Twin Peaks - Prologue

[verdantgrove]

 

 

Location: ES Live Stage

<End of September, two weeks after the live at Beehive>

Hinata: “♪~♪~♪~”

Yuuta: “~...♪”

Hinata: (Al~right, we're on a roll! Today too, we're the brightest in the entire world, Yuuta-kun!)

Yuuta: (Ugh, this is all wrong! Our progress is much too slow— or maybe it’s more like we’ve hit a wall, huh Aniki?)

Hinata: (Ehh~, now isn't that a stunning divide of opinions? Okay, then in accordance with the “2wink dispute rule” I came up with the other day, let's decide which one is correct with a coin toss!)

Yuuta: (I thought you were just joking when you said that. Also, didn’t you say we’d decide based on rock-paper-scissors?)

(Plus, there’s no way you brought coins up on stage, right?)

Hinata: (Okie-dokie! Rock paper scissors it is! Starting with—)

Yuuta: (Wawa?! Rock!)

Hinata: (Paper disguised as rock! Making you panic and depriving you of your ability to think was all a trick so your Onii-chan would win! Fuhahaha☆)

Yuuta: (But that’s where you’re wrong! I saw that coming all along, and so I changed mine to paper— doesn’t that make it a tie?)

Hinata: (If you were anticipating that, wouldn't the typical thing to do be to choose scissors so you can win?)

Yuuta: (I couldn’t be sure if you were thinking that far ahead… If you hadn’t been, and I just went with scissors, I’d have lost, wouldn’t I?)

Hinata: (Onii-chan thinks every once in a while, too~. Jeez, Yuuta-kun's such a scaredy-cat. ♪)

Yuuta: (I’m just cautious. There’s a certain someone here who likes to run into things headfirst without so much as a look over his shoulder, so I guess I’m getting into the habit of taking a step back and helping from behind.)

Hinata:  (Right, right. As always, anything and everything is all my fault. ♪)

Yuuta: (That’s not what I meant at all, but if you really think so, “Hinata-kun”, then that might just be it.)

Hinata: (Yup yup. ...That's enough of that; let's keep moving forward before all we do is have disagreements.)

Yuuta: (The way you’re saying it is pissing me off, you know?!) 

Hinata: “♪ ~ ♪ ~ ♪”

"Everyone~! Thank you all for coming to our live show today! It's 2wink~, the cute pop twin idols everyone loves!"

"I believe everyone here today came here to see us, so we probably didn't need to introduce ourselves!

"But I just can’t settle down until I do it! I'm the lively big brother of 2wink, Hinata~!"

Yuuta: “...I’m more quiet when compared to my brother, but that doesn’t mean I don’t have spirit! I’m the younger brother, Yuuta~♪”

Hinata & Yuuta: “When the two of us are together, we’re the two-in-one twin idol 2wink!”

Hinata: "We're so grateful to be able to have ordinary public performances for just us lately, not as a sideshow for some veteran unit!"

"Though of course, those were great experiences as well!"

Yuuta: “And it was all thanks to everyone’s support! We! Are! So! Grateful!”

Hinata: "To say thank you, we'll give you guys a great time today too! Look forward to it!"

Yuuta: “Come on, let’s all join hands and party until morning comes! Before we’re dragged away by fussy and overprotective parents!”

Hinata: “Welcome—to our playground...!”

Yuuta: (Hmm~... Just as I thought; I just don’t feel completely satisfied with this for some reason.)

(The audience gave us a good reaction, not to mention our fans are increasing steadily, and this stage was made just for us, not for us to be some opening act for someone else.)

(MCing, singing, dancing, and performing too— We’ve spent so long living at the bottom of the barrel to the point where we can do them all flawlessly every time without so much as a second thought.)

(No accidents, no troubles either— we’re becoming model students that CosPro can take pride in.)

(But is that really good enough? Was it really our goal to become some second-rate, middle-class idols?)

Hinata: (? What's wrong, Yuuta-kun? Haven't you been rather unenergetic these days? You really do need to eat sweets every once in a while— sugar is the energy of life after all!)

Yuuta: (You’re eating way too many sweets just for the sake of keeping your image, Aniki—  aren’t you going to get fat?)

Hinata: (I won't! If our figures differ and it becomes easier to tell who is who, won't we lose our selling point as twin idols?)

Yuuta: (At this point it’s not just a selling point, but what we’re all about. After all…)

(We are twins. But I hate that there doesn’t seem to be anything apart from that. I’m confident that I can hold my own against other idols with my singing, my dancing, anything.)

Hinata:  (Just "holding your own" isn't enough, don'tcha think? Now is the age of individuality, yanno!)

Yuuta: (I really don’t think that trying to forcibly squeeze some individuality into the end of your sentence like that really does any good, you know?)

(If you start doing a weird voice, I’m going to have to match it too, and that’s a pain. So can you cut it out?)

Hinata: (Okay. Let's avoid these hassles as much as possible, and work on what we have the best we can. Things are great now that we're successful, so what on earth are you dissatisfied with... Yuuta-kun?)

Yuuta: (I’m not exactly dissatisfied, but…)

Hinata: “~...♪”

Yuuta: (That thing that Rinne-senpai told me that day is still stuck in my head. Even though I should just ignore whatever a piece of trash like that says to me, huh...)

(But that person has poisoned me, and even now, I can still feel it piling up in the back of my stomach. It’s a poison known as anxiety, as doubt, as regret… My head is... spinning.)

(Hey, if ten or a hundred years from now, the era we live in becomes a story that only lives on in books…)

(How many pages do you think will be about me— about us?)

Hinata & Yuuta: “♪ ~ ♪ ~ ♪”

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Translated by verdantgrove and Mika_Enstars

Proofread by 310mc and meteorgreen