EVENT STORY TRANSLATION: The Top of the Blue Yonder - CHAPTER 9

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“The Top of the Blue Yonder" - CHAPTER 9"


Kumon: It’s almost time!
Tasuku: Right.
Still, there’s a bunch of people in the audience who clearly have some bad manners. They’re way too glued to their phones even now.
Sakuya: You don’t think they’re some of the ones who’d been leaving those bad comments online…?
Izumi: Maybe. I’ve already told Tatsumi-san about them. In case anything happens, the staff will be ready to deal with the situation.
Banri: Doesn’t matter what these guys will throw at us. It’s our show, and all we gotta do is give it everything we’ve got.
Juza: Right. I’m gonna make them regret underestimating us. Just for the fun of it.
Kumon: Nii-chan, you’re so cool…!!
Azuma: Fufu. It’s as if everyone’s really ready to get into a fight.
Izumi: Just enjoy acting as usual. If you do that, then I’m sure everyone’s feelings will come through!
Sakuya: Yes!
Misumi: Off we go~!

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ROLES:
BANRI: Onitsuka/Hosoi // KUMON: Hosoi/Onitsuka // JUZA: Daigo // MISUMI: Kamiyama // SAKUYA: Inui // TASUKU: Samejima // AZUMA: Kyougoku
-NOTE: There will be a lot of action going on in this play, so it is recommended to read this while playing the chapter to understand the movements between characters better [GIFs will not load on mobile]. Additionally, because there is a body-swap setting, Banri & Kumon’s roles will be colored to their respective character

Izumi: (The stage opens up to a delinquent school called Saishuukan Senior High—— In short, “Sai High”)
(Hosoi, a normal student, comes to school after just being transferred there. This is where the story starts.)
Hosoi: “Saishuukan High.. So this is the school I’ll be attending from now on. I wonder if I can really do well here…”
“I should get to the faculty room first…”
Audience A: It’s finally starting.
Audience B: Gotta live blog this.
Izumi: (It’s against the rules to use phones in the middle of the show, and yet… I knew we should’ve been more careful with these people.)
Onitsuka: “The hell are you up to, bastard!”
Audience A: !?!
[CLATTER]
Izumi: (Ah.)
(That person… It looks like he dropped his phone from getting startled by Banri’s acting just now. But now the phone’s stranded on stage.)
Audience B: ……
Izumi: (Seems like the other misbehaving guests have their full attention on the stage as well. Let’s hope this solves everything for now.)



Daigo: “You can see with your eyes, right? I was just having a good warm-up with your lackey here while waitin’ for you to come.”
Inui: “Oni-san!!”
Onitsuka: “Wanta^[1], stand back! I’m gonna take this guy on myself! Take this!”
[PUNCH]
Hosoi: “Huh!? A fight…!?!”
[SLAM]
[GLASS CRASHING]
Hosoi: “Th-There’s fighting all over the place…!!”
Inui: “Oni-san, go and give ‘im what for!”
Daigo: “That damn Inui, barking all over the place like an actual dog. His owner oughta teach this mutt some manners.”
Onitsuka: “Who says he’s my mutt? Hey, Wanta, I said to stand back! You’ll get in the way!”
Daigo: “Eyes over here, idiot!”
[PUNCH]
Onitsuka: “Kh——Guahhh!!”
[PUNCH]
[GLASS CRASHING]
Hosoi: “Eeeii…!! There’s no way I can stay at a dangerous place like this!! I gotta convince Dad to transfer me to another school and——”
[SLAM]
Onitsuka & Hosoi: “!?!?”


Onitsuka: “.......Ha?”
Izumi: (Right as Daigo sends Onitsuka flying, his head clashes with Hosoi’s. The shock from the force makes Hosoi pass out, while Onitsuka drags his body behind the stairs.)
(Their bodies have switched, and things are going to get more difficult from here on.)

