Amagi Brilliant Park's
V1 - Chapter 2 Part 1
CHAPTER 2: The Bad Mascots With Customers
...----------------...
When he opened his eyes, it was morning, and he was home.
“Ugh..”
Seiya sat on his bed. He still wears the same clothes, including his jacket.
When did I get here? How am I supposed to get back from the amusement park? Mind empty.
He looked at the clock; at 7:00 a.m. He skipped Sunday night's game playing schedule (RTS online), but nothing could be done about it except email an apology to his opponent before walking towards the bathroom. For now, he needs to prepare for school.
He could think about the situation logically when he took a shower, he thought. Meet the girl, Latifah, at the terrible amusement park; the strange request she made to her; she who suddenly kissed him?
“Ugh.... What exactly happened?”
After staggering to her bathroom door, she opened it, and—He found Sento Isuzu standing in the locker room, half-naked. In fact, the fact is, she's almost completely naked. The only thing attached to her was her thigh-high socks. Her back is facing her, and she is putting a striped bra on the indentation*********** which is not very visible.
Strange order in dress. That was the first thing on his mind. Before ‘Really beautiful white ass’ or ‘God, it smells very fragrant’ or ‘Does he really like striped ones?’, that's the first thing that pops into his mind.
He's got a weird sequence in dressing. Completely naked with socks and bra—what kind of person wears that first? It's totally incomprehensible.
Only after all that happened did he think: why was he in the locker room at his house, looking fresh after taking a bath?
As Seiya was struggling with his silence, Isuzu glanced at him from his shoulder. His gaze surprisingly seemed calm.
Before he could say anything, he quickly closed the door, retreated towards the wall, and started shouting. He vaguely reflects one of the evil judges who is calling for help in a samurai drama.
“M-Mbs! Aisu-san!”
There was a short silence, then Kyubu Aisu came out of his room.
“Mguh? …Now what?” he nagged, “Hal first thing in the morning and I just got killed by staying up late..”.
She calls him ‘Mbak,’ but Aisu is actually her aunt. She is 26 years old with short black hair, and wears a loose t-shirt over her large chest. She was an editor at one of the publishing companies, so she lived an irregular lifestyle, even though she smoked and drank a lot, her skin surprisingly remained young and fertile.
“...Oh, Seiya,” said. “You're up, huh?”
“Mbak, what is he doing here?!” He pointed to the bathroom door repeatedly.
Aisu did not look surprised. “Dia? Oh, Isuzu-chan? Is she in the shower?”
“Jawab only my question!” Seiya demanded hysterics. “What is he doing here?!”
“...He brought you here late at night,” Aisu told him. “She said something about you being on a date suddenly falling and hitting your head? But most likely it was just a hard bump, so I let you sleep. By then he had missed the last train, so I asked him if he wanted to stay, and he said, ‘of course.’”
Getting to know Aisu, it was a reasonable sequence of events—after all he never cared about anything other than his work. He is the type of person who, if there is a plot of foreign thieves comes at two in the morning, rings the bell and says, “We from the housekeeping service,” will only reply “Seiya must have called you; just go in,” and then go back to sleep.
But... even so... Even so, this is definitely nonsense! Comeon! How can you accept that story?! Just as Seiya's mind focused his anger on her, something strange happened.
«It's time Seiya started dating the girls. I guess he's been softened. he usually fights with all the women he meets. I'm so happy! As his guardian, of course.» Aisu's voice echoed in his head.
Mouth closed. Even so, he could hear his voice, very clearly. “What?”
Aisu, who hasn't said anything, just responded with “Hmm?”
“Mbak,” asked suspiciously, “did you just speak in a strange way?”
“Huh?”
“Something about me being softened or what it is.”.
Aisu surprised. “A-What? I don't know what you're talking about..”
“You just said a lot of things with your mouth closed.” Seiya accused him. “Like me being softened, I am hostile towards women, something about speaking as my guardian.”.
