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shivalries) wrote2017-01-11 08:51 pm
shivalries) wrote2017-01-11 08:51 pm
Silent Knights Chapter 4
Season: Winter
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[Studio]
Leo: ...Yeah. Okay, I got it. Shall we have a Christmas party?
Tsukasa: What’s this all of a sudden?
Leo: I mean, around Christmas Day, we’re gonna be swamped with StarFes work, right?
So if we’re gonna have a party, now’s the time. Since we have all five of us here now, let’s celebrate this holy night.♪
Tsukasa: Ah… ah? Whaaa… After we finally had a good discussion going?
Leo: It’s alright already, let’s break up momentarily and meet up again later! Make sure to each bring back presents and stuff!
The king’s orders are~... absolute!☆
Rittsu, you’re good at making sweets, so go prepare some food and cake!
While you take care of whatever’s left over, Suo~, can you go with Sena to get a tree and stuff and start decorating this room?
Naru, come with me. Let’s go provide some party goods. ...I’d like to speak with you about something too.
Arashi: …?
[Hallway]
Arashi: Wait, what’s going on, Ousama… You’re always so sudden!
Don’t yank on my hand, you’re gonna tear it off!
Leo: Hmhmhm♪ Twinkle, twinkle, little star☆
Arashi: What’s that, twinkle twinkle little star? You really like Mozart, don’t you...♪
Leo: No I don’t!!
It’s true that he made a variation of twinkle twinkle little star but that’s just a coincidence, the version I like is the original Mother Goose version and so on and so forth!
Arashi: ...Yeah, sure. So, what’d you want to talk about?
Lately, I haven’t really been giving my all in Knights activities, anyway. Did you come to lecture me on that, Ousama?
Leo: Nah… I was holed up inside for so long and didn’t participate at all.
I don’t actually have the right to lecture any of you, who’ve supported Knights all this time.
Arashi: Then why did you want to be “alone with” me?
If you’re trying to flirt with me, don’t. I like the elegant, adult type.♪
Leo: Ah, you just called me a kid in a roundabout way!
I can’t help that I can’t grow taller, and besides, a true artist has the sensibility of a child and the skills of an adult!
Arashi: You’re talking about sensibility, but, Ousama, your childishness comes from the way you act.
You should mind your manners and act your age, or else you’re going to have trouble in the real world, you know?
And by the way Ousama, you’re already working as a professional songwriter, right?
It seems you’re using pen names, but is that really okay? The higher-ups don’t get mad at you?
Leo: Not really, it’s kind of like they let me get away with a lot of behavior because I’m still a high school student.
I’m not a normal company employee, and as long as it’s not too excessive, the works are seen as more important than personality.
I don’t want to cause too much trouble for the people who look after me, and I’ve already put my family through a hard time…
I do think that it can’t continue like this and I need to do it right…
Wait, why am I telling all my troubles to Naru?! I wanted to hear about you!
Arashi: Even so, there’s nothing really to say.
Leo: That can’t be true. A book could be written about anyone, there are as many dramas as there are people.
Those who remain in history are only legendary figures like me, though. Mozart isn’t the only person who exists in this world.
Arashi: Mm… I don’t really get what you want to say… I thought not meddling too much with each other was one of Knights’ good points.
Leo: Knights isn’t like that right now, right? That’s why I came back.
We’re not some blood-covered outlaws killing each other anymore, we’re more like some kind of warm family now.
What happened while I was gone, how did it change… Tell me, Naru.
The one who played a main role in creating this gentle, shining warmth around Knights now… it was you, wasn’t it?
So, I’d appreciate it if you could tell me even a little bit about yourself.
No matter what kind of stupid thing it is, how heavy or painful, I’ll accept it.
I don’t know much about you, after all.
It’ll only be for a short time, but we’ll be fighting together from now on. I want to know all kinds of things. I can’t trust someone I don’t know to watch my back.
It doesn’t matter what darkness, what sins you bear inside you.
Everyone is always acting the good guy, left and right… Who are you all trying to act cool in front of, huh?
I want to become allies with you, allies who will get slathered in mud together, wash in the spurted blood of our enemies, slurp up rotten food behind bars, and all the while understanding each other, trusting each other, fighting through the battlefield together. I want to be like that. [1]
Am I the only one who feels that way?
Come on, Naru… Slice open that pretty stomach of yours, show me your innards, give me a hearty laugh.
You’re in high school now, if you’re not a good kid then Santa won’t give you a present…
We’re not the kind of obedient, dreamy little children who believe that, right?
Arashi: …
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[1] Leo used an idiom “to eat stinky food” which means “to go to jail” but he replaced “eat” with “slurp” so I left the literal meaning in and added “behind bars” to preserve the original imagery.
