Riko Ep. 16: An Out-of-Control Meeting
You sit in on a meeting with Guilty Kiss to help plan their upcoming live show. However, Mari and Yoshiko's unique outbursts keep knocking the meeting off track.
Player
Wow, a Guilty Kiss live show! I'm excited to see how it turns out!
Riko
Me too. We haven't done sub-unit activities in a while, though. Does anyone even remember Guilty Kiss?
Yoshiko
What are you talking about?! We have eternal control over our familiars, down to the very marrow of their bones. No amount of time will ever sway that!
Riko
Uh, I doubt we have that kind of control.
Mari
Let's make this live show the most supremely cool, powerful, mysterious, fantastic, and exciting live show we can!
Riko
I get what you're trying to say—I think—but that's too many different concepts blended together!
| Option 1: “I like it!” |
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| Player I like it! If we combine all of those concepts together, I bet you'll have a live show that's unlike anything anyone has ever seen before! Riko It's incredible how breezily you accepted her enthusiasm. That's Nijigasaki's famously capable School Idol Club president for you! |
| Option 2: “Ahaha…” |
| Player Ahaha… Anyway, let's start making preparations! I'll help you out however I can! Riko Thank you, we could use the help. It's almost as if we're taking it for granted that you're going to help us now? |
Player
N-No, it's not like that. I might not be able to help out very much, but I'll be cheering for you more than anyone else!
Yoshiko
Excellent attitude. Very well then, please gather the following talismans for me at once—a phoenix feather, a mermaid's tear, the first star of Canis Major, and also…
Mari
Why don't you come stay over at my family's hotel sometime? I'll have a special suite ready for you! Oh, you could also sleep over in my room too, of course.
Player
Wh-Whaaat?! A feather, a tear, and a special suite?!
Riko
Can you two make your personal requests later?! We're meant to be having a meeting about our live show! Let's start already!
[Fade in/out.]
Riko
Okay then. So the live show will be at a music event to be held in two months' time. Are we agreed?
Yoshiko
Sounds good to me. The scale of the event is fit to display Yohane's majesty in all of its splendor.
Mari
I'm good with that too. I really start looking forward to the final performance once we have a finish line to work towards!
Riko
We still have to apply, but yeah… It's motivating to have a finish line, or should I say a target to aim for.
Yoshiko
It's hardly a finish line. It is merely a waypoint on the path of Yohane's rise to power. My beloved minions shall follow me to the depths of the underworld!
Mari
Totally!
Player
L-Let's do our best!
Riko
I can't keep up with either of you so I'm not even going to humor you with a retort. We still have lots of things to decide, you know.
Player
So, we've provisionally decided on the event you'll attend… I suppose we should discuss songs next.
Riko
Yes. We also need to decide on our costumes and choreography. We do have some costumes from previous live shows, but…
Yoshiko
We'll make new ones, of course! Yohane must always appear in a new form as proof of her evolution, as she represents the sparkling pitch-black future!
Riko
What's “sparkling pitch-black” even mean? That makes no sense at all.
Mari
I'd like a new costume too. I wanna go up on stage wearing a grungy, torn-up rocker look!
Yoshiko
No, it must be the latest fallen-angel attire made from the fabric of twilight, shooting-star threads, and diamonds of darkness! Every fiber of it will strengthen my powers a hundredfold!
Mari
Electric guitar sounds that pierce the air! Intense drumming that shatters the ground! Breaking all barriers with a full-powered shout while swinging a mic stand around!
Yoshiko
Cruelty beyond despair, yet her beauty grows to match her menace! The underworld's chaos envelopes this age's norms and beckons to all humans! We'll need a cliff on the stage!
Player
Is Guilty Kiss always like this?
Riko
Come ON, you guys! We need to take this seriously!
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