The shock on his face grew clearer, and he covered his mouth with one hand. “What? I didn't say anything. You know, you're really scaring me right now.”.
“You're the one who scared me..” he told her angrily. “I don't know if it's a stomach sound or what, but I don't like it when people mock me.”
“Abdominal voice?” Aisu asked, clearly looking confused.
“Iya, right?” Then he thought, obviously, he wouldn't say that he could do it.
“I don't know what you're talking about.. Oh, I get it,” he said, starting to wake up. “I may still be half asleep. Yeah, I haven't gotten the alcohol out of my life. After all, you're awake, so forget it. I'm going to sleep again. Go to school, okay? See you later.”
Aisu rambled for a while without giving her a chance to speak, then pulled herself towards her room. The door closed and made a clack sound.
When Seiya was still staring blankly at her, the bathroom door opened.
“It was interesting,” comments Isuzu.
Seiya was surprised because of his stupidity. “Huh?!”
Sento Isuzu was standing there, already wearing his school uniform. She did not seem bothered by the fact that Seiya had seen her naked.
“I accidentally heard,” said Isuzu. “After all we are limited only by door.”
“...Then why?”
“I think I know what ‘magic’mu.”
...----------------...
It was Monday morning, so they couldn't waste much time. He dressed, had a simple breakfast with Isuzu (chocolate and milk cereal) and went to school. Aisu her aunt quickly fell asleep in her room, so she did not drop them off.
“So you want to explain it or not?” Seiya asked as they walked from his apartment complex to Yanokuchi Station. The fast train that was headed to their school would arrive soon, so they had to go fast enough.
“Of course I will explain,” Isuzu replied. “I feel like dying if I shower less than three times a day. Less every eight hours. After staying at your house, I had already exceeded my limits. So I used your bathroom—with regret, without permission.”
“...Um, that's not the explanation I want..”.
“So... Then, what do you want me to explain?”
“About this magic!” it exploded, “as well as about Latifah's girl!”
“Oh, the..” He nodded. “You lost consciousness when the Princess, Latifah-sama gave you magic. It was late at night and we couldn't wake you up, so I called a taxi and took you home.”
He was still playing around with the core of his question. “I want you to tell me about this ‘magic’,” he tried again.
“Latifah-sama is the queen of the magical realms of Maple Land,” Isuzu explained. “Women from the royal family of Maple Land have the ability to bestow magic power to ordinary humans through mouth-to-mouth contact.”
“M-Mouth to mouth?” he stuttered.
“Means by kissing.”
“I know the point..”.
So it wasn't a dream. You rotten woman, give me back my first kiss! …Actually, he didn't think much of it. But he hopes to have time to prepare, however..maybe a slightly greater sense of accomplishment?
Yeah, it's the same feeling that you played an RPG and then a glitch showed up and made you beat the last boss at level three, and then you didn't even get the ending screen. It sucks! So sucks!
Isuzu ignored Seiya's silent dislike and continued calmly, “The type of magic bestowed from the royal family's kiss will be different depending on the person receiving it. They may gain the ability of firing rays from his eyes, grow super strong iron claws from their fingers, or control storms.”
“What is all magic?” he wants to know. Isn't that mutant power or something? At least it all sounds familiar…
“It was just an example,” he told her. “In your case, the magic let you read other people's minds. If you look at someone and want to, you can hear what they're thinking. There are several stories about this in the old Maple Land records. But—”
With hesitation, Seiya looked at Isuzu and concentrated. As if realizing what he was going to do, he closed his mouth and said nothing more.
It focuses. He heard voices. A strange echo inside his head that felt close, but also far away.
Sento Isuzu's thoughts sounded: «But—based on those notes, you can only use this magic to everyone once, and you can only read their minds for a moment. Does work? If you hear me, say something.» His heart was cut off. Isuzu stared right at him, waiting for his response.
