THRIVE's story – distance

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Kaneshiro: Oi, Ashu. You went and took the charger again, didn't you?

Ashu: Charger? What are you talking about?

Kaneshiro: I'm talking about the power bank. Hand it over, quick.

Ashu: Hand it over, you say... how cruel, Gouchin! Bold of you to assume I took it! The culprit might be Kenken!

Kaneshiro: Nah, this is certainly your doing. Hurry it up.

Ashu: Hmpf... Well, it's true that I have it, though~!

Kaneshiro: You bastard...

Ashu: Eheheh, I''m sowwy, I'm sowwy! ♪  I'll give it back immediately, so~... Wait, huh? It should have been inside the pocket of this bag.

Kaneshiro: ... Don't tell me you lost it?

Ashu: Gee, don't make such a scary face~! If I were a baby, I would be wailing right now!

Kaneshiro: Shut up, you ain't a baby! Geez... So? Where's the charger?

Ashu: About that~... I'm sorry!! I lent it to Haru two days ago, but forgot to get it back, apparently! I'll go fetch it right now!

Kaneshiro: Hah... This is nuts. Don't steal other people's things and lend them to someone as you like!

Ashu: Uuuuhhhh... but, but! You never use it, Gouchin, and you dumped it in the living room!

Kaneshiro: I ain't dumping shit, I left it there!!

Aizome: Excuse me... you two are noisy. It's bothering me, so could you keep quiet?

Ashu: Kenken! Hey, listen, Gouchin's so cruel!? Well, I'm also in the wrong, but still~

Kaneshiro: Since you understand you're in the wrong, move your ass and go to Haruhi's.

Aizome: What, you're going to KiLLER KiNG's place, Yuuta? Then, buy me a carbonated water. Fizzy, don't get it wrong.

Ashu: Wait, wait! Going to KiLLER KiNG's and going to the konbini are two different things!

Aizome: You're leaving the apartment, so it's the same, right? I'm counting on you.

Ashu: I can't believe this, you tyrants~! Gouchin, you ill tempered!! Kenken, you unruly beast!

Aizome: ... Hey. You've been saying that every now and then, lately. That's too tacky, so can you stop?

Ashu: That what? Tyrants?

Aizome: No, not that.

Ashu: Ah...!!

Aizome: Yeah. What's with the unruly beastーー

Ashu: Hey, Gouchin! Where are you going!?

Aizome: Huh?

Ashu: You're looking for the power bank, which means you're going somewhere far, right? I haven't heard anything!?

Kaneshiro: Hah? I told you ages ago that I would have gone out on my next time off.

Ashu: I don't know anything! Where are you going!?

Kaneshiro: Shut up... It's got nothing to do with you.

Aizome: It's Kanazawa right? Don't put on airs every time.

Ashu: Kanazawa!? Is that right?

Kaneshiro: ...... Why do you know that?

Aizome: If you get that excited in the waiting room, there's no way I couldn't hear that, even if I didn't want to. Some producer is going to a new music studio, right?

Ashu: Whaaaat~!? I didn't know about that! Why didn't you tell me?

Kaneshiro: You just don't listen. I did talk about going out.

Ashu: You did not!

Kaneshiro: I'm telling you, I did!

Aizome: Hah... Whatever, just be quiet. I'll leave the carbonated water to you, then, Yuuta.

Ashu: Wait, Kenken! The conversation is not over yet!

Aizome: What?

Ashu: We have to discuss this kind of thing properly. If we don't hear from Gouchin and no one knows where to go, you wouldn't know what to do, right?

Kaneshiro: Isn't it fine now that you already know, then?

Ashu: That's not what this is about!

Aizome: ......

Ashu: Come on, speak up Kenken!

Kaneshiro: Hah? ... Nah, this guy's making the face of someone who's not listening.

Ashu: He is! Right, Kenken?

Aizome: Eh, what? I wasn't listening.

Ashu: Buwah!? Why aren't you listening!?

Aizome: Well, no... it's just that this situation, there is a sense of deja-vu. The fact that the two of you are noisy it's usual, but it's different from... Ah, I see, It's that.

Kaneshiro: ... What is it?

Aizome: Just before you left to study in the States​, Goushi. You tried to move out of the dormitory without saying anything, but Yuuta caught you.

Kaneshiro: ... Oh, that.

Ashu: Eh! Why are you frowning, Gouchin!?

Aizome: That's right, Goushi. I'm the only one who can frown on.

Ashu: Wha~!? You too, Kenken, you're so mean!! That night is a precious memory I will never forget, and yet... Even now, when I'm reminded of it, it makes my heart warm and fuzzy, and I get butterflies in my stomach.

