Watamote ch216: Since I'm Not Popular, We'll Screen the Movie

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>>Director and Writer Kuroki Tomoko Presents.

>>3-5 Presents

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>>A Youth Like This

>>2nd Literary Club

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>___

>Ah Ahm
>Mmm... Ah Ah Ah

>Those are some rather dubious sounds leaking out there. What are you listening to?
>Hm?

>My assignment for training school is to voice three roles in a threesome scene,
>so I'm watching a FA*ZA sample to study for it.
>What kind of training school is that? Sounds creepy.

>Y-...
>Yay~
>I got MATSU.
>Wait, how old is that game? Isn't that EX*LE's overly gorgeous card game?
>Also, MATSU's that guy with the claws, right? He's not worth getting happy about, not that I care.
[tn: Seisen Cerberus, a social card game which ran between 2011 and 2018 and had a collaboration with Japanese band EXILE.]

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>Hah. Hah.
>Sorry for the wait.
>I was chatting with the people in my class and lost track of time.
>I have lots of friends after all, unlike you lot.
>Why are you dissing us all of a sudden?

>So, today you said you had something important to tell us, right? What is it?
>How about it, Prez?
>Hold on. I'm in the middle of a battle on Kaitou R*yale.
>That one ended its service too, didn't it?
[TN: Another defunct mobile game, this one lasting from 2009-2011.]

>Okay. All done.
>So, why are all of you here?
>You're the one who called us here.
>Of course, we had nothing better to do, so we would've gathered here either way.

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>Erm... I feel like I had something I was gonna say.
>I feel like it was something fairly important.

>It might be no big deal if I've forgotten about it.
>...I'm getting hungry.
>Wanna stop by somewhere on the way home?

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>Ramen.

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>I want katsudon.

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>Ramen.
>I'm surprised your opinion hasn't changed.

>Alright.
>And you changed yours immediately.
>What was all that time spent for?

>I-I get the feeling that we'll someday look back fondly
>on these times when nothing happens.
>I sincerely doubt we'll look back on times when literally nothing happened.

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>Now that you mention it, I heard this big shot rookie who's well-balanced and has a strong throwing arm just joined the student council.
>No, she should join the baseball team.

>The student council...
>That's right. I feel like the student council told me something...
>Slurp slurp

[A buttload of slurpy sounds. Take your pick.]

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>Don't make such obscene noises. It's echoing throughout the entire room.
>Eh?
>Ah, sorry. I was practising for my next audition.

>They'll be judging me on my sucking sounds, after all.
>What kind of audition is that?
>Seriously, that's creepy. Just die.

>Seriously, you should die.
>Seriously.

>Although we were joking back then, we would soon come to regret those heartless words
>that would later drive Nemoto to die for real.

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>Ah, that's right! Nemoto's perverted noises reminded me of what the student council said.
>They said the 2nd Literary Club is being abolished.
>Eh!?

>Why!?

>They say it's because we only have four 2nd-year members, we don't do any club activities,
>Nemoto's behavior is R-18, Tanaka's too normal, the glasses girl does nothing but retorts and I'm really gloomy.
>They're right, but that's still pretty cruel.

>Well, we still have to obide by the student council.
>It's our fault, so we can't complain.
>We should try not to bother the higher ups.
>A rare case of everyone being total pushovers.

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>I'm Sasayama, the student council vice-president! Do excuse us.
>I'm Nariyama, the president.

>How's cleaning up the clubroom going?
>As I told you the other day, this meaningless club will cease to be.

>Understood.
>That's a swift answer. No lingering attachments, anyone?

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>However,
>if you really insist,
>I'd be willing to overturn the abolition.
>I didn't even say anything. We were all ready to give up. You're being awfully nice.

>First, you need to have at least five members in your club including a freshman.
>You have a week to persuade someone to join.
>You're so nice to have let the club carry on this far without meeting the requirements.

>And then one week later, if you've gathered at least five members, you'll assemble them on the ground.
>If you can beat us at baseball, we won't abolish your club.
>Wait, we're a culture club. What's baseball got to do with anything?
>That goes for the student council too, though.

>Sorry~
>Our vice-pres is a bit of a meathead, so we're gonna have to settle this with sports.
>Baseball has teams of nine, right? For all the kindness you've shown before, you've suddenly gotten harsh.

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>Don't worry. There's only five of us in the student council too.
>That's not enough for baseball. Play something we can do with five people.

>No can do.
>The baseball scene in the anime I've been watching lately was so touching, so baseball it will be.
>That's a pretty pointless reason.

>Can I suggest something?
>How about an eating contest instead?
>No.
>Alright then.
>Don't propose something if you're gonna back down so easily. You're no good at eating contests either.

>Then how about we decided with a lewd phrases championship?

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>Well then, I look forward to seeing you in a week.
>Assuming you don't run off scared, that is.

>Understood.
>We'll make sure not to run off.
>Not an indenpendent soul among you.

>Things have gotten wild, huh?
>But we have to do it for the sake of the literary club.
>You were all eager to quit a moment ago, though.
>Hey, why did everyone ignore me so naturally earlier?

>For now, I'm hungry, so let's eat something and go home.
>Ramen.

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>>Delicious!! Ramen Store
>>Tasty Ramen

>Delicious.
>Yeah.

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>The chashu is so tender.
>Sure is.

>This is good.
>Yep.

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>The next day, we began scouting for new club members.

>Sorry. I'm too busy with my studies.

>I don't wanna. I'm always hearing weird voices coming from the clubroom and it's so gross.

>I'm not all that interested in literature...
>Also that glasses girl is always quick to make retorts...

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>I don't wanna! The club president has this loner vibes and lacks charisma!!

>We couldn't find anyone to join us.
>Yeah.
>It seems they just hate us, plain and simple.
>Nobody even talked about me.

>That's a freshman, right?
>Should we call out to her?
>Wait, I've seen that girl before.
>She's that genius girl who won the math tournament!
>Math tournament?

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>A tournament where you need strong mental arithmetics to take first place.
>I'm fairly certain the actual tournament isn't as scientific as that.

>3.14159...
>Look, she's reciting pi.
>An old stereotype of genius characters.

>But if she can do sport arithmetics, she has potential for baseball.
>You look smart, Komikawa-san, so you invite her.
>I'm smarter than you at least. And from which dictator did you get that glasses = intellect stereotype?

>Are you interested in the literary club?
>Sorry. People in glasses are kinda...
>What kind of discrimination is that?

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>I'm no good. You go, Prez.
>If I must.

>Hey, would you like to play baseball with us?
>Eh?

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>Intermission
>Break
>(5 minutes)

>They're taking a break?

>Wait, this isn't a feature-length film.
>We don't need one of those for one that's less than 15 minutes.
>She's stretching this out way too far.
>She retorts just as much outside the movie too.