“...Well,” he concluded, “It looks right. I can really hear your thoughts. You say I can only read once per person, and time-restricted?”
“I'm glad you got it fast.”
“Hmm. Looks unbelievable,” he admits, “but I don't think that you faked it..”.
All this talk about magic seemed like nonsense, but Seiya accepted it quite calmly. Given the number of strange phenomena he had experienced in the past two days, he had already given up on finding a logical and realistic reason for all who came to him.
Magic that allows her to read minds, huh?
Good. Let's assume that power exists and he has it. In that case, the first thing he had to do was test his strength and feel his limits.
Arguing with himself will not result in anything; he must face reality and get information he can use! Of course, he prefers magic that can make him control gravity, or imitate the ability of others perfectly.
So, he thought, let's test it one more time! He looked at Isuzu once more, trying to peek at his thoughts. But no matter how hard he concentrated, he could not hear his voice anymore.
“……”
“Looks like my assumption was right,” he said. “You can't read my mind anymore, can you?”
“...Why are you so sure? I could have just pretended.” He said it was partly out of spite, but Isuzu was not disturbed.
“Oh?”
“—because I just thought of something very obscene.”
“A... What?” Raunchy? What kind of a pervert?!
“Just kidding,” Isuzu added.
“Rrgh..”.
“But this proves it,” he finished thinking. “You don't know that I lied. In other words, you can only read once per person.
“Grrr..”.
His tactics are without gaps; he should be on his guard if he is around. There was also a back and forth incident at the snack shop yesterday.He may have to have tight control in his emotions if he is around from now on.
Although there was something else that made him regret his carelessness.
He had already used this magic “once” on him. If only he had arranged it carefully, he would probably have gotten the proper extortion material.
“...Kanie-kun. You're disappointed that you couldn't get blackmail for me, right?”
“T-Wait... You don't have that power either, do you?”
“No. Just looks like, based on your behavior in our previous interactions.”
“Grr..”.
I really hate acting, Seiya thought fiercely. A little late for that now, but—
“B-Well... Let me test it a little more.” Trying it on one person is not positive evidence.
He tested his strength on middle-aged workers who walked beside them while heading to the station. He's just a guy that he'll find all the time—it doesn't matter if he doesn't read his mind anymore.
He heard the man's voice. «Ahh, tired. I'm late to get out of the house, and I may have missed my usual train. He is a speck of light in the middle of hell's journey.».
Whatever. He then read the mind of a middle-aged woman in a suit, who was walking behind the man.
«...Do I program the DVR correctly? If I call right now, Takeshi can check it before school. But Takeshi hates Korean dramas, which makes it very awkward to ask him..
Really, whatever. He then tried it on to the ordinary boy behind the woman. He was wearing a uniform from another school, his eyes focused on the record as he walked—
«...Vienna Congress, 1914. Congress of Vienna, 1914. Congress of Vienna, 1914. Congress Vienna, 1914..»
Not up to it at all! The Congress of Vienna lasted from 1814-1815! It was an important conference between European countries after the Napoleonic wars! How could you mistake it for 1914? It's been a century! It was World War I! He gritted his teeth, wanting to push. I want to show the boy's mistake…
After restraining his desire, he tried to use his “sihir” once again to the same subject—office worker, the woman, student—but he could no longer read their minds.
“...It looks like you were right, Sento,” he finally admitted. “I can only try it once on everyone, and I can only do it for a while.”
“Note Maple Land talks about people in the past who have such power,” he replied briefly.
“Hmm.” If he learns anything new from all of this, it is a power that does not allow him to actually see a person's name. He does not know the kanji for the last name (which is possible) of his son, Takeshi.
In other words, literally magic it does not really let “read” people's minds; it only hears what they think. And only once per person. With such restrictions, it is difficult to abuse them.
