Bs LOG – Helios Short Story

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— HELIOS Tower, at the briefing room —

Akira: Did you not hear me!? I freakin’ asked you to tell me what you can’t stand about it!

Ren: I did. You simply lack the capability to understand what I said. Quit bothering me already.

Akira: —The hell did you just say!?

Will: A-Akira... Ren... The two of you need to calm down a little.

Gast: Woah, woah. You guys fightin’?

Will: ... Adler. You really butt yourself into this conversation, huh. Do you have no excuse for your lateness?

Gast: O-Ohh... My bad. I had a li’l thing I had to do, and couldn’t make it in time, y’see... Anyways, why’re ya fightin’?

Akira & Ren: This guy here—

Ren: —Don’t talk at the same time as me...

Akira: Haah? That’s my line. You keep pickin’ a fight with me over every—

Victor: My oh my, what a ruckus we have here.

Marion: I could hear you from the hallway. I assume it means you’re done preparing.

Gast: Oh, our mentors are here already. Guess we’re runnin’ out of time.

Oscar: Was it too burdensome to leave the decorating to the rookies after all...? I was even aware that there wouldn’t be enough people around for it, since the west and east members are going to be late...

Brad: What happened here? Do you plan to welcome the commander with this tense air?

Will: I-I’m so sorry. We already finished preparing for the welcome party, but... They got into an argument when we started discussing how we’ll welcome the commander...

Ren: This dumbass kept shoving his opinions on us. All he can think up are thoughtless ideas to stand out, so I pointed out how thoughtless they were, simple.

Akira: Dumb—!? Y-You bastard... You called me a dumbass just now, didn’t you!?

Oscar: Akira, stay quiet.

Brad: What sort of ideas were they?

Ren: I don’t really understand them. Something about how he wants to set up a flashy performance with his pyrokinesis. He’s refusing to listen to reason.

Victor: A flashy performance with the use of pyrokinesis... While you may be able to create fireworks and rings of fire with that ability, it’s practically impossible in this space.

Marion: Do we actually need to be so particular about how we set up the welcome party, in the first place?

Victor: I agree. The roles were assigned in advance: the rookies decorated the room, and the mentors prepared food and drinks, and then the gifts for the commander. I think that’s enough to make them happy...

Come to think of it, I’m a bit surprised you’d bring a flower, Marion.

Marion: When it comes to gifts, flowers do. Who wouldn’t be happy to receive pretty things?

Victor: You’re putting it in quite the strong terms, aren’t you? I think there is also a certain number of people who don't find flowers attractive.

Marion: Quiet, shut up... Listen who’s talking. You're the one who brings wine, something that isn't even for everyone.

Victor: I felt as if we needed this sort of thing since it also works as dinner. Even if the commander doesn’t drink, someone else will, right?

Brad: We went off topic… We don't have much time before the commander arrives. As for the party, let's keep it natural as it is.

Ren: Hmpf… That’s what I’ve been saying from the start, but a certain idiot just won’t listen.

Akira: Haah!? I can hear you, Ren, you wanna fight me that bad, huh!?

Will: Akira, quit it! I told you to calm down...

Gast: … What’s that? Isn’t there something in the corner of the room?

Oscar: In the corner of the room? Aaah, Alexander……!

Akira: Eh, Alexander!?

Ren: W- What’s this Alexander thing...

Akira: It’s Oscar’s hedgehog! Uwaah, he ran away! Why is he here in the first place!?

Oscar: I thought he would be more relaxed at the welcome party… Sometimes Alexander wants to go out, too… Akira! He went over there!

Akira: Caught him! … Huff, don’t scare me like that. I had no idea what could happen!

Brad: Good grief, one trouble after another...

Akira: Ain’t it fine? I’m sure the commander will also have more fun if it’s noisy. Since flames are no good, how about we pop some party poppers? Hehe! ♪

Brad: Haah… well, it may sound strange, but there’s no need to save appearances here. The commander is also going to walk along the 13th members from now on.

Is everyone ready? Let’s welcome the commander on a large scale tonightー


This translation is a collaboration between me and Euni.
Thanks to Ryuuyan from the server for giving us the scans to translate this.