OVER★Hop Across HRCN! - CURE RABBIT 2

[daze_0907]

Season: Spring

Location: Church Chapel, Nazuna's University


Hajime: Uwawa, what should we do......!

Tomoya: Calm down, Hajime. If we panic, we can't do anything, right?

Hajime: But the advisor accompanied the head of the club outside! And they had a super grim look......

Tomoya: I don't fully know the situation, but it's pretty clear that this isn't some trivial thing. Everyone else that was left behind seems pretty worried too......

Mitsuru: Nii~chan. Do you know why that teacher got mad?

Nazuna: No, I don't. I don't know anything either.

They said "I did not ever think I would hear you all performing a song like this", but......

Mitsuru: Did they get mad 'cause everyone in the choir was singin' a song they weren't supposed to sing?

Tomoya: If I'm remembering correctly...... In order for the choir to attract interest from new students, they were going to sing songs outside of hymns, right?

That was the reason why Nii~chan said he wanted to try out a rock Ra*bits, too.

Nazuna: ... Right. That's why it should've been fine for them to sing songs other than hymns.

(Just now, did the choir members avert their eyes......?)

Hey, if you know why the head of the choir was taken away, would you mind sharing the reason with us?

... You didn't tell your advisor you'd be singing songs other than hymns!?

Hajime: Eh? Isn't that a pretty important detail......?

Nazuna: The specifics of performing in the recruitment event should be written and submitted in a required document. Technically, the advisor should've looked it over......

If he didn't catch it then, did you write down that you'd be singing hymns?

...... So you didn't mention the specific genre, just that you'd be singing songs, huh.

Mitsuru: Umm? So the choir members handed in the proposal, and the prof reviewed it, but they didn't explain everything about the songs they're singin'......?

Nazuna: The professor thought that they had been practicing hymns for the event, so when he showed up to the chapel just now he was probably alarmed to hear the students singing songs that weren't hymns......

Tomoya: Why didn't you tell him what kinds of songs you planned on singing?

Nazuna: You wanted to discuss it with him, right? But you couldn't find the courage?

That professor's been the choir's advisor for some years now, so you thought he'd insist on the same hymns just like the seniors that graduated?

It's true that it's probably difficult to discuss in that situation.

Tomoya: If it's the advisor, who is also a professor, he has more influence than your seniors. It probably was that if he didn't approve of it, you'd become unable to sing songs other than hymns.

If that happened, it'd be just like last year where no new students really joined, and the choir might really end up disappearing.

Nazuna: So, because of that, you couldn't talk about what you wanted to, and you kept putting it off until today rolled around.

(As expected, the though of rejection was scary, so they couldn't make themselves say it.)

(But that's all guesswork. If you don't bring something up, you'll never know if it would've been rejected......)

(No. I have no room to criticize them.)

(I completely understand the feeling of not being able to be honest. I mean, you have to have how much courage to do that?)

(I was the same way. Before I broached the subject of trying out a rock Ra*bits with everyone else, I was super anxious.)

("Isn't Ra*bits taking the 'cute' route?", I thought. Who am I to judge the choir at this point......)

(If Anzu hadn't given me that push, I probably would've kept this feeling completely to myself.)

(Without anyone to give them that push...... What could the choir have possibly done, right?)

Mitsuru: Well, guess we have no choice now but to go talk to him and get his approval!

Nazuna: Mitsuru-chin......

Mitsuru: You guys said that everyone wants to sing this song! It's most important that everyone gets to sing songs that they have fun singing!

Everyone's face just now looked like they were having loootsa fun! When he sees the way you all look performin' that song, the prof'll definitely understand!

Nazuna: ...... It's just like Mitsuru-chin said.

You can't move forward if you're too scared. There are times when you need to be brave and share what you're feeling.

Hajime: As far as your performance when singing that song, the camera recorded it all, so if you show this to your advisor, he just might understand......!

Tomoya: They only just left, so they shouldn't be too far away.

Mitsuru: Alrighty~! I'm gonna be the first one to find the prof~! Dash da~sh!



Nazuna: They're not anywhere near the chapel...... Where did they go?

Could it be that both of them have gone to a seminar room? Is he that professor that was in charge of that classics course......?

Mitsuru: Nii~chan! I found the two of 'em!

Nazuna: Seriously, Mitsuru-chin!?

Hajime: One of them is wearing the choir uniform, so I don't think we're mistaken......!

Nazuna: (...... Found them! The choir head is bowing to the professor.)

U-Um! Excuse me!

Advisor: Nito-kun? You're in quite a hurry, is something the matter?

Nazuna: Professor......! Will you listen to what we have to say, just briefly?


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Notes:

• as always, my japanese is not native-level and thus is prone to error! please understand that this is a fan translation unaffiliated with happy elements.
• i chose to translate mitsuru's dialogue when referring to the professor with "prof", because in his japanese dialogue he uses the hiragana to refer to him rather than the kanji (きょ〜じゅ/kyo~ju rather than 教授/kyouju). this is just a personal choice in an attempt to preserve the nuance! mitsuru's dialogue loves to use ~ as a way to show that he tends to elongate his vowels.
• nazuna wonders if the professor "was in charge of that classics course" as a way of narrowing down the buildings they could be in, since a specific course is easier to tie down than a professor, who may change buildings/classrooms depending on the course.