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Hosoi: “Uuu…. My head hurts…”
Onitsuka: “You finally coming to?”
Hosoi: “Where…..?”
Onitsuka: “Behind the staircase. We’d be dead meat if Daigo found us out in the open.”
Hosoi: “....Oh. Right, I got mixed up into a fight and…..”
“..HUH?! HANG ON!! Why am I seeing my own self right before my eyes!?”
Onitsuka: “That makes two of us. Name’s Onitsuka. You?”
Hosoi: “I… I’m Hosoi….. I just transferred to this school today, you see….”
Onitsuka: “I had a feeling you were a new face here. Here I was thinkin’ you were from one of the other schools comin’ to raid us.”
Hosoi: “A raid!? Y-You’ve got the wrong idea!!”
Onitsuka: “I get it I get it. Now clench your teeth for a sec.”
Hosoi: “Ha?”
[SLAMS HEADS]
Hosoi: “OW!!!”
Onitsuka: “Tch. Figures it wouldn’t be that easy to switch back. I just know it’s got somethin to do with our heads bumpin’ into each other just a mo’ ago.”
“Lemme test it one more time.”
Hosoi: “Eh!? Wait, please! You’ll break my skull if you keep doing it like that…!!”
Onitsuka: “Geez, can’t stand hearin’ such a pathetic voice with my own face.”
Hosoi: “Even if you say it like that… What are we supposed to do now…?”
Onitsuka: “While we find a way to switch back, you’re gonna hafta pretend to be me for the time being.”
Hosoi: “Eh….?”
Onitsuka: “Right now, we’re in the middle of a battle— A battle for the title of this school’s next-gen rep’.”
Izumi: (The title for “representative”— The Rep'. It’s a title that’s granted to the student who’s the strongest of the strong within Saishuukan High.)
(This title serves as the badge of the top dog who gets complete influence over not only this school but also the neighboring high schools.)
(It’s for that reason that Onitsuka and all the other students brawl day and night— to determine who gets the title of the next-gen Rep'.)
Onitsuka: “We’ve got a bunch of real tough folks this year. ‘Swhy the next Rep' hasn’t been decided yet.”
Hosoi: “So these other guys aiming for the title of… Representative? What are they like?”
Onitsuka: “Well. I guess since you have to act in my shoes, I’ll tell ya.”


Onitsuka: “First off, that dude I was brawlin’ with just a min ago? That’s Daigo. The guy trains his own body like his life depends on it, so long as he can get stronger.”
“In short, a meathead.”
Daigo: “Who’s callin’ me a meathead!? Hey! Where’d you run off to, Onitsuka, you asshole! I ain’t done with ya!!”


Onitsuka: “Next is Samejima. He hates fights and believes in peace. ‘Cept he’s got crazy physical strength. It’s cuz of that that the other guys keep wanting to throw hands at him.”
Samejima: “Strength is everything in this school. For the sake of peace, I have no choice but to aim for the title of Rep'.”


Onitsuka: “Then we've got Kyougoku. He says he’s weak at fights, but he more than makes up for it by being the top informant in this place. Oh, and you absolutely do NOT want to piss him off.”
Kyougoku: “Fighting with just your fists is no fight at all. You must have the brains for it too.”
Onitsuka: “And last but not least…….. !!!”
[SHOVES]
Hosoi: “H-Huh!? First I get attacked in the head and then I get violently shoved!? Did I do something wrooong?!”
[DROPS]