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< Silent Knights Chapter 3 || Masterlist || Silent Knights Chapter 5 >
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[Studio]
Leo: ...Yeah. Okay, I got it. Shall we have a Christmas party?
Tsukasa: What’s this all of a sudden?
Leo: I mean, around Christmas Day, we’re gonna be swamped with StarFes work, right?
So if we’re gonna have a party, now’s the time. Since we have all five of us here now, let’s celebrate this holy night.♪
Tsukasa: Ah… ah? Whaaa… After we finally had a good discussion going?
Leo: It’s alright already, let’s break up momentarily and meet up again later! Make sure to each bring back presents and stuff!
The king’s orders are~... absolute!☆
Rittsu, you’re good at making sweets, so go prepare some food and cake!
While you take care of whatever’s left over, Suo~, can you go with Sena to get a tree and stuff and start decorating this room?
Naru, come with me. Let’s go provide some party goods. ...I’d like to speak with you about something too.
Arashi: …?
[Hallway]
Arashi: Wait, what’s going on, Ousama… You’re always so sudden!
Don’t yank on my hand, you’re gonna tear it off!
Leo: Hmhmhm♪ Twinkle, twinkle, little star☆
Arashi: What’s that, twinkle twinkle little star? You really like Mozart, don’t you...♪
Leo: No I don’t!!
It’s true that he made a variation of twinkle twinkle little star but that’s just a coincidence, the version I like is the original Mother Goose version and so on and so forth!
Arashi: ...Yeah, sure. So, what’d you want to talk about?
Lately, I haven’t really been giving my all in Knights activities, anyway. Did you come to lecture me on that, Ousama?
Leo: Nah… I was holed up inside for so long and didn’t participate at all.
I don’t actually have the right to lecture any of you, who’ve supported Knights all this time.
Arashi: Then why did you want to be “alone with” me?
If you’re trying to flirt with me, don’t. I like the elegant, adult type.♪
Leo: Ah, you just called me a kid in a roundabout way!
I can’t help that I can’t grow taller, and besides, a true artist has the sensibility of a child and the skills of an adult!
Arashi: You’re talking about sensibility, but, Ousama, your childishness comes from the way you act.
You should mind your manners and act your age, or else you’re going to have trouble in the real world, you know?
And by the way Ousama, you’re already working as a professional songwriter, right?
It seems you’re using pen names, but is that really okay? The higher-ups don’t get mad at you?
Leo: Not really, it’s kind of like they let me get away with a lot of behavior because I’m still a high school student.
I’m not a normal company employee, and as long as it’s not too excessive, the works are seen as more important than personality.
I don’t want to cause too much trouble for the people who look after me, and I’ve already put my family through a hard time…
I do think that it can’t continue like this and I need to do it right…
Wait, why am I telling all my troubles to Naru?! I wanted to hear about you!
Arashi: Even so, there’s nothing really to say.
Leo: That can’t be true. A book could be written about anyone, there are as many dramas as there are people.
Those who remain in history are only legendary figures like me, though. Mozart isn’t the only person who exists in this world.
Arashi: Mm… I don’t really get what you want to say… I thought not meddling too much with each other was one of Knights’ good points.
Leo: Knights isn’t like that right now, right? That’s why I came back.
We’re not some blood-covered outlaws killing each other anymore, we’re more like some kind of warm family now.
What happened while I was gone, how did it change… Tell me, Naru.
The one who played a main role in creating this gentle, shining warmth around Knights now… it was you, wasn’t it?
So, I’d appreciate it if you could tell me even a little bit about yourself.
No matter what kind of stupid thing it is, how heavy or painful, I’ll accept it.
I don’t know much about you, after all.
It’ll only be for a short time, but we’ll be fighting together from now on. I want to know all kinds of things. I can’t trust someone I don’t know to watch my back.
It doesn’t matter what darkness, what sins you bear inside you.
Everyone is always acting the good guy, left and right… Who are you all trying to act cool in front of, huh?
I want to become allies with you, allies who will get slathered in mud together, wash in the spurted blood of our enemies, slurp up rotten food behind bars, and all the while understanding each other, trusting each other, fighting through the battlefield together. I want to be like that. [1]
Am I the only one who feels that way?
Come on, Naru… Slice open that pretty stomach of yours, show me your innards, give me a hearty laugh.
You’re in high school now, if you’re not a good kid then Santa won’t give you a present…
We’re not the kind of obedient, dreamy little children who believe that, right?
Arashi: …
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[1] Leo used an idiom “to eat stinky food” which means “to go to jail” but he replaced “eat” with “slurp” so I left the literal meaning in and added “behind bars” to preserve the original imagery.
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< Silent Knights Chapter 3 || Masterlist || Silent Knights Chapter 5 >