Kaneshiro: That's gross... And what's with the butterflies? I only remember you going mad and raging.

Aizome: That's truly too convenient for you.

Kaneshiro: Hah?

Ashu: Haaah... But, I was shocked at the time, you know~. When I was going to get some sweets at Ryuu-chan's, I saw Gouchin walking down the corridor with a big guitar case.

Kaneshiro: Oi, why are you starting talking about the past so normally?

Aizome: That... happened a week before going to study abroad, right?

Ashu: That's right, that's right! I knew about the day you were leaving for America, of course, so we were preparing a surprise party the day before, and yet...

Kaneshiro: I know nothin'. It's not like I was leaving straight from the dormitory.

Ashu: Then it would have been nice if you told me that you'd go back home the week before!

Kaneshiro: I mean, I told you I'd go home.

Ashu: You didn't.

Kaneshiro: I did!

Ashu: Did not~!

Aizome: That's the deja-vu I was talking about earlier. Well, this is not a matter about what has or hasn't been said, though.

Kaneshiro: Hah? Whaddya mean?

Aizome: What do I mean? You didn't forget that our debut was postponed because you suddenly started talking about studying abroad, did you? If you're leaving the dormitory, you could at least drop by to say goodbye, it's something even an elementary schooler understands.

Kaneshiro: Ha... This again? We weren't told about the debut at the time. In any case, couldn't you debut without me if you had the skills?

Aizome: What did you say?

Kaneshiro: Want me to repeat myself?

Ashu: Wawawah, wait! Don't go back to that mood! Or all the nostalgic and sparkling feelings will be for nothing!

Kaneshiro: Tch... it's his fault for spouting bullshit.

Aizome: That's my line, though?

Ashu: Stoooop! Good grief... Huh? But this, too, might be heart-pounding?

Aizome: Heart-pounding... Where even is that?

Ashu: Eeeh~ I dunno, but maybe my heart remembers what I felt back then!

Kaneshiro: What's that?

Ashu: Hmm, how do I put it... When the three of us were selected among Bambi to become THRIVE, I was happy, but you two were always fighting and I had a lot of things I lacked... And when you said you were going to study abroad, Gouchin, I thought it was all over. That if it continued to be like that, THRIVE would disappear...

Kaneshiro: ......

Ashu: But you know, when he heard that, Kenken got reaaally angry.

Aizome: Of course I did. He caused disarray even though we were doing it as a group.

Ashu: Yeah. But you know, I was really happy about that. You told me studying abroad doesn't mean he'd leave the group and what we would do from then on, so... I felt as if the three of us would manage.

Aizome: ! That's...

Ashu: Then, Gouchin also yelled that he's thinking very carefully about it. That he's not going to the US to play around, that there's something he could do only then for the sake of the future...! When I heard that, I couldn't say "don't go".

Kaneshiro: You...

Ashu: That's why I thought I'd see you off with a smile, but instead you go and leave altogether!! Of course I'd get angry! 

Aizome: Right... when I stepped into the corridor Yuuta was grabbing Goushi by the collar, that's why I thought something was going on.

Ashu: I didn't take it that far?!

Kaneshiro: Nah, you were getting hold of me. What's more, I was being incredibly shaken. If I were a baby not even a year old, you'd be in big trouble.

Ashu: Gee, you're not a baby, Gouchin!

Aizome: Hah... If I remember correctly, at the time I had planned a date with a very cute girl, but I was unable to get in touch with her until the morning to go along with the two of you.

Kaneshiro: How the hell could I know that!

Aizome: Heh, right, says the guy who was raving more than Yuuta. "I'm really gonna strive hard, so you commit yourself fully, too", was it? Who do you think you were?

Kaneshiro: ! ... You prick...

Ashu: Fuwah~! That's youth, huuuh! 

Kaneshiro: Shut your trap! Anyway, Ashu, go fetch the charger. They're already sleeping. 

Ashu: Oopsie, you're right! I'm going~!

Kaneshiro: Geez...

Aizome: ... The charger, huh? You're alone tomorrow, aren't you?

Kaneshiro: Hah? What's with you all of a sudden?

Aizome: Nothing?

Kaneshiro: ... What's that annoyed mug for?

Aizome: Nothing in particular? However, the other time the trip I thought you'd go on alone turned out not to be like that, so~. How did you like the luxury train?

Kaneshiro: Wh-... you, where did you-......!?

Ashu: Eh, what, what!? What's this luxury train about!?

Aizome: I wonder, I don't know much. Tell us more, Goushi. I don't mind if we talk until morning like that time, you know?

Ashu: I wanna know, tell me!! What's this luxury train!? Who did you ride with!?

Kaneshiro: ...! Shut up! Move your ass and go to Haruhi's!