They were getting closer to Yanokuchi Station; the area around it was severely damaged, with almost no shops. There is a laundry and a vegetable seller, plus a yakitori pub and bar aimed at men around. To the south of the station is an undeveloped mountain forest.
It is a commuter suburb in Tokyo, Amagi, right on the border of Kanagawa Prefecture. Although it is only a 30-minute drive to Shinjuku, it is difficult to call it part of the city; it is a suburb.
After passing through the ticket gate, Seiya spoke again. “I still have many questions. What is ‘Maple Land?’”
“A magical realm located on the threshold between the ocean and the land,” Isuzu said.
“That's what I heard,” repeated sharply. “Now tell me the truth.”
“That's the truth.”
He seems to insist on this ‘alam sorcery’ theme. Fine, whatever.
“But all you need to worry about now is returning to Brilliant Park with me after school,” he said “Fakta that you fainted means we can't discuss our plans.”
Seiya protested his proposal, of course, but when a musket was directed at him on the station platform, he decided that agreeing with him was the safest bet.
...----------------...
Arriving at school, Seiya spends her days in class holding back her anger. All are exacerbated by the fact that someone, somehow, is spreading rumors about him and Isuzu. He was having lunch in the bathroom cubicle when he overheard some students coming and talking about it.
The reason is that a first-year girl saw Kanie Seiya and Sento Isuzu meet in front of Amagi Station and take a bus together.
The report is that the bus on board is the bus that goes to the Alamo Hotel. The proof is, in the morning, the two walked together to school, look “ very familiar”—
You must be kidding me!
He wanted to get out of the room and yell at them, but he was deterred by the fact that he was having lunch in the bathroom. If he wants to keep every piece of his reputation, he can't come out now.
You know, Kanie Seiya IT! Alone!! In the bathroom!! Eating curry bread!!—Think of it is unacceptable.
After several hours of grinding his teeth, Seiya once again ended up in Amagi Brilliant Park. Isuzu had been waiting for her outside after school, then pulled her with him mercilessly.
“So?” Seiya asked after they passed the entrance of the cast next to the gate. “Where will you drag me today?”
Instead of answering, Isuzu without saying anything knocked on his phone. He seemed to be checking his email and typing a short reply to someone. His typing style was very slow and sloppy.
“Hei.”
“……”
“If you want to check your email when someone talks to you, you can at least say sorry. Did your parents not teach you anything?”
“……”
“No response, huh? I thought I'd just go home.” Seiya left and continued to the exit when he felt an iron hand on his collar. “Hei!”
“How do you make ‘emoji?’” Isuzu showed me his phone screen.
Question: They're here, fumo
Entiendo. I'm at the first gate. I brought Kanie-kun.
From: Moffle
For: Sento Isuzu
The Amagi Developers are here, fumo.
I sent them to conference room three, fumo. GET OVER THERE
It was an email that raised a lot of questions, Seiya thought.
First, there was the fact that the email was from Moffle. The mascot who fought with him yesterday. Why would someone send you an email with the name of the mascot? “Amagi” Developer People are also a strange collection of words. And his habit of speaking it... “They are here, fumo.” Wh why?
Despite harboring various questions now, Seiya decided to call out to him. “...I don't really understand all this,” he told him, “but would you like to try giving emoji after ‘I brought Kanie-kun?’”
Isuzu nodded.
“What kind of Emoji?” tanyakanya.
“I want one that looks like I'm smiling and waving.”
“OK...” he told him, “give me a minute.”
I brought Kanie-kun.:)
“What can it be?”
“Hmm... can be accepted,” she decided.
What kind of reaction is that? Seiya wondered. In that case, what kind of emoji is better than the one “can be received”?
But put all that aside—
“So, where are you going to take me?” he wants to know.
“You read his email, right? To the conference room three.”
“Why?”
“To meet with people from Amagi Developer,” Isuzu explained.
“And Developer Amagi is..?”
“Our enemies.”
...----------------...