Hanayui no Shou 27-4H

Tsukkomi-class Heroes - 4

[Hero Club room]

SON: Mrgh... The setting sun is too bright... I wish we could install blackout curtains.

Tak: Look-out curtains? Sounds like they'd be something worth keeping an eye out for, Gun-chan!

Chi: Eh? Ah, yeah! Takashima-san, that definitely sounds like it.

Nat: It's kind of chilly today... I know, I'll go for a swim.

Hin: The sea... Wakaba-chan, want to go out for sushi?

Wak: Good idea. Sonoko, you said you wanted to eat black cod just now, right? [1]

SON: Did I say anything like that? Ah... Maybe I did say that. Yeah, I did!

Suz: No you DIDN'T! It wasn't "black cod", it was "blackout"!

Tam: Whoa, what's this all of a sudden!?

Suz: Blackout curtains block light, they're not for looking at! And Natsume-san, you'll get sick if you swim out in the cold!

Suz: And in the end the topic shifted to black cod, so where'd the curtains go!?

Wak: O-Oh...

Uta: Wow. Suzume-san, what happened? You're very enthusiastic today.

Kar: Prepare yourselves, you boke lot. We're not going to let you fool around as you wish anymore.

Tou: What's this all of a sudden?

Its: Suzume-san is the star of hope we found! She's our tsukkomi hope!

Gin: She compensates for the lack of tsukkomi element we had with her overflowing talent!

Mit: Now we should be able to deliver precise tsukkomi, without letting a single boke slip through.

Anz: T-That sounds impressive...

Fuu: That's good and all, but can we go eat udon already? We're having udon for dessert too.

Suz: Udon with udon, that's just a treasure box of carbs right there! How novel! How impressive! That's our club president!

Yum: Then I shall have skipjack tuna with a side of skipjack tuna.

Suz: And we're back to talking about the sea, great job ruining it! Miroku-san, would you rename yourself to Isono already? [2]

Wak: Suzume, you sure can do a loud voice...

Suz: She's impressed! All of Wakaba-sama was moved, and the Taisha was shocked too! Suzume's happy, chirp chirp! [3]

Yuu: Ahahaha!

Suz: Would you look at that, she's laughing! Yuuna-san with the highest Hero aptitude is laughing at me, what an honour... *cough*

Sek: Guh... The weakness of the machine gun tsukkomi - the drying of the throat has already shown itself!?

Its: So the amount of words she can say backfired!?

Mit: And if you listen in... She's mixing flattery into her tsukkomi... It feels like...

Gin: Boke?

Sek: Aah! You said it. You're right, Suzume might be the kind of double-edged tsukkomi that only makes the boke get carried away.

Kar: Or rather... This is more like a new genre: boke disguised as tsukkomi. We were wrong...

Suz: *cough cough* How regrettable. I tried to become a tsukkomi girl to answer your heartfelt wishes, but... *cough*

Shi: ...You can't.

Mit: Huh!? Yamabushi-san... Was that a... sighing tsukkomi just now!?

Kar: Shizukuuu! You were the real tsukkomi ace! Come here!

Suz: Eeeh!? No way! I can still do it... Chirp chirp... Chirp chi-chi-chirp!

Sek: That's enough already...

Its: Enough...
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Notes:
1 - Original wordplay - shakou (light-blocking) - shakou (social life) - shako (mantis shrimp)
2 - I believe this is supposed to be a reference to Sazae-san.
3 - A reference to a Japanese meme of sorts - "All of the USA cried" (used when talking and particularly advertising a movie)