Ensemble Stars - Holiday Party Chapter 3

[furuichisakyo]

[Downtown]

Kaoru: This restaurant isn’t bad, Moricchi. As expected from a place chosen by Anzu~

Chiaki: Mm-hmm. The atmosphere and food are perfect too! I plan to gather everyone tomorrow to inform them about the date and venue of the bounenkai.

Chiaki: Hmm? When will the bounenkai be?

Chiaki: Of course, we plan to have it during New Year’s Eve… Hmm, even without checking the schedule there shouldn’t be any other plans on that day.

Chiaki: “Starlight Festival”? Hmm, the songs from “Starlight Festival” needs to be made into an MV. And the date of the photoshoot is just as big as the bounenkai, right?

Kaoru: Speaking of that, is UNDEAD the same too? I haven’t told Sakuma yet, but UNDEAD needs to do an MV shoot as well.

Kaoru: It seems like all the “units” that appeared in “Starlight Festival” have to shoot MVs.

Kaoru: There are many participating “units”, so it feels like the time will fly by if all “units” will shoot their MVs by the end of this year.

Kaoru: The dream festival will be held after New Year’s, so you want to complete the shoot during school holidays when the dream festival won’t be held and celebrate New Year’s without worries, right?

Chiaki: Well if that’s the case, completing the shoot will be harder. Well, we have no choice but to stagger our bounenkai…

Chiaki: Hmm? You seem to have an idea, Anzu.

Chiaki: I’m fine with waiting until tomorrow afternoon… Ok, I get it. I have something to tell them, so I’ll gather everyone as well.

[Audio-visual room]

Chiaki: Thank you for coming, everyone! I’m so happy…☆

Chiaki: You told everyone to gather in the audio-visual room for an important announcement, and we can’t ignore you.

Tetora: “Starlight Festival” has ended and we’re free right now, so we’ll happily take up any jobs.

Tetora: What kind of job is it? Is it the manly job you mentioned earlier? ~ ♪

Kanata: Eh~ I’m “not good” with hard “work”. Being “called out” during the “holidays” already made me feel unhappy.

Kanata: “Winter” “dries” the skin easily, and yet I can’t “soak in water”.

Kanata: If the “pressure” keeps getting bigger, my mood will become more irritable and leads to a vicious cycle.

Chiaki: Indeed, I’m strictly reminding you that you’ll die if you soak yourself in this season. I understand that the pressure is huge, but I hope you’ll be patient.

Chiaki: Although I don’t understand how did you get dry skin, but where there's a will there's a way. (1)

Chiaki: Fighting evil is risky, but as long as you work alongside your partners, we can defeat even the strongest enemies!

Chiaki: So let’s fight together, Kanata!

Kanata: “The question” is why “pressure” the enemy that can’t be observed by the “naked eye”, Chiaki. (2)

Kanata: Although I’m unhappy, I have no other choice. It’s a “fact” that the “water” is very cold during “winter”.

Kanata: I’ll get lectured by Chiaki if I get “fever” again.

Kanata: Chiaki, are there any “jobs” commissioned to us? There’s no “dream festival” now, is it an “off-campus” “job”?

Chiaki: Oh, it’s not a job.

Chiaki: Hmm, Anzu should have already contacted us soon, should I explain first?

Midori: Anzu-senpai…? Chiaki-senpai, why did you involve Anzu-senpai in this too…?

Midori: If Anzu-senpai is involved, it must be a job…

Midori: Since “Starlight Festival” has already ended, I thought I can finally leisurely spend my New Year’s… How depressing… I want to jump off right now…

Shinobu: D-don’t touch the windows~! It’s freezing! The cold air has entered the room and it’s freezing us up! Brrrr.

Kanata: I think it feels nice to have “snowflakes” floating on the “face”~ ♪ I want to leap into the “pile of snow”…

Chiaki: Please don’t do that, you’ll really die! And you too Takamine! This isn’t a job, so don’t jump off the building!

Chiaki: Oh! Anzu’s message is here!

Chiaki: Mmhmm. Anzu’s management is good. I should hug her tightly later as thanks ☆

Midori: I’ve told you so many times that you’re harassing her…

Tetora: Taichou, what did anego say? I’m curious!

Chiaki: Looks like she has already reserved the revenue for our bounenkai, and she has gotten permission to use the restaurant as a venue for our MV shoot.

Chiaki: She will also negotiate with the student council for the budget.

Tetora: Bounenkai? MV? Hold up, taichou. What’s going on? Don’t just give us a vague description, explain from the start to us!

Chiaki: Oh, you’re right. I should thoroughly explain the whole matter to you guys.

Chiaki: Actually, I planned to have a bounenkai, with the restaurant downtown as the venue.

Chiaki: But Anzu said that’s the date of our photoshoot.

Chiaki: So while I was thinking of staggering the party, Anzu thought of an idea, so I left the planning to her…

Chiaki: Anzu has informed Keito of our plan and enlisted him to help with the arrangement, so we can have our bounenkai and MV shoot as the same place.

Chiaki: That’s the whole plan.

Tetora: I get it. Have you planned this bounenkai from the start?

Chiaki: Because you guys have worked really hard lately.

Chiaki: “Eve of the Eve Live" and “Starlight Festival” were pretty difficult, but you guys still worked hard til the end.

Chiaki: As a reward to everyone… Well, it’s a reward, but it’s just something small and sincere, nevertheless I still hope everyone will happily enjoy feasting together.

Chiaki: Her message says there’s no problem as long as the atmosphere of the shoot is happy. So everyone can just relax and be our usual selves.

Shinobu: Taichou-dono!~ ☆ So you’ve been thinking of us so much… ♪

Chiaki: Aw Sengoku, you must be happy to jump into my arms! Good boy, good boy… ♪

Midori: Chiaki-senpai, your phone dropped… Huh?

Chiaki: What’s wrong, Takamine? Why are you staring at the screen?

Midori: There’s more in the message.

Midori: UNDEAD’s shoot is today as well, and she’s asking us if it’s ok to do the shoot together with us.

Chiaki: Oh right, I’ve heard that UNDEAD plans to do their own MV shoot too.

Kanata: There’s Kaoru in UNDEAD~ And Rei too. I don’t mind at all.

Tetora: We’re familiar with UNDEAD too.

Tetora: We’ve talked before and they’re pretty good people, I approve of them. ♪

Midori: I don’t have any objection too…? After all, I don’t have any reason to absolutely object…

Shinobu: I used to avoid them because I thought they were scary, but you can’t judge people by their appearances. They turned out to be nice people. I don’t have any objection as well~ ♪

Chiaki: Ok, since everyone’s fine with it, I’ll inform Anzu now.

Midori: Morisawa-senpai, which downtown restaurant are you referring to…?

Chiaki: It’s a place that Anzu helped me choose. I’m sure you’ll like it when you see the restaurant for yourselves!

Chiaki: In short, we’ll be heading to that restaurant with UNDEAD. I’ll inform you guys of any news, so enjoy your winter break before that. That will be all, meeting dissolved!

Note: (1) The Chinese localisation uses the idiom 留得青山在，不怕没柴烧, which roughly means “As long as there’s a green mountain, one doesn’t have to fear of firewood shortage.”

(2) The Chinese wording seems a little confusing, it says 看来，怎么和【压力】这种无法用【肉眼】观测到的敌人作战是【多此一问】呢～千秋。Kanata’s logic is a little too weird for me to understand lol