit of more than about five people.
The greater the number, the lower the benefits and rewards are for participating in DreamFes lives.
No matter how many people are in the unit, the amount of money rewarded is fixed.
In other words, the earnings each individual receives would be smaller.
So instead, a large unit like Chess would build up debt the more it participated.
A large-scale unit does much more harm than good.
I widely circulated this fact, casually framing it as a tasty bit of information, and soon it became well-known.
The masses, thinking themselves clever, took off with this.
Chess was bound together so loosely, as everyone saw it as some "super cheap" way to get benefits, with no need for emotional attachments. And then, it fell apart magnificently.
It divided into small groups of about five people each, at most.
They split off from the great guild that was Chess, mindlessly formed units with whoever they were friends with, and in the end alienated themselves without even a thought.
~~~
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