Love is indivisible by twins. - Vol 1 Chapter 1.7
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“In the end, it was nice to see him throw away the movie’s realism and stick to the monster part of it wasn’t it! All those Tokusatsu otakus get hit by those conventional criticisms! Even if you make a self-satisfied look having all those scientific works displayed by that director, at the very last, penultimate, loving to end it like that, that same director. Well, in that sense then, this movie surely lacked passion in it, right.”
[TL notes: Tokusatsu = is a Japanese term that applies to any live-action film or television drama that usually features superheroes and makes considerable use of special effects (tokusatsu literally translates as “special filming” in Japanese). Tokusatsu entertainment often deals with science fiction, fantasy or horror, but movies and television shows in other genres can sometimes count as tokusatsu as well. *copied from Jisho.
Here pertaining to Jin, as he is more into how the scientific things have been portrayed.]
“I will agree on that. It was done thoughtfully, but I surely demanded a more passionate scene.”
“Right? If possible, I would have loved to have a full taste of catharses in that. Well, putting that aside, why don’t we change the location to the riverbank? I’m already at my limit. There are just too many people here that I feel drunk. It stinks of human beings.”
[TL notes: …]
“I have no objection to that. I totally agree with you by my whole being. To be honest, just being in a crowd is exhausting. I need to recover my strength in a quiet place. By the way, was it Smith who says ‘smells like human’?”
[TL notes: Probably referring to the film: Matrix; here, the crowd also refers to human garbage.]
“That’s right, Anderson-kun. It’s better than Naori. Let’s go together.”
“That’s right, Mr. Anderson. Seriously, if only you could have shared some of onee-chan’s stamina with yourself.”
“That applies to Naori as well, doesn’t it. I am at least far better than Naori, don’t lump us together.”
──I think.
My physical fitness test wasn’t that bad, though.
That said, as someone who joined the archery club since he doesn’t need to be lectured for/about not running, I am at least well aware of my lack of confidence in stamina.
“I’m a girl. I don’t need muscle strength. I just need enough to be able to open the lid of a plastic bottle. Jun, if you really admire Holmes, why don’t you start by training your body like him? Learn baritsu.”
Naori makes a gesture of tightening and pulling out her fists.
“That’s not Bartitz; it’s boxing. No matter how you look at it, it’s boxing.”
“Tear off the thunderbolt with your Jaws! Catch hold of the lightning and crush it! You have to become a man not to be reckoned with, Shirosaki Jun!”
What Naori worded out with her mouth were the lines of Lockey. She can just blurt it out of her mouth like it was normal. Really incredible.
A man to be reckoned with, huh. That is something far, far away from someone like me.
“Also, just to tell you, I don’t look up to Holmes, OK? I only looked up at him when I was just a child, okay?”
“Say whatever you want to for something like that. You don’t need to force yourself, you know. Even now, whenever you hear the words ‘Great Detective,’ you have extraordinary admiration for it. I know it too well. Recently there has also been an addition of spy on those hadn’t there?”
“Stop! Don’t say things like that so lightly!”
“Come to think of it, when we were in middle school, ‘is it okay to add just one more thing?’ was something you used to normally add to your sentence. But it’s definitely Colombo, right? Even if there was someone who could have come close to guessing it, they would have probably misunderstood that as someone like Sugishita Ukukyo. Expecting that from present-day grade schoolers is really almost asking for the impossible. A~h, don’t tell me, did you think that if it was someone like Colombo, there would be no one to find out about it? I see I see. So that was how it was. Nyow, I understand. Well, that would be my guess. Well, in terms of the original inhabitants, the ones paying the homage became someone famous is something that cannot be helped, don’t you agree as well.”
[TL notes: Probably talking about the genocide of thanksgiving?]
Please stop… Please don’t delve into that kind of thing any further…
Please don’t attack the shallow mentality of my junior high school days anymore…
“…Naori, can you please leave it at that?”
“Ara ara, you can’t help but be hurt after remembering it? However, Jun-kun is unexpectedly so easy to get affected. Like see, you could easily write Star Trek jokes like “live long and prosper” in your Twitter BIO with emojis. If I remember correctly, your LINE icon is the Specter emblem, isn’t it.”
Naori stares at me while grinning.
“Isn’t it fine because I really like to do it? Do you have any complaints?”
“I have no complaints. Ah, speaking of Specter, when you introduce yourself, you don’t say something like ‘Jun, I’m Shirasaki Jun’ as James Bond, do you? Well, that’s your last name? Arre… by any chance, does that face make-up also have something in relation?”
I feel like dying soon. Just be a bit more thoughtful and bury me as well…
“What happened? Are you okay? Your face looks red. Are you fee—“
“I understand. I was in the wrong. I beg you, just please don’t say anymore.
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