(Sutamai) Short Story, B’s Log July 2019

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Title: HEROES THEATRE ~Revel~

 

Characters: Revel

 

Summary: A short story with the theme of horoscopes. Originally published in the July issue of B’s Log and reprinted in the Official Memorial Book 2017-2019.

 

 

 

At the usual bar, what they’re all preoccupied by is…

 

Kagura: Sorry to keep you guys wait—hold on. You haven’t even started?

 

Hiyama: If you were only going to be late by 30 minutes, then there was no need for us to rush to start drinking.

 

Maki: You okay for work?

 

Kagura: Yeah, I did what I could before coming over.

 

Otani: … Oh? Hey Kagura, about that magazine you’ve got in your hand…

 

Maki: Wasn’t that the one you said with the special feature on KUKKA?

 

Otani: Mind if I take a look?

 

Kagura: Sure, but don’t go searching for a model to fool around with or anything.

 

Otani: Ahaha, that also sounds like a good idea. But I’m only checking out the fortune-telling this time.

 

Hiyama: Fortune-telling?

 

Otani: One of the girls I know was telling me how “Madam Seiko’s Horoscope Divination” is all the buzz lately. I believe it should be serialised in this magazine.

 

Kagura: What’s with that lame sounding name for a fortune-teller…

 

Otani: Found it. They’ve got everyone’s lucky item for this month written down here, so want me to read them all out loud?

We’ll start off with Kagura’s Cancer sign.

 

Kagura: Nobody asked you to.

 

Maki: … Let’s just hear him out, okay?

 

Otani: Cancer’s lucky item is apparently a “navy blue jacket”. Well now, isn’t it spot on for what you’re wearing today, Kagura?

 

Hiyama: Hmph. Do you feel as if your luck is up?

 

Kagura: Hiyama-kun, please oh please, don’t ask me that with a serious face…

 

Otani: Don’t tell me you coordinated your clothes after seeing this fortune-telling, Kagura?

 

Kagura: Of course not. I don’t have even the slightest interest in that sort of stuff to begin with.

 

Maki: I don’t think Aki would take the fortune-telling at face value, so I can’t imagine he’d choose his outfit based on that either.

 

Otani: Though you say that, the truth is—

 

Kagura: Enough already. Hurry up and move on.

 

Otani: Yeah, yeah. It says here that Hiyama’s lucky item for Sagittarius are “rainbow coloured socks”.

 

Hiyama: Unfortunately, I do not own any in my collection. Where would it be possible to order some in?

 

Kagura: Wait, Hiyama, are you seriously saying that?

 

Hiyama: …? If by simply wearing it, my luck will increase, then surely there’s no harm in giving it a go.

What’s more, since they’re socks, they’ll mostly be covered up and you won’t be able to see them anyway.

 

Kagura: … I’m starting to feel faint.

 

Otani: Then next up is Pisces for Maki, which is supposedly a “onesie”.

 

Maki: Is it saying that I should go meet with someone who’s in a onesie, or?

 

Otani: Isn’t it telling you to wear one yourself?

 

Hiyama: It sounds like you can put it to good use as a PR for M-Toys.

 

Maki: (Hiyama-kun sure considers everything in a positive way…)

 

Otani: And lastly, for me, an Aquarius… Oh? My lucky item is a “cute girl”.

 

Maki: … Aki, you mind if I take a look at the magazine too?

 

Kagura: That’s perfectly fine though…?

 

Maki: Thanks.

 

Otani: Here you go.

 

Maki: I did find it strange from around the part with Hiyama-kun’s socks, but… I knew it. You made it all up.

 

Kagura: What?

 

Otani: Bravo, Maki. You’re absolutely right. 

 

Kagura: Hey, what the hell do you mean it was all made up!?

 

Otani: Wouldn’t that be, like, me saying whatever I want or what comes to mind?

 

Kagura: I’m not asking for a definition.

 

Otani: But you had fun, didn’t you? So much that we even forgot to toast and all, see.

 

Hiyama: Toast? … Ah, yes, of course. We still haven’t done so.

 

Otani: It’s because you were all absorbed in listening to what I was saying.

 

Hiyama: By the way, are our actual lucky items in there?

 

Maki: They’re here. This fortune-telling is pretty decent with being on the right track.

 

Hiyama: Hmmm… 

 

Kagura: … Hey, you two are looking at it really hard.

 

Otani: Hiyama, Maki—Kagura’s saying that he’s curious about it too.

 

Kagura: Not even a bit!

 

Hiyama: But if you believe, then perhaps there will be a change of some sort.

Although having said that, I’m sure how you turn that change into an opportunity really does depend on yourself.