Kamiyama: “... Aw, that’s too bad. Just when I thought I could trample on you from above. Your senses are as sharp as ever, Oni-kun♪”
Onitsuka: “Kamiyama……”
Kamiyama: “Huh? Who’re you? This is my first time seeing you, but to think you can send someone flying like that? This is gonna be interesting——”
Hosoi: “W-Wait! That’s my body——”
[SCHOOL CHIME]
Kamiyama: “Looks like it’s over for now. How sad. Well, catch ya later~”
[FOOTSTEPS WALKING AWAY]
Hosoi: “.......Huh? It’s over?”
Onitsuka: “Even while we’re fighting for the title of Rep', we’ve got standard rules to follow: No fighting during class hours or outside of school”
Hosoi: “That’s… Surprising. So it’s not a lawless land over here.”
Onitsuka: “Well, it’s not like we’re fighting to beat each other up.”
“... This place is filled with a bunch of clumsy idiots, so rather than using words, we communicate this way instead.”
Hosoi: “So basically like… Talking with your fists?”
Onitsuka: “Somethin’ like that. But movin’ on. Do you get my sitch’ now? What your sitch’ is now?”
“If anyone catches on that you and I switched bodies, those guys who are also aimin’ for the Rep' spot will go all in and leave me in the dust.”
“So. Do your best to not get found out. Capiche?”
Hosoi: “That’s easier said than done… What am I supposed to do if someone tries to drag me into a fight like just now?”
Onitsuka: “Then just run away for now.”
“If you don’t start a fight, then you technically won’t lose. ‘Sides, when it comes to speed, those legs of mine haven’t lost to anybody just yet.”
Hosoi: “Ehhh…..”
Onitsuka: “You don’t got much choice. Switching bodies doesn’t make you immediately good at fighting, does it?”
Hosoi: “Eh!? Wait, you don’t mean you’ve gotten my body hurt in any of your fights already!? Are there any wounds anywhere!?”



Onitsuka: “Chill, dude. I did nothin’ of the sort, so don’t get your hands all over me.”
“Y’know it was a lot of work to move that body while you were passed out. It was obvious enough lookin’ at it, but you really don’t got any muscle on you, do you?”
Hosoi: “I mean. All I ever do is study, so…”
Onitsuka: “I guarantee this body can break down in 5 seconds flat if it ever got into a fight like this.”
Hosoi: “B-B-Break…!?! Please don’t ever put my body in any danger!!”
Onitsuka: “I won’t, swear. That’s why you gotta do your best and run away like your life depends on it. Until we can get our bodies back. Got it?”
Hosoi: “O-Okay…..”
Izumi: (Banri-kun and Kumon-kun are doing really well with their body swap acting. They’ve been rehearsing ‘till the late hours for this— It’s the fruit of all that hard work!” )
(And just like that, Hosoi goes on to spends his days in the literal shoes of Onitsuka…)
(He does his best to avoid fighting with Daigo and Kamiyama, as well as dodging any questions that Samejima and Kyougoku throw at him.)
(However, for Hosoi, it’s when he spends his lunch break up on the rooftop with Onitsuka that brings him the most peace in the midst of this crazy routine.)
Hosoi: “You know, I admire you, Onitsuka-kun.”
Onitsuka: “Ah?”
Hosoi: “I heard it from Inui-kun. You came to his rescue back in your middle school years, and he’s been looking up to you ever since..”
“Then just some time ago, a guy from the next class over called out your name.”
“He said that he’d been trying to get stronger in fights because you’ve saved him before. I was troubled after he told me he wanted me to spar with him.”
Onitsuka: “Haha. You def’ won’t win as you are now.”
“But how ‘bout it? Wanna try to learn how to fight?”
Hosoi: “Eh?”
Onitsuka: “Don’t look so worried. I was kidding——”
Hosoi: “Maybe I’ll try a bit…..”
Onitsuka: “Ha?”
Hosoi: “I’ve never made a single friend before getting transferred. I was always buried in my books and studies…”
“But after coming here… After spending days in your place, Onitsuka-kun, it feels like I’ve always got someone by my side. Almost as if I’ve made some of my own friends, too.”
Onitsuka: “........”
Hosoi: “It’s scary, having to fight. But I can see that everyone in this school has so much fun with their everyday lives. I suppose you can say I kinda admire that about this place.”
Onitsuka: “If you want yourself a pal, then I can be one for you.”
Hosoi: “Huh? Really?”
Onitsuka: “‘Course. I mean, pretty sure we’re pals already, aren’t we? Ever since you transferred, we’ve been spendin’ our time together like this the whole time”
Hosoi: “.....!!”
Onitsuka: “Still, it’s weird tellin’ my own body that we’re friends like this. If we wanna seal the deal for real, then we really oughta find a way to get our own bodies back, yeah?”
Hosoi: “Y-Yeah…!!”


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[1]Wanta (ワン太) is the nickname Onitsuka gives to Inui (乾), coined from the “Inu” (dog) part of his name

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