★1804SUB | Sora Substory (Shinobu set's 3★)

From Harukawa Sora’s 3★ card in Sengoku Shinobu’s “Scout with Story” set.

Writer: Akira
Timeline: Summer

Harukawa Sora

High Score Boys

> Game Club room

Natsume: "Sora~! Look, loOK! I’ve got you a kusogE~☆”

Natsume & Sora

Sora: “<HaHa~♪> Sora is happy to see you look so happy, Shisho!

And that’s perfect timing~!

Sora invited Yuuki-sense over today! When you think of kusoge, you think of Yuuki-sense, right~?”

Makoto

Makoto: “Eh, what does that mean!? I don’t know but I feel like I’ve been dissed!?”

Natsume: “Of course NoT, Yuuki-kun♪

You possess steely endurance that enables you to play on tirelessly and aim for completion, even when faced with bugs and hell-like button smasHiNG.

Isn’t that rigHT, former Game Club member, Legendary High Score Expert… Yuuki-kun?♪

I know that until now, you’ve played through a great many kusoge, that normal people would have given up on within minuTEs…

…and cleared them, while giving an impression that’s dubious of your saniTy: “Eh? I thought that was pretty fun?”

And so valuing your accomplishments and abilities, today I have brought you a special kusoge to plAY!

Now, will you be able to clear this onE…!?”

Sora: “<HiHi~♪> There’s nothing to worry! Yuuki-sensee will definitely see it through!”

Makoto: “Uh, guys, I’m not that bored!?

Why is that each time you find a new kusoge you force me to play it!? What meaning is there in this bullying!?

M-Maybe Sakasaki-kun actually hates me?”

Natsume: “Of course nOT. Let me make it clear: That’s a misunderstandiNg. I have a fair amount of respect and interest towards you guys, you knOw, Trickstar♪

Well, it’s your freedom to feel like you’re being bullied, thouGH!

You are greatly mistaken if you think I am a virtuous maN, I am one of the Five Oddballs who once plunged this Yumenosaki Academy into chaOS!

Using every vicious method possible, I will kick you down to the abyss of miseRy! Fuhahahaha…☆”

Sora: “<HuHu~♪> Shisho is acting weird because he hasn’t been getting much sleep~”

Makoto: “Eh, really? You need to take proper sleep, Sakasaki-kun. Our body is our tool of the trade in this industry, right?”

Natsume: “I knoW. But when I’m taken in by my research, potions and all that, I kinda forget the time, you seE…

I was thinking that love potion, which has been a persisting subject of research since the old times, might be of use for my idol activitIEs.”

Makoto: “Eehh!? Love potion?

I-I think love caused by drugs isn’t true love!”

Natsume: “I wonder. Love is in the end a physiological process that can be chemically explaInED… Haven’t you read A Midsummer Night’s Dream?

That’s okay, thouGH. Different people have different definitions of loVE.

…Anyway, I think I seriously need that sleEP, so I’ll go ahead and take my rest, okaY?

I’ll be taking a nap at my secret studY, so I’ll let Sora deal with the gueST.

As the head of this club, I know I should be the one to welcome you, thoUgH.”

Makoto: “Ah, don’t worry about me. I just happened to bump into Harukawa-kun in the corridor, where he then invited me to come over and play for a bit… that’s all.

I’m not exactly a guest, and it’s not that I had any particular business. Get your sleep, Sakasaki-kun.

…You really look like you’re having a hard time.”

Natsume: “Are you actually sharp or dense… I wish you’d pick one and settle with iT.

Well, whateVeR. Then I’ll take you up on the offer and get some sleEp~♪

FarewelL. Don’t hesitate to wake me up if there’s trouBLe.”

Sora: “<HeHe~♪> Sweet dreams, Shisho~!”

> Natsume leaves.

Makoto: “Fufu. Just when I thought he finally showed up, he left in no time, that Sakasaki-kun. He’s really a tough one to grasp.”

Sora: “Really? But Shisho is always oozing a different ‘color’ from other people――

Umm, I mean ‘color’ as in for smell! Anyway, he’s always oozing that, so Sora finds him easy to grasp~”

Makoto: “Ah… Come to think of it, I guess Sakasaki-kun always has this strange fragrance coming from him.

Is it from some aromatics? He gives off different scents at different days too, doesn’t he?”

Sora: “Yes! He’s a little tired today, so he’s wearing a really strong ‘color’ to hide it~”

Makoto: “Sakasaki-kun is looking pretty busy, isn’t he~? Switch has been frequenting even in official matches lately… Should you really be playing games, Harukawa-kun?”

Sora: “It’s okay! Clubs are part of the ‘ordinary life’! It’s exactly because of the ordinary that the unordinary can shine!

That’s what Shisho said! Impurity and purification and something-something!

So Sora will play a whole lot today too! With a sparkling smile…☆

First, let’s get to the kusoge that Shisho brought for us!

It seems it can be played by two, so can Sora play too?”

Makoto: “Of course. I’m not part of the Game Club anymore, so the game consoles and their softwares and everything else belong to you guys.

You don’t have to ask my permission for anything. Just do as you like, Harukawa-kun~♪

I’ll do my best for our co-op play so I won’t get in your way.

I’m so excited~ Kusoge are like, almost physically impossible to beat, so I can play them on and on♪”

Sora: “<HoHo~♪> So that’s why it’s become that ‘when you think of kusoge, you think of Yuuki-sense’, huh~?

Because Yuuki-sense beats normal games too fast!

But Sora thinks beating it isn’t all there is to enjoy a game~? How about taking the time to enjoy the light and sound more?”

Makoto: “Different people have different ways of enjoying games ― just like with definitions of love, I think…

Aha, I just tried to say something deep by borrowing Sakasaki-kun’s words♪”

Sora: “Yuuki-sense seems very excited~ He looks like he’s having fun! But that’s a given~ because ‘games’ are ‘play’!

We’re still children, so we love to play! Just like Shisho and Sense, Sora also loves games very much!

Let’s all play a lot! Let’s play, forgetting the time, for as long as that’s allowed for us! <HaHiHuHeHo~…♪>”