odorekijin

QUESTION 5

Tell us about your old nicknames

TOKI: Nicknames…

TSUGUMI: Isn’t yours just Toki?

MITSURU: Only two characters, easy to say.

TOKI: Shortening it sure ain’t easy. I don’t really get nicknames from my last name either.

HIBARI: You don’t especially strike me as being bothered by them anyways.

TOKI: ‘Hibari’ ain't all that easy to shorten too.

HIBARI: So it is. When I was a child, my parents might have called me “Hii-kun” once or twice.

MITSURU: I’ve had a few “Mitsu-kun”.

HIBARI: Our fans have their own way with our names.

MASHIRO: Haiji, aren’t you called “Hai-chan” by our Colors¹?

HAIJI: Ah, yes, they do sometimes! It’s cute though a bit embarrassing, but I’m glad to know that they’re trying to be friendly.

TSUGUMI: I feel the same, but they hesitate between Tsugu-chan and Tsugu-kun…

AKANE: Chick.

TSUGUMI: You’re literally the only one who calls me that!

AKANE: What? Liar.

TSUGUMI: Don’t call me a liar!

MASHIRO: Speaking of, Akane-chan doesn’t seem to have any weird nickname~

AKANE: Like you calling me ‘King’?

MASHIRO: Ah… Well, every once in a while, I'm not the one who started it though. Didn’t it come from a magazine or something?

TOKI: “The King of RubiLeo”, that sure sounds like a title that would hit the headlines.

AKANE: Apart from when I was a kid, only Mashiro calls me “Akane-chan”, ya know?

HAIJI: It’s true that Mashiro-san calls people however he feels. He just goes an extra mile for Akane-san.

MASHIRO: Well, yeah! Ever wonder why is that~?

KURONO: I swear, you really got some nerves.

MASHIRO: It’s fiiine, he hasn’t complained yet.

KURONO: Don’t get cocky. You’re not even from his family…

HIBARI: Hold on… You mean that his family calls him “Akane-chan”?

TSUGUMI: Eh, so you call Kaede “nii-chan”?

AKANE: Nah. With Kaede and Mikado, we’ve always called each other by our first names.

MITSURU: Too bad you couldn’t give them cute names.

AKANE: Well, don’t you go and start calling me “bro” or somethin'.

KURONO: Only your mother still calls you by that nickname, right?

AKANE: Oi, idiot, don’t bring it up.

MASHIRO: Ooooh? What kind of nickname?

TSUGUMI: I wanna know!

HAIJI: I’m curious too!

AKANE: …

… A-chan.

MASHIRO: Wai- Really!?

HAIJI: So cute~!

MITSURU: Very sweet indeed.

AKANE: Ya still run yer mouth no matter how many times I toldja not to, huh...

MASHIRO: Right. Little birdies², why don’t you call him “A-chan” instead, for the sake of deepening your bonds?

TOKI: Um, can you not throw us under the bus here, please? I'm not real sure I want to follow up with that...

HIBARI: I'm afraid I will have to follow along this very request myself. So very, deeply sorry about this.

AKANE: “Sorry” he says, I swear… And the Chick over there. Whatcha laughin’ about?

TSUGUMI: Pff- N-nothing-… In particular-...

AKANE: Just so you know, “Kuu-chan” is Kurono’s.

KURONO: Akane-san!

MASHIRO: Kuu-chan…!!³

KURONO: Got something to say, mop-head!?

MASHIRO: We told you to knock it off with the name drops⁴! Do it for Kuu-chan!!

KURONO: Of all the things you could have done today, you're humiliating Akane’s name, asshole!!

MASHIRO: I am not!

MITSURU: Hey, I’ve been thinking about this for a while now, but what’s with Mashiro being a “mop-head”?

AKANE: Ah-... Well, you know-... (laughs)

MASHIRO: You stop that right there!! Don't you dare!!

¹"Colors” is RUBIA Leopard’s fanclub name. Used to not repeat ‘fans’ from the previous sentence.

²インクロくんたち (Inkuro-kun-tachi) is a childish name Mashiro made-up for Impish Crow. “Little birdies” encapsulated both Impish Crow’s image and them being rookies.

³In this whole banter, both Mashiro and Kurono end their sentence with a double exclamation point. It sadly doesn’t translate well, but I felt like everyone had to know this very specific info.

⁴Goes back to Akane sighing to himself that Kurono always says too much.